Shane & Joey on Henry Rollins Show

**Sat Jul 21, 2007 5:31 pm**

DownInTheGround wrote:Why is Shane Singing into a hairdryer?

He's drying his teeth?

**Sat Jul 21, 2007 6:07 pm**

Other than Joey,who were the back up musicians.

**Sat Jul 21, 2007 6:13 pm**

lavabe wrote:where is that link...cannot find it...sorry

but...here´s the dirty old town performance on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYlGWzZaqXo

Great clip, thanks for posting.

**Sun Jul 22, 2007 11:58 pm**

Clash Cadillac wrote:To the best of my ability this is what he said...

"Fuck Bush, and right, your fucking doing the same thing all over again like you did in 'Nam and you don't even know what we did there so fuck it, fucking get rid of him"

Brilliant rant and perfomance...

and nice carpets!

**Mon Jul 23, 2007 11:08 pm**

this was one of the best rollins shows this year
I tape the show weekly on my DVR...Henry is always very respectful to the guests
First of all Chris Walken is a legend
secondly, joey cashman on the guinness whistle was fabulous...although he did kind of blow the intro :roll:

funniest moment was when shane says "fuck bush....asdokfj....janet reno" in the beginning haha
then he fake shot himself in the head during the whistle solo in the middle of the song
http://www.ifc.com/ on the main page he is performing the irish rover as well...

**Tue Jul 24, 2007 10:29 am**

lavabe wrote:great performance....and by the way, mr. cashman is the best whistleplayer the world has ever seen..

fucking arse licker

http://www.youtube.com/user/Funkfuzzi1 · **Tue Jul 24, 2007 12:20 pm**

i wondered which tunes he played instead of joining the others on dirty old town and irish rover :?:

tooraloo,
robin

**Tue Jul 24, 2007 1:45 pm**

Funkfuzzi wrote:i wondered which tunes he played instead of joining the others on dirty old town and irish rover

Who knows... But he has a hard life. He constantly learns new tunes, but they only demand his services for Dirty Old Town and Irish Rover. Again and again. It is boring and gives him no chance to show his masterly new repertoire. So he finally said "enough is enough" and showed it anyway. No matter what songs the others played.

**Tue Jul 24, 2007 5:04 pm**

Zuzana wrote:
Funkfuzzi wrote:i wondered which tunes he played instead of joining the others on dirty old town and irish rover

Who knows... But he has a hard life. He constantly learns new tunes, but they only demand his services for Dirty Old Town and Irish Rover. Again and again. It is boring and gives him no chance to show his masterly new repertoire. So he finally said "enough is enough" and showed it anyway. No matter what songs the others played.

Cashman's masterful deconstruction of Dirty Old Town brings to mind the controversial atonal version of Star Spangled Banner as played by Jimi Hendrix on the Woodstock stage in '69. Just as Hendrix channelled the harsh sounds of the Vietnam war using feedback to make the dropping of bombs, the charge of men wounded in the body and the soul and the rotting death of the American dream so too does virtuoso Joey Cashman with Dirty Old Town and a post-Blair Britain.

Breathlessly playing something that only vaguely resembles the melody he manages gets across the real Dirtiness of the town. He goes beyond mere conventional syncopation by not playing on the off-beat, but also the on-beat, almost on-beat and completely wrong-beat. Seemingly for no reason, he goes up or down in pitch. It's a conceptual dream that leaves one's jaw firmly on one's chest. If Salford were a middle aged man sitting on a stool playing a Ewen MacColl song you can bet it wouldn't be Christy Moore. You can picture the graffiti ridden shopping center, the behooded young men searching in vain for a future and the children pushing their own children around in cheap plastic prams.

This is a run down town of the 21st century, he seems to be saying, and there's no room for the artfulness of the stunted imaginationless 1980's studio version, stuck as it is on the idea of "Musical Quality", that last vanguard of the hack. Times have changed and so too must interpretations. Cashman sits contented, getting across exactly what he wishes to. This is the culmination of a life time on the fringes of a musical industry and it's truly inspiring to see such a man shine so brightly at last.

Sadly, his musical partner, Shane MacGowan, is not forward thinking enough to appreciate the greatness of Cashman's performance, miming as he does a bullet through the head during the heart wrenching solo. Ironic, as it's the kind of shot to the face that Joey Cashman is now so gleefully providing to folk music. MacGowan, once the young rebel is now part of the Irish music establishment, the Planxty Noel Hill to Joey's Shane MacGowan, and it's beyond his comprehension just how good his former partner now is. Like most true originals, Joey is thought so little of in his own life time.

He was shit on Irish Rover, though.

**Tue Jul 24, 2007 7:40 pm**

Cheers

That beer looked dodge no wonder why he was happy to let it smash. Yuk.

**Tue Jul 24, 2007 11:18 pm**

shane's in great voice there though. havent heard him sound as good in years.

**Wed Jul 25, 2007 12:04 am**

trashcity wrote:shane's in great voice there though. havent heard him sound as good in years.

totally agree with you....except the "s"- or "sh"- or "f"-words shane has to sing

**Wed Jul 25, 2007 5:04 am**

philipchevron wrote:Appearing on TV is a chore, not a pleasure, whatever this week's latest "reality TV" starlet may claim.

"It ain't a privilege to be on TV
and it ain't a duty either.
The only good thing about TV
is shows like 'Leave it to Beaver.'"

-Grandpa, from Neil Young's 'Greendale'

**Wed Jul 25, 2007 9:03 am**

Smerker wrote:Cashman's masterful deconstruction of Dirty Old Town brings to mind the controversial atonal version of Star Spangled Banner as played by Jimi Hendrix on the Woodstock stage in '69. ...

Smerker, this is brilliant. Great musical moments of our time, eh?

**Wed Jul 25, 2007 11:07 am**

Anonymous wrote:who were the back up musicians.

David Spreng, Bill Jones..

Wow, Smerker! When I am ready to nominate meself for election to local authority I'll ask my office to contact you. I think you're born to be image maker/PR manager and perform general brainwashing

Shane & Joey on Henry Rollins Show

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