Moonsocket - '19 little songs' (Sap003)

This is a 1993-indie classic album that you should really hear in full. .... if you are someone who appreciates the nuances of lo-fi home recording at their most sincere.

If you would like to hear a ~six song selection....

Moon socket continues to make music.

^^ Id write sappy musings about my affection for this tape in my past. ... but I wont.,,,,

Julie Doiron & The Wooden Stars (july 1999, The Rivoli)

The title speaks for itself.

Julie Doiron and The Wooden Stars return a year later for a set at the Rivoli.

A much darker set list than the previous year...

....another Radio Shack recording....

01 Too Much
02 Gone, Gone
03 Au Contraire
04 Sorry Part 2
05 Long Winter
06 Best Things For Me
07 The Last Time
08 Sweeter


Hear

I Found This Box of 7s

And now for a twist.  After the parents brought me the last of my remnants, I found this box of 7” s.

I won’t share much more of these, but I decided to rip a representative EP (~20 minutes).

The tracks below were ripped by me, this past week, from the vinyl I have in hand.

Most of this music is representative of the Canadian maritime indie music from the 1990s                .
(only Sentridoh/Elliott Smith are from the American west coast)

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               Box Of Sevens

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01           Losercore            Sentridoh

02           Accept Fear             Moonsocket

03           M                                Elevator

04           What are your Coords.  Snailhouse

05           Fatherhood                        Plumtree

06           Two Minutes Faster             Shotgun & Jaybird

07           Needle in the Hay                   Elliott Smith

08           Thunder and Lightning               Purple Knight

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Hear 

Julie Doiron & The Wooden Stars, Toronto, (afternoon, July 1998)

I recorded this in the “back room” of Cameron House (or was it Horseshoe?)   

Noone has heard this recording beyond myself....

 Julie Doiron &The Wooden Stars   (*Wooden Stars Opener)

They played a 6pm, summer set, July 1998. And despite the beating heat, and beating dance music from the other room.  A crowd of no more than 20 people were packed in the back to listen.  The path from the dance hall to the washroom ran right through the crowd in the back... I remember Mike F was quitting smoking... but had to bum one ... I hope that worked out. .... regardless,

 I brought my tape deck.

The album of the same name eventually came out in early 2000.
 This was a kind of 'early rehearsal'...   and as tight as on recording day. IMO.
         .. more jazzy even....
                (the album itself should have been more 'off the floor' itself...even though it already was....)

The highlight = all of it, or tracks 3/ 6/  9  (really)    .... or, in 'a song':     Drums&Horns
… but throughout, a really tight set; more so, after each and every song… despite slow starts... 

 This is ‘quality’ audio, for a Radio Shack mono tape deck.

TRACKS

0 it is okay to stare (solo)

1 again (solo)

2 so fast

3 sorry

4 sooner or later

5 the longest winter

6 drums and horns
7  banter

8 tonight, we sleep

9 dance me

 hear

* Backing music of James Brown on track 3 is copyrighted... :P

** .and if you are here: watch for JD&TWS July 99 @ Rivoli...... coming.....

Evie - Forever (1995)

Evie,

Their first home recorded cassette also came out, (in coincidence to my first post)  in November 1995…

Evie took their name from an Eric’s Trip song, much as Eric’s Trip took a name themselves, five  years prior, from a track off of Sonic Youth’s  Daydream Nation (1988) …

Evie released  a half dozen cassettes, as a hobby, home recording their songs, from Swan Lake MB (1995- 2000)…

I think  specifically mail ordered each of them, back then, as they came out… Because I should have.

Today I’ll share their first EP

Top tracks:  ”Elarsi Hears”   “Kiss and Tell“   “Ownership”

Enjoy:

Evie - Forever (1995)

And Another Box.... hrmm

... and another.... a bit more scattered.. but some gems in there.... coming soon to "Ifoundthisboxoftapes" .....

I Found this Box of Tapes- Eric's Trip@Lee's 1995

Hello.

I found this box of tapes.        Maybe this blog is why it never got tossed.

Much of it its live recordings i did myself with a mono tape deck. no soundboard here. just fan-dom bootlegs.  The rest is tapes you probably could not find, even then, even if you wanted to.

Once in a while I'll' share a rip down.

Lets open big with:
Eric's Trip. Lee's Palace, All Ages, November 1995.

It is not my recording. but my most favorite "tape trade" score... because I was there:

** I was lucky enough to have Julie field my questions, for my zine, after this classic "all ages show". I was 15. I was in heaven.

** I was also lucky enough at this same show, to catch a stray broken drumstick, compliments of Marky G. It ricocheted into the crowd on a real hard hit,

** .. and to have my Elevator to Hell LP Parts1/2 signed by all involved.

**...and to have my Love Tara CD back inlay sleeve signed, so that, when I swapped out a clear tray, and you lifted the CD, the 4 signatures would be visible...  yeah.


Note: The B-side  track: "finale" is actually Rick and Mark doing a  "mary and death" feedback session. Ill upload that when I do the B-Side: Pop Explosion 95.






So it begins:   Eric's Trip - Live @ Lee's. 'afternoon' Nov 95   (*mislabeled as May 11, 95)


Watch for live sets from Plumtree, Julie Doiron, Snailhouse, Peter Elkas, Craig Cardiff,  Elevator, Eric's Trip,  Wooden Stars, etc.

#thunderandlightning