Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU.UUCP (03/07/87)
Really-From: Greg Earle <smeagol!earle@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> Any midwest L-H'er who's ever paused to wonder when hearing about those cheap stay-over-a-Saturday one way air fares around the country, should consider jumping a plane to L.A. next week: New Music L.A. '87 presents American Premiere performance CURRENT .93. with Randy Greif (of Swinging Axe Productions) Friday, March 13th Charley's Obsession 501 S. Spring St. Downtown Los Angeles, CA $12.50 I have also heard rumours of an `all-star jam band' with members of CURRENT .93., COIL, and DEATH IN JUNE participating (also as part of NMLA87), but this is currently unconfirmed. In Other News: My loft-mates FACTORY have gotten the opening slot for a Goldenvoice SKINNY PUPPY show next month ... SP wishes to play two small shows here (4/15 & 4/16, see my Tour Dates) yet Goldenvoice only wants to put on one larger venue show. Visions of Promotorship dance in my head ... :-) Record news: - New industrial comp. `Dry Lungs II' is out. Put out by Paul Lemos of CONTROLLED BLEEDING (as was `Dry Lungs', natch.). Familiar names on DL II include JEFF GREINKE, RANDY GREIF, CONTROLLED BLEEDING, and SEVERED HEADS ... - CURRENT .93. goes mersh? New single (Laylah LAY 18) has guest star appearance by Rose McDowall of STRAWBERRY SWITCHBLADE ... - All right, John, I'm trusting you - new FUZZTONES LP `Live In Europe'; comes with a free 7" flexi ... [better be good!] - New XMAL DEUTSCHLAND LP `Viva' and 12" `Sickle Moon' ... - Just saw new SCRATCH ACID LP `Beserker', anyone have it? Review? SA playing at the Whiskey next Wednesday 3/11 ... - Charades time, Berkeley denizens! Name the band from Frisco with a one word name, begins with `T', sounds like a Japanese word; I saw it today but have already spaced out the band name (real good, Greg - can't even remember a fucking one word name. DUH ...). How's the record? Rock read brain food news: - RE/Search Industrial Culture Handbook (Issue #6/7). FINALLY found this sucker (looked for ages, but it has to come to me, too lazy to mail order). All you ever wanted to know about TG, Mark Pauline/SRL, Cab Vol, Non, Monte Cazazza, Sordide Sentimentale, SPK, Z'ev, Johanna Went (? whoa, what's she doing in this company?), and Rhythm & Noise ... as they were, circa '83ish. Good shit, this ... - One Two Three Four, A Rock `n' Roll Quarterly (HAH!), Issue #2. Supposed to be a `quarterly', but this is only the 2nd ish ever in two years' time. Put out by John Talley-Jones (& wife Kathy) of Urinals/100 Flowers/Radwaste & Happy Squid records fame (along with Kevin Barrett and Brenda Johnson-Grau, the other editors), this is a serious little book wherein the editors and selected others pontificate on Rock and What It Means To Us today. Sample columns this time out: Review - the Editors Popular Culture, Popular Knowledge - Iain Chambers Sexism & Racism & Rock and Roll - Alix Dobkin Reward Systems in Popular Music - Arnold S. Wolfe Frankie says BUY ME - Simon Frith Prince and the Sound of Time Experienced - Kevin Barrett there's also a `Reference Section' that includes a Buddy Holly compendium (1st ish had a Chuck Berry compendium), a Syllabus, and a Call for Papers. This is about the only rag I've ever seen that says "Let's sit down and seriously discuss alternative (& mainstream) rock music vs. Popular Culture et al., and let's assume we can do this intelligently and that our readers are also intelligent". Damn good stuff, this is. Can get overly pompous at times (depends on the author of the moment) or scholarly, but this is the type of read to keep !gtaylor awake 'till 4 AM to finish ... :-) In case anyone's interested, you can try to order this through the Starkman Concern, or try this address directly (I make no promises!): Editors Strong Sounding Thought Press, Inc. P.O. Box 691212 Los Angeles, CA 90069 USA Sez here "Unsolicited manuscripts welcome. Please address all correspondence to (above)" and "Send two copies of all manuscripts and include return postage. Query letters answered promptly, we promise" (Surrrre ... :-)) Replies Dept.: >Gun Club addendum: Patricia Morrison was/is in Fur Bible and The Sisterhood ... >Andrea `Enthal & Spin Good for her, Spin was never worth the effort anyway. Unfortunately, she's still an opinionated twit, and her radio show's going downhill fast (nowadays I can listen to it for 3 hours and count the good shit on 2 hands). She's got this obsession these days with obscure Australian and New Zealand semi-garage pop bands. They mostly go in one ear and out the other ... >From mimir.dmt.oz!rvh (Richard van Hoesel) Was wondering when you'd resurface ... >Non `Blood and Flame' Hmmm, think I just saw this today. Sounds good ... >Coil `The Anal Staircase' 12" > Someone mentioned the album a while back - still haven't heard it I did - it's still not out yet (`Horse Rotorvator') as far as I can tell. 71% ? Aw, be a nice guy, have a heart, give it a few more spins, you are getting sleepy, you are getting sleeeepppyyy, it rates a 95 ... :-) >FACTRIX CAZZAZA [sic] / live "Babylon..." or something (around '83) Actually it's Factrix, and Monte Cazazza, more like '81 ... >Shreikback : playing Melbourne 20 March at the Venue Trivial tit-for-tat: you said `>Severed Heads ... (yawn)', Tom Ellard says `Melbourne ... Wankers!'. End of Round 1, ding! ... :-) >Tesla >Can anyone tell me something about Tesla? Their album "Mechanical Resonance" >appeared in the top 20 of the album chart in RS. Hmmm, I have a friend who is a `go-fer' for a Rock Video production company; they just did a Tesla video. Are these the same people that are some mersh metal band, originally from Sacramento, with some 28ish year old dude as frontman, and the rest are some fresh faced teenagers (or barely post-teenage)? That's how he described them ... Well, 11:40, time to bail outta here. KATSOUROS, I'LL DEAL WITH YOUR FUCKING CRAP LATER, DUDE.