[Jandek] a bit of self-promotion

Mister Born (to you) scott.born at gmail.com
Sun Aug 19 18:34:51 PDT 2007


Here is my project in Kansas City.  Members of a bunch of bands you
know.  This is a live recording of the show before last.  We play a
couple of times a year.

http://www.musicoftheroom.com/

Instruments:

Bagpipes
Theremin
Theremin
Lap steel
Drums
Guitar
Trumpet

People generally leave.

On 8/15/07, Allen Rendel <arendel at ripco.com> wrote:
>
>
> One of my bands has audio available here:
> http://myspace.com/magnetosphere  and here:
> http://magnetosphere.com/Listen.htm.  None of it sounds a
> bit like Jandek, but it was all recorded at home (or in a noisy bar).
>
> Release the hounds!!!!  (or more likely the silent indifference)
>
> Allen
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jandek-bounces at mylist.net [mailto:jandek-bounces at mylist.net]On Behalf
> Of Matthew Elliott
> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 2:00 PM
> To: Jandek
> Subject: Re: [Jandek] a bit of self-promotion
>
>
> I don't know, man, interesting guitar work, but the vocals are hard to hear
> in addition to the fact that you're kinda mumbling, and it sounds like it
> was recorded into a tape player in like 1986. It's pretty cheap nowdays
> (like 100 bucks) to get a sweet digital recorder that would have much better
> quality, so I'd reccomend that, depending on how serious you are. I hear
> zero Daniel Johnston in yr music, as it pretty much has no melody in by any
> conventional definition. I guess there's a little Jandek, but whereas Jandek
> sounds serious, you just come more as a guy trying to sound funny or weird.
> That isn't to say you sound like a phony- it just seems a little "art
> damaged", and judging from yr influences, perhaps that's inevitable. But
> that Bar Mitzvah photo is classic. Anyway I appreciate yr balls in sending
> this a list of people who would inevitably rip you a new one, or worse, say
> nothing at all.
>
> If anyone else makes music and has it on some kind of nifty streaming
> website, I'd love to hear it. Some might consider it off topic, but I'm
> interested in hearing people's home-recorded crap, so if you don't want to
> send it to the list, send it to me.
>
> BlackMonk <BlackMonk at email.msn.com> wrote:
> I guess I could be called Jandek-like in some sort of general sense.
> Actually, I have been. Personally, I think I'm closer to Daniel Johnston,
> and not all that close to him.
>
> If you want, decide for yourself:
> http://www.myspace.com/songsoftommystevens
>
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