Has anyone heard of TimeBomb Records?
if you check out the webpage linked to off of sunnydayrealestate.com's new
page, you'll see that time bomb has put out records by No Knife (recent jimmy
eat world tour partners and a good band... definitely worth a listen) and
other bands like Social Distortion/Mike Ness (hate that shit but whatever).
extremely interesting that sdre signed to this label, though, it definitely
seems like a step down. I have friends who know people in No Knife and they
said Time Bomb has been really great to them, getting them their money
without delay and giving them plenty of money for touring but, then again, a
no knife tour is a LOT smaller than a sdre tour (they only had one person
along with them acting as sound man / tech support man) unlike sdre who
seemingly take along not only sound man (don't know if greg's still gonna do
that or not... hopefully he will) but also merchandiser woman (greg's wife)
and guitar tech and drum tech... a whole entourage.
how time bomb's gonna support that and then give them money to make any music
videos (something that they were seemingly interested in doing, as said in
early press for how it feels, but saying that sub pop could not fund them as
their ideas were too extravagant or something) and then support the other
bands on the label, i have no idea... i guess we'll just have to see how
this one plays out and trust that the band's not full of great musicians who
happen to be idiots when it comes to business decisions (though that wouldn't
be the first time in music history that that would have happened.)
oh, and re: greg making effects pedals for guitars and offering/advertising
that service on the list a few weeks back: i have a friend who had a pedal
made by greg and he really likes it a lot. so, if you're sick of the shitty
ass pedals dod or boss make and can't find a good, original Big Muff pedal,
i'd definitely get ahold of greg and get him to make you one.
word,
jeremy
