Andy is the second from the left in the picture....
The Man I Used To Be
· 9 months ago
and Roger is on the far left.....
rwcass
· 9 months ago
Thanks. I had a feeling I got it wrong. I kept looking and looking at pictures. Who's the second from the right?
Michael
· 9 months ago
The version of "New Mistake" from the King Biscuit Flower Hour is classic... thanks so much for sharing this... perfect top to a week of Jellyfish-related goodness!
DwDunphy
· 9 months ago
Blast. I had a copy of the band covering "Go Your Own Way" somewhere, but it's been lost to the archive (seven tall CDR spindles of dubious titling)...
David_E
· 9 months ago
Hmm. Not exactly obscure, but I do have the full (2:41) version of Lee Majors singing the "Fall Guy" theme song if you want it ...
rwcass
· 9 months ago
It's obscure to me, and I'm the mayor of Bootleg City. Send it along, please. Thanks!
Old_Davy
· 9 months ago
Thanks! This is why Popdose is the best site on the web. You guys are too cool!
The Man I Used To Be
· 9 months ago
Just checked back in - 2nd from the right is Roger's brother, Chris.
I just traded for a LP version of their first album which came in Monday. Thanks for providing the Friday bookend.
Many thanks - writing that piece was a true labour of love.
The Man I Used To Be
· 9 months ago
Nice work Steve, fine writing. Jellyfish is one of those little nuggets-of-a-band that not many people know about, but once you share it with them, they fall for them right away.
You seem to be a fan - When you are introducing Jelly to someone, which song do you lead with? For me it depends on their musical taste. I tend to lead with New Mistake or Calling Sarah. You?
rwcass
· 9 months ago
Agreed -- great job, Steve. And Brendan, I agree that "New Mistake" and "Calling Sarah" are great introductions to the band. Both are highly accessible pop songs. Sturmer may not have been a great collaborator, but it's hard to argue with the results.
The Man I Used To Be
· 9 months ago
Robert,
You folks really have a wonderful music site here, keep up the good work. The content of Popdose is as refreshing as the writing is inspired. You can tell you guys truly love and feel the music, regardless of the genre.
Thanks again, Brendan
DwDunphy
· 9 months ago
I find "I Wanna Stay Home" is a big crowd-pleaser, so if I am inclined to a little salesmanship, that helps. Oddly, my brother who liked metal mostly at the time really liked "Brighter Day", mostly for the line:
'Cause right behind you in the back of the fray is a blade he's a renegade turning bullshit into marmalade
He liked it not for the curse, but because it is an extremely descriptive turn of a really old phrase - you know exactly what was meant by that line. He didn't think pop-rock lyrics could actually carry across those ideas so well.
SteveShark
· 9 months ago
'Joining a Fan Club' everytime... It's almost a mini-opera with its various sections and changes of key. BTW - many thanks for clearing up some of my questions about the internal politics of the band. I suspected that Sturmer may have been a little 'difficult' to work with but couldn't find anything to support this theory.
rwcass
· 9 months ago
Well, after reading your article about the band, I'm curious -- does Sturmer appear on albums with Manning and Falkner after 1993? Judging by the Magnet article, I would think he hadn't, but maybe the writer of that article decided to leave out that information to make it sound like Manning and Falkner were even more estranged from Sturmer.
Thierry
· 9 months ago
Sturmer hasn't played or sung on anything Manning or Falkner have done post-Jellyfish. while Manning and Falkner - who were friends before their days in Jellyfish - have worked together on several occasions: both played on Beck's Sea Change as well as in the band T.V. Eyes, and Falkner appears on Manning's "soundtrack" for the non-existent Logan's Sanctuary.
The Man I Used To Be
· 9 months ago
Thierry is correct. Andy has been MIA from everyone in the band since Split Milk.
He has produced for the before mentioned Puffy in Japan and has been doing solo TV Cartoon work. He showed up out of nowhere for the Merrymakers 1998 release, Bubblegun, which he played drums and wrote a couple of tracks.
It's a serviceable, pedestrian album which is enhanced my Sturmers talents. But, in its whole, it offers a fraction of what Jelly displayed.
As I wrote on the Jellyfish mailing list this evening:
It is a shame that:
1) Its been 15 years since we have heard anything of significance from Andy. 2) I have one Andy song on my iPod (I Build Me A Bridge) from the last 15 plus years. 3) He rather work with two bit players then the top shelf talent (Roger, Jason, Eric, Jon) that he had in his own band.
To me it is pretty simple. Jason and Roger are not the issue. Thanks to them I have from Roger two great tunes (You Were Right, Down In Front), from Jason two great albums (Author Unknown and CYSF?) and one great side project (the Grays). From Andy I have a ton of fluff (or Puff if you will) and years of wasted talent.
The jury of my minds eye says the case is closed.
DwDunphy
· 9 months ago
Where does that song ("I Don't Believe You") Manning and Sturmer did on the Ringo Starr album Time Takes Time fit in (as well as the other song where they provided backing vocals, "We Don't Know A Thing About Love")?
rwcass
· 9 months ago
No love at all for Puffy AmiYumi?
MC_Snocap
· 9 months ago
Hear hear.
It's a shame Puffy gets dismissed as a novelty in the US (thanks, Cartoon Network!) There's genuine energy and affection for a wide range of American and Brit pop and rock in their catalog. Genre-hopping and unshakable foreign-ness probably relegate them to the "synthetic" table instead of the "traditionalist" table for the likes of, say, Amy Winehouse or whoever's biting Zep this year.
I actually discovered Jellyfish through Puffy.
SteveShark
· 9 months ago
I love a lot of the Puffy stuff - it's lightweight, yes, but who wants serious all the time? Good pop music is a precious and rare commodity these days.
You're right, we should totally leave the files up for months and months, since the magic Bandwith Fairy has endowed us with unlimited resources.
jefito
· 7 months ago
TOTALLY. How dare we take anything down?
Fuzz
· 7 months ago
Excuse me, the dead end is still UP↑
Fuzz
· 7 months ago
Be that as it may, what is the purpose of dead links? Sorry I missed it. I didn't realize 46 days=months and months.
rwcass
· 6 months ago
Sorry, Fuzz, links only stay active for a week on average.
nickmarocco
· 3 months ago
Can you plze upload these again? When i click on them to download them it says they are no longer available or if anyone has them plze email them 2 me @ nick_marocco@yahoo.com
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I just traded for a LP version of their first album which came in Monday. Thanks for providing the Friday bookend.
Regards,
Brendan
You seem to be a fan - When you are introducing Jelly to someone, which song do you lead with? For me it depends on their musical taste. I tend to lead with New Mistake or Calling Sarah. You?
You folks really have a wonderful music site here, keep up the good work. The content of Popdose is as refreshing as the writing is inspired. You can tell you guys truly love and feel the music, regardless of the genre.
Thanks again,
Brendan
'Cause right behind you in the back
of the fray
is a blade he's a renegade
turning bullshit into marmalade
He liked it not for the curse, but because it is an extremely descriptive turn of a really old phrase - you know exactly what was meant by that line. He didn't think pop-rock lyrics could actually carry across those ideas so well.
It's almost a mini-opera with its various sections and changes of key.
BTW - many thanks for clearing up some of my questions about the internal politics of the band. I suspected that Sturmer may have been a little 'difficult' to work with but couldn't find anything to support this theory.
He has produced for the before mentioned Puffy in Japan and has been doing solo TV Cartoon work. He showed up out of nowhere for the Merrymakers 1998 release, Bubblegun, which he played drums and wrote a couple of tracks.
It's a serviceable, pedestrian album which is enhanced my Sturmers talents. But, in its whole, it offers a fraction of what Jelly displayed.
As I wrote on the Jellyfish mailing list this evening:
It is a shame that:
1) Its been 15 years since we have heard anything of significance from Andy.
2) I have one Andy song on my iPod (I Build Me A Bridge) from the last 15 plus years.
3) He rather work with two bit players then the top shelf talent (Roger, Jason, Eric, Jon) that he had in his own band.
To me it is pretty simple. Jason and Roger are not the issue. Thanks to them I have from Roger two great tunes (You Were Right, Down In Front), from Jason two great albums (Author Unknown and CYSF?) and one great side project (the Grays). From Andy I have a ton of fluff (or Puff if you will) and years of wasted talent.
The jury of my minds eye says the case is closed.
It's a shame Puffy gets dismissed as a novelty in the US (thanks, Cartoon Network!) There's genuine energy and affection for a wide range of American and Brit pop and rock in their catalog. Genre-hopping and unshakable foreign-ness probably relegate them to the "synthetic" table instead of the "traditionalist" table for the likes of, say, Amy Winehouse or whoever's biting Zep this year.
I actually discovered Jellyfish through Puffy.
http://popfair.blogspot.com/2008/07/andy-sturme...