Member Since: 11/6/2005
Band Website: bobbtrimble.com
Band Members: ...and dig on more Bobb links and info at the Psychedelic Music Database (Germany)
read about and order Bobb's new CDs & LPs
Influences: in light of his strange & haunting folk-psychedelia, most of Bobb's favorite music will surprise many folks:
Beatles, Ramones, Cheap Trick, Monkees, Bowie, Lennon, Devo, B52s, Nirvana, X, Badfinger...
true, he likes some early Pink Floyd (incl. Ummagumma), but usually it's classic rock, power pop and punk in his CD player and cassette decks.
oh, and also figuring prominently in his psyche: Little Rascals, Marx Bros., Three Stooges.
Sounds Like:
see Bobb's 'press, reviews & loose talk' page
"There is no album I own that has as much emotional complexity and depth as Harvest of Dreams."
- Aaron Milenski,
The Lama Reviews
"It really has to be heard to be explained. It doesn't come much 'realer' than this."
- Thurston Moore,
Arthur Magazine
"Incredible, multi-layered late night listening of the highest order... Without its few contemporary style-nods, you would bever guess the album was originally released in 1982. One of the decade's best albums, filled with a mysterious charm that grows with each listen."
- Byron Coley, on Harvest of Dreams
"<[i>Harvest of Dreams is] rated by most as the best psych LP of the 1980s. One of those obscurities (like D.R. Hooker) that blows even non-collectors away... The total impact is like walking around in one of Bobb's dreams. Melancholic, moving but also hopeful - an essential experience."
- Patrick the Lama,
The Acid Archives of Underground Sounds 1965-1982
"We're the Crippled Pink Band...we're from Wormtown!"
- Ariel Pink (Boston, Feb-22-2006), referring to Bobb's old group The Crippled Dog Band.
"A delicate, unsettling dip into a boiling pool of subconscious imagery and otherworldly pixie vocalism. The best tracks cause ripples in the space/time continuum. Bobb Trimble's first album appeared like a ghost that had slipped through reality's curtain. Impossible to place inside any rational context, the music and voices seem to have been created in your head and, indeed, maybe they were."
- Byron Coley, on Iron Curtain Innocence
"He reaches the kind of intensity and solitude that only the likes of Syd Barrett and Nick Drake have reached in popular music. He is a talent of amazing proportions who operates in his own world, one I am glad to have visited but worry for its creator."
- Mark Coyle,
The Unbroken Circle (UK)
"Multilayered voices unlike any you have ever heard... brooding and dark head music flowing into shimmering beautiful fragile glimpses from real life. The feeling is overpowering & the music is ageless. Otherworldly yet breathing with life."
- Forced Exposure Mailorder Catalog
<[b>comparisons have been made to: Linda Perhacs; Simon Finn; The United States of America; Comus; Gary Higgins; Robert Wyatt; Tim Buckley; Perry Leopold; Supertramp; Pearls Before Swine; Satwa; Skip Spence; D.R. Hooker; Geddy Lee; Merrell Fankhauser; Glenn Faria; Syd Barrett; Nick Gilder; Damin Eih, ALK & Brother Clark]
Record Label: Secretly Canadian, Orpheus (Denm.), private press
Type of Label: Indie