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
That's the last of the recent ones, if you guys aren't fed up yet I can go back and cherry pick the better quality older torrents, let me know.
Thin White Rope 1990-06-02 Hanau Kulturbasar (aud) Thin White Rope 1987-09-11 Siracusa FMThin White Rope - 1990-02-16 San Francisco
https://we.tl/AtHCjPHavc
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 14:20 (six years ago) link
I say keep em coming (perhaps selected according to decent sound quality) cause for me, some of the shows are a bit too shitty sounding for me to really dig, so the more good sounding ones the better!Camden uploaded yesterday is indeed the one described in Compton’s blog and it slays. Sounds like track 12 at 2:20 is where Matt Abourezk passes out? Perhaps the two Guy solo songs prior to that are the band giving him a break.
― when worlds collide I'll see you again (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 15:51 (six years ago) link
I think there's another 3 that look like decent quality, the Hanau Kulturbasar '90 from the last upload is fantastic, nice long show, great sound.
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 16:03 (six years ago) link
are there Ruby Sea demos floating about?
― when worlds collide I'll see you again (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 16:07 (six years ago) link
Not that I've seen, just that one track, "Dinosaur' from the Hidden Lands boot.
That Camden gig, right at the end someone says 'sorry, but we're going to have to go and evaporate for a while...' :)
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 16:23 (six years ago) link
lolol i just heard that bit a half hour ago but couldn't quite make it out
― when worlds collide I'll see you again (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 16:48 (six years ago) link
Jon, which show would you recommend overall? I'd like to listen, but don't think I can go through them all.
― Duke, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 20:29 (six years ago) link
Camden and Vienna of the ones I’ve been able to listen to so far. And both volumes of demos. Lots to hear still though
― when worlds collide I'll see you again (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 23:02 (six years ago) link
Sorry Backnang and Camden!
― when worlds collide I'll see you again (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 23:03 (six years ago) link
Thanks Jon!!
― Duke, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 23:04 (six years ago) link
Thin White Rope 1990-06-02 Hanau Kulturbasar is a great, all-round later show too.
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 23:10 (six years ago) link
That ones next on deck for me!
― when worlds collide I'll see you again (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 23:32 (six years ago) link
there's also this 1992 ROIO (haven't heard or checked all the links yet) : http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=900
― StanM, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 13:44 (six years ago) link
Thin White Rope - 1988-04-02 - Goez Beest, Amsterdam, NL - SbdThin White Rope - 1988-09-29 - Vera, Groningen, Netherlands
Two remaining Dime seeds, the Amsterdam one is especially good. Vera is a different show from the one previously linked.
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 15:03 (six years ago) link
https://we.tl/3BWyMgZjXQ
1990 Hanau np for me. Great sound, on-it performance. Still in the first half
― when worlds collide I'll see you again (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 15:16 (six years ago) link
it makes me a bit sad that Guy never seems to have done that bellowing OHHH LORD YEAHHH live
― when worlds collide I'll see you again (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 15:18 (six years ago) link
A bit cash-strapped but gonna jump on these while white vinyl remains, feel like I'll regret it if I don't
― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 15:51 (six years ago) link
(ok, that ROIO thing doesn't work 100% - sorry)
― StanM, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 16:27 (six years ago) link
someone's weird fondness for relentless, crashing snare hits amidst relative calm nearly wrecks a bunch of songs throughout their career
― twerking for obvious reasons (contenderizer), Tuesday, July 9, 2013 11:52 PM (four years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Hoping someone will address this on the remasters but it's also sorta how the drums were played - part of the sound, I guess
― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 16:36 (six years ago) link
These demos are great! Never really made the connection before (though maybe it's obvious given the region) but some of these early tunes sound like Savage Republic with Lemmy on vocals
― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 17:18 (six years ago) link
definitely some shared dna with the SR guitarists, that death-surf snakecharming thing
― when worlds collide I'll see you again (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 17:28 (six years ago) link
Davis ain't the Mojave (say), but yeah, definitely California scene connections at work.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 17:28 (six years ago) link
i tend to think licher, kyser, kunkel, verlaine all had their fair share of shadows and ventures LPs
― when worlds collide I'll see you again (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 17:31 (six years ago) link
I bet a great book could be written about this period (distinct from the punk scene covered in We've Got The Neutron Bomb, various books about X, etc), if it hasn't already. My southern California rock timeline / education is definitely a bit blurry. How much did bands like TWR intersect--socially or otherwise--with bands like Rain Parade, Green On Red, Bangles, etc?
― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 17:48 (six years ago) link
I was trying to recall how I got into TWR, and I'm sure it was because I was chasing down Paisley Underground bands and I saw them - in the press - mistakenly lumped in with Rain Parade, Three O'Clock et al. But then, so were The Long Ryders and Green On Red.
I wonder if any of the desert rock/stoner bands of the very late 80's/90's dug these guys.
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 18:10 (six years ago) link
There was a great fanzine in the UK called Bucketful of Brains which provided an overview of those variously loosely connected scenes, they would write about The Plimsouls, Lyres, Rain Parade, Three O'Clock, Long Ryders, Baraccudas, REM, Fuzztones, TWR, Soft Boys that sort of thing.
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 18:14 (six years ago) link
The elephant in the room not named yet: Dream Syndicate.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 18:21 (six years ago) link
with TV as the elephant's dad
― when worlds collide I'll see you again (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 18:31 (six years ago) link
this band is really good but man...the singer really tries my patience
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 21:35 (six years ago) link
Out
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 21:40 (six years ago) link
Haha! Oh man...
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 21:42 (six years ago) link