the feelies - classic or dud?

pics of that show looked wonderful. more kids should be at feelies shows.

It was pretty kid heavy, was a great place for them. Plenty of room to run around (or dance crazy.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3cNzghOTp4

Ha, thanks for that! I'm in that one, drinking beer, right near Ms. Sauter.

ha, awesome. love the kid on her dad's shoulders rocking out.

Oh hey, I was there too! Great show! Sun was brutal, breeze was great. I was hanging out on the hill.

Already got the poster framed and hanging in the kitchen.

Damn you're fast. Do you have a 24 hour framer near your house? Or something? That's a really nice poster

It was just luck actually. We changed out the poster that was already there and the frame happened to be a perfect fit.

But overall Storm King is great. It's a perfect joining of cold, lifeless abstract sculptures with a beautiful nature setting. Plus Beacon NY is close by, which is a fun place to get a drink or bite to eat... or see more cold lifeless art! (which I am not against by the way)

That gig looks fantastic. Evan or kwhitehead, did you get the covers cdr?

I totally missed last summer's news about Mercer releasing an instrumental album on October 9: http://www.bar-none.com/glenn-mercer/
There's mention of rereleases of Only Life and Time for a Witness on Bar/None later this year as well.

yeah the mercer instrumental disc is pretty nice!
apparently no set date for those reissues though -- might be next year, I think.

of course you've heard it already ;-)

No rush with the reissues... What I'd really like is a Feelies live album

ha, the instrumental disc (or at least versions of it) has been floating around for a few years now -- a CDR was sold at feelies shows a la this new covers disc. but it deserves an actual release.

Evan or kwhitehead, did you get the covers cdr?

I did not. Merch table was cash only (I mis-judged the amount of stuff that they would have available. I should have brought more $) and I had to make some difficult decisions. Plus, had to buy lunch for the kids.

wfmu played a track from the new CDR a couple nights ago: http://wfmu.org/playlists/JJ/150922

Yeah I didn't see it. Got the poster and wasn't too observant about what else they had to offer!

Listening to Incidental Hum for the first time right now.

Ahh man, it's like an instrumental Feelies album. That's awesome. The covers at the end, too! All three of 'em are right on.

Now I'm stuck with a quandry of what to do: the album was released in limited quantities three years ago, but this new release is like, well, a new release to me. Do I count it as a 2015 release?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-3_lFaagh4
The Feelies live in the Netherlands in 1989, full show. Haven't seen the whole thing, but "For Awhile" (@17 mins) is awesome...

nice!
only life and time for a witness reissues are forthcoming ... some live stuff and studio remakes as bonus tracks, but it's all from recent years, I believe. not sure why they aren't including some of the b sides from that period.

guess there's a new Yung Wu record?
― tylerw, Friday, August 12, 2011

Okay, what was the image that no longer shows up? I've never seen any other information about this. There's nothing in my searches. Help!

xp they left off "Dancing Barefoot"?!?!?

re: the yung wu record:
Yung Wu only released one album, which has long been out of print, but there is a second disc of songs that the band burns to CDR’s and sells at shows. “It’s like Bowie’s ‘Pin Ups’ album, it’s three originals and then a lot of covers,” Weckerman said. “They’re songs by pretty famous bands that I always thought should have been bit hits but weren’t. Like, we do a song by the Move, from England, and a Tom Verlaine song. There’s a Procul Harum song, an Eno song, and there are Stones and Who and Kinks songs, but they’re not well known. By the Stones we do a song called ‘Please Go Home,’ which was on some compilation album. But it’s a pretty good song, it’s got the Bo Diddley beat but it’s really psychedelic. I guess they wrote it back when they first starting doing a lot of drugs.”
i still haven't tracked it down, i should bug someone...

looks like there's also a record store day thing coming out -- but seems to be new recordings too? not sure. their "dancing barefoot" was on a single, right? or was it just a promo (hence the "none commercially available" comment)

As a special Record Store Day release Bar None/Coyote Records will co-release the Feelies Uncovered. This will be a limited edition 12 " EP featuring studio recordings of four cover songs, none commercially available before: "Seven Days" (Bob Dylan), "Take It As It Comes" (The Doors), "Dancing Barefoot" (Patti Smith), and "Bar Stool Blues" (Neil Young).

yeah it was promo only, although maybe it was on a Bob magazine flexi also? not "commercial" enough to count I guess.

i've always hoped that they'd release a full show from the late 80s -- on one of those promos there are a handful of pro-recorded performances from 1988 I think.

http://www.thefeeliesweb.com/images/disc/4songs.gif
this one has "egyptian reggae" and "everybody's got something to hide" recorded "live at the Roxy, Hollywood, CA"

I've got the yung wu

DAN

Thought revive would be about their involvement in the film Smithereens, which I never knew about until the other day.

They do Walk Upon the Water by The Move and Into the Valley by The Skids. Hasn't this been discussed?

I only got it because a friend of mine invited me to dinner and her mother was there and her partner is a hoboken scenemaker and fan. You know who else was there? Malcom Mooney and Rick Brown.

And Sue Garner.

oh it's been discussed plenty, but i still haven't heard it!
that sounds like a good dinner party to be at ...

I picked up the reissues today. Annoying that the bonus tracks are MP3 downloads.

http://www.popmatters.com/review/the-feelies-only-life-time-for-a-witness/

They did that exact same thing with the Crazy Rhythms and the Good Earth reissues a few years back.

yeah it's a little annoying, but i guess that's just how they like to do it...
reissues sound gooood, but how could they not?

The last batch of Feelies reissues allowed the buyer to download WAV files of the whole album, including bonus tracks. Is that not the case here, or are the bonus tracks really only MP3?

huh I am almost positive that when I bought that Bar None reissue of Crazy Rhythms that the bonus trax were MP3-only, I tend to pay attention to that stuff and I only have it in my MP3 files.

that that that

The Feelies, Beach Fossils
FREE SHOW - July 18 – Monday – 6:00pm – Central Park, Manhattan
http://www.cityparksfoundation.org/event/summerstage-feelies-beach-fossils/

Nice. Saw them play last weekend for nearly 3 hours. Did Stooges, Television, Patti Smith and Modern Lovers covers as part of that.

which Television tune did they do -- "See No Evil"?

yup

Break after first set at Kingston show. No recognizable covers as yet.

Second set underway. Sound mix much improved.

Encore covers ended up being
"She Said, She Said"
"White Light/White Heat"
"Paint It Black"

Think they may have been put off by audience response (and perhaps curtailed show a tiny bit?)
At one point Brenda said "You know, you can talk between songs."

Nobody calling friends, "Guess where I am!", even? Makes me think of the audience in Blow-Up (and one of the decade or so later, mentioned on the Pylon thread, so classic Feelies era too, but maybe they were hoping not to see such an oil painting again).

Notebook mutterings from last year, dipping my toe in deep Feelies at tylwerw's splendid doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com, relevant section(s?) of which is and/or are linked upthread, I think:

Finally getting to these guys, via 1977-80 shows, also The Willies (AKA Feelies), and a recent Feelies performance on YouTube. The '77 set takes off, has to u-turn and grab me up (so far), but that it does; some later boxcar flotation zones me in and out later, a few Willies numbers are too shiny-happy for me, but more often than not, here be meditative momentum, even a few American Dancestand work-outs, and tendrils of sweet potato love in my cellar. The Willies version of "The Great Pretender," between Leggo, Eggo and regggae, has me chanting, "Duke, Duke, Duke." They know about Dick Dale's flaunted Lebanese heritage and why some Creem reviewer once mentioned that early solo Eno "plays synthesizer like the Ventures."

NYC encores were (maybe not in this exact order):

Astral Plane
Paint It Black

White Light / White Heat
Everybody’s Got Something to Hide ‘Cept for Me and My Monkey

See No Evil
Fa Ce La

haven't heard 'em do "astral plane" -- off to youtube!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0KOswC8aBE