Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (12/15/86)
Really-From: hsu@uicsrd.CSRD.UIUC.EDU (William Tsun-Yuk Hsu) (Joe Turner, I mailed the U Mass lyrics thingie something but never got a reply. Suggestions?) 7 Seconds/Verbal Assault at Channing-Murray, Urbana IL Last week's, ummm, unspectular show with area bands Ill-noize, Random Noise and Buckethead (who did an awesome Feelies-style folk-thrash version of Robyn Hitchcock's "Sometimes I wish I was a pretty girl", superior to the original, I'm not kidding) was kind of a warmup for this, I guess. Verbal Assault was LOUD. Animated hardcore with good guitar which unfortunately got buried in the mix. When did 7 Seconds shed their "kids next door" look? Anyway, their new material sounds much better (read raw and raunchy) live, so I liked it even tho I wasn't impressed by what I've heard from the new album. A little unruly at times (I think this is the last show of their tour. They originally cancelled to shorten the tour but rescheduled when somebody else cancelled their Chicago date.) Finished with the old warhorses, 99 Red Balloons and Walk Together Rock Together, which got the crowd fired up even more and singing, etc. Two encores from the new album. Are 7 Seconds trendy yet? I saw some trendies in the crowd... Bill