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SWA were awful...as are teh doorz

― ddb (ddb), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Karl Hendricks Trio: "Chuck Dukowski Was Confused"

― jack cole (jackcole), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Jack,

The Doors made, what, six great albums? And it was, you know, full-blown MUSIC, as opposed to goofin'? Godz were brilliant, but there's no comparison in the overall scope of the two bandz!

IMO!!!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Godz are great

― Red Panda Sanskrit (ex machina), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

who had a better belly?

Jim Morrison or Meatloaf?

― jack cole (jackcole), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

John Lennon got a little overweight in '65. Morrison could've made a comeback--I don't think he got that overweight. He still looks pretty good in that picture of him waving in Paris not too long before he died (you know the one I mean?).

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

the tight leather pants probably make him seem fatter.

who is the most overweight musician that you like?

― jack cole (jackcole), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

MEATROAF

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 12 August 2004 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I LOVE the screaming trees ca. their SST era. i saw them in tijuana in 1990 and i got to a)drink legally and b)talk to van conner about corvette summer which pretty much made my freshman year.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 12 August 2004 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I love Mama Cass' voice. Also: ZOOGZ RIFT!!!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 12 August 2004 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I saw the Screaming Trees in '88 or so. They were wearin' tie-dyeds. I liked 'em.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 12 August 2004 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

By the way, if any of youse want to participate in Music Chamber's new Rate-a-Record feature, send me an email shout-out. You get a tape in the mail with ten unidentified songs and you have to rate them on a 0-100 scale and comment on them (you can speculate on who it is, if you like). Comments can just be emailed to me.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 12 August 2004 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

ZOOGZ RIFT has problems man

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 12 August 2004 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Da, but brilliant. I wish I could play his version of Freddie and the Dreamers' "I'm Telling You Now" (from the 1990 Nutritionally Sound CD on Trigon) for you all right now...

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 12 August 2004 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Tim you should just host the MP3s!!!

What is this 1993?!?!?!

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 12 August 2004 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha, it's about 1993 for me as far as my computer skillz and ability to "host mp3s" goes! Do I need to buy any software to do this?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 12 August 2004 18:51 (twenty-one years ago)

MP3 BLOG!

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 12 August 2004 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Tim: obviously you've never heard of Matthew Perpetua, the inventor of the MP3 blog...

do you use PC or Mac?

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 12 August 2004 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

INVENTOR-CORE

― ddb (ddb), Thursday, 12 August 2004 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Mac. Mebbe I could put mp3s on my blog.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 12 August 2004 19:08 (twenty-one years ago)

you just need to upload them to a webstorage "host" (i think your earthlink account may have a few dozen MBs set aside for you). Then take the MP3s, remove the ID tags and upload them with using a freeware FTP client (maybe IAN/JON can help with this, i haven't done this in years). on your blog, all you would have to do is link to the file location and your blogreaders can download and listen to the tracks w/o postage expense/time...

just an idea, plus you'd look so suave doing this, your friends and family will think you're a dotcom ceo.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 12 August 2004 19:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks, g!.

More bass playaz: Chris Hillman ca. 5D and Younger than Yesterday. Plus:

ROCKETTE MORTON

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 12 August 2004 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)

oh hey, I just saw this thread. I'm new to this bored.

I only ever read one issue of Rock Mag but I liked it a lot. It was the one with the ELP as "No Wave" article. That was a hoot.

Also it had that really kick-ass Alan Licht piece about Easter Everywhere. That guy should do more writing.

ok, bye!

― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Thursday, 12 August 2004 21:11 (twenty-one years ago)

4lan Licht is a Prince among Morris Days. He'd be a great addition to teh noizzz3 brd.

anyone have his email?

― ddb (ddb), Thursday, 12 August 2004 22:05 (twenty-one years ago)

"Rockette Morton takes off again into the wind! What do you run on Rockette Morton? (say: 'beans')."

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Thursday, 12 August 2004 22:22 (twenty-one years ago)

"I run on laser beans."

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 12 August 2004 22:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Tim,
A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous, got me?
Fast and bulbous!
That's right The Mascara Snake, fast and boulbous. Also, a tin teardrop.
Bulbous, also tapered.

You need a fly's eye to see it,
Aaron

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Thursday, 12 August 2004 23:35 (twenty-one years ago)

hpencil has alan licht's email address.

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Friday, 13 August 2004 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

TIM,

WHAT THE HELL HAS CHRIS WOO BEEN UP TO??!?!?!?!?!?!

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 13 September 2004 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I think he's more interested in doing photography. He's had a couple of shows here recently. There was supposed to be a third issue of Titanium Expose, but I wouldn't imagine that it's going to happen. I don't know if he's doing any music writing right now.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 13 September 2004 22:31 (twenty-one years ago)

If you talk to him, tell him hello from a fan in SF!

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 13 September 2004 22:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Word.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 13 September 2004 22:36 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

Tim,

Haha, I just read the SMiLE thread... Dude, that is what's called the OLD ILM PROTECTION PROGRAM. Good riddance, yet they all lurk anyway. Even here too.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Thx, g!.

Btw, I talked to Chris Woo last week and I gave him your greeting. He was trying to figure out who you were. Did you ever play in Physics?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha, no but I saw one of their first shows!

Chris posted a little bit on sp0ckm0rgu3 last week coincidentally enough, I hadn't seem him on there before that.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

Tim, are you a good guitarist? How would you describe your style?

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 22:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Mmm, I think I have some capacity. I practiced scales a lot for a while when I was an undergrad studying music.

I guess what I'm interested most in doing is playing raunchy rhythm guitar, but with a clean tube amp sound like, say, Velvet Underground/Pretty Things/Yardbirds/early Captain Beefheart/etc. Soloing, I'm interested in doing more abstract things like, say, Yardbirds era Beck/Page, but sometimes I just go for doing more melodic stuff, trying to maintain high energy (with fuzztone or without). A lot of the Nephews stuff was garage oriented, but with a heavier overdrive sound.

I played a lot of the fuzztone parts in the Music Machine.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 23:59 (twenty-one years ago)

What about your guitar playing, g!?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:04 (twenty-one years ago)

well i'm not very good (and habitually out of practice) but i've been doing lots of country blues style finger picking... claw handshape and double thumb picking... a lot of open G. electric stuff, i've been listening to play a lot of soo young park's stuff in bitch magnet and seam, and treyops and justin's stuff in pitchblende... i think those guys probably shaped my guitar consciousness more than anyone else.

Can you play the "Over Under Upside Down"/"Happenings..." stuff from the later live Yardbirds? Intense!

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know if I quite UNDERSTAND how Beck does the phrasing on something like the riff in "Over Under Sideways Down" or how that descending chromatic rhythm guitar line in "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago" was done! And I can't improvise as well as those guys.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:24 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, sorry for muffling up the titles... that's great stuff. i went through a phase of attempting to play that style combined with stuff like beefheart's "moonlight on vermont" and "owed t'alex", and realized that clawhammer was doing it better than i ever could.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I also like some of the Turkish guys a lot like Erkin Koray and Baris Manco.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Do you like Bola Sete?

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:35 (twenty-one years ago)

oh man, that riff to "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago" is so gnarly.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I've never heard Bola Sete.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:47 (twenty-one years ago)

despite our differences concerning paul mccartney, can we please still be cyber-chums?

sincerely,
jack "the butter knife" cole

― jack cole (jackcole), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 04:31 (twenty-one years ago)

HOLLA

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

Tim, did you ever go to any "TGs"??????~?~?!?!?!?!?!?!?

What was your favorite one?

GET ONE TRITON

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 3 March 2005 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah...occasionally. I remember a Mojo Nixon one. There was an SST fest on the gym steps once--had to have been before you started, though, gygax, I would imagine. Firehose and Screaming Trees and Lawndale and I can't remember who else.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 3 March 2005 21:17 (twenty-one years ago)

do you still have your old postpunk records?

where do you keep them? in the garage?

― kippax lad, ls? (gareth), Friday, 4 March 2005 19:39 (twenty-one years ago)

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timmy, tell me about the George Harrison album Gone Troppo. it get's pretty shitty reviews, but this review makes it sound like i might like it. i mean at least the new wave aspects:

Generally overlooked in the ex-Beatle's solo discography, 1982's GONE TROPPO finds George Harrison flirting with radio-friendly, synth-driven pop hooks of the early-1980s, while still demonstrating his penchant for great, timeless melodies. The opener, "Wake Up My Love," establishes the light, breezy tone of the album, which continues through the Caribbean-via-Fab Four vibe of the title track. The languid love song "Unknown Delight" and the goofy doo-wop of "I Really Love You," which recalls Beatles novelty numbers such as "You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)," vary the record's feel and pace. The 2004 reissue includes an acoustic demo version of the song "Mystical One," which is arguably--given its intimacy and stripped-down production--the album's strongest track.

― jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

I think Tim devoted an entire issue to Gone Troppo, I have it at home (but I don't think you read?).

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

i don't know how to read. sheesh. way to rub it in

― jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

dude, i'm pretty sure you told me that you don't read!

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

all i do all day long is read. fucking ILX.

i just have a short attention span. i do a lot of magazine reading. but i just finished Sedaris's Naked. first non-music book i've read since i moved to SF i think.

― jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

check your email, you only included half of what you were supposed to send.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I love that album, Jaxon. "Wake up My Love" is probably the only really new wave track. His other really cool new wave track is "Blood from a Clone" on Somewhere in England - not the best of those albums but certainly worth a dollar or two. Gone Troppo is a cool sounding record in general, though, with good songs. Also his wackiest album.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 00:36 (nineteen years ago)

i just want another McCartney II

WHAT ELSE SOUNDS LIKE MCCARTNEY II???!!!

― jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 02:22 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, nothing I know of. Are you familiar with the story about how it was originally a double album that was edited down? There is this bootleg that purports to be the original album sequencing:

http://www.maccafan.net/Bootlegs/TheLostMcCartneyAlbum/lost.htm

I have the old vinyl bootleg version.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 02:58 (nineteen years ago)

alright, that's just plain mean. i thought that was gonna be a link to download it. I NEED THAT!

― jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 03:30 (nineteen years ago)

GAWDDAMN YOU. ONE OF THE FEW LINKS I FOUND TALKING ABOUT THIS ALBUM IS THIS

― jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 03:37 (nineteen years ago)

for Tim:
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.tv/tree/browse_frm/month/1998-06/b4fc536a5e19c6c8?rnum=21&_done=%2Fgroup%2Frec.arts.tv%2Fbrowse_frm%2Fmonth%2F1998-06%3F

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 04:48 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

Tim,

I ask that you watch this:
http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=1c2845b36680a6dc97d85b9505b3c303.737019

Steve

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 16 September 2006 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

cute little nipper. i will show this to lucy!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 17 September 2006 00:15 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

TIM

DO NOT SWEAT THAT SHIT ON YOUR THREADS. CONSIDER THE SOURCE: WHINY MISERABLE COMPLAINING KOOKS.

RISE ABOVE DUDE!

STEVE SHASTA

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 23:21 (nineteen years ago)

link pls

― chaki (chaki), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 23:23 (nineteen years ago)

^^cosign w/ shasta

that thread was good until other people started posting on it.

― HUNTA-V (vahid), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 23:35 (nineteen years ago)

also marcello is just pissy because verso didn't want to publish his 3,000 word plus ramblings on obscure+lame motown recs

― HUNTA-V (vahid), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 23:37 (nineteen years ago)

Love you guys. It's the Sgt. Pepper thread, Chaki.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 23:46 (nineteen years ago)

marcello called me subliterate once because i didn't agree with some nonsense he was spouting. whatever!

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 00:22 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

tim....

after 26 years i've turned over a new leaf and decided that i like rem. what's their best record keeping in mind that i hate what's the frequency kenneth?

― chaki (chaki), Friday, 12 January 2007 10:23 (nineteen years ago)

Chronic Town EP

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 12 January 2007 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

http://991.com/newgallery//REM-Reckoning-109883.jpg

― a_p (a_p), Friday, 12 January 2007 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

chronic town/murmur/reckoning

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Friday, 12 January 2007 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

i like everything until green. i could never listen to green or anything after it though.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 12 January 2007 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, chronic town/murmur/reckoning. preferably on vinyl, i would think.

― Tim Ellison = NUMBER ONE ADVOCATE OF YOU-KNOW-WHAT ON NU-ILX!!! (Tim Ellison), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

five years pass...

what's the last SD show you went to?

have you been to himalayan cuisine?

― the late great, Tuesday, 31 July 2012 06:11 (thirteen years ago)

six years pass...

Hola Tim,

I was listening to a podcast that mentioned that Night Soil Man for undisclosed reasons that 2 members of the band refused to talk about.

A quick perusal of the LA Times site circa 1990 mentions that The Pulltoys singer Scott Ireland broke his neck during a video shoot. NSM singer Rosebud was romantically involved with Scott but no idea why those dudes would refuse to mention anything about this accident on the podcast 25 years later.

Do you have the scoop?

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 10 August 2018 01:21 (seven years ago)

"... a podcast that mentioned that Night Soil Man BROKE UP for undisclosed reasons ..."

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 10 August 2018 01:22 (seven years ago)

one year passes...

HÜSKER PÖLL: Warehouse - Songs and Stories

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 20 June 2020 22:05 (five years ago)

one month passes...

Hope you are okay, Tim, wondering why you never appear on the Emitt Rhodes thread.

― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 August 2020 02:19 (five years ago)

WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU ORDERED FROM ALBERTO'S?

pouring 1 out for all the -bertos this week

https://www.kpbs.org/news/2020/jul/30/matriarch-robertos-taco-shop-dies/

― the burrito that defined a generation, Sunday, 2 August 2020 23:45 (five years ago)

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