TRUE STORIES OF THE YOUNG CRIMINAL'S STARVATION LEAGUE
for some quick facts click here
for a really long bio the "no depression" story covers everything up till the summer of 2004
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END OF SUMMER 2006
ANYONE
NEED A 4 YEAR OLD
at 3am. after an atlanta show young criminals find a 4 year old boy abandoned
at a cheveron in dalton ga.(not the night manager)
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SPRING 2006
the new album is recorded-
11 songs
11 people
11 hours
and 16 days of preproduction
bobby bare jr's young criminals' starvation league's 3rd album for
bloodshot records
produced by BRAD JONES and BOBBY BARE JR.
the core of the band was me - brad jones -bass - carl broemel - gtr-
and
patrick hallahan -drums
carl lives a mile from me and was co - writing and patrick wanted to come
down from louisville and write some with us
grimey helped write some too
brad came in to produce the record with me
the rest of the band is
carey kotsionis - sang on my last 2 records and sang on this one too
corey younts- played keyboards and sang
doni schroader- played keyboards and percussion
jim james- -sang and played harmonica
deanna varagona- -sang and played her horn
ben martin- played percussion and brought pizza
my dad hung out all day and helped eat pizza
the album is coming out on bloodshot records in the early fall
I always wanted to do this big room sound thing- and oceanway was the
only
place I wanted to do it at- big room sound and big fun
it was the most fun i have ever had with music in one day (see picture)-
brad and i are doing vocal fixes this week and mixing at alex the great
studios but
there won't be many overdubs at all-
don't know the album title yet but will post it as soon as I decide
WEST COAST SEPT 2005
BACK AT THE CASBAH-and getting to see eric bachman of CROOKED FINGERS for the first time since we met in Bergen Norway-he was playing with richard buckner on block from my hotel back in june and we got to meet and hang out-it was super-bachman-bare-buckner-in bergen-
unfortunately our govorment left the poor people of new orleans stranded in the streets and most people of san diego couldn't get away from the tv-and we were tired from our trip which started at 4am in nashville-luckily los angeles was better and people were getting out-the jaded L.A. crowd did not get tom heinl's GRIZZLY ADAMS bit which they should have as he is such a great performer-san fran was the best show we have had there ever-even the guy who yawned on my monitor was really into the show-EUGENE was jolly as ever-and we got to meet tom heinl's mom-I rode to seattle with eric cause I had free passes to get into the bumbershoot festival where I got to see friends from okkerville river-early mart-and got to see the stooges for the first time-three days later and much less pain in the pocket from gas price gouging-we filled up the tractor tavern in ballard with a loud crowd-lots of fun-and we got to see jason ringenberg open the show-bellingham is an effortless and pleasant drive up from seattle and we have some dedicated fans up there-next time we are gonna go all the way through to vancouver as I have not played there since I opened up for the reverend horton heat in 2001- portland was a rowdy mess-we didn't start till 1am-but it was packed and fun-then back to seattle to the croc-and having to follow 50ft wave who blasted the crowd-midnight set time felt early after portland but we played extra long and did extra encore songs-and yes my neck was hurting the whole time and yes it is feeling better now that I am home with my girls-hope to see everyone at austin city limits fest that told me they were going-it should be much fun--
--apology for july 2005 tour--
I suffer from a recurring disc problem in my neck-too many years of what we call in the biz "gig neck"
it makes my fingers numb and provides me with a constant pain in my back and arm-I almost turned back in memphis while headed for texas-but steroids(cortisone) carried me a full week and a half through to athens-sorry sc and fla-I will come back some day-the constant finger of the god of pain presses continuously upon my head-and forces me to stare at my shoes everywhere I go-
I have drifted away on a cloud of vicoden and muscle relaxers with hopes of relif before the west coast tour-
hope you all get to see a healthy version of me and my neck bouncing around some stage in some bar some time soon------------------forgiveness be mine-bbj
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BOBBY MEETS MORRISSEY
BOBBY’S QUICK IMPRESSIONS OF A QUICK SCANDINAVIAN GALLOP (AND ENGLAND
TOO)DECEMBER-2004
Here is a list of the shows young criminals keyboardist Loney Hutchins and bobby just did
Dec 01 -Credo-Trondheim, Norway
Dec 4 MADAM FELLE; BERGEN NORWAY
Dec 6 CAFE MONO, OSLO NORWAY
Dec 7 BOMMENS SALONGER, GOTHENBURG SWEDEN -
Dec 8 DEBASER, STOCKHOLM SWEDEN
Dec 9 HALDEN, NORWAY
Dec 10 MEJERIET, LUND SWEDEN
Dec 13 The Windmill, Brixton/London, UK
-the pleasure, the privledge is mine-
While trying to get to Trondheim we were routed through Mancheter England
only to have our flight canceled and have to be rerouted back through
London-while in line I found myself directly behind THE MOZZZZZZ-the hair
- the side burns - the chin----he sat down on an isle seat and as I passed
I had to do it-
I said “hi my name is Bobby Bare Jr. and I am from Nashville, tn
and I missed your show at the rhyman auditorium because my wife was having
our baby”
he laughed shyly and asked “did she start having the baby while at
my show”
I replied “no we were inducing-but please come back to nashville”
We both giggled and I floated to my seat
I didn’t bother him with the fact that I recorded a nashville version
of “what difference does it make”
Nor did I tell him that we shared the same publicist
I have chose not to meet many of my heros cause of the possibility of
them being an asshole- Morrissey is not one of these people-so I am really
happy about our chance enounter-I am sure he had no Idea who I was and
he was really nice
Then we got stuck in oslo, Norway for the night-the city was frozen
So was Trondhiem-along with being one inch from the artic circle-and therefore only offering sunlight between 10am and 3pm--but we had a super show
Bergen was drowning in rain-for 3 days-but such a beautiful city (surrounded by mountains)even in the fog and showers-we rehearsed our drummer Steig and had a super show
Below is a picture of young criminals keyboardists LONEY HUTCHINS
The train ride to Oslo was the most beautiful part of the entire trip-even though it seems like half the ride is underground through tunnels
Oslo had thawed a bit and our show was just ok-the people were great though
Gutenberg has always been good to us and the venue had lots of beautiful reverb
Stockholm is my favorite Scandinavian city-it is all built on islands
and the buildings are beautiful - and we always have lots of people at
the shows
We rehearsed with the horn section from the band “THE CONCRETES”
- Ludvig and Ulrik-they knew the songs and sounded great-and we had a
bitchin’ show-lots of people and good rockin’
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We then went to Halden Norway where we played a very small pub right next to the train station-the 40 people who showed up had much drunken enthusiasm and got a great show-we couldn’t fit anymore people in the door and made lots of friends--
Lund Sweden is like a make believe city in a Christmas movie-all cobblestone streets covered with happy people and wispy snow---and lots of drunk people at our show--a very blurry night that was much fun-even though I broke my electric guitar in half during “the terrible sunrise”----I am still trying to glue it back together---
We returned to Stockholm to catch our flight back to the UK-but we got to see “The Concretes” do their hometown Christmas show-it was sold out and they all wore white and played all the hits-they let us drink their beer and asked us to get up and sing the last song with them but I chickened out--
I had left my passport in Trondhiem so I had to get a passport in Stockholm before going to the UK to do a show that night in Brixton-and everything fell into place just fine and the crowd at The Windmill was great---and there was a really nice guy there from Morrissey’s record label who got me on the guest list to see P J Harvey open up for Morrissey the next night in Birmingham-I over slept and missed Polly Jean but I got to see 10,000 people go crazy for The Mozzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz---
Now back to the USA to rehearse for our NEW YEARS EVE show at Schuba’s in Chicago-it should be great-and it is alomost sold out--
And here is a list of our JAN/FEB dates
DEC 31st - chicago,IL - SCHUBA'S
1/11: bluebird cafe, Nashville, TN in the round w' matthew ryan, will
kimbrough, and eff barzelay
1/21: Mojos, Columbia,MO
1/22: Blueberry Hills Duck Room, St Louis,MO
1/23: Magic Stick, Detroit,MO
1/24: Lees Palace, Toronto,CANADA
1/25: Beachland, Cleveland,OH
1/26: tba
1/27: Middle East, Cambridge,MASS
1/28: Mercury Lounge, New York CITY
1/29: Khyber, Philadelphia, PA
1/30: Mawells, Hoboken,NJ
1/31: Iota, Arlington, VA
2/01: Local 506, Chapel Hill,NC
2/02: tba
OCT 3-2004--THANKS AGAIN
So yeah---there were 75,000 people at the show in Austin-the pixies were
spectacular-all our friends were there-mindy smith-billy mercer-holly
williams- paul niehaus-chris masterson-wilco-my morning jacket-centromatic-we
got a great crowd response and the only encore for our stage---the heat
inside my suit felt like hot wax-but I looked good-real good---after the
show on sunday we went with the guitar player from the Roots to see Redd
Volkaert at the continental club---he asked if he was gonna get beat up
cause he was the only black gut there and we laughed and said most likely
yes----Redd melted his brain and then went dancing and drinking at the
after party-we had beer and catfish and perry ferrel was the dj--driving
back to nasvhille was rough-it was one of the best weekends ever-watching
my morning jacket was very inspiring - they are so good at the festival
thing---our show on sat. night at the caucus club went great with lots
of familiar faces---- then our other highlight of this last month was
over 2000 people at the show in chicago---it was great-we had a great
time-and they gave us both a bottle of jack and a bottle of jameson---hags
smoked grass for the first time of the tour and ended up falling down
and having to sit in the penalty box---what a great time--now I head down
into the downstairs rehearsal space to rehearse for the acoustic tour
unless there is a baby born---we are headed west and then to cmj in nyc---
aug-2nd-2004-NASHVILLE,TN
In the last 5 months I have been through hell - a handbag - happiness
- holland - belgium - germany - norway - sweden -U.S. Virgin islands and
32 of the 50 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA- I lost 2 jackets-10 lbs - 1digital
camera-a boat load of wonder and a teacup of innocence-I have - got pregnant
- got married - got happy - got mad - got press- got paid - got up - got
down - got lost and got home-and used prepositions freely the whole time--
had the best first week of sales for any album of mine- and played the
biggest show I have ever headlined - had the most difficult tour -and
made new friends- lost old friends -and disappointed others--- but the
fans of the "YOUNG CRIMINALS STARVATION LEAGUE" have never disappointed
me -- so I'm glad y'all stuck around--and hope to see all y'all in austin
for the acl fest or somewhere along the road--bbj
notes from the road-halloween weekend-2003
all apologies to those who saw the Cleveland show at the beechland ballroom---I took twice the recommenced dosage of my pain medication-and drank free jack daniels-I'll do better next time-----to all those who saw the show at the ABBY PUB---THANKS FOR THE ENTHUSIASM---we had one of our best shows-except when my amp blew-BUT WHO HAS GRIMEYS GUITAR EFFECTS/PEDAL BOARD-he left his stuff at the gig-the black keys put on a triumphant show-as did the shams--and to the abby pub-y'alls corned beef is a true gift
NEVERS AND SOME OF THE YCSL MEMBERS
we are now driving back from the cmj weekend in NYC-I am laying in the floor of my mini van-it is late and I am in deep pain as my neck has disc problems from head banging---but it was well worth it-we left last tue. and drove strait to RALEIGH,NC-fun show and got to try out the new songs--also a tough show as it is our first show of the tour---great crowd though--then the next 2 days we got to lay around DARYL WHITE'S (TRAILER BRIDE'S BASS PLAYER) farm house near CHAPLE HILL,NC (see above picture) and sleep off hang overs, fish, row boats, and shoot DARYL'S shotgun---TOM killed a pine apple - we then traveled to NORFOLK, VA to play in a restaraunt that fed us really well---TRAILER BRIDE kicked ass and we then took on NYC-our 6 hour drive took 9 hours - but we were on time and had a great show even though everyone in the band got really drunk by the time we played at 1am--but tons of fun none the less---the next day I did 3 show- noon for LAURA CANTRELL at the museum on radio and tv-6 pm at the BLOODSHOT BBQ- and then 11pm at the rodeo bar just minutes after the YANKEES lost the world series--it was packed at the rodeo bar with sad sad baseball fans and I don't really remember much of the second set because of exaustion---but somehow we all made it back to NASHVILLE and are on our way to CLEVELAND this thur for the rest of our tour--
WED NOV. 20TH 2002 - 4:27 AM ----- 154 MILES WEST OF BUTTE
I am about 14 hours into a 32 hour drive from SEATTLE to MINNEAPOLIS --- I am laying in the floor of the mini van and TEEL is driving---- MONTANNA is the same width as TEXAS and half as interesting---this all began with our trip to CMJ in NYC just before halloween-----and just 100 miles outside of Nashville in the drowning rain a lady hydroplaned and slid in front of our van doing 80 mph----we hit them and they went spinning into the median--they just spun around on wet grass but their front wheel was bent and they couldn't drive their car very far----my van (which I had bought 3 days earlier) had a damaged front bumper but was in good enough condition to drive----we made it to Raleigh, NC than DC than NYC-the show at the Mercury Lounge was packed and we had the full 10 piece band with horns and all----it was great---teel was too drunk to stand by the end of the show but played fine----I than drank 18 jack and cokes and don't remember how I ended up sleeping in my van than night---- ---two days later our show in BROOKLYN for BLOODSHOT was super-----even though playing at 1pm on a Sat. felt like 7am----we drove back to Nashville for a few days and then headed to TEXAS--- the show at the CONTINNETAL was over capacity and was about our best show in AUSTIN ever--- we then traveled to Dallas where we shared the bill with ARLO -from PASSADENA, CA---they were great and we had a super time playing for a crowd that seemed to know all the words to all the songs------than we got in the van for a 22 hr drive to TEMPE, AZ---we made lots of new friends who share our passion for JAGERMISTER and JACK AND COKE-----we hope to be going back their soon------then we played SAN DIEGO
with our new west coast back ground singer HOLLY WILLIAMS - who was filling in for CAREY KOTSIONIS who could not make the WEST COAST part of our trip------our L.A. show the next day was with JOHN BRION - who is an unbelievable performer who joined us at the end of our show for our BEST FRIEND'S BABA cover-LON-E our keyboard player drove 32 hrs to play with us and proved he is the glue that holds us all together---the next day I flew to SAN FRANCISCO and did a radio show while the rest of the band got lost in LA trying to pick up HOLLY ----then they ended up in BAKERSFIELD on an unplanned detour (lost again)-when they got to SAN FRAN we loaded into the CAFÉ DU NORDE and it filled up to around 150 people which felt really crowded for the small basement bar---kid rock showed up and brought sean penn to the show with him- and invited us to go to an after hours bar that they go to there in SAN FRAN-we ended up playing the blues with kid rock till 5am---teel got to teach wynnona ryder how to play the mandolin and he was so happy I thought he was gonna cry-I don't know what any of this stuff means but it was interesting seeing these celebrities trying to be themselves----- after all this hollow glamour it was strait to laying in the floor of my minivan for 10 hours--we were originally gonna drive out of town and get a room but because we were up till 5am we had to drive strait to PORTLAND --- while driving through MT. SHASTA NATIONAL PARK I felt the need to go hiking and pulled over ---HOLLY and I went to explore the dirt roads that run right off of the I-5 ---we found a train trestle going over a beautiful white water river-
---we walked on the bridge and got to see a train pass through---If it had come through 4 minutes earlier HOLLY and I would have been smashed----we then drove to PORTLAND for an unexciting experience at a bar there called MT. TABOR-they spelled my name BOBBY BEAR JR. -NEVER a good sign-but SEATTLE made up for everything---such a great city --- we picked up a photographer friend named MIMI in PORTLAND and TEEL and TOM rode with here ---- they stopped off to see JIMI HENDRIX'S grave site-at night - and got lost-in the dark - and never found the grave sight even though a MC DONALDS employee made them a map
to the shows----HUGGAHUG--BBJ