Peter Laughner - Amphetamine

from "Take the Guitar Player for a Ride", a criminally out of print document of the Creem Magazine scribe's too-few recorded moments. Lightly copped later by Jeff Tweedy via Wilco's "Misunderstood".

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Peter Laughner
• Pere Ubu
• Creem
• Rocket From the Tombs
• Jeff Tweedy
• Wilco
• Sylvia Plath

[PyneappleExpress]

I think it's better than heroin

[BabylonAGoGo]

We need a rockumentery for all the world to know this talent.

[GermFreeAdolescents2]

hauntingly beautiful.

[hiddenfire65]

There's a better version of this done live by Rocket From the Tombs, David Thomas doing good backing vocals. It was on the Pere Ubu box.

[PopTodd]

This whole collection just digs into my soul and puts me into a daze.

So beautiful and horrifyingly sad.

R.I.P. Peter.

[1964chrissie]

@BabylonAGoGo Quality comment!!!!!!!!!!!!

[NORMLduder]

1 person has no fucking soul at all

[drdonaldmd]

See "Amphetamine - Peter Laughner" for another, previously unreleased, version of this song. Some verses are different. Acoustic guitar and reed organ arrangement...

[BabylonAGoGo]

Who's the one idiot living in his mother's basement collecting Star Wars figurines?

[Hister333]

Anybody that doesn't like this song needs to come to Winston-Salem, NC, so I can punch him in the face.

[Hister333]

@BabylonAGoGo I agree. It breaks my heart that no one knows his name. If nothing else, he wrote a song that ended up on GN'R's Spaghetti Incident, where they ruin all my favorite songs...

[RandomDetritus]

@BabylonAGoGo Him and Sean Mercer! It's like Sean dropped off the face of the planet!