Nathan Nothin' here! Was posting all the many connections to House of Faith & Bart Thurber so I decided I would put up some music that Bart played on. I picked three tracks from Whipping Boy's third album The Third Secret of Fatima . Whipping Boy was a punk band from Palo Alto, California. The band formed in 1982, made up of students from Stanford University. Their first release was The Sound of No Hand Clapping . Their sound featured lightning-fast melodies, tight, chunky rhythms, & violently incoherent vocals. They espoused a [...]
Nathan Nothin' kinda here! 103.2 F. temperature, freezin' & burnin' at the same time. Coughin' up huge gobs of lungbutter. From Lungbutter '92 cassette. Tracks: Reveal These Days Opus 23 [...]
For some good folks over at Marsugis ReUnion From Stay Home lp. by Snair 1990 This three song chunk of crunch follows the title track to open up this gourmet platter of licorice pizza. These three song touch on some of the immense musical range that was: The Snair Bros. Ernie - Vocals Michael - Guitars Bo - Bass [...]
Nathan Nothin' here! Got a reply to one of my posts from an old acquaintance Gary Singh. Gary was one of the masterminds behind the great art/noise ensemble Gas Chamber Orchestra. They put on some of the wildest shows I've ever witnessed, like the show at San Jose State where they brought a car on stage & smashed it with sledge hammers, ground it with electric power grinders, & chopped it up with various industrial de-construction tools. The car & tools were miked & amplified, the insane cacophony manipulated through various sound processors while other members [...]
The Spit Muffins were integral members of the burgeoning DIY music scene centered around the SOFA district (South First) in San Jose. They played Marsugis many times. The band consisted of Kimbel on vocals, Herbie Gray & Carl Sinkula on guitars, Loren Ozaki on bass, & for this recording Scott Cofer filling in on bass for regular bassist Rico Walker, furthering the tight knit connections between bands within the scene. These songs were recorded at House of Faith by Bart 'you're rollin' Thurber. Tracks: Kit Pickles - The Spit Muffins [...]
The Suckdolls consisted of Kathy on drums, Krista on bass, & Brian on guitar. They were a short lived band but everyone who witnessed their shows or tasted their tunes loved them. Pay close attention to Krista's vocals for a glimpse into their true greatness. Brian & Kathy went on to play in The Retardos along with Dug from the ByProducts. The Suckdolls 45 (recorded by Bart) is some of the only music by this lively trio to make it to the listening public (they were also captured live at the notorious Punchupaloser festival). Tracks: [...]
Tally Ho by Drippy Drawers. Another great 7", this one 33rpm on blood red vinyl. These Sunnyvale punks were a sloppy riot of sound. Their philosophy as simply stated on this disc kinda sums up their sound. "We have found that when playing music it is best to mostly have lots of fun & not worry too much about playing music." Recorded & mixed October 1991 at House of Faith by Bart Thurber. There's even a song about EATING POOP! Tracks : Norm - Drippy Drawers Drainin' the [...]
By the time the ByProducts recorded this 7" (March 1992) at House of Faith with Bart on board, they had gone from the original trio of Doug Gwosdz on Guitar, Craig Parrotte on bass & vocals, & Billy Ko on drums & vocals to the fearless foursome of Otto Destruct (Frank Sheridan) on verbal assault, Dug Six-Pack (Doug Gwosdz) on six-strung, Food King (Craig Parrotte) on bass in your face, & Fudgie D. Clown (Phil Christ) as beatmeister. The disc is orange transparent vinyl & the package includes cover art & six page comic by noted cartoonist & poster [...]
With the 4/20 (Hitler's Birthday) disappearance of Otto Destruct, the ByProducts were no more. Craig morphed into Jud Pud, singer & guitarist for the inbred mountain band the Puds, teaming up with his brother Stu Pud (Warren Waldorf) on bass & Siter Rose Pud (Kat Hill) on drums. Kat would soon find that her gender confused the mountain boys & Fudgie D. (still a Clown, but always a Pud) took up pounding the skins. Tracks: Josephine - The Puds It Ain't Lovin' - The Puds [...]
Finishing up this post with two 45s from The Retardos, who somehow tie this whole mess together. Meanwhile, Dug (Doug) married a lesbian & teamed up with Brian (Hermosillo) & Kathy (Walker) from The Suckdolls (& a keyboardist/singer whose name has slipped my mind but is now Viva Cohen, lead singer of Durham,NC band Jett Rink) to form The Retardos, a faux-60s pop-rock band. What incestuos times. Tracks: I Can Only Dream - The Retardos Girl Like You - The Retardos [...]
Nathan Nothin' here! Got a reply to one of my posts from an old acquaintance Gary Singh. Gary was one of the masterminds behind the great art/noise ensemble Gas Chamber Orchestra. They put on some of the wildest shows I've ever witnessed, like the show at San Jose State where they brought a car on stage & smashed it with sledge hammers, ground it with electric power grinders, & chopped it up with various industrial de-construction tools. The car & tools were miked & amplified, the insane cacophony manipulated through various sound processors while other members [...]
Nathan Nothin here! Started celebrating Octoberfest this weekend - kept things fluid 'til I couldn't see straight... decided I'd switch to solid fuel. Now I can't do anything... well, you know... straight. Maybe I'm just trippin'... Tracks : The Trip - B'N'B Gris Gris Gumbo Ya Ya - Dr. John, the Night Tripper Spooky (Night Tripper mix) - New Order Night Tripper - Marc Cianciola Night Tripper - Sandman Future [...]
Nathan Nothin here... I've been barricaded in the vinyl room for four days now. I just now found out that it's Sunday night. So my Saturday Mix is a slight misnomer, well sue me. The hurricane curtains block out all light, all sound louder than my stereo. Four days of nothing but vinyl... What I have convinced myself that I believe that I remember that I heard, random pockets of memory left un-eroded by the torrential squall of drugs & alcohol, the following soundtrack from my latest lost weekend. Tracks: Baby's on Fire - Brian Eno [...]
Nathan Nothin here. So this blogging shite is craziness. I'm always reading on other blogs 'well, it's been quite a while since my last posting... Or I look for a particular blog I like & it has ceased to exist... Now I know why...some of us have real lives that consume day to day existence & leave very little time to just, ahhh (I guess), PLAY! I still haven't posted the Joyride songs that I mentioned last Saturday & I need to get on it. I've been putting together their MySpace page (www.myspace.com/joyridewecome inpeace ) which has been stealing [...]
Nathan Nothin' here! Raining outside right now. I'm sipping some Pimm's #1 Cup & tonic on the rocks. I'm feeling righteously mellow. My day started out anything but... Sometime last evening my house phones all went dead. Hassled with AT&T (the new SBC) for about an hour before I could schedule someone to come & take a listen this morning. Ruben shows up just shortly after 8am, he's totally personable & knowledgeable. Gets my phones working in short order. We enjoy a breakfast cup of Ethiopian Harrar & I bid him a fond adieu. Walk into the kitchen, [...]
Nathan Nothin' here again... Here's another quick one. An ep. cd. one-off by WWF (that's Weird White Fuckers) entitled Dog is goD . Brainchild of Luche Libre masked assassin Mighty Mark Mystery with great growled vox courtesy of his late tag-team partner Rod "Wildman" Manning ( R.I.P. ) Four & a half originals...five stars (M.M.M. co-wrote the Stiff Richards classic "Gangrape" covered here). Tracks: Sweatshop Kidz David Hasselhoff (must die) Gangrape Rag Boy D.U.I. The [...]
Nathan Nothin' here... This is my first ever post. Just trying things out 'til I get the hang of this. I edited a punk 'zine (the infamous EAT POOP! ) in inSane Jose, California thru the '90's & early '00's. I have loads of great local & international punk (mostly) musick that I feel I ought to be sharing. (I also have 1000's of vinyl records [for those of you old enough to remember those] that I'd like to get to posting). I'm still involved in the music scene in northern Cali so I have access [...]
Nothin' Sez Somethin'
Bison - Quill
Neutral Milk Hotel- Aeroplane Over the Sea
Shinichi Osawa – Big Beach Mix 2012
