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This live bootleg sounds pretty lousy, and the hand-screened jacket features two typos and an unidentified song (Marmoset.) Enjoy.
I'll admit I dropped the ball on this series, not keeping pace with The Month of the Phonograph Record. I've got to get some new batteries for my phono stage , but I've got a few more sides I want to post. Check back next year.
Rapeman Log Bass, Kim Gordon's Panties b/w Marmoset, Trouser Minnow
Robert Johnson and The Browns were, for lack of a better descriptor, an experimental noise/rock duo. Actually, they were more like duelling one-man bands. Robert Johnson played guitar and bass, and The Browns was U.S. Maple's Todd Rittman on bass and drums, often simultaneously. Here's a Public Image Ltd. cover and a live track. If this kind of thing strikes your fancy, keep your eyes open. I hear there's a 10-year anniversary retrospective box set in the works.
Robert Johnson and The Browns Banging the Door b/w Numbers 1 & 2
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Wow--awesome. Anything connected to US Maple is worth examining. I was lucky enough to see them live in mpls a few years ago (...probably after _Talker_ came out). Those guys were incredible live. So tight and so loose at the same time.
Is US Maple still doing anything? That's a band I'd love to see live again.
I don't think US Maple is active anymore. I'm no longer in Chicago, so I'm really not the person to ask, though. But yeah, they were something else.
I'm realizing the core theme of most of my posts is the question _Is recorded music really music?_ And I think I'm trying to make the argument that the answer is no, that music truly only exists in its live performance, and that recordings are shadowy, pseudo-musical reminders of what a performer once did on one highly-controlled occasion.
I bring this up because Superconductor is a ten-piece band with a seven guitar lineup. I never caught them live, but I'm certain the spectacle of noise that their seven guitars was capable of is pretty much absent on this record.
But still, seven guitars! Use your imagination.
Superconductor Bushpilot b/w Satori Part One
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WOW!!!... marmoset was a single...
Thank you!
Just the other day a friend started a sentence with: "It'll all be much better once I..."
And I finished it: "...start nautalous?"
He just stared blankly. He'd never heard Rapeman.
Cheers for this. Really enjoy hearing anything from Rapeman. Fantastic band, who do have some terrible quality bootlegs on the go.