When You Start a Band, Do You Imagine How It Will End?
By: Connor Lenahan
Let’s just take a second to appreciate this photo. This shot is of James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem onstage during the band’s farewell show at Madison Square Garden in April of 2011. This picture captures the dying breaths of undoubtedly one of the greatest bands of all time. It’s so simple, and to me, so powerful. So beautiful. It’s over. Chuck Klosterman asked James Murphy in the 2012 documentary Shut Up and Play The Hits, “When you start a band, do you imagine how it will end?” I don’t think Murphy, or anyone could have ever dreamt of a moment so magical as this. This is my favorite concert photo ever. So simple, so powerful, so cool.
Connor Lenahan (@ConnorLenahan) is the founder and editor-in-chief of Connorlenahan.com. He is a freshman at Boston University, majoring in journalism. He can be emailed at lenahan@bu.edu
The band that I’ve been in for 10 years only dreams of one day being as big as these guys, and it’s hard for us to imagine an end to it. I can’t imagine how that must have felt. Beautiful image! It plucks at the heartstrings a little…
The band that I’ve been apart of for 10 years only dreams of getting as big as these guys, and we don’t like to think about the end. I can’t even imagine how it felt for them. This is a beautiful image which plucks at the heartstrings a little…
My sister’s band is only a year old and she told me the other day that she is so excited for what they still have coming their way. She said that she saw some kind of documentary the other day where this one band (can’t remember the name) changed their band members almost every four months and that in the end, the band everyone liked so much, didn’t include ANY of the original members. So basically, there was no real history as everything changed so often, it took away that special something. Now I know a lot of bands end up the same way, but I just think that it is amazing how everything changes, just by making one single little change. It is the saddest thing when a band “reaches the end”. Everything they are, and everything they worked for, just ending. It sounds almost impossible!