i've got the Trypes demos -- pretty rough quality, but worth hearing. The CDR has the demos + a show at Folk City in 1983. I don't really do the uploading/downloading thing, but if anyone wants to contact me off the board for a physical copy, i'd oblige ...
― tylerw, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 21:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Thanks for the link, tyler - love the recording. Pretty close to fully formed is quite right, though there are some things that would be more streamlined/better tuned later on. Esp. the drums I think. I don't think it's Fier that's playing on this recording, right?
― willem, Thursday, 7 February 2008 10:22 (sixteen years ago) link
'77 would've been Vinny DeNunzio on drums..
― willem, Thursday, 7 February 2008 10:30 (sixteen years ago) link
"Crazy Rhythms" gets reissued next month
will this be on 180gram vinyl?
― micarl, Thursday, 7 February 2008 17:52 (sixteen years ago) link
oh boy www.idolator.com/370364/the-feelies-to-bring-their-crazy-rhythms-back-this-summer
― tylerw, Friday, 21 March 2008 14:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh my God
― Jazzbo, Friday, 21 March 2008 14:40 (sixteen years ago) link
I hope they play more than just a few shows. And record.
― Jazzbo, Friday, 21 March 2008 14:42 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah seriously! i really would like to see them ...
― tylerw, Friday, 21 March 2008 14:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Saw them three times in Rhode Island in the late 80s. God they were soooooo good.
― Jazzbo, Friday, 21 March 2008 14:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Be fun to see 'em, for sure.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 21 March 2008 14:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Greatest cover band ever and inspired funky moves out of white people. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuA-haidvac
― Jazzbo, Friday, 21 March 2008 14:59 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah, best high school reunion ever.
― tylerw, Friday, 21 March 2008 15:30 (sixteen years ago) link
anybody know what happened to the (crazy rhythms) reissue that was due in Feb. ?
― outdoor_miner, Friday, 21 March 2008 16:19 (sixteen years ago) link
reissue now pushed back to late April. At least the third delay thus far, so who knows when it will actually see the light of day.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 21 March 2008 20:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Great news. I demand a world tour! :-)
― willem, Friday, 21 March 2008 20:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Fa Ce-La
― factcheckr, Friday, 21 March 2008 21:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Looks like a new album, more shows may be in the works.
http://www.spinner.com/2008/05/06/the-feelies-reunite-for-shows-new-album/
― Jazzbo, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 14:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Glad to hear it! I hope there's a full tour.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 14:51 (sixteen years ago) link
last I heard on the reissue of Crazy Rhythms was another bump to the end of this month.
I too hope they tour - at least a few dates outside greater NYC.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 15:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Cute photo goes with this article in the NY Times on the reunion. It never ceases to freak me out when musicians age like normal human beings:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/arts/music/01feel.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
― dlp9001, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 08:51 (fifteen years ago) link
I'll be at Maxwell's on wed night.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 16:39 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm looking forward to Friday afternoon's show with Sonic Youth. I can't believe this reunion is happening. I also can't believe we're asking c/d on The Feelies. They're the Feelies for crying out loud.
And my all-time favorite record from them is "Time for a Witness"!
― Kublakhan61, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 16:43 (fifteen years ago) link
I'd really like to see them. Twenty years between shows is too long.
― Jazzbo, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 17:20 (fifteen years ago) link
It never ceases to freak me out when musicians age like normal human beings: Bill Million looks like a locksmith.
― Jazzbo, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 17:22 (fifteen years ago) link
he looks like a Million bucks.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 17:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Dave Weckerman looks like Ruth Buzzi from "Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In." http://thegolddiggers.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/vlcsnap-12052238.jpg
― Jazzbo, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 18:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Glenn Mercer looks like Daniel Clowes, as imagined by Daniel Clowes: http://www.fantagraphics.com/images/stories/artists/featured/clowes_icon.gif
― henry s, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 19:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Damn I wanna live in NYC.
― willem, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 20:33 (fifteen years ago) link
don't we all?
― henry s, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 00:14 (fifteen years ago) link
good reason to not live in nyc: 2 tix to the "free" july 4th show going for $185 on ebay.
― mizzell, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 00:24 (fifteen years ago) link
i get the lotsa like, but not the crazy love
― Hunt3r, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 00:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Nice about reunion gigs, but, umm..Crazy Rhythms reissue? PLEASE for fuck's sake?
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 00:48 (fifteen years ago) link
haha, SO many reasons to not live in nyc! before i visited my old neighborhood a few weeks ago, my friend warned me: 'we will not talk about this tonight. but i want to let you know that there are now a lot of ordinary people around here doing conventional things!' and he was right, alas.
but i'll be going to the july 4 show, and looking forward to seeing the feelies. been almost twenty years since i've seen them, and the same is true for sonic youth, who i'm not sure i'll stick around for.
― edb, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 01:55 (fifteen years ago) link
From the reunion show, Away:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4tkJ1ts9LI
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 3 July 2008 16:35 (fifteen years ago) link
I thought they had reissued Crazy Rhythms? Did it get delayed or something? I already have it so I haven't been paying attention.
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 3 July 2008 16:38 (fifteen years ago) link
the band owns the masters and has been planning on a reissue for a while, i think. it hasn't happened yet.
― mizzell, Thursday, 3 July 2008 16:41 (fifteen years ago) link
My hope would be they delayed it because they decided to reissue it properly, as a double disc chock full of early tracks and the awesome covers they did in that era. I doubt it though.
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 3 July 2008 17:32 (fifteen years ago) link
kornrulez, thanks for the video! great stuff.
― stephen, Thursday, 3 July 2008 17:40 (fifteen years ago) link
so jealous
― tylerw, Thursday, 3 July 2008 18:05 (fifteen years ago) link
hope this turns into a full-fledged Mission of Burma style reunion, with touring, recording, etc. i kinda doubt it, but I guess the new songs they're playing bodes well for something beyond the shows this week. and hey, maybe Bill Million, after being a security guard at Disney World, has realized that being in one of the best rock bands of the last 30 years is pretty sweet.
― tylerw, Thursday, 3 July 2008 18:13 (fifteen years ago) link
I have two tickets to this, but my date for the day doesn't want to go. I'm quite pissed.
― jonathan - stl, Thursday, 3 July 2008 18:19 (fifteen years ago) link
>:8
― tylerw, Thursday, 3 July 2008 18:20 (fifteen years ago) link
(that was some kind of angry emoticon in solidarity with you)
― tylerw, Thursday, 3 July 2008 18:21 (fifteen years ago) link
It's okay. If I were a real man I'd do something manly and forceful. Too bad I'm not...
Feelies rule!
― jonathan - stl, Thursday, 3 July 2008 18:27 (fifteen years ago) link
maybe Bill Million, after being a security guard at Disney World
Don't sell him short. He was doing computer stuff...
From the NY Times article When he abruptly moved to Florida, he worked on security for Disney World, doing computer programming for access systems. But when one of his sons started playing guitar, Mr. Million was drawn back to the instrument. “It sounds odd to me to even call this a reunion,” he said. “It’s just that we’ve gotten together after a long break.”
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 3 July 2008 18:29 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlLA/original/mickey%20mouse.jpg
― tylerw, Thursday, 3 July 2008 18:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Supposedly, Water's planned reissue was unauthorized, but the first two albums are slated to come out on Bar/None Records later this year. I wrote them to confirm this.
Here's what I wrote about Crazy Rhythms and The Good Earth.
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 3 July 2008 18:36 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah i just saw on the other music email update that water was reissuing Only Life, too! seemed weird since they never got around to getting crazy rhythms reissued .... but yeah, if there isn't going to be any extra stuff on the reissues, i probably won't buy them. maybe. i probably will.
― tylerw, Thursday, 3 July 2008 18:39 (fifteen years ago) link
IATTOQ
They're kind of a band that only people who are *into music* are into.
AIR?
― PhilK, Thursday, 3 July 2008 19:00 (fifteen years ago) link
That Disney World thing was my favorite fact. Why not a whole article on Million's experiences riding a monorail?
also: lol "Mr Million."
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 3 July 2008 19:10 (fifteen years ago) link