Cartoon-acid-love from the Republic of Texas
intro to Tripping Daisy!
Comparing Dallas' Tripping Daisy to the oodles of "alternative" bands that were inspired in the wake of Nirvana is like comparing a flock of North American geese to a duck-billed platypus. They all have bills and make funny sounds but Daisy, living neither on the West nor East coast but in Texas, evolved seperately from the rest of those early '90s bands. I guess my point is the status quo patented alterna-bands mostly suck but Tripping Daisy does not. I know, I know... you hated 'i Got a Girl.' Shut up already. These guys have recorded dozens of tunes that I've heard, and only ONE of them sounds like 'i Got a Girl'. I heartily recommend you explore their other songs.
I like Daisy because they lay down innovative and textured tracks that grow on you like psychedelic mushrooms. Sometimes the sounds these guys create are downright mesmerizing and with each successive release their productions are becoming even more complex and hypnotic. The studio itself is a band member with these cats and they have become quite skilled at luring listeners in with a unique brand of "air sculpture" (to steal a concept from Zappa) both live and on disc.
Comparitively speaking, I'd have to say Tripping Daisy reminds me of equal parts Jane's Addiction, XTC, and Beach Boys with a tad Sid & Marty Krofft thrown in for spice. Daisy is a fun band that doesn't take itself too seriously. Neither should you... just let yourself enjoy life once in awhile, sheesh. Also, Tripping Daisy isn't one of those whiney bands. Thank God they don't whine!
Reader Comments
Goodrecords@aol.com
Hi my name is tim...Thank You for taking time out of your life, to spread your opinion about my band...I enjoyed reading your thoughts on our contribution to the ears.........Reading all this brings back alot of memories..It's hard to believe we did this in such a short time, but there is more oh so much more....What a lovely way to express yourself being in TRIPPING DAISY.....I am forever alittle lighter and that's good...................Thanks TimDARTHGREGE@aol.com (Greg)
My name is Greg and I was wondering if you knew where I could buy these CD's by Tripping Daisy: Bill (on Dragonstreet Records), The Tops Off Our Head, Hook music, In Concert, and Abhor a Roaring Alice, or any live bootleg shows. I live in Northern Virginia and it's very, very, very hard to find anything from Tripping Daisy here.mmckinley@comcast.net (Michael E. McKinley)
SorryÊI didn't discover this band earlier. Such great music. My ears, brain, heart, (insert body part here) could have been a lot happier a helluva lot sooner.polyphonicsoldiergirl@yahoo.com (Kat Valentine)
Just stumbled across this page and wondered if you knew of The Polyphonic Spree? Tim D's (along with Bryan W. and Mark P. of TD) new band? They are an amazing 24 member group whose music changed my life much like Tripping Daisy's did! Check out www.thepolyphonicspree.com and www.thepolyphonicspree.com/forum if you're interested my member name is Polyphonic Kat. That's a great discography for TD, I love all their songs very much, Mechanical Breakdown, I'm a Fish, and Trip Along are my favorites though :) I am now browsing your www.raptorial.com site and like what I see. I was just reading this story about Bush and shaking my head- - Thanks and enjoy, *Kat*.
When it was brought to my attention that Island Records actually RE-released this album (see below) I managed to track down a copy and listen to it. The first thing I noticed was how these tracks are the same recording sessions as the Bill I know and love, but the glitz and polish of the Island version is absent. This sounds much like an extended demo release. The effects on the vocal tracks are slightly less restrained than the later version. There is one track here ('Green Tambourine') which was left off the newer release and there is a significant difference in the layout of the incidental music and secret track that ends this early version of Bill.
Dragon Street Bill is interesting as a peculiarity, but I can see why adjustments were made for the broader release that Island distributed.
I never have heard the four song demo Daisy shopped around in the early '90s, but it must have been pretty good... Island snatched them up and never let them languish on the indy route. Bill is a damned good debut that the band co-produced. I picked it up because someone mentioned it on a Jane's Addiction discussion group I subscribed to awhile back. The break up of Jane's had left a void in my brain for music with definitive heart and a vibe of neo-psychedelic intensity. TD filled that void almost perfectly. Almost. I can't remember what I had been expecting from these guys but I was pleased with what they had to offer: Great hooks, cool transitions, quirky lyrics from an equally quirky singer and... a sense of humor!
Via the lyrical stylings of Tim Delaughter (rhymes with daughter), Daisy explores third eye ponderences with the exuberance of kids newly arrived at the acid candy store. The track 'Change of Mind' may even be about someone's first trip: "Walking the street on a cool cool night / looking around it's awful bright / I never thought I could be so strong / I'm shaking just like I've never seen the light." The hallucinatory track 'The Morning' is the most topical song on the album and it's an instrumental! (if you've been there, you know exactly what I mean... if not, I can't help you). 'My Umbrella' is so cute you'll want to pinch your stereo's cheeks. 'On the Ground' and 'Blown Away' give me the closest thing to a Jane's buzz on this release... each rocks at an alternating fast and slow pace. A song berating TV preachers ('Triangle') is straight up old school rock 'n roll. TD was even kind enough to throw on one of those nifty secret tracks bands love so much these days. It's a Dr. Suess-meets-Lucy in the Sky-in-the-Land of the Lost kinda spoken word thing about a girl named Pink Jelly.
Reader Comments
tripping@whoever.com (Erik, TD Webmaster)
One minor correction in the facts... Bill was originally released in 1992 on Dragon Street Records here in Dallas (good luck finding a copy) and after the Island signing was remastered and re-released.ELECTRIPPER@prodigy.net (Russell E Biart)
Also, one song was deleted from the playlist when re-released by Island... a cover of "Green Tambourine"...but I can't remember the original band!Teamslack@aol.com
"Green Tambourine" on the Dragon Street version of "Bill" was originally done by the Lemon Pipers.
Get It On... Live - Island 1994
This little live ep is interesting but inconsequential when compared to TD's studio work. It doesn't enhance or detract anything from the Daisy catalog. Live versions of 'Blown Away' and 'On the Ground' are here plus three cool tracks unavailable elsewhere: 'Get It On,' 'It's Safe, It's Social' and a cover of Bad Religion's 'We're Only Gonna Die'. Delaughter's brief improv moment in the middle of 'Get It On' is trippy and belligerent but not quite in that entertaining Gibby Haines sorta way.
Reader Comments
Hudson, Meredith
I have to put in a good word for this CD because, for me, it captured *some* of the magic of an early- to mid-90's Tripping Daisy show. You haven't lived until you have been a part of a hopping swarm jumping up and down to "Get It On" live, and that sound and energy were delivered on this short disk. Maybe someday again. . .
* I Am An Elastic Firecracker Island 1995 *
This one starts strong with 'Rocketpop' and maintains its stamina through eleven songs (to the end of 'Prick'), before finishing on a mellow note with 'High'. This is a great album, easily their best effort. The transitions are tight and inspired and fun literally spills from your speakers. If you're like me, you'll discover yourself grinning helplessly during certain tracks.
TD's experimenting with tempo and transitioning reaches a fevered pitch here creating a selection of tracks that, individually, sound like two or three different songs wound into one. 'Bang' is my favorite tune on the album with the coolest transitions of all. It bounces back and forth effortlessly from fast to slow, from loud to soft. And it rocks. 'Motivation' is a swirly number that defies even Floydian analysis... it's just a trip and could cure your next headache without medication. Legend has it the short but effective 'Trip Along' is the first tune Delaughter wrote way back when and it appears here in it's final perfected form. 'Prick' seems as ambitious as Jane's Addiction's 'Three Days'. It's a long, emotionally captivating number about a friend on heroin. I like 'Noose' because it has a stoned-jazz-band-in-a-seedy-bar ambiance to it with a slap-in-the-face chorus that keeps you from floating away yourself.
Elastic Firecracker ain't perfect. However, if you can forgive the weak soloing effort in the latter half of 'Piranha' and the awkward uptempo bridge toward the end of 'Prick,' this'll enable you to enjoy the rest of the album which, in my mind, hits most of its marks with gusto and dramatic flare.
Still haven't seen these guys live yet (Hey TD! Get your butts up to Seattle again!). I imagine all of this music is just awesome live.
Reader Comments
jester1@cookeville.total-web.net (the mad jester)
I'll have to disagree with a few things here. All in all, it was an excellent review of what is easily the best representation of Tripping Daisy's ability to write songs with interesting changes that don't call attention to the changes as much as make you flow with them. But when you say that the bridge of prick is awkward, it just doesn't seem that way to me. Prick starts out with a type of tired anger and builds until they're just thrashing away at what could be considered a classic "metal" - style solo and they build and build until the solo smoothly transitions into the strange slower, but still slightly upbeat release of the last of this anger before he moves into the ultra mellow, almost exhausted feel wherein he invites his friend to come back because "it's been too long since you've been away, brother". And the music expresses this almost apathetic welcoming of the friend at least as well as the lyrics. The song has to be taken as a whole. If anything is awkward, it is the free time at the end which seemed to just be thrown in for "grunge-rock" effect.mattro@raptorial.com (Mattro)
I just discovered that if you remove Elastic's disc holder in the CD case, you'll find the previously unavailable lyrics to Bill printed on the inside of the case's liner. One thing I dig about Daisy is they seem to enjoy deconstructing the format, Jack.margaritatropezando@terra.com
Hey man,thanks for the tip i'm from mexico and i've been listening TP since 94 they were a great band[the best].sometimes i don't understand some of the lyrics,especially the ones on "BILL" i just read about how you found it and finally can sing along to it...........GRACIAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!StricklandT@coppercolorado.com (Todd Strickland)
Prick has one of the best guitar solos of the 90's in my opinion, music of this age started to move away from solos but the one in Prick is for the ages!
Gum Product - self-produced 1995?
This is a VHS videotape Daisy made for their fans around the time of i am an ELASTIC FIRECRACKER's debut. The tape quality is not professional. Some of the footage looks like it was recorded off of cable TV with a standard VCR. But that's irrelevant. This video is a priceless document of Daisy's 1991-1995 period. Gum Product contains all of the videos the band had made up until that point... interviews with the band members (including one from before Bill had even been released!)... live concert footage... behind the scenes footage of TD's ELASTIC recording sessions... and TV appearances on MTV's 120 Minutes and Late Night w/Conan O'Brien.
The videos: 'Lost or Found', 'My Umbrella', 'Blown Away', 'I Got a Girl', 'Piranhas' and what looks like a rough edit of 'Sigmund & The Seamonsters/Friends' (which may have never been officially released). The live performances: a show where Tim converses with a guy drawing on an overhead projector displayed across a large sheet that covers the stage... then show starts --TD jams the opening chords behind the sheet in silhouette until the music hits a crescendo and the sheet disappears causing the crowd to go apeshit; some brief 1992 footage from an all-ages show at the Agorra Ballroom; 'On the Ground' performed live on Late Night w/Conan O'Brien complete w/psychedelic blue screen trippiness as a backdrop; and a great live performance of 'Noose' toward the end of the tape.
The interview and behind-the-scenes segments are scattered throughout the tape. Highlights include: the interview from Conan O'Brien; Tim & Wes hosting 120 Minutes; TD using editing effects to interview themselves; and the aforementioned ELASTIC sessions footage which include an unintended yet very spooky moment of a slow-motion Wes Berggren making scary faces at the camera with song lyrics "you can't rely on a friend who's dead" (from 'Same Dress New Day') playing in the background.
It is extremely unlikely that this exact Gum Product will ever be re-released in DVD or any other upgraded format. NBC and Mtv would never let that happen in any official capacity. If Gum Product is ever to be re-released it will need to remain an under-the-counter limited release for fans only just as this VHS release was. [NOTE TO COLLECTORS: Dubs of this release will be of very poor quality (because the actual Gum Product is of moderate-to-good quality itself. You can tell if you have an original by the TD created label adorning the VHS tapes themselves (that label takes up almost the entire face of the cassette).]
Reader Comments
jeremy95@earthlink.net (Jeremy Leonard)
Hi I live in Dallas and grew up here... My friend shawn used to rave about this band and we've even had a few drinks with them down at lower greenville at the tavern and at a promotional gig at lone star in coppell. My friend had a vhs tape that I loved called gun products I think (or gum)... I called him in Austin and he said it was released right when I am an elastic firecracker came out. I am searching, but am not finding this vhs or dvd.. He lost it : o (Please let me know if you have any info on obtaining this vhs or dvd... I already called Bill's records, they don't have it... Later Flair Hair Jig
Hook Music1 - self-produced 1996
This was a limited cassette-only release available through the Daisy fanclub. It contains 'Cause Tomb Shop,' 'Creature' and 'Boobie the Clown,' songs previously only available on b-sides or not at all. Thrown in for good measure are the psychedelic greeting 'Just a Few Words...' which kicks off the tape; live acoustic versions of Elastic's 'Same Dress New Day' and 'Noose'; and a *Bonus Track* (live acoustic 'My Umbrella' from Bill). Ambient crickets fill out the extra tape at the end of side A.
This is a snappy little release that would've made a great CD. Of course, much of this did end up on the Time Capsule disc, but the presentation of these seven tracks has it's own charming vibe.. interrupted only by having to flip the tape over every ten minutes. Worth trying to find for the acoustic tracks alone.
In Concert - Westwood One 1996
If you can handle the tediously lame Westwood One commercial radio format the presentation of these nine live tracks forces you to endure, you get to enjoy some excellent quality concert recordings of Daisy. The disc has three tracks... each track includes three Daisy tunes paranthecized by commercials and cheezy DJ yammering.
Tracks are 'Rocketpop' - 'Piranha' - 'Lightning Strikes Twice' - 'Blown Away' - 'Trip Along' - 'I Got a Girl' - 'Raindrop' - 'Step Behind' - and 'On the Ground'. The versions here kick butt and provide a brief glimpse into how Tripping Daisy's songs evolve into live creatures with identities entirely separate from their studio ancestors.
I obtained this via on-line auction. Haven't seen it anywhere else.
At first glance this is a thrown together six song ep of some kind, a collection of odds and ends Daisy had been recording but not releasing on their albums. But this off year release is more than that. Time Capsule is presented as if it were a children's TV show with an exuberant host exhorting the audience to listen along and draw pictures.
The ep opens with a cover of PIL's 'Rise'. I've only heard the original song a couple of times but, for the life of me, I can't tell if this Daisy version is faster or slower than the PIL version. It messes with my head. Dust this song for prints... there's almost no sign of PIL here at all. 'Creature' is a song that creeps in like a hallucination and goes on a full minute and a half before it is joined by the lyrics (the liner notes inform us Daisy used to open their shows with this moody number and DeLaughter would enter the stage dressed like Liberace). It has groovy transitions going for it. Next you get a grungy peak into the life of 'Boobie the Clown.' There's a ten minute long secret track at the beginning of the disc! (It's not a great song, but see if you can find it anyway). The remaining three tracks are filler culled from early demos and misc. b-sides of Daisy singles.
Reader Comments
JaneSaysLA@cs.com (Lori)
How is there a secret track at the beginning??? and how can anyone possibly find it??? Please tell me. THANKS (Janes Addiction is my second favorite band next to TD).mattro@raptorial.com (Mattro)
Alright... I'll spill it. As soon as track one begins hit your rewind/search button and hold it down. If you have a versatile CD player, it will allow you to scan backwards -10:27 (or something like that). The song is called "Disgruntled Customer" (there's reference to it on the CD liner).
Jesus Hits Like The Atom Bomb - Island 1998
Don't let the title fool you, this ain't no revival record. This is easily the swirliest album Daisy has released yet. At times the sonic assault approaches overload, but I think that's the point. The synthesizer plays a huge role on this Tripping album and there are bells and banjos to boot.
'Waited a Light Year' has an aura of melancholy about it and then turns its frown upside down giving way to a cacophony of off-Beach Boys psychedelic harmonia. 'Mechanical Breakdown' jumps off the starting block three strides ahead of its closest competitor and mugs you during the chorus. 'Your Socks Have No Name' and 'Geeareohdoubleyou' have strange lyrics that ramble on like the transcript from a rubber room debate between Rokie Erickson and Syd Barrett. 'Our Drive to the Sun,' the first part of a two song medley, has a Stan Ridgway thing happening in parts and "Human Contact" has a slow-paced stoney White Album-ish groove going on (I wonder if Tim sang the latter while lying on the floor).
For the life of me, I cannot pick out one track that would make for an Mtv-friendly video (they're trying to shop 'Sonic Bloom' but I haven't seen it on there yet). The songs on Jesus are square pegs to eMpTyV's round hole. I suppose the world's foremost music-TV-station-that-doesn't-really-play-music-anymore could surprise us and place one of these strange Daisy tunes into rotation, but I doubt they will buck their conventional Poof Daddy/Backdoor Boys wisdom.
Daisy themselves love this album like a prodigal child. In my lame meaningless opinion this isn't Daisy's shining moment at all... Jesus is glossed so smooth I slipped right off of it. And the overall sound is a bit too imitative of NW bands like Built to Spill and Quasi who have been spinning this type of '90s alterna psychedelia for years now in a much more raw and effective form.
Reader Comments
mattro@raptorial.com (Mattro)
Okay, okay okay... it's a year later (summer 1999) and I've been playing the crap out of this disc lately. The damned thing is stuck in my brain. I have changed the rating of Jesus Hits... from a 6 to an 8. This is an enjoyable, well-crafted set of tunes.youngerslower@hotmail.com (inny eyez)
Funny; I think Jesus Hits is my favorite album of all time... it speaks the language of the mystic poet; every cryptic word is a window to Tim's hearty, silly, magnificent grasp of the teachings of the chemically induced satori... Your Socks and g.r.o.w. aren't insane or indecipherable in the least (although 8 Ladies may be, and New Plains Medicine is). I'd much rather hear a song like Field Day Jitters or Mechanical Breakdown than Trip Along; this album captures so much of what it's like being upside in, and what to learn coming back to Earth, I sometimes burst into spontaneous tears/cheers of joy while listening to it. I'd upgrade it again, and downgrade firecracker.Spikewound@aol.com (Jason)
I've seen or heard a clarification of the meaning of "8 Ladies". Apparently the band went into a restaurant, and some ladies that had been drinking began chirping at the boys...seemingly because they looked so different from the others. And the ladies laughed so hard their make-up started to run. also, you should add the daisy catalogue to your main page! why not? fun site.
Abhor a Roaring Alice - (bootleg) 1998
Some clever soul (my guess is a hardcore TD fan) took the Time Capsule ep and added to it every other Daisy b-side, live track, and cover tune he/she could get his/her hands on (and then charged me way too much for it. Alas, I have no one to blame but myself for opening my wallet).
The disc is maxed to 72 minutes and there are some great tracks on here. The 10 minute secret track from the ep wasn't included, but many cool cover tracks were: Daisy turns Judas Priest's 'Electric Eye' into a surf tune, reworks Harry Nilsson's 'Jump Into the Fire,' and pays homage to Frank Sinatra with 'Cartoon Bikini' (the band's ode to 'My Way' w/altered lyrics). They also do a medley of tunes from the 1970s Krofft TV show 'Sigmund and the Seamonsters'. 'Margarita Tropendzando' has a south-of-the-border tourist trap feel to it and is sung entirely in Espanol. The three live tracks ('It's Safe, It's Social' - 'Get It On' - and 'We're Only Gonna Die') are taken from the Live - Get It on ep.
I have no idea how many of these were made or where you can find a copy (probably have to use the 'net as I did), but I strongly recommend this disc if you can find it. Being the slavish collector that I am, I would've eventually hunted down each of these tracks in their original form (and probably should have to respect each projects' individual integrity), but it sure was nice to have the collecting done for me for a change. It felt like I was on vacation or something.
Reader Comments
vesscular@juno.com (Gof and the Coconut Monkey)
in case you're curious, the original sources of the tracks on that cd are: Judas Priest's 'Electric Eye' is from a Come On Feel the Metal compilation - a 2 cd set full of covers of metal bands.... Harry Nilsson's 'Jump Into the Fire' is from The Craft movie Soundtrack (pretty easy to find if you look) 'Sigmund and the Seamonsters' is off of the Saturday Morning - Cartoon's Greatest hits comp (also fairly easy to find) 'Cartoon Bikini' is on the POPaganda comp...you can still get this from amazon.com if i remember right... I believe on all those they're compilation cd's with just that one tripping daisy track on it and that's it from them but i'm stumped on 'Margarita Tropendzando'....if you know what it's from, please let me know! Thanks for the info on In Concert - Westwood One - i didn't know this existed before! (nor the Abhor a Roaring Alice) thanks also for the differences between the dragon street and island releases of Bill....i bought my copy before they got signed and never knew there was a difference between the two...i might just find myself a copy and see what "remastering" was done...oh, and you seem to have contradicted yourself...you say the secret track was left off of island's release (when talking about dragon st.) but then you mention it in your review (of island's)....mattro@raptorial.com (Mattro)
The track left off of Island's version of Bill is 'Green Tamborine'. The secret track made the transition.Hudson, Meredith
Case cracked, I think. "Margarita Tropenzando" appears on the "I Got a Girl" 12-inch vinyl single, along with "Cause Tomb Shop" and "Noose." I don't know if it appeared anywhere else, but it's on there for sure.secretteabagger@hotmail.com (james ptm)
"Margarita Tropendzando" was also featured on the Tales from the Edge, Vol. 11 compilation.
The Tops Off Our Head - Good 1999
Having parted company with Island Records, Daisy self-produced this ep on their own label, Good Records. Although there are technically seven songs on this disc, there is only one programmable 22 minute track. This makes playing the CD a very specific experience with a designated beginning and end (you'll have to fast forward in search mode if you want to find a favorite song). Five of the pieces were improvised in the studio and the other two (including a version of "Never My Love" by the Association) were arranged beforehand.
Tops is interesting as a study of organic, stream-of-consciousness music. The stripped down nature of Tops is quite a radical departure from Jesus Hits. But it leaves me looking forward to their next big production (the eponymous Tripping Daisy, due out Fall of '99). Tops Off Our Head is for Daisy fans only, just as the artists intended it to be by making it available only through their website.
Reader Comments
StricklandT@coppercolorado.com (Todd Strickland)
I would love to know where I might could get my hands on this album. I have been a TD fan for a long long time, I grew up in Big D so I was lucky enough to see these guys in concert about 10 times! Also another question for you. DO you remember any of the songs they performed before the release of JHLTAB? This was when they would play around Deep Ellum as anonymous "fishing lures". These were some of my all time favorites and I still catch myself singing some of these songs in my head. I could never find anyone who knew whether or not these were recorded, and they probably weren't, but you seem as though you knew TD well enough to know if they exist or not.mattro@raptorial.com (Mattro)
Any TD fans out there want to share their recordings of the shows Todd mentions above?
This disc was scheduled to be released in November, 1999. Plans changed after Daisy guitarist Wes Berggren died just before Halloween. Obviously this tragic event took the wind right out of Daisy's sails and stunned their fans. In December, Tim Delaughter announced that Berggren was too big an element of the band's spirit to replace. The surviving members decided to close the door on Daisy and move on. (Band members will continue to run Good Records and produce new releases from their own future projects and from bands they like).
Thus, Tripping Daisy the album is an unintended posthumous release. Originally planned to be a 12 song release, Daisy added 2 additional tracks shortly after Berggren's death: 'Community Mantra' (the last tune they recorded with Berggren) and 'Soothing Jubilee' (a previously unfinished track completed with the help of Don Berggren - Wes' Dad - playing a Fender Rhodes). The extra tracks plus a "secret" track tacked on to the end of track 14, makes Tripping Daisy 60 minutes long; an hour of pure joy despite the sadness surrounding this release.
One thing that has always struck me about Daisy, though I barely made mention of it above, is how optimistic their music is. These guys felt good about life and let this feeling flow through the music they created. Somehow they pulled this off without lame Bobby McFerrin-style 'Don't Worry Be Happy' mundanity nor with angst and trendy self-loathing of other bands. I can think of only two Daisy songs that were even close to the brooding cynical subject matter of their '90s industry peers: 'Triangle' on Bill and 'Prick' on Elastic.
Daisy were a happy-go-lucky bunch to be sure but they always managed to rock with intensity. I've always enjoyed this about them. It's nice not to have to reach back twenty-five years or more to find upbeat guitar rock with mostly positive lyrics. Tripping Daisy the album is no exception. From the opening tracks 'Community Mantra' and 'Kids are Calling' thru to the closer 'The Sudden Shift Worried Him'... each and every track is a celebration of the vital playful energy in us all. This isn't to say Daisy never wrote a melancholy song... they most certainly did, even here. Tracks like 'Drama Day Weekend' and 'Tragiverse' contain hints of sadness within them as do several earlier Daisy tunes. But where frustration is the back drop of, say, a Nirvana song... hope is what's woven into a Daisy song. This is a beautiful thing! It makes you smile and, let's face it, smiling's fun.
From 'I Am Good': "I'm okay, you're okay, we're okay / I am good, you are good, we are good". Say no more!
So now you know this is happy music, but don't forget to trip out on these well crafted tunes. They are as swirly, mesmerizing and psychedelic as anything Daisy has done. It's hard to accept there will be no groovy new Daisy music or live shows from now on. Wes, you are missed indeed... As for the demise of the great Tripping Daisy, all I can say is I am hopeful (as I always am when a favorite band breaks up) that a collection of their rarities will surface someday. Until then...
Thanks Daisy, for all the great music!!
Reader Comments
jmaston79@earthlink.net (Jason Maston)
I have been blessed with so many things, none of which has impacted me as much as Tripping Daisy's music. This is a truly beautiful album from start to finish. It begins with a swell of white knows and ends with a very soothing outro. Since 1992, Tripping Daisy has become one of the most truly talented bands in Dallas. Through the years the sound has been redefined and matured into what you can hear on their new self titled album. A stereophonic experience, Daisy goes back to the days of a headphone opus. Beautifully mixing instruments where they pan from one ear to another. You will not be disappointed.Thank you Tim, Mark, Ben, Phil, and very special thanks to Wes "the bear' Berggren.dlhamann@earthlink.net (Laura)
I had the great pleasure of being a good friend of Wes' during high school. I just have to say that Wes is truly missed. He was the dearest friend, a super smart person (valedictorian!) and super duper talented (how many of you knew he was drum major of the marching band?). I videotaped Wes and Tripping Daisy in front of Bills records several years ago doing a free concert. I will cherish this tape forever, as well as the ever-so-fond memories I keep of my dear friend. Laura
Other sites that would interest a Tripping fan:
The
Official Tripping Daisy Website. Lots of stuff happens here: song streams...
loads of images... an online store... bulletin board... a chat room... you should
be there now, fool!
Here's a simple Tripping
Daisy Discography I threw together for ya...
There's little doubt these guys grew up on Sid
& Marty Krofft.