Take Stuff from Work

May 11, 2010 11:26 AM

A small bit of comfort for those of us who still need to have a day job.

A King Missile cover, I've been sitting on this recording for quite some time (just over a year, which is something like three lifetimes in Gyrophonia years); we'd initially planned to do a re-take, or at least use the opening solo in something else, but it never came to fruition.

Pardon the raspy vocals, I was still recovering from the flu I've mentioned before.

INSTRUMENTATION:
Timbill (William A. Corder, aka me): Vocals, Effects
Tréteque (V. Y. Beauregard III, aka man vs sun): Guitar
Pheatherwäit (Melissa M. Burcham): Flute
Major Tom (Tommy Scheurich): Viola Brucia

posted by askmeaboutLOOM (8 comments total) 3 users marked this as a favorite

i loved the original. this is fucking great. this is my favorite kind of cover.
well done.
posted by es_de_bah at 5:53 PM on May 11, 2010


Someone who shares my love of early King Missile?
posted by Kirk Grim at 7:48 PM on May 11, 2010


It's not the first King Missile/John S Hall we've done. For a while, we toyed with the idea of redoing Fluting on the Hump in its entirety. I think we're trying to mostly move beyond covers, as a band/collective.
posted by askmeaboutLOOM at 8:23 PM on May 11, 2010


adorable.
posted by peterkins at 2:48 PM on May 13, 2010


The opening solo is truly inspired. The rest is equal genius. I only know King Missile by their most popular detachment, but I might need to learn more... I take shit from work all the time.

I especially like the loose meter in this song that can only come from intimate and immediate improvisation. Unless you are tricking me with prodigious expert overdubs...
posted by abc123xyzinfinity at 8:06 PM on May 13, 2010


Unless you are tricking me with prodigious expert overdubs...

One day, we'll aspire to be able to pull that sort of thing off in post-production. This was really just a throwaway track during an especially fertile period of King Missile listening.

As I will pretend to recall, the conversation was simply:
Timbill: Hey, let's do Take Stuff From Work.
Tréteque: K, Dibs on guitar!
Pheatherwäit: What do I play, flute?
Timbill: Sure. And we need to start with a viola solo.
Major Tom: Okay.
This was a rare case where I thought I could do the guitar part in a fashion similar to the original.
posted by man vs sun at 9:38 PM on May 13, 2010


I especially like the loose meter in this song that can only come from intimate and immediate improvisation.

I thought it was in a pretty strict 1/8. I dunno, I wasn't really paying attention.
posted by askmeaboutLOOM at 10:38 PM on May 13, 2010 [2 favorites]


I forgot how much I liked King Missile twenty years ago.
posted by not_on_display at 8:01 AM on September 15, 2010


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