Dunno if this deserves its own thread, but I just picked up this lilve album via Cope's own website, http://www.headheritage.com and FUCK ME DOES IT EVER ROCK! Recorded on the Peggy Suicide tour, this amazingly fresh-sounding recording (formerly a bootleg?) finds the Arch-Drude is fighting form. Prior to the excesses of later work (the rest of his "eco-trilogy" is patchy), the Peggy Suicide-era Cope still had one foot planted firmly in rocktacity and the other in effortless pop-hook matery. Particularly amazing is Donald Ross Skinner's guitar, which is positively feral in comparison to his studio work. Me likey!!!! Crowd noise is completely inaudible, by the way.
It leans rather heavily on Peggy Suicide material (which is fine by me, honestly), but i wouldn't have minded a bit more of a mix (I'd like "Reyndard the Fox" to have been included, alas).
The track list, incidentally:"Hanging Out and Hung Up on the Line""You Think It's Love""East Easy Rider" (really extended version)"Pristeen""Double Vegetation""Promised Land""Leperskin""Yeah Yeah Yeah""Bill Drummond Said""Beautiful Love""Sleeping Gas""Sunspots""Out of My Mind on Dope and Speed""World Shut Your Mouth"
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)
::groan:::
maStery
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 28 May 2005 06:38 (twenty-one years ago)
― The Silent Disco of Glastonbury (Bimble...), Saturday, 28 May 2005 06:44 (twenty-one years ago)
― rwillmsen (rwillmsen), Saturday, 28 May 2005 08:19 (twenty-one years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 28 May 2005 09:20 (twenty-one years ago)
rwillmsen is thinking of "reynard in tokio" which is the b-side to one of the my nation underground singles. he doesn't really do that on this disc. there's many bootleg live versions of "sleeping gas" where they freak out amusingly as well.
i've been a fan of cope for ages but i never got to see him live until last fall. it was just him and a guitar and he still rocked. then he talks and talks between songs and clearly the guy is a massive egotist who loves being in front of a crowd and it's just endlessly entertaining and fun. i could follow him through an entire tour and probably love every show, and it was pretty clear that many people do just that. and although they are total freaks, they're nice as can be. once the people at the venue found out i hadn't seen him before and was from texas i was feted and bought drinks and looked after all night, given a front row spot and everything.
― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Saturday, 28 May 2005 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)