Johnny Jewel Destroyed Every Copy of Chromatics’ Dear Tommy After Near-Death Experience
Back in December 2014, Chromatics announced their new album Dear Tommy. Although they shared multiple songs from the record, the album never surfaced. Recently, nearly all of those songs were removed from the internet. Now, in a string of tweets, Johnny Jewel’s representative Alexis Rivera has revealed what happened to Dear Tommy. “Christmas day 2015, Johnny almost died in Hawaii,” she wrote on Twitter. “When he came back home to California he destroyed all copies of Tommy. 15K CDs & 10K vinyl in the Italians warehouse in Glendale, all gone.” So yeah, those broken copies of Dear Tommy in that promotional “Twin Peaks” photo were just a few of the thousands of copies that got demolished.
Jewel has since re-recorded the album (which he did before with Kill For Love). Rivera revealed that “we are getting closer to the release of the album,” which is why Jewel took all the music from the album down. “Dear Tommy has the same titles, same lyrics, same track order, as when it was announced Dec of 2014. Nothing’s changed except it’s better.” Read every tweet about what happened below, and listen to one of the few songs that remains online, “Shadow.”
Christmas day 2015 Johnny almost died in Hawaii. I don’t want to go into details, but I’m sure he’ll discuss it in interviews at some point.
— Alexis Rivera (@echoparkrecords) May 3, 2017
When we announced “Twin Peaks” in March, you can see some of those broken Tommy records https://t.co/Ink9W8hI24
— Alexis Rivera (@echoparkrecords) May 3, 2017
March of 2011: Glass Candy was playing in Guadalajara & Johnny gave me a box of Kill For Love CDs. He wanted the album out later that month.
— Alexis Rivera (@echoparkrecords) May 3, 2017
Johnny destroyed the CDs & vinyl of that version of Kill For Love in April 2011. Publicly no one knew. But it kickstarted a creative streak
— Alexis Rivera (@echoparkrecords) May 3, 2017
He even referenced the other version of Kill For Love (and multiple changes) in an interview with @pitchfork in 2012 https://t.co/PZTySumQOU pic.twitter.com/8c7XBsS14l
— Alexis Rivera (@echoparkrecords) May 3, 2017
.@pitchfork As for Dear Tommy, now that we are getting closer to the release of the album, Johnny wanted the music from it to come down
— Alexis Rivera (@echoparkrecords) May 3, 2017
.@pitchfork “Dear Tommy” has the same titles, same lyrics, same track order, as when it was announced Dec of 2014. Nothing’s changed except it’s better
— Alexis Rivera (@echoparkrecords) May 3, 2017
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