"In a late movie of Lon Chaney Jr., who is the wolf-man, whose father is one of the greatest actors of all time - And the thing is, can you imagine being the son of this guy who is like the absolute definitive silent film actor, what're you gonna do, you have his name, you go ahead and act. And Lon Chaney Jr.'s not really a particularly good actor, but y'know, he follows in the family trade and he plays the wolf-man, memorably, and then keeps right on making movies - but he's getting less and less good scripts and he has to have a surgery on his throat during the filming of this movie so then they re-write the script so he won't have any more lines, change his character to a guy who survives electrocution, and when he comes back from the dead he can no longer speak and he sort of chases people (in a really weird way, it's like why are you afraid of this guy, he can't really run that fast, he's like the mummy, y'know, the mummy's easy to get away from), but before he gets electrocuted Lon Chaney is talking to his lawyer and he knows that his lawyer is selling him out, he knows that he's not going to be fairly represented in court, and his lawyer is going to send him to the electric chair in order to share in the ill-gotten gains of Lon Chaney's co-conspirators, who are not in jail, he is. He knows he's gonna die - and the lawyer starts to try and explain his case and Lon Chaney waves him off and says 'You, you are a rotten stinking mouthpiece', and this song is called Rotten Stinking Mouthpiece." - 2009-03-25, Somerville Theater, Somerville, MA
Lob some spit at the window Watch it run down the pane It's only the guilty Who concern themselves With clearing their names You bring tidings of hope False tidings When you come here There's two friends who did me wrong That you're protecting It's so clear And when you speak it's those two Who speak through you Who'll speak for me? The burning and the electricity Sun goes down San Francisco Friends are hard to find Chew them up just as quick As I can find them Try to clear my mind Remember hours at the table Gauze white light easing through If there's one thing That I'm not going to do tonight It's die for you 'Cause when you speak it's those two Who speak through you Who'll speak for me? The burning and the electricity
at a concert last night he revealed that not only was this his favorite song, but it was about the movie "indestructible man" and about the tragedy of the actor Lon Chaney Jr.
"In a late movie of Lon Chaney Jr., who is the wolf-man, whose father is one of the greatest actors of all time - And the thing is, can you imagine being the son of this guy who is like the absolute definitive silent film actor, what're you gonna do, you have his name, you go ahead and act. And Lon Chaney Jr.'s not really a particularly good actor, but y'know, he follows in the family trade and he plays the wolf-man, memorably, and then keeps right on making movies - but he's getting less and less good scripts and he has to have a surgery on his throat during the filming of this movie so then they re-write the script so he won't have any more lines, change his character to a guy who survives electrocution, and when he comes back from the dead he can no longer speak and he sort of chases people (in a really weird way, it's like why are you afraid of this guy, he can't really run that fast, he's like the mummy, y'know, the mummy's easy to get away from), but before he gets electrocuted Lon Chaney is talking to his lawyer and he knows that his lawyer is selling him out, he knows that he's not going to be fairly represented in court, and his lawyer is going to send him to the electric chair in order to share in the ill-gotten gains of Lon Chaney's co-conspirators, who are not in jail, he is. He knows he's gonna die - and the lawyer starts to try and explain his case and Lon Chaney waves him off and says 'You, you are a rotten stinking mouthpiece', and this song is called Rotten Stinking Mouthpiece." - 2009-03-25, Somerville Theater, Somerville, MA
pardon me, that was the wrong date, the right date is 4/16/14 at the same venue
Beautiful, most beautiful comment on youtube.
How's there always seem to be another Mountain Goats song for me to hear on UA-cam?
Dallas Jones tell me about it
Lob some spit at the window
Watch it run down the pane
It's only the guilty
Who concern themselves
With clearing their names
You bring tidings of hope
False tidings
When you come here
There's two friends who did me wrong
That you're protecting
It's so clear
And when you speak it's those two
Who speak through you
Who'll speak for me?
The burning and the electricity
Sun goes down San Francisco
Friends are hard to find
Chew them up just as quick
As I can find them
Try to clear my mind
Remember hours at the table
Gauze white light easing through
If there's one thing
That I'm not going to do tonight
It's die for you
'Cause when you speak it's those two
Who speak through you
Who'll speak for me?
The burning and the electricity
He's perpetually a young man.
at a concert last night he revealed that not only was this his favorite song, but it was about the movie "indestructible man" and about the tragedy of the actor Lon Chaney Jr.
john plz ur da best
ahhhh this is just the bitter tune i need rn lmao
John sounds so young in these recordings.
Beautiful fucking song
Oh! My apologies.
He certainly isn't young either. He's almost 50.
I know.