Shellac

the e-mail that was sent out about it mentioned something or other about the shows being a test to see if todd's back is up to par. guess that must mean he had some sort of back troubles... the southern records page doesn't mention anything of either the back troubles or the shows, though, so who knows?

according to southern records, blonde redhead will be playing some shows around california/vancouver/seattle/portland around the end of the month.

"Membership:
Steven Frank Albini - electric guitar
Todd Stanford Trainer - drum set
Robert Spurr Weston IV - electric bass guitar

Band information:
While there is no specific coordination between Shellac's record
releases and touring schedules, you can expect the band to tour at
its usual sporadic and relaxed pace.

Current:
Shellac will have a new LP anytime between now and 2007."

The new record will be an edition of one, packaged inside a car a la Merzbow. The delay comes from designing a system of gyros so the vinyl won't skip while the car is in motion, because it'll be vinyl-only, of course.

I'm sure the new record will be worth the wait when it is finally released

Damn. I was hit hard when i heard the news of Loder, and now I'm still getting hit. :(

2009 tour dates

05/13/09 - Vera, Groningen, Netherlands
05/14/09 - Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands
05/16/09 - Butlins Holiday Center, Minehead, United Kingdom - with ATP Festival
05/17/09 - Butlins Holiday Center, Minehead, United Kingdom - with ATP Festival
05/29/09 - Primavera Sound Festival, Barcelona, Spain
06/11/09 - Vera Project, Seattle, WA
06/13/09 - Berbati's Pan, Portland, OR
06/14/09 - Berbati's Pan, Portland, OR
06/15/09 - W.O.W Hall, Eugene, OR
06/17/09 - Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA
06/18/09 - Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA
06/20/09 - Echoplex, Los Angeles, CA
06/21/09 - Echoplex, Los Angeles, CA
06/25/09 - Varsity Theater, Minneapolis, MN

(note: shellac are playing Vera on the 6/12 as well. Arcwelder is opening. I am really really excited.)

Go forth and rock.

why on earth do they wanna play the W.O.W. hall, good Lord

once again (as i believe you posted on their previous stop in seattle) ,thanks for the advance notice. making plans to catch the vera show again.

Yay, W1ll! I know a lot of folks from Vancouver are already planning this out. (I think most of the audience at the last stop were from BC. When Bob asked for bills, I forget the joke that prompted that, most everyone held up $CDNs)

BTW, The Vera has moved since 2005. It's actually in the Seattle Center now, just blocks away from Easy Street Records in Lower QA, right next to where the QFC used to be. 1st Ave N and Republican St. are the nearest cross streets. It's also a much bigger and kinda weirder space.

"why on earth do they wanna play the W.O.W. hall, good Lord"

Some of the most classic concerts of my life, I saw at WOW Hall.

Fugazi on the Repeater tour with Beat Happening and Calamity Jane.
Melvins on Eggnog tour (Joe Preston on bass). Also again for Lysol (Lorax on bass).
Jesus Lizard on the Liar tour with Jon Spencer opening.
Alice Donut on Untidy Suicides tour.
Thinkin Fellers with Mudwimmin.
Nomeansno on the Wrong tour with Victim's Family.

And more recently, Isis with Mogwai.

I kick myself now for not going to Sleep on Holy Mountain tour supporting Hawkwind.

got my ticket for the june 11 show,,,,trying to wangle a way to see bat for lashes the night before at the crocodile.

btw,shellac has added a june 12 vera show.

Yeah, I got a ticket for both. ^_^

todd trainer on animal planet o_O and awesome

:)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZWrVQTlonc

Amazing!

OMG that was awesome. though todd trainer seems like a truly weird dude.

That's amazing. It's good to see that Albini can drop the cynicism, misanthropy and sarcasm when it counts. On a dog owner's program.

yeah in the spring and summer sometimes i would look out my office window and see todd, all vampirish in black, walking his lil' doggie around, so cute.

i don't know him but i've found that everyone i know who has actually dealt with or knows albini IRL says he is super nice and awesome...people that say "oh he's such a dick" tend to not know him irl.

I was joking. I've heard that Albini is actually a pretty nice guy if you meet him. It was more how he usually comes across in interviews that I was talking about.

awesome video!! wonder if uffizi tours with 'em.

This will be messy:
http://www.atpfestival.com/events/shellacny.php

Noon! I can see lots of people buying tickets for that and not making it.

Coming to my hood. Still worth seeing live?

yes! (if you like shellac)

Saw the 20th anniversary show in Minneapolis over the weekend. It was great.

line-up for their ATP this December currently looking great:

Shellac Of North America
Neurosis
Wire
Mission of Burma
Oxbow
Nina Nastasia
Melt Banana
The Ex + Brass Unbound
Mono
Shannon Wright
Zeni Geva
Arcwelder
Scrawl
Uzeda
Bottomless Pit
Prinzhorn Dance School
Three Second Kiss
Pinebender
Red Fang
The Membranes
Buke and Gase
Dead Rider
Helen Money
Bear Claw
ALiX
STNNNG
+ more TBC

so did i mh! had a blast....

btw STNNNG marks the first time a participant in ILX Pre-Covers LULU makes an appearance at ATP

"Little Dog" is coming to the UK!

I wasn't quite in the right headspace for STNNNG when they were on, but I think that's more due to me than anything about the band! I was kind of thrown off by a lot of things, having just been in a car and then getting dinner having a lot to do with it.

I need to give their post-At Action Park catalogue another chance

Terraform>1000 Hurts>At Action Park>various singles (Rude Gesture/Uranus/Bird is most Popular Finger etc)>Dude Incredible>Excellent Italian Greyhound

but they are all good and the gap between best and "worst" is not very much

search: 2004 Peel Session version of "The End Of Radio"

yeah that's amazing, I know it

Terraform is clearly the best one for me - the shorter songs are sharp and the long songs utterly gripping. House Full Of Garbage might have usurped Didn't We Deserve... as my favourite Shellac song

but fully agreed that they're all good

Terraform>1000 Hurts>At Action Park

Agreed. Terraform indeed clearly the best one, the tension of the longer ones and the short bursts works so well. I'll admit I've not heard Excellent Italian Greyhound, will correct that shortly.

I would reverse that order. Here's my list:

At Action Park > early singles > Terraform > 1000 Hurts > Excellent Italian Greyhound > Dude Incredible

oh and this live album from 1993 is really good too, not least for the awkward interactions with the largely silent Japanese crowd: https://www.discogs.com/%E3%82%B7%E3%82%A7%E3%83%A9%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF-%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E6%9D%B1%E4%BA%AC/release/1041522

both peel sessions rereleased today in super high quality. a joy to listen to!

The 1994 session is particularly welcome cuz I've only ever heard that in the terrible bootleg that's floated around for yrs, and man it really put me back to how they were when I first saw them in 96, so snarly and raw.

Always loved that 2004 version of “The End of Radio.”

^^^ my single favorite thing they've done, just above Doris/Wingwalker

'94 Crow an absolute monster

oh I bet, that's my other favorite Shellac track

btw are these on Bandcamp or???

s*****y for me, sorry

nah that's cool just wondering how to listen

Is this the one "John Peel was a hellava guy..."

yes

Awesome. It's the best version. I'm buying that.

If buy the lp vers (which is a thing of beauty) in classic Shellac fashion no dl code but you do get an unmarked cd vers stuck in there

The vers of "Billiard Player Song" on their is all time as well

Oof £30. But yeah, done.

'94 Crow an absolute monster

I have a totally horseshit sounding 45 I think? of the 94 session

I forgot (or more likely didn't know) that the '94 Peel Session predates the release of "At Action Park" by a few months, if Wikipedia is right which has it coming out in Oct of that yr which seems like it could be right

they sure kept Spoke in the barrel a while

Esp cuz they played on the reg until about '98 or so, I sort of assumed they had forgotten abt it until EIG

On the 2004 set "Billiard Player Song">"Dog & Pony Show">"Il Porno Star" is absolute peak Shellac

I'd rank them At Action Park > the singles > Terraform > 1000 Hurts > Dude Incredible > Excellent Italian Greyhound, but I'd put Two Nuns & a Pack Mule above all of them

Terraform >>>>>>>>>>>>>> At Action Park > 1000 Hurts > Dude Incredible > Greyhound.

I'm aware I'm probably alone in this assessment.

oh fuck it someone start a poll already

I'm aware I'm probably alone in this assessment.

Nah that is the correct order

Oh and I saw someone point out this new set is Shellac #16 but Dude Incredible is Shellac #14...so whatever #15 is maybe that is coming "soon"? I realize in Shellac terms "soon" is 1-5 years.

http://thatrecordgotmehigh.com/2019/06/13/s2e64-shellac-at-action-park-with-jay-reeve/#comment-20

Yeah, Terraform is my favourite too. I also really like Greyhound, somewhat controversially, but Terraform stands slightly above the rest

FOR DECADES

BUILD A MONUMENT TO HIMSELF

Terraform>At Action Park>90s singles>1000 Hurts>Dude Incredible>Excellent Italian Greyhound

^^ I'd swap the singles and Action Park but yeah pretty much

It's never quite gotten better than At Action Park but I'm always willing to hang in there to see what happens.

Oh and I saw someone point out this new set is Shellac #16 but Dude Incredible is Shellac #14...so whatever #15 is maybe that is coming "soon"?

I heard an interview with Steve recently where he said they're planning on releasing a comp of all the non-album material so I'm guessing it's that.

nice! I had a shitty CDR, now long gone, with a bunch of odds and ends which included a cover of AC/DC's Jailbreak, I'd like to hear that again

it's on Youtube of course, wish fulfilled

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImNv9IgJdb4

jailbreak was on a skin graft 45

I forgot how much I like Dude Incredible

After the first two singles and Action Park, Terraform was a big WTF for me.
I just kept waiting for something to happen on "Didn't We Deserve..." but it never did. I get a bit more what they were going for now after you hear where they went, but that tune was kinda out of nowhere first time I heard the LP.

That said, the 'package' with the vintage paintings and the lush earth picutre on the interior and the record sleeves is really beautifully done.

The two singles had me hooked for a long time, they are some 7"s that I listened to a bunch. I also got the Drag City one and that Skin Graft double 7".

Earlnash - felt exact same about Terraform - but the Chesley Bonestell art was dope. They never topped At Action Park or the singles in my opinion, but certainly have never put out any kind of clunker.

I got to say that Dave Foley doomsday bunker rock-DJ sketch from the new Kids series has got some serious "The End of Radio" vibe.

I have to wonder if him or the writer knows the tune.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Csb9LEspJH4/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

🫡🫡🫡

25 years of Terraform, unfairly maligned not so long ago in this very thread!

Damn, already?

dogg, I know.... feels strange

their greatest