Old Tom Clark
Ah the random walk of passed down histories and anecdotes with their related connections and lineages embelished with half-heard/felt recommendations and overstatements that is my ever-growing (but also ever diminishing through lost thoughts) understanding of rock'n'roll. As mentioned previously, my current life mode involves change/movement which equals parts nostalgia, remembrance and future-planning. Why did I get this? or better Who recommended it? Who was I trying to impress, who did I want to get to know better? What still holds true? For long periods the records I pursued and desired where ones mentioned by friends (with which I would compare notes --> macho bullshit collector caveats to some degree telling) or guides who's taste I trusted/envied. First my brother, through Ed & Stefan, and shared record scavenging w/ Dan or Golnar or whoever, and while at Kim's Loy. (the last couple of years this has become less my mode of listening to music, as it's become more of a solitary journey through disco & electro & the world's music & whatever - not as many of the "guess what record i just found" or "have you heard of" conversations).
Ah, Loy, talker extraordinaire, at heart a mid 90's indie/college rocker grown to be lover of Jazz & Punk & everything else. These days he does things like running a small improv/noise label and being a DJ on WFMU as well as being a father & lawyer (i think; i'm not good at keeping in touch). In my post college NYC-Kim's days, he worked part-time in the music department and we shared DJ sets at the Ding Dong Lounge. While we djed (on Thursday nights to an audience of four or five TOPS) he loved to sing along to Pere Ubu's Navvy ("I've got these arms & legs that flip flop flip flop") and expound on the greatness of the John Coltrane Quartet ("best band ever"), Joni Mitchell, the first Hawkwind record, etc all the while getting plastered on free drinks & talking out of his ass half the time. Music Snob/Elitist in the good way and very GOOD GUY.
One of the records he would play, and which I've looked for (on vinyl) since, was Mayo Thompson's "Corky's Debt to His Father." A solo record recorded after Mayo (temporarily) put the Red Crayola to bed in the 60's. It's always pitched as a skewed 'pop' record, but it's really not that far from the second Red Crayola record on International Artists - the songs are a little more composed and expanded, but it's not like the difference btw Bowie "Low" and "Young Americans" or Whatever. This has been available on CD (and in limited quantities on Lp) from Drag City for a while - probably since RC (now RK) reformed for the third time w/ Chicago post-rockers. I never bought the CD, considered it many times, but waited for vinyl. Obviously not the original Texas Revolution pressing, and luck for me (and $20 in the till for them) Drag City recently decided to repress it. (egging me on was a drag city 7" of 'old tom clark' from the same group of folks - also og on Texas Revolution, a quirky country great).
The song that Loy loved the most was "Horses," a lopping song w/ a quasi bossanova-ish beat & mayo's wandering warble over the top and some sweet simple acoustic guitar hooks. Loy playing it while Djing, blissfully singing along, was a beautiful thing that kept me looking for the record since.
Three years on, and me not having heard it since, the song still rings true to my ear.
"In my heart..."
PostScript: Did you know that George Hurley drummed on a couple v3 Red Krayola records? GREAT!
a good interview w/ Mayo
another one on Unterberger's site
Ah, Loy, talker extraordinaire, at heart a mid 90's indie/college rocker grown to be lover of Jazz & Punk & everything else. These days he does things like running a small improv/noise label and being a DJ on WFMU as well as being a father & lawyer (i think; i'm not good at keeping in touch). In my post college NYC-Kim's days, he worked part-time in the music department and we shared DJ sets at the Ding Dong Lounge. While we djed (on Thursday nights to an audience of four or five TOPS) he loved to sing along to Pere Ubu's Navvy ("I've got these arms & legs that flip flop flip flop") and expound on the greatness of the John Coltrane Quartet ("best band ever"), Joni Mitchell, the first Hawkwind record, etc all the while getting plastered on free drinks & talking out of his ass half the time. Music Snob/Elitist in the good way and very GOOD GUY.
One of the records he would play, and which I've looked for (on vinyl) since, was Mayo Thompson's "Corky's Debt to His Father." A solo record recorded after Mayo (temporarily) put the Red Crayola to bed in the 60's. It's always pitched as a skewed 'pop' record, but it's really not that far from the second Red Crayola record on International Artists - the songs are a little more composed and expanded, but it's not like the difference btw Bowie "Low" and "Young Americans" or Whatever. This has been available on CD (and in limited quantities on Lp) from Drag City for a while - probably since RC (now RK) reformed for the third time w/ Chicago post-rockers. I never bought the CD, considered it many times, but waited for vinyl. Obviously not the original Texas Revolution pressing, and luck for me (and $20 in the till for them) Drag City recently decided to repress it. (egging me on was a drag city 7" of 'old tom clark' from the same group of folks - also og on Texas Revolution, a quirky country great).
The song that Loy loved the most was "Horses," a lopping song w/ a quasi bossanova-ish beat & mayo's wandering warble over the top and some sweet simple acoustic guitar hooks. Loy playing it while Djing, blissfully singing along, was a beautiful thing that kept me looking for the record since.
Three years on, and me not having heard it since, the song still rings true to my ear.
"In my heart..."
PostScript: Did you know that George Hurley drummed on a couple v3 Red Krayola records? GREAT!
a good interview w/ Mayo
another one on Unterberger's site
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