Will we ever see Flipper reissues?!?

Actually, now that I think about it, the rights might have gone over to Def Jam/American when those ~1990 reissues came out. This could be the source of the problem.

no. there was the Blow'n Chunks cd which I think had tracks off both?

Public Flipper rules, my favorite of theirs.

http://www.discogs.com/release/582767

But the relevant issue for this thread: the merch table. They had T-shirts, CD and LP copies of Blow'n Chunks (which I assume is their only album currently in print), and DVDs of the Emerald Cities movie. Also around the time of that show, Bruce had a myspace profile which mentioned an address where one could mailorder the Emerald Cities DVD. He's since removed the profile.

Bruce always seemed a bit anti-social to me. Will, on the other hand... completely loveable. Neither Will nor Bruce could play the bass worth a damn (so far as I could tell), Will couldn't even tune the damn thing.

They will never be able to reproduce the chaos of a "real" SF Flipper show, with a constant barrage of empty beers cans and abuse flying at the stage and all the, very slow, stage diving. Then the careful flinging of all the cans BACK INTO THE AUDIENCE between songs so they could do it all over again. 20+ minutes of "I Am The Wheel" complete with the circular arm motion. Then Bruce, Will, and Ted sitting on the sideline drinking beer and looking bemused while Steve drove 3 random kids from the audience through end of the set. Priceless.

Weird irony about Rick Rubin ending up with the Flipper albums...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e4/Hose.jpg

Any clue why Steve never put out the A3I LP? I got tests on it TWICE, but I believe it never came out...

The Live 'official' 83 VIDEO is something every rounded family household should have. This was released by Dog Patch records in '98.

Thanks to Chad for the link to the WFMU show. Any Flipper fan worth her pilchard's should seek out Pissed Jeans.

Was the project you refer to Any Three Initials - not a hardcore parody per chance?

:-O

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukRlHzfuVSc

Yes A3I = Any Three Initials...

To be honest we had a Flipper tribute band about 15 years ago with the idea that we'd only have to play half a set but no one in Chicago had the balls to come up on stage.

We even did a lengthy rendition of Brainwash.

For indie-industry-distribution wonks it included the dueling guitars of Patrick (Carrot Top) AND Chris (Southern).

We were almost as good of a room clearer as the real thing...

Listening to those live tracks right now.

GUESS!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Flipper
Sex Bomb Baby [re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH)
PS, US Another essential release from San Francisco legends FLIPPER. Originally released in 1987, 'Sex Bomb Baby' is actually a collection of material dated no later than 1982, comprised of singles, b-sides, & compilation trks. The single version of "Sex Bomb" is an all out clasic - a frenetic, yelping punk answer to "Louie, Louie" & the rest is no slouch either. Outrageous, harsh, sludge-punk from SF's finest. Back in print on CD for the 1st time in yrs!
Water
CD
$14.25

Flipper
Gone Fishin' [re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH)
PS, US Their 2nd & final studio album for the original lineup of San Francisco's legends FLIPPER. This was released in 1984 & took the "punk" tag to extremes, as no other band in the world was playing punk this slow, sludgy, dark & disturbed. Feat. the haunting "Survivors of the Plague" & the public incrimination of "Sacrifice," 'Gone Fishin' is an art-punk classic that holds up alongside their more heralded debut.
Water
CD
$14.25

Flipper
Public Flipper Limited Live 1980-1985 [re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH)
PS, US 2CD collection that was originally released in 1986 as a 2LP of live material culled from 1980-85. The sound quality & playing are both a grimy, distorted mess, which suits the band just fine. Always alternating between endearing & abrasive FLIPPER left no room for the middle ground of "like." The album title is a shot at John Lydon & his alleged plagiarism of Flipper's artwork for his own PIL & it proves that the band was never opposed to alienating its audience, no matter how sanctified. Harsh, art-rock classics from one of San Francisco's most important post-hippy era bands.
Water
DCD
$17.50

Flipper
Album - Generic Flipper [re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH)
PS, US 1st classic record from the legendary San Francisco act, originally released in 1982. Post-hardcore? Post-punk? Art-rock? Despite being a part of SF's punk scene FLIPPER were really only punk in spirit, eschewing conventions & making no concessions. Sludgy, distorted, atonal, noise rock jams that sound as urgent & heavy as they must have 25 yrs ago. A huge influence on bands to come later like Nirvana & The Melvins.
Water
CD
$14.25

I already have Generic & Sex Bomb Baby on CD but never been able to find Gone Fishin' anywhere.

I've still got Gone Fishin' on vinyl (I bought it in '87 following S*m*n R*yn*lds rave reviw in MM!) but it would be great to upgrade it to CD status!

Out here on the 27th according to HMV.

THANK YOU WATER

the PIL rip-off one became ridiculously expensive on ebay right after i realized i needed it.

Upgrade? It's Flipper! All fetishistic format shit aside...

if this were anyone but water i'd call bullshit. this is great news

Excited to have Gone Fishin' on CD. Talk about the greatest album never released on CD (until now)

Glad to see some of those Infinite Zero issues getting reissued again i.e. Sex Bomb Baby comp.

great news.

So is Subterranean reissuing these? Was the whole catalog tied up with American Records all this time? Also, never heard Grafishy, but Somewhere was a good single.

Water is doing them. Water also did two of the Charles Wright/Watts 103rd St. Rhythm Band reissues, and the Pearls Before Swine reissues.

Just in time for Christmas!
Exciting stuff

water did all the cluster and cluster/eno reissues. good label

Gone Fishin' was their masterpiece and my introduction back in 84/85?

I remember a really grimy black and white photo of them in Sounds or Melody Maker. It looked like the photographer had smeared vaseline on the lens to soften up FLIPPER. HA HA HA!!!

so can anybody tell me where the song "There's A Lot You Don't Know" comes from? I read a reference to it once but Google only brings up a ten-year-old WFMU playlist.

I just got my Flipper Gone Fishin' and Public Flipper Limited CD reissues.

I will get back to you, but wow, to FINALLY hold CD versions of these in my hands at long last!

i saw them today, but had other priorities. they'll be gone by the time i get back. then it'll be another ten years before they get repressed.

are there bonus tracks or other things on these?

no, water never does bonus tracks AFAIK

I was able to pick up an old used cd copy of Generic a little while back for a reasonable $ because these were on the horizon, so yay.

I interviewed Bruce this week; transcript at my blog. The new albums, one studio one live, both recorded with Krist Novoselic on bass, are great.

so can anybody tell me where the song "There's A Lot You Don't Know" comes from? I read a reference to it once but Google only brings up a ten-year-old WFMU playlist.

― sleeve, Friday, 7 November 2008 17:52 (7 months ago)

I bought a "gone fishin'" vinyl reissue a few weeks ago from Amaz.on.ca of all places.
It's on Four Men With Beards, they did a great job. 180 gram and good packaging, very cool.

Yeah, but can you order a spare cover from them so you can cut out the van and bandmember figures, the way you could from Subterranean?

I doubt it, but my 5 year old daughter wanted to cut out the Flipper "playset" as soon as she saw that cover.
She can't understand why I won't let her take scissors to it. I had to hide it for while.

haha aw you should buy a second one for her to play with

The new albums, one studio one live, both recorded with Krist Novoselic on bass, are great.

― unperson, Sunday, June 28, 2009 4:06 PM

no they're not.

unperson, I was at that Auckland show Bruce talked about on your blog. They were GREAT, my girlfriend and I'd gone with pretty low expectations and left so so happy.

I had for some reason absorbed some received wisdom that American Grafishy is a terrible album. In 2023 I listened to it and it is not actually bad at all! It doesn't meet their earlier stuff but it's pretty consistent and more importantly it still sounds like Flipper.

Not that received wisdom about punk albums is always wrong, I have listened to Grave New World.

yeah it's pretty damn good! the one time I saw them was when the pre-LP single ("Someday/Distant Illusion") was out, on (I think?) their first post-Shatter tour. They played in a hippie food co-op that sometimes had shows at night. Ted Falconi was an absolute guitar god while simultaneously exuding negative pretension and presence, like a black hole on stage

I only saw them once at Thurston Moore's ATP, with Krist Novoselic on bass. I missed the very beginning and said to someone I wish they played Sacrifice only to be told they opened with it.

To think I missed Sacrifice for some of the worst fish & chips I'd ever eaten.

Mind you I did see Negative Approach that weekend which was one of the best sets I've ever seen

Yeah greyfishy is a fine album