TS: Denny Lethargy VS. Denny Vertigo

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i've been mildly obsessed with these two bands on Buddha records. late 70s bluesy hard rock with a heavy does of funk. definitely has some dark, angular parts pretty reminiscent of early Killing Joke.

what say the mind of ILM?

― plain ol' jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh man, tough choice!

Some seriously good shit right there. I'd throw in an Iron Maiden comparison or two as well.

Great stuff.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:17 (eighteen years ago) link

lethargy kills

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Aja to thread!

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:17 (eighteen years ago) link

maybe i'm nuts, but on that one live album--the name of which escapes me--where they really stretch it out (no song under 8 minutes!), they remind me in places of the Allman Brothers but on ACID

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:19 (eighteen years ago) link

really the split of the band came around 77 when Lethargy wanted to start wearing stage makeup and do crazy stage shows whereas Vertigo just wanted to rock

― plain ol' jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:19 (eighteen years ago) link

or maybe on SPEED

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Acid laced with speed.

― pr00de descending a staircase (pr00de), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:20 (eighteen years ago) link

oh and the better band is Denny Vertigo, for the reasons jaxon noted, partially

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:20 (eighteen years ago) link

LETHARGY >>>>>>>>>>>>> VERTIGO

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Didn't Lethargy cover Patti Smith's "Dancing Barefoot"?

― max, Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:21 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah and Vertigo covered "california here i am" by shocking blue. therefore, pwnage

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Surely Denny Lethargy, my good fellows!

Fortuitous that this thread should arrive right now, as I have heard from a comrade in the industry that there is a new record in the works. Should be interesting, either way.

Robinson

― Robinson (Robinson), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:26 (eighteen years ago) link

My only question is: When oh when are the Sundazed comps springing forth from the loins of the reish gods. Goddamn I'm horny to hear the remasters.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:27 (eighteen years ago) link

gygax, i'm horny to hear your voice. where have you been my whole life

― plain ol' jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:31 (eighteen years ago) link

Seriously though, I am surprised that there aren't more threads on Denny. This stuff seems kinda custom-made for ILM, no?

The more I think about it, Lethargy AND Vertigo are the ONLY bands that truly deserve the tag of "rock band".

There's that 3-song run on the blue record that could even pass as a 12" on Areal or Border Community.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:31 (eighteen years ago) link

VERTIGO >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> LETHARGY

on the basis of "solar cock" alone

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:34 (eighteen years ago) link

the synth hook on "solar cock" is fucking weak dude
quit smokin

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:35 (eighteen years ago) link

I can't believe the moronic salivatation over the fetid pabulum that is the first Denny Lethargy EP.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:37 (eighteen years ago) link

you're not the only one who thinks it's a synth, and not the only person who is wrong

you quit smokin, X-POST

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:37 (eighteen years ago) link

suck on my burning bile gygax you aborted fetus

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:38 (eighteen years ago) link

(xp) it's a synth sample and a weak one at that

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:38 (eighteen years ago) link

abreu i think you're the only one who thinks lethargy is even in the same league as vertigo

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:39 (eighteen years ago) link

No, I agree. But then *I* would.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:40 (eighteen years ago) link

it's a zither played through an early morpheloper! grow one ear

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:41 (eighteen years ago) link

I think anyone who prefers Vertigo should be catapulted by the testicles into a lava-hot Mexico City sewer to fester for all eternity.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:41 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah yeah yeah whatever
can we talk about the mike phillips guest spot on the last track of amblin'
is there a better lethargy song than this?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:42 (eighteen years ago) link

All you little revisionists can lie to yourselves that Vertigo re-invented the wheel with their fourth-rate hairfarmer pabulum for all I care --- just don't sully Lethargy's good name in doing so.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:43 (eighteen years ago) link

Don't profane this thread any longer, or I'll have to get all upset and spray violent invective all over the place like some demonic lawn-sprinkler of vituperation, and that's just going to ruin my otherwise sunny mood.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:44 (eighteen years ago) link

I can't remember. Which one of these guys was in Sha Na Na?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Did anyone catch Denny on the Blue Oyster Cult Behind the Music? (new season, w00t!) He looks like crap. The glass eye looks pretty realistic, though.

― pr00de descending a staircase (pr00de), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:46 (eighteen years ago) link

didn't yo la tengo cover a lethargy song during an fmu pledge drive?

― and I can walk out into the world, singing with my people (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:46 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah I saw that, after a yawnsome "interview" with that cow from "Will & Grace." The new single is crap, though. The "rap" towards the end of it literally made my fuckin' skin crawl.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:47 (eighteen years ago) link

more lethargy talk

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:47 (eighteen years ago) link

xpost -- my bad. not a morpheloper. not even sure those exist now yet! it's definitely a Mutron III on the Vertigo

anyways,

Lead is the parody of gold
Air is the parody of water
Brain is the parody of the equator
Coitus is the parody of crime

I Am The Sun
Solar Cock!
I Am The Sun
Solar Cock!

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:47 (eighteen years ago) link

SOLAR COCK!

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:49 (eighteen years ago) link

I thought it was "I am the one / solar cock" ?? do you have the album sleeve

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:49 (eighteen years ago) link

I know a guy who SWEARS that he has an entire unreleased Lethargy album that he keeps threatening to boot. he still won't burn me a copy though. idiot.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:50 (eighteen years ago) link

A fatuous Dick Nazi who shames my surname reviewed Solar Cock for Rolling Stone and he should be repeatedly bludgeoned with a tire-iron for the Smashmouth comparison (actually, it's an accusation, not a comparison).

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:50 (eighteen years ago) link

definitely 'sun', it's a bataille reference

man this song rules. I'm totally about to get fired.

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Blink 182 covered "Solar Cock" on one of their Australian-only EP's. They tried to do that "synth" line with a harmony overdub.

It wasn't very good, as you could imagine.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Cheese monkeys.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:52 (eighteen years ago) link

some douchebag i know apparently thought denny lethargy sounded like blue cheer. i later discovered he had never even HEARD blue cheer, he was just some asshole with an MC5 shirt

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:52 (eighteen years ago) link

someone post the amblin' cover
the wolf looks totally gnar

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:52 (eighteen years ago) link

Lethargy is VON LMO's cousin or something, I think.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:52 (eighteen years ago) link

xpost, jesus fuck. of course I have the album sleeve, you fucking child (though I don't have amblin')

I heard that about von lmo too... makes sense...

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:54 (eighteen years ago) link

i kind of like this mike phillips pic
http://www.sdsystems.com/news/mike%20phillips.jpg

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:55 (eighteen years ago) link

i swear i heard some unreleased Eve track on a mixtape somewhere where she samples the synth-line from solar cock!

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:56 (eighteen years ago) link

Did You Know:

Denny Vertigo was the original drummer for Hendrix before he went to the UK?

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:56 (eighteen years ago) link

Has anyone heard that Vertigo b-sides comp? Sort've cringe-worthy in spots, but the GODLIKE "Avalokitesvara Sutra" is essential listening for anyone in possession of a functioning cerebral cortex.

― max, Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:57 (eighteen years ago) link

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What's this I hear about a Junk Sessions dvd?

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Monday, 31 July 2006 19:32 (seventeen years ago) link

: O

― gear (gear), Monday, 31 July 2006 19:34 (seventeen years ago) link

i love "astral milk-fed ganglia"--

def a huge influence on zappa's uncle meat

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 31 July 2006 21:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I heard that Vertigo challenged Frank to a gross out contest and won.

― Marmot 4-Tay: The root cause of dragon hatred among power metal bands. (marmotwo, Monday, 31 July 2006 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link

(Mike - Junk Sessions DVD should be out within the coming year on Plexifilm. It's not listed yet, but keep checking the site!
http://www.plexifilm.com/dvds.html)

― Marmot 4-Tay: The root cause of dragon hatred among power metal bands. (marmotwo, Monday, 31 July 2006 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v216/sexymollusk/COSMICNIPPLELP.jpg

saw this at the record store the other day, used on CD for $3. should i pick it up? its from 1994 apparently. is recent Vertigo any good?

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 5 August 2006 06:29 (seventeen years ago) link

dude go back and get it before it's gone, that shit it hard to come by. even if you don't like it (and it's not easy to digest, frankly) you can mos def sell it to some japanese dude for $300.

― gear (gear), Saturday, 5 August 2006 19:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Is that the one with Zakir Hussain on tabla and Billy Cobham on drums?

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 5 August 2006 19:39 (seventeen years ago) link

There's this live Guns N Roses bootleg I've got from 2002 and on "Get In the Ring", Axl Rose calls Denny a "typeface robbin' little bitch". I've always assumed that he was talking about the Cosmic Nipple cover. Pretty weird that he would hold that grudge for so long.

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Saturday, 5 August 2006 20:47 (seventeen years ago) link

That feud goes back to a 1989 interview where Vertigo claimed that GnR had ripped off the riff for "Mr Brownstone" from "Monkey Nut Sundae".

― Son of Spam (noodle vague), Saturday, 5 August 2006 20:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Axl can be quite sensitive about his fonts.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Saturday, 5 August 2006 20:51 (seventeen years ago) link

one year passes...

Denny V. just released an ep of Smashing Pumpkins covers. Pretty decent.

― Mike Dixn, Friday, 28 September 2007 19:17 (sixteen years ago) link

Oh right, "Crying Tree of Mercury," "The Pistachio Medley," "The Beginning is the Middle is the Something Or Other" and "17."

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 28 September 2007 19:19 (sixteen years ago) link

If it were anyone else, I'd say that's a pretty odd selection, but I can actually kind of imagine those first two at least with the trademark Vertigo touch.

― jaymc, Friday, 28 September 2007 19:22 (sixteen years ago) link

And yet not without a certain je nai sais quoi that is best defined as the early 21st century's crisis of sonic confidence.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 28 September 2007 19:26 (sixteen years ago) link

The hidden track is a surprisingly faithful rendition of "Disarm".
Could he be taunting Denny Lethargy, in light of his accident a few months back?

― Mike Dixn, Friday, 28 September 2007 19:34 (sixteen years ago) link

The mishap with the Segway? Yeah, that was embarrassing.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 28 September 2007 19:37 (sixteen years ago) link

I don't know why were skirting round the recent news. I mean i can't be the only one surprised by Verigo's profession of hardcore militant pescetarianism? How is it going to affect his work? And his live performances?

― Frogman Henry, Friday, 28 September 2007 19:46 (sixteen years ago) link

this is the cover for the new album.

http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/9694/jumpthesharknx0.jpg

― jaxon, Friday, 28 September 2007 19:48 (sixteen years ago) link

Denny V. just released an ep of Smashing Pumpkins covers. Pretty decent.

-- Mike Dixn, Friday, September 28, 2007 7:17 PM (37 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

that is ADVANCED

― latebloomer, Friday, 28 September 2007 19:55 (sixteen years ago) link

If "Silverfuck" is on the EP, that would be awesome.

It will be very strange to hear Vertigo covering such a blatantly Vertigo-influenced song. The universe will collapse in on itself or something in a singularity of AWESOME.

― latebloomer, Friday, 28 September 2007 20:01 (sixteen years ago) link

this is the only thing I've found from his deep trance period, sorry it cuts off but it's taken from a mix CD on Moonshine Music

http://www.sendspace.com/file/35a7qj

― Milton Parker, Friday, 28 September 2007 20:24 (sixteen years ago) link

did Vertigo ever get off the ground with that private moonshot thing?

― gabbneb, Friday, 28 September 2007 20:30 (sixteen years ago) link

I heard a new track of Vertigo's the other day called "Let It Go (You Guys)".

― jeff, Friday, 28 September 2007 20:31 (sixteen years ago) link

The lyrics to that one were particularly fine.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 28 September 2007 20:35 (sixteen years ago) link

there's another one too released not too long ago (mp3-only track): "If U Don't Like It, Just Leave U Punk"

― latebloomer, Friday, 28 September 2007 20:36 (sixteen years ago) link

very funky number.

― latebloomer, Friday, 28 September 2007 20:37 (sixteen years ago) link

I hear it's even funkier than "Tuck'em In Already" (Lethargy's version of "Fuck 'Em If They Can't Take A Joke").

― Mike Dixn, Friday, 28 September 2007 21:07 (sixteen years ago) link

five months pass...

oh yes love both : )

― Klaus Krück, Thursday, 27 March 2008 17:35 (sixteen years ago) link

three months pass...

Been blasting "Solar Cock" this morning. Still sounds good!

― admrl, Friday, 18 July 2008 20:33 (fifteen years ago) link

Working is an incredible challenge
A kind of vertical division
Let it resonate within your sacred space
I'm going to fuck you until your voice goes away
We come from the same place
I can't bear it any longer woman
You're Vertigoing Insane

-- milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, August 24, 2005 11:23 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Link

― admrl, Friday, 18 July 2008 20:40 (fifteen years ago) link

I heard a new track of Vertigo's the other day called "Let It Go (You Guys)".

-- jeff, Friday, September 28, 2007 4:31 PM (9 months ago) Bookmark Link

― and what, Friday, 18 July 2008 20:44 (fifteen years ago) link

reunion tour gonna be so devisive

― latebloomer, Friday, 18 July 2008 20:49 (fifteen years ago) link

seven months pass...

remember denny vertigo's faux-angry blog post about the U2 song 'vertigo', claiming it was inspired by him and therefore he deserved royalties?

― pro bowl was fun (omar little), Wednesday, 25 February 2009 20:07 (fifteen years ago) link

great revive. was thinking about vertigo this week.

― cutty, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 20:07 (fifteen years ago) link

and i'm not sure that blog post was faux-angry. dude seemed angry-angry.

― cutty, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 20:08 (fifteen years ago) link

Not sure how seriously you can take a guy who once tried to sue Denny's, tho.

― aging very well, fer sure (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 25 February 2009 20:09 (fifteen years ago) link

i guess i thought it was along the lines of the donald fagen "cease and desist" open letter to owen wilson re: "you me and dupree"? i could have misread it.

― pro bowl was fun (omar little), Wednesday, 25 February 2009 20:09 (fifteen years ago) link

how many people have sued denny's over chronic food-poisoning i wonder?
i bet a year as a trucker would strengthen my stomach to a serious degree. but i digress.

― ian, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 20:11 (fifteen years ago) link

is "max" upthread our very own max? in 2005?

― cutty, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 20:12 (fifteen years ago) link

^^ was just wondering this. denny was a lot of ppl's way into ilm, at least in the old days.

― goole, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 20:14 (fifteen years ago) link

No surprise there. Dude has a cult fanbase.

― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Wednesday, 25 February 2009 20:16 (fifteen years ago) link

one year passes...

“sludge blues” music on Last.fm

Top Artists

* Denny Lethargy
* PJ Harvey
* Soundgarden

― ('_') (omar little), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 06:56 (thirteen years ago) link

more "blues-sludge" than sludge blues imo

― lord goo goo (latebloomer), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 08:09 (thirteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

i have no memory of contributing to this thread

― max, Thursday, 16 September 2010 08:11 (thirteen years ago) link

but i was pretty fucked up back when i was heavy into denny lethargy

― max, Thursday, 16 September 2010 08:12 (thirteen years ago) link

four months pass...

christopher lloyd's guest star role on fringe last week blatantly based on Vertigo/Lethargy

violet sedan chair = purple car seat

― the size of Snow's skin pistol (latebloomer), Monday, 24 January 2011 02:50 (thirteen years ago) link

some douchebag i know apparently thought denny lethargy sounded like blue cheer. i later discovered he had never even HEARD blue cheer, he was just some asshole with an MC5 shirt

― gear (gear), Wednesday, August 24, 2005 10:52 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark

oooooh i know the type!

― not everything is a campfire (ian), Monday, 24 January 2011 02:56 (thirteen years ago) link

one year passes...

86.

Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine that Vertigo would have a cupcake Tumblr.

― Michael Daddino, Monday, 6 August 2012 04:21 (eleven years ago) link

eight months pass...

"denny lethargy"

About 3,180 results (0.25 seconds)

"denny vertigo"

About 5,310 results (0.13 seconds)

― christmas candy bar (al leong), Thursday, 25 April 2013 03:16 (eleven years ago) link

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