http://www.metafilter.com/tags/Harvester Posts tagged with 'Harvester' at MetaFilter. Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:12:11 -0800 Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:12:11 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/64850/Forward%2DThinking%2DMotherfuckers <a href='http://snocone.mu.org/features/index.cgi?id=27'>The Velvet Underground you never got to hear</a>. Born from the same <a href='http://www.avantgardeproject.org/AGP16/index.htm'>experimental</a> <a href='http://www.cortical.org/knox2.html'>influences</a> and <a href='http://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/albumofthemonth/573'>art-pop sensibilities</a> as VU, but <a href='http://www.scaruffi.com/vol2/parsonso.html'>based</a> in 60s counter-cultural <a href='http://www.midsuffolk.unisonplus.net/The%20Swedes.htm'>Sweden</a>, and rife with <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tr%C3%A4d%2C_Gr%C3%A4s_%26_Stenar'>name changes</a> galore, <a href='http://www.myspace.com/parsonsound'>P&#0228;rson Sound</a> aka <a href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9mVQTcxUAs'>International Harvester</a> aka <a href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WydkojU6bb8'>Harvester </a> aka <a href='http://web.comhem.se/t.m.gartz/intpsych.htm'>Tr&#0228;d, Gr&#0228;s och Stenar</a> (Trees, Grass and Stones) brought the <a href='http://www.anthologyrecordings.com/release.asp?album=g0OptUNIUvr'>heavy, heavy</a> drone <a href='http://www.subliminalsounds.se/DOK/parson2.html'>sound </a> as far back as 1967 and are still active <a href='http://home.swipnet.se/sonoloco27/tgs/tgs.html'>today</a>. If I can simplify this inside for those who'd prefer it, the best history is probably the band's <a href='http://home.swipnet.se/sonoloco27/tgs/tgs.html'>own</a>. Audio <a href='http://www.avantgardeproject.org/AGP16/index.htm'>here </a>, <a href='http://www.myspace.com/parsonsound'>here</a>, <a href='http://www.anthologyrecordings.com/release.asp?album=g0OptUNIUvr'>here</a> and <a href='http://www.subliminalsounds.se/DOK/parson2.html'>here</a>. Youtube live footage <a href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9mVQTcxUAs'>here</a>. More related Youtubery <a href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WydkojU6bb8'>here</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.64850 Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:12:11 -0800 drone folk Harvester InternationalHarvester music ParsonSound prog Sweden TradGrasochStenar stinkycheese