tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2007809748946274478.post81015287183276894..comments2023-12-28T21:31:34.799-08:00Comments on NorthWest Noise: Pravda Tape, 1982, Desperate TimesDan "Cluster"http://www.blogger.com/profile/02037756596757278622noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2007809748946274478.post-35389911349783532422022-05-26T01:00:44.666-07:002022-05-26T01:00:44.666-07:00Lovvely blog you have hereLovvely blog you have hereZarahttps://www.zarachaney.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2007809748946274478.post-21380417378517201992017-09-09T13:45:56.903-07:002017-09-09T13:45:56.903-07:00It's nice to see this cassette compilation get...It's nice to see this cassette compilation get a little attention so many years later. I put this out with Maire Masco and we put as much love as we could into it. The bands are all artists we had some professional or personal relationship, but we didn't just add tracks because they were friends-we included them because we thought they were visionary or had something to say that was just a bit left-center of punk rock. The reason the Billy Schafer track sounds the way it does is because it was taken directly from a cassette Billy made one night while very, very drunk. The song was never meant to be released...in fact he wasn't aware his song was included for a few years! Billy didn't consider himself to be a musician-but believe me he was more than accomplished on the acoustic guitar when he wasn't so loaded. He was also a very good, funny lyricist which you can see by his song. It was a joy to know all the artists on this compilation. I'm still friends with many of them so many decades later. It's nice to see Tom Boettcher's comment above. Ton's a great guy that I'm in sporadic contact with too. I've had the compilation digitalized re-mastered and previously had it online as a free download on my blogger page. I no longer have that page up, so one day soon I'll get to putting the compilation up again. I'll post where it is here and at other places. Thanks for even taken an interest. I think if it weren't for Mr. Epp people wouldn't even have bothered to listen to this. BTW, Maire Masco and I released the first Epp EP, "Of Course I'm Happy Why?" Allowing this "fake band" to do whatever they wanted and releasing it without question really shook the world up didn't it?!! I don't consider them to be anything near the "inventors" of grunge. They were simply having a good time. But of course Mark would go on to be a very important part of what would later be called "grunge"...which, after all, was a self-deprecating name that was an inside joke.Dennis R. Whitenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2007809748946274478.post-88342024667572220812016-11-11T09:26:38.043-08:002016-11-11T09:26:38.043-08:00Thanks for sharing this. I was the other guitarist...Thanks for sharing this. I was the other guitarist in Student Nurse for a couple of years. I was on this recording of Recht Op Staan trying to cram every scale I knew at the time into that first guitar solo. Point of clarification: John Rodgers (Rubato) was Sunworm. He sometimes had guests, but he played everything on the 2 songs that are here. If you want more Student Nurse, I've got the compilation that Eric Muhs, the bass player, put together a few years ago. Happy to share, boettch56@gmail.com. Eric's also still in Seattle and active musically as well as other interesting ways: http://www.invisiblemoose.net/Welcome.html. And if you want some more Sunworm, I've got a couple of other pieces including the fabulout 'Going to the Dog House'. And we were in a few other side projects if you want to hear John on other things from that time that you've probably never heard before. --TomAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14928359831942856132noreply@blogger.com