TS: Denny Lethargy VS. Denny Vertigo

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At least the disco stuff Lethargy was doing at the time had some cool proto-Moroderisms goin' on.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:04 (twenty years ago)

everything after their first album sucks. their reunion tour sucked too.

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:04 (twenty years ago)

anyone have the lyrics to "honour thy fyre"?

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:05 (twenty years ago)

lyrics?? it's an instrumental!

― and I can walk out into the world, singing with my people (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:06 (twenty years ago)

"jack rabid is a HUGE fan, based on his replies."

i read that issue. i think jack said hi to denny in the bathroom at the peppermint lounge once in 1982.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:06 (twenty years ago)

"said hi"

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:07 (twenty years ago)

I remember about 13 years ago (1992!!!) San Diego zine ROCKMAG had a feature which summed up Denny Lethargy's post-rehab career as "a no-wave Hindu Love Gods", I had to chuckle.

xpost: "Honour Thy Fire" had lyrics in the live boots and demos.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:08 (twenty years ago)

lyrics?? it's an instrumental!

boy, is my face red!

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:08 (twenty years ago)

lyrics?? it's an instrumental!

There was a poem printed in the liner notes, wasn't there?
xpost

― pr00de descending a staircase (pr00de), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:08 (twenty years ago)

DeRogatis is actually a Vertigo fan! I remember him mentioning something about him once.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:09 (twenty years ago)

sort of like A Love Supreme! xpost

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:10 (twenty years ago)

gygax is right ... the lyrics were mostly bad gothic puns which is why they weren't on the album

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:10 (twenty years ago)

for real, read the poem while listening to the music

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:10 (twenty years ago)

"Fyre" is an instrumental, but got mistagged when the Billingsgate CD bootleg screwed up the tracks by turning "One Arm" & "I Hit A Girl" into one track, moving everything else on the album up by one. It is confusing

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:11 (twenty years ago)

guy was a big coltrane fan, he was totally inspired by what he did on love supreme. listen, trust me, it's like some LSD level realization shit

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:11 (twenty years ago)

zappa hated these guys, and went so far as to do a parody of "solar cock," called "cholera sock"... actually quite punny!

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:13 (twenty years ago)

Also: There was supposed to be a chapter about Vertigo in the first Unterberger 'Unsung Heroes' book, but Vertigo apparently kept lying his ass off about having written half of the songs on the first Blondie album and all kinds of shit and Unterberger finally gave up on the dude.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:15 (twenty years ago)

my favorite vertigo album is still invented gyro. my favorite track remains "anagram #2", ha those clever boys.

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:15 (twenty years ago)

ok, i take back what i said about every album after their first sucking.

"vertigoing insane" was pretty fucking sweet.

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:16 (twenty years ago)

To add to the kiss of death: there is rumored to be a Denny Vertigo tribute album organized by John Zorn, Mike Patton and Cex.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:17 (twenty years ago)

what i loved about "anagram #2" is there's this part hovering in the background that's either a high-pitched female voice or a processed cornet sound, i can't tell which. the liner notes are shit and don't help one bit.

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:17 (twenty years ago)

Also one last thing: I seem to remember there a Denny Vertigo/Lethargy subthread in one of the Cover Connection threads. Virile, pestulent ILX search, BAH!!!

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:19 (twenty years ago)

hey i never has posted here but i came acorss this site and i must say lethargy/vertigo is probably the most underrated artist of his time. i belive rhino weas supposed to re-isseu all of the pre-rca recordings? am i right, or did i dream this?

― dennyfan#1, Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:20 (twenty years ago)

i am going to scan the amblin cover
lemme find it
brb

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:21 (twenty years ago)

i have "amblin" on CDR, if you scan it and post it that would be dope, bro, i can then print it

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:22 (twenty years ago)

Working is an incredible challenge
A kind of vertical division
Let it resonate within your sacred space
I'm going to fuck you until your voice goes away

We come from the same place
I can't bear it any longer woman
You're Vertigoing Insane

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:23 (twenty years ago)

The video for that is pretty fucking weird.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:25 (twenty years ago)

never seen the video... do I want to?

is there any song of his that doesn't have a guitar solo going the entire time, all the way through it?

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:26 (twenty years ago)

You seem to be forgetting something - the Vertigo Buddhas

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:27 (twenty years ago)

Just once, I'd like to hear a discussion of Lethargy without someone bringing up Zappa. I know that it's tough for the Frank Fans to restrain themselves, though.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:27 (twenty years ago)

that's why hagerty loves him! you listen to the new Howling Hex album and notice how he's got those guitar lines just snaking through the entirety of each song, and that sound is TOTALLY Denny Vertigo

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:27 (twenty years ago)

i found a small copy of the amblin cover on a geocities site
i'm going to rehost anbd then post it
it's small tho - probably not big enough for a cdr cover

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:28 (twenty years ago)

letharjy isa sexist pig
all men are sext pigs
the radio will not play all the talented and beautiful females
lethsrgi is pop trash, he is not real progressive aritst like marissa marchant

― mmfan#1, Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:29 (twenty years ago)

here

http://www.jefframirez.com/ilx/amblin.gif

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:30 (twenty years ago)

didn't yo la tengo cover a lethargy song during an fmu pledge drive?

Yeah, they covered "Lunar Doom Vehicle" on the 2002 all-request show. I also have a recording of it from the 1998 Hannukah show (the second concert). I can ysi the track if you're interested.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:33 (twenty years ago)

I procured the "L Is For Lethargy" b/w "My Pal Foot Foot" off of eBay last summer for the reasonably fair price of $28 (NZ).

― H. Cyrus Feeney, Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:34 (twenty years ago)

Julian Cope says this about Amblin': "A Druidic journey where you take a toke right before the first track and screeching metalloid insects immediate-fucking-ly start buzzing left and right past your dilated pupils ... oh, and it only gets more intense from there, babies!"

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:36 (twenty years ago)

TS: Chinese Democracy vs. Dennyana: The Pure Land

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:36 (twenty years ago)

if YTL had any balls they'd release a covers EP of that, just like they did with "Nuclear War"

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:36 (twenty years ago)

fwiw, i think vertigo has better covers

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:37 (twenty years ago)

That's the "clean" cover of Amblin'. The other one was a bit more erotically sensitive for Buddha.

(And I really wish that I had a version of that to post. Only time I've seen one of those copies was when I was working for KCOU back in the early nineties.)

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:37 (twenty years ago)

Denny Lethargy over vertigo any day. their string of unimpeachable album covers from 77-81 destroys vertigo's "penelope's rising" any day (and "pr" is one of my fav. songs to end mixtapes with!)

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:37 (twenty years ago)

am i wrong in saying denny vertigo is to denny lethargy as hawkwind is to motorhead?

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:38 (twenty years ago)

http://www.trackteamaudio.com/users/krud/denny.jpg

SCORED THIS OFF TERRI T AT THE FMU RECORD FAIR IN 98, $$$$....SICK BROS!!!

― ddb (ddb), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:42 (twenty years ago)

UNICORN O' PLENTY!

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:43 (twenty years ago)

just found a recent pic of denny, he isn't looking too good:

http://www.pistolandenema.com/angie-baby/images/110603-6.jpg

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:44 (twenty years ago)

god please tell me that's denny lethargy

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:45 (twenty years ago)

am i wrong in saying denny vertigo is to denny lethargy as hawkwind is to motorhead?

Vertigo:Lethargy :: The Darkside:Spacemen3

xpost whoa, that pic is some scary stuff

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:46 (twenty years ago)

WHATS IS UP WITH THE REST F THE BUDDAH'S.....I MEAN RIP JON MASTERSON AND ALL....BUT WHAT ABOUT THE REST OF THE GUYS?

RFI?!?!?!?

― ddb (ddb), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:47 (twenty years ago)

yah I'd love a Buddah's RFI, those records came and left the shops fast...

the lyrics only really make sense with the music... the straighter the band would play the blues, the further out Vertigo got...

Channels can be named
Voyages are to be destroyed
Creation bears down on all the peoples
And I'm... overjoyed

I'm not trying to take you over
I rise in a powerful mood
Your gaze lands on things that don't even exist, girl
And you're... nude

Your voice traces beams through space
And receives dark lines from squid
I like to sing in church
[wordless soprano solo]

Accept that music resides in serenity
Accept that music resides in serenity

― milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 25 August 2005 00:00 (twenty years ago)

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