From the KCSB-FM “Live Wire” magazine, circa 1988. My first band. Picture taken at 6639 Sabado Tarde in Isla Vista, aka my garage.
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PERE UBU certainly haven’t shied away from putting their archival material online, and there are some fantastic sets available for you to purchase here. I’ve had this tape for many years of their May 5th, 1976 show at The Mistake in Cleveland, Ohio – and it looks to me like it’s not something available online anywhere else.
If you believe this page, it may have only been their 7th show ever. Another recording from a month earlier at the exact same venue came out as the CD “The Shape of Things” – and it’s tremendous. As is this. It’s early, raw, primal Ubu inventing a blend of punk rock and modern art never before or since seen. Enjoy.
Download PERE UBU – Live at The Mistake, Cleveland, 5-5-76
Track Listing:
- Intro
- Heart of Darkness
- Cloud 149
- Street Waves
- Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
- Life Stinks
- Final Solution
- Pushin’ Too Hard
- Over My Head
With the express written consent of Byron Coley and Chris D, I’m posting an outstanding, well-recorded 45 minutes of THE FLESH EATERS, practicing new and recent songs in 1983, right before they broke up. I’ve had this on tape for a number of years, and it’s a not only a ripping set of “heavy punk thunder from the lake of burning fire” (to coin a phrase), it’s a fascinating look into what the band might have evolved into had they continued. As it was, they’d hit their proverbial limits, and shortly after this, Chris D put together his acoustic “Time Stands Still” album before getting a full-blown band together again with his wife Julie Christensen, THE DIVINE HORSEMEN.
After a few well-oiled, blowout “Hard Road To Follow” numbers (their album which had come out earlier that year), you get to hear sketches of songs Chris later put out with other bands, like “All I Have” with Stone By Stone, and “Love Call” & “Stone By Stone” with The Divine Horsemen. Fantastic stuff. Download it and share your Flesh Eaters stories in the comments – because, alas, I never saw ‘em until they’d started up again seven years later.
Download THE FLESH EATERS – PRACTICE TAPE, 1983
Tracks:
1. Every Time I Call Your Name
2. Buried Treasure
3. Poison Arrow
4. Hard Road To Follow
5. Father of Lies
6. Louie Louie
7. All I Have
8. Down In The Ditch
9. Stone By Stone
10. Love Call
Look at these 1978 lineups, playing at 1839 Geary in San Francisco (which is now “Tommy’s Joint”, a touristy burger place, and which was once 60s rock palace The Geary Temple). CRIME, WEIRDOS and THE GO-GOS on one bill.
…and here’s Kendra a few years earlier, in the classic DREAM SYNDICATE lineup, the ones who recorded “The Days of Wine and Roses” and the outstanding first Down There EP.
Cool early picture of the little-seen Kendra Smith/David Roback band OPAL, circa 1988 or so. By the time they played my town, they were called Mazzy Star, and Kendra was off to new things.
Got a new mixtape/radio show/podcast that I’ve made just for you, and it’s called DYNAMITE HEMORRHAGE RADIO PODCAST, EDITION #12. I recorded it direct-to-laptop and completed it within the past five minutes, and it’s got some real musical whoppers on it that I carefully curated for ya. You’ll hear new stuff from Raw Prawn, White Fence,The Mentalettes and Veronica Falls, as well as a plethora of aggressive pop, nervous punk, wiry garage and far-out psych from the last five decades. I say this every time, but this twelfth one is absolutely, positively the best collection of music I’ve ever put together – including mixtapes made for girls.
Download Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio Podcast #12
Stream Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio Podcast #12
Track listing:
STEVE TREATMENT – The Hippy Posed Engrosement
RAW PRAWN – None Left
DEAR NORA – Make You Smile
REVERSIBLE CORDS – Highway Tomorrow
THE 2x4s – Iron Line
BLAST OFF COUNTRY STYLE – Giggles & Gloom
THE SHITBIRDS – Schiessbird
WHITE FENCE – Trouble is Trouble Never Seen
THE STEREO SHOESTRING – On The Road South
BUBBLEGUM LEMONADE – Unsafe At Any Speed
SALVATION ARMY – Mind Gardens
100 FLOWERS – Motorboat To Hell
VERONICA FALLS – Timeless Melody
MICRAGIRLS – Electric Chair Twist
SOCK PUPPETS – Summer Jacket
BATHROOM RENOVATIONS – Apathetic Hell
TYRANNA – Shock Face
THE WHITEFRONTS – World’s Fair
WARUM JOE – Tchang
SLUGFUCKERS – Rhizome
D.R.I. – Busted
SICK THINGS – Police
THE GERMS – The Slave
NUMBERS – Information
THE MENTALETTES – Fine Fine Fine
Download our past shows – each about an hour:
Download Show #11
Download Show #10
Download Show #9
Download Show #8
Download Show #7
Download Show #6
Download Show #5
Download Show #4
Download Show #3
Download Show #2
Download Show #1
One of the more, uh, “fun” 45s I’ve heard of late is by Germany’s THE MENTALETTES, “Fine Fine Fine”. Totally over-the-top 60s girl group beat/garage, with a frontline of singers from all over Europe and dudes in the back, keeping the big beat screaming. I’ll play a track on my next radio show/podcast, OK? Learn more about the band here.
AGONY SHORTHAND 