The LPs have download coupons and lyric sheets, as well. As with most things Bandcamp, you can buy the physical albums and/or download FLACs, WAVs, AIFFs, MP3s or almost anything else digital. Where was I?įrontier Records reissued remastered versions of the band’s first two albums on colored vinyl, CD and digital in March of 2018 via its Bandcamp page. Full disclosure or bragging rights? You make the call. (Singer/guitarist Guy Kyser lost a bet and played the entire show naked (other than the necktie). Thin White Rope’s Davis shows at the Aggie Hotel and the Olive Pit rehearsal space over the years are things of legend if, by any chance, according to local Pete Lohstroh, you desired your virtual Davis cred card to be punched, it was required that at least a tallboy of cheap beer be spilled on your jeans and sneakers (or, knowing Davis, Birkenstocks) at more than one of those shows. I saw them do some immoderately unsavory offstage things at least twice, but that was okay - because, in mutual-deterrent context, they likely witnessed me doing, hey, some crazy shit, as well. I drank with them, well, on several occasions, which isn’t really such a big deal, because most other Davis residents did too, during the period in question. I interviewed them on UC Davis station KDVS while certain band members were in … a certain altered state of some sort or another.
I interviewed the band for Tower Records’ PULSE! magazine. I shot handheld VHS tapes of at least two shows (that I can remember), and Lisa Fancher at Frontier Records once promised (threatened?) to make me sign waivers for the footage… even though no one outside the band and its management has ever seen the videos. As an expatriate of the People’s Republic of Davis, CA, I must first acknowledge the appearance, at least, of a conflict of interest in reviewing these albums. Full disclosure: I saw Thin White Rope play live dozens of times: in Davis, Sacramento, San Francisco, and LA.