Horsewhip, you're not down with The Wipers?

Andrea Doria wrote:I only have Is This Real so if any of you wants to burn and send me another of their cds I would be most appreciative.

you can buy the first three in a cool box set with extras directly from Greg Sage. The price ain't bad either. google him...

I am buying the wipers box set and I will give you my thoughts after that

not crap- i bought the box set last year. i must say one of the best musical investments i have ever made. youth of america is my favorite album by the wipers. "taking too long" was the first song i heard by them and after that i was hooked. "when its over" is another favorite of mine.

The Melvins do a real good cover of Youth of America on Electroretard.

I just needed to pipe in that Land of the Lost is also a really great Wipers long playing record. It graces many cut-out bins across this great land of ours.

NOT CRAP for gods sake !

AAAAAAAARGH wrote:I am buying the wipers box set and I will give you my thoughts after that

I bought this bargain-priced box on the strength of the recommendations herein and have been rewarded with hours of listening pleasure. A classic American band.

steve wrote: Mind boggling meld of Link Wray, Leather Nun, the Damned, the Stooges, alien abduction paranoia, societal dread and Neil Young.

Interesting deconstructionist theory to their music. Greg Sage always seemed like self-contained influence cycle to me.

NC. Even some of their (his) later stuff, like Silver Sail, was somewhat NC.

BTW, I heard from my music elders that the non-Sage musicians in the Wipers repeatedly walked out on / were fired by him so many times that the band was occasionally reduced to Greg on stage with a drum box and sequencer. I would have liked to see "them" as a one-man act.

Mazec wrote:

steve wrote: Mind boggling meld of Link Wray, Leather Nun, the Damned, the Stooges, alien abduction paranoia, societal dread and Neil Young.

Interesting deconstructionist theory to their music. Greg Sage always seemed like self-contained influence cycle to me.

I've also been greatly enjoying the Wipers Box Set, after finding out about them thanks to this thread. Listening to it I can't help but pick out different veneers of influence in the music, particularly the Trashmen-esque surf drumming, but any recognition is fleeting and doesn't disrupt the whole.

A great original band.

Not Crap.

[Edit: This song 'Romeo' makes me feel little weird]