Garden Weasel-Without Direction 7"

Well the turntable is up and running so I decided it was time to post some vinyl.  I'm not too familiar with it yet and at this point, for some reason, I am having to turn the levels way up to get a "decent" recording.  I don't want to dwell on it too much except that I have always been impressed by sites that do "excellent" quality vinyl rips.  Oh well this is what I have and hopefully it will be listenable.

I thought I'd start with the only piece of vinyl I have had the pleasure to be on.  We were fortunate on this, in that Jim Shank, the guitar player in my previous band WD-40, was good friends with this guy Todd Congelier.  I guess Todd was this ripping skater (pro maybe?) who was also a musician releasing his own records on his Recess Records label.  Todd had heard the WD-40 demo and wanted to put something like that out.  Unfortunately WD-40 was done and Garden Weasel was what was going on.  I wish WD could have put out some vinyl too.  We sent Todd a tape and he was willing to actually put that onto vinyl but we convinced him to let us do another recording.  You can read about this in more detail at our guitar player's blog here, http://edcolebands.blogspot.com/ .  He has a much better mind than I do.  Anyway this was the third release on Recess, the other two being Todd's ripping band FYP.  I think he did two pressings of 500, and gave us 100 copies to do with as we pleased.  I have one on orange vinyl, one black and a test pressing, most of the rest I gave away.  We were pretty proud of this and actually I enjoyed listening to it again.  One thing of interest her is that on Questions, our mellowest song, Chuck from One Man Running sings backup.  That probably makes this the best version of Questions we ever did.  Here's the 7", tell me what you think of the rip and/or the music in general. EDIT:  Need to upload this to fucking youtube...hmmm.

Syd Barrett - Opel

Let's take it down a notch and mellow out.

 Now Scott G. has been mentioned in this post a few times and let me tell you, he was a character and a half.  Everybody knew Scott up in Humboldt during the late 80's early 90's because of his unique personality.  Several friends (I can't remember who) and I went down to the bay area and Scott hitched a ride.  He was going to stay the night in front of a Ticketron outlet to be first to get Pink Floyd tickets.  When I picked him up he was in a frenzy because he got several "4th row" seats.  He was going nuts and for the next month, at least, all he could say was "4th row" to everyone.  That was Scott.  Idon't know why I didn't go, probably because they were ridiculously expensive, but I probably should have just for historical purposes. I've learned a lot about Syd Barrett in the making of this post but this pretty much sums it up, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syd_Barrett .  I kind of felt sorry for the guy because the guy seemed to be used by EMI, but go figure a big label screwing people over

Here's some more sites with pretty much all of his stuff,

http://excentrifugalforz.blogspot.com/2008/02/syd-barrett.html http://theultimatebootlegexperience.blogspot.com/search/label/Syd%20Barrett http://chrisgoesrocks.blogspot.com/2008/03/pink-floyd-first-three-singles-1967.html http://freemusic07.blogspot.com/2008/01/syd-barrett-have-you-got-it-yet.html http://scrumptunes.blogspot.com/2008/01/syd-barrett-madcap-laughs-bonus-tracks.html http://echoesof-the-past.blogspot.com/2007/12/syd-barrett-barrett.html

MY favorite songs from this CD,

Clowns And Jugglers (Octopus)  Wined And Dined

 

Antiseen - Noise For The Sake Of Noise

Kinda going with some of the comments going on I thought I would do some Antiseen.  I did Antiseen doing Commando from the Ramones a long time ago in my posts too.  This is a special edition CD release of the album by the same name.  It has the first 12 songs off the LP but they did not include the live songs because the sound quality was bad.  Instead they added 4 other live songs with better sound quality and the We Are Going To Eat You Lp from Jeff Clayton And The Scumgoats.  Buy their records if you can find them.  Here's some samples...

EDIT: Links deleted for fear of copyright police...go give your money to iTunes or something...

One of my faves off the album... [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lbxBuQmtv0&w=560&h=315]