Olivia Tremor Control (Update July 2012 -- Bill Doss RIP)

Loved this dude and the band for 10 years now RIP

this band changed music for me and my friends, and to feel so close to such people you dont know personally is incredible. some of my friends even had the pleasure of meeting bill and seeing him perform. gone way too young. rest peacefully.

a little more information:
http://onlineathens.com/breaking-news/2012-07-31/olivia-tremor-controls-bill-doss-dead-43

People will be listening to those OTC records for decades to come. Timeless.
RIP

Henry Owings's eulogy

http://www.chunklet.com/index.cfm?section=blogs&ID=731

ugh what a bummer. RIP.

Jumping Fences, a great George Harrison song

yeah OTC actually did a final secret jam in reds on that last night of the Mangum ATP, and had members of Sun Ra on stage with them doing the same track again - so a lovely way to cap off the event.

very sad news indeed.

love this song he wrote and performed on the last apples in stereo album:

http://youtu.be/4nT4ZZhQWdI

bill was the best, olivia tremor control was the best

RIP

long live 1996

http://ww4.hdnux.com/photos/11/13/42/2406535/7/628x471.jpg

Very, very sad to hear about this

This is awful! Just saw them play in Williamsburg not too long ago. They're one of my favorites.

Memorial details announced:

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Saturday, August 4
2PM-4PM
The Fabulous 40 Watt Club
285 West Washington St.
Athens, GA

In lieu of flowers, the family asks that you make donations to Nuci's Space, a local musician support & resource center.

http://www.nuci.org/

rip :(

dacd is a classic.

via reddit:

[–]KingOfWickerPeople 19 points 1 day ago
I am one of the EMTs who responded to this 911 call. I had never heard of Bill Doss at the time. I almost swallowed my gum when I saw his name on Reddit. I guess I'll have to check out his music now. Sorry for your loss, guys.

[–]deutschschafer 3 points 1 day ago
woah holy shit really? do you know anything about what happened to him to lead to his death?

[–]KingOfWickerPeople 21 points 1 day ago
Because of the ongoing investigation and privacy laws, I can't disclose details. He appeared to have gone peacefully. He died with his guitar in his hands. I thought you guys would appreciate knowing that.

jesus. that's not cool.

find that guy and strip him of his license imo

beginning to wonder if that's just some douche on the internet being a dick now, tbh

Yeah that strikes me as straight trolling.

I think there's a greater chance of that than some EMT all being like, fuck hipaa, these rock fans deserve to know.

unfortunately yeah i have known a lot of professionals who didn't take confidentiality seriously at all

OTOH, reddit

Yeah I was skeptical as well, but who knows.

just ban reddit, imho, its the only safe response

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuyTE8HijgU&feature=player_embedded

Thanks, this was touching.

Okay, The OTC's second album has this song called 'California Demise' on it which has received glowing reports on most of the album's reviews. Trouble is...
...oh, just have a listen to Dukes Of Stratosphear's 'Shiny Cage' and you'll see.

Shameless or completely accidental?

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Sunday, January 7, 2007 11:27 PM (7 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this comparison occurred to me just now when I decided 'A Peculiar Noise Called Train Director' might be better than any Dukes Of Stratosphear song

those 2 songs aren't the same any more so than 'shiny cage' is the same as the beatles 'i'm only sleeping'

so discovering Dusk At Cubist Castle has been one of the biggest musical moments of 2014 for me; for whatever reason I'd never listened to it until a few months ago (probably because I just can't find a way to like Neutral Milk Hotel and kept seeing their name come up in conversations about the OTC for obvious reasons), but it absolutely flattened me from beginning to end (ESPECIALLY the very end - "NYC-25" is just one of the best songs ever). Black Foliage is good too, but it didn't kick my ass nearly as hard; Dusk makes me smile just thinking about it. it's like the precise midpoint between Van Dyke Parks' Song Cycle and Todd Rundgren's A Wizard/A True Star.

my question, obviously, is what should I check out next if I'm looking for something like Dusk? the most satisfying records I've uncovered while chasing this particular dragon so far have been the Soft Bulletin, Funtrick Noisemaker, Screamadelica, Of Montreal's Hissing Fauna and Satanic Panic, Arnold's Hillside (this album is SO good), and the Cleaners from Venus' Living With Victoria Grey, if that's helpful. a bunch of old favorites like Since I Left You and Mellon Collie and ESPECIALLY Beulah's The Coast Is Never Clear took on new resonance in the wake/context of Dusk, too.

The Music Tapes "First Imaginary Symphony for Nomad"

Model portrait heads of Gertrude Stein

i hate to say it - because their name is so stupid - but salvia plath's "the bardo story" scratches this itch for me

Obvious suggestion but the s/t Circulatory System is pretty great—like a bad-trip version of OTC. I can't speak to the quality of their newer material, which I've yet to hear.

legit LOL at "Salvia Plath," that may be the worst band name I've heard since Cerebral Ballzy

Also was going to suggest Dukes of Stratosphear, & maybe some Soft Boys or Robyn Hitchcock solo... not sure how widely you're casting the psychedelic-revival net here.

Xpost Omg how did I miss that pun

salvia plath used to be called run dmt, no joke

I'm casting the net pretty wide - basically anything that just nails Beach Boys revivalism to within, like, seventeen decimal places

well salvia plath sound exactly like OTC to my ears

i guess for different people that's a plus or a minus

I'm actually listening to Pour Pauwels by Guy Skornik for the first time - had some extra store credit at Amoeba a few weeks ago and the reissue had an intriguing employee-picks card so I bought it on faith - as I write this, and it's a pretty great example of the general steez I'm looking for here (and which I think Dusk captures so exquisitely):

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBcT92xlfqc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cambb-euIC4

maybe Screen Prints? not as far out as OTC but they did great big hook filled lofi 60s inspired stuff
http://youtu.be/Me7SsSb1dcw

this is a great one: http://youtu.be/naoG-ZEdVYw

Bring on the sunshine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MO01zKDvHg

strapping fieldhands hit on the same ramshackle psych vibe

http://www.last.fm/music/Strapping+Fieldhands/Gobs+on+the+Midway:+Singles+1991-1995

"looking into the sun" is

perfect

the new circulatory system is really lovely in spots

I've only listened to it once but I agree, there are some really awesome moments. I was a little sad when I loaded the cd into my computer and played it through VLC media player and thought "man, these song titles all look like what you would name the files on your computer the day you wrote the song, how lazy and sad!" then I looked in the cd booklet and saw that every one of the titles that fit this description had been changed to "Mosaic #1", "Mosaic #2", etc. Weird.