the sick room records thread got me thinking about bear claw, who are one of my top eight favourite bands. however, those of you who have never heard of them may find the following fourteen facts to be quite enlightening:

14. two basses (including a tb2000) in one band are fucking awesome.
13. rob raspolich is super cute--like a seven year-old boy who one day suddenly got taller.
12. scott picco's endless wardrobe of creepy, pointless t-shirts is also endlessly entertaining--one of my favourites is the black one with a pair of glittery red cowboy boots on the front. also the one about boats. wow.
11. rich fessler has two heads.
10. rich also gets really insanely pissed off for no apparent reason during every show, and usually enjoys some type of bass mutilation at the end of any given set.
9. scott's dad put some flames on the side of their van.
8. the vistalite kit glows with a nice orange light.
7. sometimes, scott will throw bear claw pastries into the crowd, which are always thoughtfully pre-packaged in a zip-loc bag...no hostess bear claws here, it's real bakery fare.
6. the merch board is certainly festive. actually, since i taped a picture of bettie page to one of the doors on the board, it's even better.
5. the song "832" opens with great, sing-along-type lyrics: "i wanted you to DIE!"
4. usually only four people come to shows, so there's no need to worry about crowds. the last shellac show was actually sort of torturous for me in this respect because of all the goddamn retards in the crowd--however, every bear claw show is absolutely blissful. no morons taking pictures on their cell phones here, or idiots who feel compelled to repeat everything the singer just said.
3. scott is a great guy to whom you can donate cigarettes--you even get to make them for him! he never figures out how! it's like watching jackie gleason try to thread a needle.
2. they have a great record, which you may purchase from them. ten whole songs! fancy booklet! it's fairly rad.
1. no-one in the band has ever been "Hanitized".

don't you just want to go out and see Bear Claw right now? you can, next saturday (09 july) at the beat kitchen. will any of you come out? you'll wet yourself, i promise.

vy73's, jet.

We're playing with the Bear Claw in a few weeks. I'm excited.

OK, now I have a confession. I once looked up Ritchies skirt, while he was dressed in drag...I liked what I saw.

there's an mp3 of Bear Claw in the link in my signature line. it's still there, i just stopped mentioning the "Bear Claw"ness of it, cause i say so much stupid shit, and having their name that close to my stupid shit, i just felt wrong about that. but if you wanna hear a live Bear Claw track, there ya go.

and hell yeah, they freakin rock.

My band was supposed to play with Bearclaw. They led us on like a bunch of catholic girls on prom night. The future looked so good and then they stopped emailing us, and now I weep everynight at the thought of what could have been.

If anyone talks to bearclaw, tell them that Adam from Measured In Angles said they owe me back payments in child support.

15. They have this bizarre silly-ass dance-pop side project that rules.
16. When we partied with them in Carbondale 2 years ago it was a blast and a half, except that i was really sick and threw my cymbal stand in the river. (Yes, these are connected somehow)

Thanks for the kind words... just wanted to offer two links

The bizarre silly-ass dance-pop side project known as Hot & Heavy

http://www.hotandheavy.humanloser.com

A picture of me in my boots shirt that Jet loves so much...

http://www.bearclawrock.com/pictures%20 ... ttle07.htm

Thanks again...

Scott

i just got the record yesterday in the mail and it's pretty good. Ive only made it through once.

Drums + Studio B = !

michaeltheangryrussian wrote:Drums + Studio B = !

At some point, Studio B -- and Electrical Audio itself -- should be listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The drum sounds of Studio B! So great!

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where can I get a copy of your guy's stuff?