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Modest Mouse Hardcover – September 17, 2014

by Pat Graham (Photographer)

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More than any other band, Modest Mouse represented the ascendency of indie rock at the turn of the millennium. True dyed-in-the-wool independent musicians, Modest Mouse originated in the thriving mid-90s Northwest music scene orbiting Calvin Johnson’s K Records and founded on an uncompromising idealism handed down from punk forefathers. After years of touring and recording, in 2004, these indie darlings became full-blown, mainstream rock stars with the release of their platinum-selling Good News for People Who Love Bad News, changing the face of popular rock music and opening the door for a new wave of like-minded peers.

Pat Graham and Isaac Brock were housemates in 1992 at the activist punk house Positive Force, just outside of Washington, D.C. Isaac was learning guitar and writing songs while Pat was documenting the punk scene in Washington, D.C. Isaac moved out and eventually ended up in Washington state where, in 1993, he formed Modest Mouse. In 1997 Modest Mouse embarked on their first U.S. tour, and Isaac asked Pat to come out and help with managing and driving, and to document the tour. What followed over the next 12 years were a continuing friendship and many tours across the USA, Europe, and Japan—and Graham always had his camera in hand.

Modest Mouse: 1992–2010, is Grahamʼs firsthand, intimate, visual history of a good friend and the band that he created. His photographs of Isaac Brock and Modest Mouse are a rare and privileged view into the greatest fantasy of all—becoming a rock star. Onstage and 10,000 miles off of it, Graham’s remarkable photos record the broken down vans, overflowing merch tables, adoring fans, blown amps, couches turned into beds for weary tour mates, performance injuries, more filthy than average motel rooms, run-of-the-mill truck-stops, zen moments and breathtaking landscapes, and scores of other sights of almost a decade on the road, along with both compelling and candid portraits of the band members and their friends—depicting the transformation of a band struggling to get to the next town just to play a basement concert into stars headlining arena shows. Witness to all the highs and the lows of the road to fame, Modest Mouse also features stories from the people involved, including band members Isaac Brock, Jeremiah Green, and Eric Judy; fellow musicians James Mercer of the Shins and Doug Martsch from Built to Spill; and friends like the artist Jay Ryan.

The first and only book on the history of Modest Mouse and the lives of the band members, and a unique and intimate look at the origin, growth, and explosion of an indie rock band at the cusp of the millennium, Modest Mouse: 1992–2010 is a treasure for anyone interested in a back stage pass and a deeper understanding of the glory, grit, and grime of rock and roll stardom.

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160 pages
Language

English
Publisher

powerHouse Books
Publication date

September 17, 2014
Dimensions

8.02 x 0.85 x 10.24 inches
ISBN-10

1576876519
ISBN-13

978-1576876510
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“His intimate relationship with the band provided a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to chart the path of the young hopefuls' rise to stardom—and now, Graham has assembled many of those images in his newest book Modest Mouse.”
-Cool Hunting

“Looking at Pat Graham’s photos of Modest Mouse, newly collected in a book named after the band, you can sense the closeness between the artist and his subject.”
-The Fader

"gorgeous….It captures everything from basement shows to roadside goof-offs to intimate portraits of young artists at work."
-The A.V. Club

"as the pages turn, Graham’s photographs go from grainy black-and-white to rich color, tracking the band’s momentous progress. Holes-in-wall transform into cavernous concert halls. Busted tour vans turn into a spacious tour buses."
-The Washington Post

About the Author

Pat Graham has spent the last 25 years as a photographer. Mostly shooting musicians, his images have graced the covers and inserts of iconic albums. His photographs are part of the permanent collection at the Experience Music Project museum in Seattle, Washington and the Arlington Cultural Affairs in Virginia. He has released two books of photography, Silent Pictures (Akashic, 2007) and Instrument (Chronicle, 2011), and shot commercially for brands such as Ray Ban, Converse, and Umbro.

Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ powerHouse Books (September 17, 2014)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 160 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1576876519
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1576876510
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.93 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.02 x 0.85 x 10.24 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #1,591,010 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,659 in Popular Music (Books)
- #1,747 in Portrait Photography
- #5,087 in Rock Music (Books)

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BlueCadet-3

All The Great State Roads

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 17, 2014

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Having enjoyed Pat Graham's work visually chronicling Modest Mouse on both the photoblog and the tour zines days, I was really excited to find out that he had released this work. This hardcover book sequentially follows the band from their very first tour, charting their steady rise from humble beginnings, small shows, and constantly broken down vans, up to their latter days as festival headlining staples.

Pat has a clear eye for striking compositions, and you can see in his photos how traversing the American landscape must have served as an inspiration and muse, just as you can hear it in Isaac's lyrics and find it in the band's music. In fact, the travel and distance in between the shows is really the thematic center of the book, with artfully arranged landscapes, anecdotes, live performances, and candid shots of the band sprawling over the welcomingly numerous pages. As a close friend, Pat's shots achieve an honesty and intimate familiarity with the band, something that Isaac speaks to in the forward, and the personal words from both Pat and the band are a really nice addition--Johnny Marr's quotation on the back of the book is simply tremendous.

For me, this book brings back some of the best memories of my own roadtrips with friends and loved ones to see the band play over the years, as we watched them evolve over a decade from a 3-piece just before The Moon & Antarctica, into the expanded presentation the band evinces to this day (we miss you Eric Judy).

I would highly recommend this book to any fan as the definitive visual accompaniment to (in my opinion) one of the greatest rock bands of all time.

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FeetsNoFail

Pat Graham chronicles the birth and emergence of a band that defined a generation

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 24, 2014

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This book is an awesome trip back through the early days of MM up to the Johnny Marr days. The pictures are ordered by year. I love flipping through these pages and finding shots of the band in various venues, especially the small 'harder edge' venues.

Through Pat's photographic lens, we can glimpse empty landscapes with twisty bits of things blowing through as in a window of a train. Strip malls and parking lots, monuments and steeples, empty fields and dark forests scroll by in a purgatorial loop. The urban paranoia of post-punk seeps into wide-open rural, looming industrial and encroaching suburban vistas, all alike in their sinister, hypnotic repetition.

It's clear that Pat Graham has an undeniable artistry to his shots. Depicted photos range from gritty 'pre-early' MM playing in a local park band-shell to a small gathering of beer drinking, bike riding, skate boarding types (aka 'my peeps'), to the larger venues of MM's more mainstream popularity.

For myself, I'm intensely attracted to the old photos - the one of Isaac laying down a jam with a pair of vice grips stuck to his fret board is a highlight. Outside of all the band pics are plenty of awesome shots of the guys traveling through incredible, blissfully rough and empty scenery, including many (many!) shots of the snow blown wastelands that make up the spaces between populations in our lonesome crowded west.

After reading through the stories from the road and all the issues (and subsequent pictures) around their broke-down transportation, I was left feeling even more in touch with the band that defined my generation of lonesome, isolationist, mall-fucked, post punk, nobody nothing fuck-ups (thanks Dug!)

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Zack Grantzinger

Well worth the 16 month wait!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 12, 2014

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I pre-ordered mine when it was first announced ages ago. Received it this morning and sat down with it right away. It took me from Dramamine to Tundra/Desert (Tracks 1-11 on their debut LP) to finish and I'll be sharing it with my girlfriend when we have a chance.

It's much thicker than I'd imagined (that's what she said, hur). Pat Graham's photography is wonderfully arranged and a delight to explore. The small anecdotes, stories, and quotes are well-placed and very interesting. Pat's artistic vision shines through with gusto and, as Isaac is quoted in the Introduction, it was their "dumb luck that he is such a great photographer".

As a younger fan, I've always been supremely disappointed that I wasn't able to experience their early shows, but this book, I feel, adequately captures that tone (though the book does encompass the Johnny Marr era as well). If you don't have one already, I'd highly recommend it to any fan of the band.

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halfsleeper

Great gift!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 22, 2015

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I bought this for my boyfriends birthday as he is big into Modest Mouse and collecting their stuff. We cracked it open to take a peak and ended up slowly flipping through the entire book. There are really sweet pictures from the 90s where everyone's in crappy vehicles/motels/venues mixed with a lot of out-the-window shots across the country, some a tiny corner of a page and others sprawling over two pages. There's also pretty interesting backstory given to some photos, though I wish more. Highly recommended making the purchase.

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william g graham

THE FROZEN COW IN THE ROAD-AND OTHER TRAVELS AND SCENES.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 17, 2014

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This is the third book by Pat Graham. Pat's description of the frozen cow in the road brought the realism of being in a band touring the Midwest in the Winter.
Pat's book has a sound track that a person can hear if they listen-music-people's voices-the sounds of the road and the photographs are parts of the sound track. A person may feel the energy of the concerts-the power of the photos-the fun of the tour.
Join Modest Mouse for the book tour, meet the band, and see the world through the lens of photographer Pat Graham.
Bill Graham

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Ken

which is great because their earlier stuff has a lot of references ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 23, 2015

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I'm not back into visual art, or photography, I'm just a dude that really digs Modest Mouse - their sound, lyrics, and vibe. This book definitely makes me think about learning more about photography. The imagery gives you a glimpse in the life of a bunch of broke dudes with big ideas going on a tour, which is great because their earlier stuff has a lot of references to travel and geography.

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Avery Murray

I saw into the music more so than I could before

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 22, 2019

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What an intense book. A modest mouse fan. Isaac brock fan. Or any one stuck in the 90s somewhere in there head could look this over a million times

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Anon

Awesome Book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 24, 2015

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Love Modest Mouse and this book is fantastic, the photos are beautiful and its great to see images from when the band was starting out

sianspheric

Great pictures, paints a great picture of the band, just wish there were more stories and anecdotes.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on December 17, 2014

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Any big Modest Mouse fan will love the book. No doubt about that. Pat's pictures are fantastic and properly paint the portrait of a huge segment of time surrounding the band and Issac.

Thoroughly enjoyed it. But I'll admit after looking through it twice, it got put on a shelf. Guess I was hoping for a few more stories behind the pictures. I'm sure there were some wild times as the photos indicate, just would have loved some more writing and context behind the shots.

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