someone at the delusions of adequacy website (i think) said I sang like Conner Oberst with Down's Syndrome. OUch.

I can't remember the exact quote, but something like: 'They try to evoke Neil Young and Crazy Horse, but all you can hear are ponies puking in the distance.'

This was from 'Option' magazine. I don't think it's published anymore.

At our show last Thursday, we got the following instantaneous crowd reviews:

"Time to learn a third chord guys!"

"Isn't it time for a break?"

"No, you don't need to play three more, we're satisfied."

"Why don't you buy us a round of beers for staying?"

I assured them after awhile that if they "hang in there, the Bob Seger covers are coming right up!"

Here's me with the professional critics:



I made nice with them after the show because I felt bad that one of the people who was actually there to see us gave a shout out to "Roseanne". See if you can guess which one she is. No, that's me in the glasses.

Peripatetic wrote:

I made nice with them after the show because I felt bad that one of the people who was actually there to see us gave a shout out to "Roseanne". See if you can guess which one she is. No, that's me in the glasses.

I think that dude was at our show at Jay's Upstairs in Missoula Montana, when during our setup our guitarists played a few chords to get levels and an old man said, "Next band please. Next band please."

During the first song that night i broke my ride cymbal stand, so i threw it into the audience area after the first song. Since no one was in the immediate audience area (everyone was at tables on the second level or far away from the stage), it landed with a loud CLANGCLANGCLANG. It was the only noise made after our first song, as there was not one smattering of applause. Dead silence except for the clang of the stand. I said, "Thank you, we've got twelve more!"

DrAwkward wrote:

IFIHADAHIFI - “Ones and Zeroes” CD/ 41:00
Oh great, just what I always wanted, Arty Noise meanderings, knob dwiddling & a never ender of tweaking & distorted jerkiness. Bloke singing could very well be wired up via tin can & string. Must have been in the Scouts. Listen in wonder at the trippy rhythm’s & repetitive electronic beats. Isn’t it incredible what they can do with loops & samples these days. No, really, quite amazing. My arse! This CD gives me the shits. A big fat Zero. The good news of course is that IHAVEAHIFI & plenty of decent music to play on it, which I need to do right now. Cleanse my tubes of these bad vibrations.

it shoudl be noted that our CD contained very few (under 15 seconds) electronic beats and very few samples... I for some reason find this funny

[quote="DrAwkward]

I think that dude was at our show at Jay's Upstairs in Missoula Montana, when during our setup our guitarists played a few chords to get levels and an old man said, "Next band please. Next band please."

During the first song that night i broke my ride cymbal stand, so i threw it into the audience area after the first song. Since no one was in the immediate audience area (everyone was at tables on the second level or far away from the stage), it landed with a loud CLANGCLANGCLANG. It was the only noise made after our first song, as there was not one smattering of applause. Dead silence except for the clang of the stand. I said, "Thank you, we've got twelve more!"[/quote]

it is going to be so nice to have that on DVD, as I KNOW tyler has it...

A woman reviewing my first band's first album (cassette only! it was the 1980's!) described my voice as "a nasal Midwestern twang without much range." We eneded up dating for a few months later on, and I tried to avoid mentioning it (hey, she looked good and the sex was great).

Mark Lansing wrote:A woman reviewing my first band's first album (cassette only! it was the 1980's!) described my voice as "a nasal Midwestern twang without much range." We eneded up dating for a few months later on, and I tried to avoid mentioning it (hey, she looked good and the sex was great).

Did it taste the sweet taste of revenge sex?

I like the reviews where the reviewer just seems confused...note

This stuff lies along the Daniel Johnston/Half Japanese axis of "Is this really, really bad or is it brilliant?" Honestly, I can't tell you. I kinda like it, just because it's often utterly artless. I guess that's not much of a recommendation, but what the hell.

I also don't mind reviews that out and out hate the stuff. The only time I get 'angry' at reviewers is when I can tell they never listened to the whole thing - one person described an LP as 'entirely acoustic and slow' when each side ended with 1 really fast full band track...which everyone who heard commented on, either good or bad. Whatever. One prediction sure came true of a 7"

On orange vinyl, limited edition of 300, most of which will wind up in some dude's closet

someone in a local paper compared my film to the opening sequence of Schizopolis. i wasn't offended, but it was such a nebulous comparison i couldn't help but wonder where the fuck he was comign from.