Toadcast #82 – FOUND Toad Session
The most enormous difficulty with recording this podcast was that it was monumentally, wonderfully, amazingly sunny and hot outside. So there we were, stuck in our house, trying to play songs and conduct an interview while we were all secretly (and not so secretly) longing to just be out in the back garden. Mrs. Toad was making burgers, you know. Gaaaaah!
I remember when FOUND recorded a show with Marc Riley recently and I got plenty of emails saying that they really weren’t very talkative. Which is odd really, because I didn’t entirely get that kind of impression as we recorded this session or about them in general, but then I listen back to it again and the first few interviewy segments really do take a while to get going. I guess it took a while for Ziggy (who I’d never met before) and myself to figure out exactly how to talk to one another and whether or not we really got on. So that whole dynamic makes for a really good podcast, which gets more and more interesting, from my point of view anyway, as the thing progresses.
They even hint at the mighty Cybraphon, their recent creation, but like a fool I don’t really press them on it too much, having no idea what a splendid great behemoth it was going to turn into.
As usual, all the videos are embedded below and can be seen at the Song, by Toad Vimeo on YouTube pages, along with a portfolio of photos by Dylan from Blueback Hotrod, and Fee on Flickr here. The session tracks can all be downloaded below, and the main interview podcast itself is immediately below. Have fun Toadlings. I am going to sleep like a freshly-slaughtered corpse.
Toadcast #82 – FOUND Toad Session
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FOUND – Mullokian (Toad Session)
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FOUND – You’re No Vincent Gallo (Toad Session)
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FOUND – Anti-Climb Paint (Toad Session)
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Now we’ve got the main session video below, followed by the videos we made for the individual songs (Vimeo are being fucking useless at the moment, but eventually that main video and Gifted won’t be on YouTube).
01. FOUND – Mullokian (Toad Session) (05.11)
02. Grizzly Bear – Two Weeks (09.27)
03. The Avett Brothers – The Greatest Sum (Acoustic) (13.26)
04. FOUND – You’re No Vincent Gallo (Toad Session) (20.39)
05. Animal Collective – Brother Sport (20.32)
06. FOUND – Medley (Toad Session) (36.00)
07. Phil Collins – In the Air Tonight (44.20)
08. Lambchop – Your Fucking Sunny Day (49.11)
09. FOUND – Anti-Climb Paint (Toad Session) (64.29.)
10. FOUND – Gifted (Toad Session) (72.25)
Phil fucking Collins indeed. I can’t believe I got the blame for that.
Anyway, here’s a link to the Wikipedia page about Gated Reverb we were talking about.
Oh, just to clear up that little bit of confusion that comes up during the chat prior to In The Air Tonight; Collins played traditional, acoustic drums for that famous drum intro, and onwards from that point for the remainder of the track. That well-known bit wasn’t actually a drum machine or any sort of electronic kit. It’s that gated reverb recording effect that gives the acoustic drums that distinctive sound.
The more sparse-sounding rhythm part prior to the drums coming in is provided by a Roland CR78 drum machine.
There, that’s better.
You brought it up, so it’s your fault.
Lambchop helps make up for it though.
You could achieve a nice gated reverb sound in your living room.
With your face.
PHIL COLLINS TOAD SESSION!!!
“With your face.”
ha ha ha ha ha ha brilliant!
Which mic did you use for the banjo? Is it the Rode?
I can’t check the videos from here, but if it’s vertical then it’ll be the Rode – NT-1 I think. The super-shiny AKG was Ziggy’s vocal.
God, I hate all this technical chat.
Me me me pay attention to me everyone.
Sorry Dylan. It’s one of those instruments I never get to mic, and so when I know someone who has I like to ask them what they did to I can link the technique to the sound I heard in my head.
I’m quite a boring little man really aren’t I?
Do you have an announcement to make?
Sorry Ben, that 3:06 comment of mine was replying to Matthew’s comment at 3:02.
My comment at 2:54 was very tongue-in-cheek given the first comment I made on this thread.
Secretly, I’m a bit of an equipment geek. I love microphones and cables and mic stands and mixing desks and even some musical instruments.
But, shh!, don’t tell anyone!
now that we’ve established that we are all sorry, I do like the sound of these songs.
Also, did I just hear the words “blowjob girl”. And did you ask people if they’d been to see her? What sort of world have you let yourself get entangled in old chap?
Good, aren’t they?
Have you listened to any of the band’s official releases?
Ben, seriously.
Me and you need to talk about our simultaneous posting. People are going to get entirely the wrong idea!
Ben, I think that might be my fault. When I heard the song title ‘You’re No Vincent Gallo’ my first assumption was that the song was about Brown Bunny – the Vincent Gallo blowjob film.
I had no idea that Vincent Gallo was in a blow job film. Also, I think this is my first exposure to Found. Really lovely stuff.
I think it helps that they are a band that ‘ought’ to be heard sitting around playing together in a small room. But this is lovely.
I’ve seen that Brown Bunny scene. Totally rubbish. I imagine the rest of the film is also. In fact, it’s pretty much a guarantee.
They’re something of a chameleon-like band, if I can say that without sounding like a twat, and seem equally comfortable with a number of different approaches.
They’re very adept at this stripped down, acoustic stuff like we’ve got on the session here, whereas on record the loops and electronica often seem to come much more to the fore.
Then the full-band live show is different again, with rock drums (possibly with gated reverb!), electric guitar and an irresistible funky swagger.
What’s remarkable is how well the same songs take to each different interpretation.
Isn’t he something to with that Californian wine-making family – Ernest and Vincent Gallo?
I always thought the song was about a nice chilled glass of Zinfandel Rosé.
…dripping off someone’s chin.
This is the first time I’d ever heard them play this stripped back, and they didn’t amp it up by much at the Summer Toad night a couple of weeks later, either, and that was fucking brilliant.
Those first two songs in particular are a couple of the best things I’ve heard in ages – absolutely brilliant.
Brilliant session. Looks and sounds great.
beautiful indeed!
and you’ve no idea how lucky you are to be men and not be suspect to be talking about gear… i go up to a guy and ask what kind of guitar he’s playing or what’s that thing called he’d done with his amp and i get that “oh you don’t really wanna know that, little girl” look. arrrgh
now, i’m off to google brown bunny
Yeah Tart, women have it tough.
I can guarantee that at university all the chicks wanted to get with the guy with the mic tech sheets and BBC radio studio technician certification…
Loneliest three years of my life.
Tart – thanks for the link by the way.
Found? lost
Listening on the porch in Texas tonight. This just gets better and fucking better.
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