Talk:Jandek

Availability

How was the public first made aware of Jandek back in 1978 if his records were only available through an obscure record label? How did the ball get rolling? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.149.203.252 (talk) 07:15, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

• You'd be best refered to the "Jandek On Corwood" documentary or Seth Tisue's webpage but the short version is that it took a long time! There was a mere trickle of occasional reviews in smaller, non-mainstream publications, he sent copies to college radio stations and other magazines and, in the early days, he is known to have sent boxes of albums to people who had contacted him, asking that they be given away to anyone the recipient thought may be interested. Ac@osr 11:30, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Thank you for the response. Do you (or anyone else) think a sentence explaining this may be pertinent to the article?24.149.203.252 07:33, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Jandek Photo

Why was the Jandek photo removed? Please restore it.

• For some unfatomable reason, album covers are not considered "fair use" for artist articles. The nature of how he has chosen to operate means that there are no other public domain photos available. Ac@osr 11:30, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Thanks again for the response. Is there a page explaining why the powers-that-be made this decision? 24.149.203.252 —Preceding comment was added at 07:35, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Collective

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These Jandek album pages linked from here seem to be taken word for word from http://tisue.net/jandek/discog.html#0770 Has permission been given to add to wikipedia? quercus robur 00:22 17 May 2003 (UTC)

Vicki mentioned this to the author, and he replied on her talk page (it's right at the top at present): "Authors have been contacted, and have agreed." For what it's worth, I exchanged a couple of emails with the guy who wrote these articles, and I believe it's all legit, but we could always email the bloke whose webpage that is and get him to put it in writing so we can copy his permission here. --Camembert (who ordered a pile of Jandek albums the other day)

Let me know what they are like- I was reading an article in a book recently which wasn't sure if Jandek was trully 'outsider music' or just a mentally unstable socail misfit who was being humoured and exploited for 'freak show' value, the article made the same case about the relationship between Frank Zappa and Wildman Fischer- I can't remember what the book was called, but it had Crass in it as well, and The Raincoats... quercus robur 10:11 17 May 2003 (UTC)

The book you're thinking of is "Unknown Legends of Rock & Roll" by Richie Unterberger, who has also written liner notes for the Holy Modal Rounders, among others. (From a newbie who still doesn't know how to format his comments).

Real name?

I have heard it is Sterling R. Smith, is this true?--130.65.240.14 06:40, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

The first ever review of a Jandek album, for Ready For The House in Op magazine, identifies him as Sterling Smith. (See Seth Tisue's site for a copy of that review) So unless theres' evidence to the contrary, I'd say that Sterling R. Smith is about right. -- Cjmarsicano 06:43, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Corwood defunct? and Texas Monthly link

Why is Corwood's page in the defunct record label category? they just put out two new CDs this month. and the webarchive link to the interview is broken. 70.229.8.215 22:18, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

That link to the TM article is iffy. I just removed the defunct record label category from the Corwood article. Thanks for bringing it up Cjmarsicano 05:41, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Kurt Cobain

Minor point, but was Cobain really a fan? We all know his infamous quote on J-man, but I've never heard anything about him liking the music. He probably didn't mean himself when he called Jandek-fans 'pretentious', right? --Leo44 (talk) 23:33, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

The world may never know. Chris Berry 23:47, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

That space in the article needs references.24.155.222.226 19:09, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

I went ahead and removed Cobain. The well known quote indicates nothing about whether he liked Jandek's music.--SethTisue 19:36, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

MySpace?

Is this[1] real, or a fan MySpace?--Fallout boy 23:08, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

I really doubt that's for real.--Cúchullain ^t/c 01:20, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Loren Mazzacane Connors

Hi Jandek people - I'm trying to redo out the Connors page (it was mostly cut-and-paste from his website), and one of the things it says (and which I've currently left in the article) is that Jandek and Connors have collaborated. Can anyone confirm or deny? Cheers, Sam Clark 17:19, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Yes, they've played live together three times. --SethTisue 02:35, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Origins of name

From the "Music" section: "Jandek's first album, Ready for the House, though obviously a solo work, was originally credited to a band called the Units. As explained in an interview in the first issue of Spin, Smith was forced to change the name by an identically named Californian group already in possession of a copyright. All reissues of this first album and all subsequent Corwood releases have been credited to "Jandek" (a name combining the month of January and the surname Decker)." There needs to be a citation about that, as I don't believe anyone knows where the name Jandek came from as of yet. Chris Berry 23:49, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

The name Jandek does come from a combination of the month January and the surname Decker (or Dekker). Jandek says so himself during the interview with Spin. See the documentary "Jandek on Corwood" for a reference. If you select the audio extras on the DVD of the documentary you can hear the interview in its entirety and Jandek clearly states how he came up with the name. - MW 13:04, 13 February 2007

Concerts

Just a thought, but I think we've reached the end of any usefulness to listing jandek's concerts. It's pretty obvious he is going to continue performing publicly, so what's the point in listing every event? If he'd only performed 10 times such concerts would be noteworthy, but going beyond 30 (as we're about to do) seems absurd. Can't we just say that since October 2004, Jandek has begun to perform publicly? Pinkville 23:55, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Good point. We don't need to list them any more, unless individual concerts were in some way important.--Cúchullain ^t/c 00:04, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

I kind of agree but each performance so far has consisted of previously unheard material and has been performed with different collaborators (I think only his Glasgow and Portland groups have been reconvened). However, as it seems that all of these shows are going to be released on CD and/or DVD, the information can and doubtless will be posted on the album articles, rather than taking up space here. Ac@osr 11:43, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

National Press

I was just reading through this article and I saw a mention that a certain magazine was the first to give Jandek national press. This is untrue, however, as Wire magazine has been reviewing his albums for as long as the publication has been in existence - far before anybody knew the man's name. 149.159.24.28 01:04, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

• I don't think The Wire existed when Op published their first Jandek review...Ac@osr 11:30, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Dr Demento

Should the article mention that Dr Demento has played selections from Jandek in his "Vault of Horror" segments?207.251.230.53 (talk) 23:02, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

no