R. Stevie Moore / Jason Falkner
“I Am the Best For You”
scum stats: one-sided lathe-cut single limited to 60 hand-numbered copies, just came out today, they gonna be gone soon, hop to it!
Sadder Day Records does it again with the limited edition lathe cut!
My intro to R. Stevie is pretty funny.
At the time, 2005 or 2006, I was corresponding pretty consistently with Kelley Stoltz. He had just put out his “Below the Branches” album on Sub Pop and in some comment section in a video or whatever, someone said “eh, it’s nothing R. Stevie Moore wasn’t doing twenty five years ago.”
Having never heard of Moore, Kelley immediately searched out his songs and sure enough, Stoltz was convinced…there wasn’t much difference from what RSM was doing in the 70’s to what Stoltz was doing at the time.
(For the best example of this, check out the RSM track “Cool Daddio” recorded twenty years before Stoltz released his first album.)
Stoltz asked me if I’d ever heard of him but I hadn’t. We then both bought as much as we could directly from RSM via his website. I remember asking around Detroit if anyone had ever heard of the guy. I’m talking a dozen or so grizzled, hardcore record collectors.
Only ONE had ever heard of him, and all they could recall was his FIRST album.
Fact of the matter is that RSM has been self-recording and self-releasing for longer than most of us have been alive. Long before home recording and/or DIY was de rigeur, RSM was truly living the ethos.
For that, he has my eternal respect. He deserves to have yours too.
The song included here is a collab with Beck & Brendan Benson co-conspirator Jason Falkner. Originally released in 2015, this sucker cooks. It’s worth your time. It is but a speck of the thousands of songs across hundreds of albums that RSM has birthed into the world over the past 50 years. The least you can do is buy a copy, you cheap penny-pinching bastard!
That being said...I’m giving away a copy of this $10 valued single for the comment left here that tells the best story of doing it yourself. Ideally I don’t want to hear about music. Tell me about fixing up your house, refurbishing an old Caddy, the time you extracted your own wisdom teeth. Make it good. Ideally make it truthful. But most of all….make the comment before October 14th, as that is the arbitrary day I am closing submissions.
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I built an addition on my house with no prior building experience, my neighbor (Dave) is short thick Hobbit looking dude with fingers like hairy kielbasa who has everything in his garage and allowed me to take whatever I needed, at one point I needed his air compressor and his staple gun, he had boxes of two inch staples which were a bit of an overkill when applying ¼ inch pine shakes, but he said I could have them for nothing, and nothing is better than something. He didn’t happen to mention that the staple gun had a hair trigger that would have made Clint Eastwood proud, but then again I don’t suppose he would have predicted I would balance the end of it on my knee while holding a pine shake to the side of the house with the other hand. When I reached to grab the gun, I just barely bumped the trigger with my index finger and I shot a two inch staple into my knee. It happened so fast I didn’t know what happened until I saw the skin around the staple literally puckered in like an upholstered button on a vintage couch, I felt the blood drain from my head at the sight of it. I couldn’t get my fingernails around it to pull it out and had to limp to the garage where I found a rusted pliers and managed to pull it free. It was summer, and we have a lot of bugs and mosquitoes in Minnesota and after it was all over, I shuddered thinking that I remembered more than once scratching my head with the end of that thing.
Backed the 1987 Dodge Shadow, brand new at the time, into a snow pile in the parking lot. Came out the next morning after the pile had hardened its grip on the plastic crap that now passes for car bumpers. Pulled away, leaving the plastic crap bumper in the pile. My dad and I used some 1-1/2" oak board to create new, sturdier structures to which the plastic was hex bolted. 1" washers added to the new indestructibility. DIY project idea: add hardwoods to your chintzy plastic car body.
Came to tell a story, now I vote for Streeter or Succatash. can’t beat em, nuff said
Can’t get more DIY than a home birth! My wife had our first son sitting on a birthing chair in front of the fire place and our daughter was born in the bedroom.
Great stuff! Thanks for the share!
I know you said ideally not music, but I am DIYing my own record during my study hall period at school. I never have homework to do so I decided to actually put my time to use.
I love DIY. I cut my own hair, blend my own shampoo and conditioner, and I’m a freelancer, having built a copy-editing/proofreading brand from scratch. I still work with clients that I started this amazing journey with back in 2011. Eventually, I want to go full DIY and publish authors, make audiobooks, and have a place where authors can do readings/signings of their work.
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Myself and my dad shared a love for music his whole life. In 2010 we lost him. Around 2016 i was in storage and found his records. That day i decided and started playing guitar and collecting lp. Now over 500 records and play mostly original solo acoustic sets.
I broke my neck biking in Seattle. I wanted to make biking safer in Seattle. I started SeattleBicycleTours.com. its the best job ever. much love.