The Vulgar Boatmen Trade List includes at least one recent-ish show from Schuba’s which I have not heard.

Found while attempting to determine if the VB’s “You Don’t Love Me Yet” is, in fact, one of Dale’s crafty covers (in this case possibly of a Roky Erickson song) or his own original material.

Cars, sitting in the back of the car, Laura’s friends, they are going back to New York, radio’s on…

That’s gotta be Dale.

5 thoughts on “You don't love me yet”

  1. OK, what’s with the overlap here? My wife and I made our first real acquaintance at a Boatmen show, I was the recipient of some pedagogy from Robert Ray, and I took a class/jammed (just once) with the David Glennon mentioned on the All Bands on Deck show.

    Personally, I prefer the Silos to the Boatmen.

  2. Mike, Roky Erickson definitely wrote a song by that name. It’s one of his later masterpieces. check out the big new definitive Roky anthology, I Have Always Been Here Before.

  3. Darn it, Just realized that you had a link to the song. That’s not the Roky Erickson song.

  4. That’s remarkable, Paul.

    Dale has been a musical hero of mine since I was about 12 and he was about 25. His first band, the Gizmos, is my favorite band of all time, and I learned more or less everything I know about music by minutely studying Dale’s songwriting.

    The Boatmen only played Seattle once, at the Croc in 1991 or ’92. I startled Dale by calling out for Gizmos songs.

    I have written extensively about Dale’s music and that of the Boatmen:
    http://mike.whybark.com/archives/000813.html
    http://mike.whybark.com/archives/000814.html
    http://mike.whybark.com/archives/000815.html
    http://mike.whybark.com/archives/000816.html
    http://mike.whybark.com/archives/000817.html
    http://mike.whybark.com/archives/000822.html

    and I’m sure there are more.

    I still need to write about the Gizmos.

    I host music by all othe the above at http://mp3.whybark.com, too.

  5. The musing was inspired by a fairly glowing review-cum-tribute on ATC tonite. I never heard the newer material, but OF COURSE Steve made sure I had at least tapes of all the earlier stuff, and that I knew the legend.

    You’re gonna wake up one morning…

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