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Matt Ashare | Matt Ashare<blockquote>'''Red Krayola: Still on the Fringe''' | ||
It's taken Mayo Thompson, the mercurial leader and only steady member of the Red Krayola, almost three decades to mount a full-fledged US tour for his band, a tour that made its first stop at the Middle East on January 4. Backed by burly George Hurley, the dextrous drummer of Minutemen/fIREHOSE fame, and flanked by two other able guitarists — Gastr del Sol's David Grubbs and Slovenly's Tom Watson — Thompson steered a haphazard course through a dozen and a half twisted tunes that probably only a dozen and a half rock archivists in the world own on vinyl — songs as sketchy and convoluted as the Red Krayola's history. | |||
What? You've never heard of the Red Krayola? Well, nobody's going to downgrade your hip-music credentials for that particular transgression. When it comes to obscurity, Thompson's truly in a league of his own. Until very recently the Red Krayola were nothing more than footnote to a footnote in the book of rock history. | |||
Thompson founded the band in Houston in 1966 with Frederick Barthelme, who went on to become better known as a novelist. The early Red Crayola — then spelled with a copyright-infringing "C" — explored the outer fringes of whacked-out psychedelia and free-form noise on 1967's ''Parable of Arable Land'' and 1968's God Bless the Red Crayola (both on International Artists). Then Thompson went on his first hiatus, only to resurface on the fringes in the late '70s, where he played with and eventually joined the pioneering art-punk band Pere Ubu. He also struck up a long-lasting relationship with Rough Trade, the British label he worked for throughout the '80s as an A&R scout. He continued to make his own albums, but most of them were available only as poorly distributed imports in the US. He was better known for producing seminal punk and postpunk bands like Stiff Little Fingers, the Raincoats, the Fall, and Cabaret Voltaire.</blockquote> | |||
== Interview == | == Interview == | ||
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Photo by Eric Antonioli
Announcement
Boston Phoenix
December 12, 1994[1]
[...] And get this: Red Krayola, originally the very weirdest of the West psychedelic bands and still in an on/off existence after 27 years, hit the Middle East on their first US tour on Wednesday. Leader Mayo Thompson also played in Pere Ubu circa 1980; ex-fIREHOSEr George Hurley’s in on drums.
Listings
Boston Phoenix
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Dec 12, 1994 -
Dec 30, 1994
Reviews
Boston Phoenix
January 13, 1995[2]
Matt Ashare
Red Krayola: Still on the Fringe
It's taken Mayo Thompson, the mercurial leader and only steady member of the Red Krayola, almost three decades to mount a full-fledged US tour for his band, a tour that made its first stop at the Middle East on January 4. Backed by burly George Hurley, the dextrous drummer of Minutemen/fIREHOSE fame, and flanked by two other able guitarists — Gastr del Sol's David Grubbs and Slovenly's Tom Watson — Thompson steered a haphazard course through a dozen and a half twisted tunes that probably only a dozen and a half rock archivists in the world own on vinyl — songs as sketchy and convoluted as the Red Krayola's history.
What? You've never heard of the Red Krayola? Well, nobody's going to downgrade your hip-music credentials for that particular transgression. When it comes to obscurity, Thompson's truly in a league of his own. Until very recently the Red Krayola were nothing more than footnote to a footnote in the book of rock history.
Thompson founded the band in Houston in 1966 with Frederick Barthelme, who went on to become better known as a novelist. The early Red Crayola — then spelled with a copyright-infringing "C" — explored the outer fringes of whacked-out psychedelia and free-form noise on 1967's Parable of Arable Land and 1968's God Bless the Red Crayola (both on International Artists). Then Thompson went on his first hiatus, only to resurface on the fringes in the late '70s, where he played with and eventually joined the pioneering art-punk band Pere Ubu. He also struck up a long-lasting relationship with Rough Trade, the British label he worked for throughout the '80s as an A&R scout. He continued to make his own albums, but most of them were available only as poorly distributed imports in the US. He was better known for producing seminal punk and postpunk bands like Stiff Little Fingers, the Raincoats, the Fall, and Cabaret Voltaire.
Interview
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