TS: Denny Lethargy VS. Denny Vertigo

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i've been mildly obsessed with these two bands on Buddha records. late 70s bluesy hard rock with a heavy does of funk. definitely has some dark, angular parts pretty reminiscent of early Killing Joke.

what say the mind of ILM?

― plain ol' jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

Oh man, tough choice!

Some seriously good shit right there. I'd throw in an Iron Maiden comparison or two as well.

Great stuff.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

lethargy kills

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

Aja to thread!

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

maybe i'm nuts, but on that one live album--the name of which escapes me--where they really stretch it out (no song under 8 minutes!), they remind me in places of the Allman Brothers but on ACID

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

really the split of the band came around 77 when Lethargy wanted to start wearing stage makeup and do crazy stage shows whereas Vertigo just wanted to rock

― plain ol' jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

or maybe on SPEED

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

Acid laced with speed.

― pr00de descending a staircase (pr00de), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:20 (nineteen years ago)

oh and the better band is Denny Vertigo, for the reasons jaxon noted, partially

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:20 (nineteen years ago)

LETHARGY >>>>>>>>>>>>> VERTIGO

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:21 (nineteen years ago)

Didn't Lethargy cover Patti Smith's "Dancing Barefoot"?

― max, Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:21 (nineteen years ago)

yeah and Vertigo covered "california here i am" by shocking blue. therefore, pwnage

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:22 (nineteen years ago)

Surely Denny Lethargy, my good fellows!

Fortuitous that this thread should arrive right now, as I have heard from a comrade in the industry that there is a new record in the works. Should be interesting, either way.

Robinson

― Robinson (Robinson), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:26 (nineteen years ago)

My only question is: When oh when are the Sundazed comps springing forth from the loins of the reish gods. Goddamn I'm horny to hear the remasters.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:27 (nineteen years ago)

gygax, i'm horny to hear your voice. where have you been my whole life

― plain ol' jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:31 (nineteen years ago)

Seriously though, I am surprised that there aren't more threads on Denny. This stuff seems kinda custom-made for ILM, no?

The more I think about it, Lethargy AND Vertigo are the ONLY bands that truly deserve the tag of "rock band".

There's that 3-song run on the blue record that could even pass as a 12" on Areal or Border Community.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:31 (nineteen years ago)

VERTIGO >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> LETHARGY

on the basis of "solar cock" alone

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:34 (nineteen years ago)

the synth hook on "solar cock" is fucking weak dude
quit smokin

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

I can't believe the moronic salivatation over the fetid pabulum that is the first Denny Lethargy EP.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:37 (nineteen years ago)

you're not the only one who thinks it's a synth, and not the only person who is wrong

you quit smokin, X-POST

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:37 (nineteen years ago)

suck on my burning bile gygax you aborted fetus

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:38 (nineteen years ago)

(xp) it's a synth sample and a weak one at that

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:38 (nineteen years ago)

abreu i think you're the only one who thinks lethargy is even in the same league as vertigo

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:39 (nineteen years ago)

No, I agree. But then *I* would.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:40 (nineteen years ago)

it's a zither played through an early morpheloper! grow one ear

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:41 (nineteen years ago)

I think anyone who prefers Vertigo should be catapulted by the testicles into a lava-hot Mexico City sewer to fester for all eternity.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:41 (nineteen years ago)

yeah yeah yeah whatever
can we talk about the mike phillips guest spot on the last track of amblin'
is there a better lethargy song than this?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

All you little revisionists can lie to yourselves that Vertigo re-invented the wheel with their fourth-rate hairfarmer pabulum for all I care --- just don't sully Lethargy's good name in doing so.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:43 (nineteen years ago)

Don't profane this thread any longer, or I'll have to get all upset and spray violent invective all over the place like some demonic lawn-sprinkler of vituperation, and that's just going to ruin my otherwise sunny mood.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:44 (nineteen years ago)

I can't remember. Which one of these guys was in Sha Na Na?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:44 (nineteen years ago)

Did anyone catch Denny on the Blue Oyster Cult Behind the Music? (new season, w00t!) He looks like crap. The glass eye looks pretty realistic, though.

― pr00de descending a staircase (pr00de), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:46 (nineteen years ago)

didn't yo la tengo cover a lethargy song during an fmu pledge drive?

― and I can walk out into the world, singing with my people (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:46 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah I saw that, after a yawnsome "interview" with that cow from "Will & Grace." The new single is crap, though. The "rap" towards the end of it literally made my fuckin' skin crawl.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:47 (nineteen years ago)

more lethargy talk

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:47 (nineteen years ago)

xpost -- my bad. not a morpheloper. not even sure those exist now yet! it's definitely a Mutron III on the Vertigo

anyways,

Lead is the parody of gold
Air is the parody of water
Brain is the parody of the equator
Coitus is the parody of crime

I Am The Sun
Solar Cock!
I Am The Sun
Solar Cock!

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:47 (nineteen years ago)

SOLAR COCK!

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:49 (nineteen years ago)

I thought it was "I am the one / solar cock" ?? do you have the album sleeve

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:49 (nineteen years ago)

I know a guy who SWEARS that he has an entire unreleased Lethargy album that he keeps threatening to boot. he still won't burn me a copy though. idiot.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:50 (nineteen years ago)

A fatuous Dick Nazi who shames my surname reviewed Solar Cock for Rolling Stone and he should be repeatedly bludgeoned with a tire-iron for the Smashmouth comparison (actually, it's an accusation, not a comparison).

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:50 (nineteen years ago)

definitely 'sun', it's a bataille reference

man this song rules. I'm totally about to get fired.

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:50 (nineteen years ago)

Blink 182 covered "Solar Cock" on one of their Australian-only EP's. They tried to do that "synth" line with a harmony overdub.

It wasn't very good, as you could imagine.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:50 (nineteen years ago)

Cheese monkeys.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:52 (nineteen years ago)

some douchebag i know apparently thought denny lethargy sounded like blue cheer. i later discovered he had never even HEARD blue cheer, he was just some asshole with an MC5 shirt

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:52 (nineteen years ago)

someone post the amblin' cover
the wolf looks totally gnar

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:52 (nineteen years ago)

Lethargy is VON LMO's cousin or something, I think.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:52 (nineteen years ago)

xpost, jesus fuck. of course I have the album sleeve, you fucking child (though I don't have amblin')

I heard that about von lmo too... makes sense...

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:54 (nineteen years ago)

i kind of like this mike phillips pic
http://www.sdsystems.com/news/mike%20phillips.jpg

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:55 (nineteen years ago)

i swear i heard some unreleased Eve track on a mixtape somewhere where she samples the synth-line from solar cock!

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:56 (nineteen years ago)

Did You Know:

Denny Vertigo was the original drummer for Hendrix before he went to the UK?

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:56 (nineteen years ago)

Has anyone heard that Vertigo b-sides comp? Sort've cringe-worthy in spots, but the GODLIKE "Avalokitesvara Sutra" is essential listening for anyone in possession of a functioning cerebral cortex.

― max, Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:57 (nineteen years ago)

(xp) see! it's an elka synthex, right!!@!?!?

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:57 (nineteen years ago)

i read some interview with neil michael hagerty (in the big takeover, maybe?) in which he was going on and on about denny vertigo. jack rabid is a HUGE fan, based on his replies.

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:58 (nineteen years ago)

Whatever! As Stigliano would say, that 1st Vertigo record doesn't hold a candle to, say, what Kongress was doing at the time.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:01 (nineteen years ago)

FUCK kongress

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:03 (nineteen years ago)

At least the disco stuff Lethargy was doing at the time had some cool proto-Moroderisms goin' on.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:04 (nineteen years ago)

everything after their first album sucks. their reunion tour sucked too.

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:04 (nineteen years ago)

anyone have the lyrics to "honour thy fyre"?

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:05 (nineteen years ago)

lyrics?? it's an instrumental!

― and I can walk out into the world, singing with my people (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:06 (nineteen years ago)

"jack rabid is a HUGE fan, based on his replies."

i read that issue. i think jack said hi to denny in the bathroom at the peppermint lounge once in 1982.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:06 (nineteen years ago)

"said hi"

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:07 (nineteen years ago)

I remember about 13 years ago (1992!!!) San Diego zine ROCKMAG had a feature which summed up Denny Lethargy's post-rehab career as "a no-wave Hindu Love Gods", I had to chuckle.

xpost: "Honour Thy Fire" had lyrics in the live boots and demos.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:08 (nineteen years ago)

lyrics?? it's an instrumental!

boy, is my face red!

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:08 (nineteen years ago)

lyrics?? it's an instrumental!

There was a poem printed in the liner notes, wasn't there?
xpost

― pr00de descending a staircase (pr00de), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:08 (nineteen years ago)

DeRogatis is actually a Vertigo fan! I remember him mentioning something about him once.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:09 (nineteen years ago)

sort of like A Love Supreme! xpost

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:10 (nineteen years ago)

gygax is right ... the lyrics were mostly bad gothic puns which is why they weren't on the album

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:10 (nineteen years ago)

for real, read the poem while listening to the music

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:10 (nineteen years ago)

"Fyre" is an instrumental, but got mistagged when the Billingsgate CD bootleg screwed up the tracks by turning "One Arm" & "I Hit A Girl" into one track, moving everything else on the album up by one. It is confusing

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:11 (nineteen years ago)

guy was a big coltrane fan, he was totally inspired by what he did on love supreme. listen, trust me, it's like some LSD level realization shit

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:11 (nineteen years ago)

zappa hated these guys, and went so far as to do a parody of "solar cock," called "cholera sock"... actually quite punny!

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:13 (nineteen years ago)

Also: There was supposed to be a chapter about Vertigo in the first Unterberger 'Unsung Heroes' book, but Vertigo apparently kept lying his ass off about having written half of the songs on the first Blondie album and all kinds of shit and Unterberger finally gave up on the dude.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:15 (nineteen years ago)

my favorite vertigo album is still invented gyro. my favorite track remains "anagram #2", ha those clever boys.

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:15 (nineteen years ago)

ok, i take back what i said about every album after their first sucking.

"vertigoing insane" was pretty fucking sweet.

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:16 (nineteen years ago)

To add to the kiss of death: there is rumored to be a Denny Vertigo tribute album organized by John Zorn, Mike Patton and Cex.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:17 (nineteen years ago)

what i loved about "anagram #2" is there's this part hovering in the background that's either a high-pitched female voice or a processed cornet sound, i can't tell which. the liner notes are shit and don't help one bit.

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:17 (nineteen years ago)

Also one last thing: I seem to remember there a Denny Vertigo/Lethargy subthread in one of the Cover Connection threads. Virile, pestulent ILX search, BAH!!!

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:19 (nineteen years ago)

hey i never has posted here but i came acorss this site and i must say lethargy/vertigo is probably the most underrated artist of his time. i belive rhino weas supposed to re-isseu all of the pre-rca recordings? am i right, or did i dream this?

― dennyfan#1, Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:20 (nineteen years ago)

i am going to scan the amblin cover
lemme find it
brb

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:21 (nineteen years ago)

i have "amblin" on CDR, if you scan it and post it that would be dope, bro, i can then print it

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:22 (nineteen years ago)

Working is an incredible challenge
A kind of vertical division
Let it resonate within your sacred space
I'm going to fuck you until your voice goes away

We come from the same place
I can't bear it any longer woman
You're Vertigoing Insane

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:23 (nineteen years ago)

The video for that is pretty fucking weird.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:25 (nineteen years ago)

never seen the video... do I want to?

is there any song of his that doesn't have a guitar solo going the entire time, all the way through it?

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:26 (nineteen years ago)

You seem to be forgetting something - the Vertigo Buddhas

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:27 (nineteen years ago)

Just once, I'd like to hear a discussion of Lethargy without someone bringing up Zappa. I know that it's tough for the Frank Fans to restrain themselves, though.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:27 (nineteen years ago)

that's why hagerty loves him! you listen to the new Howling Hex album and notice how he's got those guitar lines just snaking through the entirety of each song, and that sound is TOTALLY Denny Vertigo

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:27 (nineteen years ago)

i found a small copy of the amblin cover on a geocities site
i'm going to rehost anbd then post it
it's small tho - probably not big enough for a cdr cover

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:28 (nineteen years ago)

letharjy isa sexist pig
all men are sext pigs
the radio will not play all the talented and beautiful females
lethsrgi is pop trash, he is not real progressive aritst like marissa marchant

― mmfan#1, Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:29 (nineteen years ago)

here

http://www.jefframirez.com/ilx/amblin.gif

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:30 (nineteen years ago)

didn't yo la tengo cover a lethargy song during an fmu pledge drive?

Yeah, they covered "Lunar Doom Vehicle" on the 2002 all-request show. I also have a recording of it from the 1998 Hannukah show (the second concert). I can ysi the track if you're interested.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:33 (nineteen years ago)

I procured the "L Is For Lethargy" b/w "My Pal Foot Foot" off of eBay last summer for the reasonably fair price of $28 (NZ).

― H. Cyrus Feeney, Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:34 (nineteen years ago)

Julian Cope says this about Amblin': "A Druidic journey where you take a toke right before the first track and screeching metalloid insects immediate-fucking-ly start buzzing left and right past your dilated pupils ... oh, and it only gets more intense from there, babies!"

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:36 (nineteen years ago)

TS: Chinese Democracy vs. Dennyana: The Pure Land

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:36 (nineteen years ago)

if YTL had any balls they'd release a covers EP of that, just like they did with "Nuclear War"

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:36 (nineteen years ago)

fwiw, i think vertigo has better covers

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:37 (nineteen years ago)

That's the "clean" cover of Amblin'. The other one was a bit more erotically sensitive for Buddha.

(And I really wish that I had a version of that to post. Only time I've seen one of those copies was when I was working for KCOU back in the early nineties.)

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:37 (nineteen years ago)

Denny Lethargy over vertigo any day. their string of unimpeachable album covers from 77-81 destroys vertigo's "penelope's rising" any day (and "pr" is one of my fav. songs to end mixtapes with!)

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:37 (nineteen years ago)

am i wrong in saying denny vertigo is to denny lethargy as hawkwind is to motorhead?

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:38 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.trackteamaudio.com/users/krud/denny.jpg

SCORED THIS OFF TERRI T AT THE FMU RECORD FAIR IN 98, $$$$....SICK BROS!!!

― ddb (ddb), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:42 (nineteen years ago)

UNICORN O' PLENTY!

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:43 (nineteen years ago)

just found a recent pic of denny, he isn't looking too good:

http://www.pistolandenema.com/angie-baby/images/110603-6.jpg

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:44 (nineteen years ago)

god please tell me that's denny lethargy

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:45 (nineteen years ago)

am i wrong in saying denny vertigo is to denny lethargy as hawkwind is to motorhead?

Vertigo:Lethargy :: The Darkside:Spacemen3

xpost whoa, that pic is some scary stuff

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:46 (nineteen years ago)

WHATS IS UP WITH THE REST F THE BUDDAH'S.....I MEAN RIP JON MASTERSON AND ALL....BUT WHAT ABOUT THE REST OF THE GUYS?

RFI?!?!?!?

― ddb (ddb), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:47 (nineteen years ago)

yah I'd love a Buddah's RFI, those records came and left the shops fast...

the lyrics only really make sense with the music... the straighter the band would play the blues, the further out Vertigo got...

Channels can be named
Voyages are to be destroyed
Creation bears down on all the peoples
And I'm... overjoyed

I'm not trying to take you over
I rise in a powerful mood
Your gaze lands on things that don't even exist, girl
And you're... nude

Your voice traces beams through space
And receives dark lines from squid
I like to sing in church
[wordless soprano solo]

Accept that music resides in serenity
Accept that music resides in serenity

― milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 25 August 2005 00:00 (nineteen years ago)

my favorite vertigo album is still invented gyro. my favorite track remains "anagram #2", ha those clever boys.

i totally missed this ... this cd is on my desk right now:

http://www.jefframirez.com/ilx/IMG_1200.jpg

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Thursday, 25 August 2005 00:01 (nineteen years ago)

amblin' >>>> invented gyro though

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Thursday, 25 August 2005 00:02 (nineteen years ago)

The soprano solo pretty much ruins the entire song for me.

xxpost

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 25 August 2005 00:02 (nineteen years ago)

WHATS IS UP WITH THE REST F THE BUDDAH'S

Steve Zabatino has let himself go

http://www.characterevents.com/images/characters/medieval_bob.jpg

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 25 August 2005 00:03 (nineteen years ago)

you guys are full of shit.. they're both way too emo for my tastes. i guess i'm more of a motel hell guy.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 25 August 2005 00:04 (nineteen years ago)

>The soprano solo pretty much ruins the entire song for me.

and you hate puppies

(the solo melody is a direct lift from one of Purcell's Fantasias)

― milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 25 August 2005 00:07 (nineteen years ago)

you guys are full of shit.. they're both way too emo for my tastes. i guess i'm more of a motel hell guy.

you befoul this thread with such vomitorious verse-making. back to the peat-mossiest of fog-drenced, bleeding wastelands, you stinking execrous pustule of pestilence!

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 25 August 2005 00:11 (nineteen years ago)

i might be mistaken, but didnt lethargy have a late 60s psychedelic album that was a triple LP meant to be played at once (kind of a precursor to that flaming lips "Zaireeka" album) that was shelved because of the sleeve art collage having a visible vulva in it?

― latebloomer's rectal mocha latte (latebloomer), Thursday, 25 August 2005 00:12 (nineteen years ago)

IIRC it was just the clit

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 25 August 2005 00:15 (nineteen years ago)

it was a whole snatch dude

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Thursday, 25 August 2005 00:20 (nineteen years ago)

1968....THE CLIT TOUR YES!!!!!

― ddb (ddb), Thursday, 25 August 2005 00:22 (nineteen years ago)

i gotta jet but if anyone has the demo of denny lethargy's "mighty love - part 1" pls let me know
ysi or something

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Thursday, 25 August 2005 00:26 (nineteen years ago)

There are bootleg mixes of that '68 album and it's really just bad sub-Vanilla Fudge shit.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 25 August 2005 00:29 (nineteen years ago)

all i can remember about these guys is that whole myth of:

http://wwwstu.tcu.edu/~ssspillman/images%20for%20web/random%20page/denny

snopes did a good job on settling that ;)

― amon (eman), Thursday, 25 August 2005 00:40 (nineteen years ago)

you can't fuck with the cover of invented gyro. i read somewhere that ronnie james dio admitted his entire visual aesthetic--album cover-wise--was just "an attempt to top denny". denny--upon hearing that--allegedly sneered, "funny i always figured him for a bottom".

― gear (gear), Thursday, 25 August 2005 00:41 (nineteen years ago)

(intro, damaged wall of feedback fades up)

Since the Beginning of Time
There has been only one arm
...And it's MINE

(drums kicks in w/ guitar solo)

I give it you, woman
Gonna give you my arm
Gonna give you the arm
There's One Arm

(guitar line joined by zither)

There's only one arm
There's only one arm
There's only one arm
And it's Mine

(guitar joined by three other guitars)

You and I, woman
One Arm

(four simultaneous solos to fade)

― vertigo fan #1 (Jon L), Thursday, 25 August 2005 00:50 (nineteen years ago)

fucking AWESOME

― gear (gear), Thursday, 25 August 2005 00:51 (nineteen years ago)

Why the fuck can't you people listen to Clap Your Hands Say MIA? It's the music of the future, not this archaic shit.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 25 August 2005 00:56 (nineteen years ago)

I found Amblin' in the dollar bin at Tunes!!!

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Thursday, 25 August 2005 00:57 (nineteen years ago)

clap your hands say GIA

http://entimg.msn.com/i/mu/c/camron/camron_150x200.jpg

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 25 August 2005 00:57 (nineteen years ago)

did anyone hear that rumor about a CB's show?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 25 August 2005 00:59 (nineteen years ago)

i mean, i can't imagine

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 25 August 2005 00:59 (nineteen years ago)

awesome thread. i actually never heard of denny until the zappa song. thank god for frank!

― huell howser (chaki), Thursday, 25 August 2005 01:00 (nineteen years ago)

Amon, I thought that Denny's thing was about Denny Carmassi.

Not to say that Vertigo wouldn't enjoy a "Super Bird" every once in awhile ;-)

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 25 August 2005 01:01 (nineteen years ago)

http://myspace-440.vo.llnwd.net/00202/04/44/202154440_l.jpg

denny Vertigo ist der Mann, deren ich Ventilator der Nr. eine bin! ist hier umgekehrte Kreiselkompaßabdeckung für Sie!

― jonathan zweidck, Thursday, 25 August 2005 01:02 (nineteen years ago)

gear otm

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 25 August 2005 01:03 (nineteen years ago)

these days D. Vert looks like he's had one "Moon Over My Hammy" too many

― amon (eman), Thursday, 25 August 2005 01:04 (nineteen years ago)

i actually never heard of denny until the zappa song. thank god for frank!

That's like saying that you never heard of Smokey Robinson until that ABC song.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 25 August 2005 01:08 (nineteen years ago)

that song's about smokey robinson???

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 25 August 2005 01:10 (nineteen years ago)

is Denny Vertigo's solo LP Astral Milk-Fed Ganglia any good? i've heard so many people swear by that album, like it's a touchstone for proto-ambient psych-ish stuff.

― latebloomer's rectal mocha latte (latebloomer), Thursday, 25 August 2005 01:13 (nineteen years ago)

it's kind of a kluster meets wide boy awake affair. a young pia zadora makes a vocal cameo, if you can believe it!

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 25 August 2005 01:15 (nineteen years ago)

Haha yeah, Pia Zadora. Denny met her when he played "Droppo" in Santa Claus Conquers the Martians.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 25 August 2005 01:18 (nineteen years ago)

(Pia's first film.)

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 25 August 2005 01:19 (nineteen years ago)

wasnt denny an extra in that? either way, great fuckin movie. http://www.onelang.com/encyclopedia/images/thumb/7/74/200px-SantaClausConquersMartians.jpg

― huell howser (chaki), Thursday, 25 August 2005 01:20 (nineteen years ago)

Pretty sure that's Denny in the upper right corner there.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 25 August 2005 01:31 (nineteen years ago)

"Pretty sure"

― amon (eman), Thursday, 25 August 2005 01:32 (nineteen years ago)

You're thinking of Ivor Bodin.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 25 August 2005 01:40 (nineteen years ago)

I found Amblin' in the dollar bin at Tunes!!!

me too!!

are you my sister?

― and I can walk out into the world, singing with my people (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 25 August 2005 01:41 (nineteen years ago)

The Denny anecdotes in Pia's autobiography are hysterical.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Thursday, 25 August 2005 01:55 (nineteen years ago)

The most that I can find right now. Still checking elsewhere.

― Lethargio, Thursday, 25 August 2005 02:30 (nineteen years ago)

i found this, the original UK edition of Astral Milk-Fed Ganglia LP:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v216/sexymollusk/albums-dennyvertigo.jpg

― latebloomer's rectal mocha latte (latebloomer), Thursday, 25 August 2005 02:34 (nineteen years ago)

YOU FUCKIN FAGS WOLDN'T NO GOOD FUCKN MUSIC IS IT RAPED YUR YOUNG TENDER ASSHOLE
DENNY FAGTIGO BLOWS LISTEN TO SOME REAL ROCK SUCH AS SLAYER
THEY NO MORE ABOUT SATAN THAN FAGGY VERTIHO EVER WILL
METL 4EVR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

― dirk, Thursday, 25 August 2005 02:34 (nineteen years ago)

To add to the kiss of death: there is rumored to be a Denny Vertigo tribute album organized by John Zorn, Mike Patton and Cex.
-- gygax! (gygax0...), August 25th, 2005 5:17 PM.

I think this album's been in the works for awhile, gygax, i.e.:

i'm not usually into tributes, but word is John Zorn and some of his old Naked City guys are getting together for a Denny Vertigo(!!) tribute!! I heard a couple of other names being tossed about, i'm not gonna mention 'em except to say 'fuck i hope not!'
-- cutty (holle...), March 11th, 2004 6:29 PM.

― gear (gear), Thursday, 25 August 2005 02:40 (nineteen years ago)

the sessions have been put on hold. denny heard about it, got pissed and got his lawyers involved. king buzzo writes all about it on his blog.

― huell howser (chaki), Thursday, 25 August 2005 02:42 (nineteen years ago)

i wish i was denny's lawyer! (vertigo, that is)

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 25 August 2005 02:46 (nineteen years ago)

haha you'd be making more on lethargy's drug cases probably

― gear (gear), Thursday, 25 August 2005 02:48 (nineteen years ago)

OTM!

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 25 August 2005 02:50 (nineteen years ago)

So is there anything to "those" rumors about Vertigo and Lethargy?

― max, Thursday, 25 August 2005 02:54 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, this site is temporarily unavailable!
The web site you are trying to access has exceeded its allocated data transfer.

I've got a hunch that's the first time in awhile that the Geocities site has been hit so much. That guy's gonna be WTFing tomorrow.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 25 August 2005 02:55 (nineteen years ago)

From "ROCKING THE CLOSET: THE EARLY DAYS OF HOMOPHOBIA IN THE NON-MAINSTREAM UNDERGROUND IN AMERICA" (a Hampshire College thesis I found online recently)

Homosexuality was at once ghettoized and accepted in the hyper-masculine world of underground rock from the late-'60s onward. One of the most discussed gay rumors in underground rock involved the alleged relationship between Denny Vertigo and Denny Lethargy. Rumors (that ended up being true) about Lethargy's proclivity for sexual experimentation had been whispered for years, but the bizarre inclusion of the other Denny has never been fully explained.

Vertigo's old drummer Martin Cass offered a story that might explain the origins of the rumor in an interview with Q Magazine in 1994: "There was a manager who made overtures towards Denny Lethargy during a party at a club in 1971. Denny was apparently extremely drunk and, being a homophobe, lashed out at the man physically. From what I gather, this manager thought he was trying to slide his hand up Denny Vertigo's leg! As a bit of revenge for getting his nose broken, this man spread a rumor about the two Dennies. We all thought it was rather amusing!"

One person who did not find the story amusing was Lethargy, who was at the time attempting to make a comeback after several failed albums in a row. Fortunately in the end, the story didn't affect his career. However, the stress of the albums' failures and persistent rumors led Lethargy to turn to cocaine and, soon thereafter, heroin.

― gear (gear), Thursday, 25 August 2005 03:10 (nineteen years ago)

Guys.. wtf. Seriously. This is some sub-Grand Funk shit. "sounds like blue cheer"??? are you out of your fuckin mind??? Blue Cheer had FOCUS and DIRECTION. Vertigo was bullshit wank over half-formed grooves; Lethargy was just that BUT SLOWED DOWN. Seriously, wtf. I know you smoke a lot of green and listen to Sabbath, dood, but I don't need to hear your crap records..

YA'LL MENTALISTS

― Ian John50n (orion), Thursday, 25 August 2005 03:31 (nineteen years ago)

i can't imagine how you could call leonard childress's beats "half-formed grooves." you obviously don't recognize that they are all in odd-time signatures. i believe he played in 13 a lot.

maybe it's too intricate for your young ears?

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 25 August 2005 03:37 (nineteen years ago)

that whole second side of "infamous apocalypse" is a prime example of what I mean--his drumming is too pointed and unrelaxed. if he loosened up a little (i.e. no blow before recording), maybe he could extend the infinite...

― Ian John50n (orion), Thursday, 25 August 2005 03:42 (nineteen years ago)

these guys are in nashville a lot from what i've heard. i don't think i can bear to mention who is a studio player... and even worse... who they're playing for.

didn't denny write [controversial nashville lore here]?
m.

― msp (mspa), Thursday, 25 August 2005 03:58 (nineteen years ago)

God Ian, I can't believe a New Yorker such as yourself prefers something like Hawkwind to the visionary ur-punk New York-ness of early Denny Lethargy.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 25 August 2005 04:04 (nineteen years ago)

"new yorker" I've barely lived here for two years!!

But that's beside the point. "Urpunk" or whatever, is not exactly my cup of tea. I don't even like the New York Dolls! (but they're still better than lethargy & vertigo.)

I'd be curios to know what records these guys are on, MSP! I hear a lot of contemporary country when I visit my family, cuz my sister and cousins listen to that stuff a lot. That or chart hip hop.

― Ian John50n (orion), Thursday, 25 August 2005 04:07 (nineteen years ago)

Ian, have you ever heard the bass line on "Narwhal Curiosity" from the Sledding Daze album?

though they're never really recognized for it, they really could bring the FUNK.

in fact, vertigo and lethargy in late 80's belgian hip-hop were like liquid liquid and kraftwerk to early 80's NYC hip-hop/electro.

― latebloomer's rectal mocha latte (latebloomer), Thursday, 25 August 2005 04:23 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't heard that one.
Was it reissued with the others or still vinyl only? slsk???

― Ian John50n (orion), Thursday, 25 August 2005 04:26 (nineteen years ago)

well i got it on slsk, but as far as i know not in print!

― latebloomer's rectal mocha latte (latebloomer), Thursday, 25 August 2005 04:27 (nineteen years ago)

but is totally worth searching! that shit=JAMZ

― latebloomer's rectal mocha latte (latebloomer), Thursday, 25 August 2005 04:28 (nineteen years ago)

not in print No Kidding, none of these records officially made it to CD. there's the Billingsgate vinyl transfer of Inventing Gyros and that's it.

I've got Ganglia on vinyl, been meaning to do a transfer of that. Tonight's the night.

― milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 25 August 2005 05:27 (nineteen years ago)

It's so awesome that you guys finally started talking about Vertigo. I've been lurking here for a while, and I like a lot of different music, but I never expected to see a thread like this [i]anywhere[/i]. Denny Vertigo is a god. The only question now is how lame Denny Lethargy is.

― xxavier (xxavier), Thursday, 25 August 2005 05:29 (nineteen years ago)

I used to have a tape of a show he did in 1976 in Minneapolis. I forgot what club it was. Ia anyone here enough of a fan to have a copy of the tape? That would be so awesome.

― xxavier (xxavier), Thursday, 25 August 2005 05:51 (nineteen years ago)

I dunno about bootlegs, hopefully someone will have that

but this, man... pretty great stuff, especially for 1974

http://s18.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1TMOXVDFMQJQX3N04NPEKNUNA2

― milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 25 August 2005 05:54 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, the only band really following up on this kind of sound these days is probably, oh I dunno, Blist. But I can't think about them without getting a migrane for some strange reason.

― milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 25 August 2005 06:02 (nineteen years ago)

[i]but this, man... pretty great stuff, especially for 1974[/i]

yeah, but part two is so much better, later in the album, when the lyrics come in...

[i]I'm SPENT
(I wish you were gentler)
SPENT
(You can't taste any mintier)
SPENT
(It's awllll an illusion!)
SPENT
(SO MUCH CONFUSION!)[/i]

― xxavier (xxavier), Thursday, 25 August 2005 06:19 (nineteen years ago)

flo and eddie!

― huell howser (chaki), Thursday, 25 August 2005 06:24 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.incrediblemohawkbrothers.com/images/thfe_001.jpg
with you know who

― huell howser (chaki), Thursday, 25 August 2005 06:27 (nineteen years ago)

http://i.timeinc.net/time/2004/obesity/speakers/images/weil.jpg

― pr00de descending a staircase (pr00de), Thursday, 25 August 2005 08:46 (nineteen years ago)

Didn't know he was down with the "scene" back then...

― pr00de descending a staircase (pr00de), Thursday, 25 August 2005 08:47 (nineteen years ago)

What hippy loser wasn't in Huautla de Jimenez trying to score some magic mushrooms after having read about it in Life when they were a freaking teenage loser? Vertigo was just one more lame, drug addled attendant at this spiritual buffet, standing in line right behind John Lennon, Bob Dylan and hundreds of other "celebrities" who wanted to go on their own "Great Adventure" and then bore everybody else with it.

― Jack Cole (jackcole), Thursday, 25 August 2005 10:34 (nineteen years ago)

in fact, vertigo and lethargy in late 80's belgian hip-hop were like liquid liquid and kraftwerk to early 80's NYC hip-hop/electro.

aw, you're just making that up.

― and I can walk out into the world, singing with my people (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 25 August 2005 10:39 (nineteen years ago)

They've got a pretty good Denny Vertigo bootleg box set for sale at Dusty Groove, but as usual they get it totally wrong in the description:

"Seminal krautrock blues riffs from the mysterious master himself, Denny Vertigo! Call us crazy, but we detect some Afropop influence as well! OUTTASITE!"

Still worth picking up though, only $135.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 25 August 2005 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

Nevermind, just checked, it's out of stock.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 25 August 2005 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

happier times...

http://www.vertigobliss.com/images/dennyrocksit80sstyle.jpg

― Baaderonixx on a long black leash (Fabfunk), Thursday, 25 August 2005 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

i predict a DL/DV backlash in like 3 weeks.

― petesmith (plsmith), Thursday, 25 August 2005 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

Oh holy shit, "Solar Cock" was on this mixtape this girl made for me in high school, what a jam! Although, admittedly, I did kind of, you know, wonder about her.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 25 August 2005 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

is Denny Vertigo's solo LP Astral Milk-Fed Ganglia any good? i've heard so many people swear by that album, like it's a touchstone for proto-ambient psych-ish stuff.

d4n s3lz3r was trying to do a proper cd release through acute, but vertigo's unreliability coupled with legal issue over ownership has pretty much stalled the whole thing.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 25 August 2005 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

thanks for putting up that ysi, guys. i remember reading about denny vertigo back in high school -- in the trouser press guide, maybe? -- but was never able to find any of his albums. then i sort of forgot about him for a while. it sounds pretty cool, though. like an idiot, i didn't even realize that vertigo and lethargy were associated until a year or two ago. also: chuck eddy to thread.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 August 2005 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

I've always wanted there to be a Leisure Suit Larry movie, just so Denny Lethargy could do the soundtrack. Shit would be TITE.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 25 August 2005 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

I knew I had the AMG review around somewhere:

DENNY VERTIGO
Move The Warm Bodies
(Futurismico, 1981)
** 1/2

Apparently inspired by both Gary Numan and Alice Cooper's attempt to become new wave, Vertigo did his best to come to grips with the bleeding edge of 1981 on Move the Warm Bodies. As has become legend, the album itself was never released due to a dispute with the UK art label he had signed with at the time -- owner Tarquin St. Chives refused to do any promotion for the album outside of getting heroin-addicted models to slump over some bulldozers. The eventual rerelease of the album by Vertigo years later shows that despite his claims of thwarted artistic merit, Move was truly only half successful at its task. Starting off with a song called "Urethra Uniroyal" that sought to find the hitherto unknown links between the Stooges and Duran Duran was probably not the best idea, while "I Beat the Machine" and "Your Robot Thigh" were simply laughable, though the break on the latter with orgiastic voices chanting "Grunt the suck" over bleepy arrangements borrowed happily from early Depeche Mode singles is, if nothing else, unique. "Computer Reptile" signalled a better second half, though, and Thomas Dolby's guest work on synth, one of his lesser-known studio session jobs before his own breakthrough, add a necessary something to the otherwise trudging demi-epic "Gonfal, the Barbarian of the Motherboards." Still, this is a curio for only the truly dedicated Vertigo fan, though it has to be said that the liner notes are particularly fine.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 25 August 2005 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

Anyway, Danny Lethargy:

S: "The Crimson Curtain" and "Bury The Wand, Burn The Water"
D: that one semi-hit from the early 80s with that horrible PLOOM PLANG Linn drum machine beat

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 25 August 2005 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

Nevermind, just checked, it's out of stock.

Insound has a copy -- only $120!

orgiastic voices chanting "Grunt the suck" over bleepy arrangements borrowed happily from early Depeche Mode singles is, if nothing else, unique.

Hahaha, too true -- it's obvious that "Dreaming Of Me" didn't leave Vertigo's turntable around the time of those studio sessions.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 25 August 2005 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

D: that one semi-hit from the early 80s with that horrible PLOOM PLANG Linn drum machine beat

"forest of fate"? i think that's the one that chuck writes about in stairway to hell.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 August 2005 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

B-side, dude. The hit was in 1983 and is called "Running Down The Demon's Alley."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 25 August 2005 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

There's that 3-song run on the blue record that could even pass as a 12" on Areal or Border Community.

Recently picked up this old Luciano tune from when he was recording as Shy Guy that samples "Foreign Shocks". It's a monster, from around 97 I think, has that kind of bouncy, elasticy early Klang Elektronik/Playhouse sound, samples the "what is this foreign shock/is our culture about to stop" line but picthed down with a load of delay, it could easily fit into say an Ada or Daniel Bell set.. I'll try and YSI in a bit.

― Ridley, Thursday, 25 August 2005 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

sorry, ned. like i said, i'm only really starting to dig into this stuff!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 August 2005 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

That's quite all right. Make sure you look for the bootleg from the 1983 tour, Rectal Rockism.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 25 August 2005 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

Recently picked up this old Luciano tune from when he was recording as Shy Guy that samples "Foreign Shocks".

I've heard that tune, and while I'm no authority, I'm pretty sure he was actually sampling an old Egyptian Lover track that sampled "Foreign Shocks." (I don't remember the name of it, sorry.)

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 25 August 2005 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

hi denny wat is sister email why becuz she look interesting

― tombstone1414, Thursday, 25 August 2005 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

What hippy loser wasn't in Huautla de Jimenez trying to score some magic mushrooms after having read about it in Life when they were a freaking teenage loser? Vertigo was just one more lame, drug addled attendant at this spiritual buffet, standing in line right behind John Lennon, Bob Dylan and hundreds of other "celebrities" who wanted to go on their own "Great Adventure" and then bore everybody else with it.

don't forget vertigo's brief stint at the navajo sweat lodge. word has it jim seals and dash crofts were there that week too. they went down there to clean up and by the second day it was a veritable smorgasbord of coke, pot, shrooms, peyote, mescaline, and ludes.

― and I can walk out into the world, singing with my people (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 25 August 2005 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

Is there any truth to the story that Vertigo was an informant for the FBI like Timothy Leary?

― Jack Cole (jackcole), Thursday, 25 August 2005 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

i thought he was working for the CIA like chuck barris.

― and I can walk out into the world, singing with my people (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 25 August 2005 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

I always imagined Vertigo as more of a snitch than a stealthy assassin.

― Jack Cole (jackcole), Thursday, 25 August 2005 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

exactly

― and I can walk out into the world, singing with my people (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 25 August 2005 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

http://blogs.salon.com/0003517/images/2004/05/12/ENOUGH.gif http://blogs.salon.com/0003517/images/2004/05/12/ENOUGH.gif http://blogs.salon.com/0003517/images/2004/05/12/ENOUGH.gif http://blogs.salon.com/0003517/images/2004/05/12/ENOUGH.gif http://blogs.salon.com/0003517/images/2004/05/12/ENOUGH.gif

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 25 August 2005 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

Hahahahahahahahahaha.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 25 August 2005 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

BEST THREAD EVER

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 25 August 2005 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

Hahaha, fuckin right.

― F (Ferg), Thursday, 25 August 2005 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

And Ladies and Gents, that's a wrap!

― My life with Baaderonixx and the Choco-pops babies (Fabfunk), Thursday, 25 August 2005 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

i told you guys the backlash was coming.

― petesmith (plsmith), Thursday, 25 August 2005 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

Poor gear!

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 25 August 2005 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, and with Narnack releasing the Lethargy tribute next month, and Vice putting out the Vertigo one in October, that's just gonna add fuel to the fire. Anybody got a tracklist on either of these?

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Thursday, 25 August 2005 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

playing optimo apparently

anyone know anything about this?

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 25 August 2005 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

haaaa

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

is Denny Vertigo's solo LP Astral Milk-Fed Ganglia any good? i've heard so many people swear by that album, like it's a touchstone for proto-ambient psych-ish stuff.

d4n s3lz3r was trying to do a proper cd release through acute, but vertigo's unreliability coupled with legal issue over ownership has pretty much stalled the whole thing.

You got that wrong. I was only interested in the stuff from the disco/new wave years, but Futurismico sold the rights to Cherry Red, who had great success using "I Beat the Machine" on one of their jock-jam UK football compilations. Apparently is was big with Arsenal? Maybe another team, I don't remember. But now they're asking too much to license it.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

Both of these bands are so crazy, you couldn't make this shit up.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

oh yeah, not sure which team but apparent it was easily changed as "I Beat Manchester".

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, you're right, I dimly remember some promo video hash from 1994 when they dug Vertigo up for a rerecording of that...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

Futurismico sold the rights to Cherry Red, who had great success using "I Beat the Machine" on one of their jock-jam UK football compilations. Apparently is was big with Arsenal? Maybe another team, I don't remember.

Leeds United. Kevin Blackwell's a big fan apparently.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

That YSI is such a fake. And I've kinda got to go with Ian here. Not bad just not worth the absurd import prices. Yeah, the Dennys can play but that sustains you for an album or two not a career (especially one that dovetailed into 80s new wave junk). There was no group dynamic and the tunes were half-thought-out most of the time (though, yes, "Solar Cock" is undeniable). You'd be better off picking up some early ZZ Top records out of the dollar bins people!

― Sundar (sundar), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

ZZ Top is cool, Sundar, but... open your fucking eyes, that dragon is totally playing the fuck out that guitar, dude

― milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

out _of_ that guitar

sorry, I just get excited sometimes

& I did that vinyl transfer myself, buddy. should have left the clicks in.

Alex in NYC can pull the brakes but he can't stop the train

― milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

"That YSI is such a fake."

i don't know about that, it's a rare record and there was a big problem for a long time with fake bootlegs of Astral Milk-Fed Ganglia popping up (not quite as much as in the early 90's though). but from what i've read about the LP that YSI file it matches the descriptions completely. though prolly some in Vertigo's camp don't ever want it reissued!

"Not bad just not worth the absurd import prices."

Like I told Ian upthread, you have to hear "Narwhal Curiosity" from the Sledding Daze LP!

― latebloomer's rectal mocha latte (latebloomer), Friday, 26 August 2005 00:28 (nineteen years ago)

Like I told Ian upthread, you have to hear "Narwhal Curiosity" from the Sledding Daze LP!
Though it's not nearly as good as the original, this interpretation from 1988's Double Live Sledding is, um, interesting:
http://s5.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2SWXSFPP2DNUV122C9W9CSBFYW
and those of us who were at some of the shows on that tour know why! ;)

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Monday, 29 August 2005 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

I was at Atomic Records today and they had a fucking 7" of Denny Lethargy's "Funkgasm", with this gray/marble colored sleeve and red vinyl. It was $12 and the fucking thing was scratched to hell. Guy behind the counter sniffed, "Someone will buy it, they always snatch up that Lethargy stuff quick."

I almost bought it for the artwork alone, but still...

― gear (gear), Friday, 7 October 2005 06:37 (nineteen years ago)

Was that Enough album mentioned upthread ever reissued on CD?

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 7 October 2005 06:46 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know, but I love the cover, it reminds me of Black Mountain or something.

― gear (gear), Friday, 7 October 2005 06:50 (nineteen years ago)

OH KAY GUYZ I GET IT

― ALEC IN NEW YORK, Friday, 7 October 2005 09:24 (nineteen years ago)

Don't do that, please.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 7 October 2005 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

Where can I find Denny Lethargy cds?

Cheers,

Chris

― Chris T. (ex machina), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

So close.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

ask alex in nyc

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

jon forgot to log out, roffles.

― Special Agent Dale Koopa (orion), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

I loved him on Taxi.

― Kristos Tassos (Ken L), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

Ian, googlers can't tell.

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:58 (nineteen years ago)

Googlers also don't know who you are, so you could just post under your regular name.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 22:00 (nineteen years ago)

Fictional Googlers don't realize they're fictional?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 22:00 (nineteen years ago)

googlers also probably wouldn't google for musicians that they've never heard of.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 22:03 (nineteen years ago)

xpost!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 22:03 (nineteen years ago)

Would the Googler be inspired by the Chris T post to then try and seek out the CDs himself? Was there to be a followup post (mis)directing him to the a place where they could be found?

― Konstanz Lake (Ken L), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 22:08 (nineteen years ago)

this could be helpful to everyone, who was interested in finding from more over the seminal work in the catalog of lethargy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Sharrock

― avant fan, Wednesday, 7 December 2005 22:08 (nineteen years ago)

Looks like an xpost!

― Kovacs Laszlo (Ken L), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 22:10 (nineteen years ago)

that wiki link is terrible. i feel like never trusting them again

― jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 8 December 2005 02:18 (nineteen years ago)

That's going to totally fuck up some kid's Sonny Sharrock book report.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 8 December 2005 02:27 (nineteen years ago)

you should check the one on varg vikernes!

― latebloomer: The Corridor (Yes, The Corridor) (latebloomer), Thursday, 8 December 2005 02:34 (nineteen years ago)

I searched Google and found Chris T.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 8 December 2005 04:24 (nineteen years ago)

seven months pass...

What the...HELL? (NSFW!)

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 29 July 2006 07:44 (eighteen years ago)

whoa

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Saturday, 29 July 2006 17:07 (eighteen years ago)

hahaha

― j blount (papa la bas), Saturday, 29 July 2006 17:10 (eighteen years ago)

TS: Denny Lethargy VS. Denny Vertigo

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 29 July 2006 18:00 (eighteen years ago)

YSI?

― Marmot 4-Tay: The root cause of dragon hatred among power metal bands. (marmotwo, Monday, 31 July 2006 04:20 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=C18CC37C70140B7B

― milton parker (Jon L), Monday, 31 July 2006 17:18 (eighteen years ago)

What's this I hear about a Junk Sessions dvd?

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Monday, 31 July 2006 19:32 (eighteen years ago)

: O

― gear (gear), Monday, 31 July 2006 19:34 (eighteen years ago)

i love "astral milk-fed ganglia"--

def a huge influence on zappa's uncle meat

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 31 July 2006 21:02 (eighteen years ago)

I heard that Vertigo challenged Frank to a gross out contest and won.

― Marmot 4-Tay: The root cause of dragon hatred among power metal bands. (marmotwo, Monday, 31 July 2006 21:14 (eighteen years ago)

(Mike - Junk Sessions DVD should be out within the coming year on Plexifilm. It's not listed yet, but keep checking the site!
http://www.plexifilm.com/dvds.html)

― Marmot 4-Tay: The root cause of dragon hatred among power metal bands. (marmotwo, Monday, 31 July 2006 21:20 (eighteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v216/sexymollusk/COSMICNIPPLELP.jpg

saw this at the record store the other day, used on CD for $3. should i pick it up? its from 1994 apparently. is recent Vertigo any good?

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 5 August 2006 06:29 (eighteen years ago)

dude go back and get it before it's gone, that shit it hard to come by. even if you don't like it (and it's not easy to digest, frankly) you can mos def sell it to some japanese dude for $300.

― gear (gear), Saturday, 5 August 2006 19:19 (eighteen years ago)

Is that the one with Zakir Hussain on tabla and Billy Cobham on drums?

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 5 August 2006 19:39 (eighteen years ago)

There's this live Guns N Roses bootleg I've got from 2002 and on "Get In the Ring", Axl Rose calls Denny a "typeface robbin' little bitch". I've always assumed that he was talking about the Cosmic Nipple cover. Pretty weird that he would hold that grudge for so long.

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Saturday, 5 August 2006 20:47 (eighteen years ago)

That feud goes back to a 1989 interview where Vertigo claimed that GnR had ripped off the riff for "Mr Brownstone" from "Monkey Nut Sundae".

― Son of Spam (noodle vague), Saturday, 5 August 2006 20:49 (eighteen years ago)

Axl can be quite sensitive about his fonts.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Saturday, 5 August 2006 20:51 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

Denny V. just released an ep of Smashing Pumpkins covers. Pretty decent.

― Mike Dixn, Friday, 28 September 2007 19:17 (seventeen years ago)

Oh right, "Crying Tree of Mercury," "The Pistachio Medley," "The Beginning is the Middle is the Something Or Other" and "17."

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 28 September 2007 19:19 (seventeen years ago)

If it were anyone else, I'd say that's a pretty odd selection, but I can actually kind of imagine those first two at least with the trademark Vertigo touch.

― jaymc, Friday, 28 September 2007 19:22 (seventeen years ago)

And yet not without a certain je nai sais quoi that is best defined as the early 21st century's crisis of sonic confidence.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 28 September 2007 19:26 (seventeen years ago)

The hidden track is a surprisingly faithful rendition of "Disarm".
Could he be taunting Denny Lethargy, in light of his accident a few months back?

― Mike Dixn, Friday, 28 September 2007 19:34 (seventeen years ago)

The mishap with the Segway? Yeah, that was embarrassing.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 28 September 2007 19:37 (seventeen years ago)

I don't know why were skirting round the recent news. I mean i can't be the only one surprised by Verigo's profession of hardcore militant pescetarianism? How is it going to affect his work? And his live performances?

― Frogman Henry, Friday, 28 September 2007 19:46 (seventeen years ago)

this is the cover for the new album.

http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/9694/jumpthesharknx0.jpg

― jaxon, Friday, 28 September 2007 19:48 (seventeen years ago)

Denny V. just released an ep of Smashing Pumpkins covers. Pretty decent.

-- Mike Dixn, Friday, September 28, 2007 7:17 PM (37 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

that is ADVANCED

― latebloomer, Friday, 28 September 2007 19:55 (seventeen years ago)

If "Silverfuck" is on the EP, that would be awesome.

It will be very strange to hear Vertigo covering such a blatantly Vertigo-influenced song. The universe will collapse in on itself or something in a singularity of AWESOME.

― latebloomer, Friday, 28 September 2007 20:01 (seventeen years ago)

this is the only thing I've found from his deep trance period, sorry it cuts off but it's taken from a mix CD on Moonshine Music

http://www.sendspace.com/file/35a7qj

― Milton Parker, Friday, 28 September 2007 20:24 (seventeen years ago)

did Vertigo ever get off the ground with that private moonshot thing?

― gabbneb, Friday, 28 September 2007 20:30 (seventeen years ago)

I heard a new track of Vertigo's the other day called "Let It Go (You Guys)".

― jeff, Friday, 28 September 2007 20:31 (seventeen years ago)

The lyrics to that one were particularly fine.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 28 September 2007 20:35 (seventeen years ago)

there's another one too released not too long ago (mp3-only track): "If U Don't Like It, Just Leave U Punk"

― latebloomer, Friday, 28 September 2007 20:36 (seventeen years ago)

very funky number.

― latebloomer, Friday, 28 September 2007 20:37 (seventeen years ago)

I hear it's even funkier than "Tuck'em In Already" (Lethargy's version of "Fuck 'Em If They Can't Take A Joke").

― Mike Dixn, Friday, 28 September 2007 21:07 (seventeen years ago)

five months pass...

oh yes love both : )

― Klaus Krück, Thursday, 27 March 2008 17:35 (seventeen years ago)

three months pass...

Been blasting "Solar Cock" this morning. Still sounds good!

― admrl, Friday, 18 July 2008 20:33 (sixteen years ago)

Working is an incredible challenge
A kind of vertical division
Let it resonate within your sacred space
I'm going to fuck you until your voice goes away
We come from the same place
I can't bear it any longer woman
You're Vertigoing Insane

-- milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, August 24, 2005 11:23 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Link

― admrl, Friday, 18 July 2008 20:40 (sixteen years ago)

I heard a new track of Vertigo's the other day called "Let It Go (You Guys)".

-- jeff, Friday, September 28, 2007 4:31 PM (9 months ago) Bookmark Link

― and what, Friday, 18 July 2008 20:44 (sixteen years ago)

reunion tour gonna be so devisive

― latebloomer, Friday, 18 July 2008 20:49 (sixteen years ago)

seven months pass...

remember denny vertigo's faux-angry blog post about the U2 song 'vertigo', claiming it was inspired by him and therefore he deserved royalties?

― pro bowl was fun (omar little), Wednesday, 25 February 2009 20:07 (sixteen years ago)

great revive. was thinking about vertigo this week.

― cutty, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 20:07 (sixteen years ago)

and i'm not sure that blog post was faux-angry. dude seemed angry-angry.

― cutty, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 20:08 (sixteen years ago)

Not sure how seriously you can take a guy who once tried to sue Denny's, tho.

― aging very well, fer sure (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 25 February 2009 20:09 (sixteen years ago)

i guess i thought it was along the lines of the donald fagen "cease and desist" open letter to owen wilson re: "you me and dupree"? i could have misread it.

― pro bowl was fun (omar little), Wednesday, 25 February 2009 20:09 (sixteen years ago)

how many people have sued denny's over chronic food-poisoning i wonder?
i bet a year as a trucker would strengthen my stomach to a serious degree. but i digress.

― ian, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 20:11 (sixteen years ago)

is "max" upthread our very own max? in 2005?

― cutty, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 20:12 (sixteen years ago)

^^ was just wondering this. denny was a lot of ppl's way into ilm, at least in the old days.

― goole, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 20:14 (sixteen years ago)

No surprise there. Dude has a cult fanbase.

― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Wednesday, 25 February 2009 20:16 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

“sludge blues” music on Last.fm

Top Artists

* Denny Lethargy
* PJ Harvey
* Soundgarden

― ('_') (omar little), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 06:56 (fourteen years ago)

more "blues-sludge" than sludge blues imo

― lord goo goo (latebloomer), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 08:09 (fourteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

i have no memory of contributing to this thread

― max, Thursday, 16 September 2010 08:11 (fourteen years ago)

but i was pretty fucked up back when i was heavy into denny lethargy

― max, Thursday, 16 September 2010 08:12 (fourteen years ago)

four months pass...

christopher lloyd's guest star role on fringe last week blatantly based on Vertigo/Lethargy

violet sedan chair = purple car seat

― the size of Snow's skin pistol (latebloomer), Monday, 24 January 2011 02:50 (fourteen years ago)

some douchebag i know apparently thought denny lethargy sounded like blue cheer. i later discovered he had never even HEARD blue cheer, he was just some asshole with an MC5 shirt

― gear (gear), Wednesday, August 24, 2005 10:52 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark

oooooh i know the type!

― not everything is a campfire (ian), Monday, 24 January 2011 02:56 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

86.

Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine that Vertigo would have a cupcake Tumblr.

― Michael Daddino, Monday, 6 August 2012 04:21 (twelve years ago)

eight months pass...

"denny lethargy"

About 3,180 results (0.25 seconds)

"denny vertigo"

About 5,310 results (0.13 seconds)

― christmas candy bar (al leong), Thursday, 25 April 2013 03:16 (twelve years ago)

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