tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2358784019076014858.post4534306125996519675..comments2023-10-13T19:09:55.119+01:00Comments on Big Plans For Everybody: Hugo Largo: Unreleased third album, KCRW and moreRushbohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17368726463563067313noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2358784019076014858.post-3751342364784770182020-11-07T12:51:15.656+00:002020-11-07T12:51:15.656+00:00Finally got around to the download...THANK YOU SO ...Finally got around to the download...THANK YOU SO VERY VERY MUCH. I love this band so much they are very dear to me - a comfort of sorts. and I have never heard most of this. Thrilled Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06732298439766668772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2358784019076014858.post-66754914991029094632020-10-19T15:54:52.294+01:002020-10-19T15:54:52.294+01:00Any possible way ANYONE comes in contact with the ...Any possible way ANYONE comes in contact with the 1985 demo cassette (Waking/Fancy/Lie and Forget/Gropius/Simon Says) - I absolutely implore you to put it up on youtube or I will carry this want to my grave. Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06732298439766668772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2358784019076014858.post-82893542046850445032020-01-07T23:30:22.288+00:002020-01-07T23:30:22.288+00:00Hey, thank you! the links are working! A friend fr...Hey, thank you! the links are working! A friend from athens gave me a tape of drum in 1990, a friend of the rem boys. i have searched since the tape died. This will do! I did just find brian eno talking and playing mettle. i will find them one day!<br />Cheers<br />Davidpanaderohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18365947450013238145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2358784019076014858.post-40348966921530715632019-12-17T17:15:08.219+00:002019-12-17T17:15:08.219+00:00HOW ON EARTH DID THIS POST ESCAPE ME I LOOK THEM U...HOW ON EARTH DID THIS POST ESCAPE ME I LOOK THEM UP AT LEAST ONCE A YEAR! Guess the links are gone by now :( well at least someone has their missing 3rd album! Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12331483720483822702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2358784019076014858.post-91504356763894087302018-12-21T16:13:47.329+00:002018-12-21T16:13:47.329+00:00Excellent page! Do you have the B Sides to the Tur...Excellent page! Do you have the B Sides to the Turtle Song single?The Doctorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10430488568812129703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2358784019076014858.post-81008628381773811142013-04-25T02:44:50.427+01:002013-04-25T02:44:50.427+01:00Very sad to not have known about this before the M...Very sad to not have known about this before the Mediafire links went down -- please let me know if it becomes available again. Have you heard the recent Mimi Goese/Ben Neill album, "Songs for Persephone"? It's terrific.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2358784019076014858.post-21875794228743234532012-09-10T21:31:00.325+01:002012-09-10T21:31:00.325+01:00Big thanks for the links. Always happy to hear mor...Big thanks for the links. Always happy to hear more Hugo LArgo. At the risk of making the completist's life even more difficult, I remember reading in some reviews of their last shows about a song called "So Serene". Does anyone know what happened to it?Ersbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08012602968152264418noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2358784019076014858.post-78336712444075997352012-02-10T00:23:33.268+00:002012-02-10T00:23:33.268+00:00Hello,
please, can you post this ones again?Hello,<br /><br />please, can you post this ones again?Elson Fróeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14677897175576058918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2358784019076014858.post-27738091233233908482012-01-22T14:51:40.123+00:002012-01-22T14:51:40.123+00:00Hi - this is Hahn Rowe. My sister just sent me a l...Hi - this is Hahn Rowe. My sister just sent me a link to this blog post. <br /><br />I would like to point out that there is NO unreleased 3rd album.<br /><br />This is most likely (link is down) a live performance board tape from one of the last Hugo Largo shows at the original Knitting Factory in NYC. How did you get this? I don't even have a copy ;)<br /><br />There were some nice tunes and a couple of clunkers as I recall (it was never intended to be for public consumption). In any case, I hope you enjoy listening to it!Hahnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15209017551442212575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2358784019076014858.post-28040370020204233312011-09-04T23:00:44.623+01:002011-09-04T23:00:44.623+01:00Very glad to come across this. I loved both Mettle...Very glad to come across this. I loved both Mettle and Drum and I've bought them twice each -- one on vinyl and CD, the other on vinyl and download. <br /><br />There was a website circa 1999 that had some rare HL stuff, but it was in the form of wav files, and very small ones at that. A full song in a half meg wav is not going to sound very impressive. So this is a very nice surprise.Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13116705621922257576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2358784019076014858.post-4730577625998801052011-05-29T22:09:18.232+01:002011-05-29T22:09:18.232+01:00awesome...thank you. i'm a big fan from '8...awesome...thank you. i'm a big fan from '87.Brian Lucashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01485575605694384463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2358784019076014858.post-38487844033328199472011-01-31T12:33:45.092+00:002011-01-31T12:33:45.092+00:00Tim Sommer Wrote: I remember the pint glass incide...Tim Sommer Wrote: I remember the pint glass incident! I think we had literally hit the first note of the first song -- probably Scream Tall? -- and this pint glass comes sailing out of this little group of leathers in the front and hits Mimi SQUARE in the face. And she didn't miss a beat, not a single beat. She acted as if nothing happened, which was brilliant. I distinctly remember stepping to the front (I was on Mimi's right side) and getting as close to her as possible. Oddly, this is the ONLY time I remember anything like that happening in ALL of the gigs we played. Thanks for mentioning GLORIA. This is the very last thing the Sommer/Goese/Rowe/Peacock line-up ever cut, and I am very, very fond of it. More under the video and via email -- TimRushbohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17368726463563067313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2358784019076014858.post-59224510918664948802011-01-30T22:27:23.917+00:002011-01-30T22:27:23.917+00:00Cheers Houseman. (Should that be Mr Houseman? Mrs ...Cheers Houseman. (Should that be Mr Houseman? Mrs Houseman? Herr Houseman? Goddamn these impeccable manners...)This may be old news to you, but if you want to hear Mr Mack doing a very creditable Johnny Rotten, check out the Long Ryders 'Metallic BO' download that PowerPop Criminals have posted at the moment - the link is on the right of the page.Rushbohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17368726463563067313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2358784019076014858.post-46175782027608948812011-01-30T21:41:53.569+00:002011-01-30T21:41:53.569+00:00Tim, Steve Mack would prob have the version of Mot...Tim, Steve Mack would prob have the version of Mother Sky - otherwise Damian may have it. I can ask him next week (if I remember!)bj17https://www.blogger.com/profile/08569795658390589636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2358784019076014858.post-73104676506146965102011-01-30T09:14:19.969+00:002011-01-30T09:14:19.969+00:00Hi Tim. I don't quite know what to say...Thank...Hi Tim. I don't quite know what to say...Thank you for being so gracious - if I knew a member of the band was going to read the post, I'd have written it better! I'm sorry that you can't download the files – I’ve just tested it and it seems to be working, so I’ll write some instructions at the bottom of this comment. <br /><br />The tapes came from a really interesting guy in the states (I think he was a computer artist back in the days when not everybody was) and he sent me that in exchange for a VCR copy of 'Intruders...' I hope he reads this and your comment.<br /><br />I saw the band quite a few times in the UK – two or three times on the TPE tour and you’re right about the crowd response. In my home town of Birmingham, some meathead threw an empty plastic beerglass at Mimi and you and Adam immediately formed a protective wedge around her, with your best don’t-mess-with-me faces on. I thought that was great – and it worked!<br /><br />That CAN cover sounds fascinating – I thought the only non-album track to sneak out was ‘Gloria’ (from the UK 12” of ‘Turtle Song’ and elsewhere). Let’s see if Mr Google can help…<br /><br />I’d love to read your piece on the early years of the band and reproduce it here with your permission. Any information is like gold-dust – websites pop up now and again with tantalising promises of HL content, but then fade away. As much as I enjoy the concept of the transience and impermanence of Art, I wanna know stuff!<br /><br />I did meet you briefly in Birmingham UK – it was at the TPE gig and I tried to engage you in conversation just as Steve Mack was berating the handful of idiots who gave you a hard time. My timing has always been off…<br /><br />If you need to get in touch, feel free to use the blog or you can leave contact details in a comment, publish it and then instantly delete it – that way I’ll get it (as all comments get forwarded to my personal email) but it wont remain. <br /><br />Now, about those files…they’re Winzip files, so once you’ve saved them to your PC, you’ll need to open them with an unzipping-type program. Winzip and 7-Zip are fine. Once you’ve installed either of those programs, right click on the file and you’ll see the program names – scroll up to whichever you have installed - in the menu that appears scroll over to the option ‘Extract here’ or ‘Extract to here’ – click on that and it should automatically make a folder which then gets filled with Your Back Pages. I hope that helps. <br /><br />It goes without saying that if you want the post withdrawn it will happen instantly. <br /><br />Once again, thank you so much for getting in touch…it was both thrilling and slightly embarrassing at the same time. I wish you success with all your current and future projects.<br /><br />Love, light and peace,<br /><br />IanRushbohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17368726463563067313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2358784019076014858.post-28976372845529591692011-01-30T04:08:33.245+00:002011-01-30T04:08:33.245+00:00Oh, hello. Tim Sommer here. Thank you for the en...Oh, hello. Tim Sommer here. Thank you for the enormously kind words -- these things still mean a great deal to me, even after all these years. I only wish I could download these files -- my first efforts were unsuccessful -- but perhaps I'll figure it out soon. <br /><br />A few thoughts: As for the '85 Demo...hmmm, this is mislabeled. These are three songs from two different sessions. Bali Hai and Tell The Truth are from the earliest real session we ever did– March ’85, maybe? Wharton Tiers was the producer. Tell the Truth is one of our earliest songs, from the Greg Letson period (the original Hugo Largo was Me, Mimi, and Greg Letson – Greg left in January ’85 right before a show supporting Billy Bragg, and Mimi’s boyfriend, Adam, joined at very short notice). Second Skin is also a Letson-era song, and the only song we performed at our first gig (April ’84) that ended up making it to vinyl. Oh, and it may interest you to know that Hahn wasn't officially in the band or on stage with us until mid 1986. From fairly early days, he was our soundman, occasionally playing violin from the soundboard. He joined officially – and got on stage – in mid 1986. Harpers was from much later sessions for the first album. Incidentally, Harpers wasn’t always an instrumental, but when we recorded it, it just sounded so good that way. <br />I wish we could find the TRUE first demo – this has a few more Letson-era songs on it, and are an interesting document of what the violin-less band sounded like during the first year of its existence. <br /><br />The KCRW session was a LOT of fun, and Blue Blanket is one of my favorite ‘lost’ Hugo Largo songs. Someone should cover it. The KCRW session is a pretty exact rendering of our live set circa summer ’87, when we toured America with the Feelies. <br /><br />I honestly don’t recall why we didn’t record Blue Blanket. As for other ‘lost’ Largo songs…there were two that were recorded for the Mettle album, and omitted from the final running order specifically at the direction of Brian Eno. One of these was ARMS AKIMBO, which was released on the (very poorly mastered) re-release of Mettle; the other was a cover of an extraordinary Japanese song, and was the only thing we ever recorded with drums. Brian thought that both of these didn’t belong on Mettle. The Japanese song must exist somewhere. <br /><br />The REAL Largo completist might try to find MOTHER SKY, which is a live recording of the Can song featuring That Petrol Emotion plus me, Hahn, and Adam. It came out as the b-side of something in 1989…<br /><br />I can’t entirely remember how the TPE tour came about, but it worked better than it should have. On any given night, a certain percentage of the audience absolutely was entranced with Largo, so generally, this worked, though I am sure another pairing could have worked better. The Petrols were falling apart at the time and so were we, so it was a difficult tour in many ways. But I remember the shows fondly. <br /><br />It should come as no surprise that I am not particularly fond of the unreleased third album; it sounds a little diffuse to me, the songs seem to lack a certain structure and push that my sensibility probably brought to the band. Also, since I founded and cast the band (and I can discuss my use of the word cast on a different occasion, if you want!), it was very difficult for me to consider the post-Tim band a legitimate Hugo Largo, but that’s probably understandable childishness possessiveness. I was so proud of Hugo Largo and that sound…<br /><br />I wrote something a while ago for a Facebook page about the formation of the band – I would be happy to send it to you! <br /><br />Thanks again so much for your interest after all these years, and I hope to hear the music soon…TimTim Sommer https://www.blogger.com/profile/01790175538875277388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2358784019076014858.post-73351579232981298932011-01-29T21:25:11.679+00:002011-01-29T21:25:11.679+00:00TPE were big fans and offered them the slot - simp...TPE were big fans and offered them the slot - simple as thatbj17https://www.blogger.com/profile/08569795658390589636noreply@blogger.com