oooh, there are 2 more shows on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8uPMMPSEew
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn33_mlrtEU
― StanM, Sunday, 8 February 2015 17:20 (nine years ago) link
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?
― StanM, Sunday, 8 February 2015 22:50 (nine years ago) link
it's amazing grace w/ new lyrics
― contenderizer, Sunday, 8 February 2015 23:00 (nine years ago) link
Duh. Ok, thx
― StanM, Sunday, 8 February 2015 23:05 (nine years ago) link
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
― cgi bubka (NickB), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 10:03 (nine years ago) link
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
― cgi bubka (NickB), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 10:05 (nine years ago) link
as i've said before, any day where there's new writing about twr is a good day!
― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 14:02 (nine years ago) link
Last I heard, Kyser had formed some kind of demonic bluegrass band, which is a pleasing thought.
― willem, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 14:15 (nine years ago) link
yeah i never heard about this either!
― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 14:16 (nine years ago) link
Supposedly as of 2014, Kyser had sold off all of his guitars and has been steadily rejecting reunion offers.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 16:35 (nine years ago) link
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.
― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 16:41 (nine years ago) link
Don't have specifics. Probably the usual suspects: Part Time Punks in LA, Primavera Sound, other band members.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 16:53 (nine years ago) link
what did ppl itt think of the Mummydogs album? I liked it, would've liked to hear them develop further
― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 17:47 (nine years ago) link
I don't wonder if TWR ever got hit up for somebody's Meltdown or ATP once or twice.
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 20:02 (nine years ago) link
just noticed that MOONHEAD is thirty years old this month
― Benylin Ascent (NickB), Thursday, 9 February 2017 14:10 (seven years ago) link
Turned into a TWR sorta day. Found myself pondering the similarities between Black Hole Sun and the Triangle Song - not just the sonic similarities which are fairly strong imo, but the whole shared theme of astronomical bodies as some sort of solution to existential pain.
― Benylin Ascent (NickB), Thursday, 9 February 2017 19:01 (seven years ago) link
Thanks for the revive, that live clip of "It's OK" upthread just kills so much, it will always be to my lasting regret that I never got to see them.
― MaresNest, Thursday, 9 February 2017 20:04 (seven years ago) link
yes that clip is a total monster
attempt at a twr pox:it's okred sunmoonheadcrawl piss freezedown in the desertif those tearswet heartsome velvet morningfish songtriangle song
― Benylin Ascent (NickB), Thursday, 9 February 2017 21:27 (seven years ago) link
did this show ever get posted?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa8c2Ow988k
Groningen, 1990
― Benylin Ascent (NickB), Thursday, 9 February 2017 21:32 (seven years ago) link
One of those bands I've always meant to check out but never actually got around to... Listening to Moonhead and loving the spiralling guitars. Trying to work out if the drummer is that type who plays heavy and behind the beat or if he's actually slowing down?
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Thursday, 9 February 2017 21:44 (seven years ago) link
i don't know really tbh. big thwacking drums are a big part of their sound though, also a feeling of being inexorably sucked into a bog
― Benylin Ascent (NickB), Thursday, 9 February 2017 22:01 (seven years ago) link
The Ruby Sea was my first TWR love. I know most people don't rate it so high, but... Such a great band. They deserve a massive boxset
― Duke, Thursday, 9 February 2017 23:31 (seven years ago) link
THere are a lot of audio live sets around which show that at their best they were about as hypnotic as Television. LOve the band.& some of the most oblique lyrics ever. Seeing them written down finally made sense of things I'd meticulusly gone over cassette tapes trying to transcribe back at the end of the 80s.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 9 February 2017 23:38 (seven years ago) link
Yeah I remember looking up the lyrics to Come Around and being kinda repulsed and fascinated.
― MaresNest, Friday, 10 February 2017 11:47 (seven years ago) link
They had so much goddamn magic
― his eye is on despair-o (Jon not Jon), Friday, 10 February 2017 12:29 (seven years ago) link
Blasting The One That Got Away tonight. Bless 'em.Think the link for this one was posted a long time ago and no longer working, let me put here for yahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VzUzKV_h-Y
― willem, Friday, 2 March 2018 22:49 (six years ago) link
THere have been a load of live sets upped to Dime over the last couple of weeks i think including a few i hadn't seen before.
― Stevolende, Friday, 2 March 2018 23:14 (six years ago) link
what a beast of a band
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Friday, 2 March 2018 23:24 (six years ago) link
Xpost argh these words taunt me
― Lockhorn. Lockhorn breed-uh (Jon not Jon), Friday, 2 March 2018 23:27 (six years ago) link
On D!m@dozen now! Has anybody heard these?
Thin White Rope 1986-03-xx The Frontier Demos recorded @ an unidentified studio
SBD >> ? >> unknown generation Maxell UR cassette >> Cool Edit 2000 (normalised both channels to 0 db and cleaned up the silences between songs) >> CD Wave >> Flac level 6 >> you
TT 46:20
1. Wire animals 4:05 2. Ants are cavemen 4:07 3. Come around 2:30 4. Take it home 4:48 5. Waking up 3:27 6. Not your fault 3:52 7. If those tears 3:18 8. Tina & Glen 2:59 9. Valley of the bones 2:39 10. Timing 3:56 11. Moonhead 5:30 (12.) Munich Eunich * Removed 13. Mother 5:07
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Thin White Rope 1984-05-26 Samurai Sound Labs CA The Rational demos
(9th in series)
info source: Lineage: SBD tape (unknown gen) > Apple G4 > AIFF > FLAC
The cassette states that these were recorded at Samurai Sound Labs CA on 1984-05-26.
Anyway this set is ripped from a tape of demos given to Frontier Records and the copy I have is a low generation copy although there is some tape hiss it's still an excellent set.
Total 1:01:10
1. The real west 2. Waking up 3. Moonhead 4. From home 5. Down in the desert 6. Munich Eunich * 7. Here she comes now ** Removed 8. And those fears 9. Not your fault 10. Disney girl 11. Three song 12. Atomic imagery 13. Dead granmas on a train 14. Eleven 15. Mother 16. Exploring the axis 17. Lithium
― MaresNest, Thursday, 8 March 2018 20:25 (six years ago) link
How do us mere mortals who don't have access to exclusive stuff to upload get our hands on that kind of thing?
― StanM, Thursday, 8 March 2018 20:40 (six years ago) link
Pleaaaasssse ysi
― Lockhorn. Lockhorn breed-uh (Jon not Jon), Friday, 9 March 2018 00:26 (six years ago) link
Here 'tis. - https://we.tl/fOhnN10LMg
There's a mess of other stuff gone up over the last week too, live gigs and some more demos.
― MaresNest, Friday, 9 March 2018 01:17 (six years ago) link
Hah, just noticed Steveolende's post upthread
― MaresNest, Friday, 9 March 2018 01:18 (six years ago) link
wooooo! thanks!
― StanM, Friday, 9 March 2018 04:38 (six years ago) link
Yeah I was just about to add comment about that stuff cos I don't think I have come across anything that early before.
― Stevolende, Friday, 9 March 2018 08:08 (six years ago) link
"Tina and Glen" already demoed in 1986?
― willem, Friday, 9 March 2018 09:54 (six years ago) link
I'm happy to go through the rest of it and paste it up here.
― MaresNest, Friday, 9 March 2018 10:34 (six years ago) link
Listening to the 1984 ones now. What a windfall
― Lockhorn. Lockhorn breed-uh (Jon not Jon), Friday, 9 March 2018 13:50 (six years ago) link
Are there any shows from right after moonhead in good sound?
Hoo boy this demo of down in the desert!!
― Lockhorn. Lockhorn breed-uh (Jon not Jon), Friday, 9 March 2018 14:05 (six years ago) link
THIN WHITE ROPE 1985-12-11 Berkeley (CA) USA -Berkeley Square - [SBD-recording] check for nice sound ->mp3 sample
THIN WHITE ROPE - 1985-12-22 - KPFK Spin Radio Los Angeles - FM (Remaster) - From the valley of Lost Angels! -
THIN WHITE ROPE - Limit Club, Sheffield, UK, October 17, 1988 * Requested re-seed * w sample
THIN WHITE ROPE - Dingwalls, London, October 10, 1988 * Requested re-seed * w sample
THIN WHITE ROPE - Vera, Groningen, Netherlands, March 31, 1988, Sbd * Requested re-seed * w sample
THIN WHITE ROPE 1984-1994 -"Hidden Lands" (an unreleased collection of Live Recordings.. Demos and Outtakes) - check mp3 sample
THIN WHITE ROPE 1985-10-02 KPFK, 90.7 FM, Los Angeles, CA (USA) "Spin Radio" check mp3 sample
THIN WHITE ROPE 1991-09-06 Odense (Danmark) Rytmeposten {very nice AUD} check mp3 sample
THIN WHITE ROPE 1991-02-02 Davis (CA) USA - Veterans Memorial Theatre - [AUD-rec] - check mp3 sample
THIN WHITE ROPE 1990-05-20 Hamburg (Germany) Markthalle - AUD master - check mp3 sample
THIN WHITE ROPE 1986-10-24 San Francisco - CA (USA) Viz Club [SBD - recording] RESEED check mp3 sample
THIN WHITE ROPE 1989-07-03 Camden Town, London UK -The Falcon- (AUD) (reseed) check mp3 sample
― MaresNest, Friday, 9 March 2018 14:20 (six years ago) link
Which was soon forgotten in the wake of the jaw dropping Munich eunuch that follows (xpost to self)I want to talk about twr for a second. The recipe that made them so amazing. For one thing, these guys really knew how to drag the tempo to make shit heavy as living fuck. It’s that which distinguishes an inexorable tank from a limbered-up 80 foot sauropod
― Lockhorn. Lockhorn breed-uh (Jon not Jon), Friday, 9 March 2018 14:24 (six years ago) link
Wow that list
― Lockhorn. Lockhorn breed-uh (Jon not Jon), Friday, 9 March 2018 14:29 (six years ago) link
kind of depressing that even in 1989 at the height ov their powers they were playing grimy shitholes like the camden falcon. would have loved to have been there though
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Friday, 9 March 2018 15:30 (six years ago) link
is there a reason for this sudden revival?
― StanM, Friday, 9 March 2018 16:56 (six years ago) link
Yeah is there? it'd be amazing if there were a reason! Even a reason as modest as 'Guy told a dude it was fine to share a bunch of live tapes.'
― Lockhorn. Lockhorn breed-uh (Jon not Jon), Friday, 9 March 2018 16:59 (six years ago) link
I was there, it was a packed back room of a pub in the middle of a heatwave, the poor drummer passed out after a while as I recall it. Probably the hottest gig I ever went to. They got shitloads of press in the UK but never got past cult status. Too odd I guess!
― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Friday, 9 March 2018 19:19 (six years ago) link
moonhead and something else are getting a reissue (on colored vinyl) soon. glad to see this band getting interest again. would be nice for keyser to rise from whatever swamp he now inhabits and play some shows again.
― akm, Friday, 9 March 2018 20:11 (six years ago) link
he's just doing botany for UC Davis iirc (NB this may be occurring in a swamp)
is Sack the other one besides moonhead getting reissued? I could use a remaster of Sack. It's a weird kinda weak sounding album (well I guess they all are except Moonhead. But Sack is musically maybe their best one and I wish it had more roundness and oomph)
― when worlds collide I'll see you again (Jon not Jon), Friday, 9 March 2018 20:46 (six years ago) link