Days of You? Returning?

[StoneMtn]

I hear they're reuniting.

Anyone?

[Velvet]

They never should have started hating hippies.

[SaggyBalls]

Days of Who?

As for local acts that aren't active...I wish The Music Never Stopped would play a weekend camping getaway in the NCR this summer. That would be the one event that I'd be floored to hit up.

[mulvee]

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=383578410688&ref=mf

[SaggyBalls]

Awesome. Sorry about being a dick...I still miss TMNS.

[StoneMtn]

Thanks mulvee. I actually was already directed to this:

http://www.twostonethrow.com/launchpad.php

Yours Truly; how can you be sorry for that? You are what you are.

[jon.]

anton - who plays keys in electric meat has been playing with them for a number of months, should be pretty sweet

cheers

[PassedOutGuy]

Very excited... hopefully they will keep playing after this gig for when we get home in April...

Edited March 19, 2010 by Guest

[SaggyBalls]

Canadian, Stoney?

[Patchoulia]

Days of You? Really?

I can find out.

[Booche]

Is it 2002 already?

Hot Tub Time Machine'd

[Rossolee]

More like Glue Pot Pub Machine'd

Count me in, if this is an actual show

[StoneMtn]

It is definitely an actual show, and webcast.

Anton Helman? Really? Now, there's a name I haven't heard since high school.

[localcrew]

Hi there....I don't know if I would work to hard at reuniting TMNS but I would certainly play a gig if all the stars aligned. I would love to get a band together like TMNS in the sense that it was jam oriented, included Grateful Dead music as well as other music.

I don't see a big need for a Dead cover band now since there are others doing it and more importantly the Dead and/or Furthur are doing it. That being said I would do it if people really wanted it as i do enjoy it.

My musical efforts are mostly geared towards writing and recording (however misguided that may seem-the link is in my sig for the music I have recorded so far). I would love to have a good jam band together but so far all efforts have been thwarted for one reason or another due to apathy and other circumstances one of which being the fact that I am the worst organizer ever....someone else needs to steer this slow coach.....

Coincidentally in my band before TMNS Longbottom (mid 80's-90's) I toured briefly with Days of You where we headlined for each other the main shows being Barrymores where they opened for us and Lee's Palace where we opened for them.....other cities as well which I can't quite recall...we must have been having fun or something....the only down side was when I realized one of my riffs (that was not earth shattering but quite unique) ended up in one of their songs....ah well I'll still be using it in the song I intended it for; a still unreleased song that is quite nearly finished in a recording project that is quite nearly finished......that's how old some of these songs I am releasing are.

By the bye if anyone is playing a gig and wants to play one of my songs feel free. Credit where credit is due is nice and if you make a ton of money off the deal I wouldn't mind a sniff.....but songs are for playing....

[Rossolee]

It is definitely an actual show, and webcast.

Hey Corey can you post the show details?

[Rary8]

I still think they are a cut above most jambands in songwriting. I'd like to check out that show.

[StoneMtn]

It's next Friday at 9:30 pm. The details are here:

http://www.twostonethrow.com/launchpad.php

I understand people can go to the show in the studio. (Maybe you need to know people to be asked, but I was offered the chance, and just can't go.)

Now .... Longbottom! Interesting turn-of-topic here ... I'd love to see you guys play again. At the very least, would it be possible to hear an old recording? As I recall, you guys never had even had a cassette for sale at your shows, let alone a disc, and I'd love to hear those tunes again.

[localcrew]

Longbottom was definitely in the days before burning cds of shows etc. I have a lot of cassettes though....we never thought of selling them....

There are two problems with the recordings; our best mindblowing shows always seemed to have screwed up in the recording process as if we were cursed....tape deck screwing up or too much clipping or something...always something, the main problem is that we were not all that good....it was really the kind of thing where you had to be there....it was more the vibe and energy that was impressive and moving.

I was not competent on guitar and the only really good musicians we had were the bass player and drummer. Our bass player Joe Burns was not even really into the Dead or hippy scene but was a brother nonetheless and enjoyed it in his own way. For my part I was always into music but never was too interested in the technical aspects of music and mainly saw the importance of the gestalt event and cosmic/social ramifications of our events. I have since become a respectable player and writer. I realize I may be over critical of the Longbottom tapes but there it is....

That being said there are literally a few passages in all the hours of tape I have that could stand up to some listening....maybe I'll see if I can retrieve them and put them on my website or something. Anyone who would be interesting in digitizing this collection of cassettes is welcome though as it may be of some significance some day....who knows....we were one of the first jambands i am aware of (coming before PHISH etc) and certainly the first one in Ottawa as we started in '85 or so with the first Earthball shows which we put together.

They may have some historical importance though I`m not sure how much they can be enjoyed.....I will say it was really something to be there at the time......I haven`t seen Ottawa audiences getting down so hard and in such great numbers since.....it was something for sure....

I still think that that `something` is as important as the music itself if not more so.

Edited March 21, 2010 by Guest

[Kanada Kev]

Days of You? There's a blast from the past. Fun shows. Was friends with their sound guy. Got to have fun going with him over to the guy's studio who invented the Mandala thing (way early virtual reality interactive music thingy in front of a green screen) that they used to perform with on stage. (got us into the Hockey Hall of Fame Inductions one year since that technology was used in one of their displays on being a goalie).

[Super Freak]

Longbottom? Wow, that's going way back. I saw Longbottom in Montreal--it was a great show.

[localcrew]

Cool....yes we had lots of GREAT gigs in Montreal! McGill University comes to mind though we played other places that I can't remember the names of.

I remember we did a gig right when the first Gulf War broke out and our sista Vicki Fraser got on stage and BELTED out Knocking on Heaven's Door with us...man the hairs on the back of my hairs were standing up....everyone melted into that number big time!

[Super Freak]

That was the show I was at...I totally remember that. It's funny, cuz after I saw you guys I asked everyone I knew if they ever heard of the band...and no one did--having said that, I live in southern Ontario. I looked to see if I could see if you were playing for a long time after that and never did. You must have done most of your shows in the Ottawa/Montreal area. No internet then...well, there were about 50 websites-all text--lol, so all we had was papers/mags, posters and word of mouth.

[localcrew]

How freaky is that! you really are a super freak. We did mainly play in the Ottawa area and certainly more in Montreal than Toronto....we may have only ever played Toronto at that Lee's Palace gig I mentioned-I don't recall exactly.

I'll have to see if I have the tape of that gig we are talking about....Vik was mentioning that gig the other day and it brought back memories....

[Booche]

If I understand correctly, these guys stole a riff:

from this guy:

Did they use it in a song? Or was it in a jam?

[PassedOutGuy]

I'm curious about that too Booche and would love to know what riff?