TS: Denny Lethargy VS. Denny Vertigo

me too!!

are you my sister?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v216/sexymollusk/albums-dennyvertigo.jpg

I think this album's been in the works for awhile, gygax, i.e.:

i'm not usually into tributes, but word is John Zorn and some of his old Naked City guys are getting together for a Denny Vertigo(!!) tribute!! I heard a couple of other names being tossed about, i'm not gonna mention 'em except to say 'fuck i hope not!'
-- cutty (holle...), March 11th, 2004 6:29 PM.

I've got a hunch that's the first time in awhile that the Geocities site has been hit so much. That guy's gonna be WTFing tomorrow.

Homosexuality was at once ghettoized and accepted in the hyper-masculine world of underground rock from the late-'60s onward. One of the most discussed gay rumors in underground rock involved the alleged relationship between Denny Vertigo and Denny Lethargy. Rumors (that ended up being true) about Lethargy's proclivity for sexual experimentation had been whispered for years, but the bizarre inclusion of the other Denny has never been fully explained.

Vertigo's old drummer Martin Cass offered a story that might explain the origins of the rumor in an interview with Q Magazine in 1994: "There was a manager who made overtures towards Denny Lethargy during a party at a club in 1971. Denny was apparently extremely drunk and, being a homophobe, lashed out at the man physically. From what I gather, this manager thought he was trying to slide his hand up Denny Vertigo's leg! As a bit of revenge for getting his nose broken, this man spread a rumor about the two Dennies. We all thought it was rather amusing!"

One person who did not find the story amusing was Lethargy, who was at the time attempting to make a comeback after several failed albums in a row. Fortunately in the end, the story didn't affect his career. However, the stress of the albums' failures and persistent rumors led Lethargy to turn to cocaine and, soon thereafter, heroin.

YA'LL MENTALISTS

maybe it's too intricate for your young ears?

didn't denny write [controversial nashville lore here]?
m.

But that's beside the point. "Urpunk" or whatever, is not exactly my cup of tea. I don't even like the New York Dolls! (but they're still better than lethargy & vertigo.)

I'd be curios to know what records these guys are on, MSP! I hear a lot of contemporary country when I visit my family, cuz my sister and cousins listen to that stuff a lot. That or chart hip hop.

though they're never really recognized for it, they really could bring the FUNK.

in fact, vertigo and lethargy in late 80's belgian hip-hop were like liquid liquid and kraftwerk to early 80's NYC hip-hop/electro.

I've got Ganglia on vinyl, been meaning to do a transfer of that. Tonight's the night.

but this, man... pretty great stuff, especially for 1974

http://s18.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1TMOXVDFMQJQX3N04NPEKNUNA2

yeah, but part two is so much better, later in the album, when the lyrics come in...

[i]I'm SPENT
(I wish you were gentler)
SPENT
(You can't taste any mintier)
SPENT
(It's awllll an illusion!)
SPENT
(SO MUCH CONFUSION!)[/i]

aw, you're just making that up.

"Seminal krautrock blues riffs from the mysterious master himself, Denny Vertigo! Call us crazy, but we detect some Afropop influence as well! OUTTASITE!"

Still worth picking up though, only $135.

http://www.vertigobliss.com/images/dennyrocksit80sstyle.jpg

d4n s3lz3r was trying to do a proper cd release through acute, but vertigo's unreliability coupled with legal issue over ownership has pretty much stalled the whole thing.

DENNY VERTIGO
Move The Warm Bodies
(Futurismico, 1981)
** 1/2

Apparently inspired by both Gary Numan and Alice Cooper's attempt to become new wave, Vertigo did his best to come to grips with the bleeding edge of 1981 on Move the Warm Bodies. As has become legend, the album itself was never released due to a dispute with the UK art label he had signed with at the time -- owner Tarquin St. Chives refused to do any promotion for the album outside of getting heroin-addicted models to slump over some bulldozers. The eventual rerelease of the album by Vertigo years later shows that despite his claims of thwarted artistic merit, Move was truly only half successful at its task. Starting off with a song called "Urethra Uniroyal" that sought to find the hitherto unknown links between the Stooges and Duran Duran was probably not the best idea, while "I Beat the Machine" and "Your Robot Thigh" were simply laughable, though the break on the latter with orgiastic voices chanting "Grunt the suck" over bleepy arrangements borrowed happily from early Depeche Mode singles is, if nothing else, unique. "Computer Reptile" signalled a better second half, though, and Thomas Dolby's guest work on synth, one of his lesser-known studio session jobs before his own breakthrough, add a necessary something to the otherwise trudging demi-epic "Gonfal, the Barbarian of the Motherboards." Still, this is a curio for only the truly dedicated Vertigo fan, though it has to be said that the liner notes are particularly fine.

S: "The Crimson Curtain" and "Bury The Wand, Burn The Water"
D: that one semi-hit from the early 80s with that horrible PLOOM PLANG Linn drum machine beat

Insound has a copy -- only $120!

orgiastic voices chanting "Grunt the suck" over bleepy arrangements borrowed happily from early Depeche Mode singles is, if nothing else, unique.

Hahaha, too true -- it's obvious that "Dreaming Of Me" didn't leave Vertigo's turntable around the time of those studio sessions.

"forest of fate"? i think that's the one that chuck writes about in stairway to hell.

Recently picked up this old Luciano tune from when he was recording as Shy Guy that samples "Foreign Shocks". It's a monster, from around 97 I think, has that kind of bouncy, elasticy early Klang Elektronik/Playhouse sound, samples the "what is this foreign shock/is our culture about to stop" line but picthed down with a load of delay, it could easily fit into say an Ada or Daniel Bell set.. I'll try and YSI in a bit.