S/D: Thin White Rope?

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

HeartbreakING lyrics

That's the last of the recent ones, if you guys aren't fed up yet I can go back and cherry pick the better quality older torrents, let me know.

Thin White Rope 1990-06-02 Hanau Kulturbasar (aud)
Thin White Rope 1987-09-11 Siracusa FM
Thin White Rope - 1990-02-16 San Francisco

https://we.tl/AtHCjPHavc

I say keep em coming (perhaps selected according to decent sound quality) cause for me, some of the shows are a bit too shitty sounding for me to really dig, so the more good sounding ones the better!

Camden uploaded yesterday is indeed the one described in Compton’s blog and it slays. Sounds like track 12 at 2:20 is where Matt Abourezk passes out? Perhaps the two Guy solo songs prior to that are the band giving him a break.

I think there's another 3 that look like decent quality, the Hanau Kulturbasar '90 from the last upload is fantastic, nice long show, great sound.

are there Ruby Sea demos floating about?

Not that I've seen, just that one track, "Dinosaur' from the Hidden Lands boot.

That Camden gig, right at the end someone says 'sorry, but we're going to have to go and evaporate for a while...' :)

lolol i just heard that bit a half hour ago but couldn't quite make it out

Jon, which show would you recommend overall? I'd like to listen, but don't think I can go through them all.

Camden and Vienna of the ones I’ve been able to listen to so far. And both volumes of demos. Lots to hear still though

Sorry Backnang and Camden!

Thanks Jon!!

Thin White Rope 1990-06-02 Hanau Kulturbasar is a great, all-round later show too.

That ones next on deck for me!

there's also this 1992 ROIO (haven't heard or checked all the links yet) : http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=900

Thin White Rope - 1988-04-02 - Goez Beest, Amsterdam, NL - Sbd
Thin White Rope - 1988-09-29 - Vera, Groningen, Netherlands

Two remaining Dime seeds, the Amsterdam one is especially good. Vera is a different show from the one previously linked.

https://we.tl/3BWyMgZjXQ

1990 Hanau np for me. Great sound, on-it performance. Still in the first half

it makes me a bit sad that Guy never seems to have done that bellowing OHHH LORD YEAHHH live

A bit cash-strapped but gonna jump on these while white vinyl remains, feel like I'll regret it if I don't

(ok, that ROIO thing doesn't work 100% - sorry)

someone's weird fondness for relentless, crashing snare hits amidst relative calm nearly wrecks a bunch of songs throughout their career

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Hoping someone will address this on the remasters but it's also sorta how the drums were played - part of the sound, I guess

These demos are great! Never really made the connection before (though maybe it's obvious given the region) but some of these early tunes sound like Savage Republic with Lemmy on vocals

definitely some shared dna with the SR guitarists, that death-surf snakecharming thing

Davis ain't the Mojave (say), but yeah, definitely California scene connections at work.

i tend to think licher, kyser, kunkel, verlaine all had their fair share of shadows and ventures LPs

I bet a great book could be written about this period (distinct from the punk scene covered in We've Got The Neutron Bomb, various books about X, etc), if it hasn't already. My southern California rock timeline / education is definitely a bit blurry. How much did bands like TWR intersect--socially or otherwise--with bands like Rain Parade, Green On Red, Bangles, etc?

I was trying to recall how I got into TWR, and I'm sure it was because I was chasing down Paisley Underground bands and I saw them - in the press - mistakenly lumped in with Rain Parade, Three O'Clock et al. But then, so were The Long Ryders and Green On Red.

I wonder if any of the desert rock/stoner bands of the very late 80's/90's dug these guys.

There was a great fanzine in the UK called Bucketful of Brains which provided an overview of those variously loosely connected scenes, they would write about The Plimsouls, Lyres, Rain Parade, Three O'Clock, Long Ryders, Baraccudas, REM, Fuzztones, TWR, Soft Boys that sort of thing.

The elephant in the room not named yet: Dream Syndicate.

with TV as the elephant's dad