the Mountain Goats - The Show We're Not Calling "John on Process" #1

the Mountain Goats new album ‘Dark In Here’ is out June 25, 2021 via Merge Records.
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[@JemmyJoeAGoGo]

This will fill my need for I Only Listen To The Mountain Goats… for now.

[@chrisfrancis1759]

John: Toiling over the setlist Us: You could just show up and talk for an hour and we would be happy

[@northstarjakobs]

Everyone jokes about how the Mountain Goats "aren't actually mountain goats". Well, here's John, growing that beard that proves that he is, indeed, a mountain goat.

[@ragingrabbit7163]

He just needs to climb mountains now

[@Xkid902]

John has evolved into the mountain dwelling sage who's also a part time dad, granting wisdom to all who are willing to seek him out in exchange for a MTG booster pack

[@tyblazitar]

He's a pretty wild sage.

[@IrisGlowingBlue]

@@tyblazitar Ayyyyyyyyyyyyy

[@Starstormraven]

"Dicing shallots at a cutting board with a blunt knife/this is my whole life" I felt that

[@henrycurtis3652]

I watched this while hacking at scallions and could not have felt more seen

[@markusvlad7217]

Freaking loved that

[@eversostrange6337]

They still come out masterfully done though lol

[@LadyNekoshema]

In 2019, you came to my town, but I was dealing with so much anxiety I was scared to take a different bus route to the concert, then covid happened. Your music got me through that year, so hearing you're going on tour, and if there's a stop near my place, I'm definitely going.

[@dimethylhexane]

i want to hear the song with "stockpile weapons, get my bear" in it

[@ThinkTankerMeeks]

I want to know more about your new book!

[@someoneelse1534]

I recently finish all of his other books and am hyped for the new one!

[@keepmewierd]

When people start shouting for No Children like 2 songs in, I will be requesting that we continue talking about Nick Drake’s borrowed guitar lol cannot wait

[@gl1tchcraft]

Hearing John’s guitar buzzing when he’s playing at 9:00 just did more for my confidence playing guitar than anything else ever has

[@avgsizedboy]

Celebrities- they’re just like us!

[@Gablork]

I can already tell that Dark In Here is going to play on repeat for a while here :)

[@jamesgoetsch5607]

Seeing you at the Orange Peel in August will be my celebration of making it through the past year and a half. Your music has been the background on repeat mantras of hoping in hopeless times for me. Thanks.

[@leadbreastplate7496]

When I listen to you play. The future is disarmingly bright. Thanks for all that you do. And share.

[@katelynsmith61]

I love that collecting cool looking notebooks is such a universal writer thing.

[@eversostrange6337]

Sketch books for the visually inclined lol

[@RyanDB]

Oh dear.... Literally a second before you suggested turning down the speed, I had actually put you on double speed because I need to get to bed but wanted to finish this first XD

[@singinwhatimdoin]

Take John’s blessing, and start right after he gives it at 6:32 with playback speed at x0.75 or x0.5 and you get a really baked guy showing you his cool sticker. For the record, this is the standard effect on normal speech, which means you were talking just fine 👍 😎 👍.

[@smithhenke5049]

I'm so excited for this video series! I would listen to John talk about almost anything, but getting gossip on how writers do their writing is my comfort food

[@ianposh4852]

Thanks for this, John. I’m working on writing and recording my first album at the moment and things like this help with the scary parts of that process haha

[@jadeflowerGMG]

the scribblings of a madman

[@NickolasNameolas]

I know you say no one can teach anyone else how to write but, I even sort of agree, but dude, you’re helping

[@MemphianSounds]

New book?!

[@denniswomack500]

I found you guys while looking up information about Mountain Goats because I'm a capricorn the Mountain Goat is my sign. As a former surfer I love acoustic music so great job guys. Y'all are awesome 👌

[@MelissaAlarcon1]

Getting insight on how you write music may not help others learn to write music, but its still super fun and interesting

[@seano.murphy5127]

I have my tickets for OKC in September.

[@buffalosummers]

Aaaaa new book!! Congrats on getting it through to this stage, I can’t wait to read it! I literally just pulled out Wolf in White Van to reread yesterday, it’s gonna be my lunch break book this week :)

[@nathanwells28]

if we ever actually get that 12 episode series on writing as labor I will be linking it to everyone I know regardless of their interest. Then the next time I see them, if they haven't watched it, I'll explain each episode to them in painstaking detail. In other words that sounds like extremely my shit.

[@Dayglodaydreams]

A dude that looked just like you cut my hair the other day. Was it you?

[@masansr]

That's exactly opposite of how I think about chords (don't see the full sound, but hear every different note in the chord), but the chord progression? That's exactly how I think. "Can't be the third, could it be the fifth? Still no." And then yell "FUCK", because no chord works perfectly. But you can't do that bit on the video.

[@winston6175]

Yooo come to edmonton alberta, i'd drive down to see you guys lol

[@attuneembodypsychotherapy]

I managed to score tickets for your shows in Santa Fe and Bethlehem, PA, and they’re the first concert tickets I’ve bought in over a year. Safe travels and hope you enjoy being on the road again.

[@OpioidSlumber]

Can't wait to see you in August!

[@jamesjwr]

I’d love a 12 part series on writing as labour

[@danielsmith7922]

The way you breathe CAN help us breathe! Excited about this video series! Inspiring stuff.

[@harukaru123]

this is soo good, can't wait to get more little videos to just chill and listen to you talk about your process. i love me a podcast

[@christina.morris]

Wasn't able to snag tickets for this one but I am stoked for the next go! Missing you all two years in a row has been rough!

[@jamiehovis7722]

I remember when this guy wasn’t old

[@chrisreadman9426]

Turn up & make that distorted Hammer horror souls of hell noise for an hour. Art!

[@thespiralingshapes]

JD underestimates the occupational hazards posed by breathing wrong or poor pencil grip technique

[@winston6175]

I'll hype you if you come to Canada bud

[@dog-eared6991]

That Cauldron sticker is for Cauldron Films, they're a blu ray label

[@omdelta2370]

You know what's unfair? You speak to me through your music, yet I have no right of reply!

[@stevegoodson9022]

I find it hard to believe that John actually sleeps, I imagine that every now and then his eyes roll back and he just powers down for an hour or two.

[@MattyRude910]

I live in fayetteville NC. Come to our house shows if you ever get bored

[@eversostrange6337]

You are one of us who are absolutely "to weird to live, and to rare to die". Stand tall for the sun is shining brighter than its ever been, though it's still "dark in here" in side our own skin.

[@EthanAnderson1]

Thank you for the show in wichita! It is forever a great memory with my wife seeing you guys

[@rabbitterrain]

This reminds me of how my brain used to work before I became too lost and resented my own existence

[@sonicsophie]

Thank you so much jd. Can’t wait for more videos in this series, and hopefully see you on tour in Europe soon ✨

[@denniswomack500]

5.6k views in 3 days Not bad bud

[@smithhenke5049]

I can tell this album is going to be amazing

[@nitsujnewbie1408]

Never a thumbs down

[@MONSTROSITYFILMS]

CAULDRON FILMS!!!!!!!!!!!

[@音姫soundprincess]

oh yeah, that nick drake trivia is all i live for

[@billyalarie929]

hhhHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHOLY FUCK

[@rabbitterrain]

'possums' plllzz

[@someoneelse1534]

What is your best unused song title?

[@someoneelse1534]

"You can drive me there but you can't make me dig my own grave"

[@bear_6875]

Could not possibly be more here for this content.

[@annamattison1988]

See you in Bethlehem, lets play MTG

[@gentryaustin]

The only process I trust

[@7heavenlyvirtues]

Awesome

[@Bad.Priestess]

💖

[@allisonspencer6383]

The unequaled tailor perplexingly call because dungeon ultrasonically wonder amidst a literate crayfish. harmonious, shaky spy

[@philophos]

I think the reason people tend to feel artistic endeavours differ from regular labour is because with regular labour, almost everyone is getting paid by a timely rate. You clock in; you know you have a contract. Whereas for the artist, only the very lucky know they’ll be getting paid anything at all. The incentives are different. Questions like “what is your creative process?” and “how do you find motivation?” are actually proxies for the question: how do you get yourself to work outside of, and despite, the incentives of capital? It’s not intentionally aggrandising the artist. In fact, it’s acknowledging (or hoping) that it isn’t all mystery, magic, and muses. In the world of capital, when you’re not getting paid, it can be a struggle to do the challenging things you would love to do. There are psychological hurdles, questions of time management, questions of method. These are the logistics of creativity. And some people seek guidance from their heroes, the people who have succeeded and come before. They want something more concrete and less trite than “if it’s meant to be, you won’t be able to not do it”. Because there have been millions of people who try to jump the chasm between their material conditions and their artistic aspirations, and the gap has been too wide. But if they had a blueprint, a roadmap, a teacher who says “this is what I do; this is how I manage”, then maybe they too could find their way.

[@philophos]

Admittedly, artists aren’t necessarily teachers, and it’s fair if they just don’t know how to talk about it. But it never hurts to ask in case you find one that does.

[@FriendOfTrashPandas]

Do the Andy Kaufmann "mighty mouse" routine

[@howtomeetwomen-]

but.. what about the possum and the watering can?

[@possumpatch02]

it bit it

[@mthomsmith]

a true story