Trotsky Icepick?

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Yeah?

― David R., Tuesday, 17 April 2007 21:15 (eighteen years ago)

Um, no. For some reason in the early-90s, I bought all their albums based on hearing one track (probably on WFNX just as it was going into decline). I quickly sold them...

But that's not fair, of course, as I'd hear them differently today. So the best I can say is my mid-20s self wasn't into them.

― Mr. Odd, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 21:40 (eighteen years ago)

Keep meaning to check 'em out, what with the Urinals connection. Not much else mentioned about them round here...

― gnarly sceptre, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 21:53 (eighteen years ago)

Good name.

― chap, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 21:55 (eighteen years ago)

Good name, bad music. It still baffles me how anyone responsible for 100 Flowers/Urinals could devote effort to something of so little interest. The one soft spot in my heart for them came the day after I sold my copy of El Kabong, when it showed up on someone's Pulse magazine Desert Island Discs list with the hilariously wrong comment, "The world must know."

― dad a, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 02:38 (eighteen years ago)

They were no Painted Willie, that's for sure!

― Mike Dixn, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 04:13 (eighteen years ago)

Saw them on tour with Alice Donut back around 89 or 90 - I remember thinking that they got an A for effort, but the tunes didn't grab me - but oh did Alice Donut completely slay my little mind - pulling the toilet plunger from tighty whiteys to play a mute part on a trombone while playing drums with a fuzz bass part going nuts - wow - just wow - I can still mentally bring up that image.

― BlackIronPrison, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:27 (eighteen years ago)

I think I had three of their albums at one time. I quite enjoyed Baby in a goofy sort of way, but seem to remember that whatever came next was a stinker. Wouldn't rush to recommend 'em, I'm afraid.

― NickB, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:33 (eighteen years ago)

Ha - just remembered that I have a couple of their CDs somewhere in a box. I am SMRT!

― David R., Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

They've always just been a name in the SST Superstore Catalogue to me. There are a lot of bands like that...

― MacDara, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 17:19 (eighteen years ago)

Huh, I thought they were SST's "free jazz" act?
Who am I thinking of?

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 18:02 (eighteen years ago)

Who am I thinking of?
Bazooka

― Mike Dixn, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 18:18 (eighteen years ago)

Alter Natives?

― Tim Ellison, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 19:13 (eighteen years ago)

Sacharine Trust?

Universal Congress Of? (were they even SST?)

― nickn, Thursday, 19 April 2007 00:36 (eighteen years ago)

dudes from sac trust were in univeral congress.

worldbroken by sac trust is pretty much free improv.

― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, 19 April 2007 00:38 (eighteen years ago)

Radwaste was better

― Hans Rott, Thursday, 19 April 2007 03:28 (eighteen years ago)

i've always been tempted to check some trostky icepick out cuz of my urinals/100 flowers love. i'd like to hear someone sing their praises!

saccharine trust is great btw. gone too! isn't there a late eighties sst thread somewhere?

― artdamages, Thursday, 19 April 2007 03:44 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks for the answers! But it was actually CRUEL FREDERICK I was thinking of. (Couldn't look up at work.) SST's only "pure" jazz act, or so I thought. (Never heard of Bazooka till now. Way too damn many SST acts for me to keep track of by the dawn of the '90s. Paper Bag! Pell Mell! Sister Double Happiness! Treacherous Jaywalkers! Etc.)

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Thursday, 19 April 2007 04:20 (eighteen years ago)

...just like MacDara basically already said, above.

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Thursday, 19 April 2007 04:24 (eighteen years ago)

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