From: Bomp-Digest-Sender To: bomp-digest@bolis.com Subject: Bomp V96 #73 Reply-To: Bomp@bolis.com Precedence: bulk Bomp Monday, 26 August 1996 Volume 96 : Number 073 In this issue: mike love-isms 70s down-under hey rockers James Baker The Charlatans (SF) Re: The Charlatans (SF) Re: The Charlatans (SF) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Donald G. Smith" Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 10:07:17 -0400 Subject: mike love-isms a friend of mine is in a noisy indie rock band and his cousin (parent's cousin?) is married to Mike Love. So the Beach Boys play here (joined on-stage by the Baltimore Orioles baseball mascot) and Mike gets him passes, etc. Backstage they talk and the indie guy gives Mike their demo tape- Mike asks what it sounds like and he says "noisy british stuff" (ala My Bloody Valentine) to which Mike Love says- "I dig it, heavy metal!" and goes into this painful extended air guitar solo thing which from all witnesses seemed to have lasted 5 minutes with Mike grimacing and faking lead guitar solos ala bad LA hair-metal and thinking he was the funniest human alive. It was such a conversation stopper that they just mumbled goodbye, got up and left. Don ------------------------------ From: "Donald G. Smith" Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 10:30:48 -0400 Subject: 70s down-under I have never found "When Birdmen Flew" in the US, but did pick up a great comp called AK79 about a year ago... it's a really sharp comp of New Zealand punk bands circa 1979 or so. It was an original comp which Flying Nun tacked extra tracks onto and re-released on CD in like 1993... great catchy Ramones-esque material. Almost all the songs would be seminal favorites (ala Dangerhouse records, etc) that we grew up on if they weren't from New Zealand. I think I got mine as an import for only like $16, but Flying Nun (I think ) has a US office now. Don ------------------------------ From: "Laura Taylor" Date: 26 Aug 1996 14:45:15 -0400 Subject: hey rockers This is ol' Lounge Laura...here to announce I'm looking for musicians in Central Florida to possibly form a: 1. garage band i-e: the Sonics 2. a punk band-old school 3. a weird lounge-esque band, like Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds I sing and have a Theremin and a Moog... Serious inquiries only... Write me: laura@wusf.usf.edu ------------------------------ From: radonahue@jake.wpi.edu (Roger Donahue - CCC 508 831-5724) Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 22:15:41 -0400 Subject: James Baker Not sure if anyone's keeping track, but another band for the James Baker list is The Dubrovniks. The Scientists connection is there via bass player Boris Sujdovic. I really liked their debut, Dubrovnik Blues (at least I think it's the debut), but the next one, Audio Sonic Love Affair didn't do much for me. I think there are other releases, but the 2nd one turned me off enough to not check them out. Roger ------------------------------ From: radonahue@jake.wpi.edu (Roger Donahue - CCC 508 831-5724) Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 23:02:47 -0400 Subject: The Charlatans (SF) The latest issue of the ICE CD Newsletter makes mention of a forthcoming 23 track CD collection from the San Francisco band The Charlatans, which will be the latest release in the "Nuggets From the Golden state" series on Ace Records. The article mentions that the band never released an album, but I have a recent CD reissue of an album by the band. The album title is simply "The Charlatans" and appears to have been released in 1969. I'm confused, and I'm not familiar enough with these guys to know if the newsletter is wrong, or the disc I have is a boot. Anyone know the story? Roger PS. The issue also has an article on Iggy and the Iguana Chronicles, with input from Greg Shaw. ------------------------------ From: Ed Rothstein Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 23:43:46 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: The Charlatans (SF) Any national retailers actually carry ACE cds in the states? I find one in a while at a collectors store but distribution here is spotty. Planet Music? Tower? On Mon, 26 Aug 1996, Roger Donahue - CCC 508 831-5724 wrote: > The latest issue of the ICE CD Newsletter makes mention of a forthcoming 23 > track CD collection from the San Francisco band The Charlatans, which will be > the latest release in the "Nuggets From the Golden state" series on Ace > Records. The article mentions that the band never released an album, but I have > a recent CD reissue of an album by the band. The album title is simply "The > Charlatans" and appears to have been released in 1969. > > I'm confused, and I'm not familiar enough with these guys to know if the > newsletter is wrong, or the disc I have is a boot. Anyone know the story? > > Roger > > PS. The issue also has an article on Iggy and the Iguana Chronicles, with input > from Greg Shaw. > ------------------------------ From: Frank Uhle Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 01:03:10 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: The Charlatans (SF) On Mon, 26 Aug 1996, Roger Donahue - CCC 508 831-5724 wrote: > The latest issue of the ICE CD Newsletter makes mention of a forthcoming 23 > track CD collection from the San Francisco band The Charlatans, which will be > the latest release in the "Nuggets From the Golden state" series on Ace > Records. The article mentions that the band never released an album, but I have > a recent CD reissue of an album by the band. The album title is simply "The > Charlatans" and appears to have been released in 1969. > > I'm confused, and I'm not familiar enough with these guys to know if the > newsletter is wrong, or the disc I have is a boot. Anyone know the story? There is a lengthy article on the Charlatans in Cream Puff War (#2 I think). The original lineup recorded an album for Kama Sutra which was not released (a 45 came out on Kapp from the sessions). There were also demos done for Autumn, released first ca. the 80s on Line (4 cuts). The lp that came out in '69 was on Philips, with some lineup changes, so perhaps the article was referring to the first lineup's not having released an lp. There are also live recordings making the rounds, but I haven't heard them, not sure if they're early or later lineups. (The early lineup is especially revered because they kind of started the whole S.F. hippy music sound rolling ca. '65). It's great to hear that this is finally coming out legitimately. (I'm assuming we're talking about the Kama Sutra tapes, maybe with Autumn demos and outtakes added??). Sundazed once announced they were releasing a Charlatans cd, but never did. I'm glad ACE got it, I like their presentation style better. Is there some sort of rivalry between Ace and Sundazed over putting out SF 60s stuff? It seems like there is some attempt to undercut each other on these sorts of things. Frank ------------------------------ End of Bomp V96 #73 ******************* You have been reading Bomp-digest. For subscription requests, send a message to majordomo@bolis.com containing "subscribe Bomp-digest" or "unsubscribe Bomp-digest"