Favourite SST Release of... 1985

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sA1pP4RG98

^ I can't believe I had never seen this huge SST pile-up before

i have actually

the real answer is WURM

so apparently Angst played Boston quite a bit and Frank Black was their #1 superfan...pretty interesting to listen to Lite Life with that in mind, there are things that stick out as total Pixies moves he copped from them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvp6ttWM7Jg

Coincidentally a friend and I were just discussing SST a week ago and I mentioned Angst and he told me this same fact! I probably haven’t heard lite life in almost thirty years.

Did they do a tour supporting Meat Puppets in 87. I know they were on at the Clarendon ballroom at the London debut.
I don't think I payed them much attention which may have been an oversight. Just don't remember being impressed.

Think they supported dinosaur Jr on their first uk date too?

can't have been first, that was the ULU support for Primal Scream that had a tear gas cannister released by some girl in the audience. 3rd band on bill was Boy Hairdresser who begat Teenage Fanclub
2nd was Clarendon Ballroom and I can't think who else was on the bill.
It was around the same time roughly though I think though next Meat Puppets gig was the night of the storm in October so that's a month earlier. ULU Dinosaur was 26th November, I think Klub Foot next night. Also thought there was a while between Meat Puppets playing Clarendon and the Marquee in which they had played some of Europe.

To clear this up, Angst supported Dinosaur Jr at the Clarendon on 27/11/1987. Yes I kept a record of every gig I went to back then. Also on the bill: The Purple Things.

I can see how a live setting would have pushed this material past the thin singing, which makes the Meat Puppets' crooning sound as smooth as Sinatra. And wow, so many phrasing and transition ideas that Frank Black seems to have internalized, both with the riffs and the vocalizing.

Now wondering if I was confusing 2 gigs at the same venue in about 2 months. I was picturing that as Meat Puppets maybe it was Dinosaur anyway. I know it wasn't the debut cs they let me in through a window for that one I think. Had seen Dinosaur a couple of times in NY and Hoboken the summer of the year before. They had added the Jr in the interim apparently.

ah thanks for that Matt #2! impressed that you both went - i really wanted to go but my mum wouldn't let me go up to london by myself :(

stevolende that teargas thing sounds nuts!

am sure i've posted this before but this clip of angst is great and the only bit of film i've ever seen of them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjV0HtVsQWU

they sound like a country version of straitjacket fits or something

Meat Puppets got stuck with Lightning Strikes at Klub Foot and what appear to be a couple of little known indie bands. Hard Rain and Kingfisher Catch Fire,
IU think Lightning Strikes were an identikit punk band verging on metal.

Marquee wound up with them getting a generic metal band called something like Headmistress.

I'll probably find out taht all of thsoe bands were stepping stones for further longterm musical careers or not as the case may be.

Tear gas thing was indeed crazy, all of audience had to be filed out of the venue. Apparently McGee chased teh girl who let off the cannister halfway across the neighborhood. Then he lost her. I know I heard more of the story than I was aware of at the time later on. But not sure f that was a public source or something said to me.
Primal Scream were just going into a Detroit hard rock thing that I don't think suited them taht brilliantly. I don't think Gillespie has a very strong voice though I do enjoy what they were doing with sound a decade later, but that could be the players and sound manipulation as much. I think he may know a lot about music but not one of my favourite frontmen.
I think guitarist at the time left shortly after and formed Spirea X.

i hope that mcgee was chasing the girl to offer her a contract, cos that is way more rock'n'roll than some of the shite he put out on creation

Spot must have really pissed off Husker Du during the making of New Day Rising

I remember talk about Flaming Lips playing in Camden around the time of the Meat puppets debut at that debut. Not sure if that was a debut and not sure if they made it back to London for a long while after. I missed the gig and think I only just saw them for the first time last year.

Marquee wound up with them getting a generic metal band called something like Headmistress.

Getting a little off-topic here but the Meat Puppets support at the Marquee were Headmaster, a vile Van Halen/Benatar ripoff who as I recall it attempted a singalong in their last song ("Oh yeah!") to the deafening sound of (tumblin') tumbleweeds. Excruciating! That's what you'd get at that stupid venue back then though for support acts.

Did anyone ever actually see Zoogz Rift play?

the kids said rock!!!!

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

haha thats awful, but at the same time its made me very nostalgic. purest essence of marquee rawk

I remember a terrible glam metal band called the Dirt Merchants opening for Pussy Galore in L.A. in 1989. Similar sort of "who's available to play on Monday night?" feeling.

if you play in a local band you get stuck on all kinds of weird bills

at that point in LA it was probably "who's willing to pay the most to open for Pussy Galore"

I absolutely fucking love "Love Dissolves" on that Angst album and hope one day to like more of it

I kind of think YES, cos I think we need a definitive answer on the Jambang vs Mojack question.

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u&k q imo

Did anyone ever actually see Zoogz Rift play?

I was at this show, but don't remember a thing about ZR

https://hardcoreshowflyers.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/hsf000028.jpg

I would not have imagined ZR played out a lot.

Full disclosure I listened to Island of Living Puke about a hundred times in the late 80s

Full disclosure I wore the grooves clean on Always August "Largeness With (W)holes" in 1987 or so