According to Dee Dee's book, which I'm sure to some extent is based in reality, he wrote Warthog for his therapist who gave him the assignment of writing a love song. I always liked that song even better after reading that.
According to Dee Dee's book, which I'm sure to some extent is based in reality, he wrote Warthog for his therapist who gave him the assignment of writing a love song. I always liked that song even better after reading that.
Rocco , Yeah , I first saw them on the "Too Tough To Die" tour , but , not because I had'nt tried to see them , earlier. It was a good time to see them , they seemed to have a new lease on life. I always figured the lyrics to "Wart Hog" were'nt transcribed as a joke , since they're almost utterly unintelligible. "Mama's Boy" is still the bomb....or whatever kids say , today.
I saw them on the ''To Tough to Die'' tour,pretty badass.DeeDee had a short spiked hairdoo and they kicked mucho ass.''Wart Hog'' always killed me and the lyric where not on the lyric sheet cuz the record company thoght them to offensive.''Mama's Boy''is fun too...
Wow. This sounds great. They could have released this for all us fan - geeks (Gooba gobba , one of us !) , just clean up a couple of rough edges....Or , not even. But , after "End of The Century" did'nt make it (Well , I don't mean in Europe and Japan. They love American music.) , the band was being further demoralized at every turn. Sire withdrew all promotional items (Barring those little LP size posters that were popular in the late 80's.). Gary Kurfirst was busting their balls because Talking Heads were selling so many more concert shirts than they were ( I have this on a VERY good source , and I'm hardly surprised.), and then there was getting billed below Metallica and Soundgarden on the Lollapalooza tour. Those bands sold more records , but , they both owe a substantial debt to The Ramones. Even Dust , with Marc Bell (Marky Ramone), was beating Metallica to the punch by more than a dozen years , by combining proto - Speed Metal with Spaghetti Western embellishments. The Ramones seldom had to open for anyone (I saw them open for Iggy , but , I THOUGHT they'd be given equal billing , same set length , same access to sound and lights.) , but , it was pretty clear , Lollapalooza was their last tour , barring the brief stadium tour of Argentina . The three bands could've had equal billing ,if that was the only way to satisfy everybody's ego , AND give the elders their due respect.
John Battles said:
sOMEONE POINTED THAT OUT , EARLIER. THAT "TOURING" DATES BACK TO THE "PLEASANT DREAMS ERA....JOEY POINTED OUT THAT HE LET A RECORD COMPANY USE THE SONG FOR A GIRL GROUP or Spector OR DOO WOP tribute (I forget which )project , and they changed it to "Doreen" , about a girl who loves to travel. "Doreen , Doreen , she's never boring". Joey was'nt too thriled. But , it's probably the thing that motivated him to release a version by The Ramones.
Rev. Norb said:That demo was floating around the internet a few years ago...i had it and it wound up getting deleted. There was a bunch more to it -- songs like "Touring" which didn't see the light of day til "Mondo Bizarro" in 1992 were on there.
Tyler said:Someone uploaded the pleasant dreams demo in almost its entirety. Nothing new, but it's really cool to listen to it altogether to get an idea of how it could've sounded with some punkier songs, rawer production, and a couple less experimental tunes. Might've been their definite album ever. (it's missing the demos "kicks to try" and "stars in this town" though that were included on the rhino reissue.)
Thanks for posting this. I forget , which among these tracks I have or have'nt heard.....But , the demos included on the Rhino reissues more than suggest what a monster a lot of these albums could have been , or , a bigger monster than some of them already were
Tyler said:
Someone uploaded the pleasant dreams demo in almost its entirety. Nothing new, but it's really cool to listen to it altogether to get an idea of how it could've sounded with some punkier songs, rawer production, and a couple less experimental tunes. Might've been their definite album ever. (it's missing the demos "kicks to try" and "stars in this town" though that were included on the rhino reissue.)
sOMEONE POINTED THAT OUT , EARLIER. THAT "TOURING" DATES BACK TO THE "PLEASANT DREAMS ERA....JOEY POINTED OUT THAT HE LET A RECORD COMPANY USE THE SONG FOR A GIRL GROUP or Spector OR DOO WOP tribute (I forget which )project , and they changed it to "Doreen" , about a girl who loves to travel. "Doreen , Doreen , she's never boring". Joey was'nt too thriled. But , it's probably the thing that motivated him to release a version by The Ramones.
Rev. Norb said:
That demo was floating around the internet a few years ago...i had it and it wound up getting deleted. There was a bunch more to it -- songs like "Touring" which didn't see the light of day til "Mondo Bizarro" in 1992 were on there.
Tyler said:Someone uploaded the pleasant dreams demo in almost its entirety. Nothing new, but it's really cool to listen to it altogether to get an idea of how it could've sounded with some punkier songs, rawer production, and a couple less experimental tunes. Might've been their definite album ever. (it's missing the demos "kicks to try" and "stars in this town" though that were included on the rhino reissue.)
Cool! Yeah, they included the demo of "touring" on the one uploaded above (the actual finished one with the keyboards was included on Rhino reissue too, i think). I remember a lot of stuff was on the More Unreleased Tracks bootleg, except "stares in this town" was called "Nothings gonna change you" or something like that.
But until yesterday, I NEVER heard the demo for "sitting in my room" (which I think really works well as an opener), and I had no idea that "yeah yeah" was from this session either. When i first heard it on All the Stuff and More Volume 2, I figured it was a demo from the same era as "slug".
I still love pleasant dreams the way it turned out, but, for sake of discussion:
- If "This Business is Killing me" was replaced with "yeah yeah"
- If "we want the airwaves" was replaced with "sleeping troubles"
- If' "9 to 5 world" was replaced with "kicks to try"
- and one of the ballads (Don't go, or 7-11..really only need one) was replaced with "stares in this town.
......combined with rawer production similar to the demo, Pleasant Dreams would've been a fucking monster.
That demo was floating around the internet a few years ago...i had it and it wound up getting deleted. There was a bunch more to it -- songs like "Touring" which didn't see the light of day til "Mondo Bizarro" in 1992 were on there.
Tyler said:
Someone uploaded the pleasant dreams demo in almost its entirety. Nothing new, but it's really cool to listen to it altogether to get an idea of how it could've sounded with some punkier songs, rawer production, and a couple less experimental tunes. Might've been their definite album ever. (it's missing the demos "kicks to try" and "stars in this town" though that were included on the rhino reissue.)
Someone uploaded the pleasant dreams demo in almost its entirety. Nothing new, but it's really cool to listen to it altogether to get an idea of how it could've sounded with some punkier songs, rawer production, and a couple less experimental tunes. Might've been their definite album ever. (it's missing the demos "kicks to try" and "stars in this town" though that were included on the rhino reissue.)
i MAY HAVE ALREADY SAID SOMETHING HERE.....Younger men , take comfort in knowing the MEMORY is first thing to go.... I'm a writer , "Musician" and sometimes visual artist , based in Chicago. Before that , I lived in Dallas and Arlington (Or Dullass and Arlingfun as we used to say....), Texas. Lived in parts of Illinois prior to that , too. I write and illustrate for Roctober magazine - www.roctober.com , and worked with Bad Trip , Black To Comm , Psychotronic Video , and others. I've got a piece in the recent Roctober retrospective "Flying Saucers Rock'n'Roll" , and in the Roctober - released or related "A Friendly Game of Poker", "T.V. a Go - Go" , and a book of interviews with Dan Clowes ("Ghost World" , "Eightball" , etc.) . I'VE BEEN PLAYING MUSIC , OFF AND ON , FOR 30 years. BUT , i'VE REMAINED A SOLO ACT WITH JUST A FEW SIDE PROJECTS (Inc. DAS VOLT , FRONTED BY BRYAN McMAHON OF THE ELECTRIC EELS. ) . You can see my one You Tube video , my version of "Six Days on The Road", at totallybmx (That's not my page , so , show some respect.)......It'll explain why my report card says "Does'nt Play Well With Others".
Oh ! Music .....Rockabilly , Garage , Psych , Country , Blues , Early Hard Rock , R'n'B , Punk , Instrumental Rock , other stuff.
Greetings Earthlings!
Just joined, and I'm enjoying looking around. I'm from Melbourne Australia, and played in bands during the 8s and 9ts, including The Reckers (Psychobilly), Unclean Spirits (garage punk) and the Daredevils (garage punk). Looking forward to kickin' back and enjoying the distortion....1.2.3.4!
The Misfits piece (Which is very good.) reminds me of a Guerilla Interview session between The Late Brad Stiles (Hugh Beaumont Experience , The Eat.) and The late Wendy O. Williams.
Brad: Do you like Texas?
Wendy : Yeah.
Brad: What kind of soup do you like?
Wendy : I dunno.
BRAD: WHAT SORT OF THINGS BELONG IN YOUR BOTTOM?
Wendy: HUH?!!!
The interview , as it were , appeared in an issue of Throbbing Cattle , a xerox zine put out bythe members of Ft. Worth Teen Punks , The Hugh Beaumont Experience. Because they actually WERE teenagers , the zine had a more personal touch , including contributions by my good friend , the Late Keith Kaski. The HBE broke up after recording one amazing Psychedelic track and a funny Funk/Rap spinoff on the cool "Steel Rok Presents" cassette compilation. Drummer Jeff Coffe turned up , as King Vitamin (Already his stage name.), in The Butthole Surfers , and Stiles RE-EMERGED , years later , with a great funny Hardcore/R'n'B BAND WITH A CONGA PLAYER CALLED THE EAT. They quickly disapeared , which was too bad. I really wanted to do a show with them. Several years later , still , Stiles commited suicide.
I was on my sojourn through the metroplis when I spotted a tramp selling "The Big Issue". What caught my eye was the cover had a cartoon of Paul Weller, which, being a fan of The Jam, made me take notice. It was a really interesting feature where Weller talks about being a father and how it changed him, as it really was an eye opener on topics like how what happened after Red Wedge and its affect his songwriting, among other things.
Misfits Interview from 1983
Tour Dates Live Recordings Media Appearances Recording Sessions Time Line Song and Name Information Merchandise Fan Club Sources
CRETIN BULL, 2/83
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[This interview took place on 1/29/83 and features several photos
by Bill Daniels.]
MISFITS AT THE RITZ!
Like a tidal wave of white noise, the Misfits overwhelmed the throngs
of anti-punk humanity Saturday night (January 29th) at the Ritz.
The evening started out with the Droogs doing an unusually hot set.
They left the stage, however, on a seemingly angry note. The
Offenders took over next with JJ in prime form. His uncontrollable
animalism and maniacal mongoose energy reminded me of Henry Rollins.
Les Big Boys did their Big Boy stuff next. By this time the hall was
packed literally to the rafters, so the crowd got really jumpy when
the brass section made their first appearance in months.
And then, after all that, the aforementioned Misfits came on and took
over. Robo, ex-Black Flagger, pounded away with Roman Centurion
peacock pride. The Only brothers (Doyle and Jerry) thundered away at
their guitars, churning out the horror rock stuff that they're so
proud of.
At first, the terrible rhythms and anti-melodies were totally
indiscernable from one perpetual blast of droning thunder. But later,
as the ear became used to the onslaught of musical TNT, everything
fell into place, making for an excellent show.
The Misfits performed an extra long set with enough energy for seven
bands. It was the first time we've seen the Ritz in operation for a
while; I hope we get to see more of it soon. I hope we again see the
Misfits soon too.
Talked to the bassist Doyle Only after the show. Check it out:
Bull: How do you like playing in places like Texas?
Doyle: Tonight was great.
Bull: I heard that ya'll met in a gymnasium: is that true?
Doyle: Well, uh...
Bull: We want to know how much you can bench press. Do you bench?
Doyle: No.
Bull: I thought for sure...
Doyle: No. The last time we went on tour, the police down in New
Orleans stole all our weights. We had weights in our truck. They
stole that and our cameras.
Bull: Tell us what happened in the cemetary in New Orleans. Are you
planning to go to the graveyard here?
Doyle: No, we're not doing that anymore. (general laughter) It cost
us 300 bucks. We made 300 bucks playing in New Orleans and we had to
give it to the cops. We got good publicity out of it, but fuck that,
you know...
Bull: How did ya'll run in with Robo?
Doyle: Well, we were just in the market for a drummer. We were on
tour two years ago and our other drummer, Googy, he said that we was
going to split the band. He didn't get along with Glenn so well. They
didn't hit it off, so he said that after this tour he was gonna
leave. We just put out an APB for somebody and Robo called and said
"hey, it's Robo..."
Bull: When did ya'll meet the Big Boys?
Doyle: The first time I met them was when we played the Island last
time in Houston...
Bull: Ya'll seem to hit it off pretty well...
Doyle: Oh yeah, they're all great. Pretty much everybody that, you
know, is in the scene...uh, Black Flag, everybody...we're friends
with everybody. Except the Dead Kennedys; we hate them.
Bull: Why?
Doyle: They're a bunch of assholes; Jello's a jerk.
Bull: What do you say to people who say you're imitating Kiss and
stuff like that?
Doyle: Well, that just show the state of their knowledge of music.
Bull: How do you find Slash?
Doyle: Slash does nothing; they're a useless record company. Anybody
who deals with Slash is out of their fucking mind. We came to them
with a tape, the album cover; we gave them the whole thing in a
package deal. We just brought it right down, put it on their desk;
and all they had to do was have it made. They didn't kave to do
fucking nothing. And, you know, how they come up and tell us "hey,
you guys owe us money..." We owe you money? What the fuck are you
talking about? We almost tore up their office on them and stuff...
Bull: I noticed you got some bad press in California for a little
mishap or something; care to comment? (Notice the skillfull manner in
which Jake 2000 avoided actually naming any of the unpleasant
details...)
Doyle: Well, we don;t take shit like a lot of people take shit...
Bull: What happened?
Doyle: We were up there, busting our butts for the crowd, you know;
and then they start target practice with beer cans...People throwing
full cans of beer at you; eventually it came to the point where we
said "yeah, fuck you..." And...we handled it.
(Bull note: The tape ran out strategicall, but Doyle apologised for
what happened.)
by Jake 2000.
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The Misfits have managed to assemble almost everything I dislike or
avoid -- their shells are huge and muscular, the result of much
he-man efforts, their rude leather and spikes lavishly expensive,
their live shows deafen the ears for about 30 hours, their daddy
flies them home after every weekend, they even beat up a kid in his
feable attempt to empathize with the band.
However, despite all these bad points against bad eggs, the Misfits
are still fun to watch; they transmit so much energy that you can't
help but enjoy their shows, (assuming you weren't part of the mass
exodus who fled with pained ear drums).
This is no horror rock as everyone claims it to be. This is just
loud, fast metal played with subtle danceable rhythms. Their music is
barely even disguised to conceal it's true nature -- heavy metal in
used leather drag. But it's good metal nonetheless.
But what they do conceal beneath their devilish appearance is the
fact that they're really nice guys with regular jobs during the week
who probably wouldn't ghoulishly rape you on the first date,
(assuming you would ever date a Misfit). This image I am
extrapolating from Doyle, the bass player, who was eager to talk,
friendly, articulate, a good egg.
We bombarded him after the show with questions, all asked at random,
hardly allowing him to answer. So it's a little jumbled and not much
is elaborated upon. Cretin Bull again exceeds the limits of
journalism.
by the Sister.
I'm glad to know i had a positive influence on someone back then.I remember the first night that we did a long rave up to I'm a man in Keokuk.my fingers were bleeding by the time we loaded equipment and got back in the pictured Madd hearse.I contacted a VERY talented garage band from the Netherlands a couple years back called "The Madd" told them I too was a left handed guitar player in a U.S. band in the early 60's by the same nameI .heard no reply.I'm sure they thought the poster was photoshopped.Odly enough I went on their myspace music site and the logo on the drums and keyboard are almost an exact copy in lettering style that's on the old rusting Madd hearse. LOLNice to be in contact again after half a century Craig.
CRAIG MOORE said:
MADD didn't make a record, to the best of my knowledge they never wrote a song, but they were the ultimate garage cover band. SO good, they knocked us out totally. We were still beginner's in the Pagans. I don't think we had met Rex & Brent yet when we first saw MADD, and I had only been playing bass for a couple of months. Barry the bass player looked like McCartney & played a Gibson EB-1 violin shaped bass left handed. He was amazing as were all of them. I asked him how long it was going to take me to get a handle on bass and he told me "oh about 6 months and you'll start to get it, start to 'hear' things." We were practing & learning songs and listening to records 24/7 of course, and I literally watched the calendar and at that 6 month mark 'viola!' I started hearing octaves and such on the records, started to decipher the 1 from a harmonic note, etc. Still had a LONG way to go but that remark was magic. MADD did "Rain" letter perfect when it was NEW, at a time when most bands could only listen in awe to the record. The organist was Casey Foutz who eventually left Ottumwa with Phil Jones (Enoch Smoky) and were founding members in LA of Crabby Appleton, "Go Back" etc. MADD evolved into THE UPSTAIRS PLAYGROUND in 1968 and got very very psychedelic, California acid drenched, guitarist Mike Sexton was beyond fabulous as a guitarist & vocalist, last time I saw him was 1968 or 1969 and he looked exactly like a taller version of D***ie Peterson (Blue Cheer). He's either a highly paid session musician with a huge ranch in Montana, a rocket scientist, born again, or dead. I have no idea. David Bernstein the drummer was one of the greatest unknown shit kickers you could imagine. We did LSD together once, I think David got a little wierded out by that scene. I heard some vague rumblings about him in the early 70's but never knew where he ended up. I hope he's fine and I hope he never lost his love of music, he was great. But MADD's bass player had a huge impact on me personally, and the band was idolized thoroughly by The Pagans and GONN, and in fact they inspired both the spelling of our name AND the fact that we adamantly enforced the "no 'THE'" rule, as did MADD. The fact that we had our own hearse was as close as we could get to being as cool as MADD, in our minds. Until we made a record, anyway. I saw this hearse ad about 6 months or so ago and sent it out to Phil Jones just as a reminder of the good old days back here in the midwest. I saw Casey back in Ottumwa about 1983 when my band Ready Steady Go was playing a club there. He had been playing with Pacific Gas & Electric in LA and had a heart attack, moved back to the home town to recuperate and get his head together. It was great to see him, he always reminded me of Gene Clark, but he seemed pretty down and not very happy. I was pleased that he remembered me and the band and all the times we hung out with them. Not too long after that I heard he had another heart attack and died. Very sad. So all you fans of records by GONN, you need to say a 'hail Mary' for Casey and never forget there was a band called MADD that maybe didn't make a record but their impact is with you still, every time you hear GONN or hear another story of the Iowa scene 1965-1968. There were the ultimate Iowa garage band.
Playlist for 6/18/12. Streaming and archived at www.wmse.org. Bands: If you'd like to submit music to WMSE, contact me or snailmail to our address which is included on the radio station master list in this group.
Throw It Away - Joe Jackson
On The Lift/Fake News - The Oops
Concerned Citizen/Your Problem - The Consumers
Sock In My Mouth - Cheeseburger
Yeah Yeah Yeah - Teengenerate
Beneath The Shadows - TSOL
Borrow & Bomb/Toxic Box - Off!
Young & Bored - Wasted Youth
Du Solftest Schwingen - The Moo-Rat Fingers
Don't Stop Partying - The Mean Jeans
Watcha Gonna Do About It - One Man Show Live
On Target - The Skulls
Punk Rock Girls - The Snazzy Boys
Beat You Up - The Spits
Teach Me To Kill - Gas Huffer
Cheap Beer, Fast Cars & Girls - The Spites
Ya Ha Be Be - The Happy Kids
Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA - Devo (Live 1981 Seattle)
Gates of Steel - Snapcase
Take My Time - Cococoma
It's My Pride - The Evaporators
Dead End America - The Pagans
Rock-n-Roll Show - The Bobbyteens
Victim 29 on Highway 45 - Texas Motherf***ers
Revhead - The Scientists
Building Z - Guitar Wolf
Howlin' for You - The Compulsions
LOCAL SIZZLER: Do You Know What I'm Doin' ? - Ramma Lamma
Story of Love - The Saints
The Future Is Now...(and it stinks!) - JJ and the Real Jerks
Hot Sody - The Screamin' Mee Mees
Shut Up! - The Fall
Bow Legged Woman - Feast of Snakes
Staring Into Midnite - Zen Guerilla
Real Cool Time - The Stooges
I'm Your Man - The Mashers
Stuck On You - The Jade Idol
Blue Surf - The Patents
Fuzz Face - El Sicko
Rat Fink/Don't Tread On Me - The Mono Men
Help You Ann - The Lyres
Temptation Inside Your Heart - Velvet Underground
Guess I'm Falling In Love - The Diaboliks
Bustin' Outta Tights - The Beguiled
Scatter - Link Wray
Private Idaho - Chum
Caveman - The Cramps
Louie Go Home - A-Bones
Get Out of My World - Sugar Shack
Bird Bath - Los Shains
You Outta Know By Now - The Gentleman Callers
Stream or download the entire June 15 show right here.
Alcatraz – The Hayseeders
Escape – Herbie Duncan
She’s My Alcatraz – Mr. T. Experience
No Escape – Thee Headcoats
Great Escape – The Forty-Fives
Goodnight, Alcatraz – Roy Loney & the Phantom Movers
Hear You Talking – Beverly Jones with the Prestons
Little Ann – Johnny Knight
Bad Neighborhood – Ronnie & the Delinquents
Why Ain’t Bo on My TV? – Hipbone Slim & the Kneetremblers
Walk Through that Door – The Satelliters
Ghost Train – Creeping Ivies
Luv Me True – New Kind of Mambo
Teenager in Love – Roky Erickson & the Aliens
It’s Just That Song – Charlie Feathers
Degueu Burger Radio Ad – Bloodshot Bill
I Saw You Crying in the Show – Bloodshot Bill
Taste – DMBQ
Blackout – Trash Emperors
Local Lunchbox
Summer Vacation – Couch Flambeau
Forbidden Harem – The Nelsonics
Date with Danielle – The Nelsonics
My Head Hurts – The Spanic Boys
The Governor & His Daughter – Life Size Pizza
Loathsome Blues – Chicken Snake
Tombstone Hymn – Rev. Tom Frost
No Big Thing – Holly Golightly with The Brokeoffs
So You Wrote Me a Letter – La Bastard
Girl in White – Delaney Davidson
Footsteps Part II – Outer Minds
Untitled (The Dream) – The Future Primitives
TV Preachers – Heavy Cream
Pixie Dust – Hellshovel
Summer Shake – Nice Face
Lock Me Up – The Flip Tops
Jackie & Donna – The White Wires
Don’t Take Your Bad Trip Out On Me – The Electric Mess
I’m Spent – The Routes
Thank You – Mary’s Kids
Simon Simone – The Figgs
Let’s Spend the Night Together – Los Straitjackets feature Sarah Borges
Hillbilly Bop Rhythm & Blues – Million Sellers
See the Other Guy – Mother’s Children
Turn Up the Gain – Shotglass Killers
Get Outta My Way – The Meltdowns
Let’s Have a Party – Lyres
100 CC’s – Lyres
Evil Eyes – The Phantom Keys
Jump Inside – The Smoggers
She’s Gone – Left Lane Cruiser & James Leg
I’m Moving On – The Pleazers
I’m on This Rocket – Tav Falco & the Panther Burns
She’s So Sweet – Harmonica Lewinski
Little Tiger – H-Bomb Ferguson
You Don’t Love Me – Jay Swann
cool! thanks.
Buy it here:
http://www.tigernet.no/shop/browsefull.php?aid=13640
Just ordered it myself, looking forward to hear it.
Tyler said:
I can't believe how good the new Baddat For Trubbel is. Why is this so fucking hard to find
I can't believe how good the new Baddat For Trubbel is. Why is this so fucking hard to find
Free Form Frenzy #56
The full show is actually four hours ...
but I direct your attention to the 2nd half of the show ...
two hours featuring the sounds of STUPIDITY from Sweden ... www.stupidity.se
appearing at SURF NITE! this Friday at Two Boots in Bridgeport, CT
with
Commercial Interruption (from Milford CT) (surf meets Zappa) + The Radiation (60s garage... from Unionville, CT)
more info : email me via surfnite@gmail.com
- bob d.
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So yeah, this song was posted to Youtube late last year.
...along with this message on a few sites:
"Mr. Crypt Records, Tim Warren, posted today on his Facebook™ that Teengenerate is currently remixing a clutch of UNRELEASED recordings from a 1994 sesh at Egg Studios. HOLY FUCKING SHIT!! I'll post more info as it becomes available."
Hopefully this still happens!
Yeah, this would be good for its own separate topic. I love Teengenerate.
But I never heard anything about these plans... nor have I heard the unreleased tracks you're talking about. Where did you hear 'em?
Tyler said:
Sort of off topic...
But I wonder what happened to the plans Tim Warren had of remixing those unreleased Teengenerate recordings.. "teenage freak" rules
We had our website front page dedicated solely to "Mr Bertie" (fans of the Basil Brush show will understand this epithet) for a week back in April.
Two previous musicians to so move us on passing on were the late, great Captain Beefheart & the godlike Roland Kirk. Exalted company indeed!