I don't underrate Bill Rieflin! Although I hear what yer sayin'. SWANS, dammit!
― sleeve, Friday, 6 February 2009 23:40 (fifteen years ago) link
My name is spelled Jon-Lars Sorenson.
I did indeed move to the Bay area with the band, and played & recorded for about a year. We all lived in a house in El Cerrito.
The highlight for me was playing at the Anti Club in Hollywood, with the Minutemen, et al. That was the night that the flood hit Hollywood, and we walked through knee-high water to get to the club. Didn't matter to the crowd, it was a packed house.
The recordings made in SF ended up on "the bumper crop" album, along with songs recorded after I left.
Cheers, Jon-Lars SorensOn
― Jon-Lars Sorenson, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 00:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Heya sir, glad you could swing by.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 01:52 (fourteen years ago) link
been jamming The Bumper Crop lately, so good. This band needs a box set! Or something!
― tylerw, Thursday, 30 June 2011 17:36 (twelve years ago) link
^ tell me about it. or a deluxe Flow.
― nerve_pylon, Thursday, 30 June 2011 18:29 (twelve years ago) link
yesss! paging dan selzer.
― tylerw, Thursday, 30 June 2011 21:19 (twelve years ago) link
the big huge problem is that the rights to the pre-Interstate lps remain w/ a certain 'legendary' record label.
― nerve_pylon, Thursday, 30 June 2011 22:28 (twelve years ago) link
...and the fact that i don't think there'd be much interest.
― nerve_pylon, Thursday, 30 June 2011 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
sst, yeah? such a bummer that so much of that music seems to be in a black hole. did people like dino jr or sonic youth have to sue to get their stuff back so that other labels could reissue them? i think that's what bob mould implies whenever the idea of reissuing husker du comes up.
― tylerw, Thursday, 30 June 2011 22:35 (twelve years ago) link
great interview w/ all the members here: http://www.furious.com/perfect/pellmell.htmland hey! https://pellmell.bandcamp.com/
― tylerw, Monday, 5 February 2018 23:03 (six years ago) link
I have vague favorable memories of the group from the early 80s. Just read a sometime Pitchfork contributor on Facebook calling them one of the greatest groups. Maybe I should listen again
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 04:03 (six years ago) link
Surprised the article didn’t mention Love Tractor, they seem relevant in discussing instrumental college rock of the 80s.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 13:11 (six years ago) link
extremely happening Pell Mell live show from 1995 over yonder: https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/183267593887/pell-mell-great-american-music-hall-san
― tylerw, Wednesday, 6 March 2019 16:47 (five years ago) link