#dredd foole & the din

[whatsthesound]

Dredd Foole & The Din, “ Behind You” (1982)

Back in the day, Dredd Foole released just two albums and a single. But a label called Corbett vs. Dempsey is three-quarters of the way through a campaign to more than double that output.

For me, the unreleased studio recordings, like this from the first iteration of DD&TD that had Mission of Burma as The Din, are the attraction, but there’s plenty more….  

[doomandgloomfromthetomb]

Dredd Foole & The Din - We Will Fall (1983) / See God (1985/1986)

A whole lotta Dredd! The always awesome Corbett vs. Dempsey label continues its valuable excavation of the Dredd Foole & The Din (AKA The Greatest Band In Hell) archives with these two monstrous collections.

The 1983 volume captures the original group (which is essentially Mission of Burma with Foole as frontman) in at the end of their run/rope — indeed the live recording that makes up most of We Will Fall kicks off with a version of the Doors' "The End" that is alternately hilarious and terrifying. The set that follows delivers unhinged, blown-out, go-for-broke thrills, with the Burma Din following their leader straight into the heart of darkness. Apocalypse ... NOW?!

See God picks up the story a few years later, when Foole teamed up with Peter Prescott's Volcano Suns to keep the Din alive. Featuring radio broadcasts and proper studio sessions (alongside some vital live tapes), the two discs here see this iteration of the band becoming a bit more like a conventional band ... but just a bit. Foole's madcap energy couldn't really be tamed — check out the fully combustible "Heroin"-esque trip of "Believe" or the insanity of "Paralyze" for proof. Beautifully presented with extensive liner notes, you need both We Will Fall and See God ... no Foole-in'!

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Dredd Foole & the Din - Songs in Heat (1982)

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impromptu SY set at The Rat in Boston to benefit magazine Forced Exposure on May 9, 1987.  consists of two covers - performed on gear borrowed from Dredd Foole and the Din - Crime’s Hot Wire My Heart and The Stooges' I Wanna Be Your Dog

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Alice Coltrane w/ John McLaughlin & Carlos Santana! Dredd Foole & The Din! Teach Me Tiger! Dead Heir! Ante Bellum! Nine Twenty Nine! Big Joey! God Burger! Momento Mori! Trenchfoot! Blackcats! Blistering Body Pus! The Signorinas! Out On Blue Six! The Skodas! The Frames! New Recruits! Sebastian's Men! Human Thurma! Las Mordidas! Econothugs! Gee Gee Decorator! Atul Desai! Gita Sarabhai! I.S. Mathur! Jinraj Joshipura! S.C. Sharma! plus a CHASER live session!

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Dredd Foole + The Din - So Tough

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Introducing : SLACK by DREDD FOOLE & THE DIN -- 1988 / USA / Post punk

Full: https://youtu.be/Y5Fn1GY3Ygw

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[romini]

Dredd Foole & The Din - Alone

[auralthicket]

episode 47: shambolic euphoria (11.10.21)

set 1:

Reynols – 1 – No Reynols (Freedom From, 2001)

Cromagnon – Caledonia – Cromagnon (ESP Disk, 1973)

The Monks – I Hate You – Black Monk Time (International Polydor Production, 1966)

Michael Yonkers Band – Kill the Enemy – Microminiature Love (De Stijl, 2002)

The Modern Folk – Suicide Nets – American Cave (self-released, 2013)

Bobb Trimble / The Crippled Dog Band – Live Wire – The Crippled Dog Band (Yoga, 2011)

set 2:

Henry Flynt & the Insurrections – Uncle Sam Do – I Don’t Wanna (Locust, 2004)

Magik Markers – Psychosomatic – Balf Quarry (Drag City, 2009)

The Holy Modal Rounders – Mobile Line – The Moray Eels Eat the Holy Modal Rounders (Elektra, 1968)

Sunburned Hand of the Man – Untitled 8 – Piff’s Clicks (Manhand, 1998)

Hasil Adkins – Teenie Weenie Waddy Kiss – Out to Hunch (Norton, 1986)

The Shaggs – That Little Sports Car – Philosophy of the World (Third World, 1969)

Dredd Foole and the Din – Not a Beast – Take Off Your Skin (PVC, 1988)

set 3:

XV – Costco – XV (Life Like, 2019)

Children of the Mushroom – Blade – Children of the Mushroom (Out-Sider, 2014)

Les Rallizes Dénudés (RIP Takashi Mizutani) – 夜より深く– Disaster Sources Encyclopedia Of Rallizes Vol.2 (Illegal-Alien/Ignuitas, 2004/2012)

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Sunburned Hand of The Man Trinary System Hassle Fest 9, ONCE Ballroom (Somerville MA) 11/11/17 This is probably going to sound weird, but in all the years that I've been going to shows in W. Mass and elsewhere, I've never once seen Sunburned. I've at least twice seen members of Sunburned do solo sets or side projects and other stuff, but I'd never actually seen the full band. Really, what are the chances of that? And, despite having some guy tell me the other week that Sunburned were better years ago and weren't really the same band anymore, I thought they were great. They must've played for at least 35 minutes, and it was pulverizing -- just one long song that had a really heavy groove. I mean, that's what they do, right? Besides wearing masks like Sun City Girls, or whatever. Roger Miller's various bands and projects have been a part of my life ever since I was a teenager; I've seen him play in Mission of Burma as well as his solo piano stuff, and owned records from a lot of the various other side projects and bands he's been in (No Man, Birdsongs, Dredd Foole and The Din, etc), but I never would've guessed that he'd have yet another kick-ass band this late in the game. Because it's Roger it still sounds sorta like Mission of Burma (or maybe more to the point, like No Man), with a lot more garage-punk mixed in plus a flat-out amazing bass player who could almost make some of the songs sound like Feedtime. At one point Roger did a five-minute guitar solo that sounded like every guitar solo from Fun House stitched together, and I felt like my skull was going to start rolling around on the floor.

[thephilosopheroftheboudoir]

Dredd Foole and the Din

So Tough

[doomandgloomfromthetomb]

Mission of Burma - Walker Memorial Building, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 14, 1982

Last week, I wrote a little about a new Dredd Foole archival release from the early 1980s, collecting Dredd's recordings with the Din — a band otherwise known as Mission of Burma. It's incredible, unhinged stuff, most of it previously unreleased. Recommended!

Foole and the Din's sole studio outing took place in early February of 1982, so I thought I'd check in on what Mission of Burma was up to around the same time. This is it! Did a bunch of MIT-ers go on Valentine's Day dates to see the band? Maybe (the band's label was Ace of Hearts, after all) though I can't imagine there was a lot of slow dancing going on during their intense, masterful set. The horrible truth about Burma? They fucking ruled.

MoB was in the midst of recording their classic Vs. LP in the winter of '82, so we get a fair amount of that new material, plus some more vintage tunes. I think my favorite is the absolutely majestic version of "Einstein's Day" here — hey, maybe you could slow dance to this one!

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Jihem Rita! 18th Dye! Collate! The Serfs! PAL! Limbo District! Dredd Foole & The Din! World Domination Enterprises! Checkpoint! Pack Rat! Cuticles! The Bug Club! Jared Leibowich! Institute! Besta Quadrada! Chain Whip! Texture Freq! Deady! Gino & The Sharks! Мир! A/WAY! Intuition! Berliner Doom! Pyrex! Devo Death! Weegee! Surveillance! Man...or Astro-Man?(!) Steel Pole Bath Tub! Archaïa! Organza Ray! The Air Music International! Thinking Fellers Union Local 282! Asha Sheshadri! Unknown Artist!

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The Necks! Pole! Dredd Foole & The Din! My Dad Is Dead! The Hated! Spike In Vain! Blatant Dissent! Graven Image! Ingrates! Ervin Berlin! No Brains! Haevner! Bootlicker! Public Acid! Mclusky! Umarell & Zdaura! Phil & The Tiles! Heavy Metal! Psychic Graveyard! GG King! Campingsex! VAQO! Naujawanana Baider! Bogdan Raczynski! Valentina Goncharova! staraya derevnya! Honestly Same!