The band that Dave Grohl described as "The byrds gone Hardcore."

[Blazer]

Sweet 75.

Krist Novoselic and Yva Las Vegas.


"Ode to Dolly"


"Fetch"


Novoselic playing one of his Fender XII guitars.

I figure it was time to showcase this forgotten band.

[jonzer]

Are they still doing it?

[Scott S]

There was a Guitar World mag in 1997 (first one into my subscription) that featured Foo Fighters (then plugging "The Colour and the Shape"), a very good article on Nirvana's gear history, and a page-size article on Sweet 75, I guess for completeness. I downloaded some of their mp3s, but wasn't blown away. Perhaps I didn't give them a fair shake...

jonzer, they didn't survive long enough to make a second album. The official line was "musical differences", but I've heard drugs played a part.

- Scott

[Oskar]

I really liked the clips a lot, but the Byrds comparison is a bit of a stretch in my opinion.

[FirstBassman]

Agree, also kinda liked the clips.
Never had heard of them.

Buy the Byrds reference is clearly just a cheeky flippant cultural aside.
No connection what so ever.

[OutlawSteph1975]

The first song sounds pretty ironic about country music, and maybe the Byrds did that on a couple songs on Sweetheart of the Rodeo like Roger McGuinn singing the Louvins' The Christian Life with a terribly exaggerated southern accent, and Gram Parsons, a trust fund kid, singing Merle Haggard's Life In Prison. Other than those two tracks, that I think Sweetheart was an honest attempt at country. The post punk bands usually sound cynical or ironic when they try anything remotely country IMHO.

[TexGoneNW]

This may sound harsh, but:

Sorry...it does nothing for me.

If there is a category for edgy nuevo wavo country-esque, there are a few others I'd pull off the rack first.

I have to confess, there's a handicap that puts them lower on my list. There's very few people that can hold my interest on a 12-string for more than one tune. Heck, every time I've thought about getting a 12-string, I try to get interested in it, and it fades really fast. Maybe Leo Kottke, a couple of others have done it in a way that makes me think THEY should play a 12-string, but not me.

[Blazer]

It's too bad that the best song they did "La Vida" was nowhere to be found. But luckely there are other songs that carry that latin influence.


"Cantos de pilon"

And after Sweet 75 fell apart Krist Novoselic started a band called "Eyes adrift" which also didn't do that well.

"Alaska"

[Gareth John]

I liked Sweet 75, wish they did a second album. The first song on their album, Fetch is really good. I love the 12 string guitar sound. I also really like Cantos De Pilon. Eyes adrift were pretty good too. I think it was brave of Novoselic to do something totally different after Nirvana. His contribution to Nirvana's output is under estimated also. I would say this though because I'm a Nirvana fan

[Blazer]

Novoselic is a great bassplayer, he played counter melodies on many Nirvana tune with a nice full tone coming from his Gibson Basses.

[NEPATelecaster]

Don't like Nirvana or these two other projects...But I'm sure Krist or Dave wouldn't like my stuff, so we are even...

[danelectro]

I always thought Sweet 75 was a lesser version of Spell, an equally obscure post Nirvana band.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Az3hjO_D6o


BTW can someone help me with using the youtube tags, I can never get those to work .

[Scott S]

Originally Posted by danelectro

I always thought Sweet 75 was a lesser version of Spell, an equally obscure post Nirvana band.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Az3hjO_D6o


BTW can someone help me with using the youtube tags, I can never get those to work .

Sure, all you put in the [YOUTUBE] tags is that weird combo of letters and digits at the end of the http link. In this case, it's 8Az3hjO_D6o.



ON EDIT: Ironically, this one won't play if embedded!

- Scott

[danelectro]

Thanks Scott, you RULE!