In the mid 90's i got to know TRIPPING DAISY through MTV's 120 Minutes and i was immediately hooked. They had a really good psychedelic vibe which reminded me a bit of Jane's Addiction. This song, PIRANHA, was one of my favourite songs of the album I Am An Elastic Firecracker. I even saw them live in Amsterdam in 1996; great show. I bought all of their stuff on CD at the time (including the CD-maxi version of this single) and didn't have anything on vinyl until recently, so i was pretty thrilled when i bumped into this 7" at the latest record fair in Utrecht. I just had to have it, if only for old times' sake.
Interesting detail about Tripping Daisy: i did know that the band continued (in a very different way, musically) as The Polyphonic Spree after the death of their guitar player Wes Berggren in 1999. But what i only recently found out, is that their drummer from 1997 until Tripping Daisy disbanded, was Ben Curtis who plays in School Of Seven Bells. I really didn't know that; they are very different types of bands, yet still i like them both a lot. Sometimes these kind of things go unexpectedly "full circle". I've had that a few times before. It's one of those similar things like seeing your (then) current heroes Billy Corgan, Thurston Moore and Frank Black being invited to join the stage with all-time hero David Bowie at his 50th birthday celebration gig, back in 1997. Or Jeff Schroeder, guitar player for the awesome (yet unknown) indie band Lassie Foundation that i liked a lot, becoming a member of Smashing Pumpkins a few years ago. Suddenly all pieces of the puzzle are put together! Anyway, this 7" is regularly found on my record player since i bought it a few months ago. Tripping Daisy ruled!
Label: Island Records
Cat.nr.: 854 572-2
Year of release: 1995
SIDE A:
01. Piranha
SIDE B:
01. Creature
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