From: Bomp-Digest-Sender To: bomp-digest@bolis.com Subject: Bomp V96 #24 Reply-To: Bomp@bolis.com Precedence: bulk Bomp Wednesday, 3 July 1996 Volume 96 : Number 024 In this issue: Re: Bomp V96 #22 RE: Swedish Mod Re: Bomp V96 #22 Stooges/Nazis etc. Sonics on Etiquette ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Tom Hagerty Date: Wed, 03 Jul 1996 08:08:01 -0500 Subject: Re: Bomp V96 #22 Steve LaFollette wrote: > > On Tue, 2 Jul 1996, Lisa Lindstrom wrote: > > > > It is Ron who's the militia Nazi freak living in his parent's > > > basement, right? > > > > Ron Asheton is a militia Nazi freak??? Really??? > > I remember reading somewheres that Iggy and the Asheton boys were avid > Nazi memorabilia collectors, but it didn't say nothin about their > beliefs. Could just be a case of blitzkrieg bop, who knows? > > SteevWell I do remember Ron onstage with the Stooges in a Nazi uniform one time in Detroit, circa 1973. I read recently in Mojo that he has a closet full of 'em. ------------------------------ From: Hitomi I Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 23:02:30 +0900 Subject: RE: Swedish Mod - ---------- >From: TweeKid@aol.com >Sent: Monday, July 1, 1996 10:35 PM >To: modslist@pobox.com >Cc: bomp@bolis.com >Subject: Swedish Mod >I have not checked into these parts in a while so somebody may have tipped >ya'll off to these recent releases if so I am sorry for bringing it up again. > I recently came across two volumes called THE ROOTS OF SWEDISH POP-THE MOD >YEARS on Uppers Records. Volume one is straight ahead Swedish mod/pop dating >from 1979 to 1985. Volume One includes tracks by Mops, Docent Dod, Studio >Sex, Moderns, Vertex, Baby Snakes, The Girls and Route 66, all of it seems to >be quite fine. My love for garage, however, is more satisfied by volume two >ROOTS OF SWEDISH POP-THE GARAGE DAYS that includes such fave rave badns as >The Creeps (early Creeps before they sucked!!!), Backdoor Men, Wylde >Mammoths, High Speed V, Crimson Shadows, Stomachmouths, Baby Snakes and >Cornflake Zoo. Hi Matthew I bought vol.2. That is great!! I like most of them,especially I like Wylde Mammoths. I want to find their LP or CD but it is out of order now. I like Swedish '60s. I like Toges(best!!) Namelosers,Deejeys etc. Hitomi(from Tokyo) ------------------------------ From: Ben Waugh Date: Wed, 03 Jul 1996 11:31:08 -0400 Subject: Re: Bomp V96 #22 > > > > > > Ron Asheton is a militia Nazi freak??? Really??? > > > > I remember reading somewheres that Iggy and the Asheton boys were avid > > Nazi memorabilia collectors, but it didn't say nothin about their > > beliefs. Could just be a case of blitzkrieg bop, who knows? > > Paraphrasing a not too long ago interview with Mr. Pop (maybe on PBS R&R docu.?) in which he responded to that whole nazi dressup business: guys in rock 'n' roll thought it was "kind of a cool look". And indeed many bands availed themselves to a touch of the Geheim Staats Polizei regalia to affect a sort of outlaw panache (the Stones, Motorhead, Dead Boys, Sex Pistols, god only knows...). Somewhere in the early 80's the consensus changed - swastikas were no longer cool or appropriate unless you were in some sort of outfit that considered mindless thuggery cool and appropriate. It would be a matter worthy of concern and the most active forms of execration if a Supreme Court Judge sported an armband and an SS cap at some point during his career (or rolled around in peanut butter and broken glass, or crooned to his schwanz as though it were a microphone)Topical sentiment posing as clarity of judgement will always be more offensive for the right reasons than some heroin-fueled yob with a guitar in a kraut suit jumping around before the society of his equals like a hypnotized chicken. ------------------------------ From: Lan Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 19:52:04 -0700 Subject: Stooges/Nazis etc. Ben Waugh wrote: >Topical sentiment posing as clarity of judgement will=20 >always be more offensive for the right reasons than some heroin-fueled=20 >yob with a guitar in a kraut suit jumping around before the society of=20 >his equals like a hypnotized chicken. OK, OK, since others have opened this can of worms, I can pitch in too. = I agree with Mr. Waugh that the combination of punks and Nazi costumes = is to be taken with a large dose of salt. I've always thought that some = of the punks adopted Nazi symbolism partly as a reaction to the enforced = "niceness" of the 60s, and that that "yob with a guitar in a Kraut suit" = was obviously too stupid to have political opinions of any kind. I do have some questions though: (1) Is there truth to the story that the Sex Pistols used to have to = fight fascist skinheads back in the 70s? (2) In one of his articles from the late 70s, Lester Bangs mentioned a = picture in Punk magazine that showed none other than Miriam Linna, = former member of the Cramps and A-Bones and co-founder of Norton records = (one of my favorite labels) and Kicks magazine, posing in front of White = People's Party headquarters with a banner that said "God, Country, = Race." Does anyone on this list possess that issue of Punk? Has anyone = even seen that picture? (3) In light of item (2), has anyone else noticed that Kicks magazine, = great as it is, and despite its professed love, or magnificent = obsession, with pre-British Invasion American rock'n'roll, seems to be = almost devoid of anything regarding black rock'n'rollers of that era, = except for those, such as Chuck, Bo and Esquerita, who simply cannot be = ignored? Have I hit on something here, or am I totally off base? Lance ------------------------------ From: Lan Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 20:41:38 -0700 Subject: Sonics on Etiquette To the fellow who wanted to know about Sonics CDs, here is an e mail = address for Etiquette Records I recently obtained on the net: = NIE@eskimo.com. I don't know whether it's still a good address. ------------------------------ End of Bomp V96 #24 ******************* You have been reading Bomp-digest. 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