Oh yeah, the Tom-cabinet-foot injury happened at Jacob's Run in Wilmington SC, in 1992. I think we were playing with COC and Brickbat.

I used to run a small coffeehouse on the campus of Fordham University in the Bronx. It was a great gig - we spent Student Activities funds to bring in bands about every week. They would play in a 600 square foot 10-room house, micing only the vocals. Rumor had it George Washington stopped there during his retreat from NY. Really.

Anyway, Tar played a show there once. They were incredibly friendly guys, asking questions about me and the place and giving interest in the answers to both. I was humbly surprised (as I couldn't figure out why a great band like Tar would want to talk to a snotty college kid).

Later, as you can imagine, they played a monumental show - four unassuming men immediately taking the 20 odd people in the room to a whole other place as soon as they started playing. I was always impressed that Tar wrote songs that were unmistakably theirs - building around the sad and powerful sound of the higher strummed power chords. As soon as a song would end, I was surprised to find myself back in a room where there were just other people, clapping and yelling for more. It was a great show.

Tar. Where are the good bands like you these days?

= Justin

I like Tar.

i know this is an appreciation thread and might not be the best place to ask it but... what is the best record to get first by tar?? i heard a lot of good stuff about this band!

AAAAAAAARGH wrote:i know this is an appreciation thread and might not be the best place to ask it but... what is the best record to get first by tar?? i heard a lot of good stuff about this band!

Over and Out and Jackson are the classic records and i can not recommend them enough. But all their stuff is great.

Tar is the only band whos entire recorded out put means something to me. I sincerely love this band. I would also like to add that a Tar singles comp would be great, especially as the studio version of Deep Throw from the smells like smoked sausages sub pop single of the month thing is impossible to find.

yah, it would be nice to have everything in one place, wouldn't it?

And just for the record, although I did move to Seattle (in May '95, post recording of Over and Out), I moved back (in '01, post 9-11). I never had a van dyke, or facial hair, for that matter (excepting for the "weird beard" contest that we engaged in on the tour with JawBox).

Seriously.

-John

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Jesus, The Chicago Shows List; that's a blast from the past. Was it really only in existence for 5 years? I remember looking forward to getting that in my inbox even though I was in New Jersey for most of the year, and under 21 w/o a fake ID.

I was plugging most of my favorite bands into the board search engine for their Crap/Not Crap results and was wondering why Tar hadn't been done yet. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that this board has a high number of professional artists posting.

edit: oh yeah, the topic... Tar was fucking awesome. Can anyone name something better that originated from DeKalb? I think not. Over and Out is their best.

dfg wrote:Tar was fucking awesome. Can anyone name something better that originated from DeKalb? I think not.

Nothing. Although Shorty/U.S. Maple are close. Oh, and beer nuggets.

TAR equals greatness.

I used to listen to "Jackson" LP in the dark, the last record before going to sleep. I played the game of matching songs with text "lines" in my head.

Every time I play "Jackson" CD (now I have CD) it prompts strange mixture of recollections from my late adolescence. Those were neither nice nor traumatic memories although the environment around me was really chaotic.

Tar successfully bridged "categories" in rock related music being industrial and rocking at the same time.

"Jackson" is definitive TAR record and also the best AMREP record I have heard so far.

Tar had some Slavic blood.

Tar were impeccable from their tiny "antlers" to breath taking avalanche of "Over and Out" swan song.

Unrepeatable.