(title card:) DRUNKEN BEES
JOHN CONVERTINO: ... listen to it from outside.
JOEY BURNS: I can leave the door open.
JC: Roll your window down.
I like those subwafers, man.
HOWE GELB: They're not subwafers. That's my swamp cooler back there. Do
you wanna see my swampcooler, do you have that on film yet ? See, check
it out, see. Those there are the ducts, and this wire here goes to the power.
You have to look in the trunk now.
HG: Put the water in here.
JC: What's that ? Yes.
HG: ..and the water swiches around, when you go around the corner, and the
fan pushes the air through the ducts.
JC: Duts.
HG: Doesn't really work too well.
WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF GIANT SAND
HG: See that little kid came down on the street, beautiful little
kid on a bike, and you were like filming this way, this little kid is coming
down on a bike, with his big tunken truck and we were saying, marianne,
turn around, and you start turning around so slow, you turned around so
slow that the kid went right behind you and on down....
....Peripheral photographer extraordinaire.
HG:
She's beautiful
In her self-torment
She's truthful
Torturous with her deployments
She remains undefinable
She retains undeniably
Down and down in her psycho soul
Spiralling down out of control
She's only gone
Only gone
HG: Did you read "The Little Prince" ?
SERGEANT: No, I didn't. Eh well, nice to know the flower that he loves is
not in danger.
tc: IN THE BARRIO
HOWE GELB
JOEY BURNS
JOHN CONVERTINO
BILL ELM
tc: HARVEY'S HOUSE OF MUSIC
JC: Here it is. Heartbeat of the kid. That's what it really sounds like.
JB: Really ? That's great !
MARIANNE: Joey, what is it saying ?
JB: Oh you know, the same old ... Neil Young !! Whooo five stars.
HARVEY MOLTZ: That's only three and a half stars more though...
HG: We'll learn, we'll get up there in a few years.
HM: You should have recorded more songs.
JB: "The pay off is albums like 1991 folky poetic "Ramp"..".
That's the payoff. Nice sound."At his worst, Gelb is an ardent trash
picker who can't or won't cuddle his scraps into forms. rhythms drither
after a few repetitions, lyrics drizzle into incoherence, things buzz and
bump and crash as randomly as drunken bees".
JC: I like that, that's a good one.
HG: Maybe we can...
JB: "Things buzz and bump and crash as randomly as drunken bees."
HG: ...maybe we can put that on the next record, sticker it on the front,
Rolling Stone says "drunken bees".
JB: Drunken bees.
HG:
Spiralling down out of control
She's good and gone
She was good and gone
Sitting here with my pile of denial
At the counter of intelligence
Hearing all the while
The prevalence
Holy smoke it ain't no joke
Spending time like I'm going broke
Way too down her psycho soul
Spiralling inside out of control
I wanna be good, good and gone
I wanna get me good, good and gone
I'm gonna get good and gone
Gonna be good and gone
JB: "With all his dross..". Dross ?
HG: What's dross ?
JB: "..like " Purge And Slouch", 21 recorded notions that
rarely scale the evolutionary ladder to songhood".
JC: Man, you should have heard my mom and my brother on the phone, they
were like, "well, we've read the review in Rolling Stone...",
they were like really sorry, sad.
JB: Really ?
JC: Yeah. Sorry for the disappointment.
JB: I guess my parents would be too.
JC: And then I said, you guys gotta, at least, well, my mom really liked
the record, she was like, "it's very inventive".
HG: I remember when Rolling Stone called the Ramones mook rock, I remember
that issue.
HM: They'll remember this one just like that.
HG: I remember when they dissed Neil when his "On the Beach" got
released, I remember that issue, because he played one note solo in "
? Blues".
HG: Rolling Stone, the cutting edge. Politically correct.
JC: They were just criticising because there wasn't real songs on it. Little
do they know, five years from now, that's gonna be totally hip, not to have
real songs.
HM: He was definitively looking for a whole song.
HG: And when he found it, it was too long, he was crying, it was too long.
HM: Well, he did find one in "Elevator Music".
JC: That merited the one star.
HM: Blame it on me.
HG: It's hard for it to matter now. it would have mattered 8 or 10 records
ago.
JC: Hard work, the sweat. Long hours.Yeah, nouvocation.
HG: Is that like nouveau cuisine ?
JC: Nouvocation.
tc: CHICAGO STORE
HG: Hollywood, Rainer.
RAINER: What you up to ? Hi Hollywood, I saw you name written in the hills.
HG: Old legendary soul troll, here, from the basement café here in
Chicago land, what can you teach us today ?
R: Well, OK, lesson number one, don't ever let this happen to your guitar,
allright. It used to be a really nice guitar until somebody stepped on it.
HG: Rainer used to be a lampshade as well, Rainer still is a lampshade.
HG: ... do the show in Frankfurt on the 24th...
R: Well, that's a pretty big crimp.
HG: We have the day off after Hamburg and the day off before Frankfurt,
so there's three days there, Hilderstaadt, Dortmund and Kuln.
HG: These were a good idea in their days. Why curl strings up when you can
leave them straight ?
RUDY: Eh dad, I found a new way out of here.
R: Save on...
HG: Fine gimmick.
R: Let's go see.
RD: I'll show you
R: I don't think there is a new way out of here.
RD: Oh yeah ?
HG: I think that's a waltz, a niouuu veaaaa....
RD: You think you can't get out of here, right, well, all the way up here.
PAULA JEAN BROWN: This place, Hotel Congress, it's...
M: ...it's home.
PJB: It's home.
HG:
Spiralling down, inside out of control,
She's only gone
She's only gone
Good and gone
Good and gone
VICTORIA WILLIAMS: It was in Europe, before European audiences, and
I think they weren't used to having a 75 years old man in the nightclub
and they come to a Giant Sand show, and I go up and I'm playing, and they
go like, whooo, who is this, and then Pappy gets out there, and they go,
wwwhooo is thhhhiiiissss. And by the end of a song with Pappy, they're just
like little children with these big smiles and then the whole gang would
get out there and we just really had a really good time.
PJB: When you're on stage, it's like you're playing a game and the act of
performing live, you don't know what's gonna happen. It's not like you're
getting up and playing a song from beginning to end like you've rehearsed
it. We played that way a little bit but now it sort of became an art for
him.
VW: He likes it when you don't know what you're doing, 'cause that's kind
of the true human condition, isn't it ?
HG:
I'm sitting here at the counter of intelligence
In between some fucking Mayer and the prevalence
Hanging all the while.
Holy smoke, it ain't no joke,
Spending time like I'm going broke,
Way on ...
SGT: Ah, gonna put a railing around the flower, it'll be safe now.
I think you're gonna be all right.
HG: Gracias.
SGT: But out here, you'd be better off with a cactus, than a flower.
HG: Flower won't hold the graffiti.
HG: Eh Neil Diamond, are you burning bread ?
RICK GELB: It's allright.
HG: OK. It's Neil Diamond.
BILL ELM: How's your chair working ?
HG: Oh man, that chair, that chair... You know, it's just as wide as a first
class seat and it's got that take-off tilt to it.
BE: You're still bumped up ?
HG: I can't always get to seat in there, I gotta pay the extra, have one
of theses stickers. Have the gold card.
OUT-OF-TOWNER: You all don't know where... you guys know where all the things
are happening around here ?
R: Pardon ?
O-O-T: I'm from out of town, I was wondering if you guys knew where all
the things... where everything is going on ?
R: Well, they might have a thing downtown on Saturday night, it is Saturday
night.
O-O-T: Downtown ?
R: Yeah, a few people gathering around on the street.
O-O-T: Where can I get some puss... you guys are cool ?
R: We're all police officers, or ex-police officers.
RG: Patty's on the phone.
O-O-T: Aaahh aah. I was gonna ask where it was safe to cruise out.
HG: You gotta live here for two years, then they give you your little green
card.
O-O-T: Oh, I'm not a green card... you know what I'm saying.
HG: Oh, it's a different kind of green card.
RG: Burning bread.
O-O-T: Where is all the action at ? Where is all the pussy ? Women ? Oh
excuse my language. All the girls, all the action ?
HG: LA.
O-O-T: Where ?
HG: Down the road, LA. Just get on the freeway here.
O-O-T: I just drove four hundred miles.
HG: Coming from ?
O-O-T: You don't want to know.
HG: Texas.
Texas ?
O-O-T: No.
BE: Oklahoma ?
O-O-T: Try again.
RG: Jail ?
O-O-T: No. Try again.
RG: Give us a hint.
BE: Colorado ?
O-O-T: North Dakota.
RG: That's 400 miles ?
O-O-T: You don't know where the party is at, you know, I just want to know.
RG: Why don't you go to a topless bar ?
O-O-T: Where is all the good times are ?
HG: You just gotta wait for them to find you.
O-O-T: Right down here ?
HG: Yeah. Here you go. Just follow them.
O-O-T: *** Yeah. *** Fuck this !!!!
HG: Good little neighborhood. Good little neighborhood.
HG:
Way too long in her psycho soul.
Down...
She wants to be good
Good and gone
I'm gonna get good
Good and gone
Get good and gone
Gonna get me ... good and gone
She redefines good and gone
Good and gone
I remain good and gone
Redefine good and gone
HG: So when we go to the A, you gotta come in louder than anybody and go...
Down to the G, do the same thing.
And F minor. Pull that chord A Flat.
You could be like... piercing.
BE: Yeah.
HG: I mean, as loud as you can.
BE: Yeah.
HG: At times, you might be able to slow it, but that might be nice if that's
the case, how you did it. So... if we go to the A.
HG: Break time.
CHRIS: That's about time.
tc: DRUNKEN BEES
tc: IN RANDOM APPARITION
HOWE GELB, JOHN CONVERTINO, JOEY BURNS, BILL ELM, PAULA JEAN BROWN, MIKE
SEMPLE, VICTORIA WILLIAMS, RAINER, PATSY GELB, PANTHEA BEGAY, CHRIS MCKAY,
CLIFF, TASHA (Y MIA), RUDY, RICK GELB, HARVEY AND JESSICA MOLTZ, THE LITTLE
PRINCE, A GOOD SERGEANT, PAPPY, DRUNK OUT-OF-TOWNER, JEAN MICHEL DISSARD.
THANKS.
tc: PRODUCED/SHOT/EDITED/ETC... BY MARIANNE DISSARD
tc: EXECUTIVE PRODUCED BY BRAD SINGER
tc: CO-PRODUCED BY JEAN-MICHEL DISSARD
tc: 2ND CAMERA CHRIS WAGGANER
tc: BEAUCOUP GRACIAS
J-M, BRAD "ZI-ANGEL", KATE HYMAN, LODGE KERRIGAN, PATTY, GABE,
SOFIE ALBERTSEN, LES DISSARDS, MOLLI SIMON, JOHN STARR, DA PENNEBAKER, KAROLESIMONDOMINIQUELAURENCE,
PETER SILLEN, CC HENRY $. ROSENTHAL, LORENZO O'BRIEN, MARK "DOC' TUXON"
S., HARVEY MOTZ, ISABELLE COULET, THEA JEFF + J., DAVID SCOTT PENN, LOBA,
GREG SALE, AND MANY MANY OTHERS MORE OUT....
tc: AND
CONGRESS HOTEL, CASINO OF THE SUN, RAINBOW GUITAR, THE SCREENING ROOM, CHICAGO
STORE, DAVIS MOUNTAIN AF BASE, IMAGO, AMAZING BLACK SAND, HOMESTEAD RECORDS,
FRIENDS OF DEAN MARTIN, KXCI TUXON, KCRW LA, DETOUR FILMS, ACCESS TUXON,
PAN LEFT, MOXIE MUSIC, TERRAZAS VIDEO....... AND GIANT SAND.
tc: EDITING UNDERGONE AT ACCESS TUCSON
tc: A REERACK/SAND FLEES PRODUCTION
COPYRIGHT 1995 MARIANNE DISSARD
ALL MUSIC BITES BY GIANT SAND
ALL MUSIC/ ALL SONGS: AMAZING BLACK SAND
ADMINISTERED BY BUG MUSIC
BMI
1994
