Dungen Tour Diary Part 2
Swedish Rockers Blog from the Road
Sep 10, 2009
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Photography by Dungen
The Swedish psych-rock band Dungen just finished touring the US of A. Earlier in their tour we posted the first part of band’s tour blog, written and photographed by Dungen exclusively for Under the Radar. Dungen started their tour playing with Fleet Foxes and Woods opened for them. Check out our review of their Philadelphia show. Here’s part 2 of Dungen’s tour blog:
BLOG NUMBER 2:
Halftime!
In Joshua Tree, National Park.
My stomach gets pains more easily now since more destructive lifestyle on earlier tours, so that has been the case since Asheville, NC. Got better after Chris giving me the knowledge of Kamboocha. Chinese green tea, cultured for 30 days, tastes like apple cider vineger, and of course available with ten different options of flavor, I had ginger and natural, it helped so I got three more and brought in the van. Though it’s ironicly gone worse today, at one of the world’s most amazing places, Keys Wiew, Joshua Tree!
Traveling like this for me, together with four friends, is a sociopsychologic experiment. I spend too much time by myself when I’m home. I miss my turntables. Scratch.
But though everything is forgotten as soon as we are standing on a stage playing music in front of people which is so far really fun. Tiaz, Johan and Reine is my favorite band and the way they change and find variations of the improvised parts and make it sound fresh every night is amazing. I mostly just play tambourine and listen, dance and whatever.
Fleet Foxes are really the sweetest guys, such a treat to do shows with them, we got along very well off stage as well. We’re going to hook up with Robin in Big Sur. Thinking about doing “The Protector” with him in our set, beautiful song.
Must buy a record bag soon. Bring it on the plane as handluggage. Our vinyls weighs a ton! Have found good stuff. Newcleus, Audio Two- top billi’n (!) UTFO (mixmaster ice), Invisble skratch piklz vs klaz uv death etc etc…
Woods are a fourpiece. Jeremy writes pretty songs. And Lucas from Gunanos, Brooklyn on the wheels of plastic, he uses two tapedecks and a mixer and a bag of casettes with recorded sounds which he cuts with the fader, transformscratch kind of. Kevin (aka Dave) and Jarvis are also the sweetest, I never remember who of them that isn´t driving their van, crazy long distances.
Highway Wolf is the shit, big up Chris!!
/Gustav Ejstes
Joshua Tree
08/25/09
Dear readers,
I am sorry we haven’t done our job properly. This is but the third post in one month for this tour diary. What can I say? We have been busy touring, and right now we’re on our way from Vancouver to Seattle to do our very last show of the tour, the 25th in 31 days and 10 000 miles later. We have swum in both the Atlantic and the Pacific as well as cold desert springs, macheted our way through the corn fields of Iowa, meandered around in the neon lights of random cities, late night heavy jams in Asbury Park, NJ, got a flat tire in Nowhere, LA, for ever driven across the endless plains of the south always aiming towards that blue ridge on the horizon, we’ve passed through summer thunder storms, watched the sunrise over Phoenix, AZ, and in the evening watched it set again in Joshua Tree, made wishes under the shooting stars of Big Sur, CA, I even got to wine and dine while the world was on fire as if just to point out the absurdity of what we’re up to. And of course we met thousands and thousands of people all over the land. It’s all been so much fun and exhausting and magical and frustrating and painful and beautiful, and I would do it all over again right now if I had the chance. So long!
(From California to the New York island, from the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters… *humming along with the sunset*)
/Mattias Gustavsson
...on the road…
09/03/09
POSTSCRIPTUM:
Just wanted to add that the last show at Neumo’s in Seattle was really fun. All high spirits, laughter and glee! On the last song all of Woods and all the Fleet Foxes were up on stage. A rapturous full circle of joy.
A huge thank you to all of you who came to our shows. You were the best always.
/DUNGEN
Stockholm
09/05/09
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Commenting is not available in this channel entry.September 28th 2009
3:08am
i am so glad you gentlemen made it to joshua tree. rocks and stars, united.
October 14th 2009
3:09pm
I’m so thankful that this world has Dungen music.You guys are truly inspirational and one of a kind. Thanks for the badass tunes guys! I’m the guy that will hate myself for a very long time for missing your show in Baltimore and in Austin. (Long story)
Be safe and Cheers!
Please come back to Houston /Austin when you have a chance.
-Mario Rodriguez (Tax the Wolf)
November 16th 2009
2:53pm
Bookmark. Now I will read more often!
December 16th 2009
6:57pm
Thank you very much for the excellent and useful subject.
December 19th 2009
3:48pm
it was very nice tour i guess.. nice photos and nice landscapes.
i like it!
January 19th 2010
2:28am
Meeting you guys backstage in Asheville was unbelievable. Just being able to discuss psychedelia with real masters was a dream come true. I hope to god you guys continue making music. You keep psychedelic music alive!!
February 22nd 2010
5:25am
I hope to god you guys continue making music. You keep psychedelic music alive.thank u for sharing.
February 27th 2010
11:00am
I love the pictures. Nice shots.
Jema
March 12th 2010
11:52pm
Dungen’s last few records have been a little samey-sounding for my tastes. They’re still spot-on as far as psych rock goes, however. Even though they might have reached the pinnacle of their creativity with Tio Bitar, alongside the Black Angels, they’re probably the best band doing that crazy style right now.
March 18th 2010
7:29pm
A friend just forwarded me a link to some of your songs…I’m a fan! When are your guys coming to Indianapolis?
March 29th 2010
12:40pm
Fleet Foxes are really the sweetest guys, such a treat to do shows with them, we got along very well off stage as well.
April 5th 2010
7:22pm
Love the pictures from the road. I’ve always dreamed of traveling with a band across the country, but all these responsibilities keep me shackled to my home life. Rock on!
April 11th 2010
10:41am
Hey guys, I’ve read some great reviews, keep up the good work.
Ian
April 15th 2010
8:32pm
Some neat coutryside that they got to see there. Any wildlife?
April 21st 2010
9:57pm
The Dungen collective then hit the road in support of Ta Det Lugnt, whose psychedelic sound had won the band a number of fans in America.
May 6th 2010
3:22pm
I spend too much time by myself when I’m home. I miss my turntables. Scratch.
May 8th 2010
7:23am
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May 15th 2010
10:30am
your photo places are awesome.Especially the green,and the mountain,pictures,music parties everything pretty well…
May 19th 2010
9:55am
I dont know what it is about this blog that turns me off so much, but you just dont seem to get me excited. I dont know if its the lack of content or just the way you wrote it. But you really dont seem to understand that your readers may not agree with you. Youre really just too out there for me.
June 10th 2010
1:09pm
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June 28th 2010
8:47am
Hi Dungen, seems you had a great time in touring. Your music rocks, and have updated nice photographs. Fleet Foxes and Woods are really good musicians, nice to hear that you joined them.
June 28th 2010
9:05am
Nice tour and photographs, thanks for sharing it.
July 16th 2010
2:40am
I’d like to think you’re not this pretentious and short-sighted, but I’m not optimistic.
July 16th 2010
2:41am
I’d like to think you’re a not this pretentious and short-sighted, but I’m not optimistic.
July 16th 2010
6:45am
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August 21st 2010
10:29am
Just saw Dungen in Baltimore at the Ottobar and they were AMAZING! I’d been waiting years for them to come back over here and it was well worth the wait. Drove 6 hours to go see them…. nose smaller
August 29th 2010
11:27am
pretty cool!
August 30th 2010
11:48am
Nice experience guys,it was really fabulous.
September 3rd 2010
8:58am
Thanks! for sharing I love you guys..:)
September 15th 2010
4:02pm
Seems like you guys have enjoyed a lot..on this trip, Sweden is a very beautiful place.
October 7th 2010
11:18am
Jarvis are also the sweetest, I never remember who of them that isn´t driving their van, crazy long distances.
October 25th 2010
9:50pm
Great ! your tour look to have been a really nice one. Really good pictures
December 20th 2010
7:00am
Nice photos! Travel and see the world!
December 20th 2010
7:04am
Nice photography!
January 6th 2011
9:42pm
awesome man you guys rock
January 6th 2011
9:44pm
wicked, sick, we want more
January 10th 2011
2:11pm
magical and frustrating and painful and beautiful, and I would do it all over again right now if I had the chance. So long!”Rolex Prices”
January 26th 2011
11:15pm
top stuff, you are the luckiest guys ever, im soo jealous, pesky kids.
February 23rd 2011
12:12am
That is very good comment you shared.Thank you so much that for you shared those things with us.Im wishing you to carry on with ur achivments.All the best.
February 24th 2011
2:35pm
I love the beach pics. There’s nothing better than flipping through old pictures and getting to some beach pics. Good times are always had at the beach. That feeling of freedom is unmatched.