Monster Magnet

ha, I was one of those guys in the basement

there were more than three or four of us, but me + 3 other guys probably generated 50% of it so

it depended on the release but those cool beans tapes did decent business through jack's and blowyourselfup. I'm sure some of the bands with local followings like laughing soup dish did pretty well.

otm re: tim as all-time-great record store clerk. "if you don't like this, I'll buy it back from you." the guy was hugely influential on my musical education. he's actually in chasing amy, stocking the shelves in the record store scene.

Monster Magnet is one of my Top 10 All-Time Bands so huge bong-tokin' grin at Mastermind. I still wear my Dopes To Infinity tour shirt weekly but almost didn't care anymore after the last few. currently Diggin' That Hole \m/

there was another clerk who worked with tim when i first started going to jack's, whose tastes were a lot more poppy, and they used to fight over how i should spent my money. "you need this sex clark five album." "no, no, what you really need is this scratch acid record." i needed that balance in my life. i learned a lot from the two of them.

that would be gary

he and tim started cool beans

yes, gary, that's it. thank you!

Interview w/Dave Wyndorf (part 1 of 2; the rest, including Wyndorf talking about Hawkwind, will be posted on Thursday)

I'm sure some of the bands with local followings like laughing soup dish did pretty well.

Ha, I got a request for these dudes on my show once. Couldn't find their records though.

dave's wrong, he's a great drummer

xp

Tim's still at Jack's and also currently in an excellent band called The Ribeye Bros along with some Magnet alums. Excellent, straight up garage rock with really good and funny lyrics.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs444.ash2/71727_1615896193108_1107423051_31715939_2434131_n.jpg

Having finally heard that early demo cassette Edward rightly praises above, it's pretty great to hear that legendary Freddie Hubbard rant used as a sample.

I've had 'Space Lord' (& all of Powertrip, really, but especially that) on constant rotation lately & I'd been thinking "how in the hell, at a time when White Zombie could fill stadiums, was this not a gigantic single?" And so I looked it up & it turns out it actually kinda was, in its own modest way:

The song peaked at number three on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Songs chart..The music video is notable for being the first video ever aired on MTV's Total Request Live on September 14, 1998.

I guess I just wasn't paying any sort of attention at the time! At any rate, it is a JAM

this band totally rules btw

Scharpling interviews Dave for ninety minutes. Absolutely a must listen... http://www.lowtimespodcast.com/lt_episodes/009/

Aw man, his story about playing Norman Mailer's place is hilarious!

I heard "Teenage Negasonic Warhead" for the first time in ages and was struck that it was a major cop of "Tales of Brave Ulysses" by Cream. Or am I insane?

I'M SO FUCKING STOOOOONED

if satan lived in heaven he'd be me

Scharpling interview was so great. Totally like listening to any old Jersey dude except he saw good bands and had an interesting life.

watching this right now and it's kinda blowing my mind! :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=CpmTYVqe1Ig

I mean, wow, right? that vid is crazy stupid rock dumbshit in a bottle, absolutely amazing!

wow, that starts out like a good cover/version of "spine of god", but by the end, holy shit

19 years before hanging with marilyn manson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ipU93aDQiw

awesome, thanks EIII

lead singer in that clip is Daniel Rey, who produced and co-wrote much of the best late-period Ramones stuff.

You mean guitarist?

Sorry, yeah. That's exactly what I meant.

that scharpling interview is awesome. even if you couldn't give two shits about monster magnet, there's great stuff on the 60s/70s music scene, early NYC punk, the similarities between hawkwind and the ramones, etc. I'm 30 minutes in and they haven't even started talking about monster magnet yet.

kinda weird listening to this thing cuz I grew up around the corner from dave, and I spent a lot of evenings in that exact kitchen having the same convos with him. and y'know I still haven't heard most of these chestnuts, he's a bottomless pit of wry observation and batshit rocklife stories.

john mcbain has been throwing up some MM rarities on his soundcloud

http://soundcloud.com/john-mcbain/mm-murder-court-tavern-1991

including the greatness that is CHIGGER

http://soundcloud.com/john-mcbain/chigger-chigger-alive-live-at

speaking of throw up

Nice!

high school me can be heard on them donuts are talkin' to me... I'll never tell where tho

wow, thanks for the heads up, EIII!

np

so, is everything my mm as fucking brilliant as 'monolithic' ?

i cant get enough of this track ..

Pretty much, yeah.

dave wyndorf was on the best show last week. him talking about going to see suicide is pretty special.

new video directed by... tom scharpling?

http://vimeo.com/76112773

He's a big fan!

Yeah that interview he did with Wyndorf was fucking great, too.

yeah I know scharpling loves MM, I just missed his whole second career as a video director

last patrol might be the best one since god says no -- even the bonus tracks are killer

great bunch of record picks here:
http://thequietus.com/articles/14851-dave-wyndorf-monster-magnet-favourite-albums?page=1

great article ..

i have had that blue cheer album on my watch out list for ages ..

(not to mention MM themselves as i clearly need more MM in my life)

Dave really likes that hysterical too-fast vibrato a lot of late 60s lead guitarists use, and I like how it makes him think of insanity.

Oh my god I love Wyndorf. Dude's so enthusiastic about that shit, it's great.

that is an awesome list . . . but where's hawkwind?

Hmm. Maybe he just figured we all know of his deep, undying love for them. Personally I would've replaced Granicus with Hawkwind.

i've listened to that granicus album a bunch and never really got the fuss. love what he has to say about captain beyond though. \m/