high density headache

just say no to individuality

2008-06-18T09:56:00.000-07:00

[HD 43] Big Nurse Time Trip

wonderful romp down memory lane and back

[HD 42] Double Trouble! N/S Branes

totally wow!!

¡let's dance!

2008-06-07T15:25:00.000-07:00

[HD 39] Terror'ish 3 cassette

more beats from grass roots localized threat level orange. ltd to 30

[HD 41] serious hype bonus beast #1 cassette

failing attempt to be mysterious as we embrass the reality of the dawn of a new age. ltd to 24

FINALLY!!!!!!

2008-05-30T16:17:00.000-07:00

[HD 40] Bumblebeast A Feeble Echo of the Life of God CDR

after almost two years of anticipation, we finally have something tangible from the beloved bumblebeast. released almost a year after they broke up, this cd is as close as you'll ever get to getting close to these southern bells.

(see also Big Nurse, Witch Detectives, Brown Swarm, Lazerslut)

freerjazz

2008-05-13T16:26:00.000-07:00

nobody pays for music these days, so go ahead and help yourself to some

FREE DOWNLOADS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

define expression define rituals human conduct, 2007.
double trouble! plays metal mmachine man
8/05/05 Big Nurse perform live on WRVU Nashville
7/29/06 Big Nurse perform live on WRVU Nashville

EVEN BETTER THAN THE REAL THING

2008-03-21T10:28:00.000-07:00

BRAND NEW!!

2008-02-21T16:33:00.000-08:00

[HD 35] Brown Swarm (ride the thighs) Montell Jordan (remix) cassette

hot off the heels off a hiatus of sorts. strange musings make for interesting ideology. keeping it real for all the rest of us.

[HD 36] double trouble! untitled cdr

PHASE III. recorded at various locations in oakland/SF after over a year hiatus and involvement in deviated projekts (see FREE AGITATION, IF IF, PARASITIC WIG, GRR ON GRR) fill the void that humanity creates. documented live appearences thoughout fall/winter '07.

cd artwork by carrie sullivan

[HD 37] Terrorish 2 cassingle

rumblings....for fans of a tortured soul, the aftermath....

BIG NEWS '08!!!

2008-01-30T10:43:00.000-08:00

Due to geographical conditions and a series of financial strains on our current existence, Big Nurse will only be scheduled for ONE performance prior to this summer when we plan to make tracks again for the midwest and east coast with social junk. dates pending!! until then you can always check out free mp3's of some of our older material here or purchase one of various lp's, cassettes and compact disc we have available.
contact bignurseband@hotmail.com for availability and ordering info.
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here is some of the places you CAN find us:

FEB 14 - 16 - BIG NURSE & ARK will both be appearing LIVE at the INC miami, fl
[and possibly a double trouble set somewhere in the midst]

for a complete listing of all the artists performing please visit:
squelchers.net

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DOUBLE TROUBLE! will perform THURS APRIL 10 - INC @ 21 GRAND OAKLAND, CA
& FRI APRIL 11 INC @ ocean beach SF

all other artists performing at the oakland and SF shows to be announced. for additional info go here

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show TONIGHT!!!! SF Golden Gate Park

2008-01-18T10:22:00.000-08:00

GENERATOR SHOW!!
9PM/1-18-08 FRIDAY

GUERILLYA PERFORMANCES BY:

PARASITIC WIG
HYDROGEN PELLETS
TELEPATHIK FOREST
ERICH FILTHMILK

EMAIL owlbeemoth@yahoo.com FOR EXACT LOCATION!

define expression define rituals

2007-12-06T22:49:00.000-08:00

new cdr available [free download at humanconduct.org coming soon] 1/2 by us, 1/2 by needle gun (baltimore). recorded summer 06 way back during our stay in nashville. featuring ms. larva D and living legend JOHN ADAMS (high on life, big nurse, bad friend, etc). kinda makes me think of like parliment or something just less funk. the 2nd half features our reincarnated souls, NEEDLE GUn, fukin it up way old school in a tool shed in ruuuural maryland. recommended cough syrup and dramamine if you plz. THIS ALBUM IS THE SHIT and you can download it for FREE!! as soon as our pals over at human conduct post that shit or buy the cd for $4 ppd
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also we should have a full-length cdr [all new material from our resurrection on the west coast w/ josh (free agitation) and mikey yeda (parasitic wig, mikey yeda/jay korber duo, etc...?) out before FEB just in time for the INC in miami where BIG NURSE will be rippin' it up the way only they can deliver.....we will also have the latest BIG NURSE 12" plus the older one and the 7" and will try to put together some more copies of ALIVE II cassette (documenting our '06 tour of the south/east coast/midwest) plus whatever else i can get togethere between now and then.

this will be the LAST BIG NURSE PERFORMANCE until this upcoming summer when we will pay all YOU FOLKS a visit as we take it back out the road this time our first coast to coast tour w/ social junk, yellow crystal star, la octricina (?) as well as a shitload of others. see ya there!!

what's happening!!!!!!!THIS WEEK

2007-11-28T08:30:00.000-08:00

tennessee folks

December, 1 2007

625 Greenland Ave.
murfreesboro, tn

HIGH on LIFE
LAZER SLUT
THE ROWDY GILBERTS
MACOS!!!!

all rad all local all FREE.

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oakland dwellers

Saturday, December 1

21 Grand [25 & Broadway]Oakland, ca9:00 PM

Cellblock (members of expets, coughs)Must Have No MagicPebbles & BamBam (members of 16 bitch pile-up, child pornography)Korber/Sutherland/WoodruffParasitic Wig (featuring the members of big nurse, double trouble!/free agitation)

we get review...sort of

2007-11-23T16:42:00.000-08:00

from http://heule.us/blog/

Sunday 8/11. Now that was a good day for music. Started out with Noise Pancakes at ArtSF. Free Agitation was a lot like Big Nurse. Exactly alike? Mostly (entirely?) the same people doing pretty much the same thing, though I guess rocking maybe a little less. Psychy noisy near-rock. Kinda good. Missed Xambuca while moving my car around. Social Junk were another quasi-rock noise band. Earned some points by kicking things off with some serious power chord strumming rock after a short intro. Kept the energy up throughout the set. Cool. Scott Arford had a recording of little toy guitars playing dueling banjos. He got this going on his laptop and processed it into walls of noise. Fun. Chris Brown did some skittery Max MSP shit, doing a little bit of contact mic metal processing. I liked it. The whole show was increasingly good. Nice way to start out a Sunday.

Over in Oakland, nobody was BBQing anything when I got to Terminal. I did. Pod Blotz was first. Best set I've ever seen her/them do. Stripped down solo version. No costume. Very musical and interesting. Nice shit from Gerritt as well. You know what he sounds like. I pumped my fist in the smoky air. I wasn't captivated enough by Flaspar or the repeat sets by Social Junk or Free Agitation (I think maybe it was Big Nurse this time) to really watch them.

social junk _bus show 8/11/07

BIG NURSE 8/11/07
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from cassettegods

Monday, September 3, 2007

BIG NURSE “Alive II: No Youth Movement Left” (High Density Headache)

Tennessee’s Big Nurse ripped through the West Coast a couple weeks ago playing the sort of mass-mind 6-piece communal art-punk that it seems like most folks out here have given up on (in favor of solo/small projects or song-based stuff). The 3 drummers, 2 guitarist, 1 bass crew shredded one endless, pounding, deafening car crash of glorious noise for 12 minutes, then threw their shit on the floor and were done. Perfect. This tape, however, ain’t really like that. “Alive II” finds BN experimenting with every nook/cranny of their arsenal, resulting in a strange collage of blown out rock wanderings, sparse practice-taped vagueness, and overt noise wastelands. The live unity/cohesion vision has been ditched in favor of endless homeless amplified teenage puke. Which, suffice to say, has a different charm all its own. Maybe not essential listening, but definitely an authentic slab of unedited weirdo southern psych-trash, appropriate for many fucked/desperate occasions.

from blastitude....And speaking of incredibly old, why the hell did it take me like two years to listen to this Big Nurse single, "Who Wants To Kill The President?" b/w "Electrocute Your Cock"? The A side is a wrenching dubbed-out mental howl of a protest song, the singer asking the title question over and over, continually sending it through a meat-grinder of trippy effects while the rest of the instruments just wrong the fuck out in some kind of unknown rhythmic truth. The B side, as many of you have already surmised, is a Vom cover. In it, the band turns what was actually a pretty straight-ahead song into a feedback-laden cubist disaster that somehow never stops moving forward. Released on their own High Density Headache record label, check their blog for discog info and wistful imagery of weird youth gone rad......

BEAR WITNESS!!!!!!!!!

2007-11-23T16:18:00.000-08:00

punk and psych noise from arizona, sacramento, and da bay

11/23/2007
09:45 PM till lateeeee [6am?]
5hop///write offbored for directs[];]

Free! Free! Free!

Vampire SS
(waning)
Sims
Double Trouble/Parasitic Wig
Digitata
Mel Gibson and the Pants
Tent City
Systematic Anaesthetic
Owlbeemoth and Friends

stocking stuffers, fucker

2007-10-17T13:12:00.000-07:00

[HD 23] Yobleart cassette

[HD 34] Terrorish #1 cassette

[HD 31] AoG 93,000 miles from earth

2007-10-14T09:47:00.000-07:00

working in all 12 dimensions, these deep south derelictics know the TRUE meaning of Southern Lord(s).
no funny instrumentation...guitar, bass, keys, distortion!!! that's it!!
CD OUT NOW! get one here: AbsenceOfGodDoom@gmail.com

recent developments

2007-10-11T09:19:00.000-07:00

what's coming down the pipes for the rest of this year

HD 29 German Castro tape
HD 30 Science CD-R
HD 32 Murphy Brown Solo Show
HD 33 Ark- Invoking Weed Satan for the Year 2012 CD-R

also new releases from double trouble! (back after over a year hiatus), terrorish, chosen wolf master, big nurse, and possibly the first-ever high-density headache comp. WOW!!

come see us play LIVE w/ friends

2007-09-19T11:41:00.000-07:00

UN - CANCELLED this show IS happening!!
10/20/07
ocean beach S.F.

yellow crystal star
filthmilk
telepathik friend
double trouble!
rhiknoberous
build128
organ music
mokele
mbembe

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BUS SHOW!! 23rd st. + MLK Oakland, CA
HUMAN HOST
EX-PETS
DOUBLE TROUBLE!

9 PM
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10/04/07
NOISE PARTY///SECRET SCIENCE FICTION WAREHOUSE

TAIWAN DETH
LESLIE KEFFER
UNICORN HARD ON
PIGS IN THE GROUND
SWEZLEX
DELETIST AND THE FILTHMILKS
TELEPATHIK FRIEND
DOUBLE TROUBLE
RHIKNOBEROUS
LOWTECH

BRUTALLO FILM "BAD GIRLS"
projections by CRACKHOUSE666

DJ MICNASTY AND DJ LOACHFILLET
in the lounge room';,

8 PM
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10/09/07
Annie's Social Club S.F.

double trouble!
tank attack
0th (member of zeek sheek)
jay korber/ mikey yeda duo
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[HD 27] ill-literate body glove color scheme cassingle (2007)

2007-09-13T15:43:00.000-07:00

Homeland Security

2007-09-13T14:23:00.000-07:00

ill-literate

velcro stars

homespun heroes rob beckham and michael o'flynn make the college years fun again for a batch of misplaced youngsters.

them natives

bumblebeast

MUGU GUYMEN

captain ahab

social junk

neighborhood events

2007-09-13T13:27:00.000-07:00

BIG NURSE AND THE 40th ANNIVERSARY OF THE SUMMER OF LOVE

stork club. oakland, ca 8/03/07 [photo: jonny o]

unprepared, but highly antcipated summer fun 2007 with BIg Nurse
(Nasville, TN/oakland,CA)
with members of free agitation, double trouble!, if if, bumblebeast,
high on life, brown swarm, etc.

thurs.8/2_21 Grand. oakland w/ ettrick + Jorrit Dijkstra, pterodactyl,
and T.I.T.S. ($6-10 probably)
fri. 8/3_stork club. oakland w/ Rapatron, hot tub and others (free!)
sun. 8/5_(unknown venue in santa cruz) i should probably figure this
out already w/ USA 4 LSD
wed. 8/8_G3. san francisco w/ horseflesh, Carrion, Ptolemy,
Aspidodelone vs. Bog Wraith vs. Carmody Bellwether
thurs.8/9_the smell. L.A. w/ this is my condition (lawrence, ks),
Lucky Dragons, archons (san diego), oscillator (member of To Live and
Shave in L.A.)
sat. 8/11_the bus. s.f. or oakland? w/ social junk (ashland,
ky/huntington, WV/ohio) and telepathik friend
tues. 8/14_echo curio. L.A. w/ Social Junk, Robedoor, Goliath
Birdeater, Sasqrotch

BIG JUNK (social junk and big nurse rippin' it at a BBQ in east oakland 8/12/07)

[HD 25] Big Nurse ALIVE II: no youth movement left
cassette (2007)

recordings from our tour 2006 and some scattered local shows. great shit.

very unprofessional

2007-09-12T15:03:00.000-07:00

[HD 24] if if 2nd paramount dbl cd

very limited release by super obsure band straight outta oakland, ca. represent. edition of 21. out-of-print for now

if if/free agitation split cdr

self-released split that attempts to bridge the gap between free agitation and if if. unlimited edition

free agitation in L.A. 5/31/07

[HD 26] Free Agitation CDr (2007)

then there were 3

[HD 23] Yobleart

2007-09-12T14:58:00.000-07:00

no scheduled release date yet?

[HD 22] zack kouns/double trouble! split cdr (2007)

2007-09-12T11:31:00.000-07:00

split release by kindred spirits zack kouns and double trouble. released in conjunction w/ the zack kouns/ed wilcox south american summer tour '07. 1st edition of 22. more out soon

[HD 21] Henry Daggs

2007-09-08T09:16:00.000-07:00

(unreleased?)

[HD 20] BIG NURSE temporarily unavavailable LP (2007)

2007-09-08T09:08:00.000-07:00

help our planet

2007-08-31T16:32:00.000-07:00

[HD 19] Brown Swarm smiling mountain or indecision cassette (2007)

Quality Tapes, etc

2007-08-31T16:10:00.000-07:00

each one made with an extra helpin' of extra lovin'

SHIT ENIGMA/AMDUKIAS

ARK invoking the weed satan

for more info click on the links ^ v

the dead hippies ALIVE
MAC OS/high on life split
double trouble! tour 2006

splitsville

2007-08-31T15:40:00.000-07:00

IF IF

ARTSF. san francisco october '06

the only decent S.F./Bay area jam band left in existence. or that was in existence (10/06 - 1/07) see free agitation, double trouble!

[HD 18] double trouble severely yours cassette (2006)

from the seemingly endless library of junk from '06. this one features john adams on bass and sean doing the weirdness.

[HD 17] MAC OS/German Castro split cassette (2006)

2007-08-31T15:19:00.000-07:00

set your hair on fire

2007-08-30T10:13:00.000-07:00

BIG NURSE/DOUBLE TROUBLE! TOUR '06

nationwide nurse!

2007-08-29T14:03:00.000-07:00

BIG NURSE stellar nursery/
sniper at the gate of dawn DBL cassette

released summer 2006 on Gift of the War Magi prior to our summer tour. total rip off?? can you figure it out?

double trouble has mind cramps / ark meets double trouble meets high on life at the centre of the universe also known as nietzsche's genius
cassette (deathstar applemash, 2006)

two sessions from spring/summer '06 both recorded on mushrooms in our living room back when we lived in east nashville before i broke the toilet and the landlord refused to fix it, so we skipped out of that place and then skipped on outta town, permanently. lol. side two features sean (ark, sulture, bad friend, is a no no) and john adams (high on life, big nurse, bad friend). very recommended!!

HAT CITY INTUITIVE / LA OTRACINA / BIG NURSE
the world will end yesterday SPLIT CDr
[colour sound recordings, 2006]

This CD-R is limited to 107 copies and is sold out.

from vorg.net:

This is the LAST HURRAH, just look around you, The World will end/has ended/won't stop ending, better dig in while you can! It is with this realization of both joy and exhiliration that Colour Sounds presents this offering of collaborative sonic wonder, pushing the density of sound to it's limit and errupting with the most raw of pure tones imaginable. "The World Will End Yesterday" features fearless and immediate sounds from three groups of the noise underground each in pursuance of freedom in a different direction, but all arriving at the same point, TOTALITY!
HAT CITY INTUITIVE have been kicking around the underground of lost musics since 1991, releasing their first LP "Happiness Is A One Trick Pony/Crying Is Shaped Like A Seahorse" on Matt Valentine's Superlux label in 1995, the "They Must be Clapping For...Me" CD on Crank Automotive in 2000, and more recently two self-isued full lengths "Narrow Miss On The Chamber Pot" and "/....//../..// (grey goose & a whole lotta hydro)". Featuring a large rotating cast of musicians spread across various North Easters states, this collective explores the various methods pioneered by AMM, ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO, AMON DUUL, etc, into a flux of cult-laden psychedelic-skronk, multi-directional noise, free-rock, and revolutionary jazz. The three slices of time they've devoted to this compilation sound like what would happen if Ayler performed at one of Kesey's Acid Tests...blasted!
LA OTRACINA is the psychedelic/prog vision of freak-drummer Adam Kriney and since 2003 his collective has explored everything from the most complex-Crimson-esque arrangements, to complete psychedelic-free-improv ala FUSHITSUSHA and GURU GURU, and the cast of members/collaborators has included everthing from stoner/acid-rockers to jazz/fusion headz to some of NYC's finest/fiercest free-improvisors. The single track found on this compilation is a massive slab of drone-layered/warped-freakout/acid-trip/sound collage action, comprised of various live recordings taken from their 2006 "Elliptical Envelopment" tour as the duo of Adam Kriney and Matt Lavallee.
BIG NURSE are a destroying hardcore/noise unit based out of Nashville/Murfreesboro, TN whose menacing riffs and relentlessly pounding drums are full of devastation ala the crustiest hardcore punk, mixed with a nod to blown-out anti-rock, and layers of overloaded BLACK movement! Their two tracks on this compilation explore both the seeking-improvisational confused/chaos momentum of free-music's liberation as well as a tightness of song explosions on top of it, blazing out and away!

[HD 16] science scenes from a dwarf planet

2007-08-29T13:29:00.000-07:00

Feared by Christians for 65 billion years

intelligent designers

2007-08-29T10:49:00.000-07:00

Filthy South studio

i'm not really sure how all this started, but at some point ill-literate, Fauxhead the alchemist, murphy brown solo and boy with the manhead joined forces and we may never recover.

watch them multiply!!

science

bumblebeast

the murphy brown solo show

the dead hippies

LATION

ayyavazhi

2007-08-28T15:37:00.000-07:00

oscillations, etc.

2007-08-28T14:22:00.000-07:00

outside of the ruby green art gallery. nashville, tn june '06

[HD 14] DOUBLE TROUBLE the oscillating cosmos cdr (2006)

Dino's nashville, tn w/ zack kouns spring '06

[HD 15] double trouble!
the origin of consciousness and the breakdown of the bicameral mind cdr (2006)

ARK sulture ...beyond

2007-08-28T12:56:00.000-07:00

is a no no

ARK

sulture

[HD 13] ARK vs. sulture

[HD 12] Ill-Literate Stereo-Fun-ic Hallucination Companion #1

2007-08-28T11:39:00.000-07:00

i think this may be the point Rob totally lost what was left of his deteriorating mind. lol

the Most Amazing Century of Science

2007-08-28T11:08:00.000-07:00

The Most Amazing Century of Science is a quartet with standard rock instrumentation, treated far more unconventionally thank goodness. Taking influences from the progressive and avant-garde aspects of every music, The Most Amazing Century of Science spits it all out as one coagulated, franticaly and irratically pulsing, blackened, Vorheesean heart so entrancing one is compelled to comsume it. As sick as eating a stick of butter" - Ari Lehman

[HD 11] MAC oS "live at the boro/live at springwater" DBL CDR

1st release from these hum-dinger dandies!! two live sets from two of the most desolate places on earth, the boro and the springwater.

ACID LIVING ROOM

2007-08-19T14:33:00.000-07:00

The Acid Living Room was a radio show on Middle Tennessee State University's student run radio station WMTS 88.3 in the Spring of 2006. Previously Soul Says "EAT", the show changed formats when we 'took it to the house'. We simulcasted bands playing in our living room weekly from 303 Apollo Dr. Using the greater powers of computers, we recorded the bands live in Logic and broadcasted audio to the computer in the studio of the radio station where Robochrist DJ'ed the show. Often times the recordings were attended by other worldly beings. The show only worked with the help of friends and pizza.
The Acid Living Room became the name of two venues in Murfreesboro, but the venue is no longer operational.

THE DEAD HIPPIES

SURPRISE PARTY SURPISE

science

BIG NURSE

SURPRISE PARTY SURPRISE

2007-08-19T14:03:00.000-07:00

LIVE AT THE COCKPIT DVD
[HD 10]

the title says it all! $$ in the bank. dead for now don't ask

[HD 09] BIG NURSE back to the basics

2007-08-19T13:52:00.000-07:00

reworked, re-edited, over a year in the making. big nurse livin' large in '06

out to lunch

2007-08-19T09:44:00.000-07:00

INC '06

TAIWAN DETH

BRIAN MILLER

here is some of the double trouble set from the INC. thanks to derick from taiwan deth for archiving this shit. check out more video from the INC '06 here: http://www.youtube.com/bloodniece

SOCIAL JUNK

ROBERT INHUMAN

LAUNDRY ROOM SQUELCHERS
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BIG NURSE MIDWEST TOUR

BIG NURSE / REALICIDE SPLIT cdr (realicide youth 2006)

double trouble!

2007-08-18T14:21:00.000-07:00

DOUBLE TROUBLE!

[HD 07] freakout jamboree cdr 2006

each sleeve handpainted by members of double trouble

[HD 08] double trouble and the black kitten society the dope shit cdr

recorded live 10/28/05 in stuart's basement. everybody left if you stayed your on this album. totally awesome

high on life_irreverence is bliss cdr [2006]

2007-08-18T14:06:00.000-07:00

[HD 06] high on life_irreverence is bliss cdr [2006]

[HD 05] ill-literate ain't no party like a tupperware party

2007-08-18T13:47:00.000-07:00

A true renaissance man, Ill-Literate breaks every convention with the tender caress of a mother compassionately blinding her child's social superior.

very professional cassette [hd 04]

2007-08-18T11:26:00.000-07:00

classic! out of print split release with dementoid tapes from san diego document of our first tour in march of '05. seriously awesome jamz including members of realicide (cinncinati, ohio) and lara dempsey (double trouble, big nurse) as we mop the floor with those "bitches"! very drunk and disorderly, mostly disorderly.

Big Nurse new constitution cdr [2005 hd-03]

2007-08-18T10:49:00.000-07:00

ltd to around 50 copies although fifty is really around the time we lost count? new constitution is a good example of what our live sets were like throughout 2004 and early '05. recorded live with one shitty vocal mic straight to tape at our rehersal space before we got kicked out and later burned down. early editing techniques utilized for the first time. good romp for sure. out of print.

who wants to kill/electrocute yr cock 7"single

2007-08-18T10:14:00.000-07:00

released in 2005 following our 1st tour, who wants to kill...was the genesis of big nurse and its totally fucked sound. who wants to kill? was recorded by ryan and john onto a four track cassette in late 2003, and the B side is a reinterpetation of electrocute your cock written by Richard Meltzer/Vom. the sleeve of this record is inspired by hardcore/crusty punk 7"s with shitty xeroxed covers. limited to 350 copies.

Provocative titles (only one of which belongs to the band) and cheap tinny rock-based noise thrills are all that’s really going on with Big Nurse, if this single is any indication. “President” goes on and on and on with no real relief in sight. He may die of boredom. They do a good job on the Vom cover though, capturing a lot of that track’s ur-stupidity and nihilistic good times.
(www.highdensityheadache.tk) [dusted magazine]

The wordplay of big nurse with big noise should be obvious, though I also like the connotation of noise being a bringer of health and a cleaner of wounds as well, if not a lot more. Noise as a cathartic experience, a cleanser of souls, something that burns the listener and then leaves him a better man (or her a better women, for that matter). I like that. I remember when The Lemonheads played in Vienna – which was back in the early nineties when they were still half good and Evan Dando was still a handsome posterboy – and asked the audience what to play next. “Luka” somebody shouted, and Dando answered “now c’mon, be fair”. And then somebody shouted “Cazzo di ferro”, which only brought smiles. And so they decided to just let go with some free noise, improvising and doing shit on stage for the last twenty minutes of the show. In that time Dando tried each and every combination of his effects pedals, the bass player unwound his strings completely and the drummer decided to leave the stage after half of whatever that was. No encore. Right on.

Big Nurse surprised me with their self released debut album “american waste” done in wonderful DIY-fashion on their own label, which also hosts this seven inch, which is also done in true DIY fashion. Which also means that the cover is but a xeroxed sheet of paper and the recordings have been done in 2004. What took you so long to release this anyway? Aw, who cares, if it is being released at all.

More importantly, I am not sure if the seven inch format really does give true value to their way of freaking out over a distorted riff and diving into a loop of bass-noise and improvising in a manner that is the complete opposite of what the best jazz-men do: by ignoring all rules and fucking shit up. On a seven inch the effect is definitely there, but it comes a little shorthanded. Over the length of an album side the trance or tripping effect is much higher. Anyway, this is wonderful noise of the kind that is filled with energy, fun and the great ways that accidents play into art.

The track on side one plays around a simple bass riff, while the track on side two plays around a highly distorted (and I don’t use that easily) guitar riff. Imagine superhelicopter but without the structure. Wow, I never would have thought I’d use Superhelicopter as a reference with(!) structure once. Both tracks use some lines of vocals at the beginning, before breaking off into chaos and mayhem after some time. The instrument carrying the basic pattern usually holds out the longest, while all the others fall down in exhaustion and despair and chaos and immaturity and freedom and noise. The recording is poor, to say the least, but who cares if the drums sound like shit when the documentation of a culmination of energy and freakiness is in the centre of concern.

Moreover, these are two interesting suggestions hidden within the titles of these tracks. Wonder what will happen to them? Also, I wonder what will happen to a band like this and if Nashville, Tennesse – “it’s the home of country music, on that we all agree” – is a place that will be able to hold these guys, let’s not even speak of enjoy or understand. But being understood is nowhere on the agenda of Big Nurse, I guess.

[note: we also got a review in the wire by byron coley, but i've misplaced my copy?? we also got a review in the coveted maximum rock and roll which went something like this: " the record, though a piece of shit, was at least an original piece of shit, and therfore was excellent." there was also some metion of the Jesus and Mary Chain cowering in a corner or something. overall it made my day

Big Nurse American Waste 12"

2007-08-18T09:47:00.000-07:00

so the 1st high-density release was released in either in late 2004, American Waste 12". ltd. to 200 copies.

REVIEWS

To kick us off this time, is the war zone noise of Big nurse (www.highdensityheadache.tk) whose debut 12 Runnin With The Devil / DXM is the sound of the Butthole Surfers crashing into Acid Mother Temple in a sleazy punk club, everything louder than everything else and all the better for it. A lovely slab of thick black vinyl and well worth owning.

(Ptolemaic Terrascope, UK. lead review in 'Rumbles' section.)

"There is still nothing like a full teenage* freakazoid noise and distortion blowout over the length of two album sides. That kind of fresh and uninhibited approach to music by fucking it all up always comes off nicely and full of energy and youthful spirit. This has to be 80-90 % improvised and sounds like a whole lot of fun on a stage as well as in their rehearsal room (if the electric wiring holds out).

Of course I got that little word play in Big Nurse’s bandname and no it is not a hint at Big Star, Big Chief, Big Black or Big Bad Motorfinger. Well, maybe the last has something to it, but the connection might not be clearly available at all times. Even if I guess I mangled that up big time. Well, let’s better stop the joking around, though tomfoolery (I just looked that word up) might be a big part of what Big Nurse is all about. Just take a look at the name of their record label, for which this album is release number one. I have a lot of trouble to imagine anybody to take this kind of music too seriously, except if they are from china, have studied art and are constantly playing galleries and exhibitions. But the art seriousness usually kills the spirit and the energy off. I don’t want to discuss the political implications and societal connotations of somebody trashing his electric guitar into his amps when all it is about are the great and beautiful sounds that omits. Today is our national celebrational day so the military is having a parade and just about half an hour ago helicopters, freight planes and jet fighters flew close over our house and even though I don’t like the army and I am a pacifist at heart, well at least mainly, I still enjoy those sounds enormously. The all encompassing thunder and air-solidifying waves of 100 gallons of fuel buring in jetplane-turbine every minute. And I enjoy this trashing, kicking and pounding noise freak out on “American Waste”.

Big Nurse’s wall of sound is not as dense and all-encompassing as that of a fighter plane of course. Their noise drips over the sides of the turntable like thick sludge, drums pound away behind a jungle of effects and noises and at times somebody is screaming something into a mic. I wouldn’t call this psychedelic as such, though it definitely has elements of a longwinded bad trip. If you are able to figure out the jokes behind the songtitles: “Runnin with the devil” (which is side A) and “DMX” (which is side B) you might also find yourself way too deep in the realm of Big Nurse already.

I am not afraid to say that I have no idea or knowledge about this band, but I respect their daring endeavour of self-releasing this monster (saleswise) and then sending it over the ocean to our place that I will step aside my usual rule and tack down some info from the sheet they’ve sent along: They have toured with bands completely unknown around here and they will release a seven inch and a split-CD with another completely unknown band / project. If names like Divine Pile, Ari Ari, Mattoid or Realicide say anything to you, you are welcome to write us a line and recommend yourself as a future reviewer. Especially if you know who Harry Pussy and Brian Ruryk were. Hell yes, we’d need some help at times. Anybody does. Big Nurse for instance haven’t found distribution yet. So how will you be able to get this record? Try bignurseband@hotmail.com and find out.

*) Yeah, it is obvious that these guys aren’t teenagers as such, i.e. over 20 years old, but that word sounded so good in the context I had to put it in there. I could have found some excuses now, such as that they might be over 20 but act as if they were younger, but I tell it like it is." _http://www.monochrom.at/cracked/reviews/reviews01.htm

Big Nurse-American Waste LP
The label name for Big Nurse's American Waste is fittingly named. Aside from the pretty, silk-screened artwork, both sides of this LP were headache-inducing noise. Completely deconstructed, complete musical gibberish, agitated, a stare-into-space-stoned-out-of-your-mind-before-you-kill-someone record. (AJA) _punk planet

This was a random LP/twelve inch that was just sent to my flat addressed to No Pictures last summer, something which I have to admit freaked me out because I have no idea as to just where they got my current address from. Hmmm........

Big Nurse are something of a terrifying proposition, a pulsing and repetitive excretion of sheet metal white noise all in the name of ferocity. Upon first listen a person could be forgiven for dismissing this as just noise and they would be right but it is also so much more.

The sounds coming from stereo (people please send me vinyl and more of it!) reminds me of recent acts I have seen such as Chris Corsano and Rocket No 9, improv infused monsters looking to push boundaries further and further with each onslaught and performance. This music comes straight out of the heart of Sun Ra whilst being conceived and performed by/from standards set out by punk. As the first side of the record comes to an end sound akin to the din made by a cutlery drawer falling down several flights of stairs of a council building, I make myself a cup of tea and ask God "just what else can I expect from this act now?"

I think American Waste is the perfect title for this record; the heady din is very industrial, like a factory in the middle of nowhere producing the middle of nothing, a pointless industry that can seemingly only be found in downsized America and the broken working classes. The pain I feel from this record is akin to the latest worker to miss a meal through failing to have employment. The whistles on the record say it all.

Side two begins with more drilling and a relentless patter exhibiting much more energy than the previous slab - imagine Lightning Bolt covering "Revolution" by Spaceman 3 and suddenly we are live from Planet Load Records. Out the blocks however, the "tune" does not sustain and again the assault becomes overwhelming and difficult to live with, which is exactly the kind of response you suspect Big Nurse wish to treat you with on a big scale. As a Dick Dale sound-alike subtly invades the "song" towards the close it all ends with a painful crash and I am able to go back to my life (and watching "How To Look Good Naked"). If you need a party cleared soon, this is the record to do it with.

I will never play this record ever again.

Thesaurus moment: throbbing. _diskant.net

Big Nurse- American Waste LP - One big massive track per side. Side A is: Runnin with the Devil which hums, howls, bashes, and thrums over layers of what sounds like harps and gigantic brass angels unhinging their wings. Sorta Dead C lost at sea, adrift and tattered. Side B is: DXM which is loud and hammered suspense like early Sonic Youth that unwinds into a vast grid of planted seeds that rapidly grow into geometric patterns across the landscape in every direction that can only be read from outer space. Side B is a bit more of a bumpy ride; they call it turbulence but it feels like falling for 30 feet and then stopping abruptly enough to spill your drink.

(Dream Magazine)

roots

2007-08-18T08:12:00.001-07:00

2003_big nurse starts here with some uninspired jamming and the like. somewhere in the midst of all the
confusion, we see the light and give birth to our first "SINGLE" who wants to kill the president?
more jamming, more dope, more inspiration.

2004_so we do our thing for a while in a storage locker, and then unrelease our fucked-up, half-assed punker
tunes on the unsuspecting masses of a little known college town where we attended school,
murfreesboro, tn. by this point we've already recorded most of the material that would later end up on
our first release(not to mention the 1st high density release), American Waste, the following year.

the four fellows coming from seemingly different musical backgrounds somehow make weirdo-punker
stuff without the attitude or the anger. more like if the butthole surfers were from ohio or something.
mostly just played shows and recorded and nobody really gave a shit about us or what we were doing
with the exception of our friends. most bands in the area thought we were a total joke, and that we
"couldn't PLAY" our instruments.

[note]_big nurse released a self-titled cdr prior to the HD imprint which featured early takes of classic big nurse tunes and an alternate mix of who wants to kill... as it appears on the 1st 7"