Royal Trux - Accelerator C/D?

sorry drunk

Would totally read a book on Royal Trux/RTX/Hegarty. Someone should pitch a 33 1/3.

Although I guess there is comic book of some sort?

it's lovably inscrutable. don't look to it for answers

I wasn't even going to look for it hah.

Would totally read a book on Royal Trux/RTX/Hegarty. Someone should pitch a 33 1/3.

This. I can't think of a band I love that I know less about.

A lot of good songs on both Sweet Sixteen and Pound for Pound but both of them followed albums that extraordinary and brilliant.

were

Does anyone else remember when 'Liar' was use to wake up the Big Brother UK house one morning about 6 years ago? It definitely did happen.

y'all seen this? Interviews from 89-01

http://www.royaltrux.wolfzen.com/rtx_ints_needs_formatting.txt

Oh, wow, no. Thanks!

Needs formatting hag

Hah

i remember enjoying the interview from puncture back in the day. it's in that wall of text. there's an account of the virgin years but it's definitely filtered thru a lol 90s indie mag lens

Vertical Stripes, Pilgrim Shoes,
These People Aren't Asleep : Royal Trux Interview
by Gerald Cosloy
Conflict, issue 50
Fall 1989

ctrl-f "Gerald" = 78 matches

Gerald?

Sweet Sixteen is by far my favorite. An underrated record. A case of a records cover art affecting its reception. That and Thank You are the only ones that I think are great all the way through. Plenty of good stuff on all the later records but also tracks I skip.

prefer JJ Got Live RaTx

That is a fucking great record.

Am I the only one here who thinks Howling Hex >>>>> RTX / Black Bananas? Dude's last few have flew under the radar (even for Howling hex records) but have been all kindsa brilliant.

Agree with fit and working about SS and TY being the two best 'albums' as far as albums go, but I'd also submit the s/t third album - that one's underrated, too. Like, if Trux only ever made one album, it would have had to have been that one. It's an album with a very unique personality and a distinct sensibility - it's the early only album that sounds 'stoned' and not, like, totally ravaged on drugs. There's an easiness to it that's more 'private press' than 'indie rock.' I'm not doing it justice. But that album affects me like few others in their discography. Trux are tied with the Dead for my favorite band of all time - I've spent more time with their records than almost any other band's - and that album holds a very special place in my heart. And no one ever talks about it! I blame Twin Infinitives for stealing its thunder.

Am I the only one here who thinks Howling Hex >>>>> RTX / Black Bananas?

banana question!

yeah, i'm totally with you

accelerator is amazing. my favorite of theirs by a mile. the last guitar solo in "stevie" should play over the closing credits of the human race

i feel like there are probably more people who like hagerty's post-royal trux stuff than herrema's but i am not one of them. we could have a poll though.

post-Royal Trux poll: Hagerty vs. Herrema

I think I do prefer the Hex over all of the other post-Trux projects, but I still really enjoy most everything those two have done since they split.

the last guitar solo in "stevie" should play over the closing credits of the human race

― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, October 12, 2012 10:23 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Been on Facebook too much. Went to click the 'like' button for this.

I love a few songs off SS The Pickup one of them from memory, but it really disappointed me at the time. At the time I saw Royal Trux as godlike and maybe just had too much of a preconception of how their albums should sound. Turn Of The Century would have to be my fave Trux song.

Another thing worth mentioning is the brilliant production work Neil + Jennifer did on The Make Up's In Mass Mind album. I fucking love the sound of that album. They really brought out the best of The Make Up.

Would totally read a book on Royal Trux/RTX/Hegarty. Someone should pitch a 33 1/3.

This. I can't think of a band I love that I know less about.

― Old Lunch, Thursday, October 11, 2012 7:10 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fuck yeah. thank you might be the best one to do for this series.

I had no idea they produced In Mass Mind!!

I saw The Make Up and Royal Trux co-headline in c.1999 at a small venue in Bristol. Great show.

their production alter ego was "adam & eve", right?

yeah that was them.

Hagerty also has a writing credit on Caught In The Rapture.

can't imagine Hagerty being at all forthcoming in a biographical/retrospective context (Herrema = eh maybe)

dude is a prankster/dissembler of the highest order. one of the things I love about him

Why would that be bad though? Mythologizing is one of the best things about music bios/retrospectives!

oh I don't think it would be bad at all, it would probably be pretty funny. but I don't think it would be very illuminating in terms of people wanting to know more about the band, in a factual sense.

http://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/175036?wrKey=A8EC2CDEC9B030891CD68A43FF6F1B32

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st vitus is a small metal bar pretty far up in greenpoint more likely to have local noise bands playing.
they do sometimes have fairly big metal shows tho sho who knows. seeeeeeeeeeems weird.
not going to buy a ticket quite yet

the OTHER ticketfly page now includes a facebook plug-in generated comments section including JH saying 'there is no noyal trux show'

from the drag city site:

Neil Hagerty plays Royal Trux's "Twin Infinitives" with 3 additional musicians; Jennifer Herrema not performing.

they're crediting the show to the howling hex.

NMH is the Mike Love of scuzz.

http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/8974-royal-trux/

As far as Accelerator, when listening to the radio in the 80s, everything seemed to have a semi-pop ease. Nothing was very difficult; the music on the radio didn't take me to depths, it just had a pop sensibility. So we would run any given pop song-- whether it be the Archies, Britney Spears, Duran Duran-- through a spectrum analyzer and actually see the peaks and valleys, and what dictated that pop sensibility as far as EQ and dynamics. Then we'd run our stuff through the same spectrum analyzer and clamp down on compressing to make them visual reproductions of particular pop songs.

good interview -- they are so straightforward about their totally bizarre concepts, kind of inspiring.

I dunno, sorta thought that was one of the least illuminating interviews with either of them I've seen.

really? maybe i haven't read enough of them. what's the definitive trux interview?

I've still got my copy of Badaboom Gramophone with the Jim O'Rourke inteview Neil and Jennifer.
It's always been my favorite. Well, it's the only one I've read, I guess.
They each admit that "Goat's Head Soup" is the best Stones album.

Interview OF N and J, that is

There's a great pdf doc floating around that collects a lot of interviews. I generally keep up with these guys, and I read most of what's written about them, so maybe the whole 'we screwed over Virgin' thing is just tedious reading for me at this point. Interview seems...introductory.

From memory, though, the Index interview is really great, and Ben Parrish did a great interview with the 'Hag recently...I'll try to find it...

Full disclosure: I'd probably take Rad Times Xpress IV and Hildreth Tapes over Thank You/Sweet Sixteen/Accelerator (maaaaaybe I'd take Accelerator over Hildreth Tapes)

my band is playing with the howling hex (and the new bums) next month! it is our first show and i am a little scared.

Congratz Tyler! Speaking of The Radio Video EP, this just in from Drag City:

http://d31hzlhk6di2h5.cloudfront.net/20140313/39/bf/4c/96/950f60c50583ab364cae6070_476x271.jpg

REFRESH TECHNOLOGY: "THE RADIO VIDEO EP"
It was a brave old world back in the year 2000; on the Drag City side of the street, the produciton team of Adam and Eve deleriously blended the guilty pleasures of late 90s smooth r n' b with the pushy funk of Royal Trux. An album and an EP removed from the synapse-splitting Accelerator, "The Radio Video EP" knocked our vision of Royal Trux out of focus in five quick tracks, while simultaneously morphing into a new incarnation that we might finally hope to understand in some future days (2014? Naaah...). Dance-poppin' Trux! But a close listen to "The Radio Video EP" will find you following a trail backwards through Royal Trux history, walking along the blared lines, stinky beats, and pure drooling nonsense of rude and shocking compulsions built upon hard rock and roll.

Just months away from their sudden flameout, Royal Trux were still flying high, enjoying their little plot next to the mainstream and the bridge tolls that it provided. To this end, “The Inside Game” was licensed to the major motion picture High Fidelity, for two young skateboarder types to mime at in punkish, sub-Beasties style. Elsewhere, the jam-and-recitation “Victory Chimp, Episode 3” (much more of which was to come a decade down the line) was recorded at an unplugged session in a downtown Chicago Borders Books & Music one autumn afternoon in 1999.

Dig it, this new EP wasn’t a catch-all release revisiting former poses —no, never! In keeping with Royal Trux tradition, “The Radio Video EP” was anew and hitherto untouched quantity — this time, well-machined, club-ready psych-pop, presented for the pleasure of all the people of Earth, with no discriminations. We know that Earth is ready for it again. Are you? "The Radio Video EP" is back on the air, May 20th!
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Radio/Video's great, Drag City copy is not

Three Song ep untouchable also.

the new bones are rolling in!

make em think we're going the wrong way

perfect first 5 seconds to this album. Tells you everything you need to know. No doubt they're ready