Jason Lytle probably doesn’t have many plans for the Grandaddy MySpace page now that the band is broken up – but he keeps posting anyhow. Now on the site: recordings of a French children’s choir covering Grandaddy tunes. Why? Somewhere, a French choir director is a Grandaddy fan, I guess.
A key:
“kids in france” = [...]

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The career of indie-rock band Grandaddy was based on an extended narrative of lower-middle-class life in Modesto, California. When singer/songwriter Jason Lytle finally escaped to Montana last year, that narrative dissolved, along with the band.
But it didn’t take long for Lytle to recover: a barebones jasonlytle.com has materialized, along with a Myspace page, both of [...]

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“Skateboarding Saves Me Twice” (LokkenRockin)

Plus Grandaddy’s version.

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Some Grandaddy fanvids I’m talking about on Saturday at PCA:
“Jeez Louise” (LokkenRockin)

“A.M. 180″ (mgalecio) (ends at 3:22)

“The Group Who Couldn’t Say” (richitty)

“Pull the Curtains” (MunsterBear)

“Commuter Lake” (chaleon)

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Ah, nice. The blog for the Institute of the Future of the Book has acknowledged a fan vid for the Grandaddy song “Jed’s Other Poem (Beautiful Ground)”—a clip that I just happen to be showing in my PCA/ACA panel this March. This piece, programmed entirely on a 1979 Apple, was eventually adopted by Grandaddy as [...]

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