TS: Denny Lethargy VS. Denny Vertigo

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SOLAR COCK!

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:49 (eighteen years ago) link

I thought it was "I am the one / solar cock" ?? do you have the album sleeve

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:49 (eighteen years ago) link

I know a guy who SWEARS that he has an entire unreleased Lethargy album that he keeps threatening to boot. he still won't burn me a copy though. idiot.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:50 (eighteen years ago) link

A fatuous Dick Nazi who shames my surname reviewed Solar Cock for Rolling Stone and he should be repeatedly bludgeoned with a tire-iron for the Smashmouth comparison (actually, it's an accusation, not a comparison).

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:50 (eighteen years ago) link

definitely 'sun', it's a bataille reference

man this song rules. I'm totally about to get fired.

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Blink 182 covered "Solar Cock" on one of their Australian-only EP's. They tried to do that "synth" line with a harmony overdub.

It wasn't very good, as you could imagine.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Cheese monkeys.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:52 (eighteen years ago) link

some douchebag i know apparently thought denny lethargy sounded like blue cheer. i later discovered he had never even HEARD blue cheer, he was just some asshole with an MC5 shirt

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:52 (eighteen years ago) link

someone post the amblin' cover
the wolf looks totally gnar

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:52 (eighteen years ago) link

Lethargy is VON LMO's cousin or something, I think.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:52 (eighteen years ago) link

xpost, jesus fuck. of course I have the album sleeve, you fucking child (though I don't have amblin')

I heard that about von lmo too... makes sense...

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:54 (eighteen years ago) link

i kind of like this mike phillips pic
http://www.sdsystems.com/news/mike%20phillips.jpg

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:55 (eighteen years ago) link

i swear i heard some unreleased Eve track on a mixtape somewhere where she samples the synth-line from solar cock!

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:56 (eighteen years ago) link

Did You Know:

Denny Vertigo was the original drummer for Hendrix before he went to the UK?

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:56 (eighteen years ago) link

Has anyone heard that Vertigo b-sides comp? Sort've cringe-worthy in spots, but the GODLIKE "Avalokitesvara Sutra" is essential listening for anyone in possession of a functioning cerebral cortex.

― max, Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:57 (eighteen years ago) link

(xp) see! it's an elka synthex, right!!@!?!?

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:57 (eighteen years ago) link

i read some interview with neil michael hagerty (in the big takeover, maybe?) in which he was going on and on about denny vertigo. jack rabid is a HUGE fan, based on his replies.

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Whatever! As Stigliano would say, that 1st Vertigo record doesn't hold a candle to, say, what Kongress was doing at the time.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:01 (eighteen years ago) link

FUCK kongress

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:03 (eighteen years ago) link

At least the disco stuff Lethargy was doing at the time had some cool proto-Moroderisms goin' on.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:04 (eighteen years ago) link

everything after their first album sucks. their reunion tour sucked too.

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:04 (eighteen years ago) link

anyone have the lyrics to "honour thy fyre"?

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:05 (eighteen years ago) link

lyrics?? it's an instrumental!

― and I can walk out into the world, singing with my people (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:06 (eighteen years ago) link

"jack rabid is a HUGE fan, based on his replies."

i read that issue. i think jack said hi to denny in the bathroom at the peppermint lounge once in 1982.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:06 (eighteen years ago) link

"said hi"

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:07 (eighteen years ago) link

I remember about 13 years ago (1992!!!) San Diego zine ROCKMAG had a feature which summed up Denny Lethargy's post-rehab career as "a no-wave Hindu Love Gods", I had to chuckle.

xpost: "Honour Thy Fire" had lyrics in the live boots and demos.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:08 (eighteen years ago) link

lyrics?? it's an instrumental!

boy, is my face red!

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:08 (eighteen years ago) link

lyrics?? it's an instrumental!

There was a poem printed in the liner notes, wasn't there?
xpost

― pr00de descending a staircase (pr00de), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:08 (eighteen years ago) link

DeRogatis is actually a Vertigo fan! I remember him mentioning something about him once.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:09 (eighteen years ago) link

sort of like A Love Supreme! xpost

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:10 (eighteen years ago) link

gygax is right ... the lyrics were mostly bad gothic puns which is why they weren't on the album

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:10 (eighteen years ago) link

for real, read the poem while listening to the music

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:10 (eighteen years ago) link

"Fyre" is an instrumental, but got mistagged when the Billingsgate CD bootleg screwed up the tracks by turning "One Arm" & "I Hit A Girl" into one track, moving everything else on the album up by one. It is confusing

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:11 (eighteen years ago) link

guy was a big coltrane fan, he was totally inspired by what he did on love supreme. listen, trust me, it's like some LSD level realization shit

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:11 (eighteen years ago) link

zappa hated these guys, and went so far as to do a parody of "solar cock," called "cholera sock"... actually quite punny!

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Also: There was supposed to be a chapter about Vertigo in the first Unterberger 'Unsung Heroes' book, but Vertigo apparently kept lying his ass off about having written half of the songs on the first Blondie album and all kinds of shit and Unterberger finally gave up on the dude.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:15 (eighteen years ago) link

my favorite vertigo album is still invented gyro. my favorite track remains "anagram #2", ha those clever boys.

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:15 (eighteen years ago) link

ok, i take back what i said about every album after their first sucking.

"vertigoing insane" was pretty fucking sweet.

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:16 (eighteen years ago) link

To add to the kiss of death: there is rumored to be a Denny Vertigo tribute album organized by John Zorn, Mike Patton and Cex.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:17 (eighteen years ago) link

what i loved about "anagram #2" is there's this part hovering in the background that's either a high-pitched female voice or a processed cornet sound, i can't tell which. the liner notes are shit and don't help one bit.

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Also one last thing: I seem to remember there a Denny Vertigo/Lethargy subthread in one of the Cover Connection threads. Virile, pestulent ILX search, BAH!!!

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:19 (eighteen years ago) link

hey i never has posted here but i came acorss this site and i must say lethargy/vertigo is probably the most underrated artist of his time. i belive rhino weas supposed to re-isseu all of the pre-rca recordings? am i right, or did i dream this?

― dennyfan#1, Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:20 (eighteen years ago) link

i am going to scan the amblin cover
lemme find it
brb

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:21 (eighteen years ago) link

i have "amblin" on CDR, if you scan it and post it that would be dope, bro, i can then print it

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Working is an incredible challenge
A kind of vertical division
Let it resonate within your sacred space
I'm going to fuck you until your voice goes away

We come from the same place
I can't bear it any longer woman
You're Vertigoing Insane

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:23 (eighteen years ago) link

The video for that is pretty fucking weird.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:25 (eighteen years ago) link

never seen the video... do I want to?

is there any song of his that doesn't have a guitar solo going the entire time, all the way through it?

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:26 (eighteen years ago) link

You seem to be forgetting something - the Vertigo Buddhas

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Just once, I'd like to hear a discussion of Lethargy without someone bringing up Zappa. I know that it's tough for the Frank Fans to restrain themselves, though.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:27 (eighteen years ago) link

that's why hagerty loves him! you listen to the new Howling Hex album and notice how he's got those guitar lines just snaking through the entirety of each song, and that sound is TOTALLY Denny Vertigo

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:27 (eighteen years ago) link

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and i'm not sure that blog post was faux-angry. dude seemed angry-angry.

― cutty, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 20:08 (fifteen years ago) link

Not sure how seriously you can take a guy who once tried to sue Denny's, tho.

― aging very well, fer sure (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 25 February 2009 20:09 (fifteen years ago) link

i guess i thought it was along the lines of the donald fagen "cease and desist" open letter to owen wilson re: "you me and dupree"? i could have misread it.

― pro bowl was fun (omar little), Wednesday, 25 February 2009 20:09 (fifteen years ago) link

how many people have sued denny's over chronic food-poisoning i wonder?
i bet a year as a trucker would strengthen my stomach to a serious degree. but i digress.

― ian, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 20:11 (fifteen years ago) link

is "max" upthread our very own max? in 2005?

― cutty, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 20:12 (fifteen years ago) link

^^ was just wondering this. denny was a lot of ppl's way into ilm, at least in the old days.

― goole, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 20:14 (fifteen years ago) link

No surprise there. Dude has a cult fanbase.

― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Wednesday, 25 February 2009 20:16 (fifteen years ago) link

one year passes...

“sludge blues” music on Last.fm

Top Artists

* Denny Lethargy
* PJ Harvey
* Soundgarden

― ('_') (omar little), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 06:56 (thirteen years ago) link

more "blues-sludge" than sludge blues imo

― lord goo goo (latebloomer), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 08:09 (thirteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

i have no memory of contributing to this thread

― max, Thursday, 16 September 2010 08:11 (thirteen years ago) link

but i was pretty fucked up back when i was heavy into denny lethargy

― max, Thursday, 16 September 2010 08:12 (thirteen years ago) link

four months pass...

christopher lloyd's guest star role on fringe last week blatantly based on Vertigo/Lethargy

violet sedan chair = purple car seat

― the size of Snow's skin pistol (latebloomer), Monday, 24 January 2011 02:50 (thirteen years ago) link

some douchebag i know apparently thought denny lethargy sounded like blue cheer. i later discovered he had never even HEARD blue cheer, he was just some asshole with an MC5 shirt

― gear (gear), Wednesday, August 24, 2005 10:52 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark

oooooh i know the type!

― not everything is a campfire (ian), Monday, 24 January 2011 02:56 (thirteen years ago) link

one year passes...

86.

Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine that Vertigo would have a cupcake Tumblr.

― Michael Daddino, Monday, 6 August 2012 04:21 (eleven years ago) link

eight months pass...

"denny lethargy"

About 3,180 results (0.25 seconds)

"denny vertigo"

About 5,310 results (0.13 seconds)

― christmas candy bar (al leong), Thursday, 25 April 2013 03:16 (eleven years ago) link

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