Good Afternoon from Tallahassee.
December 31, 2014: I took the first- and second-ever PiL bootlegs out
for a stroll. For all the endless format/quality yammering over the 36
years since these albums were issued, it's no surprise that half-focused
audience recordings have always instilled the most profound thrills. Nubes was particularly inspiring. During Keith Levene's lacerating solo in
"Theme," you can hear a Rainbow Theatre audience member (presumably standing near
the taper) wilt and crumble with an agonized "Aaaauugghhhhhh!"
Sounds no one had ever before heard. I've since acquired (near) soundboard editions of
their first ten gigs, but these, my friends, engendered mystery...
TLASILA Blog: A forum for all things related (and of interest) to the experimental collective To Live and Shave in L.A. Founded by Tom Smith in May 1990, TLASILA is antithesis, energized at the juncture of aesthetic revulsion. Genre is obsolete.
Thursday, January 01, 2015
TLASILA 25/365: Loop #001
It'll be twenty-five years in May. Twenty-seven since I first saw the absurd VHS artwork for Ron Jeremy's profoundly noncommittal To Live and Shave in L.A. in the backroom of a smallish university town's lone semi-progressive video barn. I knew it was perfect. Drearily high, appallingly low. An incorruptible precursor. We've not been proved wrong.
In celebration, one new mix or loop (or multiples of same) per day for 365 days.
This is # 001.
Best,
Tom
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