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Hey Hey it's... The Jeffrey Lewis & Peter Stampfel Band

 
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CrackyMcCrackerson



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PostPosted: Tue May 21, 2013 4:42 pm    Post subject: Hey Hey it's... The Jeffrey Lewis & Peter Stampfel Band Reply with quote

I haven't received in the mail yet but this is a thread for discussion and thoughts on the new record when everyone gets to hear it.
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jefflewis



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PostPosted: Wed May 22, 2013 2:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Should be arriving soon!
All orders have been shipped out as of last Thursday or so.
Off to the UK in a few hours!
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CrackyMcCrackerson



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PostPosted: Thu May 23, 2013 1:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've only gotten to listen to it a couple of times(a lot of stuff came out this month!) but my initial thought on this record is that it is a hell of a lot of fun.
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keithos



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PostPosted: Tue Jun 04, 2013 9:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah, I've also only listened to it once on a hungover bus journey the day after the gig but I liked it. I read in the liner notes that this is only going to be a very limited release and may be re-recorded with a different tracklisting following the summer tour after some of the songs have evolved and others taken preference. Is this definitely going to happen? Put me down for one if so!
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 6:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've listened to it a few times now. Duke of the beatniks, hey hey, and crazy creek are my favourites.
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jefflewis



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PostPosted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 2:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't know about this whole re-recording idea... Peter is into it, but I don't necessarily think it's worth the time and money it would take to redo these recordings, i like that it is a fast/rough/real document of how those songs sounded. but it's true that songs often get better after you play them live a bunch, and already i think the songs "Hey Hey" and "Another Inch of Rainfall" sound better the way we play/sing them now than they did when we recorded them. Still, I don't know if I would really want to try to re-make the record, at least not right now. It's a cool idea though, to have each new pressing of an album contain improved versions of the songs when possible. Like how Daniel Johnston would re-record each cassette for every person he gave a copy too, instead of using a dubbing machine to make a copy (according to legend... but I don't know if this legend is true, because there IS one official version of each album, I have never heard various recorded versions of those early cassette albums, and if he was really doing new recordings each time he made a copy then there would be a lot of different versions in circulation, right?)
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granfalloon



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 26, 2014 8:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

hey Jeff I have a question: I don't know if it's obvious or not, but your melody on the song "Hey Hey" is an intentional reference to Pon Pon Pon, right?

I love that song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzC4hFK5P3g
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granfalloon



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 26, 2014 9:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

also it's been many months since I checked in on this website. glad to see everything's going well, with new music, drawings and comics, shows. and Dav's child, congrats!
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jefflewis



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 26, 2014 4:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Welcome back Granfalloon! Yeah, "Hey Hey" started out as a cover of Pon Pon (Pon), I think the album liner notes explain a bit more... I noticed that there were no good english language translations, all the translations seemed lame, so I thought I could try to do a better job then it just kept evolving and changing from there.
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CrackyMcCrackerson



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PostPosted: Thu Jul 16, 2015 9:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Are there lyrics for this anywhere? I apologize if they are in the liner notes. I lost track of a lot of stuff when I moved.
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vollsticks



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PostPosted: Thu Jul 30, 2015 2:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Excuse my ignorance....but is this the same Pete Stampfel from The Holy Modal rounders/The Fugs?
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Fishkins



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PostPosted: Thu Jul 30, 2015 2:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yep, it's the same guy.
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keithos



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PostPosted: Fri Jul 31, 2015 10:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm hoping for a new album from Jeffrey Lewis and Peter Stampfel, really enjoyed the last one and there were a lot of songs they played live that weren't on the album. Any chance of that happening?
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jefflewis



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 04, 2015 11:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

We've been planning a new Stampfel/Lewis album! Just haven't had the time to make it happen! We have a bunch of new songs, plus there's a bunch that we played live but didn't get recordings of...
We have some Ireland tour dates in September (and one London date) but there's no time to record prior to that... so we'll just be carrying the albums that we already made.
More info when I have it!
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