sound
radio sessions
A number of radio sessions can still be heard from online archive:
KEXP Live Performances Podcast, Seattle WA, 21 July 2006:
Pushover, Fire Island, AK, Teaspoon, Honest, Ultimatum (acoustic version), Clouds, Seven, Carparts; band; 59:20 including interviews |
direct link to podcast, 81,4 MB
KEXP Cheryl Waters, Seattle WA, 28 October 2005:
delicate hands, stupid, pushover (new song), the commander thinks aloud, scared straight; John Roderick
KEXP John in the Morning, Seattle WA, 3 December 2004:
cinnamon, fire island, ultimatum; John Roderick
WOXY Lounge Acts, Cincinnatti, OH, Sep 23 2005 (29 Mb mp3-file):
shapes, cinnamon, ultimatum, the commander thinks aloud; John Roderick and Eric Corson
KUT 90.5, Austin, TX, Jun 22 2004:
stupid, scared straight, [soothing tea conversation], cinnamon, unsalted butter; band
VPRO 3voor12, Amsterdam NL, 19 May 2004:
blue diamonds, scared straight, carparts, cinnamon; band; with streaming video for blue diamonds
no love for ned, Chapel Hill NC, 26 April 2004 :
scared straight, cinnamon, sound of coming down, blue diamonds; band, alternative arrangements
KEXP live from New York NY, 23 October 2003:
unsalted butter, it'll be a breeze, shapes, cinnamon, the only living boy in new york; John Roderick and Sean Nelson
Studio Brussel, Brussels Belgium, August 2003 :
stupid, cinnamon and interview; John Roderick and Sean Nelson
KEXP, Seattle WA, May 10 2003:
shapes, stupid, cinnamon, new girl and interview; band
concerts
taping policy:
The band are fine with fans taping shows and spreading the recordings on the internet. They do appreciate it however if you send them a disc of the recordings, through Barsuk Records' postal address, c.o. The Long Winters.
The HaterHigh.com Long Winters fansite has a number of concerts available for download in lossless audio:
2003.06.17 - Toronto, CAN | 2004.06.06 - Toronto, CAN | 2006.04.16 - Austin, TX | 2006.07.21 - Seattle, WA | 2006.09.30 - Allston, MA | 2006.10.04 - Toronto, CAN | 2007.03.27 - Toronto, CAN | 2007.03.28 - Montreal, CAN | 2007.03.30 - Hoboken, NJ | 2007.03.31 - New York, NY |
2007.04.02 - Brooklyn, NY
The Internet Archive has a couple of shows available for download in various formats, as well as in streaming audio:
19 February 2007 at La Sala Apolo, Barcelona ES
4 October 2006 at Lee's Palace, Toronto CAN
The Barsuk Records website has an E-card, featuring songs played at an April 2005 Barsuk songwriters show at EMP in Seattle. John Roderick plays three acoustic Long Winters songs: Ultimatum, Bride & Bridle and It'll be a breeze. The other Barsuk artists who appear are Matthew Caws (Nada Surf), Ben Gibbard (Death Cab For Cutie), John Vanderslice and Jesse Sykes. More info about this show in the abstracts section of the Performing Arts wing.
The paid download site eMusic recorded four concerts of the June 2004 tour:
June 4 in The Metro, Chicago IL |
June 8 in Maxwell's, Hoboken NJ |
June 16 in the Cat's Cradle, Carrboro NC |
June 25 in The Casbah, San Diego CA
More info on these concerts in the abstracts section in the Performing Arts wing.
Just Concerts has a RealPlayer stream of the October 16 2003 gig in Toronto.
More info about this concert in the abstracts section in the Performing Arts wing.
ringtones
Back in 2003, ringtones were available for three songs from When I Pretend to Fall. Although they cannot be downloaded anymore, they are stored here in the Long Winters Library for posterity (soundfiles open in separate window):
Blue Diamonds 0.5 MB |
Cinnamon 0.3 MB |
Stupid 0.4 MB
video
through with love / live at the showbox
Filmmaker Adam Pranica has announced a documentary film about The Long Winters, called Through With Love. In the process of gathering material for this documentary, a complete show at the Showbox in Seattle was filmed, which is to be released as a high definition live DVD. 'Live At The Showbox' is nearly finished, and the trailer can be seen on the website of DorsiaFilms. 'Through with Love' is currently in the editing stage and a 10 minute preview and production updates can be found on the website as well.
burn to shine seattle
The Burn to Shine manifesto: 1) Gather local bands on one day to play live in a house or building that is going to be destroyed. 2) Each band plays one song and performs their song twice. 3) No overdubs. 4) Film the building's destruction. 5) Edit and display in chronological order. 6) That is all.
On 27 January 2007 Seattle was the stage for the 5th installment of this project from Trixie DVD. Benjamin Gibbard brought together 14 bands: The Long Winters, Jesse Sykes, David Bazan, Harvey Danger, Tiny Vipers, The Cave Singers, Minus The Bear, Eddie Vedder, Kinski, Spook The Horse, The Can't See, The Blue Scholars, Triumph of Lethargy Skinned To Death, and himself.
The Long Winters played (It's A) Departure in a full guitar version, no keyboards.
Read more and order from Trixie DVD |
Order from Barsuk while supplies last
fire island, ak
Bex Schwartz lured the band to Awosting Reserve in Wallkill, NY to shoot a video for Fire Island, AK, one of the songs of the Putting the Days to Bed album.
View the video on the Barsuk e-card | download a Quicktime file from HaterHigh.com's video section.
blue diamonds
A friend of the band, Michael Chick, offered to make a video for the song Blue Diamonds, from the album When I pretend to fall, an offer they couldn't refuse. This video was added to the European release of the album, as a bonus cdrom track, and this full quality version can be downloaded from HaterHigh.com's video section (big file though!).
It was available on mtv.com for a while, and was screened on MTV tv as well, but these days the website only shows a 30 second clip. MTV had cut it up anyway; probably 4:48 exceeds the attention span of their target audience. But the full version (including French intro) can still be viewed online on Launch, music on Yahoo.
If you are wondering who the people in the video are (besides the band eating ice-cream) John said this about it in the Inter-net Salon: The "Mr. Big" character is a fellow who used to own a club in Seattle called the OK Hotel, which was closed after the big earthquake a couple of years ago, and the "Ms. Bad" character can be found serving drinks on weekend nights at the Rendezvous on 2nd Ave. The man with the electrodes is the video's director. The other, incidental characters are all serving you your food when you dine at Le Pichet, on 1st Ave.
carparts
In the very early days of the Salon, when the topic of videos came up, a video for Carparts was mentioned, made by a fan from Boston in 2002. The library has never had the pleasure of viewing it, and any information (or dare we hope for it, a link even) would be extremely welcome at the librarian's desk.
live video
A number of sessions featured video as well as sound. Still to be seen from online archive:
Musik Express, Munich Germany, 11 November 2003:
it'll be a breeze, prom night at hater high; John Roderick and Sean Nelson
VPRO 3voor12, Amsterdam NL, 19 May 2004:
One of the four songs of this live radio session has video as well. The library is excited that the song is Blue Diamonds: see Eric play guitar!
More and more video footage shows up on the Internet, quality ranges from great to 20 second camphone vids:
2 Oct 1998, 29 Live tv show, Seattle WA: Western State Hurricanes - Carparts on YouTube, 5:51
23 November 2005, Doug Fir Lounge, Portland OR: Cinnamon in HaterHigh.com's video section
17 March 2006, End of An Ear, Austin TX: John sings backings on Nada Surf's What Is Your Secret
25 July 2006, Sonic Boom Ballard, Seattle WA: Pushover on YouTube, 2:50
12 November 2006, The Annex, Stockholm, Sweden: The Commander Thinks Aloud on YouTube, 0:28
14 February 2007, Le Pub, Newport, Wales: Seven on YouTube, 2:12
24 February 2007, La Casa Encedida, Madrid, Spain: Scared Straight on YouTube, 3:52
3 March 2007, Pauk, Zagreb: Sky Is Open on YouTube, 0:35
25 March 2007, Blind Pig, Ann Arbor MI: Cinnamon on YouTube, 4:03
25 March 2007, Blind Pig, Ann Arbor MI: Sky Is Open on YouTube, 3:35
25 March 2007, Blind Pig, Ann Arbor MI: Stupid on YouTube, 4:19
25 March 2007, Blind Pig, Ann Arbor MI: Teaspoon on YouTube, 3:17
25 March 2007, Blind Pig, Ann Arbor MI: Seven on YouTube, 3:38
30 March 2007, Maxwell's, Hoboken NJ: Ultimatum on YouTube, 1:07
29 March 2007, Great Scott, Allston, MA: (excerpt of) Rich Wife on YouTube, 2:50
29 March 2007, Great Scott, Allston, MA: Blue Diamonds on YouTube, 5:31
31 March 2007, Mercury Lounge, New York NY: Seven on YouTube, 3:31
forgotten but not yet gone
John Roderick will appear in a short film called "Forgotten But Not Yet Gone". This film, about an older man at a tipping point in his life, is based off a song by Ben Folds called Fred Jones, Pt. 2 and stars John Roderick as homeless man Jordan, with Steve Atit Marmer and Jacob Sunday. Written and directed by Zachary Gore, it is currently being finalised.
view the trailer on YouTube |
official website
video appearances
John Roderick appeared in several none-Long Winters videos:
16 Military Wives by The Decemberists, 2005; see stills from the video here and here
Sad Sweetheart of the Rodeo by Harvey Danger, 2000
photo
flickr
The Flickr Long Winters group is the place where everyone is invited to post their Long Winters photos, thus creating a great archive. Your photos are welcome!
buzznet
John Roderick got himself a fancy camphone for the spring 2004 tour, sponsored by KEXP, and posted a bunch of pictures on Buzznet. Sometimes quiet, sometimes active.
publicity photos
Want to see some photos that will probably look familiar if you've read a couple of articles about the band? Record company Barsuk and booking agency High Road Touring offer several publicity photographs. In high resolution, if you want a classy windows background. The library hasn't come across an official Long Winters screensaver yet...
the masters
There are two photographers who deserve special mention in this section, because they have managed to capture The Long Winters so well.
Ryan Schierling has taken a lot of shots of the band (see publicity photos, see tlw.com), and the library recommends you visit his aural fixation site, for many more great photos. Ryan has been known to post links to his work in the Swoon section of the Salon, so check that regularly.
William Anthony has taken some amazing pictures of the band, on and off-stage and also did photography for the artwork for Putting the Days to Bed. A wide selection of his work can be seen on his site braveelements.com.
live photos
Elizabeth Weinberg shot some great photos on the 2007 American Spring Tour. For plenty more links to live photos of The Long Winters, check the abstracts department in the Long Winters Library's Performing Arts wing.