More information about this track (including Album Cover Art) can be experienced at

www.marccantlin.com

specifically at the February 13 2010 entry

… lyrics available here

Well, wrong speed more like it.

Sonic Youth has released a series of records on their own SYR label, many of which consist mainly of improvisations recorded in their studio during rehearsals or between and among album sessions. Most if not all of these releases are labeled in languages which are not English. The reasons for this are obscure…

I own two of these releases (#1 and #2, I believe …) and I like them quite well. I’ve had #2 for longer and played it more often, so last night I got out #1 to listen to while reading a short story by Irvine Welsh (which mentions heroin only briefly so sppbt to his reputation … we’ll see how the collection progresses, but so far the writing is really solid good and I would recommend it, the book is called The Acid House).

The Sonic Youth record was mellower than I recalled, pleasantly droning and pulsating, and after a minute or two a little light went on in my brain and I realized it was one of those increasingly-common large-sized 45rpm releases, which I was playing at 33&1/3.

I let it go. It sounded good. I will listen to side two today in the same manner.

It has become typical that I prefer those large-size 45rpm releases when played at the wrong speed. This first came to light during Marc Cantlin’s visit to Los Angeles back in the spring of 2009… said visit documented here:

Right around that time I had purchased a record by Akron/Family called “Set ‘Em Wild, Set ‘Em Free.” I sat down to listen to it and was really enjoying it a lot, really into it … and it took me half of side one (of four) to realize I was listening too slow. Or rather, the record was moving too slow. Perhaps I was listening too fast.

I returned the album to its intended speed and started over … to my great dissatisfaction. It was weak, lightweight, affected, even silly!* (On the other hand, I had discovered afro-grunge.)

For a taste of this madness, dig this video (both videos were taken by Volita Pearl and are posted from her you-tube page):

Since that time I have found in my collection also a record by Omar Rodriguez Lopez called, I think, “Please Heat This Eventually” with guest Damo Suzuki which I’ve been playing on the wrong speed for years and never realized. It’s better that way, trust me.

* To be fair to Akron/Family, who are a worthy group, the album sounds pretty good, especially sides 2-4, if you have not just listened to it at the wrong speed first. Contrast is, in this case, everything.

Otherwise still nothing much:

http://www.cosmicprimitive.com/

WIGGLED NO LONGER

This is an mp3 from a recent practice session of the Cantlin family supergroup: Albino Rhino. As yet, this is the only recording of theirs which is available in any way, shape, or form. They do not have a myspace page. They do not have a CD. But, like their rarely-sighted, myopic, blundering and sometimes dangerous namesake, they do exist.

This tune in particular was an improv, live to your earholes from Bethel, Vermont. They do have “actual” material, but you can not hear it, yet.

Meggan Cantlin - singing
Marc Cantlin - electric guitar
Chris Cantlin - electric bass guitar
Anthony Cantlin - drums

So there’s this little green record, and it’s been making me really happy.

I’ve been wanting to write about it for a while, but I wasn’t sure what to say about it.

I still don’t know what to say about it, except that I really like it, a lot.

The little green record is by TOMMY SANTEE KLAWS, and it seems to be called Apathetic Dental Technician 7″

Side A either has two songs or two titles, and they are: “Dead Leaves & Bumblebees” / “Crack & Chants”

Side B has one: “Methantiphon”

I think I’ve been listening to side B more … The music is slow and blissful, ethereal and also acoustically grounded. The human singing voices are unusual but lovely. The melodies are strong, timeless, and strangely un/familiar. The music reminds me of a way I’ve never felt. The vinyl format (and the green color!!) just add to to the vibration (I like to know something sizable is spinning rapidly while I listen … A CD doesn’t cut it, and mp3s don’t move no way nohow) …

This is one of the coolest things I’ve ever got from a band with whom I happened to be sharing a bill (Amanda Jo opened for them at the Highland Park Legion Hall). (Other extremely cool things from people I know would have to include Spleek Speaks by Marc Cantlin and anything by Matthew O’Neill)

To get your own copy of the Apathetic Dental Technician 7″, please investigate this link:

http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=99224827&blogId=484609492

This concludes the video survey of Marc’s adventures in Los Angeles… Herein are two final segments of the BRUCE performance at the place called Where.

Lest there be confusion: the music in these two videos is entirely different - there is no overlap - they just happen to look similar. Both of them feature 5-Track on guitar and singing, Marc on bass, and Scott “Mallets” Keil on the drums. Enjoy!!

BRUCE: Live At Where (part last) from Zlicious Productions on Vimeo.

Marc Cantlin (bass), 5-Track (guitar, singing), Scott Keil (drums) … the last bunch of jams from our June 5th performance at Where in Silverlake, Los Angeles, California, Earth. Jym “The Snake” Fahey, guest harmonicat. Video mainly by John Boyd, with some digression by various Where personnel (Danielle!!).

http://www.archive.org/details/Bruce2009-06-06.SanPedro

An evening in San Pedro (home of the Minutemen) with the band called BRUCE. We played very well almost in spite of ourselves (I think Scott had fun) in a prime example of what we used to call “The Wild Rover Effect” … This is a situation in which, for whatever reason, the band is not feeling it. Pushing that boulder up the hill, again and again, letting it roll back on top of you breaking every bone in your body twice, then get up and do it again … Extended energy jams to a room that wants to hear “Brown-Eyed Girl” …

But the tape doesn’t lie, even if it’s a minidisc, and we played a fine show. I’ve been enjoying listening to it, and I hope it does you some good.

Highlights might be said to include: Tinfoil Helmet, Tar, Lunar Sunrise, Too Many Looks, Clock Coda–>Moment–>Meal.

The setlist looks like this:

Cosmic Rays
Can’t Find The Ocean
Your Blue Monkey
(He’s Not Dead, He’s Just In) Texas
Happy Birthday!!
Blues For Horselover Fat
Too Many Looks
Tar
Hiding A Secret
Whiskey Priest
Pofis Shuffle
Lunar Sunrise
Galapagos
The Clock Song
Clock Coda –> I Don’t Want To Lose This Moment –> The Meal You Catch Yourself
(That’s) The Bag I’m In

designed by Jane Forever

BRUCE live at WHERE - the traditional opening improvisation, ie “Tapping The Channel,” in this case with Marc on guitar, 5-Track on bass, and Scott Keil on the drums.

BRUCE: “Whiskey Priest” –> “Tar” from Zlicious Productions on Vimeo.

Live at WHERE in Silverlake, Los Angeles, California, Earth, on June 5 2009. Marc Cantlin, guitar. 5-Track, bass. Scott Keil, drums. John Boyd, camera. This one has the “Sugar Plum Fairies” bit in it, for all you BRUCE-Heads. More video at http://www.5-Track.com/Bruce