Did You See The Drummer’s Hair?

There’s nice bit of juicy Pavement news that has surfaced in an interview with Spiral Stairs on the Toronto magazine NOW’s website. Spiral, talking about the S+E reissue, mentions that he wants to reissue all five Pavement albums with the same treatment S+E was given. Yeah, yeah…we all saw that coming. But check this out:

“There’s tons of stuff for the other records that I’d like to get out,” he says. “We tried to record Crooked Rain with our old drummer, Gary, and there’s a bunch of songs from that session that no one’s ever heard before, plus lots more outtakes and Peel Sessions. I want it all to be out there.”

Ah! Now that’s something I’ve got to hear. I wonder which songs they tried him out on – I can’t imagine a lot of those songs performed with Gary’s rather distinctive drumming style, much less imagine that they would be nearly as good. Hopefully Matador will get this project moving sooner than later, and that one of the songs included will be Gary butchering “Stop Breathin'”.