Song Of the Day: August 29, 2005
Thin White Rope - Some Velvet Morning
From "Red Sun," Demon Records EP, 1988
Folks will go on about Dinosaur Jr. and pre-WB Flaming Lips, but to me, these guys were THE psychedelic guitar band of the 80s. The extremely inventive interplay of Guy Kyser and Roger Kunkel's snaking guitars was supplemented nicely by judicious use of feedback, and whether the rhythm section was the weird and weedy one (first two albums) or the relentlessly piledriving one (everything else) there was always a splendid backdrop for Kyser's truly damaged world view and Tom Petty-as-possessed-by-Satan vocals. We lean a little more to the early records, but this band never did anything halfway.
This was one of many recorded TWR covers, many of which were rounded up on the odds and sods compilation Spoor (Frontier). Another one we like a lot is their version of Can's "Yoo Doo Right," from Sack Full Of Silver, which I find far more exciting than the original.
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THANK YOU, JON. This is one of my favorite moments in music history, (and especially bracketed by the live version on TOTGA), and had you not pushed this EP and TWR in general on me back in '89 or whenever, I may have been blind to it until they didn't matter. This really is one of the many bands that I probably would never have worshipped (and flat out ripped off) were it not for your influence.
And agreed, but ante upped: this was the quintessential guitar band of the 80's, psychedelic or no.
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