Roy Montgomery: Classic or Dud etc etc

Maybe it just comes to mind because he's covered them, but Ill at Home sounds like it could be a 154 era Wire song. The Graham Lewis stuff.

wow, that's an interesting observation! I gotta re-listen with that in mind.

ooh, you are totally right, like a mutual friend or the rhythm from single K.O.!

jeez 154 is so good

so did anyone else pick up this compilation of rare tracks on the label run by grouper's liz harris?

this one: http://www.discogs.com/Roy-Montgomery-324-E-13th-Street-7/release/5617716

it's a reissue of a 1999 compilation I've never actually seen, in pretty fancy packaging with a poster and stuff.

also should i get the hey badfinger thing? the record store down the street has it for $9.

that comp is essential. crucial. Something Else Again is one of my favorite singles ever, and the Shallows is necessary.

Yeah that comp is above/beyond. Have it on the original run. (RIP Drunken Fish.)

sold

three bonus tracks not on the CD edition as well... interesting! just snagged a copy, thanks for the news!

Is it his usual guitar stuff or are there other instruments??

My drum part for Ill at Home is coming along and now I can't really think of the song without the drum part, which makes me wonder why I keep trying to ruin perfectly good Roy Montgomery songs?!

I think one song has a tambourine? but yeah, pretty much all guitar + vocals.

jeez, amateurist, I am envious of you getting to hear this compilation for the first time. my favorite is some other time.

got one from Little Axe distro in PDX for $24

I have the E.N.D. single on Drunken Fish but have never heard the rest of this stuff afaik

Ooh, I forgot how gorgeous Times Three is.

4 Album box set of new material out next month
http://grapefruitrecordclub.com/products/montgomery-roy-r-m-h-q-headquarters-4lp-box-pre-order

Oh man, that looks fantastic, I posted last week about Spotify leading me on by posting new Roy Montgomery: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/MC_rBBAiC2Y/maxresdefault.jpg

gotta hear about him sometime

I posted that Roy Montgomery link to the proper Roy Montgomery's facebook wall to much hilarity.

but seriously, I ordered the box set, and... that is a lot of roy montgomery all at once!

No complaints, of course.

Anyone have "Live At The Gladstone Hotel"? There's a hidden track or two tacked on to the end of "Hurricane Fighter Plane", anyone know what they are?

It's out: https://badabingrecords.bandcamp.com/album/r-m-h-q-headquarters

just in time for autumn cold front!

It's quite lovely

If I had to pick one song:

https://badabingrecords.bandcamp.com/track/hungover-heroes

It's called that for a reason.

just bought the digital but it doesn't have the tracks broken up into the 4 "distinct" LPs. Is the individual tracklisting anywhere?

R: Tropic of Anodyne
1. Tropic of Anodyne
2. Dear Future Loser
3. You Always Get What You Deserve
4. I Was A Distant Star
5. Seven Faded Dreams
6. If And Only If
7. Hanging Melody
8. As The Sun Sets

M: Darkmotif Dancehall
1. Rough Take-Off
2. 10538 Overdrive
3. Little Big Star
4. Dazed Pig Dreamhome Slide
5. At The Gogol Au Go Go (for Natstya Terekhova)
6. Six Guitar Salute To Peter Gutteridge
7. Making Love In A Blast Furnace
8. Slow Heroes
9. Rough Landing

H: Bender
1. Ten Beers With Five Beers At Two Guns, Arizona
2. I.O.U. Otto
3. Pipeline
4. And Later We Looked Up At The Stars
5. A Guitar Called Boomslang
6. Another David Lynch Thanks, No Ice
7. Chasing Monica Vitti
8. Cocktails With Can

Q: Transient Global Amnesia
1. Otherness
2. Riding
3. Last Alarm (for Brad Fletcher)
4. Unshore
5. Weathering Mortality (feat. Emma Johnston)

thanks

wanted to do the same thing with the digital tracks myself :)

weird. on digital files, song is called "Five Bears at Two Guns Arizona"

Guessing it should be "Ten Beers with Five Bears at Two Guns, Arizona"

Thanks for that. Arranged the digital tracks similarly.

some of this stuff is really trippy, closer to like william tyler and dustin wong or kaki king than the blues stuff i'd imagined

hahahahaha fuck me i was getting this dude mixed up with roy buchanan, never mind

i was like damn roy done changed his style up in the 80s

"down from that hill and up from the pond" and "ill at home" remain my 2 favorite roy montgomery songs, "winding it out in the high country" and that whole album too
can someone give me a little description of what's in this box set?

you guys this box set is so so good

LL, you have probably investigated by now but it's four albums of new material, one with vocals three instrumental. so far I like Bender the most, but it's going to take a while. as a whole it falls more on the scenes from the south island side than the temple IV side, but darkmotif dancehall has some of the heaviness of now the rain sounds...

Love his instrumentals but can't take his voice

I haven't investigated -- I have been really busy! Thank you -- that's exactly what I wanted to know :) Three instrumental is a good sign!
Not a huge fan of his voice either unless he is whispering creepily. It's alright.

I love his voice because I can sing along to it, unlike 99% of the vocalists I love

Ha! I know the feeling.

Love his voice and always happy to hear it.

Bought the new issue of the Wire for the Roy article, probably first time buying an issue since the mid 90s!

No offense to the Wire, I just don't buy magazines much.

As the Sun Sets from Tropic of Anodyne is my theme song for 2017.

aaaaaaand new album:

https://grapefruitrecordclub.com/products/montgomery-roy-suffuse-lp-with-bonus-second-lp-option-pre-order

Called "Suffuse" and it's got tracks he wrote for a handful of guest vocalists, most of whom seem to have taken him up on the offer!

1) Apparition (with Haley Fohr)
2) Rainbird (with She Keeps Bees)
3) Outsider Love Ballad No 1 (with Katie Von Schleicher)
4) Mirage (with Purple Pilgrims)
5) Sigma Octantis (with Julianna Barwick)
6) Landfall (with Liz Harris)

There's a bonus LP available with the vinyl edition which seems to have instantly sold out.

the bonus lp version cost like $52 fuck that shit

it's made from melted down copies of rarer, more expensive records

Haley Fohr!