Eric's Trip and descendants: classic or dud

elevator to hell were a bit blah really.

julie doiron has some nice songs.

and I haven't heard the rest.

Elevator are odd. I loved Parts 1-3 for its tossed off aspects. Erieconsilliation I found boring but everything else is still between ok and great. I havent heard them live since the Whites moved to Toronto so who knows what they sound like without Mark always around now. Which I hope means that Mark might play more Purple Knight shows which I would enjoy in his spare time from Sam's.

Julie Doiron is always fun to see live. Watching her battle her stage fright seems so much more intimate then Chan Marshell's routine. I liked Lonliest in The Morning almost as much as the Juno winning Julie Doiron & The Wooden Stars. Dog Love 7" under the name Broken Girl is worth searching out, or I think its that one that has a Thank You for Nora and a song "Beautiful". Her latest albums on Endearing (and JagJagwaur) are fairly strong and if you liked her quiter songs or enjoyed her live shows you'd probably like them. She also steals the show in All She Wants as a nanny despite what Kate might say about Andrew and his leather pants.

Moonsocket is okay. Its almost embarrasing its so open. Its a shame he never seems to play live anymore cause Chris seems just as talented as Julie if he would stick with it.
Its kinda of odd hearing Julie, Moonsocket and Elevator in their seperate pieces, because you can hear who brought what to Purple Blue and how all four warped it into something different, something stronger.

elevator comes to town all the time. they're pretty good. they seem really stoned. come to think of it weren't all of eric's trip lyrics about smoking weed?

i've seen julie on her own four or five times (she always seems eight months pregnant) and all shows were good but sometimes i just wanted to go up on stage and toss her off for being so fragile. i had a couple of albums and her deal with the wooden stars liked them but wasn't passionate about it. haven't heard anything newer.

elevator (through/to hell, etc) i've seen two or three times and they were always brilliant. always absolutely stoned, yes but 100% on their game. stupidly, i can only describe their live sound as barrelling down an empty desert highway in the middle of the night, halfway from somewhere you're glad as fuck to have left behind (but still paranoid will catch up to you) and halfway to doesn't matter anymore. i really dig that vibe, man.

uhh

i heard a purple knight song once and didn't care much for it. ditto for a moon socket cd i had.

and i wasn't even high.

Insofar as Eric's Trip inspired the Microphones, Eric's Trip = Deity.

is that a sentence? eew.

all kidding aside, "woke myself up" is just lovely, and on several tracks, especially the title track and "no more", it almost kinda rocks. i like it. anyone else heard this yet?

I have a Moonsocket 7" that I like, but when the Elevator CDs started coming to the radio station I used to work at, I found them all pretty boring. Of course, by then I was neck-deep into free jazz and stuff on Mego, so take that for what it's worth.

Julie Doiron kinda grates on me, except during her cameos with Herman Dune. For the record, though, she sings lead on one song on Not On Top and I skip it every time - it nearly ruins the album.

Not a compliment or a criticism, necessarily, but she sings like the female Conor Oberst. Always sounds like she's about to burst into tears. And not in a 'one-woman-army, woman scorned, watch your ass' kinda way (like say, Sinead), more in a 'crazy girl who's crying now because she saw some little black kid eat something out of the trash on her way to the Humanities building this morning' kinda way.

I never really made any effort to check out the post-Eric's Trip stuff. I heard a bit of Elevator To Hell - sounded like Eric's Trip trying to do Monster Magnet or something. It was ok but I never bought any of the records.

What did Moonsocket sound like?? I always hoped it would sound like the third part of the "Introduction" to Purple Blue. Is there anything that sounds like the third part of the "Introduction" to Purple Blue??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd9SRFRP6Oc

This is cool - the guitarist pulled out the old Tascam recording tape

Picked up a really cheap CD copy of the second, 2008 self-titled album from The Memories Attack and grabbed it because I dug the gear photo on the inside, without grokking that it was THAT Chris Thompson.

Not as great as Eric's Trip, but kind of a cool sludgy take on indie pop with some cool synth sounds.