Don't Forget to Get Some PDawg
At long last there is a PDawg link over to the side. I’ve been meaning to do this forever. I love his blog. Kim and I read it everyday. I finally got off my ass and put the link up tonight because PDawg finally got off his ass and posted music by his two previous bands (Klugggggs & Luminous). This is must have stuff. Get yourself some. Stop reading this blog and start downloading. I’ll be here when you come back.
OK. PDawg putting this stuff up (and all the old school DK blogs) got me to start thinking about my favorite DK rock songs. I’m going to list them in no particular order. I am not going to include any songs I did with the fB the Not So Great You Know Whats (or even the Swen Parsons Project). Obviously I like the stuff I was a part of or I wouldn’t have wasted so much time and treasure getting the stuff out there, playing live, recording, blah, blah, blah. I think I called Time and Treasure once. But these are more songs or DK music that I was a fan of…You can't be a fan of yourself. If you were in a band that was not included in this list, or your favorite DK song isn’t on this list, or you think one of the songs on my list totally sucks ass – remember, I am an idiot.
1. ROCKET MAN - Shorty, Dev will argue to the death that Shorty was a better band than U.S. Maple. I don’t agree but I love this song. “Aieyyyeeee – Rocket Man Rocket man! Hi-yahhh!”
2. LONGER LASTING – Luminous, the song is perfect and anything I say won’t really do it justice. I love the Moog. – see, right there I ruined it. People have some nice things to say about the whole Luminous record. Read the kind words over at the PDawg’s hole (if he hasn’t nuked the compliments).
3. WHY? – Sunfrog, “Why you got to be like that? Why do I have to be like that?” When all the DK rock stars hated my rancid, rotting poppified guts, Pat (who worked at Subway and saw my fat ass all the time) was nice to me.
4. LIAR – Rod Almighty “HATE, PAIN, HATE, PAIN, HATE, PAIN, HATE, PAIN – LIAR, LIAR, LIAR!” Actually anything by the Rod qualifies as my favorite stuff from DK rock music. Maybe it’s because of the time period when I returned to DK – but they were my favorite band here. PDawg may be my favorite songwriter, but to be honest, I’d rather see the Rod live on a bad night than most bands on a good night and that’s that.
Aside – Two best All DK Double Bill shows I went to…
1. Klugs/Rod Q101 show
2. Moss/Bog in the basement of Otto’s. Chris and I sat in the front row drinking our thirsty-two ouncers the whole night. At the end of the Moss set we looked at each other and said: “Moss.” When Bog finished, we looked at each other and said: “Bog.” Then we went home.
BACK TO THE LIST
5. JUNKFOOD PUSSY – Festers, probably not their best song but I love how MS’s voice sounds w/ the band when he sings “Junk!”
6. WATERCOLORSOUND - the Klugmaknotts – I can see the disc but it’s too far out of reach to check if I spelled the name right. You know who I am talking about and if you do, you know why the song is great.
7. SQUEEGIE BOY/ANAPHYLAXIS/MOM - Bog, I loved hearing the playback of new Notorious B.O.G. tracks. Alex was making this record at the same time he was making current for us.
8. MALT LIQUOR - Figora, look as far as body of work goes (ok, I'm getting way too serious about this shit) the Squirrel and the PDawg have it all over these guys. But if rock 'n roll is about the truth, have there ever been truer words than: "It tastes like shit but it gets you drunk quicker!"????
9. SWEET LOAD - Shame, borrowing from the world of "found" porno art will always make me a fan. I stalked the Velvet Underground for years. I'm not sure if I can remember a single live performance, I was in and out of DK (and consciousness) at this time in my life. I hung out for practices. Did I ever mention that I am Devin's graduate student. I also played the tape over and over until it busted in the '92 Sunbird tape deck. I was 10 kinds of cool. I think Bob Weston made the rcording, but I could also be 10 kinds of wrong. Jeanz? Anybody?
10. OLD DOG PARODIES @ OPEN STAGE - Old Dog, that shit was always gold. The only thing better is Old Dog kereoke. He hasn't done an open mic for years but I hear that he is working on an all bass version of the Doors' song The End called This is the Low End.
11. LEE VAN KLEEF IS THE BAD – Ploop, um, RRROCK!!!!! 1st live performance was my fav.
12. BIG MUFF PI - Ploop again. I learned math and history while listening to this song. What more do you want...and Dev & To'D did the "Aieeyeee..." from ROCKET MAN.
13. JULIA (yes that Julia) – Crazy Shawn at Open Stage. Most disturbing cover ever! “Uh, you guys got my pedal.” Actually I liked being his neighbor and I miss him.
14. IZZY JEUS the whole Valentine’s Day show. It was a beautiful night and the way I like to remember our friend.
15. PINT OF NO RETURN – the Tossers, because I played this tape over and over until the people riding with me up to Madison mutinied and threw my tape out the window. Thanks a lot jerks.
16. JEN F. behind the drums. She could play behind Ricki fucking Martin and make his music kick ass. She was/is my single-most favorite DK rock star. It wasn’t that she was unflappable or that she was a superbadass. She loved rock and had guts. That’s what it’s all about folks.
Ok, technically the hokey pokey is what it’s all about – but JF would’ve rocked that piece of shit too!
I’m out.
OK. PDawg putting this stuff up (and all the old school DK blogs) got me to start thinking about my favorite DK rock songs. I’m going to list them in no particular order. I am not going to include any songs I did with the fB the Not So Great You Know Whats (or even the Swen Parsons Project). Obviously I like the stuff I was a part of or I wouldn’t have wasted so much time and treasure getting the stuff out there, playing live, recording, blah, blah, blah. I think I called Time and Treasure once. But these are more songs or DK music that I was a fan of…You can't be a fan of yourself. If you were in a band that was not included in this list, or your favorite DK song isn’t on this list, or you think one of the songs on my list totally sucks ass – remember, I am an idiot.
1. ROCKET MAN - Shorty, Dev will argue to the death that Shorty was a better band than U.S. Maple. I don’t agree but I love this song. “Aieyyyeeee – Rocket Man Rocket man! Hi-yahhh!”
2. LONGER LASTING – Luminous, the song is perfect and anything I say won’t really do it justice. I love the Moog. – see, right there I ruined it. People have some nice things to say about the whole Luminous record. Read the kind words over at the PDawg’s hole (if he hasn’t nuked the compliments).
3. WHY? – Sunfrog, “Why you got to be like that? Why do I have to be like that?” When all the DK rock stars hated my rancid, rotting poppified guts, Pat (who worked at Subway and saw my fat ass all the time) was nice to me.
4. LIAR – Rod Almighty “HATE, PAIN, HATE, PAIN, HATE, PAIN, HATE, PAIN – LIAR, LIAR, LIAR!” Actually anything by the Rod qualifies as my favorite stuff from DK rock music. Maybe it’s because of the time period when I returned to DK – but they were my favorite band here. PDawg may be my favorite songwriter, but to be honest, I’d rather see the Rod live on a bad night than most bands on a good night and that’s that.
Aside – Two best All DK Double Bill shows I went to…
1. Klugs/Rod Q101 show
2. Moss/Bog in the basement of Otto’s. Chris and I sat in the front row drinking our thirsty-two ouncers the whole night. At the end of the Moss set we looked at each other and said: “Moss.” When Bog finished, we looked at each other and said: “Bog.” Then we went home.
BACK TO THE LIST
5. JUNKFOOD PUSSY – Festers, probably not their best song but I love how MS’s voice sounds w/ the band when he sings “Junk!”
6. WATERCOLORSOUND - the Klugmaknotts – I can see the disc but it’s too far out of reach to check if I spelled the name right. You know who I am talking about and if you do, you know why the song is great.
7. SQUEEGIE BOY/ANAPHYLAXIS/MOM - Bog, I loved hearing the playback of new Notorious B.O.G. tracks. Alex was making this record at the same time he was making current for us.
8. MALT LIQUOR - Figora, look as far as body of work goes (ok, I'm getting way too serious about this shit) the Squirrel and the PDawg have it all over these guys. But if rock 'n roll is about the truth, have there ever been truer words than: "It tastes like shit but it gets you drunk quicker!"????
9. SWEET LOAD - Shame, borrowing from the world of "found" porno art will always make me a fan. I stalked the Velvet Underground for years. I'm not sure if I can remember a single live performance, I was in and out of DK (and consciousness) at this time in my life. I hung out for practices. Did I ever mention that I am Devin's graduate student. I also played the tape over and over until it busted in the '92 Sunbird tape deck. I was 10 kinds of cool. I think Bob Weston made the rcording, but I could also be 10 kinds of wrong. Jeanz? Anybody?
10. OLD DOG PARODIES @ OPEN STAGE - Old Dog, that shit was always gold. The only thing better is Old Dog kereoke. He hasn't done an open mic for years but I hear that he is working on an all bass version of the Doors' song The End called This is the Low End.
11. LEE VAN KLEEF IS THE BAD – Ploop, um, RRROCK!!!!! 1st live performance was my fav.
12. BIG MUFF PI - Ploop again. I learned math and history while listening to this song. What more do you want...and Dev & To'D did the "Aieeyeee..." from ROCKET MAN.
13. JULIA (yes that Julia) – Crazy Shawn at Open Stage. Most disturbing cover ever! “Uh, you guys got my pedal.” Actually I liked being his neighbor and I miss him.
14. IZZY JEUS the whole Valentine’s Day show. It was a beautiful night and the way I like to remember our friend.
15. PINT OF NO RETURN – the Tossers, because I played this tape over and over until the people riding with me up to Madison mutinied and threw my tape out the window. Thanks a lot jerks.
16. JEN F. behind the drums. She could play behind Ricki fucking Martin and make his music kick ass. She was/is my single-most favorite DK rock star. It wasn’t that she was unflappable or that she was a superbadass. She loved rock and had guts. That’s what it’s all about folks.
Ok, technically the hokey pokey is what it’s all about – but JF would’ve rocked that piece of shit too!
I’m out.
posted by edP | 9:10 PM
8 Comments:
Thanks dude. But I do think you can be a fan of yourself. It'd be cool to hear your personal favorites of stuff you've done.
That Moss/Bog show was really cool.
Was that the Izzy Zeus show where they had screens onstage? By the way, that record sounds great and I have extra (limited) copies of it so's I could proselytizzzze.
Now THIS cracked me up: "When all the DK rock stars hated my rancid, rotting poppified guts, Pat was nice to me."
When I first met J. and Alex, they were just too cool for (my) school. When we became friends later, I took great pleasure in reminding them of this all the time. "Huh? No we weren't! I don't remember that!" Those fucks! heh heh. But, as you said, Pat, on the other hand, was always friendly.
That Rod show where they ran a lap around Otto's and did push ups onstage before continuing to rock balls out was one of my favoritest "Fuck yeah!" rock moments.
Also, I liked the Festers OK, but there was a tape Mike gave me--maybe the Mort Freeman All-Stars? with the songs "Don't Tickle Me, Dude," and "She Breaks Up"--the latter of which was actually touching in a perverse way and proved he had some real songwriting chops. Great tape.
That is so funny. I essentially took Pat's place to start Rod Almighty and when Jay and Alex got that swank apartment (which is now home to the chili solstice) we were in heaven... until the Klugmaknotts started practicing down the hall! Jay and Alex were like "Those guys think they're better than us because they write harmony parts." I remember that being a bit of a rivalry - until everyone got to know each other. Then we started playing shows together (was it the Voodoo Beef Bar?) and those were some of my favorite shows. For the record, nearly everyone that meets Jay and Alex thinks they're pricks until they get to know them.
Also, I used to make Clyde's Open Stage every week if I knew the Ambersons were playing. Then I drank the kool aid.
And Shorty was a better band. By far.
Oh, and another one of my favorite DK band moments was Freedom playing at Otto's. I tried to keep track of Devin and Tiny Miguel's fret fingers - forget about it! Plus, Kurt rocking out - you can't beat that shit.
the "screen" izzy zeus show was for one of the cornstocks. "don't give your heart away" on the CD is taken from that tape.
if i can find it i'll digitize and post it.
PD: I have that MS tape. It also has the "Crazy Jesus" song, don't it? I would like to think I had a pinky-finger in that. An after hours. A pic of Jesus on the wall. Drivin' me crazy. Makin' me nuts.
Yr right tho--for all his naked on stage rockin' high jinx, MS could write some sweet songs.
ED: Your CD is burned, can't get the pics tho. I just have to slide that sucker in env and get it to you--I will, soon!
Thanks to you and Mr. B. You rock Ms. K. Did you see, I have finally added a link to your blog? Slowly but surely we will stop the fuckery!
It warms my heart so to see Shame (and Freedom, in the comments) make the list ... but I haven't a clue who did the recording. The height of my involvement in the DK Music Scene was living with Dev and then Kurt - and when those days ended so did my musical pipeline - so I pretty much just love everything my friends do and am uniquely unqualified to comment on quality. I will, however, plant myself in the "Shorty beats USM" camp. You can take that to the bank.
Enjoyed a lot! »
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