Cleveland, OH muzak: RFI

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Search: Cleveland Confidential, cd reissue of 82 lp comp w/ Pagans, Clocks, Styrenes, Easter Monkeys, more. Very worthwhile.

― dan, Friday, 2 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Moved to North Carolina or somewhere.

Does anyone have more specific info? Mark's a great guy, originator of the line: "Why doesn't Frank Kogan shut up and play his guitar?"

― Frank Kogan, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

You can get MDID updates (updated semi-annually, it seems) from
http://mdid10.home.mindspring.com/updates.htm
(He's in Chapel Hill, NC)

― Dave225, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

one year passes...

News for fans of the CLE wave -

PBS documentary to be filmed about the 70s Akron/Kent music scene
A taping is tomorrow night in Kent ...

Also - Return of ... Rockets From the Tombs - Disastodrome

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 6 December 2002 16:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

two years pass...

Circus - Stop, Wait and Listen is one of the best songs of all time. I am distraut because I cannot find it anywhere on the internet to download because you can't buy it anywhere. It's just a lost song. One of the greats though if you get a chance to listen to it.

― William C., Sunday, 16 January 2005 17:56 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...

I cannot believe no bands of note have emerged from Cleveland for a long time. It is such a fertile ground with a great fanbase in place (though you wouldn't know it from the dearth of good record stores...seriously, Bent Crayon is the best my city can offer?).

Actually, one of my favorite recent bands was Uptown Sinclair (think Cobra Verde, but, well, more fun), but i think they're defunct now. The lead singer is preparing some stuff with one of the guys from Walt Mink, so i guess i'll have to wait for that.

How can a comparable city like Detroit routinely outshine Cleveland?

― PB, Wednesday, 23 February 2005 05:10 (nineteen years ago) link

I saw Infinite Number of Sounds open for someone about 2 years ago .. and I thought they were cool then .. but I sort of remember them as also maybe sucking if I had seen them on another night.. So that's a cautious endorsement, I guess. Worth checking out, no promises.

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 13:35 (nineteen years ago) link

I went out to see a band for the first time in almost six months (at Pat's in the Flats). There were no more than 20 people there. Flat Can Co., was their name. Noisy improv.

I used to live by the Beachland- that seems to be the place nowadays.

Haven't been to the new Grog shop.

― cleveland marriott (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 16:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Richard Reigel's reviewed several, like the finally released Chi Pig, and Human Switchboard's Myra Macarian solo, archived at villagevoice.com, although their archive's still somewhat fardled since the latest re-launch (pretty sure those two reviews would be in ther, though). Also George Smith on the Numbers Band's re-issued Jommy Bell's Back In Town (which I've always thought of as "The Doors and horns jamming on 'L.A. Woman'"). I prefer the '04 re-reissue of Ubu's live One Man Drives While The Other Man Screams. Mayo Thompson is is on some of it, and I think his tracks work as well as the ones with Tom Herman, in a different way. Mayo plays rhythm-as-lead, in a way that suggests he was listening to Texas soul back in his acid 60s, and also sounds like the Velvets' Live In Texas sets, and an extention of Nile Rodgers, who was hitting his stride about when One man was recorded, so Mayo wasn't just workin' roots, he was al caught up! David Thomas and 2 Pale Boys' 18 Monkeys is mostly good, but DT sometimes tries too hard to be spooky (he's spooky enough when he just looms)

― don, Thursday, 24 February 2005 19:06 (nineteen years ago) link

No one's mentioned the 'No Cleveland' movement yet!?

― Sasha (sgh), Friday, 25 February 2005 02:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Is that like No New York, or a fatwah wave? Or both?

― don, Friday, 25 February 2005 02:39 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...

4/8-9:
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― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 15:45 (nineteen years ago) link

ten years pass...

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/20188-punk-45-extermination-nights-in-the-sixth-city-punk-45-burn-rubber-city-burn/

― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 17:32 (nine years ago) link

I guess David Thomas didn't do liner notes for those things (based on that grumpy Tidal interview with him)

― curmudgeon, Friday, 3 April 2015 18:45 (nine years ago) link

good stuff via john petkovic www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2015/04/lost_cleveland_rock_n_roll_lan.html

― tylerw, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 14:59 (nine years ago) link

places that are gone...

― curmudgeon, Thursday, 16 April 2015 18:37 (nine years ago) link

next time i'm in cleveland i'm going to park for a while at the la cave site

― tylerw, Thursday, 16 April 2015 18:38 (nine years ago) link

Akron is not Cleveland! Next time you're in Cleveland you should visit Akron.

― groundless round (La Lechera), Thursday, 16 April 2015 18:39 (nine years ago) link

2 albums....Soul Jazz has released two new anthologies of Ohio proto-punk, punk, and post-punk from the late '70s and early '80s: Burn Rubber City, Burn! (centered on Akron) and Extermination Nights in the Sixth City (centered on Cleveland).

― curmudgeon, Thursday, 16 April 2015 18:42 (nine years ago) link

u know it

― groundless round (La Lechera), Thursday, 16 April 2015 18:49 (nine years ago) link

four years pass...

Two lost great Cleveland bands: Terrible Parade and Tripod Jimmie. The former st least has a comp with most of their material whereas the latter desperately needs a reissue.

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Sunday, 5 April 2020 00:49 (four years ago) link

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