With fans mourning the news that Janet Weiss is leaving Sleater-Kinney, Rob Sheffield remembers his favorite moments with 'the greatest rock drummer on Earth'
.” And if you love watching a drummer rip it up live, there’s nothing like witnessing Weiss’ intensity on “Entertain” or “Youth Decay.”“I will never forget the heights we reached or the magnificent times Corin, Carrie and I shared,” Weiss says in her statement. “We were a force of nature. To the dearest SK fans — you’re the raddest fans in the universe and I love you. Experiencing the music together has been the honor of a lifetime.
Sleater-Kinney were already a great band before Weiss joined, but she pushed them to a new level. Tucker and Brownstein dropped their riot grrrl eruptionin the spring of 1996, with Australian drummer Lora MacFarlane. When she left, a friend passed Weiss’ number on to Tucker. She was a fan, but had her doubts about whether she fit in. “I hadand I listened to that frequently. It was weird — I remember listening to the record and thinking, ‘I can totally be in this band.
The first song they tried together at practice was “Dig Me Out.” “They were like, ‘See what you can come up with.’ That was an amazing first song to play together. It was a total blind date. We didn’t know if we would get along. With certain people, you can just sense there’s something lurking there that’s simpatico. It’s funny — it was so long ago, but I can remember the shoes Carrie was wearing that first practice. Right from the beginning, it was explosive.
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