Let's Make Love And Listen To MSTRKRFT
From deathfromabove1979.com:
AUGUST 04.2006
hey
i know its been forever since i wrote anything on here. im sure by now most of you assume the band isnt happening anymore since there are no shows, no work on a new album, etc. well. i wanted to let you know that your assumptions are correct. we decided to stop doing the band... actually we decided that almost a year ago. we finished off our scheduled tour dates because there were good people working for us who relied on us to make a living and buy christmas presents and pay rent etc. we couldnt just cancel everything and leave them out to dry... plus i think we wanted to see if we would reconsider after being out on the road. our label was really hoping that we would change our minds, so they asked us to keep quiet about the decision for at first. well, its been quite awhile now and we are still very sure the band wont happen again, so i guess its time to say something.
we started as a punk band with pop aspirations and we met every goal we set for ourselves. a few weeks ago, the album finally went gold in canada and that was the final mark i really wanted to reach.. it was my goal to see how big we could become without ever compromising or changing what we did right from the start... and now i know. we did way more than i ever expected and i like to think the fans (you?) enjoyed it as much as we did.... watching us sneak our way onto network tv, big festivals and sports arenas... playing music that most people assumed only belonged in basements and dirty rock clubs. we played our first show in a living room on long island for about 12 people and played our last in the calgary saddledome for 12,000. ha! what more could i have ever asked for? ive been in lots of punk bands over the last 15 years and i played every basement, squat, hole and alley from here to eastern europe. dfa79 was the first time i ever really played on a stage, yet i really didnt change what i was doing from what id been doing in the past... hell i was even using the same amplifiers!
i never would have imagined that the wall of noise i love so much could have come this far. to see my silly elephant trunk idea become so popular... im sure its the greatest piece of graphic design ill ever do.
over the last 3 years of touring, sebastien and i had grown apart to such an extent that the only real time we spoke was just before we would play and during interviews. we both changed so much that the people we were by the end of it, probably wouldnt have been friends if they were to meet for the first time again. its a totally normal function of growing up. like how your high school bf/gf that meant so much to you would probably be the last person you would date at 30, ya know? thats where we got to. its not sad.
it would be more sad if we stopped changing and growing and kept playing the same songs for 40 years like the rolling stones. for me that would be a nightmare.
thank you so much for your support from beginning to end. thanks ache records for giving us that first 325 dollars and thanks last gang for taking us the rest of the way. thanks to everyone who came out to our shows, wrote letters just to say hi, baked cakes and made your own t-shirts. i kept everything you gave me. thanks so much to the kids who came really early to see us when were were opening for bigger bands... that meant so much to me.
i hope i have been a positive example and not a bad influence and i really want you to know that when you stop me on the street and i dont know what to say, its not because i dont appreciate you, its just not something ill ever really get used to.
thanks again.
j f k
Posted at 10:27 AM
that's too bad. they were fun.
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r. i. p. i loved this band does anyone know what has happened to sebastien since the split he was a killer drummer/singer
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Saw them at Mercury Lounge last year--it was insane. This is really shitty news.
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It was good while it lasted.
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what am i gona do coke to now
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Saw them in London Ontario Canada with my kid sister a couple years back. They were nuts. Loved the live version of "pull out", exactly what you think it's about.
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i have to say that dfa 1979 was the loudest show i have ever been to, and the show was outside....
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Damn, this blows. Saw them at Voodoo Fest last year in New Orleans. Despite the amount of artists who pulled out due to Hurricane Katrina, they still played regardless. And put on a hell of a set for being one of the first bands to play that day. I clearly remember one of them saying, "It's hard to rock out in the morning, but we'll make the best of it." Did they!
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that was a super heart felt letter. it probably made me like them more than i already did.
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that really sucks. they put on an amazing show and put out one of my favorite records of last year. it's really to bad that they grew apart, but at least there not bitter about it. at least we've still got MSTRKRFT.
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man.....................
well at least it wasn't ugly. but what a loss.
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:( i was just saying to my highschool boyfriend yesterday, "i wonder what's going on with death from above?" oh well, they probably couldn't have put out another album as good as the first anyway.
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Yea this is bad news because mstrkrft is absolute shite.
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But they only put out two albums (and a remix album). I'm going to miss these guys.
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So sad.... :(
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Nooooo!!! This sucks.
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Kinda sad that Sebastien and Jesse don't apparently like each other anymore...but more sad that there will be no more new stuff. MSTRKRFT is interesting but nothing compared to DFA79.
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wow that does seem out of left-field. MSTRKRFT is garbage.
and i second the need to find a new band to snort lines too...
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what's Sebastien going to do now, you know...to make money...?
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Well, this will cause inevitable backlash against against poor MSTRKRFT. Contrary to frequently voiced opinions, it's actually just as interesting as DFA79 but for different reasons.
I DJ'd with these two just over a year ago. They were super friendly and fun. I would have had no idea they were terminating the band at that time.
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good timing, I just figured out how to pronounce MSTRKRFT. Seriously.
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Aw, gee that is too bad.
I have never had more fun at a show then when I saw them in LA this year... everyone was bouncing around - the drummer put some dude in "time out" because he jumped on stage. Dawww.... bees...
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that is one of the most sincere things i've ever heard from an artist/band. seriously makes me like them even more...
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I saw them play Calgary. I would have never thought that would be their last show, it was amazingly good, considering what was happening behind the scenes.
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sebastian is still working on his solo album (i think) called girl on girl
wow remember when they were gonna release three different versions of the album, one dfa version, one mstrkrft version and one with all female vocals?
ha
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there was a "girl on girl" remix on dfa1979's remix album; that sounds like that might be correct. maybe not.
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MSTRKRFT PALES in comparison.
Everybody spin Erol Alkan's remix of "Romantic Rights", drink something and remember the good times.
Anyone else think Sebastian and Jesse are being a bit rash and selfishly snotty?
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