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List of local Venues throughout Indy music history.
Replied Jun. 13, 2008
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Wish I could be there... Fare thee well, Lumpy. Thanks for all the inspiration through the years. It made a difference.
Tangential update:
When we started talking about this, the existence of outsider-identified "isolate" communities was one of the interesting threads that point beyond the specific story of the Ben Ishmaels.
The March 1, 2010 issue of the New Yorke…
I am but a messenger.
It looks like an impressionistic chronicle of how he came to pursue the creative identity of Ishi Ishmael, as far as I can tell.
So you're saying this guy's some sort of neo-Dadaist?
Heh heh...
UPDATE:
Ishi Ishmael just dropped a note to me, which I provide here:
"Dear Mike,
Seeing that you have invoked my name, I'll give you a little from my notebooks.
"From Illinois and Indiana came a later myth
Of all the people in the world at Howde…
fascinating stuff! thanks for posting
The ever-entertaining and seemingly bottomless Archive.org offers a rare 1969 recording of college twerp Dave Letterman's radio hijinks back when he was a student at Ball State University in Muncie.
Listen to it with this handy widget courtesy of…
The ever-entertaining and seemingly bottomless Archive.org offers a rare 1969 recording of college twerp Dave Letterman's radio hijinks back when he was a student at Ball State University in Muncie.
The clip was recorded by during the 11PM - 12 Mi…
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- What Instrument(s) Do You Play
- Guitar, Voice, DJ, Other
- About Me
- Second wave old-timer (1983-1986ish) from the Broad Ripple punk scene, plus I hung out in Bloomington some in the same years. Moved to Chicago in the fall of 1985 and got into weird(er), noisy(er) music. Then in 1996 I moved to Seattle, where there's a mini-tribe of Hoosier escapees holding out in the green, soggy wilds.
"The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing." -- Abraham Lincoln
- What bands are you or have you been in?
- In Indy: The Rotting Slugs, The Wounded Reagans, The Jazz Faggots, The Barking Toasters, Tha Paranoidz, Pontius Pilate and the Naildrivers. In Chicago: The Mealworms, Trash Monkeys, Stool, trondant shaman, Solid State, The Betsy Years, Wormwood (not the famous one), Funeral Car. In Seattle: Static Luxury Object, Jabon, i8M, The Wretched Bastards. Have also sat in with or collaborated to whatever extent with folks like Dandelion Abortion (once), David Shea (in high school), Illusion of Safety, Jim O'Rourke, Metnong, Maestro Subgum & The Whole, Climax Golden Twins, and others you ain't never heared-a.
Oh hey, I've got some MP3s of some of the music I did in later years posted at Subliminal Radio.
- What city are you from?
- Seattle, by way of Chicago and Indy
- Original Hometown
- Indianapolis
- Website:
- http://www.spencersundell.com
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DJ David Letterman Prank Call on Ball State "Pirate" Radio, 1969
The ever-entertaining and seemingly bottomless Archive.org offers a rare 1969 recording of college twerp Dave Letterman's radio hijinks b… Continue
Posted on January 31, 2010 at 1:00am — 1 Comment
Richmond, IN 1968 Gas Explosion Disaster Ballad
By way of the WFMU blog comes an MP3 of a rare disaster ballad recording called "The Richmond Explosion" (MP3 file, 6.5mb) by Cecil Pigott.… Continue
Posted on January 18, 2010 at 10:28pm — 9 Comments
Bush's Farewell: "I Followed My Conscience."
"I have followed my conscience and done what I thought was right. ...We must keep our resolve. And we must never let down our guard."… Continue
– President George W. Bush, Farewell Address, Jan. 15, 2009.
Posted on January 16, 2009 at 2:30am —
Old-Time Slums of Indianapolis
This is an article published in 1911 by an Indiana University history journal, describing slums and poor neighborhoods in Indianapolis between 1835 and the late 1880s. Many thanks to Holly, who first posted this find in the… Continue
Posted on January 11, 2009 at 11:00pm — 8 Comments
The Life and Times of Shecky Pitts
This started out as my "About Me" babble, which really was just excessive. So I moved it here. So there.
Born at Methodist Hospital on Hiroshima Day. Grew up at various points around Indy -- the Butler area, Fall Creek, 52nd & College.... After a torturous stint at Brebeuf I escaped to Broad Ripple HS, where I did dorky shit like theater and the weekly (!) newspaper. Long 'bout then I started hearing about this "punk rock" stuff and seeing Zero Boys graffiti on a retaining wall at the clean… Continue
Born at Methodist Hospital on Hiroshima Day. Grew up at various points around Indy -- the Butler area, Fall Creek, 52nd & College.... After a torturous stint at Brebeuf I escaped to Broad Ripple HS, where I did dorky shit like theater and the weekly (!) newspaper. Long 'bout then I started hearing about this "punk rock" stuff and seeing Zero Boys graffiti on a retaining wall at the clean… Continue
Posted on June 12, 2008 at 1:19am — 2 Comments
Comment Wall (36 comments)
- At 5:42pm on January 16, 2009,
Marvin P. Goldstein said… - Hey, Shecky! How you be?
- At 9:03am on January 16, 2009,
e.p. said… - oh, it was some public domain laboratory image. I like that sort of stuff. It was really just a temporary stand in, though. Nice to meet you...
- At 3:33am on January 16, 2009,
Lyle Simmons said… - Spencer,
I remember you. What up holmes?
Lyle
- At 8:53pm on January 8, 2009,
Muhammed al-Ahari said… - The Ben Ishmael geneological charts are reproduced in the Making of America's Worst Family.
- At 12:37pm on December 28, 2008,
Kareno said… - hope it was a happy holiday for ya'!!
- At 10:34am on December 11, 2008,
Debbie Freeman Piscitella said… - hey yeah that was pretty stupid, I was thinking that you would b only person who would see it . duh , hey Merry Christmas, You and laura should get together and come to Fl where its warm, and visit moi!! you have my number .lol.
- At 8:34am on December 3, 2008,
Kareno said…
- Eeeeep!!! don't scare me like that
- At 6:03pm on October 30, 2008,
Debbie Freeman Piscitella said…
- Hello Spencer, Thank you for adding me, I found this website through my old neighbor Mike standcomb, by accident,i have to tell you I really miss the whole lot of you guys,I feel like Ihave the peter pan syndrome, Like I grew up and put things out of my minnd, I think Mostly because I moved so far away, and My life is so different thanI ever thought it would be.Like I NEVER thought I would b married, lol for 20 years. haha choke to the same guy.. and I NEVER EVER thoughtI would have children. I look at the pictures , and I get really nostalgiac, and I get sad,Because I miss everything. But then my kid starts screaming , andI snapp right out of it. You still look really good. All of the recent pics I have seen of people they all look great. i am glad everyone is doingwhat they wanted inlife, AtLeast i hope its what they are wanting to . I will write back once I am done studying , I have exams , Debbie.
- At 7:11pm on October 29, 2008,
Marvin P. Goldstein said…
- Hey, Sheckster!
- At 11:34am on September 2, 2008,
Angela (Cooper) Crow said… - Hey Spence-! Glad to know yer still kicking... how's life treating you-? Stumptown has been wonderful to me... been here 15 years now...
Here doggy!
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