Canard Music

I found this practice tape from around ’92-’93 of Ultraboy. The sound quality is abysmal, so be forwarned. the impression I got from this was a young and giddy Mike Coleman. I constantly laugh at every idea I have or anybody else’s for that matter. I am somewhat annoying with my wheezing guffaws, but man I sure was enthusiastic. We all were! Kelly Shane shows us some mad drumming skills. The meshing of these bizarre styles and personalities is something to behold. What that something is. We’ll never put the finger on, but it feels right! Johnny is in the ether as usual!

 Bouquet of Bacon was our attempt to contextualize a story we heard from a drunken member of a local Tallahassee metal band. We wanted it to sound like Molly Hatchet and it kind of does, until the weird little jazz breaks. The short story is some guys were at a party and these two people paired off to go make sweet metal love. While the humping was going full throttle, these other guys burst into the room and started whipping them with fists full of raw bacon. Hence “Bouquet of Bacon” was born.

Star Spangled Boner had lyrics that we pieced together from a bunch of televangelist rantings that Kelly transcribed.

Baby’s on Fire is a Brian Eno cover given the Ultraboy treatment. I believe there is a studio version of this elsewhere on the site. This is the raw, beefed out version.

Chinese Steak is also somewhere else on the site in studio form. Here is a practice version in No-D.

Here’s where we discuss disturbing the audience. I am not proud of this.

A typical practice discussion involving Foghat. I talk about the incredible vocal/guitar interplay of Peverett and Co. The other guys go along with my tendencies.

Even Red Ryder is not spared.Lunatic Fringe. Oddly enough, this obsession continued like 13 years never happened into one of the new Ultraboy songs posted earlier.

Tupelo Honkey is what you get when a band has no new song ideas.

It only took a year to mix down and post, but due to school I ran out of time. Last summer, Kelly and Chris met here in Tallahassee to have a mini-reunion of Ultraboy. Our expectations were low as we had not played together in about 12 years. Chris in particular had given up playing music and has instead concentrated on being a professor and a daddy. However, he took it seriously and spent a lot of time getting his chops back enough to rock it one more time. We got together at the Exploding Madonna’s practice space and hashed out a couple of songs over some malt liquor. We then turned around and recorded them the next day in my studio. Things went so smoothly that we quickly wrote and recorded three extra tunes there on the spot. I hope that you enjoy them as we had an absolute blast getting back together. I think if you were familiar with Ultraboy in the past, you will agree that the chemistry is still intact. 211 Steel reserve!!! I give you:

ULTRABOY-RIDE THE FANTASY PICKLE e.p.

Letter to the Editor

Dire Diagnoses

Foaming B. Arthur

Organ Anyway

211 Steel Reserve

Trapdoor

Make sure to make yourself a cd cover!

Cover

Tray card

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These are three more hangers on from the Ultraboy archives. “Clubfoot for Men” was a tune that appeared on a split single with Gruel. Back in the day we played several shows with those local masters. “Chinese Steak” is an outtake from that session with Tommy and “Baby’s on Fire” is a Brian Eno cover from the ‘Jelvis’ sessions. I have attempted to clean these up a little. I am in the process of getting ‘Jelvis’ together. Want to give a shout out to John Barlow and his girlie Julia who we spent last week with in Chicago. We attended the Pitchfork Music festival and saw some cool bands. Werrrp! Dummmmp! Petaaaannng!

This song was an outtake from Jelvis. While it is rocking, my vocal is less intelligible than usual. Anyway, I remember us playing the shit out of this opening for Ween at the Downunder in 1992. A guy busted his head open at that show.

Maltos Veteran

This is the “Jellymitt” ep and consists of some of the first stuff we had. This ep was well received. I know Flipside magazine hated it. Saying that it was as good or as bad as “all the crap you’re buying nowadays.” Anyway, in light of the very special Ultraboy reunion session coming up…

Jellymitt

Love Liquid Smiley Jones

Revolution # Pork

I remember that the first side had a lock groove at the end that would repeat the baby crying infinitely. Very annoying and therefore there is a fade. The other thing I have noticed is how poor the mastering is on the vinyl. I guess cd’s have spoiled us.

Finally after much struggle for time I have posted Ultraboy’s classic first full length tape “The Best of Bread” from early 1992. It can be found on its own page. Hope you enjoy!

I was going through some 4 track tapes today and found a master tape to some early demos by Ultraboy. I had no idea these existed as I had forgotten about them a long time ago. The sound quality is okay with some distortion, but the tape has not been touched in about 14 years. Ultraboy is one the least photographed of the bands I was in, but we covered a lot of ground in the two years we were together releasing two singles, a full length album on cassette and an ill fated but lovable 10″ mini album. All of these will be posted at some point. For now you can enjoy the spastic drumming of Kelly Shane, the sensitive vocalizing and supple bass of Canard and the out of control guitar mangling of Chris Gissendanner.

Pantsleaver

Tuber

Love Liquid Smiley Jones

Down with Three Inches

Highway Star #2

Big Fat Yeast Roll

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