It was 1pm at this time and we were in downtown Buffalo. I could not see a soul, nor see any cars. It was a total ghost town. The only noise I herd was leaves blowing. It was really fucking spooky.
Turns out Buffalo Bills were playing and people run inside like its the eclipse.
We hit up a bar called Bada Bing that had probably the greatest pizza ever made. We drank 10 buck buckets for a couple of hours til this game finished. I think they won, I cant remember/care.
We then made our way to the famous Anchor Bar where the party really started. I threw in 20 bucks into the jukebox to crank some Foo, and a couple Malkmus tunes. We ate the best wings ever and drank lots of good pops. Guinness? Really? Wicked!
The show was fucking awesome. Trevor got cut off so I gave him one of my beers, which triggered the fastest act of Karma I have ever seen. Faith No Mores Ashes to Ashes started and Tony and I sang along. Then the girl behind me lost her phone and could not find it. I managed to get down and find it with my hand, and she in turn bought me a beer. Fuck yeah! Everyone is a winner.
The show was bad ass as usual. Just a big party. At one point however I look at the video screen and swear I saw Krist Novoselic (of Sweet 75 fame). I do a double take, but they cut somewhere else. I tell Tony what I think I saw and he does not believe me....until they cut back to a tall bearded bald dude playing an accordion. I think this is where my vocal chord ruptured.
After the song was finished, Dave introduced Krist, said he loved him, and 'Happy Annaversary." It was pretty awesome. Tony and I didn't even really cheer, cuz it was almost too surreal. We just stood there in awe.
After the last song, Faith No More's "Evidence" kicked in, just as it did in Toronto. I LOVE YOU SOUND MAN!!
Hit up another bar post show and I started chugging water, knowing in a couple of hours I would have to drive back home. Passed out on the hotel floor (I am having insane back pains), and I wake up at 6:30am with Chad and we take off. I was home by 9. I shower, and was at work by 9:38.
Guided By Voices: Classic Line Up Records New Album
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Guided By Voices classic '90s line-up will release an album of new material in January 2012.
The cult, low-fi heroes - Robert Pollard, Tobin Sprout, Greg Demos, Mitch Mitchell and Kevin Fennell - have returned to the studio to record Let's Go Eat The Factory. It will be this line-up's first new LP since 1996's fan favourite Under The Bushes, Under The Stars. The band have just completed a year-long reunion tour.
Let's Go Eat The Factory will be released on January 1, 2012.
Here's the modest (by GBV standards at any rate) 21-strong track list:
Laundry And Lasers
The Head
Doughnut For A Snowman
Spiderfighter
Hang Mr. Kite
God Loves Us
The Unsinkable Fats Domino
Who Invented The Sun
The Big Hat And Toy Show
Imperial Racehorsing
How I Met My Mother
Waves
My Europa
Chocolate Boy
The Things That Never Need
Either Nelson
Cyclone Utilities (Remember Your Birthday)
Old Bones
Go Rolling Home
The Room Taking Shape
We Won't Apologize For The Human Race
Part Chimp & Torche - split 12" pre-order
From http://www.chunklet.com/:
Five years ago, during SXSW, Chunklet put on a 20 band bill in two parking lots in north Austin. Two bands met and became immediate fans of each other. Torche, who were still a brand new band and at SXSW at Chunklet's request, and Part Chimp, the noise titans from London who were touring the States for the second time. And well, on that steamy tarmac, a love affair was born.
Almost immediately thereafter, we all started discussing a split release featuring the two bands, and sadly, it takes the pending dissolution of Part Chimp at the end of this year to make it happen. Yes, this is the final Part Chimp release here in the States and the penultimate worldwide.
Part Chimp turn in two scorchers, Dr. Horse and The Watcher while Torche send a love letter to the boys from Dayton and cover three Guided By Voices songs (Exit Flagger, Unleashed! The Large Hearted Boy and Postal Blowfish).
This, Chunklet's 9th 12" release, will be available only during the band's tour up the East Coast in November and here for a limited time. Edition of 500.
Pre-order: http://www.chunklet.com/store/index.cfm?fuseaction=product.display&product_id=99
Some details:
- It will ship the same week as the Torche/Part Chimp tour.
- The cover artwork (featuring Gorillas and Yeti's fighting in a future we'll hopefully never witness) was done by the world-renowned sci-fi illustrator Trevor Claxton.
- The type was hand drawn by Nolen Strals from Post-Typography and Double Dagger.
- Copies purchased off of the Chunklet website are available in black and colored vinyl for a very limited time and on the Torche/Part Chimp tour in early November (while supplies last).
- SPECIAL CHUNKLET EXCLUSIVE! All copies purchased off of the Chunklet website will be personally signed by the artist Trevor Claxton!
Torche/Part Chimp US East Coast Tour Dates:
Sat 11/5 / Motorco, Durham, NC
Sun 11/6 / Strange Matter, Richmond, VA
Mon 11/7 / Johnny Brenda's, Philadelphia, PA
Tues 11/8 / The Met, Pawtucket, RI
Wed 11/9 / Mercury Lounge, New York, NY
Thur 11/10 / DC9 Nightclub, Washington, DC
Fri 11/11 / Tremont Music Hall, Charlotte, NC
Sat 11/12 / The Earl, Atlanta, GA
Part Chimp have also confirmed the following European dates for their final tour:
Fri 21st Oct - Custard Factory, Birmingham - Supersonic Festival
Sat 26th Nov - Autumn Falls @ VK, Brussels - with Chrome Hoof & Ice Age
Sun 27th Nov - Le Guess Who, Utrecht, NL
Mon 28th Nov - Hafenklang, Hamburg
http://www.partchimp.com/
FK YAH
Variety Hour Introduction [For Garys Eyes Only] from Ragman Productions on Vimeo.
This....whatever the fuck it is.....doing one of their best tunes
They know a girl named Stacey
They make Led Zepplin sound good
They wrote BACK TO BASOM, one of my top 25 songs of all time
OBTAINED: Circa 2002, Ned or Tonys wardrobe
STORY: A NICKELS FOR YOUR NIGHTMARES era t shirt. The front used to say HEADSTONES, and still does I suppose, so long as you look close enough. The only proof its a Headstones shirt is the www.headstones.com printed on the sleeve, and the extremely faded "Nickels for your Nightmares" on the back under the neck.
WEAR: Love this shirt. Its beaten up, sun bleached, black, and ripped.
OBTAINED: Circa 2003, unknown live show
STORY: Probably one of my favorite shirts that I have, so much so that I very rarely wear it. We saw The Illuminati so many times that we have lost count. We would make a pilgrimage to any show within 3 hours. The lonest trip being a North Bay show with Goat Horn opening up. Classic times. Miss this band.
WEAR: Too awesome to wear.
STORY: An old girlfriend bought this for me for my birthday.
WEAR: Gilden curse
STORY: They did not have my size of this design at the NYC shows so I went with another shirt, which will appear in this series later. I bought this online at the same time as the flags one.
WEAR: I find this one is slightly too tight. A couple rounds at the Y, and it should be wearable in no time.
STORY: Back in OAC, my final year of high school, Ned asked me if I wanted to go with him and Michelle to check out this band called At The Drive In. They were supposed to be the "next Nirvana" which if you read NME at the time was a different band every week. The show was Murder City Devils, The (International) Noise Conspiracy, and ATH-I. The show fucking blew me away, obviously. It was also fun to see what the guy from Refused was up to. A side note, I wore my Weezer shirt to this show who at the time had reached cult status with the whole "are they even around anymore" thing. Of course this was after Pinkerton (fucking amazing) and before Green Album (fucking horrible). I told Ned that whenever I wear this shirt people always come up and say "awesome shirt man", the best being when Danko Jones himself told me that at his show in Guelph's Trashiteria. Ned didnt really believe me until roughly 10 people in line said "woah hey man I love your shirt."
WEAR: Again, this is from the Gilden era. Way too awkward to wear. Sits in my closet.
STORY: A whole car load of us went to Detroit to see Pavements Terror Twilight tour. Bought this there. Good times. I still remember looking up at the balcony with Adrian bored and ready to leave. It was also the most I ever sweat at a show in my entire life.
WEAR: I hardly ever wear this shirt anymore. Actually I never do. I wore it back in high school but it suffers from the Gilden curse of being just flat out misshapen and big in the wrong spots. I will never throw it out though.
STORY: My favorite album of all time from my favorite band of all time. A no brainer really.
WEAR: I sometimes forget I own this shirt then I will wear it for a while. Fits good for a Gilden, which is rare. Its got that nice slight sunbleach look to it which is needed once in a while.
STORY: We went to the 4 Pavement shows in Central Park NYC, and I ran out of extra spending money for shirts. Thankfully these shirts were online for me to snatch up.
WEAR: I do not wear this one as much as I should. I kinda love it a little too much to wear it out too soon. I want this one to survive for a while.
OBTAINED: Circa 2006, Neds Wardrobe
STORY: This is one of Neds shirts, that somehow got mixed up with mine, but I loved too much to formally return. Its from a wicked band, and on top of that from a classic album from the same band.
WEAR: I wear this on my less bloated days. Less boobage and guttage. I love the colour of the shirt, as well as the neon print.
STORY: Got jackt with Kurt, Trish, Motel, Ned, Michelle, Karl, and Katie and I kind of remember buying this shirt, then realizing it was too small so I went back for the XL. Or so Karl tells me.
WEAR: I use this as one of my undershirts. Its long which i need, but not super baggy and huge. Perfect fit really, which is why its so weathered.
The Swarm from Ragman Productions on Vimeo.
PUNK ROCK
Here is Wheelchair Epidemic taken from said DVD. I love how Yow channels Pollard within the first 5 seconds of the video.
The Jesus Lizard - Wheelchair Epidemic from Brian Wilson on Vimeo.
Oh man! I totally forgot about this book. Due to my recent Beavis and Butthead kick, I decided to hit up eBay and buy this book that I once owned back in the day. I remember it being really hilarious. Off the top of my head I remember Pappa B. doing the connect the dots page and it was nothing but a series of random lines all over the page...no image to be found. I have no idea what happened to my copy, but it was probably lost in one of my many moves. I cannot wait to get this and gloat to KR about it.....although my money is on him still having his copy by his bed.
Here it is! Final animation.
Probably my favorite thing I have animated to date.
Gary & Jess Variety Hour [Final Intro Animation] from THE LAST JOHNY ON THE LEFT on Vimeo.
Fuck September