Royal Trux : Classic or Dud ?

he's kind of second fiddle to Jennifer, yes

lol I guess in terms of enthusiasm/stage presence maybe but musically? gtfo

well yes, my answer was to the previous post, about the gig I went to. I don't think anyone would argue contrary to what you say on Hagerty being the compositional/ musical force.

Announcing First Object from FEATHERED FISH: A New Collaboration between Jennifer Herrema and Pamela Love

FEATHERED FISH WEBSITE

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It all started when artist and musician Jennifer Herrema approached her favorite jewelry designer Pamela Love about collaborating on a remake of the iconic Royal Trux skull ring. Pamela, a longtime fan of Jennifer’s and a musician herself, immediately said yes. The two quickly hit it off and realized that they had way more in common than just skull rings. The ideas started flowing between the two and they were just too good not to see through. Thanks to a collaborative partnership with record label Drag City, Feathered Fish took flight. The name honors Jennifer and Pamela's shared Pisces status and owes inspiration to a 1966 song by Arthur Lee of the psychedelic LA band, Love. Feathered Fish combines Pamela’s experience and vision, finely honed through running her eponymous jewelry line, with Jennifer’s prowess not only as rock royalty but also as a clothing and jewelry designer in her own right.

The debut object from Feathered Fish is a reimagining of that Royal Trux skull ring that brought Jennifer and Pamela's heads together in the beginning. They retained the skull from the original design, added a fitting traditional tribal motif and replaced the crossbones with crossed arrows. Made from sterling silver, the ring is limited to 40 pieces. Herrema and Love have way more than just jewelry up their sleeves. Feathered Fish will produce roughly four American-made artifacts each year, ranging from jewelry to art objects to clothing, each of a similarly limited edition. What they come out with is limited only by their imaginations and what’s legal to cross state lines. Tune in every few months to see what they come up with next. Expect a proliferation of good vibes.

PLACE SKULL RING ORDERS HERE

Only $200 postpaid!

hot n cold skulls?

So, for $200, is that all you get?

Or you get nothing at all.

Does someone have scans of the mag appearance where they interviewed Keith Richards?

Not a scan, but here's the text:
http://www.iorr.org/talk/read.php?1,1196890

Thanks!

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

mesmerizing

Jennifer Herrema just said on Facebook that the next Black Bananas album will have two songs cowritten with NMH

whoa!
i wonder if that means they are unearthing historical trux jams tho

either way

Killer!

it is interesting to wonder if they'll sound like old royal trux songs or if they'll sound like some ungodly mashup of RTX and the howling hex, like blaring hair-metal guitars in polka rhythm

i wonder if that means they are unearthing historical trux jams tho

this is my guess

i read a thing (on p4k?) that said new, so i can believe new until i hear otherwise. some of the stuff about neil playing twin infinitives in brooklyn talked about him & jennifer talking about it so maybe stuff went from there.

also props to n/a for writing this meta-referential faux-trux lyric: blaring hair-metal guitars in polka rhythm

Classic.

OK i finally just got the singles comp and whaaaat @ this milton nascimento cover

it's great!

that's what

Still amazing. So many of their records are perfect for me and this is is one of only box sets that I love almost everything on. Also for a singles and odds and sods collection is also surprisingly a good place to start for introductions.
I miss Neil and Jennifer togethor thats for sure. Apart from sporadic intervention I have lost track of both artists solo careers though - seems a little tricky to know where to dip in.

I just re-bought Pound For Pound which I kind of disliked as a water-treading, phoning it in effort when it came out. Maybe true, but it's great too.
No bad albums from this band.

And check this out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a16igonZo20

neil wearing a tottenham jersey!

wow, great video, thanks for posting.

Ian Svenonius wrote a short oral history of "Veterans of Disorder"

http://www.fvckthemedia.com/issue23/out-of-order

http://pitchfork.com/news/59555-royal-trux-reunite/

Huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh

aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!

I never saw them live. have seen hagerty at least

This is the one reunion I had assumed would never ever happen.

well there's still the Smiths

and Spacemen 3

This is the one reunion of a good band I had assumed would never ever happen.

haha ok

Holy. Shit. That's awesome. I reeeeeally hope they tour.

whaaat

:OOOOOO

!!!!! hyped for possible tour, i wonder if they will make it to the east coast before prob inevitable implosion

Saw them once - so ramshackle and fantastic. I also hope to get to see them again. great news!

Cool I saw RTX years ago and it was great.

saw them play with the Make Up in a c200 venue, great show!

Weren't they a notoriously awful live band? I mean, I'd still go see them if I could but...

Best-case scenario is that them leads to writing/recording new Royal Trux music.

i saw them twice in the mid 90s, hated them both times, but i was a stupid kid back then

yeah i saw them opening for pavement when i was 15 or 16 and had no fucking idea what was happening.

I wonder whose rhythm section they'll borrow

I was looking for the Puncture article about Royal Trux where Neil is all paranoid in their rural Virginia house and I found this: http://www.royaltrux.wolfzen.com/rtx_ints_needs_formatting.txt A whole bunch of Royal Trux interviews/articles on a long unformatted page

"Why'd you get 90-minute tapes?" Hagerty groans.
"That's all they had."
"But the 60-minute ones are better."
"That's what they had,'' Herrema repeats. "Neil, I've had a bad day. I was
loading the groceries into the van, and when I turned around there was a guy
in a pick-up truck looking at me. He was jacking off."
"Fuck! Did you see his plates?"
"No. He followed me but I blew a light and lost him."
"Jesus, Jennifer, why didn't you get his plate number? How many lights did he
follow you for? ... Three? He got your plates. He's probably a fuckin' serial
killer."
Hagerty walks to the front window and stares out, past the white propane tank,
past the swampy lump of grass, past the van, the Jag, the Woody, and my own
car. There's no killer visible, but Hagerty's not satisfied. "I should get the
gun. Did you call the police? We should call the police."
"Neil, I lost him."
"You had a fuckin' killer and you let him slip out of your net. What if he
goes and molests a kid?"
"I was not going to stop and take down his license-plate number."
"I'm just saying he was behind you. You could've just looked back," Hagerty
moans, stalking the room as if John Wayne Gacy is about to crawl from under
the sofa cushions.
"You're paranoid," says Herrema.
For the next few hours Hagerty will sporadically pop up from his seat and peek
out the window, continually returning to the subject to retread his original
argument.