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personnamedrosei forgot to dreamwidth for a while, whoops. uhhh still haven't gotten a job yet :/ i'm trying but even though everywhere is hiring it feels like no one is accepting, which kinda stings but not like i have much of a choice. typing this out made me spend some time applying to semi-local places though so hey, that's a good thing!
today i relistened to the earliest ween show we have full video and audio of - a show at Maxwell's from November 1987! the audio's kinda distorted but it is what it is. a lot of the songs are their usual brand of noisy punk songs from around this era (the only song on the setlist that would make it to their debut is a kinda embryonic version of its opening track You Fucked Up) but refined past the cruddy recordings they made with a radioshack DJ kit as 14-15 year olds. the version of Nippy Wiffle on this is nearly equal to the officially released live version from about half a year later, if only for the fact dean quotes Third Stone From The Sun in the middle (3:42) and that rocks.
aside from that, other highlights are the admittedly sloppy but kinda charming rendition of the beatles' Why Don't We Do It In The Road (6:20) that never resurfaced as a studio demo and the only known live recordings of the Axis: Bold As Boognish tracks I'm Killing It (10:41) and The Iron Whore (12:43 the banter is important). also, Refrigerator rocks, as usual.
i feel like kind of a weirdo for enjoying their super early stuff because like, objectively, even the first album has miles and miles of more talent over this, nevermind all the stuff afterwards (the mollusk? quebec?? hell even la cucaracha???). i feel like part of it comes from the fact i used to make similar bad noise punk like they did at my age then, it was me and a school friend with a crappy practice amp and his bass + guitar and we did covers of dead kennedys + SOAD songs and wrote about our math teacher being bald and born 2 shit and stuff. and like, objectively all that stuff is worth about as much as a political promise or a grain of sand, and yet i get more enjoyment out of it than like... our attempts at writing serious songs, or MY attempts at writing serious songs when the pandemic hit.
i dunno, this music shit is weird sometimes. i have no idea if anyone's reading these as i post them but i like keeping that a secret in my head, unless you wanna like tell me you read them in which case that's cool by me! it's just like, this is a good space to type things i don't normally talk about because it's like... a quiet place. i like quiet places.
oh yeah!! also wait one more thing. since the last time i posted here i got a drum machine and it's so cool, it's the Mattel Synsonics which is i think probably the last cheap analog drum machine. this comes at the caveat of it being super primitive, but it's still a cool thing i like toying with. here's a thing i recorded with it about a guy who's one inch tall.
maybe i'll write about things outside of my comfort range next time. like obviously not like stuff that's tooo deep but stuff i don't usually discuss that i probably ought to, just to get it "out". y'know? like gender and stuff, it's hard for me to talk about my gender because it's super complicated but i figured out how to describe it in one sentence the other day which was mind blowing to me.
but that's for future me to find out because it's 1 am oh my GOD i am going straight the fuck to bed.
today i relistened to the earliest ween show we have full video and audio of - a show at Maxwell's from November 1987! the audio's kinda distorted but it is what it is. a lot of the songs are their usual brand of noisy punk songs from around this era (the only song on the setlist that would make it to their debut is a kinda embryonic version of its opening track You Fucked Up) but refined past the cruddy recordings they made with a radioshack DJ kit as 14-15 year olds. the version of Nippy Wiffle on this is nearly equal to the officially released live version from about half a year later, if only for the fact dean quotes Third Stone From The Sun in the middle (3:42) and that rocks.
aside from that, other highlights are the admittedly sloppy but kinda charming rendition of the beatles' Why Don't We Do It In The Road (6:20) that never resurfaced as a studio demo and the only known live recordings of the Axis: Bold As Boognish tracks I'm Killing It (10:41) and The Iron Whore (12:43 the banter is important). also, Refrigerator rocks, as usual.
i feel like kind of a weirdo for enjoying their super early stuff because like, objectively, even the first album has miles and miles of more talent over this, nevermind all the stuff afterwards (the mollusk? quebec?? hell even la cucaracha???). i feel like part of it comes from the fact i used to make similar bad noise punk like they did at my age then, it was me and a school friend with a crappy practice amp and his bass + guitar and we did covers of dead kennedys + SOAD songs and wrote about our math teacher being bald and born 2 shit and stuff. and like, objectively all that stuff is worth about as much as a political promise or a grain of sand, and yet i get more enjoyment out of it than like... our attempts at writing serious songs, or MY attempts at writing serious songs when the pandemic hit.
i dunno, this music shit is weird sometimes. i have no idea if anyone's reading these as i post them but i like keeping that a secret in my head, unless you wanna like tell me you read them in which case that's cool by me! it's just like, this is a good space to type things i don't normally talk about because it's like... a quiet place. i like quiet places.
oh yeah!! also wait one more thing. since the last time i posted here i got a drum machine and it's so cool, it's the Mattel Synsonics which is i think probably the last cheap analog drum machine. this comes at the caveat of it being super primitive, but it's still a cool thing i like toying with. here's a thing i recorded with it about a guy who's one inch tall.
maybe i'll write about things outside of my comfort range next time. like obviously not like stuff that's tooo deep but stuff i don't usually discuss that i probably ought to, just to get it "out". y'know? like gender and stuff, it's hard for me to talk about my gender because it's super complicated but i figured out how to describe it in one sentence the other day which was mind blowing to me.
but that's for future me to find out because it's 1 am oh my GOD i am going straight the fuck to bed.
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