{"id":258,"date":"2006-08-26T20:46:53","date_gmt":"2006-08-27T00:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/?p=258"},"modified":"2006-08-26T20:46:53","modified_gmt":"2006-08-27T00:46:53","slug":"pere-ubu-terminal-tower-an-archival-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2006\/pere-ubu-terminal-tower-an-archival-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Pere Ubu &#8212; Terminal Tower &#8211; An Archival Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/pereubuterminaltower.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-864\" title=\"Pere Ubu -- Terminal Tower - An Archival Collection\" src=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/pereubuterminaltower.jpg\" alt=\"Pere Ubu -- Terminal Tower - An Archival Collection\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"recdata\">\n<li><strong>Artist:<\/strong> Pere Ubu<\/li>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> Terminal Tower &#8211; An Archival Collection<\/li>\n<li><strong>Year:<\/strong> 1985<\/li>\n<li><strong>Format:<\/strong> Vinyl 12 in.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rating (1-10):<\/strong> 7<\/li>\n<li><strong>Owner:<\/strong> Tracy<\/li>\n<li><strong>Acquired:<\/strong> 1985 &#8211; When I worked at Mother&#8217;s Records in Hampton, VA.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m not cool enough, or maybe just not old enough, to have bought Pere Ubu&#8217;s early records when they came out, but I did get &#8220;Terminal Tower &#8211; An Archival Collection&#8221; when I was 19 or so. They make some pretty interesting music that&#8217;s not easy to describe, but someone at Wikipedia did a good job with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pere_Ubu_(band)\">this article about the band<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I saw them live at the Town &amp; Country Club in London way back in 1987, or maybe &#8217;86. The opening acts were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trouserpress.com\/entry.php?a=ut\">Ut<\/a>, followed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trouserpress.com\/entry.php?a=mekons\">The Mekons<\/a>. For the most part, it seemed like a Mekons crowd. That said, Pere Ubu put on a great, but abbreviated show that most people seemed to enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, some folks expressed their gratitude by throwing crap on the stage or even at the musicians. At one point Pere Ubu singer David Thomas made it clear that if there was any further silliness that they would walk off the stage. Sure enough, some bonehead <em>had<\/em> to throw something and Mr. Thomas immediately walked off in a huff. I can&#8217;t say I blame him. The rest of the band tried to carry on for a bit but it was clear he wasn&#8217;t coming back. The other band members eventually walked off too, looking rather frustrated. I&#8217;m not sure if Thomas, the crowd, or both were the source of that frustration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist: Pere Ubu Title: Terminal Tower &#8211; An Archival Collection Year: 1985 Format: Vinyl 12 in. Rating (1-10): 7 Owner: Tracy Acquired: 1985 &#8211; When I worked at Mother&#8217;s Records in Hampton, VA. I&#8217;m not cool enough, or maybe just not old enough, to have bought Pere Ubu&#8217;s early records when they came out, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[452,479,453],"tags":[509,555,670,46,887,910,1033],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-p","category-record-collection","tag-509","tag-art-rock","tag-experimental","tag-music","tag-pere-ubu","tag-protopunk","tag-vinyl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}