Just in case you are not clear on what marsupiasshole is saying - when he says work he means picking up his room at his mom's house, and by female coworker he means his sock puppet that he talks to while jerking off to pictures of children and women being humiliated and murdered while fantasizing about his mom.

What a toilet, flush flush flush away little man.

I had the opportunity to see them in Marseille in 2000. Excellent!
Not crap.

haha.

i agree 100% with steve.

i have never, ever, ever enjoyed mr. walter's music...i used to play in a band that seemed to share the stage with the Luttenbackers very frequently and they always sounded like a clusterfuck...not only did it sound bad, but i got the idea that even if the sound quality and the performance was tighter, i would still hate it.

and what a weird/shitty sounding drumset.

and they come off as way too "the reason you dont enjoy it is because you dont understand what we're doing" for my liking.

bad music.

possibly nice people? i dont know. i remember one time warming up before starting a show and as a joke, i started playing the guitar line from Yes' Long Distance Runaround - all of the sudden i felt somebody grab my shoulder...i turned around, it was weasel walter and he yelled "yeah! play that again!"

strange.

andyk

steve wrote:I don't know why, because I should like it very much based on any description of it, but I have always hated the Flying Luttenbachers, on every exposure. I have actually hated almost everything I've ever been exposed to that Weasel Walter has done.

There was this magazine, Lumpen, which embodied a kind of snotty "look at me!" prankless-pranksterism that I detested immediately. Almost every Weasel Walter enterprise has smacked of this Lumpen-ish self-obsession, this irritant-for-the-sake-of-irritation... I guess you'd have to know what I'm talking about to know what I'm talking about.

Anyway, crap.

I thought "The Void" was a really good record.

Everything else they've done has left me, I guess, uninterested.

Weasel Walter is a pretty nice guy from my experience.

Flying Luttenbachers: CRAP WF: the Void
Weasel Walter: NOT CRAP

-jeremy

Crap.

Band: Not Crap.

Guy: Met him once. Nice guy. Not crap.

Wernehm_Zackariaah wrote:Dream show:

The Flying Luttenbachers
Sleepytime Gorrilla Museum
U.S. Maple
5uu's
Thinking Plague
Cheer-Accident
(in no particular order, though Cheer-Ax should do the pre-intermission headline slot)

(intermission)
Fugazi w/ Wernehm Zackariaah on keyboards and guest appearances from members of Dream Theater. (ahhh... just like old times)

Ok... I'm going to drink some maker's mark, enjoy some green tea, and watch the Magma triology DVD... Good night!

fuck, can we all start a fundraiser so that the luttenbachers and us maple can do a world tour please? i'll even get a job!

SO NOT CRAP! and WW is a charming fellow.

i really admire and respect weasel walter. i like the way he never stops pushing himself to grow and improve, and the sense i take away from his records that the best/most interesting stuff is always yet to come--that's something i value tremendously and i get it from very few artists today. i don't find the records themselves unsatisfying, but half the fun (for me) is tracing the unceasingly restless creative arc that runs throughout his work. i get to catch someone on the upswing, finally; for a youngster (relatively speaking) this is quite rare.

as others have said, he is a nice guy and has also been extremely supportive of younger bands, to include some of my friends. there was an element of irritation for its own sake in the early luttenbachers, maybe ten years ago, from which i'd argue the stuff he does now is very far removed. it isn't going to be to most people's taste, but it is WORLDS away from the limp, genre-bound rehash garbage that makes up the rest of, say, troubleman's roster for instance..

"Trauma" is their pinnacle release, IMO, and is the album I would recommend to anyone interested in the band. You can sort of branch out from there.

I still gotta pick up "Systems Emerge".

Some records I like way more than others, but on the whole, these dudes are a fine musical outfit, though I can certainly see why people might hate them.

Not Crap.

The Sonny Sharrock thread has reminded me to tell people that Ed Rodriquez's gtr playing on the Flying Luttenbachers record "The Void" is some serious Sharrock-esque awesomeness.

Weasel Walter, now of Oakland, Italia, has been playing some bruisingly great free jazz gigs around town lately with some of the Bay Area's many excellent improvisers.

N/C