Thursday, July 8, 2010
"phoning it in" radio show 6.19.08
Thursday, June 17, 2010
live @ livevula zipolite, oaxaca, mexico
1971
law of toil
here comes the beast
four winters into wilderness
part one
hell's veils
low tide
hungry ghost
by the great redeemer
voice of moha
become a stranger
instrumental
part two
Friday, April 23, 2010
up above the world, 'neath the everlasting stain
UP ABOVE THE WORLD, 'NEATH THE EVERLASTING STAIN (1997) Never Released
1. these naked ladies
2. the lime + the salt
3. let the angels come
4. ¿como puedo ver?
5. we can take our medicine together
6. el dia de los muertos
7. a child of god, wine + despair
8. 'neath the everlasting stain
9. lack + demand
10. the heart
download album here here
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Tract Records R.I.P.
Between 2004 and 2008 I had the privilege of putting out some commercial releases with the recently out-of-business indie label Tract Records from Columbus, Ohio. I want to personally thank former label owner Thomas Heath for giving me the opportunity to record and release some music when no one else in the world would give me the time of day. Now, Tract is no more and my releases with them are out-of-print and gone forever. If you were lucky enough to get a physical copy of any of these releases, I suggest that you treat them with care as there are no plans to reissue of any of the albums. all commercial releases will be available soon as high quality digital downloads via this link. As of today, september 07, 2010, MAXIMUM JOY, YON, and LOAF have been made available. the rest comming soon.
YON. full-length
release date 2.26.08
art by gentleman Peter Matthews.
Thursday, September 3, 2009
demo two "flowers for all occasions" 1995
track list:
1. ain't she sumpin' (la diabla)
2. i drove the longest nail
3. you are who i am
4. we can take our medicine together
5. pistoltown
6. pick men's head for prey
download here
1991 demo "the symphony"
tracklist:
1. coming of creation
2. symbol
3. angel
4. orchid blue
5. thistledown
download here
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
gallery thirteen live @ Liberty Drug 17 may 1995
gallery thirteen played a show at the club Liberty Drug on Asp Avenue in Norman, Oklahoma. Playing the slot between new zealand donald's Frank and the Dog Position and Vena Cava, the set list was as follows:
lucretia my reflection
someone to blame
ain't she sumpin' (la diabla)*
i drove the longest nail
smoking baby's brand
we can take our medicine together (the middle is missing)
you are who i am
pistol town
walk through the blood (incomplete, for some reason)
line-up:
derek joe brockett: guitar and singing
chris "paco" johsnon: bass
tony roberts: guitar
forrest m. smith: drums
donald nicholls: clarinet on *
danny mccullough: trumpet on *
memories:
"i don't really even remember playing this show. my head was at the bottom of the bottle. we opened with a sisters of mercy tune and i broke a string straight way. I have written here that danny mccullough played trumpet at the show. i know he was on the studio recording, but i don't hear any trumpet here."- derek
download show here
gallery thirteen live 19 may 1994
your heroes gallery thirteen played a show at the club Liquid Lounge (now the Red Room) on main street in Norman, Oklahoma. Again, back then, vocal duties belonged to the person who wrote the lyrics. Opening for the touring act The Acumen, the set list was as follows:
i drove the longest nail.
carving
you are who i am
fossils of regret*
lead in the head (guitar solo)
golden lasso
purge*
stranger than an empty room
thistledown
fairies wear boots
line-up:
derek joe brockett: guitar and singing
chris "paco" johsnon: bass
tony roberts: guitar and singing on *
forrest m. smith: drums
memories:
"We opened for a band that was out on tour called the Acumen. I remember that they were supposed to stay in the room at the club that night, but they decided to pack up and hit the road. Later we heard of the accident during which their singer perished. i can't remember if he was killed, decapitated, or just maimed, but something serious happened. "- derek
"this recording is from a cassette i made. i remember taking the recording from the club, which i thought at the time to be quite lackluster, and dubbing in this crowd noise from an old Steve Martin record. must have been tony's record. with the crowd racket, it only seemed right that i add a grand guitar solo which was just me doing a bunch of fake royal trux sounding noodling)further extending the illusion of stadium rock. for the cassette there is a cover that i drew and painted (see above photo) and i *may* have actually photo copied and dubbed off several and given them away to some people. I can't really remember. tis too bad the sabbath song was played last. we had rehearsed it and it
sounded pretty good . at so that point, i am sure we were too trashed to play it properly. or maybe i shouldn't speak for the others"- derek
download show here
gallery thirteen live 17 october 1992
Nearly 17 years ago gallery thirteen played a show at the club Rome in Norman, Oklahoma. Back then, vocal duties belonged to the person who wrote the lyrics. Opening for Jon Mooneyham's Three Ring Carcass, the set list was as follows:
thistledown
symbol*
fossils of regret*
coming of creation
no pearl
angel*
lesser man
stranger than an empty room
line-up:
derek joe brockett: guitar and singing
chris "paco" johsnon: bass
tony roberts: guitar and singing on *
forrest m. smith: drums
"this was the show when bab's van caught on fire"- derek
download show here
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
maximum joy demos 2008
in the fall of 2008, drummer kyle reid and i started working on an album together at my place in zipolite, oaxaca. we later decided that my recording equipment and lousy engineering skills weren't doing the songs much justice so we decided to stop kidding ourselves after 5 songs and called it a "demo". when we finished it and the artwork was done, i shopped it around to some labels that had expressed interest in hearing my latest work. we have a couple more tunes to record, though, before kyle leaves for the states and we will do so in order to finish documenting our rocking good time together
- all these smiling skulls
- big bowels
- here comes the beast/relax into awareness of celestial villains
- what's good for the goat
- the eye
some had fun
- gone stars
- happy again
- here comes the beast
- i can't see clearly now
- it stinks of me
- o what will i have done
- one, two, three
- some had fun
- the when of soon
¿my strength is hatred?
¿my strength is hatred? was recorded in ardmore, oklahoma in 2001 at my friend gabriel williamson's house. it was my first solo album and self-released on beautiful ten inch vinyl. a hearty thanks to damian, G, and L.L.O.J. who played on the record with me and supported my addled ass all through the recording process. thanks to delia for helping finance the pressing and thanks to my long lost friend will who convinced me to record this in the first place.
there are still some copies available on vinyl. email me for info/details:
- a ghost song/silently crying, lambs devoured
- a tropical depression
- patches
- where makes blame
- O where, O where
mop up
live 2008 zipolite oaxaca mexico
- become a stranger (live 2008)
- hay que (live 2008)
- a ghost song (live 2008)
- cupid is drunk throwing up love on me (live 1995)
- someone to blame (live 1995)
- lung meridian
- rider
- some had fun off
- those naked ladies
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
el hollin
- the other
- of murdered feelings, miss slain
- lover's lane
- the matrist
- untrue
- jezabel
- four mountains
- what's more
- nightlights
- that naked lady
- tiny i
trembling things
enter rifle steve. rifle steve's got the fuel, remember, but the final tool ended up being something completely different than the rocket ship. and so it was this glorious rifle steve who convinced me to buy "a little red japanese gizmo of a rocket ship" and keep fighting the good fight. so, that was what was done, largely thanks to my friend damian who got together enough equipment to get started and brought it down to me in mexico. the result of that is trembling things.
only about 50 copies of this CD were made and they were given to friends and sent out in vain to record labels. the paper for the CD art was made of recycled banana leaf fiber. the image on the cover was of a photo i took of some toloache that was growing in the garden. toloache tremble at night when the flowers are open and rigid and nine kinds of potent.
- become a stranger
- leave things be
- subliminal fire
- one of these days
- trembling things
- you don't know what pleasure is
- all the while
- one town, one house
- moonset
- bad, bad, bad
- stow away
- hay que
- O beautiful
- bahia cabrona
gallery thirteen songwriting session 1995
this volume of "songs" is from one evening of hanging out, drinking and roughhousing at the place where i lived with gallery thirteen member tony roberts. songs before they were "songs" were presented to the other members of the band by me in this casual bohemian environment. in this way i was able to see which song ideas, melodies, lyrics etc provoked the correct kind of reaction with the gang. most of these never became fully fleshed out songs. some of the ideas still seem valid to me some 14 years later. i am pretty sure it was just me on the guitar and lead vocals and those present chimed in at times. there are a few covers that rear their partial heads. keep your ears peeled for beefheart, nick cave, and marty robbins. those present seem to be derek joe brockett, tony roberts, chris paco johnson, stainar stavings (lyrics on track 5), and tony's girlfriend at the time whose name can't quite come through clear to me at the time of writing.
track 14 is what you might call the bonus track. in 1997 when gallery thirteen recorded up above the world, 'neath the everlasting stain we recorded over used 2 inch tape. the tape had been recorded on before us by some such Skip Wiggins. after the instrumental tracks were recorded for "these naked ladies" we decided to give it a quick listen. upon doing so we noticed that we had recorded over pretty much everything but Skip's vocals. notice how uncannily well his vocal melody and phrasing go along with our music. a perfect accident.
- bury her where the sun don't shine
- O woe man
- at the end of the world you can't find any friends
- in salt's disguise
- rifle steve
- a holy bible
- bruce lee
- loser=gallery XIII
- por mas que sufra
- por mas que sufra ii
- stainar's worry
- orchid blue
- amazing grace
- these naked ladies (skip wiggins version)
mr. wonderful vol. 2
1. como puedo ver
2. el dia de los muertos
3. these naked ladies
4. no ordinary love
5. la onda tropical
download here
mr. wonderful volume one
1. bitter
2. i would like to hold your hand
3. gristletown
4. we can take our medicine together
5. that i'd wish for you
6. someone to blame
7. cupid is drunk (throwing up love on me)
8. three
download here