Anyone like SWA?

Lawndale vs. The Raybeats
Lawndale vs. Love Tractor
Lawndale vs. the genre of "post-rock"

swa were a really good live band. chuck's band right now is worth checking out too.

Wasn't mad keen on Treacherous Jaywalkers at all, but they were *gold* next to Run Westy Run.

(Someone get Troccoli on this thread now!)

But all that dross;and muggins here bought much of it,all that including those Flag off shoots and instrumentals. All that dippy ,hippy tuneless pap. What was I doing? I have no idea. I can't even remember their awful names but the aforementioned Das Damen and DC3 ring a worrying faint bell and I probably have two or three each of their mid rock disasters in my pain in the butt vinyl i have to shift around everytime another relationship crashes.

Someone I NEVER see any love for: Always August, the bongo-driven strum-along jazz-rock jam-band in the SST roster. Id imagine they probably wore ponchos when they played and had to shake their curly hair lots when the bugs started itching mid-solo. But they were much better than all this makes them sound! Quietly and subtly amazing but everyone else hated them I think.

I remember also having mixed feelings about some Tar Babies EP once, but it may not have been on SST. They were from Wisconsin, right? Killdozer country. Sounded sort of hardcore punk funk? I still have a 45 by them on my shelf at home; I should listen to it sometime.

-- gygax! (gygax0...), May 25th, 2005.

HOLY OTMZZ....GYGAX U RULE.

Also: there's a CD reissue of the first two Tar Babies EPs on an Australian label called Lexicon Devil that's really good. They were a really good hardcore band before they started doing the funkier stuff on their SST albums.

I went for the 'Hoes with Attitudes' joke when this thread began, but wisely did not press send.

And Blind Idiot God..... the first post rock instrumental band complete with specs. I seem to remember that they had a song called 'Shifting sands' which had beautiful , massive alt. tuned chords but I may be wrong. I often am.

Wait. Correction is needed, even if it's not actually relevant to the subject.

BWP - Bitchez with Problems
HWA - Hoes with Attitudes

Thank you.

Was never that big on Riposte, too much seemed to hang on too few words. Not enough of that careening about that I love em for! Thinking of Empire was my favourite album probably, think that a good few folks on ILM might gobble it up if they knew much about it. Not very SST-like at all really despite the presence of a Saccharine Trust guy. Theres Pere Ubu and Television in there, but they also seemed to be very much informed by the Fall and the Blue Orchids (who they covered), Joy Division, early Scritti Politti. And yet they still sound totally unique and original to me. Maybe they sound like a much better, more considered version of the Shrubs or the Nightingales.

Hmmm, that makes them sound really shitty though, so Im going to shut up about it now!

I actually listened to some To Damascus last night! First side of Come To Your Senses. It was buried in the back of a cupboard next to Minuteflag and that dodgy Yanamamos thing on New Alliance that Grant Hart played on. Anyhow, I quite liked it! Juncosa sounds both quite spiky and very fluid, creating these glistening little rockpools then immediately strafing them with bullets. Reminded me a bit of Curt Kirkwood, and I guess they share that thing where their voices are all dopey and wayward, but they're still really nailing those notes at the same time.

"Winter"

What will you do? Where will you go
When the cold winds start to blow?
The children all know
The winter is here!
Yes, it's here!

Dark is the day
When we find that we have lost our way
Caught in the storm
Further from the chosen path we stray
Can't you hear what all the children say?

Seasons they change and so should we
When all refuse to see
The winter is here!
Yes, it's here!

The power we gave
They abused and used it to enslave
Put us all into an early grave

In this old world (?)
Where children can grow
You only reap what you sow
Or didn't you know?

(Buried vocals)
Can't escape from the storm
Find shelter, safe and warm
The winter is here!
Yes, it's here!

Fools are the wise
Who would blindly trade the truth for lies
See it written in the children's eyes

Lovers were found lost on the road
In frozen embrace in the snow
The children all know!
The winter is here!

http://www.musiq.pl/images/35/SWA_Winter.jpg

Their live performance on THE TOUR VHS (SSTV 02) flies high & mightily, showing them doing that out/free-hardrock thing they patented, to great effect. (Get it quick - it's available in booted DVD form on e-bay)

SEE: Dukowski pumpin' away on bass like a human steamboiler! Merrill stutter-steppin' like Jagger on speed! The twin-leads of Ray Cooper & Richard Ford circling/scattering like bloodthursty hyenas in the night! And Greg Cameron drumming, mooring it all like a railroad spike driven straight through the foot.

Sure beat the pants offa the HUSKERS, and maybe the MEAT PUPPETS too (but not SACCHARINE TRUST. Never.)

As usual, there appears to be only like 2 people in the audience. People are stupid, ya know?

BTW: I also once had a tape of a KXLU "Braincookies" live performance of theirs - as I recall, it was 1 continuous, 40-min. improvised heavy jam. Just nuts. Wish I still had that. Hell - wish I still had a tape player.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu6VQt2QiiI

Arroyoooooooooooooo! She's my arroyooooo!

The squaw on guitar is Sylvia Juncosa amirite?

man the Chuck Dukowski Sextet certainly is Dukowskian. RIYL if you like SWA or Wurm, i.e. if you're me and no one else on planet earf