OLD AMAZING TORONTO BAND COVER #2

Ok.. I was going to wait a little while to post this to let the last song and option to buy the record sink in, but I can't wait anymore. A few years ago me and marvelous Mark Fosco (darlings) recorded a YOUTH YOUTH YOUTH cover song called Domination for the BYO boxset anniversary edition. It was the best song on the comp, and amazing song altogether and we never got our copies of the boxset. But through the connection Fucked Up did end up playing the BYO bowling fest thing in Vegas last year where Damian witnessed a certain lead singer of Nofx get his ass eaten out at a fetish sex party (thats all i'll say about that). This was also my first and only slamming appearance as a hardcore vocalist since we broke up No Warning, and I must say - I am still The King. Jk. (not). Brian Taylor of Rotate This (or Mean Guy Brian as we used to call him growing up due to his curt nature as a record store guy [hear me yell "MEAN GUY" in the cover song below !!!!!!RESPECT!!!!!]) fronted Youth Youth Youth and I heard that when he heard the cover he hoped I would come down to the store and perform it with my shirt off. I am still considering doing this.

anyways.. here's the next old Toronto cover

when i was about 13 or 14 my favourite band from Toronto was a band called The Stiffs (not to be confused with this band who are also bomb). i also definitely never liked the Bare Naked Ladies when i was 10, i did like hayden though when i was 12. they were a 3 chord pop punk band influenced by green day and screeching weasel. the singer was short (like me) but had more of a hunch back. he had a pretty cool uni-brow too (uni brow = COOL SINGER). I saw them at battle of the bands shows before they started playing "real" punk shows at Club 360 with bands I never thought were any good (marylins vitamins, tire kickers) but everyone else in Toronto and on the local college radio punk shows (that damian and sandy from fucked up hosted!) loved..

I remember seeing Rob the singer at an empty battle of the bands in the east end of T.O smoking a cig in the club with a shirt that said "vampires suck". so cool. they covered "veronica hates me", i think, which I still think was a weird choice to this day.. great song though. their demos were lightening fast, and even sped up by the tape recorder sometimes (accidentally) to make them sound faster. It was like listening to a 35rpm band on 45rpms at all times. Their "RUMORS" demo is in my opinion one of the best Toronto releases ever (good luck finding it) and recently in exchange for recording a RAP VERSE for Damian on a certain Canadian rappers song featuring MOKA FUCKIN ONLY!!!! (i dont care this song is SICK), he gave me a cd of the demo he transferred from his cassette collection. The band eventually had to change their name and became Dead Letter Dept and put out an amazing EP on Ductape Records (RIP). Good luck finding THAT as well.

Rob the singer has a new thing called Rob Moir. Find it here. Not sure what the other dudes are up to, but I'm sure they are doing it at 45rpms. Also if the stiffs/dld ever do a reunion and don't invite me up to play 2nd guitar on a song ie, Rumors... actually, i won't care at all! I'll be psyched.

Naturally, I had to do a cover. Below you will find the original (AMAZING, listen to those drums) and my version which I tried to make sound like The La's or something with Anthony's 12 string lying around the studio. Also Vassil from City Sweethearts had come by the studio that day to go over some mixes I was doing for them. I made him play drums on the track very quickly before working on his stuff. I don't think he minded. Also, below you will find the YYY cover song (you can also download that from soundcloud, I think.. i made it available for everyone).

The "rumors" cover will be the B side to an upcoming 7" on Pleasence Records from Toronto. The single is called "Bedroom Eyes" and it will be the first Young Guv & The Scuzz record featuring all the band members, a new organ lady by the name of Robin who plays in a female weezer cover band called Sheezer (they are famous, look it up) and also Aerin from the Bitters on horns.

Also coming up on the same label is the Tropics "Pale Trash" record (best record of 2010 that never came out) I recorded for them a long long time ago that never came out on the label that agreed to do it, and a Huckleberry Friends 7" which is straight GINA BEATS as always.. More on Pleasence and the funny story about how I am connected to the dude that runs the label. Wow.

Rumors by Young Governor (stiffs [from toronto] cover) by youngguv

The Stiffs - Rumors by youngguv

Domination by YYY feat. Marvelous Mark & Young Guv by youngguv

MARRIED MAN BY YOUNG GUV

The Married Man by youngguv

ORDER THIS ONE SIDED 7" HERE. WILL GO FAST. FIRST ONE OF MY RECORDS EVER RELEASED ON A TORONTO LABEL (we are busy bodies). RECORDED THIS ONE ABOUT A YEAR AGO. More to come...

update:
as per your request in the comments:

This song was taken from an old demo of mine when i was in another band.. the idea was scrapped or considered not good enough, but I always felt that the melodies and feel of the song was solid. the original was pretty fast, and was a lot more powerpop. at the time i recorded this song i had a few fuzz pedals kicking around and my friend anthonys jazzmaster was in the corner and since I was listening to a lot of dead moon and fleetwood mac i decided to use a fleetwood mac beat and play it like i thought dead moon might play it. i dont really listen to dead moon anymore. i kinda think it was a phase. i originally had agreed to meet up with simone form 100$ so she could sing back ups on this, but it never happened so i scrapped that idea. i played slide guitar with an empty can at the studio.
the lyrics were inspired by a guy who when hanging around would always hint at something to do with me and my girlfriend being married one day. he seemed completely obsessed with the idea of marriage and security and me being a young man from a divorced family with the opposite views on the subject I couldn't help but take a knock at him in a song... Some of my best friends are married..Respect to them, but I still think its a weird thing to do.

There!

ps when i was told to google "married man young governor" to look at people complaining about the shipping price of this record (the 9$ is shipping included, so i guess thats not so bad?) this was the first thing that came up (DO IT, CHI BABE! YOU SO NAUGHTY!). also it for some reason reminded me of whenever i txt "guv" with my iphone the auto txt corrector always corrects it to "HIV". bummmmer.

TRADESIES

Hin und wieder du, Leute wollen Handel sie ihre Mitteilungen für ihre (nicht zu klingen wie die größte dick in der Welt aber 9/10 Mal wenn Menschen bitten, dies zu geschehen der gehandelten records Normalerweise werden verloren gehen, in den Müll, oder warf sie die Tour van Fenster. Und ich bin nicht nur um Handel mit mir. Ich spreche ziemlich viel jeder ich jemals kommen über die meist immer nur widerstrebend damit einverstanden ist. Sie sind nur zu ängstlich, nein zu sagen ihr Gesicht.

I'm now excepting trades for records for the following things that aren't other peoples records:

TEA(cheers, Russ)
WEED (this is mailable too.. no warning used to get weed (and other stuff) mailed to hotels all the time)
WINE
SOCCER MAGAZINES
MANCHESTER CITY MOCCASINS (this would get you a bunch of records, also yes they actually make them..COOL EH??!)
INCENSE STICKS with names like "Black Love", "Pussy", "Fuck Smell"(i am not a hippie)
DAVID LEE ROTH'S book "Crazy from the Heat"
GUITAR PEDALS
ZZ TOP VINYL

happy new year
+>E

LATHE #3

Happy Boxing Day. I gather everyone had a good holiday? I did. Drank loads, and got asthma at all the holiday houses I visited with feline inhabitants (worth it though). Here's a quick one because I don't really have anything to say that doesn't have to do with Man City, or a record I have something to do with..

This is the next installment in the extremely limited lathe series brought to you by myself, and scotch tapes. Keep in mind, all these songs will be featured on a (not so limited) 12" compilation later in 2011. The track listing will be:

1. Huckleberry Friends
2. Tropics
3. Bruised Knees
4. Lonely Wholesome
5. Actual Water
6. Dentata
7. Wyrd Visions
+ maybe a bonus track or two

Click here to get #3 BRUISED KNEES.

UPDATE: SOLD OUT!

NW

randomly found this online when i found a website selling all our stuff... WONDERING WHO THAT 10$ A MONTH IN NW MERCH SALES IS GOING TO? I'd like my cut, so I can buy sour kids at the movies.

this is an EPK that was put together by some random dude many years ago, and did a lot to help us get signed to Warner Bros and sell out the hardcore scene and make a shit load of money that we all spent pretty quickly. Fred Durst saw this and called us "Phat", and wanted to sign us on the spot. hardcore is a mystery to people on the outside, and as lame as it gets it'll always kind of be that way! Keep the faith, and STAY PHAT.

long live the transac

nothing to report

hey I haven't posted anything in a while because either a) I've been on tour and I'm too lazy b) no records have come out since my last post.. and thats all I really think is worth posting anything about c) ive been recording other bands d) ive been watching tevez e) ive been spending money f) most importantly.. working out the live band version for all of this so I can actually play a gig. It's going pretty well. Young Guv & The Scuzz features two gentlemen from No Warning (gavel/jesse) who now play like session musicians for Motown Records, and Serdi from Marvelous Darlings. I've played with these cats for over 10 years now. Eazy.

Firing Squad 7" out soon on plastic idol
married man 7" on we are busy bodies
new roommates in the new year

teaser:

ill take the draw

"DIRTY, DIRTY, LEEDS"

Leeds is a magical magical village in England where the only person above the age of 30 is a bald man named Jace who plays in a skinhead oi (people still do this?) band called (fuck, I honestly cant remember) and they dress up as cricket players and play Jonah's guitar he paid half of for. The rest of the population are students having sex with each other and ordering Pizza and yelling. Some are goth's that go to a goth club in a church off the main strip. There is a top notch curry in the Park in Leeds, but the owner supports United so I'm pretty sure I'm eating curried dogshit from the aforementioned Park. Tastes bomb though. Jonah always gets the 900 chili vindaloo and destroys his innards. The one time the curry in the Park was closed Andy, Damian and I strayed off our curry on the reg and got some bastardized version down the road. 30 mins later I was barfing in a forest. Theres a quote here that's escaping me from our driver at the time about me feeling great after puking in a forest, but its not that funny. This is the 2nd out of about 10 times I've been sick in England on tour. I remained food poisoned all night at Andys house in London feverishly dreaming about his toilet bowl and cat crawling down my throat like that Tales From the Crypt episode. He cooked us English breakfast the next morning and I must say really made me feel great. Leeds sucks, and I sleep in the van every time because Jace's cat won't die. I'm always stoned by the time we are off to bed, so an hour before I sleep I'm sitting up in the van paranoid (but not as paranoid as Damian smoking anywhere with a police force AKA EVERYWHERE) waiting for the van to be burglarized and our gear ripped off. In the back of mind I know I will just sit there and let it happen so the show the next day gets canceled, or at least we can borrow gear and make it interesting and sound bad but cool.
Here's to another cold van sleep, terrible breakfast sub's, and Jonah farting fire and burning Leeds to the ground. See ya there!

This show will be a good one because it is the last day of tour, we will be in good moods, we will probably get free stuff, we fly home the next day.. and despite my above piss take on the place Leeds is always a solid gig.

p.s I know the Bitters kind of got lost in that whole fuzz pop lo fi thing, but the record that came out on Sacred Bones that I've never read anything about or seen anywhere and seems to have just been lost under the rug somewhere (makes sense because we were never a "real band") has been uploaded here, by these ladies from Toronto. Give it a whirl. The record is awesome. cheers