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Turn Around Norman/Arms Over Arteries (WV punx content)

Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2011 4:46 pm
by plagueship
first of all, has anyone heard of either of these bands, and second of all does anyone have any of their stuff/ know more than i do about them? i used to have the TAN recordings (i think they only did one or two things like a 7" or 10" and a tour cdr or something...) but haven't been able to find any of their stuff since my old computer died & i sold my records a million yrs ago. ex-members went on to form AOA who were literally one of the best things i've ever seen, but i'm pretty sure they never recorded anything. i don't exactly remember it was like except sort of weird/experimental screamo with mostly female vocals mixing screaming and singing... like a way heavier and more emo submission hold maybe? TAN was sort of more normal, 90s sensitive melodic political emocore thing...

sp, does anyone know where either of these bands' recordings or former members can now be found? they were from Morgantown, WV. the guitarist is the only person i've ever met who actually saw moss icon, or at least the only person i heard about it from... soo jealous.

Re: Turn Around Norman/Arms Over Arteries (WV punx content)

Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2011 7:13 pm
by Pete > You
Marc Devens of The Assistant/This Ship Will Sink/Takaru three -way split infamy was in Turn Around Norman on bass right before they broke up. He teaches English in China now.

Re: Turn Around Norman/Arms Over Arteries (WV punx content)

Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2011 10:05 pm
by plagueship
neat. i'm unaware of the infamy associated with that record?

Re: Turn Around Norman/Arms Over Arteries (WV punx content)

Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 7:14 am
by ifp
turn around norman did a split LP with a band called the minus tide. that's probably the best material i've heard from both of those bands.

tim, roger and laura still live in WV last i heard. tim and roger start another band called twelve point buck for a little while.

jeff lives in maryland somewhere and was training in a dojo, doing some serious ju jitsu or something.

marc just got back from china. marc was never on the recordings, but he played bass on their last u.s. tour.

Re: Turn Around Norman/Arms Over Arteries (WV punx content)

Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 10:52 am
by Phil
Have the Turn Around Norman split 12 with The Minus Tide. It's pretty good, but I rarely split the TMT side. I heard TAN also had a 7" that is better than their side of the split, but I've never heard that.

I haven't even heard of the second band. :?

Re: Turn Around Norman/Arms Over Arteries (WV punx content)

Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 11:50 am
by plagueship
Phil wrote:Have the Turn Around Norman split 12 with The Minus Tide. It's pretty good, but I rarely split the TMT side. I heard TAN also had a 7" that is better than their side of the split, but I've never heard that.

I haven't even heard of the second band. :?
yeah i think the 7" is what i used to have. i really liked it- very ebullition-y...

Re: Turn Around Norman/Arms Over Arteries (WV punx content)

Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2011 11:02 am
by Bentwreck
Yeah, was just going to mention the split 12", I have that. Pete, can you remind me again why that 3-way split was 'infamous?' Haha.

Re: Turn Around Norman/Arms Over Arteries (WV punx content)

Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2011 8:09 pm
by Pete > You
Took years to send people their copies. I'm not even sure if it "fully" came out in that regard. I never asked him about it, but I'm sure there wasn't any malice on his part about it. Still, people were pissed about their pre-orders and such.

Re: Turn Around Norman/Arms Over Arteries (WV punx content)

Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2011 8:14 pm
by Phil
Yeah, I had basically heard they sat in basements for years. I bet ifp would know a lot about it since he was in 2/3 of the bands in the split.

Re: Turn Around Norman/Arms Over Arteries (WV punx content)

Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 6:16 am
by plagueship
i kind of briefly fell in love with the vocalist while AOA was playing. they were too fucking good. would almost literally kill for a video of a live set or something