tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239910173455706271.post7823678646003451033..comments2024-03-17T08:00:53.335-04:00Comments on One Base on an Overthrow: Supertouch Pt. 1Brushbackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14439601217855895036noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239910173455706271.post-53147458028752402322009-04-12T21:12:00.000-04:002009-04-12T21:12:00.000-04:00The mp3 files on this post are now listen-only (no...The mp3 files on this post are now listen-only (non-downloadable) files.Brushbackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14439601217855895036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239910173455706271.post-29311159963012441712009-04-12T21:11:00.000-04:002009-04-12T21:11:00.000-04:00I've seen something where Mark Ryan is DJ'ing at a...I've seen something where Mark Ryan is DJ'ing at a Reagan Youth/Kraut/Antidote reunion show in NYC in May... not that I'd go to anything like that.Brushbackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14439601217855895036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239910173455706271.post-85723617811694115022009-04-12T21:08:00.000-04:002009-04-12T21:08:00.000-04:00Hey, you're welcome!Hey, you're welcome!Brushbackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14439601217855895036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239910173455706271.post-24925326201856533132009-01-28T22:26:00.000-05:002009-01-28T22:26:00.000-05:00Very interesting post. I always wanted to like Sup...Very interesting post. I always wanted to like SuperTouch, such a cool name, but had a hard time gelling with the singer's voice. These songs resonate a lot stronger in my mind today. Thanks for the post.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239910173455706271.post-36933955124538945342009-01-26T21:47:00.000-05:002009-01-26T21:47:00.000-05:00Funny you should mention a missing Small 23 tape, ...Funny you should mention a missing Small 23 tape, because I've been looking for my copy of "True Zero Hook" for a solid month now and I still haven't found it.<BR/><BR/>Must be the gods telling me to post something else from Small 23 instead.<BR/><BR/>Verbal Abuse supposedly had one good album. Don't ask me which one, though.Brushbackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14439601217855895036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239910173455706271.post-17575378859827364912009-01-26T21:25:00.000-05:002009-01-26T21:25:00.000-05:00You've got my ultra-biased vote for a VA post! Jus...You've got my ultra-biased vote for a VA post! Just make sure it's Verbal Assault, not Verbal Abuse!! (sort of like when I bought the WRONG Inside Out 45 in the Anthrax parking lot..it was the NY band, not the Revelation one, though in hindsight..I think I liked it better).<BR/><BR/>What band DOESN'T have weird van listening habits? I had to suffer a ride to Maine in the mid-90s with a band from NC called Hellbender (future members of Milemarker on Jade Tree and Les Savy Fav). They had like..Chaka Khan, Dio...and I seem to remember there actually being a Small 23 tape case with the tape missing and me cursing the fates.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239910173455706271.post-10883356055766580512009-01-26T20:17:00.000-05:002009-01-26T20:17:00.000-05:00Ha, I've got "Tiny Giants" -- I haven't decided ye...Ha, I've got "Tiny Giants" -- I haven't decided yet if I wanna post it, though. I've got photos of V.A. at the Anthrax to go with it, so I probably will.<BR/><BR/>I should clarify that hearing Metallica in Verbal Assault's van was around '85 or so, when such things weren't as common (or "acceptable") as they are today.<BR/><BR/>I ended up seeing Verbal Assault in more places than just about any other band: CBGB's, The Rat, Anthrax, Albany, Providence...Brushbackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14439601217855895036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239910173455706271.post-28767066814834847122009-01-26T19:19:00.000-05:002009-01-26T19:19:00.000-05:00Yeah, it's an acquired taste...although the "Tiny ...Yeah, it's an acquired taste...although the "Tiny Giants" 7" comes out of the crate a few times a year still.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239910173455706271.post-60895851481139585582009-01-26T17:09:00.000-05:002009-01-26T17:09:00.000-05:00I once spent a day or two in a van with Verbal Ass...I once spent a day or two in a van with Verbal Assault, they were playing reggae and Metallica and you could definitely tell they weren't the usual "Youth Crew" type of band (good or bad)...<BR/><BR/>Not sure if I liked any of the post-VA outfits, though, or even any Verbal Assault records after the first two...Brushbackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14439601217855895036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239910173455706271.post-17788922235008067002009-01-26T16:19:00.000-05:002009-01-26T16:19:00.000-05:00Oh yeah...I had kind of suppressed that the Gorman...Oh yeah...I had kind of suppressed that the Gorman brothers were in Belly! All I know is that I saw Rain Like The Sound Of Trains live twice in Providence and they just turned my head around. I don' think I ever picked up anything other than the demo tape..it had hand written lyrics and a copy of a circuit board on the cover, so I was won over.<BR/><BR/>The second time was with Sevens, a post-Soulside Bobby Sullivan project..but the first show was one for the folklore books. It was at this space called either The Cooler or The Freezer, basically an unheated warehouse space on the wrong side of the tracks. It must've been 30 degrees inside. Into Another was on the bill, and they were total buff flex metal shred ahoy..and seemed to be looking at RLTSOT with a little bit of laughter..like "who are these rubes?". I'm not sure they knew they were dealing with ex-Verbal Assault/Beefeater/Fidelity Jones/etc...and live at least, it was a lock-step atom bomb rhythm and it was really gratifying for some reason to see the Into Another collective jaw drop. Ego dismantling with a backbeat.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239910173455706271.post-38656821908474549102009-01-26T08:29:00.000-05:002009-01-26T08:29:00.000-05:00I'd actually be surprised if anyone in Pearl Jam w...I'd actually be surprised if anyone in Pearl Jam was cool enough to listen to Supertouch. Particularly Eddie Bedwetter.<BR/><BR/>A couple of Verbal Assault guys ended up playing in Belly. Not as if that's any worse than Rain Like The Sound Of Trains, though.Brushbackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14439601217855895036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239910173455706271.post-76071520796913328442009-01-26T02:03:00.000-05:002009-01-26T02:03:00.000-05:00That there is remix mash-up talk! Press it as a 7"...That there is remix mash-up talk! Press it as a 7" and sell it to the kids in Germany for sacks of euros. I've had this 50 Cent/Devo bastardization in the "guilty pleasure" folder for awhile and it never ceases to make me laugh, sometimes out loud. Supertouch/Pearl Jam mash up doesn't seem that Bizarro alternate universe to me, but I really shouldn't encourage such wayward ventures.<BR/><BR/>It wouldn't surprise if a riff or two was borrowed..I've had stranger cross-genre incidents...I was talking to Kristen Hersh from the Throwing Muses when she came to Cafe Nine, and it turns out her pals in high school were all in Verbal Assault, and we had both been at the same Swiz show at the Blue Pelican in Newport. Cue "It's A Small World After All" and cut the frozen husk of Uncle Walt his royalty check!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239910173455706271.post-88490189235349662582009-01-25T16:18:00.000-05:002009-01-25T16:18:00.000-05:00I just made it up in my head yesterday that Pearl ...I just made it up in my head yesterday that Pearl Jam totally ripped off "Alive" from Supertouch ("Engine").<BR/><BR/>I'm half-serious about that, really.Brushbackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14439601217855895036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239910173455706271.post-76913685011963749722009-01-24T16:24:00.000-05:002009-01-24T16:24:00.000-05:00The personal history made me enjoy this post tenfo...The personal history made me enjoy this post tenfold...I saw them definately at the Anthraz once, up at UCONN with Jawbox & Holy Rollers, in NYC on bills I also forget, and most recently and pleasantly at the 108/Snapcase benefit show for Callum Roberts in NYC this past year. I still have a few fliers from them in the big box of memories, as well as some photos from the NYC show that I'll have to put up the same place as the Obits pictures. They absolutely blew me away (as did Snapcase, who I never really liked on recordings!)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com