STAB004 going to press

The 4th release on stabUdown is going to press as i type.

Dutch Rub : The Complete Recordings will be out by early summer 2010.

A limited edition run of 50 CDs.

These will not go fast so don't bother.

12 tracks of isolationist hard rock\hardcore\hard listening from a completely unknown early 90s ohio trio that barely made it out of the practice phase. Tracks were recorded on a 4 track in some house in Medina and above an infamous gay bar in Lakewood (that is now a Walgreens) that was reportedly a favorite stop of Freddie Mercury when he was in Cleveland.

Wish i could say his buck tooth spirit pervades the music but truth is it's more along the lines of Buck Henry.

MP3 samples may or may not be put up shortly depending on how bored i get with this project.

This was a real band and not a modern hoax but the joke is still on you.

BUY THE NEW FLAT CAN LP NOW!

Shipping

USA $12.00 Outside the USA $20.00

When's the last time you saw a band play a place that wasn't appropriate?

A place where RBR tall boys weren't on sale?

Where there were no skinny borderline she-males in extra small cowboy shirts?

You've heard the stories about how the Electric Eels used to go to blue collar bars and act queer just to fight or how Black Flag blazed a trail thru an unfriendly circuit of clubs.

OK... back to booking your "tour" on myspace.

CHEAP PUBLICITY

The latest release on stabUdown records (stab002) is out now.
It's a live album from The Flat Can Co. rock and roll band and it is available here:

BUY! (please)

SUCKING OUT OF THE 70s

Just watched (the original) BAD NEWS BEARS. This film could only exist and be relevant in the context of the time it was made. This is not say it's dated to the point it's not enjoyable now... it's more than excellent today. It was remade recently to laughable results and the point is obvious... some of the greatest "art" is a product of it's time and place and can have an infinite shelf life but it can't be recreated. This is exactly how i felt about the ROCKET FROM THE TOMBS "reunion" a few years ago. As a clevelander it may sacrilege to disrespect the mighty ghost of olde, but it's a sad truth that that band has no purpose getting together in a half assed fashion and cash in on what was pure honest art. C'mon people... let's face the facts... they were great for what they were doing at a specific time and place where such music was unheard of and flat out unheard.

You want to hear that magic? Pick up the reissue and play it. What point is there in going to see them go all stars on 45 with their own material? Please don't think that these been around the block veterans of rock have any capacity to recreate what was completely outsider rock by their former youthful fuck off selves. It can never happen. Those songs were born out of circumstances and conditions that surrounded the people that made it and there is no way in hell they could have done it in any other fashion. So go to Williamsburg (both colonial and brooklyn) if you are into historical reenactment. Same can be said for NA, ZERO BOYS, RADIO BIRDMAN or BLUE CHEER.

BAD NEWS BEARS pre-teen drinking, race baiting and swearing is paradoxically both passe and completely taboo in today's modern climate. That film would have never been made today and if it was it would have absolutely no edge or value. So to all the quick burning classic bands that think that getting back together 20-30 years after the fact... take your cruddy trophy and shove it up your ass.

fuck you modern punks

the greatest jam

I was in a pseudo band called Dutch Rub. We did nothing but practice and make shitty 4 track recordings. One day in a rehearsal space above a gay bar, the singer/guitarist/genius wanted to show us a new song. So i just turned on the Tascam and let him go. What was captured on that dirty cassette may be the sonic equivalent of the Shroud of Turin. Below is a link to that artifact. Prepare for epiphany.

Frankenstein's Lament