Pere Ubu: Classic Or Dud

listening to the Manhattan Max's recording from 1977 that comes w/ the new box set. killer, but why isn't the whole thing included? you gotta download the rest over here: http://www.hearpen.com/hr169.html

Naive Teen Idol have you ever heard A Warning To All Strangers by Tom hermans power trio Tripod Jimmie? A totally essential piece of ubu-satellite debris

The recent live BBC radio appearance was both funny in the interview segments and on point musically.

Thomas is about the most magnetic front person I've ever seen.

Naive Teen Idol have you ever heard A Warning To All Strangers by Tom hermans power trio Tripod Jimmie? A totally essential piece of ubu-satellite debris

The only thing I know by TJ is "Autumn Leaves" on the box rarities disc – but Herman is really fantastic. See it's available on Hearpen. Hmmm...

(PS, "Autumn Leaves" is fantastic)

I go to the dances almost every friday night
I do the dances that everybody likes
OH, MISS?!?

Ok Jon, now you gotta make a playlist called "Ubu Satellite Debris" containing the best non-Ubu/Thomas material.

I don't really know the other satellite stuff, sadly. Have never heard jim jones band or the ravenstine wheeler thing. Or that band two pale boys come from. Was Michele Temple in something notable before Ubu?

I desperately wish more of this stuff were on Spotify.

I find Rocket From The Tombs pretty essential but then i do like a lotof early 70s hard rock/heavy psych. & that has guitars where Ubu has synths.

When the remastered again reissue of the Datapanik cd boxset came out a couple of years back Amazon had it for about £12. Not seen what it is now though. Has all of the preretirement Ubu apart from live stuff.

I noticed there was a cd of the band live at Longbranch Saloon in 77 or 78 available from Ubuprojex. Haven't heard it but its a very good era.
& Shapes Of Things from Cleveland in 76 is a great gig too.

I quite like those two Rocket from the Tombs reunion CDs they did early in the 2000s.

My band has done a few gigs with Craig Bell, he's a cool dude. Bell lives in Indy and has a couple bands called The Down Fi and Deezen while still doing shows with David Thomas and sometimes Cheetah Chrome in the Rocket from the Tombs, playing shows with the reformed Mirrors and also playing with the reformed 70s Bloomington punk band The Gizmos. It's definitely worth exploring if you are a fan of the old Cleveland punk bands like Ubu, Dead Boys, Peter Laughner etc. Fyi.

man I love The Gizmos

those Tripod Jimmie records are great

the backward guitar riff on "street waves" is something i have yet to get over all these years later

Do you mean the solo? Was trying to figure out if that was backwards or just played that way. Either way, amazing song and performance.

Do you mean the solo? Was trying to figure out if that was backwards or just played that way. Either way, amazing song and performance.

Why I still kind of love youtube - watch enough Pere Ubu clips and it eventually links you to this :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQIJiIQjoRU

Oh wow!!!!

I saw a really fantastic local production of Ubu Roi a few years ago. Right before the lights went down, they played "Final Solution" in full over the soundsystem.

Hey Jon, I finally got around to hearing the two Tripod Jimmie albums, fantastic weirdness in the tradition of early Ubu. These desperately need to be reissued!!

I've actually never heard the first one.

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Pere Ubu: The David Thomas Death Protocols

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THE DAVID THOMAS DEATH PROTOCOLS

Members of the Ubu Projex bands shall be informed three months after the event, not before, and will at that time receive an instruction pack. No one else is to be informed, including record company and agents.
David will continue to 'answer' his email and all social media will be regularly updated - if anything there should be an uptick in posting frequency. All interviews shall be by email - since the questions rarely change there is a sufficient backlog of answers that can be cut and pasted.
A Pere Ubu album shall be produced. Keith Moline is to be in charge of assembling lyrics and vocal performances from pre-existing material. A tour will be booked to coincide with the album release. At an appropriate point a band photo with David's replacement shall be released.
Someone is bound to ask, 'Where's David?'
The response shall be 'Oh, he died two years ago.'
Q. 'What happened?'
A. His body stopped working.
Q. 'What was the cause?'
A. 'Death.'
Q. Why didn't you say anything?'
A. 'It's none of your damn business.'

lol
pretty strange to think of someone replacing Thomas

<3 and everything, but yeah that's not ever going to work, is it?

He's said that he already has his replacement identified...

haha, really? does his replacement know? is it ME?

Pretty sure the replacement is Steve Mehlman the drummer for Ubu & RFTTT, at least that seems to be what was hinted it at.

This is all very strange and very Ubu and I'll be very sad if he is dead

ha, i actually didn't even consider that he might be really dead ... thought this was just one of his weird pranks

I didn't either and now I'm worried

At first I was like, huh funny, but the more I thought about it, the more I thought maybe he was really dead.

Who knows! I've really loved like every record he's ever made basically, I'll be gutted.

There is a spring European tour scheduled with tom herman in the lineup and a career retrospective set list. Assuming dt is still with us that sounds like it will be amazing. NB I do not live in Europe :(

he also just played last week in london ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDdrJAu_xfM

Yeah the Herman tour! I was just day dreaming those dates the other day...

Was just listening to "Bay City" his solo record with the Foreigners from the 90s.

Dead or alive I legit love this weirdo and his amazing voice.

amen

Enjoying "Carnival Of Souls" this evening. Any word from the world of Ubu regarding their next project?

They are getting ready to tour the US and they got some vinyl box sets of the original albums coming out was the two communiques I remember seeing from Ubu Central.

The North American Coed Jail! tour of a concert set featuring songs from 1975 to 1982 is scheduled for June 16 to July 2. Dates are announced.
• 'Pere Ubu, The Scrapbook 1975-1982' is a 158-page, A4-sized book produced by Communex. It will be on sale at the merch table at Coed Jail! concerts.

I'd be interested to know what the contents of the book are.
Would also really love somebody discovering some early footage of the band that's been sitting in the back of a cupboard for 30 years. I think the earliest stuff in circulation is that Urgh A Music War version of Birdies.
Hope somebody can come forward and tell me I'm wrong though.

Tripod Jimmie's "Unclaimed Freight", a CD of outtakes and leftovers, is kicking my ass tonight.

Where does one get that and did the studio albums come out on CDs?

I got it cheaply from Amazon. The studio albums have only been given a digital reissue from the Ubu store.

I have one Tripod Jimmy cd I picked up in the 90s. Got it without cover. & not seen it in a while.

A long walk off a short pier was the cd title . I thought I remembered the word pier being in it.
& the spelling is jimmIE which I couldn't see from the writing opage my phone takes me to. Looks like there was a Tripod JimmY too

To be honest, I''m still trying to understand them. I came up with a good best-of, I think, caveats included.

good list, over tokyo

great list although I think Dub Housing is their best and most accessible 'classic' album

you figure the classic period runs up through song of the bailing man in '82? whatever the case, it'll always be the modern dance afacic. and that only cuz the datapanik collection was originally incomplete (& not properly an album besides).

I do, yeah.

I'd say Cloudland is their most accessible, by some distance.

do correct "30 seconds over tokyo" tho