Favoriting Tony Coulter: Playlist from January 10, 2017 Favoriting

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Favoriting January 10, 2017: Tony Coulter Presents Tape Hiss: Live and unreleased music from Goosewind, Cartoon, & Catalogue [PLEASE NOTE: "Tape Hiss" shows are not archived.]

Artist Track Album Label Year
The In-Theme  Holger Hiller: Toyshopshoptoy   Favoriting      
 
Goosewind  Stormclouds   Favoriting Unreleased live and studio recordings, 1988–1989     
Goosewind  Fast Country Riff   Favoriting Unreleased live and studio recordings, 1988–1989     
Goosewind  Tarkus the Cat   Favoriting Unreleased live and studio recordings, 1988–1989     
Goosewind  From Parts Unknown   Favoriting Unreleased live and studio recordings, 1988–1989     
Goosewind  Kreeper   Favoriting Unreleased live and studio recordings, 1988–1989     
Goosewind  Swirling Sand   Favoriting Unreleased live and studio recordings, 1988–1989     
Goosewind  Fat Albert's Marshland   Favoriting Unreleased live and studio recordings, 1988–1989     
Goosewind  Accidental College   Favoriting Unreleased live and studio recordings, 1988–1989     
Goosewind  Joan   Favoriting Unreleased live and studio recordings, 1988–1989     
 
Goosewind  Sunrise   Favoriting Unreleased live and studio recordings, 1988–1989     
Goosewind  Fearless Leader   Favoriting Unreleased live and studio recordings, 1988–1989     
Goosewind  Live at the Vault Club, Pomona, CA, 198?   Favoriting      
 
Cartoon  side A   Favoriting Live at the Performance Arts Theater, San Francisco, 8/12/80     
 
Cartoon  side B   Favoriting Live at the Performance Arts Theater, San Francisco, 8/12/80     
 
Catalogue  Live on WFMU, 4/7/92   Favoriting      
 
Catalogue  The End   Favoriting Pénétration  Hat Art  1982 
The Out-Theme  Gelbart: My Favorite Vacation [part of] + Die Trip Computer Die: Airborn [part of]   Favoriting      


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Listener comments!

Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:46pm
Aaron in Minneapolis:

How many damn tapes do you have Tony?
Avatar 10:08pm
Tony Coulter:

Umm -- quite a few ... and they're getting increasingly disorganized.
Avatar 11:57am
βrian:

You must guard against tapeworms, I suppose.
Avatar 🥁 11:58am
Rev. Turnip Druid:

Goosewind? A little Sparrow of the Age, perhaps?
Avatar 🥁 11:58am
Rev. Turnip Druid:

also: hello.
Avatar 11:58am
Tony Coulter:

Hola, βrian and Turnip!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:00pm
Uncle Michael:

Good morning.
  12:01pm
Dean:

Second Law of Thermodynamics applies to tape collections, too.
Avatar 12:01pm
Tony Coulter:

Mornin', Uncle Mikey!
Avatar 12:01pm
Tony Coulter:

Hey hey, Dean!
Avatar 12:02pm
Carmichael:

They freeze to death, Dean? Heya Tony.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:02pm
doctorjazz:

Been having trouble with the stream since this morning, pop up won't open. I'll try rebooting at some point, seems no one else has an issue...
Avatar 12:03pm
Tony Coulter:

Greets, Carmichael!
Avatar 12:03pm
Tony Coulter:

Heya, doctorjazz. Haven't heard about stream problems today....
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:04pm
Yvang:

Hello!
Avatar 12:04pm
βrian:

My stream is working ok via itunes.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:04pm
listener james from westwood:

Hey Tony and all! Is this where I come if my goose has wind?
Avatar 12:06pm
Tony Coulter:

Hey, hey, hey, Yvang and Listener James!!
Avatar 12:06pm
Tony Coulter:

Stand back ... it's Goosewind.
Avatar 12:07pm
βrian:

Goosewind on a foggy day? Where's Leo Kottke?
  12:07pm
Dean:

Kottke sit in with these guys?
  12:07pm
Dean:

Damn, @βrian. We are ON IT.
Avatar 12:09pm
Tony Coulter:

None of today's cassettes have cover art -- which is why I didn't bother photographing them.
Avatar 12:10pm
βrian:

High priests of the playlist?
Avatar 12:11pm
V Priceless:

hey Tony and gang!
Avatar 12:12pm
Tony Coulter:

Also, couldn't find a band photo for Goosewind, so I just used an album cover -- but that album has nothing to do with what we're hearing today.
Avatar 12:12pm
Tony Coulter:

Hey there, VP!

NB: Heavy prog action ahead: the live Cartoon tape up next.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:15pm
doctorjazz:

The reboot did it, Pop-up player on the site working again, hey all!
Avatar 🥁 12:16pm
Rev. Turnip Druid:

dig.
Avatar 12:16pm
Tony Coulter:

@ doctorjazz: Yay!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:18pm
JtotheK:

hi Tony, greetings everyone.
Avatar 12:19pm
Tony Coulter:

Ahoy there, JtotheK!
Avatar 12:22pm
Tony Coulter:

The label on this tape sez: "Very early Goosewind experiments."
Avatar 12:24pm
βrian:

I'm imagining a Bic lighter was involved.
Avatar 12:27pm
Tony Coulter:

... and a couple of dime bags, you mean? Likely, likely.....
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:29pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- side A - |
-@[iiiii]@-|
_/*o o*\_|
_________~~~WW~~~
Avatar 12:29pm
Tony Coulter:

Guess the Goosewind album art I've posted would lead one to think they're a Goth band ... which, as you can hear, they're not.
Avatar 12:32pm
Tony Coulter:

Heya, Rev. Rabbit!!
Avatar 🥁 12:38pm
Rev. Turnip Druid:

some of this here Goosewind reminds me of a most excellent 1980s spacerock improv group from around here; Elegent Mess [sic] -- Their demo cassette was actually called TAPE HISS, and would probably fit in beautifully here....
Avatar 12:39pm
Tony Coulter:

Huh -- never hoid of 'em. Sound good, though....
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:42pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...Bands. Such a - tender, absurd, stupid, heroic beautiful thing...
Avatar 12:42pm
Tony Coulter:

If memory serves, there's a fairly long silence coming up at this point. Do not adjust your sets.
Avatar 12:43pm
Tony Coulter:

There ya go....
Avatar 1:04pm
Cecile:

the Executives! They were playing in casinos in Australia when I was there in 1975-76.
Avatar 1:05pm
Tony Coulter:

Hey, Cecile!!

Ain't no executives here ... just us proles.
  1:08pm
Dean:

Interesting background on the band here: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=45095 Mary Tilson is still at it at KPFA, hosting America's Back 40 every week. Is this cassette the one referred to in the paragraph beginning, "The band then played some more live dates..."?
Avatar 1:09pm
Tony Coulter:

Guess it must be!!
Avatar 1:11pm
Tony Coulter:

Or actually, I think this is the sentence that refers to what we're hearing: "With help from others, they unleashed themselves onto an unsuspecting pop, punk and AOR-loving world in 1980, with some live performances in San Francisco (once as a support act to A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS)."
Avatar 1:13pm
annie:

sorry i'm late; technical things.. ya dig?
Avatar 1:15pm
Tony Coulter:

I dig. Welcome, Annie!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:17pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Like the Zappa-esque & humorous elements. Says old cartoons were a touchstone for them...tiny bit movie score-like that way...Club Foot Orchestra were Bay Area too...Don't always hear Zappa associated w/ Progressive Rawk in people's talk - but I tend to it seems...
Avatar 1:21pm
Tony Coulter:

They're a bit like Birdsongs of the Mesozoic too, methinks.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:22pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...or, Zappa by way of ELP...that sounds good TC...trying to imagine them w/ Flock of Seagulls - hm...
Avatar 1:23pm
Tony Coulter:

I have a second tape of them live at the same space around 8 days later. They seem more frustrated with the audience, somehow -- maybe that was the A Flock of Seagulls gig.
Avatar 1:25pm
βrian:

Seagulls make for notoriously unruly audiences, especially when french fries are involved.
Avatar 1:26pm
Tony Coulter:

Ha!
  1:28pm
Dean:

A little classical medley recital here.
  1:29pm
Dean:

Ravel?
Avatar 1:31pm
βrian:

It's the UnRavel.
  1:33pm
Dean:

"Ravel" is one of those words that carries both its affirmative and negative senses, both entangle and disentangle.
Avatar 1:42pm
Tony Coulter:

Wish all my live concert tapes sounded as good as this Cartoon thingee -- sound-quality wise, I mean. If they did, I'd play such tapes more often here on Tape Hiss. I figure there's no point in subjecting you to murky sludge.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:43pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Incorporating Live radio dial spinning - very 'I Am the Walrus' - & saw SonicYouth end a show w/ TV News on a tiny set very creatively...
Avatar 1:47pm
Tony Coulter:

There's some definite Stravinsky/ Bartok action going on here...
Avatar 1:49pm
Tony Coulter:

Style-wise, I mean -- not specific quotes.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:53pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Modernist touchstones - for Zappa himself evens (he dug Varese, & so on). The radio dial could be Ives-ish, for that matter...
  1:55pm
Dean:

Trying to figure out where Performance Arts Theater was in SF. Generic name makes searching difficult.
Avatar 1:56pm
Tony Coulter:

I imagine Cartoon would have made it a lot bigger if they had formed in the early/mid '70s. The '80s weren't exactly a commercially promising time for their kind of music. Funny how even their band photo looks totally '70s.
Avatar 1:56pm
Scraps:

this is awfully good
Avatar 1:56pm
annie:

the downstairs cat wants to know if i'm ok, she hears all this noise. i told her is was music.. she was cool with that.
Avatar 1:57pm
Tony Coulter:

Heya, Scraps! Glad you like it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:58pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...gonna say - must admit my impression from their photo was one guy looked VanHalen-ish & another ThreeDogNightish - & - 'just some cassette band'...The Club Foot Orchestra I have is on cassette tho', so stuff those preconeptions...
Avatar 1:59pm
annie:

i'm really enjoying it..
Avatar 1:59pm
Tony Coulter:

Of course, even in the '70s Cartoon couldn't have gotten too far, commercially speaking, with this type of music. But perhaps they could have reached a Happy the Man level of semi-fame?
Avatar 2:00pm
Tony Coulter:

@ Annie: Happy to hear you likee!
  2:01pm
Dean:

@RRN63: Precisely. Guy at 2:00 is Michael Anthony. Guy at 9:00 is from TDN.
  2:01pm
βrian:

When in doubt, ask a cat.
  2:01pm
Dean:

Guy at 6:00 is Keith Emerson (aptly), and 3:00...Dee Snyder's brother?
Avatar 2:02pm
annie:

i do!!
and, actually, i think the cat just wants to come up and dance
  2:02pm
Dean:

Finally, bringing the supergroup that never was together, the charismatic front man and vocalist, at 11:00, Eddie Money.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:03pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

That's it! The Emerson guy & the bandname shoulda been the clues...Just watch - the Emerson guy is probably the drummer anyhow...
Avatar 2:03pm
βrian:

I recognize the guy @ 6:00 in the Goosewind cover. A local street character.
Avatar 2:05pm
βrian:

... a kind of luminary, you might say.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:06pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...& - a cartoon shows how the Proggy Classicist portrays the seagull problem (if it Links to the whole zine, it's page 2 - the Heraldry...I tried *real* hard to get it to Link right on my old Mac here...) :
www.facebook.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:10pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

The body of that Bass looks like it's been torched Hendrix-style...prob just paint jobs...
Avatar 2:11pm
Tony Coulter:

That photo is not from this session on now -- didn't take any photos, unfortunately.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:12pm
doctorjazz:

Great show...really loving this Catalogue set!
Avatar 2:16pm
Tony Coulter:

Thanks, doctorjazz! This is from back in the days before I got lazy about having live music on my show ... and now, of course, live music would be pretty much impossible to pull off (here in my house in Portland, I mean).
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:17pm
Webhamster Henry:

Nice show again, from the vaults!
Avatar 2:19pm
Tony Coulter:

Thanks, Webhamster!!

Probably my biggest regret about all the years I was able to do my show at FMU's studios is the fact that I so rarely had people play live. I'm just a lazy bastard, I guess.
Avatar 2:21pm
Tony Coulter:

At any rate, I'm glad I still have a good-quality recording of this set, on a metal cassette.
Avatar 2:24pm
Tony Coulter:

One track from this set is on this station comp: www.discogs.com...
Avatar 2:26pm
Tony Coulter:

Credited to "Jac Berrocal / Jean Francois Pauvros / Jonathan Kane"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:29pm
doctorjazz:

Quite a list of musicians on the comp!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:42pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Indeed.
...These guys more just like Electric Miles & stuff - Fusion rather than Prog, I suppose - & a later Post-Punk sensibility...The three units presented make a good compare & contrast - Cheers...
Avatar 2:45pm
Tony Coulter:

Forgot to mention: Catalogue's regular drummer, Gilbert Artman, is also the leader of Urban Sax and Lard Free.
  2:54pm
Santos L Halper:

This is The End...my Tape Hiss friends.
Thanks Tony, cool stuff today.
Avatar 2:55pm
Tony Coulter:

You're welcome, Santos!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:55pm
JtotheK:

thanks Tony, enjoyed the show!
Avatar 2:55pm
Tony Coulter:

Thanks for showing up, everyone! See you next week....
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:59pm
listener james from westwood:

Glad to catch the rare pre-archives, pre-my-even-listening-to-WFMU Catalogue set! Thanks, Tony!
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