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by OrthodoxEaster_Archive
Not Chum. Utter genius during the Will Shatter era. The first three singles, the bulk of Generic, and most of Public Flipper Limited are just mind-blowing. The perfect meeting of drunken joke, noisy catharsis, and profound humanism. Helped get me thru my teens and 20s and inspired me to teach myself the bass. In fact, the only cover song my old band ever performed was The Wheel (Knitting Factory, summer 1996). Ted Falconi is an inimitable, abstract-expressionist guitar player. Steve DePace is a heavy and physically pleasing drummer, a bit like a punk-rock Bonham w/way less class. And that fucked-up, grinding bass tone... my God, so cool.i am the smud wrote:They could start releasing funk metal albums and I still would love them to deathThis is where I must pull out the waffle iron. The '90s studio album, American Grafishy, approached, but never quite attained this sound and boy, that thing really sucked. On the other hand, the mid-'00s reunion dates w/Steve DeMartis on bass were totally inspiring. I was surprised. Seeing Bruce waving a metal cane around w/electrodes on his chest, smoking cigarettes, and screaming the lyrics to Life Is Cheap was an utterly terrifying sight.However, I am not overly impressed w/what little I've heard of these new-ish Love/Fight releases, and I have a sneaking suspicion that Flipper should stay outta the studio at this late stage.But still... one of my favorite bands on the planet, which is why I'm so damn critical of them. I just wished they hadn't tarnished their legacy by continuing after 1987 or so.Inquiry: I've seen downloads of something called The Lights, The Sound, The Rhythm, The Noise: Unreleased Studio Session Tape 1983 on various blogs. Great lost recordings. Discogs.com has this title listed as a bootleg double CD but I'm skeptical. Has anyone ever actually seen a physical copy? I suspect it's just a homemade CDr or a download, but I might be wrong...