1/31/2024 0 Comments Paint it black andy black lyrics![]() I was loved and supported by my family, but I was the least athletic person ever. I didn’t have any of the standard building blocks of male self-esteem. I’m not trying to sell it as a capital-T “trauma,” but I was a lefty living in a WASP-y suburb during the Reagan years and it was fucked up. Being a weirdo in a town like that is fucked up. Or they trusted my judgment, I don’t know.īut what happened to him that he’s here with all of us in this van? The world happened. But they were from the Bronx, so Manhattan wasn’t that scary. Like, the Village and the Lower East Side were insane when I was 14. By the time I was 14-very different from you-but it was very unusual for a kid from the suburbs to have free rein to go into the city at that age. And then there was this feeling of, who hurt you that you wound up in a cargo van full of ten boys this summer? Like, this all looks too perfect.ĭAN: Well, most of your first impressions were accurate… I mean, you saw where I lived, right? So that was on the table: An upper middle-class suburb, so far from where my parents grew up. He’s probably a middle-to-upper class guy with well-educated parents. I didn’t know you, but I had these assumptions about you. I think that was also the first time we’d ever met-in your driveway, when we were building the loft. Touring was not that different from what I’d imagined, but just the fact that we could play all over the place and even just figure out logistically how to make that happen… It’s a wonder to me that we even pulled that off. We imagine a lot of it in our heads, we’ve written stories that we tell ourselves about it, and so a lot of it is also imagined. But it’s also this really solitary thing. Music is this communal thing, right? It’s like we can connect with people across time and space. It was thrilling to play away from home and have people respond, and even just to think that people might have been anticipating our bands rolling through town. The idea that we could make that happen, that anything we did mattered outside our little geographical enclave. It might be a cliché to say it was formative, but it was absolutely formative. And man, it was a thrill, but it was also one of the most physically uncomfortable experiences ever. Was that also your first ever tour?ĭAN: Yeah, it was. It made me feel like there were possibilities. Because when I think about it now, I very much think of it as the first time that I felt like anything I’d done in the hardcore scene was “real.” That was how I internalized the experience. I feel like we need to start with that first tour we did in 1992. It touches on his hopes and his needs, and crucially, allows for a little bit of tenderness. ![]() It’s a collection of songs that locates his own footing inside of the chaos of the modern world. ![]() Listening to Paint It Black’s brilliant new record Famine -their first for Revelation-the recurring themes of personal safety and survival led me to believe that the political had become truly personal for Dan in a different way since the last time he sang on a record. ![]() The thing about nurturers, though, is that they often put so much energy into taking care of the people and communities they love, that they sometimes develop a blind spot when it comes to their own needs for care. ![]() Dan,” as we called him-did not surprise me. That he’d eventually become a clinical psychologist-”Dr. Dan was, and continues to be, a nurturer. But what I didn’t say is that we all kind of looked up to him. As I mention in our conversation, he struck me as the most “put together” of our lot he was smart, well-spoken, and truth be told, better at playing guitar than me. I’d just signed up to play guitar with Ressurection for a summer tour across America with Dan’s band, Lifetime, and the ten of us were all called to his driveway one day to build a loft for the rental van. I met Dan Yemin in 1992, in front of his parents’ house in New Jersey. ![]()
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