the feelies - classic or dud?

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!

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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

Ha, thanks for that! I'm in that one, drinking beer, right near Ms. Sauter.

ha, awesome. love the kid on her dad's shoulders rocking out.

Oh hey, I was there too! Great show! Sun was brutal, breeze was great. I was hanging out on the hill.

Already got the poster framed and hanging in the kitchen.

Damn you're fast. Do you have a 24 hour framer near your house? Or something? That's a really nice poster

It was just luck actually. We changed out the poster that was already there and the frame happened to be a perfect fit.

But overall Storm King is great. It's a perfect joining of cold, lifeless abstract sculptures with a beautiful nature setting. Plus Beacon NY is close by, which is a fun place to get a drink or bite to eat... or see more cold lifeless art! (which I am not against by the way)

That gig looks fantastic. Evan or kwhitehead, did you get the covers cdr?

I totally missed last summer's news about Mercer releasing an instrumental album on October 9: http://www.bar-none.com/glenn-mercer/
There's mention of rereleases of Only Life and Time for a Witness on Bar/None later this year as well.

yeah the mercer instrumental disc is pretty nice!
apparently no set date for those reissues though -- might be next year, I think.

of course you've heard it already ;-)

No rush with the reissues... What I'd really like is a Feelies live album

ha, the instrumental disc (or at least versions of it) has been floating around for a few years now -- a CDR was sold at feelies shows a la this new covers disc. but it deserves an actual release.

Evan or kwhitehead, did you get the covers cdr?

I did not. Merch table was cash only (I mis-judged the amount of stuff that they would have available. I should have brought more $) and I had to make some difficult decisions. Plus, had to buy lunch for the kids.

wfmu played a track from the new CDR a couple nights ago: http://wfmu.org/playlists/JJ/150922

Yeah I didn't see it. Got the poster and wasn't too observant about what else they had to offer!

Listening to Incidental Hum for the first time right now.

Ahh man, it's like an instrumental Feelies album. That's awesome. The covers at the end, too! All three of 'em are right on.

Now I'm stuck with a quandry of what to do: the album was released in limited quantities three years ago, but this new release is like, well, a new release to me. Do I count it as a 2015 release?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-3_lFaagh4
The Feelies live in the Netherlands in 1989, full show. Haven't seen the whole thing, but "For Awhile" (@17 mins) is awesome...