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My Hometown Hamilton Ontario had a band with a tragic story , Teenage Head, they we're on the cusp of making it in the U.S market but a car accident derailed they're plans
I seen them at the Big Day Out Festival in Atlanta with Blind Melon, they came on after Blind Melon though, Blind Melon were the main band I wanted to see but unfortunately I got there late and they were just starting their last song of their set when I got there"Time"...I could hear Shannon going into that chant as I was walking through the gates and when I made it to the lawn I heard Shannon say "Thank you Atlanta we had a great time" and that broke my heart, especially when Shannon died on my 19th birthday just months later and I realized I would never get the chance to see them again but I got to see The Ramones and Tripping Daisy and some other great bands that day so I'm Grateful for that at least
@@thegeorgiacreekwalker491 that's a great story! Mine would be kinda missing out on Nirvana. They were due to play in March '94 in London. I had tickets but got into serious trouble at school and my folks took the ticket away from me saying that as punishment I couldn't go. Long story short is they never came back to London and the gig never happened due to the Italian incident. I was heart broken in knowing that I wouldn't get to see them one last time. I still have that ticket.
@@toughlifevirgina that really sucks, I feel your pain lol, at least I got to hear Blind Melon perform one song and I got alot of great memories from the same venue, I seen Metallica there when I was 15 with Faith No More opening up, it was my first concert and one of the Greatest Nights Of My Life, Memories I'll Cherish Forever🤘
I grew up with Ben Curtis...he was a fantastic drummer. He was the kind of musician who could pick up any instrument and within a short period of time mastered it. I watched him do this with the drums and I will never forget that time of my life, young as I was. He was an inspiration to me musically speaking. Before Tripping Daisy, he was in a band in Dallas called UFOFU with his brother and to get in the band, they wanted him to play the James Brown live album “Love, Power, & Peace” start to finish. He was 13 years old at the time. Within a very short period of time, he knew that album inside and out. Awesome.
I’ve always said how blessed I was growing up in the mid 90’s as a high schooler and witnessing the greatest decade in music. From bones thug and harmony, to nirvana, smashing pumpkins, and locally: tripping daisy, toadies, the Nixon’s, pantera, etc. what a time to be alive.
Thank you for making this video. Deep Ellum was my 2nd home back in the 90s. I miss the local scene of bands like Ten Hands, The Nixons, and The Toadies. To me, it can never be replicated.
I agree wholeheartedly except for one thing -- the creativity, the sprawling song structures, the lovingly recorded sounds are all amazing; I just wish it had better mastering; Howie Weinberg basically brickwalled this. It deserves a lot more dynamic range. I can't remember if there was ever a vinyl reissue (that would doubtless have much better dynamic range just because of how records work if nothing else).
As a child in Dallas during the 90s my dad was close friends with Bryan the drummer. Even roomed together. As a kid I looked up to Bryan so much so that I am a drummer today. Tripping Daisy holds a close spot to my heart. Cool to see them pop up on my feed.
I grew up in the DFW area and started at UNT in fall of 1993, so this band was big in my life. I bought (and still own) the Bill original release and of course own everything they did. Love JHLtAB -- it's in my top 20 Desert Island Discs (but it does deserve to be remastered for much better dynamic range). I saw TD about six times I believe, including an amazing show at Rick's Place on Fry Street (loved to sit up on the balcony seating and watch from above). Was gutted in late 1999. It's always kinda bothered me that people think "I Got a Girl" when they think TD. It's got to be close to the bottom in terms of goodness of all the material on their four main albums...
I met Wes at a show Tripping Daisy did in Phoenix, AZ when they opened for Def Leppard. My dad was dating his aunt at the time and he gave us tickets to the show. We visited a bit in his trailer before the show and I was able to thank him for the tickets. He was so nice. This video brought back great memories!
Hey! Thanks for doing this video! I love me some Tripping Daisy! I really appreciate these little deep dives into the perhaps more obscure bands from my formative years. Loving anything about Primus and Ween.
I still remember being 7 with my 17 year old sister driving a 1984 Crown Vic Station wagon in the summer of 1995. Every day we would turn on the radio and listen to I Got a Girl and laugh at the lyrics. That song got heavy airplay on local rock stations!
I seen Tripping Daisy twice at Chicago Metro and it was because was a huge fan and bought tickets. Man they had some energy. I still play their albums on the regular. RIP Wes ill never forget the shows and you on stage.
I was only familiar with Elastic Firecracker. After watching this I went and listened to Jesus Hits and holy shit, Delaughter isn’t wrong. This album IS amazing. What a damn shame it never made a mark.
Good job. I'm from Texas and knew these guys well once apon a time. Toured around playing with them and other texas legends but they were different than any others. Thanks for the memories my friend. Good show!
Found out after the spotless mind soundtrack came out the main vocals sounded to similar I remember going down a rabbit hole to find that out back then was fun.
Man, thanks for capturing a moment from my teenage years. As a DFW native, I feel like you recapped this moment from the 90s. You did an impeccable job with the video. I hope this video lives on for some time.
Bill was a CD I took with me everywhere in the early 90s. I have family in the Dallas area who heard of them when they first started to get hype. They bought the CD and brought it home. I kinda borrowed it forever. Loved their sound. Surprisingly enough I've never heard any of their other albums....I should get around to that
My band opened up for them sometime around 1992, I think, in Providence RI at Club Hell. They were good, it was a small club, might have been their first national tour. I remember they had overhead projectors like we use to have at school to show papers and other things close up and they had two of them side by side and showed images on them and liquid blobs while they played. It was pretty cool and unique for a club band. Really nice guys too, very down to earth. Overall a very memorable experience. Sad to hear their guitarist died.
Jesus Hits Like the Atom Bomb is to the 1990’s what Pet Sounds or Revolver was to the 1960’s, it’s a shame it didn’t get the credit it deserved and is the most overlooked album to come out during that time IMO.
Thanks for posting this video. I'm going to revisit Tripping Daisy now. I saw them in Boise, ID in the 90's at Bogies. I had no idea, until now, that I also witnessed the frontman of Polyphonic Spree! That's double cool!
That weird beautiful creepy depression you experience after listening to I am an Elastic Firecracker (sans I Got a Girl) is some Gen X stuff, though, isn't it?
I got a girl may have been the catchiest song on the c.d but I thought it was the weakest...the c.d is one of my favorite of all time...every song is awesome. I wish they were known for more then just got a girl.
Wow what a flash back Loved Tripping Daisy's. Saw them at Trees and all over Deep Ellum . My cousins band Hagfish got a deal about the same time they did. The scene in Dallas in the early late 80s early 90s was awesome. Slow Roosevelt , The Toadies , Hagfish , Tripping Daisy's, Brutal Juice , Billy Goat , Drowning Pool, Dead Horse, Damaged Faith oh yeah and Pantera !!!! I miss it, Deep Ellum ain't the same . Trees is the only rock club left . Its all hippster shit now.
@@panicswitch1028Right On !!,, zach the guitarist from Hagfish and Mike Wiebe and Rob Merchant from Riverboat Gamblers have a new band called Drakulas. They got 3 albums out , I highly suggest you check them out.
Yep, Deep Ellum in the 90’s was the scene, and Trees was the core. In addition to local bands, Trees hosted everyone from the Radiohead to Nirvana back in the day. Well….Nirvana played part of a show before it went downhill. Of course you also had the lower Greenville scene with the Granada and the Basement. Plus, all the acts at the Bronco Bowl…. 90’s were a great time to be in Dallas.
@@texanbill6032 yeah Lower Greenville was definitely the spot before Deep Ellum I lived just down the road from the basement at Forest & Greenville. Saw Pantera there quite a few times plus COC , and Prong. Metallica at the Arcadia Theater on Lower Greenville in 84 that was my first time on Greenville I had just moved to Dallas. Good times back then. Deep Ellum and Lower Greenville are just full of hipsters and fuvk heads now.
I saw tripping Daisy's in 1998 I. Fort worth near TCU and later, Benjamin curtis would be in one of my favorite bands of all time: school of seven Bells
Just to add a bit of history. Tripping Daisy's last show with Wes was the 1999 Melodica Festival in Fort Worth, TX. It was at the Ridglea Theater in Fort Worth, TX. It was the end of an era that saw a ton of music come from the ashes of that great band. Jesus Hits Like the Atom Bomb was a revelation for DFW music. Produced by Eric Drew Feldman and TD adding the drummer Ben Curtis (RIP) from the amazing Dallas band UFOFU, was incredible. I was 19 when that album dropped and we all LOVED it, it inspired a ton of bands from the area.
One of my favorite bands. All 4 albums are so good and yet different from each other. And Wes was such a great guitarist; just listen to the song "Prick"...such a sad loss.
That solo may be my all-time favorite. He absolutely shreds, and the entire song captures the message of what they are trying to describe of the highs and lows of the subject matter.
Wes took me to Malakoff high school right before we were married. He also showed me the house he grew up in. It's beautiful there in east texas. Wes was a good man. He had a pure soul. I miss him terribly.
First - Thank you, RN'RTS for wrapping up a video in under 10 minutes. Sometimes, there's just 8:11 to say about a topic and WAY too much of RUclips these days sees that 8:11 over a 10:11 video. Second, I was peaking in my teenage embrace of Rock music in 1995. I Got A Girl is a thick cut of grade A Pop that sort of stuck out in 1995. I bought the album. It ended up becoming one of my most-listened to albums of my teenage years. Jesus Hits Like The Atom Bomb also ended up getting heavy rotation, too. About 5 years ago, I spent a week on the interstates with no real destination in mind, just going to Cincinnati because I've never seen Cincinnati types of things. i remember crossing the mountains of West Virginia (taking my dog, Brier, to his namesake Greenbrier Resort) rocking Elastic Firecracker front to end and experiencing such joy. Such a brilliant record, and it still absolutely smacks. Front to end.
Funny story... Back in the early 90s in Memphis, Tn there was this world famous punk club called The Antenna. On the very last day of operations, Tripping Daisy & a band from NC called The Drag played the final show. My best friend & I are locals & just so happened to be tripping nuts & our friend that worked the door told us to come by for the show. IT WAS AHHHMAZING!!! After the show we invited the bands to stay at our place as we often did. Tripping Daisy declined but The Drag came along for the ride! (We dosed the entire band.) On the way out of the club at the end of the night, we rode with The Drag in their van while Tripping Daisy rode off in theirs. We had a bottle rocket fight between the 2 vans until we parted ways. It was a fucking blast!!! Great memories!!! This band was great!!!
As a lifeling Dallasite its lovely to see this video about a unique and tragic but ultimately beautiful part of dallas' music history. Im a little too young (mid 30s) to have been involved in the early days, but when i got to high school ployphonic spree was beginning and good records had been established.
It's crazy, I was gonna suggest them to you a few days ago, I seen them at the Big Day Out Festival in Atlanta in the 90s and they were Great Live, I always loved their music but didn't know anything about them behind the scenes and that's why I love your videos, I believe we grew up in the Greatest era of music ever for anyone who lived through this era I think most would agree, you're keeping that era alive and turning the youngster's on to these Gems, I've tried to turn my nephews and nieces on to all the music I grew up on but they haven't been that receptive, my 20 year old nephew asked me the other day if I've ever heard that song "Smells Like Teen Spirit"??😀😀...I was disappointed in him lol but on the other hand I was like maybe there's still hope for him, I missed alot of your uploads but I'm gonna go back and binge one of these days and catch up on all of them, I wanna make some suggestions now but you may have already have covered them and I missed it so I'm gonna go back through and check out your catalog, Thanks For The Uploads
There was nothing like it, before or since, in Dallas during the late 80' and 90s. Lower Greenville, Deep Ellum, being at UNT and heading into town on a Wednesday night at 2 in the morning to watch Tripping Daisy, Bowling for Soup, or any of the dozens of non-signed bands at Trees or The Bomb Factory. I miss it a little bit.
This is great to see. I met Tim a couple years back at the record store he owns, good records. Cool guy. I got a copy of Jesus hits from good records this year. If you call them you might be able to get a vinyl copy as it just got re issues this year. Tim was a nice guy, told me to watch the movie Echo in the canyon.”
Another great vid! And this is the first time I've noticed a face reveal, always good to put a face to a voice i've listened to for quite some time now.
You should do a story on the original texas psychedelic band 13th floor elevators and Roky Erickson. He ended up in a psychiatric facility for possession of marijuana and had his brain fried from electric shock therapy
I have a vague recollection that he did a video on Roky Erickson a while ago. If anyone likes lyrics that sound like mystery school teachings listen to "Slip Inside This House" by the 13th Floor Elevators. I love that song. Then again, I used to eat acid like beer nuts back in the day.
I was at UNT with these dudes LOL! They lived in West Hall and would crank up during Power Hour crammed into a dorm room. They put on a few shows in the cafeteria and the trippy gel light show started there!
Same here! Mark and Wes would jam with my roommate singer there at West, along with drummer John Kirtland who went on to play in Deep Blue Something. I remember that first West Hall cafeteria show, and plenty of gigs at Rick's soon after! Great college memories.
Finally caught this. Not sure if anybody has mentioned it already, but DeLaughter also put out a record as part of a band called Preteen Zenith, which is quite good.
I remember my dad (r i p) mentioning this band seeing them live opening up for the Scorpions I think? and the lead singer came out in a crazy cat in the hat outfit and said he'd remember it being pretty memorable!
Being a texas boy I appreciate this alot although idk that I would say they were one of two bands from dfw we had the nixons, the toadies, tripping daisy, the reverend horton heat, butthole surfers, eddie brickel and the new bohemians, and so many more but nonetheless great story you should do a toadies or RHH story or the night eddie brickel jumped onstage with the new bohemians and started riffing on stage and created what I am. Also I gave a great reverend horton heat story if your interested.
Wes went to my HS, graduated a few years ahead of me, and there is still a scholarship out there in his honor, ran by his family I believe. Such a loss of greatness.
Idk if you've ever done any videos on "Drivin N Cryin"? But that would be Great if you did, I seen them a few summers ago and they were still fantastic, as a Georgia Native definitely one of my favorite bands to come out of here, Thanks Again For The Uploads✌
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My Hometown Hamilton Ontario had a band with a tragic story , Teenage Head, they we're on the cusp of making it in the U.S market but a car accident derailed they're plans
Rusted Root.
Soul Asylum
Very underrated band. Elastic Firecracker is pretty much all killer no filler.
Word. It's deffo one of my 'desert island albums'.
I love it. Such a good album.
Saw them at Numbers in Houston in like 1993/94 with my girlfriend at the time (she loved them and introduced them to me)
One of those bands that made no sense in making it big. Like Irvin go from l.a.
Absolutely agree with this. Every couple years I listen to that album all the way through, and it never loses its magic. Totally brilliant!
I saw Tripping Daisy open for Blind Melon in London '94. Phenomenal show and bands!
LUCKY!!!!
I seen them at the Big Day Out Festival in Atlanta with Blind Melon, they came on after Blind Melon though, Blind Melon were the main band I wanted to see but unfortunately I got there late and they were just starting their last song of their set when I got there"Time"...I could hear Shannon going into that chant as I was walking through the gates and when I made it to the lawn I heard Shannon say "Thank you Atlanta we had a great time" and that broke my heart, especially when Shannon died on my 19th birthday just months later and I realized I would never get the chance to see them again but I got to see The Ramones and Tripping Daisy and some other great bands that day so I'm Grateful for that at least
@@thegeorgiacreekwalker491 that's a great story! Mine would be kinda missing out on Nirvana. They were due to play in March '94 in London. I had tickets but got into serious trouble at school and my folks took the ticket away from me saying that as punishment I couldn't go. Long story short is they never came back to London and the gig never happened due to the Italian incident. I was heart broken in knowing that I wouldn't get to see them one last time. I still have that ticket.
Good shit, mate! Blind Melon was the absolute BEST
@@toughlifevirgina that really sucks, I feel your pain lol, at least I got to hear Blind Melon perform one song and I got alot of great memories from the same venue, I seen Metallica there when I was 15 with Faith No More opening up, it was my first concert and one of the Greatest Nights Of My Life, Memories I'll Cherish Forever🤘
Elastic Firecracker is an incredible sounding album. Still stands up today. Amazing production and songwriting.
I grew up with Ben Curtis...he was a fantastic drummer. He was the kind of musician who could pick up any instrument and within a short period of time mastered it. I watched him do this with the drums and I will never forget that time of my life, young as I was. He was an inspiration to me musically speaking. Before Tripping Daisy, he was in a band in Dallas called UFOFU with his brother and to get in the band, they wanted him to play the James Brown live album “Love, Power, & Peace” start to finish. He was 13 years old at the time. Within a very short period of time, he knew that album inside and out. Awesome.
UFOFU's lone album is so, so good.
I’ve always said how blessed I was growing up in the mid 90’s as a high schooler and witnessing the greatest decade in music. From bones thug and harmony, to nirvana, smashing pumpkins, and locally: tripping daisy, toadies, the Nixon’s, pantera, etc. what a time to be alive.
amen to that
I was in a very unknown band with Mark, he’s a fantastic person
@Steve A nope I wish lol. I was in a project that came after while he played in the Polyphonic
I remember the first time I heard I got a girl. It was amazing. A couple other songs I really enjoyed by them were Raindrop and Jump In the Fire.
Dude it's awesome to finally put a face to the voice we've been used to for so long. Coo stuff man
It was actually jarring. I thought the voice was of some college aged kid, not a full grown man.
Thank you for making this video. Deep Ellum was my 2nd home back in the 90s. I miss the local scene of bands like Ten Hands, The Nixons, and The Toadies. To me, it can never be replicated.
Thanks for always picking up the most unique stories and bands.
I went to college with Brian Wakeland. Talented dude! Drums, percussion, piano, vocals, sense of humor.
"Jesus hits like the atom bomb" is one of the best albums ever. Listen to it now!
i love that album. it’s my personal favorite
Whoa slowdown i mean it’s your opinion, but that’s a little bit of a stretch.
I came here to express my love for Jesus Hits like the Atom Bomb. It is fantastic!
I agree wholeheartedly except for one thing -- the creativity, the sprawling song structures, the lovingly recorded sounds are all amazing; I just wish it had better mastering; Howie Weinberg basically brickwalled this. It deserves a lot more dynamic range. I can't remember if there was ever a vinyl reissue (that would doubtless have much better dynamic range just because of how records work if nothing else).
That album was and still is a great album. It deserves more praise.
As a child in Dallas during the 90s my dad was close friends with Bryan the drummer. Even roomed together. As a kid I looked up to Bryan so much so that I am a drummer today. Tripping Daisy holds a close spot to my heart. Cool to see them pop up on my feed.
Awesome story, man! Keep going and rocking!
I grew up in the DFW area and started at UNT in fall of 1993, so this band was big in my life. I bought (and still own) the Bill original release and of course own everything they did. Love JHLtAB -- it's in my top 20 Desert Island Discs (but it does deserve to be remastered for much better dynamic range). I saw TD about six times I believe, including an amazing show at Rick's Place on Fry Street (loved to sit up on the balcony seating and watch from above). Was gutted in late 1999.
It's always kinda bothered me that people think "I Got a Girl" when they think TD. It's got to be close to the bottom in terms of goodness of all the material on their four main albums...
JHLtAB is a tragically underrated record
My old college buddies. Damn good times in little D back in those days with tons of great bands, excellent musicians, and amazing people!
I saw them open for Def Leppard in 1996. They were actually the first band I ever saw on stage.
I saw them on this tour too! Middletown, NY. We just went to see them and we weren’t disappointed! Unforgettable and wonderful ❤
Thanks for this video. I thought everyone forgot about this band and Polyphonic Spree. They’re so underrated.
I met Wes at a show Tripping Daisy did in Phoenix, AZ when they opened for Def Leppard. My dad was dating his aunt at the time and he gave us tickets to the show. We visited a bit in his trailer before the show and I was able to thank him for the tickets. He was so nice. This video brought back great memories!
Saw them back in 95. Elastic Firecracker is still a classic to me. Some of the songs are heavy af.
Hey! Thanks for doing this video! I love me some Tripping Daisy!
I really appreciate these little deep dives into the perhaps more obscure bands from my formative years.
Loving anything about Primus and Ween.
Ween
I still remember being 7 with my 17 year old sister driving a 1984 Crown Vic Station wagon in the summer of 1995. Every day we would turn on the radio and listen to I Got a Girl and laugh at the lyrics. That song got heavy airplay on local rock stations!
Thanks for doing this one,love your content. Sonic Bloom is still one of my favorite songs of all time, it means alot to my wife and I.
Top ten favorite bands of all time for me. I'm so shocked you did this video but thank you. Today was hard u made it a bit better.
I seen Tripping Daisy twice at Chicago Metro and it was because was a huge fan and bought tickets. Man they had some energy. I still play their albums on the regular. RIP Wes ill never forget the shows and you on stage.
I was only familiar with Elastic Firecracker. After watching this I went and listened to Jesus Hits and holy shit, Delaughter isn’t wrong. This album IS amazing. What a damn shame it never made a mark.
Waited a light year might be my favorite song ever.
My heart still breaks for Tim and the rest...Wes was amazing.
Saw the Polyphonic Spree opening for David Bowie in 2004... Epic night.
Good job. I'm from Texas and knew these guys well once apon a time. Toured around playing with them and other texas legends but they were different than any others. Thanks for the memories my friend. Good show!
I had no idea he formed polyphonic spree. Thanks 😊
Same.
Came here to say the same thing
The track, Hold Me Now.
Found out after the spotless mind soundtrack came out the main vocals sounded to similar I remember going down a rabbit hole to find that out back then was fun.
The performed on a episode of scrubs.
Man, thanks for capturing a moment from my teenage years. As a DFW native, I feel like you recapped this moment from the 90s. You did an impeccable job with the video. I hope this video lives on for some time.
Bill was a CD I took with me everywhere in the early 90s. I have family in the Dallas area who heard of them when they first started to get hype. They bought the CD and brought it home. I kinda borrowed it forever. Loved their sound. Surprisingly enough I've never heard any of their other albums....I should get around to that
Love these stories man! I’m living proof that you’re listening to the fan’s request. Keep up the good work!
My best friend and bandmate would die exactly 8 years after Wes did, on 10/27/07. RIP Dirty Ernie. RIP Wes
Thanks
Jesus Hit Like an Atom Bomb (Tripping Daisy) and Fantastic Planet (Failure) are two of the best LP's ever!
It’s not even their best album tho
Are you me?
My band opened up for them sometime around 1992, I think, in Providence RI at Club Hell. They were good, it was a small club, might have been their first national tour. I remember they had overhead projectors like we use to have at school to show papers and other things close up and they had two of them side by side and showed images on them and liquid blobs while they played. It was pretty cool and unique for a club band. Really nice guys too, very down to earth. Overall a very memorable experience. Sad to hear their guitarist died.
Jesus Hits Like the Atom Bomb is to the 1990’s what Pet Sounds or Revolver was to the 1960’s, it’s a shame it didn’t get the credit it deserved and is the most overlooked album to come out during that time IMO.
Agreed. I bought it the day it came out.
I concur ❤
Thanks for posting this video. I'm going to revisit Tripping Daisy now. I saw them in Boise, ID in the 90's at Bogies. I had no idea, until now, that I also witnessed the frontman of Polyphonic Spree! That's double cool!
That weird beautiful creepy depression you experience after listening to I am an Elastic Firecracker (sans I Got a Girl) is some Gen X stuff, though, isn't it?
This band was psychotically popular in Texas during the 90s. It sucks they got caught up in that Seagrams nonsense.
I got a girl may have been the catchiest song on the c.d but I thought it was the weakest...the c.d is one of my favorite of all time...every song is awesome. I wish they were known for more then just got a girl.
So much
Blown away
I saw Polyphonic Spree in NYC 2003. Absolutely great show.
I adore Tim, and Tripping Daisy. I played them on Dallas radio a lot.
My band opened for these guys on their first national tour. All I remember is the bass player was a really nice guy and we shared the same hometown.
Wow what a flash back Loved Tripping Daisy's. Saw them at Trees and all over Deep Ellum . My cousins band Hagfish got a deal about the same time they did. The scene in Dallas in the early late 80s early 90s was awesome. Slow Roosevelt , The Toadies , Hagfish , Tripping Daisy's, Brutal Juice , Billy Goat , Drowning Pool, Dead Horse, Damaged Faith oh yeah and Pantera !!!! I miss it, Deep Ellum ain't the same . Trees is the only rock club left . Its all hippster shit now.
I was just listening to Hagfish a couple days ago.
@@panicswitch1028Right On !!,, zach the guitarist from Hagfish and Mike Wiebe and Rob Merchant from Riverboat Gamblers have a new band called Drakulas. They got 3 albums out , I highly suggest you check them out.
Yep, Deep Ellum in the 90’s was the scene, and Trees was the core.
In addition to local bands, Trees hosted everyone from the Radiohead to Nirvana back in the day. Well….Nirvana played part of a show before it went downhill.
Of course you also had the lower Greenville scene with the Granada and the Basement.
Plus, all the acts at the Bronco Bowl….
90’s were a great time to be in Dallas.
@@texanbill6032 yeah Lower Greenville was definitely the spot before Deep Ellum I lived just down the road from the basement at Forest & Greenville. Saw Pantera there quite a few times plus COC , and Prong. Metallica at the Arcadia Theater on Lower Greenville in 84 that was my first time on Greenville I had just moved to Dallas. Good times back then. Deep Ellum and Lower Greenville are just full of hipsters and fuvk heads now.
I miss those days. Trees was my favorite venue to watch bands. Great place 👌
I saw tripping Daisy's in 1998 I. Fort worth near TCU and later, Benjamin curtis would be in one of my favorite bands of all time: school of seven Bells
School of seven bells where super good. Benjamin really was a master at that spacey/layered with effects guitar style that I just love.
In 1996 I won tickets from the Austin Public access channel to go see them. Tripping Daisy's opened for Def Leopard at the Southpark Meadows. Epic.
Just to add a bit of history. Tripping Daisy's last show with Wes was the 1999 Melodica Festival in Fort Worth, TX. It was at the Ridglea Theater in Fort Worth, TX. It was the end of an era that saw a ton of music come from the ashes of that great band. Jesus Hits Like the Atom Bomb was a revelation for DFW music. Produced by Eric Drew Feldman and TD adding the drummer Ben Curtis (RIP) from the amazing Dallas band UFOFU, was incredible. I was 19 when that album dropped and we all LOVED it, it inspired a ton of bands from the area.
One of my favorite bands. All 4 albums are so good and yet different from each other. And Wes was such a great guitarist; just listen to the song "Prick"...such a sad loss.
That solo may be my all-time favorite. He absolutely shreds, and the entire song captures the message of what they are trying to describe of the highs and lows of the subject matter.
That song is very deep and intense! I used to listen to that album constantly ❤
I went to school with Wes and his brother in Malakoff, Tx. I graduated in 1992. I think he was one year ahead of me. We loved to play tennis in Athens
Wes took me to Malakoff high school right before we were married. He also showed me the house he grew up in. It's beautiful there in east texas. Wes was a good man. He had a pure soul. I miss him terribly.
First - Thank you, RN'RTS for wrapping up a video in under 10 minutes. Sometimes, there's just 8:11 to say about a topic and WAY too much of RUclips these days sees that 8:11 over a 10:11 video.
Second, I was peaking in my teenage embrace of Rock music in 1995. I Got A Girl is a thick cut of grade A Pop that sort of stuck out in 1995. I bought the album. It ended up becoming one of my most-listened to albums of my teenage years. Jesus Hits Like The Atom Bomb also ended up getting heavy rotation, too.
About 5 years ago, I spent a week on the interstates with no real destination in mind, just going to Cincinnati because I've never seen Cincinnati types of things. i remember crossing the mountains of West Virginia (taking my dog, Brier, to his namesake Greenbrier Resort) rocking Elastic Firecracker front to end and experiencing such joy. Such a brilliant record, and it still absolutely smacks. Front to end.
Best act out of Dallas Fort Worth area was...PANTERA🎸
When I read this, the tiny guitar at the end became a little, flashy guitar lick in my mind. :D
RIP DIME
Maybe he meant "During the 90s"
But yeah, who's bigger than Pantera from Dallas?
My punk rock band played Dime's club, The Tattoo Bar a couple of times in Fort Worth in 1997. I met Dimebag once. He was a great guy.
Best Act….Pantera!
Best overall……SRV 🎸
Dang I forgot about them. Thanks for all the blasts from the past.
you're welcome! More coming!
Funny story... Back in the early 90s in Memphis, Tn there was this world famous punk club called The Antenna. On the very last day of operations, Tripping Daisy & a band from NC called The Drag played the final show. My best friend & I are locals & just so happened to be tripping nuts & our friend that worked the door told us to come by for the show. IT WAS AHHHMAZING!!! After the show we invited the bands to stay at our place as we often did. Tripping Daisy declined but The Drag came along for the ride! (We dosed the entire band.) On the way out of the club at the end of the night, we rode with The Drag in their van while Tripping Daisy rode off in theirs. We had a bottle rocket fight between the 2 vans until we parted ways. It was a fucking blast!!! Great memories!!! This band was great!!!
Thanks for letting us see you now man...the quality of your vids has gotten way way better. Happy to see your channel grow brother.
Your mini rock docs are truly excellent and I look forward to each and every one
Surprised Piranha isn't mentioned.
That track was everywhere and most possibly their best tune!!
Polyphonic Spree is worth a story, itself. The band is where St Vincent got her start.
In terms of weirdness, Polyphonic Spree makes Tripping Daisy sound like Ned Flanders.
I didn’t know that either
I didn't know ST Vincent until I watched Austin City Limits, a couple years ago. Pretty good.
Annie Clark.
I saw her play with them at the Granada and I was like “WHO IS THAT”
Polyphonic Spree is awesome and a better band, although I liked Tripping Daisy also.
Thanks for this one!! Piranhas was my favorite track from this album
Bill is still one of my all time favorite albums.
Thank you so much for this video. Told me some things I didn't know about the great underrated band.
As a lifeling Dallasite its lovely to see this video about a unique and tragic but ultimately beautiful part of dallas' music history. Im a little too young (mid 30s) to have been involved in the early days, but when i got to high school ployphonic spree was beginning and good records had been established.
I literally just met Tim’s dad last night at a bowling alley in a small town. Small world, very very crazy.
Good to see you bro. Keep up the awesome work. You keep getting better and better!
Yes!! Love this video. Been a huge fan since I found out my dad lived in the dorm across from them at UNT in Denton. Such a badass band.
I just learned of them and I am so glad you already covered them!
I got I Am An Elastic Firecracker as a present from a friend on my 13th birthday, and its still one of my favorite albums.
I met my wife at a Tripping Daisy concert in 1994 in north Texas. They were awesome in those early days.
It's crazy, I was gonna suggest them to you a few days ago, I seen them at the Big Day Out Festival in Atlanta in the 90s and they were Great Live, I always loved their music but didn't know anything about them behind the scenes and that's why I love your videos, I believe we grew up in the Greatest era of music ever for anyone who lived through this era I think most would agree, you're keeping that era alive and turning the youngster's on to these Gems, I've tried to turn my nephews and nieces on to all the music I grew up on but they haven't been that receptive, my 20 year old nephew asked me the other day if I've ever heard that song "Smells Like Teen Spirit"??😀😀...I was disappointed in him lol but on the other hand I was like maybe there's still hope for him, I missed alot of your uploads but I'm gonna go back and binge one of these days and catch up on all of them, I wanna make some suggestions now but you may have already have covered them and I missed it so I'm gonna go back through and check out your catalog, Thanks For The Uploads
You’re welcome few people suggested them
There was nothing like it, before or since, in Dallas during the late 80' and 90s. Lower Greenville, Deep Ellum, being at UNT and heading into town on a Wednesday night at 2 in the morning to watch Tripping Daisy, Bowling for Soup, or any of the dozens of non-signed bands at Trees or The Bomb Factory. I miss it a little bit.
Their self-titled, final album is a masterpiece. Go listen to it now.
They are playing tonight in Dallas at The Kessler.
I went to their concert at The Metro in 1993. Bad ass show.
This is great to see. I met Tim a couple years back at the record store he owns, good records. Cool guy. I got a copy of Jesus hits from good records this year. If you call them you might be able to get a vinyl copy as it just got re issues this year. Tim was a nice guy, told me to watch the movie Echo in the canyon.”
Another great vid! And this is the first time I've noticed a face reveal, always good to put a face to a voice i've listened to for quite some time now.
thanks
Thanks for the flashback to my freshman year.
Living in Denton at that time when Bill was released....it was huge....one through four was such a great song
You should do a story on the original texas psychedelic band 13th floor elevators and Roky Erickson. He ended up in a psychiatric facility for possession of marijuana and had his brain fried from electric shock therapy
THIS
Yes
Speaking of which, I'd recommend the documentary You're Gonna Miss Me (which is all about him and the issues he had). Sad but interesting.
I have a vague recollection that he did a video on Roky Erickson a while ago. If anyone likes lyrics that sound like mystery school teachings listen to "Slip Inside This House" by the 13th Floor Elevators. I love that song. Then again, I used to eat acid like beer nuts back in the day.
I was at UNT with these dudes LOL! They lived in West Hall and would crank up during Power Hour crammed into a dorm room. They put on a few shows in the cafeteria and the trippy gel light show started there!
Same here! Mark and Wes would jam with my roommate singer there at West, along with drummer John Kirtland who went on to play in Deep Blue Something. I remember that first West Hall cafeteria show, and plenty of gigs at Rick's soon after! Great college memories.
Finally caught this. Not sure if anybody has mentioned it already, but DeLaughter also put out a record as part of a band called Preteen Zenith, which is quite good.
One of my favorite bands on the planet! So grateful to have seen them back in 96- so amazing! RIP Wes 💔
I remember my dad (r i p) mentioning this band seeing them live opening up for the Scorpions I think? and the lead singer came out in a crazy cat in the hat outfit and said he'd remember it being pretty memorable!
Now that I watch the video it might have been Def Leppard?
It was Def Leppard fo sho! Great performance from TD ❤
Being a texas boy I appreciate this alot although idk that I would say they were one of two bands from dfw we had the nixons, the toadies, tripping daisy, the reverend horton heat, butthole surfers, eddie brickel and the new bohemians, and so many more but nonetheless great story you should do a toadies or RHH story or the night eddie brickel jumped onstage with the new bohemians and started riffing on stage and created what I am. Also I gave a great reverend horton heat story if your interested.
I lived in Dallas in the early 90’s. So many great bands!!
Didn’t expect to see you on camera! LOL great video
Best format, congratulations!
I remember the band because of "My Umbrella". Now I will catch up on them and The Polyphonic Spree.
Wes went to my HS, graduated a few years ahead of me, and there is still a scholarship out there in his honor, ran by his family I believe. Such a loss of greatness.
I use to go to their shows back in the 90's. Trees was one of my favorite venues in Dallas.
They opened for Queensryche in the 90s..Pretty good band from what I remember of that show, which isn't much lol
Queensryche..awesome band. I wish true stories would do some episodes on them.
@@stargazer4625 Operation Mindcrime is a masterpiece. Seeing them do the whole album live was nothing short of a religious experience!
@@bakstabbath I know every lyric on that album
The Toadies are rad, hope they get a vid some time if it hasn't happened yet.
Whoaaa! Not at all what I thought you would look like! Nice ta see ya!
Idk if you've ever done any videos on "Drivin N Cryin"? But that would be Great if you did, I seen them a few summers ago and they were still fantastic, as a Georgia Native definitely one of my favorite bands to come out of here, Thanks Again For The Uploads✌
Wow, I don’t want to sound over dramatic, but I’m beginning to see you peeps as the modern catalog of rock history 🤘🏼
Saw them in a club in the early/mid 90's in Seattle and they were a fantastic live act.
Blown away, my favorite song of the band.
My great uncle was Wes Bergrenn❤
These guys are the best band ever
Cool man! Nice putting a face to the Vox. Keep it up.
I heard of these guys as a kid in the 90's. Found them again when I stumbled upon "I GOT A GIRL"
Love that these guys are from Texas omg I didn't know there guitarist had passed away may he rip
Thanks for the story.
Wow, great video about a great band.