Crunchy Frog!
Jan. 14th, 2005 04:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miko2My friend Griid from my EQ days (real name is not Griid of course) recently posted to our almost-but-not-quite-dead guild web forum, asking me if I owned any Crunchy cds. Specifically "All Day Sucker" and "Clown School Drop Out".
(Insert Barney voice: I am SO Crunchy the Clown! BUUUUUUUURP!)
What is Crunchy, you ask? It's a project/band by Monty Colvin, former bassist for the Galactic Cowboys and all around man fascinated with clowns for some reason.
Griid had been trying to track these two cds down. I was excited to hear about them, but afraid that they were already out of print if Griid couldn't find them. Well, Griid's research skills pale in comparison to mine... or to most everyone else's, because I typed "Monty Colvon" into Google and promptly found this page:
12 string bass page
Which is a page for and about the 12-string bass and the people who play it. This, of course, refers most notably to Tom Peterson of Cheap Trick, and Doug Pinnick of King's X, but also to a bunch of other bassists including Monty Colvin. There's an interview with him, there, and one with Doug, and other cool stuff. Actually Monty has a series of columns posted on his page there. ^_^
And in the interview you find out that Monty Colvin and Dee Dee Ramone are cousins... heh.
And this page gave me the link to:
Monty Colvin's Crunchy page Which is actually found at either montycolvin.com or crunchy.ws for whatever that's worth.
You can order both of his Crunchy cds right from his web site, and he accepts Paypal. Needless to say, I have two cds that will be heading my way soon.
I was also inspired to track down some other cds... I'm a big fan of The Charlatans and I have one of their songs stuck in my head right now, and it reminded me that they have cds that I still haven't bought... so I tracked down one or two of their older cds at Amazon, and discovered that they also have a brand new cd that is only available in the UK at the moment... I ordered that as well.
And then... there's another band I've always liked, which came out of the same Manchester scene as the Charlatans... The Heart Throbs. They released two cds, but for years I'd heard about a third cd that I wasn't able to track down. I tried once again... and just like with Crunchy, it was a far easier task than I'd expected. First, I located a page that listed their entire discography, including multiple cd singles and 12" singles and releases by the bands that followed their breakup... and it confirmed that they did have a third full cd which was a UK only release called "Vertical Smile". Next I went to Gemm online and easily located several copies of this cd, but most were priced pretty high, for the colletor apparently. It occured to me to visit Amazon UK, and there I found more copies of this cd (and some of their single stuff as well), and was able to order it for a pretty good price... well, I assume a pretty good price, it was under 7 pounds which is what in US dollars? 14-20 I guess. Less than most of the import specialists at Gemm wanted anyway.
(Insert Barney voice: I am SO Crunchy the Clown! BUUUUUUUURP!)
What is Crunchy, you ask? It's a project/band by Monty Colvin, former bassist for the Galactic Cowboys and all around man fascinated with clowns for some reason.
Griid had been trying to track these two cds down. I was excited to hear about them, but afraid that they were already out of print if Griid couldn't find them. Well, Griid's research skills pale in comparison to mine... or to most everyone else's, because I typed "Monty Colvon" into Google and promptly found this page:
12 string bass page
Which is a page for and about the 12-string bass and the people who play it. This, of course, refers most notably to Tom Peterson of Cheap Trick, and Doug Pinnick of King's X, but also to a bunch of other bassists including Monty Colvin. There's an interview with him, there, and one with Doug, and other cool stuff. Actually Monty has a series of columns posted on his page there. ^_^
And in the interview you find out that Monty Colvin and Dee Dee Ramone are cousins... heh.
And this page gave me the link to:
Monty Colvin's Crunchy page Which is actually found at either montycolvin.com or crunchy.ws for whatever that's worth.
You can order both of his Crunchy cds right from his web site, and he accepts Paypal. Needless to say, I have two cds that will be heading my way soon.
I was also inspired to track down some other cds... I'm a big fan of The Charlatans and I have one of their songs stuck in my head right now, and it reminded me that they have cds that I still haven't bought... so I tracked down one or two of their older cds at Amazon, and discovered that they also have a brand new cd that is only available in the UK at the moment... I ordered that as well.
And then... there's another band I've always liked, which came out of the same Manchester scene as the Charlatans... The Heart Throbs. They released two cds, but for years I'd heard about a third cd that I wasn't able to track down. I tried once again... and just like with Crunchy, it was a far easier task than I'd expected. First, I located a page that listed their entire discography, including multiple cd singles and 12" singles and releases by the bands that followed their breakup... and it confirmed that they did have a third full cd which was a UK only release called "Vertical Smile". Next I went to Gemm online and easily located several copies of this cd, but most were priced pretty high, for the colletor apparently. It occured to me to visit Amazon UK, and there I found more copies of this cd (and some of their single stuff as well), and was able to order it for a pretty good price... well, I assume a pretty good price, it was under 7 pounds which is what in US dollars? 14-20 I guess. Less than most of the import specialists at Gemm wanted anyway.
