Why is there no thread on the Bush Tetras?

Matt, did you (or any other Minneapolitans) go to the benefit? I had good intentions, but oral surgery Friday kinda took the wind out of my sails. Heard Laura interviewed on KFAI Friday morning, though, that was nice.

yep i went...was awesome....suicide commandos killed it then dave thomas came up and they backed him up on "nonalignment pact" and "final solution"...was fucking amazing.

commandos did "complicated fun" which is like my fav song ever

bush tetras did a set w/o laura and were great, but she came up and said a few words, is in better health

amazing nite all around

Recently I've been playing 'Too Many Freaks', 'Cowboys in Africa' and Romeo Void's 'Never Say Never' DJing out at warehouse parties. They always go down a treat - I wish there was a shitload more of this kind of stuff.

Try "M-Train" by Pylon.

hey dan

here's Dave Thomas doing "Final Solution" with the Commandos : ) : ) : )

damn this was fun....

also good news: Raised $10,000 for Laura!

Thanks, I saw that linked via tcpunk.com. Wish I could have gone; I didn't manage to see the Commandos at the state fair either. How was the actual Bush Tetras portion of the show? I saw them/liked them several times back in the day. Pulled out my old ROIR live cassette for in-car listening this week. 10 grand = awesome!

well, i guess i have no point of comparison and am sad to say i don't know their material very well, outside of "too many creeps", but they were really awesome i thought, like def on par with bands like gang of four and wire that's i've seen in recent years, better actually...but yeah i was super impressed...the woman who played guitar was really mindblowing IMO

btw is tcpunk down now? i tried to go on and couldn't yesterday

moley, also see APB, Method Actors, Delta 5 for a few more in that direction.

Folks on Facebook are reporting that Laura Kennedy from the Bush Tetras has passed away. RIP. She was slowly recovering from the liver transplant I thought. I enjoyed the Bush Tetras when I saw them way back when at the original 930 club on F St in DC in the early 80s.

http://blogs.citypages.com/gimmenoise/2011/11/rip_laura_kennedy_bush_tetras.php

That was her bass playing on "Too Many Creeps"

:( RIP

Dammit, I was hoping when I saw this thread revived that this WASN'T the reason. Ferociously great live band that imo never quite harnessed that power in their slim recorded output. Love their funkypunky stuff, but it's this dirge that gets me the most. RIP Laura.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mN-OfxmOGA

very sad. i hadn't heard "rituals" for years and then heard it again playing in generation records in new york the other week. timeless.

Unreleased album from 1998 finally getting released this month! (they were supposed to play Los Angeles on Sunday, but Sandy scotched it)

i saw them open for the fall in 1997 and they were not good IMO.

i saw them in 2004 & 2006 and they were good IMO.

I saw them in 2011 and they were good IMO

video by cynthia sley's son austin, for a track from the lost '98 album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlyPdKr6cP8

Playing live in SF tonight annnnd live session later today on PressureDropTV at 2 pm Pacific Time

https://pressuredrop.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=183a11b8bd5c1d60f320a156c&id=531bea1caa&e=1d5a786f8e

Just saw them tonight... At least two-thirds of the set was all new songs. One in particular (called "Unstoppable Hum" or similar?) is great, full-on motorik with Pat Place's splattery guitar everywhere. Apparently there's a new album coming out soon on Third Man.

Belatedly heard and like the single on third man. Really good.

Bush Tetras Announce New Career-Spanning Box Set
Pitchfork

New York punk band Bush Tetras have announced a career-spanning box set. Rhythm and Paranoia: The Best of Bush Tetras features 30 songs across three albums, along with a 46-page book with never-before-seen photos, essays penned by Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore, the Clash’s Topper Headon, Pitchfork contributor Marc Masters, and more. The box set will be available in 180-gram vinyl and CD editions. It arrives November 12 via Wharf Cat. Listen to remastered versions of the band’s tracks “Too Many Creeps” and the Henry Rollins–produced “Cutting Floor” below (via BrooklynVegan).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVOzOnqzoj8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj6Bb2X_q5w

Box Set Details

VINYL BOX SET SPECIAL FEATURES:

Rigid Lift-Off Box w/Lift Ribbon
3 x 180 Gram Vinyl LPs
46-Page LP-Sized Perfect Bound Booklet w/Never-BeforeSeen Photos & Orignal Essays
29 Remastered Tracks

CD DIGIPACK SPECIAL FEATURES:

2 x CD / 4-Panel Digipack
40-Page Booklet w/Never-Before-Seen Photos & Original Essays
30 Remastered Tracks

Tracklist

1. Too Many Creeps !
2. Snakes Crawl !
3. You Taste Like the Tropics !
4. Punch Drunk !
5. Cold Turkey [Live in London] !
6. Things That Go Boom in the Night !
7. Das Ah Riot !
8. Cowboys in Africa !
9. Rituals !
10. You Can’t Be Funky !
11. Moonlite !
12. Dum Dum !
13. Stand Up and Fight !
14. Page 18 !
15. Color Green !#$
16. Mr. Lovesong [Alternate Version] !#$
17. World @
18. Motörhead !
19. Pretty Thing !
20. You Don’t Know Me !
21. Heart Attack !
22. Ocean !
23. Nails !#
24. True Blue
25. Red Heavy
26. Out Again
27. There Is a Hum
28. Seven Years
29. Sucker Is Born
30. Run Run Run [Live in San Francisco] @+
31. Cutting Floor @+

! OUT OF PRINT
+ ONLY AVAILABLE DIGITALLY
@ PREVOUSLY UNRELEASED
# PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED (VINYL)
$ PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED (DIGITAL)

This can be preordered at their Bandcamp page:
http://bushtetrasnyc.bandcamp.com/album/rhythm-and-paranoia-the-best-of-bush-tetras

We are so very sad to say that Dee Pop passed away in his sleep last night. The band meant everything to him. He was an amazing drummer, one of the best, and a very dear friend. We'll miss him daily. Our event at Howl tonight will be more of a memorial for him and his legacy. pic.twitter.com/g5qR8V7Sxi

— @bushtetrasnyc (@bushtetrasnyc) October 9, 2021

Aw, damn. RIP. Such a cool drummer.

Steve Shelley has apparently joined the band

https://www.brooklynvegan.com/bush-tetras-welcome-drummer-steve-shelley-to-the-band-announce-showounced/

Beauty Lies rereleased:

https://bushtetrasnyc.bandcamp.com/album/beauty-lies

BACK!

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/aug/01/punk-funk-legends-bush-tetras-we-had-no-rules-song-structure-didnt-exist-it-was-nihilistic