The LCD Soundsystem "Not a Reunion" Thread

in other, more pedantic news: we?re not just playing coachella. we?re playing all over. we?re not just having some reunion tour. we?re releasing a record (sometime this year?still working on it, actually), so this isn?t a victory lap or anything, which wouldn?t be of much interest to us. this is just the bus full of substitute teachers back from their coffee break with new music and the same weird gear?or as much of it as we still have (it?s very interesting to re-buy the same gear, and in some cases buy gear BACK from people you sold it to), and rambling around trying to be louder than everyone else. thank fuck we were never skinny and young. or at least i wasn?t. that always happens with bands? they aren?t fat when they come back, typically, just, i don?t know, thicker. i was lucky to start this band kind of fat and old, so there?s no, like ?look how YOUNG they were!? shit to even find on the internet. i mean, we were younger and everything, but we weren?t young, if you know what i mean.

I will be at this with bells on. The show with Yacht at 9:30 Club in support of the second record was such a fun day.

"not a cash grab" thread

I debated posting in the "2016 Albums" thread, but this seemed to be bigger than that.

the cash grab was when they said they were done…

I don't know, maybe it's just me, but I feel the hipsters, who made this band who they are, have moved on, and their new album will suck.

I am so so excited to be at a show where people dance again. This band is so fun and I can't wait.

this is what all bands should be doing/.. towards the end of a tour announce they are retiring…massive retirement shows (Madison Square Garden+5 shows at Terminal 5.. crazy ticket prices… retirement DVD etc….then lie as low as you can (a movie soundtrack, some dj work nobody cares about) then wait 3 years and then put out an album and tour again… then announce they are retiring…

The Who and the Rolling Stones survived on that for years decades….

vansmack wrote:
The Who and the Rolling Stones survived on that for years decades….

the Stones have NEVER ever retired..

get your facts straight buddy.

hutch wrote:
the Stones have NEVER ever retired..

get your facts straight buddy.

Sorry Hutch, but I was in attendance for this show:



…solely because Mick Jagger didn't want to tour again, apparently had his mind changed and rumors were rampant that it was to be the last Rolling Stones Tour ever.  I'm quite certain that if my folks didn't believe it to be the last tour, they would not have taken me.

vansmack wrote:

hutch wrote:
the Stones have NEVER ever retired..

get your facts straight buddy.

Sorry Hutch, but I was in attendance for this show:



…solely because Mick Jagger didn't want to tour again, apparently had his mind changed and rumors were rampant that it was to be the last Rolling Stones Tour ever.  I'm quite certain that if my folks didn't believe it to be the last tour, they would not have taken me.

sorry but they never retired… they never even broke up….they have been consistent.. to this day they have never played a final show…

not sure what your parents thought means???  are they mick's butlers or something?

hutch wrote:
this is what all bands should be doing/.. towards the end of a tour announce they are retiring…massive retirement shows (Madison Square Garden+5 shows at Terminal 5.. crazy ticket prices… retirement DVD etc….then lie as low as you can (a movie soundtrack, some dj work nobody cares about) then wait 3 years and then put out an album and tour again… then announce they are retiring…

Strangely, "Warped Tour" bands understand this innately.

Carlos wrote:
I will be at this with bells on. The show with Yacht at 9:30 Club in support of the second record was such a fun day.

it was also really, really LOUD.

I mean every time you go to a Stones show its because "it could be the last time"… doesn't mean they have ever said they are retiring..

same with AC/DC.. they have never said they are retiring..

I like that model.. saying you are retiring and making a big to-do about it is kind of lame.. .doesn't make any difference whether you are the Who or LCD Soundsystem.. same lameness… doesn't even matter if you reform in my book…. just don't frickin' retire and make a big deal about it… at least call it a "hiatus"… I mean how do bands know how they will feel  a few years later or how much they will miss the groupies?

"It's all just gotten bigger than I planned or wanted. Not that I'm against it but I don't want to get bigger. What's the goal now– get fucking huge? I don't want to be a famous person. "


so, you know, I'll come out of retirement and we'll play Coachella…

He also addressed the fans who "feel betrayed by us coming back and playing," which he said he hadn?t thought about after "clearly" anticipating a more cynical response. "if you cared a lot about our band, and you put a lot of yourself into that moment (or anything about us you chose), and you feel betrayed now, then i completely understand that," he wrote. "to you i have to say: i?m seriously sorry. the only thing we can do now is get back into the studio and finish this record, and make it as fucking good as we can possibly make it."

hutch wrote:
they have been consistent..

From the Wiki page (with a book source):

Initially, lead singer Mick Jagger was not interested in another tour, but guitarists Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood were, as were elements of the press and public, and Jagger eventually relented.

Sandford, Christopher (2003). Mick Jagger: Rebel Knight. Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-7119-9833-7. p. 276.

I will agree that they have never retired, but it was high press that this might be the last chance to see the Stones because Jagger was going to go solo.  Just the threat is enough for a big act (some said later that it was all an act to make sure they could sell out all of the huge venues - it was the largest grossing tour at the time - but there's been no proof).  Then Jagger did go solo, toured by himself and the band didn't comeback to America until 1989, so it looked to be true for a long time.  But hey, I was a HUGE beneficiary so no complaints from me that it never panned out.

Now, back to LCD Soundsystem….