The Dandy Warhols
The Dandy Warhols (not to be confused with The Brian Jonestown Massacre) were formed in Pot-Land, Oregon by ex street hustler Courtney Taylor-Taylor-Taylor (vocals, some guitar, sex faces), Zia McCabe (standing around, taking off her top), Peter Holmström (guitar), and Eric Hedford (drums). When Hedford left in 1998, Taylor-Taylor-Taylor's sexy cousin (the one with the fro) Brent De Feather Boa replaced him as drummer. Courtney likes to have Brent play his drums up at the front of the stage with the rest of them so the crowd can enjoy his hotness too.
The Dandy Warhols have a strong loving relationship with born again christians The Brian Jonestown Massacre, fronted by Anton "You broke my sitar mother fucker!" Newcombe, although the dandy's do not share their religious views. Front man Courtney Taylor-Taylor-Taylor describes the bands beginning as a group of friends who "needed music to take drugs to".
Early Success[edit]
The Dandy Warhols performed live shows in brew pubs throughout Pot-Land, Oregon and released their first album, Dandys Randy, Alright? in 1995. This album was to be their best album, and set a standard they would never top.
The band first made money in Not-America after the release of their second record …The Dandy Warhols Come all over you in 1997; the lead single "Not If You Were The Last Member Of The Brian Jonestown Massacre Who Will Remain Nameless (Anton) on Earth" made them the most money as they sold it to every outlet that wanted it, and performed it 5 times a day, everyday, to anyone who would listen. Although the bands music was good, most crowds came to see Courtney, not hear the music. Following the release of Thirteen Tales Of How Sexy I (Courtney Taylor-Taylor-Taylor) Am in 2000, the band gained a firm fan base in the gay radio scene before selling out and letting shit TV shows use their once beautiful songs.
Welcome To My Crack House and Pandaemonium And World Of Warcraft (Welcome To My Crack House 2)[edit]
Welcome To My Crack House, released in 2003, came after Courtney's crack addiction and after his 80's music phase, it is therefore shit. Hundreds of thousands of copies of the album were produced, and later sold to China to be recycled into roads. One of the album's singles, "We Used to Be Fuck-Buddies, I Miss You Anton, Taking Drugs Without You Just Isn't The Same", has been used as the theme song for 86 television shows, making the band $86 million!!
Pandaemonium And World Of Warcraft (Welcome To My Crack House 2), partially named after and recorded in the band's Pot-Land drug corner, was released sometime in 2005, the band cannot remember the exact date, or even what time of year it was. "Smoke It, Inject It, Ingest It" was their first and only single as it sold only 26 copies. Taylor-Taylor-Taylor reckoned this was a massive success as he was being massively influenced by a combination of Marxism and hardcore Idaho style White supremacy.
DIG![edit]
DIG! was a documentary film made by undercover FBI agent Andy Timothy over the course of seven years. The film is compiled of over 2,000 hours footage of The Dandy Warhols and their friends/enemies/suppliers The Brian Jonestown Massacre taking drugs, selling drugs, attacking fans and each other whilst on drugs and 30 minutes of the bands performing live. In 2004 Andy Timothy's cover was blown, and fearing jail time, Courtney Taylor-Taylor-Taylor bribed Timothy with five Dandy Warhol's T-Shirts and allowing Timothy to perform oral sex on him. Anton "You broke my sitar mother fucker!" Newcombe offered Timothy sex in exchange for the footage, Timothy declined. The footage never made it to the FBI, and has since won the Sundance Independent Film Award for Non-Professional film makers. Courtney Taylor-Taylor-Taylor narrated the film whilst smoking a crack pipe.
Newcombe argued that the documentary was unfair in its portrayal of him. At his band's official crack pushing corner, Newcombe publicly denounced the film as reducing several years of hard crack dealing to "at best a series of drunken shows where Courtney gets a load of close ups and looks super hot".
In addition to exposing his drug use the film also brought to light Newcombe's STD's, he is now known to have Chancroid, Donovanosis, Gonorrhea, Chlamydia, Syphilis, Jock Itch, Yeast Infection, Cytomegalovirus, Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, Herpes, Genital Warts, Crabs and Scabies.
Earth To Courtney, Where did your voice go?[edit]
The Dandy Warhols 8th album Earth To Courtney? was leaked on the internet some time in May 2008, to mixed reviews. A release was planned for sometime during 2008 or later, who knew?, not the band.
The album finally made it into shops sometime around 2008/09, and throughout 2009 The Dandy Warhols made several terrible and cheap videos for the worst songs from the album, deliberately ignoring the best songs And then I Dreamt of Me! Courtney!, Wasp In My Lotion and We Smoke A Little Wee-he-he-he-heed.
The Money Years (before we got dropped) and Shitty Shitty Band Band[edit]
The Money Years (before we got dropped) was released to no acclaim in 2010 as any Dandy Warhols fan already had all these songs by now. They followed this release with Shitty Shitty Band Band which speaks for itself.
Influential Lyrics[edit]
The Dandy Warhols are know throughout the world for their influential lyrics, and lyric writing technique. Here are some examples.
"Hey, la, seee-saw, Hey, ha-la, hee-haw, po po po, po po po, po po po, a-wa-a-wa"
- 'The Dandy Warhols' TV Theme Song' from the album Dandy's Randy, Alright? "
"I Love You, I Love You,I Love You,I Love You,I Love You,I Love You,I Love You,I Love You,I Love You,I Love You,I Love You,I Love You,I Love You,I Love You,I Love You,I Love You,I Love You,I Love You,I Love You,I Love You,I Love You,I Love You,I Love You,I Love You,I Love You,I Love You,I Love You,I Love You,I Love You,I Love You,I Love You,I Love You,I Love You,I Love You,I Love You,I Love You,"
- 'I Love You' from the album ...The Dandy Warhols Come All Over You
"Eh Eh Eh Eh Eh Eh, Ba Ba Ba, Eh Eh Eh Eh Eh Eh, Ba Ba Ba"
- 'Solid' from the album Thirteen Tales Of How Sexy I (Courtney Taylor-Taylor-Taylor) Am
"arrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, aRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr"
- 'Sleep' from the album Thirteen Tales Of How Sexy I (Courtney Taylor-Taylor-Taylor) Am
Discography[edit]
Albums[edit]
- Dandys Randy, Alright? (1995)
- …The Dandy Warhols Come All Over You (1997)
- Thirteen Tales Of How Sexy I (Courtney Taylor-Taylor-Taylor) Am (2000)
- Welcome To My Crack House (2003)
- Some Other Album (2004)
- Lick The Dandy Warhols (2004) (not to be confused with It's A Shame About The Dandy Warhols, Lovely Dandy Warhols, or Car Button Cloth Dandy Warhols)
- Pandaemonium And World Of Warcraft (Welcome To My Crack House 2) (2005)
- ....Earth To Courtney, Where did your voice go?.... (2008???)
- The Money Years (before we got dropped) (2010)
- Shitty Shitty Band Band (2012)
Singles[edit]
- Courtney Taylor-Taylor-Taylor's TV Theme Song (from Dandys Randy, Alright?, 1995)
- You Want A Ride On The Taylor-Taylor-Taylor Love Machine? (from Dandys Randy, Alright?, 1995)
- The Courtney Taylor-Taylor-Taylor Public Holiday (from …The Dandy Warhols Come All Over You, 1998)
- Not If You Were The Last Member Of The Brian Jonestown Massacre Who Will Remain Nameless (Anton) On Earth (from …The Dandy Warhols Come All Over You, 1998)
- Courtney Does It Better Than Anton (from …The Dandy Warhols Come All Over You, 1998)
- Getting Off With Courtney (from Thirteen Tales Of How Sexy I (Courtney Taylor-Taylor-Taylor) Am, 2000)
- Bohemian Like Me! Courtney! (from Thirteen Tales Of How Sexy I (Courtney Taylor-Taylor-Taylor) Am, 2000)
- Courtney Is A God, don't you know (from Thirteen Tales Of How Sexy I (Courtney Taylor-Taylor-Taylor) Am, 2000)
- We Used to Be Fuck-Buddies, I Miss You Anton, Taking Drugs Without You Just Isn't The Same (from Welcome To My Crack House, 2003)
- You Were The Last High, Anton, Why'd You Go Crazy? (from Welcome To My Crack House, 2003)
- AA (from Welcome To My Crack House, 2003)
- Smoke It, Inject It, Ingest It (from Pandaemonium And World Of Warcraft (Welcome To My Crack House 2), 2005)
- We Got's Lot's Of Money (la la la la la) (from Pandaemonium And World Of Warcraft (Welcome To My Crack House 2), 2005)
- Missionary Position (from Earth To Courtney, Where did your voice go?), 2008?)
- We Smoke A Little Wee-he-he-he-heed (from Earth To Courtney, Where did your voice go?), 2008?)
Trivia[edit]
- The Gus Van Sant film My Own Private Idaho was loosely based on Courtney Taylor-Taylor-Taylor's life as a street hustler in Pot-Land, Oregon. He was played by River Phoenix in the film.
- Courtney Taylor-Taylor-Taylor married his reflection on December 22nd 2007, after 40 years of courting. This now makes his full legal name Courtney Taylor-
Anton-Taylor-Taylor-Taylor-Glare-Taylor-Taylor.
- Courtney Taylor-Taylor-Taylor's hobbies include buying and wearing man-bangles, talking about his hair, Veganism, buying/selling drugs, jerking off to his reflection, he also work's part-time at a Wholefoods.
- It is known that The Dandy Warhols like to drop Acid, they also like to take other psychedelic drugs including magic mushrooms, peyote, LSA (Hawaiian Baby Woodrose and (Morning Glory Seeds), Ayahuasca (known in Beatnik literature as yajé), MDMA (ecstasy), 2C-B (nexus), DOM (STP), and 5-MeO-DIPT, Cannabis, Dipropyltryptamine, Myristicin, Cryogenine, Indoles, Tryptamine, Dimethyltryptamine, Bufotenine, Alphamethyltryptamine, Lysergamides, Ergonovine, Ibogoids, Ibogaine, Voacangine, Ibogaine, Beta-carbolines, Harmaline, Harmine, Salvinorin A, Phenethylamines, and Substituted phenethylamines. For more information see Drugs
- The Dandy Warhols own a large factory covering one street block in downtown Pot-Land, Oregon where they make leather boots. They only employ one worker, known to his parents as 'Coatsie', known to the band as No.2.