I'm envious!
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 13 November 2008 17:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Wish I had pics.
― today, i'm a numbers machine (roxymuzak), Thursday, 13 November 2008 17:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Between the return of U2 and this it's like it's their time all over again.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 2 March 2009 20:55 (fifteen years ago) link
I filed a police report today (minor thing--car got rifled through, nothing taken it seems). The officer handed me the report number and his name etc. on a piece of paper, at the bottom of which is printed "©2001 TEN-8, INC." Naturally it made me want to hear A Big 10-8 Place. Man I love this thing (every couple of years anyway).
"The door opens automatically, and the first thing you see is the orangecarpet inside 180...and you'll see the dog juice, the horrible dog juice..."
― andrew m., Wednesday, 21 March 2012 18:39 (twelve years ago) link
which album/video has the Weatherman's story about fixing the playboy channel in Rossmoor?
― sarahell, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
The half-hour of sound manipulation they did at La Luz is on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN1z58l88dU
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 05:12 (eleven years ago) link
i have the guns cd single which has 2 versions which are good but i wish they would come out with a greatest cd collection.
― xzanfar, Sunday, 9 June 2013 00:31 (ten years ago) link
still absolute solid gold
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHY9iSdoqK4
― piscesx, Sunday, 9 June 2013 02:20 (ten years ago) link
do u know how many time zones there are in the soviet union
― ⓢⓗⓘⓣ (am0n), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 16:32 (nine years ago) link
ELEVEN
― polyamanita (sleeve), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 16:52 (nine years ago) link
That's ridiculous. It's not even funny.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 16:57 (nine years ago) link
guns
― OutdoorF on Golf (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 21:37 (nine years ago) link
Negativland have posted on Facebook that Ian Allen, a key early member who had to leave the band in the late eighties due to continuing health issues, has passed on after complications from surgery. Very sad news to hear -- he introduced the original group to Don Joyce, was a key force behind the design and concept of A Big 10-8 Place, pushed for the tape loop approach and more.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 11:30 (nine years ago) link
Direct link on FB
https://www.facebook.com/Negativlandland/timeline/story?ut=43&wstart=0&wend=1422777599&hash=-8355825573272387065&pagefilter=3
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 11:37 (nine years ago) link
Aw, jeez. RIP.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 12:56 (nine years ago) link
this does not seem like a band that would use Facebook.
― Poliopolice, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 17:49 (nine years ago) link
http://boingboing.net/2015/01/21/r-i-p-negativlands-ian-alle.html
― Kibbutzki (Jaap Schip), Thursday, 22 January 2015 08:02 (nine years ago) link
Very, very sad news to hear -- Negativland reports that Don Joyce aka Crosley Bendix and many more, and the host of "Over the Edge," has passed on. A tremendous loss.
https://www.facebook.com/Negativlandland/posts/1098963353464741
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 23 July 2015 16:40 (eight years ago) link
When he and Negativland discovered their mutual love for “found” sounds, an intensely collaborative creative partnership was cemented. It continued non-stop for the ensuing decades, with Don endlessly scanning the airwaves of radio and television, along with his massive LP collection, for new material, day by day, week by week. There was often a TV and a radio on in his room simultaneously, cassette recorders always at the ready. And as an extremely shy and often quite reclusive person, radio was a perfect medium for Don. He could reach thousands of people each week without having to deal with very many actual humans, just as he preferred it. Creating art was not only Don’s full-time pursuit, it was literally his life’s work. He had made it clear to the group as recently as a few weeks ago that he was happy and satisfied with what he had been able to achieve in his life, and were he not able to continue to work, his life would feel as good as over.Don Joyce’s singular editing style was laced with profundity and silliness in equal measure. His work was that of a dada humanist, able to wring unforgettable sentiments and statements out of material which originally spoke something entirely different. Hugely inspired by both the droll radio of Bob and Ray and the reckless free-form of the Firesign Theatre, he created a wicked language of repurposed purple prose which has inspired legions of other collage artists over the past three decades. He was the father of the form. One need only to listen to his work on “Time Zones” (on the Escape from Noise album) or “Piece of Pie” (in the No Business CD/book) to immediately tune into his unique wavelength.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 23 July 2015 16:42 (eight years ago) link
Fuck.
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 23 July 2015 18:44 (eight years ago) link
RIP. "It's All In Your Head FM" was one of my highlights from the first Big Ears.
― dart scar rashes (WilliamC), Thursday, 23 July 2015 19:19 (eight years ago) link
Had a chance to talk a bit about him:
http://blog.sfgate.com/loaded/2015/07/23/don-joyce-radio-maverick-and-member-of-negativland-dies-at-71/
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 24 July 2015 00:32 (eight years ago) link
good post ned
https://kpfa.org/ midnight pacific tonight - over the edge
― Milton Parker, Friday, 24 July 2015 01:48 (eight years ago) link
sorry for yr loss, MP
― sarahell, Friday, 24 July 2015 02:59 (eight years ago) link
on my drive home from work this evening I saw a man who looked a lot like Don standing on the corner of Grand & Broadway, and I got sad.
― sarahell, Friday, 24 July 2015 03:01 (eight years ago) link
Thanks Jon, much appreciated. Awfully kind of the band to share that out on FB.
A tribute:
https://kpfa.org/episode/the-hear-and-now-july-23-2015/
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 24 July 2015 16:21 (eight years ago) link
Tempted to smoke a cigarette in honor of Don.
I think I'd like to have a cigarette now. Where are my cigarettes, David?They're on top of the refrigerator.David, I'd like to know what you did with my cigarettes.They're under the house.My cigarettes are missing, David. I'd like to smoke. What did you do with them?They're in the toad cage.David, I'd like to have a cigarette right now but I can't find the package. I put them on the table and they're not there. Did you take them?I think we may have left them up at Grandma's house.My mother doesn't smoke, David. What did you do with my cigarettes?I told you, they're on top of the refrigerator.I looked on top of the refrigerator. They aren't there. will you please tell me what you did with my cigarettes?Maybe you left them in the car.I haven't been in the car all day. You must have put them somewhere and I can't find them. You better tell me now or I'm going to really get mad.Oh yeah, I think I know where they are. They're in back of the TV set, where all the parakeet feathers are.As you're cleaning the orange carpet, there'll be a voice that says: FETCH MY CIGARETTES.Another voice will say: THEY'RE ON TOP OF THE REFRIGERATOR.And then of course you've forgotten completely about the green slime.
― Pauper Management Improved (Sanpaku), Friday, 24 July 2015 16:29 (eight years ago) link
http://www.negativland.com/ote/?p=2592
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 28 July 2015 17:12 (eight years ago) link
And now praise in turn for MP's own words and remembrances:
https://www.facebook.com/Negativlandland/posts/1103166776377732:0
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 30 July 2015 23:19 (eight years ago) link
― stirmonster, Friday, 31 July 2015 00:23 (eight years ago) link
Darn it. Richard Lyons has passed.
https://www.facebook.com/Negativlandland/photos/a.165153833512369.41221.131759750185111/1275537205807354/?type=3
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 21 April 2016 13:35 (eight years ago) link
damn.
it's not even funny.
― stirmonster, Thursday, 21 April 2016 14:09 (eight years ago) link
cancer. Ugh. Only 57
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 21 April 2016 16:22 (eight years ago) link
:( RIP
― lute bro (brimstead), Thursday, 21 April 2016 16:51 (eight years ago) link
booo
― the 'major tom guy' (sleeve), Thursday, 21 April 2016 16:53 (eight years ago) link
first time I saw them live was on this tour:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_BfZFX5-eY
― coffe growing vpon the skull of a sock (sarahell), Thursday, 21 April 2016 18:08 (eight years ago) link
fucking hell
― Odysseus, Thursday, 21 April 2016 18:08 (eight years ago) link
holy shit this and prince? i was just listening to Dispepsi last week
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 22 April 2016 00:32 (eight years ago) link
http://boingboing.net/2016/10/17/negativlands-next-album-come.html
Well, ok then.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 18 October 2016 00:40 (seven years ago) link
should I go see Mark Hosler solo?
― alpine static, Sunday, 15 July 2018 19:53 (five years ago) link
snuggles
― billstevejim, Monday, 16 July 2018 21:06 (five years ago) link
eh?
― alpine static, Tuesday, 17 July 2018 03:19 (five years ago) link
30th anniversary of Helter Stupid this year. One of the all-time "you could never get away with that today" stories. Imagine some metal band trying to piggyback on a school shooting by claiming the killer was an obsessed fan of theirs.
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 11 January 2019 00:47 (five years ago) link
I could see the edgelords trying.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 11 January 2019 01:40 (five years ago) link
I saw Hosler solo on Halloween (with The Weatherman opening!) - was way more groove-based, at times leaning dubward, than I would have expected. Very few vocal samples, and no explicit cultural-critical aspects at all.
― sans lep (sic), Friday, 11 January 2019 01:44 (five years ago) link
xpost - singing Ned's post to the tune of Take The Skinheads Bowling
― sans lep (sic), Friday, 11 January 2019 01:45 (five years ago) link
Helter Stupid is great, supreme entertainment.
― brimstead, Friday, 11 January 2019 02:02 (five years ago) link
new album out yesterday, it seems
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObUIDD_ALo0&fbclid=IwAR3Pf_8dSECBp9xLqFh9B_cMN5JH4kgu6ELHVQpASAsBv-1hbLoLEUfFYTE
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 26 October 2019 12:32 (four years ago) link
let's try again
https://tinyurl.com/y496r7bl
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 26 October 2019 12:37 (four years ago) link
album stream
https://www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks/negativland-share-latest-album
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 26 October 2019 12:41 (four years ago) link