Stephen Barncard: I remember a particular session that I did not participate in where they were trying to record a teapot. They had a part in a song where they wanted the teapot to whistle on cue, so they would back the tape up and try to anticipate the delay after the heat was turned on. Nobody told them they didn't have to do it that way; they could have recorded it separately on a two-track and spun it in. But they were too wasted to think of that.
Blipcrotch was this weird character that was the leader of the band. I have no idea why Paul signed them, I thought they were terrible, besides being idiots. I think since Paul lived in the same town as them, he felt sorry for them or something.
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 15:44 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0412/smith.php
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0412/eddy.php
― chuck, Tuesday, 18 May 2004 16:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 16:23 (nineteen years ago) link
(As for Postal Service, um, I guess I prefer Superpitcher.)
― chuck, Tuesday, 18 May 2004 16:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 16:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 17:18 (nineteen years ago) link
Oh man, that tea kettle story is priceless.
Yes, Pink Fairies (there's a reason my fantasy baseball team is named Kings of Oblivion.) el sabor wrote:
for some reason this thread's making me want to buy the bon scott and fraternity 2cd.
This is actually pretty good! Or at least, the Fraternity tracks I have on a CD compilation are good. Kinda mildly heavy post-hippie back-to-the-land rock. The CD also has tracks from Bon's OTHER pre-AC/DC group .. not so good. The Valentines I think they were called? I'd have to check the CD. It's on See for Miles. I don't know about this 2CD thing, though. I may need to look for that.. Did any of you psychonauts ever get into that Holyground stuff? Any Thundermother fans in the house? I might have to torch one up and throw that on...
― Broheems (diamond), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 17:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sean Witzman (trip maker), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 17:58 (nineteen years ago) link
Spooky Tooth fans may want to find the first Widowmaker album, which features Luther and a very Spooky-Toothy lead singer. It's the definition of thud-like.
― George Smith, Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:11 (nineteen years ago) link
Was that Grand Theft "Hiking Into Eternity" LP really recorded in '72-73, or just some big elaborate mid-'90s hoax? Liner notes and bandmembers' names ("Crowbar Monsoon" yet!) are preposterous, and recording quality is too muddy to be conclusive. It's clearly a Grand Funk parody, but Grand Funk were as ripe for parody in '96 as in '72, weren't they? So it's a mystery. If anyone has a clue, I'd sure love to know!
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:13 (nineteen years ago) link
Bang can be had through the band's website. "Bang -- music shot from guns!" And they were from Philly.
― George Smith, Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:17 (nineteen years ago) link
i thought it was actually a parody from the early 70s (allegedly members of bluebird, supposedly a rural rock band). but if it isn't, i can say they did a really good job on the production. fooled me.
leaf hound! yeah! i was just listening to that in the car last night. they should've been huge.
― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:22 (nineteen years ago) link
I'm realizing that's an essential ingredient for me. If you can't holler/gargle "WOMAN" with as much feeling as Frijid Pink, you're just not in the major leagues, I'm thinking.
― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:25 (nineteen years ago) link
Myonga OTM re: Third World War - High Time is a very good comparison. I still really can't fathom anyone who doesn't love all three MC5 lps. But they are out there. High Time might even be better than the first one; better to dance to, anyway.
Does the Mt. Rushmore lp have them on the cover, like on DP's In Rock?!
― Broheems (diamond), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:26 (nineteen years ago) link
Most def! And/or "child" and/or "baby".
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:29 (nineteen years ago) link
Best "woman" exclamation is the Sir Lord Baltimore dude at the beginning of "Master Heartache".
― Broheems (diamond), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:31 (nineteen years ago) link
I'm gonna go home tonight and find the Group Therapy cut where he cuts loose with my favorite all time "WOMAN!" My first instinct is that it's on Hey Joe, but I think I'm confusing it with a hall of fame "LISTEN, PEOPLE!"
― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:37 (nineteen years ago) link
You know what I don't love as much as some people? That first Zior album. I never heard the second one. Great cover and all...
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:44 (nineteen years ago) link
Ah yes, Dunhill. Home to DEMIAN. Can't believe I didn't like that record the first time I heard it. Thankfully, I came to my senses.
― Broheems (diamond), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:54 (nineteen years ago) link
More free associating, has anybody heard this?? I've heard tell that the 18-minute Coloured Balls track on there - "God" - is like, THE great heavy distorto guitar overload track. But alas, it has yet to cross my path.
― Broheems (diamond), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 19:09 (nineteen years ago) link
Never heard the Summer Jam LP -- sounds wicked, though. I mean, side two: God. That's pretty cool. A nice DJ set might segue that and ISB: Creation (at 16:XX, a little more equivocal, maybe).
― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 19:10 (nineteen years ago) link
Combination Captain Beyond, prog, heavy blooz thud and some funk. And it's not nearly as grand as the theory although the album does comedown on the better than average side of things. Review of it by the Saint of Cough Syrup can be found on-line at Rolling Stone. The Saint gives Ramatam the thumbs up in an accidentally funny and wretched essay.
They made it to a second record which I never heard.
― George Smith, Tuesday, 18 May 2004 19:13 (nineteen years ago) link
Yes, it's Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs. I have most of it on "Lock Up Your Mothers" which was a box set of three or four albums worth of material. Most of it, entirely great and about a step or a year on from the "black" Grand Funk live album.
― George Smith, Tuesday, 18 May 2004 19:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 19:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 19:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 19:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 19:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kris (aqueduct), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 20:11 (nineteen years ago) link
Thanks for the link about that 70s metal book, I will check that out. Some aspiring label needs to get together and make a nuggets style compilation of this kind of stuff, I know I would be interested.
― earlnash, Tuesday, 18 May 2004 22:15 (nineteen years ago) link
GIMME
― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 22:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 22:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― lovebug starski, Tuesday, 18 May 2004 22:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 10:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― lovebug starski, Wednesday, 19 May 2004 11:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 12:36 (nineteen years ago) link
The "Medusa" album is good. So is "You're the Music, We're the Bandt." The first album was much mellower than the next two, not real predictive of the sound most fans came to like. Both of thw two records mentioned veer between loud crunching, very funky heavy rock and soulful torch music. There are a couple live CDs of the triothat predictably dump the torch music for the Marshall stack.
After Hughes went on to Deep Purple the band kept putting out records, adding a second guitarist. "Hot Wire" was one of the better ones; it was full-on heavy funk and hard rock. Not much like it at the time on the hustings except maybe for Pat Travers. Extreme kind of took the idea, softened it up, paid more attention to wardrobe, got a sissier-sounding singer and made it more palatable to girls a decade or so later.
The album after it, "Trapeze," was not quite as good. Less funk for the sake of nondescript thud-rock. The album does feature a very good cover -- jaunty, actually -- of "Sunny Side of the Street," alone worth a bargain price if you can find a copy.
They became huge in San Antonio, like Budgie, and might have lived there for a time. Reissues were everywhere about five years ago, including a live one recorded in Texas called "Dead Armadillos."This band, while still hard rock, was radically removed from the original which was produced by a member of the Moody Blues and subsequently taken out on tour with them in America.
Bottom line, best albums: "You're the Music," "Medusa" and "Hot Wire."
― George Smith, Wednesday, 19 May 2004 15:49 (nineteen years ago) link