the Mountain Goats "Let Me Bathe In Demonic Light" | Come Hear North Carolina In The Water Concert

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N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources

4 жыл бұрын

The roots of American music run deep in North Carolina, and the diversity of our music mirrors the diversity of our musicians’ creative homes. In the Water is a special limited video series for the 2019 North Carolina Year of Music that highlights the symbolic and literal places that shape the sounds and souls of North Carolina musicians. Each episode of In The Water features a North Carolina musician performing a unique location across the state.
The Durham, N.C. based indie folk group the Mountain Goats performed their In The Water concert at the Hamlet Depot & Museum in southeastern North Carolina. John Darnielle, the frontman of the band, wanted to perform in John Coltrane's hometown: Hamlet, N.C. Built in 1897, the Hamlet Depot is the only Victorian Queen Anne style train station in the state, and it was once a bustling transportation hub and major north-south and east-west crossroads for passenger and freight trains.
the Mountain Goats premiered their new song "Let Me Bathe in Demonic Light," in the In The Water film.
Learn more at www.ComeHearNC.com.

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@workchannel8053 4 жыл бұрын

This really illustrated what a set of fucking pipes John has. You can practically hear every single wall his voice is bouncing off of when he projects.

@hvhyche 3 жыл бұрын

John looks like 20 years younger now. I've got to start jogging. Holy fuck.

@jacob4210 3 жыл бұрын

So glad he got healthier and found something as therapeutic as running. He looks gr8!

@jacob4210 3 жыл бұрын

Was always the same great artist though

@judithbreastsler 3 жыл бұрын

he has so much fun writing these song and then performing them. it's all about the craft for him

@franciscojgonzalezvalentin3923 4 жыл бұрын

Darnielle's gestures make me think of the kind of guy who got bullied as a teen but had everyone's ear in his 30's

@AnarchoLoserist 4 жыл бұрын

I don't think you care enough for me to write jd's biography, so I won't lol, but you're write in a roundabout sort of way. Honestly though, I think his gestures are just cause he's used to having a guitar/piano/mic when he performs

@rachelgrubbs 3 жыл бұрын

Which is probably a fair assessment of him

@marinamaddox6285 4 сағат бұрын

@@AnarchoLoseristno. Go on. Give me the biography

@alecwillis1207 4 жыл бұрын

This song is incredible, like one of my favorite recent songs.

@JordanJ1263 3 жыл бұрын

haha you’re gonna like this new album then

@willneu97 3 жыл бұрын

better than the album version imo. nothing beats the bassoon

@DavidPiniella 4 жыл бұрын

Down at the end of a burnt out street a shell of a house where my friends and me used to meet someday the old flesh will give way to the new find a functioning mirror inside and slip right through And there - there I'll be and who? who's coming with me? To show me my one true face when I arrive at my preordained place. Chain of command may be ten years long I emerge in Manhattan still young and strong someday the hell-hound will pick up the scent on the trail zero in on my penthouse and then pierce the veil And there - there I'll be and who? who's coming with me? To show me my one true face when i arrive at my preordained place. Hopeless but free lit up like a marquee over the freeway where does the long trail end? Here - here with my new friends fruits of the spirit, heavy on the vine undying hunger, deep in the bloodline dodge the hook like a steelhead swim right through the night break the surface and rise like geyser when my time is up And there - there I'll be and who? who among you? who's coming with me? To show me my one true face when I arrive at my preordained place. When I arrive when I arrive when I arrive

@ryanmiller719 4 жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure it's "I emerge in Manhattan"

@DavidPiniella 4 жыл бұрын

@@ryanmiller719 that makes a lot more sense, I'll edit that in

@JeffSoulliere 4 жыл бұрын

This is some quintessential TMG material and I am madly in love with it. Great track. Thanks for the transcription.

@metallicamoose 4 жыл бұрын

It's a song about revenge against nobody at all. Just about revenge for the sake of doing something interesting

@RyanDB 4 жыл бұрын

Far as I can tell it's "bombed out street" and "break the surface like a geyser when my time is right", to rhyme with "night" :)

@metallicamoose 4 жыл бұрын

Oh god, the 80's horror movie references are so good. I heard Videodrome, Ghostbusters, and Prince of Darkness at first listen

@DavidPiniella 4 жыл бұрын

Last house on the left, maybe

@stallout 3 жыл бұрын

ah hell yeah I can’t wait for the studio version of this

@RyanDB 4 жыл бұрын

I have very quickly become totally obsessed with this song. Loving all the stuff JD has put out in the last few months

@matthewleger5605 4 жыл бұрын

talk about supporting your local scene. the N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.... love u sm jd

@tyceyoder3532 4 жыл бұрын

As a bassoonist... I'm very excited about this. Also a bit jealous haha

@brandonwalliser6520 4 жыл бұрын

always been envious of the bassoonists. I played the generic trumpet along side probably 6 other students. Felt a bit stale at times

@charlieweber5402 3 жыл бұрын

Clicked on the video because I saw the bassoon, was not disappointed.

@caustic1611 4 жыл бұрын

That bassoon though!!

@ameliamyy 4 жыл бұрын

THIS IS SO GOOD but also it is the Mountain Goats so of course it is

@BikerMerv 4 жыл бұрын

Hello from Halifax Nova Scotia I just stumbled upon this video - beautiful, well done. What a great voice.

@dreamcoma2213 4 жыл бұрын

2 nights ago at this time I drove through Hamlet on my way to Raleigh...randomly stumble on this video, and find out it was the birthplace of Coltrane...small world afterall.

@DaveThomas123 4 жыл бұрын

One of the best recent Goats songs.

@gnarguru2054 4 жыл бұрын

I’ve stumbled upon quite the gem. Wonderful song.

@benpat100 4 жыл бұрын

Alright well this definitely deserves a sub.

@joshkar24 3 жыл бұрын

talk about exuding creative freedom, yeah!!

@grantjackson9759 2 жыл бұрын

Love this version. The whole record is great & the band sounds incredible - hope to catch them out on the road!

@eldritchbf8223 2 ай бұрын

god thats a nice acoustic for jd's voice

@eleri_theda 4 жыл бұрын

2:29

@GregoryLuce 4 жыл бұрын

Yes! Trane lives!!

@willshogren1987 3 жыл бұрын

John is probably the closest thing to a personal hero i have, not that he'd approve of that sentiment.

@marinamaddox6285 4 сағат бұрын

Same. Idk. Depends on why. For me, he is someone who has dealt with all the uglinessifw has to offer and come through the other side having faced down demons and come back breathing. He didnt succumb to the darkness or stay there, so its inspiring and has helped me pick myself up, knowing he has done the same. He might approve of that lol. Better hero than say David Foster Wallace or Hunter S Thompson

@DavidSmith-jj7ll 3 жыл бұрын

And somehow South Carolina is better known for Hootie than for Eartha Kitt or Dizzy Gilespie, and I think a lot of people think James Brown is from Detroit. Despite my whole family being into one form of Jazz or another, I was first introduced to Coltrane when a friend in college loaned me Giant Steps, which had just been released as a CD remaster. To this day, Giant Steps and Miles Davis's Sketches of Spain are probably two of my favorite Jazz albums. Those and Herbie Hancock's Head Hunters LP.

@MsCocohaha 4 жыл бұрын

What's the name of the person who isn't John or Matt?

@happysadllama 4 жыл бұрын

Jamie Staton, according to the credits of the full performance's video.

@benpat100 4 жыл бұрын

Vandersliceeeeeeeeee

@shoople 4 жыл бұрын

NO WAY!!! I live right in Asheville and I didn't see them. I didn't even know they were from NC :(

@aslawrence 4 жыл бұрын

I hear Asheville is a great town! Believe it or not, John was born in my hometown, Bloomington IN. Moved to So Cal. Then Portland, some stops in Iowa, Chicago for a minute maybe? and finally NC. I probably missed some. Hope that doesn’t seem super creepy. I just remember because I saw (or heard?) some clip...somewhere...in which he lists all the places he’s lived. Maybe the KEXP performance?

@shoople 4 жыл бұрын

@@aslawrence that's really interesting!!!

@willshogren1987 3 жыл бұрын

Were you around for the times he'd sell out The Grey Eagle? Those shows are always electrifying.

@marinamaddox6285 4 сағат бұрын

Im not use to seeing him post covid without facial hair. Dang

@pleasedrivefaster873 3 жыл бұрын

There's something obnoxious about wind instruments

@bear_6875 3 жыл бұрын

Completely agree, but tMG manage to convince me of them more often than most.

@pleasedrivefaster873 3 жыл бұрын

@@bear_6875 IDK man, a big part of why I'm not that into tMG anymore is due to the overly loud saxophone farting its corny melodies all over every track for the last several releases.

@bear_6875 3 жыл бұрын

@@pleasedrivefaster873 I really do feel you there. With their newer stuff I tend do go through this process of disliking it when I first hear it and then eventually six months later I think it's awesome. And the brass is a huge part of that initial turnoff. I guess at this point I just trust that I'll appreciate it eventually, but it's true that I didn't used to have that initial reaction before the horn section arrived.

@pleasedrivefaster873 3 жыл бұрын

@@bear_6875 It's fine when it's used more sparingly. Transcendental Youth had horns, but they weren't so front and center. Beat The Champ had horns as well, but the tone and melodies were varied enough to fit in better with the rest of the instrumentation and the vibe of the album overall. NHM's infamous ITAOTS has plenty of horns, but they are an integral part of that albums diverse soundscape. These days with tMG, one can only grit his teeth and wait for the inevitable, predictable sax/horn melody to kick in. It sounds like someone took a standard tMG recording and recorded a youtube "cover" of the original track by freestyling an uninspired sax melody over the original. It's just awful. I listened to John's solo recording of the title track from GITK recently and loved it. It's just a shame that that kind of sound seems to be relegated to EPs anymore. Remember the EPs that were popping out 10 or so years ago? Black Pear Tree, Satanic Messiah, Moon Colony Bloodbath, on and on. The albums of the era were amazing as well. Hopefully one day we'll see a return to this style of recording from JD and Friends.