50 Foot Wave / Kristin Hersh

I heard 50 Ft. Wave were not as good live, but maybe the album will surprise?

You should give Kristin solo a try, Scott. Sunny Border Blue is such a great album.

things bode well for the new band.

Sounds really tight. Even more power-trio-ish than the last Muses rekkid! 6 songs in this vein one after t'other seems plenty tho'.

I hate to say it but I didn't really expect to become interested in her work again. It's been awhile. Have to check out that reunion album. I didn't even know about it.

I used to have a set list on my wall for years of the Muses, signed by all 4 members before Leslie left the band. It got destroyed through no fault of my own. :( Good god in those days they were playing with The Pixies and no one knew who the hell the Pixies were...seems like a fairytale in hindsight rather than reality.

& I totally get the grunge voibe (esp. w/ the wah-wah in full effect). But calling KH & Zee Wave FOXCORE, to me, is like calling The Ramones MALL PUNK. Ah, semantics schemantics - the album kicks ass, QED.

This thread may be the impetus I need to finally just get that last Muses record...

What's David N doing these days??

Apparently they've been remastered with (at least for Clara Bow) new bass parts.

Going to the Sheffield show tonight (Mon). Permanent hearing loss is eagerly anticipated. Though I'm disappointed by the lack of publicity for this tour - somebody posted on the throwingmusic board that the Liverpool show was practically deserted.

I played Golden Ocean to my boss at work last week, casually mentioned the Sheffield show, and he immediately ordered me to use the company credit card to buy tickets for everyone in the office. Further evidence of the awesomeness of Kristin's powers.

It's way better than those chunks of dung.

Slut-kiss girls won’t you promise her smack
Is she pretty on the inside
Is she pretty from the back
Slut-kiss girl won’t you water her back
Is she pretty on the inside
Baby pretty from the back
Slut-kiss girl we’ll have some rot black strap
Is she ugly on the inside
Baby ugly ugly from the back
My pretty power my pretty power
My pretty power my ugly
Slut-kiss girls won’t you promise her smack
Is she pretty on the inside
Is she ugly ugly ugly ugly ugly ugly ugly ugly ugly

Bad boy
Rows and rows of angel hair
And ice cream pencils baby do they care
And fibre yah glass where is she powered that way
Blues and shoes but this isn’t ugly
Yah where is it a marriage in a wheel
Will to calls that way
But now they only block the sun
They rain and snow on everyone so so many things
Wow hey I made it down
I I i I made it mosh in everyone acid hair
Acid stars you’re getting there
Is she high that way
But now it’s just another show
Your living life as ready go
It’s all it’s all a doll no a doll
Give me a shelf of a whore
Yah now my friends are ugly strange
They shake their heads man
They gave us a trap well
We’ll send this love as
Rearrange of who of
Baby I lie with pictures now
From riddle love and streets of gold
He says he reach of a candy heart of
I really love it I really don’t know
I really don’t know I really don’t know
I really don’t know like I used to live
Yah berry parts and I wow what was it

It's way better than those chunks of dung.

Mmmm, NOPE. (But Golden Ocean is awesome awesome awesome.)

Friday, June 10th
7th St. Entry

50 Foot Wave
Maps of Norway (my band)
The Slats

10 adv/12 door
Doors open 8pm, we probably won't go on until around 11 or so, maybe a little before...

local promotions for stuff kind of sucks, I didn't even know the show was happening until that day and I couldn't make it. blah.

haha no i'm not in 50 Foot Wave...I was in the local Mpls opener Maps of Norway.

In any case, the show went FANTASTIC.

Ned, a guy from the Current promo dept who was there doing there said Maps of Norway reminded him of the Chameleons, and I thought of you : )

Pretty much totally full....got to meet Kristen and the bass player dude (can't remember his name) who I think was in Throwing Muses as well....very nice folks.

People seemed to like us, and were at least paying attention and standing up front, which is nice for an opening band. Had a lot of fun.

what? it's all still there, just click "free music" at the address upthread. or if you just want power + light, right click "mp3".

Apparently everything she does is released under a Creative Commons licence these days, downloadable in 128kbp mp3, 256 kbp mp3 or FLAC, with cover and (!!) mix parts, one's work on which can be uploaded to the so-called "rw" (read/write) section... songs for next album made available as they are recorded etc -- this is a pretty awesome way of doing stuff I think!

Oh jeez, the night I was so drunk I couldn't download free music.

lol the beautiful struggle

I will be repping HARD for Golden Ocean.

yeah, fuckin fantastic record that

She's good value on Twitter btw. One of the few musicians worth following.

She's the only "celeb" I follow thesedays. And you, obv, Dorian.

golden Ocean is just like, really good and straightforward. kinda wish the vocals were mixed higher.

her twitter! i need to get on this

Yeah, her Twitter is awesome. She's DMed me a few times in response to things I've written to her, so assuming I'm not special, she's good about the interaction and not just posting to hear herself talk.

My personal assesment of Golden Ocean is that it is what Nevermind wished it was.

Or what I wished Nevermind was.

So I have the very first self-titled EP, which is great, and I sold "Golden Ocean" as it just didn't measure up to the EP. Is there any other 50 Ft Wave material I should consider?

The hell you say Golden Ocean doesn't measure up! Anyway, uh last year I guess they put out Power + Light, which is pretty interesting, but I won't guarantee you'd like it just because you like the older stuff. It's sort of um, Jane's Addiction-influenced or something?

Anyone read "Paradoxical Undressing"?

Is there much about mental health/schizophrenia in there?

Ordered it from Amazon UK, but it hasn't arrived yet. Intentionally avoided reading anything about it. Want to find out myself. Her writing online and in the "Crooked" book was really good though... I have high hopes.

Love this interview -- particularly the part about when 50FW opened for the Muses and how it's totally cool with her that the respective fans could be different sets of persons. Reminded me of a thing I then had to google up from her website:

Wicked, I thought. I never know what people want to hear. Some seem to only like old Throwing Muses songs, some only like the most recent release, some people only like Sunny Border Blue, some people want unreleased material, some like me to scream real loud, some like me to whisper, some just like Your Ghost over and over and over again.

And she's OK with people only wanting "Your Ghost" over and over and over again. I love that.

Now, if someone only wants to hear "Dizzy"... ;)

and btw very annoying that there is not a youtube of "Fish", which afaik was on a commercially released videotape ffs, on youtube without it being muffled, distorted, or unsynched+supertitled... :/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xovWgb4MZWI

Anybody sen her on tour for Rat Girl? I'm going tomorrow (well, later tonight). Read that she does music as well as reads. And I have a few extra tickets, if anyone's in the LA area.

saw her do readings with giant sand making soundtracky noise behind her in london last year, it was remarkable. interviewed her in january for a magazine that might not be coming out now, as ever she was wonderful, funny, moving, etc... she just rules, doesn't she?

Always a good idea to check out the website every once-in-a-while to see what's new for public consumption.

http://50footwave.cashmusic.org/

So obviously there are like 50 years worth of other bands and songs that could have done this for me, but listening to Power + Light pretty much nonstop over the last few weeks just inspired me to my first fuzzbox purchase.

nice. wat fuzz u get for ur fuzzin' needs?

Just a Little Big Muff. I'm on a pretty tight budget these days. But the fields of fuzz from this album are just impossible to resist and I want to play in them too.

lbm is a great muff imo. some will say otherwise but it's kept a few pricier boutique muffs off my board. between the tone and sustain knobs there are a lot of great and classic sounds in there. smooth sustainy gilmour lead fuzz, massive wall of pumpkins fuzz, trashy dime store black keys fuzz etc.

there are a few distinct flavors of fuzz and iirc kh used a roland bee-ba a lot on that record. discontinued now and hard to find but if you want to explore more fuzz flavors there are now several good versions available from independent builders.

According to the guy who recorded them, she primarily used a Quadrafuzz, which is a build-your-own kinda thing.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v511/mudrock5000/CIMG0575.jpg

http://www.kristinhersh.com/forum/topic/just-a-gear-question-for-k

whoa. nice. that microsynth has some crazy stuff in it too.

<3 <3 <3 <3 <3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5x0-sWeStg

haha, cute. is there a duet album in the works? Throwing Francis

lord almighty this woman can howl. "a rushing" has been killin" it for me.

So, this happens
No it doesn't
Yeah, this happens
Well it shouldn't

Here comes the thunder
There goes the rain

where is this new muses album that's been done for ages?

if by "ages" you mean "a couple of months"? but anyway it's being released with an accompanying book (like Crooked) so there's that to get done. official word is late summer:

http://www.kristinhersh.com/forums/topic/new-muses-album-release-date/

specifically: "Two conversations yesterday with Harper Collins in London and NYC and we’re looking at Aug 22, right now. This date could change a bit, but not too much."

does it really have 32 songs on it?

http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4148322-dis-meets-kristin-hersh--listening-is-hard-work-i-respect-people-who-can-do-it-well

50 Foot Wave album coming soon.

yessssssssss!

Oh, and some of the works in progress available here:

https://www.kristinhersh.com/Releases/50-foot-wave_night-blooming/

More at same link now?

grungy goodness.

new fippy foop: https://soundcloud.com/hhbtm-records/50-foot-wave-gods-not-a-dick

uhh how did i not realize this band until now

feel like an idiot. wow incredible songs. she's like 60?? just wow

she's only 57! and is probably one of the most prolific artists working today... Throwing Muses album in 2020, 50 Foot Wave album in 2022, solo album in 2023, plus she writes amazing books!

been a throwing muses / solo fan for years - the prolific-ness is quite insane. def enjoyed the 2020 muses record, will check out the solo from last year.

i keep finding that my gratitude for Kristin will not relent