Dries Van Noten: "record curation by Jesse Tobias" (August 23, 2023)

Jesse Tobias is a songwriter, guitarist, producer and music director that has been working in Los Angeles for the past 31 years. Hailing from Austin, Jesse moved to LA with his band Mother Tongue in 1992 and signed to Sony 550 records. Shortly after that he went on to play with The Red Hot Chili Peppers for a brief time. From there Jesse went on to play with Alanis Morrissette on her debut record’s Jagged Little Pill tour for the next few years. Jesse has worked as a music director and touring guitarist with such artists as Frente, Michelle Branch, Vanessa Carlton, Jason Falkner, Twillight Singers and Gutter Twins.

Jesse served as producer and music director on the celebrated cult classic musical episode Once More, with Feeling of the television show Buffy The Vampire Slayer. He was nominated for an Emmy Award for his work on the episode. Jesse also appeared on the show as a musical guest with his band Splendid several times. Jesse is currently the songwriter, guitarist and music director for Morrissey. Residing in Los Feliz California. He has co-written over 35 songs and played on 10 Morrissey studio records over the span of the last 20 years.

Songs chosen:

1 THE SUPREMES
Where Did Our Love Go

2 LINK WRAY
Link Wray

3 THE SOFT BOYS
Underwater Moonlight

4 THE GUN CLUB
Fire Of Love

5 DIZZY GILLESPIE
Afro

6 BRIAN ENO
Here Come The Warm Jets

7 THE CLEAN
Vehicle

8 MOONDOG
Moondog 2 (Extended Version - Remastered 2000)

9 LOU REED
Berlin

10 CASS MCCOMBS
Dropping The Writ

11 WIRE
Pink Flag (2006 Remastered Version)

12 TELEVISION
Adventure

13 LEO NOCENTELLI
Another Side

14 ARTHUR RUSSELL
Love is Overtaking Me

15 WAR
Why Can’t We Be Friends?

16 BAD BRAINS
Bad Brains

17 BUZZCOCKS
Love Bites

18 THE KINKS
Face to Face

19 JIMI HENDRIX
Electric Ladyland

20 CAROLE KING
Tapestry

Jesse Tobias | Dries Van Noten

Discover the record curation on the Official Dries Van Noten website.

www.driesvannoten.com

Bit of an oddity, but included as an insight to his musical taste.
Jesse chooses a playlist for a 'luxury' fashion brand.
What no Morrissey!?
Regards,
FWD.

 

[Lionsy]

He has an evil look in his eye.

I wouldn't call it evil

More like, you know in old westerns when the outsider walks into the saloon and the music stops and everyone turns round and looks?

That look.

He knows someone is about to start shooting, but he just paid for a double

 

[T. H. Auden]

This particular type of lower chin that he's got in that picture usually appears in people who drink a lot (some may say 'too much') of beer (and/or other alcoholic drinks).

 

[ZOOM FROM GLOOM]

Yeah he sure did and not very well.
Time has not been kind to his face!
It's a shame his guitar skills haven't improved much either over the years.

Hes aging like a warm beer instead of a fine wine!

 

[ZOOM FROM GLOOM]

Never pegged him as a Soft Boys or Bad Brains sort…two bands I grew up on and love/respect.

Along with liking Lou, you two would possibly get along fine.

I knew of our mutual appreciation for Reed and Berlin is a wonderful record for what it is. It’s the “safe” choice at that, though.

Never would imagine that ‘Berlin’ was the ‘safe choice’. At least he didn’t choose Transformer. Did we expect Jesse to chose Metal Machine Music?!

 

[Miss Ann Thorpe]

This particular type of lower chin that he's got in that picture usually appears in people who drink a lot (some may say 'too much') of beer (and/or other alcoholic drinks).

I drink LOADS - I'm sitting with a drink now - and I've got no chin. There's no meat on me at all. In fact, I'd pass through the eye of a needle. I'm as skinny as a skeleton. Y'all get my drift.

 

[ZOOM FROM GLOOM]

if he picked M or the smiths he would be called a crawler or sooking up the bosses arse.

Yep.

 

[caramel sea salt]

I wish he'd chosen ABBA.

That would have made everyone's little heads explode!

 

[T. H. Auden]

I wish he'd chosen ABBA.

That would have made everyone's little heads explode!

«Little heads»? Some of us have got big heads. We almost killed our mother when she gave birth to us, because our head was too big.

 

[trans]

surprised by how much i had in common with this. link wray, wire, bad brains are all good stuff and moondog, gun club, carole king are all stuff in my atmosphere. berlin is my fav lou reed solo record even if it is an obvious choice these days. i often play it with the vu record as they seem to complement each other imo.

 

[Gregor Samsa]

That’s one boss they’ll never live up to.

 

[Mayfly]

The guy has aged.

Too much booze maybe ?

 

[GrtHereo69]

20 years and only 35 songs?

I know right! Not much to brag about there!
And his songs aren't even that complex or that good!

Alain has written about 84 songs and didn't have 20 consistent active years with MOZ.

 

[goinghome]

Morrissey's favourite designer, I think those 2014 tour shirts with the arrow were Dries Van Noten.

Born in Antwerp in 1958, Dries Van Noten is the third generation in a family of tailors. Celebrated for his unique yet wearable collections combining sharp tailoring with bold prints and colours.

The designer wares to wear...

How would it come about that a musician is approached to choose a bunch of records for a designer?

btw, while listening to the Bad Brains song, Don't Need It, I was snooping around and found a decent profile of the band, which mentions they were due to open for a U2 concert in 1987

We played a show at 1018. It was the big show for the New Music Seminar that year in 1987. 1018 had 3,500, 4,000 people there. It was packed. They played a great set and Chris was there to meet the band. We weren't going to get anything done there necessarily, but it would have been good to at least have gotten to introduce H.R. to Chris Blackwell. H.R. was, like, “I’ve got to go to the bathroom.” It was right after the show and the place was emptying out, so there were crowds going out of this big club. He walked right out the door. He was gone, just gone. We were going to open up for U2. They had just released The Joshua Tree, and that was on Island, so it was going to be the U2 Joshua Tree tour with Bad Brains. The record would have been Quickness, I guess, but it didn't happen. H.R. wouldn't sign. He didn't trust Chris Blackwell at all.

Read More: How Bad Brains Almost Opened U2's 'Joshua Tree' Tour | https://clrvynt.com/wild-gigs-bad-brains/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral

 

[Mayfly]

Born in Antwerp in 1958, Dries Van Noten is the third generation in a family of tailors. Celebrated for his unique yet wearable collections combining sharp tailoring with bold prints and colours.

The designer wares to wear...

How would it come about that a musician is approached to choose a bunch of records for a designer?

btw, while listening to the Bad Brains song, Don't Need It, I was snooping around and found a decent profile of the band, which mentions they were due to open for a U2 concert in 1987



Read More: How Bad Brains Almost Opened U2's 'Joshua Tree' Tour | https://clrvynt.com/wild-gigs-bad-brains/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral

Perhaps he uses it as background music played in his store ?
It is an exquisite store, in one of Antwerp’s historical buildings, you can see it on his website: www.driesvannoten.com
Dries almost definitely knows Jesse thanks to Morrissey.
I wonder whether they ( Moz + Jesse + presumably Damon) went shooping there again when they were in Antwerp earlier this year ?

 

[Mayfly]

I thought Carole King was an interesting choice, not the type of music I would associate with Jesse.
My oldest sister used to like her a lot, so I got to hear her music as a young teenager but I was so much into 80 s music back then.

 

[Leroy]

Jesse's fashion is Morrissey-influenced too, no doubt. Even the expression on his face is Morrissey-esque!

I was about to write the same. He looks like Morrissey on the cover of Swords.

 

[Anonymous]

I know money is tight, but you'd think Morrissey would pay him enough that he could afford to buy socks.

 

[ZOOM FROM GLOOM]

 

[gordyboy9]

so far on this thread we have had.
jesse has spycho eyes.
jesse has a boozers chin.
jesse has smelly feet.
jesse has terrible taste in music.
jesse has an evil look in his eyes.
all because jesse is in and alain is out.

 

[GrtHereo69]

so far on this thread we have had.
jesse has spycho eyes.
jesse has a boozers chin.
jesse has smelly feet.
jesse has terrible taste in music.
jesse has an evil look in his eyes.
all because jesse is in and alain is out.

dont forget...
jesse has tried to copy MOZ's taste in clothes
jesse has terrible guitar skills
jesse has terrible songwriting skills
jesse has tried to kick fans from stage
jesse has the personality of a prick
jesse has ruined MOZ's live band
jesse has made fans realize how much better Alain is!

BOOYAH!