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Dude, Bobb Trimble is teh awesome. Get that Parallel Worlds CD comp.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 22 January 2005 21:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Check: Parallel World was the label (singular). The comp was entitled Jupiter Transmissions. Bobb is early '80s east coast outsider psych. It's "outsider" music in that he writes songs with titles like "Glass Menagerie Fantasies," "When the Raven Calls," "Armour of the Shroud," and "Take Me Home, Vienna," but the stuff is really amazingly well written, played, and produced. And Bobb has this BEAUTIFUL voice. There's also an LP of unreleased stuff that was put out on a Danish label. It's got some songs from Bobb's Christian period and some songs where he's backed by a ramshackle band of teenagers. It's good, but start with the comp, duder.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 22 January 2005 21:34 (nineteen years ago) link

dood, gareth, no, i haven't heard most of this stuff. i think i've heard battered ornaments and i don't think they floated my boat. i do have that one yonkers album that sub pop reissued. it's pretty cool. especially for his mad bedroom scientist experiments with guitars and fx. i have heard nothing but praise for that wizards of kansas album. marsha hunt put out a record of funky pop stuff that people seem to like. t-rex fans like it cuzza this:

"Duet with Marc on the song "My world is empty Without you". On this album Marsha covers "Hippy Gumbo", "Stacy Grove", "Hot Rod Popa" and "Desdemona". It is rumoured that Marc plays on all of these tracks. Produced by Tony Visconti & Kit Lambert (of The Who fame).

Side notes: Original label Track Records, released 9-30-71. At this point in time Tony Visconti was doing all he could to get Marc's music out there. Being the producer he gave her the Bolan songs to cover. "Hippie Gumbo" was released as a single in the UK.

Trivia: Marc and Marsha had a brief affair in 1969. Confirmed by the man that introduced them - Tony Visconti:

Yes, Marc played and did some backing vocals on those tracks. They did have a brief affair and June was a little pissed off with me because I introduced Marc to two women with whom he's had affairs. The other was [name removed until we're given the ok to mention it], an artist friend of mine. They met during the recording of Jeepster in New York."

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 22 January 2005 23:05 (nineteen years ago) link

i'd like to hear that sunforest record. i like that kinda thing. i only saw a japanese cd release for it. probably expensive.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 22 January 2005 23:06 (nineteen years ago) link

More on Bobb!: His music is NOT kitschy '60s revivalism at all. In fact, it's very archetypal '70s U.S. sounding somehow. Man, I just listened to the song "Premonitions" on Jupiter Transmissions and it is one of favorite songs!!! Looks like the whole album can maybe be downloaded from this page and there's also a link there to a radio special about Bobb which I have not heard.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 22 January 2005 23:22 (nineteen years ago) link

I have an original of the Wizards of Kansas. you know, Mercury was a pretty hep little label back in the day. I don't think it's like, an amazing record or anything but it's pretty good. I dunno. They're version of "High Flying Bird" just makes me want to listen to the Airplane. Then again, they are few times when I wouldn't want to listen to the Airplane.

I love all Pete Brown's stuff, Battered Ornaments and Piblokto. I guess I just go for that Harvest label British indulgence. Get A Meal You Can Shake Hands With in the Dark with Brown's great drunken 13 minute version of his "Politician".

the Yonkers thing on Sub Pop is essential, worthy of the hype. Don't know the rest.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Saturday, 22 January 2005 23:23 (nineteen years ago) link

dood, stormy, do you have that east of eden album on harvest? i;ve been playing the hell out of that. rural prog boogie folk power trio thang. i need to find more by them.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 22 January 2005 23:51 (nineteen years ago) link

No I don't! I've never heard them. There's actually a lot of Harvest stuff I still haven't heard. Barclay James Whatever. Tea & Symphony. Cressida. or wait is Cressida Vertigo swirl? I get the two mixed up sometimes. But I'm all about rural prog boogie folk power trios, it's my favorite musical subgenre in fact. So I will keep my ears peeled for the East of Eden...

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Sunday, 23 January 2005 00:21 (nineteen years ago) link

i want to hear more records that sound like the enlightening beam of axonda

― charltonlido (gareth), Sunday, 23 January 2005 21:21 (nineteen years ago) link

sadly, the cosmic michael album doesnt:/

im a bit underwhelmed by it, theres some ok piano stuff in it, but i dont like his voice too much

― charltonlido (gareth), Sunday, 30 January 2005 19:41 (nineteen years ago) link

actually, peoples fair isnt bad. i dunno

― charltonlido (gareth), Sunday, 30 January 2005 19:47 (nineteen years ago) link

you know, ive changed my mind, i like this album!

― charltonlido (gareth), Sunday, 30 January 2005 19:56 (nineteen years ago) link

The Michaelangelo "Guinn album" is being rereleased on Void soon. Michaelangelo was the king of 70s Kansas City psych! There's a great track of his on the U.S. volume of Love, Peace, and Poetry entitled "Oceans of Fantasy."

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 30 January 2005 20:19 (nineteen years ago) link

anyone got the gravity adjusters expansion band record?

― charltonlido (gareth), Monday, 31 January 2005 09:37 (nineteen years ago) link

i dont own, and have never owned, a sub pop record

― charltonlido (gareth), Monday, 31 January 2005 09:43 (nineteen years ago) link

the michael yonkers reissue is the only sub pop album you will ever need.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 31 January 2005 13:56 (nineteen years ago) link

codeine! steven jesse bernstein! add that to michael yonkers.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 31 January 2005 20:49 (nineteen years ago) link

The new Jennifer Gentle album is the only Sub Pop LP I own AND IT IS GREBT.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 31 January 2005 23:19 (nineteen years ago) link

lets make this board the psych board,

LETS TALK ABOUT SWAMI KRINANANDA!

― charltonlido (gareth), Monday, 31 January 2005 23:32 (nineteen years ago) link

I think I'm gonna sell my A Cid Symphony CD on ebay. I never listen to it. oh wait, maybe i should post this on that other thread.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 00:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Shadoks albums the Shadoks CD sampler makes me want to hear :

My Indole Ring
Tony, Caro, and John (wrote 'em off as Robin Williamson rip-off after hearing the track on the UK Love, Peace, and Poetry volume, but there's also a track on the Shadoks sampler and it's also good)
Brain Police
Maitreya Kali
Pete Fine
Spoils of War
others, probably

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 00:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Sub Pop was a great label. Superfuzz Bigmuff and Bleach alone pretty much got me through senior year of high school. Also you dudes forgot all about EARTH. Come on man, Pentastar is a motherfucker of a record...

The reissue of the Speed Glue & Shinki record on Shadoks is a thing of beauty. Those guys truly pull out all the stops..

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 05:39 (nineteen years ago) link

scott, where are those psych reviews coming from?

― El Janko (JasonD), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 08:44 (nineteen years ago) link

daer scawt seawardd

did you see Rachel Ray when she was on Martha's Vineyard filming FORTY DOLLARS A DAY?

also: what is your favorite kind of seafood?

― Ian John50n (orion), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 20:36 (nineteen years ago) link

No, I didn't see her. Lots of movie people live here though. At least in the summer. I like seafood, but I guess I'm not big on fish. Which is kinda sad, cuz it is the one thing you can get here that is really good. I like fried shrimp! I like any kind of shrimp. And scallops! I like scallops a lot. Just fried up in a pan with some butter. mmmmmm. I feel bad for lobster though. I feel when you eat a lobster that you are eating something that is connected with the birth of the universe and that lobsters could tell us a lot about aliens and the birth of the pyramids and the loss of Atlantis. They look ancient and holy. So do fish to me, actually. I guess that's why I stick with sea-bugs like shrimp and scallops.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 22:16 (nineteen years ago) link

jack rose was supposed to come here, but i don't know if he is now. i got to know him a bit in philly. he's a nice guy. my brother has had him play at his place in hudson, new york a couple times. the last time he played in hudson my brother payed jack in my paintings! what a raw deal! i'm glad he has some though. they weren't that bad. they were a part of my ongoing star portrait series. i'm working on a brad pitt painting right now.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 22:19 (nineteen years ago) link

I ate oatmeal with him and fellow noise boarder Brock this summer. We also played with kitties.

― Ian John50n (orion), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 23:41 (nineteen years ago) link

scott, where are those psych reviews coming from?

― El Janko (JasonD), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 23:59 (nineteen years ago) link

oh shit, sorry. you mean the ones above? i just googled stuff. i have fun googling every now and again. some are from forced exposure. i just picked the first things i found that looked fairly explanatory.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:08 (nineteen years ago) link

scott, i always thought the same thing about outerspace/aliens/underwater creatures/etc. my friend sent me an email a few weeks ago, check it out
Scary ass fish found after Tsunami

― El Janko (JasonD), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:15 (nineteen years ago) link

oh man, that one fish looks so human!!! it makes me want to cry a little. they are so beautiful and strange. yeah, that nails why i feel the way i do. i mean, i eat meat and stuff, and i certainly don't get mad at the idea of people fishing. in some places, fish is all there really is to eat. but....i dunno, i don't really care about cows and chickens all that much. marine life seems like some weird living link to the dinosaur days (i do kinda feel the same way about reptiles too, but i don't have to go out of my way not to eat them.). those pictures are amazing to me.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:31 (nineteen years ago) link

i need to find a couple of these lying around:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=306&item=4071961009&rd=1

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 12:48 (nineteen years ago) link

fuck, i was after that mystic siva record, i had no idea it was that expensive though:(

― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 12:53 (nineteen years ago) link

didnt realise they had been reissued!

http://www.forcedexposure.com/artists/mystic.siva.html

― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 12:58 (nineteen years ago) link

The History of Experimental Music in Northern California:)

― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 13:05 (nineteen years ago) link

who is jo stafford?

― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 13:08 (nineteen years ago) link

why havent you got Bummed yet?

― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 13:08 (nineteen years ago) link

should i get that 4cd of dissevelt and baltan related dutch stuff on basta?

― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 13:09 (nineteen years ago) link

should i go to LA, SF, Miami or Lisbon next?

― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 13:09 (nineteen years ago) link

is it silly to spend a large amount of money on a 19th century upper class SF style suit?

― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 13:10 (nineteen years ago) link

jo stafford was a world-famous jazz/pop singer. i haven't seen bummed for a dollar anywhere yet. get the dutch thing and then never listen to it. go to SF, better record stores (maybe). it isn't silly if you can afford to spend the money. money is silly.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 14:26 (nineteen years ago) link

i got the music emporium, and mesmerizing eye albums

― charltonlido (gareth), Monday, 7 February 2005 11:25 (nineteen years ago) link

boozy jo?

good morning gareth!

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 7 February 2005 11:32 (nineteen years ago) link

i mean "captain!"

― lt. brian mcmahon! (hstencil), Monday, 7 February 2005 11:33 (nineteen years ago) link

gareth, buy the suit. it's so fancy.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Monday, 7 February 2005 15:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Daerest Scawt Sewerd:

What can you tell me about The Hobbits Down To Middle Earth LP? I saw you mention it on some ILM thread. It's at the record store, but it's sealed so I can't listen to it. If I buy it, it would use up the remainder of my credit there. But... is it the jam?

One love,
Ian

― Ian John50n (orion), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 02:31 (nineteen years ago) link

It's creepy exploito-psych-pop. studio band pretending they are hippies on acid and being way more sickly and bizarre and twee then real hippies. if yoo get really stoned and listen to it you might feel funny. They had another album called *Men And Doors - The Hobbits Communicate* that I am also quite fond of. The song "Men & Doors" is great and the song "Feelings" is total creepycrawly acidbummertrip.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 03:25 (nineteen years ago) link

i just always liked those albums made by studio hacks for a quick buck that made drugs seem really SCARY, you know? Plus, "Let Me Run My Fingers Thru Your Mind" is such a great song-title. You know? But for true psych-snobs the hobbits are just kidz stuff. fuck them though. they pay way too much for bad private-press boogie-rock rekkerds.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 03:30 (nineteen years ago) link

dear scott:

why have you brought the noise board themed "ASK [x]" threads to ILM?

bad form!

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 00:56 (nineteen years ago) link

You know, I actually thought about that. And I do apologize if I've gone overboard, but to be fair, the "ask..." format precedes the noize board if I'm not mistaken. ILE was doing them long ago, no? Maybe I'm wrong. And I have only started Anthony Miccio and a Dan Perry threads and they are both noize-friendly. I would never start one for a real lame-o. Both Dan & Anthony are really fuckin' funny. You know? And they are both kinda crazy too, which i like.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 01:04 (nineteen years ago) link

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