If you are obsessing over Drive Somewhere then I'd wager you'll love all of You and Your Sister. They've got that groove running throughout the album.
― that's not my post, Sunday, 14 February 2021 19:27 (three years ago) link
I guess if you want just to check out 1 or 2 more songs then try "Change the World All Around" or "Mary Jane."
― that's not my post, Sunday, 14 February 2021 19:31 (three years ago) link
Cool, thank you!
― Lily Dale, Sunday, 14 February 2021 20:12 (three years ago) link
I've been meaning to seek out You and Your Sister -- it's in good company on someone's top ten in the Spin guide, though I forget whose.
― swing out sister: live in new donk city (geoffreyess), Tuesday, 16 February 2021 02:34 (three years ago) link
Oh, it's Ann Powers. At #7, and followed by Barbara Manning and Jane Siberry :)
― swing out sister: live in new donk city (geoffreyess), Tuesday, 16 February 2021 05:21 (three years ago) link
Thanks for the You and Your Sister recommendation! I really like it.
― Lily Dale, Sunday, 21 February 2021 19:50 (three years ago) link
Cool!
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 21 February 2021 20:08 (three years ago) link
Lily go check this out immediately:
http://musicalfamilytree.com/band/right_to_left
― Überschadenfreude (sleeve), Sunday, 21 February 2021 20:15 (three years ago) link
I seem to get an Error! or Loading... message but no sound.
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 21 February 2021 20:47 (three years ago) link
you might have to download the MP3s to listen
― Überschadenfreude (sleeve), Sunday, 21 February 2021 22:25 (three years ago) link
Oh, okay. Actually it didn't work on my phone for some reason but is working on my laptop.
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 21 February 2021 23:02 (three years ago) link
for the unaware: Right To Left was Dale Lawrence and Shadow Myers from the Gizmos along with Matt Speake and Eric Baade, active in the mid-to-late 80s
their only listed Discogs release is here:https://www.discogs.com/Various-Black-Brittle-Frisbee/release/3668588
But they also have a fantastic 6-song studio demo that I can YSI I guess? and on that, all songs are credited to Lawrence/Ray.
Only Lawrence and Myers made the transition into the Vulgar Boatmen once Lawrence started working with the Florida band (Robert Ray, Walter Salas-Humara, Cory Crane, etc)
― Überschadenfreude (sleeve), Sunday, 21 February 2021 23:09 (three years ago) link
I have gotten my housemate hooked on "Drive Somewhere" and he's walking around the house whistling it.
Belated thanks for that Right To Left show, sleeve. It took me a while to get around to listening to it, but I liked it.
― Lily Dale, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 21:05 (three years ago) link
The Boatmen show was so good! "You and Your Sister" in particular sounded amazing. And they played "Fallen Down," which made me very happy as I wasn't expecting that one at all, somehow.
Thank you again for putting me in touch with your friends, sleeve! I was very shy and awkward and made the rookie mistake of showing up sober to the show, but they were very nice to me in spite of that. And I got to meet Dale. 100% worth getting on a flight to Chicago on Saturday and going back on Sunday.
― Lily Dale, Tuesday, 1 February 2022 04:36 (two years ago) link
so glad to hear it! Lesley is the best.
― bad milk blood robot (sleeve), Tuesday, 1 February 2022 06:00 (two years ago) link
Took the Germantown Road today though not as far as Collierville.
― that's not my post, Saturday, 28 May 2022 18:32 (two years ago) link
They're playing tonight in Indianapolis; I'm sorry to be missing it.
Every couple of months I get hooked on a different Boatmen song and have to listen to it all the time for a while. Currently it's "Shake."
― Lily Dale, Sunday, 6 November 2022 05:02 (one year ago) link
I've been warming up for the annual Schubas show this weekend. Please Panic hasn't had enough spins the past...decade (or two, guh) but it's so great. Especially loving "There's a Family" but the whole thing's fantastic.
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Thursday, 5 January 2023 20:51 (one year ago) link
"You Don't Love Me Yet" is such a great song.
― Lily Dale, Friday, 6 January 2023 03:45 (one year ago) link
Michael Hall's Let's Take Some Drugs and Drive Around
The Silos cover of this is seriously one of my alltime favorite songs ever.
I should have read this thread more carefully because I only just got around to listening to this song and I love it.
― Lily Dale, Thursday, 22 June 2023 00:40 (eleven months ago) link
Am also working my way through some of the later stuff by the Gizmos. "The Midwest Can Be Alright" is so catchy!
― Lily Dale, Thursday, 22 June 2023 00:44 (eleven months ago) link
all time fave/anthem among my crew, yes. "Heartbeat" and "Crime" are also dearly loved
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Thursday, 22 June 2023 01:21 (eleven months ago) link
I am briefly in this video, shot around 1989 (this is the pre-VB band Right To Left, after the Gizmos and The Satellites)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WrEmJYTFWQ
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Thursday, 22 June 2023 01:26 (eleven months ago) link
Whoa...never heard that song before. Sounds great! Bootleg of Right to Left without the voice over available here: https://musicalfamilytree.com/band/right_to_left
The Boatmen are playing here with the Silos and the Waco Brothers on July 8 at Fitzgeralds btw. Looking forward to it!
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Thursday, 22 June 2023 01:55 (eleven months ago) link
Oh, how cool!
I'm mad at myself because I'm flying to Europe a few days after that show, and if I'd thought ahead I could have planned a stop in Chicago.
― Lily Dale, Thursday, 22 June 2023 02:33 (eleven months ago) link
Re: "Heartbeat," I think I like the Gizmos version better than the VB one.
It always cracks me up that the Boatmen have a song called "Heartbeat" and a song that steals the riff from the Buddy Holly song "Heartbeat" on the same album.
― Lily Dale, Thursday, 22 June 2023 02:41 (eleven months ago) link
xxp yeah that's a great show, and here is the 6-track studio recording that was released as a cassette (Dale gives the OK to share in the comments on that MFT link)
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/c11ely65ugj2v3w/AAA1k_w30L2xrJGMhvHCNEnca?dl=0
2 tracks from that tape are on the "Black Brittle Frisbee" compilation LP which you can still find cheap, recommended (also featuring some great stuff from Paul Mahern's post-Zero Boys band The Datura Seeds)
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Thursday, 22 June 2023 05:23 (eleven months ago) link
Wow, this all looks amazing. What a treasure trove.
I'm absurdly pleased by the spelling of "Katy" (rather than "Katie") on that cassette because that's my actual name.
― Lily Dale, Thursday, 22 June 2023 05:51 (eleven months ago) link
Thanks sleeve!
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Thursday, 22 June 2023 15:33 (eleven months ago) link
Would totally go to that FitzGerald's show (a 10-minute walk away) but I'm out of town.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 22 June 2023 15:37 (eleven months ago) link
xp I really really love that tape, happy to share!
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Thursday, 22 June 2023 15:37 (eleven months ago) link
That intro to "When Company Comes" is about as R.E.M.-like as I've heard Dale sound. Really nice.
I've never seen the movie btw. The site's dead and it's not streaming anywhere that I've found. Would pay good money to watch it.
This thread revival is sending me down the rabbit hole today. Love that this is in black & white.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g818gATn_Gw
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Thursday, 22 June 2023 17:16 (eleven months ago) link
...and I see that the FitzGerald's show is sold out. I've walked into some variation of this lineup at least a dozen times before! Bummed.
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Friday, 7 July 2023 21:42 (eleven months ago) link
I'm currently doing a two-week Europe trip where I try to catch up with every friend I've failed to stay in contact with over the past six to eight years, and the line "Katie's making amends, making a ring around all of her friends" has been running through my mind since day one.
― Lily Dale, Thursday, 20 July 2023 08:58 (ten months ago) link
We drove down to Bloomington tonight for their first show here in like 12 years and holy shit was it worth it! Incredible versions of “Allison Says” and “You Don’t Love Me Yet”, but also someone from the opening band (Gentleman Caller) joined them for an insane version of the Stones’ “Sway” and the encore was a three song Gizmos set incl “The Midwest Can Be Alright”! Dale sweated through his shirt and the front row was a dance party. One of the best shows I’ve seen of theirs.
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Sunday, 6 August 2023 03:24 (ten months ago) link
Wow. One post for each set of Vulgar Boatmen.
― Tommy Gets His Consoles Out (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 6 August 2023 03:59 (ten months ago) link
Gah that sounds amazing. I never really considered flying to Bloomington for a Vulgar Boatmen show, though I've gone to Chicago twice to see them, but this makes me wish I had.
― Lily Dale, Sunday, 6 August 2023 13:54 (ten months ago) link
all my Bton friends were totally psyched abt this, people drove from Columbus, etc
ex-Gizmo Tim Carroll also did an early set at some other venue so it was a big night out
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Sunday, 6 August 2023 14:48 (ten months ago) link
"sway" holy shit that sounds awesome
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 6 August 2023 15:07 (ten months ago) link
Ditto
― Tommy Gets His Consoles Out (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 6 August 2023 15:07 (ten months ago) link
Wait, what, there is some kind of Silos sort of show tonight at the Mercury Lounge?
― The Thin, Wild Mercury Rising (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 18 September 2023 13:12 (eight months ago) link
Walter Salas-Humara and friends John P. Strohm, Amy Allison, Pete Galub and Konrad Meissner
― The Thin, Wild Mercury Rising (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 18 September 2023 13:13 (eight months ago) link
Oh it was yesterday. Oh well.
― The Thin, Wild Mercury Rising (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 18 September 2023 13:14 (eight months ago) link
Tickets are on sale for the Schubas show! It's January 6th.
― Lily Dale, Saturday, 18 November 2023 23:59 (six months ago) link
I'm flying into Chicago tomorrow to go to the Schubas show. If you're going to the show and want to meet up, lmk!
― Lily Dale, Friday, 5 January 2024 05:15 (five months ago) link