{"id":974266,"date":"2020-01-06T06:45:29","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T13:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=933926"},"modified":"2020-01-06T06:45:29","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T13:45:29","slug":"pavement-members-pay-tribute-to-david-berman-at-portland-memorial-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/pavement-members-pay-tribute-to-david-berman-at-portland-memorial-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Pavement Members Pay Tribute to David Berman at Portland Memorial Show"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Indie-rock singer-songwriter David Berman<\/a> passed away in August 2019, and over the weekend, numerous fans, friends and former bandmates gathered to celebrate what would have been the musician\u2019s 53rd birthday with tribute shows in New York, Philadelphia and Portland, Oregon.<\/p>\n

At the Portland show \u2014 hosted by local zine chickfactor<\/em> at Bunk Bar \u2014 Pavement<\/a> members Stephen Malkmus<\/a> and Bob Nastanovich covered songs from Berman\u2019s band Silver Jews<\/a>, including American Water<\/em>\u2018s \u201cRandom Rules\u201d and Starlite Walker<\/em>\u2018s \u201cTrains Across the Sea.\u201d (Both Malkmus and Nastanovich had occasionally performed with Silver Jews.)<\/p>\n

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Music video director and filmmaker Lance Bangs captured part of their \u201cTrains Across the Sea\u201d performance and posted it to Twitter.<\/p>\n

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Trains Across the Sea performed on David Berman’s birthday by @dronecoma<\/a> and @BNastanovich<\/a> at @bunkbar<\/a> at the benefit organized by @chickfactorzine<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/Huv57F1Pys<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Lance Bangs (@lancebangs) January 5, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Other musicians who played tribute sets included Clay Cole, Frank Bruno, Red Ronne, A Certain Smile and more. Nashville-based musician William Tyler<\/a> teamed up with The Spinanes\u2019 Rebecca Gates for a cover of \u201cSnow Falling in Manhattan\u201d from Berman\u2019s Purple Mountains<\/a> project, released in 2019 shortly before his death.<\/p>\n

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The New York tribute show, hosted at Brooklyn bar Union Pool, featured sets from former Silver Jews members Matt Hunter and Steve West; Purple Mountains collaborators Cassandra Jenkins and Kyle Forrester; and members of Berman\u2019s former band at UVA, Ectoslavia. Steve Keene \u2014 the artist behind numerous album covers for artists like Pavement and Apples in Stereo \u2014 created hundreds of paintings for the occasion that were displayed around the Union Pool patio for sale.<\/p>\n

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Brooklyn Vegan<\/a> filmed sets from The Hold Steady<\/a>\u2019s Craig Finn<\/a> and Titus Andronicus<\/a>\u2019s Patrick Stickles:<\/p>\n

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