Silver Jews quitting music

BurnsCarpenter

Sad news, one of my favourite bands. Hopefully DC Berman does something interesting in the future.

http://dragcity.com/dcforums/viewtopic.php?t=649&sid=16ed80b06b169bbdf7b69054260af791

Also, he outs his father as 'Dr. Evil'. Richard Berman is apparently a notorious Washington lobbyist working for corporations. His targets include Mothers Against Drunk Driving!

"This winter I decided that the SJs were too small of a force to ever come close to undoing a millionth of all the harm he has caused. "

cognoscente

lol, berman is such a loon.

cognoscente

1 step closer to a pavement reunion.

Brian Capture

DC Berman is a snide attention-seeker.

His father is probably a sound enough bloke but because he's not 'arty' enough, Berman disowns him.

The Silver Jews have only one good album - Natural Bridge. Rest = BORING

ANarcho-Munk

Brian Capture wrote: »

DC Berman is a snide attention-seeker.

His father is probably a sound enough bloke but because he's not 'arty' enough, Berman disowns him.

Yeah mang, leave his dad alone, i know him and he's sound. I don't care if he's a manipulator, evil, conceited, filthy rich off the expense of the weakest anda regressive power to society, he's still dead sound.
I hear Ruper Murdoch is a top bloke as well.

But unfortunatly though I reckon DC probably has a much better insight into his own life than we do.

DC is a libertarien/anarchist type. His dad is the hired gun behind every seedy and manipulative lobby group in America. Connect the dots yourself.

The Silver Jews have only one good album - Natural Bridge. Rest = BORING

Check out Tanglewood Numbers, 'Punks In The Beerlight' is a phenomenal song on it. DC is a great songwriter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtA869eH21c

I am completly gutted though, i didn't even get to see them the last time they played here.
This is probably another band to add to the list of my all-time favourites that i'll never ever be able to see.

cognoscente

In fairness his father is one evil motherfúcker, http://www.bermanexposed.org/

but DC is a pretty silly fellow nonetheless,

Now that the Joos are over I can tell you my gravest secret. Worse than suicide, worse than crack addiction:

My father.

You might be surprised to know he is famous, for terrible reasons.

My father is a despicable man. My father is a sort of human molestor.

An exploiter. A scoundrel. A world historical mother****ing son of a bitch. (sorry grandma)

You can read about him here.

www.bermanexposed.org

My life is so wierd. It's allegorical to the nth. My father went to college at Transylvania University.

You see what I'm saying.

A couple of years ago I demanded he stop his work. Close down his company or I would sever our relationship.

He refused. He has just gotten worse. More evil. More powerful. We've been "estranged" for over three years.

Even as a child I disliked him. We were opposites. I wanted to read. He wanted to play games.

He is a union buster.

When I got out of college I joined the Teamsters (the guards were union organized at the Whitney).

I went off to hide in art and academia.

I fled through this art portal for twenty years. In the mean time my Dad started a very very bad

company called Berman and Company.

He props up fast food/soda/factory farming/childhood obesity and diabetes/drunk driving/secondhand smoke.

He attacks animal lovers, ecologists, civil action attorneys, scientists, dieticians, doctors, teachers.

His clients include everyone from the makers of Agent Orange to the Tanning Salon Owners of America.

He helped ensure the minimum wage did not move a penny from 1997-2007!

The worst part for me as a writer is what he does with the english language.

Though vicious he is a doltish thinker

and his spurious editorials rely on doublethink and always with the Lashon Hara.

As I studied Judaism over the years, the shame and the shanda,

grew almost too much. my heart was constantly on fire for justice. I could find no relief.

This winter I decided that the SJs were too small of a force to ever come close to

undoing a millionth of all the harm he has caused. To you and everyone you know.

Literally, if you eat food or have a job, he is reaching you.

I've always hid this terrible shame from you, the fan. The SJs have always stood autonomous and clear.

Hopefully it won't contaminate your feelings about the work.

My life has been riddled with Ibsenism. In a way I am the son of a demon come to make good the damage.

Previously I thought, through songs and poems and drawings I could find and build a refuge away from his world.

But there is the matter of Justice.

And i'll tell you it's not just a metaphor. The desire for it actually burns.

It hurts.

There needs to be something more. I'll see what that might be.


DCB

Goosewad

Silly, indeed. He comes across a bit of a fruity really... Anyway, kinda wish I'd gone to see him last year now.


@ Brian Capture
Starlite Walker is a great album!

flyswatter

This is a shame.

ANarcho-Munk

Goosewad wrote: »

Silly, indeed. He comes across a bit of a fruity really!

so did Oscar Wilde...Brendan Behan...James Joyce....so many others. Not trying to say he's as great as any of them but c'mon! but your prejeduces aside....

flav

it a balls when one of your favourite bands break up, it seems like he's very comfortable with the decision though... id be very interested in watching any screenplay he writes... the guy is a legend...

saw him in scotland and at ATP last year afterwards he stayed around for ages chatting with everyone, thanking them for coming, posing for pictures.... he was a real gentleman....

i'll miss his music and especially the lyrics.. he's one of the all time great lyricists

AnonoBoy

Brian Capture wrote: »

The Silver Jews have only one good album - Natural Bridge. Rest = BORING

American Water and Tanglewood Numbers are both quality albums.