The Red Crayola - "Transparent Radiation"
The Red Crayola, who later changed their named to The Red Krayola to avoid a lawsuit with those people who make crayons, is Mayo Thompson. He's the only original member and he wrote all the songs to boot. From what I hear "they" are still a band and Mayo is a teacher somewhere here in LA (anyone know where or what he teaches?). "Transparent Radiation" appears in a very bizarre (and borderline annoying) arrangement on the first Red Krayola album "Parable of Arable Land", but this is a stripped down demo version that's 1,000 times better and actually the one that Spacemen 3 covered. The part where Mayo laughs on this song is the best! You can find this with four other Red Crayola demo songs on the label comp "Epitaph For A Legend" along side tracks from 13th Floor Elevators (which for once don't have that retarded jug instrument all their other songs have), Spades (Roky Erickson's other band) who do a version of "You're Gonna Miss Me" that's pretty out of tune, an interview with Roky Erickson (which makes little to no sense and makes it crystal clear why the dude spent time in an insane asylum), Inner Space (who butcher my favorite Led Zeppelin song "Communication Breakdown" in a beautifully punk way), and a bunch of other shit in the same vain that's worth checking out.
He teaches art at Pasadena's Art Center College of Design and I think CalArt. Colleges, Buddyhead tends to stay away from those things like they're the plague or jazz.
Posted by: Tim | Monday, May 02, 2005 at 06:04 PM
College is boot camp for a desk job.
Posted by: Travis Keller | Monday, May 02, 2005 at 06:06 PM
Not going to college is boot camp for nerds to post MP3 blogs.
Posted by: theoneandonly | Monday, May 02, 2005 at 06:14 PM
Any sort of institution like college can be stifling if that's what you make of it, but you can work inside of it, too. As I'm on the verge of graduation high school, my feelings on college are ambivalent, as the only thing I really enjoy is playing music and music degrees are worthless. Whatever, I'll throw on Harvest again.
Posted by: Tim | Monday, May 02, 2005 at 06:25 PM
uh, *graduating. jesus.
Posted by: Tim | Monday, May 02, 2005 at 06:25 PM
Not going to college is boot camp? That doesn't make sense man. Sorry.
Posted by: Travis Keller | Monday, May 02, 2005 at 06:31 PM
After four years of college, it's nothing but prep.school for soul-sucking jobs in the future.
Posted by: Adnan Y. | Tuesday, May 03, 2005 at 12:47 AM
thats why i dropped out. all of my friends are about to graduate and they are scared shitless of the future...
Posted by: jeff | Tuesday, May 03, 2005 at 02:11 AM
This song rules... I was wondering who did it originally. I love the Spacemen 3 version too but I think I'm digging this one even more now. And yeah school IS boot camp for a desk job...
Posted by: Andy The Panda | Tuesday, May 03, 2005 at 02:20 AM
how does that not make sense? You said going to college is boot camp for a desk job, I just added not in front of college and bam...makes perfect sense. Not going to college is boot camp for posting mp3blogs...I mean come on Travis...I thought a music journalist like you would know.......
Posted by: theoneandonly | Tuesday, May 03, 2005 at 09:16 AM
how does that not make sense? You said going to college is boot camp for a desk job, I just added not in front of college and bam...makes perfect sense. Not going to college is boot camp for posting mp3blogs...I mean come on Travis...I thought a music journalist like you would know.......
Posted by: theoneandonly | Tuesday, May 03, 2005 at 09:16 AM
Umm... well let me break it down like this dork... not going to college isn't anything like boot camp cuz you don't gotta do shit... there's nobody telling you what to do like there is in college and boot camp.... and it doesn't suck like college or boot camp... get it now smart guy? Or do I have to make you look even dumber?
Posted by: Travis Keller | Tuesday, May 03, 2005 at 10:33 AM
Haha fuckin' dumbass.
Posted by: Jason | Tuesday, May 03, 2005 at 01:35 PM
really, who gives a fuck if people go to college? its a choice just like anything else. like choosing to be a bum and ask people for cheap vodka and heroin money, or on the other hand, choosing to be a money hungry soul sucking wall street trader.
Posted by: todd | Tuesday, May 03, 2005 at 01:52 PM
Well its ok but better than the spaceman 3 version? Maybe if u are a fuggin hippy!!
Travis whats up with the sound on the Radio MP3 thingy?
Posted by: King Kerching | Tuesday, May 03, 2005 at 01:55 PM
What do you mean "what's up with the sound?"... explain...
Posted by: Travis Keller | Tuesday, May 03, 2005 at 01:57 PM
does anyone else hear a whole shitload of robert pollard/ gbv in this track?
Posted by: todd | Tuesday, May 03, 2005 at 02:11 PM
Bores me, I wish there was better music on here.
Posted by: epfig | Tuesday, May 03, 2005 at 02:22 PM
"like choosing to be a bum and ask people for cheap vodka and heroin money, or on the other hand, choosing to be a money hungry soul sucking wall street trader."
PUNK! AS! FUCK! The music on here excites and arouses me; sentiments like this put my boner back to bed.
Posted by: Tim | Tuesday, May 03, 2005 at 06:19 PM
Nah, this shit is awesome. Parable Of Arable Land is fucking great. If you want some of their rare shit, shoot me an email and I'll get to ripping/posting that.
Posted by: Brandon | Tuesday, May 03, 2005 at 09:50 PM
Man, I don't know how you pull that off...you get to live in L.A., which is expensive as balls, travel, with no 'desk job', and I don't know how you make money off this site. However you do it, congratulations! And dude, why be a dick to someone who gives you free shit to listen to and who's site you obviously love, since you're on it? I'll never understand certain people. Do you wanna piss them off so they start charging or shut it down? damn man.
Posted by: Ryan | Tuesday, May 03, 2005 at 11:45 PM
The Sound.
Well after thinking about it, some of the tracks increase "in" sound volume and quality while others dont. Are u using vinyl?
You do sound though like two geeks talking about their record collection, but thur aint shit wrong wid that.
If anyones interested u can hear new Iccie Line stuff here.
http://www.sepratethesounds.com/
Anyway Travis keep up the good work. Its amazing to hear the Captain go on about how much he loves Glasgow, as thats where I lay my earth dog. yak yak.
Posted by: King Kerching | Wednesday, May 04, 2005 at 08:48 AM
The Captain is a wise man, Glesga kicks airse.
Posted by: mendo | Wednesday, May 04, 2005 at 01:59 PM
the only good thing about college is you can tour 3 months out of the year. the rest of it is complete shit.
- Ryan
Posted by: Ryan R. | Wednesday, May 04, 2005 at 03:40 PM
College is supposed to be such an enlightening experience, but let's be honest here; half the shit you learn in college you'll never use or apply to real life situations. And once you obtain a college degree you have to do a ton of brownnosing to get to a comfortable position in your career.
Posted by: Jason | Friday, May 06, 2005 at 09:20 AM
college is only good for blowjobs, meeting geeks with the same music interest, drugs, booze, blowjobs and coming to terms with more drugs.
Posted by: King Kerching | Friday, May 06, 2005 at 10:30 AM
king kerching got that right.
- Ryan
Posted by: ryan r | Friday, May 06, 2005 at 07:20 PM
Yes do choose to be a "bum", or a traveling vagabond, to put it in nicer words. Everyone is going to die, so why waste the little time you have on Earth at college or a job. Money is not worth anything, status is meaningless...
Posted by: largactyl | Friday, October 21, 2005 at 01:23 AM
http://www.gb0063551.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/anarchopunk/original/woodgreen.jpg
punk!
Posted by: largactyl | Friday, October 21, 2005 at 01:34 AM