From: Bomp-Digest-Sender To: bomp-digest@bolis.com Subject: Bomp V96 #28 Reply-To: Bomp@bolis.com Precedence: bulk Bomp Tuesday, 9 July 1996 Volume 96 : Number 028 In this issue: New Distortions/Diggin For Gold 6 Releases Ear piercing punk RE: Tempos Ear Piercing Punk Re: Bomp V96 #27 Back From The Grave Vol 8. Bangs and racism Miriam, Kicks, etc. Re: Miriam, Kicks, etc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: PETEP@aol.com Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 08:26:34 -0400 Subject: New Distortions/Diggin For Gold 6 Releases Distortions has released four 60's LP's by The Poets, The Gents, The Novas, The River Styx. The Poets LP is really strong, and worth buying, but the other three LP's each contain a few good songs at the beggining of the LP, then lapse into an entire LP's worth of cover songs. They could have been compiled into one LP.(So I'm taking the few best cuts for inclusion on a cassette tape.) Buy The Poets LP, but only buy the other three if you are a completist. The new Diggin For Gold 6 is another matter, however. It is solid 60's garage/beat from throughout the world(as are all the LP's in this wonderful series) and is well worth the trouble of buying it. Great stuff. Also, the Distortions LP, Crude PA Vol 2 is also good-I would also recommend this for all you garage-fanatics. (If you aren't a fanatic-skip it!) I enjoy it. How does anyone else feel about these LP's? Order from Get Hip or Midnight. ------------------------------ From: "Donald G. Smith" Date: Tue, 09 Jul 1996 08:48:54 -0400 Subject: Ear piercing punk ha. that was one of the oddest reissues due to that cover... when I was 17 or 18 or so a friend had the cover up on her dorm room wall and I was like, hmmm... never seen that before... I turned the record around and was like... Trashmen? what? she gave me the record, which I'm sure I have in a nameless sleeve someplace... Anyone got the word on other reissues I should be saving my dimes for? I have been hearing about back from the grave #8 for weeks, but know one has seen it... Don ------------------------------ From: Hitomi I Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 13:01:37 +0900 Subject: RE: Tempos Hi Mark I have another Justice releases on the Collectables, Starliters, Stowaways,Barracudas. I think that is truth "max the reverb and echo" Another Justice release may be something different from them.(I don't listen) They sounds like Tempos.All of them are crude, and cool with melancholy. I like Stowaways most.Their sound is look like the Rising Storm!! Calm with secret passion ,it is recorded in calm '67(twilight of garage era) not exiciting '66. If you like moody garage sound these are worth to buy. I like their songs,Just a toy,You lied,But the credit of the songs are not written . So I don't know which songs are their original. Stowaways also covered Summertime,C.C.Rider,Play with Fire. Starlitters are crude and wild with max reverb . Barracudas are one more gem for me. Collectables released a lot of great reissues ,but I don't like their art work of artificial colour on B&W pix. Sorry I can't write well, because I don't have native toungue of English. Hitomi (from Tokyo) - ---------- >Does anyone else have any of the Justice releases on the Collectables? >I am interested in knowing the recording techniques used on the Tempos >reissue is apparent on the other Justice compilations. It appears that the >motto at Justice was: "When in doubt, max the reverb and echo". >Mark(from Danvers) ------------------------------ From: cbennet0@counsel.com (Caressa Bennet -- Atty-Caressa Bennett - Washington ) Date: Tue, 9 Jul 96 10:33:14 EDT Subject: Ear Piercing Punk To: Bomp list, Inet "Ear Piercing Punk", which will be reissued on CD with 13 > previously unreissued bonux trax. Is this the same compilation that came out some 10 to 15 years > ago? The cover had some circa '77 punkette on the cover, mohawk and all?!?! - ---------- Certainly one of the most inappropriate album covers ever, but one of the best 60's punk reissues from the 80's. I can't wait to hear which additional tracks are selected. Michael ------------------------------ From: dothepop@ix.netcom.com (Lisa Lindstrom) Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 08:11:49 -0700 Subject: Re: Bomp V96 #27 some of them are real good and some just so-so. We actually got pretty much all the Justice stuff as promos, and one of our faves is the one by the Phantom Raiders,who were real young (11-14) and on their Cd they do almost all covers of songs like "Gloria," "Day Tripper," "Devil With The Blue Dress," "I'm A Believer" etc, all turned into surf songs! There's an element of fun ineptness on this release. THeir version of "Walk Don't Run" is particularily amusing, but then it's not an easy song to play, and hell, these guys were damn young!! Also dug the Knights 5+1 R'n'B/Soul multiracial band and the Barraudas (which I've been waiting to see reissued ever since we heard their cuts on those "Tobacco Au Go-Go" comps years ago. Some of the realeses, however, are little more than recordings of lacklustre "cover bands" banging out the hits of the day. Yeah, the studio used reverb on everything! Some of the bands it really works for, and some it doesn't. ------------------------------ From: Mark Robinson Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 12:53:48 -0400 Subject: Back From The Grave Vol 8. I got the CD version of BFTG vol 8. a couple of weeks ago from Midnight. Another fine offspring worthy of it's heritage. "Highly recommended". Mark ------------------------------ From: LaniDoe@aol.com Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 19:48:04 -0400 Subject: Bangs and racism Someone referred to a Lester Bangs article about the whole Nazi/etc. subject. It's called "The White Noise Supremacists" and can be found as part of his book "Psychotic Reactions and Carburator Dung" which I STRONGLY recommend - it's the best writing about rock and roll ever. In the article, he does mention Miriam and the much discussed photo about which he says "Sorry, Miriam, I can go just so far with affectations of kneejerk cretinsim before I puke." He also says this about racism "It took me a long time to find out, but those words are lethal, man, and you shouldn't just go slinging them around for effect...another reason for getting rid of those little verbal barbs is that no matter how you intend them, you can't say them without risking misinterpretation by some other bigoted asshole; your irony just might be his cup of hate." And finally "...which is deeply saddening, not because you want to think that rock'n'roll can save the world but because since rock'n'roll is bound to stay in your life you would hope to see it reach some point where it might not add to the cruelty and exploitation already in the world." ------------------------------ From: Lan Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 08:43:33 -0700 Subject: Miriam, Kicks, etc. Donald Smith wrote: >Miriam did pose for that photo, but she was a teenager who due to her = >midwestern upbringing probably didn't know how the outside world would = view >the photo. Thanks, Don, for your perspective on this particular question. As a big = Zantees-A Bones fan, I have been puzzled about it since I read Lester = Bangs' "Carburator Dung" book. I, for one, am willing to give the young = Miriam the benefit of the doubt. Many of us, in the dissipated moments = of our youths, did things that were awfully stupid; the difference is = that most of us, by luck, did not have cameras record our antics.=20 I love Kicks magazine for what it does cover, but I wish Billy and = Miriam would cut down on what you very accurately describe as the = hard-assed, rockabilly, "there's no good music after 1963" crap though. = It is a pose that gets really annoying. No Yardbirds? No Them? No Pretty = Things? We wouldn't be here on this mailing group then. ------------------------------ From: Ed Rothstein Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 00:11:28 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Miriam, Kicks, etc. I don't know about photos or history. I just know what I read and how they operate which seems pretty good to me. Miriam has a very good rep in the business. Does continuing this discussion really serve a purpose? Maybe we should ask Miriam for a response? Maybe we should just move on? ------------------------------ End of Bomp V96 #28 ******************* You have been reading Bomp-digest. For subscription requests, send a message to majordomo@bolis.com containing "subscribe Bomp-digest" or "unsubscribe Bomp-digest"