xpost - am let's not speculate.
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 15:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 15:53 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.dragcity.com/bands/rk.html
I remember not liking Malefactor, Ade. I don't have any of the 90s stuff except for the 14 single, though I remember liking some of the early Drag City stuff.
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 15:59 (nineteen years ago) link
'The Red Krayola': One of their finest LPs, I think. Rememeber the much ballyhooed "Chicago scene" of the mid 90s? This album has all the luminaries (Grubbs, O'Rourke, McEntire, etc.) and is about the only artifact from that scene that holds up today. Mayo keep their excesses firmly in check and, for once, hook them up with memorable music. (Do you really want to listen to a Gastr del Sol LP today?!)
'Amour & Language' EP (mini album?): In the same vein as above; very tight.
'Hazel': A mixed bag. Some great stuff here, but this has always seemed to me more like a grab-bag of tunes than a unified album. It sprawls all overe the place. Great songs, though, like "Jimmy Two Bad"
'Fingerpainting': I love this record. I've never read anything good about it, though. Terrific concept: take 60s Red Krayola demos and fuck with them relentlessly. A psychic version of 'Parable of Arable Land' perhaps?
'Blues, Hollers, And Hellos' (EP? Mini album?): Their latest "new" recording. What's been the hold up since then, I wonder? Also one of their best records.
In other words, all of their Drag City stuff has something to recommend about it. Some people find 'Fingerpainting' to be extreme unlistenable shit. I disagree, but each to her/his own.
― Lefty, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― morris pavilion (samjeff), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:11 (nineteen years ago) link
That "14" single is my favorite of the Drag City records.
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― morris pavilion (samjeff), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― morris pavilion (samjeff), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― morris pavilion (samjeff), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 17:05 (nineteen years ago) link
Still haven't picked up the Tom Watson solo record that came out a couple of years ago. Think it's got Mayo and Mark Mothersbaugh on it too. Plus JO'R IIRC. Anyone else heard it?
― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 07:31 (nineteen years ago) link
* - Oh yea, I hereby declare anything that my ignorant ass had not heard about until recently, "obscure."
― poortheatre (poortheatre), Monday, 14 February 2005 07:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 14 February 2005 08:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― poortheatre (poortheatre), Monday, 14 February 2005 08:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 14 February 2005 08:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 14 February 2005 08:29 (nineteen years ago) link
I've been on a bit of a Red Crayola kick recently: I've had The Parable of Arable Land and God Bless the Red Krayola and All Who Sail With It for a while and thought theye were OK but didn't realy set me alight; but more recently I picked up their Singles comp and was blown away by some of it and this gave me the impetus to actively track down Kangaroo? and Soldier Talk (both of which I'd been passively whining about the non-availability of for a while anyway, because of the respective Raincoats / Lora Logic and Pere Ubu connections).
Based on comments on this thread) I've now also got Mayo's solo album Corky's Debt To His Father on order.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 14 February 2005 09:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 14 February 2005 19:02 (nineteen years ago) link
-- walter kranz (kranz_walte...), February 14th, 2005 3:29 AM. (walterkranz)
and then their third one, Coconut Hotel, is a total ???????er.
― eman (eman), Monday, 14 February 2005 21:05 (nineteen years ago) link
Less classic is the 90's Drag City stuff. Perhaps one has to already have a soft spot for those serious young Americans helping out?
― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Monday, 14 February 2005 21:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― jack cole (jackcole), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 01:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 01:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― jack cole (jackcole), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 01:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 02:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 04:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 04:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― don, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 05:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 17:32 (eighteen years ago) link
(Though mine hasn't shown up in the mail yet, and I can't recommend it until it does!)
― morris pavilion (samjeff), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 17:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 17:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― blackmail.is.my.life (blackmail.is.my.life), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 17:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 17:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Saturday, 8 April 2006 21:20 (eighteen years ago) link
Klassic!
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 9 April 2006 00:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― don, Sunday, 9 April 2006 02:27 (eighteen years ago) link
whenever i listen to the red krayola records i have, i always say to myself: "I should listen to these more." but i don't, really.
― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Monday, 10 April 2006 02:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:27 (eighteen years ago) link
Hahaha. The Rough Trade era is just about the Marxist-est thing I can think of in all of popular music.Bless.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 22:01 (one year ago) link
From Drag City News"
WHAT COMES AFTER ART, MYSTERY? DO THE MATH!
“After Math begins where Art, Mystery, the first installment in Mr. Thompson’s two-part novel, left off. The chrome trader Perlat Tile has just witnessed the criminal Pablo Palbon attempt to smuggle a small erotic bronze by Pollaiuolo out of Tirana disguised as a funeral urn. The ensuing trial — described in After Math — pits the gallerist Ms. Jasmine, who wants to acquire the work legitimately, against the state of Albania, which also claims ownership of it. Written in the impeccable prose that we have come to expect from Mr. Thompson, After Math proves that what happens after a plot is foiled can be just as delightful as the action itself.”— Michael SanchezA new novel from the mind of Mayo Thompson is upon all who travel with us! Best known for his work with the psychedelic band, The Red Krayola, After Math is the sequel to Thompson's 2018 novella Art, Mystery. After Math retails what becomes of the cast of characters introduced in Art, Mystery, joint and severally pursuing an erotic Rinascimento statuette attributed to Antonio Pollaiuolo, a pursuit that lands them in court. On the way, their collective and singular fates are unfolded and accounted for, the consequences of the truth of matters for them are brought to bear and a kind of rough justice is seen to have been done, as is appropriate in rough trade.Pre-order your hardcover copy or audiobook (as read by Mayo himself!) before the publication date of September 1st.Mayo Thompson Online: Drag City -https://www.dragcity.com/artists/mayo-thompsonPre Order- mayothompson.lnk.to/aftermath
— Michael Sanchez
A new novel from the mind of Mayo Thompson is upon all who travel with us! Best known for his work with the psychedelic band, The Red Krayola, After Math is the sequel to Thompson's 2018 novella Art, Mystery. After Math retails what becomes of the cast of characters introduced in Art, Mystery, joint and severally pursuing an erotic Rinascimento statuette attributed to Antonio Pollaiuolo, a pursuit that lands them in court. On the way, their collective and singular fates are unfolded and accounted for, the consequences of the truth of matters for them are brought to bear and a kind of rough justice is seen to have been done, as is appropriate in rough trade.
Pre-order your hardcover copy or audiobook (as read by Mayo himself!) before the publication date of September 1st.
Mayo Thompson Online:
Drag City -https://www.dragcity.com/artists/mayo-thompson
Pre Order- mayothompson.lnk.to/aftermath
― dow, Tuesday, 4 April 2023 19:02 (one year ago) link
Oh man. I saw him read a big chunk of this at the Kitchen. Had no idea what to expect. I don't know that anybody did. It was just billed as Mayo Thompson at the Kitchen or something. All the cool kids were there and he read and I was totally lost. I did not notice until now that Drag City published that first novel in 2018.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 4 April 2023 19:16 (one year ago) link
Cool, I gotta read these (I hate that Mayo is at an age where my heart skips when I see this thread revived).
― hypnic jerk (morrisp), Tuesday, 4 April 2023 19:21 (one year ago) link
Worried Worried
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 4 April 2023 19:29 (one year ago) link
Mayo Thompson and the Corky Band are adding more shows, this time on the West Coast! With a NYC date already in place, Mayo Thompson will also be performing Corky's Debt To His Father in both Los Angeles and San Francisco later this August.Celebrate over fifty years of Corky's Debt To His Father this summer and get your tickets fast!TOUR DATES:8/12/23 at (le) poisson rouge in New York, NY8/30 at The Chapel in San Francisco, CA8/31 at Zebulon in Los AngelesMayo Thompson Online: Drag City -https://www.dragcity.com/artists/mayo-thompsonFor more information and interview requests please contact:kathryn at dragcity.com
Celebrate over fifty years of Corky's Debt To His Father this summer and get your tickets fast!
TOUR DATES:
8/12/23 at (le) poisson rouge in New York, NY
8/30 at The Chapel in San Francisco, CA
8/31 at Zebulon in Los AngelesMayo Thompson Online:
For more information and interview requests please contact:kathryn at dragcity.com
― dow, Thursday, 22 June 2023 00:08 (ten months ago) link
Zebulon show doesn’t seem to be posted yet.
― Bittern Storm Over My Hammy (morrisp), Thursday, 22 June 2023 04:16 (ten months ago) link
Mayo was awesome tonight! He seemed revitalized, compared to the last few times I saw him. And the band was hot! Such a great show.
― Stoned Wheat Thing (morrisp), Friday, 1 September 2023 06:43 (seven months ago) link
rescheduled Corky's Debt to His Father show finally happened tonight. damn I love this album. anyone know who's in "the Corky Band"? not seeing in rudimentary searching.
― bulb after bulb, Saturday, 2 December 2023 13:44 (four months ago) link
It was a bunch of young-ish folks I didn’t recognize (in L.A.)
― This field is required (morrisp), Saturday, 2 December 2023 15:32 (four months ago) link