Spiritualized

Chris Barrus

I sort of see why those bands were grouped together but they sounded pretty different. Is the Dream Symdicate album you have The Days of Wine & Roses? I really rate that - some excellent songs on there like Halloween, Until Lately and the awesome title track. "Paisley underground" as ...

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their was another live album with a big colour picture of 2 budgies on the front but the name escapes me at the moment was before Crashing Dreams ,I think I still have it in among my old dusty vinyl. That would be Beyond The Sunset. Like what Runcible said, it's frustrating that these guys aren't n...

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This isn't an easily answerable question and much of this depends on exactly what kind of sound(s) you're going after. Reverb is my #1 effect and I'm incredibly particular around it. I've tried out various Space Echoes (including the RE-20) and never really took a liking to it. I went with the Moog ...

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Pretty sure there are a couple fans of theirs around here. Anyway... I finally got to see SOOL last night at what could have been an otherwise dismal gig out in the wastelands of Pomona. Most of the audience was there to see opening hipster locals Nico Vega and by the time SOOL went on there were ma...

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I would totally go out of my way to see a Some Friendly show. Always liked them and glad they're still around.

Chris Barrus

Family portrait of everything from our last recording session http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2196/2566770230_b3b3547118.jpg From left to right: - '64 Jazzmaster (nothing else sounds like this) - '75 Telecaster (had this since my early 80s punk days and is still my primary recording guitar) - 2002 St...

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Haven't listened to the new album yet, but in their defense their live shows have always been pretty good. Last time I saw them they were opening for Jesus And Mary Chain and despite the wide-open comparison I dug it. "Rifles" is still the song of choice for me (along with "In Like A ...

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Most of the Pink Floyd library hasn't been mined in official releases, I guess because the band relations are so bad.. But there are certainly live albums and alternate takes to be released. Basically all of the Floyd studio recordings (except for those two infamous songs) have been released in one...

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I think more than anything, I want a deluxe edition of the Breeders' Pod and Last Splash

Chris Barrus

OK, so even though I've been to two ATPs I've never had to deal with this chalet stuff... I take it accommodations off site are limited/non-existent?

Probably going to pull the trigger on this, but still can't quite suss it out.

Chris Barrus

It's all here: http://www.quartzcity.net/

Chris Barrus

Sim wrote:combination of 2 shows I think. November 21st, 1992 at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles and a previous show at the Warfield Theater in San Francisco - think this info came from Chris Barrus's discography originally.

This is correct.

Chris Barrus

I've got a fairly new crybaby, and it is by far the best wah wah I've ever played. You can use it as a tone pedal and it can take a shit load of stomp abuse. I've played a colorsound too, but I think they're a little limited and people are playing them because of the name, really. But each to their...

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runcible wrote:Generally the stuff after Lemmy was sacked is second tier in comparison.

For the most part yes but I would make a case for P.X.R. 5, "High Rise" is my fave post-Lemmy song.

Chris Barrus

I dunno. Isn't this basically the same flashmob thing as what the Improv Everywhere people do? Why not make a Jandek single top 10 instead?

Chris Barrus

The best album of the year that you haven't heard yet is Speck Mountain's Some Sweet Relief. Amazingly great stuff...

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Goodnightgoodnight wrote:That sounds terrible.... did they actually bill that as a Can 'reunion'? I for one would not be happy with that

It was made very clear from the beginning that Can was not playing together.

Chris Barrus

I think an alternate template would be the Can reunion show. Czukay, Karoli, Liebezeit, Schmidt all took part but each played separate sets (and never all together).

So the Spacemen 3 reunion show would be a bill of Spectrum, Spiritualized, Freelovebabies, The Darkside and/or Alphastone.

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shalloboi wrote:thanks for posting the san diego show vindaloo! my commute wasn't long enough to listen to the whole thing yet (that'll be done tomorrow) but, man that must've been a mind-blowing show to witness..

It was. Holy cow...

(and thanks for the repost)

Chris Barrus

re: San Diego 1998 I did a DIY remastering job on that bootleg, will upload if people are interested It certainly brought the detail out of what was a good recording, in fact it is extremely loud, although, unforgivably, there is some nasty distortion at the beginning of Electric Mainline due to my...

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I'd love it if it was true and then they only played "Dreamweapon"

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The World Trade Center gig is from 1998

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Really surprised to see that Doug Yule is going to be there.

Chris Barrus

What an odd venue for Spiritualized too. Right on the beach. Canes just shut down about three weeks ago. There is talk of it still being a venue under different name/owner, but no one is expecting it to have the same type of higher class touring acts. Too bad. Saw a lot of great shows there... Spir...

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Apropos of nothing, one of my favorite bits of television anywhere was when blowhard chef Gordon Ramsey challenged James May to a manliness competition of who could successfully eat hÃ¡karl - a Icelandic delicacy that's basically fermented rotten shark. Ramsay shouts and projectile vomits within twe...

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Speaking of Wooden Shjips, their cover of Gainsbourg/Bardot's "Contact" is tremendously great - stretching it out to a Can-like 8 minute motorik. Well worth tracking down.

Chris Barrus

There can be only one show:

31 March, 1998 at Canes in San Diego. I got a chance to talk to Jason about that show this year and he still remembers it.

Chris Barrus

Here's a couple to get started with...

http://www.drugmusic.com/
http://www.oh-la-la.nl/
http://hometowntales.blogspot.com/
http://www.spymuseum.org/programs/spycast.php
http://www.blogotheque.net/takeawayshows/
http://www.jessekaminsky.com/intercontinental/

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Didn't Swervedriver claim that they were going to record again? That reunion tour was too short.

Chris Barrus

Technically, shouldn't Amon Duul and Amon Duul II be split up?

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toomilk wrote:He did one of the first ones in the US, I believe. It was at the Queen Mary in Long Beach.

I was at the Groening ATP at the Queen Mary and it was a fantastic weekend... I'd fly out to go to this if I knew who was going to be playing.

Chris Barrus

Took some pictures at the LA opening on Saturday.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/quartzcity/4004394494/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/quartzcity/4004395448/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/quartzcity/4004397544/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/quartzcity/4003635215/

Chris Barrus

I'm still admin the DroneOn, Seance, and Sp lists (they're on Google now) and both DroneOn and Seance get a steady number of posts. Other than that, I hang out on ILX and that's about all I have time for.

Chris Barrus

If that's the Pure Phase tour it is one of the highlights of the Spiritualized archive for me. There's a recording of "These Blues" (again with Kate Bass & Sean Harmonica) from the Canes show in San Diego that must go on for 10-15 minutes. Probably still the best Spz. show I've seen (...

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Will mentioned it on his Facebook page too.

Looking forward to the opening. Also wondering how I'm going to pay for a couple of prints.

Chris Barrus

There can be only one...

MC5 - "Ramblin' Rose"

others:
The Pretenders - "Precious"
Blue Oyster Cult - "Transmaniacon MC"
The Dream Syndicate - "Tell Me When It's Over"
The Sound - "I Can't Escape Myself"
The Darkside - "Guitar Voodoo"

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WFMU is streaming the Spectrum set today and probably Spiritualized tomorrow. Full details here:
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2009/05/t ... sound.html

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Took a bunch of photos from the "secret" El Rey show just before Coachella: http://www.flickr.com/photos/quartzcity ... 906370706/

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sunray wrote:I was there too and it is Mark Refoy on the Let it Flow cd's as it was indeed Glasto '93 those recordings are from. Kev Cowan was playing the following year.

Ah OK. I knew it was one of the Glastonburys.

Chris Barrus

http://twitter.com/quartzcity Live Honey Steel's Gold? Ed Kuepper I presume? Nice. Yeah. Ed released three live EPs late last year and they're all terrific. The live "Honey Steel's Gold" is just Ed with Laughing Clowns drummer Jeffrey Wegner and the two of them kick up a tremendous shitst...

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Picture disc of Psychedelicise Suburbia? You sure? I haven't seen that but I have one of All That Noise, the first album. The Darkside's guitarist, Kev Cowan, is very underrated - he played in Spiritualized and in a band with Pete K too at some point. The only Darkside picture discs I'm aware of ar...

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http://twitter.com/quartzcity

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http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WVQTT0AN Thanks for posting, but it still doesn't quite do the experience justice. Imagine it being outdoors in the desert with a Tesla coil the size of a house going off on one side of you and a spired forest of outgassing tiki torches going off on the other side. Now ...

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I'll be contrary one here as I always thought that Loop got better with time. Can't wait for the A Gilded Eternity reissue.

Chris Barrus

I've got a gold one framed on the wall about six feet away from me.

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runcible wrote:The fact that Kozik made them?

Kozik didn't make them. Coop did.

(Kozik made a couple of Spectrum posters)

Chris Barrus

Fucked Up Inside, but only if it was with the original players.

Chris Barrus

Just broke down and bought Coachella tickets for Sunday only (honestly, it was seeing the 8-strong BJM that pushed me over the edge.

Chris Barrus

gottafire wrote:'69 fender thinline...duno what that acoustic he's using at the electric shows is but he was using The Devil at acoustic mainline shows...

Actually he's using '72 Telecaster Thinlines (humbuckers instead of single-coil pickups)

Chris Barrus

how amazing would a complete DVD of that show be in that quality. It was obviously professionally shot. hmmm, this is one of those times that i really don't want anything from it released. i'll try to say this without coming off like an asshole. BUT! it was such a perfect night. everything from the...

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davedecay wrote:Mine was in August... 1965 was a good year.

Agreed. I'm Oct. 30 '65

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runcible wrote:If Pete and Jason played gigs together you can't expect me to believe that you wouldn't go if you had the chance.

I've always maintained that the best possible Spacemen 3 reunion show would be if they played all of Dreamweapon and nothing else.

Chris Barrus

Also, technically I don't know if Sonic produced it or not but he definitely did bring it to the attention of Greg at Bomp who released it. The album is made up of their sole EP with a couple of unreleased tracks stuck on the end. By the time it was released, the band had already broken up.

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Hey ! has any one heard this ? sonic produced it back in the early 90s, it's had some great write ups and i'm just interested to get anyones opinion who posts on here about it nuff spec yall Well familiar with it. It's a good album. Totally a product of it's time - it's in the same sort of 1991/92 ...

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I'm genuinely baffled by the hatred of Forth in this forum and many other circles. A lot of the reactions remind me of when Television reformed in 1992 - an across the board declaration of "HOW DARE THEY REFORM!" As if Cthulhu itself was going to destroy all your precious memories of firs...

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porkchop wrote:there's been a few folks who use that op-art. Still, we know which release we all dig with it.

Was it originally Bridget Riley? I've dated it back to at least 1973 here:
http://www.quartzcity.net/2006/05/24/op ... um-covers/

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spacemanrich wrote:Always been a good album to put on when your having insomnia. You'll be knocked within 20 minutes w/ the repetitious drones ...

No way I can fall asleep to Dreamweapon. I find it very insistent and demanding of attention... Almost as if I'm hearing the concentration that's going into it.

Chris Barrus

Cool, I'd love to try one, but they're too damn expensive. I'm using the Toneczar Powerglide for tremolo, but I understand that there is now a massive waiting list for those, as there is for most of his pedals. I was actually on the waiting list for one of those just before his computer crashed and...

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Thanks! How was the show Chris? Any photos or audio? Glad to see you are doing music that you enjoy. The last time I played (well I didn't actually play) at the Derby, the back door was closed and I had to carry my amp up the front stairs (this was a couple months ago). The trip up the stairs messe...

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dselevan2 wrote:darnet I'm down the street at the bar, nowhere near a car email me dselevan.Yahoo if your passing by rustic and get this post. Anyone going?!

Argh.. Sorry I missed you! We're also playing The Airliner near downtown on Sat. November 8.
http://www.exdetectives.com/ for the full details.

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dselevan2 wrote:What's the Medication Video (non MTV) that's on Chris's site? Don't remember that one. Maybe it's Let It Flow?

It's one that looks like it was filmed out the front window of a moving car at night. Pretty similar to a Stereolab video from around then ("Super-Electric?")

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TheWarmth wrote:Hey Chris,
Nice board. I used to have a Doppleganger, too, but I found that it was a little too subtle for my taste. How's the Wobbulator?

For ne the Wobbulator is completely essential. Best tremolo pedal I've used.

Chris Barrus

Link Wray. Saw him in the mid-90s and it was an amazing experience. Can only imagine what he sounded like in 1958!

Also John McGeoch. Saw him with PIL in the 80s and was also knocked out.

Chris Barrus

Polls like this are so useless and yet I can't help but post to them. None of these would be the "best live act ever" but certainly the short list of the best live shows I've seen... U2 - 1981 - Hollywood Palladium The Clash / The Who - 1982 - LA Coliseum R.E.M. - 1983 - The Palace, Hollyw...

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A friend of mine has a 6000sqft warehouse in which to have a big party walking distance from Chinatown and need bands to play. Ultimately he's trying to get something together for Halloween, but if this goes well, it could be a regular happening like the secret 6th Street Warehouse shows for those ...

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Speaking of archaeology, I still have a copy of the old site. I've been making changes to the Wikipedia pages whenever I get a chance.

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