TS: Denny Lethargy VS. Denny Vertigo

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To add to the kiss of death: there is rumored to be a Denny Vertigo tribute album organized by John Zorn, Mike Patton and Cex.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:17 (eighteen years ago) link

what i loved about "anagram #2" is there's this part hovering in the background that's either a high-pitched female voice or a processed cornet sound, i can't tell which. the liner notes are shit and don't help one bit.

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Also one last thing: I seem to remember there a Denny Vertigo/Lethargy subthread in one of the Cover Connection threads. Virile, pestulent ILX search, BAH!!!

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:19 (eighteen years ago) link

hey i never has posted here but i came acorss this site and i must say lethargy/vertigo is probably the most underrated artist of his time. i belive rhino weas supposed to re-isseu all of the pre-rca recordings? am i right, or did i dream this?

― dennyfan#1, Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:20 (eighteen years ago) link

i am going to scan the amblin cover
lemme find it
brb

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:21 (eighteen years ago) link

i have "amblin" on CDR, if you scan it and post it that would be dope, bro, i can then print it

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Working is an incredible challenge
A kind of vertical division
Let it resonate within your sacred space
I'm going to fuck you until your voice goes away

We come from the same place
I can't bear it any longer woman
You're Vertigoing Insane

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:23 (eighteen years ago) link

The video for that is pretty fucking weird.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:25 (eighteen years ago) link

never seen the video... do I want to?

is there any song of his that doesn't have a guitar solo going the entire time, all the way through it?

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:26 (eighteen years ago) link

You seem to be forgetting something - the Vertigo Buddhas

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Just once, I'd like to hear a discussion of Lethargy without someone bringing up Zappa. I know that it's tough for the Frank Fans to restrain themselves, though.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:27 (eighteen years ago) link

that's why hagerty loves him! you listen to the new Howling Hex album and notice how he's got those guitar lines just snaking through the entirety of each song, and that sound is TOTALLY Denny Vertigo

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:27 (eighteen years ago) link

i found a small copy of the amblin cover on a geocities site
i'm going to rehost anbd then post it
it's small tho - probably not big enough for a cdr cover

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:28 (eighteen years ago) link

letharjy isa sexist pig
all men are sext pigs
the radio will not play all the talented and beautiful females
lethsrgi is pop trash, he is not real progressive aritst like marissa marchant

― mmfan#1, Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:29 (eighteen years ago) link

here

http://www.jefframirez.com/ilx/amblin.gif

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:30 (eighteen years ago) link

didn't yo la tengo cover a lethargy song during an fmu pledge drive?

Yeah, they covered "Lunar Doom Vehicle" on the 2002 all-request show. I also have a recording of it from the 1998 Hannukah show (the second concert). I can ysi the track if you're interested.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:33 (eighteen years ago) link

I procured the "L Is For Lethargy" b/w "My Pal Foot Foot" off of eBay last summer for the reasonably fair price of $28 (NZ).

― H. Cyrus Feeney, Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:34 (eighteen years ago) link

Julian Cope says this about Amblin': "A Druidic journey where you take a toke right before the first track and screeching metalloid insects immediate-fucking-ly start buzzing left and right past your dilated pupils ... oh, and it only gets more intense from there, babies!"

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:36 (eighteen years ago) link

TS: Chinese Democracy vs. Dennyana: The Pure Land

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:36 (eighteen years ago) link

if YTL had any balls they'd release a covers EP of that, just like they did with "Nuclear War"

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:36 (eighteen years ago) link

fwiw, i think vertigo has better covers

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:37 (eighteen years ago) link

That's the "clean" cover of Amblin'. The other one was a bit more erotically sensitive for Buddha.

(And I really wish that I had a version of that to post. Only time I've seen one of those copies was when I was working for KCOU back in the early nineties.)

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Denny Lethargy over vertigo any day. their string of unimpeachable album covers from 77-81 destroys vertigo's "penelope's rising" any day (and "pr" is one of my fav. songs to end mixtapes with!)

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:37 (eighteen years ago) link

am i wrong in saying denny vertigo is to denny lethargy as hawkwind is to motorhead?

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:38 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.trackteamaudio.com/users/krud/denny.jpg

SCORED THIS OFF TERRI T AT THE FMU RECORD FAIR IN 98, $$$$....SICK BROS!!!

― ddb (ddb), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:42 (eighteen years ago) link

UNICORN O' PLENTY!

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:43 (eighteen years ago) link

just found a recent pic of denny, he isn't looking too good:

http://www.pistolandenema.com/angie-baby/images/110603-6.jpg

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:44 (eighteen years ago) link

god please tell me that's denny lethargy

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:45 (eighteen years ago) link

am i wrong in saying denny vertigo is to denny lethargy as hawkwind is to motorhead?

Vertigo:Lethargy :: The Darkside:Spacemen3

xpost whoa, that pic is some scary stuff

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:46 (eighteen years ago) link

WHATS IS UP WITH THE REST F THE BUDDAH'S.....I MEAN RIP JON MASTERSON AND ALL....BUT WHAT ABOUT THE REST OF THE GUYS?

RFI?!?!?!?

― ddb (ddb), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:47 (eighteen years ago) link

yah I'd love a Buddah's RFI, those records came and left the shops fast...

the lyrics only really make sense with the music... the straighter the band would play the blues, the further out Vertigo got...

Channels can be named
Voyages are to be destroyed
Creation bears down on all the peoples
And I'm... overjoyed

I'm not trying to take you over
I rise in a powerful mood
Your gaze lands on things that don't even exist, girl
And you're... nude

Your voice traces beams through space
And receives dark lines from squid
I like to sing in church
[wordless soprano solo]

Accept that music resides in serenity
Accept that music resides in serenity

― milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 25 August 2005 00:00 (eighteen years ago) link

my favorite vertigo album is still invented gyro. my favorite track remains "anagram #2", ha those clever boys.

i totally missed this ... this cd is on my desk right now:

http://www.jefframirez.com/ilx/IMG_1200.jpg

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Thursday, 25 August 2005 00:01 (eighteen years ago) link

amblin' >>>> invented gyro though

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Thursday, 25 August 2005 00:02 (eighteen years ago) link

The soprano solo pretty much ruins the entire song for me.

xxpost

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 25 August 2005 00:02 (eighteen years ago) link

WHATS IS UP WITH THE REST F THE BUDDAH'S

Steve Zabatino has let himself go

http://www.characterevents.com/images/characters/medieval_bob.jpg

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 25 August 2005 00:03 (eighteen years ago) link

you guys are full of shit.. they're both way too emo for my tastes. i guess i'm more of a motel hell guy.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 25 August 2005 00:04 (eighteen years ago) link

>The soprano solo pretty much ruins the entire song for me.

and you hate puppies

(the solo melody is a direct lift from one of Purcell's Fantasias)

― milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 25 August 2005 00:07 (eighteen years ago) link

you guys are full of shit.. they're both way too emo for my tastes. i guess i'm more of a motel hell guy.

you befoul this thread with such vomitorious verse-making. back to the peat-mossiest of fog-drenced, bleeding wastelands, you stinking execrous pustule of pestilence!

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 25 August 2005 00:11 (eighteen years ago) link

i might be mistaken, but didnt lethargy have a late 60s psychedelic album that was a triple LP meant to be played at once (kind of a precursor to that flaming lips "Zaireeka" album) that was shelved because of the sleeve art collage having a visible vulva in it?

― latebloomer's rectal mocha latte (latebloomer), Thursday, 25 August 2005 00:12 (eighteen years ago) link

IIRC it was just the clit

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 25 August 2005 00:15 (eighteen years ago) link

it was a whole snatch dude

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Thursday, 25 August 2005 00:20 (eighteen years ago) link

1968....THE CLIT TOUR YES!!!!!

― ddb (ddb), Thursday, 25 August 2005 00:22 (eighteen years ago) link

i gotta jet but if anyone has the demo of denny lethargy's "mighty love - part 1" pls let me know
ysi or something

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Thursday, 25 August 2005 00:26 (eighteen years ago) link

There are bootleg mixes of that '68 album and it's really just bad sub-Vanilla Fudge shit.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 25 August 2005 00:29 (eighteen years ago) link

all i can remember about these guys is that whole myth of:

http://wwwstu.tcu.edu/~ssspillman/images%20for%20web/random%20page/denny

snopes did a good job on settling that ;)

― amon (eman), Thursday, 25 August 2005 00:40 (eighteen years ago) link

you can't fuck with the cover of invented gyro. i read somewhere that ronnie james dio admitted his entire visual aesthetic--album cover-wise--was just "an attempt to top denny". denny--upon hearing that--allegedly sneered, "funny i always figured him for a bottom".

― gear (gear), Thursday, 25 August 2005 00:41 (eighteen years ago) link

(intro, damaged wall of feedback fades up)

Since the Beginning of Time
There has been only one arm
...And it's MINE

(drums kicks in w/ guitar solo)

I give it you, woman
Gonna give you my arm
Gonna give you the arm
There's One Arm

(guitar line joined by zither)

There's only one arm
There's only one arm
There's only one arm
And it's Mine

(guitar joined by three other guitars)

You and I, woman
One Arm

(four simultaneous solos to fade)

― vertigo fan #1 (Jon L), Thursday, 25 August 2005 00:50 (eighteen years ago) link

fucking AWESOME

― gear (gear), Thursday, 25 August 2005 00:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Why the fuck can't you people listen to Clap Your Hands Say MIA? It's the music of the future, not this archaic shit.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 25 August 2005 00:56 (eighteen years ago) link

I found Amblin' in the dollar bin at Tunes!!!

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Thursday, 25 August 2005 00:57 (eighteen years ago) link

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