In '91, just as Material Issue's debut album, International Pop Overthrow, was hitting the streets, the band earned a hard-won victory of sorts and became the first-ever band to be endorsed by Musician magazine. The first fruit of this union was a promotional cassette that was sent to all Musician magazine subscribers. It was dubbed "Chatter" and included snippets of a half dozen or so tracks from the album as well as some insightful (and not so much, but entertaining nonetheless) between-song banter wherein Jim Ellison, Ted Ansani, and Mike Zelenko talk about all things Ish.
Due to the promotional nature of this particular release, and the fact that it was limited to Musician subscribers (and only on cassette), it is fairly hard to come by these days.
Here is the entirety of "Chatter" in three parts:
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
2 comments:
Huge thanks for MP3'ing these! I have this cassette and it was my proper introduction to the band that would rock my world from that moment on. My friends and I were recently discussing great second acts from band members who later stepped up to the mic (Dave Grohl, Chris Mars, Kim Deal, Bernard Sumner, Albert Hammond Jr., that British Sea Power guy who formed Brakes....). Ted Ansani belongs on that list - his debut EP showed a lot of promise and other songs he's sung live are even better. Here's hoping we hear more from him so the flame of the ISH can live on.
I was looking for pictures of Material Issue (to go with some live bootleg stuff I had found on another blog) when I found your post about "Chatter" (Wednesday, January 02, 2008) which I didn't even know existed.
First, it looks as if those links expired. Is there any way you could send me new links for this?
Second, I love your blog and your taste in music. Cheap Trick, School of Fish, Joan Jett... Whoa!
I'm Glad to hear the Cancer situation is well. It must be odd to have a complete stranger sending congratulations, but after reading a number of the posts on your blog i'm guessing that is the least of the odd things going on right now. ;-)
Now that I found it, I'll be checking the blog regularly!
(I tried emailing you at the address on the blog - darren@darrenrobbins.com. - but it came back undeliverable.
Feel free to edit this post, or not even post it all, if you want.)
Todd
glaeserlhs@gmail.com
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