Roger Manning |
Ever since the first Roger Manning album was released in 1989 by California punk label SST ( Black Flag, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr.) I've toured the U.S. and Europe presenting compelling wordy-solo-rock with pounding rhythms, "aggressive imagery", and often-ridiculous bass levels from a heavily equalized guitar. ( Given a decent p. a. with good subs it gets pretty intense ). Over the last few tours almost all of the few "political" songs ( other than requests ) have been eliminated from the set which is now largely consist of songs and banter reasonably described as humorously pornographic. |
Fuck you have a nice day |
Roger manning |
1. Grand teton blues 2. The driving blues 3. The pearly blues #6 4. Loisaidia covers billy syndrome 5. The bohemia blues 6. The east 5th st. blues #5 7. The war museum blues 8. The driving blues #2 9. The driving blues #3 10. The rearview mirror blues 11. The pearly blues #8 12. The hitchhiker blues #5 (midnight blues) |
13. The hitchhiker blues #4 14. The projection blues 15. Homer's backyard 16. The ios blues #2 17. The hitchhiker blues #3 |
1. The busybody blues (E. 5th st. blues) 2. Take back the night 3. The #19 blues (pearly blues #3) 4. The hitchhiker's blues #2 (pearly blues #3) 5. Traitors 6. The radical blues 7. Speaker phone 8. The persia blues 9. Unrequited 10. The waterloo blues 11. The subway blues #2 |
Roger manning & the soho valley boys |
Lefty bootleggs & demo's |
1. The dallas blues 2. Wake up and smell the blood blues 3. The pacifica blues 4. Tompkins square park blues #99 5. Real estate blues 6. East 8th street blues 7. 13th street blues 8. East 8th street blues #2 |
1. My vietnam 2. Untitled 3. Saterday night/ new land 4. Anti-folk blues 5. Roger's etude 6. John henry 7. The old crossroads 8. #14 blues |
Missile foundation |
Chyeah |
1. Talking blues 2. Man & a bike/ town 3. Your music 4. Hitchhiker blues #8/ chyeah 5. Fuckin pig 6. #18 blues 7. Blues for the chosen few 8. Old blue/ cabin fever 9. Hands/ passion |
1. F. pig (reprise) 2. Bohemia blues/ poetic highway vision #63/ Starrey eyed blues 3. Your music #2 4. Summertime blues #2/ Driving blues #2 5. The hitchhiker 6. The program/ so i wake up 7. San antonio/ spokane 8. Ios 9. Medley 10. Pearly blues #6 11. Now i remember |
12. Waterloo calling/ parade account 13. The pacifica blues 14. The dallas blues 15. The serious blues (#18 blues) 16. The tompkins square blues #99 17. Gallow's pole 18. Sub-folk |
1. Farewell losaida blues 2. New bourgeois blues 3. Radical blues 4. C. o. blues 5. West valley blues #2 6. Hitchhiker's blues #2 7. A white house blues 8. The annex blues 9. Lefty rhetoric blues |
1. Personal stuff 2. #17 blues 3. crackmobile 4. Art because it's made in soho/ don't be ridiculous 5. Phone Thing 6. 2*2 blues 7. The cockpit 8. The banana bar 9. New York/ Hoboken 10. Soho valley boys theme/ tompkins blues |
Roger manning |
1. The #14 blues 2. The pearly blues 3. The lefty rhetoric blues 4. The hitchhikers' blues 5. The west valley blues 6. Strange little blues 7. The airport blues 8. The #16 blues 9. The #17 blues 10. Blues for the chosen few |
11. The 1010 blues 12. The sicilian blues |
There's no finished recording of newer the Roger Manning songs just now, though stranger things have been known to materialize. It's very likely that the next release will continue to feature plenty of big beats while trading in some of the heavy metal riffage for a less wordy, more melodic approach on various selections. Last year I had a song on "Drinking From Puddles" ( Kill Rock Stars ), a compilation of live performances from the radio program of the same name at KBOO radio Portland, OR. (Tracks by Elliot Smith, Cindy Lee Berryhill, Cat Power, Lydia Lunch and many others ) There was also a spokey word track on "What's the Word" ( Deezal Records ), a cool cd of rockers doing spoken word. I toured the U.S. in the spring and then blew off the fall tour for the 1st time in ten years. Stayed in NYC and got into html coding. I toured the U.S. in May/June 2000, returning to New York for continued adventures in website production. Blew off the fall tour again. Might be out in the spring. |
