Kicking Giant/Long Hind Legs
Split Cassette
1994
I picked up this cassette at the very first YoYo A GoGo in 1994 (wow, 15 years ago, amazing). It was the first time I had seen either band, but I was particularly impressed with Long Hind Legs at the festival. I’m not sure about the Kicking Giant track names since they are just listed as one song “Hotbox” on the cassette, but they are 4 distinct tracks, so I broke them up.
Setlist:
1. KG-Hotbox (Part 1)
2. KG-Hotbox (Part 2)
3. KG-Hotbox (Part 3)
4. KG-Hotbox (Part 4)
5. LHL-The Metal Sky
6. LHL-36.
7. LHL-Sodafine
Sample:
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Download: Kicking Giant/Long Hind Legs – Split Cassette – 108 MB
I was looking through my iTunes list yesterday for something to post and I came across this Long Hind Legs track that I had digitized from the 12″ a few years ago. I grabbed the track and put it up on the site and realized that I had posted another track from this record exactly 3 years ago today. Weird. I first saw Long Hind Legs at the ’93 YoYo A GoGo in Olympia and out of all the amazing bands I saw that fest, they were the most impressive of all the unknown-to-me bands that played. Part of it has to do with my love of Vern’s bass lines, but they were certainly doing something that I hadn’t seen before which made them even more intriguing. Two guys, a keyboard, a drum machine and bass/guitar, a common setup now, but 15+ years ago that was pretty innovative. This song is on the b-side of the “Open Wide” 12″ which I believe you can still get from Buy Olympia. Some day soon I’ll have to get around to digitizing the Kicking Giant/Long Hind Legs cassette demo that I have in my closet.
Long Hind Legs was comprised of Vern Rumsey from Unwound and Greg Allen. I caught them at the first YoYo A GoGo and thought they were fantastic. At the time they had only released the split cassette with Kicking Giant which I made sure to pick up. This song was taken off their next release which was the “Open Wide” Remix 12″ Single. That 12″ was a pre-cursor to what I think was their best release, their self titled LP. It still stands as one of my favorite Kill Rock Stars releases.
