S/D: Thin White Rope?

Turned into a TWR sorta day. Found myself pondering the similarities between Black Hole Sun and the Triangle Song - not just the sonic similarities which are fairly strong imo, but the whole shared theme of astronomical bodies as some sort of solution to existential pain.

Thanks for the revive, that live clip of "It's OK" upthread just kills so much, it will always be to my lasting regret that I never got to see them.

yes that clip is a total monster

attempt at a twr pox:
it's ok
red sun
moonhead
crawl piss freeze
down in the desert
if those tears
wet heart
some velvet morning
fish song
triangle song

did this show ever get posted?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa8c2Ow988k

Groningen, 1990

One of those bands I've always meant to check out but never actually got around to... Listening to Moonhead and loving the spiralling guitars. Trying to work out if the drummer is that type who plays heavy and behind the beat or if he's actually slowing down?

i don't know really tbh. big thwacking drums are a big part of their sound though, also a feeling of being inexorably sucked into a bog

The Ruby Sea was my first TWR love. I know most people don't rate it so high, but... Such a great band. They deserve a massive boxset

THere are a lot of audio live sets around which show that at their best they were about as hypnotic as Television. LOve the band.
& some of the most oblique lyrics ever. Seeing them written down finally made sense of things I'd meticulusly gone over cassette tapes trying to transcribe back at the end of the 80s.

Yeah I remember looking up the lyrics to Come Around and being kinda repulsed and fascinated.

They had so much goddamn magic

Blasting The One That Got Away tonight. Bless 'em.
Think the link for this one was posted a long time ago and no longer working, let me put here for ya
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VzUzKV_h-Y

THere have been a load of live sets upped to Dime over the last couple of weeks i think including a few i hadn't seen before.

what a beast of a band

Xpost argh these words taunt me

On D!m@dozen now! Has anybody heard these?

Thin White Rope
1986-03-xx
The Frontier Demos
recorded @ an unidentified studio

SBD >> ? >> unknown generation Maxell UR cassette >> Cool Edit 2000 (normalised both channels to 0 db and cleaned up the silences between songs) >> CD Wave >> Flac level 6 >> you

TT 46:20

1. Wire animals 4:05
2. Ants are cavemen 4:07
3. Come around 2:30
4. Take it home 4:48
5. Waking up 3:27
6. Not your fault 3:52
7. If those tears 3:18
8. Tina & Glen 2:59
9. Valley of the bones 2:39
10. Timing 3:56
11. Moonhead 5:30
(12.) Munich Eunich * Removed
13. Mother 5:07

------------------------------------------------------------------------

Thin White Rope
1984-05-26
Samurai Sound Labs CA
The Rational demos

(9th in series)

info source:
Lineage: SBD tape (unknown gen) > Apple G4 > AIFF > FLAC

The cassette states that these were recorded at Samurai Sound Labs CA on 1984-05-26.

Anyway this set is ripped from a tape of demos given to Frontier Records and the copy I have is a low generation copy although there is some tape hiss it's still an excellent set.

Total 1:01:10

1. The real west
2. Waking up
3. Moonhead
4. From home
5. Down in the desert
6. Munich Eunich *
7. Here she comes now ** Removed
8. And those fears
9. Not your fault
10. Disney girl
11. Three song
12. Atomic imagery
13. Dead granmas on a train
14. Eleven
15. Mother
16. Exploring the axis
17. Lithium

How do us mere mortals who don't have access to exclusive stuff to upload get our hands on that kind of thing?

Pleaaaasssse ysi

Here 'tis. - https://we.tl/fOhnN10LMg

There's a mess of other stuff gone up over the last week too, live gigs and some more demos.

Hah, just noticed Steveolende's post upthread

wooooo! thanks!

Yeah I was just about to add comment about that stuff cos I don't think I have come across anything that early before.

"Tina and Glen" already demoed in 1986?

I'm happy to go through the rest of it and paste it up here.

Listening to the 1984 ones now. What a windfall

Are there any shows from right after moonhead in good sound?

Hoo boy this demo of down in the desert!!

THIN WHITE ROPE 1985-12-11 Berkeley (CA) USA -Berkeley Square - [SBD-recording] check for nice sound ->mp3 sample

THIN WHITE ROPE - 1985-12-22 - KPFK Spin Radio Los Angeles - FM (Remaster) - From the valley of Lost Angels! -

THIN WHITE ROPE - Limit Club, Sheffield, UK, October 17, 1988 * Requested re-seed * w sample

THIN WHITE ROPE - Dingwalls, London, October 10, 1988 * Requested re-seed * w sample

THIN WHITE ROPE - Vera, Groningen, Netherlands, March 31, 1988, Sbd * Requested re-seed * w sample

THIN WHITE ROPE 1984-1994 -"Hidden Lands" (an unreleased collection of Live Recordings.. Demos and Outtakes) - check mp3 sample

THIN WHITE ROPE 1985-10-02 KPFK, 90.7 FM, Los Angeles, CA (USA) "Spin Radio" check mp3 sample

THIN WHITE ROPE 1991-09-06 Odense (Danmark) Rytmeposten {very nice AUD} check mp3 sample

THIN WHITE ROPE 1991-02-02 Davis (CA) USA - Veterans Memorial Theatre - [AUD-rec] - check mp3 sample

THIN WHITE ROPE 1990-05-20 Hamburg (Germany) Markthalle - AUD master - check mp3 sample

THIN WHITE ROPE 1986-10-24 San Francisco - CA (USA) Viz Club [SBD - recording] RESEED check mp3 sample

THIN WHITE ROPE 1989-07-03 Camden Town, London UK -The Falcon- (AUD) (reseed) check mp3 sample

Which was soon forgotten in the wake of the jaw dropping Munich eunuch that follows (xpost to self)
I want to talk about twr for a second. The recipe that made them so amazing. For one thing, these guys really knew how to drag the tempo to make shit heavy as living fuck. It’s that which distinguishes an inexorable tank from a limbered-up 80 foot sauropod

Wow that list

kind of depressing that even in 1989 at the height ov their powers they were playing grimy shitholes like the camden falcon. would have loved to have been there though

is there a reason for this sudden revival?

Yeah is there? it'd be amazing if there were a reason! Even a reason as modest as 'Guy told a dude it was fine to share a bunch of live tapes.'

kind of depressing that even in 1989 at the height ov their powers they were playing grimy shitholes like the camden falcon. would have loved to have been there though

I was there, it was a packed back room of a pub in the middle of a heatwave, the poor drummer passed out after a while as I recall it. Probably the hottest gig I ever went to. They got shitloads of press in the UK but never got past cult status. Too odd I guess!

moonhead and something else are getting a reissue (on colored vinyl) soon. glad to see this band getting interest again. would be nice for keyser to rise from whatever swamp he now inhabits and play some shows again.

he's just doing botany for UC Davis iirc (NB this may be occurring in a swamp)

is Sack the other one besides moonhead getting reissued? I could use a remaster of Sack. It's a weird kinda weak sounding album (well I guess they all are except Moonhead. But Sack is musically maybe their best one and I wish it had more roundness and oomph)

Wow at that list maresnest posted. Hope someone can hit me up with a wetransfer link when I get back home in a couple of weeks...

Wow at that list maresnest posted. Hope someone can hit me up with a wetransfer link when I get back home in a couple of weeks.....

So happy when I found a sealed copy of Sack in Copenhagen a couple of years ago. It was the first TWR record I bought after being mesmerised by a video that I saw on mtv's 120 minutes in 1991.

Yeah is there? it'd be amazing if there were a reason! Even a reason as modest as 'Guy told a dude it was fine to share a bunch of live tapes.'

I will grab them all from DAD and throw them up here and perhaps anyone misses the Wetransfer links folks can share them out again.

Gah *perhaps if anyone misses

As for a revival, quite often, on Dime, you'll get a seam of live tapes from a band simply because some collector has gotten around to archiving files from their cassette/DAT/quarter-inch tape collection.

Then often other folks see it and throw their hat in and you get a bit of a nice thing happening.

I will grab them all from DAD and throw them up here and perhaps anyone misses the Wetransfer links folks can share them out again.

1985-12-22 - KPFK Los Angeles Spin Radio
1985-12-11 - Berkeley SBD

https://we.tl/qtYulFafcq

http://mlcompton.blogspot.ae/2009/01/thin-white-rope-under-covers.html?m=1
A word about audience recordings. With the permission of the band, I always had a policy of allowing the audience to record any and all of the band's live shows. I actively encouraged live bootlegs. I've always felt that bootlegs were the ultimate tribute to a band. If no one cared, there would be no bootlegs. (Bootlegged studio recordings were another matter though and Frontier and I actively shot several of those down.) If I saw someone taping the show, I always introduced myself, told the person it was okay, and asked for a copy of the recording. This worked out great as we ended up with recordings of "Little Doll" and "Skinhead" that were used on singles. And there were no recording costs! To this day, if I see a listing for a TWR show that I don't have, I ask for a copy. Some of the best TWR recordings are on these tapes. (For example, I love the sound of the "drowning dinosaur" guitars on "Little Doll".)

thankig u again (xp)

Thin White Rope - Hidden Lands - a 2cd collection
Thin White Rope - 1986-04-30 Charlotte NC - aud

https://we.tl/qisyyF1Ox7

MaresNest for presidetn!

:)

Thin White Rope - 1988-10-17 Sheffield
Thin White Rope - 1988-10-10 Dingwalls

https://we.tl/ZE6tQbWdPi

Happy day!