Volcano Suns

[earthdog70]

Anyone pick this up yet? Really punchy sound. No "White Elephant" but still excellent:

http://www.mergerecords.com/old-paint-l ... ty-gardens

[john stabb]

Nope, but I still have VS - Bumper Crop + 7" w/ Wire/Saints covers that I'd be happy to sell.

[Knutsen]

Saw Mission of Burma last year and complimented their sound guy about his good work.
He thanked me and asked me about the address of some former venue in the 80s.
He said he played there in the 80s, if it is around the corner, he would like to check it out again.
When I asked him about his band, he said, that he played in Volcano Suns. I told him, that I saw them back then.
We probably sounded like some veterans from the great grunge wars back in the late 80s of the last millenium.

[scannest]

That would be Bob Weston you were talking with. He has been doing sound for MoB since they started up again. He's also the bass player in Shellac and an excellent engineer (he is a co-owner of Chicago Mastering Service)

[JGJR]

Nope, but I still have VS - Bumper Crop + 7" w/ Wire/Saints covers that I'd be happy to sell.

What songs did they do? I can't seem to find any info on this pressing via Google.

[earthdog70]

yeah-the 7" isn't detailed on Discogs either

[Knutsen]

That would be Bob Weston you were talking with. He has been doing sound for MoB since they started up again. He's also the bass player in Shellac and an excellent engineer (he is a co-owner of Chicago Mastering Service)

thanks!

[john stabb]

Whoops, not Volcano Suns, it's Kustomized - The Day I had Some Fun w/ A. The Day I Had Some Fun B. Surgeon's Girl/Stranded on MATADOR. I wrote about it before here. It's great but just I have it on my iPod so okay to part with it.

from "Trouser Press" -
With the once-mighty Boston art-noise scene threatening to recede from the world's consciousness, ex-Mission of Burma/Volcano Suns drummer Peter Prescott launched this fun-spirited ass-biting quartet in which he sings and plays wiry guitar. Kustomized's drummer, Kurt Davis, sang in Bullet LaVolta (where he was known as Yukki Gipe); guitarist Ed Yazijian and bassist Bob Moses complete the loose-fitting lineup. Keeping it all in the family, former Volcano Suns bassist Bob Weston, now of Shellac, produced the first two records, honing a serrated Chicago edge onto the band's casual stylings.


With Malcolm Travis — recently freed of his rhythmic obligations to Bob Mould in Sugar — taking over from Davis and Weston out of the picture, Kustomized shifted gears for the better on At the Vanishing Point. Diverse in tone, less prone to self-defeating indulgence and equipped with more generally reliable material, the album reveals the quartet's stylish side in "The One That Got Away," economically driven by two-fingered organ until a flamethrower guitar break, a properly noirish version of "Harlem Nocturne" and the opening instrumental, "Handcuffs." Elsewhere, Kustomized joyfully overkills simple tunes like a cover of Government Issue's "Bored to Death" with delirious power. So much for suave bachelor pad music — this brings it all back home to the crash pad floor.

[earthdog70]

Ah-Kustomized! Still hoping for a reunion show since Malcolm is living in the N.E. area now, dare to dream