Royal Trux : Classic or Dud ?

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.

\m/

lol I want to read that whole thing but I feel like I should stop myself

I did the thing to send that whole page to my Kindle for later reading.

I got as far as the part where they're arguing about the Reducers lol - the scenester minutiae is hilar

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

No way, reunions are much better in general if they don't have any new material and just play the old stuff.

sometimes I think there is no better song title than "Martyr Lectures Comedian"

thanks for that link, NA!

Weren't they a notoriously awful live band? I mean, I'd still go see them if I could but...
--Immediate Follower (NA)

They were great when I saw them but I imagine their performances could be uh varied.

i saw them in 1998 and it was one of the greatest shows I've ever seen. Hagerty is an insanely glorious guitar player, on a good night. They played Back To School.

watching Hagerty play guitar is truly a gift - whatever his faults as a cantankerous contrarian trickster asshole the guy has chops for days, so inventive.

altho tbh I wouldn't be surprised if he opts to not play guitar at all for this (I did see him play 6-string bass for almost an entire show once, for instance)

I'd love it if they got Ken Nasta back on percussion. Is he up to anything these days?

I'll be surprised if they do anything that's a concession to their past (ie play with previous band members, play "the hits" or maybe even old Royal Trux songs at all), it seems out of character for NMH in particular.