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Dry Rib

About Me

Dry Rib were a band formed in 1978. Briefly known before as Dial 192 and then Red they are best known as a 3-piece - Rob Vasey on guitar and vocal, Mike Mulholland on bass and Andrew Goodwin on drums. In 1979 they released an EP called The Dry Season on Clockwork Records. A thousand or so copies were sold and it got some airplay, principally from John Peel. Later in 1979 Rob Vasey left the band and was replaced by Paul Kendall on saxophone, Bernie Martin on guitar and Joni Dee on vocals.

Chuck Warner's Messthetics series last year released Whose Last Trickle, a compilation of Rob Vasey's songs from Dry Rib, as hem syrup and some solo stuff. It's available from the usual outlets.

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Rough Nest, Brixton 1982

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 31/10/2006
Influences: I can only speak for myself (Rob). I wanted to get a sound that was a bit like Velvet Underground, Syd Barrett, Captain Beefheart, John Cale, Bob Dylan of Highway 61 Revisited era. You know the sort of thing. That wasn't at all where Andrew and Mike were coming from and so that created a sort of tension that can be productive.
Got some comments from Andrew :-
Where Rob brought psychedelia to the table, and Mike his own special combination of funk & melody, the drummer felt it necessary to explore the uncharted waters of punk-prog. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't. But the idea was always to make the drums musical, a full third of the sound, not a click track. Perhaps the rhythm section sometimes took up a bit too much space, but as Rob says, it was the clash of ideas that made it work. I am proud of my role in Dry Rib, trashing around underneath Vasey's wonderful songs. To be mentioned in the same sentence as Wire (see Edward Ball's comments here) is an honour. Our best tracks were Memento Mori & Suspense, so I make no excuse for trailing their forthcoming re-release via Chuck Warner's Messthetics series.
Record Label: Messthetics
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Cur Raised

I've always been pretty crap at promoting myself and have a tendency to take the piss out of myself instead, but recently I found that I had ended up writing something that could be described as a son...
Posted by on Sun, 07 Jun 2009 15:24:00 GMT

ex nihil abundancia

Mostly the tracks in the player are tracks from the late 70s or early 80s recorded by a band called Dry Rib but in a couple of cases, I , one Robert Vasey, have recorded faithfully and truly, being of...
Posted by on Sun, 24 May 2009 16:03:00 GMT

Eels etcetera

Eels was recorded as a demo at the end of 1978 by Dry Rib. Along with Memento Mori I think maybe it's the only song I wrote specifically for the band, that is the 3-piece band which was called Dry Rib...
Posted by on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:00:00 GMT

Nursery Rhymes In My Jar

I've been writing songs for nearly 40 years now but only recently have I realised how much my lyrics owe to nursery rhymes. Generally that's about the first things you learn as a kid and maybe first t...
Posted by on Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:03:00 GMT

Alaska Again

I was communicating with Gary Smith of The Get about 3 months ago. He'd just got a copy of Whose Last Trickle and was bemoaning the fact that Alaska from the Dry Season EP wasn't on the album. I expla...
Posted by on Sun, 29 Mar 2009 03:07:00 GMT

Scott & Syd

I was walking home the other night and the thought came to write a bit and do a new post and a couple of reposts on the subject of 2 of my musical heroes and inspirations, both who had kind of short b...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:57:00 GMT

then t’worms’ll come and eat thee up

I recently wrote a bit about the song Suspense and put up the as,hem,syrup version of the song for comparison with the Dry Rib one. It was the only Dry Rib song that passed across to the later band pr...
Posted by on Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:15:00 GMT

Quail Seed Demo - Slide Guitar Nightmare

The demo version of Quail Seed appeared on Messthetics 102, but it was an edited version. Chuck Warner emailed me to say he wanted to include it on the compilation, but that he was going to edit it be...
Posted by on Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:13:00 GMT

What am I doing?

I was searching for some useless information last week and came across this comment on the terminal-boredom.com forum, in a thread titled Good Records By Reformed Punk Bands :-Rob from DRY RIB is stil...
Posted by on Mon, 03 Nov 2008 04:11:00 GMT

further suspense

I've just stuck the as,hem,syrup version of Suspense up on the relevant myspace page (/ashemsyrup) If you like the song you may want to listen to this alternative version. At the moment it's song numb...
Posted by on Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:20:00 GMT