GAY WITCH ABORTION

ok i only got turned onto this recently, via some mentions here and elsewhere, but this album is fucking great. and so they deserve a thread

http://www.mindovermetal.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/gaywitchabortion-maverick.jpg

their new thing with halo of flies is good too. i assume some of the minnesota ilxors can fill in the blanks on these dudes. but really this stuff gets close to a sort of rock ideal for me.

by rock ideal, i mean loud, fast, short, taut, sort of nutso. that kind of ideal. i'd like to see them play.

"your own militia" is in the running for song-of-the-year for me.

saw them play (w/goole iirc) this summer, before no age. pretty good from what i recall but honestly it was a bit of a junkshow

i'm sure they're sloppier live than on the album. one thing about the record is how tight it is.

haha i just meant the general atmosphere was junkshowy, which why i can't totally recall the set: they weren't the focus of my attention

well they'd seem to lend themselves to that.

here's a good live vid. the drummer kicks ass, which is not-so-secret part of why i dig it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDIaG6-jnxI&feature=related

intrigued...

would know more

wrote a totally non-informative blog entry on them a while ago:

http://jjjusten.blogspot.com/search/label/gay%20witch%20abortion

btw they are just as tight live as on record, it is kind of amazing.

♥♥GAY WITCH ABORTIONS♥♥

i was completely ready to just eyeroll them cuz of the name -- i expected either crappy deathmetal or some kind of "funny" rock music, but they're not any of that at all. it's nice to hear someone do the guitar-drums thing with a level of chops that really makes maximum use of the instruments. (i guess black keys have chops too, but they just don't interest me much.) the no age guys are ok on that front, but the gay witch abortioners are just really locked in.

hmph. listening to their myspace tracks. it's clear that they do well what rock is supposed to do, which is rock their flabby little asses off. but aside from the brick-chewing stuntwork, i'm not sure what to make of it. half speed lightning bolt? don't mean to write them off, cuz they sound as though they could tear a room down live, and i'll definitely keep my eyes peeled for shows, but i find myself wanting a little bit more sweet with the sour.

maybe i'm just too old & unstoned for this kinda thing...

and maybe i'm just not in the mood. shackleton & arthur russell are working much better for me tonite.

find myself wanting a little bit more sweet with the sour.

they have tunes, tho. they don't depend on them, exactly, but there's a good handful of them on the record. the last song's even kind of pretty. "half-speed lightning bolt" isn't a bad description really, they're more conventional-rock than lightning bolt in a lot of ways. but it's all short and punky. i think that's a big attraction for me. i have this thing for bands that can keep songs under 2 and a half minutes.

whoa, halo of flies + these guys, nuts!

♥♥GAY WITCH ABORTIONS♥♥

― pitiable ass

LOL

Spotify's not hip. It's asking me if I meant Gal With Accordion (!)

they're on a label so small my very hip record store couldn't get me a copy, so I'm not surprised they aren't on Spotify. They are, however, on MySpace with a handful of tracks.

http://www.myspace.com/gaywitchabortion

Spotify's not hip. It's asking me if I meant Gal With Accordion (!)

a double-bill waiting to happen.

would def see that show

or buy the 7" split tbh

sean walker has been an amazing drummer in mpls for so long.

some of you peeps might also dig on knife world

btw to my mple peeps, STNNNG with their new drummer is fucking on FIRE btw. played a couple shows so far

haha you can't do to btws in one sentence he1ges0n pull yrself together!!!1

Listening now. Interesting stuff. The warped guitar sounds remind me a bit of The Butthole Surfers. Love this sleeve art. Fits the music well don't you think?

http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb74/rainerfronz/GWA02.jpg

playing at the turf club tonight, and the cover is only $6 TC peeps

will be seeing them this sat @ the triple rock, details on rolling PWNING AWESOME twin cities shows thread

ok after the last show, i would say at this point they are actually much tighter live than on the record - its fucking scary how dead on they are

man i'd love to see them. wonder if they have any touring coming up.

listened to the HOF disc and am not feeling it boooo

^^Is this in the right thread?

oh haha i was talking about the Halo Of Flies collab, but i can see where High On Fire would prob be the usual thing for that abbreviation

would enjoy a Gay Witch Abortion/High On Fire collab tho

Didn't know they did a Halo Of Flies collaboration. What's the issue with it?

I'd love Matt Pike singing for these guys. Vocals are the weakest bit by such a huge margin I kind of wish they would just shut up.

yeah i do not like the vocals on the album, such a throwaway - its better live because you can kind of tell they dont really care that much about them either

i just did a fast sample spin (and dont get me wrong i dig both bands) and it just seemed needlessly sloppy and messy, which is not at all what appeals about GWA

Ugh. Not a fan of sloppy abortions.

Gay Witch Abortion just got mentioned on All Songs Considered! Oh, wait, they just made fun of their name and dismissed them out of hand. Bad Bob, bad.

man I can't believe people are makin fun of Gay Witch Abortion

Bob Boilen, Carrie Brownstein, Robin Hilton and Stephen Thompson are meanies.

how can carrie brownstein not like gay witch abortion, what's wrong with her?

Honestly, I don't think any of them gave it a listen. They just ripped on it while they were ripping on all this bands with Dragon, Black, Bear and the like in their names.

We should send them a email with a link to this thread and complain that they are a bunch of ninnies.

ugh, i thought this was metal and neglected to check out this thread til now. between mayyors, lightning bolt and future of the left, nasty distorted bass punk is quickly becoming my new favourite genre.

hey JJ -

ran across some vintage O.G. minneapolis public access footage of shawn walker (gay witch abortion/drum master)'s first band: style monkeez...remember them?

this is the most 90s minneapolis rock clip in the world:

http://www.youtube.com/user/NYC10107#p/u/198/WIossxqPRlw

bump for AM

oh my god style monkeez

i had that "schmelt fry in antigo" album because i think i knew one of the other dudes in the band - do you remember their cover of "justify my love"?

now i want to yell out requests for "Style Lord" the next time i see them, but then again i like not being an asshole so

so .... get dan to do it?

do you remember their cover of "justify my love"?

haha no, man i think i only saw them like once or twice....

remember KING CAN?

loooooool

just, lol

oh man we could do this for days - yeah king can, shit, if im not mixing this up FB and i used to booze it up pretty hardcore and get into a fair amount of trouble with the dude that was the bass player for king can - guy was hilarious but also completely out of control and insane.

i could do this all day. DOGSHINE? PINCH?

walker sold me a part for my toilet btw. ace hardware, nicollet & franklin. great service!

haha dogshine!

king can was t@l t@hir i think

tbh i still think of hold steady as a sub-par punchdrunk side project

xpost that's a good ace! we had a shitload of sweet ace hardware stores in this town

wait was the other non-guzzazrd b33m4n brother in king can? danny? i think i ended up knowing them because i was dating his ex - not sure he was a big fan of me tbh.

xpost hahaha wait t@l t@hir was in a band w/the brother of a different ex of mine, but not until way way later - the H.0.T. if that rings any bells.

fucking big old tiny town we live in.

oh man i gotta go and see if i still have that style monkeez album in one of the dusty bins downstairs

yeah i think there was some proper am-rep connection w/king can, or god were they even on late period am rep, like with calvin crime and freedom fighters era?

(btw freedom fighters might be my fav am rep band ever i hope i can sneak into their reunion show)

grrr

this thread is making me mad I didn't move back to the Twin Cities

need some stuff for your toilet?

haha actually yes, I do

dan you dont live there now?

oh man digging for stuff down memory lane led me to a photostream of first ave flyers and god i think i went to like half the shows there for a while. BONE CLUB. SUPERBALL '63.

scotty from superball 63 and dana (from mickey finn i think and also brits out of america) live up north now, they have a snowmobile resort

dan you dont live there now?

Nope, still in Boston! Been there as a resident since '95.

omfg

GOTTERDAMURUNG

http://www.youtube.com/user/NYC10107#p/u/164/vp1eb2RnHSk

nasty distorted bass punk is quickly becoming my new favourite genre.

― samosa gibreel, Tuesday, March 9, 2010 9:10 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark

except for the "quickly becoming" and "new" parts

Just watching "Peep Show" Series 5 Episode 2 and..."Dance Witch Abortion." Which came first?

Iirc u first saw them in 2006/maybe 2007 and that ep is from 2008 so gwa wins!

saw em at grumpys a couple weeks ago---short set, so tight

missed them at the hex on friday. i may never see them again ;_;

How come jjjusten neglected to let me know they had a new album that came out LAST NOVEMBER?!?!?!

Bad form, John. Bad form.

I actually just found that out this week!

Jjj you seen Buildings? I think u would like

Likely excuse.

Who are these Buildings folks, M@tt?

Saw them on Thursday night, good stuff, bit melodic than GWA but def appeal to same amreppy vibe

These folks?

http://buildingsband.bandcamp.com/

Yep!

They were great live

They're playing here Wednesday but I have to work a different show. Maybe I can sneak down the block and catch their set.

This Buildings record sounds awesome.