From: Bomp-Digest-Sender To: bomp-digest@bolis.com Subject: Bomp V96 #12 Reply-To: Bomp@bolis.com Precedence: bulk Bomp Thursday, 20 June 1996 Volume 96 : Number 012 In this issue: Fleshtones Update Group Sounds/ Original Sins/ Cambodia Rocks Sixties Rebellion on CD Re: Sixties Rebellion on CD Material Issue's Jim Ellison found dead ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: scaf@pro-net.co.uk (Steve Coleman) Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 11:12:59 GMT Subject: Fleshtones Update A big thank you to those who helped out with the John Fogerty info' the other day. Here is the completed "gossip" page from the 'Tones Web site. There may be something here to interest the casual browser. A WHOLE NEW SCENE! =20 The beautiful 'Le Palace' theatre in the heart of Paris was the= location for the Fleshtones twentieth birthday celebrations in early March. Very special guests included Pierre Carr=E9 ('The King of Pigalle') and the Roadrunners from Rouen. The 'Runners brief set was capped by a fantastic version of 'Screaming Skull' with Peter, followed by Keith,= Bill and finally Ken taking the stage and plugging into the number. Mixing= old and new material, the 'Tones threw in the usual "choice" covers. Keith sang a bluesy arrangement of 'Inside Looking Out', Peter and Ken hammed things up on top of the mixing desk during 'Sporting Life', and the Kinks classic 'The World Keeps Turning Round' was given a great reading during the encore. Believe me the 'Tones play this tune so= well. The audience reaction was ecstatic and the set lasted until 1.00am.=20 Recent months have seen the band promoting 'Laboratory of Sound' in Italy, France, Switzerland and Germany. Bill says the reaction in Italy= is getting better and better. The band appeared on TV several times and played to larger than usual audiences. After the European trek Peter visited Finland to help mix the new 22 Pistepirkko LP. The Z-man also found time to record 'Cross-Tie Walker' with Paul "Grillmaster" Johnson for a John Fogerty tribute called 'He Wrote A Song For Everyone'. The CD is available on the Finnish label Rubber Rabbit Rock'n'Roll Records [5R00196] and is distributed in the USA by Pravda. Other musicians include Girl Trouble, New Duncan Imperials, the Jolly Jumpers and the Cole Porters.=20 XXX Records USA are set to re-issue 'Angry Years' and 'Spread The Word' by the Love Delegation. There are also plans to re-launch 'Blast off!' in the US market. No label details for this one as yet. 'Laboratory of Sound' is still due for a Canadian release on Hypnotic Records. This should also see the 'Tones venturing north of the border to promote the album. Watch the Web site for dates.=20 Congratulations to Ken on Jean on their marriage in the first week of June. Our correspondent in NYC says that the festivities took place in= a "beautiful garden on a beautiful day". After the ceremony Mr & Mrs Fox and guests headed over to "Wally's" for food, drink and wedding cake. Oh well girls, there goes Mr "Teen-Appeal"!!!=20 If you wish to contribute to the Hall of Fame then please feel free to get in touch by e-mail. It would be fun to have some of your gig= reviews posted on the site. The Articles section is already boasting some non-English language material. It is very important that the bands fans= in these countries are catered for. What with my wobbly English and limited knowledge of French, your contributions would be warmly appreciated.=20 Keep listening to those majestic sounds!=20 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Steve Coleman The Fleshtones Hall of Fame http://idun.unl.ac.uk/~hfa9colemas/fhof.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ From: Donald G. Smith Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 10:38:28 -0400 Subject: Group Sounds/ Original Sins/ Cambodia Rocks Original Sins- Blair basically hit the Original Sins music on the nose- they used the garage style as *influences* to a noisey late-80s, pre-grunge, post-dinosaur jr/ biker style. It was exactly what a whole lot of people, esp. outside the community who already has an affinity for garage music, wanted to hear... The same thing that the Cynics did- Beki's zebra striped hat and generationally-challenged wardrobe of 1987 gave way to the t-rex-ish later period. I once saw them play a blistering 2 hour set (I have it on tape(s), it really went 2 hrs) almost non-stop to a packed crowd of garage types, DC punks, and assorted yuppies, etc. People who wanted to *rock* and didn't want some metalhead soloing. music that transcended genre restrictions... As far as the Just 14- I really only said pedophilic *tendencies*... I think that in the original song there are hints of a love/hate or rather lust/hurt relationship with the girl. What's great about it is the picture sleeve shows this demonically bland (it's the french braids) girl with a rifle- only until you flip it around do you see it's just the rifle & flag cheerleader squad... or whatever you call them, my hippy high school removed rifles from the cheerleading squad in 1971- sort of unilateral disarmament to halt the rival high school's arms race- so by the mid-80s we'd look at the gun-totin' "hillbilly" high schools in disgust... Hitomi asked about the use of strings and horns on Japanese GS records... well, I have to admit that most of the tracks on the 3 bootlegs in the US are tame by Back From the Grave standards, but when I got them I understood they were the Pop bands from Japan. There are enough interesting tracks by the Golden Cups, Bunnys, and others to make it worthwhile. For the most part, half of the enjoyment is from cultural differences, etc. however, I need to mention that most people on this list may want to check out "world music" bootlegger Twisted Village's recent release "Cambodia Rocks." It's wild twisted psyche rock from Cambodia around 1968-1972 or so. A few tracks are lilting female karaoke vocals which we associate with Southeast-Asian music, but the majority of the songs are strange garage/ psychedelic tunes which are unlike almost anything else out there. Very comparable to Os Mutantes or one of the other genre-splitting psyche bands. however, thumbs down on Twisted Village's no liner notes thing. It's totally lame. Plus they oddly assume that these bands played in bars near Cambodian US Army bases- au contraire, there were no permanent bases in Cambodia, only "camps," LZs, or firebases that would be gone a month later... these were Cambodians listening to US Army radio of the 60s and interpreting the music for their own culture- and it rocks. reading too much into things... Don ------------------------------ From: knardone@tulip.usa.com (Kevin Nardone) Date: Thu, 20 Jun 96 13:54:13 Subject: Sixties Rebellion on CD Hail Bomp, I've been trying to find an outlet that sells 'Sixties Rebellion' CD since Mark R. turned me onto the set (Damn him! Now, I _have_ to have it!). However, neither Bomp, nor Midnight Records have had it in stock, or will not for a while. Can anyone help me find 60's rebellion through ... geez I don't know ... a web page, 800 number, maybe even Bob Denvers mailing address? Thanks for any help, kevin ------------------------------ From: Ben Waugh Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 16:41:12 -0400 Subject: Re: Sixties Rebellion on CD maybe even Bob Denvers mailing address? > > Thanks for any help, > kevin weeell, I know for a fact that as recently as 1994, Bob lived somewhere near Berkeley Springs, WV; he did the weather on some TV station in the Wild & Wonderful state. (strong, but successfully resisted temptation to season dubiously informative response with hackneyed "Deliverance" crack). ------------------------------ From: TweeKid@aol.com Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 16:49:15 -0400 Subject: Material Issue's Jim Ellison found dead According to City News in Chicago, Jim Ellison of Material Issue was found dead of an apparent suicide at 12:45 a.m. He was found in his garage on a moped, with a car running. Suicide seems to be correct because there was a note left on the car (though no word on what it said). An autopsy is scheduled for later today. Jim was 31 years old. ------------------------------ End of Bomp V96 #12 ******************* You have been reading Bomp-digest. For subscription requests, send a message to majordomo@bolis.com containing "subscribe Bomp-digest" or "unsubscribe Bomp-digest"