all that wierd sampling shit - but not in the traditional sampler kind of way. goes sorta in hand w/ cop shoot cop - rock bands using samplers

Yeah... to my knowledge, they never used digital samplers per se. They used tape recorders with all of the sound elements in order. You can even hear on their records, when the foot pedal is released, the tape sound slowing down and decreasing in pitch suddenly. It's amazing to think that with the difficulty of music they had to play, both Dale and Mike singing, that they could also do the tape blurbs. On top of that, Mike would be jumping around on stage and getting all crazy. He's a complete shredder on guitar.

Did you read the liner notes about the recording on "The Miracle of Sound in Motion"? It seems like they recorded it digitally on some
Sears Velocity Response Hard Drive... But reading it, it all seems like a joke to me. The sentence "Limitless 'tracks' are then dumped directly to a binary Matrix Modulator by means of our Special Electronic Process (SEP)"...

...it makes me think that their liner notes about the recording are a joke. Which makes sense, because they do have quite a sense of humor.

I heard them do a fantastic version of "Surrender" by Cheap Trick.

No one happens to have it do they?

Oh, and Not Crap.

"Train To Miami" alone makes them Not Crap, never mind the mostly greatness and consistency thereof in what they did.

Darren used to be in early Seattle punk pranksters Mr. Epp with Mark and Steve, later of Green River and Mudhoney. Darren moved to the Bay Area shortly after that. But very recently, a Mr. Epp complete discography CD called Ridiculing The Apocalypse was released.

And at Flatstock during Bumbershoot earlier this month (hey jay!), I finally met Dale who had his own booth for his own art. SUPER super nice guy. I'm actually more a fan of Milk Cult than SPBT.

Dale just moved to Minneapolis a few weeks ago from Chapel Hill. So treat him right, dudes.

They are all top-notch human beings and one of the best underground bands ever. God bless!

Haven't heard any in 12 years. Did I miss something?

Tulip was their finest moment, in my opinion. This was my favorite record of 1991. One of the best shows I've seen as well, in the early 90s with Neurosis. Face melting.

soylasagna wrote:Tulip was their finest moment, in my opinion. This was my favorite record of 1991. One of the best shows I've seen as well, in the early 90s with Neurosis. Face melting.

Is it me or is Tulip one fucked-up sounding record?

Great songs on there though.

Fucking Mercurochrome!

I just might have to dig that out. Ya know, if that shit were on Itunes I'd pay for it right now.

rocker654 wrote:Haven't heard any in 12 years. Did I miss something?

I heard a rumor that Mike worked on the digital graphics of Lord of the Rings.

They released a record relatively recently called "Unlistenable". My cousin basically ganked my copy the day I bought it and I only heard it once. I believe the premise of this album was either:

a.) Early instrumental only demos for the next SPBT record after "Scars...", songs in their earliest infancy.

or

b.) Bored recollections by the band for the good ol' days in which the members sent each other tracks to record over each other and make music by mail.

In any case, my recollection of that one listen is that it was very noisy, very instrumental, and relatively unfocused. Nothing like any SPBT release ever before.

Oh, and not crap. There were months of my life in which SPBT was the only band I ever listened to.

Pure L wrote:Fucking Mercurochrome!

I love the stretch of songs from Mercurochrome through Misty Mt. Blowtorch, especially the fucked up samples toward the end of The Scarlet, which to me has always sounded like Creedence played backwards.

I just might have to dig that out. Ya know, if that shit were on Itunes I'd pay for it right now.

I just looked, and it's there. $10.

on the wings of a snow white dove!