From: Bomp-Digest-Sender To: bomp-digest@bolis.com Subject: Bomp V96 #99 Reply-To: Bomp@bolis.com Precedence: bulk Bomp Sunday, 22 September 1996 Volume 96 : Number 099 In this issue: New Garage Movie By Tom Hanks The Minstrels "Welcome Beatles..." Re: Essential garage/psych albums(howzabout...?) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: PETEP@aol.com Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 09:18:42 -0400 Subject: New Garage Movie By Tom Hanks Subj: The Wonders: Next boon for New Surf? Date: 96-09-21 20:26:29 EDT From: novapup@ix.netcom.com (Dave Becker) To: cowabunga@UCSD.EDU Students of Huxley and Huxley students, As part of my avant-garde controversial existence and habit for instigating new threads, I am truly psyched about the potential positive impact on New Surf/Garage by the upcoming Tom Hanks' movie. (breath!) Because he not only directed THAT THING YOU DO, he stars in it---which will assure box office success. I believe this movie will have a significant pop culture impact that will bleed a halo effect into New Surf & and garage, not unlike Pulp Fiction. I think his Fall timing is impeccable. He'll get not only the Clintonese boomers-looking-for-nostalgia crowd, but the back-to-school high school/college crowd will go find their "escapism" in partying droves and a new generation will be directly exposed to the Beatlesque/Trad band/Kennedy Big-dreams/Last Days of Innocence era. I suspect the fashions and surf/go-go dances from this movie, will directly feed the modern scene, particularly surf/instro/garage. Whether you find this a "parallel-to-the-Beatles" kinda thing or a "virtual story of the Trashmen", every current local surf band will get pumped by this flic, Im sure! At worst, you all must see the movie for the vintage Danelectro, Fender and other ancient microphone-kinda equipment...let alone the common-to-all rock band things. By the way, I haven't seen TTYD yet myself, but I've studied the recommended Websites http://www.thatthingyoudo.com and http://www.hollywood.com a few times. ;-) Can't find soundtrack yet either. In a related note..... I visited the Atlanta Star Bar crowd (Southern Surf Syndicate secret agent, Illya "Stix" Stechkin of the Penetrators, Gregory Nicoll of Creative Loafing/Cowabunga fame among several others of note) this past week and saw The Minstrels opening for Friends Of Dean Martinez. FoDM is hard to describe--I'll just say sloungy, bluesy, coffee-shop, instrumentally-progressive for now and leave it at that. Their artistic instrumental version of Brian Wilson's "The Warmth Of The Sun" impressed me. But The Minstrels really got me crankin :-)! This French Canadian band mixes upbeat surf stylings with vocal Beat music and covers the pop-rock sounds of '63-'67 in a varied mix of songs! Put Gerry and The Pacemakers in a blender, add dash surf, a dash Yardbirds/Tommy James soulful side and out pops The Minstrels! (Song: Can't She Be Mine) Lovely.... George Christian of The Minstrels (Quebec City, Canada) told me that they were solicited for original music in the movie THAT THING YOU DO soundtrack. They had produced one demo for $1K their own money but because the folks from the movie (Gary Goetzman?) wanted a Ronnettes/Supremes-style tune, they figured they would have had to spring another $1K to have female vocals (whose?) added to their songs to get further consideration--a risk too big; so they stopped pursuing the opportunity. Sound like a Pete Best coulda-been story? Also regarding the movie soundtrack, congrats to The Saturn 5! Nevertheless, the Minstrels album, Ev'ry Which Way is a Surf/Beat/Mersey gem for Surf meets Chocolate Watchband fans-----in fact, they've got quite a similarity to The Wonders, themselves. If they put the trad, thin lapel red suits on and ran down the street during TTYD opening night, who knows what might happen? By the way, George Christian (Lead singer/songwriter/bass player) of The Minstrels looks quite a bit like Johnathon Schaech (Jimmy), lead singer of The Wonders. Coincidence? Cowabunga All! - -bIG wAvE Dave PS A Kaisers comparison may also be in order...comments? As I graciously hand over the mike to the guy yelling "hey, hey, hey!" and tapping my shoulder... PPS Can someone else comment on the soundtrack from Two Nights In The Valley? Los Straitjackets, et al. PPPS Fans go to... The Minstrels c/o Googleplex Management 1220 Boren Avenue Suite #1001 Seatle WA 98101-2712 For the Music try.. Anaba Pacific Records 331-309 W. Cordova St. Vancouver BC Canada ------------------------------ From: User Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 14:38:58 -0400 (EDT) Subject: The Minstrels The Minstrels played CBGB's in NYC a couple weeks back with The Insomniacs, The Woggles, The Swingin' Neckbreakers, & The Smugglers. What a fantastic night for garage/Mod/power pop fans. Sweaty fun. Great to see the Minstrels again... wish they hadn't left before I could buy the new 45 (I *hate* carrying records around with me at a show.) Ev'ry Which Way is a damn fine CD and you can also dig thru the bins in search of their earlier EP from What Wave. Blair ------------------------------ From: Steve Coleman Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 20:41:21 +0100 Subject: "Welcome Beatles..." To Hitomi and all the GS fans, On a very old bootleg of the Beatles Tokyo show in '66, there is a a snippet from a Japanese beat band singing "Welcome Beatles...John, Paul, George and Ringo." Anyone know who these guys were? Steve ------------------------------ From: Phil Lerman Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 01:53:14 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Essential garage/psych albums(howzabout...?) I would definately add the "30 Seconds before the Calico Wall" comp that came out last year (?) on Arf! Arf! - -pHIL ____________________ | phil@picante.com | http://www.picante.com/~phil egassemsdrawkcabaniatnocyamgissiht ------------------------------ End of Bomp V96 #99 ******************* You have been reading Bomp-digest. For subscription requests, send a message to majordomo@bolis.com containing "subscribe Bomp-digest" or "unsubscribe Bomp-digest"