TUESDAY - demos '96/97

Tuesday were from Elgin and came from the great slapstick breakup in 1996.... I liked these guys. They played a lot of shows as a three piece, did the demo tape, had some of it released on a cd called 'early summer', which surprisingly not on it as it was the best song from this tape.. then they released a full length album called 'freewheelin', added a new member after that and kind of slowly faded away as Dan moved on to do bigger "better" things. I saw these guys so many times from the beginning to the end, which went pretty quick. One show in Milwaukee I saw them do a cover of 'surrender' by cheap trick and they never did it again. The last time I saw them was some "small" VFW show for food not bombs that I can confirm had My Lai playing, and maybe any of these other bands: The Valentines, The Broadways, and maybe even a veeeery early incarnation of The Brokedowns, but if i'm remembering it right maybe those guys (and they were all different guys except for Bronco) were just AT the show. Regardless, it was mostly unattended, bands & friends were playing softball out back, it was some Sunday night at the end of the summer and I had school the next day. Tuesday did a lot of great new songs that they had been playing out for a while, and I was really hoping to see a new album/release, but in an instance that plagues the punk rock world quite often this never came to be.

By that night Dan was already in the process of moving on into the rockstar world of the band "Matt Skiba featuring the Alkaline Trio" (i think that is what they are called), I don't know what Matt Stamps or Tyler did after Tuesday, but I do know Robbie Kelenberger went on to drum in the Smoking Popes (post reunion) before quitting that band to be a manager somewhere, or something like that.
Enjoy.

Sound quality here is awful - definitely has the "cassette" feel that the source of these tapes were... nothing much to do about that.

Tracks 1-6 are the UNRELEASED 'freewheelin' demos, which have a more raw sound than they ended up having on the more pop oriented album, and two of the tracks hewre never made it to the album or ANYWHERE ELSE for that matter. Tracks 7-14 are the original demo they sold at shows until they had better sounding recordings to sell. not sure the source of this rip, but i would imagine it was probably pepito, as i got a similar tape from him in the mail sometime around 1998.

FREEWHEELIN DEMOS:
01 Dreamers Club
02 Disappear
03 Please Come Home
04 Time To
05 Everything Left Out
06 Too Much of Today
TUESDAY DEMO CASSETTE:
07 It's a Bright Light
08 That's Not Like Me
09 She's Not Your Pet
10 One Day of Peace Please
11 Put a Little Love in Your Heart
12 So Awake
13 Early Summer
14 Everybody Was in Love

get it here.

Lil Princess - Complete Recordings 2003-2006

I met Meg around the time she recorded the first two tracks here. She was so excited to get her celebrity "rap career" started, and I was excited for her too. A year of weird ups and downs and eventually I moved in with her after hanging out with her all summer in 2004. I don't know why it took another year for her to revive the project.

I may be off on this but I think the first show Lil Princess played was either very late in '05 or very very early in '06. The shows consisted of her wearing "outrageous" costumes (which weren't too far off from how she dressed in her day to day life anyways) singing along to the recordings, which Andy would stop/play/stop and also sing backups. At a show at Sonoteque with Hunter from Mahjongg Dj'ing, Meg played, Andy was out of town so I controlled tape duties that night. I think it may have been the same night she was supposed to have her legendary "rap battle" with her new found enemy Gene Lee, some loser from the west coast who faked his own suicide a year or so later. Can't remember if the battle ever happened or not, but it was widely advertised among social settings.

Sometime after she started recording, I had the idea for what I thought would be the best split record in the world. Lil Princess on side one, Ricky Kasso on two. RK was my short lived and not well thought out project I started after I more or less laid the whole "Amgam, Inc." moniker I was using since 2000 to rest. Drug problems, temporary insanity, general laziness and a thieving roommate were all very essential in why it DIDN'T come out. Someone Meg was seeing put out the first batch of songs on a cassette, which I felt was some sort of betrayal as I already had the plans to put them on record. Oh well. So she started working on new songs for that record, and those are the ones that fill up the rest of the recording. Things were pretty bleak and depressing in our world and I think it kind of shows through those later songs. Who knows?

Eventually towards the end of that year all of these songs (minus the interview) were put on a cd-r and handed out at Lil Princess shows. If anyone from Chicago got that cd and still has it - please get in touch about sending me a scan of Andy's cover art - I never had a physical copy.

About the recordings: they suffer from really bad 4 track hiss...
I don't know what 1 & 2 were recorded on, but everything else was recorded in the living room of the garbage dump we called home for 2 years at Rockwell "crackwell" & LeMoyne in Humboldt Park, Chicago Illinois. Andy came up with the music behind tracks 3-6, 7 used music from the movie Deep Throat, and tracks 8-10 were arranged by Meg & Andy with beats supplied by Julia a.k.a. Insect Deli. I guessed the track names because I am not sure if they were officially named or not. The interview came sometime later, and was conducted and aired in early 2007 by Chicago filmmaker Usama Alshaibi.

get it HERE.

1. Rapin Yo Dad '03
2. Song 4 Daddy '03
3. Daddy Daddy
4. Mailman Mailman
5. Psychic Hearts (thurston moore)
6. Michelle Ma Belle
7. Sex Song
8. Rapin Yo Dad '06
9. Make Me Sick
10. Matthew Shepard Song
11. J.B.R. Song
12. Song 4 Daddy '06 "Toxic Mix"
13. Interview

The "Complete" Golding Institute Singles

What we have here is a collection of 7"s that came out sometime in the '90s. Brought to us by the Golding Institute, which was the brainchild of one Gregg Turkington (who has ties Caroliner, Zip Code Rapists, Mr Bungle AND Neil Hamburger) who was seemingly inspired by the field recording albums which I believe were prominent in the mid 60's-early '70s. Here are all three 7" records released. Listen at your own risk, I'm not sure these things were meant to be heard all in one sitting!

I was going to put up a collection of Zip Code Rapists stuff a while back, however it is better off that I didn't because you can now once again OWN most of their creative output one one little disc available from eabla.com, a new record label.
There are some ZCR scraps and some live recordings I could put up here one day. Things that didn't make it to that new retrospective/'discography' disc. We'll see.

here they are.

Ipecac Recordings have gone and released ANOTHER Golding Institute Record called FINAL RELAXATION. It will help you through the "tough times" of life and help you take that one last step towards euthanasia. If you are ready to wander into the great beyond, please do not leave this lifetime without a copy of this A+ self help record. Apparently you can order a DIRECT audio file from ipecac, though I couldn't find a link to purchase a hard copy of the album through them. If you have already made up your mind and have a couple days left before your target date of leaving your body I suppose you could order said physical copy from amazon or another online retailer.

Monitor Radio.

Sorry for my disappearance. I'm not going to talk about that. Instead, I will give you these four tracks by the painfully under appreciated band MONITOR RADIO. They came and went. Curious parties would probably be happy to hear that in the beginning a guy named QUINTRON played guitar for them in the beginning, and appears on the first two tracks. While he was in Chicago he also ran the notorious "Milk of Burgundy" venue and put out noisy records of drum clanks. He moved to New Orleans and now makes solid dance records... I have also included a track from the camp skin graft cd, and a live set on WNUR. There are two things stopping this from being a (supposed) discography. Their half of the split with Lake of Dracula, "Brown Leather", though is played on the live track, and a song from the Lumpen Magazine compilation "Chicken Bomb" that is sort of mismatched track wise. Their contribution to that, "outro" is tagged on to another track. Band also featured Jeff Day and Emily O'Hara who were part of Bobby Conn's first backing band, and a guy named Lil Druzzi, who also goes by the name of Gabe Andruzzi and plays in some pretty big band from New York or California or something. Enjoy.

1. Observe: Spies
2. Halloween
3. Insouciance
4. Live on WNUR

get it.
I got the 7" and WNUR tracks from greg.
I got the pictures from some website (I own this record, but was too lazy to scan the cover)

Bobby Conn - Non Album Tracks

1996-2008, no record label.
Tracklist:
1. Who's the Paul?
2. Me, Most of All
3. Never Get Ahead (mostly clean chic a go go mix)
4. Sherman's Stick
5. The Power of the Aadams Family
6. The Language of Love (version 1)
7. I Love You
8. 69 Anne Erotique
9. Nehru Suit
10. The Whistler
11. California
12. The Language of Love (version 2)
13. Death to Wah-Wah
14. Seiko Shenai
15. Got to Get It
16. Washed in the Blood
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17: BONUS: In the Creamfields by MUNK featuring Bobby Conn on vocals.
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So this one is a years in progress collection that I started long ago. #1 performer in all of Chicago... These are songs that were on compilations, B sides, imports, etc.... heres a mostly complete list of where all of them came from:
1 - whos the paul 7". 2 - b side to 2nd single "never get ahead", 3. Chic-a-go-go CD, 4 - LUMPEN TIMES "chicken bomb" cd, 5 - some pinball magazine 7", 6, 7 - japanese llovvessonnggs import cd, 8 - skin graft records CAMP SKIN GRAFT NOW WAVE FIGHT OR FUCK cd, 10,11 - Chicago 2018 compilation, 12 - science in the shape of birds cd toyo records, 13 - ???, 14 - golden age japanese import, 15 - the homeland japanese import, 16 - thrill jockey PLUM 7" box set.

The Mushuganas - S/T

1996 (1998?), Rocco Records.
Tracklist:
1. Shut Your Fucken Mouth
2. Shit City
3. Aimed Wrong
4. I Want Attention
5. Another Girl, Another Planet
6. Wright City
7. Everyone
8. Donny Most
9. The Consequence of Overplay
10. Mistreated

get it here.


i'll write something special about this band when i'm feeling up to it. I'm really sick right now.

Jackofficers - Digital Dump

1990, Honest Abes Custom Records
Tracklist:
01 - Love - o - Matic
02 - Time Machines, Part 1
03 - Time Machines, Part 2
04 - L.A. Mama Peanut Butter
05 - Do It
06 - Swingers Club
07 - Ventricular Refibulation
08 - #6
09 - Don't Touch That
10 - An Hawaiian Christmas Song
11 - Flush

get it here.

Jacofficers were a one album offshoot for the Butthole Surfers Gibby Haynes and Jeff Pinkus. Supposedly very interested in the house music scene, they came up with their own version. What it sounds more like is a computerised version of a BS without vocals (though Gibby sings on a track or two..) Very sample heavy, very early computer music technology. I've also heard a story that the to guys actually played a couple Jackofficers shows - where they just put a cassette of this album in a boombox and pressed play and kind of danced to it - seems similar in theory to the Strangulated Beatoffs, who have played less than a handful of shows in their 20 year existence (another band for another day..)