S/D: Thin White Rope?

they'll probably enable them on the release date, next Friday

and they're out - Mr. Limpet & Hidden Lands are the sample tracks on bandcamp.

oh wait, all the tracks are playable

Tempted to get the cds. I've all the original vinyl, but I'm playing more and more cds now

yeah played through all the lps on there yesterday and this morning.
Am tempted to get the cds again. I think i got most of them before. Don't think I got Ruby Sea though.
What's in the booklets?

The Ruby Sea hasn't yet been remastered, right?

Oh, thought it might be coming. Wasn't up as such when I listened to it last night. But thought they were doing them all in batches.

Yes I imagine you're right.

I may wait until Ruby Sea appears then buy them all....

the pdfs are just the lyrics sheets/booklets as they were before

they were going to do the first 5 albums this year, so I suppose The Ruby Sea is still coming up

The digital version of Moonhead has four extra tracks compared with the original vinyl. As you can see I'm getting tempted here...

Seemed like they shuffled around what was on as extra tracks from previous editions.
I think I had a coupl eo fthose tracks on In The Spanish cave but not sure where Roger's Tongue came from.
Some of that stuff is off the Bottom feeders e.p. isn't it? Not sure about chronology of tracks recording so where they fit.
I saw taht In The Spanish cave had Munich Eunuch again

Can’t wait to compare the sound quality of the new Triangle Song mastering. I don’t want to go into detail rn but there are things about that recording that have really bugged me

One of my favourite songs

Do tell us what bugs you!

Then again, maybe it'll start bugging us all....

do you mean the way someone is fiddling with various instrument volumes all the time and how some of it sounds like liquid stereo (I always imagined they reconstructed that track from tapes they had thrown away initially)? yeah, it's still like that.

Yes. That.

there's probably some clever reason they mixed it like this, but I can't figure it out.

do mixing desks have randomisation buttons with a triangle on and it felt lol funny to use it for this song? (triangle = D = delta = difference in math writing)

That almost sounds like a thing someone would do

Late realization, but watching live videos it's so obvious that Guy Kyser started life as a banjo player. His thumb pick and hand posture are typical Scruggs style.

http://blurtonline.com/feature/story-behind-album-ruby-sea-thin-white-rope/

The Ruby Sea remaster is still coming up + Lisa/Frontier might do an odds and ends compilation and a remaster of The One That Got Away

Thanks for this!

LF: I’ll have to wait and see how the reissues go as I need funds to do more, but I certainly hope so– now or anywhere in the future. Guy knows that I’d have a stroke if he ever wrote a new TWR song and/or if he formed a new band of any kind. (He briefly had a bluegrass band with Roger and I drove up to SF alone the instant that I heard they were playing!) My most fervent dream in life is that Guy will return to music, but mostly I want him to be happy in life whether it includes writing or playing music. It’s just that I’d like for Guy and Roger to finally get their due, something Guy could care less about, I’m sure!

This part from lisa fancher made me cry!

It remains a life ambition of mine to shake guy’s hand. <3

I did NOT know he played with a thumb pick! All throughout twr or just later on when the c&w vibe got stronger?

I would really like fancher to write something long about twr again- her liner notes for the When Worlds Collide comp were so great.

Awesome detail that the lyrics for RS came from a solo wilderness wander to get his head straight

Also the clown song is just such a brilliant piece of writing

Watch live TWR videos and you'll see he plays the guitar with thumb pick. Hand posed like a bluegrass banjo player. Guitar tuned to open G, I'd bet

I remember the Melody Maker review pictured in that article. They were huge TWR fans

I also remember an earlier feature by Everett True, where he ends up joining the chorus at the end of The Fish Song. FISH!!!!

FISH!!!

I think he is credited on the LP

I think the only in depth twr article I remember from the original time was the mondo 2000 interview (which was a really good one). There were always reviews of course. It was a particularity savory review of Moonhead in OPtion magazine that started me.

Mondo 2000 interview: the one that was posted in this very thread on Wednesday, 10 July 2013 ?

I know that Bucketful of Brains have a cover photo of them in Russia. Not sure what the story accompanying it says.

Yeah that’s the mondo interview upthread. Unforgettable

bucketfull of brains cover photo & one page from the interview:

https://www.amazon.com/Bucketfull-Magazine-Sneetches-Holsapple-Plasticland/dp/B00950M1EE

scanned page: https://img.cdandlp.com/2018/01/imgL/119033806.jpg

Interesting how that BoB writer is well aware of the significance of A Can of Bees era Soft Boys and especially “The Pigworker” (especially live!) in this lineage of crushingly glorious twin guitar rock

Russia cover photo apparently ties in with the cover mounted single. I can't find a story on the band in the issue.
Just found it beside my bedm saw back cover advert for Dave Graney's my life in th plains and thought it might be that issue.
Says there are stories in numbers 11; 13 and 25. Russia cover is 33.

https://frontierrecords-thinwhiterope.bandcamp.com/album/the-ruby-sea-2019-remastered-edition

(out next week)

it's out!

Does anyone know if this was remastered in 2019? I've a sneaking feeling it's a reissue of a 2002 remaster

I mean this:

https://www.discogs.com/Thin-White-Rope-The-Ruby-Sea/release/5165366

Was that one remastered though? Discogs usually mentions that where it says "reissue"

The 2019 credit sheet contains "Remastering: Paul du Gré" just like all the other 2018/2019 versions but I don't know for sure about 2002.

I'm thinking this because they seem to be selling that CD as well, as a 2018 product.

I have the 2002 "Exploring..." and it had that same "Remastered etc" sticker on the front

(I'm considering getting the CDs)

Update. I bought Moonhead. Amazon lists it as released in 2018. It looks like the CD on the Bandcamp page:

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/0012871653_10.jpg

And the barcode tells me its this:

https://www.discogs.com/Thin-White-Rope-Moonhead/release/12507123

Which is reassuring but also confusing as my Exploring the Axis had exactly the same sticker on the front but is apparently a 2002 reissue.

Exploring the Axis is a seriously fucking amazing record

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

I wonder if these are the demos produced by Scott Miller that he mentioned in Music: What Happened?