Go check out the Chinaboise (proto-MX-80)

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Best and least expected gem by a much-loved band in the last couple years. Chinaboise are essentially MX-80--almost all the key members--but with a campfire/beatnik/comedy troupe/boys&girls singing flair instead of geek-metal skronk. Just a whole lot of fun. Out via Gulcher earlier this year (or maybe it was late last year).

― I.M. (I.M.), Friday, 15 July 2005 03:30 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

I also picked that up recently. It's brilliant. The liner notes say that the record was a complete fluke and a one-off, and I think that really comes across. It just sounds like they had a real laugh making it! Plus, some really great songs. 'Dear Tears' and 'Working Girl' are faves. The skit bits actually work, too.

― davidcorp ltd (davidcorp), Monday, 26 September 2005 12:50 (twenty years ago)

The only thing more improbable than my missing this thread originally is that I haven't even bought the damn thing yet! But I expect I will before too long, directly from the source, Bob Richert at Gulcher (helluva nice guy!)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 26 September 2005 13:28 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

This is insanely good.
I bought it a couple of days ago and can't stop listening to it.

― Marco Damiani, Thursday, 5 July 2007 07:01 (eighteen years ago)

is there any documentation of Screaming Gypsy Bandits? This was Bruce Anderson's late 60s band pre MX80, they used to play in Cincinnati.

― m coleman, Thursday, 5 July 2007 11:06 (eighteen years ago)

wait...Myonga Von Bontee?

about SGB: I searched a little, but I didn't find anything. I would be curious to listen, though.

― Marco Damiani, Thursday, 5 July 2007 12:51 (eighteen years ago)

Hahaha, just shine that MX-80 radar-scope logo in the air and I appear like Batman! From what I recall, SGB weren't really Anderson's band, altho he did play with them for a time and appeared on their (lone?) album (which I've never heard.) I believe the Bandits were primarily led by Mark Bingham.

Actually, now that I think of it: There's a Screaming Gypsy Bandits track (alongside Chinaboise and MX-80 tracks) on the old Bloomington One sampler (1975, Bar-B-Q Records), which I own but have never played (haven't had a functioning turntable for several years now.)

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Friday, 6 July 2007 04:51 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

Hey, a nice clean recording of that Screaming Gypsy Bandits LP (In The Eye, 1973) finally turned up on slsk a few months ago, woohoo! Verdict: enjoyable enough but nothing special. A couple of posthippie uptempo West Coast-style jazz-blues things, a spacey droning guitar-sitar-tabla thing, etc. Really, I haven't listened often enough to properly evaluate it. (Still nice to finally hear it, tho, naturally.)

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Monday, 21 July 2008 16:37 (seventeen years ago)

that is very cool!

― sleeve, Monday, 21 July 2008 19:36 (seventeen years ago)

haha, this album is fucking great! it has the proto-punk slop feel i cherish more than anything but with sharp solos and bloomington insider yuks.. i want to play it for EVERYONE

― people explosion, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 02:08 (seventeen years ago)

four years pass...

Screaming Gypsy Bandits LP

^ loving this

― Crackle Box, Tuesday, 16 April 2013 09:52 (twelve years ago)

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