Album #: 36 Recording Dates: 03/25/2001 Release Date: 2001 Catalog: SF ScratchNotes: One of my top picks for early 2000’s era Sheep Fiends. Opening with the fantastic “Inside a Room Inside a Cave Inside the Moon” (music to be posted with Scratchrock XIV), this disc just features strong and inspired performances all around. I rage …
Album #: 35 Recording Dates: 2000-2001 Release Date: 2001 Catalog: SF ScratchNotes: While the Sheep Fiends were born of a desire to create the sounds of the moment, sometimes that creativity would lag and cover songs would be recorded. Rarely faithful to their originals, the Fiends always ended up with something quite unique…if often challenging …
Album #: 34 Recording Dates: 01/21/2001 Release Date: 2001 Catalog: SF ScratchNotes: This album captures a rather noisy and chaotic jam from January 2001. ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ One Track Sampler Track 06 – Bananas Foster Avenue (Sheep Fiends) – Now with extra delay pedal on top – this week only! [Scratch on Guitar]
Album #: 33 Recording Dates: 2001 Release Date: 2001 Catalog: SMR19 ScratchNotes: The Dentists (aka DDS) were a Sheep Fiends offshoot project that lasted just a few months. This is the first of two collections based on recordings of DDS rehearsals. The band apparently specialized in ridiculous cover songs but also managed to work out …
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Album #: 32 Recording Dates: 1999 – 2000 Release Date: 2001 Catalog: SMR18 ScratchNotes: Recording with the Sheep Fiends increasingly made up the bulk of my musical output as my free time turned to other endeavours. A sick fascination with the stock market ensued, and an emotional obsession was fostered by way of the rise …
Album #: 30 Recording Dates: 2000 Release Date: 2000 Catalog: SF ScratchNotes: Summarizing the last three jams of the first year of the next millennium, Cast tackles critical issues affecting us all like baseball, contentious presidential elections, and irresponsible parenting. Respect to Dave L. for showing up to the jams with a broken arm. Two …
Album #: 29 Recording Dates: 09/03/2000 Release Date: 2000 Catalog: SF ScratchNotes: Everyone who plays regularly with the Sheep Fiends has preferences in the types of music performed (improv, covers, the occasional Sheep Fiend composition), the length of the performances (30 minute jam or 4 minute song?) and other attributes. One of the critical pieces …
Album #: 28 Recording Dates: 06/25/2000 Release Date: 2000 Catalog: SF ScratchNotes: A solid recording of a wide ranging jam from a classic line up. Personal favorite “The Rising Price of Gasoline” will be featured as a sample track for the upcoming Scratchrock XIII post. Two Track Sampler Track 05 – Thang (Sheep Fiends) – …
Album #: 26 Recording Dates: 05/21/2000 Release Date: 2000 Catalog: SF ScratchNotes: One Fiend, Two Fiends, Three Fiends, Four…no… just 3 FIENDS! This rare assemblage of a three piece ensemble is far from uniformly successful, but does offer some very unique moments and approaches to sound (and a classic Sheep Fiends album cover!). Three Track …
Album #: 25 Recording Dates: 04/16/2000 Release Date: 2000 Catalog: SF ScratchNotes: One of my favorite jams from this era of the Fiends. Many different vocalists create multiple moods upon a multitude of orchestrations with topics ranging from the stock market to time travel to dirty nasty filthy love. Five Track Sampler Track 01 –Increased …
Album #: 24 Recording Dates: 2000 Release Date: 2000 Catalog: SF ScratchNotes: The Sheep Fiends have no problem putting together a large ensemble on a day when men across America choose to drink beer and watch jocks in tights fall down. No tights, but plenty of beer fuels this noise drenched and off kilter session. …
