Do these guys not smoke pot/do any drugs? One of my friends offered them a joint after a show and they declined -- when talking about one of Fred's early guitar players freaking out on acid in the DVD, they quickly say something about "why do you think we're so against dope?" I just always pictured them as the crazy old hard-partying couple.
― Reatards Unite, Saturday, 10 January 2009 06:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Then again, there's that hardcore survivor, trial by fire vibe. Kinda goes hand in hand with AlAnon, recovery program, etc. By the time you're fifty-something, anyway.
P.S. Buy the Rats LP on MssssP.
― Calling All Creeps! (contenderizer), Saturday, 10 January 2009 07:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Is it in print? Where can I get it?
― Reatards Unite, Saturday, 10 January 2009 07:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Record stores! Dunno how many copies, but probly few. Vinyl only. First one only (S/T).
― Calling All Creeps! (contenderizer), Saturday, 10 January 2009 07:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Not exactly in print, but recent so still available is what I mean. Plus SO DAMN GOOD.
― Calling All Creeps! (contenderizer), Saturday, 10 January 2009 07:24 (fifteen years ago) link
so it's impossible to be crazy old hard-partying without doing drugs...
― willem, Saturday, 10 January 2009 11:14 (fifteen years ago) link
IT'S OKAYYEAH IT'S OKAYWE'VE ALL SEEN BETTER DAYSIT'S OKAY (YEAH IT'S OKAY)YOU DON"T HAVE TO RUN AND HIDE AWAYIT'S OKAY(YEAH IT'S OKAY!!!!)WE LOVE YOU ANYWAY!!!!
― ian, Sunday, 20 December 2009 01:41 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtEY8gaUXdQ
― big up yourself and encounter (admrl), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 03:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Being somewhere I don't want to be, alone, no money, no life... yeah, Dead Moon are pretty much the soundtrack to my life these days.
― scary-cat-mascot-costumes-for-kids2.tk (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 05:28 (thirteen years ago) link
SITUATIONS OUT OF HAAAAAAND
― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
how timely, now I can remind everybody that Mississippi just reissued the first 3 LPs.
― sleeve, Thursday, 23 June 2011 18:05 (twelve years ago) link
Fred+Toody FOREVER!
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 23 June 2011 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
are those first three a good place to start ? i've missed the boat with these guys.
― tylerw, Thursday, 23 June 2011 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
hell yes. first is amazing - not least for their cover of "parchment farm" - and the next two are at least as good. best intro possible.
― And the piano, it sounds like a carnivore (contenderizer), Thursday, 23 June 2011 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
― tylerw, Thursday, June 23, 2011 1:47 PM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
the echoes from the past 2CD comp from sub pop is pretty awesome way to start and easy to find, etc
― the beta banned (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 23 June 2011 19:11 (twelve years ago) link
hmm, looks like it's out of print? selling for obscene amounts on amazin, sub pop sez they're out of stock...
― tylerw, Thursday, 23 June 2011 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
amazon, not amazin
Weird, really? It is a great comp.But it's hard to go wrong with anything DEAD MOON.
Not completely sold on Pierced Arrows fwiw.
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 23 June 2011 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
liked that comp, but it was something of an embarrassment of riches. 5 or 6 albums worth of tracks, all of them good, but the length and sequencing make it something of a chore. i prefer their better albums, though the comp is a good pocket guide.
― And the piano, it sounds like a carnivore (contenderizer), Thursday, 23 June 2011 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
yeah jeez i checked discogs too and it's 79 bucks there! wtf that just came out a couple years ago
― the beta banned (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 23 June 2011 19:57 (twelve years ago) link
It was on sale at Sonic Boom in Seattle when I was up their around the time of the Sub Pop 20 thing.It was only ten bucks! This was three summers ago.Silly.
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 23 June 2011 19:58 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, must've been someone's pet project at sub pop, probably didn't press too many of them.
― tylerw, Thursday, 23 June 2011 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
that is fucked! I have that 2CD and it works great for car rides.
― sleeve, Thursday, 23 June 2011 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
I'M PISSED OFF IT'S JUST THE WAY I AAAMMMM
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 23 June 2011 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
what'd be real sweet: a repress of the third rats LP, in a desperate red, which is probably my fave fred/toody joint and not just for obscurity points. it's got a rad postpunky vibe and every single song is so fucking sick.
― pretzel walrus, Thursday, 23 June 2011 20:50 (twelve years ago) link
I like the first Rats and REALLY REALLY like Intermittent Signals, so In A Desperate Red sounds like it'd be a winner.I asked Fred about that when Pierced Arrows played at a High School in town a couple years ago and he either didn't hear me (quite possible from what I understand of his hearing troubles) or just didn't feel like talking about it.
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 23 June 2011 20:52 (twelve years ago) link
this band rules, huh?
― by another name (amateurist), Saturday, 9 July 2011 19:51 (twelve years ago) link
now and forever
― also we’re divorced now and i hate this movie. (contenderizer), Saturday, 9 July 2011 22:36 (twelve years ago) link
anyone see that documentary on the band? worth it?
― by another name (amateurist), Sunday, 10 July 2011 08:03 (twelve years ago) link
it's SO GOOD.there's tons of great live footage, and their story is really pretty inspiring imo.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Sunday, 10 July 2011 20:09 (twelve years ago) link
i loaned my copy to a friend like three years ago and have not gotten it back.
rly wanna see the dead moon doc, a hardcore DM fan said he watched it in tears.
buncha these guys LPs are forthcoming on mississippi btw
― Genre Fiction › Men's Adventure (schlump), Sunday, 10 July 2011 21:50 (twelve years ago) link
dead moon doc is available on the internets, friends.
― by another name (amateurist), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 02:17 (twelve years ago) link
that's good news, since most of them are OOP.
― by another name (amateurist), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 02:18 (twelve years ago) link
I just bought all three of the reissues this afternoon. They sound great, infinitely preferable to the shitty MP3s I had before. Wouldn't have thought remastering would make such a difference, hats off to Mr. Timothy Stollenwerk.
― sleeve, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 00:29 (twelve years ago) link
watching the doc is one of those things that makes me wanna stand up on top of my furniture with my fists in the air like I CAN DO ANYTHING
― arby's, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 01:20 (twelve years ago) link
otm
― bear, bear, bear, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 01:24 (twelve years ago) link
Had no idea those original DM LPs on Tombstone were outta print. They used to be everywhere.
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 01:38 (twelve years ago) link
yeah sometime in the last five years they went from being $5 Northwest used-bin staples to $40 collector's items
― sleeve, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 02:54 (twelve years ago) link
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― 69, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
just your 3-year reminder that dead moon rules
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 25 September 2014 05:09 (nine years ago) link
ty
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 25 September 2014 05:38 (nine years ago) link
Fred's had heart problems but is now recovering after an operation btw
http://www.piercedarrows.com/main.html?id=3http://www.piercedarrows.com/main.html?id=2
― StanM, Thursday, 25 September 2014 05:55 (nine years ago) link
http://www.piercedarrows.com/news/index.html?id=3
― StanM, Thursday, 25 September 2014 05:57 (nine years ago) link
And there's reunion tour news too
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/deadmoonfanclub2000/info
― StanM, Thursday, 25 September 2014 06:01 (nine years ago) link
a few years ago there was a petition seen at like coffee shops and record stores in new orleans that was like BRING PIERCED ARROWS TO NEW ORLEANS, but they had played there pretty recently (in 2009) (and it was awesome). also who was being petitioned? bookers? fred and toody? city hall?
i signed it fwiw, didnt work
― adam, Thursday, 25 September 2014 11:20 (nine years ago) link
wishing you good health, Fred:
http://www.thestranger.com/blogs/slog/2015/09/08/22827007/fred-cole-of-dead-moon-hospitalized-after-collapsing-onstage-at-bumbershoot
― sleeve, Tuesday, 8 September 2015 16:54 (eight years ago) link
aw man
― crime breeze (schlump), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 18:05 (eight years ago) link
Yeah best wishes Fred, I'm glad I got see these guys as many times (three or four) as I did, great band.
― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, 8 September 2015 20:08 (eight years ago) link
Oh no! I've just gotten into Dead Moon this year, and I saw them live in August--they were so wonderful. Really hope he pulls through.
― JRN, Wednesday, 9 September 2015 02:50 (eight years ago) link
oh and everyone in this thread probably knows already, but the 3rd and final Rats LP has been reissued at last
― sleeve, Tuesday, 15 October 2019 14:12 (four years ago) link
"Time has Come Today" cover on Unknown Passage <3 <3 <3
― Captain ACAB (Neil S), Monday, 2 December 2019 13:55 (four years ago) link
^ love this
spending some time listening to the rats LP and assorted dead moon stuff today
― budo jeru, Monday, 20 June 2022 22:42 (one year ago) link
yeah
― the coming of prince kajagoogoo (doo rag), Monday, 20 June 2022 23:53 (one year ago) link
Destination X just got reissued on LP!
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Tuesday, 21 June 2022 00:08 (one year ago) link
the rats in a desperate red is really excellent.i have’t heard destination x in a long time
― sknybrg, Tuesday, 21 June 2022 00:54 (one year ago) link
My gateway, when I was assigned this Columbus OH preview many years ago, still doing homework:
Pierced ArrowsThursday @ The SummitAlong with the other suspects forcibly re-named Lollipop Shoppe, Fred Cole conjured “You Must Be a Witch,” a ‘60s garage classic, and even a hit. Such music biz vindication didn’t impress guitarist Fred or his bassist wife Toody, who orbited indie rock’s Dead Moon for 20 years, before Pierced Arrows. Fred’s voice can pierce any sound system (or lack thereof). Both of the Coles project psychedelic soul over and through their fractured feedback, buzzing surveillance, Kelly Halliburton’s flying saucer cymbals, and the marching sway of melodies, always ready for more.
― dow, Tuesday, 21 June 2022 01:03 (one year ago) link
Saw Toody in a small bar last night (LaurelThirst Public House in Portland). Great show. She played with a trio + backup singer for a few songs.
Feels to reductive to say it felt like seeing Patti Smith in a hole in the wall, but that's what came to mind. Short clip here:
pic.twitter.com/vcX5aW4dwq— Eric Ziegenhagen (@ericzieg) April 10, 2023
― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Monday, 10 April 2023 19:24 (one year ago) link
love the LaurelThirst, Michael Hurley plays there regularly as well
― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Monday, 10 April 2023 20:01 (one year ago) link
^^ Saw Hurley there a few months ago! New-ish to Portland, so it's exciting to see these legends still playing.
― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Wednesday, 12 April 2023 17:25 (one year ago) link
fuck yeah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnAQ__iNlh8
― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Wednesday, 12 April 2023 23:53 (one year ago) link
that trio and backup singer is Jenny Don't And The Spurs, drummer Kelly Halliburton was in Pierced Arrows w/Toody and Fred post-DM
― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Thursday, 13 April 2023 01:38 (one year ago) link
https://deadmoonnight.bandcamp.com/album/going-south
An incredibly intense live document of the band’s legendary 20-date first tour of New Zealand. Recorded before an audience of about 40 people in Invercargill (Keith Richards called it “the arsehole of the world”), this is Dead Moon at their most savage, their best live recording, the way they were meant to be heard!Toody Cole recalled that the band had been invited to open for Nirvana that year, but one of Fred Cole’s ironfast rules was “never cancel a gig you committed to for a better one.” So Dead Moon burned through New Zealand as planned.Recorded live at the Glengarry Tavern, Invercargill New Zealand Saturday September 5th 1992
Toody Cole recalled that the band had been invited to open for Nirvana that year, but one of Fred Cole’s ironfast rules was “never cancel a gig you committed to for a better one.” So Dead Moon burned through New Zealand as planned.
Recorded live at the Glengarry Tavern, Invercargill New Zealand Saturday September 5th 1992
― StanM, Sunday, 26 November 2023 09:01 (six months ago) link