Always Smooth

Am I a hippy if I really like Serge Gainsbourg and Archers of Loaf? that’s all I’ve been listening to. Anybody else heard the new fucked up record? It’s fucked up. I'd applauded those two twelve inch singles they’d done post “Hidden Worlds” because I thought they were some sort of novel experimentation. But they’ve only experimented in a linear non-experimental way, slowing down and getting more prog with each record. Which isn’t really experiemental. the new record “Chemistry of Commom Life” is by no means bad. It’s just not good.

I spent the morning walking around Noe Valley and into Mission letting my grilled pastrami sandwhich digest. Wondering if I wanted to catch the muni downtown. I decided I didn’t want to. Life is tough. Those types of decisions are mind wringing.

get this from the fucked up blog...or here...

hangin tough

Some jams have surfaced recently that are ridiculously killer (I finally tracked down the canadian rifle / american cheeseburger split... for the Can. Rifle jamz) and i've also been stoking on the dead mechanical . while new arrivals have jammed some classics have been chortling up cosmic thunder.

The Nerves released an EP in 1976. All three dudes took part in the writing but the dude who later went on to be in the plimsouls penned the questionable plimsouls pop classic "million miles away." “Hangin on the telephone” is the best of the four Nerves songs on the 1976 EP. I guess blondie did a cover of it,i've never heard the cover but rumor is it's not bad. this nerves shit is classic. fresh 2 death.

here’s the nerves…



The Nerves Jam is way better but here’s the the Plimsouls a Million Miles Away video:



this is where the blog post gets sketch... heres a really awkward scene from valley girl w/ the plimsouls.



Also.. some powerpop from Ireland circa 1978… Here’s the Vipers classic “I Got You” shits rad... a piano???? a piano!!! uber poppy and catchy.

Jamming hard or hardly jamming

I was driving back up north, jamming on a bunch of old and some not so old Fresno music I’d found in my old room in my parents house. I’m going to post some of it on here. So this might piss some people off, but I think all of this is out of print/unreleased and not on myspace, and isn’t going to be hitting vinyl or cd or itunes or whatever anytime soon. But if anyone wants me to take their shit down then hit me up. Here are some jams from the archives. If anyone digs this shit let me know, I have a lot more old shit and I’ll toss some more up.

When I first got in the car to drive back up here I saddled into some of my old bands stuff. I’ll spare you that shitz. when I twerked it off the 99 and headed towards Los Banos I put in the old Fallouts Demo and my ears stoked on that shit. I didn’t remember it being that good. Those dudes had to be 13 or 14 when that was recorded. Think Crimpshrine by way of Op Ivy/Rancid and NOFX. I remember seeing those dudes a few times, mostly at CBA, and then when I left for college around 2001 Benny (vocals/guitar) left and my buddy James started playing with those dudes. A few years later they started playing metal and and changed their name to Bogan, and James left and they added un autre dude.

I’m kind of partial to the East Bay charms of the first demo. (Don't right click the link, click on it and it'll go to the mp3)

Here are a couple songs from both demos:


For a while I played in a band with Dave and if anything that might predispose me to not liking some of his bearded jam thunder. But when he left fresno and moved to Florida with his beard he hit me up with an acoustic demo of some of Sci-Fi Nightmares shit he was working on; the jamz was hot. Check out the myspace for fully mastered non acoustic version. The full version of this song should be on an upcoming 7” - here’s the unreleased acoustic cold and blue;



Occams Razor. I wasn’t in Fresno when these dudes were playing, I wasn’t even in the Country for a while when these dudes were playing. But when I moved back to Fresno someone hipped me to their tunes. I’d heard of them. I thought they were from Santa Barbara/Goleta, cause when I lived there I saw dudes were playing there. I never got too into their early output but their last 7” was pretty fucking great. Plus the artwork was killer. I found it in Bakersfield a while back. I don’t think it’s still in print. But if it is someone hit me up and I’ll remove this shit. This is probably one of the better records to come from fresno in the last fifteen years or so. So screamy; a ferocious kind of sass. (I just checked up on shit and it looks like theres one copy available here; hit that shit)

Heres a song off it and some of the artwork;

Wouldn’t be complete without a quick nod to Capitol Punishment. You can find more about them here. I’ve got the German pressing on white vinyl.
Here’s two songs off of the two party system 7”; - this is out of print. But you should be able to get it on ebay without going broke.

also; check out the stage dive records page. Dale just put up an old altered features jam that’s pretty dope, plus check out the Think Tank MP3s here. Think Tank was the post Maniax jam. The maniax shit was pretty amazing; 13/14 year old dudes who got some airplay on MRR radio and got invited to tour with Flipper and Black Flag, but they couldn’t cause they were too young! Holy shit. They just released their cd here- check it out shitz crucial…

eroto thunder classics

want more? the blog is back. much to the chagrin of the haters with good taste.

i got show reviews and a top 5 cooked up in an awkward sauce more thick and pungent than an r kelly video.

i learned how to use hyper link. click on green wordz.

whats up with good bands playing way too long. overexposure dude. even the best jamz can overstay their welcome. the pierced arrows (the newish dead moon band) played for 20 minutes and i was stoked and awash in the fred and toody hype. for the hour after that i got progressively more bored until i was standing there wondering if i should walk out. sunken cost dilemma. similar thing with the ergs last week.

brainworms and sex vid know how to reel it in. live they're hot shitz. brainworms = large dudes in tie dye. ex members of stop it, shit was pretty bangin. i got stoked as shit on their lp when it came out; the split 7's (with the exception of the nearly unbelievable erotic thunder of "Jay's Big Date") have been a little lackluster.

sex vid live:



current top 5 thunder classics

1.) XYX - Anel And Her Problem

2.) Sparks - Angst In My Pants (song off the album of same name)

3.) Mission Of Burma - This Is Not A Photograph



4.) Big Black - Passing Complexion (off Atomizer, the only big black song i'm down with)

5.)Jay Reatard - Screaming Hand

get hotmail's skydrive so we can swap jamz