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C-Mor Kinkadoink — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:51:49 GMT

the Fluid - Reunion & Retrospective

C-Mor Kinkadoink — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:20:07 GMT

On July 5, 1985 I went to see the debut gig of a local Denver band called the Fluid. The band was made up of former members of punk upstarts the Frantix who had released the underground punk single "My Dad's a F$#%King Alcoholic.

What I saw at that gig changed the way I have thought about live music ever since. The Fluid from day one were about pure power and volume, two guitars, bass, drums and vocals all firing together to simply blow you away! Since that day I have judged every rock show I've seen by the standards set by the Fluid.

The Fluid were active from '85-93. They were the first band not from Seattle to be released on the then upstart Northwest label Sub Pop. They were never the biggest or most well known, but they were the band that united the Seattle scene.

Last summer while reminiscing with my girlfriend about "things I'd like to do at least one more time in this life" at the top of the list was; 1.) to see the Fluid play one more time.

Since disbanding in 1994 the Fluid had dropped into relative obscurity. It was impossible to anything on the web other than a few pictures and four MP3's. I changed my personal MySpace page into a Fluid page and I found out that there were a many music fans who felt the same way about the Fluid as I.

In the Fall of '07 I got an email from the Fluid's singer John Robinson. We hadn't spoken in almost 10 years. It was great to reconnect with him. The first question out of my mouth was, "What about a reunion gig? Just one? Please?"

John said, "I'm open to it, but it's highly unlikely. Everybody lives in different cities and are doing other things." "But never says never."

We talked for long time about creating a retrospective and getting the music and the story out there. And left it at that.

A few months later John called and said that he had run into Johnathon Poneman one of the two founders of Sub Pop at gig in Austin, TX. Johnathon had asked the band to reform to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the label in July. Lo and Behold miracles happen and wishes come true. The band has agreed to play the Sub Pop Festival July 11 & 12 Seattle.

I'm putting together a comprehensive retrospective on the band which I am posting bits and pieces of around the web. We will launch full history site later this summer.

I've created an Imeem page where you can find and hear some of the archive materials as they become available. IF you like please join as a friend.

http://www.imeem.com/thefluid

Here's the press release for the reunion

The Fluid reunites for summer 2008 performances

The members of the legendary and influential alternative rock band The Fluid have announced that the group is reuniting to perform at Sub-Pop Records 20th Anniversary Festival in Seattle this July and at selected dates in Denver, Colorado.

Forged in the gritty, unforgiving depths of the Denver punk scene in 1985, The Fluid was one of the most powerful and hardest-hitting acts of the late ’80s and early ’90s. Comprised of vocalist John Robinson, drummer Garrett Shavlik, bassist Matt Bischoff, and guitarists James Clower and Rick Kulwicki, the band was the first non-Seattle signing by the initially provincial Sub-Pop label, which released the group’s scorching sophomore album, Clear Black Paper, in 1988. (The quintet’s debut, Punch N Judy, was released on Denver’s Ray-On Records in 1986 and was later reissued on Germany’s Glitterhouse imprint.)

Due to timing and the band’s associations with Sub-Pop and various acts of the Northwest underground scene—the group were early boosters of Nirvana, and the two acts even shared a split single in 1991—The Fluid has long been lumped in with the period’s so-called grunge movement. But in actuality the outfit’s unapologetically rock ’n’ roll sound bypassed the shallower sludge metal and hardcore punk influences of its contemporary brethren, reaching deeper to hint at the classic styles of forbears like the New York Dolls, The Stooges, the MC5, the Rolling Stones, and the garage bands of the 1960s. Over the course of its four albums and numerous EP and single releases, the group worked with noted producers Butch Vig (Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Garbage) and Jack Endino (Nirvana, Mudhoney, Soundgarden).

The Fluid’s utterly devastating live sets are the stuff of legend. Backed by Kulwicki’s and Clower’s wall of wah-wah-laced, cinder-block guitar crunch and the overpowering, locomotive drive of Bischoff and Shavlik, the unhinged, wild-eyed Robinson was a man possessed, a sweat-soaked collision of primordial id and hypnotic transcendence. It’s no wonder The Fluid has been cited as a huge influence by dozens of younger bands and a favorite act of many of the group’s own peers.

The Fluid’s upcoming shows at Seattle’s Marymoor Park on July 12th &13th for the Sub-Pop Records 20th Anniversary Festival and at The Bluebird Theater in Denver on Friday June 20, 2008 will bring together all five of the band’s original members for one of the most rabidly anticipated musical reunions in years—and one that will give fans the rare chance to once again experience firsthand the band’s singular brand of timeless and powerful rock ’n’ roll.

Don't believe me!! I'm going around and interviewing people who were fans of and influenced by the Fluid. And making mini-documentaries from those conversations. Here's the first one:

Keith Morris of the Circle Jerks and founding member of Black Flag talks about his first Fluid experience.

And here's a playlist of what I think are the best of the best from the Fluid's four albums.

The Fluid 1985-1993 Retrospective

Enjoy and dear moggers please let me know your thoughts and stories.

VOLUME IS JOB!

mahalo.

For Nick Drake Fans

C-Mor Kinkadoink — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 01:49:25 GMT

A good little documentary - If you like Nick Drake check this out.

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Don't be depressed. It'll be OK. Happy Holidays.

Get It On

C-Mor Kinkadoink — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 16:17:08 GMT

Finally Home

C-Mor Kinkadoink — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 08:06:46 GMT

I've finally arrived back home for the summer. seems like I've been endlessly traveling or working. It's almost summer here, I know the rest of the country is blazing but it's barely above 70 here and yet the water is unseasonably warm. I can't wait to kick back and listen to a bunch of new music and get back into the MOG a bit.

Car Wash For Peace

C-Mor Kinkadoink — Wed, 30 May 2007 22:31:52 GMT

A nice thought

velvet underground documentary in 4 parts

C-Mor Kinkadoink — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 00:21:40 GMT

Nice old piece here:

Seems like it was just yesterday......

C-Mor Kinkadoink — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 01:39:15 GMT

I used to say that time flys until you have to wait.

transmogrify

C-Mor Kinkadoink — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 07:27:10 GMT

transmogrify \trans-MOG-ruh-fy\, transitive verb: To change into a different shape or to transform, often with bizarre or humorous effect.

A washing machine transmogrified into a guitar. -- Adrian Searle, "Come, friendly pigeons", The Guardian, March 16, 2000

For the impulsive sin of turning to look back at the funereal pyre of Sodom and Gomorrah, Lot's wife is transmogrified into a pillar of salt as she flees the inferno. -- Elizabeth Wurtzel, Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women

Roast chicken is still roast chicken whether you label it haute cuisine, bourgeois cuisine or country cooking; even calling it "poulet roti" will not transmogrify this simple bird. -- Jacques Pepin, "The Chicken Dinner, Both Humble and Noble", New York Times, January 4, 1989

Transmogrify is perhaps a humorous blend of transmigrate (for the form) and transmute (for the sense).

Nouvelle Vague

C-Mor Kinkadoink — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 05:07:51 GMT

you got dancin' feet!

Feel Like Singin'

C-Mor Kinkadoink — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 19:21:41 GMT

It's Friday and that means it's time for the sing along. You have my permission to leave work early. I said so.

Love & Music 2

C-Mor Kinkadoink — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:51:07 GMT

In reference to Anna's post about love and music here's what I think is probably one of the most loverly love songs ever performed lovingly by the great Tim Buckley (father of Jeff) and also a cover version by This Mortal Coil (featuring Liz Frazer of the Cocteau Twins)

Enjoy!

Kitty Kitty

C-Mor Kinkadoink — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 19:25:58 GMT

Levi and the Rockats were really the progenitors of the late 70’s early 80’s Rockabilly revival in the New York. The Stray Cats who would later eclipse them worldwide were from Massapequa, NY (birthplace of Jerry Seinfeld) and came on the scene shortly thereafter.

The Rockats were known for their high-energy shows and for having the fastest release in recording history. The “Rockats: Live At The Ritz” was recorded, mixed, pressed and put in record shops within a week of the show.

Here’s a clip from the Merv Griffen Show in 1979 featuring the Rockats doing “All Through The Night.” Notice that Merv initially gets their name wrong and pay special attention to the bass player Smutty Smith because that’s where the story continues.

So here’s how it goes the Stray Cats started coming down from Massapequa to the city for gigs. Smutty gave the Stray Cats their first rockabilly haircuts and from then on it was a pure competition. As the Stray Cats began to pull ahead in popularity Levi Dexter advised the Stray Cats to go to London where there was supposedly a huge Teddy Boy scene. Clearly he was taking the piss, otherwise the Rockats would have stayed in the UK.

Brian Setzer, Slim Jim Phantom and Lee Rocker promptly purchased one way tickets, packed up and left for London arriving in the cold rain of winter with just their instruments, a couple changes of clothes and nowhere to stay. There were only a handful of Rockabilly fans and the scene so “gloriously” defined by Levi was non-existent. What faced the penniless Stray Cats was starvation and desperate anonymity. They squatted in run down buildings and busked for change on the streets for food.

Things got worse and worse until they eventually booked a club gig in Camden (Slim Jim will correct me if I’m wrong.) Nonetheless on that fortuitous evening just as the Stray Cats took the stage Mick Jagger and Keith Richards walked into the club and were blown away. The Stones became the Cat’s biggest fans and the rest is history. The press latched on and a career was made, everywhere except the United States. It took another year or two and a couple of records until Gary Gersh who was a lowly scout at Capitol Records signed them for a paltry amount. Capitol combined the tracks from the ex-US albums into a single record called Rock This Town, and the Stray Cats returned home as Kings of all Cats.

Here’s my favourite Stray Cats video, “Runaway Boys.” Enjoy!

From YouTube to Your iTunes and iPod

C-Mor Kinkadoink — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 23:48:35 GMT

Wouldn't it be nice if you could save your favorite videos from YouTube in your iTunes and play them on your video iPod?

Solution: There is a freeware program called PodTube that automatically downloads the frontmost video that you are watching on YouTube and then saves it directly to your iTunes.

The only catch is that you must be using Safari as your browser.

Here's the link http://djodjodesign.free.fr/rightEN.html

Enjoy-mor!

T.REX

C-Mor Kinkadoink — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 19:40:39 GMT

Joxley’s post about T.Rex and Marc Bolan got me thinking about how much I love T.Rex. I was introduced to Slider and Electric Warrior in 1984 by a wonderful free spirited girl named Ophelia. She lived in a one-bedroom apartment with four other girls. She was a little bit crazy and a little bit magical, the kind of girl Jimi wrote Little Wing about. When it got to be too much she’d ride her bicycle to my apartment in the middle of the night and then crawl through an open window.

She always carried with her a bag or a lunch pail with all kinds of little trinkets that were the necessary accoutrements of the mythical character that she created partly from Anaïs Nin's diaries and the rest found objects from thrift stores. She also carried with her cassette tapes of her two favourite T. Rex albums.

She would play the tapes front to back and lip-sync every lyric precisely the way Marc Bolan would perform them. I heard those songs over and over for a few years until she moved to San Francisco. Up until 1993 when I finally lost track of her she would periodically show up at my house unannounced, stay for a week or two and then just as mysteriously as she arrived she’d depart. We’d always listen to T.Rex.

So in memory of Marc, and in honor of long lost and dear friend Ophelia; I searched the web and found a couple videos that I think are very special. First here’s an interview that I have never seen before. It’s a wonderful peek at Marc Bolan

And here are links to a video for the incredible Cadillac from Slider http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_-cK_yNSFk, and the ironic Life's A Gas - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIrXO49RArs from Electric Warrior. So I propose a toast to Marc Bolan in up in Rock N’ Roll Heaven and loving thanks to Ophelia wherever she is now. Enjoy!

Because it's Friday...

C-Mor Kinkadoink — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 22:06:19 GMT

.......and I'm in that kind of mood. Sing it with me.

200 MOTELS - FRANK ZAPPA & THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION FILM

C-Mor Kinkadoink — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 18:52:22 GMT

Here's one that can't be currently found on NetFlix, but you can TIVO it Tuesday, 9/26, The Movie Channel Extra at 5:15 ET… My reccomendation is that you save this one for a bad weather day where there's nothing to do. I love this film and have seen it several times. It's pretty much psychedelic stream of consciouness filmmaking, no real plot, just a great way to spend a couple of acid drenched hours with the Mothers of Invention.

Thanks to SugarBaby for the run date!!!!!

Tarantella

C-Mor Kinkadoink — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 20:23:13 GMT

I love Tarantella - LOVE LOVE LOVE -

If you like 16 Horsepower, Woven Hand, Nick Cave, et. al. I think you will love Tarantella too.

Here's a better review than I can write:

By Jeffrey V. Smith

Denver’s distinctive and edgy cow-town sound has emerged in more than a few of its seditious — and successful — underground bands in recent years. Bands like Slim Cessna’s Auto Club, Maraca 5-0, 16 Horsepower and its side-projects Woven Hand and Lilium, have all helped to define Denver’s sound and put the region on the nation’s musical radar. Now the sound has found its way into the music of Tarantella, a band that not only embraces and expands musical facets of its predecessors, it also includes a few of their members.

Tarantella’s sound, while incorporating hints of the region’s novel approach to traditional American music, is much more of an eclectic melting-pot of styles, moods and emotions than its contemporaries. The band’s roots and unique influences lie with lead singer and songwriter Kal Cahoone, who grew up in California and Colorado with an Italian grandmother and has lived in Argentina, where Calhoone married a well-known instrumentalist and composer doing “wild-West music” in Buenos Aires. She also teaches Spanish.

Anyone who has heard Cahoone’s extraordinary, mesmerizing vocal work would find it difficult to believe she didn’t start singing until her late twenties. “I’ve always loved singing. I just didn’t have the guts to do anything,” she recently told The Marquee. Thanks to a night out at a karaoke bar, that all changed. Before she started to sing in public, however, she spent six months in Chile living on an ocean-side hill in complete silence. “No friends and no phone, no radio and no TV, no computer, no nothing. I literally found my voice. I started writing lyrics and poems and singing. It completely changed my life,” Cahoone said.

While the musician claims the band has never had much of a plan to create a certain sound or type of music, her influences come through nevertheless. “Obviously, coming from where I did, there are influences from the Latin world,” she said. “I’m into boleros, ballads and romantic music in a sense, but I’m also into country and folklore.” Upon retuning to Colorado from South America, Cahoone had the idea to combine all of her influences, as well as try to capture the “sound that might come from this place,” despite having “no idea what the sound of Colorado might be.”

Her attempt has yielded unique, surprisingly cinematic music that playfully draws a line between a hypnotizing, Latin sound and the soundtrack to an old, dusty Western, then crosses it repeatedly. Add in surreal, dramatic, emotive vocals not too unlike Siouxsie and the Banshees’s, and you get Tarantella. At least something reasonably close, considering the band ultimately falls into the unclassifiable category.

If it helps to understand, the name refers to a dance characterized by the rapid whirling of couples, as well as taking some of the name of the tarantula, whose bite was allegedly cured only by frenetic dancing.

The band that would ultimately assist Cahoone with this musical stew began to manifest at the turn of the Millennium when she took a tape to John Rumley after a gig with his band Slim Cessna’s Auto Club. At the time, she had just returned from Argentina. “I didn’t know him at all,” the Slim Cessna’s fan said. “ I just went up to him, gave him a tape and said if you like it, give me a call. I actually had no idea why I wanted to work with him.” Rumley ended up falling in love with the music and saw an opportunity to explore a musical side that hadn’t been available to him in his main gig.

Although the group started as a duo with Cahoone and Rumley, the two soon decided to add violin player Kelly O’Dea after seeing her play with Maraca 5-0. The band grew again when bass fiddle player Dan Jon Grandbois and drummer Ordy Garrison, Rumley’s band mates from Slim Cessna’s, were added. Garrison has since left the band and been replaced by Chad Johnson. Rounding out the act as it appears on its upcoming release, is guitarist and revered recording engineer ‘Big Bad Bob’ Ferbrache, owner of Denver’s Absinthe Studios. “He was into the music, Cahoone said of the former 16 Horsepower member. Despite being on maternity leave from music this past year, Cahoone is ready to once again get her band on stage and start performing and celebrating the band’s latest self-titled release.

“There are a lot of songs that we’ve been working on for a while, so it’s a pretty big deal for it finally to come out,” Cahoone said. The self-titled disc is being released on former Dead Kennedy’s front-man Jello Biafra’s Alternative Tentacles Records, thanks to the band’s connections with label-mate Slim Cessna’s Auto Club. No matter the success of the CD, tour plans are up in the air. Cahoone has never aspired to tour and isn’t sure she’s ready to change her mind. “I’m not into seeing the world on a tour bus. I don’t want to go to towns for just one day. It would really kill my soul to do that,” she said. The musician did say she’d be into touring the U.S. sometime. “It would depend. If I could bring my baby, maybe,” she said.

Sid & Nancy vs. The 24 Hour Party People

C-Mor Kinkadoink — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 02:43:29 GMT

Thank you to all the nice people who made me their trusty MOG, and likewise a big thanks for the emails.

I got an email from Wilson and he says that I can share with you any of the footage that I have. So in the coming weeks I'll post some more clips starting today with another segment from Tony's session on 103.1 with Steve Jones.

Wilson was the first guy to put the Sex Pistols on British TV. Jones was the first guy to say FUCK on British TV, which launched the Pistol's infamy. 30 years later Wilson said Fuck on TV and launched his un-employment benefits.

Here's today's clip. Enjoy!

Wilson and Jones both have had films made of their experiences, I reccomend seeing both.

First this is the classic "24 Hour Party People", directed by Michael Winterbottom. Well written, supurbly acted and Winterbottom sets the benchmark for aesthetics in digital filmmaking. I give it four stars.

This is a film that I think everyone knows, I like it three stars good. I like seeing the late seventies portrayed in film. And I think Alex Cox made an enduring film. It follows the old saying "print the legend and it becomes truth." So while Jonesy may hate it. It's an element of cultural iconography that will be with us for a long time.

That's my MOG for today. Hurricane John's supposed to send us a Southern swell. If it's on, I'm gone, surfing. Have fun and see ya soon.

Whistling for Winners - Tony Wilson & Steve Jones in the 25th Hour

C-Mor Kinkadoink — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 21:57:45 GMT

Way back when I just a little kinkadoink the first alternative song I heard on the radio was "Transmission," by Joy Division. It was a life changing experience which opened my ears and then my eyes to the broader world of music. The station was KFML (AM) in Denver. The DJ of the Sunday morning alternative show was a guy named Duane Davis who also happened to own Wax Trax the only local shop that sold "new" music.

I started ditching high school and hanging out at Wax Trax. In that era the record store was the internet portal, the source of information and the locale for musical discovery. Even in those days Tony Wilson was a legendary character, who brought into the world Factory Records and a firm belief that you have to love your artists and the music you work with.

A few years ago a friend introduced me to Wilson, and that has led to friendship and a few collaborations. Tony was making some podcasts for the "In The City" Festival that he promotes in Manchester, so I tagged along and filmed it. Here's an excerpt from an interview we did with Sex Pistol Steve Jones, while he broadcasted from his studio at Indie 1031.1 in Los Angeles.

It's just a small chunk but maybe later I can post a longer version. So Enjoy!

C-Mor Kinkadoink — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 08:05:19 GMT

My first post is a video welcoming you to my MOG. This is short walk down the beach near my house, with wolf parade on the ipod.