To help heal this troubled world, I'm putting up former MTV VJ wierdo Jesse Camp's album Jesse and the 8th St. Kidz up on YouSendIt...Please Help Yourself!

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― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 20 January 2006 01:38 (twenty years ago)

is this a trap?

― gear (gear), Friday, 20 January 2006 01:39 (twenty years ago)

No, I'm simply a man who who's led a very fortunate life trying to give back to the community. This album is cool! It's like NY Dolls meets Look What the Cat Dragged In!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 20 January 2006 01:42 (twenty years ago)

It's seriously the album though...no tricks, scout's honor!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 20 January 2006 01:42 (twenty years ago)

Rick Nielson from Cheap Trick is on it!

So is Greg Bissonette!

Stevie Nicks on backing vox!

Chuck Eddy, I bet you would like this!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 20 January 2006 01:48 (twenty years ago)

One time I was visiting New York at a time when this record had just reached used-bin-saturation stages. A friend of mine, a photographer who is one of the funniest people I ever met, and I were doing what we used to do when I lived there: Hitting the record shops.

There I am at one of the stores down on St. Mark's and John (the photographer) comes over. He points out the many, many, many, many copies of the Jesse Camp disc that are sitting there to be had for, like, $1.99 each.

"You know," he says to me, "if Jesse Camp and the 8th Street Kidz can't even sell on 8th Street, I don't think it's doing very well..."

― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Friday, 20 January 2006 01:52 (twenty years ago)

I do believe the band was basically put together and led by a former member of Vixen, Share Pederson. She's been guitarist and frontgirl for Bubble, an LA glam band, with her husband, the drummer for Dogs D'Amour, for a long time. The Bubble records are generally good, if hard to find. And if it sounds like Bubble, the backing would be good. Hard to imagine how they subtract Camp sufficiently from the mix, though, or buff him over.

Next, revising the take on Stuttering John's metal CD, another instantly deleted tome. Twice, actually. Once when it was originally issued and again when the CD remaster was published a couple years ago.

― George the Animal Steele, Friday, 20 January 2006 02:10 (twenty years ago)

Matt, you are a fantastic human being. Shockingly, the YSI was still available when I got to it.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Friday, 20 January 2006 02:11 (twenty years ago)

another instantly deleted tome

I have been laughing over this phrase for the past two minutes. It's so beautiful.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 January 2006 02:12 (twenty years ago)

Anyway, Bubble were one of the best things about a straight to DVD documentary called "Badsville," a few years back. It's an unintentionally grim portrait of the LA dive club scene. It included Throw Rag, a band that issues records know ever buys. The same number of copies of the first and second are in the stores, as there were years ago. (Actually, the second is kind of newish.)

Lo-Ball is on it. They were another all girl glam band that always got ace reviews in the locals. Fronted by a girl named Pauli who was always getting secondary roles as designated irritating person in "series" on the Sci-Fi channel. I have a CD-R burn of their output which is fair to poor. They were better-looking than the Donnas and that's about the nicest thing I can think of to say.

Pigmy Love Circus is in it doing a live version of "I'm the King of LA (I Killed Axl Rose Today) which was pretty good for fifteen minutes. Their front guy, a huge and beefy power drunk, spends minute after minute declaiming about tearing up major label contracts. Then there's the guy in the Hangmen, who have been around forever, telling about how Geffen and the guy who discovered GnR threw money and recording contracts at him and it all went up his nose and into his arms.

Bubble comes off as models of mental health although there's a part where the drummer shows a videotape of his last gig in Dogs D'Amour, an LA gig where the singer slashes his abdomen open with a broken bottle. You can see a loop of his intestine fall out on the screen. He falls down, chaos ensues, the band trashes the stage, and presumably the ambulance was summoned. It's a genuine stomach-turner, way beyond Iggy Stooge.

― George the Animal Steele, Friday, 20 January 2006 02:23 (twenty years ago)

a band that issues records know ever buys.

Ha-ha. Alzheimer's setting in early. Records no one buys, I meant. Or it looks like no one buys them. I've seen them countless times in the documentary and still can't remember what they sound like.

― George the Animal Steele, Friday, 20 January 2006 02:27 (twenty years ago)

could I get a YSI of just "See You Around," please?

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Friday, 20 January 2006 03:05 (twenty years ago)

so demanding! BUUUUT...I'm in a philanthropic mood, and I know that you, as a physician, spend your days nursing poor orphans afflicted with rickets and whooping cough back to health....consider this mp3 a reward for a lifetime of public service!!!!

http://s57.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=01GFZBUS2BHID0CDK3HOO7882Z

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 20 January 2006 03:14 (twenty years ago)

much thanks, M@tt (haven't heard this song in at least six years). If you need a polio vaccination or something, you know who to call.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Friday, 20 January 2006 03:22 (twenty years ago)

Hey Matt, for some reason your MP3s wont play on my computer. Do you know why that might be?

― ~~~~~~~, Friday, 20 January 2006 06:15 (twenty years ago)

hmm...they work fine on mine? did you try playing them in itunes?

Dr. Bill, you're welcome, but keep in mind that there will always be some part of you that regrets the fact you've never heard "Summertime Sqatters".

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 20 January 2006 15:19 (twenty years ago)

Thanks, I love it. I was looking for more stuff like Kiss recently and this is probably the closest I've come yet.

― Chaim Klein, Friday, 20 January 2006 17:22 (twenty years ago)

Heh. I had a friend offer to let me borrow this a couple months ago, then when I declined, he unceremoniously left it at my house. Thumbs down. Even for ironic affection, it's just too shitty, too mediocre.

― js (honestengine), Friday, 20 January 2006 17:51 (twenty years ago)

"This life story and Camp's street-wise attitude won him the part, and Camp experienced an incredible rise to fame. Incredible because hardly anything he said was true.

Jesse's real name is Josh. He comes, as he eventually admitted grudgingly to an Associated Press reporter, from the wealthy Hartford suburb of Granby, Connecticut, and attended the tony Loomis Chaffee School. There, he played Hamlet on stage (fairly well by most accounts) and took demanding courses. His parents--a college professor and a school principal--spent lavishly on his education and took him to Europe nearly every summer while he was a child. Even trivial parts of the story Camp told were made up, for instance the extra sister he added to his family."

MORE: http://www.taemag.com/issues/articleID.18255/article_detail.asp

― Chaim Klein, Friday, 20 January 2006 17:53 (twenty years ago)

He was probably thinking you'd eventually listen to it out of curiosity and like it. From what I've heard of it so far, besides a few lame ballady type songs, the rest of it is better than some old standby classics people still desperately hang onto.

― Chaim Klein, Friday, 20 January 2006 18:02 (twenty years ago)

Chuck Eddy, I bet you would like this!

I think he does like it! He let me mention it in a Wonder Stuff review. "Summertime Squatters" is the only song I can ever remember, but it's good! Jesse's voice really does spazz out from the rest of the mix, though.

A stunning philanthropic act, Matt!

― dr. phil (josh langhoff), Saturday, 21 January 2006 03:42 (twenty years ago)

Incredible because hardly anything he said was true.

So he's like James Frey but, miraculously, less of an asshole.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 21 January 2006 04:36 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/45133

― baby, disco is fuck (yournullfame), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 12:18 (twenty years ago)

eight years pass...

Was doing a random search on the dude and it turns out he's just recently resurfaced.

― Floating On MacLeod Nine with Gavin MacLeod (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 18:11 (twelve years ago)

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