TimmyB Posted June 7, 2006 Report Share Posted June 7, 2006 For all of you Oysterhead fans not going to bonnaroo, this will be good news indeed.TimFrom www.billboard.comOysterhead Hoping To Tour Later This YearOysterhead June 06, 2006, 6:00 PM ETJonathan Cohen, N.Y.[blurb]Rock trio Oysterhead is hoping to mount its first tour since 2001 later this year, drummer Stewart Copeland said during a teleconference with journalists today (June 6). As previously reported, the group, which also features guitarist Trey Anastasio and bassist Les Claypool, will return to live duty later this month at the Bonnaroo festival in Manchester, Tenn.[/blurb]Oysterhead's lone album, "The Grand Pecking Order," was released in 2001 by Elektra. The trio spent Memorial Day weekend rehearsing at Claypool's California home in preparation for Bonnaroo."The plan was always to be an intermittent band and come down from the mountain every five years or so," Copeland said. "It's a shoot from the hip sort of thing - not tour, album, tour, album. We come together when we goddamn feel like it. [but] the Bonnaroo invitation came at the right moment. As soon as the three of us are together, all kinds of stuff starts to happen."Copeland is thrilled that playing with Oysterhead exposes him not only to different audiences but unique approaches to his craft. "In my world you have to have a song and you play songs and a set list, for that matter," he said. "We actually do have songs and lyrics [but] we use those songs to leap out from. It's a whole new thing for me to get that buzz from an audience that's expecting a brand new piece of music. If we reach those pinnacles, reach those surges, that will enliven the bus ride back to Nashville!"In related news, Copeland revealed that his documentary "Everyone Stares," culled from home movies shot during the Police's heyday, will play on Showtime in August and then arrive on DVD a month later via Universal Music Enterprises.The DVD will include extra material such as backstage footage with "a different vibe," according to Copeland. "You can see [guitarist] Andy [summers] scowling at me. It's band life that I didn't have room for in the movie." "Everyone Stares" will also be screened during Bonnaroo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenenbaum Posted June 7, 2006 Report Share Posted June 7, 2006 hoot hoot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YearsAlongTheSea Posted June 7, 2006 Report Share Posted June 7, 2006 Bring it on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booche Posted June 7, 2006 Report Share Posted June 7, 2006 (Signs on the dotted line) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briguy Posted June 7, 2006 Report Share Posted June 7, 2006 and very cool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basher Posted June 7, 2006 Report Share Posted June 7, 2006 I have to assume they will be at Vegoose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PassedOutGuy Posted June 7, 2006 Report Share Posted June 7, 2006 you know what they say about assuming... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YearsAlongTheSea Posted June 7, 2006 Report Share Posted June 7, 2006 you know what they say about assuming...Does it have something to do with Donkey's? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PassedOutGuy Posted June 7, 2006 Report Share Posted June 7, 2006 You said it brother!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paan Posted June 7, 2006 Report Share Posted June 7, 2006 I'll most definitely be checking them out if they come around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted June 8, 2006 Report Share Posted June 8, 2006 Oysterhead is one of the greatest monster trio's ever formed in my lifetime. They have to do more with this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.O.B.E Posted June 8, 2006 Report Share Posted June 8, 2006 You said it brother!!ain't no cure for suicide! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afro poppa Posted June 8, 2006 Report Share Posted June 8, 2006 ain't no cure for suicide!that song makes me smile and scares me at the same time...now thats special Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slavetothegroove Posted June 8, 2006 Report Share Posted June 8, 2006 I've been thinking recently about how much I need to see Claypool again. After reading this post, freaky thoughts are going through my head. God I hope they make it up to the north east. NY or Boston for sure. Wiiiiicked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.O.B.E Posted June 8, 2006 Report Share Posted June 8, 2006 Afro Poppa the opening line of that song"Gasoline, Vaseline, Benzadrine and Amphetamines. All the chemicals inbetween..." is the new era supercallafragalisticexpealldocious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jammit Posted June 13, 2006 Report Share Posted June 13, 2006 les has a new cd as well so you may see him with or without oysterhead ....i hope! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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