How great was Basehead?

Citizen Cope was Basehead's DJ

..and all those promo CD singles with the remixes and B-sides! some of those were great!

This would be a prime candidate for a nice deluxe reissue. What are the chances?

nil. this band is totally unjustly forgotten, I'd wager.

Great stuff, and I thought Ivey was sexy as all get-out! (saw him at New Music Seminar...'92?)

Mrobz sometimes you are full of surprises

http://baseheadmusic.com/images/photos/gallery/1925174.jpg

It's really up to Ivey. I can't imagine that he doesn't have the rights to the Emigre/Imago material after all these years.

lolz, John was always more into Basehead than I was.

Also Faith is still boring but in direct comparison to the earlier albums. When a Faith song on the iPod comes on via shuffle, it's actually kinda nice and calming.

he was not all beardy and dreddy back in the day.

love Play With Toys so much

"it's not my fault you gotta get love sick during the quiet storm"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If7bELSqWy0

never knew there was a video!

great album, god knows why i've never listened to Not in Kansas

I should listen to the second album, given where I live right now.

"it's not my fault you gotta get love sick during the quiet storm"

This line pops up in my head all the time, and I wish more people got the reference so that I could, well, refer to it more often.

I should spring the 1 cent that the third album is going for on amazon, shouldn't I?

Now Cody Chestnutt has disappeared too. What's with these guys, too much weed?

Michael Ivey went Christian, I know that.

There's one ok/good song on the third album, and I can't remember what it's called. Proceed accordingly.

Love these first two, thank you ILM

What a good prompt! Think I'll listen to them right now...

Here's my 1996 feature interview piece on Basehead at the time of the Faith album

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/11235/you-gotta-have-faith

the intro and outro on plays with toys are some of the funniest songs i've ever heard.

Basehead/fIREHOSE/Beastie Boys show at the tiny Troc in Philly in ... '92? still one of my all-time faves

Are there any other bands that walked a similar dynamic like this without being a bit cheesy?

Two Basehead live recordings popped up today on D1m3ad0z3n! Maybe the last band I would ever expect to see on there, but nevertheless, here we are - early/late shows from a date at Cambridge MA circa '93, desk recordings too.

https://www.fromsmash.com/10CB0ILB2x-bt