Uh, suspecterrain, I can't reply to your message without an email address.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 24 April 2010 21:35 (fourteen years ago) link
swell
― Crackle Box, Thursday, 12 January 2012 14:19 (twelve years ago) link
I like how a band member posted upthread and none of us said anything!
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 January 2012 14:29 (twelve years ago) link
I remember them!
http://devonrecordclub.wordpress.com/2012/09/22/swell-well-round-35m-toms-selection/
Great band and criminally overlooked.
― yugi ex, Saturday, 22 September 2012 18:14 (eleven years ago) link
just getting into this band.
quite an original and fully formed sound for it's time. like Grunge via San Francisco
and THOSE DRUMS
― hackshaw, Thursday, 3 July 2014 21:53 (nine years ago) link
Oh hey I missed this post.
I love this band- certainly had a distinct sound! Kinda fits nicely alongside 90s Giant Sand for me as far as the atmosphere it evokes.
― Evan, Tuesday, 2 September 2014 14:21 (nine years ago) link
Ah man, what sad news to wake up to. David Freel of Swell has passed. https://m.facebook.com/#!/story.php?story_fbid=10158292404932540&id=17058642539&m_entstream_source=timeline&ref=bookmarks
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 18 April 2022 11:30 (two years ago) link
RIP - great songwriter.
― BrianB, Monday, 18 April 2022 13:12 (two years ago) link
I'm going to dig out Too Many Days and buy 41
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 18 April 2022 15:27 (two years ago) link
Oh shit... Wasn't he running pSycho-sPecific Records? All those repressings etc. I got the sense he was doing that all himself.
I don't have facebook, so I was only able to see a tribute post underneath a pop up demanding I log in.
Really sad about this!
― Evan, Monday, 18 April 2022 18:00 (two years ago) link
Having a good time with 41, very different from Too Many Days and I'm intrigued by the people saying they were quite varied
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 23 May 2022 18:54 (one year ago) link
he was doing the repressings himself. his family have said they are going to continue fulfilling orders if possible, btw.
― akm, Monday, 23 May 2022 19:43 (one year ago) link
2023 Euro tour, "A tribute to David Freel" with Sean Kirkpatrick, Monte Vallier, John Dettman-Lytle & Niko Wenner
https://swell41.com/
― StanM, Thursday, 16 February 2023 16:54 (one year ago) link
Wow can’t believe I missed Swell when they played Houston! When was that?
― Mduchamp, Monday, 20 February 2023 00:06 (one year ago) link
yeah I really wish they were doing an SF show, weird that they aren't frankly. I only got to see Swell (real Swell, with Freel) twice, good shows.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 02:23 (one year ago) link
They played Houston sometime in 96. It would have been for Too Many Days Without Thinking.
― Cow_Art, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 02:56 (one year ago) link
Jealous of you guys. I emailed them and heard back from Sean*. He* said the European tour in April is likely the last time they'll play this music.
*The email was written as if by someone who clearly doesn't have perfect English. Sean is from America, right?
― Evan, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 18:36 (one year ago) link
They have a lot of European ties. I know someone in the band or crew was Dutch because they translated my last name for me on the tour w/ mazzy star.
― BrianB, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 19:05 (one year ago) link
sean is def from the US so that must have been from someone involved in booking the tour
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 19:05 (one year ago) link