Rev. Norb discusses Boris The Sprinkler, future recording plans

Contributed by luckystars. Posted by adam on Thursday, August 13, 2009 at 11:00 AM (EDT)

In a recent interview Boris The Sprinkler vocalist Rev. Nørb (who we all of course also know and love from his columns in Maximum Rocknroll and Razorcake), Norb was asked about future recording plans. He responded:

From Boris, i dunno, probably not. The phones aren't exactly ringing off the hook with lucrative reunion album offers, which is fine, we're not a band, we don't really care. From me, i suppose i should release something else, but i deem CDs a dead format, and would like to release whatever it is i release as a vinyl/digital download type dealie, and for that i probably should have a website and i ain't got time for that so who knows. I did recently purchase a set of bongo drums so the world should be properly fearful.

Boris The Sprinkler reunited for Insubordination Fest earlier this year. You can check out the full interview at the Lucky Stars Radio Blog.

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muckymuck (August 13, 2009)

i dont cee what this haz to do wit dthis: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAAAV7BB1HU

Preston (August 13, 2009)

If you do not see, step back and look at the big picture. It has everything to do with this.

MattRamone (August 13, 2009)

They played a great show, too.

baldsteve (August 13, 2009)

I love Rev Norb. I would love to put out a book compiling his columns (multi-volume of course)

I'd also like them to be impossibly formatted like they originally were.

ExtraCheesePizza (August 13, 2009)

I want to have Rev. Nørb's babies.

baldsteve (August 13, 2009)

You'd have to fight me (if it were possible)

ExtraCheesePizza (August 13, 2009)

Fight? No need for violence when taco eating contests can settle the score.

baldsteve (August 13, 2009)

That's what I meant by 'fight' mmmmm Tacos.

He's really one of the greatest dudes ever.

trolley (August 13, 2009)

I've only heard one song, from the Punk Sucks comp, and I really liked it. Unfortunately downloadpunk.com doesn't have their stuff. Anyone know anywhere online you can buy mp3s?

trolley (August 13, 2009)

Ignore that, they are on downloadpunk.com. It was just slow. Which album is better, Gay or Suck?

baldsteve (August 13, 2009)

Both are lesser releases BUT 'Gay' has "motherfucker are you ready to rock" as its first track and that owns

baldsteve (August 13, 2009)

I shouldn't say Lesser. Suck is actually a pretty good record. But chronological is the way to go.

Mega Anal is fucking hilarious

AmericanRiot (August 13, 2009)

Mega Anal may be my favorite. there's days it's hard to choose though.

baldsteve (August 13, 2009)

Every day is hard to choose. That's why I love the ipod. I have all the bsides digitized too so you just put it on random and let the fun happen.

Their live record "frozen tundra..." Is a must hear.

AmericanRiot (August 13, 2009)

yeah i have the b-sides i got from soulseek or something. i have not heard the live record yet though. i'm still kicking myself for not buying a whole bunch of stuff at insubordination fest (i was selling it the whole night for christ sake!), but i was strapped for cash at the time.

baldsteve (August 13, 2009)

I'm sure I have everything they ever did. What were they selling?

I'll send you the live record in digital form. It long out if print so the computer gods will be cool with it

AmericanRiot (August 13, 2009)

i'm trying to remember. cds they had suck, is gay, mega anal, 8 testicled pogo machine (i think a japanese reissue of it), saucer to saturn, and i can't remember if they had any more albums. i know there were a couple of norbs nob albums. they also had the male model 7inch (with the great explanation of why the undertones are...well great on the back), the meatmen split 7, she digs my new wave records 7, another split i forget, and some other 7.

AmericanRiot (August 13, 2009)

and if you're going to email that live album send it to americanriot@gmail.com

subwayscott (August 13, 2009)

They weren't selling anything there that you don't already have....

baldsteve (August 13, 2009)

Thanks pumpkin. I miss you.

baldsteve (August 13, 2009)

Emusic.

Also grab 8 Testicled Pogo Machine if that's the track you liked. Not much else sounded like that one.

baldsteve (August 13, 2009)

The full interview is really good. His 'note to god' was pretty funny.

I can't imagine him fat. Glad I got to see him in his prime.

luckystars (August 13, 2009)

hey thanks!

badbrain (August 13, 2009)

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Heya, everyone please go here and click the "Vote for me" button for my friends dog. She can win some money if her dog gets a lot of votes and places well.

You can vote once a day for 12 weeks. Then the next round starts I think.

Thanks guys

baldsteve (August 13, 2009)

Hey! Get your friends fucking dog out of my Rev Norb article.

I really hate people that post unrelated things in the articles. What kind of asshole does that?

badbrain (August 13, 2009)

Put a cork in it STEVE

baldsteve (August 13, 2009)

Hahaha. I'd like to put my cork in you.

AmericanRiot (August 13, 2009)

seriously out of all the articles to pick to post something stupid like vote for more friend's dog, to pick this one?! Rev Norb is so amazing. we need more fun bands these days. even ska bands don't really have fun anymore. it was an honor hocking Boris The Sprinkler's merch at Insubordination Fest for them.

badbrain (August 13, 2009)

I figured this story would ge a lot of viewers therefore increasing the pool of potential voters

AmericanRiot (August 13, 2009)

at least tell us why she needs the money. like she is about to get evicted or has brain cancer or something. if not it's just shameless. i have the sweetest and most beautiful cat in the world (in my opinion of course), but i don't feel i deserve any money just for that.

sweetsugarpezz (August 13, 2009)

only because my daughter has that same power wheels.

SloaneDaley (August 13, 2009)

Baldsteve is on the phone calling him up right now to make him a lucrative offer.

baldsteve (August 13, 2009)

They would accept the money and just find it weird when they show up to play my basement and its just me in a Spider-Man costume jumping up and down pumping my fists.

I'd have to ask the wife if they can come over.

SloaneDaley (August 13, 2009)

sounds like you make these sorts of call often.

baldsteve (August 13, 2009)

Would if I could. They are one of my most favorite things ever.

I'm dead serious about wanting to put the book out.

Tom1022 (August 13, 2009)

is the CD really a dead format? i must be in the vast minority of people who:

a) don't steal music
b) don't own a record player
c) enjoy having a physical product (i don't want a fucking pdf lyric sheet)
d) enjoy easily and inexpensively converting songs to mp3s

i guess i could have stopped after condition A and have already answered my own question.

baldsteve (August 13, 2009)

Its not about stealing music. Lots of people don't buy them anymore. I understand for the lyrics, but there's few things more irritating than buying a new release only to find there is just a front cover insert and no lyrics.

Tom1022 (August 13, 2009)

Yea, that's true.

I guess what I really want as a consumer of music is something i can put my hands on that I can also listen to on my ipod. To my limited knowledge, it is possible to convert vinyl to mp3, but not necessarily easy or cheap. So my preference is for CDs.

AmericanRiot (August 13, 2009)

yeah i don't understand how people can be giving up on cds. they're portable, they don't warp, they're easy to keep unscratched if you put them back in the cases. you can play them on most stereos, as well as dvd players. then again i do still listen to cds in my car on a portable player with a tape adapter.

i don't like ipods for several reasons. first they're expensive. when they came out they didn't make one big enough to hold all my music. they're change (yep i hate change). they're too much. i like to sit down with an album, or even a couple albums and just take them in. it really helps you appreciate them. i will admit i have a 1gb mp3 player (i got free when my dad got an ipod from his company), but it's just enough to consolidate a small stack of cds, or to listen to some stuff i have on the computer i can't find on cd or are crazy expensive cause they are oop.

it's all useless and modern, and even if there is no lyrics sheet, atleast i can hold the liner notes and just gaze at the artwork.

baldsteve (August 13, 2009)

I love the ipod. I travel a lot for work. I won't be home for 2 weeks and I have all of my records in the palm of my hand. That's amazing.

adamrapscallion (August 13, 2009)

They don't warp??? you really haven't left cds in your car in a CD booklet or anything. CD have a life span of about a decade after that their music quality goes down as well as increase in a chance of pock marks in the disc which makes it unreadable.

revnorb (September 10, 2009)

For the record, i don't own an MP3 player or steal music. Well, MUCH music. Er...well, i don't own an MP3 player, anyway. CDs are crap. I used to listen to vinyl at home, cassettes ((taped from vinyl)) in my car, and CDs at work, then GM stopped equipping their vehicles with cassette players so i started listening to CDs in my car and at work. I got bored with listening to CDs in two places so i started downloading crap while i was at work, but then i kind of gave up on that and now i have a USB turntable sitting by my computer at work so i rip vinyl to my computer and listen to that while at work and only listen to CDs in my car, and that's sort of a boring place to listen to most CDs because cars make noise and you can't really pay attention so there ya go. Therefore my CDs are sitting around in my car, getting all scratched up, being shit, while my vinyl is being ripped to MP3 ON THE COMPANY DIME so THERE you also go. Vinyl + Digital Download == Cool; CD == shit.

red_eye_inc (August 13, 2009)

It's a totally dead format. The numbers don't lie, the next medium is digital tracks beamed to you through the internet. You like a lyrics sheet? Print it out. Like a physical product? Burn a blank cd and decorate it yourself. I'm sure lots of people loved eight-tracks and laser dics but that doesn't mean they haven't become obsolete.

lars (August 13, 2009)

Yeah I still buy CDs too. Personally the reason I buy them is b/c I can store them on my computer in a lossless format (FLAC or whatever), then convert them to mp3 or whatever I need.

I still can't figure out why the music industry expects people to pay for a lossy MP3/AAC/WMA file that's actually infererior quality compared to what you would have had on the CD. And on top of that you can't convert a MP3/AAC/WMA file into any other format without losing even more of the sound quality (yes, that means if you burn your iTunes files to CD & then ripped them to mp3 you just made your music sound a bit worse)

Eventually all digital music sales will be lossless, but we're not there quite yet.

(OK, rant over)

jacknife737 (August 13, 2009)

I agree completely.

CBSrocksteady (August 13, 2009)

are people going to even have CDs 50 years from now? I feel like all of the CDs i owned 10 years ago all now skip or are sun damaged or just shot to shit. i definitely cannot picture having kids and them looking through my CDs being all like dad this is awesome like I did with my parents vinyls.

IanIsSuperRad (August 13, 2009)

Saw Boris at Insub Fest. Insane!

eroqTN (August 13, 2009)

I learned from Rev Norb that if you hoist your empty pint glass in the air, the beer gets refilled quicker. God I miss those old Speakeasy's days/nights. And Paul lives in the stix of Rhinelander now so the future of Boris recording new shit is about as likely as Les Paul creating another guitar.........too soon?