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also, "Peeping Tom" is airsafe, only has the word "crap".

THE LEGEND GROWS

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/jul/17/tonetta-videos-youtube-johnny-dee

New old Tonettas on Black Tent's channel are really good. Singer songwritery sometimes with an island vibe.

I love this stuff, but the videos really distract you from how awesome the music is.

See sometimes I think he should have put out a DVD cuz the videos take it to the next level.

True or false: Tonetta LP mastered kind of low.

extremely true and extremely low. i have to have that thing dialed in at like noon

I had friends over and put it on and it was embarrassing.

Might not have been a problem with the mastering tbh

You mean it could be a problem with the source material or that I'd be embarrassed for another reason. I wasn't really embarrassed, by the way. That was an embellishment.

The CD sounds fine, though.

I just mean that Tonetta is some potentially extremely embarrassing music, jus kiddin around. My friend ordered the lp and I ripped the cd so that is what I've been listening to and I agree that it does sound fine, much better than the youtube rips. Haven't listened to the lp.

This is truly one of the great "outsider" music discoveries of a long time. Just when you thought there was nothing new under the sun...Album of the year potential, but it might technically be a reissue/comp.

so wait; there was only 500 pressed and they're still available? Can that be right?

anyways, i finally bought one.

I bought one too. It's not in many retail stores, Aquarius just got it and it was expensive. Still, it feels like it should be long gone by now

CD mastering sounds great, songs like 'Drugs Drugs Drugs' are a lot less lo-fi than you'd expect from the youtubes. track sequencing is great, it really sounds like an album, the only complaint I can come up with is that there are too many songs I dearly love that aren't on it

which is kind of the opposite of a complaint but anyone with an mp3 of 'skinheads vs me' feel free to take it to LMJ

doing that now

Skinheads is crewsh.

Devil Devil

holy shit

http://www.artistadvocacy.com/music/features/tonetta/

Are your friends and family aware of Tonetta?

They’re all aware of it, and I didn’t even tell them. The first time I went on YouTube, my nephew subscribed to me right away. He said “Hey congratulations, blah blah blah.” And after that he told my son, who is about 35 now. And then a couple of school buddies found out. My whole family and any friends I have, they all know.

Do they like it?

Well, they’re still listening. Except for my son, he doesn’t listen anymore. He doesn’t like what I’m doing. He likes the music, but he doesn’t like my method, seeing his father wearing a dress. He said, “You’re embarrassing me.” He can’t tell his friends “Hey, check out my dad on YouTube.” They’ll ask what I’m doing in a dress. I’ve been called so many things on YouTube, queer, fag. But I’m not, and that’s the crazy thing about it. They actually think I’m gay. I’ve got two boys and I was married. If I meet the right girl, I’ll get married again. I like pussy. If I have the choice, I’ll take tits. I like the female body. I’ve never been with guys.

So what was the inspiration for your songs about guys?

Well, for example, there’s this one called “Glory Hole” or something. This guy emailed me and asked if I could write a song about his experience. I never knew about that stuff until he told me. So I wrote the song about that, and he loved it. Some other guy said “Write me a song and make it as filthy as you want.” So I wrote “Gold and Brown Showers,” and that’s about piss and shit, and that’s never happened to me, but it makes a good song. Got a lot of people watching it. You can’t believe everything people write. Some of them are just nonsense songs. As for being with a guy, I’ve never been with a guy. I’ve got a whole bunch of guys who would want to be with me, but they’re not girls. So forget it.

thx 4 the link.

nice!

I do it because I don’t have anything else. I just do it in my apartment, you can hear the traffic and the noise, but that’s just the way it is. You do what you gotta do, that’s all. I don’t try to deliberately make a sound; that’s my sound because it’s all I have. But lately Dirk has been sending me a few little things. He sent me a fuzz machine and a drum machine. Everyone was complaining that the beat was the same. Well I only had that one beat programmed into my eight track, so I kept using that beat. Now I can switch the beat. I can’t tune the guitar because the guitar is too cheap, it just doesn’t tune. People complain, they say “Why don’t you tune your guitar?” Well, I can’t. I just wanted to share my music.

http://www.grandprofile.com/Myspace_Comments/Family_Comments/Brother_Comments/images/Bro-You-are-My-Hero.gif

aside from the piss n' shit stuff, this guy has some genuinely interesting lyrics: 'sex for bux, who got fucked? you, the girl, or the world', for example mentioned upthread

i think i really unironically love this guy

No one gives a fuck anymore.

why is he naked

from the interview linked above it really just sounds like he's naked cuz it's funny and weird

Not calling him a liar, but his insistence on heterosexuality kind of comes off as "PS-I've gotten with hot chicks as recently as just now."

i mean but who cares

no one gives a fuck anymore

i had a dream last night that brandon boyd was into piss n' shit

no more tonetta before bed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex2d_gXp-xg

this is astonishing on about 5 different levels and contains the best line of 2010 (WITH OR WITHOUT WE'RE TWO OF A KIND)

but whether he's really appropriating the gaga genderfuck as metaphor for his own enigmatic presence, or if he really just has the hots for lady gaga, wow

Looks like the fame is going straight to his gut.

the dance floor was indifferent to $Viral$

no-one gives a fuck any more

exactly. But then some nerd ran up to ask excitedly about Dee D Jackson and he was all like, "I think I have this. I just haven't played it before."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ug6994nDA4
POWER
YOU ERUPT MY VOLCANO
POWER

album does not disappoint. now matter how shitty the day, almost instantly puts me in a good mood

^^ OTM. easily my most listened to artist this year. only misgiving is that a lot of his stuff sounds the same. id love to hear him push his music a bit more with stuff e.g. that 'john and yoko' song.

Tonetta interview
http://www.hunterandcook.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_0006.jpg

secret penis nsfw

awesome interview.
this is pretty good btw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysGm6mvVnR4

Another lp is coming
http://blacktentpress.com/images/BlackTentPress-040.jpg
There's a seven inch, as well.
http://blacktentpress.com/artist/TONETTA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WEluBP2Kjg

this is giving me ~tonetta~ vibes

WHOA
http://cache0.bigcartel.com/product_images/29587837/BlackTentPress-044.jpg

"7 inch"

Do you have a link? Seriously, 7 inch? Not 2xlp?

Dear tiny little publishing company, do not fuck up on your LP mastering like last time. Hopefully the Jimmy buffety early sounding stuff makes it on here.

Also, tiny company, please get your price down somehow.

I was DJing in a massive art gallery on Saturday Night and one of the artists complained that the music was too corporate so I played 'Really Big Cock' by Tonetta. It was then suggested that maybe I just play Motown.

people are horrible