Roy Montgomery: Classic or Dud etc etc

Backing up a bit -- Henry Frayne is on FB:

https://www.facebook.com/henry.d.frayne

and he still lives in Champaign, apparently!

cool, thanks ned!

La Lech, here's another recommendation--Cathode was an obscure Boston band; their Steve Fisk-mixed 'Sleeping + Breathing' lp from 1999 might float your boat. the whole lp is posted on youtube, in separate tracks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWknAcd6V18&list=PL98929511BB0B8060

ahhh sounds like 1999. people weren't afraid to be slow and languid back then. that's not exactly what i was looking for, but i like it.

i hope henry frayne has a google alert for his name and finds this thread.

another question -- how does one describe the guitar sound/song structure in this RM song?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DAVNZMx-Lk

can't stop listening to this song again

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

I often listen to Winding it Out in the High Country from Scenes from the South Island and imagine I have stolen a boat and am sailing it straight into a hurricane.

Scenes from the South Island is easily one of the best albums of the 90s. Hearty thanks to Ned (& Piero Scaruffi) for getting my attention

I feel like I need to give his latter albums more attention... And Now the Rain, Allegory of Hearing, and Silver Wheel of Prayer. I need other people to point out the awesome songs and then somehow they become awesome to me too.

That's a great album, and I really like it 100% for real, but man this song is something else! It's so overwhelmingly obscenely creepy and totally way too long but he's like "i'm gonna play this creepy song as long as i want, fu who can't take it" and i really admire that attitude (as long as I like the music, which i do in this case).

questions -
1) is he aping some style i'm not familiar with?
if yes, who? specifically.

if no,
2) why is this song not more famous?

the newest one (...Hey! Badfinger) has yet to click with me.

i haven't heard it -- what's it like?

also i didn't mean creepy like crepey -- i meant sinister/spooky/creepy (which is not the same thing)

parts of temple IV are very sinister/oppressive!

i haven't heard that one
i'll check it out!

Maybe it just comes to mind because he's covered them, but Ill at Home sounds like it could be a 154 era Wire song. The Graham Lewis stuff.

wow, that's an interesting observation! I gotta re-listen with that in mind.

ooh, you are totally right, like a mutual friend or the rhythm from single K.O.!

jeez 154 is so good

so did anyone else pick up this compilation of rare tracks on the label run by grouper's liz harris?

this one: http://www.discogs.com/Roy-Montgomery-324-E-13th-Street-7/release/5617716

it's a reissue of a 1999 compilation I've never actually seen, in pretty fancy packaging with a poster and stuff.

also should i get the hey badfinger thing? the record store down the street has it for $9.

that comp is essential. crucial. Something Else Again is one of my favorite singles ever, and the Shallows is necessary.

Yeah that comp is above/beyond. Have it on the original run. (RIP Drunken Fish.)

sold

three bonus tracks not on the CD edition as well... interesting! just snagged a copy, thanks for the news!

Is it his usual guitar stuff or are there other instruments??

My drum part for Ill at Home is coming along and now I can't really think of the song without the drum part, which makes me wonder why I keep trying to ruin perfectly good Roy Montgomery songs?!

I think one song has a tambourine? but yeah, pretty much all guitar + vocals.

jeez, amateurist, I am envious of you getting to hear this compilation for the first time. my favorite is some other time.

got one from Little Axe distro in PDX for $24

I have the E.N.D. single on Drunken Fish but have never heard the rest of this stuff afaik

Ooh, I forgot how gorgeous Times Three is.

4 Album box set of new material out next month
http://grapefruitrecordclub.com/products/montgomery-roy-r-m-h-q-headquarters-4lp-box-pre-order

Oh man, that looks fantastic, I posted last week about Spotify leading me on by posting new Roy Montgomery: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/MC_rBBAiC2Y/maxresdefault.jpg

gotta hear about him sometime

I posted that Roy Montgomery link to the proper Roy Montgomery's facebook wall to much hilarity.

but seriously, I ordered the box set, and... that is a lot of roy montgomery all at once!

No complaints, of course.

Anyone have "Live At The Gladstone Hotel"? There's a hidden track or two tacked on to the end of "Hurricane Fighter Plane", anyone know what they are?

It's out: https://badabingrecords.bandcamp.com/album/r-m-h-q-headquarters

just in time for autumn cold front!

It's quite lovely

If I had to pick one song:

https://badabingrecords.bandcamp.com/track/hungover-heroes

It's called that for a reason.

just bought the digital but it doesn't have the tracks broken up into the 4 "distinct" LPs. Is the individual tracklisting anywhere?

R: Tropic of Anodyne
1. Tropic of Anodyne
2. Dear Future Loser
3. You Always Get What You Deserve
4. I Was A Distant Star
5. Seven Faded Dreams
6. If And Only If
7. Hanging Melody
8. As The Sun Sets

M: Darkmotif Dancehall
1. Rough Take-Off
2. 10538 Overdrive
3. Little Big Star
4. Dazed Pig Dreamhome Slide
5. At The Gogol Au Go Go (for Natstya Terekhova)
6. Six Guitar Salute To Peter Gutteridge
7. Making Love In A Blast Furnace
8. Slow Heroes
9. Rough Landing

H: Bender
1. Ten Beers With Five Beers At Two Guns, Arizona
2. I.O.U. Otto
3. Pipeline
4. And Later We Looked Up At The Stars
5. A Guitar Called Boomslang
6. Another David Lynch Thanks, No Ice
7. Chasing Monica Vitti
8. Cocktails With Can

Q: Transient Global Amnesia
1. Otherness
2. Riding
3. Last Alarm (for Brad Fletcher)
4. Unshore
5. Weathering Mortality (feat. Emma Johnston)

thanks

wanted to do the same thing with the digital tracks myself :)

weird. on digital files, song is called "Five Bears at Two Guns Arizona"

Guessing it should be "Ten Beers with Five Bears at Two Guns, Arizona"

Thanks for that. Arranged the digital tracks similarly.

some of this stuff is really trippy, closer to like william tyler and dustin wong or kaki king than the blues stuff i'd imagined

hahahahaha fuck me i was getting this dude mixed up with roy buchanan, never mind

i was like damn roy done changed his style up in the 80s

"down from that hill and up from the pond" and "ill at home" remain my 2 favorite roy montgomery songs, "winding it out in the high country" and that whole album too
can someone give me a little description of what's in this box set?

you guys this box set is so so good