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notes Conor Oberst to open bar in DundeeConor Oberst and fellow Omaha musician Phil Schaffart have leased space at 5004 Dodge St., where they are planning to open a cocktail lounge.
The space was formerly occupied by Pageturners Used Books. Schaffart said the two are planning to call the space Pageturners Lounge.
Schaffart declined to give many details when reached by phone in Palm Springs, Calif., where he’s on tour with M. Ward.
He said the space would be a bar, not a live music venue. He anticipated it would be several months before the lounge was open for business.
“But I will say Conor and I are opening a bar,” he said.
Oberst could not be reached for comment.
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Schaffart said the two had discussed opening a bar in Omaha for “a long time — years” and had considered several locations. They both like the Dundee neighborhood, which drew them to the old Pageturners location.
“This was the right opportunity,” he said.
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notes April, 2009Conor Oberst: [pointing at Neely] She wasn't my girlfriend and I really wanted her to be and I was kind of a chicken, 'Come over and work on this song with me, yeah, seriously. It's super important to me... that you hang out with me... and my... hands' Yeah? Neely Jenkins: And I fell for it -
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notesWell there’s endless entertainment
In thinking the world is going to end
And I’ve lived some nights convinced of it
But I keep waking up again
With my girl wrapped around my body
And a towel wrapped around my head
She says “You passed out in the bath tub angel,
I thought that you were dead
Don’t die on me, don’t tread on me
My love, my love is not the enemy
And you don’t have to be no one’s biography
Oh they try and write you down and hope you go crazy
So don’t, no don’t”- Endless Entertainment, Bright Eyes
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notes"The whole ideology of indie rock doesn’t hold any water anymore; it’s not that clear-cut. Every time we sell a record, Time Warner gets a dime from our distributor. I already give a ridiculous amount of my income to the United States government, which is probably the most evil organization on the planet as far as killing people; I don’t know how many bombs I’ve purchased with my tax dollars. Unless you’re gonna live on a mountain somewhere, you’re not gonna be free of the modern world and all the evils that go with it. What you can do is operate with intelligence and be compassionate, help people when you can. Do things not just for money, but for the craft of it."Conor Oberst
April 2007
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notes[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]40 plays- Soon You Will Be Leaving Your Man, Bright Eyes (live 2001)
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notes A song to pass the time (live)2001
Well, I say come with that bag
And confine me to bed
Take away all my pain with that good medicine
I will be easy
I want to be easy for you
I can be cruel
But let me be gentle with you2002
Well I say come spend the night
You can jump on my bed
Unwrap me now like your birthday present
I will, I will be easy
I want to be easy for you
And I can be cruel
But let me be gentle with youUnknown
Well, I say come spend the night
We can jump on my bed
Unwrap me now like your birthday present
I will, I will, I will, I will, I will, I will
You will, you will, you will, you will, you will be easy
I want to be easy on you
And I can be cruel
But let me be gentle with you2007
Well, I say come for the week
You can sleep in my bed
Pass through my life like a dream through my head
It will be easy
I want to be easy for you
And I can be cruel
But let me be gentle with you2009
Well, I say come for the week
You can sleep right in my bed
And then pass through my life like a dream through my head
It will, it will be easy
I want to be easy on you
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notes Julian Casablancas talking about Bright Eyes (May 2010)Interviewer: Is there a song out there that sometimes you think, "Well shit...why didn't I write that?" What is it, and why is it so fabulous? Julian Casablancas: I guess you feel that pretty often…? As in, you hear moonlight sonata and think, 'would have been cool if I casually wrote that yesterday morning.' Tho I realistically felt it maybe for the first time just the other day. We were having this awesome bizarro-rad, late-nite jam-a-thon at Mike Mogis’s house/studio when we toured in Omaha. Conor Oberst was singing over some keyboard-part jam (sounded nothing like any Bright Eyes thing I’d ever heard) and that’s totally what I was thinking. Sounded like something I wish I'd written. Which was pleasantly weird. -
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notes December, 2010Interviewer: On Billboard's list of the biggest selling artists of 2010, there's a glaring absence of rock musicians. ConorOberst: We're on a pop wave again. But any genre of music can be done really well, or it can be done not so well. I prefer career artists that have spent time honing their craft, as opposed to, "I won a karaoke contest on a reality show and now I have a record." That's such a drag. The music that comes out of it is so poor. The celebrity element is not interesting… at all. Interviewer: You're referring to American Idol… ConorOberst: Yeah. I just don't get it. It's not really interesting. And it's even less interesting when they continue to record bad music and sell it. But anyone who is serious about making their music and working at it, I think that's fantastic whether I relate to the genre or not. -
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notes"There’s so much trouble in this world and we’re not going to solve it soon, but the main thing you guys have to remember is so basic… It’s the golden rule, treat others as you’d like to be treated."
