Song Of the Day: Sept. 4, 2005
The Trypes - A Plan Revised
From Luxury Condos Coming To Your Neighborhood Soon
compilation LP, Coyote Records, 1985
In our effort to bring you all of the Feelies-related stuff we can find, here's a track by the Trypes, the Feelies side project that eventually turned into Speed The Plough. The Trypes also had a lovely EP on Coyote, "The Explorer's Hold" which featured a cover of George Harrison's "Love You To," as well as "The Undertow," a track that would later appear on a Feelies LP.
Sorry about the noise on this track. I tried several copies of this album, and none of them were terribly satisfactory.
8 Comments:
Excellent choice! I just found a replacement copy of The Explorers Hold in a used bin here in STL. Still sounds amazing.
Having almost lived in the backroom of Maxwells...the after hour party mish-mosh of Feelies/Bongos/Trypes/Hoboken Ho-Dads was something to behold!
Repoz-
Tell me more. Ira Kaplan has told me a few stories about the Feelies' idiosyncrasies...They are the band I most regret never having seen.
Best,
Jon
I missed the backroom shenanigans, but certainly saw my share of Feelies Maxwell's show. Probably one of the top 5 bands I have ever seen. Wake Ooloo never quite filled that gap...
Jon,
I saw them at the Bottleneck, and I remember Brenda(?) being upset at a smoker in the front row. Remember the pre-ban days when you couldn't see a thing over six feet up in that place?
Cody
That was no smoker...that was one of my roomies. Dasko, to be exact.She was polite he was ... persistent. They didn't play very much more after that.
The Feelies were playing a ferocious show in Charleston SC...for Only Life..and someone flicked a still-smoking butt toward the stage. It landed on the lip of Bill Millions monitor and just sat there...burning. Still burning. Still burning. They were in the middle of Crazy Rhythms and were starting to smolder themselves, but Millions just.couldn't.stop.staring. at that ciggy burning down on his equipment. I didn't want them to lose this groove so I leaned over a litle girl, picked it up and flicked it back into the crowd. He nodded his thanks and got back to business.
That was fun. They were great..
This song is wonderful. Thanks for this!
I saw the Feelies open for Lou Reed in '89 at Memorial Hall. Wish I could remember more about their set in particular.
Jon, I'd be interested to hear more about your conversations with Ira Kaplan.
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