Terry Malts - 2012-06-19 - The Barboza Seattle [SR recording]

Happy 2014.  Another previously unshared recording from the AMH archives, courtesy of SR.

Terry Malts
2012-06-19
The Barboza
Seattle, WA

taper: SR
kit: Schoeps MK4 mics > Naiant Tinybox > Sony PCM-M10

00 intro
01 Nauseous
02 Not Far From It
03 Where Is The Weekend?
04 What Was It?
05 Tumble Down
06 Waiting Room
07 Disconnect
08 I'm Neurotic
09 Something About You
10 Can't Tell No One [Negative Approach]

Looked like tons of fun had by all as lots of beer can got thrown (accurately, to boot), Corey's amp busted, and there was lots of snarky comments...click on the You(Tube) icon if you want all the spoilers revealed...

I have no idea what's in store for me beyond a Wooden Shjips show next week and Dum Dum Girls with Blouse opening in April.  I do like the idea of occasionally visiting my archives on the order of once every couple of weeks.  So stay tuned...next up, I'll start with my very first recording!

Permanent Collection - The Collection (2012)

Permanent Collection
"The Collection" (2012)

All my 2012 recordings of the group, six in total, as well as SR's absolutely gorgeous sights and sounds from the Barboza In Seattle (opening for Terry Malts), viewable right here:

To watch all the other videos of PermCol that are out there, you can see my playlist.

For all known audio recordings (MP3 format):

2012-01-27  Serra Bowl - Daly City, CA

2012-03-23  The Knockout - San Francisco, CA

2012-05-14  Slim's - San Francisco, CA

2012-06-01  Milk Bar - San Francisco, CA

2012-06-19  The Barboza - Seattle, WA (SR recording)

2012-07-20  Brick and Mortar - San Francisco, CA

2012-09-03  The Knockout - San Francisco, CA

The Serra Bowl show is also featured in an older posting.

If you want to see what they're up to presently, they have a Bandcamp, where you can download their "No Void" EP.

Beach Fossils - May 2012 West Coast shows

Dustin Paseuyr, be careful not to misspell!

Beach Fossils
2012-05-10
Neumo's 
Seattle, WA

Taped by SR with Schoepps MK4 active setup, amplified by a Naiant Tinybox, into a Sony PCM-M10 digital recorder.

Setlist

Cole in one of his trademark 
alpacan pullovers

I Fall
The Horse
Shallow
Lessons
Vacation
Moments >
What A Pleasure
Youth
Wide Awake
Golden Age
Sometime (DIIV cover)
Twelve Roses
Calyer
"encore one more song" 
  (satirical improvisation)
Daydream
"oh thank you" (satirical improvisation)

To download the entire set (MP3 format), go here.

If you want this in lossless, you'll have to brave the Incubation tracker.  This requires registration, but should otherwise hopefully be straightforward.

Videos that SR shot are linked above.  I've synchronized them to the outboard audio.

SR passed me on his footage late last year, but I was very lax in getting this out.  The sample-and-hold "satirical improvisations" are hilarious, apparently Beach Fossils have discovered that encores are a farce, something David Gedge could have told them ages ago... :-)

Anyway, best Thanksgiving wishes to you and yours!  A bonus show below the break.

Gender Clichés - Women In Garage Rock (documentary)

Greer McGettrick (The Mallard), Adobe Books benefit 2012

I just received a communication via YouTube...

To: thehappyone

Hey! I know it's been a LONG time. But the documentary I worked on is finally up. We're still having issues with getting YouTube to understand that we got permissions for the songs, so it's unlisted for now. But pass around the link if you can! I hope you enjoy it!

The video is...was...here...would love to see it again...

The documentarian gave me her consent to upload it to my site. 

Right off the bat, this starts out with footage from the Mallard at the Adobe Books benefit from last April, and then interviews Dylan E. and Greer from the Mallard, Shannon Shaw from both Hunx and his Punx and Shannon and the Clams, and Emily Rose Epstein from Ty Segall.  

I can honestly say that any thought that they were "good musicians/artists for being women" at no point ever crossed my mind when seeing any of these groups. 

Unfortunately, at least according to them, it seems to have crossed a lot of other people's, which makes me feel a bit shameful, but mostly puzzled.  I wished we lived in a world where one's gender (or any other identity someone holds dear to them) would be empowering and enabling, not conforming or demoralizing, and I struggle to imagine why anybody would ever not want to listen to Shannon when she tells them how she thinks she should sound.

That's not to say I didn't notice they were women...of course, I did, and all the attributes that go along with that.  I'm only human.  While gender does certainly inform what themes certain songs feature, there's nothing intrinsically "male" or "female" about the way a person approaches playing the drums, guitar, keyboard, or bass.  But at the same time, some of my favorite bands I've been blessed to experience (Lush, New Order, Vomit Launch, Thee Oh Sees, Quaaludes) have one or more women members...and I think they're all the more interesting for it!

Anyway, I don't want to prattle for longer than the length of the doc, so please spare a few minutes and give it a spin.  

Thanks!

Vomit Launch - Shocking Early Works Vol 1

A complete change of pace, as there has been a lull in my recent outside activities.  We now turn to a Chico, CA group that is still somewhat obscure and has been a object of recent fascination. the shockingly named VOMIT LAUNCH.

Twenty-plus years after they played their final show in December 1992, and after their posthumous Not Even Pretty+ release on Mark Robinson's Teenbeat label, there is a new 7" release of songs, previously only available on the super-hard-to-find "Live In Chico" cassette.  

(by the way, they are not kidding about "Jah Lives At Joe's Barbecue"...if this ever gets out, it's likely to have you hurling and clawing your eyes out)

I wonder if the title of this derives from the Violent Onsen Geisha release of the same name.  That seems right up the alley of the material the BUFMS (Butte County Free Music Society) has been airing over the last several years, starting with their mammoth 4xLP plus "penalty CD", Induced Musical Spasticity, which also features some of the players involved on this.  The impetus of the re-release of this material was the passing away of original Vomit Launch member Tim Smyth, who is featured on the tracks that appear on this single.

On the A side, we are greeted with the sighing ennui-laden downward spiral of "The Only Way Is Down"...the band warn us at the start that they would be cribbing lyrics, and indeed, one hears the 'I put my trust in you' lyric from Joy Division's "A Means To An End".  

The flip features a *very* early skeletal take of "Swelling Admiration" that sounds like the Shaggs getting assaulted by the asshole fratboys serving as the antagonists of the song, and a gonzo, off-the-meds version of Flipper's "Sex Bomb", which itself is gonzo off-the-meds to begin with.

Bizarre, and utterly essential.  Order from Tedium House here.

There's precious little out there for Vomit Launch available available online that you cannot find on iTunes/Amazon, etc. 
or on their official website, but I can at least feature the one video they made, for "Switch" on Mr. Spench.  This almost got aired on MTV's 120 Minutes, who instead put up the outtakes for it instead and called it a day, what do you expect from pigfuckers who would go on to bring you The Real World and only now serve to keep right-thinking folks the hell away from whatever they're dishing up presently.