Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU.UUCP (01/16/87)
Really-From: ACTS5%VAXSWD%rca.com@RELAY.CS.NET what.. you mean I can mention DRs for Bob without anyone killing me? well since you didn't ask... Doktors for "Bob" from Little Rock Arkansas personel..Janor Hypercleats vocals Sterno Heckaver vocals,guitar and two others... Years together: 7 or 8? music: ??? (country/metal/pervo/comedy?) goals: kill woodstock music, kill "Bob", launch the bleeding head of the world cup golfer major songs: Told the judge... (charming anthum about inviting a judge to have oral sex while on trail for running over his kid. Used to be done aucostically now a metal tune in which Janor makes the same invitation to God and the universe) Cut my toe off with a lawnmower yardman blues -- personal attack on Mr. Johnson (of johnson & johnson bandaid fame) Shocked the living GEE out of me -- a rational discussion about electroshock theropy told form first person legs of fire -- country stomper about selling heroin to elementry school kids, and going to hell because the horse was cut and the kids weren't getting off (and other absurdists situations) What they call gosp-hell. You can't run from God -- Or from your own legs for that matter. intense exploration of self referencing. In closing not a credit to anyone's revolution. Craig Roll (Drs for Bob tapes are available for 8.50 (90 min) from The church of the SubGenius/ p.o. box 140306/ dallas tx 75214)
Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU.UUCP (02/26/87)
Really-From: hofmann@nrl-css.arpa (James B. Hofmann) More Sonic Youth stuff: They also have a cut on the Speed Trials compilation, Mr. Hsu, so make a note of it. And we musn't forget their contribution to the Love Dolls Superstar soundtrack album on SST. Note to Greg Earle: Isn't Factory that band opening up for Marginal Man this week in Washington, D.C.? fIREHOSE dates: Mar. 3 - Dallas, TX Mar 4, Austin, TX Mar 5 Houston TX Mar 6 New Orleans, LA 7, Atlanta 8, Athens 9, Columbia, SC 10, Raleigh, NC 11, Richmond 12, D.C. 13, Trenton, NJ 14, NYC 15, Providence 16, Boston, MA 17, New HAven, CT 18, Buffalo, NY 19, Pittsburgh, PA 20, Ohio 32, Detroit 22, Indianapolis, In 23, Chicago, IL 24, MAdison, WI 25, Minn, MN (Hey, Larry, got the postcard) 26, Sioux Falls, ID 27, Lincoln, NB 28, Kansas City, KS 29, Oklahoma City 30, Amarrilo, TX Apr 3, Los Angeles 4, San Diego... The above tour is with DC3. In late may, fIREHOSE tours the Northwest down to Texas with Slovenly. More tour info: 213-676-0032
Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU.UUCP (04/02/87)
Really-From: J. Peter Alfke <alfke@csvax.caltech.edu> seismo!nbs-amrf!oskard sez: > I was just listening to a local radio talk show on my way home last >night when I heard somebody (supposedly an authority of some sort on the >recording industry) saying that it only costs $2 more to produce a CD than an >album. Meanwhile, they're selling them at twice the price! >ASSHOLE BUSINESSMEN! There's a reasonable explanation for this. It costs about $4 to produce a boxed and packaged CD. It costs, I would presume, about $2 for a vinyl record. Multiply by about 4 or so to get list price, and you can see why they sell for twice the price. New issue of Billboard says one pressing plant has just lowered its cost to produce an unpackaged disc to $1.79 in bulk quantities, as compared to the previous lowest cost of about $2.30. The other pressing-plant people are aghast and acknowlege they may have to change their pricing, too. Yay! Moreover, a new method of CD mastering (using a piezoelectric- controlled stylus instead of photoetching) promises to be far far cheaper than the old method. This is a one-time cost to produce the master, but that cost figures heavily in the total cost per disc. So prices should go even lower. With any luck this will get passed to the consumer and we may start seeing cheaper CDs soon. (I also hear the supply is catching up with demand (in fact one of the major labels has some overstocked discs they're selling for $7.99 list (don't get excited, they're all shit)) so prices should be going down somewhat over the year.) So much for that. Yes, of course my Temptations/Bush of Ghosts thing ended in a joke. I'm not that dumb, guys. Really. --Me again "anyTHING goes up, anyTHING goes down, fish, bananas, old pajamas ..."