shivers13
Joined: Jul 29, 2009
Posts: 2605
Boss Angeles, CA
Posted on Dec 15 2013 10:53 AM
"No Limit"... killer tune!
Onslow_Beach wrote:
Looks like Marcel has added another song that it doesn't appear was released on an album or single. Some cool live performance footage sprinkled in for good measure. Woot! Woot!
Fady
Joined: Mar 07, 2010
Posts: 2252
North Carolina
Posted on Sep 12 2023 01:04 PM
With mixed feelings given early comment about Frank's view of these recordings, granted I'm not the up-loader, I present several more from this era, including a few more tunes named in Ivan's track list earlier in the thread) for the to-be 3rd album: Track 1, "African Theme", Track 10, "Enola Gay" (OMD cover), Track 11 (per upload comments) "Rosa", and what I'll call Track 13b - a second version of "On Her Majesty's Secret Service".
In addition, perhaps some of the "?" placeholders in Ivan's list as tracks 6, 7, (possibly 9?), 12 or 14: "Happy House", "Punch & Judy" ("They recorded this little ditty for the National Puppet Show Foundation", also cited as part of the 'to be album'), "Gamba Sagrada", and "Honda 400 Four".
Also:
- "A Young Girl of 16" / "Een Meisje Van 16" - a cover of Boudewijn De Groot (doing the song originally written by Charles Aznavour)
- "Aurora" a song by The Squires (Neil Young's first band and first ever single!) for a Neil Young Tribute album "This Note's For You Too!"
- "The Holy Land", from a 1992 pre-Treble Spankers band The String Phantoms. This, a western vocal tune from that band that band that had future Treble Spankers Frank Gerritsen on lead guitar and Marcel Kruup on drums.
Enjoy!
PS - @Ivan, if you get the chance to check some of these possible add's to the orginal "3rd album" and update your earlier post with any of song names & track #'s, that'd be amazing!
Fady
Joined: Mar 07, 2010
Posts: 2252
North Carolina
Posted on Sep 12 2023 03:20 PM
You are welcome. Be sure to go back to the first post too, previous songs/videos from the collection also linked. There's not a ton of availability of their official Treble Spankers releases anymore, granted there is some... A, B, C, D, E
They (edit) went on to become essentially got reincarnated as The Phantom Four several years after The Treble Spankers shut it down. The Phantom Four is also HIGHLY recommended:
Fady
Joined: Mar 07, 2010
Posts: 2252
North Carolina
Posted on Sep 12 2023 05:52 PM
Ivan, you originally noted 15 tracks total. Are/were there only 13 originally and perhaps some studio cuts not destined for the intended 3rd album?
Also, you don't think track 11 is Rosa? The upload comment from Marcel on Mar 2, 2021 starts with "This is the 11th track of the yet unreleased 3rd album of those instro maestros."
IvanP
Joined: Feb 27, 2006
Posts: 10331
southern Michigan
Posted on Sep 12 2023 06:11 PM
Ah, shoot, Fady, you're right, I was hurrying and botched it!
OK, here's what I got after a closer look:
African Theme
Aguila Dos
Walk Like An Egyptian
Estrella (AKA Aranda de Duero?)
Indian Theme Song
Happy House
Gamba Sagrada
Boom Agency
Punch & Judy
Enola Gay
?
?
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Rosa
Joh, Zo, Dus eh...
The 11th track on my CD is not Rosa, it's the 14th track
The 11th track is VERY dark and brooding, with a feedback and scary noises section (and some backwards effects) in the middle that goes on for a minute and a half (in a three and a half minute track).
The 12th track is another ballad, pretty similar to "Estrella." I don't know where I got the title "Aranda De Duero" for "Estrella", but I wonder if that's the title of the 12th track instead and I somehow got them mixed up?
Fady
Joined: Mar 07, 2010
Posts: 2252
North Carolina
Posted on Sep 12 2023 07:29 PM
I've also just stumbled across these live performance videos. Some significant view counts on YouTube, but I'm pretty sure I've not seen them before... and not for lack of looking!
IvanP
Joined: Feb 27, 2006
Posts: 10331
southern Michigan
Posted on Sep 13 2023 08:04 AM
IvanP wrote:
I don't know where I got the title "Aranda De Duero" for "Estrella", but I wonder if that's the title of the 12th track instead and I somehow got them mixed up?
I just remembered where I got the title "Aranda De Duero" - Phantom Frank rerecorded "Estrella" as one of the three bonus tracks for the MuSick reissue of his solo album, and gave it the title "Aranda De Duero". It's obviously the same track, though. Beautiful in both versions, a bit more uptempo on his solo album.
IvanP
Joined: Feb 27, 2006
Posts: 10331
southern Michigan
Posted on Sep 13 2023 11:33 AM
I put together a YouTube playlist of the 13 tracks available so far from the Treble Spankers' "Gri Gri" unreleased 1997 album, in the same order as they appear on my CD (which i got from their former manager, courtesy of Art Boureassaue of MuSick Recordings).
DannySnyder
Joined: Mar 02, 2006
Posts: 11046
Berkeley, CA
Posted on Sep 13 2023 03:34 PM
Not much to add to this, but I want to express my appreciation to both Fady and Ivan for their efforts here.
For all you newer members unfamiliar with Treble Spankers and Frank's newer band Phantom Four, I highly recommend them. A master class on making a 4 piece instrumental band accessible to non-surf fans, as well as building songs around the rhythm section. One of the very best!
—
Danny Snyder
"With great reverb comes great responsibility" - Uncle Leo
Fady
Joined: Mar 07, 2010
Posts: 2252
North Carolina
Posted on May 18 2024 07:27 AM
Woot! Woot! Another 'lost' song posted by Marcel somewhat recently (a few months ago, apparently). Per his YT upload description: "Yet another unreleased track! A couple more to go and the 3rd album is out there in its entirety."