From: owner-bomp-digest@ (bomp-digest) To: bomp-digest@Bolis.com Subject: bomp-digest V1 #38 Reply-To: bomp Sender: owner-bomp-digest@ Errors-To: owner-bomp-digest@ Precedence: bulk bomp-digest Wednesday, February 12 1997 Volume 01 : Number 038 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 00:00:15 -0800 From: gary mollica Subject: Re: The Catman! Lelia Ellen Raley wrote: > > uh wuh-man LOVE, hey, uh hey uh hey, uh wuh-man LOVE...Vincent Eugene > Craddock will ALWAYS rule!!! > I got a pink Thunderbird with a red plush seat - ah, baby, that's MINE... > > On 11 Feb 1997, Christopher Holtane wrote: > > > Hey Pards! > > It's Gene Vincent's Birthday!! So put on your blue caps, grab your fave Gene wax and turn it up baby! Let him know that he's not forgotten down here...B-i-Bickey-Bi, Bo-Bo Go GO GO!! Here's a little story for the Brush With Greatness thread. I write reviews for the Roots & Rhythm Newsletter, which used to be be the Down Home Music Newsletter, international mailorder of roots music. Back in the days when CDs were just getting started, I did a review of one of the first Gene CDs. I got a call at the Down Home Music (El Cerrito, CA, just north of Berkeley & hometown of Creedence!) of a guy asking me if I could tell me what tracks were on it. Always intereted in talking to a fan, I asked him what tune he was looking for. "Well, I wrote a tune for Gene called "B-I-BICKEY-BY BO-BO-GO". Needles to say, I felt humbled, & told him to expect royalty payments! Best, GaryM ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 03:17:52 -0800 From: Daniel Gackle Subject: Re: Poptopia > >Of course there are many exceptions. At least one, maybe two of the bands I >saw at Poptopia were pretty good, but others (often the ones others seem to >find the most thrilling) really left me cold, and I think this is the reason. >I will mention a few I did like: The Andersons, the Beat Angels (from Tucson, >I think) and Walter Klevinger. > I went to about half of the Poptopia shows and have to agree with you, Greg. The Emmitt Rhodes/Ray Paul set was pure magic, everything about it was wonderful except it was over way too soon. (BTW, Emmitt apparently has boxes full of finished songs he has been recording for the last 20 years. There has to be a "great lost album" or two in there!) Of the new bands, far and away the best I saw was the Beat Angels. Even though they played pure '77 punk, for me they were more pop than all those pop bands put together... pop isn't a genre, it's a feeling, an energy, and unfortunately the majority of the bands I saw at Poptopia lacked that excitement. Some of them appeared to confuse it with playing louder or faster; most of them, however, seemed unaware of the need for it in the first place. It isn't that they aren't likeable -- they have choruses and harmonies and (except for some of the LA bands) seem very sincere -- just kind of flat, you know? No charisma. (It's only fair to mention, though, that this is totally a minority opinion. Everyone I talked to loved almost everything and felt that they were in pop paradise. Go figure.) But the Beat Angels communicated that pop intensity from start to finish. They not only had great magnetism, and a theatrical and attention-grabbing singer, but another quality I thought most of the bands lacked: they weren't five separate people playing on stage, they were a single entity with five tentacles, all blasting out the same thing. As far as I was concerned, the Beat Angels generated tons more spontaneous excitement in the audience than any of the other bands. Somebody else must know something about them -- please post it!! One other act that stood out for me was Brian Stevens (ex-Cavedogs). He played material from his rather soft and ornate solo album, but chose the strongest numbers and really rocked. Even though the band had been hastily put together, it executed them perfectly and did some of the best backing vocals I have ever seen. I know you can't 'see' vocals, but the way all of them would suddenly step up to their microphones at exactly the right moment, sing "doo--doo" over the guitars and then step back into chaos gave _me_ chills! Best, Daniel ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 07:30:49 -0500 (EST) From: DKugel@aol.com Subject: Re: Poptopia hey greg, got a spare pebbles 9? any christopher milk live tapes?? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 07:32:39 -0500 (EST) From: DKugel@aol.com Subject: Re: Poptopia gary sperraza story coming out soon ---harper/collins. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 07:35:56 -0500 (EST) From: DKugel@aol.com Subject: Re: Poptopia greg - did anyone tape em.rhodes performance??? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 07:40:29 -0500 (EST) From: DKugel@aol.com Subject: Re: The Catman!; DOwn Home Music:Russ Schoenwetter Gary; did you work with Russ Schoenwetter at the down home misic/ roots and rhythm : WE were in a band together I have a tape for him ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 08:55:28 -0500 From: William Jones Subject: Zumpano Greg wrote: > The problem with a lot of these "pop revival" bands is that they are so intent on copying their influences that there is nothing very special about them... the songs don't stick in your mind the way, to me, a good pop song should. One song that really grabbed me last year was "The Party Rages On," which appeared on Zumpano's album titled "Look What The Rookie Did." Does anyone have an opinion on their follow-up album? Bill Holmes, you mentioned a good new band that you saw at an in-store appearance. (I think they were called Jet Stream?) Where are they from? Here's one vote for "That Thing You Do." Thanks in advance - be seeing you, Bill ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 16:36:27 +0100 From: Pierre GURDJOS Subject: Re: Poptopia Squishy@aol.com wrote: > One big difference is that there were huge local and regional scenes > whose records never were known outside a limited radius, making for > later collector treasure hunts... > In the late '70s, you were lucky if there was one band > per state, and their audience was primarily via the international network > of fanzines etc, rather than local. A completely different arrangement. This is the right answer, I guess... Also, I can easily imagine that the context related to the record industry was quite different too. Anyway, I think that the identity of power-pop is often exceedingly simplified, even caricatured and that its identity can't be summarize to its "apparent" history that is to say its existing discography (not pop-tinged hard-rock!). Because if one try to establish a discography of power-pop from the late seventies, one notice that most of groups were uninteresting except for one record, or even sometimes only for a couple of tracks. Even though the sixties can be "incarnated" in the the sole discography of the Beatles and/or the Stones... The history of power pop was -- maybe -- an INVISIBLE history, in that the "historic forces which were in action" -- ie which formed the musical identity of this wave -- can only show through unreleased stuff, like demos or maybe dispersed recordings. For instance, consider "No more, no less" by Blue Ash, even it concerns the mid-seventies. Honestly, except four songs pop surprisingly sober for 73, it was rather lame -- if I bought it at this time -- in comparison with the New York Dolls (on Mercury too), and can't mean something as intense as the Dolls were for the punk... Then I listened to Blue Ash demos, and I really heard at this time songs that could be something as roots of power pop -- not essential but far away more interesting than the Lp, like a less urgent version of the Stiv Bators' early 80's era. By the way I don't know if this influence did really exist, or if it was thanks to to the fact that Frank Secich was working with him or even a pure coincidence, but it highly schemes myself, and maybe makes me think that sometimes history needs to be (re-)written... Oooh what a sentimental fool am I .... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 11:26:39 -0500 From: Brian Phillips Subject: The Judge! My wife and I are watching TV Land and in the middle of a tape of a Hill Street Blues episode, my wife is fast forwarding and I see a GTO driving across a desert expanse and there is Paul Revere and the Raiders, just like Frank Uhle said. Let's keep talking about other cool commercials. Apparently, there is a correlation... You meet the nicest people on the Bomp list, Brian Phillips ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 16:41:45 -0600 From: paddygav@kcnet.com (Paddy (or Steve)) Subject: e. Rhodes So, about this Poptopia thing, tell me (us) about Emitt Rhodes performance. Did he mention any thing he has been working on? How do I get there? http://kcnet.com/~paddygav/images.html ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 19:43:02 EST From: denimdelinquent@juno.com (James R Parrett) Subject: Pagliaro/Emmit Rhodes It was great to hear that Emmit Rhodes did a Pagliaro song. I just bought my first turntable in 10 years and Pagliaro Live was the first record I put on. It sounded even better than I remember. His stuff in the 80's was not up to par with stuff from the previous decade, although he continued to get a harder edge to his sound as the years went on. He never stopped rocking. His excellent double-CD "Hit Parade" chronicles his career from Apple studios to his rocking current stuff. I also played Emmit Rhodes Dunhill LP for the first time and don't care for it. What am I missing? - -JIm http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/jimparrett/denim.htm ------------------------------ End of bomp-digest V1 #38 *************************