This full length LP was given away with Psychic TVs debut LP on WEA ‘Force The Hand Of Chance’. I uploaded this LP because I mentioned it in the 23 Skidoo post recently, with the mid term Skidoo going into a more ‘field recordings’ vibe, with crazy instruments and strange percussion…Dave Tibet and Stan Bingo are the extra musicians for these sessions. Will stick ‘The Culling Is Coming On’ by 23 Skidoo at some point. That LP also had Dave Tibet on I think, and is similar in feel and instrumentation to the Psychic TV release.
alistairliv
January 24, 2008 at 9:36 pmWeren’t the ’23 Tibetan Human Thigh Bones’ actually a plastic ashtray? (Theme II)
But who told me? Was it :
a) GPO himself
b) Min
c) Mouse
I can’t remember. Doesn’t sound much like an ashtray. Sounds very atmospheric, very magickal. And familiar. Yet I have not heard this in at over 23 years… This is the kind of ‘challenging contemporary’ music that gets played on Radio 3.
Intensely atmospheric.
Penguin • Post Author •
January 25, 2008 at 10:09 amI saw one once around Beck Road, and there are plenty of pictures of Gen and Tibet holding them at different times. Think they only had one or two, but on the session it is this instrument, ditto 23 Skidoo when they used one. Plastic ashtray ? Huummm…notice the amount of ’23’s in these two comments…spooky!
alistairliv
January 26, 2008 at 4:39 pmAfter 23 google searches found the genuine original Tibetan thigh bone trumpet. Sold on e-bay in 2004. Damn Should have been 2003.
http://www.smoe.org/lists/idealcopy/v07.n139
Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 22:13:00 +0100
From: “Keith Astbury”
Subject: [idealcopy] Your thigh bone’s connected to your…
Any rich PTV / Coil fans here?
This is a true Tibetan Thigh Bone trumpet measuring 12″ long. It was
formerly the property of COIL – John Balance and Peter Christopherson
and was used both in many live concerts and on the recording session for
the PTV album “Force The Hand Of Chance”. A letter of authentification
accompanies this wonderful object
The is in EXCELLENT condition
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3D373&item=3D391=
1069036&rd=3D1
Tony Puppy
February 2, 2008 at 11:19 pmPlaying this from here for the first time tonight. Didn’t recognise it from the description above, but from the first keyboard plunk it came back to me. A Grosvenor Ave staple; could be heard playing from one room or another most times of the day or night.
Bringing back a few memories as it happens.