Karp...
 

was an excellent rock n roll band. and i want them to get back together and make more amazing records. does anyone else love them?

They're old friends of mine, they played at my 30th birthday party, and Chris played drums in my band briefly after Karp broke up, and Scott was my wife's boyfriend in high school, and yes they were fucking amazing musically.

You can forget about them ever getting back together though. Scott was killed in a boating accident in Seattle a few years ago.

Jarrad is in the Melvins now, so that will have to do, I guess.

There may well be some "new" Karp albums, however, as Pat Malley of Yo Yo has quite a few studio and live recordings that haven't been released yet, and he's seriously thinking about it. Hopefully Jarad and Chris could be convinced that's a good idea, but I couldn't predict that one.

that is the raddest thing ive ever seen posted on this message board

there was a thread not so long ago about them.

yes, excellent band!

ding dong fucking with your head, I'm fucking with your head, I'm fucking with your head

Yeah, I'm the guy who lived in Olympia for ten years. It was indeed a very small town with a disproportionate number of well connected talented musicians. Funny, nobody ever aks me if I know Andras Jones & the Previous though...

Do you know Calvin Johnson? just checking.

Yeah, I know Calvin. One of the first people I met when I lived there oddly enough. We always got on pretty well.

Karp live

I don't think anyone posted this in any of the karp threads.

Wow cool.

jesus h mother of christ. i could never be casual about that, just like "hey yeah i know calvin hes a good dude" im amazingly impressed right now. what about buzz osborne?

Calvin does seem like a really nice guy. When I saw him he was very quiet and he was selling his records. He played a bunch of "What Was Me" stuff, just a few feet from me in the middle of a 20ish person audience. It was really cool.

You would be like that if you ever met him and talked to him like a human being though, which is how he'd want it to be. He's a little weird too, but that's not something I think is a negative personality trait.

I've never met Buzz or any of the Melvins besides Jarrad. I'm not sure I'd want to, because the people I've known who know him sometimes don't say the most positive stuff. I'd hate to ruin my own fan to star infatuation in his case.

But you can't compare what Buzz is about to what Calvin is about - Buzz tries in every way to be larger than life. Calvin certainly has massive stage presence, but he's still portraying more of an everyman having a good time, while Buzz is coming on convincingly like some sort of Norse diety.

The Melvins had long since moved to California during my Oly days, so I never met them. Though I was once in Rainy Day Records and heard Dale's mom in there talking with the sales clerk. She seemed very supportive of him and his successfulness, though she made a point of saying she would never say the title to "Alive at the Fucker Club" out loud.

Does dead-air have any insight regarding this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gSgxPGiOtA

im all about this band...but i dunno if they merit a documentry

now the whip showed promise

for some reason big bussiness is kinda lame to me

the first big business album is hilarious.

Yeah, I heard something about this going on. Pat Maley and my friend Diana recently dug all sorts of stuff out of the Yo-yo vault to see what all they had, and I think it was in conjunction with somebody making a movie. So that's likely it. Pat has tons of really high grade live (including at two Yo Yo a Go Gos) and unreleased studio stuff. It wouldn't surprise me if Yo Yo puts out some sort of comp, though I don't know how into Karp stuff being released Chris is. There is bitterness in their dissolution.