TS: Denny Lethargy VS. Denny Vertigo

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What hippy loser wasn't in Huautla de Jimenez trying to score some magic mushrooms after having read about it in Life when they were a freaking teenage loser? Vertigo was just one more lame, drug addled attendant at this spiritual buffet, standing in line right behind John Lennon, Bob Dylan and hundreds of other "celebrities" who wanted to go on their own "Great Adventure" and then bore everybody else with it.

don't forget vertigo's brief stint at the navajo sweat lodge. word has it jim seals and dash crofts were there that week too. they went down there to clean up and by the second day it was a veritable smorgasbord of coke, pot, shrooms, peyote, mescaline, and ludes.

― and I can walk out into the world, singing with my people (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 25 August 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)

Is there any truth to the story that Vertigo was an informant for the FBI like Timothy Leary?

― Jack Cole (jackcole), Thursday, 25 August 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)

i thought he was working for the CIA like chuck barris.

― and I can walk out into the world, singing with my people (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 25 August 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

I always imagined Vertigo as more of a snitch than a stealthy assassin.

― Jack Cole (jackcole), Thursday, 25 August 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

exactly

― and I can walk out into the world, singing with my people (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 25 August 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 25 August 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

Hahahahahahahahahaha.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 25 August 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

BEST THREAD EVER

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 25 August 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

Hahaha, fuckin right.

― F (Ferg), Thursday, 25 August 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

And Ladies and Gents, that's a wrap!

― My life with Baaderonixx and the Choco-pops babies (Fabfunk), Thursday, 25 August 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago)

i told you guys the backlash was coming.

― petesmith (plsmith), Thursday, 25 August 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

Poor gear!

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 25 August 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, and with Narnack releasing the Lethargy tribute next month, and Vice putting out the Vertigo one in October, that's just gonna add fuel to the fire. Anybody got a tracklist on either of these?

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Thursday, 25 August 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

playing optimo apparently

anyone know anything about this?

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 25 August 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

haaaa

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

is Denny Vertigo's solo LP Astral Milk-Fed Ganglia any good? i've heard so many people swear by that album, like it's a touchstone for proto-ambient psych-ish stuff.

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.

You got that wrong. I was only interested in the stuff from the disco/new wave years, but Futurismico sold the rights to Cherry Red, who had great success using "I Beat the Machine" on one of their jock-jam UK football compilations. Apparently is was big with Arsenal? Maybe another team, I don't remember. But now they're asking too much to license it.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

Both of these bands are so crazy, you couldn't make this shit up.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

oh yeah, not sure which team but apparent it was easily changed as "I Beat Manchester".

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, you're right, I dimly remember some promo video hash from 1994 when they dug Vertigo up for a rerecording of that...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

Futurismico sold the rights to Cherry Red, who had great success using "I Beat the Machine" on one of their jock-jam UK football compilations. Apparently is was big with Arsenal? Maybe another team, I don't remember.

Leeds United. Kevin Blackwell's a big fan apparently.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:39 (twenty years ago)

That YSI is such a fake. And I've kinda got to go with Ian here. Not bad just not worth the absurd import prices. Yeah, the Dennys can play but that sustains you for an album or two not a career (especially one that dovetailed into 80s new wave junk). There was no group dynamic and the tunes were half-thought-out most of the time (though, yes, "Solar Cock" is undeniable). You'd be better off picking up some early ZZ Top records out of the dollar bins people!

― Sundar (sundar), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:21 (twenty years ago)

ZZ Top is cool, Sundar, but... open your fucking eyes, that dragon is totally playing the fuck out that guitar, dude

― milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

out _of_ that guitar

sorry, I just get excited sometimes

& I did that vinyl transfer myself, buddy. should have left the clicks in.

Alex in NYC can pull the brakes but he can't stop the train

― milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

"That YSI is such a fake."

i don't know about that, it's a rare record and there was a big problem for a long time with fake bootlegs of Astral Milk-Fed Ganglia popping up (not quite as much as in the early 90's though). but from what i've read about the LP that YSI file it matches the descriptions completely. though prolly some in Vertigo's camp don't ever want it reissued!

"Not bad just not worth the absurd import prices."

Like I told Ian upthread, you have to hear "Narwhal Curiosity" from the Sledding Daze LP!

― latebloomer's rectal mocha latte (latebloomer), Friday, 26 August 2005 00:28 (twenty years ago)

Like I told Ian upthread, you have to hear "Narwhal Curiosity" from the Sledding Daze LP!
Though it's not nearly as good as the original, this interpretation from 1988's Double Live Sledding is, um, interesting:
http://s5.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2SWXSFPP2DNUV122C9W9CSBFYW
and those of us who were at some of the shows on that tour know why! ;)

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Monday, 29 August 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

I was at Atomic Records today and they had a fucking 7" of Denny Lethargy's "Funkgasm", with this gray/marble colored sleeve and red vinyl. It was $12 and the fucking thing was scratched to hell. Guy behind the counter sniffed, "Someone will buy it, they always snatch up that Lethargy stuff quick."

I almost bought it for the artwork alone, but still...

― gear (gear), Friday, 7 October 2005 06:37 (twenty years ago)

Was that Enough album mentioned upthread ever reissued on CD?

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 7 October 2005 06:46 (twenty years ago)

I don't know, but I love the cover, it reminds me of Black Mountain or something.

― gear (gear), Friday, 7 October 2005 06:50 (twenty years ago)

OH KAY GUYZ I GET IT

― ALEC IN NEW YORK, Friday, 7 October 2005 09:24 (twenty years ago)

Don't do that, please.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 7 October 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

Where can I find Denny Lethargy cds?

Cheers,

Chris

― Chris T. (ex machina), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

So close.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

ask alex in nyc

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

jon forgot to log out, roffles.

― Special Agent Dale Koopa (orion), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:43 (twenty years ago)

I loved him on Taxi.

― Kristos Tassos (Ken L), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:52 (twenty years ago)

Ian, googlers can't tell.

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)

Googlers also don't know who you are, so you could just post under your regular name.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 22:00 (twenty years ago)

Fictional Googlers don't realize they're fictional?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 22:00 (twenty years ago)

googlers also probably wouldn't google for musicians that they've never heard of.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 22:03 (twenty years ago)

xpost!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 22:03 (twenty years ago)

Would the Googler be inspired by the Chris T post to then try and seek out the CDs himself? Was there to be a followup post (mis)directing him to the a place where they could be found?

― Konstanz Lake (Ken L), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 22:08 (twenty years ago)

this could be helpful to everyone, who was interested in finding from more over the seminal work in the catalog of lethargy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Sharrock

― avant fan, Wednesday, 7 December 2005 22:08 (twenty years ago)

Looks like an xpost!

― Kovacs Laszlo (Ken L), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 22:10 (twenty years ago)

that wiki link is terrible. i feel like never trusting them again

― jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 8 December 2005 02:18 (twenty years ago)

That's going to totally fuck up some kid's Sonny Sharrock book report.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 8 December 2005 02:27 (twenty years ago)

you should check the one on varg vikernes!

― latebloomer: The Corridor (Yes, The Corridor) (latebloomer), Thursday, 8 December 2005 02:34 (twenty years ago)

I searched Google and found Chris T.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 8 December 2005 04:24 (twenty years ago)

seven months pass...

What the...HELL? (NSFW!)

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 29 July 2006 07:44 (nineteen years ago)

whoa

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Saturday, 29 July 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha

― j blount (papa la bas), Saturday, 29 July 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

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