Comments on: Jon longs for his youth, part 453.

by: Ron

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 18:41:07 +0000

This all reminds me of a night at the legendary JC Dobbs featuring The Wishniaks and Sex Clark Five. Both bands had releases on the Blood Money label I believe. What a fabulous roster and one of the best shows I ever saw.

by: Jake

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:23:34 +0000

I saw the Wishniaks play a weeknight show at Club Soda in Kalamazoo, Michigan, when they were touring for Catch 33. Bought the album from the band, and they crashed at my pals’ place. I hung out for a while and then drove the hour back to Grand Rapids where I had to work my summer job in the morning. You can pull that shit off when you’re underage and sober.

Still have the CD. Just pulled it out tonight and decided to see whatever happened to the band. May have to check out this Trolleyvox…

by: David M. Snyder

Thu, 16 Aug 2007 20:56:05 +0000

Bloodmoney started out as a label to be co-owned by me and Greg Beaudoin, publisher of magazine. We negotiated a p&d deal with Skyclad. As things went on, as is typical, Greg lost interest — just like he did with the mag, though it took him an extra ten years to admit that. Then Dave Hall, who owned Skyclad, started going nuts and hiding from the world. On top of that I soon became unemployed and put the label on permanent hiatus after doing the infamous Nixon’s Head single. In the meantime Dave Hall’s nuttiness caused him to not pay the rental on his storage room out in Pittsburgh. Thus all his stock was sold off at a Sheriff’s Sale, which no one bothered to call me about until months after the fact. That is why copies of have tended to be hard to find in the last fifteen years.

by: Barry

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 03:53:11 +0000

Anybody ever search for Wishniaks at Amazon?

Here’s what you get: http://www.amazon.com/Catch-33-Wishniaks/dp/B0009SQ62Y

Weird. Freaky, even.

I honestly didn’t remember the Wishniaks being a Swedish Death Metal group.

The more you know.

by: Andrew

Fri, 10 Aug 2007 21:19:52 +0000

I’m glad you remembered all that Austin ‘91 stuff, Mark, ‘cuz it’s all getting a bit hazy for me. I had no idea Holsapple was in attendance.

I definitely remember the freaky hail storm and you guys running outside to grab the golf ball-sized hail stones and shuttling them to the freezer. For years afterwards, I proudly displayed the dents on the van roof from the hail. I think Jon’s windshield was shattered by that storm, no?

The Wilma’s definitely lifted our spirits in ‘91. Half our tour had collapsed in Iowa and we decided to just drive down to SXSW and hang there all week. A good thing, too, as we had a blast. Bill Lloyd showed up at our set at that burger joint. I remember seeing Pylon, the River Roses (a future Little Hit post I’m planning), Dumptruck, Glass Eye, the Vulgar Boatmen, and the very last Let’s Active show ever, which was alarmingly great. Did the Reivers play that year? I seem to recall seeing them, too. Oh, and we were at the Daniel Johnston show at Tower, too. I just saw the Devil and Daniel Johnston movie and had no idea that that airplane incident was that very night. Yikes.

‘91 was fun, too. I think we were in Lawrence for nearly a week, but I only seem to recall hanging out in Jon’s room as he played me Bus Stop singles and all of us going to see Dick Tracy, which was perhaps one of the worst movies we’d ever seen!

Jon played me the ep by the David Kilgour project Stephen on Flying Nun. I’ve been looking for a copy ever since.

by: Pete

Wed, 08 Aug 2007 16:09:56 +0000

Thanks for posting this. I posted one side of The Wishniaks’ first single on my blog a while back for anyone who is interested:

http://floweringtoilet.blogspot.com/2007/03/wishniaks.html

I had booked The Wishniaks to play at my college, but the show fell through for reasons I explain in my post.

by: Barry

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 01:49:45 +0000

Yay! Wishniaks!

by: Stewart

Mon, 06 Aug 2007 05:07:41 +0000

Actually, Jim is the brains behind Transit of Venus, a fine new label whose releases so far include the latest and greatest by the Trolleyvox.

by: Mark Johnson

Sun, 05 Aug 2007 18:41:21 +0000

Jon - great post. Those were good times, my friend. Here are a few more Wishniaks / Wilmas memories:

Shortly after SXSW and their later summer visit to Lawrence, the Wishniaks were written up in Tower Magazine. They told the story of “these guys from Kansas who drove 17 hours just to see us” and had a photo of the band in front of The Bottleneck. I took the photo, but it was credited to “Jon Harrison”. Sigh.

Catch 33 was released by Blood Money / Skyclad, a label collarboration partially funded by entrepreneur music lover David Snyder. The Summer 91 issue of The Bob had a nice reveiw of The Wilmas’ Songs About Girls written by…David Snyder. Yippee!

On the March 91 Lawrence visit, I played roadie for the Wishniaks when they opened for Alex Chilton in KC. Jim Moran and I were hanging out in the green room when Mr. Chilton and his entourage entered. They fired up a bowl and offered to share, but we declined. We could have smoked pot with Alex Chilton, but we were good boys. Sigh.

At SXSW Spring 91, the Wishniaks stayed over in my one bedroom apartment after their Sunday night set. Oh, and Dave, Chris, Leisha, and Michelle were there too! The floor looked like a sleeping bag farm. After their killer set at the Cannibal Club (which was attended by Peter Holsapple!) we went to late night breakfast at the Magnolia Cafe with along with Dan O’Neill from Javelin Boot and Seth Tiven from Dumptruck! My fanboy heaven turned to hell though, as my “girlfriend” Michelle freaked out and hid in the bushes outside the resturant front porch. I am not exagerating. When I finally coaxed her out and we went back in, everyone was done eating and the check was on the way. Sigh.

If you look closely at the back cover of All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go, you can see the flyer for the Wishniaks/Wilmas show from the summer of 1990. Yippee!