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We found out that William Garvey, the man who wrote “Goodbye Horses” (originally performed by Q Lazzarus) died last night.
I’m so fucking sad. I’d heard the rumor from David Hawes from Catherine Wheel who was hanging out with us. So I googled it this morning and I found the death notice online and now I can’t help but be so sad about it. Something about those words: “death notice.”
He wrote a beautiful song. I understand why he wrote it. I know it in and out. Those enigmatic lyrics, the longing of it, the sadness. We’ve played it so much, I feel like it has become part of our lives.
He wrote me an e-mail a few weeks ago to tell me that I’d been singing the lyrics wrong. He’d watched a bunch of YouTube clips of us playing it and said that the line at the ends was “flying over you” not “lying over you.” He was annoyed. I wrote him back, apologized for the mistake (a few lyrics websites have it listed as “lying” and I honestly thought that’s what it sounded like) and told him I would correct the mistake, that I admired him and thought it was a wonderful piece of music.
He perked right up with a few more e-mails and told me he loved our version and that we should...
Mikel Jollett once discovered the perfect complement to his band’s live stage setup in a junkyard.
The frontman of Los Feliz five-piece The Airborne Toxic Event had trekked to a local facility along with drummer Daren Taylor to sift through rubbish in search of a “big metallic sound.” With golf club and bat in hand, the two began banging until they stumbled upon just the right clunk: the hood of a 1969 Alfa Romeo, which would later be incorporated into the gaggle of L.A. shows that Airborne would play over the next year.
Though they’ve parted ways with the hood, Jollett seems keen on a revival: “At some point if we get to be a bigger band, we’ll probably bring the car hood back and actually start a whole junkyard percussion thing for Daren,” he jokes.
For a while, it didn’t seem like any band in L.A. was bigger than The Airborne Toxic Event. Considering the group’s penchant for atypical...