everything Kiry says is true, except the bit about SubPop. He got that one backwards - THEY had the balls to turn US down for a seven inch. Pussies.
But here: the reunion is on, nailed down, no more rescheduling:
September 20th, Louie's Pub (on North).
UFO Dictator anniversary show
Snorkel Reunion, all four original members. Come see how gracefully we've aged. If the weather holds it'll be outside. If the weather sucks it'll be indoors, and there'll be room for like twelve people. Ergo: if it rains, come early.
Remember that tripped out movie you saw when you were a teenager, the one with all the drug references, jump cuts, and weird camera angles? It was so fucking awesome. Then you saw it again as an adult, and, ah man, you sort of wished you hadn't. Not that it was terrible, it's just that that shit was so much cooler before you knew anything about anything.
This show will probably be a little bit like that.
Hail Satan,
Snorkel
In response to: KIRY on 03-26-08 for Snokel
ahhh....yes....snorkel....i lived with the boys on minor street in the bands infancy.....sam b heard that i was starting resin mattress and was amazingly jealous....he picked my brain for hours about starting a rock band....it just came naturally for resin mattress...so they started snorkel....god were they awful...they practiced every fucking friday...i'd come home from class and be itching to get some serious studying done....but no...snorkel was in the basement hacking away at their "songs"....i would go downstairs and give them pointers on how to structure a song....told them they should really concentrate on perversion as a subject matter....duct tape the drum set back together and fend off robin at the door for them....blaine shaved his crotch at one of the practices....that was pretty cool....apparently they got good at some point...cause they had the balls to turn down sub pop for a 7"... --- end of previous message ---
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I saw Snorkel a dozen times and can still hum "I never should've got that tattoo" and "get the fuck off the stage" by wrote. Their bass player lent me his amp on night at Harvey's, which was kind. I'm 90% sure I still have my Snorkel t-shirt which I proudly bought. It has a picture of a man helping a young boy off with his pants. As a father of two now, I think I will leave the shirt in my memory box.
This page is a cut-n-paste job from their Myspace page, so if anyone wants to write something and send it on, we'll put it up.
snorkel was a kalamazoo staple of the early nineties. the shows were noted for drug use, simulated sex acts, and full frontal nudity. all the songs were about sex terrors. the members of snorkel have aged into distinguished gentlemen, and we all agree that if resin mattress can have a goddamned myspace page, then we can too.
Here's their myspace page, some of the flyers and photos are pretty funny.
Blaine - mouth, gitar kirk - gitar, mouth chris - drums, mouth sam - bass, mouth jeff - drums (after chris moved to chicago) derrick - bass (after sam moved to minneapolis)
everything Kiry says is true, except the bit about SubPop. He got that one backwards - THEY had the balls to turn US down for a seven inch. Pussies.
But here: the reunion is on, nailed down, no more rescheduling:
September 20th, Louie's Pub (on North).
UFO Dictator anniversary show
Snorkel Reunion, all four original members. Come see how gracefully we've aged. If the weather holds it'll be outside. If the weather sucks it'll be indoors, and there'll be room for like twelve people. Ergo: if it rains, come early.
Remember that tripped out movie you saw when you were a teenager, the one with all the drug references, jump cuts, and weird camera angles? It was so fucking awesome. Then you saw it again as an adult, and, ah man, you sort of wished you hadn't. Not that it was terrible, it's just that that shit was so much cooler before you knew anything about anything.
This show will probably be a little bit like that.
Hail Satan,
Snorkel
In response to: KIRY on 03-26-08 for Snokel
ahhh....yes....snorkel....i lived with the boys on minor street in the bands infancy.....sam b heard that i was starting resin mattress and was amazingly jealous....he picked my brain for hours about starting a rock band....it just came naturally for resin mattress...so they started snorkel....god were they awful...they practiced every fucking friday...i'd come home from class and be itching to get some serious studying done....but no...snorkel was in the basement hacking away at their "songs"....i would go downstairs and give them pointers on how to structure a song....told them they should really concentrate on perversion as a subject matter....duct tape the drum set back together and fend off robin at the door for them....blaine shaved his crotch at one of the practices....that was pretty cool....apparently they got good at some point...cause they had the balls to turn down sub pop for a 7"... --- end of previous message ---
i'll put a selection of mp3s on the interweb and forward the urls to jt later this evening. just made some fresh LAME V0 rips, just gotta finish tagging em.
~u1oo
In response to: Master on 03-27-08 for Snorkel
Yup, that's some shitty coding alright...
Actually, its some bad downloading. I can't get any of the other songs to download... I've tried Firefox and Safari, and then IE on my Vista computer. Can someone, maybe even a Snorkel guy, send me the MP3's at cool @ leons temple . com? I'll post them.
In the interim, you can listen to the songs at their myspace page: HERE
In response to: Mike K on 03-27-08 for Snokel
one song, newone.mp3 is the only one that plays and the rest is no good... nothing...
rock on, snorkel!!! --- end of previous message --- --- end of previous message ---
AWESOME!!! Looking forward to the show!!! last show i saw snorkel was their last show at club soda with that dude who used to play for Godbullies. ( the last guitarist before they broke up...) man, i am old!! har har har but gotta keep rocking!!!
Actually, its some bad downloading. I can't get any of the other songs to download... I've tried Firefox and Safari, and then IE on my Vista computer. Can someone, maybe even a Snorkel guy, send me the MP3's at cool @ leons temple . com? I'll post them.
In the interim, you can listen to the songs at their myspace page: HERE
In response to: Mike K on 03-27-08 for Snokel
one song, newone.mp3 is the only one that plays and the rest is no good... nothing...
rock on, snorkel!!! --- end of previous message ---
ahhh....yes....snorkel....i lived with the boys on minor street in the bands infancy.....sam b heard that i was starting resin mattress and was amazingly jealous....he picked my brain for hours about starting a rock band....it just came naturally for resin mattress...so they started snorkel....god were they awful...they practiced every fucking friday...i'd come home from class and be itching to get some serious studying done....but no...snorkel was in the basement hacking away at their "songs"....i would go downstairs and give them pointers on how to structure a song....told them they should really concentrate on perversion as a subject matter....duct tape the drum set back together and fend off robin at the door for them....blaine shaved his crotch at one of the practices....that was pretty cool....apparently they got good at some point...cause they had the balls to turn down sub pop for a 7"...