just listened to Pere Ubu for the first time (1 Viewer)

[GO]

Youtube just suggested this video to me , I remember always hearing about them but I never checked them out ..its mad the way that happens!
Back in the old days I suppose it wasnt that easy to hear everything that you'd read about in zines or wherever

Anyway..pretty impressed by yer man Dave..gonne listen to the albums

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Have you any bands you only heard recently .or at least much later...after knowing their name for ever?

Another one that springs to mind are Red Lorry Yellow Lorry..I used to always see their album in Freebird.. and thought..what a shit name..I must check them out now for free!

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

I really like the first two. ( and early singles of course) Not familiar enough with later records,but would probably give them a go if I saw them around at a decent price.n

 

[magicbastarder]

would it be gauche for me to admit that i thought pere ubu were an afrobeat band?

 

[GO]

would it be gauche for me to admit that i thought pere ubu were an afrobeat band?

Its not a bad guess!

 

[therealjohnny]

Youtube just suggested this video to me , I remember always hearing about them but I never checked them out ..its mad the way that happens!
Back in the old days I suppose it wasnt that easy to hear everything that you'd read about in zines or wherever

Anyway..pretty impressed by yer man Dave..gonne listen to the albums

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Have you any bands you only heard recently .or at least much later...after knowing their name for ever?

Another one that springs to mind are Red Lorry Yellow Lorry..I used to always see their album in Freebird.. and thought..what a shit name..I must check them out now for free!

Same here. I had no idea they sounded or looked or behaved like this. His voice reminds me of something I can't place.

Come to think of it I think I sort of mentally confuse Pete Be and Les negress Verts.

 

[therealjohnny]

Put me in mind of this.. But they're not very similar at all

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[nuke terrorist]

Ubu did some shit stuff in after they reformed in late 80's - early 90's sort of sub Pixies college rock. Songs you'd struggle to remember what they sounded like 2 minutes later. That put a lot of people my age off them, other than the early records.

The first 4 singles and first LP are, rightly, landmark records.

I'm not sure where things came right for David Thomas again but later records in the 2000's are good, often harking back to their 70's era.

 

[dudley]

Youtube just suggested this video to me , I remember always hearing about them but I never checked them out ..its mad the way that happens!
Back in the old days I suppose it wasnt that easy to hear everything that you'd read about in zines or wherever

Anyway..pretty impressed by yer man Dave..gonne listen to the albums

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Have you any bands you only heard recently .or at least much later...after knowing their name for ever?

Another one that springs to mind are Red Lorry Yellow Lorry..I used to always see their album in Freebird.. and thought..what a shit name..I must check them out now for free!

Love Rocket From The Tombs too, the band that grew into Pere Ubu.

If I'm right the story is, they burned brightly for a couple of years, 74-75, without recording/releasing much. No album. They decided to record the old songs for their debut LP in the early 2000s just to have it, and it's awesome. I never knew until recently it wasn't recorded circa 1975, really raw and raucous punk rock, with great slashing guitars.

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[dudley]

And now I learn that the reformed RFTT LP has Richard LLoyd on it? Well, I never...

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

would it be gauche for me to admit that i thought pere ubu were an afrobeat band?

I’m guessing based on the name? (They’re named after a French proto-surrealist play: Ubu Roi - Wikipedia)

 

[nuke terrorist]

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Peter Laughner the guitarist in RFTT and main guy on the first Ubu singles died aged 24 and is seen as a major lost talent. There's been a few major archive releases of his work.
He wrote Ain't It Fun for RFTT (covered by GnR)
Cheetah Chrome and Stiv Bators (for a short while) from The Dead Boys were also in Rocket From The Tombs.
When they reformed Richard Lloyd of Television played with them.

Also Tim Wright of NYC no wave band DNA played bass on the first Ubu singles when Laughner was in the band.

I'm sure Dudley knows all this already.
EDIT: Only saw last two posts after I posted this.

 

[magicbastarder]

I’m guessing based on the name? (They’re named after a French proto-surrealist play: Ubu Roi - Wikipedia)

yeah, there's kinda a fela kuti feel to the name.

 

[nuke terrorist]

I’m guessing based on the name? (They’re named after a French proto-surrealist play: Ubu Roi - Wikipedia)

"Merde!"

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

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[nuke terrorist]

Another weird Ubu connection is that they were managed by Cliff Burnstein who later founded Q Prime Management (Def Leppard, Bon Jovi, Metallica etc)

The first music book I ever bought in 1992 was From The Velvets To The Voidoids - A Pre Punk History For A Post Punk World by Clinton Heylin.
It is flawed but was at it strongest on the Ohio bands - RFTT, Ubu, Devo, Dead Boys (Heylin couldn't stand them) etc. but the Cleveland / Akron scene is well covered otherwise.
There was also a zine called Black to Comm which covered proto punk really well that Heylin referenced a lot.

David Thomas was a great interview here's some bits from Totally Wired. This was a collection of the best interviews Simon Reynolds did in research for Rip It Up And Start Again a history of post punk.

 

[nuke terrorist]

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I deserve credit for watching that entire clip. I hope they had fun.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

I deserve credit for watching that entire clip. I hope they had fun.

The video is just random, song is the first track from Scatology, and it’s based on the Jarry play and probably more directly an homage to “Merde!”

 

[nuke terrorist]

The Electric Eels were way too smart, self destructive, arty, fuck ups from same era as Rocket From The Tombs. Totally primal low-fi proto punk.
Ubu told Rough Trade about them and a single was released by RT in 1978. There's been a few comps of archive material.

The Electric Eels - Agitated (1974 or 1975?)

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Electric Eels - Jaguar Ride

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Jerry and Mark from Devo have often spoke about being anti Vietnam war protesters at the Kent State massacre in Ohio 1970.

Kent State shootings - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

That summer Jerry was interviewed by the BBC and it was finally dug up a few years ago - he'd never actually seen it.

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Chrissie Hynde who is also from Akron and Chris Butler of The Waitresses were also protesters at Kent State massacre. Butler's 70's band Tin Huey sounded a bit like Ubu with some Soft Machine bits but by they got an LP out they sounded a bit dated.

 

[GO]

Ubu did some shit stuff in after they reformed in late 80's - early 90's sort of sub Pixies college rock. Songs you'd struggle to remember what they sounded like 2 minutes later. That put a lot of people my age off them, other than the early records.

The first 4 singles and first LP are, rightly, landmark records.

I'm not sure where things came right for David Thomas again but later records in the 2000's are good, often harking back to their 70's era.

great post.

informative. concise

Thats not to say I dont prefer big rampbling diatribes...because I do

ALL DAY

 

[ann post]

Youtube just suggested this video to me , I remember always hearing about them but I never checked them out ..its mad the way that happens!
Back in the old days I suppose it wasnt that easy to hear everything that you'd read about in zines or wherever

Anyway..pretty impressed by yer man Dave..gonne listen to the albums

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Have you any bands you only heard recently .or at least much later...after knowing their name for ever?

Another one that springs to mind are Red Lorry Yellow Lorry..I used to always see their album in Freebird.. and thought..what a shit name..I must check them out now for free!

I've actually never knowingly listened to Pere Ubu before.
I like how expressive he is with the story