Derek Bostrom, who drummed and (as I’ve learned) originally sang for The Meat Puppets, uploaded a host of early 1980s demos of the band, some made even before they started getting proper gigs.
Not only will you hear feral early versions of “H-Elenore”, “Unpleasant”, “Blue Green God” and “In A Car”, they do a host of wild and surprising (and contemporary) covers that range from Vom’s “Punkmobile” to The Flesh Eaters’ “Sleeping Sickness” to Wire’s “Outdoor Miner”.
How about we post last week’s podcast again, in case you haven’t streamed or downloaded it yet…?
You can pretty much set your watch by the arrival of a new DYNAMITE HEMORRHAGE RADIO podcast, every two or three weeks or so, give or take a few days on either end. Our newest edition is our fortieth (four-zero; #40) and was recorded on the 4th of July in a place where said day is utterly meaningless and uncelebrated. I’ve been enjoying larding these shows up with new stuff rather than mp3s from my outrageously bountiful mp3 collection (you should see it!), primarily because every two weeks I keep hearing new stuff I think is totally rad. Case in point: THE COOLIES, PIECE WAR, THE YAKKS, DARK TIMES, MEN OH PAUSE, POW!, WOLF GIRL and COLD BEAT – all brand new. All great – or else we wouldn’t play it, right?
There’s also the new reissue of The Flesh Eaters’ “A Minute To Pray, A Second To Die” to contend with, as well as important material that its essential you listen to from Tales of Terror, The Milky Ways, Naked Spots Dance and others. It’s one hour and a few minutes, and it’s available for download on iTunes and Soundcloud and in other spots as well – like right here.
Download Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio #40.
Stream or download Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio #40 on Soundcloud.
Subscribe to the show on iTunes.Track listing:
YAKKS – Sonja is a Racist
PIECE WAR – Call on Me
COLD BEAT – Falling Skylines
POW! – One Eyed Scorpion
WOLF GIRL – Freudian Slips
USELESS EATERS – Desperate Living
MEN OH PAUSE – Concrete Woman
NAKED SPOTS DANCE – Crescendo/Circle Moon
MEAT PUPPETS – Unpleasant
WORKDOGS – Funny $
THE COOLIES – God Take Me
MILKY WAYS – Guillotine
THE JONESES – Pillbox
TALES OF TERROR – Romance
GANG GREEN – Kill a Commie
DARK TIMES – Be Cool
THE FLESH EATERS – Divine HorsemanSome past shows:
Dynamite Hemorrhage #39 (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #38 (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #37 (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #36 (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #35 (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #34 (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #33 (playlist)
Dynamite Hemorrhage #32 (playlist)
Polaroids of the MEAT PUPPETS, live in Phoenix 1980. This is when they were playing hardcore punk in such a wacked-out, wild fashion that it came across as pure mockery, and very often was. I heard them on the Maximum RocknRoll Radio show not long after this and thought it was the greatest band name I’d ever heard to date.
I promptly told my friends in middle school that I was “listenin’ to the Meat Puppets these days”, though the truth was I couldn’t handle them until at least 4 few years later.
To close out September in fine style, I’ve strung together 21 quality rocknroll compositions, grouped them into logical clusters, added some pithy and often insightful commentary, and called it DYNAMITE HEMORRHAGE RADIO, Edition #21. It’s the bi-weekly podcast I do. I hope you download it, or maybe stream it if you’d like. New stuff this time from Neonates, Los Tentakills, Ruby Pins, The Ar-Kaics and even the queen of swinging mademoiselle French pop herself, Clothilde.
Old(er) stuff this time leans loud, but not exclusively: Myelin Sheaths; Tyvek; early Meat Puppets; The Only Ones at their most “punk”; Terminal Waste Band even the disco/dub/krautrock band Tussle. I made it for you, so at least you should try a couple minutes, right? Oh – and this hideous Avant Gardener sleeve was deliberately chosen as the “art” for this episode. You can’t look away.
Download Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio Podcast #21
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Track listing:
TYVEK – Duck Blinds
NEONATES – Tres
RED CROSS – Pseudo-Intellectual (demo)
MYELIN SHEATHS – Everything is Contagious
BE YOUR OWN PET – Food Fight
THE ONLY ONES – Language Problem
CLOTHILDE – Je T’ai Voulu Et Je T’Ai Bien Eu
TERMINAL WASTE BAND – Dial M For Monkey
MARZIPAN – I Believe
FLY ASHTRAY – Soap
AVANT GARDENER – Back Door
LOS TENTAKILLS – Have You For My Own
THE AMBERJACKS – Hey Eriq!
THE AR-KAICS – Sick and Tired
SILVER SHAMPOO – Ladders
MEAT PUPPETS – Blue Green God
L-SEVEN – Secrets
RUBY PINS – Lost Art
THE SPLINTERS – Hot Hands
THE VAMPS – Carving Knife
TUSSLE – Here It Comes
Past Shows:
At one point (1980-81) THE MEAT PUPPETS were so experimental and deranged that they fit best on bills with arty synth bands and weird hardcore punk/goth bands who spit fake blood on stage. I’d have enjoyed this night of Los Angeles debauchery very much had I not been such a young’un at the time.
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This is the fifth edition of DYNAMITE HEMORRHAGE RADIO, just over an hour of spastic art, jittery pop, wiry punk, doofus garage and bombastic hard-n-heavy rocknroll.
Track listing:
THE BRENTWOODS – Little Barfy Bobby
PRIESTS – Personal Planes
MEAT PUPPETS – Unpleasant
SILVER SHAMPOO – Insect Eyes
TRUE BELIEVERS – Accept It!
SALLY SKULL – The Running Kind
HUNDRED VISIONS – Hot Trash
THE RONDELLES – Backstabber
MIL MASCARAS – I Said So Far
KAIT0 – Thwipside
THE SAFARIS – Kick Out
TYVEK – Say Yeah
DEAD ANGLE – Why Don’t You
THE GERMS – Forming #2
HOUSEHOLD – Shreds
UNIT 4 – Rules
USELESS EATERS – Proper Conduct
THE BRISTOLS – Turn It On
PAMELA – Coffin (Nails)
LUNG LEG – Palmolive
OH-OK – Person
FREE KITTEN – One Forty Five
HUMAN INSTINCT – Black Sally
DYNAMITE HEMORRHAGE RADIO PODCAST #5 is here….
It’s another week, it’s another DYNAMITE HEMORRHAGE RADIO PODCAST. This is the fifth edition of the show, just over an hour of spastic art, jittery pop, wiry punk, doofus garage and bombastic hard-n-heavy rocknroll. I’m your host, I’m afraid. The show is recorded direct-to-laptop in a 10×10 room in San Francisco, California. It’s, like, almost a real radio show and stuff. You can download or stream it, and scroll down after the track listing here and please download the other 4 shows while you’re at it. “Your ears will thank you”.
Download Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio Podcast #5
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Track listing:
THE BRENTWOODS – Little Barfy Bobby
PRIESTS – Personal Planes
MEAT PUPPETS – Unpleasant
SILVER SHAMPOO – Insect Eyes
TRUE BELIEVERS – Accept It!
SALLY SKULL – The Running Kind
HUNDRED VISIONS – Hot Trash
THE RONDELLES – Backstabber
MIL MASCARAS – I Said So Far
KAIT0 – Thwipside
THE SAFARIS – Kick Out
TYVEK – Say Yeah
DEAD ANGLE – Why Don’t You
THE GERMS – Forming #2
HOUSEHOLD – Shreds
UNIT 4 – Rules
USELESS EATERS – Proper Conduct
THE BRISTOLS – Turn It On
PAMELA – Coffin (Nails)
LUNG LEG – Palmolive
OH-OK – Person
FREE KITTEN – One Forty Five
HUMAN INSTINCT – Black Sally
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One of the coolest and more equanimous things I’ve ever seen done in music history was the time the LA synth/artpunk band MONITOR decided to give one track on their own album to their Arizona pals THE MEAT PUPPETS.
The result, sitting there near the end of Side 2 of the 1981 “Monitor” LP, is this track, “Hair” by the Meat Puppets. It sounds like nothing else on the record; and indeed, like nothing else in the universe. Play loud, preferably at work.
Just received one of those newfangled cassette-transfer contraptions in the mail recently, one of those things that lets you take ancient cassette tape recordings and transfer them into new, improved digital versions. Even figured out how to use it. Just in the nick of time, too – I mean, I have a garage full of 1980s mix tapes, live show recordings, and radio shows I once did in college moldering and decaying. Another year or two and they’d be sawdust. This post is the first of several rescue/reclamation projects.
On June 14th, 1989, a 21-year-old version of me did his final “White Trash” radio show on KCSB-FM in Santa Barbara, CA, as he graduated from college that very week. It was taped, and after festering in aforementioned garage for 24 years, was transferred this evening and uploaded for what interested parties there might be to then download and listen to. Having listened to the tape for the first time in at least 20 years before digitizing it tonight, it naturally brings forth much embarrassment – so please humor me and let me add a few careful disclaimers in case you wanna listen to it (and you should – the music is smokin’).
After doing a radio show at KCSB for four years, and having had access to all the records in their library (and being a rabid music hound/record collector of the most obsessive order), I got to be fairly knowledgeable in the limited punk rock/heavy underground rock genres I’d permitted myself to like. My dismissive, albeit very studied, insecure cockiness is on display in this show. I’m not sure I’d actually like this DJ right now as a human being if I was hearing him on the radio for the first time. Though I love every song I played in this, “My Top 40 favorite songs of all time” show, I can’t believe how dudely it all is. For the 1989 version of me, it was all dudes, all punk, all raw and all aggressive. The only chicks allowed were those rare cool ones from The Bags, The Avengers and Sonic Youth. That’s it. The Fall sucked already, and The Lazy Cowgirls were the best live band in the world.
It’s also preposterous that someone with such a limited musical life experience and frame of reference could even deign to determine a 40-greatest-songs-of-all-time list. As you might expect, approximately 37 of mine came from the 1980s. One of the highlights/lowlights of this show is the recording that starts the show, a nervous, mealy-mouthed 16-year-old me doing a “guest DJ” slot on KFJC (on the “Ransome Youth Show”) in 1983. Then the 21-year-old me mocks him mercilessly, with all the wisdom and experience that 5 years of perspective and deep life experience brings.
Now that I’m doing a fake radio show podcast here in 2012/2013 – Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio – I was startled to see some identical on-air back-announce mannerisms crop up from ‘89 that mirror the blather I’m doing today. Hopefully you’ll enjoy forty dudely 70s/80s songs from the likes of The Pagans, Mudhoney, Black Flag, Scratch Acid, Die Kruezen, Electric Eels and more. I have even worse shows sitting in the garage ready to be rescued and maybe even posted at a later date.
Download “WHITE TRASH” Radio, June 14th 1989, KCSB-FM
DYNAMITE HEMORRHAGE RADIO PODCAST #2
Here’s the second edition of my phony radio show, turned into a podcast, with all sorts of music from the hitmakers of today, yesterday and tomorrow. Download it now and you’ll get 70 minutes of music from the likes of The Morlocks, Freelove Fenner, The In/Out, Die Kruezen, The Huns, Honeysuck, The Junior Chemists, The Long Blondes, Meat Puppets and much….much…..more.
Download Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio #2.
Track listing:
LONG BLONDES – Darts
PARQUET COURTS – Light Up Gold II
HACKAMORE BRICK – Oh! Those Sweet Bananas
THE MAX BLOCK – Sonic Blur
TELEVISION – Friction (1974 demo)
FREELOVE FENNER – Workshop
2x4s – Zipperheads
LOVE IS ALLL- Motorboat
KEEL HER – Riot Girl
THE MAYFAIR SET – Desert Fun
HONEYSUCK – Sleepaway Camp
DIE KRUEZEN – Don’t Say Please
PETTY CRIME – Mathematics
MEAT PUPPETS – Foreign Lawns
BUD & KATHY – Hang It Out To Dry
THE MORLOCKS – In The Cellar
THE MAKERS – Little Piece of Action
THE HUNS – Destination Lonely
JUNIOR CHEMISTS – Building a Fort
XYX – Sobrenada
NUMBERS – Intercom
THE IN/OUT – Club Blackout
HOUSEHOLD – Our Song
THE NIGHTS AND DAYS – These Days
USELESS EATERS– Year 11
THE WHINES – Straybird
If you missed the first edition of Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio, which I posted last week, you can download that here.
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