the feelies - classic or dud?

i've got the Trypes demos -- pretty rough quality, but worth hearing. The CDR has the demos + a show at Folk City in 1983. I don't really do the uploading/downloading thing, but if anyone wants to contact me off the board for a physical copy, i'd oblige ...

Thanks for the link, tyler - love the recording. Pretty close to fully formed is quite right, though there are some things that would be more streamlined/better tuned later on. Esp. the drums I think. I don't think it's Fier that's playing on this recording, right?

'77 would've been Vinny DeNunzio on drums..

"Crazy Rhythms" gets reissued next month

will this be on 180gram vinyl?

oh boy
www.idolator.com/370364/the-feelies-to-bring-their-crazy-rhythms-back-this-summer

Oh
my
God

I hope they play more than just a few shows. And record.

yeah seriously! i really would like to see them ...

Saw them three times in Rhode Island in the late 80s. God they were soooooo good.

Be fun to see 'em, for sure.

Greatest cover band ever and inspired funky moves out of white people.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuA-haidvac

yeah, best high school reunion ever.

anybody know what happened to the (crazy rhythms) reissue that was due in Feb. ?

reissue now pushed back to late April. At least the third delay thus far, so who knows when it will actually see the light of day.

Great news. I demand a world tour! :-)

Fa Ce-La

Looks like a new album, more shows may be in the works.

http://www.spinner.com/2008/05/06/the-feelies-reunite-for-shows-new-album/

Glad to hear it! I hope there's a full tour.

last I heard on the reissue of Crazy Rhythms was another bump to the end of this month.

I too hope they tour - at least a few dates outside greater NYC.

Cute photo goes with this article in the NY Times on the reunion. It never ceases to freak me out when musicians age like normal human beings:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/arts/music/01feel.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

I'll be at Maxwell's on wed night.

I'm looking forward to Friday afternoon's show with Sonic Youth. I can't believe this reunion is happening. I also can't believe we're asking c/d on The Feelies. They're the Feelies for crying out loud.

And my all-time favorite record from them is "Time for a Witness"!

I'd really like to see them. Twenty years between shows is too long.

It never ceases to freak me out when musicians age like normal human beings:
Bill Million looks like a locksmith.

he looks like a Million bucks.

Dave Weckerman looks like Ruth Buzzi from "Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In."
http://thegolddiggers.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/vlcsnap-12052238.jpg

Glenn Mercer looks like Daniel Clowes, as imagined by Daniel Clowes:
http://www.fantagraphics.com/images/stories/artists/featured/clowes_icon.gif

Damn I wanna live in NYC.

don't we all?

good reason to not live in nyc: 2 tix to the "free" july 4th show going for $185 on ebay.

i get the lotsa like, but not the crazy love

Nice about reunion gigs, but, umm..Crazy Rhythms reissue? PLEASE for fuck's sake?

haha, SO many reasons to not live in nyc! before i visited my old neighborhood a few weeks ago, my friend warned me: 'we will not talk about this tonight. but i want to let you know that there are now a lot of ordinary people around here doing conventional things!' and he was right, alas.

but i'll be going to the july 4 show, and looking forward to seeing the feelies. been almost twenty years since i've seen them, and the same is true for sonic youth, who i'm not sure i'll stick around for.

From the reunion show, Away:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4tkJ1ts9LI

I thought they had reissued Crazy Rhythms? Did it get delayed or something? I already have it so I haven't been paying attention.

the band owns the masters and has been planning on a reissue for a while, i think. it hasn't happened yet.

My hope would be they delayed it because they decided to reissue it properly, as a double disc chock full of early tracks and the awesome covers they did in that era. I doubt it though.

kornrulez, thanks for the video! great stuff.

so jealous

hope this turns into a full-fledged Mission of Burma style reunion, with touring, recording, etc. i kinda doubt it, but I guess the new songs they're playing bodes well for something beyond the shows this week. and hey, maybe Bill Million, after being a security guard at Disney World, has realized that being in one of the best rock bands of the last 30 years is pretty sweet.

I have two tickets to this, but my date for the day doesn't want to go. I'm quite pissed.

>:8

(that was some kind of angry emoticon in solidarity with you)

It's okay. If I were a real man I'd do something manly and forceful. Too bad I'm not...

Feelies rule!

maybe Bill Million, after being a security guard at Disney World

Don't sell him short. He was doing computer stuff...

From the NY Times article
When he abruptly moved to Florida, he worked on security for Disney World, doing computer programming for access systems. But when one of his sons started playing guitar, Mr. Million was drawn back to the instrument. “It sounds odd to me to even call this a reunion,” he said. “It’s just that we’ve gotten together after a long break.”

http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlLA/original/mickey%20mouse.jpg

Supposedly, Water's planned reissue was unauthorized, but the first two albums are slated to come out on Bar/None Records later this year. I wrote them to confirm this.

Here's what I wrote about Crazy Rhythms and The Good Earth.

yeah i just saw on the other music email update that water was reissuing Only Life, too! seemed weird since they never got around to getting crazy rhythms reissued .... but yeah, if there isn't going to be any extra stuff on the reissues, i probably won't buy them. maybe. i probably will.

IATTOQ

They're kind of a band that only people who are *into music* are into.

AIR?

That Disney World thing was my favorite fact. Why not a whole article on Million's experiences riding a monorail?

also: lol "Mr Million."