still works.
you have to be a huge nerd to give a shit.
I'm sorry I broke up your black panther party.
― Tripp lamkins (trippl), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 00:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 00:22 (seventeen years ago) link
I've made a huge mistake.
― Tripp lamkins (trippl), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 00:40 (seventeen years ago) link
Is this the Goner board!??! AW SHIT!!
― Tripp lamkins (trippl), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 00:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tripp lamkins (trippl), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 00:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― QuantumNoise (Justin Farrar), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 09:38 (seventeen years ago) link
somewhere i still have awesome 4 track cassette recording of that show at barking legs in chattanooga (also known as the one where ***kicked*** that exercise ball into the overhead light, and better known to me personally as the first date with my ex-wife).
speaking of wives, when stan jokingly introduced me to his wife as "the fifth grifter," i was so totally weirdly elated by that. hah.
― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 09:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 09:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 09:57 (seventeen years ago) link
Used to talk to your little brother sometimes but it's durn good to hear from you. When's the new Yeti coming out?
― Tripp lamkins (trippl), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 14:29 (seventeen years ago) link
Piddlebach is the coolest fucking song ever recorded.
I am done here.
― J. Grizzle (trainsmoke), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― city worker (bmcnee), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link
Bardo Pond's done pretty good for themselves, eh?We had a collective band-crush on Isobel.
― Tripp lamkins (trippl), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link
ALSO I listened the hell out of the Shelby Bryant album after a friend picked it up by chance on emusic and loved it, and it just seemed so totally out there that I don't know if I'm excited to read that he was in other bands or if I don't want to hear them in case he begins to make sense. It tickles pretty much the opposite neurons to the Grifters for me though, just as a warning to anyone who might scratch their heads at my excitement.
― Rebecca (reb), Thursday, 1 February 2007 05:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Thursday, 1 February 2007 12:37 (seventeen years ago) link
everyone should own the Clears' first (only?) cd.
Every single track is fantastic AND it was recorded in my old apartment (by Roy Berry)
― Tripp lamkins (trippl), Thursday, 1 February 2007 14:35 (seventeen years ago) link
and have we mentioned the simple ones yet? that's kinda mandatory with a grifters/memphis/indie thread.
― QuantumNoise (Justin Farrar), Thursday, 1 February 2007 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― QuantumNoise (Justin Farrar), Thursday, 1 February 2007 14:43 (seventeen years ago) link
this is a band I played with from late 98 to 2001.I wasn't doing too much musically after the grifters'initial demise so I was elated when my friends Stu Sikesand Brian McKay called and asked me to join.
Initially the band was the 2 of them with Max Tepper.Max moved back to NYC and started the band Natural Historybut we carried on with some guest guitarists. One of whom wasTim Prudhomme who lived in Mempho for about 5 years.
If you listen to the song Song In F you can hear pretty muchevery guitarist who ever played in the band. It was a song Maxkinda started, then he left. In fact, when Max he announced itto me first and the first thing out of my mouth was "Can we keep Song in F?!"
So Max wrote a good chunk of the verse, Brian wrote the chorusand I more or less came up with the bridge (bridges are my specialty)and on the bridge you can hear Max's guitar, Brian's, Tim's, Jared McStay's, and Jerome's. (as well as my bass and I also laid down all the electric piano and mellotron.) So that one part of the song features performances recorded over the course of a year and a half.
It was pretty sweet being in a band with Stu because it meant we got to practice at Easley/McCain's. And record there for free basically.
If you like what you hear you can order it from Shangri-La.
http://www.shangri.com/cd_memphisindie.html
― Tripp lamkins (trippl), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tripp lamkins (trippl), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:09 (seventeen years ago) link
ALSO I should mention that Max left us Song In F before any lyrics were written so we all took a try at writing them but ultimately we took a poem my wife wrote and rearranged it slightly. Then Jerome and Lori McStay sang it.
My wife cried just a little bit the first time she heard it.
― Tripp lamkins (trippl), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tripp lamkins (trippl), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:20 (seventeen years ago) link
or here
http://www.myspace.com/lamarrecords
it's a little label me and Jared McStay started a few years ago(Jared from the Simpletones, now owner of Shangri-La records)
We basically started the label so the Jetty Webb cd would see the light of day.
We also put a STAFF ep. STAFF was me and Tim Prudhomme and Geoff Soule of the band FUCK. Technically, I'm still in Staff but Geoff now lives in Italy. Tim moved to New Orleans about a month before Katrina hit. They use whatever bass player they can get their hands on but if they're ever in my neck of the woods I get to be the go-to guy.
the other band on there is PAPER PLATES which is another band I got asked to join. I probably would've passed but Bobby (Dragoon) was writing really sweet pop songs and I couldn't resist. So I pretty much joined Staff and paper plates around the same time (2002)
― Tripp lamkins (trippl), Thursday, 1 February 2007 16:35 (seventeen years ago) link
And Breeze isn't that hard to find on the InterWeb, for anyone lookin'
― BlastsOfStatic (BlastsofStatic), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:41 (seventeen years ago) link
I put some live stuff from the 2000 reunion tour on the myspace page.
the version of Crashing Jet on there alright. the mix was a little wonky, drums are way up there. BUT it's the only version there is of us doing it.
the live version of Bronze Cast and Dayshift (which I'll post sometime soon) are from the same show. Lawrence, KS. December 2000. I believe we were playing with Califone that night!
― Tripp lamkins (trippl), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tripp lamkins (trippl), Thursday, 1 February 2007 20:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 1 February 2007 20:39 (seventeen years ago) link
For those looking to contact me, I can be found during my days right now at the Middle East where I'm in charge of local booking. I've also got a slew of bands I'm playing in that you can find online: myspace.com/mostbitter myspace.com/cbop most prominent among those.
Anyway for Grifters content: I still have my 'Grifters Rock My World' handmade t-shirt from that first show at the Blue Note (Monday Night with Zoom and Seam) (hey Tre, I always thought you were in the rafters with Dave not Tripp). I'm trying to recall how many states I saw the band play in but there's a lot between Boston and Texas and Atlanta (hey this is Superbowl weekend, you're not in some stripmall bar in Miami, are you?)
Last time I saw the band was at the Pilot Light in Knoxville which was a truly divine night in late 2000...
xoxo to allJeff
― Jeff Breeze (Breeze), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:59 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.myspace.com/141849898
I don't expect anybody to be impressed but hopefully it'll make you laugh a little. But like I said, once it gets up into our senior year of high school things suddenly get a lot more rocking.
here's a little bit of trivia for ye..
...where to begin..?
I use to date this girl named Jean when I was like 21. It turned out she was Shouse's main squeeze and she was kinda using me to make him jealous. I guess it worked cause she dumped me after a month or so. But we remained good friends.The first time I met Dave was at a DB's show at the Antenna Club in mempho circa 1987. He knew about who I was and I knew who he was and we didn't say much to each other.
So a while later they broke up. She and I hung out a lot (she was gorgeous and I had a huge crush) but she knew about BOB. I'd played her some stuff which she probably thought was terrible.
in late 1988 Dave met Scott through Think As Inca's drummer Paul Buchiniani (sp?). Paul and Scott went to school together and paul gave Dave a hot monkey tape. So that's essentially how dave and Scott met.they tentatively started a band that had no name.
in early 89 I moved back to memphis after living in Roanoke Virginia for about 8 months. I ran into Jean pretty quickly and she told me her old boyfriend Dave was starting a new band and was looking for a bass player. She said she had told him about me and BOB and that he loved the name BOB for a band and, according to her, he wished he could've used it.
What did he come up with instead?
You guessed it.
BUD.
.....
I told Jean I wasn't interested if for nothing else i was scared to death of playing in front of people.
a month or so later jean pointed out to me that Dave had placed an ad in the Memphis Flyer. it said something like "Bass player needed. Influences: Mission of Burma, Pere Ubu.. (somebody else). call Dave"
I didn't answer and as far as I know only a couple of dudes did. And they didn't pan out so well.
So out of desperation Dave called me and we got to talking and it turned out he lived literally right around the corner from me so I walked over and he smoked me out and played me a few things. I think it was The Want, Daydream Riot, and an early version of Black Fuel to which I added the bridge.
And we were off.
I didn't meet Scott til a month later. He apparently was following the Dead around selling acid quite a bit back then. We finally met and realized we'd seen each other at the Tiger Den (the commissary at our college Memphis State) and it turned out he was friends with all the hippy kids in my art classes that I couldn't stand. Little did I know they would all end up being our original fan-base.
And they had some goood weed so that didn't hurt.
― Tripp lamkins (trippl), Thursday, 1 February 2007 22:25 (seventeen years ago) link
We made it to Mempho in '98 and amongst other less obvious sites, we made it to Shangri La and The Antenna - I swear i spooted two Grifters shirts there that night, but sadly it was some hardcore band from Ohio playing.
The Antenna was like a bigger Adelphi to me. Classy joint.
GRIFTERS - out and out classic to me.
Reformyafuckers
Cheers Paul
― Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountain Dog (Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountai), Friday, 2 February 2007 00:02 (seventeen years ago) link
Remember that time in the bathroom at the Corky's in Germantown with the german sherpard and the paraplegic fortune teller?
Steve ShastaProfessional WakeboarderAsst. Editor, WakeboardingOnline.com
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Friday, 2 February 2007 00:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tripp lamkins (trippl), Friday, 2 February 2007 00:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Friday, 2 February 2007 00:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountain Dog (Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountai), Friday, 2 February 2007 00:27 (seventeen years ago) link
this is kinda weird cause i was just talking to a co-worker of mine about that Hull show this afternoon I swear to god. Told him how I made the classic american blunder...
our FIRST show overseas was in Hull, England. We flew into london, went and rented our equipment, stopped at a truck stop and had mushy peas and gravy then hit the road for the 5 or so hour drive to Hull. So we were pretty zapped. When we finally pulled into the verdant paradise that is Hull (wink) I went right to the bar and got a beer. the big lug that ran the place and apparently lived upstairs (?) gave me a nice big pint and I took a sip and said 'Whoa man, I think your refrigeration unit is out or somethin;...'
So he loved me, I'm sure.
that was also the night whassisname came to the show and wrote about it. ... ...... god what was his name......Everett True!
I remember my bass fell off me during our set and the head of he bass landed on my beer glass. But I caught it by the strap so it didn't fully hit the floor, the head just hit the pint glass with a 'tong' sound and a big triangular piece of glass broke off and landed in the glass. Since it was my last beer (fuckin' drink tickets!) I picked it up, pulled out the shard of glass and finished it off from the unbroken side.
hey. I've done grosser shit, believe me.
Btut Everett romanticized that moment in his article like it was some great punk rock moment. Really, I'm just a clumsy drunk.
― Tripp lamkins (trippl), Friday, 2 February 2007 00:38 (seventeen years ago) link
Paul Jackson - still lives upstairs and still wears his Grifters shirt. No, really. . He gets quality beer in and turns it all into warm vinegar.Legendary cellarman - but it ain';t a cellar - I can't tell you where it is. So where you stay that night?Legendary club though thanks to that man really - hey you tread the same boards as Radiohead, Oasis, PJ Harvey, Naked Raygun!, the once OK soul Asylum, God Machine, my band.
Take care.
Some nice insights there.
Let snobby people scoff, but I loved a lot of Grifters music- I really did. You had your own special sound and gave me a lot of pleasure.
Hull Is not too disimilar to Memphis btw. i guess you didn;t make it down town? The gallows and so on?
I remember ET being there. Wasn't he Kurdt Cobain's dad or something? He posts on here I think- or has done
― Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountain Dog (Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountai), Friday, 2 February 2007 01:03 (seventeen years ago) link
really.
so how widely read is this board?
Cause i've been saying all this wacked out shit.
― Tripp lamkins (trippl), Friday, 2 February 2007 01:07 (seventeen years ago) link
Tabloid journos, solicitors, Gary Numan, the peabody ducks, Poison Idea roadies.
Keep noodling that bass fella - us Limeys off to bed. Good talking to you. Cheers
― Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountain Dog (Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountai), Friday, 2 February 2007 01:13 (seventeen years ago) link
goodnight you....Princes of Hull.
we stayed upstairs at the Adelphi that night. with the other band I think. It was just some big junky room with some sofas and carpets and crap layin around. it really was like some kind of weird dream.
mostly what i remember is our tour manager, who we'd obviously just met, this is our first night all bedding down together. a) he's walking around in some pretty tight Calvin Klein underwear and socks and thats about it. While we're all fully fully clothed for fear of bed-bugs ( which we had encountered before staying at some punk rock club in kansas) .
and b) our new TM gets up in the middle of the night and walks over to the wall near where Dave is sleeping, and he whips it out and starts to take a leak!
good times.
ps. no-one was peed on
― Tripp lamkins (trippl), Friday, 2 February 2007 01:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― BlastsOfStatic (BlastsofStatic), Friday, 2 February 2007 01:16 (seventeen years ago) link
If anyone's interested email me. I think he's asking 1500.
― Tripp lamkins (trippl), Friday, 2 February 2007 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link
One memorable offstage moment happened in the front 'bar' at Adelphi. I was playing pool and heading for an eight ball ,of course, but then - mucky water started spurting onto the table from the lampshade above - the lights started to flicker, the dodgy indie band in the front started to wobble - and then - without warning - Jacko burst through the door leading 'upstairs' engulfed in steam and a fleabitten , dog chewed, very ill fitting towelling dressing gown- chanting 'Oh dear!' at his soggy ceiling- the hardcore scenescetter had overflowed his bath. Fkin rock n roll!
― Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountain Dog (Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountai), Friday, 2 February 2007 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link
Please use this thread to continue to tell Grifters stories, they are highly enjoyable. I'm sure you have a million of 'em. Also, I listened to One Sock Missing a few days ago and "Bummer" is still in my head--no need to get it out at the present moment.
Best,
Clif Steele's Doppleganger
― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Friday, 2 February 2007 22:34 (seventeen years ago) link
now THAT's funny!
― Tripp lamkins (trippl), Friday, 2 February 2007 23:52 (seventeen years ago) link
btw i didn't mean to sound like I was ragging on Hull. We loved it. I remember tall tall grass growing out of the pavement and around the buildings. For being the first place I'd ever visited overseas I thought it was (sniff) magical. Even the Adelphi. That was such a great time.
What kind of bands have you seen over in Hull lately? Anything stick out?
bands, I mean.
― Tripp lamkins (trippl), Saturday, 3 February 2007 00:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― dlp9001 (dlp9001), Saturday, 3 February 2007 01:59 (seventeen years ago) link
thats digital.
― Tripp lamkins (trippl), Saturday, 3 February 2007 07:39 (seventeen years ago) link
imagine Scott and Gene Simmons hanging out backstage.
i do.
all the time.
― Tripp lamkins (trippl), Saturday, 3 February 2007 08:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marmot (marmotwolof), Saturday, 3 February 2007 08:15 (seventeen years ago) link