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March 25, 2009

Grizzly Bear Does "Two Weeks" Live For The First Time With Victoria From Beach House

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If Twitter's good for anything (probably not), it could be the realization that most rock stars live lives primarily built of small moments just as routinely mundane as ours. Except for when they're tweeting about stuff that makes this list. One e.g. from that spread was Ed from Grizzly Bear's confession of undying <3 for Beach House, which he and his Grizzly mates took from the tweets to 6th Street in Austin this past Friday: First Department Of Eagles closed their set with a surprise cover of the Dead's "Fire On The Mountain" with Beach House's Victoria Legrand onstage as a makeshift Donna Jean Godchaux, and later that same night Grizzly Bear presented the Blackberry Showcase with the live debut of "Two Weeks" as recorded on Veckatimest, with Victoria's wordless chorus vocal. The latter moment's here for you.

That comes from Veckatimest, which is a good album. I took that pic from the back of the Cedar Street Courtyard; I was a little closer by the time Dinosaur Jr hit stage.

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Wow that RUUUUUUULES

Posted by: ben at 03/25/09 10:11 AM | Reply
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the musicologist

i love you, stereogum

Posted by: the musicologist profile link at 03/25/09 10:25 AM | Reply
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Animal Collective, , boring, better, awesome, MPP, Yellow House.

There, those terms and "RUUUUUUULES" are all used up for this comment thread. So you guys have to construct a discussion using OTHER things. Good luck.

Posted by: Bob at 03/25/09 10:31 AM | Reply
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I didn’t get to see Beach House that night but when I saw Victoria come on stage to do that song…wow, it was amazing! One of the highlights of my night! Grizzly Bear rules!!!

Posted by: jos at 03/25/09 10:35 AM | Reply
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this is endless sweet. did anyone happen to get any video clips from Department of Eagles cover of "Fire on the Mountain" by Grateful Dead with Victoria during the Pitchfork event at Emo's? that fucking ruled.

Posted by: KB at 03/25/09 10:37 AM | Reply
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boy, get your ray-bans out of my way!

Posted by: Matthew at 03/25/09 10:48 AM | Reply
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When was this filmed? I feel like they played this when i saw them open for Radiohead in August of 2008. I haven't got to hear Veckatimest yet but i have heard this song before.

Posted by: dru at 03/25/09 10:57 AM | Reply
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Deezey

Simply stunning!

Posted by: Deezey profile link at 03/25/09 11:07 AM | Reply
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song of the year from the album of the year

Posted by: song at 03/25/09 11:16 AM | Reply
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off "singles" alone...two weeks isn't better than while you wait for the others...

Posted by: ehhh in reply to song's comment at 03/25/09 11:52 AM | Reply
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says you, I say differently. Opinions apparently vary

Posted by: says in reply to ehhh's comment at 03/25/09 11:56 AM | Reply
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Robot Jones

That was pretty damn good as far as shakey cellphone/digital camera footage goes.

Posted by: Robot Jones profile link at 03/25/09 12:24 PM | Reply
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I've been trying to figure out which part she was singing on the album. Damn my shitty audio rip, it was so obvious!

Posted by: KILGORE profile link at 03/25/09 1:51 PM | Reply
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I PEE GOLD

My day has been made.

Posted by: I PEE GOLD profile link at 03/25/09 1:52 PM | Reply
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They sound good, but everyone needs to stop peeing in their pants about this band.

Posted by: SoapyRandolph at 03/25/09 2:00 PM | Reply
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I will continue to pee my pants whenever Grizzly Bear is mentioned, thank you very much.

Posted by: Paul at 03/25/09 2:14 PM | Reply
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Lou Reed

Pretty cool. But I need to see footage of them doing 'Fire on the Mountain'

Posted by: Lou Reed profile link at 03/25/09 2:14 PM | Reply
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Love. It.

Posted by: Ashrey at 03/25/09 2:28 PM | Reply
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Victoria's finger motions freaked me out.

Posted by: Cherry_Ghost at 03/25/09 3:15 PM | Reply
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Is it bad that I prefer Chris doing victorias part as seen on the david letterman video?

Posted by: ok at 03/25/09 6:59 PM | Reply
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Max the King of All Wild Things

nope. I was a little surprised that's the part she was singing. I guess I had just assumed it was Chris from the rip I have. Still an amazing song, even though I slightly prefer Chris.

Posted by: Max the King of All Wild Things profile link in reply to ok's comment at 03/27/09 7:22 PM | Reply
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YHF1219

yaaayyyyyyy!!!!!

Posted by: YHF1219 profile link at 03/25/09 8:26 PM | Reply
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is everyone on this thread deaf? she's out of tune! in her defense it looked as if she was struggling to hear herself but jesus christ people...do you have ears or are you just so "into" this band that you don't even care what they sound like anymore you just eat up the idea of them..

Posted by: cbds at 03/26/09 3:47 AM | Reply
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she was off a little at the beginning. but it got better. a little...

Posted by: well.. in reply to cbds's comment at 03/26/09 2:55 PM | Reply
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yeah...this was a horrible rendition.

Posted by: Lucyintheskywithdiamonds in reply to cbds's comment at 03/27/09 7:08 PM | Reply
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It's youtube , hardly an example of quality audio or a representation of of a good performance, you fucktard

Posted by: youtube in reply to Lucyintheskywithdiamonds's comment at 03/28/09 4:04 PM | Reply
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people were excited to hear this???????

Posted by: timsored profile link at 03/26/09 1:18 PM | Reply
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Extremely. You fuck.

Posted by: KILGORE profile link in reply to timsored's comment at 03/27/09 11:42 AM | Reply
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This song is how summer feels. It doesn't get any better than this.

Posted by: two weeks at 03/27/09 6:03 PM | Reply
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This recording is terrible. I think Grizzly bear would not approve of this post, seeing as how they kinda care about how their music is presented (read the blog post about the leak). Shame on you Stereogum. :|

Posted by: agent paranoia at 03/30/09 11:53 AM | Reply
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Carrie

Unrelated, sometimes Chris Taylor reminds me of a more hipster Neil Patrick Harris.

Posted by: Carrie profile link at 03/31/09 11:02 PM | Reply
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