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MP3 The Transmitters - Receiver
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ROCK: Rock & Roll, ROCK: Americana
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The Transmitter players are all veterans of the local St. Louis music scene. Band leader and main songwriter Kip Loui co-founded the St. Louis Americana showcase Twangfest as well as playing with the notable St. Louis band The Rockhouse Ramblers who were a St Louis "all star" group that included Dade Farrar and John Horton. Kip currently performs with side project Diesel Island featuring Brian Henneman and other Bottle Rockets personnel. Jon Parsons introduces soul and mood into The Transmitters music on keys. His classic, old-school, funk driven style was showcased with the three piece act The Ambassadors. Their blend of soul and pop that was as catchy as it was unique. Another of his projects, The Getaway Car, was awarded the Riverfront Times Best New Band in 2000. Jon also played with one of St Louis'' most highly regarded local bands, Nadine with which he recorded their acclaimed album "Strange Seasons" in early 2002. Mike Young brings rock and blues with his lead guitar work. Mike performed with such bands as Shame Club and The Gentleman Callers who were prominent in the St. Louis scene opening for such acts as Chuck Berry and Dick Dale. Scott Lampley and Dave Stallman compose the rock-solid rhythm of The Transmitters on drums and bass respectively. Scott has toured throughout Missouri playing blues, country, and rock with groups such as Cedar Creek, The Gypsy Eyes Blues Band and Donny and the Feelgoods.
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Transmitters second CD crafted in their spare time
By Barry Gilbert
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
12/27/2007
Any recording artist would welcome a big budget, limitless studio time and truckloads of high-tech equipment. But those luxuries aren''t available to the vast majority of bands at any level. And besides, there''s just something rock ''n'' roll about sweating out a record.
Sometimes, that lack of time and resources results in a rock disc like the Transmitters'' strong new sophomore CD, "Receiver": raw, but not unpolished; straightforward, but not simple; right, but not ragged.
The Transmitters'' leader, veteran St. Louis singer-songwriter Kip Loui, says the album took a year to piece together.
"We''re all a bunch of working schmoes," says Loui, a Roosevelt High School special-education teacher, so the CD was recorded in "stolen moments." Advertisement
Guitarist Mike Young — he''s Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell "to my Tom Petty," Loui says — suggests only half jokingly that "if you boil down the amount of time we actually spent in the studio, it could''ve been done in a weekend."
That would have been one productive weekend. The CD, which the band will debut Friday night at a release party at the Duck Room, boasts 12 solid, hook-filled tracks — ranging from the bouncy pop of "Summer''s Here" to the topical reggae of "Blood & Justice" to the Stones-Faces chug of the kiss-off "Nice Try."
Loui and Young, during the course of a suppertime conversation at Blueberry Hill, keep returning to the idea that the CD was done quickly. Jokingly congratulated for resisting the temptation to put Beach Boys harmonies on "Summer''s Here" ("Labor Day is many weeks away/ So now we play"), Loui shakes his head and says, "Well, we ran out of time."
Young adds: "The album is rough. I''m not saying that''s bad or good, but it was done quickly. ... Put a mike in front of the amp and play, and we''re done."
"It''s just rough enough," Loui says.
"Receiver," like the band''s debut disc "Transmission," is self-funded and self-released, recorded and produced locally with Jason Hutto and Mike Martin. Now it will have to be self-marketed and self-distributed — an easier task in this digital age but still a grind.
The band is pressing enough CDs to hawk at its show, and Loui hopes to get "Receiver" listed in some Web stores, including CD Baby, where the band''s first release is still available.
"But the last thing I want to do after working all day is to hang fliers," Loui says. "I just want to play."
Loui has been playing in St. Louis for many years.
"A lot of people know me through country," said Loui, 43, who spent most of the past decade with the alt-country Belle Starr and rockabilly Rockhouse Ramblers, and continues to twang with three-quarters of the Bottle Rockets in Diesel Island. "But I grew up playing in rock ''n'' roll bands." And as recently as the early ''90s, in the Heebie Jeebies.
"I just wanted a big rock band," Loui says, and he''s got one. Together for about three years, the Transmitters are a seasoned, cohesive group that includes, in addition to Loui and Young (Gentleman Callers), bassist Dave Stallman (Donnie & the Feelgoods, Royal Motor Lodge, Rockhouse Ramblers); drummer Scott Lampley (Feelgoods); and keyboard wizard Jon Parsons (Nadine, Getaway Car and the Feelgoods, among others).
With Lampley and Stallman solid on the bottom, and Young churning out tight, song-tailored solos, Parsons — whom Loui calls "our secret weapon" — is free to soar over and under the band with a variety of keyboard sounds, from B3 organ to tinkly piano. Check out Young and Parsons'' dueling solos on "Quittin'' Time."
Loui, above all, is a songwriter, and a prolific one, producing a song a week, Young says. "Receiver" is full of Loui''s sharp writing, such as "I''ve got my jacket on/''cause your memory gives me chills," from "Inbetween."
"We all have this insane passion for it, maybe more than people who do it professionally," Young, who is 30 and works in advertising, says of the band''s music. "I''m not a studio musician by any stretch ... but this has given me a newfound interest in my instrument, to go with the passion."
Young and Loui haven''t given up on the rock-star dream, but they are realistic.
"Our goals are somewhat modest," Loui says. "We''re probably not going to go on tour in Saskatchewan. But, you never know."
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"...Twangfest Thursday, The Duck Room. The Transmitters started things off to a light crowd a little after 8PM. This is the toughest sounding band Kip Loui has ever fronted; lots of people think it''s his best. The standout originals were "You''re Killing Me" and "Missing Person". One song had a slight reggae underpinning…kinda like Graham Parker''s "Don''t Ask Me Questions". Toward the end of their 45 minute set, they did Hank''s "Lost Highway", starting off slow before kicking it into gear and ending with a punch." ... https://www.tradebit.com
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..."A to Z jumped the gun a bit when she wrote about the Transmitters'' new CD earlier this year (see "Local Motion" on April 21, 2006), but what she said then about the album — namely, "expected bits of sturm-und-twang are joined by torchy ballads, Rolling Stones-swampy blues, merry jangle [and] riot-punk" — still holds true today. " ... -The Riverfront Times
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