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
Wow at that list maresnest posted. Hope someone can hit me up with a wetransfer link when I get back home in a couple of weeks...
― willem, Friday, 9 March 2018 20:55 (six years ago) link
Wow at that list maresnest posted. Hope someone can hit me up with a wetransfer link when I get back home in a couple of weeks.....
― willem, Friday, 9 March 2018 20:57 (six years ago) link
So happy when I found a sealed copy of Sack in Copenhagen a couple of years ago. It was the first TWR record I bought after being mesmerised by a video that I saw on mtv's 120 minutes in 1991.
― willem, Friday, 9 March 2018 21:01 (six years ago) link
― willem, Friday, 9 March 2018 21:04 (six years ago) link
I will grab them all from DAD and throw them up here and perhaps anyone misses the Wetransfer links folks can share them out again.
― MaresNest, Friday, 9 March 2018 21:14 (six years ago) link
Gah *perhaps if anyone misses
As for a revival, quite often, on Dime, you'll get a seam of live tapes from a band simply because some collector has gotten around to archiving files from their cassette/DAT/quarter-inch tape collection.
Then often other folks see it and throw their hat in and you get a bit of a nice thing happening.
― MaresNest, Friday, 9 March 2018 21:18 (six years ago) link
― willem, Friday, 9 March 2018 21:33 (six years ago) link
1985-12-22 - KPFK Los Angeles Spin Radio 1985-12-11 - Berkeley SBD
https://we.tl/qtYulFafcq
― MaresNest, Friday, 9 March 2018 22:00 (six years ago) link
http://mlcompton.blogspot.ae/2009/01/thin-white-rope-under-covers.html?m=1A word about audience recordings. With the permission of the band, I always had a policy of allowing the audience to record any and all of the band's live shows. I actively encouraged live bootlegs. I've always felt that bootlegs were the ultimate tribute to a band. If no one cared, there would be no bootlegs. (Bootlegged studio recordings were another matter though and Frontier and I actively shot several of those down.) If I saw someone taping the show, I always introduced myself, told the person it was okay, and asked for a copy of the recording. This worked out great as we ended up with recordings of "Little Doll" and "Skinhead" that were used on singles. And there were no recording costs! To this day, if I see a listing for a TWR show that I don't have, I ask for a copy. Some of the best TWR recordings are on these tapes. (For example, I love the sound of the "drowning dinosaur" guitars on "Little Doll".)
― willem, Friday, 9 March 2018 22:12 (six years ago) link
thankig u again (xp)
― StanM, Saturday, 10 March 2018 09:09 (six years ago) link
Thin White Rope - Hidden Lands - a 2cd collectionThin White Rope - 1986-04-30 Charlotte NC - aud
https://we.tl/qisyyF1Ox7
― MaresNest, Saturday, 10 March 2018 11:55 (six years ago) link
MaresNest for presidetn!
― StanM, Saturday, 10 March 2018 12:10 (six years ago) link
:)
Thin White Rope - 1988-10-17 SheffieldThin White Rope - 1988-10-10 Dingwalls
https://we.tl/ZE6tQbWdPi
― MaresNest, Saturday, 10 March 2018 12:28 (six years ago) link
Happy day!
― when worlds collide I'll see you again (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 10 March 2018 13:42 (six years ago) link
Here are three I encountered over the years from various places :
1988-10-22 - Backnang, DE, JuZe (SBD) - flac, urschrei collection 0091990-06-05 - Arena, Vienna, Austria (excellent audience, mp3) (from when the links still worked here: http://thenewdisease.blogspot.com/2008/02/love-i-could-have-known.html )1991-09-21 - Ehingen, DE (Ehinger Festival 4) flac - spliced together from two AUD tapes, ok but not great
https://we.tl/ct1I282eoN
― StanM, Saturday, 10 March 2018 14:36 (six years ago) link
did try to see them on that tour but I walked all the way across manchester in the rain only to find the venue shut down for the night and not another soul in sight. still don’t know what went wrong, but in the pre-internet era, that wasn’t the only time shit like that happened to me
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Saturday, 10 March 2018 14:47 (six years ago) link
There's an extensive, if patchy, piece on the manager's blog about TWR tours in the UK (one night was a TWR/MBV double bill!!!!). One was organised by an English guy and there were a number of planned gigs at places that turned out to be not booked by the time they got there - yours was probably one of those...
― willem, Saturday, 10 March 2018 15:26 (six years ago) link
http://mlcompton.blogspot.com/2009/08/thin-white-rope-in-united-kingdom.html
― StanM, Saturday, 10 March 2018 16:24 (six years ago) link
2018 - the year Frontier Records finally reissues Thin White Rope's first five albums! The first two, releasing... https://t.co/6TG3ycJeEL— Frontier Records (@frontierrcds) March 4, 2018
― StanM, Saturday, 10 March 2018 16:40 (six years ago) link
remastered, too
― StanM, Saturday, 10 March 2018 16:41 (six years ago) link
https://frontierrecords-thinwhiterope.bandcamp.com/album/exploring-the-axis-2018-remastered-editionhttps://frontierrecords-thinwhiterope.bandcamp.com/album/moonhead-2018-remastered-edition
― StanM, Saturday, 10 March 2018 16:42 (six years ago) link
FUCCCCCK YESSSSSS
― when worlds collide I'll see you again (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 10 March 2018 16:44 (six years ago) link
sweet!
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 10 March 2018 16:47 (six years ago) link