in light of his strange & haunting folk-psychedelia, most of Bobb's favorite music will surprise many folks:
Beatles, Ramones, Cheap Trick, Monkees, Bowie, Lennon, Devo, B52s, Nirvana, X, Badfinger...
true, he likes some early Pink Floyd (incl. Ummagumma), but usually it's classic rock, power pop and punk in his CD player and cassette decks.
oh, and also figuring prominently in his psyche: Little Rascals, Marx Bros., Three Stooges.
"Maybe you don't know it yet, but (IF you buy these Bobb Trimble albums) you have just been handed the key to a secret realm, an alternate rock n' roll universe of dark despair, fragile hope, and gossamer beauty, a haunting personal soundworld that will always stay with you, within you... "
- Aquarius Records catalog description
"There is no album I own that has as much emotional complexity and depth as Harvest of Dreams."
- Aaron Milenski,
The Lama Reviews
"It really has to be heard to be explained. It doesn't come much 'realer' than this."
- Thurston Moore,
Arthur Magazine
"Incredible, multi-layered late night listening of the highest order...
Without its few contemporary style-nods, you would bever guess the album was originally released in 1982. One of the decade's best albums, filled with a mysterious charm that grows with each listen."
- Byron Coley, on Harvest of Dreams
"[Harvest of Dreams is] rated by most as the best psych LP of the 1980s. One of those obscurities (like D.R. Hooker) that blows even non-collectors away... The total impact is like walking around in one of Bobb's dreams. Melancholic, moving but also hopeful - an essential experience."
- Patrick the Lama,
The Acid Archives of Underground Sounds 1965-1982
"We're the Crippled Pink Band...we're from Wormtown!"
- Ariel Pink (Boston, Feb-22-2006), referring to Bobb's old group The Crippled Dog Band.
"A delicate, unsettling dip into a boiling pool of subconscious imagery and otherworldly pixie vocalism. The best tracks cause ripples in the space/time continuum. Bobb Trimble's first album appeared like a ghost that had slipped through reality's curtain. Impossible to place inside any rational context, the music and voices seem to have been created in your head and, indeed, maybe they were."
- Byron Coley, on Iron Curtain Innocence
"He reaches the kind of intensity and solitude that only the likes of Syd Barrett and Nick Drake have reached in popular music. He is a talent of amazing proportions who operates in his own world, one I am glad to have visited but worry for its creator."
- Mark Coyle,
The Unbroken Circle (UK)
"Multilayered voices unlike any you have ever heard... brooding and dark head music flowing into shimmering beautiful fragile glimpses from real life. The feeling is overpowering & the music is ageless. Otherworldly yet breathing with life."
- Forced Exposure Mailorder Catalog
[comparisons have been made to: Linda Perhacs; Simon Finn; The United States of America; Comus; Gary Higgins; Robert Wyatt; Tim Buckley; Perry Leopold; Jackson C. Frank, Supertramp; Pearls Before Swine; Satwa; Skip Spence; D.R. Hooker; Geddy Lee; Merrell Fankhauser; Michael Yonkers; Glenn Faria; Syd Barrett; Nick Gilder; Damin Eih, ALK & Brother Clark]
**excerpt from the Prefab Messiahs/Bobb set at the Wormtown 30th Anniv. Bash, May 3, 2008... check here for more clips from the set**
[Intro note: Bobb approved the creation of this site, but doesn't deal with any of the maintenance of it. Also, since he doesn't own a computer, he can't read any mail sent here. He sincerely thanks his fans for their appreciation, though.]
Born ten years too late to attract the attention he deserved, Bobb Trimble created an utterly unique body of work that merged psychedelia, folk-rock, space music and sound effects into rock's most convincing depiction of a disturbed mind. As with most tortured artistic souls, Bobb's distinct vision is filled with much more than just fear and self-loathing. It drips with beauty and heartbreak, and his high, fragile voice bleeds with passion. The music evokes the sixties yet sounded contemporary when released in the eighties and again when re-released in the nineties. Bobb's two impossibly rare albums change hands for ungodly sums of money, and for years his reputation grew among collectors as his music was heard via tape trades (often on unlabeled tapes, which led to one male collector falling in love with the beautiful voice only to be informed that the singer was actually a man). In the mid-90s, Bobb's music was finally made widely available when the bulk of the two albums were released on CD as Jupiter Transmission. Die-hard fans of psychedelia rate Bobb's music as the finest in the genre from the 80s.
Most of Bobb's public performances came in the very early 80s, around the time his two albums were released. Though his musical style differed from the punk rock bands in the "Wormtown" (Worcester, MA) scene, his oddball loner status made him fit in quite well with his musical peers. Wormtown is credited with inspiring him to release his first album, Iron Curtain Innocence, in 1981. Soon after, Bobb, a man of many phases, decided that "the children are the future" and formed the punky garage band Bobb & The Kidds with a group of pre-teens. Doomed to failure due to protective and suspicious parents, the Kidds recorded only one brief song, "Oh Baby," which appeared on Bobb's second album, Harvest of Dreams. Compromising his vision slightly, Bobb recruited a 15-year-old rhythm section and formed the short-lived Crippled Dog Band. A Crippled Dog Band concert appears on side two of the compilation Life Beyond The Doghouse (side one of which documents Bobb's even briefer Jesus-freak phase). The Crippled Dog Band's shining public moment came at a 1983 Worcester rock festival, when Bobb came on stage decked out in a top hat, green satin coat, bunny ears and bunny tail.
I'm glad another musician from the 70-80s is getting some recognition! I am sure enjoying finding a new audience for my music work! Thanks for being my friend . . . JD
thank you for the friend request your "Premonitions - the Fantasy" is my all times favorite song, it make me dance and sing with chouda, my dog and all the people you see in the painting of my friend Stéphanie
your music is great. we just got 'harvest of dreams' on lp... we're gonna run out and get the other one. thanks so much for the vinyl reissues! it reminds us a bit of sagittarius, and chris bell...
Still blown away by the reissues. I haven't taken them out of my 12-CD wallet that I carry around in my messenger bag at all times, actually! (Well, I haven't taken them out except to play them, of course!)
Your very welcome! Your music is GREAT! Wouldn't want anything better then this on my profile... Are you ever coming to vegas? I could see if you never did...lol
"I will make the bold claim that Bobb Trimble's two albums are the best privately pressed/self-released albums of not just the 80's, and not just the psyche genre, but possibly in all of rock." -Aaron Milenski from the current issue of Ugly Things !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you very much for the add. I only discovered the music of Bobb Trimble very recently, but it's definitely my kind of thing. Night at the Asylum is just perfect.
