The Gibson Bros Build A Raft

old age 007 cassette, soon to be reished on vinyl (finally) by cdr - and in incredibly unbelievable wack-job kickass news, the original lineup (as seen in this here photo) will be playing the surly girl parking lot blowout this year (along with scrawl and the turks)!

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The Moon and Badtimes

dusty killed this band shortly after not completing these tracks, recorded some way-more-velvets-influenced demos on his own which he released as a cdr, and got a new band together, called mooooooons! (i wish it had all those ohs.) word has it they're entirely more prog-influenced again, but this stuff here is straight-up worship. excellent stuff.

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Codename: Stingray

only saw this band a coupla times and they were always instrumental. once craig (big daddy dunson) sat down the whole time. once he introduced the band then knocked the micstand on the floor, where it stayed (soundguys at bernie's aren't gonna do any more than they need to. after all, they might only get paid $3). at some point lazor told me they had creeper jeff singing, and lo and behold, here he is on this tape. two different sessions here (and quite obviously two different drummers), and i also have a demo of one of the songs to dig up and post later. (i paid quite a bit more attention to the mixes here than i did with the gut piston reel as this one is now dead.) mod spy musick. beaut.


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UPDATE:
here's that demo...
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The Guile

the guile started out life in medina as the flukes, and released a coupla things (watch these skies) before changing names. this cdep was released at the same time as a 4-song 45 which i'll get to as soon as i do. joe writes the most amazing and warped popsongs into which his cohorts inject even more amazing warpedness. the day they came over to record their drummer looked like he turned completely off between takes and then would play each song entirely differently each time, blasting off after four bored stick clicks, always faster than the one before. no wonder the guitars are so perfectly fucked, i have no idea how they keep up. evidently joe had only been in a barbershop quartet before starting the band.

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El Jesus de Magico

one must witness el jesus in their natural habitat. so here is a show from the summit, june of this year. taped by sperry, natch.

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Gut Piston

a few years ago i inherited some mulitrack one-inch reels. or at least i inherited the joy of storing them. i've listened to a bunch of 'em, and i've made reference mixes of some stuff since the tapes could become unplayable or at least junked enuff to be unlistenable at any time. this is the first reel of two labeled gut piston, which both have gut piston on them (<--uncommon enough to be notable). more evil than the turks and a tad less grimy than econothungs, gut piston are one of the finest bands ever to barely escape lima, oh. these recordings were done at magnetic planet soon after gut piston's first show in columbus.

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Malabar Brothers

aaron & sean from day creeper, pete from gc5, and dave (me: "what do you want yer guitar to sound like?" dave: "i always just try to sound like peter green." very well then.) make big rock'n'roll sounds not too tremendously unlike the brought low or shame club, other guys who obviously really, really like grand funk's red album, stepson, sir lord baltimore, and dust. they broke up when pete moved away and did not get back together when he moved back. rough mixes never to be completed.

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Barry and the Eastenders

the uplift mofo sweater zeppelin boner donor party plan ep (orig, no bonus tracks)
features "burger between your buns" and five other jams!

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thom lessner's artwork captures the dreamy essence of the groop so well that i had to put it here.