lake speed (pre-pavement SM band)- lead and deadwood

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or so the napter-era mp3 tag claims. it's slightly mediocre. kinda spoken wordy punctuated by faux-rootsy guitar and drum hits; lilting chorus -- definitely sounds like (young) SM tho! same w/ the guitar playing. then it cuts out at 1:49 right when it speeds up. anyone ever heard of this?

― jake b. (cerybut), Thursday, 24 March 2005 07:30 (twenty-one years ago)

It's legit. Another song of theirs that was around on Napster, Cadillac Darling, was played briefly at a Pavement concert sometime in 1994 (I don't recall which one exactly, I think at Cat's Cradle) (no, I just looked it up, 9/15/94 late show@Palace, Hollywood CA)

― D.J. Anderson, fanboy, Thursday, 24 March 2005 11:11 (twenty-one years ago)

it sounds legit. I remember seeing Lake Speed once or twice when I lived in Charlottesville, Virginia in the late eighties. What an awful damned group they were. Not Ectoslavia dull and formless but terrible all the same. I seem to remember Steve playing in another band briefly after LS. They painted themselves dayglo and did ironic Coltrane covers I believe opening for the pre-Wingtip Slot band, Empty Box at a house party.

― dr.db, Thursday, 24 March 2005 11:17 (twenty-one years ago)

My mp3 goes to about 2:25 and has the full ending of the song, by the way.

― D.J. Anderson, archivist, Thursday, 24 March 2005 12:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Can someone yousendit this?

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Thursday, 24 March 2005 12:27 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah i knew it must've been a bunch of UVa kids! had i been born a few years earlier perhaps i would've caught some embryonic pavement gigs in cville ...

― jake b. (cerybut), Thursday, 24 March 2005 23:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Rob Chamberlain was the lanky, gothy looking dude who ended up working at Strand Books in the early 90s. He was the first bassist of Pavement on their first tour.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 24 March 2005 23:53 (twenty-one years ago)

"I remember seeing Lake Speed once or twice when I lived in Charlottesville, Virginia in the late eighties. What an awful damned group they were. Not Ectoslavia dull and formless but terrible all the same. I seem to remember Steve playing in another band briefly after LS. They painted themselves dayglo and did ironic Coltrane covers I believe opening for the pre-Wingtip Slot band, Empty Box at a house party."

Wow! Where was this dude on the thread about "your most 'Losing My Edge' moment"?!?!

― Waking Up Onstage at Jumbo's (Bent Over at the Arclight), Friday, 25 March 2005 00:08 (twenty-one years ago)

five years pass...

more of that plus bag-o-bones (the dayglo + ironic Coltrane covers band?) here:

http://wilfullyobscure.blogspot.com/2010/06/pavement-stack-o-slack.html

Alaska (Malkmus live)
Black Walls (Stray Slack boot)
Bob Nastanovich readin' poetry
Cadillac Darling (Lakespeed, Malkmus pre-Pavement)
Canada (Silver Jews Cover)
Carl The Clod (live)
Coming Close To Being Born (Bag-o-Bones, Malkmus pre-Pavement)
Debris Slide (live)
Disorder (Joy Division Cover live 10-7-99)
Federal Dust (Silver Jews Cover)
Golden Boys
I Want Candy (Malkmus live)
In Between Days (Malkmus live)
Kitten In Porterville (live CCR cover)
Lithium (live Nirvana cover)
Robyn Turns 26 (At Home With the Groovebox comp track)
Sebadoh~Helen Stones (6-20-93 Copenhagen, SUTC boot)
September
Shaky Brow (Lakespeed, Malkmus pre-Pavement)
Sprite Drinker (live)
The Hexx (1999 Peel Session)
unknown live track
What Goes On (live Velvet Underground cover)

― del griffith, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 04:52 (fifteen years ago)

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