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Dan Peccia (peccia[at]-remove-earthlink.net or dan[at]-remove-sdri-pdx.org) - Portland , USofA
29Jun2005 10:25 PM (4 years 254 days ago)
Stumbled accross your site by accident and am happy to start downloading some Vergiftung. I have vaugue and drunken memories of a live Vergiftung show where I played an orange stool and various bits of metal hung by strings with no skill but much passion. It was at a party at the Loach house many, many years ago. Good stuff. Hope all are well.

brady branam
indyquist[at]-remove-aol.com - indpls, in
4Jun2005 10:02 PM (4 years 279 days ago)
looking for brady branam. if anyone speaks to him, please tell him krista lane says hi. thanks.

Buddy Epsen is dead
Johnakni[at]-remove-aol.com - Indianapolis,In
17Jul2003 7:46 PM (6 years 238 days ago)
Dear Vergiftung,
Buddy Epsen is dead. Happened last week.
Yes,I am still in contact with the Belgian Waffles. I saw them a few weeks ago in Louisville. They did the Rocket form the Tombs standard NonAlignment Pact plus John Cale's Fear with a sort of Third Uncle(Eno version) vibe plus brand new songs you never heard of.
Embarrassingly,I unsuccessfully tried to establish civilized contact with Indoor Boy. I guess part of being hip is still saying prog is bad. If there is any justice in the world,Don's children will grow up to be rebellious teenagers with Yes and Genesis records blasting away on their stereos. I have noticed there are at least two new bands today that sound like Indoor Boy(of 1996-7): Interpol and Archvisceral Parlour. Interpol is famous. Archvisceral Parlour are not. I would go to a new Indoor Boy concert,but I don't want to get into a fist fight because I may accidentally mention Don sounds almost as good on guitar as Robert Fripp. Its not easy having my own individual musical taste these days.
What type of music are you doing these days?I have been doing some things with samples that you may find interesting. One of my projects will involve abusing technology to construct a Genesis song solely out of Belgian Waffles samples(yes,they hate prog too). Perhaps another will be a hip hop song made out of Indoor Boy bits.(I already consider Indoor Boy to be prog,so it would be pointless to reassemble them back into it). Do you know how I can contact Negativland?
Thank you,
John A Knight

We totally should, dude.
mns[at]-remove-selfreferentiallab.com - raleigh, north cakalak
9Jun2003 8:10 PM (6 years 276 days ago)
A reunion to end all reunions.

Plastic Bono Band
janxd[at]-remove-yahoo.com - janxville
26May2003 7:56 AM (6 years 290 days ago)
ANY PLANS ON TOURING THE BIBLE BELT THIS SUMMER?

audio streams/downloads, the artist's subjection
*Last Perfect Day*	mp3	Brian Wilson melodies abound (or something).. Featuring dreamy guitar sample from the Jazz Butcher tune Rosemary Davies World Of Sound, and a studio drum loop from Poi Dog Pondering's Frank Orrall.
*Orbit*	mp3	A Big Ballad. Jessica called it the Radio Tune.
*O Danny Boy*	mp3	This was the first piece recorded as the Sharp/Whittemore Vergiftung duo. Yes.. This is indeed a 21 minute piece. All improvised and multitracked under the influence of drunken inspiration. We think it is still quite enjoyable for those who appreciate such things.
*Lost In Her Head*	mp3	Country & western disco pop. Amazing what you can do by bouncing tracks between 2 DAT machines and overdubbing simultaneously. Recorded in one evening. Brady sings to a hat stand. Delightful slide-guitar work by Martin Stebbing.
*Audrey Hepburn*	mp3	Big Happy Beat-y. Lyrics by The Belgian Waffles. Tune by Sharp/Whittemore. Bassline sample from the original Belgian Waffles version. "Grunge" guitar by Roman Candle's Don Baker.
*C'est Bon*	mp3	Dortmunder beer rules
*Club Entropy*	mp3	You'll never guess where the string sample came from.
*Girlfriend*	mp3	No one seems to like this song but me, and I think it rocks. Brady's hopelessly hopeless vocal stylings crack me up on this one. The whimpy guitar isn't bad, either.
*Resolution*	mp3	Ambient, instrumental. At volume, this one can rip your bowels open. A beautiful, moody, self-contained dream world. I hope you enjoy it.
*Among The Ruins*	mp3	Introspective, sensitive guy ballad. I like the reverbed kick that sounds like a heartbeat.
*I'll Take Vermont*	mp3	Bowie, or something.
*The Chux Of Luv*	mp3	From the now infamous National Soil Erosion Sound Laboratory recording sessions. The payback is in the subtle details.
*Cicero and Devon*	mp3	A bastardization, years after the fact, of a simple geetar strumming whimsy. Features the lovely Signals from the Planet A.M. and a deliberately amateurish jungle drum loop.
*Moon River*	mp3	Deep experimentation adlib between Whittemore and Sharp. You've been warned.
*The Sandwichmaker*	mp3	Brady is lost in the kitchen.
*Shindig* Live	mp3	Groovy
*Urgent/Aid*	mp3	Straight-up tech-disco
*Lake Effect Snow*	mp3	Swirly
*Actually, It Occurred To Me*	mp3	Matt Sharp accosts Ms Hollingsworth's answering machine late at night. Worth waiting around for the end.
*Maggots*	mp3	Matt Sharp, Jody Long and I try my neighbor's patience.
*So Sue Us*	mp3	Matt Sharp and I bastardize some samples of the Purdue pacifist band Icemakers Of The Revolution. This was a limited-edition release on re-used cassettes that sold for 33 cents (after tax). The Icemakers were perplexed. As you probably will be.
*Whale*	mp3	Justified ambient disco epic.
*Why?*	mp3	Damnit! Outta My Head!
*Filth*	mp3	Brady crucifies a Black Eg tune.
*Pepto Bismol*	mp3	Sick, confused
*The Beer Song*	mp3	Bell-like sounds from playing samples past their range.
*(Dis)Continuity*	mp3	Matt and I (or was it Jody), probably drunk (see?), improvising on dueling samplers
*Carrie Newcomer (On The Rack)*	mp3	A 2-second voice sample of Carrie Newcomer, stepped-through veeerrryyy sssslllloooowwwwlllyyyy.
*Darling Nikki*	mp3	My adopted son Jody sings the Prince song through pitch shifters.
*Pluto*	mp3	An adaptation of the M, Walking On The Water tune.
*Shindig (original)*	mp3	Timothy Leary raps to a nice 10-bar loop.
*Stepping Out*	mp3	My adopted son Jody pretends he has a diva's viking hat on and sings the Joe Jackson song.
*Up Around Devon*	mp3	Noise. And lots of it.
*Whale (Studio)*	mp3	A now-wiped version of Whale as recorded onto 2" tape.
*Von Dammerung Revenge*	mp3	In 1992, Pat Fish was accosting me with Black Eg cassettes, so I decided to retaliate a bit. This is a massive, 23-minute, 30Meg free-form composition.
*I've Lost My Hold (live)*	mp3	28Sep1991, multi-band end-of-summer event sponsored by Von's Records of West Lafayette, IN. This is a killer Matt Sharp composition, which completely blew away anything done by the disco fag band which played after us.
*Pluto (live)*	mp3	28Sep1991, a live version of Pluto, with Jody mixing his wacky cassettes and John Davison playing live drums.
*My Funny Valentine (live)*	mp3	28Sep1991, a John Davison/Matt Sharp arrangement of the classic, based around a vocal sample of Frank Sinatra. We had technical difficulties towards the end of this song. I've edited out most of the buzzing but left in a bit at the tail end for those who like noise. Mmmm.
older encodings, lower quality
*Duck*	mpa .83M	What can you say? Ha Ha Ha.
*Pluto* Live	mp3	Old! Ambient!
*Perpetually Thursday* Live	mpa .56M	Dance. Nice lyrics, too.
*Whale* Live	mpa 2.2M	Justified ambient disco epic.
*My Darling Darjeeling*	mpa 1.1M	Sheep!
*Arvo Party*	mpa 2.3M	It ain't pop - Adlib sound collage.
*Brian Counts*	mpa 1.1M	Wilson in full effect
*Polka Dots*	mpa 1.7M	Brady needs a date
*The Gravity Of Sound*	mpa 1.6M	Sweet, confused
		Vergiftung were: Matt Sharp David Whittemore Brady Branam John Davison Jody Long Martin Stebbing and their guests - sampled or otherwise.