TREEPEOPLE MEET MORRISSEY AND COBAIN

TREEPEOPLE: STRAIGHT OUTTA' BOISE

I once drove up to San Francisco with friends, like a maniac, with broken headlights at dusk, trying to get to one of their shows before we got pulled over. We booked them at Scripps College right after that. Saw them in Seattle with my brother at Rock Candy. Hammer Box opened. They killed it. It was the original line-up with Doug Martsch (Built To Spill). I cassette dubbed it. Still here in a box somewhere. We also scored Pearl Jam tickets from the radio because we were close to the place announced. They were playing that weekend at the Super Sonics arena with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Nirvana. Right when it all blew up... Kurt Cobain name checked the Treepeople to David Fricke in the last interview he gave to Rolling Stone a few months before his death, saying he had just caught their show in Kansas City and hung out with them.

First two tracks are from Treepeople's Something Vicious for Tomorrow / Time Whore album. Great Smiths cover. Treepeople always did cool covers. They covered Bowie, the Butthole Surfers, even Boston and Carly Simon. Then you get OG vegan gangsta hiz bad sef, Moz er Morrisey and The Smiths live in Irvine, Ca. in 1986. Back to the Treepeople shot live 1990 by Mark Swanson (Silly cool footage, that is why youtube can be so amazing...) and "Pity" from '91.






Sweetness I was only joking...





Groovy creepy cover art by Mike Scheer. He did all their album covers. Check him out, he's a beast. Amazing illustrator.

Cool gig poster

A London tabloid recently reported Morrissey had allegedly eaten a roast in a local hot spot. Say it ain't so Mo! Actually sod it, be all you can be. Eat cow. Smiths behind the Orange curtain in '86.

Walter digs the Smiths!

"when you're dealing with feelings that are unappealing..." From the original CD version of Guilt Regret Embarrassment with 21 tracks, including early singles.

Guilt Regret Embarrassment

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