Nylon-Coated Cats - demo

A little bit of mid/late 90's San Diego for you here.  In my reading this has been described as art noise, whatever the fuck that is, but I was buddies with one of the guys in the band Devon, and damn it I dug these guys.  He always did me right and was way ahead of his time on the computer, and would make me CDs of music he'd found in the age before the music blog, at the dawn of the internet.  I can't remember which instrument he played but I do know that he was a lover of your finer beers and the only guy I've ever known that would go through the process required to take olives from the tree and process them so they were edible.  I've never been a fan of the olive except back then I liked them in my martini.  Kind of that heroin music sound to them and if you close your eyes you get the feeling they would go well on a Quentin Tarantino movie soundtrack.  Is it the reverb that gives one that impression?  Being drunk most of the time back then these guys seemed like the best band in the world and that's not an insult, I listened to this tape a bunch when in a stupor.  For a little bit of ancient (and recent?) history on the band go here.  Might have been lost in time forever if it hadn't have been for this post, doesn't that just make your day?  The first and last tunes are the standouts for me.

Heaven Is For Wimps

Coelecanth

Goth Song

Superspazman

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCzUXURUgJg&w=560&h=315]

The Fire Demons - Bad Move CDr

It just popped into my head today that I've been a white collar worker for the last 5 years (6 if you include the year I was a substitute teacher).  No big deal I guess but a long way from all those blue collar years of swinging a pick and kicking a shovel.  It shows though as I'm in the crappiest shape of my life, with the exception of when I was a drunk, in and out of drunk tanks and hospitals.  On that note a song came up tonight while I was checking out what I wish I had hard copies of, on my hard drive, and ran across Lemmy doing Thirsty and Miserable from Rise Above - 24 Black Flag Songs To Benefit The West Memphis Five.  Check it out, great cover.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQp96StkNWU&w=1055&h=791]

Well my good bro Jeff up Humboldt CA way did me right yet again and sent me three CDs the other day and I thought I would pass on the goodness to all of you.  Known Jeff for something like 20 years and he has never stopped doing me right.  I will be posting all three CDs which include Raiding The Airwaves (a benefit comp for Humboldt Free radio Alliance), the Hitch's Motorcycle Nurseryrhymes and this one.  I did a Fire Demons post a while back here which you should check out even if it is to just check out the funny video I have for you there.  Jeff is one of those multi talented dudes and is actually one of my favorite artists in this ugly world.  In this band he plays the drums, whereas most of the bands he's played in he played guitar and you get Robert Tripp on guitar.  Check them out at their Fire Demons myspace if you don't believe me because it's just the two of them.  I needed this stuff as it took me away from the constant high speed thrashing I subject my ears to.  This stuff leaves you with a more of a heavy in the gut feeling like a good pot of greasy chili.  It's hard to believe there's no bass and Jeff just rocks the skins.  My favorite tune on this one is Cape, but I'd be interested in knowing what you think.

Don't Piss Me Off Hole In The Ground People Like You Bad Move Dented Just Another Jock Cape Always Broke Sick And Tired Big Loaf man

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX7MEMAClHk&w=1280&h=720]

While on the Humboldt groove my buddy James a band mate of Jeff's and another super musician emailed me some tunes that I've been meaning to post.  He also sent me some CDs not too long ago that I will need to post (damn I'm starting to get backlogged on stuff I need to post, you might say I'm running a constipated music blog).  Anyway this is some random stuff that will take you back in a Humboldt time machine.  Great stuff.

Boner Pills - Super Hot Crutch - A New One Of Those Crutch - Drunken Sailor The Jane Maxwell Band - Some Of Us Jesse and Chris - She’s Moving In

Neurosis - Pain Of Mind

My boy and one of three monsters he caught that day...

The weekend is finally here (doesn't it just seem sometimes to take forever to get to that all illusive Friday night) and it was payday.  After the bills are paid I'm usually just left with pocket change but there's always enough left for a stop at one of two buffets for the old lady and I in the big city.  You guys are probably tired of me mentioning that, but it's the little regular things that keep it going.  My bro Erio commented in my last post that he didn't much care for Rush but that he did like the tune Bastille Day. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT1gmKUoqbY&w=790&h=593] Now that turned out to not only be a great tune but one that I don't think I'd ever heard before, which made me think even more about how radio stations just play the same thing over and over again.  Enough of that and on to something a little harder and heavier.

Well my bro Jason over at Lo-Res Viscera was one step ahead of me (actually he's giant steps ahead of me in other ways) and did a post I was planning on doing.  Rather than walk in someone elses footsteps (normally that wouldn't stop me) you should definately go to his always awesome site and get Neurosis' The Word As Law.  That really is my favorite album by the band, maybe because it was my first exposure to them.  My buddy Doug Rogers back into college dubbed it onto a cassette for me to groove to.  Do you guys remember taking record store released cassettes of bands you didn't like and putting tape over the tabs so you could record over them.  Anyway that's what Doug did to put Word... on a cassette for me.  I played the shit outta that tape to the point that it finally wore out.  I couldn't find it for cheap so I just got it in a torrent a while back.  I do like the later Neurosis stuff but there's something about this straight ahead stuff that speaks to me more than their "out there" stuff.  Pain Of Mind is definately my second favorite and fortunately for you I have the 2000 re-release that included a bonus CD.  This rip came in a torrent as well but I do own this re-release of Pain...  My favorite tune is Dominoes Fall which you get in a demo version as well.  Every memeber of this band is perfect and for me the dual vocals just put them over the top.  This is just a must listen to album.  Let me know. Grey Pain Of Mind Self-Taught Infection Reasons To Hide Black Training Progress Stalemate Bury What’s Dead Geneticide Ingrown United Sheep Dominoes Fall Life On Your Knees Bonus CD (Live & Demo) Stalemate Black Instrumental Grey Pollution Life On Your Knees Reasons To Hide Ingrown Pain Of Mind Dominoes Fall