Nero's Rome "We Play Girlfriend"

[kanedasrifle]

@InhumanTom

Bush, Sliverchair and dozens of other shit corporate derivitive slugs............(shudders) Post Grunge made me cringe with disgust.

[InhumanTom]

These guys never hit it big ? Strange world.

Anyways, this type of sound should really resurface. It would be really refreshing in todays shit music world. I think that grunge/ 90s alternative never actually reached an artistic climax of some sort, it just abruptly vanished, replaced with some watered down rock.

[SceneChicaHOEZxD]

THATS MY BESTFRIENDS DAD THE LEAD SINGER!!!!!!!!!!! HE MADE A BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER! ASTRID ANGELL!!!!!

[discardmyfriends]

@SceneChicaHOEZxD Tell him I said thanks for this lol

[choi4816]

I saw Nero's Rome in the late 80's when they had a great sound that I thought was like INXS the DOORs and Depeche mode all rolled into one. I feel lucky to have seen them play in Portland. What a great underground music scene Portland had back then, very eclectic and vibrant.

[KristinNirvana]

Let's all move to Seattle and play some Grunge!

[digitalbass90]

I miss the '90s. I miss the druggy grunge.

[beatles20147]

I see a few people were lucky enough to see them live...can anyone share details and information, even stories? I think this group is incredible but I'd never heard of them before finding this video a few months ago. Can't even find the names of anyone besides the lead singer (who apparently isn't online often so he never replied to the email I sent). Really curious because I REALLY dig their sound. Thanks!

[aylableuandmirandajo]

@beatles20147 The lead singer, James Angell, is my uncle(:

[danceoffAsh]

Ah the 90's

[kanedasrifle]

@kyotokombat

i hope your right dude, i really do, but i feel this period was possibly rocks last dying breath.

[Bethrezem]

wtf happened to this band?

[casteroil111]

i just felt nostalgic and went looking for neros. sh*t damn this takes me back. i worked neros gigs for years as a stage tech out in P-town. satyricon was the sh*t and the best/ worst time of my life. no joke.

Their sound holds up well after all these years, still like it.

Tod you bastard, you never did pay me for the last few shows i did!

[dvnmaxwell]

Saw these guys back when I lived in Portland every chance I got. This vid doesn't do them justice. They freakin rocked live. Never understood why no one ever signed them. Maybe it was James charming personality.

[Rocktandil]

Portland's grunge is more psycodelic than seattle's....not only this band, listen to pond's Agatha-

[markm730]

this is great

[NathanJenko]

Wow, what else is there to say mate?

[aristacraticthug]

does anyone know if the albums still in print i need this in my car like yesterday

[losingmyreligion6767]

@aristacraticthug i have a copy i found on ebay. other than that, no. it wasnt released on a major label, so chances of finding it ever in a store are zero to none.

[londonbizzare]

Shit! I missed my prom to see these guys! Who am I kidding I couldn't get a date for prom. Anywhoo, I loved the show it was kick ass.

[jimi071]

Dude,, Fuck a prom!

[Kebabage]

Is Ron Nine from Love Battery on guitar by any chance?

[rsv96]

Beautiful song

[nationofself]

Dude, I would give anything to have been born 15 years earlier and to have lived in the Portland/Seattle/Tacoma area during this era, so I could have experienced this music first handed. Instead, I was about 10-11 years old when these bands were popular. Though I was appreciating good old Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains during that time, I've only just discovered the existence of these other great band in the last few years. The sound brings back waves of nostalgia...

[axiomatic666]

actually I saw this band in 1988 at my prom. They jumped on the grunge band wagon in the 90s to salvage their career. In the 80s they sounded more like inxs.

[Ozzmodious]

Nero's Rome - Togetherly CD, can be heard for free over on Grooveshark

[TheRevolutionista]

I have all Nero's Rome songs, albeit poor quality...check out my channel!

[Comeon713]

you can barely hear the vocals :(

[awolmacaque]

remember mayors ball?

[savagebrutality1]

Hell yeah, mayor's ball, think last one was in 95. But the one's before were awesome. Hitting Birth, Neros Rome, Glass Chunk to name a few.

[KissoonsNuts]

Mayor's Ball was the best...even better was skipping school to go visit James Angell, and being asked my opinion of his performance...as a 16 year old I think that was as good as life gets!

[beatbopbaby]

If the 90s grunge scene had a cd collection i'd make love to the whole damn thing!

[badsign1980]

90s were the last 60s... nobody understood until it was over... slacker generation half dead, half way there,,,

[aristacraticthug]

lol yea im still tryin to catch up...

[kyotokombat]

Every period of creativity leads to a period of stale excess. 60's music mellowed into 70's music which then degenerated into 80's music. The reaction to this was formed in the 80's and went public in the 90's.

Now we're on the same cyclic path again: 90's mellowed into 00's Nickleback-esque rock of mediocrity. The rebellion is coming in the next decade. It'll probably go mainstream in the decade after that. And so on.

[RHutton2710]

@kyotokombat: aye; but then people will be whinging that they wish it was the noughties again - when you had 'proper' music like Muse, My Chemical Romance and Jedward.

Am I seriously the only one bored by constant nostalgia gripes on every music video featuring 90's bands? All I remember of the nineties was people whining about wanting it to be the sixties again. You don't miss the decade guys; you miss your youth.

[KristinNirvana]

@RHutton2710 except for those of us who love the 90's and it wasn't our youth (I was in utero when Nevermind came out) I hate my generation, so yeah, not always does it fall like that, I do miss what I remember of the grunge/alternative 90's but I don't remember that much, and I have learned a lot about it and love it and when I'm 40, I'll still love it even though it's not my generation and my generation is now because now sucks and I'm not even 20, I don't miss the 2000's, 90's rule forever.

[edwinmusic]

cool! generation X is my generation!!!!!! where are my people?

[kyotokombat]

Plain shirts, non-nonchalance guitar attitude, home movie quality footage, and men in bunny suits.....yeah. It must be Alternative Rock. Forever.

[heartofrussia]

Check the recent live video posts...

[fightingblues00]

Was "Togetherly" their only album??

[binzing]

sick song

[mickeymbz]

steve hanford currently in prison..for robbing numerous walgreen's pharmacys

[TheRevolutionista]

bunny suits...classic!

[GreyBureaucraticBlur]

Where can I buy/download this? And find out more about the band?

[Lcacique]

Check out my response to costakke, who asked a similar question. Good luck.

[costakke]

90's music : best music ever....

[theack09]

they were a fun band used to see them alot

[costakke]

hi guys, i just listened this song....it's fantastic!!! i didn't know this band. where can i find more information about nero's rome???

[Lcacique]

Good luck finding a lot of info on the band. They never got that huge. Major label interest was there, but always fell apart before a deal was completely hammered out. I know of at least two releases. This song was on an album titled Togetherly. The singers name is James Angell and he released a great solo cd called Private Player not too long ago. Search for info on him and you may find a means of contacting him. Courtney Taylor, the drummer, is the singer/guitarist of the Dandy Warhols.

[Lcacique]

I should have been more clear: Courtney Taylor played drums briefly in the band. He did not play on this album or in this video.

[Flea103108]

Wow what a nice treat to find this! Oh the memories. My friends and I used to watch them play on the weekends at a bar in PDX (can't remember the name, Dan Reed later bought it and called it Ohm, I think). Fondest memory was talking to Todd at the bar after their first set and AC/DC walked in and Angus Young strolled on up to the bar next to us. Good times good music!!

[JoniKi1965]

To Flea - this is too funny! What's with the rabbits? Joni

[Lcacique]

The club was called Key Largo.

[cinemaDP]

I was their production manager for years! Even before they were called Neros Rome. In the very beginning they were known as The Pure Vision.

James Angell had a dream one night and the band name changed to Neros Rome.

Thanks for posting this. I grew up in the portland music scene in the mid eighties through the early 90's. Ah the memories!!!!!

[dirtystavros]

saw them in clamtown in pioneer square in 95, and remember they were goodenough i bought their tunes, i was then amazed such a talented band could remain unheard of,it depressed me as a writer...reminding me that so many classic writers couldn't get published in todays Davinci Code jackoff mode

[nirvanaxXxAIC]

alice in chains much?

still great song

[wikidd1]

This is golden, thank you so much for the upload. This brings back some very fond memories.

And if you luck out and can somehow find it, the last demo Neros Rome made is amazing...4 tracks (if I remember correctly, got it from James on a blank with no song titles a very long time ago), all pretty incredible songs.

[JuicyGalaxy9]

THE BEST NERO'S ROME SONG IS CALLED "IF YOU'D LISTEN"!!!! i love love love that song makes me wanna dance

[shittybullshit]

I agree, do you know where I can download it? I cant find it anywhere!

[ReikoHinano777]

I was in portland in 1987 and Nero's Rome was waaay better then than when they jumped on the whole grunge thing band wagon. Back in 87 they had a real line up- I remember Todd, Kevin, and a really cute bass player, and James A, was to die for.. thats when they should have made it big- I still have the tape "Labor" It's Nero's Rome's "Original sound" and the compositions blow away the copycat grunge sound bands tried to. "Many great artists fail to make it big" : (

[randymcdonalds]

ahha so thats it their not an orignal grunge band,i knew there was sumthing funny/awkward about their sound

[pdxmusicexpert]

While you are correct that "Labor" was their original sound it was also the earliest work they recorded. Ideally as a band matures so does their music. "Togetherly" which this song is from is much more than a grunge album and the songs much more than the standard barre chord rock that grunge bands played. As good as their early work was THIS is the music that attracted the record execs and led to their deal with Mercury records. I would invite you to fond a copy and take a listen.

[MechanicalChrist1]

@ReikoHinano777 What genre were they then? Because I bought the Togetherly album and I thought it was incredible

[astropath2]

wasn't Courtney from the dandys warhols their drummer

from a certain point. was that him on the drums?

[llahsirhc]

Courtney played drums in a band called Beauty Stab before the Dandys. I can't tell from the video for sure but it sounds like Steve "Thee Slayer Hippy" Hanford from Poison Idea on drums.

[heartofrussia]

Good call on the drum sound. Steve Hanford played drums on the studio track, which should be "we play girlfriends", but the drummer in the video is Trevor Raab. He replaced Greg Eklund, who left to join Everclear. Trevor Raab (Drums) and Jeff Goocher (Bass) joined Tod and James to tour supporting Togetherly. They also recorded a track for the Elemental "post grunge" CD (a nothing song), and later 5 songs for Mercury. Unfortunately, those were never released. Courtney was before Steve.

[wikidd1]

Yep. Courtney Taylor-Taylor played the drums for these suave mutherfuckers at one point.

[shegp]

Nero's Rome was my favorite Portland band in the 90's. They should have been famous! Their music is still so contemporary today!

[MoonLining]

cheers ,uch for uploading this. i adore it and now have bought the album. :)

[JennandJoe]

Where did you get it? Is it the one with Lucy the pug on a conga on the back sleeve? Joe

[MoonLining]

a) amazon and b) no i got togetherly with has flowers on it

[jessicameoni]

I love this video so much. =)

[torvyy]

buena banda, unos de las mejores en el grunge underground.

[JennandJoe]

Had the pleasure of playing bass with these guys in the early 90's and being their personal bartender at Santa Fe in the NW. Truly an honor-Looking for that CD with Slayer Hippie on drums- Joe Garcia

[psyctrl]

Omg! I remember the Santa Fe! And Macheesmo Mouse. Is that place still there!? Wow. Good times. You just brought me back to some awesome memories. Like Quality Pie... RIP.

[catjoyyoung]

memory lane indeed. Macheesmo mouse is long gone..

sentimental journey on YT:

Neros Rome, HeatMiser, Hazel - even Roger Nusic who looks exactly the same as he did back in the early 90's. I think he is forever forty.

[SuperCatBarf]

Joe was always a sucker for a garbage bag full of frosty shake--he happens to also be great with cats.

Hey Joe--Emiliano is doing great, he's asleep by the fireplace as I type this. Hope you're well!

[callingjackiekennedy]

My god they are hot.

[psyctrl]

Watching this makes me miss Portland in the 90's!!!! Great music coming from the NW. Good Times!

[cierrablue]

they were awesome live. i wished they could have gone farther than they did. James is hot.