the feelies - classic or dud?

THUMB-WRESTLE YOU FOR IT

we already have this tumblr, i believe that gives us legal rights to the name in perpetuity forever and ever. http://forcesatwork.tumblr.com

dunno if anyone is in the hudson valley, but if so!
Night of the Living Feelies: Yung Wu, East of Venus, Wild Carnations; Saturday, January 19; 8 p.m., $12/advance, $15/door, 18 & over, BSP, 323 Wall Street, Kingston; (845) 481-5158, www.bsplounge.com.

this is pretty great, a write-up of Red Buckets, a Philly band with some Feelies involvement: http://tapewrecks.blogspot.com/2013/01/red-buckets-cover-your-eyes.html
also the subject of a yo la tengo tune.

Dear Feelies,

Please tour. If Burma can do it, so can you.

Thanks,

Josh

ha, yeah, at this point, i'm thinking i'll just have to bite the bullet and fly out to hoboken for one of these shows....

Drop by Philly for the show here. I'll buy you a beer.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/a4195e33d07744b79cbebab4acbd48f0/tumblr_mjwv2mL6XP1rxbnrlo1_1280.jpg

that is awesome, tyler. maybe ira k took that subscription bait?

http://thequietus.com/articles/11644-yo-la-tengo-ira-kaplan-favourite-albums?page=4

haha, i wouldn't be surprised if ira k wrote that subscription bait.
by the way, the best place to find feelies ephemera like this is here: http://zippy49.tumblr.com/

I like how they offer a 'scrip without the album. Why on earth wouldn't anyone pay 50 cents for any album? Even if it sucks, you can sell it! Even if you have it already you can give it to a friend! I guess if you're a misanthrope with no friends and every album known to man... Which describe a lot of music critics actually, so never mind.

The show this evening was phenomenal... No support, two and a half hours (with an intermission) of Feelies goodness.

Set lists (before and after intermission):

http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/39285_10152662928725597_1288218256_n.jpg http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/577117_10152662930110597_822294102_n.jpg

They encored with three tracks that I was too busy dancing to to take note of what they were... I suck.

That comeback album they did was also quite good. If all reunion-after-years-apart projects were as solid as that, the stigma of such projects sucking would be totally gone. Love this song best:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Mj_5U96jw

thanks for posting the set!
yeah the new one is solid. apparently they're working on another lp too.

So I just saw Glenn Mercer band open for Real Estate at a charity show in Real Estate's home town of Ridgewood, NJ. The town is a familiar place where family has lived all my life (mother grew up there). Glenn was great and so was Real Estate. He came back on stage at the end and played a handful of Feelies songs with Real Estate backing. Lots of fun.

All took place at the middle school (moved there due to ominous weather reports)!

sounds fun! real estate are big feelies fans i gather. there was some recording of them doing a feelies cover, but i can't remember where now.

et voila
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8vJd6MeC9U

Yup, that was last night! Vocals were garbled due to the equipment on hand at a middle school auditorium.

Good news!!

Janice Demeski ‏@zippy49 2h
Looks like The Feelies' Only Life and Time for a Witness will be reissued later this year. Finally.

Oh good! I've been asking Glenn Morrow over at Bar/None when they were going to get around to these.
I imagine they'll be doing the reissues this time around as well.

huzzah!

GREAT STUFF. Been jonesing for "Witness" on vinyl.

it's a nightmare, it's all negative. nothing matters and what if it did?

will be interesting to see what kinda bonus stuff they come up with. there are a few b-side covers: "dancing barefoot," "white light/white heat," "egyptian reggae"...
looks like they're doing some east coast gigs this spring.

this sounds fun: http://www.burnsfilmcenter.org/films/film-series/detail/76257#17745

Hi, I saw mentioned a Yung Wu CDR sold at concerts, with three new songs and some covers. Anyone knows where to find a copy or a download link. Buying it at concerts is not an option unless Yung Wu plan to tour Europe

yeah i have not been able to track that down either. and glenn mercer is apparently selling a covers CD at shows too. they should at least set up a bandcamp or something.

Bandcamp ?

http://bandcamp.com - just a place to see digital downloads, stream music etc.

Then again, a Feelies music camp (something akin to the King Crimson week-long event) would be kind of irresistible.

that would be awesome
a weekend would do!

Agreed. I'd be exhausted after a couple of days.

definitely would be a lot of calisthenics. i always think that the drummers must be exhausted after a feelies gig.

no kidding!!

i guess Anton Fier had a rough time of it:
"Fier, for example, was wont to bleed from hands and mouth and occasionally threw up behind the drum kit!"
http://www.thefeeliesweb.com/press/bucketfull.htm
Elsewhere in that article, Bill Million says they had a hard time finding drummers because the songs are "probably very physically demanding but boring to play."

oh man! i didn't know that! that's terrible, i thought he liked to play like that and that's why he did it. it did seem baffling to me though because the songs are indeed extremely boring to play and physically demanding.
and bleeding from hands and mouth is pretty bad.

poor guy
he is from my neck of the woods too! what's he doing these days? i keep wondering if he's touring with bob mould for the workbook thing but not enough to look it up.

i don't know what Fier is up to these days... hopefully drumming! he is a cool drummer. I think Stan Demeski has said he kind of likes playing like a machine, so the Feelies are a good fit.
drummers do get a workout -- whenever i'm playing a show, i look over at the drummer and think he/she is totally running several miles during this performance and i'm just standing here relaxing.

that ork records comp suggested above? happening for real.

http://pitchfork.com/news/58199-numero-group-to-release-ork-records-box-set-featuring-television-alex-chilton-the-feelies-more/

yeah, looks so good... annoyed it's a RSD thing, hopefully not too hard to come by.
i guess the tracklisting they sent out is wrong -- feelies single is fa ce la / forces at work -- big plans would've been slightly more interesting, since that song didn't make it onto crazy rhythms...

Big plans was recorded as the b side for the unreleased Ork single. I have a scan of the artwork even. If that's rally the Ork version of those, that's a big deal and somebody at pitchfork didn't do their homework.

yeah that's what i thought too. don't think it was pfork's fautl though.
the tracklisting in the press release says "fa ce la / big plans," but i had seen a label on numero's instagram with forces at work on it. i asked them about it and they said: "should be fa ce la b/w forces at work. big plans is something else."
post the scan of that artwork, dan -- would love to see it!

probably shouldn't!

:'I

That's too bad. I was going to buy this box set (doubtlessly insanely expensive as a rsd exclusive) just for "Big Plans." I may still get it. I'm already in $100 for the Scharpling and Wurster box set that month.

wtf Numero

new glenn mercer solo covers CDR was for sale at this weekend's feelies shows...
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CPZbLjMXAAAyfnN.jpg

Fun show at Storm King in the Hudson valley yesterday. The Feelies played a short-ish set (1 hr?) that was heavy on the high energy songs that don't usually pop up in the usual Feelies two-set shows until later in the second set. They ended with a blistering version of "...me and my monkey." Such a beautiful place for a show and I finally got my hands on as elusive Feelies coffee mug.

pics of that show looked wonderful. more kids should be at feelies shows.

It was pretty kid heavy, was a great place for them. Plenty of room to run around (or dance crazy.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3cNzghOTp4