THE RETURN OF JENNIFER HEREMMA!!!!

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OK< well, maybe it's not such a triumphant return, but it's good to know she's still around and using that kilelr voice - she's on the new Weird War album, doing what can only be described as a 'rap' on song four. As an RTX completist, I'm totally torn now, I don't think I can hang on to this stupid record (no Hagerty? No thanks!!) especially not for the 30 seconds she sings on it. Still...a solo album would surely make my year.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 23 January 2004 07:17 (twenty-one years ago)

What has she been doing for the last 2-3 years?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 23 January 2004 07:33 (twenty-one years ago)

HAHA,

junki, ur, lady if you have to ask

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 23 January 2004 07:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember reading somewhere (an online int with Hagerty) that she got the Royal Trux name in the "divorce."
I hope she's well. I met her in 98, and she seemed sorta nice. Mind you I also met Hagerty that night, and the amazing drummer they had with them and I was completely off my ass in the booze. But I had a nice little exchange with Hagerty.

LV: YOU ROCK!!!
NH: Uh, thanks.
LV: NO! YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND, YOU ROCCCCCCCCKKKKK!!!
NH: Uh huh.
LV: You, erm, sorta rock too.
JH: Yeah, I do.

― Luigi Vampa (Horace Mann), Friday, 23 January 2004 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

that weird war album is fi-i-i-i-i-ine

― stevie (stevie), Friday, 23 January 2004 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't absorbed the whole album yet, but aw, she is great on that track.

― Nathan W (Nathan Webb), Friday, 23 January 2004 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Look at this, no record store in my town for 3 weeks and I'm totally out of the loop. I'm moving to Wpg.

― Luigi Vampa (Horace Mann), Friday, 23 January 2004 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

When Weird War played here in L.A. last fall, she crawled onstage to sing a little bit on one song, then reclined on the side of the stage for the rest of the performance. At one point, during a "funky jam," she pulled a young woman out of the crowd and manipulated her limbs from behind, to make her "go-go dance." The woman, embarrassed, demounted after a minute or so - and Jennifer pulled her back up and made her keep going at it. It was all... a bit disturbing.

Does the new Weird War alb (when's it out?) have that song "Therewasavillagewithawitchandtheydecidedtoburnthebitch!"?

That's a live fave of my gf and me.

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Friday, 23 January 2004 18:02 (twenty-one years ago)

@d@m,

she has done some modelling but as db alludes to, not much good.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 23 January 2004 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Wait, the new Weird War doesn't have Haggerty, but it does have Jennifer? Does Svenonius only get one of them per WW album, and they alternate?

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Friday, 23 January 2004 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

My strongest memory of JH involves seeing her at some godforsaken indie "event" in D.C. that involved a bunch of bands playing in a parking lot--some kind of indie "street fair," with vendors and crap. Trans Am played. Anyway, Ms. Herrema was manning the Drag City kissing booth. It was a very weird, sad thing watching all the indie boys draw near the booth, curious, and then sort of slink away, not looking at her.

Hopefully things are going a little better than that.

So what actually happened with NH + JH/RTX? Did they really split personally as well as professionally?

― Lee G (Lee G), Friday, 23 January 2004 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 23 January 2004 20:27 (twenty-one years ago)

While I loved her contributions to RTX, I'm skeptical about what she can do on her own. I'll surely give it a shot though.

― The Luge (Horace Mann), Friday, 23 January 2004 20:28 (twenty-one years ago)

My strongest memory of JH involves seeing her at some godforsaken indie "event" in D.C. that involved a bunch of bands playing in a parking
lot--some kind of indie "street fair," with vendors and crap. Trans Am played. Anyway, Ms. Herrema was manning the Drag City kissing booth. It was
a very weird, sad thing watching all the indie boys draw near the booth, curious, and then sort of slink away, not looking at her.

Have Dan Clowes or Pete Bagge illustrate that and you've got the early -to-mid-nineties slide into something captured.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 23 January 2004 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)

from what i understand, jh fell off the wagon and nmh, still on the wagon, separated from her (thus ending the band) -- which is understandable see how difficult it is to stay clean and not wanting to be dragged back into the cesspool of horsie rides, etc. it seemed to me, though nmh would probably deny it, that the Howling Hex album is pretty autobiographical in some of the songs about nmh's relationship with jh -- or at least his feelings..

― jack cole (jackcole), Friday, 23 January 2004 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)

At an NMH show in L.A. last year (part of some bad 'festival' with Sonic Youth headlining), JH showed up and stood up front with a gaggle of hangers-on - when he got to the "It's gonna bury them" line in "Rockslide," he changed it to "It's gonna bury HER" and supposedly looked right at her.

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Friday, 23 January 2004 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

now you're mythologizing.

― The Luge (Horace Mann), Friday, 23 January 2004 20:38 (twenty-one years ago)

But of course. (What's RTX without it?)

See also the Adventures of Royal Trux comic book for Hagerty's elliptical treatment of the events. Though his story is pretty straighforwardly told in his interviews since then.

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Friday, 23 January 2004 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Holy shit! Check out the Drag City RTX page now! She really is moving on with the name!

http://www.dragcity.com/bands/rtx.html

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Friday, 23 January 2004 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

from what i understand, jh fell off the wagon

Aie, then I take back my earlier comment. oops.

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 23 January 2004 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Weird... I was at that Festival show (I kind of liked it, though! Sonic Youth were great I thought...)... so was anything ever determined as to why Scene Creamers went back to Weird War for the name? That tidbit from a couple months ago in the L.A. Weekly about how the band was being sued by some radical French 1960s organization over the name "Scene Creamers" seemed like a joke or something.

― Ben Boyer (Ben Boyer), Friday, 23 January 2004 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Holy shit! Check out the Drag City RTX page now! She really is moving on with the name!

!??!!??/ WTF

Wow. I'm never been more curious to hear the next Royal Trux records than now.

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 23 January 2004 20:43 (twenty-one years ago)

This is my favourite.

IMN: Have you ever spent any time in Indianapolis?

Neil: I played there once in 1986 and another time a little later. I remember that the downtown was very deserted at 9 pm.

― The Luge (Horace Mann), Friday, 23 January 2004 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Who are those other dudes??

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Friday, 23 January 2004 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)

The first guy looks like a painting, or like he's CGI or something. And she looks INTENSE.

― Ben Boyer (Ben Boyer), Friday, 23 January 2004 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

that blonde is not recommended for anyone ever.

― The Luge (Horace Mann), Friday, 23 January 2004 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Those other two dudes look really sleepy.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Friday, 23 January 2004 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Apparently the guy on the right is an "Ear Giggle" associated with the band "Fung".

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Friday, 23 January 2004 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

she looks like thurston gone platinum.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 23 January 2004 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Those other two dudes look really sleepy

if she's off the wagon, do you think she'd bother having anyone in the band that wasn't?

― The Luge (Horace Mann), Friday, 23 January 2004 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)

i think that she and the guy on the right are wearing that eye guard football type make up to absorb (deflect in JH's case?) sunlight.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 23 January 2004 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

And she looks INTENSE

You said it. Now that is a bad haircut!
Anyway, nice to at least have some signs of life.

But what's The Adventures Of Royal Trux comic book? Sounds like something I really, really need.

― Omar (Omar), Friday, 23 January 2004 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Have you read NMH's book?

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 23 January 2004 20:54 (twenty-one years ago)

This is all quite exciting.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 23 January 2004 20:54 (twenty-one years ago)

"Hope you like our... uhhh... new directionnnn.... *grunt*..."

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Friday, 23 January 2004 20:54 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.dragcity.com/catalog/books/dc157.jpg

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Friday, 23 January 2004 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

the book about the chimp in space?

― The Luge (Horace Mann), Friday, 23 January 2004 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm really interested in hearing the record, but I'm guessing that it probably isn't going to be very good.

I feel bad for Neal, and worried about Jennifer.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Friday, 23 January 2004 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Jeez, that's some service. I pushed submit, like 10 secondes ago? :)

Have you read NMH's book?

The sciencefiction one about the monkey? Alas no.

― Omar (Omar), Friday, 23 January 2004 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)

So which of NMH's solo records are actually worth hearing? I was a very faithful Trux fan up until his first album. Isn't the Howling Hex a limited release?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 23 January 2004 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)

The most recent one ("Introducing...") was a very limited LP, and not really worth getting. The others are fantastic - the most recent one (just called "The Howling Hex") the best intro. But his live show is... the best thing I've ever seen in this life.

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Friday, 23 January 2004 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Howling Hex the double album is a reg release I think (though there's a series of 10"s, I think, that are ltd which came out late-2003, and my record store closed before he got any!!!). It's the most consistenly good of the solo albs. The other ones, which are far shorter in length are also sketchier, though they both have moments of greatness.

But Howling Hex has a song (EPA1, I think? first song, fourth side) that mentions the Martian Manhunter, which is waaaaay coool in my book.

― The Luge (Horace Mann), Friday, 23 January 2004 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

The self-titled debut is a full LP-length record, and is a scorcher. (The second one, "Plays That Good Old Rock & Roll," is about a half-hour of groovy, laid-back tunes.)

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Friday, 23 January 2004 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I've only just recently come around to what an amazing slab of bedroom/headphones/resin-encrusted deep guitar mania the debut is.

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Friday, 23 January 2004 21:04 (twenty-one years ago)

"Which Mike Tyson am I today?" - everyone needs to ask themselves this question. --Hagerty, from a Weekly Dig interview

Wow.

― Lee G (Lee G), Friday, 23 January 2004 21:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Morris - you're crazy - the limited LP is the most brilliant thing he's done since Thank You

I've interviewed The 'Hag twice this past year and he's one of the most affable, intimidatingly intelligent people I've ever spoken to. My first question went like this:

Me: So Neil, which Mike Tyson are you today?
Neil: Exactly. (laughs)

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 23 January 2004 23:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Really? Explain to me what you like about it so much - I'm interested to hear your angle. (I enjoyed listening to it a few times, but haven't put it on since. I think it does show off how NMH's music can be extremely "casual," almost to the point of disappearing, yet maintains a strange "presence" and integrity that I can't account for.)

Where have your interviews run?

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Friday, 23 January 2004 23:49 (twenty-one years ago)

it will be a miracle of enormous proportions if nu-Trux isn't the worst thing ever.

― jack cole (jackcole), Saturday, 24 January 2004 00:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Jack - no way. Trux, Mach 2 will rule, like "Inside Game" ruled.

Morris: upcoming issues of Your Flesh (article) and Stop Smiling (Q&A).

I'm a little too tired to defend the LP at the moment but I'll be back. Might be important to note that you are talking to a guy who owns Thank You on all three formats and owns a 'spare' copy on CD.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Saturday, 24 January 2004 06:26 (twenty-one years ago)

At some point I have to learn how to digitize this interview I did with Haggerty and Herrema circa the 3rd lp. It was a lot of fun. I don't think I've listened to it in probably 8 years but I KNOW I have the tape around here somewhere. It was great. Neil brought his acoustic guitar and did an impromptu version of "Junkie Nurse" right there in the on-air room. I don't remember much about what I asked them; probably a bunch of totally dorky indie-nerd questions. I did ask them what their favorite Stones album was and both agreed it was Goat's Head Soup..

― Broheems (diamond), Saturday, 24 January 2004 06:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Skipping 28 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

but we now have an email address, so there's some progress

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 29 April 2004 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)

"RTX - The Transmaniacon - LP/CD - DC 271"
has appeared beneath the UPCOMING banner on the Drag City site.

The new Howling Hex limited lp thing is not 100% enjoyable (maybe 48%, though - the first song's great, a la "Neil Michael Hagerty" or "Introducing the Howling Hex"), and sports maybe the ugliest cover in my collection.

― Mike Dixon, Saturday, 1 May 2004 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

sigh. I was hoping for an even more cryptic update to truxrox.com but none yet. When do you think the next one will come?

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 18:51 (twenty-one years ago)

about the same time the world explodes, ie. tomorrow.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

Jennifer has now changed the name of her nu-Trux band to just "RTX."

http://www.dragcity.com/bands/rtx.html

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Monday, 28 June 2004 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

that picture...

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 28 June 2004 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I think that's Pete Yorn on the left.

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Monday, 28 June 2004 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

HOLY SHIT! It's the return of BRIAN JONES!

― frankE (frankE), Monday, 28 June 2004 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

no release date yet, I presume

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 28 June 2004 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I am so apprehensively stoked to hear this.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 28 June 2004 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Me too!

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 28 June 2004 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

no release date yet, I presume

From DC's news: "in September, it’s going to get hotter with RTX. Transmaniacon is the name of their new game"

― Vic Funk, Monday, 28 June 2004 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

From Domino's site:

07.06.2004 > Playlists > Royal Trux
Jennifer Herrema's current Top 10
1. Heavy Gator - RTX
2. Joint Chief - RTX
3. Tear The Roof off This Sucker - Funkadelic
4. From The Bottom of My Soul - Eddie Hazel
5. Little Dreamer - Van Halen
6. Little Angel Fuck - Misfits
7. Crash Course In Brain Surgery - Budgie
8. Waterpark - Royal Trux
9. Teenage Rock - James Booker
10. You're Gonna Lose - Royal Trux

― Vic Funk, Monday, 28 June 2004 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Awesome despite the flub of the Misfits title.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 28 June 2004 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)

"Heavy Gator" is a good name for what I'm blindly anticipating. Funny that Van Halen is on there, considering the whole...Misfits too.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Monday, 28 June 2004 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

"Joint Chief" is such a great title!

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Monday, 28 June 2004 23:01 (twenty-one years ago)

They remind me of Tad titles. Tad had the best titles.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 00:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyone know anything about the other guys in the band?

― Tim Ellison, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 00:53 (twenty-one years ago)

re: the other guys...
I googled them a while back, and as far as I could tell, they come from the world of jam bands.

― Mike Dixon (Mike Dixon), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 13:16 (twenty-one years ago)

xxpost:
"I'm just your porkchop, baby, that's all I'll ever be-ee-ee"

― hexxy, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 13:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Drag City updated their news section:

"RTX
Transmaniacon is coming! September 21st is the date that Jennifer and Co. break back into your life. Look out, they’re gonna rock ya!"

― Vic Funk, Thursday, 1 July 2004 23:09 (twenty-one years ago)

My sister's birthday. Noted.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Thursday, 1 July 2004 23:52 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

This has leaked. I've only heard one song - I'm just going to wait to buy the thing in the store and listen to it on my stereo, you know, like we used to back in the old days - but the song I heard (Low Ass Mountain Song) sounds like the 'flirtin' with cock rock-era Royal Trux, but with more of a hair metal sheen. I could be totally wrong, though, I only heard it once.

You can see the cover, track list, etc., if you're clever enough to find it on the drag city site.

― Mike Dixon (Mike Dixon), Sunday, 25 July 2004 11:01 (twenty-one years ago)

it's leaked where? slsk?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Sunday, 25 July 2004 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)

and is this the same mike dixon from indiana?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Sunday, 25 July 2004 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm from Illinois, not Indiana.
I don't know if it's on slsk yet. I got it from the Beating Hearts yahoo group.

― Mike Dixon (Mike Dixon), Sunday, 25 July 2004 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

^^^ Just that one track though. Some of the people there have heard more, though. Not sure if they're sharing.
Like I said, I'm waiting for the official release.

― Mike Dixon (Mike Dixon), Sunday, 25 July 2004 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

(I guess I'm clever enough to find it) That album cover is awesome.

― Vic Funk, Sunday, 25 July 2004 18:05 (twenty-one years ago)

it's not a question of being clever for me - just impatient. how do i find it?

also - is this album gonna go under the name 'RTX?'

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Sunday, 25 July 2004 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't say I never did anything for ya: http://www.dragcity.com/catalog/records/dc271.html

― Vic Funk, Sunday, 25 July 2004 18:42 (twenty-one years ago)

thanks

that cover IS awesome. I remember, we spoke about the titles (possibly upthread? I'm lazy) and I remarked how they sounded like Tad titles.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Sunday, 25 July 2004 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

tho i don't hold out much hope for songs bearing the titles "PB&J" and "Stoked"

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Sunday, 25 July 2004 18:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I do! Should be "Fully Stoked" tho

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 26 July 2004 05:57 (twenty-one years ago)

A slsk search for Transmaniacon just gets you a bunch of Blue Oyster Cult right now.

― Harv., Monday, 26 July 2004 10:56 (twenty-one years ago)

the guitarist is bad, he ruins the LP. which isn't much cop to begin with.

― stevie (stevie), Monday, 26 July 2004 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)

please do go on

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 26 July 2004 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

The oft-asked question: "What is Royal Trux?"

Answer: Neil Hagerty

― kjoerup, Monday, 26 July 2004 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean, buying this new "RTX" album is a bit like getting a Ringo Starr or a Bill Wyman solo lp, isn't it?

― kjoerup, Monday, 26 July 2004 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

no, it's not.

i haven't heard this new one yet, but I can tell you that as big a fan as I am of the 'Hag, I've missed Jennifer's constipated coos a lot on his recent solo endeavors. Royal Trux was the perfect balance of genius and rock star grit, balls and brains synthesized like no band before or since. Jennifer was key to the formula.

I expect the new album will sound a lot like Trux songs like "Waterpark" and "Inside Game." I'm psyched.

It won't be anywhere near as good as the last Hagerty album, natch - but I don't think anyone's expecting it to be.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 26 July 2004 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not totally blown away by this stuff, but if anyone's interested, I have three Transmaniacon tracks on the sklksk now: PB + J, Is Red, and Low Ass Mountain Song my slsk code name is...

― lesoxygen, Saturday, 31 July 2004 13:27 (twenty-one years ago)

truxrox.com is all "professional" now.

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

The new RTX rox. I'm not too keen on joint cheif but crazy for stoked and pb+j and heavy gator. It's AM radio heaven. (ps-that's crazy that that LA NMH show gossip went so far--i think i was one of the "hangers on")

― allyssa, Tuesday, 3 August 2004 20:26 (twenty-one years ago)

one song is "Speed to Roam" which is also the name of Paul Oldham's band, who used to do sound for RTX. Was he involved in the making of this album?

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 20:28 (twenty-one years ago)

here's the old truxrox page:

http://truxrox.com/indexjen.html

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Allyssa - do you know Mark B.?

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 21:25 (twenty-one years ago)

You mean Markus Caligula? Intimately and not at all.

― allyssa, Wednesday, 4 August 2004 01:39 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

So is there no thread for the new album. i like the song black bananas from the DC website. she sounds like vince neil on balls to pass: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=RDAGAZZZ

― mizzell, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 16:19 (eighteen years ago)

I'm bummed this new record, Western Xterminator, isn't coming out on LP.

― mizzell, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 16:22 (eighteen years ago)

About half of Drag City's upcoming releases are listed as cd-only.

― Mike Dixn, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 21:50 (eighteen years ago)

!! Lameness!!

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 21:53 (eighteen years ago)

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