Favoriting Tony Coulter: Playlist from May 8, 2012 Favoriting

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Favoriting May 8, 2012: Tony Coulter Presents Tape Hiss: Downtown NYC / PLEASE NOTE: "Tape Hiss" shows are not archived.

Artist Track Album
THE IN-THEME     
 
FRACAS  4 untitled tracks   Favoriting demo cassette (mid-'80s) 
 
THE KRAKATOANS  First Mate   Favoriting 1988 demo 
THE KRAKATOANS  Walking the Dogma   Favoriting 1988 demo 
THE KRAKATOANS  Stuff Smith Stomp   Favoriting 1988 demo 
 
RHYTHM PIE  Four Movements   Favoriting demo (mid-to-late '80s) 
RHYTHM PIE  Six Words   Favoriting demo (mid-to-late '80s) 
RHYTHM PIE  Dinosaurs   Favoriting demo (mid-to-late '80s) 
RHYTHM PIE  Texture - Gate - Change   Favoriting demo (mid-to-late '80s) 
 
ZERO POP  Keep the Jeep   Favoriting 1986 demo 
ZERO POP  Sax, Drums & Rock & Roll   Favoriting 1986 demo 
ZERO POP  Salsadagio   Favoriting 1986 demo 
ZERO POP  Don't Be a Fool, Marry Me   Favoriting 1986 demo 
 
ZOZOBRA  I'm Blind   Favoriting demo (mid-'80s) 
ZOZOBRA  Mozart's Love Affair   Favoriting demo (mid-'80s) 
ZOZOBRA  74,00 Farms   Favoriting demo (mid-'80s) 
ZOZOBRA  No Superman   Favoriting demo (mid-'80s) 
 
SONGS FROM A RANDOM HOUSE  Can I Get You Something?   Favoriting 1986 demo 
SONGS FROM A RANDOM HOUSE  Talking with a Giant   Favoriting 1986 demo 
SONGS FROM A RANDOM HOUSE  Water   Favoriting 1986 demo 
SONGS FROM A RANDOM HOUSE  Born in a Barn   Favoriting 1986 demo 
SONGS FROM A RANDOM HOUSE  White Trees   Favoriting 1986 demo 
 
LYTTLE/CARTWRIGHT/MOSS (w/ CHRISTIAN MARCLAY & GEORGE LEWIS)  live, June 24, 1983   Favoriting  
 
CHRISTIAN MARCLAY  turntable improvisation 1   Favoriting live, mid-'80s 
 
CHRISTIAN MARCLAY  turntable improvisation 2   Favoriting live, mid-'80s 
 
THE OUT-THEME     


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Listener comments!

Avatar 11:25am
tonyc:

Hullo dere. Today's "Tape Hiss" will feature unreleased music from NYC's Downtown scene of the '80s. There will be live music from Lytle/Cartwright/Moss and Christian Marclay, plus demos from Zero Pop, Zozobra, Songs from a Random House, the Krakatoans, Fracas, and Rhythm Pie.
  11:57am
Kay:

Do you have a lead-in theme for Tape Hiss?
  11:59am
Artie:

More importantly, can you dance the Shag to the Tape Hiss lead in?
Avatar 11:59am
tonyc:

Hi, Kay -- I do!
  12:00pm
listener james from westwood:

good day all! glad to be back where a hiss is a sign of approval.
  12:01pm
Kay:

How a lead-out? Remember how those manufactured tapes would have a little series of high-pitched notes at the end of a side?
  12:01pm
Van in DC:

Hiya Tony, fellow streamers
Avatar 12:01pm
tonyc:

And here the theme is. (Greetings, Artie & listener james!)
Avatar 12:02pm
tonyc:

Hey there, Van!
  12:03pm
GRATEFULBLAC, Manchester, UK:

Is it C60, C90,or C120?
Avatar 12:05pm
tonyc:

Hey, Gratefulblac. Today's show will be a full C180.
  12:07pm
Doug S.:

This hissing of summer (spring) tapes!
  12:08pm
GRATEFULBLAC, Manchester, UK:

BUTTHOLE SURFERS, my favourite 80s band!
Avatar 12:09pm
tonyc:

Hiya, Doug! Yep, it's full hiss ahead....
  12:09pm
Artie:

Weren't those tones present to cue early auto-reversing systems? Or did I just make that up? Certainty eludes.
  12:11pm
listener james from westwood:

porfirio rubirosa. heh. there's an interesting life. understand he inspired the naming of a pepper grinder or two.
  12:12pm
manuel de bruselas:

hola toñy
Avatar 12:13pm
tonyc:

Hola, Manuel! And Artie too...
  12:13pm
conrad:

Morning, Tony. This tune's great! Was never released?
Avatar 12:14pm
tonyc:

Hey, Conrad! As far as I've been able to determine, none of these tracks were ever released.
  12:25pm
Kay:

Tony: Thanks to lightning storm/hail/power outage, I lost the last ten minutes of streaming. Would you mind rewinding a little?

Artie: I bet you're right. Maybe Tony could just turn on the autoreverse/continuous play setting?
Avatar 12:27pm
tonyc:

Kay: I'll put the show on auto-reverse. That way the tape will play all over again once it reaches the end.
  12:39pm
GRATEFULBLAC, Manchester, UK:

were their only drummers/percussionists in Rhythm pie?
Avatar 12:39pm
tonyc:

I may be one of the few people who can claim to have seen Rhythm Pie live. When I saw them at Bar None, there were only two people in the audience: me and my then-girlfriend (now wife).
Avatar 12:40pm
tonyc:

Gratefulblac: Yep, just two drummers. Which may kind of explain why they didn't last too long, as interesting as they are as drummers.
  12:43pm
Van in DC:

They're giving the drummers some and some more!
Avatar 12:45pm
tonyc:

Yeah -- after this tape, the Drummer will have to Give Some Back....
  12:48pm
Brian in UK:

Hello Tony, do we turn over half way through? I've barely got auto forward today.
Avatar 12:48pm
tonyc:

Jumped the gun on that track title.
Avatar 12:50pm
tonyc:

Hi Brianinuk! Nope, we're in auto-reverse ... so the tape will flip over on its own.
  12:54pm
Brian in UK:

Merci beaucoup.
  12:55pm
Van in DC:

@tonyc @12:40 If they had just had more cowbell :)
Avatar 12:58pm
tonyc:

Ha!
  1:03pm
WhiteWolf:

Anything Etron Fou= MadShit!
  1:03pm
Ricardo Montalban:

Hola, Senor Tony!
Just tuned in. I was putting out fires here at work.
I guess I'm not allowed to set things on fire anymore.
Avatar 1:04pm
tonyc:

Hola, Senor!
  1:07pm
Doug S.:

@tonyc @ 12:44
The Drummer doesn't make change. Please pay exact cash amount...
Avatar 1:08pm
tonyc:

Lost my connection for a bit -- are you all still there?
  1:09pm
Doug S.:

Connection uninterrupted here.
  1:09pm
listener james from westwood:

still lurking about! stream's still up too.
Avatar 1:11pm
tonyc:

Ah, good! Messed up track titles there 'cause I couldn't hear. But you can probably figger it out....
  1:11pm
Ricardo Montalban:

Sounds great here.
Avatar 1:14pm
tonyc:

Good! Everything's under control on this end again.
Avatar 1:24pm
tonyc:

In case anybody's wondering where I got all these demos: I've had 'em since the '80s, when they were given to me by the bands to play on my show on Columbia's college radio station. Bet they never thought I'd keep 'em this long - ha!
  1:29pm
GRATEFULBLAC, Manchester, UK:

back after my supper - hope I have'nt missed too much?
Avatar 1:30pm
tonyc:

No worries -- we put the tape on pause while you were gone.
  1:30pm
SpainishInquisition:

Is your wife tolerant of your musical taste? I must wear headphones after 23 years of marriage.
Avatar 1:31pm
tonyc:

Yes -- she is blessedly tolerant.
  1:32pm
GRATEFULBLAC, Manchester, UK:

rhythm pie - probably not as nice as the pie I've just had.
Zero pop - well just speaks for itself!
As for ZOZOBRA - that'l do for afters!
Avatar 1:36pm
tonyc:

RE: Zee wife. When I first met her, she only had a handful of records ... but one of them was a Catherine Ribeiro record ... so of course I had to marry her.
  1:38pm
GRATEFULBLAC, Manchester, UK:

Tony - sounds like you were the vocalist in SONGS FROM A RANDOM HOUSE?

Were you ever in a band Tony?
  1:39pm
BSI:

In my case, it was Faust marrying John Tesh.....
Avatar 1:41pm
tonyc:

GRATEFULBLAC: Saw Songs from a Random House live back in the day (or night, actually) -- but I wasn't their vocalist, no. Was never in a band -- though I did diddle on keyboards for a while there.
  1:42pm
conrad:

Gonna put up any mp3s of these Random House guys up on the FMU blog, Tony? Really like this.
Avatar 1:42pm
tonyc:

BSI: Any movement in the direction of Faust?
Avatar 1:43pm
tonyc:

Conrad: Was thinking of doing just that very thing, actually!
  1:45pm
Fly right:

Is this my mother?
  1:45pm
BSI:

Tony @1:41: happily, yes. Early courtship phase: in one week she took me to see Charlie Daniels Band and I took her to Stereolab / Olivia Tremor Control. Somehow it all worked out (?)
Avatar 1:46pm
tonyc:

Charlie Tremor Control?
  1:49pm
GRATEFULBLAC, Manchester, UK:

Well know Tony's played early Charlie Daniels recently but as for the other two can only say トマトケッチャップ皇帝 or emperor tomato ketchup music!
  1:50pm
BSI:

Indeed. After 13 years, I can confidently play Heldon (and suchlike) in the house without fear of bludgeoning by frying-pan. That's probably about as close to domestic/marital bliss as I ever thought possible.
  1:52pm
GRATEFULBLAC, Manchester, UK:

Tony - were their any experimental country bands?
  1:53pm
Ricardo Montalban:

Eugene Chadbourne is the only guy I can think of who consciously does Avant-Garde or experimental country music.
Avatar 1:54pm
tonyc:

Well, Dan Hicks is sort of experimental country swing/bluegrass, I guess, no?
  1:54pm
manuel de bruselas:

tony, some weeks ago i got a copy of The Necessaries, in Spain, that i discovered in a comp. called Blank Generation, Blank Tapes NYC 1975-1987. Amazing record!
  1:54pm
GRATEFULBLAC, Manchester, UK:

Is this the warm up or are have tehy started playing(!)?
  1:55pm
northguineahills:

sweet lineup.
  1:55pm
Ricardo Montalban:

Who's that guy who plays barbed wire fences with a violin bow? It's sort of country music, in the concrete sense.
Avatar 1:55pm
tonyc:

GRATEFULBLAC: They've got their groove on already.
  1:55pm
Ricardo Montalban:

This is wonderful scronk! Love it!
Avatar 1:56pm
tonyc:

Ricardo: Jon Rose?
Avatar 1:56pm
tonyc:

Manuel: Don't know that! Will look for it....
  1:56pm
Ricardo Montalban:

Yeah, I think that's it. THe late Jon Rose, who also played with Chadbourne on more than one occasion.
  1:57pm
EXP>Country:

JON WAYNE>Texas Funeral LP!
  2:00pm
GRATEFULBLAC, Manchester, UK:

just beginning to boogie now!
  2:03pm
conrad:

Who was the Southern avant-hillbilly who played with the Velvet Underground? I'm not joking, there really was a guy, played fiddle or something...
Avatar 2:05pm
tonyc:

Dunno! Sounds mucho intriguing....
  2:05pm
GRATEFULBLAC, Manchester, UK:

Conrad - are you mixing up John Cale with JJ Cale?
Avatar 2:07pm
tonyc:

Funny how duck calls were so big in the '80s Downtown scene.
  2:07pm
Otis T Bass:

Hasil Adkins?
  2:09pm
listener james from westwood:

that would explain the name of his "white light/white meat" compilation
  2:11pm
To LJFW:

That there"s funny.
  2:13pm
conrad:

I didn't imagine it!
http://www.henryflynt.org/overviews/henryflynt_new.htm

From North Carolina. Was associated with Yoko Ono, Lamont Young, "He recorded “Acoustic Hillbilly Jive” at the end of 1963... The sculptor Walter De Maria supplied essential support for this project. At about the same time, Flynt was recording characteristic solo violin pieces.

In September 1966, Flynt played violin with the Velvet Underground as a stand-in for John Cale"
Avatar 2:15pm
tonyc:

Rich Lindsay of KBOO (aka Senor Ricardo Montalban) fills in for me next week. Don't miss it!
Avatar 2:16pm
tonyc:

Conrad: Ah yes, Henry Flynt. Didn't realize he ever played with the Velvets.
  2:22pm
Ricardo Montalban:

I still love Christian Marclay on Night Music. What an amazing show that was.
  2:22pm
northguineahills:

DJ Spooky lifted the whole 2 minutes of that record on a somewhat large label in the late 90s.
Avatar 2:24pm
tonyc:

Good old Ivor Cutler....
  2:25pm
northguineahills:

tonyc beat me to it.
Avatar 2:27pm
tonyc:

And here comes the West Coast Experimental Pop Art Band....
  2:27pm
Magical mystery Tour:

For the love of Ivor Cutler!
  2:28pm
BSI:

Brilliant stuff, good sir. I salute thee.
Avatar 2:29pm
tonyc:

Thanks, BSI. Glad you like it!
  2:35pm
northguineahills:

A little of Zorn's "Classic Guide to Strategy".
Avatar 2:35pm
tonyc:

Egg-zack-te-mento!
  2:38pm
One:

Ass backwards ENO "Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy"
  2:39pm
Ricardo Montalban:

Strategy By Mountian, Tiger Taking would be a great name for an indy guitar drone band.
  2:40pm
listener james from westwood:

really dug today's tape hiss, tony. must dodge outta here but glad to have caught the great mass of this one-time airing!
Avatar 2:41pm
tonyc:

Time for Ferrante & Teicher!
Avatar 2:42pm
tonyc:

Adios, listener james! Glad you enjoyed yourself, and thanks fer tuning in.
  2:44pm
Ricardo Montalban:

Is there a clean delineation where F&T's music stops being weird, or was it a gradual process?
I only own two of their records, which I found in thrift stores - the Blast Off one and a Christmas one that's really weird for a Christmas record.
Avatar 2:46pm
tonyc:

There was a point when they stopped preparing pianos and all that stuff, and after that they got way less interesting. Can't say exactly when that was, though -- they have a bunch of good LPs.
  2:48pm
Ricardo Montalban:

There's gotta be a funny story or two about the two of them looking exactly alike.
Avatar 2:49pm
tonyc:

Those glasses would make anybody look like Ferrante or Teicher.
  2:52pm
Ricardo Montalban:

They were both married. Not that there would be anything wrong if they weren't.
I always just pictured one couldn't help looking like the other, buying the same glasses, etc. to the annoyance of the other, not to mention fueling unwanted speculation...
  2:52pm
tattooed knuckles:

GEEK & Nerd.
  2:54pm
Van in DC:

Thanks for the show Tony!
  2:54pm
Ricardo Montalban:

It's funny how so few people know about their Avant-Garde roots or how no one will believe you when you tell them they did weird music. Most people think of Midnight Cowboy and countless easy listening drivel.
  2:54pm
northguineahills:

Awesome show!
  2:55pm
Ricardo Montalban:

Thanks Tony! Another wonderful, hiss-filled show!
Avatar 2:55pm
tonyc:

Thanks for listening, everybody! Here, again, is my schedule for May:
May 15: Senor Montalban fills in.
May 22: A "Tape Hiss" show w/ unreleased recordings by Heratius
May 29: I'll be back with a regular freeform show
  2:56pm
Ricardo Montalban:

I've pulled out loads of weird old thrift store finds and more surprises for next week.
Avatar 2:56pm
tonyc:

Ta!
Avatar 2:57pm
tonyc:

Looking forward to the fill-in, Senor!
  2:59pm
Van in DC:

Is this still the play out music? I like it
Avatar 3:05pm
tonyc:

Van: Given that your message came in at 2:58, right when my show ended, and I'm just seeing it now, I can't say for sure! The second part of my out-theme features someone saying "airborne" ... "free"....
Avatar 3:06pm
tonyc:

It's part of a Die Trip Computer Die track....
  3:19pm
Kay:

Do you have a lead-in theme for Tape Hiss?

Oh drat, I forgot to turn off the auto-reverse.
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