(Unless DC is one of those "entities"... I don't know whether Neil & the Hex actually left DC, or just RTX.)
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Thursday, 17 January 2019 21:16 (five years ago) link
I feel bad for Fat Possum as they're probably going to feel the repercussions of all this.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 17 January 2019 21:19 (five years ago) link
investors jumping from windows
― calumy (rip van wanko), Thursday, 17 January 2019 22:18 (five years ago) link
I've been thinking for a while I hope Neil didn't burn his bridges at Drag City. I don't think it'd be very easy to convince a label to put out Howling Hex records right now.
― Mike Dixn, Friday, 18 January 2019 00:11 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfKblFXTh6s&feature=youtu.be
new video, with no neil (though not much jennifer either tbf)
― na (NA), Friday, 25 January 2019 16:25 (five years ago) link
love it
― Οὖτις, Friday, 25 January 2019 17:00 (five years ago) link
new MOJO has an awesome Trux feature with lots of infighting during and after the interview
― whoa is me (stevie), Friday, 25 January 2019 18:08 (five years ago) link
Another new song... feelin' it even less than the others, TBH.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NONE3HlzhkM
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Monday, 4 February 2019 20:16 (five years ago) link
It all feels like such a weak facsimile of the late-'90s Trux concept.
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Monday, 4 February 2019 20:18 (five years ago) link
(plus, y'know, they're not very good songs)
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Monday, 4 February 2019 20:25 (five years ago) link
everyone probably loved Accelerator because 'Liar' has the greatest riff ever.
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Monday, 4 February 2019 20:53 (five years ago) link
"Mouth Breather" sounds like the "Dancing Days" riff, transmitted into 1990 Chicago via a scuzz-rock fax machine (this is not a value judgment, btw)
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Monday, 4 February 2019 21:31 (five years ago) link
I've been seeing promos of "White Stuff" all over social media for the past three weeks but I finally listened to the full song just now, and it don't sound bad to me at all
I'm down with "Every Day Swan" too
― slack thompson (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 21:18 (five years ago) link
and mark this for following this dumb b.s. but they put out a record that i hadn't heard and still haven't heard and then lied and said I had approved it— Neil Hagerty (@TheHowlingHex) February 22, 2019
he was tweeting other stuff that seemed related to the new album this morning
― na (NA), Friday, 22 February 2019 15:38 (five years ago) link
"basically a debtors' prison situation" yeesh
― tylerw, Friday, 22 February 2019 15:42 (five years ago) link
The “tour” is back on, new dates announced y’day... but who would buy tix now?
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Friday, 22 February 2019 15:43 (five years ago) link
dunno, literally the only place there's any indication of this stuff is hagerty's twitter! kind of surprised someone hasn't dug deeper into it (possible I've missed an article, not sure)
― tylerw, Friday, 22 February 2019 15:47 (five years ago) link
haw
TOUR TALK..... best believe. pic.twitter.com/e4XLIYJtcm— ROYAL TRUX (@realroyaltrux) February 22, 2019
(of course this is from last november)
― tylerw, Friday, 22 February 2019 17:00 (five years ago) link
Wonder if he’s cool w/his email addy getting out there (remember in the ‘90s when it was something like “karlmar✧✧✧@a✧✧.c✧✧”?)
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Friday, 22 February 2019 17:14 (five years ago) link
(weird, that censorship was some ILX auto thing)
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Friday, 22 February 2019 17:15 (five years ago) link
neil hagerty has the weirdest range of interests of any 'celebrity' i can think of. just a strange dude.
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Friday, 22 February 2019 17:34 (five years ago) link
i mean for long stretches he seems almost painfully 'normie' and then he posts about some truly strange shit and you remember he was (is?) in royal trux.
he's also incredibly online, which i would not have predicted had you asked me a decade or two ago.
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Friday, 22 February 2019 17:36 (five years ago) link
he seems like a chill guy who likes cool stuff
― na (NA), Friday, 22 February 2019 17:37 (five years ago) link
that's another way to put it.
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Friday, 22 February 2019 17:38 (five years ago) link
i guess you might expect something edgier
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Friday, 22 February 2019 17:39 (five years ago) link
he doesn't seem very chill about the economics of touring w/ trux, tbf
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Friday, 22 February 2019 17:42 (five years ago) link
He’s a pretty intelligent dude. He’s written v good essays on a variety of general interest subjects (many of which collected in a book, “Public Works”).
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Friday, 22 February 2019 17:43 (five years ago) link
ooh, i hadn't known about that, thank you
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Friday, 22 February 2019 17:43 (five years ago) link
Looks like the situation finally got a write-up/investigation:https://www.stereogum.com/2033256/royal-trux-twitter-drama/wheres-the-beef/
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Saturday, 23 February 2019 20:14 (five years ago) link
Now someone's spoken to Neil:
http://dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/183074880168/royal-trux-white-stuff-fat-possum
After tracking the record in June 2018, Hagerty split due to an unspecified disagreement. Herrema and a bundle of friends worked the tracks into their album versions — hence the Bitches Brew approach — and submitted the record to Fat Possum, along with assurance that Hagerty had approved. He had not. And when contacted for comment said he still hasn’t heard any of the music from the record. He did, however, say that Fat Possum has handled the situation “the best they could,” and noted he was “overjoyed” not to be working with the band’s previous label. [...]“The operative vision for me on this was Sunset Boulevard and I tried not to end up in the pool” Hagerty said when asked about the record. “If she had just told me it was going to be a solo thing I would have been fine with it but the way they are trying to drag me back into it now is degenerate stuff.”
He had not. And when contacted for comment said he still hasn’t heard any of the music from the record. He did, however, say that Fat Possum has handled the situation “the best they could,” and noted he was “overjoyed” not to be working with the band’s previous label.
[...]
“The operative vision for me on this was Sunset Boulevard and I tried not to end up in the pool” Hagerty said when asked about the record. “If she had just told me it was going to be a solo thing I would have been fine with it but the way they are trying to drag me back into it now is degenerate stuff.”
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 19:46 (five years ago) link
That's interesting. I really don't think I've ever heard anything particularly awful about Drag City. Wonder what that's all about.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 20:18 (five years ago) link
Yeah, me too...
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 20:21 (five years ago) link
This is "out there'. Gave it one listen and all i can say - as a longtime Trux fan --Summer Album! Instantly catchy.
― Carly Jae Vespen (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 28 February 2019 17:30 (five years ago) link
yeah i don't hate this on first listen. as expected, it's way more in jennifer's aesthetic than neil's, lots of processing and overlapping vocals and lyrics about rock and roll. one weird thing i noticed is that there are almost no moments with neil singing without jennifer doubling his vocals. it makes me wonder if he was singing along with her guide vocals. unexpectedly "suburban junky lady" might be the best song on here.
i hated the kool keith song when i heard it as an advance single. i liked it more this time but it doesn't belong on a "royal trux" album. should've saved it for judgement night 2.
― na (NA), Friday, 1 March 2019 20:01 (five years ago) link
Publicity photos of the duo (see above) were clearly photoshopped together;
lol
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Friday, 1 March 2019 21:30 (five years ago) link
I bought a ticket for the Toronto show late last year, and after it got postponed it was honoured for the new date, but who knows what'll happen. I have some doubts about their ability to make it across the border, haha.
In the meantime, I put up a few lesser-circulated live shows on a throwaway channel if anyone's interested, including this one, a Neil/Jen 'acoustic' esque set from 97 with a couple of rarities (Air!):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR_ubZRoN04
― whitehallunity, Saturday, 2 March 2019 14:32 (five years ago) link
Thanks!
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Saturday, 2 March 2019 15:31 (five years ago) link
xpost Excellent! Thanks ( and good luck with that Toronto show)!
― Carly Jae Vespen (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 2 March 2019 16:17 (five years ago) link
This new album sucks hard :(
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Monday, 4 March 2019 21:38 (five years ago) link
whitehallunity -- that 1995 promotional film you posted on YT is awesome!
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Monday, 4 March 2019 22:08 (five years ago) link
(Oh, haha, I've seen this before... it's the one where Neil sprays the phone!)
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Monday, 4 March 2019 22:13 (five years ago) link
I don't even want to bother. "White Stuff" - give me a break already.
― timellison, Tuesday, 5 March 2019 02:06 (five years ago) link
Yeah, it’s the pits. The last few tracks are passable, but I don’t think I’ll ever queue it up again. A bad “Royal Trux” album — who thought we’d ever see it?
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Tuesday, 5 March 2019 02:53 (five years ago) link
yeah, oof, it's not good. i almost wonder if neil getting all weird about it was partly due to his recognitiion that it isn't good and wanting to distance himself from it.
where's the link to the 1995 trux film?
has anyone ever watched the VHS what is royal trux? released by drag city in the early 1990s?
it's like a tour documentary slash very very flaky sci-fi thing. neil and jennifer in junkie phase.
https://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/1/2/3/2/2/3/6/webimg/290328293_o.jpg
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Tuesday, 5 March 2019 03:08 (five years ago) link
ok, of course, like everything else in the world, it's on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDo6aB_pXdk
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Tuesday, 5 March 2019 03:10 (five years ago) link
hmm so should i not see them?
― flopson, Tuesday, 5 March 2019 03:24 (five years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/mar/05/im-out-man-royal-trux-reform-then-split-up-in-the-middle-of-this-interview
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Tuesday, 5 March 2019 09:18 (five years ago) link
lol Petridish and all that, but that is a really good feature
― Neil S, Tuesday, 5 March 2019 10:01 (five years ago) link
I'd watch the shit out of a Royal Trux biopic.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 5 March 2019 10:26 (five years ago) link