S/D: Thin White Rope?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6_eVB_c81w

Awesome! Thanks for sharing!

I Think I was at that show.
Definitely saw tehm at the venue and assume it would have been that year.

would've been amazing to see them at the boardwalk, great venue! saw both the young gods and fugazi there in 89-ish, perfect sweat-infested box of sound

Thanks for the heads up!

https://frontierrecords-thinwhiterope.bandcamp.com/album/moonhead-the-ruby-sea-live-in-gent

two songs live at their final show but not included on The One That Got Away. NOTE: Live versions on vinyl only, downloads are studio versions.

(I thought it was a remastered TOTGA but alas)

oh c'mon that's dumb! Why can't I pay money to download the live versions? I'd love to complete that show! Grrr.

IKR :-(

Here's a conversation with Roger Kunkel from last year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Vuuq13Ytl8

um, this year. anyway

Thank you! Just finished it. Any crumbs of insight or ephemera regarding TWR are like gold dust to me. And I never would have noticed this on my own.

Any more important live recordings come to light in the last year or two?

I'm not in dime myself & aren't aware of anything. Anyone?

In the interview above Roger mentions a 4 track recording of the 1988 Olive Pit show (where Guy only wears boots) that someone has and was willing to mix/master, though, I hope they release it.

The "The one that got away" remaster that was hinted at one time probably isn't happening, I suppose?

Idk but it’s been awhile since the studio album ones so seems doubtful.

I was a bit surprised when the hosts were talking about guy’s body of work and didn’t mention the Mummydogs album

Roger wasn't in that band though.

XXP - Just had a scan on D1m3 and everything has fallen off the tracker, but I think we got all the good stuff.

I know, there was just a “and then he withdrew except to play some bluegrass sometimes” thing

Mummydogs wasn’t nearly on TWR’s level of course so it’s not a huge lacuna

Xpost thanks mares!

yeah, thanks for checking, Maresn3st!

yeah, went and checked what was on myself a few hours ago. only thing that appeared was a band called Wand and they had song title parts that triggered the search engine response.

Thank you too :-)

FYI for anyone interested in correct information on their recordings: this one "1988-04-02 - Goez Beest, Amsterdam, NL - Sbd" doesn't make sense.

venue = Podium 't Beest
city = Goes (and that is 120 km / 75 miles away from Amsterdam)

Here's one I found that wasn't shared here last time around (have been looking for confirmation about the date (or if it's MM/DD or DD/MM?) but can't find that either) - it's one of the most impressive sounding ones yet imho. soundboard.

https://we.tl/t-M2QEIp9q5N

1990-11-09 RKCNDY, Seattle, WA

01. Wire Animals
02. The Ruby Sea
03. Astronomy
04. Eleven
05. Puppet Dog
06. Some Velvet Morning
07. Tina And Glen
08. Triangle Song
09. Elsie Crashed The Party
10. Valley Of The Bones
11. Munich Eunuch
12. Ants Are Cavemen
13. Fish Song
14. Roadrunner
15. Bartender's Rag
16. Hunter's Moon
17. Silver Machine

Ooh I definitely don’t have that one

(I could have fixed the last three tracks' MP3 tags but anyway)

or flac tags, whatever they're called when it's flac

This one is new to me too - thanks!

Amazing! Thanks

the only thing is... RKCNDY opened in 1991. Doesn't keep me from enjoying the show but it bothers me.

okay - it was 9 November 1991 (found it on this taper's list - among some other stuff that must be out there (on cassette at least) - https://digilander.libero.it/anti4it/bootlegscdnz.html )

Set list makes more sense with that date

Thanks for this StanM! Man I love TWR.

I'm just discovering this podcast has interviews with some interesting musicians. I listened to a 3 part thing with Gun Club drummer Terry Graham a few days ago and one with Stuart Moxham yesterday
This one is with Roger Kunkel, not sure if it was upped here before since its from April last year
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3O7WleGyOc1CgJee2IiMdr?si=61e5267c92f24b73

Thanks! while scrolling down to that one (I'm not on spotify) I noticed a lot of other interesting stuff on C86. Suicide with Martin Rev, Green On Red with Dan Stuart (and then a couple of weeks later with Chris Cacavas), Whipping Boy, The Seers,...

I may have listened to that Martin Rev thing. I know I heard one on Martyn Ware's podcast recently.
Can't remember what specifically turned me onto that C86 podcast

I think I was looking for the podcast Almost A Mirror, couldn't remember what it was called so started looking for the small groups scene in Melbourne or whatver the scene was actually called . Wound up with a show with Clare Moore of The Moodists turning up, got around to listening to it and maybe got an announcement about a new episode in the series appearing. But it is a very good series and goes back to 2018 and has some very interesting guests so glad I got to look through it. Don't think it has any more TWR but it does have a couple of Galaxie 500, Robin Crutchfieeld of Pere Ubu, Dark Day etc and a loa dof other interesting looking people who I may get to hear later.
I still haven't listened to the last couple of Almost A Mirror episodes cos I keep losing temporary playlists

They are no longer on Bandcamp. Glad I got those remasters while they were available

Ah. I'm mistaken. They're there under Frontier. Just not under TWR. Sorry...

Hey Stan/Jon and everyone, some new recordings gone up on D1m3, one a week before the last gig in Ghent, Wein 1990 & Munich 1988. All sound really solid, room for three more?

oooooooooh yes please

Cool, here 'tis - https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/bdtwra5fqn09oi8yn677s/h?dl=0&rlkey=rueyq1ierm4dy3ygxfqdx23wm

Thanks indeed!

<3

No worries guys.

For fun, I downloaded that amazing Youtube footage of 'It's OK' from the last gig, matrixed the audio with the live album, pushed it around a bit to add a bit of low end, and made the guitars even more hellacious.

It's in the folder too, if you wanna have a look, just a pity the footage is fairly low quality.

<3 thanks so much MN!

great idea about that clip! thank you again!

(Vienna is June 5th 1990 btw - I had uploaded the mp3s earlier but this is an upgrade)

So here's an unjustly overlooked TWR obscurity. Quoting Skip King, whose longtime partner-now-husband ML Compton managed them:

While the band were touring in Italy their lead singer, Guy Kyser, was borrowed and utilized as the vocalist on a single track with a band named Avion Travel. The song, "On a Moonlit Night", was to be used as the theme song in the newest Lina Wertmüller film "In Una Notte di Chiaro di Luna" (AKA "Up to Date"). Starring Rutger Hauer, Nastassja Kinski and Lorraine Bracco, and featuring Faye Dunaway and Peter O'Toole, the film was released that year but was a huge flop internationally, and didn't even make it into cinemas in america, at least we don't think it did. To this day we've never seen the movie.

Decades later ML was able to get an audio copy of the track, and I found and bought online a region 2 (Europe) DVD of the film. I don't have a multinational DVD player so it has sat on our shelf for very many years. Just now I threw it into my computer's DVD player, for a lark, and I found that I can view it! It's a terrible copy, obviously transferred from a VHS or perhaps filmed secretly in a movie theater with a camera (!!!). but I don't care.

It is so eerie to have the DVD start up and immediately hear Guy's voice, the song used in the menu system. Then I started the film and there's the song again at the very beginning. And I fast forwarded to the end of the film and they used the same track during the closing credits. And here is Guy's credit. We didn't even know if Lina and company had credited Guy, until now.

I finally saw this credit, 34 years later.

Crazy.

And here's the track:

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