The Frogs. (Edit -- Dennis Flemion RIP)

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I've done drugs that would blow your mind tonight
Real fine tonight
Blow your mind tonight
Outta my mind tonight, tonight
Going outta my mind tonight
Outta my mind tonight
Blow your blind tonight

(I've got a suitcase full of drugs)
(I can turn you on)
Would you like to come along?
I'd like to come along
I've got drugs
(Cum!)
Where you going, man?
I've got drugs
Can I come wherever it is, man?
I've got drugs
I've got blues
I'll do your dope, I'll be your dope man

(Much as I can, _______ people)
Outta the mist there's a pimp
Outta the mist there's a hooker
(priest)
Outta the mist there's a priest
(with ____ in his hand)
Outta the mist
(I kissed you)

Outta the mist how could I miss you with your drugs?
Outta the mist how could I miss you with your druggy ways?
(your drugs)
Outta the mist
(I missed you)
Outta the mist
Outta the mist I kissed your lovely drug-filled lips

You sleazy prostitute
Where's your pimp friend?
Where's your pimp friend and your priest?
As he stood there and lectured me on how I should live abouts
(on his yeast infection)
Fucking priest with a yeast infection
A drug problem that never existed
Outta the mist I kissed your drug-filled lips

JOOLS, Tuesday, 13 May 2003 04:08 (10 years ago) Permalink

I finally get to see them live next week!

donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 04:24 (10 years ago) Permalink

Same here!

Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 05:24 (10 years ago) Permalink

i need fred flintstone to come up with a surefire plan to go the Frogs since its on my partner's birthday and god knows she wont want to go. oh the sacrifices we must make -- dagnabit.

jack cole (jackcole), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 06:42 (10 years ago) Permalink

"It's Only Right & Natural" is a fantastic record but everything else i ever heard by them is terrible

duane (lucylurex), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 08:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

Are they good? They are Nick Olivieri's favourite band!

Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 12:24 (10 years ago) Permalink

they're a damn good live band, or at least they were the last time i saw them, which was a long time ago (mid-90s, right before they decided to start releasing records on any kind of regular schedule, and right before, perhaps not coincidentally, they started sucking).

the first album, "the frogs," has several cool and curious little pop songs on it. and the third, "my daughter the broad," is good for several laughs. everything else is indeed terrible, as duane says.

fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 13 May 2003 18:03 (10 years ago) Permalink

i didn't mean to leave out "it's only right and natural." that of course is the classic, but i assumed everyone already knew that.

fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 13 May 2003 18:04 (10 years ago) Permalink

years ago, i interviewed the frogs, it was good, but very odd.

a few days later, a package arrived from them: a couple of tapes (old stuff, unreleased stuff) and two videotapes containing six hours of 'Toy porn'. which consisted of six hours of the Flemions playing with action figures, doing vaguely porn-ish thinsg with them, interspersed with the Frogs performing, either on stage at local clubs or in their basement, barely clad.

despite that, i never got to see them play out, except when one backed up sebastian bach.

bucky wunderlick (bucky), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 18:12 (10 years ago) Permalink

I saw them on MTV! Or a taped show thereof. They played on Oddities (remember that show?)... they rocked out in a D&D way for about 20 seconds with Sebastian Bach, then trashed their instruments. The end.

donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 18:20 (10 years ago) Permalink

One of the dudes from this band performed at a concert with Smashing Pumpkins once; during "1979" he leapt from very tall stacks of speakers wearing a sparkley poofy green tuxedo-thingy and dropping Pete Townshend-stylee whirlwind guitar strokes. He only played one chord, 3 times, once at the beginning of each chorus. It was one of the coolest things about the whole show.

nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 19:11 (10 years ago) Permalink

saw them once, late 90s (I think). They had just released a record called "StarJob", and they were fantastic live. Very funny, they were, and I had really not heard much of their stuff before. Kind of wierd glam-pop, very sarcastic.

pauls00, Tuesday, 13 May 2003 19:49 (10 years ago) Permalink

I saw them recently, but the crowd was unenthusiastic (mostly cause it was so small), and I think they were disappointed so they didn't come out for an encore. The guitar player looked like Jeff Daniels to me.

Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 19:58 (10 years ago) Permalink

and it was just the two of them, no bassist or anything. I think they've fallen on hard times.

Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 20:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

woah, but now that I look up pictures of the guy, Jimmy really looks nothing like Jeff Daniels.

Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 20:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

the Frogs are v. fun live, indeed. they perform around here quite a bit, but i haven't gone out and seen them in a few years.

Jimmy Flemion is damn tall. granted, most people are tall to me, since i'm rather short. but still. he's rather entertaining to talk to as well. but i wouldn't trust my sister's ferrets with him. XD

janni (janni), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 20:11 (10 years ago) Permalink

When I saw them it was a sold out show with the drunkest crowd I'd ever had the pleasure of being squashed into a small space with. Including one woman who kept yelling for the same request even though they had already played it. Needless to say it was an incredible show, bringing an immense stadium rock attitude to a sub 200 room. And it was very glam.

It's Only Right And Natural is a true classic. It was also impossible to follow up, but My Daughter The Broad actually does a very good job of it. It took some time to grow on my senses but now many of the songs are warm friends. I wouldn't call the balance of their catalog "terrible" but it does suffer from inconsistency, 2 jewels for every 10 duds. The Star Job ep is also worthwhile.

If you have a chance to see them live ... even if you know nothing about their music ... GO!

zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 20:28 (10 years ago) Permalink

Well, out of nowhere...went down to San Diego last night to see the Brian Jonestown Massacre and the Lovetones and Mr. Barrus surprises me halfway down by saying "You do know the Frogs are on the bill, right?" Um, NO.

So I saw them and it was wonderful and strange and hilarious and godly. The crowd was definitely mostly there for them, which probably got up Anton's nose a bit for the BJM set but who knows. What was really great was that nearly every familiar song had a different arrangement -- "Out of the Mist" became this 70s corp rock multipart masterpiece, for instance. Dennis was wearing Frank Zappa make-up, Jimmy had the wings and all, and there was a bass player, so they're not hurting or anything so badly on that front.

Out of costume they're just guys and all -- Jimmy handled the T-shirt and CD sales and was just a regular fellow, very friendly and indeed very tall. Picked up a dub of Toy Porno and a CDR of a set last year in New Orleans from 'em, and will scrounge through whatever they have up in Seattle on Thursday. So yeah, go see them! They're playing San Francisco Monday, Portland on Tuesday and then Seattle...

Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 18 May 2003 17:57 (10 years ago) Permalink

Oh yes, and some random song title joy from their many tape releases:

get yourself a man (if you're a man)
the quickest way to a man's heart is through his ass
punk drunk (fruitfly of love)
have we discussed love lately girl? (the murder)
3 beatniks in love (we met in bed one night)
church or stay at home and fuck the cows?
we are men (verse 5, the gay bible)
the whole damn country is straight (oh we're all alone)
the homo zoo (oh what did i see at)
spicey things (my aphrodisiac is in full swing)
it's the rain, it ain't like belgium or spain (the taste of the blood)
i love sex (it's all i care about these days)
evil jerry (it's not often u eat the dead)
kill yourself if u love me (if u love me kill me too)
surprise (i've changed bodies/souls w/u now)
why?, mother why? (the creature in your womb)
what they don't know about us won't hurt them mother (it'll just kill them)
cacti bra competition (who's gonna be #1?)
(i come out at night to ride my) dragon

Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 18 May 2003 18:06 (10 years ago) Permalink

"Racially Yours", the best album Big Star never made.

Brian Turner (btwfmu), Monday, 19 May 2003 01:46 (10 years ago) Permalink

they were the featured interview in the 1st ish of CONFLICT i ever got, i couldn't believe they were for real, i thought cosloy had made them up.

duane (lucylurex), Monday, 19 May 2003 01:56 (10 years ago) Permalink

I have just watched, at long last, the Frogs' Toy Porno video. I hurt, but in a good way.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 19 May 2003 05:29 (10 years ago) Permalink

here's the $100,000 question: Is racially yours a good album given the shaft by the long wait and hype while it was unreleased or a not so good album that didnt live up to the hype?

jack cole (jackcole), Monday, 19 May 2003 06:03 (10 years ago) Permalink

The former, I think.

Colin Meeder (Mert), Monday, 19 May 2003 08:01 (10 years ago) Permalink

It's not as insanely funny as It's Only Right and Natural, say, but I think that's the point.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 19 May 2003 12:17 (10 years ago) Permalink

I agree -- I don't think Racially Yours is a comedy album at all.

Colin Meeder (Mert), Monday, 19 May 2003 12:31 (10 years ago) Permalink

"looked at my watch, and it said fourteen... that's jailbait, baby!"

Dave M. (rotten03), Monday, 19 May 2003 13:06 (10 years ago) Permalink

IIRC Gerard hated the first Frogs album... it's GREAT!

gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 19 May 2003 14:24 (10 years ago) Permalink

The self-titled one? Must get that...

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 19 May 2003 14:28 (10 years ago) Permalink

that first Frogs album is.. meeeh.

donut bitch (donut), Monday, 19 May 2003 14:40 (10 years ago) Permalink

gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 19 May 2003 14:46 (10 years ago) Permalink

7 months pass...
"Well....he became a woman...then a man...then a dog...then a sheep...then a man...then a god!"

Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 11 January 2004 23:13 (9 years ago) Permalink

I'm learned to reappreciate the first Frogs records, but just in bits here and there. "Smile" is an amazing song, especially the part of one's face being stepped on a pony at the age of eight, or something like that. And the blisteringly high frequency they hit when they scream during the chorus makes Prince's falsetto sound like an elephant bull in comparison.

donut bitch (donut), Monday, 12 January 2004 01:21 (9 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...
I just got back from the triumphant "25th Anniversary" show at the Cactus in Milwaukee tonight. Despite the worst efforts of pathetic drunk attention whore jackasses in the crowd to thwart the rock, it was a successful fiasco once again. They are still geniuses (Milwaukee-bred geniuses at that, he added proudly). Jimmy is really cute when he wears the bear hat as part of his costume. Everybody who thinks that all they are is stupid jokes and shitty(!) music (such as the "expert" idiots on the other older thread) will never know what they're missing (or walking) out on. Too bad for them. That is all.

Chris F. (servoret), Saturday, 29 October 2005 07:22 (7 years ago) Permalink

I don't think Racially Yours is a comedy album at all.

You're right-- it is absolutely not. It might help to see them perform the stuff live. They opened tonight's show with Jimmy singing "Now You Know You're Black". It would seem that not being able to get past their use of scatology to see the point of their using it is a big part of why many just don't get it.

Chris F. (servoret), Saturday, 29 October 2005 07:26 (7 years ago) Permalink

So glad to know they're still playing. I actually dug up It's Only Right and Natural this weekend & fell in love with it all over again. "Here comes the watermelon seed up your snoot-snout..."

Douglas (Douglas), Saturday, 29 October 2005 14:23 (7 years ago) Permalink

Hahahah.

Now is their website finally back?

Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 29 October 2005 14:25 (7 years ago) Permalink

(I guess not -- I find this:

http://my.execpc.com/~mobark/

But then the link provided there doesn't work.)

Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 29 October 2005 14:28 (7 years ago) Permalink

"cuz i'm evil............JACK!"

i made my mom listen to It's Only Right+Natural...she laughed, a lot.

eedd, Saturday, 29 October 2005 15:25 (7 years ago) Permalink

Ned, that Frogs site was up and active as of a few weeks ago-- they had an MP3 track of the month up for October and everything. I forgot to ask anyone last night what was up with it-- I did talk to Jimmy for a minute (he seems to be the designated merch table guy for their shows) to say thanks after the show, but I don't think they're directly involved with it anyway. With any luck the outage will be corrected soon.

Chris F. (servoret), Sunday, 30 October 2005 07:12 (7 years ago) Permalink

4 months pass...
When I first met the girl who would later become my wife, the first track that I ever played her when she came back to mine was The Frogs 'My Goat Just Died Tonight'

I gather from this thread, their still active - any new websites I've given up looking.

I must be one of a handful of UK fans with all their studio work - I love it all

sonicred (sonicred), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 09:24 (7 years ago) Permalink

I only have It's Only Right & Natural, but got a copy with an absolutely glorious promo photo that I should really have framed for the front room. Anyhow, that album is totally worth it for the "I'll stick it in your eye socket, young man" line alone.

NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 09:34 (7 years ago) Permalink

You should go further, The Frogs, banimals and Hopscotch Lollipop Sunday Surprise
all have great songs on them.

Racially Yours is good too, but as near the knuckle on race as Right and Natural is with homosexuality

sonicred (sonicred), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 15:54 (7 years ago) Permalink

i played with the frogs once. they were jerkoffs.

cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 18 March 2006 16:35 (7 years ago) Permalink

Sorry dude. Hope you brought napkins.

Yoo Doo Nut (donut), Saturday, 18 March 2006 19:47 (7 years ago) Permalink


http://www.myspace.com/thefrogs

Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Saturday, 18 March 2006 20:34 (7 years ago) Permalink

And not only that, it leads to a new Frogs webpage at long last!

Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 18 March 2006 20:38 (7 years ago) Permalink

3 weeks pass...
I've been listening to nothing but my $10 Frogs-burnt bootleg of It's Only Right and Natural in the car for the last two weeks now, and I'm pumped! They play again in Milwaukee at the Cactus Club next Saturday the 22nd-- be there or be cool somewhere else. I'll probably be wearing my "Knowing Is Half The Battle" T-shirt to the show, if anyone else here makes it and wants to say hi.

Chris Freiberg (Chris F.), Friday, 14 April 2006 02:29 (7 years ago) Permalink

6 months pass...
I love life. I am listening to the Frogs from a rehearsal tape they did for a show opening up for the Smashing Pumpkins in 1997...doing Smashing Pumpkins songs, very much in their style.

"Who is righteous
What is bold...
Because I'm BALD!"

Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 3 November 2006 06:06 (6 years ago) Permalink

My Daughter the Broad rather. It's all good.

Ned Raggett, Sunday, 5 September 2010 16:52 (2 years ago) Permalink

10 months pass...

WHERE'S JERRY LEWIS
WHEN YOU NEED THE MAN?

one dis leads to another (ian), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 20:11 (1 year ago) Permalink

La da da da
La da da dee
La da da dum dum

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 20:13 (1 year ago) Permalink

10 months pass...

wtf this alb is amazn.. i never knew

billstevejim, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 05:51 (1 year ago) Permalink

Here comes the watermelon seed up my snoot snout
And that's yr asshole, your snoot snout

Heaven knows I'm thirsty and miserable now (NickB), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 08:05 (1 year ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

What the! Dennis Flemion died over the weekend!

http://www.fox11online.com/dpp/news/wisconsin/divers-continue-their-search-for-missing-swimmer-in-a-racine-county-lake

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 01:30 (10 months ago) Permalink

awful news!!

one dis leads to another (ian), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 01:40 (10 months ago) Permalink

From Gerard Cosloy:

http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2012/07/09/dennis-flemion/

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 02:01 (10 months ago) Permalink

this sucks.

EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 02:04 (10 months ago) Permalink

the news, not the frogs.

EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 02:04 (10 months ago) Permalink

So I never told this story here but -- upthread I talk about randomly seeing them in San Diego. A few days later I was in Seattle and so donut bitch/Mackro and I went to see them again, part of the same tour. So they get to the "Hot Cock Annie" performance, which of course is the cue for them to invite an audience member onstage to sing the song if they feel so bold. First guy up is drunk as hell and nothing really happens, he just semi sings things and all. Dennis, without a missing a beat (neither did anyone else on stage, just playing along), dares the guy to drop his pants if he's not going to do anything else. So the dude turns to face him and does so. Again, without missing a beat, Dennis turns his head and scrunches up his face/sticks out his tongue in a classic "EURGH!" look, then turns back and says "That looks like something that should be at the county fair!"

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 02:13 (10 months ago) Permalink

I emailed Dennis in about 1999 (I THINK it was him and not Jimmy) just to see if he'd write back and he said something like "Write back? Send me $10 and I'll send you a live tape that will make your ass stand on end". I think I was asking them if they were ever going to come to the UK.

Morrissey & Clunes: The Severed Alliance (PaulTMA), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 03:21 (10 months ago) Permalink

The first time my future wife and I exchanged emails in 2003, she attached an mp3 of 'Hot Cock Annie'.

RIP.

Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 03:32 (10 months ago) Permalink

I spoke to one of em on the phone once. Never cared for the records.

Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 04:18 (10 months ago) Permalink

or the 'hilarious' gay shtick

Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 04:18 (10 months ago) Permalink

wow, terrible news. i've actually been to that lake. RIP dude :(

frogbs, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 05:26 (10 months ago) Permalink

There was certainly a stretch of my life in the late 1980′s in which you were not leaving my apartment if you hadn’t heard “I’ve Done Drugs (Out Of The Mist)” at least once. I suspect there’s others who have similar stories.

give or take two decades I hear GC loud and clear right here

RIP

if you are a false nine don't entry (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 07:55 (10 months ago) Permalink

Fuck RIP Dennis

gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 08:44 (10 months ago) Permalink

I'm very sad to hear this news. I've always enjoyed The Frogs a lot since my copy of the Smashing Pumpkins Vieuphoria VHS led me to their twisted genius in my formative years. I was obsessed with their short segment.

only NWOFHM! is real (krakow), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 08:50 (10 months ago) Permalink

I didn't quite understand what was going on in those three short minutes, but I loved it!

only NWOFHM! is real (krakow), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 09:01 (10 months ago) Permalink

I am listening to the Frogs from a rehearsal tape they did for a show opening up for the Smashing Pumpkins in 1997...doing Smashing Pumpkins songs, very much in their style.

Is this findable? That sounds incredible.

I saw them only once, at a pretty weird show at that old place The Cooler in the meatpacking district. The Rapture were opening, which made for a pretty oddly mixed crowd in the heady days of 2001 or whatever

Walter Galt, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 09:31 (10 months ago) Permalink

Now that I think about it, I think maybe Evan Dando came up and played as well. I can't find any record of this show online anywhere. It was really fun.

Walter Galt, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 09:35 (10 months ago) Permalink

This is terrible news. I never saw them live.

is capybara gay? (Ówen P.), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 11:31 (10 months ago) Permalink

(Two separate observations, obv., just had no Frogs stories to share)

is capybara gay? (Ówen P.), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 11:31 (10 months ago) Permalink

I had this promo shot on my wall when I lived in student residences. I feel bad for still not knowing which one Dennis is though.

gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 11:37 (10 months ago) Permalink

Dennis is the one on the left. Just look for the drummer, without wings, shorter than the other. He had the raspy/corrupt voice where Jimmy sings with the voice of a perverted cherub.

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 12:43 (10 months ago) Permalink

I could see how the wings might hamper ones drumming what with all the flapping against the hi-hats, I really should have guessed. Thanks Ned!

gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 13:05 (10 months ago) Permalink

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 14:31 (10 months ago) Permalink

Jimmy has just posted on the band's FB page.

Dennis Flemion 06/06/1955 - 07/07/2012

Thank you all for your generous, kind words, thoughts and gestures. Dennis would or if you believe he is witnessing this at this moment is so grateful for the outpouring show of love and support bestowed upon him. Right now I'm thinking in my head that everyone is expecting me to say something or say it just right. The reason I have been delaying this is because I am so aware of Dennis and what he would think and how everything we did had to be the best and up to his standards and how he wanted me to be the best and I've never wanted to let him down, I always did and gave him my best and wanted to please him. So Dennis, I hope you're alright with this. Dennis was the most kind, sensitive and giving soul. He among all was unquestionably a true uncompromising artist, a visionary who instinctively understood greatness. A genius whose and art must and will be remembered. A perfectionist whose sole purpose was lasting beauty. Of everyone imaginable in this life I was given the precious gift to learn at his feet. I have to stop for a second because my hands are shaking so much as I type this and I can't see because of the tears. As my older brother, I looked up to him and followed for I was certain he knew the way. I now know that true now more than ever. In numerology we were both number 5's on the same life path, that being said, our bond can never be broken. As he taught me on this side of the veil, he now continues to teach me. He suggested I play guitar, he must have known what our destiny was. By introducing me to music, it opened up my heart, making me express myself through song and expanded my life immensely and made all the joys and wonders of this world possible. He was the leader, the manager, the booking agent, the artwork designer, the producer, a painter, a photographer, the archivist, a keyboardist, a drummer, a singer, a songwriter, an entertainer, he was everything. He was a son, a brother, a husband and a friend to all. He was a Gemini whose creativity and perpetual thoughts had no other choice but to be expressed. Everything about him was real. He always stood his ground. He protected me and looked after me. In one of our last conversations, I told him, I only want the best for you and he said he wanted the best for me. He wanted so to be accepted, to be included, to be recognized for his extraordinary talents. It was and never has been a conscious decision to be an outsider or viewed as one. He and I both knew the greatness of what we created, we didn't have to talk about it and it made him so mad that we still hadn't or haven't made it. He would go off on the people, bands, "stars" with minimal talents who had gotten their day in the sun. He would always ask God why or what do we have to do. 45 years later since the first time he played the organ in 1967, he still kept trying and never ever gave up. He was an original with a capital O. He was so passionate about life and gave everything he had to music. He was a giver who gave presents to everyone. He loved to talk and anyone who ever met him knows that he could talk their head off. He knew his faults and could easily point out other's flaws unapologetically. He didn't censor himself. He was bored with ordinary, never desired to copy anyone or be like anyone and he knew there had to be more to life than all of this. He was wise beyond belief. It gives me so much pleasure to know that in his last days that he was the happiest he had ever been in his life. He had so much pride that his 2 beautiful children had just graduated from college, our 2 albums had just come out and he was so happy spending time together going places with his wife. He once told my wife that he was the night watchman, the man in the light tower. He had to be the one who took care of everything and everyone, and he would be the last one to turn out the light. On July 3rd, a veteran from Minnesota stopped me on the street and gave me a pin of a man in a boat with a light tower no mere coincidence, it was a sign. The album titles were his. The 2 new albums release dates were pushed back time after time. He had the album titles for years. I know there is a reason for the timing that something bigger than all of us is guiding this moment. Count Yer Blessingsz, it's his message to the world. Appreciate. Dennis will always be inside me forever. It is my duty and obligation to uphold his legacy and shout it from the highest mountains how proud I am of his achievements and let the universe know how much I love him. Dennis was and wasn't complicated. He never stopped creating and there is so much more music and art that he left for us no one has ever heard or seen. Once again the timing of the 2 new albums "Count Yer Blessingsz" A.K.A. "The Sad lp". He wouldn't ever want anyone to be sad. He brought so much beauty and joy and laughter. My wish for you all is to celebrate his life and in his words, count yer blessings.
Love and Blessingsz, Jimmy

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 14:58 (10 months ago) Permalink

;_;

Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:10 (10 months ago) Permalink

Thanks for posting that.

kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:21 (10 months ago) Permalink

thx ned

one dis leads to another (ian), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:38 (10 months ago) Permalink

According to Mackro, Best Show Ever has just started what is apparently a Frogs marathon tonight. Nice.

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 01:15 (10 months ago) Permalink

haha, The Best Show. /pedant

ma ck ro ma ck ro (mackro mackro), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 03:51 (10 months ago) Permalink

Best of the bestingly best!

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 03:54 (10 months ago) Permalink

His body was recovered last night.

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 13:06 (10 months ago) Permalink

jesus this is hitting me really hard. these guys were legends around here.

frogbs, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 13:21 (10 months ago) Permalink

we threw him the life preserver, he was struggling

arrrrgh ;_;

Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 15:14 (10 months ago) Permalink

dang. saw them in the basement of a coffee shop back in like 2000 maybe. wish i could remember it better but i was on drugs that would blow your mind

it's smdh time in America (will), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 15:43 (10 months ago) Permalink

miss these dudes and miss this guy. i hope hope hope the show i went to (portland ME 2001) will come out. i know it was recorded because they kept talking about posterity until they got in a fight with the soundguy who pulled the plug

toandos, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 23:19 (10 months ago) Permalink

That SUCKS, I missed the news story. They were great live. "he played the organ". God bless him. RIP.

โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Truck Bombing Begins at Home (Mount Cleaners), Thursday, 12 July 2012 05:30 (10 months ago) Permalink

"I am listening to the Frogs from a rehearsal tape they did for a show opening up for the Smashing Pumpkins in 1997...doing Smashing Pumpkins songs, very much in their style."

Is this findable? That sounds incredible.

― Walter Galt, Tuesday, July 10, 2012 2:31 AM (1 week ago)

By good chance -- turns out some hyper Pumpkins fan out there has been uploading this very thing earlier today. So I give you:

Ned Raggett, Friday, 20 July 2012 05:13 (10 months ago) Permalink

Or just a playlist if you like:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL345D3F4CAFD406A5&feature=edit_ok

Ned Raggett, Friday, 20 July 2012 05:18 (10 months ago) Permalink

Thanks for the links Ned; interesting to hear.

NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Sunday, 29 July 2012 10:23 (9 months ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

Been getting aquainted with some less known Frogs numbers which are indeed making my ass stand on end.
Namely 'The Wild Mouth Of The Buck-Toothed Priest' and the truly terrifying 'New In Town Sailor'.

Supper's Burnt (PaulTMA), Monday, 27 August 2012 23:17 (8 months ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

So looks like Jimmy Flemion and Billy Corgan have been doing a few things together lately after Dennis's passing -- here's some stuff just after Dennis's memorial service at his house:

And this was the other night in Austin:

Ned Raggett, Sunday, 30 September 2012 00:55 (7 months ago) Permalink

If Jimmy joined the Pumpkins I would actually go and see them

'Separate Lives', by Phil Collins & Marilyn Manson (PaulTMA), Monday, 1 October 2012 13:03 (7 months ago) Permalink

Via Jimmy on FB/elsewhere:

Hello everybody. I set up a new p.o. box :

The Frogs
P.O. Box 81234
Austin, TX 78708

To those of you who have expressed interest in sending fan mail, tapes and things, I appreciate your thoughtfulness. In the past we have allowed taping @ our shows, with the understanding whoever taped or filmed agreeing to send us a copy. Unfortunately more often then not, those who taped or filmed and said they would send us a copy never did. That was one of the main reasons we reluctantly allowed taping or filming. If some of you are out there, I ask to do the right thing and please, send your tapes, cd's or dvd's to the new p.o. box. It would mean so much to me, especially now.

Also, I've started a blog @ tumblr.com, stay tuned.

My greatest challenge is communication, as well as my greatest reward.

From my heart to yours,
Jimmy

Ned Raggett, Sunday, 7 October 2012 19:05 (7 months ago) Permalink

And that tumblr he mentions is now up:

http://jimmyflemion.tumblr.com/

Ned Raggett, Saturday, 13 October 2012 13:13 (7 months ago) Permalink


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