Peter Laughner Box Set?

[Whet Bull]

The Modern Dance is said to be essentially Laughner's record, even though he doesn't play on it (and "Humor Me," of course, is about him.)  His solo stuff, though, never made much of an impression on me (although I did at one time cover "Rock It Down," embarrasingly.)  He's kind of a folky and also kind of trad in a way that makes me sleepy but doesn't irritate me the way Patti Smith or The Boss do.  I see Sweetie Pie's point.  Beyond his historical significance as a mover in the Clevo scene, he doesn't appeal to me much either.

[erico]

Letter from Stiv from Miriam Linna's AMAZING blog Kicksville 66

[BRACE]

HOT FOR SOME HEAD, STIV

[I Am Not Marty Feldman]

I'd say he would've eventually sounded more like a bad Reed/Dylan amalgam than a crummy Springsteen copy. 

I own the double LP and enjoy it.  But, yeah, his is a large legend.  The music doesn't quite live up to it. 

[bruce]

i guess you have to keep in mind, pre-internet he was one of the white whales, like, say, the chris bell album

[Whet Bull]

I dunno, man.  The Tim/Kerr comp came out in '94.  Forced Exposure put out the Cinderella Backstreet single a couple years before that.  Who wants to listen to something called Cinderella Backstreet?  Gross. 

[I Am Not Marty Feldman]

File Under: DOESN'T SOUND HOW I THOUGHT IT WOULD

Tepid for Tuna,
Eric

[erickelric]

The Friction song that is on the Pere Ubu box set is awesome. It's live and has some pretty incredible guitar work on it, that gets real weird. I dunno, I think he was a crucial link in the pre-punk/punk era. Yeah, he had that 60s "trad" thing, but he was hearing some new shit that nobody else was. And he was living a totally fucked chaotic life. I think his early death was a pretty major loss for that era. Maybe he would've succumbed to some AOR dream, but I'd like to think not. Also, his music is as "Cleveland" as any band that's ever been from that fair city.

[davemartin]

I dunno, man.  The Tim/Kerr comp came out in '94.  Forced Exposure put out the Cinderella Backstreet single a couple years before that.  Who wants to listen to something called Cinderella Backstreet?  Gross. 

Yeah but in the mid to late 80's it took quite some work to hear the stuff, even just the Rocket From the Tombs stuff.  I think a lot of the early hype and appeal came from the opinion held by a lot of his contemporaries that the dude had the songwriting chops to "make it" had be been given the chance. 

[bruce]

yeah, that's more of what i'm talking about, you considered yourself lucky to get a third generation cassette.  was talking to scott from the grifters about the chris bell tape, he said when ever he had people over he would put it in a differant cover, so that it wasn't stolen

[mosescarryout]

I don't really see the appeal of this guy. Rocket From the Tombs is cool. And the guitar playing on early Pere Ubu is great. I have the feeling though that if this guy had ever made it and gotten the chance to do music the way he really wanted, he would've ended up sounding like Jim Caroll or Springsteen.

Don't think Jim Carroll played (and recorded) a Robert Johnson song on his deathbed.

[davemartin]

yeah, that's more of what i'm talking about, you considered yourself lucky to get a third generation cassette.  was talking to scott from the grifters about the chris bell tape, he said when ever he had people over he would put it in a differant cover, so that it wasn't stolen

We considered ourselves lucky to be able to hear someone else's third (to the third power) generation cassette of those jams.

[SmogVeil]

1st of 3 planned LP releases for 2011 in artwork design stage right now.  Master done (as are the masters for the 2 other releases).  No street dates yet, but it'll be this year:

--Ann Arbor Tapes
--Mr. Charlie (all stuff never before available)
--Fins (the 2 songs from the SOL single plus 6 additional songs from the same set)

[philthyrex]

I like Jim Carroll, Bruce Springsteen, and Peter Laughner. Didn't you goad Stigliano with similar slights on Laughner, Mr. Mosescarryout? I think I remember reading that, and then when you finally met you guys rapped about you going to see the Laughner era Ubu and detente was achieved? I'll be buying these records regardless.

[cranley]

I always thought his death was a crucial loss to that era, too. I don't know. I'll take bad Reed over bad Dylan.

1st of 3 planned LP releases for 2011 in artwork design stage right now.  Master done (as are the masters for the 2 other releases).  No street dates yet, but it'll be this year:

--Ann Arbor Tapes
--Mr. Charlie (all stuff never before available)
--Fins (the 2 songs from the SOL single plus 6 additional songs from the same set)

Thanks for update. Thought I read somewhere that Ann Arbor Tapes would be out in April. Glad it's moving along all the same.