So, Ned, How are those GRAVITAR albums?

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Are they as good as "Now The Road of Knives?"

― Goodbye Brain, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 06:54 (twenty years ago)

Well, they're loud and that is good. But I have not heard Now the Road of Knives yet.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 11:43 (twenty years ago)

Well, NTROKnives is rather swooshy and warped with plenty of edits done into the studio to long stretches of improv avant rock. The drummer really just keeps going and going, often feeling like jazz, while distorto guitar wash fades around, spooks into the air, bends reality back unto itself (or something) and does a good job in general of just sounding other-dimensional. It also sounds like the whole thing is put through effects occassionally, as the cymbals sound warped and fluttery. Overall, peacefully unnerving, somewhat hellish but not in a bludgeoning powerchord kind of way. More like psychedelic flaming mischief intent on melting your mind.

I'm wondering if you got the "Edifier" one (close-up of guitar with blood on the pick guard). That was put out the same year as NTROKnives and is the drummer's opinion, it's their best album. It looks like this: http://www.simulated.net/ts/media/edifier120.jpg

If that is as layered and psychedelic, I must buy it immediately. Actually, I think I'll probably just get them all, but I wanted to see what you thought first. I had thought you were one of the guys who recommended 'Knives to me in the first place.

― Goodbye Brain, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 12:40 (twenty years ago)

if i may be a pedant, edifier came out four years after NTROK, but it was recorded in 1997. it's more straightforward and "rock" in sound and is actually mellow in some places (cover of skip spence's "diana" springs to mind). still sounds like gravitar, but there are bits that might not get you kicked out of polite society.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 13:02 (twenty years ago)

Yay. I like NTROK.

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 13:12 (twenty years ago)

I had thought you were one of the guys who recommended 'Knives to me in the first place.

I might have raved about Gravitar, but not that album in specific.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 13:14 (twenty years ago)

nine months pass...

You Must First Learn To Draw The Real is great.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Monday, 29 May 2006 01:58 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

BUMP

I miss back when I could buy a copy of "Now the Road of Knives" out of the $2 bin like every month and evangelize someone with it. Such a great record. This band never got their props and most likely never will, and that sucks.

― You sure slapped some meat in their eyes, Jimmy. (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 27 February 2011 04:24 (fifteen years ago)

six months pass...

this band is sooooooo RAD

― Jonas Stalk, inventor of the shithead vaccine (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 15 September 2011 14:15 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

Mike Walker is running a taco truck in Marquette, MI these days: http://www.miningjournal.net/page/content.detail/id/590344/Taco-truck-grabs-grant-jump-start.html?nav=5006

I listened to Now the Road of Knives this morning in honor of this fact.

― D@v3 M. (dan m), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 19:33 (twelve years ago)

Whichever of them maintains their facebook page posts surprisingly often.

When I sold a bunch of CD's to Academy, the one (out of like 100) that impressed the dude was Now the Road of Knives. Maybe it's hard to find on CD? Made me feel flattered, but at the same time like a chump for selling the CDs so cheap (they just gave me a flat price for all of them, so I don't know what they priced the Gravatar CD at though). Great, great band in any case.

― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 19:35 (twelve years ago)

p sure it's Mike doing the fb page

― D@v3 M. (dan m), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 19:40 (twelve years ago)

amazon has four used copies of NTROK from like $7-11, so I guess it's not super valuable or anything.

― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 19:46 (twelve years ago)

I only have the 1st one, so I guess I need that?

― money, chicken and other DNA (sleeve), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 20:03 (twelve years ago)

You so need it.

― seeking solace in cider and swans (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 5 September 2013 03:40 (twelve years ago)

eight years pass...

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

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 29 July 2022 03:09 (three years ago)

Let there be rock

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 29 July 2022 03:26 (three years ago)

a band I've kept coming back to every so often for more than twenty years

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 29 July 2022 03:28 (three years ago)

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