dead moon

watching the doc is one of those things that makes me wanna stand up on top of my furniture with my fists in the air like I CAN DO ANYTHING

otm

Had no idea those original DM LPs on Tombstone were outta print. They used to be everywhere.

yeah sometime in the last five years they went from being $5 Northwest used-bin staples to $40 collector's items

watching the doc is one of those things that makes me wanna stand up on top of my furniture with my fists in the air like I CAN DO ANYTHING

― arby's, Tuesday, July 26, 2011 1:20 AM (15 hours ago) Bookmark

just your 3-year reminder that dead moon rules

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Fred's had heart problems but is now recovering after an operation btw

http://www.piercedarrows.com/main.html?id=3
http://www.piercedarrows.com/main.html?id=2

http://www.piercedarrows.com/news/index.html?id=3

And there's reunion tour news too

https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/deadmoonfanclub2000/info

a few years ago there was a petition seen at like coffee shops and record stores in new orleans that was like BRING PIERCED ARROWS TO NEW ORLEANS, but they had played there pretty recently (in 2009) (and it was awesome). also who was being petitioned? bookers? fred and toody? city hall?

i signed it fwiw, didnt work

wishing you good health, Fred:

http://www.thestranger.com/blogs/slog/2015/09/08/22827007/fred-cole-of-dead-moon-hospitalized-after-collapsing-onstage-at-bumbershoot

aw man

Yeah best wishes Fred, I'm glad I got see these guys as many times (three or four) as I did, great band.

Oh no! I've just gotten into Dead Moon this year, and I saw them live in August--they were so wonderful. Really hope he pulls through.

will this image work?

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nope

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10205151451051838&set=gm.681921701942405&type=1

(picture of Fred and Toody smiling together, taken yesterday after Fred's surgery)

RIP Andrew Loomis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f7jvznu4t4&app=desktop

best band best drummer rip

whoa

RIP Dead Moon

http://exclaim.ca/music/article/r_i_p_dead_moon_drummer_andrew_loomis

man i hate to bump this thread with more bad news but http://www.brooklynvegan.com/dead-moons-fred-cole-hospitalized-there-will-be-a-lot-of-recovery-time/

get better Fred!

Oh man, that is terrible. Best wishes for a speedy recovery. They are a tremendous band.

RIP Fred Cole

noooooooo

god damn it

fuck the world

I'm leaving work to go drink and play Dead Moon records at high volume

This is a huge bummer. RIP Fred

Legend of American Rock n' Roll.
51 years in the game. Rest well.

RIP - but so many songs about dying/grave/time has come/too far gone/remember me/... , it's very hard to listen now :-(

Oh no, RIP. I love that band.

RIP. this is so sad. i was fortunate enough to share the stage w Pierced Arrows in 2010 and they were the nicest possible people. insane love and respect for these lifers.

i highly recommend the wonderful Dead Moon documentary. it's been years since i've seen it, i should give it a rewatch...

yes, the documentary is excellent, definitely gonna watch it again soon

one thing that really amazed me was how DIY they were. they had built their own house. he was cutting his own records on a lathe. so badass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jnHYW8Er2E

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/354389104/dead-moon-the-book/posts/2041270

A post by the Mississippi Records guy who's doing the book (I hope kickstarter won't force them to redo the whole process now the signed edition won't be signed anymore) + someone made a Dead Moon Family Tree mixtape on Pandora (in the comments) that's only for people in the USA :-/

Very nice and detailed obit in NY Times.

RIP to the author of one of the most perfect songs ever, "Teenagers" by he and Toody's pre-Dead Moon band The Rats:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK04hhbmxcg

Love that song. Veronica Falls did a pretty good cover of that

Ted Leo closed his set last night in Minneapolis with a storming cover of It's OK.

3rd & final Rats LP is finally out on Water Wing, looks fantastic!

https://www.waterwingrecords.com/shop/ww27mor1?

6 years of work went into remixing and remastering this version - with Fred Cole twisting knobs and obsessing over it's every detail and then Greg Shadoan and Tim Stollenwerk finishing the job. One of Fred Cole's greatest records and impossible to find for many years - at last this LP is available as it was meant to be heard. Play it loud....

First Pressing includes a 40 page booklet and a xerox replica of a Rats show poster!

https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/8532587/toody-cole-dead-moon-interview

really great profile/interview of toody, lots of amazing quotes

<3
Pulled out Thirteen Off My Hook, amazing to realize I bought it nearly 30 years ago! "I'm still a loner without many friends" (from "Kicked Out Kicked In") jumped out after reading that interview with Toody ("“In a weird way I don’t feel like I’m without him. We were both always loners -- we were just loners together. So now I’m a loner alone.”)
"War Baby" just started, never fails to set me off

was in line for a drink before the Mekons show in Seattle last July and they were playing "Poor Boy" before the show started, me and the guy ahead of me in line spontaneously went into the "pissed off, pissed off, pissed off, it's just the way I am" chorus together and high fived.

oh and everyone in this thread probably knows already, but the 3rd and final Rats LP has been reissued at last

"Time has Come Today" cover on Unknown Passage <3 <3 <3

^ love this

spending some time listening to the rats LP and assorted dead moon stuff today

yeah

Destination X just got reissued on LP!

the rats in a desperate red is really excellent.

i have’t heard destination x in a long time