TS: Sonc's Rendezvous "Sweet Nothin" vs The Twinkeyz "Sweet Nothin"

i'd have to go with the sonic's rendezvous. having not heard the twinkeyz one. but i can't imagine it could be better than the SRB.

SRB were a good-to-great bar band, but the Twinkeyz were punk-era freaks who wrote a handful of perfect pop tunes. Twinkeyz are mentioned in the same breath as Debris, Simply Saucer, Desparate Bicycles, and the Homosexuals. SRB are mentioned in the same breath as happy hour specials, ladies night, two-for-one deals, all-you-can-eat buffets and other delicacies advertised on local bar marquees.

However, the Tiwnkeyz do owe alot to VU's "Oh! Sweet Nuthin".

Uh, no. Twinkeyz had one honestly-great tune ("Aliens in Our Midst,") and it doesn't touch the Sonic Rendezvous Band's one honestly-far-greater "City Slang." On the strength of which the Twinkeyz are revealed (to these ears) as an OK second-tier punk band whose reputation really oughtn't to be too much greater than it is. Not bad, mind you. But not in the same class as Fred Smith or Scott Morgan.

"Little Joey" is a good Twinkeyz song, too. It's like their Bay City Rollers song.

"SRB were a good-to-great bar band, but the Twinkeyz were punk-era freaks who wrote a handful of perfect pop tunes."
SRB WERE a bar-band, alebit one with 30-40 good-to-great original songs and enough power/volume/personality to fill a theatre or arena. The Twinkeyz sound like the kind of young local band that would open for SRB at the Second Chance or Bookies.

alebit=albeit (not a bit of ale). Sonic's was all about oceans of Strohs and shots of Jack Daniels.

Kiss also had enough "power/volume/personality to fill a theater or arena" and so did Boston amd so did 38 Special and so did...uhhhh...Nelson...

Please give the Twinkeyz compilation at least a dozen consecutive spins while smoking numerous jazz cigarettes because it's all about lo-fi indie-murk mutating into gorgeous psychedelic punk. Just about every sound is dipped in mind-fucking FX while wandering guitars fuse VU, Ronson, Pretty Things, Pink Fairies, and Roxy Music into perfect pop. I'll take that cocktail any day over a Stroh's.

And even if they did have just decent jam, "Aliens in our Midst", then it is still better than the bar-rock-by-the-numbers of SRB. I do not think SRB would be famous if it wasn't for who was in the band. In the 70s, I bet that just about every small town in America had a real kick-ass bar band that the locals will swear to their graves was the BEST hard rock band on Earth. When I was a little shaver growing up in Syracuse, my mom took me to see the Masters of Reality play this local theater on Halloween. Now Masters of Reality were not a typical bar band, but they honed their chops playing the seedy upstate-NY pre-DJ hard rock bar circuit of the late-70s and early-80s. M.O.R. in their prime were a much better and more original band than SRB. Hell, I will even take the JPT Scare Band over SRB. They were a killer bar band. Their demos are killer. Check out their site: http://www.jptscareband.com/

Maybe you had to be there? For Sonic's or Twinkeyz, or christ, Masters of Reality. I was for SRB, hence my enthusiasm. If you've only heard the posthumous hype and live CDs I guess something's missing. M of R's albums didn't knock me out either. But I love what I've heard of the Homosexuals, wish I knew about them in the 70s.
Overall this comparison seems provocative and sorta pointless -- apples and oranges. And while I love Detroit music, Stroh's has always been fire-brewed piss.

Sonic's Rendezvous: 6 CD box coming right up!

http://www.easyaction.co.uk/index.php?page=releasepage.php&rel=14

Disc 4 = Sweet Nothing. Duh. Oh well.

ah...I've heard some of this in bits & pieces, having it in one place will be excellent. looks like the second posthumous DC City Slang is spread out over disc 5 and 6. got a boot of 1 song from the Lampheer HS gig, "Irish Girl", it's shit-hot high energy interaction. these dudes were like a hard-bop quintent.

quartet. whatever. they were great. still the loudest band evah.

fuck putting em down for being a bar band. proof is in yr ears.

I don't have it here so I can't check (and the tracklist isn't online, I believe), but am I right in thinking that there's still a couple of tracks on the Strikes Like Lightning bootleg album that aren't on any of the CDs? (could be wrongly labeled on the LP though)

Fricke on the box set.

a friend burned me CDs of the first three discs in the box.

#1) live @ Chances Are 1975 is the short-lived first lineup w/Ron Cooke on bass and unid'd drummer. sketchy sound quality, somewhat tentative performances of blues covers etc.

#2) live @ Lampheer HS 1976 features the Scott Asheton/Gary Rasmussen rhythm section ON FIRE. Hot well-balanced mix of mostly Scott Morgan compositions. Classic Fred remarks to audience:

It's been a pleasure playin for ya...I see a lot of little heads out there (laughs) nice lookin little heads...hey everybody meet us outside later and we'll go to a looser spot

#3 live @ Masonic Auditorium opening for the Ramones 1978. SRB at their ear-bleeding peak, alternating Sonic's & Morgan's original songs. When they pile on the overtones during "Gone With The Dogs" you hear exactly where Sonic Youth picked up around 1988.

m coleman you are selling me a box i can't afford right now. stop it.