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  1. Oct 21, 2013 · MARGARET MITTLEMAN: I remember one night we did karaoke with [Sleater-Kinney/Quasi's] Janet [Weiss] and [Smith bandmate] Sam [Coomes], and me and Janet did "Ride Captain Ride" together. Elliott ...

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  2. Apr 18, 2020 · F or Elliott Smith, wisp-voiced enigma of US alt-folk, Figure 8 became a downward spiral. Planned as his “happier” album after several tough years – a devastating break-up, a reliance on ...

  3. 6 days ago · It’s hard to remember now, but when Smith began writing and recording the songs that would become From a Basement on the Hill in the spring of 2001, he was regarded as someone who was coming dangerously close to squandering his potential. Despite a now legendary performance at the 1998 Academy Awards for his Oscar-nominated “Miss Misery,” international rock stardom never quite materialized.

  4. Jul 30, 2019 · Robert: “Aaron is a musician from L.A. who mainly plays piano and he played with Elliott Smith during the ‘Figure 8’ tour in 2000. He talked about the song ‘Strung Out Again’ and how ...

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    • "Everyone Knew That What He Was Doing Was Pretty Damn Good"
    • "It's My Life"

    JJ Gonson:We were all very tight. Elliott and Neil [Gust, Heatmiser guitarist/vocalist], when they first came from college, would come in and sit at the coffee bar where I was a baker, and we would just all hang out because we were kids not doing our jobs. There probably wasn't much to do. The muffins were made. And we'd sit there and talk about mu...

    Crane:My role is to make sure everything's cataloged and stored properly and backed up digitally. And if any release or remaster is coming out, I supervise it and work on it. I'm not really a mastering engineer, so in cases like this I go through all the different sources and choose the best [recordings]. I went to different digital audio tapes it ...

    Gonson: There are always my favorite pictures, a lot of which have never been seen. There are ones that I find the most dear, like the photoof Elliott with blue hair and he's doing the devil horns and he's holding a cup of coffee. That photo is that it is a portrait of 1994 in Portland, Oregon. That picture is a story. You've got the wet streets. T...

    Crane:The live album that comes with it was very difficult. I'd drive around town, borrowing four-track cassette players from different people and doing different passes with noise reduction on and noise reduction off. The masters for the album were easier to deal with than this cassette recording because with an analog master, like these cassettes...

    Crane: I'm pretty sure I met Elliott in ‘96 through Joanna Bolme. They were dating at the time and she worked at a venue called La Luna as a bartender. If you listen to "New Monkey," it actually refers to that. My friend was the bar manager there, so when I went to La Luna to see shows, I usually got on the guest list and they'd give me free beers....

    Gonson:I didn't listen to his music at all [while making the book]. I don't need to. I watched it being written. I think he's brilliant, but I don't necessarily dig back into old favorites and that's what that would be. I don't need to be triggered into that. It's my life. Crane: If you went to my mom and gave her a two-inch reel of my old band or ...

  5. May 6, 2015 · This comprises one of the earlier scenes in music documentary Heaven Adores You, and the kid singing is a 13-year-old Elliott Smith, the globally adored and prolific American singer-songwriter who ...

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  7. Steven Paul Smith (August 6, 1969 – October 21, 2003), known as Elliott Smith, was an American musician and singer-songwriter. He was born in Omaha, Nebraska, raised primarily in Texas, and lived much of his life in Portland, Oregon, where he gained popularity. Smith's primary instrument was the guitar, though he also played piano, clarinet ...