So, I just finished listening to the Shellac Maida Vale Session that was recorded (and broadcast) in December and I only recognized 5 of the 8 songs they did. The others may be covers, new songs, or some ridiculously obscure song previously released only on a limited edition 7" given away with a Dutch comic book. Can anyone here shed some light? Here are the titles listed:
Paco
Steady As She Goes
The End of Radio (this I suspect was an improvised tribute of sorts to John Peel - Steve dedicates the session and "the rest of our career" to Peel at the beginning of the show).
Anyone care to venture any guesses?
BTW - This broadcast may just be my favorite Shellac recording, if only for Steve's obvious joy when intoning the name "Martina Navrátilová" over and over...

Is the recording available somewhere on the web?

They played "The End of Radio" at last year's ATP,it starts like"...can you hear me?.....is this thing on?....can you you hear me?..." and pretty much everyone in the audience was yelling "Yeah!No problem...." and probably the sound engineer was shitting his pants and trying to find where the problem was.
Very good song though....

diego wrote:They played "The End of Radio" at last year's ATP,it starts like"...can you hear me?.....is this thing on?....can you you hear me?..." and pretty much everyone in the audience was yelling "Yeah!No problem...." and probably the sound engineer was shitting his pants and trying to find where the problem was.
Very good song though....

You reminded me of the first time I ever did sound for a band called Pinback. They have a song where one of the verses goes
"Checking one two.
Checky checky check, is this mic here working?
Can you hear me out there?
Can you hear me out there?"

Scared the hell out of me for a brief moment there when they did that...

chinchin says:

Is the recording available somewhere on the web?

I say:

Is the recording available somewhere on the web?

but seriously folks, I have been searching since December for this stuff and to no avail. John Peel wins again.

dan fouts wrote:chinchin says:

Is the recording available somewhere on the web?

I say:

Is the recording available somewhere on the web?

but seriously folks, I have been searching since December for this stuff and to no avail. John Peel wins again.

I downloaded the show from one of those bit torrent websites.

There, I admitted it.

Believe me, I will happily pay for a copy if/when the band decides it is worthy of official release. But in the interim...

KrisPoulin wrote:You reminded me of the first time I ever did sound for a band called Pinback. They have a song where one of the verses goes
"Checking one two.
Checky checky check, is this mic here working?
Can you hear me out there?
Can you hear me out there?"

Scared the hell out of me for a brief moment there when they did that...

The sad thing is that Rob Crow (Pinback's singer) does that sincerely between songs every time he plays a show without fail. He's a picky singer.

I got this recording of other new songs from back in 98 that I don't think have ever shown up on record. It's like 7 or 8 songs that I've never heard before. The first three are "Holidays In The Sun", "Bodies", and "Pretty Vacant". Anyone know anything about these?

Angry_Dragon wrote:I got this recording of other new songs from back in 98 that I don't think have ever shown up on record. It's like 7 or 8 songs that I've never heard before. The first three are "Holidays In The Sun", "Bodies", and "Pretty Vacant". Anyone know anything about these?

Well played, Angry Dragon. Salut!

dan fouts wrote:chinchin says:

Is the recording available somewhere on the web?

I say:

Is the recording available somewhere on the web?

but seriously folks, I have been searching since December for this stuff and to no avail. John Peel wins again.

Try here:
http://www.electrical.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4648

The search engine on this site is marvelous!


Also, mr. fouts, Is your first name Daniel? If so, your name is an anagram of


life's a donut


Just thought you might need that sometime or the other.



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