Jim Carroll Band!

sj.brodie

If it weren't for pj covering "Catholic Boy" during Self Pollution (I prefer the original having heard it today) I would never have heard this band. Another example of PJ spreading the work of good artists. They have a great punk sound and the guy definitely reminds me of Bowie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdftnLhRCuQ

quimby20

Checkout the book The Basketball Diaries. It is his Autobiography. Also People Who Died is an Amazing punk song. I would be willing to guess that most PJ fans where not born or were very young when this album came out. Leonardo DiCaprio played him in the movie version of his book.

LukinFan

quimby20 wrote:

Checkout the book The Basketball Diaries. It is his Autobiography. Also People Who Died is an Amazing punk song. I would be willing to guess that most PJ fans where not born or were very young when this album came out. Leonardo DiCaprio played him in the movie version of his book.

great book and movie - of course the book is much better though than the movie

randallanddarcy

The movie is OK. Jim hated the movie, although he was onset 'supervising' (read: 'watching with no power or artistic control') it. Jim makes a cameo in the movie: he's in the scene where the junkies shoot up in the squat called 'Headquarters', and DiCaprio is sitting there while an older guy with a New York accent speaks to him. The older guy is Jim himself.

The Basketball Diaries book isn't a true autobiography. The book is an edited version of the diaries he kept during those years, but it was only a year or two of Jim's life as a teenager. He'd been a junkie and finished with heroin all before he was 18 years old, if my memory serves me properly. He kinda dined out on those two years for the rest of his life, in a way. A true autobiography covers much more than a couple of years of the author's teenage life.

There's a great compilation (read: 'greatest hits', I guess) album of the Jim Carroll band albums-it's called "World Without Gravity".I'd assume you'd find it somwhere for cheap (mine came from a now-closed record store in Belfast). It's a great overview of the recorded output, although I think it only covers the first two albums, including whatever song he had Keit Richards play on back in the day. I don't know how many Jim Carroll Band albums there were; maybe just the 2?

A wonderful poet. A wonderful author. And he died the way every author should: at his desk, writing.

sj.brodie

randallanddarcy wrote:

There's a great compilation (read: 'greatest hits', I guess) album of the Jim Carroll band albums-it's called "World Without Gravity"

Thanks i'll definitely be picking this up.

BLACK35

People Who Die is a great song, probably the only one I know from him. A boss I used to work for as a teenager used to play it and he made a cassette :shock: for me with it on it, loved it

sj.brodie

BLACK35 wrote:

People Who Die is a great song, probably the only one I know from him. A boss I used to work for as a teenager used to play it and he made a cassette :shock: for me with it on it, loved it

Day and Night is also a great song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNn-05KGFhg

NacreRock

Drive-by Truckers also do a great live cover of People Who Died. The band clearly enjoys playing the song and the crowd really digs it. Killer.

randallanddarcy

It's funny both People Who Died and Day and Night were picked out for special mention in this thread. Both songs are totally dissimilar in nature. Good to see, even after all that time that's gone by...