[mod.music.gaffa] Answering the Weenie

Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU.UUCP (02/17/87)

Really-From: hofmann@nrl-css.arpa (Jim Hofmann)

>	The Assembled Weenies At NRL will be pleased to know that the latest
Status: R

>Thrasher (best music magazine in America?) has features on the Buttholes,
>Adolescents (tho', still no one can get Rikk Agnew to talk), and the Pushead
>column is all about Japanese Hardcore!!!  Yow, go to town, dudes!  Skate Rad!

Gee, thanks but I don't read anything you can buy or pick up for free in
7-11.  It's considered evil now that Meese decides what they stock.

>Diego way).  All I can add is that if you are a Wire fan at all this is a
>*must* purchase.  Every other time in history a band has reformed it's 

Agreed.  This is one band that never really lived up to their total
potential and the new stuff may just fufill their promise.  Over-rated
by their cult and ignored by the rest of the weenies, Wire is worth
buying up their back log if you're into anything that doesn't suck.

>[This from the Big Black video Bill Hsu mentioned - jeez, imagine seeing
>Big Black in some little shithole in Chicago with hardly anyone there, 

I thought it was recordded in Columbus?
>band of the same name (Rema Rema, who had Marco Pironi, later of much food
>and Adam and the Ants, on guitar; also a future Wolfgang Press-er as well).

A recording of this is available from a Forced Exposure 7" one-sided
limited edition, "Rema Rema". I have it and you don't.  Speaking of
singles, the Ciconne Youth single is on Blast First as a 12" import
and on New Alliance as a domestic 7" in case you're wondering.

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