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WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU ORDERED FROM ALBERTO'S?

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 12 August 2004 00:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Tim, what were the contents of the first issue of Rock Mag?

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 12 August 2004 01:00 (twenty-one years ago)

tim:

do you think george bush is deep throat?

xoxo
me

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 12 August 2004 01:05 (twenty-one years ago)

dianne sawyer is deep throat.

Tim, is it 'no wave' or 'no-wave'?

Tim, did I ever send you a package from when you sent me those issues of your magazine 4 years ago?

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 12 August 2004 01:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Hi everybody! Glad to answer questions. Let me see now...

Gygax!, I pretty much stopped eating at Roberto's...wait...Alberto's...I pretty much stopped eating at all of the 'berto's probably not too long after becoming a vegetarian around 1989 (lard in the beanz, or so it is believed, anyway!). (I actually started eating meat again just a year ago.)

The first issue of Rock Mag! (1992) contained a bunch of short little pieces of writing. Uh...the basic gist of the issue is that I wanted indie-rock to be more rock and roll oriented at the time. The last two essays are about rock and roll and colors.Then album reviews in the back. (I reviewed Of Thick Tum!)

Ally, I do not know about whether George Bush was deep throat. I certainly would like to know.

And Dan, I'm gonna go with "No Wave" (captitalized) if you're talking about the original scene, "no wave" if you're talking about how the first Ruins album was a no wave rekkerd!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 12 August 2004 02:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Tim,

Where do you usually get your enemas from again ?

Thanks,

Vic

― Vic (Vic), Thursday, 12 August 2004 02:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Tim,

Take sides on a couple of these like a playoff tree:

Lake Of Dracula vs. REM

Pink Floyd vs. Night Soil Man

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 12 August 2004 02:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Vic, I once worked with someone who used enemas and was very concerned about build-up in the colon from all that food we's eatin' every day. I remember once that he ate an avocado for lunch. Interesting guy--very solemn.

Gygax!, remember when REM were on the cover of Rolling Stone ca. Lifes Rich Pageant and the heading said "America's Best Rock and Roll Band?" Word. Lake of Dracula were better than the Scissor Girls. The Pink Floyd were the greatest of all psychedelic rock bands, while Night Soil Man were the Jane's Addiction of San Diego.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 12 August 2004 02:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Tim,
best bass player, alive or dead...GO!

― ddb (ddb), Thursday, 12 August 2004 11:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Hi ddb. I have no idea, really! I like Macca a lot. Also: Jim from the Homosexuals!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)

PM is great player, one of the best. But I'd have to say Watt, obvious choice I know...but that guy is all class. Also Bernard Edwards, Joe Preston, Peter Hook & Joe Lally are all pretty great

Follow up question, do you like the Tar Babies?

― ddb (ddb), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

You know, that's an interesting question, ddb! All of a sudden, people seem to be CANONIZING the early Tar Babies records. I know nothing of the nature of this phenomenon. I had one of their SST albums years ago; I don't remember much about it, but I don't remember liking it.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I BLAME DAVE LANG!

I had Honey bubble as a kid...not too much worth talking about...Joyride is a solid track.

I put on No Contest (I bought it for a $1 a year or so ago) the other day and some of the songs sounded pretty great!

― ddb (ddb), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:27 (twenty-one years ago)

noizedudes,

I have to give serious consideration to Carol Kaye.

http://www.carolkaye.com

Just a little bit o' sample:

Whipped Cream - Herb Alpert
Good Vibrations, Help Me Rhonda, Sloop John B, I Get Around, Wouldn't It Be Nice (dano), Calif. Girls, God Only Knows, Pet Sounds lp, Heroes & Villains, Caroline No, Surf's Up, Child Is The Father Of The Man, Do You Like Worms?, Smile lp, Cabinessence, Fire sessions, I Was Made To Love Her, Let Him Run Wild - Beach Boys
Something Stupid - Frank & Nancy Sinatra
Boots, Sugar Town, You Only Live Twice theme, etc. - Nancy Sinatra
Feelin' Alright - Joe Cocker
The Way We Were - Barbra Streisand
Tell Her You Love Her, The World We Knew (OD dano fuzz on "World"), etc. - Frank Sinatra
Hold Me Thrill Me etc. - Mel Carter
Godfather Theme, Love Story etc. - Andy Williams
In The Heat Of The Night, I Don't Need No Doctor, America The Beautiful, Eleanor Rigby, I Chose To Sing The Blues, Here We Go Again, Don't Change On Me, Feel So Bad, Understanding etc. - Ray Charles
Romeo & Juliet Theme (A Time For Love), Willow Weep For Me, Godfather Theme, others & Doc Severinson lp etc. - Henry Mancini
Natural Man, Love Is A Hurtin' Thing, Unforgettable, Your Good Thing etc. - Lou Rawls
Song Of Innocence - David Axelrod
I Was Made To Love Her - Stevie Wonder
What'd I Say, A Little Less Conversation, Suspicious Minds etc. - Elvis Presley
Wichita Lineman, Galveston, Rhinestone Cowboy etc. - Glen Campbell
Someday We'll Be together Again, Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Diana Ross
If I Could Build My Whole World Around You, Ain't Nothin' But The Real Thing - Marvin Gaye & Tami Terrell (Steiner's studio - LA)
Don't Pull Your Love Out On Me baby - Hamilton, Joe Franks & Reynolds
It Must Be Him etc. - Vickie Carr
12th Of Never, Alone Again, Memories, etc. - Johnny Mathis
Tiny Bubbles etc. - Don Ho
I'm A Believer, Last Train To Clarksville & others - Monkees
Homeward Bound, I Am A Rock, Scarborough Fair - Simon & Garfunkle
River Deep, Mountain High - Tina Turner
No Matter What Shape Your Stomach's In - T-Bones
This Diamond Ring, Just My Style, etc. - Gary Lewis and Playboys
Soul & Inspiration - Righteous Bros.
Chump Change - Quincy Jones
It's A Small World - Mike Curb & Congregation (at Disneyworld too)
Light My Fire - Doors
In Crowd, Going To The Gogo, etc. (dano, el. bass) - Dobie Gray
Love Child, Baby Love, Stop In The Name Of Love, Back In My Arms Again, You Can't Hurry Love, My World Is Empty Without You, Reflections, Love Is Here And Now You're Gone, You're All I Need To Get By etc. - Supremes
Come Together - Count Basie
I Can't Help Myself, Bernadette etc. - 4 Tops
Willow Weep For Me - Chad & Jeremy
This Is My Song - Petula Clarke
A Time For Love - Tony Bennett
Northern Windows lp - Hampton Hawes Trio
Get Ready, I Second That Emotion - Temptations
Doo Ron Ron - Crystals
Count Me In etc. - Bobby Vee
Yellow Balloon - Gary Zekeley
Baby The Rain Must Fall - Glenn Yarborough
You Made Me So Very Happy - Brenda Holloway
Sixteen Tons (60s recut heard now on radio, others) - Tenn. Ernie Ford
Alone Again Or, Dailey Planet - Love
Bang Bang, Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves - Cher
Expected to Fly - Buffalo Springfield
The Summer Wind - Wayne Newton

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Carol Kaye is a treat!

BUT!

FUCK A SESSION PLAYER!

― ddb (ddb), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

she is no Esteban.

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/pic200/drp400/p455/p45590sywqg.jpg

― jack cole (jackcole), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Who do you prefer, Tim, the Godz or the Doors?

― jack cole (jackcole), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)

"I BLAME DAVE LANG!"

Tom Lax, too, now. I'm thinking I'd rather buy a SWA album.

Carol Kaye--awesome.

LARRY GRAHAM AND BOOTSY.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

SWA were awful...as are teh doorz

― ddb (ddb), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Karl Hendricks Trio: "Chuck Dukowski Was Confused"

― jack cole (jackcole), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Jack,

The Doors made, what, six great albums? And it was, you know, full-blown MUSIC, as opposed to goofin'? Godz were brilliant, but there's no comparison in the overall scope of the two bandz!

IMO!!!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Godz are great

― Red Panda Sanskrit (ex machina), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

who had a better belly?

Jim Morrison or Meatloaf?

― jack cole (jackcole), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

John Lennon got a little overweight in '65. Morrison could've made a comeback--I don't think he got that overweight. He still looks pretty good in that picture of him waving in Paris not too long before he died (you know the one I mean?).

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

the tight leather pants probably make him seem fatter.

who is the most overweight musician that you like?

― jack cole (jackcole), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

MEATROAF

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 12 August 2004 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I LOVE the screaming trees ca. their SST era. i saw them in tijuana in 1990 and i got to a)drink legally and b)talk to van conner about corvette summer which pretty much made my freshman year.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 12 August 2004 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I love Mama Cass' voice. Also: ZOOGZ RIFT!!!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 12 August 2004 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I saw the Screaming Trees in '88 or so. They were wearin' tie-dyeds. I liked 'em.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 12 August 2004 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

By the way, if any of youse want to participate in Music Chamber's new Rate-a-Record feature, send me an email shout-out. You get a tape in the mail with ten unidentified songs and you have to rate them on a 0-100 scale and comment on them (you can speculate on who it is, if you like). Comments can just be emailed to me.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 12 August 2004 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

ZOOGZ RIFT has problems man

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 12 August 2004 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Da, but brilliant. I wish I could play his version of Freddie and the Dreamers' "I'm Telling You Now" (from the 1990 Nutritionally Sound CD on Trigon) for you all right now...

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 12 August 2004 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Tim you should just host the MP3s!!!

What is this 1993?!?!?!

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 12 August 2004 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha, it's about 1993 for me as far as my computer skillz and ability to "host mp3s" goes! Do I need to buy any software to do this?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 12 August 2004 18:51 (twenty-one years ago)

MP3 BLOG!

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 12 August 2004 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Tim: obviously you've never heard of Matthew Perpetua, the inventor of the MP3 blog...

do you use PC or Mac?

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 12 August 2004 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

INVENTOR-CORE

― ddb (ddb), Thursday, 12 August 2004 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Mac. Mebbe I could put mp3s on my blog.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 12 August 2004 19:08 (twenty-one years ago)

you just need to upload them to a webstorage "host" (i think your earthlink account may have a few dozen MBs set aside for you). Then take the MP3s, remove the ID tags and upload them with using a freeware FTP client (maybe IAN/JON can help with this, i haven't done this in years). on your blog, all you would have to do is link to the file location and your blogreaders can download and listen to the tracks w/o postage expense/time...

just an idea, plus you'd look so suave doing this, your friends and family will think you're a dotcom ceo.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 12 August 2004 19:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks, g!.

More bass playaz: Chris Hillman ca. 5D and Younger than Yesterday. Plus:

ROCKETTE MORTON

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 12 August 2004 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)

oh hey, I just saw this thread. I'm new to this bored.

I only ever read one issue of Rock Mag but I liked it a lot. It was the one with the ELP as "No Wave" article. That was a hoot.

Also it had that really kick-ass Alan Licht piece about Easter Everywhere. That guy should do more writing.

ok, bye!

― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Thursday, 12 August 2004 21:11 (twenty-one years ago)

4lan Licht is a Prince among Morris Days. He'd be a great addition to teh noizzz3 brd.

anyone have his email?

― ddb (ddb), Thursday, 12 August 2004 22:05 (twenty-one years ago)

"Rockette Morton takes off again into the wind! What do you run on Rockette Morton? (say: 'beans')."

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Thursday, 12 August 2004 22:22 (twenty-one years ago)

"I run on laser beans."

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 12 August 2004 22:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Tim,
A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous, got me?
Fast and bulbous!
That's right The Mascara Snake, fast and boulbous. Also, a tin teardrop.
Bulbous, also tapered.

You need a fly's eye to see it,
Aaron

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Thursday, 12 August 2004 23:35 (twenty-one years ago)

hpencil has alan licht's email address.

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Friday, 13 August 2004 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

TIM,

WHAT THE HELL HAS CHRIS WOO BEEN UP TO??!?!?!?!?!?!

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 13 September 2004 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I think he's more interested in doing photography. He's had a couple of shows here recently. There was supposed to be a third issue of Titanium Expose, but I wouldn't imagine that it's going to happen. I don't know if he's doing any music writing right now.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 13 September 2004 22:31 (twenty-one years ago)

If you talk to him, tell him hello from a fan in SF!

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 13 September 2004 22:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Word.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 13 September 2004 22:36 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

Tim,

Haha, I just read the SMiLE thread... Dude, that is what's called the OLD ILM PROTECTION PROGRAM. Good riddance, yet they all lurk anyway. Even here too.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Thx, g!.

Btw, I talked to Chris Woo last week and I gave him your greeting. He was trying to figure out who you were. Did you ever play in Physics?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha, no but I saw one of their first shows!

Chris posted a little bit on sp0ckm0rgu3 last week coincidentally enough, I hadn't seem him on there before that.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

Tim, are you a good guitarist? How would you describe your style?

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 22:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Mmm, I think I have some capacity. I practiced scales a lot for a while when I was an undergrad studying music.

I guess what I'm interested most in doing is playing raunchy rhythm guitar, but with a clean tube amp sound like, say, Velvet Underground/Pretty Things/Yardbirds/early Captain Beefheart/etc. Soloing, I'm interested in doing more abstract things like, say, Yardbirds era Beck/Page, but sometimes I just go for doing more melodic stuff, trying to maintain high energy (with fuzztone or without). A lot of the Nephews stuff was garage oriented, but with a heavier overdrive sound.

I played a lot of the fuzztone parts in the Music Machine.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 23:59 (twenty-one years ago)

What about your guitar playing, g!?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:04 (twenty-one years ago)

well i'm not very good (and habitually out of practice) but i've been doing lots of country blues style finger picking... claw handshape and double thumb picking... a lot of open G. electric stuff, i've been listening to play a lot of soo young park's stuff in bitch magnet and seam, and treyops and justin's stuff in pitchblende... i think those guys probably shaped my guitar consciousness more than anyone else.

Can you play the "Over Under Upside Down"/"Happenings..." stuff from the later live Yardbirds? Intense!

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know if I quite UNDERSTAND how Beck does the phrasing on something like the riff in "Over Under Sideways Down" or how that descending chromatic rhythm guitar line in "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago" was done! And I can't improvise as well as those guys.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:24 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, sorry for muffling up the titles... that's great stuff. i went through a phase of attempting to play that style combined with stuff like beefheart's "moonlight on vermont" and "owed t'alex", and realized that clawhammer was doing it better than i ever could.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I also like some of the Turkish guys a lot like Erkin Koray and Baris Manco.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Do you like Bola Sete?

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:35 (twenty-one years ago)

oh man, that riff to "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago" is so gnarly.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I've never heard Bola Sete.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:47 (twenty-one years ago)

despite our differences concerning paul mccartney, can we please still be cyber-chums?

sincerely,
jack "the butter knife" cole

― jack cole (jackcole), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 04:31 (twenty-one years ago)

HOLLA

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

Tim, did you ever go to any "TGs"??????~?~?!?!?!?!?!?!?

What was your favorite one?

GET ONE TRITON

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 3 March 2005 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah...occasionally. I remember a Mojo Nixon one. There was an SST fest on the gym steps once--had to have been before you started, though, gygax, I would imagine. Firehose and Screaming Trees and Lawndale and I can't remember who else.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 3 March 2005 21:17 (twenty-one years ago)

do you still have your old postpunk records?

where do you keep them? in the garage?

― kippax lad, ls? (gareth), Friday, 4 March 2005 19:39 (twenty-one years ago)

You know, it's not my problem if you people still haven't digested "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo." I have. Okay? Thanks.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 4 March 2005 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

OHMIGOD I JUST DISCOVERED THIS GENRE OF MUSIC CALLED "THE POST PUNK!" IT IS SO COOL!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 4 March 2005 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

did you shit it out or regurgitate it?

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 4 March 2005 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I AM post-punk, mothafucka.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 4 March 2005 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

dude, i was just jokin' on your "digested" bit. such a weird thing to say about music.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 4 March 2005 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

You seem to get hung up on words. "Digested" = I've listened to it a lot and understood what all is going on on the record. Like I needed to explain that to you.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 4 March 2005 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

you don't need to explain it! i know wtf it means, touchy-touchy-dude! and gee, who would think someone who likes to write and edit (and has been paid to do both things) would be hung up on words?

"you musicians sure seem to care a lot about music!"

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 4 March 2005 20:28 (twenty-one years ago)

"i can't understand all these silly film majors, they only talk about movies!"

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 4 March 2005 20:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Regarding your hang-up: it was a QUICK way of saying that I've listened to the record a lot already and have understood what is going on on the record, okay?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 4 March 2005 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

i hate it when mom and dad fight. when someone call social services?

― jack cole (jackcole), Friday, 4 March 2005 20:35 (twenty-one years ago)

tim i think it's your hang up because i was just making a joke! it really wasn't a big deal at all.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 4 March 2005 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

But I was joking with you about your hangup!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 4 March 2005 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

didn't seem like it, i read it as you being pissed off at me as always. sorry.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 4 March 2005 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I'M SORRY TOO!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 4 March 2005 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)

THATS WHAT THE NZ BRD IS ALL ABOUT.

BROS.

― ddb (ddb), Friday, 4 March 2005 21:07 (twenty-one years ago)

they have BROSEPHS in New Zealand?

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 4 March 2005 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.lorinrowan.com/Maddox-Bros-poster-web.jpg

― ddb (ddb), Friday, 4 March 2005 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

do you still have your old postpunk records?

where do you keep them? in the garage?

-- kippax lad, ls? (...), March 4th, 2005.

Ironically, I was just listening to an old Rough Trade compilation album called Wanna Buy a Bridge this morning. I thought to put it on initially because I wanted to listen to the TV Personalities doing "Part Time Punks." The fantastic "Read About Seymour" comes on after it. Even more ironically, I realized that one of the things that's cool about Franz Ferdinand is that they really kind of sound like "Read About Seymour." And before anyone gets all up in arms about me saying this, let me add that yes, of course, Franz Ferdinand are not as ballistic as the Swell Maps and their lyrics aren't as cool.

So maybe, ironically, those of you who hate Franz Ferdinand do so because you're just not all that partial to the "Read About Seymour" spirit?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 6 March 2005 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

Tim,

Have you ever pretended to like a piece of music? Ironically or unironically?

Love,
gygax!

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 14 April 2005 22:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think so. What's an example of someone doing this?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 14 April 2005 22:47 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

hey tim,
sealed copy of XCIII....worth $11 + shipping?....really like to hear it...but not sure if its worth it.

― ddb (ddb), Thursday, 2 June 2005 11:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude, no. Go to musicweb.com. Pretty sure they have it for $4.99!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 2 June 2005 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, dude, if your order with them is over $25, free shipping.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 2 June 2005 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I see....thanks tim.

― ddb (ddb), Thursday, 2 June 2005 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Wed. long blk hair, ipod mini, listening to the killers, I walked away
Reply to: [email protected]
Date: 2005-06-02, 11:54AM EDT

Wed. 2pm ish We were on the same train, we got off together, I said "I saw you jamming out to your ipod, what were you listening too?" you said "the Killers", I walked away in the crowd, not because of the music, it was really crowded.

a long shot that you would see this, but I feel I have to try to post again. Send me an email.

― Ian John50n (orion), Thursday, 2 June 2005 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

this is jw

― Ian John50n (orion), Thursday, 2 June 2005 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

TIM: WHISTLE STOP OR SHOOTERZ??

― vahid (vahid), Thursday, 2 June 2005 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)

CASBAH OR KEN CLUB??

― vahid (vahid), Thursday, 2 June 2005 19:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Vahid, I don't know. We have a three year old and don't go out a lot. However: Saturday night - Che Cafe - Of Montreal. We will be there. (I don't think I've been to the Che Cafe in six years or so.)

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 2 June 2005 21:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Gawd, concert preview in the Reader today describes Of Montreal as "Smile on 78 RPM."

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 2 June 2005 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)

my guess is that the writer has heard neither

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Friday, 3 June 2005 00:07 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

Dearest Tim:

Could you tell me a little more about the structure of the new Orthrelm album? How often do changes occur, would you say? Are they regularly or irregularly spaced? Are the repetitions EXACT repetitions, or is there some permutation?

Best,
IJ

― Ian John50n (orion), Friday, 17 June 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

ian, what do you think of the ORTHRELM strategy of combining it into big chunks now?

― Ellsworth M. Toohey (Grodd), Friday, 17 June 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

I LOVE IT.

― Ian John50n (orion), Friday, 17 June 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

Hey Ian. At the beginning of the piece, they keep repeating some riffs for several minutes at a time, but the changes happen more frequently as it goes along. They're exact repetitions, but of course the guitarist can't play them exactly the same way each time so there are these interesting variations that happen like sometimes there's a particular note in a riff that will stand out - you'll hear it repeating each time they play the riff, but the pulse of the repetitions wavers. And sometimes there'll be this cool white noise sound that seems to occur at really irregular places each time the riff gets repeated. Near the end, Barr plays some stuff that doesn't repeat - there might be some riff permutations going on there.

I actually gave that album an A, not an A- and am waiting to hear why the grade was changed without my being consulted.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 17 June 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

where did you review it at? me want to read.

― Ellsworth M. Toohey (Grodd), Friday, 17 June 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

It's up today on stylusmagazine.com

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 17 June 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

Very nice piece, Tim. I give your review an A+.

― Ellsworth M. Toohey (Grodd), Friday, 17 June 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

Thanks dude!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 17 June 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

no problem, KILLER.

― Ellsworth M. Toohey (Grodd), Friday, 17 June 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

tim, what are your thoughts on San Ul Lim's "Celadon (Arirang)"?

― Earl Summerfield (Grodd), Saturday, 18 June 2005 01:26 (twenty years ago)

Which song is that? I actually have three of their records, but there are no translations of titles.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 18 June 2005 03:27 (twenty years ago)

last song on Volume 1 (1971)

― Earl Summerfield (Grodd), Saturday, 18 June 2005 03:37 (twenty years ago)

Right. That song is totally sick. It's hard for me to tell how out of tune they are with each other because the record I have has this oversized hole in the middle and wherever I place it on the spindle, the needle ends up riding back and forth a little so it sounds a little warped.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 18 June 2005 03:44 (twenty years ago)

its got like that almost motorik keyboard part and bassline as it chugs along in the instrumental parts

― Earl Summerfield (Grodd), Saturday, 18 June 2005 03:46 (twenty years ago)

haha yeah but on this total roller rink keyboard

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 18 June 2005 03:49 (twenty years ago)

the keyboard reminds me of the rink one on the Ethiopiques compiling Getatchew Mekurya

― Earl Summerfield (Grodd), Saturday, 18 June 2005 04:09 (twenty years ago)

Yo Tim,

I finally picked up Traffic Sound's Lux! Amazing!! What an awesome record. Half of sounds like some kind of Malo/Santana/El Chicano thing and the other half is just really strange; love the long track. Then it ends with like three short tracks that sound like Blues Image or Grand Funk Railroad up-with-people singalongs. Great stuff.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Monday, 27 June 2005 01:34 (twenty years ago)

WHAT A GREAT BAND.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 27 June 2005 04:26 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

Tim,

Have you ever heard the album Better Can't Make Your Life Better by Lilys?

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 18 August 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)

No, but I am interested in hearing about the indie rock!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 18 August 2005 21:37 (twenty years ago)

It's a good record, Tim.

When are you visiting Britain again?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 21:46 (twenty years ago)

and what will you do when you are there?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 21:47 (twenty years ago)

I would love to go to England, but no plans as of now.

I was there last November for Bonniwell Music Machine tour. We played at Islington Academy and it was the most poorly attended show on the tour. I love England, however.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 18 August 2005 21:52 (twenty years ago)

I apologize on behalf of all Londoners for the poor attendance.

Maybe there was football that night?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 August 2005 21:53 (twenty years ago)

There might have been, actually! We drove down to Dover that night after the show to get the ferry (show in Amsterdam THE NEXT EVENING) and there were Polish football fans marching around the boat yelling "POLSKA!" and blowing horns. It was like five in the morning.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 18 August 2005 22:04 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and one of them apparently soiled himself while laying down on a seat next to our keyboard player!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 18 August 2005 22:05 (twenty years ago)

TIM:

WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU ORDERED FROM ALBERTO'S?

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MEATROAF

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― Ian John50n (orion), Thursday, 18 August 2005 22:51 (twenty years ago)

five months pass...

It's things like this that make me love you

"That's a good one, but I'm not sure that there aren't plenty of songs on Positraction that I like as much.

Positraction is, to me, one of the only rock albums that goes beyond being emotionally cathartic music into something that feels like genuine TRAGEDY. The other albums that, for me, are in this category are Pet Sounds, Astral Weeks, and the Verlaines' Ready to Fly (another indie monolith that maybe, in part, did not get recognized as such because it was just another album put out near the end of their career).

-- Tim Ellison (thefriendlyfriendlybubbl..."

― Serge Protecteur (nordicskilla), Saturday, 28 January 2006 04:41 (twenty years ago)

not really a question

― Serge Protecteur (nordicskilla), Saturday, 28 January 2006 04:42 (twenty years ago)

I don't really have anything to say on that thread, but I do love Live Skull.

― Serge Protecteur (nordicskilla), Saturday, 28 January 2006 04:42 (twenty years ago)

ONE LOVE, BRO.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 28 January 2006 04:47 (twenty years ago)

― MRSPOOPYPNATS (MRSPOOPYPANTS), Saturday, 28 January 2006 07:47 (twenty years ago)

Oh! And you like t Rex = you really probably should get some Suede records.

― Serge Protecteur (nordicskilla), Saturday, 28 January 2006 21:52 (twenty years ago)

Are there mp3s of your band available online, Tim?

― Sundar (sundar), Sunday, 29 January 2006 01:40 (twenty years ago)

Hey, Sundar. No. I'll try to YSI a couple of tracks from this album later tonight, though!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 29 January 2006 02:14 (twenty years ago)

(I'll put the links on this thread.)

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 29 January 2006 02:15 (twenty years ago)

This album was recorded with room microphones. No close mic-ing of drums or amps. Played live with vocals and extra stuff overdubbed. Lo-fi, but if you listen to these on headphones or something other than cheap computer speakers, you'll get the idea that we intended at the time.

This one is "Funeral at Sea":

http://s21.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0Q38QTXO6TCHF20HU5RM6X2JP4

And this one is "El Matador":

http://s22.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0W6XFZBVXEEON2JVZ6YDIWU5EO

These were recorded in 1994.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 29 January 2006 06:58 (twenty years ago)

i'm still waiting for the nephews/comp thing you were going to put out, tim. nephews were ace.

― Jack Cole (jackcole), Sunday, 29 January 2006 18:28 (twenty years ago)

Thanks, man. Yeah, that project's been on the backburner a bit. I think now that maybe I'd just like to do an mp3 page of that early '90s Nephews stuff.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 29 January 2006 19:06 (twenty years ago)

Tim, I currently have "Love AIn't for Keeping" by The Who stuck in my head for some reason. Is this a good thing or a bad thing, in your estimation?

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 3 February 2006 20:35 (twenty years ago)

better than the wife having oingo boingo's "weird science" stuck in her head this morning

― team jaxon (jaxon), Friday, 3 February 2006 20:49 (twenty years ago)

All I can remember of that song is the refrain line. What is it "Lay down beside me/Love ain't for keeping?" I don't know if I'm a big Who's Next fan. There are just songs on Quadrophenia and Who By Numbers ("Slip Kid," "Blue, Red and Grey" ... ) and Who Are You (which I've never actually owned, but, you know, title track, "Sister Disco") that I like better.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 3 February 2006 21:13 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

Mr. Timothy J. Ellison:

What are your thoughts regarding the fact that the song is named "Taxman, Mr Thief", but in fact they sing "Taxman, Mr Heath"?

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Saturday, 8 April 2006 03:42 (twenty years ago)

tim, my boy:

what is your favorite meal?

love,
pops

― the unbearable lightness of peeing (orion), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 03:07 (twenty years ago)

ian, omg yr user name

― Jaxon von Jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 03:12 (twenty years ago)

it's like, when you really have to piss and you hold it for so long and then you piss, but there's no relief.

― the unbearable lightness of peeing (orion), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 03:17 (twenty years ago)

STORMY: I have never owned the 1st Cheap Trick album, but I have researched these song lyrics online by logging on to a web site. This site makes it seem like the lead vocalist says "Heath" and the background vocalist(s) say "thief." Beatle homage, of course.

(By the way, I'll bet you did not know that Mark Tucker who did the great '70s/'80s private press LPs Batstew and In the Sack changed his name at some point to T. Storm Hunter and goes by the nickname Stormy. He is a nice guy. Last time I was in touch with him he had been working as a letter carrier for many years in Encinitas, CA - one of Steve Shasta's favorite towns.)

POPS: THAI YELLOW CURRY WITH SCALLOPS AND POTATOES (STEAMED RICE)

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 20:31 (twenty years ago)

plus a beer

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 21:14 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

DO YOU WANT TO GET BANNED?

― JW (ex machina), Thursday, 27 April 2006 20:18 (twenty years ago)

Tim (and Jeanne too),

Taking a Side: "Cecilia" vs. "Solsbury Hill"

Steve

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Friday, 28 April 2006 19:13 (twenty years ago)

i always sing CECILIA, YOU'RE MAKING ME FART.

― jaxontologist (jaxon), Friday, 28 April 2006 19:25 (twenty years ago)

Dear Gyg, I mean Steve,

Solsbury Hill by about a hundred billion lite years.

Dear Jason,

That is a very good spoof. Very funnish.

Dear Jon,

Why you break heart all time?

― JEANNE (Tim Ellison), Friday, 28 April 2006 19:34 (twenty years ago)

rofl @ wife

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 28 April 2006 19:40 (twenty years ago)

"Solsbury Hill" for me, too, S.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 28 April 2006 20:05 (twenty years ago)

J/T,

How similar are the guitar parts?

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Friday, 28 April 2006 20:17 (twenty years ago)

I don't know. Did Gabriel nick "Cecilia" a little? I think my favorite solo Paul Simon hit is "Mother and Child Reunion."

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 28 April 2006 20:29 (twenty years ago)

"kodachrome" dude!

― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 28 April 2006 20:57 (twenty years ago)

"Kodachrome" woulda been so much better if he'd said "shit" instead of "crap" tho

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 28 April 2006 21:11 (twenty years ago)

the Verlaines' Ready to Fly

yesssssss!

― lauren (laurenp), Saturday, 29 April 2006 16:55 (twenty years ago)

Lauren OTM.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 09:29 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

timmy, tell me about the George Harrison album Gone Troppo. it get's pretty shitty reviews, but this review makes it sound like i might like it. i mean at least the new wave aspects:

Generally overlooked in the ex-Beatle's solo discography, 1982's GONE TROPPO finds George Harrison flirting with radio-friendly, synth-driven pop hooks of the early-1980s, while still demonstrating his penchant for great, timeless melodies. The opener, "Wake Up My Love," establishes the light, breezy tone of the album, which continues through the Caribbean-via-Fab Four vibe of the title track. The languid love song "Unknown Delight" and the goofy doo-wop of "I Really Love You," which recalls Beatles novelty numbers such as "You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)," vary the record's feel and pace. The 2004 reissue includes an acoustic demo version of the song "Mystical One," which is arguably--given its intimacy and stripped-down production--the album's strongest track.

― jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

I think Tim devoted an entire issue to Gone Troppo, I have it at home (but I don't think you read?).

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

i don't know how to read. sheesh. way to rub it in

― jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

dude, i'm pretty sure you told me that you don't read!

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

all i do all day long is read. fucking ILX.

i just have a short attention span. i do a lot of magazine reading. but i just finished Sedaris's Naked. first non-music book i've read since i moved to SF i think.

― jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

check your email, you only included half of what you were supposed to send.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I love that album, Jaxon. "Wake up My Love" is probably the only really new wave track. His other really cool new wave track is "Blood from a Clone" on Somewhere in England - not the best of those albums but certainly worth a dollar or two. Gone Troppo is a cool sounding record in general, though, with good songs. Also his wackiest album.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 00:36 (nineteen years ago)

i just want another McCartney II

WHAT ELSE SOUNDS LIKE MCCARTNEY II???!!!

― jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 02:22 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, nothing I know of. Are you familiar with the story about how it was originally a double album that was edited down? There is this bootleg that purports to be the original album sequencing:

http://www.maccafan.net/Bootlegs/TheLostMcCartneyAlbum/lost.htm

I have the old vinyl bootleg version.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 02:58 (nineteen years ago)

alright, that's just plain mean. i thought that was gonna be a link to download it. I NEED THAT!

― jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 03:30 (nineteen years ago)

GAWDDAMN YOU. ONE OF THE FEW LINKS I FOUND TALKING ABOUT THIS ALBUM IS THIS

― jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 03:37 (nineteen years ago)

for Tim:
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.tv/tree/browse_frm/month/1998-06/b4fc536a5e19c6c8?rnum=21&_done=%2Fgroup%2Frec.arts.tv%2Fbrowse_frm%2Fmonth%2F1998-06%3F

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 04:48 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

Tim,

I ask that you watch this:
http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=1c2845b36680a6dc97d85b9505b3c303.737019

Steve

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 16 September 2006 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

cute little nipper. i will show this to lucy!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 17 September 2006 00:15 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

TIM

DO NOT SWEAT THAT SHIT ON YOUR THREADS. CONSIDER THE SOURCE: WHINY MISERABLE COMPLAINING KOOKS.

RISE ABOVE DUDE!

STEVE SHASTA

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 23:21 (nineteen years ago)

link pls

― chaki (chaki), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 23:23 (nineteen years ago)

^^cosign w/ shasta

that thread was good until other people started posting on it.

― HUNTA-V (vahid), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 23:35 (nineteen years ago)

also marcello is just pissy because verso didn't want to publish his 3,000 word plus ramblings on obscure+lame motown recs

― HUNTA-V (vahid), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 23:37 (nineteen years ago)

Love you guys. It's the Sgt. Pepper thread, Chaki.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 23:46 (nineteen years ago)

marcello called me subliterate once because i didn't agree with some nonsense he was spouting. whatever!

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 00:22 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

tim....

after 26 years i've turned over a new leaf and decided that i like rem. what's their best record keeping in mind that i hate what's the frequency kenneth?

― chaki (chaki), Friday, 12 January 2007 10:23 (nineteen years ago)

Chronic Town EP

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 12 January 2007 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

http://991.com/newgallery//REM-Reckoning-109883.jpg

― a_p (a_p), Friday, 12 January 2007 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

chronic town/murmur/reckoning

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Friday, 12 January 2007 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

i like everything until green. i could never listen to green or anything after it though.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 12 January 2007 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, chronic town/murmur/reckoning. preferably on vinyl, i would think.

― Tim Ellison = NUMBER ONE ADVOCATE OF YOU-KNOW-WHAT ON NU-ILX!!! (Tim Ellison), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

five years pass...

what's the last SD show you went to?

have you been to himalayan cuisine?

― the late great, Tuesday, 31 July 2012 06:11 (thirteen years ago)

six years pass...

Hola Tim,

I was listening to a podcast that mentioned that Night Soil Man for undisclosed reasons that 2 members of the band refused to talk about.

A quick perusal of the LA Times site circa 1990 mentions that The Pulltoys singer Scott Ireland broke his neck during a video shoot. NSM singer Rosebud was romantically involved with Scott but no idea why those dudes would refuse to mention anything about this accident on the podcast 25 years later.

Do you have the scoop?

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 10 August 2018 01:21 (seven years ago)

"... a podcast that mentioned that Night Soil Man BROKE UP for undisclosed reasons ..."

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 10 August 2018 01:22 (seven years ago)

one year passes...

HÜSKER PÖLL: Warehouse - Songs and Stories

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 20 June 2020 22:05 (five years ago)

one month passes...

Hope you are okay, Tim, wondering why you never appear on the Emitt Rhodes thread.

― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 August 2020 02:19 (five years ago)

WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU ORDERED FROM ALBERTO'S?

pouring 1 out for all the -bertos this week

https://www.kpbs.org/news/2020/jul/30/matriarch-robertos-taco-shop-dies/

― the burrito that defined a generation, Sunday, 2 August 2020 23:45 (five years ago)

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