David Ackles

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five & dime is released on cd, next monday!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0002YCUWA/brianmathieso-21/026-7839491-5576408

the great doxology of heckmondwike town (gareth), Monday, 4 October 2004 15:13 (nineteen years ago) link

seven months pass...
well, fuck. how had i not heard this before?

Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 20:32 (nineteen years ago) link

:-(

Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 5 May 2005 21:25 (nineteen years ago) link

one year passes...
This is the kind of stuff I'd normally hate, lots of faux-Weill-esque cabaret and grandiloquent singing, but it somehow really works (well I've only heard 'American Gothic').

is anyone anticipating the new Baaderonixx? (baaderonixx), Monday, 5 February 2007 15:58 (seventeen years ago) link

i heard American Gothic for the first time a couple days ago. I thought it sounded exactly like Neil Diamond. The reason I checked it out was because I was reading in "Our Band Could Be Your Life" that it was the reason that Greg Ginn (Black Flag) got into guitar! Bizarre.

richard wood johnson (rwj), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 03:50 (seventeen years ago) link

I wouldn't believe everything you read in there. (nothing against Michael, just a lotta bullshit flying around in there).

Ackles is chill, nuff said? I mean I wouldn't restructure my world around him, but cool just the same.

Any word other than JERRY strikes me as bullshit as to why Ginn got into guitar.

But now it's all about the cats anyway, isn't it?

Saxby D. Elder (Saxby D. Elder), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 04:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Jerry?

richard wood johnson (rwj), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Garcia?

is anyone anticipating the new Baaderonixx? (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 19:42 (seventeen years ago) link

five months pass...

'One Night Stand' tears me apart.

baaderonixx, Friday, 27 July 2007 09:28 (sixteen years ago) link

David Ackles raises my hackles...

I think he's great, and I think he grates...

henry s, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 20:05 (sixteen years ago) link

five months pass...

The title track off American Gothic is a fucking TREAT. I bought this album for £1 yesterday and am very glad I did.

Who out there now is like this? This is kinda what I always wanted Plush albums to be like, for example

DJ Mencap, Thursday, 10 January 2008 23:23 (sixteen years ago) link

four years pass...

<3 <3 <3

Impetuous hybrid (Matt P), Thursday, 31 May 2012 20:17 (eleven years ago) link

one year passes...

In 2007 Rhino prepared the 3 Elektra lps by David Ackles for reissue as a compilation called There Is A River. I remember seeing ads for its forthcoming release in the monthlies like Mojo/Uncut etc and looking forward to it being released since it would be a fresher reamster tahn the couple of his cds I already owned plus i don't think I'd as yet got the 1st s/t lp.
Then I waited for it to be released until I forgot about it. I just checked back to see if it had ever been released only to find that it only got as far as a promo release which appears to have only been on cdr. Apparently a copy sold on ebay at the start of this year for £199.

I haven't heard what the problem on getting it reissued was, only some reference to legal issues and the estate. So wonder if that puts a kibosh on any further reissues of his material. Would be really nice to have a set like this.

There's a blog entry here on the tracks that would have been included on the set that are otherwise unavailable on cd.
http://blog.thegraniteshore.co.uk/2008/05/written-in-granite-there-is-river.html

Plus there was a 4th lp Five & Dime recorded for a different record label and reissued on Raven, which I don't recall hearing. I think the Elektra cds may be drifting out of print os it would be doubly nice to get a set like this There Is A River made available.

Stevolende, Sunday, 29 September 2013 14:10 (ten years ago) link

six years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G43fss35VvE

Future England Captain (Tom D.), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 14:49 (three years ago) link


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