Welkshake 10th Anniversary!
dollar_bin
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I was listening to an old radio show from May 2004 and I found the first time I ever played the Welkshake 12", which means the 10th anniversary of the vinyl pressing is at hand! It was quite a bit after Diz first posted the mp3, but we all know music doesn't count until it's cut into wax. Congrats to Gary on one of Souldstrut's most legitimate musical moments, any plans for a special edition reissue with bonus tracks and digital download code?
If you're not familiar, set your time machine to 2004: https://myspace.com/dizzybull
Seriously, does an instrumental version exist?
If you're not familiar, set your time machine to 2004: https://myspace.com/dizzybull
Seriously, does an instrumental version exist?
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:bizzo:
I can't beleive that was a decade ago.
I just googled 'welkshake' and there are two youtube videos! hahah. That's great.
That was such a fun time. 27 years old. It's hard to imagine. That was right around when I got fired from that job I hated. We had huge SoCal strutter meetups and parties.
I'm getting nostalgic.
Dollar bin did the radio show because Wax Poetics did the Mingering Mike story and didn't mention soulstrut at all. So Tom decided to do an entire radio show featuring strutters calling in and strutter made music. So cool.
I can't even listen to records now. everything is boxed up. 2 young kids, a full time job, and no time. Can it be that it was all so simple then?
Of course this was the major one:
Ray Conniff's version of Spinning Wheel, at 1:40 (I'm listening to this on Spotify right now) had the vocal cheese part "Dat-Dah da-da-da-da-daaaa"
With L13sLesson & Trouser Lozenge...
http://www.waxingdeep.org/music.htm
For the Welkshake debut in May 2004 we did do a phone-in interview. Grandpa Shig tried to call you in the middle of the interview and you told an amusing story about winning concert tickets from a Mexican radio station.
I bought at least five copies of Welkshake when it came out, but other than my personal copy, I think I've given away all my remaining copies. I even offered one up on the Katrina Heatrocks auction.
I loved those meetups, some of the highlights
- winning the pushup contest
- vomiting at your house twice (lightweight rel)
- Hollaring at Hawn Jew's homegirl
- vomiting again in a urinal at the Slick Rick show
Can it be that it was all so simple then?
Post an MP3! I don't have many of them anymore. What record was it? Must have been easy listening I'm sure.
It was a trombone record. The name is killing me right now, but he was standing on some railroad tracks in a suit with his trombone on the cover.
His Green Power on Project 3 is nice and should be added to the Need This thread.
The flip side of Welkshake was a mashup of Obie Trice "Got some teeth" and this Jam:
Which is so f*&^%ing dope I don't know why more people have never heard of it. Dollar bin RAER.
I remember now. "Swank Dat" was Souljah Boy's "Crank Dat" over this:
I had the 45 so I have no idea what the LP looked like.
I don't have the swank dat mp3 anymore. Somehow I lost a lot of stuff.
Played it out at my club gig and people liked it and my teenage son and his friends really liked it so that's impressive for a Lawrence Welk sample.
The price has only gone up.
My two teenagers love it (they've grown up with it) but it's also the favourite song of my friend's four kids - all of them under 9.
"She must really like milkshake."
That's so cool.
I'm gonna get all choked up like Pharrell...!