Bright Eyes Gets His Nails Did
Here's Mr. Bright Eyes dishing with Guitar World Acoustic (yes, we're dorks) about the Saddle Creek Manicure.
CONOR OBERST: Sierra Casady a guitar player with CocoRosie, a very cool band I toured with a while back, taught me a trick ... I go to a salon and have the nails put on professionally, and then I file them down real short. What I end up with is basically like having a pick on every finger ... What makes it even nicer is that you can paint a little design on the nails if you want to -- like perhaps some Japanese or Chinese letters.
See? CocoRosie is good for something after all. As for the Japanese or Chinese letters -- as long as he realizes they're not the same.
Posted at 11:57 AM
Tags: Bright Eyes
So what happens when the nails snap? And isn't that a little on the feminine side? Yick! I can't stand it when guys have nails like women. That's just weird. But who am I to say?
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I guess this was the next logical step. Hair metal bands had make up, emo rock bands have eyeliner, and Conor has a french manicure.
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My mother's a nail technician. She used to have a few male classical guitar players come in and get acrylic nails put on one hand for this very purpose. It's not that uncommon.
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Wait, isn't Kanji one of the "alphabets" used in both Chinese and Japanese writing? I believe it is.
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It is more common for classical guitar players.
Jed, stop ruining my punchlines.
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kinda creepy
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Lindsey Buckingham has been doing this for years.
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Maybe he's also discovered the wheel. Seriously, did anyone not know this trick?
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Yeah some guitarists have creepy long coke nails. Better than a pick tho.
And for the record, Japan has 3 "sets of letters", (4 if you count romanized versions), 1 of which is shared with china's, tho they are not gramatically interchangable. So you're both right.
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He also talked about this in a kexp session about a year or two ago. Old news in two ways.
Why cant you guys be bigger fanboys, jeez
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Caught the first show of the Bright Eyes tour last night in Milwaukee - total train wreak. He was fucked up - BIG TIME.
I posted a few details on my site, but I could have went of FOREVER!
http://www.muzzleofbees.com/2007/04/23/review-bright-eyes-the-pabst-theater/
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Conor Oberst figures out what classical and fingerpicking guitarists have been doing for generations. Which suggests that, indeed, indie musicians do not speak to anyone but other indie musicians.
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I'd still do him.
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Well, a lot of indie musicians are pretty primitive musicians, so it's not shocking what one wouldn't know.
Scott- sorry, I must speak the truth.
Yeah, of course they're not grammatically interelated, Japanese is completely unrelated to any langauge in the world. That's what linguistic anthropology says, anyway.
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Does anyone happen to have the setlist from the April 23, Chicago show?
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