Jazz Butcher S/D

Go Butchie go! I sure hope it's better than "Rotten Soul" which was, er, rotten, the only real dud in his catalog.

That list of extras is amazing, would totally buy a house concert if I was in the UK. Excited for this!

so playing in duo form in NYC next month, i guess i should go

http://www.jazzbutcher.com/htdb/gigs

Max Eider has a new album, or perhaps a mini-album, "Duck Dance": http://maxeider.com/albums/79

Oh, and the reunion album was quite disappointing. :-(

Bummer news that Mr Fish has been poorly, as they say. This isn’t for health care costs but for general expenses in the meantime:

https://www.gofundme.com/pat-fish-has-been-unwell?member=2250978

aw jeez

(the jazz insects, active oxford area 1981-83, microfact fans) (discography = one undistributable single, 'elephants', on our "own label" = haha a big pile of like 987 unsold singles in satch's loft)

https://www.discogs.com/Jazz-Insects-Elephants-Ghost-Train/release/8589969

1 For Sale from $253.16

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T6kpcXHDd0&feature=share

(Max Eider's new quarantined version of "Drink")

And here's a treat, following on from the overall album boxes the last couple of years:

https://usa.firerecords.com/products/the-jazz-butcher-dr-cholmondley-repents-a-sides-b-sides-and-seasides

Sorry, should have also linked the Bandcamp page:

https://thejazzbutcher.bandcamp.com/album/dr-cholmondley-repents-a-sides-b-sides-and-seasides

didn't wanna whine on his FB page but there are at least four crucial tracks missing from that set, which is really a bummer ("Temptation Inside Your Heart", "Chinese Envoy", "Christmas With The Pygmies", and the original version of "Caroline Wheeler's Birthday Present" that was the B-side of the "Marine" 7")

that being said, this is the most essential JB material IMHO

Does this set cover the entirety of "Gift Of Music", "Big Questions" and "Bloody Nonsense"?

Definitely the best stuff. "Hard" is such a jam.

yes it does!

aw FUCK

Very sad to announce that my old friend Pat Fish died suddenly but peacefully on Tuesday evening. Pat rocked my world in every way and his death leaves a big hole in my life and in my memory, much of which was only stored in his outsized brain. Goodbye mate and thanks for everything. I’m going to miss you. Max x

big sigh. the best kind of eccentric person and a hell of a songwriter. rest well.

Truly a shame and a loss. Would have been lovely if he'd seen the rarity set fully out.

Still so glad I saw him with Eider and the Haskins bros years back in LA.

gutted

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-ZyWxTIsrk

Found the key photo I took that night -- this was in 2009.

Found the photos I took from the show, with Max Eider and Mr. Fish here -- this photo ended up on the front of his website for a bit. A gentle honor to have taken it. RIP to Pat Fish of the Jazz Butcher, forever a hero. pic.twitter.com/qYFsurtu2K

— Ned Raggett (@NedRaggett) October 6, 2021

Damn, that was unexpected news. I was a big Jazz Butcher fan in the mid-80s and still hold Sex and Travel as a personal fave. Had the pleasure of enjoying a beer and conversation with Pat prior to The JB playing in Gatineau PQ in... 1986? Hats off to him. His music made many of my later teenage days much more bearable.

Had heard he was dealing with cancer but didn't think it was terminal. :-(

He's one of the only artists I saw in Boston, New York and London. A tremendous experience every time.

I love his jokey stuff as much as the next Butchie fan but his serious side (eg "Racheland") doesn't get enough respect. "Condition Blue" is a deeply affecting album.

"Vienna Song" prob my fave straight tearjerker, but yeah agreed

so sad. he was one of my absolute favorites.

R.I.P. This was always my fave.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foCfMec9-9w

Sad news. Haven't listened to him for a long long time, but back in the 80s, one of his gigs was broadcast live on bavarian TV and I taped it and watched it a ton of times. Trying to remember what the set list was - southern Mark Smith for sure (my favourite too), human jungle, grooving in the bus lane, death dentist, girlfriend, Bigfoot motel... Pretty weird it was shown at all really, and even though I didn't really have any frame of reference to contextualise it, 15yo me loved the mix of ramshackle goofiness and genuinely lovely tunes. RIP JB

yeah, more songwriters should listen to the Butcher and take notes on how to be both hilarious and heartfelt in the same song. only saw him once--US shows were few and far between this century--but he and his band that night were excellent.

I saw him once in the mid nineties in Seattle - I think “Shirley Maclean” was on the set list

This is the first one to really hurt since northern Mark Smith. Saw the band with him and Max at a tiny Iowa City club with only a handful of people in 99 - terrible turnout. Max became unnerved because he'd strum the keynote opening chord for Pat to tune to before each song, and I'd shout out the name of the song in utter joy as they were seeming all 80s Max-era tunes like Girls Who Keep Goldfish and Who Loves You Now (this was right after Max rejoined the band and also reissued Best Kisser in the World, an absolutely essential listen for any fan of the band, so I think I got lucky in that respect as Pat deferred to the oldies for Max's benefit).

We should poll Bloody Nonsense/Gift of Music (I wonder if a full artist poll wouldn't get enough votes, but I'd be willing to host it)

please do a poll of those, I'd love that

yeah this one really hurts for me as well

and yes that Max Eider "Best Kisser" solo LP is excellent throughout

one of his gigs was broadcast live on bavarian TV and I taped it and watched it a ton of times

weirdly this is not on Youtube but I got it from Dimeadozen - live at the Alabama-Halle, Munich. Nov 11 1985? is that the one?

As I said on the obit thread, I saw him playing, like, 6 weeks ago?

yeah my wife and I have really been enjoying his live concerts on Facebook for the past year or so :(

weirdly this is not on Youtube but I got it from Dimeadozen - live at the Alabama-Halle, Munich. Nov 11 1985? is that the one?

That's exactly it! There was a whole series of gigs that got shown from that venue in a prime time evening slot on the main regional TV station. Prefab sprout, the Cult, jazz butcher, the icicle works...

Please throw a vote this a way Polling in the Buslane: Jazz Butcher Gift of Music/Bloody Nonsense poll (RIP Pat Fish 1957-2021)

Rolo McGinty of the Woodentops with many memories.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10159510360516136&id=545041135&_rdr#!/story.php

If that didn’t work — but this might not either!

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10159510360516136&id=545041135&_rdr#!/story.php?story_fbid=10159789014109540&id=691739539&m_entstream_source=permalink

Thanks Ned, that was good to read

It's not often that an artist gets to do a Bowie by consciously carving their personal epitaph into the grooves of their final LP. The Highest In The Land is that rarity of an album, and it could not have been made by a more brilliantly poetic and fearlessly sarcastic writer than Pat Fish, also known as The Jazz Butcher.

http://jazzbutcher.com/albums/highest_in_the_land.html
https://jazzbutcher.bandcamp.com/album/the-highest-in-the-land

so ready for this

RIP Pat

This album is much better than "Last of the Gentleman Adventurers", it feels looser and lyrically stronger. Some very close-to-the-bone songs like "Time", "Running On Fumes" and "Never Give Up". Or maybe I'm just sad that he's gone and this gets the benefit of the doubt.