naw, Columbia was always a bright spot on tour.
from what i can remember.
― Tripp lamkins (trippl), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 21:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Will (will), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 21:50 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost
― dmr (Renard), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 21:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 21:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tripp lamkins (trippl), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:00 (seventeen years ago) link
The analogy I always use to describe it is... it's like a girlfriend you use to have. The sex was incredible and it was a wild time BUT you fought a lot and she was always flirting with other guys. So you break up and it's a nasty break-up. But a couple of years later you run into each other and enough time has passed that really all you remember is the great sex and it turns out you're both available at the time so you jump back in the sack and give things another try. Then sure enough, a week later you realize you have all the same problems you use to have and you kick yourself for being stupid enough to get back together.
― Tripp lamkins (trippl), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:13 (seventeen years ago) link
did you move to NYC with all the other Columbians?
― Tripp lamkins (trippl), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― dmr (Renard), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:21 (seventeen years ago) link
KCOU KCOU 88.1 BIG STAR ALEX CHILTON JODY STEPHENS GRIFTERS MEMPHIS GREG DULLI VAN DYKE PARKS ROAD TRIP TO CHICAGO ROLLERBLADES KCOU JEFF BREEZE UP AGAINST THE WALL MOTHERFUCKER.
And nah, Tripp. It was up in the rafters of the Blue Note while Seam was playing. Grifters are still in my top five Memphis bands.
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:24 (seventeen years ago) link
yeah, the Clears were Alicia Trout and Shelby Bryant and Brad.... something.
Alicia is like the queen of memphis now. she's awesome.if you go to myspace look for River City Tanlines or Contaminated Records.
Shelby put out some stuff on Steve Shelly's label . Look forCloud Wow Music.
― Tripp lamkins (trippl), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tripp lamkins (trippl), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― dmr (Renard), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― QuantumNoise (Justin Farrar), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:33 (seventeen years ago) link
but yeah, FBP is sorely lacking in the chaos department.
― Tripp lamkins (trippl), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:37 (seventeen years ago) link
LPOE? If so, yeah that was on time. I tried to make the Murphy's show w/ Wallendas the other night, but was road worn. (Juicy J was, up until a couple of months ago, my boss. I know S. from when Yvonne B used to make me go to yoga with her. Ok, she didn't make me.)
― Will (will), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:48 (seventeen years ago) link
Kristen found me via the grifters myspace page so that was cool.
Stan's 15 year old son runs the grifters page but I give him stuff for it all the time.
I'll try to put up that live version of Crashing Jet sometime.
Also, if you look on our friends list and go to Flecton Big Sky that's our old friend Miche Jette. the songs on his page are from his record that features der grifters backing him up (as well as Califone). Those recordings represent the last time the grifters recorded together.
we did record 2 songs later that year but the tape was lost forever so the Flecton recordings are it.
― Tripp lamkins (trippl), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tripp lamkins (trippl), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 23:00 (seventeen years ago) link
rad ... I will check that out
I saw Kristen a couple years ago at (drumroll) ... an nyc Bloodthirsty Lovers show. ha.
― dmr (Renard), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 23:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 23:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 23:26 (seventeen years ago) link
I still see Tim whenever Califone's in town. Which is never enough for me.
― Tripp lamkins (trippl), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 23:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― dmr (Renard), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 23:30 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.myspace.com/dragoonmemphis
Also, if you frequent the BOB page, right now I'm kind of posting stuff from our tenth grade year (1982 or so) but pretty quickly it'll get into our eh.. less-goofy years and you can start to hear me and Stan find our footing as musicians.
― Tripp lamkins (trippl), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 23:45 (seventeen years ago) link
still works.
you have to be a huge nerd to give a shit.
I'm sorry I broke up your black panther party.
― Tripp lamkins (trippl), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 00:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 00:22 (seventeen years ago) link
I've made a huge mistake.
― Tripp lamkins (trippl), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 00:40 (seventeen years ago) link
Is this the Goner board!??! AW SHIT!!
― Tripp lamkins (trippl), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 00:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tripp lamkins (trippl), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 00:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― QuantumNoise (Justin Farrar), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 09:38 (seventeen years ago) link
somewhere i still have awesome 4 track cassette recording of that show at barking legs in chattanooga (also known as the one where ***kicked*** that exercise ball into the overhead light, and better known to me personally as the first date with my ex-wife).
speaking of wives, when stan jokingly introduced me to his wife as "the fifth grifter," i was so totally weirdly elated by that. hah.
― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 09:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 09:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 09:57 (seventeen years ago) link
Used to talk to your little brother sometimes but it's durn good to hear from you. When's the new Yeti coming out?
― Tripp lamkins (trippl), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 14:29 (seventeen years ago) link
Piddlebach is the coolest fucking song ever recorded.
I am done here.
― J. Grizzle (trainsmoke), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― city worker (bmcnee), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link
Bardo Pond's done pretty good for themselves, eh?We had a collective band-crush on Isobel.
― Tripp lamkins (trippl), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link
ALSO I listened the hell out of the Shelby Bryant album after a friend picked it up by chance on emusic and loved it, and it just seemed so totally out there that I don't know if I'm excited to read that he was in other bands or if I don't want to hear them in case he begins to make sense. It tickles pretty much the opposite neurons to the Grifters for me though, just as a warning to anyone who might scratch their heads at my excitement.
― Rebecca (reb), Thursday, 1 February 2007 05:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Thursday, 1 February 2007 12:37 (seventeen years ago) link
everyone should own the Clears' first (only?) cd.
Every single track is fantastic AND it was recorded in my old apartment (by Roy Berry)
― Tripp lamkins (trippl), Thursday, 1 February 2007 14:35 (seventeen years ago) link
and have we mentioned the simple ones yet? that's kinda mandatory with a grifters/memphis/indie thread.
― QuantumNoise (Justin Farrar), Thursday, 1 February 2007 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― QuantumNoise (Justin Farrar), Thursday, 1 February 2007 14:43 (seventeen years ago) link
this is a band I played with from late 98 to 2001.I wasn't doing too much musically after the grifters'initial demise so I was elated when my friends Stu Sikesand Brian McKay called and asked me to join.
Initially the band was the 2 of them with Max Tepper.Max moved back to NYC and started the band Natural Historybut we carried on with some guest guitarists. One of whom wasTim Prudhomme who lived in Mempho for about 5 years.
If you listen to the song Song In F you can hear pretty muchevery guitarist who ever played in the band. It was a song Maxkinda started, then he left. In fact, when Max he announced itto me first and the first thing out of my mouth was "Can we keep Song in F?!"
So Max wrote a good chunk of the verse, Brian wrote the chorusand I more or less came up with the bridge (bridges are my specialty)and on the bridge you can hear Max's guitar, Brian's, Tim's, Jared McStay's, and Jerome's. (as well as my bass and I also laid down all the electric piano and mellotron.) So that one part of the song features performances recorded over the course of a year and a half.
It was pretty sweet being in a band with Stu because it meant we got to practice at Easley/McCain's. And record there for free basically.
If you like what you hear you can order it from Shangri-La.
http://www.shangri.com/cd_memphisindie.html
― Tripp lamkins (trippl), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tripp lamkins (trippl), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:09 (seventeen years ago) link
ALSO I should mention that Max left us Song In F before any lyrics were written so we all took a try at writing them but ultimately we took a poem my wife wrote and rearranged it slightly. Then Jerome and Lori McStay sang it.
My wife cried just a little bit the first time she heard it.
― Tripp lamkins (trippl), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tripp lamkins (trippl), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:20 (seventeen years ago) link
or here
http://www.myspace.com/lamarrecords
it's a little label me and Jared McStay started a few years ago(Jared from the Simpletones, now owner of Shangri-La records)
We basically started the label so the Jetty Webb cd would see the light of day.
We also put a STAFF ep. STAFF was me and Tim Prudhomme and Geoff Soule of the band FUCK. Technically, I'm still in Staff but Geoff now lives in Italy. Tim moved to New Orleans about a month before Katrina hit. They use whatever bass player they can get their hands on but if they're ever in my neck of the woods I get to be the go-to guy.
the other band on there is PAPER PLATES which is another band I got asked to join. I probably would've passed but Bobby (Dragoon) was writing really sweet pop songs and I couldn't resist. So I pretty much joined Staff and paper plates around the same time (2002)
― Tripp lamkins (trippl), Thursday, 1 February 2007 16:35 (seventeen years ago) link
And Breeze isn't that hard to find on the InterWeb, for anyone lookin'
― BlastsOfStatic (BlastsofStatic), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:41 (seventeen years ago) link
Wandering Boy Poet - thanks so much for the almighty link.
Given that they won't be visiting Ol' blighty again, any clues as to how to save this vid in case it walks?
― Jessie Fer Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 22:52 (ten years ago) link
It's some annoying new format. I've grabbed the (literally) 1000 or so fragments, but the methods for joining them don't seem to work for me (& I haven't got anything that'll play the fragments). Need to get back onto researching it.
― Wandering Boy Poet, Wednesday, 20 November 2013 01:38 (ten years ago) link
Cheers WBT. please keep me updated. Not been lazy there, I'm just not tech and too fucking burnt out to learn
― Jessie Fer Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Thursday, 21 November 2013 20:46 (ten years ago) link
I haven't tried it, but the Firefox "Download Helper" add-on might work. It doesn't catch on to every web player but you can get lucky.
― Evan, Thursday, 21 November 2013 21:14 (ten years ago) link
Evan. Thanks. Hopefully you have e mail?
― Jessie Fer Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Saturday, 23 November 2013 10:25 (ten years ago) link
i just dug out the eureka ep for the first time in…a decade?
some observations just because i wonder what this sounds like to other people almost 20 years on
eureka iv -- i still like this song, although what was up with gold boys and ray guns in the 90s? it sounds weird now. his jesus song -- awesome, still love this and i would not mind being in this bandx-ray hip -- what the fucking fuck is going on with the singing/lyrics in this song. awful. otherwise it's fine but not memorablethere's also a song that sounds like an alex chilton impersonator
i guess part of it held up ok. that's not bad! the only song i could really get into was his jesus song. this video is pretty awesome https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=995hAm-wcys
― Mayor Manuel (La Lechera), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 16:32 (nine years ago) link
Relistened to it, still think it's their most solid release, though other albums contain some better songs.
I've always linked Eureka with Urge Overkill's Stull EP from a few years previous. Comes right between the promising/catchy/eccentric minor league album and the major label jump. Features an eclectic bunch of stuff, some much more accessible than anything previous, some out-there. Like a last-minute housecleaning before getting more focused. Actually there's a bit of similarity between the two bands' career arcs, probably due to the state of the music business at the time more than anything else, I'd guess. Especially:
Supersonic Storybook/Crappin You NegativeEureka/StullAin't My Lookout/SaturationFull Blown Possession/Exit The Dragon
― dlp9001, Thursday, 1 May 2014 16:54 (nine years ago) link
One Sock Missing is my favorite Grifters album, and one of my favorite albums from the 90's.
I only saw them once at a small bar around '95? They were good and sloppy or sloppy good I guess.
I still remember some drunk from the back kept yelling out, "Rolling Stones!"
I guess I could see them covering a couple of the 'Exile' songs.
― nicky lo-fi, Thursday, 1 May 2014 17:48 (nine years ago) link
mmhmm
― Mayor Manuel (La Lechera), Thursday, 1 May 2014 19:27 (nine years ago) link
Grifters show in September at Gonerfest and two in November in NYC
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2014/08/memphis_legends.html
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― dmr, Wednesday, 20 August 2014 02:08 (nine years ago) link
got my tickets for Glasslands already. thinkin I'll go to both of the new york ones. one of my favorite live bands of all time.
― dmr, Wednesday, 20 August 2014 02:09 (nine years ago) link
see u at mercury lounge
― mookieproof, Saturday, 23 August 2014 03:03 (nine years ago) link
high five
― dmr, Saturday, 23 August 2014 13:29 (nine years ago) link
I need to get on this.
― Evan, Saturday, 23 August 2014 13:48 (nine years ago) link
awesome, got glasslands tickets.
― adam, Saturday, 23 August 2014 14:28 (nine years ago) link
I just saw this, and it was too great not to mention. Bunch of blue-collar guys just jamming on the street. I'm guessing they'll do a Bad Company cover...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xL6ctSaNQVg
― dlp9001, Friday, 8 April 2016 22:23 (eight years ago) link
Oh, to be, the state of the art, of boho/alt
― calstars, Saturday, 9 March 2019 21:24 (five years ago) link
nobody loves babies in barsbetter than yourself
― mookieproof, Saturday, 9 March 2019 21:28 (five years ago) link
Still salty I missed the NYC show in 2014.
― Evan, Saturday, 9 March 2019 21:45 (five years ago) link
Cool jerkNo particular sloganSigns are for the bottomless pitWhere nobody's going
― earlnash, Thursday, 1 April 2021 01:57 (three years ago) link
love that song so much
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 1 April 2021 09:12 (three years ago) link
i am
the mambo king
― mookieproof, Monday, April 19, 2010 1:31 AM (twelve years ago)
Wrapped tight in my tarantula skin
― CaptainLorax, Monday, April 19, 2010 2:45 AM (twelve years ago)
― mookieproof, Monday, 11 July 2022 23:20 (one year ago) link
The situation's growing hopelеssSo I pretended not to noticе
― earlnash, Sunday, 4 September 2022 20:05 (one year ago) link