Mystery Date

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May 132011
 

Let’s review the ground rules here. The Mystery Date song is not necessarily something I believe to be good. So feel free to rip it or praise it. Rather the song is something of interest due to the artist, influences, time period… Your job is to decipher as much as you can about the artist without research. Who do you think it is? Or, Who do you think it sounds like? When do you think it was recorded? Etc…

If you know who it is, don’t spoil it for the rest. Anyone who knows it can play the “mockcarr option.” (And I’ve got a hunch at least one of you know this one.) This option is for those of you who just can’t hold your tongue and must let everyone know just how in-the-know you are by calling it. So if you know who it is and want everyone else to know that you know, email Mr. Moderator at mrmoderator [at] rocktownhall [dot] com. If correct we will post how brilliant you are in the Comments section.

The real test of strength though is to guess as close as possible without knowing. Ready, steady, go!

[audio:https://www.rocktownhall.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/MysteryDate051311.mp3|titles=MysteryDate051311]
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Mystery Date Revealed: Patto, Featuring Members of The Rutles and So Many More Connections That Will Surely Delight Those of Us Who Frequent the Halls of Rock!

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Mar 232011
 

Will Your Mystery Date Be a Dream or a Dud?

All righty…looks like there’s no need for the Big Reveal (but you’ll get one anyhow). BigSteve and tonyola correctly played their “mockcarr option,” while hrrundivbakshi enthusiastically and sincerely stepped into a heaping pile of Mystery Date identification! Our Mystery Date was indeed Patto, featuring Mike Patto. The Mystery Songs were “Hold Your Fire” and “Hold Me Back.” Now that you know who this band is, I offer you “The Man,” another song that may be too long for some of you, but those of you lacking patience may miss out on some choice insights into the song’s subject matter.

Patto, “The Man”

[audio:https://www.rocktownhall.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Patto_01_The-Man.mp3|titles=Patto, “The Man”]

The band released 3 albums, from 1970 to 1973, before disbanding, leaving an unreleased (until 1995) album in the can. Now, get your pad and pen ready, because I’m about to blow your Rock Town Hall mind and waste a lot of your time!

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Mystery Date

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Mar 222011
 

Let’s review the ground rules here. The Mystery Date song is not necessarily something I believe to be good. So feel free to rip it or praise it. Rather the song is something of interest due to the artist, influences, time period… Your job is to decipher as much as you can about the artist without research. Who do you think it is? Or, Who do you think it sounds like? When do you think it was recorded? Etc…

If you know who it is, don’t spoil it for the rest. Anyone who knows it can play the “mockcarr option.” (And I’ve got a hunch that some of you know this one.) This option is for those of you who just can’t hold your tongue and must let everyone know just how in-the-know you are by calling it. So if you know who it is and want everyone else to know that you know, email Mr. Moderator at mrmoderator [at] rocktownhall [dot] com. If correct we will post how brilliant you are in the Comments section.

The real test of strength though is to guess as close as possible without knowing. Ready, steady, go!

[audio:https://www.rocktownhall.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Mystery-Date-032211.mp3|titles=Mystery Date 032211] [audio:https://www.rocktownhall.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Mystery-Date-032211b.mp3|titles=Mystery Date 032211b]
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Mystery Date Revealed: Gong, Featuring Daevid Allen Sounding as One Who Has Never Before Heard Daevid Allen Might Have Expected Him to Sound!

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Mar 112011
 

Will Your Mystery Date Be a Dream or a Dud?

OK, so this wasn’t the most challenging Mystery Date ever, but BigSteve stumbled close enough to the Mystery Date’s identity in an honest way. It is indeed Daevid Allen’s band Gong, with Allen sounding the way BigSteve expected him to sound! The mystery song is entitled “I Never Glid Before,” from 1973’s Angels Egg. Here’s another track from that album, with the exquisitely hippified title “Love Is How You Make It.”

[audio:https://www.rocktownhall.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Gong_11_Love-Is-How-You-Make-It-Original.mp3|titles=Gong, “Love Is How You Make It”]

Many moons ago I spent a weekend checking out the Gong collection of a Deadhead girl I was dating. For the first few weeks we dated I assumed she owned nothing but Grateful Dead albums and Dead bootlegs. That was all the music she ever played. Then one day I found a half dozen Gong albums in her collection. I thought I’d hit paydirt on an underground band I’d only heard about but that promised as many Cool Points as stumbling across a collection of Hawkwind albums, but instead I’d hit nothing but a dime bag of dirtweed. Man, those were some goofy albums, loaded with pixie imagery and the most giggly pothead jokes ever committed to vinyl. You’d think they got high for the first time, but they maintained that first-time high feeling over the course of a half dozen releases, including a couple of double albums. More power to them for keeping it fresh. They were bad, but in an interesting way.

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Mystery Date

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Mar 112011
 

Let’s review the ground rules here. The Mystery Date song is not necessarily something I believe to be good. So feel free to rip it or praise it. Rather the song is something of interest due to the artist, influences, time period… Your job is to decipher as much as you can about the artist without research. Who do you think it is? Or, Who do you think it sounds like? When do you think it was recorded? Etc…

If you know who it is, don’t spoil it for the rest. Anyone who knows it can play the “mockcarr option.” (And I’ve got a hunch that some of you know this one.) This option is for those of you who just can’t hold your tongue and must let everyone know just how in-the-know you are by calling it. So if you know who it is and want everyone else to know that you know, email Mr. Moderator at mrmoderator [at] rocktownhall [dot] com. If correct we will post how brilliant you are in the Comments section.

The real test of strength though is to guess as close as possible without knowing. Ready, steady, go!

[audio:https://www.rocktownhall.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Mystery-Date-031111.mp3|titles=Mystery Date 031111]
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Mystery Date Revealed: Swirlies

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Feb 232011
 

Will Your Mystery Date Be a Dream or a Dud?

Our latest Mystery Date, the band Townspeople so readily compared to My Bloody Valentine, turns out to have been early ’90s Boston chimp rock–scenesters Swirlies. As the opening to the band’s Wikipedia entry states:

They have often been compared to My Bloody Valentine, and are sometimes referred to as shoegaze musicians.

As you surely guessed, Townswoman ladymisskirroyale set up this Mystery Date. It turns out she’s old friends with the band’s bassist, Andy Bernick. They met at their college radio station, at which point ladymiss reports Bernick and his cofounders were big fans of Mission of Burma and punk rock. ladymiss saw many of the band’s early shows, and the track she provided, “Tall Ships,” had some special meaning for her, as she wrote:

This track is the first one that I played on my first “grown up” stereo.

Much later ladymiss learned that the band initially formed with the intent of being a Go-Gos cover band, in which, coincidentally, our old friend Townswoman Sally Cinnamon is currently playing (a Go-Gos cover band, that is, not Swirlies).

Following their initial meditations on MBV, Swirlies would evolve/devolve into more noise. Here’s a later track that ladymiss recommends:

Swirlies continue to play periodically; in fact, Bernick recently wrote ladymiss to let her know they may be playing NYC or DC shows in July. If so, she’s there!

Bernick is currently making music with the DC band Wild Fruit. Ron Rege, who did some of Swirlies’ artwork, went on to Lavender Diamond, who have been pretty popular recently. Each of the members has been doing interesting side music projects. Shauna Carmody, for instance, was with Sugar USA. The band went through many drummers, sort of like Spinal Tap.

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Mystery Date

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Feb 212011
 

Today’s Mystery Date was suggested by a Townsperson who may or may not choose to help me coax your opinions on this song. Thanks to our Mystery Shadchen!

Let’s review the ground rules here. The Mystery Date song is not necessarily something I believe to be good. So feel free to rip it or praise it. Rather the song is something of interest due to the artist, influences, time period… Your job is to decipher as much as you can about the artist without research. Who do you think it is? Or, Who do you think it sounds like? When do you think it was recorded? Etc…

If you know who it is, don’t spoil it for the rest. Anyone who knows it can play the “mockcarr option.” (And I’ve got a hunch that some of you know this one.) This option is for those of you who just can’t hold your tongue and must let everyone know just how in-the-know you are by calling it. So if you know who it is and want everyone else to know that you know, email Mr. Moderator at mrmoderator [at] rocktownhall [dot] com. If correct we will post how brilliant you are in the Comments section.

The real test of strength though is to guess as close as possible without knowing. Ready, steady, go!

[audio:https://www.rocktownhall.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Mystery-Date-022111.mp3|titles=Mystery Date 022111]
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