― Sasha (sgh), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 05:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 06:55 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.dragcity.com/bands/prina.html
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 15:35 (nineteen years ago) link
i haven't heard that prina record.
how is that singles compilation?
― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 15:36 (nineteen years ago) link
I haven't really absorbed the singles collection and only knew the stuff I already had, but first impressions are that it covers a lot of terrain and has some great stuff on it, so it's definitely worth it.
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 15:38 (nineteen years ago) link
Are there RK albums with the Epic Soundtracks/Lora Logic/Ravenstine line-up?
― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 15:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 15:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 15:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 15:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 15:45 (nineteen years ago) link
The singles comp. is pretty damn necessary, if you're into the Red Krayola at all.
― Lefty, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 15:45 (nineteen years ago) link
I need the singles comp. but goddamn am I ever broke and not able to buy records these days.
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 15:47 (nineteen years ago) link
that's great.
how do people rate RK's drag city records? not the reissues, the newer stuff.
― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 15:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 15:47 (nineteen years ago) link
Amor and Language 95 (Drag City, DC53) EP - Probably my favorite thing by the "new" RK lineup.
Hazel (Drag City, DC98) LP - Here's where they start to drag...
Fingerpainting is good, but I never bought it. There's a few holes for me, I need to get more stuff...
-- hstencil (hstenci...), November 22nd, 2002.
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 15:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 15:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 15:49 (nineteen years ago) link
xpost - am let's not speculate.
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 15:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 15:53 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.dragcity.com/bands/rk.html
I remember not liking Malefactor, Ade. I don't have any of the 90s stuff except for the 14 single, though I remember liking some of the early Drag City stuff.
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 15:59 (nineteen years ago) link
'The Red Krayola': One of their finest LPs, I think. Rememeber the much ballyhooed "Chicago scene" of the mid 90s? This album has all the luminaries (Grubbs, O'Rourke, McEntire, etc.) and is about the only artifact from that scene that holds up today. Mayo keep their excesses firmly in check and, for once, hook them up with memorable music. (Do you really want to listen to a Gastr del Sol LP today?!)
'Amour & Language' EP (mini album?): In the same vein as above; very tight.
'Hazel': A mixed bag. Some great stuff here, but this has always seemed to me more like a grab-bag of tunes than a unified album. It sprawls all overe the place. Great songs, though, like "Jimmy Two Bad"
'Fingerpainting': I love this record. I've never read anything good about it, though. Terrific concept: take 60s Red Krayola demos and fuck with them relentlessly. A psychic version of 'Parable of Arable Land' perhaps?
'Blues, Hollers, And Hellos' (EP? Mini album?): Their latest "new" recording. What's been the hold up since then, I wonder? Also one of their best records.
In other words, all of their Drag City stuff has something to recommend about it. Some people find 'Fingerpainting' to be extreme unlistenable shit. I disagree, but each to her/his own.
― Lefty, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― morris pavilion (samjeff), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:11 (nineteen years ago) link
That "14" single is my favorite of the Drag City records.
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― morris pavilion (samjeff), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― morris pavilion (samjeff), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― morris pavilion (samjeff), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 17:05 (nineteen years ago) link
Still haven't picked up the Tom Watson solo record that came out a couple of years ago. Think it's got Mayo and Mark Mothersbaugh on it too. Plus JO'R IIRC. Anyone else heard it?
― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 07:31 (nineteen years ago) link
* - Oh yea, I hereby declare anything that my ignorant ass had not heard about until recently, "obscure."
― poortheatre (poortheatre), Monday, 14 February 2005 07:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 14 February 2005 08:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― poortheatre (poortheatre), Monday, 14 February 2005 08:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 14 February 2005 08:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 14 February 2005 08:29 (nineteen years ago) link
I've been on a bit of a Red Crayola kick recently: I've had The Parable of Arable Land and God Bless the Red Krayola and All Who Sail With It for a while and thought theye were OK but didn't realy set me alight; but more recently I picked up their Singles comp and was blown away by some of it and this gave me the impetus to actively track down Kangaroo? and Soldier Talk (both of which I'd been passively whining about the non-availability of for a while anyway, because of the respective Raincoats / Lora Logic and Pere Ubu connections).
Based on comments on this thread) I've now also got Mayo's solo album Corky's Debt To His Father on order.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 14 February 2005 09:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 14 February 2005 19:02 (nineteen years ago) link
The Corrected Slogans thing at REDCAT was such a pleasure... talk about albums I never dreamed I’d see performed live!
― I'm off Twitter, and high on life! (morrisp), Thursday, 19 December 2019 01:43 (four years ago) link
Just a reminder for you LA folks, this free concert is on Thursday: https://hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2020/mayo-thompson
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Monday, 6 January 2020 22:58 (four years ago) link
I will be there (assuming there are still tickets left by the time I get to Westwood!). Anyone else here going?
― BeerAdvocate in the streets, Wookiepedia in the sheets (morrisp), Monday, 6 January 2020 23:00 (four years ago) link
I will be there of course (did I mention I work at the Hammer).
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 00:42 (four years ago) link
No, I didn't realize that! Save me a ticket if you can, ha ha...
― BeerAdvocate in the streets, Wookiepedia in the sheets (morrisp), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 00:44 (four years ago) link
There’s apparently a pretty long guest list, but I’m confident I’ll get a ticket!
― Don’t yell ‘Judas!’ in a crowded theater (morrisp), Friday, 10 January 2020 02:29 (four years ago) link
That was amazing. I’m so happy. It was actually a pretty emotional thing, to be there and see Mayo perform those songs. The band was terrific, too. Thank you, pgwp, for posting about it here.
― Don’t yell ‘Judas!’ in a crowded theater (morrisp), Friday, 10 January 2020 04:44 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/ycp3ZOD_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium
― Don’t yell ‘Judas!’ in a crowded theater (morrisp), Friday, 10 January 2020 05:03 (four years ago) link
Yes, it was a great show! I think Mayo’s dogs sitting in the front row was the highlight. One seemed to know all the right times to bark.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Friday, 10 January 2020 06:09 (four years ago) link
FYI, he’s doing this again in Chicago, in March:https://www.instagram.com/p/B7ocEkRgkdw/?igshid=13vhma8ks4m7n
― dad genes (morrisp), Saturday, 25 January 2020 20:28 (four years ago) link
bought a ticket! thanks!
― na (NA), Monday, 27 January 2020 17:57 (four years ago) link
I should go to this
― chr1sb3singer, Monday, 27 January 2020 20:19 (four years ago) link
I am going to this
― chr1sb3singer, Thursday, 30 January 2020 14:44 (four years ago) link
chicago show cancelled :(
― na (NA), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 17:53 (four years ago) link
That's too bad. I wonder if it's b/c Mayo's mobility is limited (he was using a cane at the L.A. show).
― tamagotchi revival artist (morrisp), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 17:58 (four years ago) link
I am not going to this
― chr1sb3singer, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 18:19 (four years ago) link
I happened to visit the Drag City website, for the first time in ages; saw this featured, snapped it up - https://www.dragcity.com/products/keep-all-your-friends
― Bob Dylan's iconic Ray Ban sunglasses (morrisp), Monday, 23 May 2022 02:46 (one year ago) link
I'm not the world's biggest Kangaroo? stan, but I found that 'zine entertaining and informative. A real labor of love.
― InternationalWaters, Monday, 23 May 2022 13:32 (one year ago) link
The interviews (and photos) in the zine are so great... it's really a dream come true if you're a fan of this era. Highly recommended!
Just thought I'd share this, as it really made me laugh:
MAYO THOMPSON: I loved the record. I loved that sound. I think it's a very successful record and I now understand why it was not a hit. I had never thought the content would be counted as controversial. It didn't ever occur to me until when I saw my father in Houston. He had been at a golf game with his legal cronies and one of them asked, "How's your Marxist rock band going, Mayo?" I didn't know that people saw it that way. I thought people just listened to music.
― Creature Catcher (Live) (morrisp), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 21:27 (one year ago) link
Hahaha. The Rough Trade era is just about the Marxist-est thing I can think of in all of popular music.Bless.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 22:01 (one year ago) link
From Drag City News"
WHAT COMES AFTER ART, MYSTERY? DO THE MATH!
“After Math begins where Art, Mystery, the first installment in Mr. Thompson’s two-part novel, left off. The chrome trader Perlat Tile has just witnessed the criminal Pablo Palbon attempt to smuggle a small erotic bronze by Pollaiuolo out of Tirana disguised as a funeral urn. The ensuing trial — described in After Math — pits the gallerist Ms. Jasmine, who wants to acquire the work legitimately, against the state of Albania, which also claims ownership of it. Written in the impeccable prose that we have come to expect from Mr. Thompson, After Math proves that what happens after a plot is foiled can be just as delightful as the action itself.”— Michael SanchezA new novel from the mind of Mayo Thompson is upon all who travel with us! Best known for his work with the psychedelic band, The Red Krayola, After Math is the sequel to Thompson's 2018 novella Art, Mystery. After Math retails what becomes of the cast of characters introduced in Art, Mystery, joint and severally pursuing an erotic Rinascimento statuette attributed to Antonio Pollaiuolo, a pursuit that lands them in court. On the way, their collective and singular fates are unfolded and accounted for, the consequences of the truth of matters for them are brought to bear and a kind of rough justice is seen to have been done, as is appropriate in rough trade.Pre-order your hardcover copy or audiobook (as read by Mayo himself!) before the publication date of September 1st.Mayo Thompson Online: Drag City -https://www.dragcity.com/artists/mayo-thompsonPre Order- mayothompson.lnk.to/aftermath
— Michael Sanchez
A new novel from the mind of Mayo Thompson is upon all who travel with us! Best known for his work with the psychedelic band, The Red Krayola, After Math is the sequel to Thompson's 2018 novella Art, Mystery. After Math retails what becomes of the cast of characters introduced in Art, Mystery, joint and severally pursuing an erotic Rinascimento statuette attributed to Antonio Pollaiuolo, a pursuit that lands them in court. On the way, their collective and singular fates are unfolded and accounted for, the consequences of the truth of matters for them are brought to bear and a kind of rough justice is seen to have been done, as is appropriate in rough trade.
Pre-order your hardcover copy or audiobook (as read by Mayo himself!) before the publication date of September 1st.
Mayo Thompson Online:
Drag City -https://www.dragcity.com/artists/mayo-thompson
Pre Order- mayothompson.lnk.to/aftermath
― dow, Tuesday, 4 April 2023 19:02 (eleven months ago) link
Oh man. I saw him read a big chunk of this at the Kitchen. Had no idea what to expect. I don't know that anybody did. It was just billed as Mayo Thompson at the Kitchen or something. All the cool kids were there and he read and I was totally lost. I did not notice until now that Drag City published that first novel in 2018.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 4 April 2023 19:16 (eleven months ago) link
Cool, I gotta read these (I hate that Mayo is at an age where my heart skips when I see this thread revived).
― hypnic jerk (morrisp), Tuesday, 4 April 2023 19:21 (eleven months ago) link
Worried Worried
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 4 April 2023 19:29 (eleven months ago) link
Mayo Thompson and the Corky Band are adding more shows, this time on the West Coast! With a NYC date already in place, Mayo Thompson will also be performing Corky's Debt To His Father in both Los Angeles and San Francisco later this August.Celebrate over fifty years of Corky's Debt To His Father this summer and get your tickets fast!TOUR DATES:8/12/23 at (le) poisson rouge in New York, NY8/30 at The Chapel in San Francisco, CA8/31 at Zebulon in Los AngelesMayo Thompson Online: Drag City -https://www.dragcity.com/artists/mayo-thompsonFor more information and interview requests please contact:kathryn at dragcity.com
Celebrate over fifty years of Corky's Debt To His Father this summer and get your tickets fast!
TOUR DATES:
8/12/23 at (le) poisson rouge in New York, NY
8/30 at The Chapel in San Francisco, CA
8/31 at Zebulon in Los AngelesMayo Thompson Online:
For more information and interview requests please contact:kathryn at dragcity.com
― dow, Thursday, 22 June 2023 00:08 (nine months ago) link
Zebulon show doesn’t seem to be posted yet.
― Bittern Storm Over My Hammy (morrisp), Thursday, 22 June 2023 04:16 (nine months ago) link
Mayo was awesome tonight! He seemed revitalized, compared to the last few times I saw him. And the band was hot! Such a great show.
― Stoned Wheat Thing (morrisp), Friday, 1 September 2023 06:43 (six months ago) link
rescheduled Corky's Debt to His Father show finally happened tonight. damn I love this album. anyone know who's in "the Corky Band"? not seeing in rudimentary searching.
― bulb after bulb, Saturday, 2 December 2023 13:44 (three months ago) link
It was a bunch of young-ish folks I didn’t recognize (in L.A.)
― This field is required (morrisp), Saturday, 2 December 2023 15:32 (three months ago) link