Merry Christmas!

I present to you the ghost of Christmas past - TDU style!

We gave away quite a few of these the year we recorded them...

We aren't doing Christmas songs tonight at Bohemeo's (www.bohemeos.com),
so I thought I'd give them to you here...

enjoy!

1. Joy to the World
2. We Three Kings
3. Sitting on Santa's Lap
4. HARK!

I present to you - complete for the first time anywhere -
the only studio album ever recorded by any version
of The Defenestration Unit anywhere...
Recorded under the guidance of Mr. Tim Kerr
at The Sweatbox in Austin - we spent the band fund on
recording it - and then that version of the band broke up...
We were never quite sure what to do with it...
Well, I went and sequenced it tonight,
compressed it a bit, and "screw"ed around with one song
(you'll know it when you hear it)...

We recorded all weekend.
Tim had us record tracks of us making noise
and whooping and hollering and such
over the tunes when we were done...
I was so delirious by the time we got to
"leroy's groove" that they had to cut that track
pretty early on as I became very obnoxious
almost right away!
go me!

anyway,
this is not "the definitive sweatbox sessions"
because there probably never will be one,
but it's a version
of what that album may have sounded like...

1. Asskicker Jones
2. Earth
3. HPW
4. Space is the Place
5. Caravan
6. In 6
7. I Put a Spell on You
8. Leroy's Groove

TDU was:
Charlie Naked - Saxophones
Kid Ornery - Trombone
Jack Babylon - Trumpet
Jim Otterson - Guitar
Leroy Bell - Bass
Vaughan Boone - Drums

w/ Carl Smith - Sax on "Space is the Place" and "Earth"

enjoy!

Ever since I started home recording I knew I'd do a cover of this album at some point. It changed my life...
I've worked on it off and on over the years and finally, maybe a year ago, I was done with it...
well, here it is.

It's all me, except for some drum samples of Vaughan Boone.

1. 1969
2. I Wanna Be Your Dog
3. We Will Fall
4. No Fun
5. Real Cool Time
6. Ann
7. Not Right
8. Little Doll

some tracks I'm happier with than others,
but at least it's done,
and now it is out there...

enjoy!

here's another interesting mix o' craziness from the hard drive of Kid Ornery:

1. Avijit - Exclusive Tanning
2. The Defenestration Unit - Little Things Get Bigger
3. Kid Ornery - Georgia - from the mythic and presumed lost "accomodation" sessions
4. Friends - Beat10 - another presumed abandoned project - though it may be revived one day...
5. Something to close with - synapse - synapse was Robert Pearson, David Maddox, Kid Ornery, and I think on this recording, Dan McMahon...

A rarity here at Kid Ornery presents,
a podcast full of music I don't play on.
I asked Charlie Naked to compile some Fist of Kong for me...
and here it is...
I do play with FOK occasionally, just not on any of these tracks...
but you'll enjoy them anyway.

This is in honor of Charlie Naked starting his own podcast over at http://charlienaked.podomatic.com

check it out!!!

FOK PODCAST, November 16, 2006:
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1. 4th Piece, July 11, 2006: Charlie Naked, Danny McMahon, Jim Otterson, Robert Pearson, Rose Lange, Melisa Rose, John Atlas
2. Second Duet, June 13, 2006: Charlie Naked, Danny McMahon
3. 2nd Piece, August 8, 2006: Charlie Naked, Danny McMahon, Robert
Pearson, Melisa Rose, Tom Zermeno
4. 4th Piece, August 30, 2006: Charlie Naked, Danny McMahon, John Atlas

Here's last week Bohemeo's gig...
more or less...

TDU is was -
Charlie Naked - Saxamaphones, Percussion, etc.
Mike Switzer - Trombone, Percussion, etc.
Jim Otterson - Guitar, etc.
Tom Zermeno - Percussion, Vox, etc.
Jeff Miller - Bass, etc.
Kirk Suddreath - Drums, Percussion, etc.

The pic is from one of our shows at Helios -
from l to r
Lisa, Lara, Dawn, Ruth
all amazing women,
and all TDU fans...

Come see us on Wednesdays...

www.bohemeos.com

We're playing every Wednesday at Bohemeo's (www.bohemeos.com)
Here's some tracks from our storied past:

1. From a rehearsal with Candace Vincent - 12/11/05
2. Closing Remarks - Dark Haggis
3. Breakin' 3 - Party Tricks
4. Surplus Cheese - Wednesday Night - Live at Mary Jane's

you can buy TDU cd's from Charlie's Cafepress page...

www.cafepress.com/charlienaked

Here's some random goodies from the hard drive...

enjoy!

1. Kid Ornery - The New #2 - unreleased
2. Avijit - Dirge for the Benelux - The Mysterious Avijit E.P.
3. Charlie Naked - Oh Comely - Aeroplane (a multimedia dance exploration of Neutral Milk Hotel's "In the Aeroplane over the sea")
4. Last Bastions - Clowns are Scary - Grovel and Wait
5. The Defenestration Unit - The School District Swing - Double Speed will Make us Famous Vol 2
6. Lonely Woman - Kid Ornery - Accomodation

This is for the dancing girls
and the piano guy
and the other guy
not that one guy though
the one who played
and brought
his family
and then left
and took
them with him
when he
was done...

it's not for him.

TDU is/was/whatever:

Charlie Naked - Saxophones, mouthpieces, percussion, etc.
Kid Ornery - Trombone, Vocals, etc.
Jim Otterson - Guitars, etc.
Jeff Miller - Bass, etc.
Tom Madcarrots - Percussion, etc.
Kirk "Monkeyboy" Suddreath - Drums, percussion, etc.

Here's a brief sampler of the work of "The Adding Machine Band".
They are under the direction of Charlie Naked and feature:
Charlie Naked - Guitar
Ken Watkins - Guitar
Jeff Miller - Bass
Ruthie Langston - Cello
Pete Sullivan - Saxophones
Phil Krieg - Theremin
Tom Zermeno - Percussion

They are providing all the music and sound effects for my production of Elmer Rice's "The Adding Machine". They are also providing all the pre-show music - and here's a sample of them practicing for that...

enjoy, and come see one of the last two performances if yr in Houston...

Kid Ornery

Terribly busy with "The Adding Machine" but here's 30 or so minutes with the first "improv" group Charlie Naked and I put together...
It's much more riff/song based, but everything you hear here is a first take with no discussion of what we're playing before we start...
Well, Mozo X did overdub the voz on "kissing ann magnuson" - our little tribute to Bongwater...

1. Nicoderm
2. Freakout Luau '68
3. Searching for my Flashlight
4. Kissing Ann Magnuson
5. John Bell

All these tracks are available on various Avijit Cd's - http://www.cafepress.com/charlienaked

if yr in H-town come see "The Adding Machine" - http://www.myspace.com/theaddingmachine

the pictue has nothing to do with "avijit" but I'd rather look at Jenni, Melissa and Aileen...wouldn't you?

William Switzer was Jason Bill and Mike Switzer (Kid Ornery's given name).
We released one CD - The Illusion of Technique - on Fleece Records...
The critics, well, they mostly ignored it, but some, well, some hated it.
The girl I dated for a brief period after we recorded it asked if we were depressed at the time, and if we were listening to what we were doing...
and of course we think it's a fun record, and we were listening as closely as either of us were capable of at the time...
This is our last duo session - probably recorded at the Charalambihouse.
I also have unreleased trio sessions with Dave Dove, and Heather Murray.
Just got a call from a friend saying that Christina Carter will be on the next DJ Shadow record...
crazy...
I need to see if I can contact her about releasing some of the CCM recordings - Christina Carter, Charlie Naked, Mike Switzer - some of her earliest piano work and all kinds of interesting noises.
But anyway, back to William Switzer...
We were awesome and sometimes unlistenable...but mostly awesome.
Jason went on to record with Jack Rose and Migrantes...
I went on to do all the crazy stuff you've been listening too on previous eps of this podcast...
and now - I'm directing a play - http://www.myspace.com/theaddingmachine
and Charlie Naked along with members of TDU, Free Radicals, Infant Mortality Rate and Friendship Bracelets (among others) are making the music for the show...
should be amazing...
blah blah blah...
just listen to the craziness already -
4 tracks
various instrumentation

K.O.

Yes, it's true...
more TDU for you...
this time with our sister band - Fist of Kong
FOK is Charlie Naked and Danny McMahon -
with - Tom Zermeno, Robert Pearson, John Atlas, Rose Lange, Jim Otterson, Mike Switzer...
then we turn into TDU and add Jeff Miller and Kirk "Monkeyboy" Suddreath
we all play together for a bit of "Space is the Place" then nonTDU folks leave for the most part...though I think John and Rose kept playing with us.
The piece starts with Charlie and Danny doing their best Don Cherry, with Charlie on bamboo clarinet and Danny playing some kind of tiny harp...
anyway, check it out...
it was a good show...
and it was the night of the Gay Pride parade - hence the title...

TDU's big one-oh continues...
We played a gig today that was a benefit for HPPL (www.HPPL.org) - upstairs at Helios (www.heliosrising.org) and...
well...
here it is...

1. Saturn on Taft
2. Back to Earth

Charlie Naked, Kid Ornery, Jim Otterson, Tom Zermeno, Jeff Miller, and Kirk "Monkeyboy" Suddreath

I know, I know...
I promised you TDU for the rest of June,
well that's before I knew Justin Crane
(AKA The Electric Prince) was leaving town...
so here's yr bonus non-tdu related podcast...

Justin plays on all this stuff:

Goodbye Electric Prince

1. Guitar/Tromone 1 - E.P./K.O. - unreleased
2. Searching For My Flashlight - Avijit - File Under...
3. Guitar/Tromone 2 - E.P./K.O - unreleased
4. ...and on drums, Justin Crane - Avijit - Live and Intimidated
5. Guitar/Tromone 3 - E.P./K.O - unreleased
6. You're a Freak - E.P./K.O. - Sugar Shack cover - unreleased
7. Guitar/Tromone 4 - E.P./K.O - unreleased
8. Pennies From Heaven - The Magic Bullets - unreleased rehearsal tape

bands I was in with Justin that aren't represented include Wheat, and Silver City Trading Post, and others I'm sure...

Time once again for another installment of "Kid Ornery Presents..."
digging once again into the vaults of TDU I present this audio collage
time travel experience...the years of TDU melt away, change, etc...
This one features some vocalizations, lots of theremin, and a funk instrumental in the middle...

Part 3 of TDU's 10th Anniversary Series

1. 2 minutes w/ Ms. C.V. - 12/11/05 Rehearsal Tapes

2. Chocolate Meat - Double Speed Will Make Us Famous - Vol 1

3. The Cold Beauty of the Rugged Martian Terrain -
The Wooly Monkey as "Mona"

4. Tales of Brave Foolysses - We Travel the Freeways

5. Asskicker Jones - Sweatbox

6. Little Things Get Bigger - That Old Time Crazy Jazz

7. The Headhunter at Home - Double Speed Will Make Us Famous - Vol 2

8. Closing Remarks - Dark Haggis

http://kidornery.podOmatic.com

http://kidornery.podOmatic.com/rss2.xml

This one is a little early because I'm thinking of a bonus non-TDU specific podcast midweek,
and then another TDU at the end of the week in preparation for our shows Saturday and Sunday.

anyway,
enjoy!

Part Two of TDU's 10 Year Anniversary Series - A brief totally random overview of TDU history - in more than one part

1. Even Dwarfs Started Small (excerpt) - from
"Massage The Joint"

2. We Three Kings - from "A TDU Christmas"

3. Screaming Hell - from "Drenched by Rain and Reverb"

4. Leroy's Groove/Will the Circle be Unbroken - from "Sweatbox"

5. Never been fond of the water - From "TDU060406"

A mix of several different periods of The Defenestration Unit...
the last bit being from a recent practice...

The Defenestration Unit celebrates our 10 year anniversary this month...
so the rest of June will be TDU month here at the house of Ornery.

This recording comes from a brief period in the bands life when we played songs and had a singer.
She's under contract now, so I won't mention her name, but she's awesome...
We brought her in to do "Theme de Yoyo" and that sounded so good we added the Nina Simone cover - next thing ya know we were working up a set, and soon free jazz legends, TDU, were an R&B/Soul band...

The picture is at least the right horn section, even if it is from a different gig...

next week classic TDU, something from Sweatbox, and a preview of the newest NEW TDU!!!

Track Listing:

1. Feeling Good
2. Theme De Yoyo
3. Breath of Fresh Air
4. All Mine
5. Space is the Place/Transmission

ENJOY!!!

Thought I'd combine the themes of the last two podcasts and give you what may be the last bastions only cover. This piece was comissioned by trombonist David Dove and later released in a private edition of 17.
It includes the quietest music we've ever played (the begining and end), a beatles cover (the whole thing) and us playing in front of people who were not expecting us (the horns were recorded on the streets of downtown houston on a Friday night.)
I'm pretty proud of this one.
Hope you enjoy it.

Two unfinished Last Bastions projects combined with one track from "Music for Bathing" (w/ Ben Lind).
Last Bastions are Kid Ornery and Charlie Naked.
Songs were meant to have singers, but we never found any...
The "Music for Bathing" track has vocals which makes it as songlike as anything in our catalog...
You'll get points as soon as ya hear 'em...
very process oriented pieces...

A collection of covers from Kid Ornery and friends...

1. 1969 - Kid Ornery
2. I Save Cigarette Butts - Ornery (kid ornery, charlie naked, justin crane)
3. It's all over now baby blue - Kid Ornery and Jack Babylon
4. Caravan - The Defenestration Unit
5. Pretty Singing Boys - Kid Ornery w/Charlie Naked
6. Penetration - The Slightly Nervous Boys w/Bliss Blood
7. Space is the Place - The Defenestration Unit
8. Anne - Kid Ornery
9. Venus in Furs - Charlie Naked and Kid Ornery