Does a noise dude like The Dream Syndicate?

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― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Sunday, 15 January 2006 01:59 (twenty years ago)

I'm not a noise dude, officially, but that album is great, especially the CD reissue with the EPs. I was listening to Some Kinda Itch just now on the way to the shop to buy beer.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Sunday, 15 January 2006 02:18 (twenty years ago)

Yes. I love that record.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 15 January 2006 02:19 (twenty years ago)

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Sunday, 15 January 2006 02:23 (twenty years ago)

I do, but I'm not noize

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Sunday, 15 January 2006 02:37 (twenty years ago)

I love it

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Sunday, 15 January 2006 02:38 (twenty years ago)

i just finishedlistening to it again.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Sunday, 15 January 2006 02:40 (twenty years ago)

I don't like the album. Their first ep is grebt, tho.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 15 January 2006 02:42 (twenty years ago)

Ah hey ma ma ma
Life in a northern town.

― jaxon (jaxon), Sunday, 15 January 2006 02:51 (twenty years ago)

anyone heard this yet?

http://www.dustedmagazine.com/covers/review_id-2502.jpg

the 1995 reunion show of faust and conrad (i think o'rourke too?)

― HAKKEBOFFER (eman), Sunday, 15 January 2006 02:52 (twenty years ago)

i have no idea what this other dream syndicate at top of thread is like

― HAKKEBOFFER (eman), Sunday, 15 January 2006 02:53 (twenty years ago)

CA- Yes I luv their earily stuff but the rockkkist in me sez they suck after the 1st album and/or when Kendra Smith Left.

NY- I'm sue there's better tapes floatn' around...BUT LAMONT GETS PAID CHEEZE.

Tony C and Faust is excellent drving music.

― brg30 (brg30), Sunday, 15 January 2006 02:57 (twenty years ago)

from table of the elements website:
Minimalist pioneer Tony Conrad and notorious krautrock progenitors Faust met just three times: in the studio to record the groundbreaking "Outside the Dream Syndicate" in 1972, and twice on the concert stage in the mid-1990s. This recording documents their third and final encounter, at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, February 18, 1995. The difference between the original session and this live event is astonishing. While Conrad's aggressive string sound was tamed in the studio by producer Uwe Nettlebeck (Conrad has complained that the mix made him "sound like a hippy"), here it is full of menace and ferocity, and in tandem attack with the equally belligerent violin of Jim O'Rourke, it conjures a raging wall of sound. When the Faust rhythm section finally kicks in, no one is in the mood for restraint, and the whole thing bolts on a merciless, scorched-earth gallop. Bassist Jean-Herve Peron plays with such fury that he snaps a string (no easy feat on a bass guitar), shreds the flesh on his fingers, and is soon covered in blood; meanwhile drummer Werner "Zappi" Diermaier pounds away, standing, in his inimitable, robotic style. After a relentless 40-minute onslaught, Peron signals the set's abrupt conclusion by smashing a brick with a sledgehammer, while Diermaier destroys his drum kit a la Keith Moon. At this point the elegant atmosphere of Queen Elizabeth Hall thoroughly disintegrates, and the antagonized crowd nearly riots. Hecklers and supporters continue to shout each other down -- until they're drowned out by a rollicking encore. The booklet contains brief interviews with Conrad and Peron, and a first-person account from Gang of Four's Andy Gill, who sounds justifiably intimidated by the entire performance. The packaging includes alternate photos from the 1965 photo-booth strip that graced the original studio release, plus stickers and a silver foil stamp.

― HAKKEBOFFER (eman), Sunday, 15 January 2006 03:10 (twenty years ago)

Days of Wine and Roses is great. don't sleep on the radio session from around the same time that Atavistic put out.. that's pretty hot too.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Sunday, 15 January 2006 04:58 (twenty years ago)

I'm not a noise dude, but yes the first EP, album, and live thing is great. Additionally, look for the three Last Days Of May albums

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 15 January 2006 06:02 (twenty years ago)

http://www.acidlogic.com/graphics/lurker.jpg

― HAKKEBOFFER (eman), Sunday, 15 January 2006 06:20 (twenty years ago)

i was at the conrad/faust gig, and that press blurb above SERIOUSLY overstates the amount of audience antagonism/confusion there actually was - i've been at many more 'hostile' shows

also it's not gang of four's andy gill but the OTHER, ex-NME hack Andy Gill who reviewed this show for Mojo and is quoted in the TOE booklet

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Sunday, 15 January 2006 09:01 (twenty years ago)

>the 1995 reunion show of faust and conrad (i think o'rourke too?)

I like it a lot. Long, long intro, and when the drums kick in -- incredible -- basically a drawn out version of the original side 1 with even more energy.

makes me wish Rudolf Sosna were still around to join them on a 90 minute live version of side 2

― milton parker (Jon L), Sunday, 15 January 2006 10:27 (twenty years ago)

i was at the conrad/faust gig, and that press blurb above SERIOUSLY overstates the amount of audience antagonism/confusion there actually was - i've been at many more 'hostile' shows

i figured as much. "nearly riots" = some people booed or walked out

― HAKKEBOFFER (eman), Sunday, 15 January 2006 17:41 (twenty years ago)

hmmm...

Dream Syndicate

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 06:31 (twenty years ago)

also it's not gang of four's andy gill but the OTHER, ex-NME hack Andy Gill who reviewed this show for Mojo and is quoted in the TOE booklet

haha saw a used copy in a store and it lists both, on the booklet inside it says Andy Gill, Mojo but on the blurb outside the cd it says Gang of Four. i gave it a listen and i prefer the original

― HAKKEBOFFER (eman), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 13:41 (twenty years ago)

the ToTE blurbs have always been incredibly annoying. part of me can hardly wait for them to just run out of elements.

I think I prefer the original overall as well for repeat listening. But I agree with Conrad's complaint that Uwe mixed his violin too quiet and it's cool to hear a brutal version once or twice.

― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 21:25 (twenty years ago)

Amoeba SF has (had?) most of the TOE up on the wall above the registers.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 21:30 (twenty years ago)

i really dont like days of wine and roses. its just super-boring. the first gun club album is in the same direction and better, but still sorta leaves me cold.

― don't start a RYE-OTT! (plsmith), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 21:42 (twenty years ago)

I sold most of mine but still have the Nickel tour 7", with the fabric cover, the Jim O'Rourke insert art, 1 side etched with the names of the acts (S!!!+R!!!!, Zeene Parkins, O'Rourke etc)

worth anything?

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 21:45 (twenty years ago)

the ToTE blurbs have always been incredibly annoying. part of me can hardly wait for them to just run out of elements.

i hear that (kinda). the "slapping pythagoras" cd is pretty great though.

i'm listening to the other dream syndicate now. and now i'm turning it off. zzzzzzz

― HAKKEBOFFER (eman), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 03:47 (twenty years ago)

Kendra Smith's Five Ways of Disappearing is a lot better than I remember it being, listening to it right now.

― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 22 January 2006 07:30 (twenty years ago)

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