{"id":8,"date":"2009-06-19T11:20:50","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T16:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fivetools.com\/blog\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2010-07-22T16:44:02","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T21:44:02","slug":"diskothi-q","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.fivetools.com\/blog\/diskothi-q\/","title":{"rendered":"DISKOTHI-Q"},"content":{"rendered":"

DiskothiQ<\/strong> \u2014 a Hopi word meaning “how we misspent our twenties” \u2014 was Peter Hughes, Kevin Hughes, Kevin Trapp, and, for a while, Robert Garlt. We haven\u2019t done anything since Trapp and I moved away from the Inland Empire in 2000, but from 1991 up til then we kinda did a lot. Click on the images to sample or download any of the music described below.<\/p>\n

The Wandering Jew<\/i><\/b> |\u00a0Shrimper 55 | 1994<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

There were earlier full-length efforts, but this was our first venture beyond cassettes and four tracks. Semi-competent indie-rock with bad singing. The Mountain Goats cover (\u201cTulsa Imperative\u201d) is a song John played for me one day at Casa de Badger but refused to release because such was his purist streak at the time that if he failed to come up with an acceptable recording of a song within a day or so of its conception, that was it\u2014any subsequent attempts at recording would lack the required immediacy\u2014which, as I liked the song, pissed me off no end. Eventually, with John\u2019s blessing, we just went ahead and recorded the damn thing ourselves. O but for the singing.<\/p>\n

Waterworld<\/i><\/b> | Shrimper 86 | 1996<\/p>\n

\"Waterworld\"<\/a><\/p>\n

In which we tried\u00a0very hard<\/em> to be something more than semi-competent indie-rock with bad singing. And came close. Title was my brother\u2019s slag on how much time and money we poured into the thing. I think I wanted to call it\u00a0Spruce Goose<\/em> for similar reasons, but\u00a0Waterworld<\/em> is funnier. There are a few moments here that I am unequivocally proud of though: coming out of the bridge going into the guitar solo in \u201cPomp & Circumstance\u201d; Brent from\u00a0Further\u2019s<\/a> trumpet and keys outro for \u201cAlbatros\u201d ([sic<\/em>] by the way); the \u201cVacancy\u201d fade into the theme from\u00a0Love Story, <\/em>even if the rest of the song is kinda lame.<\/em><\/p>\n

Sad Truths<\/i><\/b> | unreleased | 1997<\/p>\n

\"Sad<\/a><\/p>\n

The great shame of DiskothiQ is that we never finished this record. It would have been the best one. I honestly can\u2019t remember why we didn\u2019t; lack of funds, lack of wherewithal, lack of focus, lack of sense. I\u2019ve got a tape of the basics somewhere, and I have these recordings, from a performance on KUCI some time in 1997. Unfortunately this was before we\u2019d worked up what would\u2019ve been the closing track and optimistic counterpoint to the rest of the album, a song called \u201cGlad Truths,\u201d but its optimism proved misguided anyway. A-to-D\u2019d from a crummy old cassette, so apologies for the crap sound quality.<\/p>\n

The Football Albums<\/i><\/b> | Sonic Enemy 003 | 1999<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

No longer trying to be anything other than the semi-competent indie-rock band we in fact\u00a0were,<\/em> we turned our ambitions to more worthy endeavors. Namely, 32 songs about 32 teams. Yes, we really fucking did this. Realignment, free agency, and the march of time have rendered these works obsolete, but the immutable and outrageous genius of these CDs \u2014 the fact that we actually accepted the dare and made good on it \u2014 still shines as brilliantly as ever. Bizarrely, they are the only ones I can go back to now and listen to all the way through without feeling a trace of embarrassment. Okay, maybe a little, during \u201cTitans.\u201d But apart from that it\u2019s one hundred percent blushing, sniggering pride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DiskothiQ \u2014 a Hopi word meaning “how we misspent our twenties” \u2014 was Peter Hughes, Kevin Hughes, Kevin Trapp, and, for a while, Robert Garlt. We haven\u2019t done anything since Trapp and I moved away from the Inland Empire in 2000, but from 1991 up til then we kinda did a lot. Click on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fivetools.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fivetools.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fivetools.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fivetools.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fivetools.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.fivetools.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367,"href":"http:\/\/www.fivetools.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fivetools.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}