[mod.music.gaffa] Love-Hounds Digest

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 ..."