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Upcoming Shows/Tours/Events / Re: OBNOX & X_X TOUR STARTS 1/8/16
« on: January 21, 2016, 04:43:44 PM »
Cincy gig is free...
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Music Shit / Re: My Favorite Record Store Customer
« on: January 17, 2016, 10:11:59 AM »
a little twist: my favorite 7-11 clerk was this hessian in Reno who, if you asked about Ozzy, he'd recount a story about some tour or record and go on for 15 minutes no matter how many people were in line. right before I moved from Reno to Chicago, I saw a picture of the dude in the newspaper, busted for dealing crack.
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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: 3 Smog Veil releases: X_X, Robert Bensick Band '75, Mr. Stress Blues Band '72-73
« on: December 10, 2015, 10:40:40 AM »
Smog Veil Records announces the second of three release in the Platters du Cuyahoga series 1: Mr. Stress Blues Band: Live At The Brick Cottage 1972 ? 1973. "Bill "Mr. Stress" Miller [January 1, 1943 -- May 18, 2015] performed thousands of gigs," the Cleveland Plain Dealer explains, "He played with Steppenwolf, the MC5, the James Gang. Jammed with 100-plus bandmates, including rock heroes such as Chrissie Hynde, Peter Laughner and Jimmy Fox." The LP includes a free download of all the tracks plus the bonus tracks appearing on the CD version of the release. Both formats contain extensive liner notes and photos.
This LP will ship on or about May 13, 2016. Pre-orders at a discount price are now live, just enter the discount code at checkout:
pdcmsbb
The album is a collection of recordings taped live at the legendary Brick Cottage in Cleveland in 1972 and 1973. Peter Laughner, Cleveland proto-punk legend and brief member of the Mr. Stress Blues Band, initially got the band booked at the Sick Brick. The scene in and around the Brick was the stuff of legend replete with gun-toting regulars, junkies nodding out in front of the stage, and a feisty waitress named Monique that could and often did put certain customers in their place.
The band played regularly in Cleveland with numerous local perfomers and shared the stage with touring acts such as Otis Spann, Bonnie Raitt, James Montgomery, Rotary Connection, Joe Jackson, Little Steven, Steppenwolf, Nazz, and Three Dog Night and many others. Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders even namedropped Mr. Stress in the Pretenders' song "Precious."
"As a bandleader, Miller fronted his iconic Mr. Stress Blues Band through numerous permutations," music researcher Nick Blakey explains. Some of the best and brightest musicians in Cleveland who passed through the band included Chrissie Hynde (Pretenders), Peter Laughner (Pere Ubu/Rocket From The Tombs), Anton Fier (Golden Palominos/The Feelies/Swans), Vito San Filippo (Tower of Power/The O'Jays), James Emery (String Trio of New York/Anthony Braxton), Glenn Schwartz (Pacific Gas & Electric/All Saved Freak Band), Alan Greene (Breathless/The Innocent), Ken Klimak (Dr. John), Chuck Drazdik (It's A Beautiful Day), Kenny Ruscitto (15-60-75), no less than six members of The James Gang, as well as noted international journalist and writer Eric Ehrmann."
The album features the band performing live takes on songs by Howlin' Wolf, B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Slim Harpo, Jimmy Reed, Albert King, and more. Musicians on the recording include: Bill "Mr. Stress" Miller on vocals and harmonica; Charlie "Pontiac Slim" Drazdik on guitar; Tom Rinda on bass; Mike "The Professor" Sands on electric piano; Dr. Pete Sinks on drums (1972 tracks); and Kenny Ruscitto on drums (1973 tracks).
Sample tracks and ordering info are here:
http://www.smogveil.com/collections/frontpage/products/mr-stress-blues-band-live-at-the-brick-cottage-1972-1973-lp
Test pressings have been approved as have all art proofs. We're just standing in line like everyone else waiting to get the record pressed...
This LP will ship on or about May 13, 2016. Pre-orders at a discount price are now live, just enter the discount code at checkout:
pdcmsbb
The album is a collection of recordings taped live at the legendary Brick Cottage in Cleveland in 1972 and 1973. Peter Laughner, Cleveland proto-punk legend and brief member of the Mr. Stress Blues Band, initially got the band booked at the Sick Brick. The scene in and around the Brick was the stuff of legend replete with gun-toting regulars, junkies nodding out in front of the stage, and a feisty waitress named Monique that could and often did put certain customers in their place.
The band played regularly in Cleveland with numerous local perfomers and shared the stage with touring acts such as Otis Spann, Bonnie Raitt, James Montgomery, Rotary Connection, Joe Jackson, Little Steven, Steppenwolf, Nazz, and Three Dog Night and many others. Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders even namedropped Mr. Stress in the Pretenders' song "Precious."
"As a bandleader, Miller fronted his iconic Mr. Stress Blues Band through numerous permutations," music researcher Nick Blakey explains. Some of the best and brightest musicians in Cleveland who passed through the band included Chrissie Hynde (Pretenders), Peter Laughner (Pere Ubu/Rocket From The Tombs), Anton Fier (Golden Palominos/The Feelies/Swans), Vito San Filippo (Tower of Power/The O'Jays), James Emery (String Trio of New York/Anthony Braxton), Glenn Schwartz (Pacific Gas & Electric/All Saved Freak Band), Alan Greene (Breathless/The Innocent), Ken Klimak (Dr. John), Chuck Drazdik (It's A Beautiful Day), Kenny Ruscitto (15-60-75), no less than six members of The James Gang, as well as noted international journalist and writer Eric Ehrmann."
The album features the band performing live takes on songs by Howlin' Wolf, B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Slim Harpo, Jimmy Reed, Albert King, and more. Musicians on the recording include: Bill "Mr. Stress" Miller on vocals and harmonica; Charlie "Pontiac Slim" Drazdik on guitar; Tom Rinda on bass; Mike "The Professor" Sands on electric piano; Dr. Pete Sinks on drums (1972 tracks); and Kenny Ruscitto on drums (1973 tracks).
Sample tracks and ordering info are here:
http://www.smogveil.com/collections/frontpage/products/mr-stress-blues-band-live-at-the-brick-cottage-1972-1973-lp
Test pressings have been approved as have all art proofs. We're just standing in line like everyone else waiting to get the record pressed...
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Music Shit / Re: Ohio Music
« on: November 12, 2015, 01:06:27 PM »The Todd
Youngstown, 1974
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYyTUCR095k
Uh, no.
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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: 3 Smog Veil releases: X_X, Robert Bensick Band '75, Mr. Stress Blues Band '72-73
« on: November 04, 2015, 08:56:12 AM »
The sale continues until NOVEMBER 9, 2015 on our new series of archival and newly recorded material to be released individually and as bundled specials, called Platters du Cuyahoga, Series 1.
Plus, we are pleased to announce that if you pre-order the series or the X___X release, we will be sending you an extra special super secret bonus. Here's the deal: you have to pre-order by the end of the day on November 9. Anyone who has pre-ordered up until now will receive the bonus as will anyone who pre-orders by the deadline. The super secret extra special bonus will ship with the Mr. Stress Blues Band release. The bonus will never be for sale on the Smog Veil site or in stores. The only way to get it is to pre-order! Details:
http://www.smogveil.com/collections/frontpage/products/platters-du-cuyahoga-series-1-lp-subscription
Robert Bensick clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvKmVeJMGV4
Plus, we are pleased to announce that if you pre-order the series or the X___X release, we will be sending you an extra special super secret bonus. Here's the deal: you have to pre-order by the end of the day on November 9. Anyone who has pre-ordered up until now will receive the bonus as will anyone who pre-orders by the deadline. The super secret extra special bonus will ship with the Mr. Stress Blues Band release. The bonus will never be for sale on the Smog Veil site or in stores. The only way to get it is to pre-order! Details:
http://www.smogveil.com/collections/frontpage/products/platters-du-cuyahoga-series-1-lp-subscription
Robert Bensick clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvKmVeJMGV4
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Used Records For Sale/Auctions/Wantlists / Re: WANT LISTS
« on: October 08, 2015, 12:39:48 PM »
OK, tired of looking for these ROK Records splits, who's willing to part with:
Zeros/Action Replay 7"
Justin Case/Straight Up 7"
Zeros/Action Replay 7"
Justin Case/Straight Up 7"
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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI
« on: September 14, 2015, 01:19:46 PM »
Archie and the Bunkers cover the Guns. Fucking aced!
http://rustbelthammer.com/2015/09/14/archie-and-the-bunkers-covering-cleveland-hardcore-legends-the-guns/
http://rustbelthammer.com/2015/09/14/archie-and-the-bunkers-covering-cleveland-hardcore-legends-the-guns/
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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: 3 Smog Veil releases: X_X, Robert Bensick Band '75, Mr. Stress Blues Band '72-73
« on: September 14, 2015, 10:54:34 AM »
Praise for our upcoming X_X release: "If you're a listener who likes to be physically pummeled by energy in musical form, you'll want to experience this. Proof positive, as if any more were needed, that Ohio is the secret music capital of America."
http://stashdauber.blogspot.com/2015/09/xxs-albert-aylers-ghosts-live-at-yellow.html
http://stashdauber.blogspot.com/2015/09/xxs-albert-aylers-ghosts-live-at-yellow.html
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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: 3 Smog Veil releases: X_X, Robert Bensick Band '75, Mr. Stress Blues Band '72-73
« on: September 03, 2015, 11:57:13 AM »Great stuff, Frank, looks very interesting. I'll definitely be ordering all three!
Thanks! Of the 3, the Robert Bensick Band release I think will freak some people out on a couple levels:
--it's a really great lost album that would have been the private press record people pay big money for now had it been released in 1975;
--Herman's guitar work on this record is totally reminiscent of his work in Pere Ubu, which he and Krauss joined after making this record;
--Alan Howarth is the one who I'm indebted to on this release as he saved the tapes that were handed to him by Kid Leo; Alan is the soundtrack collaborator of John Carpenter and in his Cleveland days played in a couple bands just waiting for the retrospective treatment
--then there's Robert Bensick, and his story is told in the liners, glad I found the guy living in Tampa...some of you may be familiar with him through the Berlin West track on one of the Numero Boddie comps
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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: 3 Smog Veil releases: X_X, Robert Bensick Band '75, Mr. Stress Blues Band '72-73
« on: September 03, 2015, 09:08:51 AM »
The band's first proper album, 37 years after forming as a temporary why-the-fuck-not, will be released by the Smog Veil label in November. Named Albert Ayler's Ghosts live at the Yellow Ghetto, the title is no bullshit: the band actually covers "Ghosts" by Albert Ayler. It's a fit move, as Ayler was a fellow CLEperson, and his divisive, skronking sax style which privileged timbre over pitch made him something of a No Wave forefather. He was definitely a hero to John D Morton, who talked to DM about that inspiration.
http://dangerousminds.net/comments/seminal_art-punks_x_x_cover_albert_aylers_ghosts_a_dm_premiere
http://dangerousminds.net/comments/seminal_art-punks_x_x_cover_albert_aylers_ghosts_a_dm_premiere
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Music Shit / Kilmeyk and Morton on X___X...
« on: September 03, 2015, 09:07:19 AM »
The band's first proper album, 37 years after forming as a temporary why-the-fuck-not, will be released by the Smog Veil label in November. Named Albert Ayler's Ghosts live at the Yellow Ghetto, the title is no bullshit: the band actually covers "Ghosts" by Albert Ayler. It's a fit move, as Ayler was a fellow CLEperson, and his divisive, skronking sax style which privileged timbre over pitch made him something of a No Wave forefather. He was definitely a hero to John D Morton, who talked to DM about that inspiration.
http://dangerousminds.net/comments/seminal_art-punks_x_x_cover_albert_aylers_ghosts_a_dm_premiere
http://dangerousminds.net/comments/seminal_art-punks_x_x_cover_albert_aylers_ghosts_a_dm_premiere
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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / 3 Smog Veil releases: X_X, Robert Bensick Band '75, Mr. Stress Blues Band '72-73
« on: September 02, 2015, 09:52:30 AM »
Smog Veil Records announces a new series of archival and newly recorded material to be released individually and as bundled specials, called Platters du Cuyahoga, Series 1.
The LPs will ship in multiple shipments beginning with the X___X LP which will ship to you on or about November 20, 2015.
DURING THE PRE-SALE, A DISCOUNT IS OFFERED IF YOU HAVE A DISCOUNT CODE, JUST ENTER THIS CODE AT CHECKOUT:
pdc1
THE PRE-SALE ENDS NOVEMBER 5, 2015!
The initial three releases are: (1) X__X: Albert Ayler?s Ghosts Live at the Yellow Ghetto (November 20, 2015 release date); (2) Robert Bensick Band: French Pictures In London (1975); (3) Mr. Stress Blues Band: Live At the Brick Cottage 1972 ? 1973. Each entry of the series will contain carefully researched extensive liner notes. Byron Coley penned the liner notes for X__X, and Nick Blakey (The Boston Phoenix, EQ, Chunklet, Your Flesh) wrote the liners for the Robert Bensick and Mr. Stress releases.
The X___X LP is on blue vinyl and contains lock grooves on both sides of the record. The Robert Bensick Band LP will also be pressed on colored vinyl. The Mr Stress Blues Band LP contains a free download with extra tracks. Mr. Stress test pressings have been approved and art design is in final stages; Robert Bensick Band masters are complete and art is nearly done: these 2 releases will ship this upcoming winter.
The X__X release will feature new recordings from one of Cleveland's most notable late 1970s post punk outfits. The band plans live dates to coincide with this release, expect fireworks and power tools. The Robert Bensick Band album is an unreleased studio album recorded at Agency Recording Studio in 1975. Tapes were saved this year by Alan Howarth and Paul Hamann. The band and this release represent an important history of The Plaza and besides Robert Bensick features Scott Krauss and Tom Herman (Pere Ubu), Albert Dennis, Michael Hronek, and Cynthia Black. Paul also engineered the Mr. Stress Blues Band never before released live set, culled from their rowdy Brick Cottage (aka, the Sick Brick) sets.
Ordering information and song samples are here:
http://www.smogveil.com/collections/frontpage/products/platters-du-cuyahoga-series-1-lp-subscription
The LPs will ship in multiple shipments beginning with the X___X LP which will ship to you on or about November 20, 2015.
DURING THE PRE-SALE, A DISCOUNT IS OFFERED IF YOU HAVE A DISCOUNT CODE, JUST ENTER THIS CODE AT CHECKOUT:
pdc1
THE PRE-SALE ENDS NOVEMBER 5, 2015!
The initial three releases are: (1) X__X: Albert Ayler?s Ghosts Live at the Yellow Ghetto (November 20, 2015 release date); (2) Robert Bensick Band: French Pictures In London (1975); (3) Mr. Stress Blues Band: Live At the Brick Cottage 1972 ? 1973. Each entry of the series will contain carefully researched extensive liner notes. Byron Coley penned the liner notes for X__X, and Nick Blakey (The Boston Phoenix, EQ, Chunklet, Your Flesh) wrote the liners for the Robert Bensick and Mr. Stress releases.
The X___X LP is on blue vinyl and contains lock grooves on both sides of the record. The Robert Bensick Band LP will also be pressed on colored vinyl. The Mr Stress Blues Band LP contains a free download with extra tracks. Mr. Stress test pressings have been approved and art design is in final stages; Robert Bensick Band masters are complete and art is nearly done: these 2 releases will ship this upcoming winter.
The X__X release will feature new recordings from one of Cleveland's most notable late 1970s post punk outfits. The band plans live dates to coincide with this release, expect fireworks and power tools. The Robert Bensick Band album is an unreleased studio album recorded at Agency Recording Studio in 1975. Tapes were saved this year by Alan Howarth and Paul Hamann. The band and this release represent an important history of The Plaza and besides Robert Bensick features Scott Krauss and Tom Herman (Pere Ubu), Albert Dennis, Michael Hronek, and Cynthia Black. Paul also engineered the Mr. Stress Blues Band never before released live set, culled from their rowdy Brick Cottage (aka, the Sick Brick) sets.
Ordering information and song samples are here:
http://www.smogveil.com/collections/frontpage/products/platters-du-cuyahoga-series-1-lp-subscription
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Music Shit / Re: Italian Punk Hardcore 80-89 doc
« on: August 31, 2015, 09:32:52 AM »
Fucking, yes!
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Music Shit / Re: All Hail The Cow Bell
« on: June 03, 2015, 06:27:38 AM »
7 Seconds 'The Crew' LP, every other song, no?
