An Actual Baby
We’ve been awfully busy, you know, rocking out for the past several decades… so we haven’t had
time to have any babies… but we certainly understand the plight of the parent. And so, in the spirit
of an “equal time shout-out,” directed toward all our peeps with kids, here’s a word from AN ACTUAL BABY!
Thymme Jones- piano, lead and most backing vocals, drums, trumpet,
moog, tambourine, ersatz marimba, harmonium
Dante Kester- bass
Lori LeChien- some backing vocals
Easy Listening Show (Excerpt #1)
Phil Bonnet- guitar, bass; Dylan Posa- guitar, bass; Thymme Jones- vocals, trumpet;
Jeff Libersher- guitar; Mike Greenlees- drums; Jane Bouzek- vocals; Jeb Bishop- trombone;
Jim Molina- keyboards
Sandwiched between two punk bands at Fireside Bowl (on 6/21/96), we thought for sure that
this would be the show where people would throw tomatoes at us. On the contrary: The audience
threw love at us, the most we’d been pelted with to date.
Phrogclock’s Emceeing Of A Hideout Concert
(11/24/02: Excerpt #1)
I know there’s video of this entire Hideout performance somewhere,
but for now… another board recording (and it’s a shame you can’t
hear the audience’s response). Anyway, this is the second night
of emceeing that Phrogclock conducted during his illustrious “career.”
(We’ll keep mining the archives in lieu of more contemporary phone
conversations, of which there only seems to be paucity. Or a complete
absence. Again, poor Phrogclock…)
Oh, one more thing… Don’t mind the silences: Phrogclock goes catatonic
sometimes.
Batch #1
These segments first aired in 1999 on CHEER-ACCIDENT’s long-running
(local to Chicago) television show, Cool Clown Ground. Largely featured here
is footage from a Lunar Cabaret concert in 1996 wherein experimental band,
Illusion Of Safety, “sandwiched” Thymme Jones: IOS played a 45-minute
improvisatory set which segued into Thymme performing a half-hour of piano/voice
songs, which then morphed into the second IOS performance that lasted…
who knows how long? A big part of the “who knows how long” factor was
due to the show’s complete grinding to a halt as IOS member, Kurt Griesch,
found himself engaged in a ten-minute, brutally tentative “solo” on a children’s
xylophone. Nobody in the band (including Kurt) had any idea how they got to
that point or, more importantly, how to get out of it. Following the performance,
the six-member ensemble was split right down the middle regarding the
“gladness” vs. the “ungladness” of this occurrence. Darin Gray, who still
had a 5-hour car ride back to St. Louis to look forward to that night, can
be seen right in the forefront “weighing in” on the matter via the agitation
on his face. Thymme, though firmly in the “happy it happened” camp, was
experiencing a different flavor of discomfort at that very same moment: He
desperately needed to urinate, an urge that had been present since well before
the xylophone solo even began.
Also included in this Cool Clown “batch” are … well… we won’t ruin the
surprise… or try to describe…
Balloons/G-Finger (Double Door 10/10/96)
This is pretty messy, sonically speaking, but the liveliness of this
“Trading Balloons” rendering seemed worth sharing. Also, it goes right
into “Garbage Finger,” a song/hybrid we only ever performed twice.
Phil Bonnet- guitar
Thymme Jones- drums, vocals
Jeff Libersher- guitar, vocals
Dylan Posa- bass
Though always a bit of a recluse (social mobility is limited,
literally, when you’re living in a box), Phrogclock began to
become somewhat of a “public figure,” beginning on
August 24, 2002, as he was asked to emcee a show
at “The Doctors Building” in Chicago. He then went on
to play that role several times in the next decade, and
in fact continues to give these sporadic appearances,
but this one here… this is the “board recording” of his
very first.
Nils Frykdahl- lead vocals
Jeff Libersher- guitars, bass, backing vocals
Thymme Jones- drums
Recorded by Todd Rittmann
Store bought eyes
Stock symmetry
Rehearsing curtain calls
Drinking culture
From a plastic cup
This must be art
All your scenes are dying
Try but you can’t go back
Again
A dilettante
That walks and talks like a duck
Is just a duck
All your scenes are dying
Try but they won’t grow back
Again
6/2/02 Southgate House; Newport, KY
Mr. Spoons joins in on “Track 29.” (If memory serves, he
was actually onstage for most of our set…)
Dylan Posa- bass, mouthdrums, vocals
Jamie Fillmore- guitar, vocals,
Jeff Libersher- guitar, vocals
Thymme Jones- drums, vocals
Believe it or not, this was an actual television ad for
the album Enduring The American Dream. It aired locally
in Chicago during a White Sox game in the summer of ’97.
I’m sure the White Sox fans watching at home that night
noticed a funny taste in their beer after being subjected to
this 30-second piece of creepiness. In the spirit of context-mongering,
we’ve provided a little “before and after” for the only CHEER-ACCIDENT
television commercial ever to be aired.