There's also a Yips 7" on that blog too...

thanks for the heads up on the link and the rad blog!

More/longer threads about Jim Shepard, yes plz

I have two items. Once V3 were playing at Bernie's. The dopes in the audience were totally oblivious. I was sitting at a table talking to Don Howland, who wadded up a napkin and tossed it at some kid at the next table. V3 kicked into "Photograph Burns" and all of them were totally in the zone, eyes closed, heads leaned back, it was fucking awesome. That's one of my best memories of them.

One of our worst gigs when I was in the Slave Apts, we opened for V3 at this new bar Desantis opened on the corner of 11th and High called Moran's Speakeasy, a cheap attempt to pull some of the old Apollo's clientele. The stage was miniscule, tucked right up against the windows along the street. First time Nora hit the cymbal, my ear was fried for the rest of the set. We sucked, and the sound was horrible. There were only about 3 other people there besides the bands and bartender. I can't even remember V3's set.

V3 played a show at Quisno's (or whatever it was then called), on Chittenden around the corner from the old Singin' Dog with New Bomb Turks, that was a good one. Sorry I can't think of anything more to tell.

other local stuff on that blog:

(w/ jim shephard)

anybody know who this blogger is? lots of overlap in our record collections...

Sometimes you just have to wait it out.

I bought 'Photograph Burns' on CD because it seemed like the thing to do. I was the little brother who tagged along with Pale Rider on jaunts to Used Kids and Stache's and to happy hours at Out-R-Inn with Bela. I love(d) music back then that is being played on the retro "mid-90s alt-rock" satellite radio station these days. I probably listened to 'Photograph Burns' two times before putting it on a shelf (it might still be there though something tells me that it ended up back on a Used Kids shelf, $7 or so bucks cheaper than what I originally laid down for the 'major' label release). I might have seen V-3 during that time. Maybe not. I don't remember.

2012. I decided to give 'Photograph Burns' another listen (snagged from a blog) and now it all makes sense. It's music to my ears. It's a master stroke of brilliance and has set me down the endless rabbit hole of Shepard-related material. I'm honestly not sure where to start so I'm open to suggestions. There seems to be some good links in this thread that I intend on following.

Seconded, "Evil Twin" is awesome.

Songwise, "Son of Sam Donaldson" is in my top 10 songs by anybody ever:



Not sure if the links are still live because I'm at work, but this guy posted a ton of Jim Shepard stuff a while back:



Get "Live 97" if it's still there.

Someone needs to put "live '97" on the vinyls.