Drastic Measures Coming Soon + Flowers, live 1978

[genki2genki]

My boss at A&A in Kitchener would tell me not to play the Drastic Measures album. Wasn't what people wanted to hear. As if!

[ScentedNectar]

@genki2genki I find mainstream music to be painful.

Drastic Measures, on the other hand, puts me in a beautiful mood.

Check out videos I made for Prelude and Postlude, if you like. Those were the two instrumentals that the album opened and closed with.

I'm very behind in the rest of the songs, but I hope to get the other 12 songs on video soon too. Tony is going to let me use some old pictures of the band that he has saved.

[ScentedNectar]

@ScentedNectar And by the way, thinking more about that, I hate your old boss, sight unseen.

Maybe if they had let you play the album, the band would have become more than just an alternative band with a cult following.

[genki2genki]

@ScentedNectar Don't get me wrong. She was a sweetheart. I probably played that album a bit too much for her liking. But I was nice and played PiL's Metal Box when she was out. What fun those days were!

[ScentedNectar]

@genki2genki Who's PiL? Well, I'm glad that you got to play it a bit anyways. I thought you meant you weren't allowed to play it at all. :)

[dbailey62]

Terrific. Looking forward to hearing and seeing more. I saw Drastic Measures at the Edge on a handful of occasions as well as at Ontario Place where they shared the bill with the late BB Gabor and a headline act who I cannot remember right now. Hmmmm.

Now, if only I could find the CD reissue of the LP which (I might be wrong) might have included the Wild Boys tracks as well???? I think I have a cassette of Tony on CFNY's Cooking With Guests that included those songs.

[ScentedNectar]

@dbailey62 Prelude and Postlude are finally ready to upload. I want Tony to see the final versions first though, which I sent him the other day. I missed that Cooking With Guests back then. Didn't even know they were on it. I'd have loved that.

I was sad to hear about BB when I looked him up on the net a few months ago. I used Soviet Jewellery in a video I did a while back, watch?v=yqr7vlHh_4A You have to skip ahead to the 1:00 point though to get to the song.

Good music back then, eh? :)

[Skylinerealities]

A video full of pure class, much enjoyed watching.

[ScentedNectar]

@Skylinerealities Ah shucks, thank you! :)

[DustysAuntyKaren]

Great video! My best friend got me on to Drastic Measures many years ago. We went on a three week road trip across the States, and brought with us many cassettes of music to listen to. We played their tape over and over again. I love all the songs. They are "quirky-uplifting" and musically really pleasing.

[ScentedNectar]

@DustysAuntyKaren That's strange. Me and MY best friend also went on that same road trip years ago and listened to DM too. Do me and you know each other? :D

Did we bring DM tapes along in '88 too, on our shorter trip? I know for sure we did in 89, but can't remember if we had any good music with us in 88, or whether we only had that crappy "wimmyn's music" after the Michigan festival (shudder).

[ScentedNectar]

Karen just told me it was only on the 89 trip that we had it along.

[EuphoricImpact]

What a great project!!! I am looking forward to your creations. It is especially meaningful for me as I heard and performed the teaser before. I had no idea who these guys where however. At that time I listened mostly to post be-bop, bluegrass and classical.

However, one of the guys I use to perform with (it was a ska and progressive rock band) would like to do this as part of the encore set. The sax part was played by me (but on trombone) and a cat on trumpet.

[ScentedNectar]

@EuphoricImpact No way! You played a cover of Flowers? That blows my mind. Do you have any recordings of it? I'd love to hear it. :)

[EuphoricImpact]

@ScentedNectar I do not but one of my former band mates may. You never know what they have in their archives...probably on reel to reel if it has not been converted. I will call tomorrow.

[ScentedNectar]

@EuphoricImpact That would be pretty neat if they do have it. I'm still shocked over the fact that you knew and played this song. Totally unexpected. :)

[smashbeans]

i love strange punk/new wave.im looking forward to hearing Drastic Measures for my very first time,thanks peace!

[ScentedNectar]

@smashbeans Some of their stuff had a definite punk sound, like "I Feel Bad", and others were more new wave, like the "Flowers" one here, or maybe that was alternative? I get the music categories a little confused. I just call it weird, happy stuff I used to listen to back then. :)

[ScentedNectar]

@smashbeans Also, if you jump ahead to 3:57, you can hear them do the song "Flowers" live from 1978. That'll give you a taste of their music.

[smashbeans]

@ScentedNectar i actully got like 10 windows open on my computer. i wirte as the video goes along sometimes i lose of myself & post comments premature...i watched your whole video,they sound good,ill be watching the videos as they pop up in my sub box.yeah sometimes i dont know how 2 categorize music either,i just like whatever sounds good.i like alot of obscure music some popular music mostly undergroundim very open to music.movies...i like independent cinema.hollywood repackages their movies

[ScentedNectar]

@smashbeans Happens to me too. Type in a comment part way through, and then something later in the video changes something I said. :)

[Elenkhos]

Do you still have the 8-tracks...lol... sorry... you have to include pics of youself back then to... 

[ScentedNectar]

@Elenkhos In my last move, I lost an entire suitcase of old pics, including a number of me in those days. Long story. :(

I had two copies of the DM vinyl album years ago, also lost in moves with further long stories involved there. I don't know what's up with that. Bad moving luck. I think I'll stay where I am for a while. :)

[gaglamesh731]

You were a groupie at 17 :-o ?!?!?!?!

[ScentedNectar]

@gaglamesh731 At 16, actually. That's when I first moved out on my own, and where one of my roommates introduced me to Drastic Measures' music, and other music too. We lived near Maple Leaf Gardens here in Toronto, just a couple blocks from both The Edge and another place that had new wave / alt bands, Larry's Hideaway. I don't think I looked old enough to pass for drinking age, but I could almost always get into The Edge. Other places it was hit or miss.