Re: [bomp] Highs in the Mid-80s

[Blair Buscareno <blairb@xxxxxxx>]

BlackMonk wrote:
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Blair Buscareno" <blairb@mac.com>
> To: <bomp@xnet2.com>
> Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2006 2:20 AM
> Subject: [bomp] Highs in the Mid-80s
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>
>>
>> A month or two ago, the first episode of my Highs in the Mid-80s 
>> podcast appeared at www.garagepunk.com.  That episode was NYC, Volume 
>> 1.  There *will* be a second volume.  First, however, I'm working on 
>> a Long Island volume, as that's where I grew up and first got turned 
>> on to all this stuff.  Pulling the Long Island stuff together has 
>> been both difficult and simple.
>
> Speaking of garagepunk.com and the Mosquitos, they have a Mosquitos 
> show from 85 that's pretty impressive. 
    Yeah, I put that one up, but - really - it's thanks to Eamonn Bowles 
of The Martinets.  My copy of that show got chewed by a car stereo years 
ago.  Eamonn also gave me a copy of his old band, The Fabians, live at 
Max's Kansas City in June of '81.  That, too, has been presented as a 
podcast on GaragePunk.com.  (The live stuff on GaragePunk.com goes under 
the heading, "Out Of The Vaults, Into Your Ears".)  In addition to 
Eamonn, The Martinets included Iain Morrison and Steve Prisco, who would 
later become members of The Mosquitos.

> They're not the first band from that crowd who I'd like to hear a  
> show from (every so often I check dimeadozen for anything from that 
> era. No luck), but I'd forgotten how good they were live.
    That came from a ton of practice.  The Mosquitos once told me they 
rehearsed 5 nights a week, one with vocals-only.
    What bands do you *want* to hear?  I mainly have Mosquitos and 
Secret Service material, although I think there may also be an Optic 
Nerve tape sitting around.  Plus, a friend of mine used to tape a bunch 
of those shows.
>
> It's ironic that, for me, the 80s WERE the bands I saw at the Dive, 
    I completely understand what you mean.  For me, it was The Dive, 
Sparks in Huntington, LI, and a couple clubs in Rochester, NY.  Of 
course, as I was doing college radio in Rochester, I also had to hear a 
bunch of the...other stuff. <grin>  But the excitement...the LIFE...of 
the 80s was exactly what you're referring to.

> yet as far as the various mp3 blogs and such are concerned, that time 
> didn't exist. 
    That makes it *your* job to correct that, Tom. 

> I guess, looked at dispassionately, it was just one local scene out of 
> many, but at the time those shows were IT and I still think Dino 
> Sorbello and Shane Faubert, at the very least, were major talents.  
> (Faubert is one of my favorite songwriters, even if after more than 20 
> years, I'm still not sure how to pronounce his name)
    I used to think it was FOW-bert.  (With the "fow" being like "ow, it 
hurts.")
    These days I'm fairly sure it's "faux-BEAR."
    I could be completely wrong.

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