The Roches

Welcome Guest. Please Login or Register.

The Roches

Posted: 2/15/10 at 11:15pm

How did I not discover them until tonight?
"Bobby's Song"

The Roches

Posted: 2/15/10 at 11:21pm

One of my all-time favorite bands. (See my FB.)

For the past 30 years.

"Be on your guard! Jerks on the loose!"

http://www.roches.com/television/ss83kod.html

**********

"If any relationship involves a flow chart, get out of it...FAST!"

~ Best12Bars

Tonight I was watching the SNL they were on (hosted by Bea Arthur!) and I just stopped when they came on. They are so weird and goofy. I am going to start discovering the hell out of them.

Jesus Christ!

The Roches

Posted: 2/15/10 at 11:26pm

One of the best songs EVER:

http://www.roches.com/television/ss83mm.html

"Be on your guard! Jerks on the loose!"

http://www.roches.com/television/ss83kod.html

**********

"If any relationship involves a flow chart, get out of it...FAST!"

~ Best12Bars

The Roches

Posted: 2/15/10 at 11:30pm

The in the middle (is that Suzzy?) sort of looks like she stepped out of a production of Godspell that had been soaked in LSD.

The Roches

Posted: 2/15/10 at 11:40pm

I can tell you SO MUCH about The Roches.

Suzzy had a child with Loudon Wainwright, which is so weird because Loudon Wainright also had two children with Kate McGarrigle of the McGarrigle Sisters, who were often compared to The Roches.

"Be on your guard! Jerks on the loose!"

http://www.roches.com/television/ss83kod.html

**********

"If any relationship involves a flow chart, get out of it...FAST!"

~ Best12Bars

The Roches

Posted: 2/15/10 at 11:51pm

Who is the mother of Rufus? (Who I HATE! Sorry, gays)

The Roches

Posted: 2/16/10 at 12:05am

Kate McGarrigle, who just died a few weeks ago (at 63). Rufus wrote a beautiful tribute to his mother.

"Be on your guard! Jerks on the loose!"

http://www.roches.com/television/ss83kod.html

**********

"If any relationship involves a flow chart, get out of it...FAST!"

~ Best12Bars

The Roches

Posted: 2/16/10 at 12:54am

Huge fan of theirs - saw them at Carnegie Hall in the early eighties. Periodically, Robert Fripp (who produced their first album) would enter the the stage, and play guitar about 15 feet upstage of them. Then he would leave. For the longest time, the sisters pretended to not even have noticed him, but at one point, right after he exited the stage, one of them said "Who is that guy?" They never referred to him by name during the entire show. I still have several of their handmade buttons they gave out that night.

This is their introductory number (though, sadly, not the one from Carnegie).
We

#10

The Roches

Posted: 2/16/10 at 1:16am

Thanks g and Miss P.

#11

The Roches

Posted: 2/16/10 at 1:40am

Updated On: 2/16/10 at 01:40 AM

#12

The Roches

Posted: 2/16/10 at 2:07am

The first time I saw them was in 1978 at a benefit for Bill Bradley who was running for the Senate for the first time. It was at the Capitol Theatre in Passaic. Nobody knew what to make of them. They looked like three little girls who ransacked their grandma's trunk of clothes in the attic...and added a few touches of their own. Then they sang in these gorgeous harmonies which really threw everyone for a loop because they seemed so out of sync with the wacky costumes. I was immediately smitten.

I saw them many times after that. But they don't really perform anymore except on very rare occasions.

Lucy Wainwright tours with her father though.

I even have an album that Maggie and Terre put out by themselves before Suzzy joined them. Their children's album and Christmas album are both really wonderful too.

I love their a cappella version of this Cole Porter number:

http://www.roches.com/television/tomsynd3.html

"Be on your guard! Jerks on the loose!"

http://www.roches.com/television/ss83kod.html

**********

"If any relationship involves a flow chart, get out of it...FAST!"

~ Best12Bars

#13

The Roches

Posted: 2/16/10 at 6:52am

Love them for years, too! I got to see them at Steppenwoolf (front row!)a few years ago. Don't ask me to pick a favorite, but Hammond Song and Face Down at Folk City are up there. Suzy also played Amy Irving's gal-pal in Crossing Delancy!
I didn't know that about Wainwright, though.

PEACE.

#14

The Roches

Posted: 2/16/10 at 9:48am

"Face Down At Folk City" .... still makes me laugh out loud after all these years!

2016 These Paper Bullets (1/02) Our Mother's Brief Affair (1/06), Dragon Boat Racing (1/08), Howard - reading (1/28), Shear Madness (2/10), Fun Home (2/17), Women Without Men (2/18), Trip Of Love (2/21), The First Gentleman -reading (2/22), Southern Comfort (2/23), The Robber Bridegroom (2/24), She Loves Me (3/11), Shuffle Along (4/12), Shear Madness (4/14), Dear Evan Hansen (4/16), American Psycho (4/23), Tuck Everlasting (5/10), Indian Summer (5/15), Peer Gynt (5/18), Broadway's Rising Stars (7/11), Trip of Love (7/27), CATS (7/31), The Layover (8/17), An Act Of God (8/31), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (8/24), Heisenberg (10/12), Fiddler On The Roof (11/02), Othello (11/23), Dear Evan Hansen (11/26), Les Liaisons Dangereuses (12/21) 2017 In Transit (2/01), Groundhog Day (4/04), Ring Twice For Miranda (4/07), Church And State (4/10), The Lucky One (4/19), Ernest Shackleton Loves Me (5/16), Building The Wall (5/19), Indecent (6/01), Six Degrees of Separation (6/09), Marvin's Room (6/28), A Doll's House Pt 2 (7/25) Curvy Widow (8/01)

#15

The Roches

Posted: 2/16/10 at 10:23am

Love them...since that SNL appearance.

They also grew up in the same town as my cousins.

"Carson has combined his passion for helping children with his love for one of Cincinnati's favorite past times - cornhole - to create a unique and exciting event perfect for a corporate outing, entertaining clients or family fun."

"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS

#16

The Roches

Posted: 2/16/10 at 10:28am

They also have a briliant Christmas album called "We Three Kings."

#17

The Roches

Posted: 2/16/10 at 10:29am

I just can't believe I went all this time without even peripherally knowing who they were!

#18

The Roches

Posted: 2/16/10 at 10:30am

We thought about telling you, but figured it was better this way.

#19

The Roches

Posted: 2/16/10 at 10:32am

Yeah...we keep stuff from you all the time.

#20

The Roches

Posted: 2/16/10 at 10:33am

Bitches. All of you.

#21

The Roches

Posted: 2/16/10 at 10:37am

We listened to The Roches in college, lost my albums in a move several years so have not heard them in years! Fond memories!

#22

The Roches

Posted: 2/16/10 at 11:10am

Wonderful! Loads of fun! The Christmas album is spectacular- something even a non-Roches fan could love. There is some movie where they are seen busking in the background but I cannot for the life of me remember it.

#23

The Roches

Posted: 2/16/10 at 12:16pm

Did you guys know that there was a cartoon made about them? They are 3 insects. It was part of the Animaniacs or something. I saw it YEARS ago just by happenstance on TV.

Phyl, BTW, I do believe I started a thread about them a long, long time ago. (But I no longer know how to search for such things.) You must have been ignoring me over that the little wicked debate that sparked the initial flame of our love.

"Be on your guard! Jerks on the loose!"

http://www.roches.com/television/ss83kod.html

**********

"If any relationship involves a flow chart, get out of it...FAST!"

~ Best12Bars

#24

The Roches

Posted: 2/16/10 at 12:24pm

Oh, and that Roches link in my signature has been there for years, Phyl! That's what you get for ignoring me!

Here is a number that has been a theme song of mine for years. I mean, how can you not love a song that begins with--

"I don't feel that great today. I have never felt that great."

And ends with "Think how good just normal feels...a helmet on my head, constant flow of ice cream in...I'd be as good as dead."

http://www.roches.com/television/jc85aw.html

"Be on your guard! Jerks on the loose!"

http://www.roches.com/television/ss83kod.html

**********

"If any relationship involves a flow chart, get out of it...FAST!"

~ Best12Bars

#25

The Roches

Posted: 2/16/10 at 12:58pm

"Bitches. All of you."

Yep, PRS, especially me, as it was my special private torture for you - and now I'm foiled again!

Do yourself a favor and buy their first album. It's a great play-through, and the "Frippertronics" (Robert Fripps guitar work on that album) are something I really miss from their live performances.

Miss Pennywise, I've been meaning for years to thank you for the link you've provided in your signature - will you accept a belated one?

← Back to Message Board

View all Videos

Tickets From $59

Tickets From $60

Tickets From $95

Tickets From $139