''Thee Hounds of Foggy Notion'' is the title of the August 25, 2008 live CD/DVD release by
San Francisco
San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...
-based rock band
Thee Oh Sees
Osees are an American rock band formed in San Francisco, California in 1997, now based in Los Angeles, California. The band currently consists of primary songwriter and core member John Dwyer (vocals, guitar), Tim Hellman (bass), Dan Rincon (d ...
. Recorded during their ''
Sucks Blood'' era in 2007, the performances include songs from previous albums, as well as others that were unreleased at the time. Some of those that had not appeared on any album were later reworked for 2008's ''
The Master's Bedroom is Worth Spending a Night In'', here performed in the more subdued
psychedelic folk
Psychedelic folk (sometimes acid folk or freak folk) is a loosely defined form of psychedelic music, psychedelia that originated in the 1960s. It retains the largely acoustic instrumentation of contemporary folk music, folk, but adds musical el ...
manner which characterized the band's sound during this period. This album was the final appearance of percussionist Patrick Mullins, who left the band after "Sucks Blood".
The live footage on the DVD was filmed over the course of four days in San Francisco. It features the band performing in mostly unconventional locales, such as on the
shoulder
The human shoulder is made up of three bones: the clavicle (collarbone), the scapula (shoulder blade), and the humerus (upper arm bone) as well as associated muscles, ligaments and tendons. The articulations between the bones of the shoulder mak ...
of a highway and near the beach. The video footage was directed by Brian Lee Hughes.
Release
The first issue of the album was released by Tomlab as a CD/DVD set.. In 2009, HBSP-2X (now known as Captcha Records) issued the album on vinyl in yellow (limited to 300 copies), green, white, and black.
In 2011,
Burger Records
Burger Records was an American independent record label and record store in Fullerton, California, United States. The label was founded in 2007 by Sean Bohrman and Lee Rickard, members of the power pop band Thee Makeout Party. The record/video s ...
released a series of
cassette tapes by Thee Oh Sees that contained two full-length albums on each cassette. ''Thee Hounds of Foggy Notion'' was paired with ''Dog Poison'' from 2009. Like the others, it was limited to 300 copies.
Track listing
#Gilded Cunt
#Island Raiders
#Ship
#Block of Ice
#Curtains
#Dumb Drums
#We Are Free
#Thee Hounds of Foggy Notion
#Make Them Kiss
#Golden Phones
#If I Had a Reason
#Highland Wife's Lament
#Dreadful Heart
#Ghost in the Trees
#Iceberg
#Second Date
Song appearances
* Tracks 11, 13, and 16 originally appeared on ''3 & 4''
* Tracks 1, 2, 6, and 7 originally appeared on ''The Cool Death Of Island Raiders''
* Tracks 3, 10 and 15 originally appeared on ''Sucks Blood''
* Track 9 originally appeared on ''Demos - EP''
* Tracks 5, 8, and 12 made their first appearances on this album.
* Tracks 4 and 14 were modified and later appeared on ''Master's Bedroom Is Worth Spending A Night In''
Credits
*
Petey Dammit
Petey Dammit, often stylized as Petey Dammit!, is an American guitarist and bass guitarist. He is best known as a former member of the garage rock band Thee Oh Sees, with whom he recorded six studio albums. From 2014 to 2015 he performed with the ...
- Guitar
*
Brigid Dawson
Brigid Dawson sang and played keyboard and tambourine for Thee Oh Sees. She is noted for her "whimsical" harmonies and is credited with helping front man John Dwyer write melodies. Reviewing a show they played in New York, Impose Magazine wrote, " ...
- vocals
*
John Dwyer - vocals, guitar
*Patrick Mullins - drums, percussion,
saw
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Personnel
*Brian Lee Hughes - director
References
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Oh Sees albums
2008 live albums