Yeah is there? it'd be amazing if there were a reason! Even a reason as modest as 'Guy told a dude it was fine to share a bunch of live tapes.'
― Lockhorn. Lockhorn breed-uh (Jon not Jon), Friday, 9 March 2018 16:59 (six years ago) link
kind of depressing that even in 1989 at the height ov their powers they were playing grimy shitholes like the camden falcon. would have loved to have been there though
I was there, it was a packed back room of a pub in the middle of a heatwave, the poor drummer passed out after a while as I recall it. Probably the hottest gig I ever went to. They got shitloads of press in the UK but never got past cult status. Too odd I guess!
― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Friday, 9 March 2018 19:19 (six years ago) link
moonhead and something else are getting a reissue (on colored vinyl) soon. glad to see this band getting interest again. would be nice for keyser to rise from whatever swamp he now inhabits and play some shows again.
― akm, Friday, 9 March 2018 20:11 (six years ago) link
he's just doing botany for UC Davis iirc (NB this may be occurring in a swamp)
is Sack the other one besides moonhead getting reissued? I could use a remaster of Sack. It's a weird kinda weak sounding album (well I guess they all are except Moonhead. But Sack is musically maybe their best one and I wish it had more roundness and oomph)
― when worlds collide I'll see you again (Jon not Jon), Friday, 9 March 2018 20:46 (six years ago) link
Wow at that list maresnest posted. Hope someone can hit me up with a wetransfer link when I get back home in a couple of weeks...
― willem, Friday, 9 March 2018 20:55 (six years ago) link
Wow at that list maresnest posted. Hope someone can hit me up with a wetransfer link when I get back home in a couple of weeks.....
― willem, Friday, 9 March 2018 20:57 (six years ago) link
So happy when I found a sealed copy of Sack in Copenhagen a couple of years ago. It was the first TWR record I bought after being mesmerised by a video that I saw on mtv's 120 minutes in 1991.
― willem, Friday, 9 March 2018 21:01 (six years ago) link
― willem, Friday, 9 March 2018 21:04 (six years ago) link
I will grab them all from DAD and throw them up here and perhaps anyone misses the Wetransfer links folks can share them out again.
― MaresNest, Friday, 9 March 2018 21:14 (six years ago) link
Gah *perhaps if anyone misses
As for a revival, quite often, on Dime, you'll get a seam of live tapes from a band simply because some collector has gotten around to archiving files from their cassette/DAT/quarter-inch tape collection.
Then often other folks see it and throw their hat in and you get a bit of a nice thing happening.
― MaresNest, Friday, 9 March 2018 21:18 (six years ago) link
― willem, Friday, 9 March 2018 21:33 (six years ago) link
1985-12-22 - KPFK Los Angeles Spin Radio 1985-12-11 - Berkeley SBD
https://we.tl/qtYulFafcq
― MaresNest, Friday, 9 March 2018 22:00 (six years ago) link
http://mlcompton.blogspot.ae/2009/01/thin-white-rope-under-covers.html?m=1A word about audience recordings. With the permission of the band, I always had a policy of allowing the audience to record any and all of the band's live shows. I actively encouraged live bootlegs. I've always felt that bootlegs were the ultimate tribute to a band. If no one cared, there would be no bootlegs. (Bootlegged studio recordings were another matter though and Frontier and I actively shot several of those down.) If I saw someone taping the show, I always introduced myself, told the person it was okay, and asked for a copy of the recording. This worked out great as we ended up with recordings of "Little Doll" and "Skinhead" that were used on singles. And there were no recording costs! To this day, if I see a listing for a TWR show that I don't have, I ask for a copy. Some of the best TWR recordings are on these tapes. (For example, I love the sound of the "drowning dinosaur" guitars on "Little Doll".)
― willem, Friday, 9 March 2018 22:12 (six years ago) link
thankig u again (xp)
― StanM, Saturday, 10 March 2018 09:09 (six years ago) link
Thin White Rope - Hidden Lands - a 2cd collectionThin White Rope - 1986-04-30 Charlotte NC - aud
https://we.tl/qisyyF1Ox7
― MaresNest, Saturday, 10 March 2018 11:55 (six years ago) link
MaresNest for presidetn!
― StanM, Saturday, 10 March 2018 12:10 (six years ago) link
:)
Thin White Rope - 1988-10-17 SheffieldThin White Rope - 1988-10-10 Dingwalls
https://we.tl/ZE6tQbWdPi
― MaresNest, Saturday, 10 March 2018 12:28 (six years ago) link
Happy day!
― when worlds collide I'll see you again (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 10 March 2018 13:42 (six years ago) link
Here are three I encountered over the years from various places :
1988-10-22 - Backnang, DE, JuZe (SBD) - flac, urschrei collection 0091990-06-05 - Arena, Vienna, Austria (excellent audience, mp3) (from when the links still worked here: http://thenewdisease.blogspot.com/2008/02/love-i-could-have-known.html )1991-09-21 - Ehingen, DE (Ehinger Festival 4) flac - spliced together from two AUD tapes, ok but not great
https://we.tl/ct1I282eoN
― StanM, Saturday, 10 March 2018 14:36 (six years ago) link
did try to see them on that tour but I walked all the way across manchester in the rain only to find the venue shut down for the night and not another soul in sight. still don’t know what went wrong, but in the pre-internet era, that wasn’t the only time shit like that happened to me
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Saturday, 10 March 2018 14:47 (six years ago) link
There's an extensive, if patchy, piece on the manager's blog about TWR tours in the UK (one night was a TWR/MBV double bill!!!!). One was organised by an English guy and there were a number of planned gigs at places that turned out to be not booked by the time they got there - yours was probably one of those...
― willem, Saturday, 10 March 2018 15:26 (six years ago) link
http://mlcompton.blogspot.com/2009/08/thin-white-rope-in-united-kingdom.html
― StanM, Saturday, 10 March 2018 16:24 (six years ago) link
2018 - the year Frontier Records finally reissues Thin White Rope's first five albums! The first two, releasing... https://t.co/6TG3ycJeEL— Frontier Records (@frontierrcds) March 4, 2018
― StanM, Saturday, 10 March 2018 16:40 (six years ago) link
remastered, too
― StanM, Saturday, 10 March 2018 16:41 (six years ago) link
https://frontierrecords-thinwhiterope.bandcamp.com/album/exploring-the-axis-2018-remastered-editionhttps://frontierrecords-thinwhiterope.bandcamp.com/album/moonhead-2018-remastered-edition
― StanM, Saturday, 10 March 2018 16:42 (six years ago) link
FUCCCCCK YESSSSSS
― when worlds collide I'll see you again (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 10 March 2018 16:44 (six years ago) link
sweet!
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 10 March 2018 16:47 (six years ago) link
Bandcamp versions of the third fourth and fifth LPs are currently the original tracklists (and presumably original masterings) - are we to understand that all of them will get remastered? (Sack + Cave + Ruby need it by far the most)
― when worlds collide I'll see you again (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 10 March 2018 16:53 (six years ago) link
Because for a second I was caught by the Entire Discography bargain bundle but then looked at the other items in the bundle and was like oh wait no
― when worlds collide I'll see you again (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 10 March 2018 16:55 (six years ago) link
I would expect so, they didn't explicitly announce that the first two would be and they are remastered
― StanM, Saturday, 10 March 2018 16:55 (six years ago) link
yeah, that bundle almost got me too :-)
Fucking exciting Best American rock band of the 80s if I haven’t said that itt lately
― when worlds collide I'll see you again (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 10 March 2018 16:57 (six years ago) link
Wow! I remember my cassette having the long version of Take It Home, nice one Frontier!
Thin White Rope 1985-10-02 KPFK L.A (CA) Spin Radio ShowThin White Rope - 1988-03-31 Vera
https://we.tl/vzVH25PES8
― MaresNest, Saturday, 10 March 2018 17:44 (six years ago) link
willem/stan - thanks a lot for the heads up on that blog, hadn’t see it before - looks pretty entertaining from the bit I skimmed
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Saturday, 10 March 2018 18:38 (six years ago) link
Thin White Rope 1990-05-20 Hamburg Markthalle AUDThin White Rope 1991-09-06 Odense (DK) Rytmeposten AUD
https://we.tl/vwGDYqiFon
― MaresNest, Monday, 12 March 2018 11:40 (six years ago) link
There's another five shows that have gone up over the last couple of days, I grabbed four (one was 'mediocre' in the descrip)
Thin White Rope 1991-02-02 Davis CA Veterans Memorial Theater AUDThin White Rope 1986-10-24 San Francisco Viz Club SBD
https://we.tl/IxwxA17sCQ
― MaresNest, Monday, 12 March 2018 12:01 (six years ago) link
Yeah I've known ML for many years, and indeed he has tales galore about that any plenty of other bands, but obviously quite a lot about TWR.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 12 March 2018 13:31 (six years ago) link
And thanks obv to MaresNest for the heads up on all these new tapes. Great stuff!
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 12 March 2018 13:34 (six years ago) link
there's a phrasing in that frontier records blast that is tantalizing me
'thin white rope's first five albums'
does that just mean 'the live album is the sixth album and we aren't reissuing that one?'
cause otherwise it implies there is... more
― when worlds collide I'll see you again (Jon not Jon), Monday, 12 March 2018 14:20 (six years ago) link
or maybe they're counting bottom feeders and red sun?
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Monday, 12 March 2018 14:27 (six years ago) link
Thanks to MaresNest again x infinity !
― StanM, Monday, 12 March 2018 15:17 (six years ago) link
xpost or Spoor, more sensibly
hmm
― when worlds collide I'll see you again (Jon not Jon), Monday, 12 March 2018 15:28 (six years ago) link
Thin White Rope - 1991-09-07- Aalborg.Thin White Rope - 1989-07-03 Camden Town London (UK) aud.
https://we.tl/HbJU104Vqq
― MaresNest, Monday, 12 March 2018 20:54 (six years ago) link
that camden one is referred to as legendary in the blog by the tour manager guy (i think)
IMPORTANT: I am listening to one of the '88 shows. I don't even know which one. The point is the extended coda of It's OK is peak humanity
Also... in the same show... the vocal performance on Some Velvet Morning... how is this possible
― when worlds collide I'll see you again (Jon not Jon), Monday, 12 March 2018 21:03 (six years ago) link
I'm just starting to dig into all of these myself, the Odense '91 gig is great, good weighty sound, some nice covers too, Silver Machine!
― MaresNest, Monday, 12 March 2018 21:09 (six years ago) link
OMG now they are jamming the sickest possible jam over the peter gunn bassline (this song did not start as peter gunn)
― when worlds collide I'll see you again (Jon not Jon), Monday, 12 March 2018 21:19 (six years ago) link
<3 jon
i srsly love peoples continuing enthusiasm for the music of this crazy band
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Monday, 12 March 2018 21:30 (six years ago) link
They are the only ones who combined all my favorite ingredients! They have intricate interlocking lead guitars, immense saurian heaviness, single-minded hypno drumming, and hilarious/heartbreak lyrics drawn from the natural sciences! Really if they had hushed semi-ambient improvs and the occasional oboist I would need no other music. This was the one I was listening to this afternoon btw:1988-10-22 - Backnang, DE, JuZe (SBD) - flac, urschrei collection 009
― when worlds collide I'll see you again (Jon not Jon), Monday, 12 March 2018 22:30 (six years ago) link
HeartbreakING lyrics
― when worlds collide I'll see you again (Jon not Jon), Monday, 12 March 2018 22:31 (six years ago) link