From: owner-bomp-digest@ (bomp-digest) To: bomp-digest@Bolis.com Subject: bomp-digest V1 #68 Reply-To: bomp Sender: owner-bomp-digest@ Errors-To: owner-bomp-digest@ Precedence: bulk bomp-digest Wednesday, March 12 1997 Volume 01 : Number 068 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 03:16:36 -0400 (EDT) From: LYNESS@metro.bst.rochester.edu Subject: Away on a trip Hi -- this is a test of my vacation memo system. It is on ly a test, I am not on vacation at this time. jeff Lyness ==================================================================== This message is from the Bomp Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send an email message to majordomo@bolis.com with "unsubscribe bomp" in the message body. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 04:28:09 -0500 (EST) From: Smwrdsn@aol.com Subject: Re: Louie Louie Iggy Pop/Stooges 15 year collection for sale. This collection covers from "Mona" to "American Caesar" and all formats are represented. Domestic (USA), foreign and import vinyl and compact discs: 7, 10 and 12 inch ep’s: 7, 10 and 12 inch picture discs; soundtracks; laser discs; tour merchandise; posters and photos; books and magazines; cassettes; 8-tracks; handbills; promo items; press kits; stage passes; record awards; box sets; live tapes and other assorted goodies. This is a huge collection containing several hundred items. Items will be sold individually, and lot pricing will be considered. E-mail for list. ==================================================================== This message is from the Bomp Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send an email message to majordomo@bolis.com with "unsubscribe bomp" in the message body. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 01:51:02 +0000 From: mighty@wavenet.com Subject: Re: Louie Louie i'd like to receive your iggy collection list. ==================================================================== This message is from the Bomp Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send an email message to majordomo@bolis.com with "unsubscribe bomp" in the message body. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 07:13:13 -0500 (EST) From: DKugel@aol.com Subject: Re: Clock Exchange, where are you?? hey, it's bernie of mystic eyes -- I have their demo tape and know someone in buffalo who knows them (THE CLOCK EXCHANGE) ==================================================================== This message is from the Bomp Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send an email message to majordomo@bolis.com with "unsubscribe bomp" in the message body. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 07:17:45 -0500 (EST) From: DKugel@aol.com Subject: Re: Garage Sale cassette yeah, it's seems like that's the only thing they havene't reissued on cd --- ill give em a call ==================================================================== This message is from the Bomp Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send an email message to majordomo@bolis.com with "unsubscribe bomp" in the message body. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 07:45:30 +0900 From: "Hitomi I" Subject: Golden Cups Hi I should tell you sad news from Japanese '60s scene. Some days ago, Kenneth Ito (side guitar on Golden Cups) died in heart failure. He sung 'Hey Joe','LSD Blues' (including Planet X monster comp). I 'm collecting message to send his family living in Hawaii . Please join the message, you can write in English. Hitomi I ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cutie Morning Moon '60s garage rock page from TOKYO http://www.kiwi-us.com/~hitomi/ e-mail hitomi@kiwi.co.jp ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ==================================================================== This message is from the Bomp Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send an email message to majordomo@bolis.com with "unsubscribe bomp" in the message body. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 09:42:21 -0600 (CST) From: dothepop@ix.netcom.com (Lisa Lindstrom) Subject: Re: bomp-digest V1 #67 > sure was weird to hear Black Flag on the radio!> Until KDAM took over the airwaves! That's right KDAM, that's short for K-Damaged, all Black Flag, all the time. 97.3 on your FM dial!Wake up to "Nervous Breakdown," "Six Pack" or "Life of Pain." Yikes! Now there's an insane concept. ==================================================================== This message is from the Bomp Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send an email message to majordomo@bolis.com with "unsubscribe bomp" in the message body. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 12:00:14 -0500 (EST) From: Frank Uhle Subject: History...it's all around us I was thinking this the last couple days... Friday morning I rode my bike to work as I always do, and passed the house where the MC5 and a bunch of hippie radicals used to live. My first job of the day was a gig video- taping a speaker at a conference, in a room where the audio was being run by a cat (sometimes known as "The Screamin' Skull") who ran the sound board at the Fifth Dimension club ca. 66-67. This place (now a vacant lot, unfortunately) once hosted the Who, Hendrix and the Yardbirds, and was where the Stooges were discovered by Elektra, opening for the MC5. Later that afternoon I was doing my radio show (playing lots of 60s garage 45s!) and Scott Morgan (of the Rationals/Sonic's Rendezvous Band) called up to mention a show he was playing... Then later that evening , playing in nearby Detroit, was Andre "Mr. Rhythm" Williams (I missed it though). And yesterday I did another gig in a room where the Velvet Underground played a famous E.P.I. show with Nico in'66 or '67... Kinda gives a little more texture to life to be connected up with the coolness of modern culture... even in this totally yuppified, sport utility vehicle overrun town of Ann Arbor Michigan. Frank ==================================================================== This message is from the Bomp Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send an email message to majordomo@bolis.com with "unsubscribe bomp" in the message body. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 09:13:38 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Williams Subject: Serge, Serge, Serge! Thanks for the info, Laura! Very well researched... Jeff ==================================================================== This message is from the Bomp Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send an email message to majordomo@bolis.com with "unsubscribe bomp" in the message body. ------------------------------ Date: 12 Mar 97 12:43:31 -0500 From: "Andrea Lauritzen" Subject: Serge Laura said: >Yes, indeed, Serge is one of the most outwardly perverse pop icons! No >Chuck Berry hidden camera action there, doll...With songs like "LEMON >INCENSE" and telling Whitney Houston on live French TV(and bully for >him) that he wanted to f--k her, Serge was all sex...no matter how >twisted! And sadly, yes, he did recently pass...and apparently much of >France was in mourning, as well they should have been. I'd recommend >J'TME(Moi Non Plus) to ANYONE with a PASSION for Eurosleaze...I have on >order, too, the INITIALS BB rekkid from WFMU, that he did with Brigette >Bardot! Strange that we had this thread yesterday...last night when I talked with my friend Bob, a Serge record was playing in the background. Although I have never heard Serge, I immediately knew who it was. The other strange part was that Bob has no connection to this list (besides me). "Eurosleaze"??? Sounds like my kinda stuff!!!! - -Andrea "What big eyes you have the kind of eyes that drive wolves mad." - Sam the Sham ==================================================================== This message is from the Bomp Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send an email message to majordomo@bolis.com with "unsubscribe bomp" in the message body. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 10:38:34 -0800 From: rhall@lfp.com (RICK HALL) Subject: Re: oldies radio >Oldies radio is the modern day equivalent of what the elevator-style >Easy Listening format was in the 70s-80s. The won't play anything >that would make the dentist's receptionist even think about changing >the station. That's the market they program to. When I knew an >oldies programmer, he said they focused on 200 songs with maybe 300 >others in very low rotation. Think about it, you probably have 1200 >minutes of music programming per day, at 3 1/ 2 minutes per song, >that's 340 songs or so per day. They are playing 60% of their entire >catalog every single day. This is one of the things about modern radio that really burns my ass. It took me until my 20s to realize that there was a whole world of 1950s-60s rock'n'roll that I will never hear on the radio! Listening to oldies stations, you get the impression that major artists like Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Sly Stone, and James Brown only created one song apiece. Folks like Slim Harpo, Wanda Jackson, the Sonics, or Link Wray DON'T EVEN EXIST. And forget about hearing any song that hasn't made a fortune in royalties for the publisher already. Most of these moron programmers take the "Number One Hit" approach, which ensures that the weakest whitebread vocal music that was crap back in the 1950s will endure forever, for no other reason than the friggin' Billboard charts. These assholes think it's cutting edge when they do a Beatles marathon. Rick ==================================================================== This message is from the Bomp Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send an email message to majordomo@bolis.com with "unsubscribe bomp" in the message body. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 14:56:16 -0500 From: Brian Phillips Subject: More Wattage in Your Cottage. It is indeed a drag. However, it is not always the number #1 hit that gets played. The best example is "Ringo" by Lorne Greene, which I have never heard in heavy rotation(and with good reason); it was number one in 1964 or 5. What ticks me off is that the stations and not just oldies stations sound the same. That isn't radio, that's a service. I can go anywhere in the US, seemmingly and still hear the same dang stuff. Feh. KRLA (King of the Wheels! Well, I didn't contribute to the Bobby Fuller Four thread...) in Los Angeles did have some local bias when I last heard it. I could still hear "California Sun" by Joe Jones even though that version did not chart well. I loved to hear the dedication shows run by Dick "Huggy Boy" Hugg, because as sure as I'm typing this, someone would always request "Don't Let No One Get You Down" by War(oldies radio, by tradition, assumes that War never had a hit after Eric Burdon left the group). KCBQ-AM in San Diego subscribed to the "Gold" oldies(or something like that) format, which did play the usual suspects, but with a mix of some lesser played gems as well. I heard "The Kind of Boy You Can't Forget" by the Raindrops on that station and I now own the song. Sad to say, this flopped. Putting aside the pathological dislike I have for San Diego radio in general, the gargoyles may have taken over the cathedral regarding radio. However, the public, en masse, seems to like the same foolishness over and over again. I am not a complete curmudgeon about the subject, in Atlanta(I live just outside of Atlanta), for great R&B oldies, it is hard to top Youngblood on Kiss 104. Not only does he play great records, his personality is too much. It is never 10:19 AM on his show; he says, "It's nineteen down 10 in the cit-tay!" He does have a tendency to repeat a bit, however, most of what he plays, I never heard anyway. The Packets, for example. Thank heavens for reissues. It's two down three in the cit-tay, Brian Phillips It took me until my 20s to realize that there was a whole world of >1950s-60s rock'n'roll that I will never hear on the radio! ==================================================================== This message is from the Bomp Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send an email message to majordomo@bolis.com with "unsubscribe bomp" in the message body. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 15:17:04 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Poust Subject: Re: More Wattage in Your Cottage. I've actually had very good luck with oldies stations, actually. In Columbia South Carolina, Oldies 103 would regularly play "Itchycoo Park" by the Small Faces, and some very rare soul hits. I'm assuming that the rare soul is attributed to the fact that it's shag country (calm down, all of you Brits, that's not what I mean). I also regularly heard Desmond Dekker and Millie Small, which is no small feat. Within a week of moving to Atlanta, I heard the Standells "Dirty Water" and the Leaves "Hey Joe". After hours programming at the Atlanta station seems to be pretty darn outgoing at times, but forget it during the day. As it stands, however, I don't listen to the radio much anyway outside of when it wakes me in the morning (and if you've ever heard Randy and Spiff in Atlanta, you'll know how fast you run to the alarm clock to turn it off). Brian Poust ==================================================================== This message is from the Bomp Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send an email message to majordomo@bolis.com with "unsubscribe bomp" in the message body. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 13:13:02 -0700 From: "Allan G. Waite" Subject: Re: oldies radio RICK HALL wrote: > > >Oldies radio is the modern day equivalent of what the elevator-style > >Easy Listening format was in the 70s-80s. The won't play anything > >that would make the dentist's receptionist even think about changing > >the station. That's the market they program to. When I knew an > >oldies programmer, he said they focused on 200 songs with maybe 300 > >others in very low rotation. Think about it, you probably have 1200 > >minutes of music programming per day, at 3 1/ 2 minutes per song, > >that's 340 songs or so per day. They are playing 60% of their entire > >catalog every single day. > > This is one of the things about modern radio that really burns my > ass. It took me until my 20s to realize that there was a whole world of > 1950s-60s rock'n'roll that I will never hear on the radio! Listening to > oldies stations, you get the impression that major artists like Chuck > Berry, Jerry Lee, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Sly Stone, and James Brown only > created one song apiece. Folks like Slim Harpo, Wanda Jackson, the Sonics, > or Link Wray DON'T EVEN EXIST. > And forget about hearing any song that hasn't made a fortune in > royalties for the publisher already. Most of these moron programmers take > the "Number One Hit" approach, which ensures that the weakest whitebread > vocal music that was crap back in the 1950s will endure forever, for no > other reason than the friggin' Billboard charts. Oldies Radio is revisionsit history defined. There were lots of great songs that were popular way back when that programmer's wouldn't touch today. Stuff like the Seeds, etc. Ironically, some songs that were never really big hits when they were new have become Oldies radio standards; the Buffalo Springfield's "For What it's Worth" is an example. Worst of all on Tucson's Oldies station, are the advertisements for the Indian casinos, which are run every 5 to 10 minutes. Allan Waite ==================================================================== This message is from the Bomp Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send an email message to majordomo@bolis.com with "unsubscribe bomp" in the message body. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 15:03:09 -0600 From: Bob Pisciotta Subject: Oldies radio--reply Oldies radio is the modern day equivalent of what the elevator-style Easy Listening format was in the 70s-80s. The won't play anything that would make the dentist's receptionist even think about changing the station.>>>>>>>> Oldies radio in Kansas City really sucks, too. Tight playlists of boring music make my ears bleed. I stopped listening when I heard Sugar Sugar for the 200th time. But I have this vague recollection. I'm driving from Cleveland to Columbus, Ohio in 1985. I channel surf until I find a 60s oriented radio station out of Akron. Hey, they're playing some great stuff--Kinks, Standells, Animals, Seeds. I even remember some Pretty Things. Not many ads. The three hour drive felt like it took only 30 minutes. The reception was lousy, so I'm guessing this was a college station's take on 60's music. It was great programming. Are there any stations doing this sort of thing?? I mean it wasn't just a dream, was it?? Bob Pisciotta Prairie Village, KS ==================================================================== This message is from the Bomp Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send an email message to majordomo@bolis.com with "unsubscribe bomp" in the message body. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 16:18:30 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Poust Subject: Re: Oldies radio--reply Could've been college radio, actually. When I worked in college radio (up until the end of '95), I would sub. for the oldies DJ. When I did this show, I always did kind of a mod/garage show, and I got calls from DJ's at the oldie's station more than once, happy to hear what I was playing more than the usual 1950's back-of-the-studabaker type sounds. I always said "y'know, you can program it too..." Brian Poust At 03:03 PM 3/12/97 -0600, you wrote: >Oldies radio is the modern day equivalent of what the elevator-style >Easy Listening format was in the 70s-80s. The won't play anything >that would make the dentist's receptionist even think about changing >the station.>>>>>>>> > >Oldies radio in Kansas City really sucks, too. Tight playlists of boring >music make my ears bleed. I stopped listening when I heard Sugar Sugar for >the 200th time. > >But I have this vague recollection. I'm driving from Cleveland to >Columbus, Ohio in 1985. I channel surf until I find a 60s oriented radio >station out of Akron. Hey, they're playing some great stuff--Kinks, >Standells, Animals, Seeds. I even remember some Pretty Things. Not many >ads. The three hour drive felt like it took only 30 minutes. The >reception was lousy, so I'm guessing this was a college station's take on >60's music. > >It was great programming. Are there any stations doing this sort of >thing?? I mean it wasn't just a dream, was it?? > >Bob Pisciotta >Prairie Village, KS >==================================================================== >This message is from the Bomp Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send an >email message to majordomo@bolis.com with "unsubscribe bomp" in the >message body. > ==================================================================== This message is from the Bomp Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send an email message to majordomo@bolis.com with "unsubscribe bomp" in the message body. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 17:39:52 -0500 From: William Walton Subject: Re: Oldies radio--reply > Are there any stations doing this sort of thing?? I mean it wasn't just a dream, was it?? > Me and a friend do a radio show at Drexel University that kinda fits your description. We play the obvious (if we play the Kinks, we'll opt for "Little Miss Queen Of Darkness" over, say "You Really Got Me") to the somewhat obscure. Lots-o-Pebbles/Nuggets. The White Plains next to Rockin' Horse, alongside of The Left Banke, before The Undertones, after an album side of Sun Ra. I'm a little too partial to Lord Buckley...sometimes a healthy dose of Live-Evil period Miles Davis for good measure. As a general rule, we stay away from most of the current scenester-jive indie rock. What little response we receive varies. Last week however, we were feeling lazy, so we played the "Ear Piercing Punk" compilation in it's entirety. Side one hadn't even finished, when an enthusiastic teenager called and had asked, "What are you playing? I mean, what kind of music is this? I never heard anything like it before, but I'm _REALLY_ enjoying it." We talked to him for awhile. He told us about his friends, school, etc. He asked for other musical recommendations and said he'd tell his friends to tune in. Corny as it sounds, I was truly touched. I thought I was going to become misty-eyed. Sometimes we become jaded, and feel like no one listens. That kind of response makes it all worthwhile. XOXOXO Little Willy Womble wwalton@n2k.com ==================================================================== This message is from the Bomp Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send an email message to majordomo@bolis.com with "unsubscribe bomp" in the message body. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 23:55:35 +0100 From: "Didier Georgieff" Subject: Re: Perverse On 11 Mar 97 at 16:08, DEENAC@queens.lib.ny.us wrote: > Somebody does a hilarious version of it in a minor key, complete with > the sound of a bed slamming against a wall ferociously at the end. > I can't remember who does it--does anyone know? I remember a version named "big nine" or "big ten" by a guy called Judge Dread. It's a reggae version, and more first degree than the original. You can hear some "...zzzipppp ... oh it's true ... it's true". really a funny version. It's a long time since i heard it, so i don't know if it's the one you talk about. Cheers. Didier ==================================================================== This message is from the Bomp Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send an email message to majordomo@bolis.com with "unsubscribe bomp" in the message body. ------------------------------ Date: 12 Mar 97 18:17:24 -0500 From: "Andrea Lauritzen" Subject: Re: Perverse >I remember a version named "big nine" or "big ten" by a guy >called Judge Dread. It's a reggae version, and more first degree than >the original. I think the version was called "J'Taime". I used to have the Judge Dread lp; it was racy reggae/ska. I sold it, like a fool. But it has been re-issued. I remember one song: "Up with the cock!" (I think there was a rooster crowing in this one.) - -Andrea "What big eyes you have the kind of eyes that drive wolves mad." - Sam the Sham ==================================================================== This message is from the Bomp Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send an email message to majordomo@bolis.com with "unsubscribe bomp" in the message body. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 00:19:52 -0500 (EST) From: Mattdietr@aol.com Subject: Monks article The following ran on the NYT News Service today. SIXTIES PRE-PUNK BAND IS A LATTER-DAY SMASH (For use by NYTimes News Service clients) By DAVE FERMAN c.1997 Fort Worth Star-Telegram Three decades delayed, a dream has just come true for five guys scattered across the country. All are in their 50s, all have commonplace jobs _ writer, truck driver, computer programmer _ and all knew that hardly anybody cared that back in the mid-'60s they were in a rock 'n' roll band working small clubs in Germany. After all, there are probably a couple of thousand guys out there who learned three chords and bashed out ``Satisfaction'' and then, realizing that they weren't going to be the next Mick Jagger, joined the real world. The Monks, however, were a different deal altogether. And now their improbable story has an almost storybook ending: Thirty-one years after its release in Germany, the band's one and only LP, ``Black Monk Time,'' has just hit the stores, on CD, in America. ``It's quite exciting,'' says onetime bassist Eddie Shaw, 58. Shaw is a writer and independent publisher who still lives in his hometown of Carson City, Nev. He penned ``Black Monk Time,'' a highly readable band history, in 1993. ``We used to sit around in Germany and talk about being successful _ we knew we'd be successful if we saw ourselves in Billboard magazine, and last week there was an article on us in Billboard.'' The Monks never came close to stardom the first time around for the same reasons that they were briefly the toast of the hard-to-please, hard-drinking German audiences that embraced them: They were just A) Too weird-looking, and B) Too far ahead of their time musically. Back then, in the rough Hamburg clubs, there were literally dozens of bands, all playing basically the same happy-happy Beatlesish pop and R&B. The Torquays, which formed while all five members were still American soldiers, were only one of many. To escape the rat race you had to be different, and in January 1965 the quintet became different with a vengeance. Shaw, banjo player Dave Day, organist Larry Clark, vocalist-guitarist Gary Burger and drummer Roger Johnston changed their name to the Monks, adopted a wardrobe that included loose-fitting black outfits and ties made from rope, and shaved the tops of their heads, cleric-style. More significant, the music became harsher. Lyrics were cut down to a minimum, the beat was emphasized, and the brief songs, such as ``Shut Up'' and ``I Hate You,'' were punctuated by quick, jagged blasts of organ and hyperfuzzy guitar. Verses and choruses went out the window, replaced by simple, hypnotic riffs and lead vocalist Gary Burger shouting ``I hate you with a passion, baby!'' and similar sentiments as the band slammed away, faster and faster, behind him. Hearing 1966's ``Black Monk Time'' now, it's all but impossible to believe it came out at the same time the Beatles were singing ``Eleanor Rigby,'' and the Beach Boys were harmonizing on ``Wouldn't It Be Nice.'' Turns out the band's label, Polydor International, couldn't believe it, either. The label refused to release the LP in America. Frustrated and beset with management troubles, the group called it quits in 1968. But in the ensuing years, as each band member came back to America and took a regular job, the legend of the Monks _ those weirdos with the shaved heads and the harsh, punk-before-punk sound _ grew. Copies of ``Black Monk Time'' skyrocketed in value. Alternative heroes such as Julian Cope, Mark E. Smith of the Fall and Pavement's Stephen Malkmus sang the band's praises. The Monks became a ghostly legend, known even to those who had never heard them. Finally, last year, American Recordings exec and longtime fan Johan Kugelberg convinced label head Rick Rubin to re-release the LP on the label's Infinite Zero imprint. And now, finally, Eddie Shaw can walk into his local CD store and see his album on the racks, just the way he dreamed of all those years ago. ``Until now, we all thought we were failures,'' he says. ``We talk on the phone regularly _ except Larry. Nobody can find him. We were all formed by the lifestyle we lived, and we all knew each other better than anyone else in the world.'' Shaw doesn't plan to re-form the band, and he doesn't go around telling his neighbors of his former life. Now and then some guys from Japan or Germany will knock at his door, and he'll invite them in for a quick talk, maybe sign an autograph. Life as a Monk, he says, still affects him _ although how, exactly, he isn't quite sure. ``In Hamburg, we knew everyone: all the bands, all the women, all the people on the street,'' he says. ``And we knew what it was to be stars, sort of. Not everyone has an experience like that. In my mind _ and I used to say this a lot back then _ everybody is a monk. A monk is anyone who has a belief sand goes into a discipline to achieve a result; there's monks of mayhem and monks of materialism. There's a little monk in all of us.'' (Dave Ferman writes about pop music for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Visit the Star-Telegram's online services on the World Wide Web: www.startext.net; www.arlington.net; and www.netarrant.net) ==================================================================== This message is from the Bomp Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send an email message to majordomo@bolis.com with "unsubscribe bomp" in the message body. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 22:44:29 -0800 (PST) From: Chris Reid Subject: Raw Power Re-Issue A friend passed this on from E-Pulse... ***************************************************************************** * Chris Reid - - sirago@cybergate.com * * > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > + < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < * * ...Because my spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and * * the letters get in the wrong places. * ***************************************************************************** - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 04:07:11 GMT From: Rastis Odinga Odinga To: sirago@cybergate.com >--- THE EPULSE8 >>>> A peek at the notebooks of your favorite editors > >1. let's hear it for wasted classics: > There's a lotta rock'n'roll albums, but not that many true "classics." >And the list is even narrower for the "let's get fucked up outta control >an' go in the studio" subgenre. Yeah, you got your 'Exile on Main Street,' >maybe your Dolls and Pistols debuts. Then there's IGGY & THE STOOGES' 1973 >monster 'RAW POWER.' Recorded in '72 in London in a junk-fueled haze, 'Raw >Power' may have sounded like shit from a tech-wanker standpoint -- >nonexistent bass, murky drums, clattery guitars -- but its eight cuts >("Search and Destroy," "Gimme Danger," "Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell" >[a.k.a. "Hard to Beat"], "Penetration," "Raw Power," "I Need Somebody," >"Shake Appeal," "Death Trip") rocked like a bitch, and the record as a >whole stands as a proto-punk declaration of war. The first time around, >Iggy (who produced) was too wasted to mix, so Columbia Records got David >Bowie to step in. Last year, Sony (Columbia's corporate parent) got a >presumably less-intoxicated Iggy to remix the set for rerelease on its >Legacy reissue imprint; it hits stores on April 22 and retains its original >sequencing, with no bonus cuts. Yep, it still sounds like shit -- it's >still Iggy bellowing over a ferocious maelstrom of James Williamson's >guitars, but the sound is plenty thicker in the midrange and a lot of the >high end (which dominated Bowie's mix) gets rolled off, and the final cut >now has an ending where the original release faded out. Anyone who grew up >blasting these sides a couple hundred times may quibble with Sony/Iggy >messing with history, but a listener just discovering 'Raw Power' won't >have that problem. Instead, they'll find an album that stands with the >Rolling Stones' 'Exile on Main Street' as one of rock's wasted early-'70s >masterworks. Now, if someone could get around to remixing the MC5's 'Back >in the U.S.A.' > __------------_ _ _- \ \ Eeyore stood by himself in a thistly corner of - \ ||| the forest...& thought about things. Sometimes //: | | | || he thought sadly to himself, "Why?" & sometimes //v:v \ \ ) __( | || he thought, "Wherefore?" & sometimes he thought, || : | | |----- | | | || "Inasmuch as which?" -& sometimes he didn't /_/|:__-\_\_) (_(_ _/ MM quite know what he *was* thinking about. Vance - inhale@CyberGate.com ==================================================================== This message is from the Bomp Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send an email message to majordomo@bolis.com with "unsubscribe bomp" in the message body. ------------------------------ End of bomp-digest V1 #68 *************************