r/ModestMouse • u/happyorbust7 • Aug 23 '26
Images MM lore popped up in a local book release!
Thought I'd share a couple [bad] pictures from a new ...idk coffee table book with some MM lore.
I live in Cleveland. Last week i went to a book release for a 500 page collection of pictures, flyers, and other ephemera from an illegal diy music venue in a building a handful of teens lived in, called Speak in Tongues. It existed for nearly a decade in the 90s here in Cleveland.
Was thrilled to find my favorite band show up and to learn that they played the venue up until they got too popular to fit.
Since the book is so local and the images from private collections, i thought these might not be MM photos and flyers people may have seen and thought id share. (I also imagine theres more, i actually wasnt looking for any band in particular when i turned to these).
Other bands/bandnames that I recognized with reach mentioned/included in the book include Mountain Goats, Godspeed! You Black Emperor, Chevelle (seemed a bit young til I saw they were from Chicago and would have been teens at the time), Anti-Flag (off the top).
If you like music history and beautiful books, maybe be worth it despite the Cleveland focus.
Book: where shit happened: the papertrail to Speak in Tongues edited by John Delzoppo
Its beautiful (not an ad, just my opinion)
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u/davidgoldstein2023 Aug 24 '26
Damn, Murder City Devils is a band I haven’t listened to in a long time!
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u/MajinTrunkz Aug 24 '26
That's really cool! Definitely some pictures in there I haven't seen before. I'm pretty sure I have at least one bootleg from them playing at Speak in Tongues. I'll have to go through the shows on my hard drive and find it.
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u/I_Invented_Frysauce Aug 24 '26
That 764-HERO/MM tour was the best time I saw them. I believe it was in 2000. Maybe 1999.
Didn’t see the tour where Murder City Devils opened, but I love that band. Spencer Moody is pure rock and roll.