S/D: Thin White Rope?

Yeah I was just about to add comment about that stuff cos I don't think I have come across anything that early before.

"Tina and Glen" already demoed in 1986?

I'm happy to go through the rest of it and paste it up here.

Listening to the 1984 ones now. What a windfall

Are there any shows from right after moonhead in good sound?

Hoo boy this demo of down in the desert!!

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

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

Wow that list

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

is there a reason for this sudden revival?

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.'

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 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!

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.

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)

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...

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.....

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.

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.'

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.

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.

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.

1985-12-22 - KPFK Los Angeles Spin Radio
1985-12-11 - Berkeley SBD

https://we.tl/qtYulFafcq

http://mlcompton.blogspot.ae/2009/01/thin-white-rope-under-covers.html?m=1
A 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".)

thankig u again (xp)

Thin White Rope - Hidden Lands - a 2cd collection
Thin White Rope - 1986-04-30 Charlotte NC - aud

https://we.tl/qisyyF1Ox7

MaresNest for presidetn!

:)

Thin White Rope - 1988-10-17 Sheffield
Thin White Rope - 1988-10-10 Dingwalls

https://we.tl/ZE6tQbWdPi

Happy day!

Here are three I encountered over the years from various places :

1988-10-22 - Backnang, DE, JuZe (SBD) - flac, urschrei collection 009
1990-06-05 - 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

Thin White Rope - 1988-10-17 Sheffield
Thin White Rope - 1988-10-10 Dingwalls

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

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...

http://mlcompton.blogspot.com/2009/08/thin-white-rope-in-united-kingdom.html

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

remastered, too

https://frontierrecords-thinwhiterope.bandcamp.com/album/exploring-the-axis-2018-remastered-edition
https://frontierrecords-thinwhiterope.bandcamp.com/album/moonhead-2018-remastered-edition

FUCCCCCK YESSSSSS

sweet!

Bandcamp versions of the third fourth and fifth LPs are currently the original tracklists (and presumably original masterings) - are we to understand that all of them will get remastered? (Sack + Cave + Ruby need it by far the most)

Because for a second I was caught by the Entire Discography bargain bundle but then looked at the other items in the bundle and was like oh wait no

I would expect so, they didn't explicitly announce that the first two would be and they are remastered

yeah, that bundle almost got me too :-)

Fucking exciting

Best American rock band of the 80s if I haven’t said that itt lately

Wow! I remember my cassette having the long version of Take It Home, nice one Frontier!

Thin White Rope 1985-10-02 KPFK L.A (CA) Spin Radio Show
Thin White Rope - 1988-03-31 Vera

https://we.tl/vzVH25PES8

willem/stan - thanks a lot for the heads up on that blog, hadn’t see it before - looks pretty entertaining from the bit I skimmed

Thin White Rope 1990-05-20 Hamburg Markthalle AUD
Thin White Rope 1991-09-06 Odense (DK) Rytmeposten AUD

https://we.tl/vwGDYqiFon

There's another five shows that have gone up over the last couple of days, I grabbed four (one was 'mediocre' in the descrip)

Thin White Rope 1991-02-02 Davis CA Veterans Memorial Theater AUD
Thin White Rope 1986-10-24 San Francisco Viz Club SBD

https://we.tl/IxwxA17sCQ

Yeah I've known ML for many years, and indeed he has tales galore about that any plenty of other bands, but obviously quite a lot about TWR.

And thanks obv to MaresNest for the heads up on all these new tapes. Great stuff!