S/D: Thin White Rope?

I covered that one ('It's OK') back in my Seattle days with my stupid band that never played anywhere. That song was v hard on the drummer. Also one of the hardest Kyser vocals to decipher-- I'm impressed by what you just typed!

wow cool, would love to have seen someone/anyone cover thin white rope. band name?

i spent some time a while back trying to write down every thin white rope lyric, w special emphasis on the inscrutable one. kyser seems to write a lot of ghost stories, but it's often hard to be sure.

(ones)

Dave I saw your tiny fist around a leper's tit
Jesus walked right by you and you didn't give a shit
Andy killed an animal, he killed it with his hand
And gave it all to me because I was a woman then

I remember Clay was turning blue from some disease
He picked up in London in the 1470's
Got to laugh at Lloyd, he will deny it to his death
That he's the one who never could extract that pound of flesh

That clip of It's OK up-thread never fails to kill.

somehow it'd never occurred to me before, but having read that interview, i'm listening to "down in the desert", and it's like, beefheart, duh. influence is v obvious, that staggered little bump-banana-bump bass/guitar riff on the verse.

she throws firebombs on the highway
glass flashing and the bushes burrrning
on both sides, so far away at night
in the rearview watching twin red lights

she's not an insect, i just
hear that humming in my mind
not an insect, not her eyes...

"soundtrack" is the best fucking song, so thrilling & mysterious (and creepy as hell)

do sometimes find myself wishing becker were a more more interesting drummer (sorry). that careening midsong transition needs muscle & fire, something more than polite timekeeping.

those first couple of minutes of Red Sun are pretty damn sublime, aren't they just?

"Red Sun" is one of those songs like "Guest Informant" where every version is the best version. One of my all time favorite slide guitar riffs too.

When Guy sings the first line of Red Sun I get goosebumps, the way he bends the word 'down' is fantastic.

OHHH LORD YYE

EEAAAHHH

Impossible to decide what the best bit of Red Sun is. There's a lot to be said for those trumpets you know.

Just found out that TWR were booked on Pan AM Flight 103 but missed the connection, jeez.

hadn't heard that either. blimey!

John Lydon too, according to Wiki

Holly Johnson of Frankie Goes To Hollywood was supposed to be on the flight too

my friend thomas was supposed to be on that flight, and then was. con

...grats to celebrity disaster avoidance tho

This is one of those bands I've always meant to hear (remember Byron Coley writing up In the Spanish Cave for Spin) but have never actively sought out. But now the whole catalog is on Spotify, so hooray! A new band to investigate on vacation!

everyone reps for moonhead, but spanish cave is a miracle, iffy production and all

Every album is great except to some extent The Ruby Sea.

I love The Ruby Sea, not a weak album in their discography imo. Sure it's their slickest, but on songs like Puppet Dog this works so well against the (still) gritty nature/intent of the material.

Well if it isn't about the time of year for this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlVvfIV3eO4

just wish it went on for longer than 30 seconds

this is from the same session though and this is truly great:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtRRxU5vddg

not seen this before:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsrOX35dMGI

Yeah that was not there last time I searched them on YouTube.

Valley of the Bones is such a great song.

Really good '88 audience recording just gone up on D1m3

ooh no shit? I don't have a membership there but maybe it will appear on some other trrnt sites.

It's actually not as great as I thought quality wise, but it's still pretty smart, any live TWR seems to be often more enjoyable than the records.

only ever caught them once live in a festival tent but they were a mighty force of nature if that was anything to go by

Thin White Rope - December 2, 1989 Cattle Club

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwwUWAtfq7Y

Wow, this has to have been one of the earliest threads in my ilm career. Thanks me for reminding me to listen to Thin White Rope tonight.

Brilliant find, thanks NB!

thx x 1000 !

oooh, there are 2 more shows on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8uPMMPSEew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn33_mlrtEU

What does The Ghost remind me of? Can't put my finger on it, thinking of something Neil Young/Springsteen covering Woody Guthrie kinda thing?

it's amazing grace w/ new lyrics

Duh. Ok, thx

a surprise glimpse of twr on the guardian homepage this morning:

http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2015/mar/24/cult-heroes-thin-white-rope-were-scorched-alien-hostile

he sang as though his insides were clogged by some mighty existential furball and he was trying to cough it out song by song.

lol & otfm

as i've said before, any day where there's new writing about twr is a good day!

Last I heard, Kyser had formed some kind of demonic bluegrass band, which is a pleasing thought.

yeah i never heard about this either!

Supposedly as of 2014, Kyser had sold off all of his guitars and has been steadily rejecting reunion offers.

reunion offers from kunkel and the other dudes or...?

i love guy whether he ever plays/writes again or not. would love to get the chance to shake his hand though TBH.

Don't have specifics. Probably the usual suspects: Part Time Punks in LA, Primavera Sound, other band members.

what did ppl itt think of the Mummydogs album? I liked it, would've liked to hear them develop further

I don't wonder if TWR ever got hit up for somebody's Meltdown or ATP once or twice.

just noticed that MOONHEAD is thirty years old this month