haha, that's awesome! the whole anecdote about the making of that song is cool:
2) "K" from the album ChompThis song that fell together by chance. The lyrics came from a scrabble game that bassist Michael Lachowski and I played together in a session where we were consciously trying to write lyrics. When we first performed this song live, it fell completely apart. We were sort of embarrassed, but our friend John Seawright came up to us after the show and was raving about that new song. We went back and listened to the tape of it and realized that it was better than what we were originally trying to do. So we spent hours dissecting that tape and learning the song the way it accidentally happened. Chris Stamey and Gene Holder from the DBs worked with us at Mitch Easter's studio to make it happen in an interesting way.
This song that fell together by chance. The lyrics came from a scrabble game that bassist Michael Lachowski and I played together in a session where we were consciously trying to write lyrics. When we first performed this song live, it fell completely apart. We were sort of embarrassed, but our friend John Seawright came up to us after the show and was raving about that new song. We went back and listened to the tape of it and realized that it was better than what we were originally trying to do. So we spent hours dissecting that tape and learning the song the way it accidentally happened. Chris Stamey and Gene Holder from the DBs worked with us at Mitch Easter's studio to make it happen in an interesting way.
vanessa hay is a lovely person
― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Saturday, 1 August 2020 20:12 (three years ago) link
From Rolling Reissues, re 2020 Soul Jazz comp The World of Keith Haring: "Danger" certainly held its own among stiff competition (these are the ones I liked): 3. Pylon – Danger£0.996. John Sex – Bump and Grind It£0.998. The Girls – Jeffrey I Hear You£0.9910. Talking Heads – I Zimbra (on CD version only)12. Class Action – Weekend (Larry Levan Mix)13. Adiche – Chuka-Ja (Get Ready)£0.9915. The Golden Flamingo Orchestra – The Guardian Angel Is Watching Over Us16. Gray – Cut It Up High Priest£0.9919. Yoko Ono – Walking On Thin Ice
That's almost half, better than I thought.
― dow, Monday, July 27, 2020 6:41 PM (five days ago)
― dow, Saturday, 1 August 2020 22:15 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAOILacn8Dw&t
Video of full show, Cleveland, 6/22/90
― Brad C., Sunday, 2 August 2020 13:17 (three years ago) link
let's try that YouTube link again:
― Brad C., Sunday, 2 August 2020 13:18 (three years ago) link
bah, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAOILacn8Dw&t
― Brad C., Sunday, 2 August 2020 13:19 (three years ago) link
sigh ... search YouTube for "pylon cleveland"
― Brad C., Sunday, 2 August 2020 13:20 (three years ago) link
maybe try a different browser? Chrome won't do this any more for me, Firefox sometimes.
― dow, Monday, 3 August 2020 02:40 (three years ago) link
vinyl remasters and a comprehensive box set, out Nov. 6
https://pylon.band/
― Brad C., Wednesday, 26 August 2020 13:56 (three years ago) link
Chomp in print! Wow, that's awesome. I can't tell but it looks like the two bonus discs of rarities and unreleased stuff are only for the box set, which is kind of a bummer if so. But great that this stuff is getting out there.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 26 August 2020 15:17 (three years ago) link
i've managed to snag nice OG copies of Gyrate and Chomp, so i probably won't be picking this up. but damn, it's really cool and i hope that it makes some money for the pylon crew (i'm not sure how much the Dead Letter Office royalties provide, these days)
― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 26 August 2020 15:48 (three years ago) link
Thanks for the news!Still got my ancient CDs Gyrate Plus and Chomp More, have heard Live enough times online to agree w those who say it takes quite a while to achieve liftoff (although it all sounds pretty confident: maybe they're teaching patience, loyalty)---but had not heard of the Buzz Tape, hmmmmm----among Other Options here, bandcamp pre-order for digital is $40.00, and they're already streaming 25 tracks. Looks like nothing from Chain, but I've still got the pre-recorded cassette somewhere, pretty good reunion album. Hope it'll get a nice remaster someday.(XXpost: I was right to incl. Pylon and those others as keepers from The World of Keith Haring, but so is most of it! I should have listened again before posting.)
― dow, Wednesday, 26 August 2020 16:30 (three years ago) link
Love this band to pieces, but for a short-lived group with a limited discography I feel like I already own all the Pylon I need. Maybe I'll just order a new t-shirt, although my ancient 'Lefty Loosey Righty Tighty' shirt is still holding up surprisingly well.
― Orson Well Yeah (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 26 August 2020 17:02 (three years ago) link
I wish they'd do a CD version of the box, but I'm just glad to see everything back in print
― Brad C., Wednesday, 26 August 2020 18:49 (three years ago) link
*except 'Chain'
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 26 August 2020 23:50 (three years ago) link
I saw elsewhere that there are 13 previously unreleased demo recordings in the box, fwiw
― sleeve, Thursday, 27 August 2020 00:39 (three years ago) link
new interview: https://www.spin.com/2020/09/vanessa-briscoe-hay-looks-back-at-40-years-of-pylon/?utm_source=Mailing+List&utm_campaign=2edd1860c8-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_09_25_02_07&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_9d7f017887-2edd1860c8-415586925&goal=0_9d7f017887-2edd1860c8-415586925&mc_cid=2edd1860c8&mc_eid=3ce2be0c08
― dow, Monday, 28 September 2020 02:53 (three years ago) link
The Pylon box will get a CD release.
https://store.newwestrecords.com/collections/pylon/products/pylon-pylon-box-cd-box-set
$85
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:18 (three years ago) link
nice article by Gordon Lamb, in some ways better than Hall's book in its evocation of Athens c. 1980
https://bittersoutherner.com/2020/persons-places-and-things-pylons-passage-to-permanence-athens
― Brad C., Friday, 6 November 2020 14:36 (three years ago) link
aww, nice to see GL's name pop up here
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 6 November 2020 14:43 (three years ago) link
... and a good read, too! Thanks for linking that, it filled in the details of their story a lot for me.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 6 November 2020 14:52 (three years ago) link
Thanks for sharing that - the book in the box is very good, and this is a nice story supplement!
― BlackIronPrison, Friday, 6 November 2020 15:11 (three years ago) link
Ha, good quotes in here:Razz Tape also includes the first recorded versions of two iconic Pylon songs: the rushing “Cool,” marked by an urgent Briscoe Hay slogan (“Everything is cool!”), and the contorted howler “Dub.” In his review of their NYC show, O’Brien guessed that “these kids eat dub for breakfast.” In reality, the quartet had never even heard of dub, but they were happy to use O’Brien’s claim as material. “I don't know what you're talking about,” snarls Briscoe Hay before chanting, “We eat dub for breakfast!”https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/pylon-pylon-box/
― dow, Tuesday, 17 November 2020 00:13 (three years ago) link
47 tracks here, incl. instrumentals, work tapes, remixes: https://pylonband.bandcamp.com/album/pylon-box
― dow, Tuesday, 17 November 2020 14:47 (three years ago) link
Michael and Vanessa are doing a live interview right now on WNYC
― Brad C., Tuesday, 17 November 2020 18:48 (three years ago) link
thanks for the link, dow. that schitt is bought!
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 19:25 (three years ago) link
https://magnetmagazine.com/2023/10/27/magnet-exclusive-premiere-of-pylon-reenactment-societys-flowers-everywhere-video/
Pylon Reenactment Society new song and video. Singer Vanessa is only one who was in Pylon. Current group new album coming out in February 2024
― curmudgeon, Monday, 20 November 2023 17:51 (six months ago) link
yeah I think I'll go see them, obv never saw Pylon but this band is great. That's a fun video and decent new song.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 00:15 (six months ago) link
Old guy me has seen Pylon and Pylon Reenactment Society.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 01:20 (six months ago) link
Restored video from 1983:
https://www.brooklynvegan.com/pylon-prep-restored-video-of-1983-final-show-watch-beep/
― Brad C., Sunday, 24 December 2023 19:24 (five months ago) link
Great. Looking forward to the whole show when they get it all restored.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 25 December 2023 17:43 (five months ago) link
Just got home from seeing them in Los Angeles, great show (if a tad short at 65 minutes). They had the new LP/CD for sale, and the songs they played from it were good, but I decided to wait for a download.
― nickn, Sunday, 28 January 2024 06:30 (three months ago) link