S/D: Thin White Rope?

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!

there's a phrasing in that frontier records blast that is tantalizing me

'thin white rope's first five albums'

does that just mean 'the live album is the sixth album and we aren't reissuing that one?'

cause otherwise it implies there is... more

or maybe they're counting bottom feeders and red sun?

Thanks to MaresNest again x infinity !

xpost or Spoor, more sensibly

hmm

Thin White Rope - 1991-09-07- Aalborg.
Thin White Rope - 1989-07-03 Camden Town London (UK) aud.

https://we.tl/HbJU104Vqq

that camden one is referred to as legendary in the blog by the tour manager guy (i think)

IMPORTANT: I am listening to one of the '88 shows. I don't even know which one. The point is the extended coda of It's OK is peak humanity

Also... in the same show... the vocal performance on Some Velvet Morning... how is this possible

I'm just starting to dig into all of these myself, the Odense '91 gig is great, good weighty sound, some nice covers too, Silver Machine!

OMG now they are jamming the sickest possible jam over the peter gunn bassline (this song did not start as peter gunn)

<3 jon

i srsly love peoples continuing enthusiasm for the music of this crazy band

They are the only ones who combined all my favorite ingredients! They have intricate interlocking lead guitars, immense saurian heaviness, single-minded hypno drumming, and hilarious/heartbreak lyrics drawn from the natural sciences!

Really if they had hushed semi-ambient improvs and the occasional oboist I would need no other music.

This was the one I was listening to this afternoon btw:
1988-10-22 - Backnang, DE, JuZe (SBD) - flac, urschrei collection 009