About WFMU
marcus on 05/14/2009 at 05:11PM
Bobb Trimble
One has to keep pulling up that LP cover and having a deep look into his face. Is that the kid who recorded these songs, that adolescent-looking midwestern hard case, with a tommy gun hoisted up over the guitar in his lap?
Released in 1981 in a limited run of 500 copies, Bobb Trimble's Iron Curtain Innocence had by the mid-nineties become a legendary artifact, sought heavily by psych fans willing to pay characteristically unreasonably amounts of money to put hands on a recording that to this day still sounds unstuck in time and space.
With his attention to recording and vocal effects, Bobb certainly intended to convey a personal vision with these songs. But I can't imagine that even he knew how otherworldly this particular combination of cheap basement studio tweaks would sound after being poured over his breaking, melting, falsetto squall.
Secretly Canadian re-released this record in 2007, so now it's widely available. And we were lucky enough to get a track off of Iron Curtain Innocence, and one from a great follow-up, Harvest of Dreams.
Go deep with Bobb. He'll meet you there.
