John Maus is a singular musical creature. The 32-year-old postgraduate political philosophy student was previously the keyboardist in Animal Collective, Panda Bear
Is this really true? Like, did he play live on some shows back in the day that i'm not unaware of?
Re: john maus
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 7:40 pm
by preacherben
yes I think he played with Panda during the first person pitch shows if i remember correctly
Re: john maus
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 7:43 pm
by the feeling store
are there any recordings that exist from any of these shows?
Re: john maus
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 7:53 pm
by davidm
THEY CALL ME THE BELIEVER
Re: john maus
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 8:32 pm
by Dearest
EH AH AH OH OH OHHH
Re: john maus
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 8:37 pm
by preacherben
did some digging and this was from Panda's myspace lol
wrote:
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
john maus
hello everyone
i met john when i went on a tour with ariel and bevan whose signer around europe a couple of years back now. he was playing keyboards for ariel and after a little bit he played with me too. it was him and i and greg and robert r and sometimes ariel would play bass with us as well. we played a show in paris (it was ariels first because he and john had problems at the uk border) and after me and greg and slice played john asked if he could play some of his own songs and i said sure. he hooked the sound guy up with his backing tracks and fully ripped around the stage and it was awesome. that tour had some grim moments (lost and stolen equipment and a shabby van whose door wouldnt fully close and whose engine wouldnt always start in the coldest early mornings) but besides those there was never a dull moment because john and these boys were always mixing things up and having good times.
a bit after that tour john gave me some songs that were going to be for his first album (hed played some at that paris show i think) and i liked them a lot. and then just a couple months ago john sent me his newest songs and i should say ive listened to them more than any others this year. theyre very emotional for me in the best ways perhaps because i first listened to them in an intense time in an intense environment. i dont mean to sell the songs short though because i think theyre really great. there are lots of small details in the way he produced the songs too that i get really into. well i just wanted to let people know as much as i could that his new album love is real just came out yesterday or so and i think its really good and i hope you all like it too. its on the upset the rhythm label and his page is here http://www.upsettherhythm.co.uk/johnmaus.html
thanks very much for reading and take good care.
PEACE
noah
Re: john maus
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 8:48 pm
by Akaio
i know it's not one of the albums pbear was talkin about but pitiless censors is really too good
prime hpop at its best
Re: john maus
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 8:58 pm
by StrangeClams
WE AAAAAARE THE OOOONNESSS WHO TRAVEL THROUGH TIIIIIIIIIME
EEEE-YYEEEEEAAAAHHHHHH
Re: john maus
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 9:29 pm
by rampface
Pussy is not a matter of fact
Re: john maus
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 9:58 pm
by dio
weird. I had no idea that Maus was even connected with AC really besides some write-up I vaguely remember of Maus saying how amazing Tomboy is.... Wish we had boots of these shows... didn't know Panda ever really had a backing band besides recent stuff with Sonic... hm.. And is he saying Ariel played bass with them too? Wtf, how'd I not know abt this..
Re: john maus
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 10:02 pm
by colin
ya he's the shit. my friend and i played gta 4 almost every time we hung out for w couple years and we put on cop killer as often as possible
Re: john maus
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 10:16 pm
by springsten
That's funny, cause it said he was that he played keyboard with ac and panda on his spotify bio and i thought that no way is this true.
Re: john maus
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 10:18 pm
by StrangeClams
anyone ever tried to understand a john maus interview? pretty deep shit goes down
Re: john maus
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 10:20 pm
by springsten
colin wrote:
ya he's the shit. my friend and i played gta 4 almost every time we hung out for w couple years and we put on cop killer as often as possible
that's also funny cause i did the same thing at a friend's friend once, he also liked john maus and we played gta 4 and decided to play that song and kill cops
Re: john maus
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 10:21 pm
by springsten
StrangeClams wrote:
anyone ever tried to understand a john maus interview? pretty deep shit goes down
i like the way he speaks. he gets so caught up in it, really intense. i'd wonder how a night out with him would be like
Re: john maus
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2014 5:58 am
by sky crawler
ice-t got nothing on this mofo
Re: john maus
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2014 3:50 pm
by GeckoSushi
RIGHTS FOR GAYS! OH YEAH!
Re: john maus
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2014 6:55 pm
by ---DYEV---
<3 John Maus
Johnny Walker's real name is John Maus
Re: john maus
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2014 10:31 pm
by Mütterlein
Songs is one of my favorite albums. I love John's old blog posts and other misc writings -- and he is one of the more fascinating interviewees. I sometimes wonder if some of what he says doesn't actually make sense though, thinking specifically of his theses on punk rock. There are some incredible in depth interviews on YouTube that everyone should check out
Re: john maus
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2014 11:18 pm
by Stigmata89
Really thought this guy was onto something when he released, "Hey Moon". That is, until I found out that his best song was basically a redone version of a Molly Nilsson song lolol.
Re: john maus
Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2014 9:42 pm
by Ethmin
it sounded like the exact same recording actually, with his added vocal track of course
Re: john maus
Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2014 2:27 am
by GeckoSushi
I think John Maus is a dude who deep down really just wants to make some awesome 80s synth-pop, but he's too much of an intellectual that he's always trying to justify his music to himself by relating it to medieval theories of modality and Romanticism and Viennese Classicism and the German Baroque and the High Renaissance, when really at the end of the day he just wants to rock his casio.
Re: john maus
Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2014 3:32 am
by colin
ya its hard to like something inspired by things u dont understand huh
Re: john maus
Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2014 3:37 am
by colin
Ethmin wrote:
it sounded like the exact same recording actually, with his added vocal track of course
no it doesnt
think of it like he made a burrito into a chimichanga wet
Re: john maus
Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2014 3:43 am
by Gool Aid
i gotta disagree myles, the way he structures his tracks is really far out and seems pretty intensely composed. sometimes tracks feel like it could be a full choir, very moving stuff
Re: john maus
Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2014 3:45 am
by Gool Aid
Re: john maus
Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2014 3:50 am
by Gool Aid
his choral stuff is some of the most interesting
Re: john maus
Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2014 4:11 am
by GeckoSushi
I was just joking guys haha. 90% of what I post is meant in jest. I found that picture and the rest of the post wrote itself. I guess humor is a lot harder to get across in text than I thought. I love John and find a lot of his interviews to be insightful. I also think his rarities and b-sides are incredible. also this:
Re: john maus
Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2014 4:37 am
by colin
i kno i lol'd then comedy kung fu'd right back at u
how cool would the john maus version of kung fu fighting be?
Re: john maus
Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2014 4:40 am
by colin
i wanna go to a show but every time he's been in town i havent known about it ive missed him 3 times now. then again id prolly have a panic attack cuz he does what i want to do but am too scared to do
Re: john maus
Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2014 7:26 am
by float on sputnik
this thread feels like it should be in the music subforum
kind of surprised no one had made a john maus thread for CAV yet
Re: john maus
Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2014 10:28 pm
by Akaio
move it, I say!
Re: john maus
Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2014 10:47 pm
by dance avey dance
The beginning is fine since it discussed his involvement with ac but just take any further discussion of maus to the music forum
