From: owner-bomp-digest@ (bomp-digest) To: bomp-digest@Bolis.com Subject: bomp-digest V1 #87 Reply-To: bomp Sender: owner-bomp-digest@ Errors-To: owner-bomp-digest@ Precedence: bulk bomp-digest Sunday, March 30 1997 Volume 01 : Number 087 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 20:51:58 +0100 From: Steve Coleman Subject: Woggles get tough/Garage Links Bomp Lister GREGORY NICOLL has a Woggles article on the Web which discusses the new album *and* touches on the bands personality disorders!. You can find it at the following address. Thanks for the tip-off E. http://www.cln.com/newsstand/current/v_woggle.htm This along with the recent Boston Globe Felice/Conolly piece have been added to the updated 'Prepare To Enter The Garage' links page. It now contains nearly 150 Bomp related addresses including Homepages for people who contribute to the list. Thanks to those of you who've forwarded suggestions or taken the trouble to put so much interesting trash on the WWW. The Garage - Frame/Java Version http://www.pro-net.co.uk/scaf/garage.html The Garage - Standard HTML Version http://idun.unl.ac.uk/~hfa9colemas/records2.htm Keep 'em coming gang. Steve C. ==================================================================== 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: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 10:22:42 +0800 From: Brendan Lepschi Subject: Dick Dale... Jos asks... >Last week I bought the LP The Phantom Surfers and Dick Dale on Crown >records. >It was sad there is no documentation on it. Is it an old or new LP. I >have some records of the Phantom Surfers from the 90's. This is the >same group? Yeah, it's them, and it's a new LP. Had me fooled too until I read the blurb on this record in the latest NORTON catalogue. The band has exactly copied the crappy format of the generic crud put out by Crown Records, right down to the oil-painting cover, no-info sleeve (with Crown catalogue on the back) and label. The only Dick Dale you're gonna find on this LP are the two vocal tracks, which are, believe it or not, Dick Dale covers! Apparently these snore-core wonders appeared on many a Dick Dale Crown-bargain-bin record in the 1960's. Check out Kicks #6 for a story on surf music on the Crown label ("Hangin' Five At Woolworths"). Brendan Perth, Western Australia ==================================================================== 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: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 21:34:08 -0500 (EST) From: Rmerchandz@aol.com Subject: Jonathan Richman/Baskervilles I was watching the farcical bowling film "Kingpin" and lo and behold there was Jonathan Richman! This is probably old news to you Bompers, but for those of you who have not seen the film, he was playing "Corner Store" and "Summer Feeling" in a country bar scene. I felt very funny inside. Very happy. The Baskervilles of Tampa can be seen in the first issue of Dodge City Journal out of San Francisco! There is a picture of me (Rob), Bomp list Laura Taylor, and bassist Tom. See the savages romp! The Baskervilles of NYC still need a bass player and guitarist, so write! I love you all, Rob ==================================================================== 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: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 22:14:08 -0500 (EST) From: Rmerchandz@aol.com Subject: Jonathan Richman story When Jonathan Richman played in Tampa this February, he told the audience a story about "I'm Straight" that I'd never heard before. Someone yelled out "Hippie Johnny!" in between songs, and Jo Jo stopped. He said that song is called "I'm Straight" and the Modern Lovers would usually only do it when there were lots of hippies at shows to piss them off. The original lyrics were about "hippie Ernie", but Modern Lover Ernie Brooks asked Jonathan to change them so people wouldn't think it was about him! I love you all, Baskerville Rob ==================================================================== 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: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 21:06:51 -0700 From: "Allan G. Waite" Subject: Re: My favorite Jonathan Richman story Rmerchandz@aol.com wrote: > > When Jonathan Richman played in Tampa this February, he told the audience a > story about "I'm Straight" that I'd never heard before. Someone yelled out > "Hippie Johnny!" in between songs, and Jo Jo stopped. He said that song is > called "I'm Straight" and the Modern Lovers would usually only do it when > there were lots of hippies at shows to piss them off. The original lyrics > were about "hippie Ernie", but Modern Lover Ernie Brooks asked Jonathan to > change them so people wouldn't think it was about him! > I love you all, > Baskerville Rob > ==================================================================== > 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. Years ago, my sister went to see Jonathan Richman at Tucson's Club Congress on a recommendation from a good friend. She became an immediate fan, falling in love with his songs and his unpretentious persona. She also fell in love with his super-cool belt buckle which featured a large 18 wheeler! (all right, enough of your Freudian snickers...I can't tell you people anything!) For months she searched for a similar one- a- magic belt buckle which would make her laugh and smile the way Jonathan's songs did. 1-1/2 years later, Jonathan returned to Tucson. No rock star is Jonathan; my sister spoke to him after the show about her unfound grail. Jonathan smiled, chatted awhile longer, then disappeared and returned later with his belt, buckle attached, which he presented to my sister. His (now) adoring fan. WHAT A GUY! This is the stuff legends are made of! I can't help but be reminded of the commercial where Mean Joe Green throws a sweaty, smelly game jersey to the little kid who gave him a Pepsi. And I thank heaven that my sister chooses her heroes more carefully. I encourage fellow bompers to share their Richman stories--good and bad! "In the first bar things were just all right, but in this bar things were Saturday night"--J. Richman 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: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 22:26:04 -0600 From: kopper Subject: Screamin' Mee Mees I've got a Bag of Hammers 7" (Live from the Basement) by a band called the Screamin' Mee Mees. Can't say it's the best 7" in the world, but it *is* pretty interesting, as is the story on the back cover of them being from the St. Louis area... Does anyone know if this is true? Nobody around here seems to know anything about them. When and where did they exist? I also saw another EP (Home Movies) available in the Vinyl Injections catalog... is it any better than the live one I've got? Thanks, - --kopper ===================================================================== | Kopper & Jaimz | Enormous Horsepower Productions | | The Wayback Machine | Garage, Punk, Surf, etc. | | KDHX FM 88.1/St. Louis | Bands wanted for shows in the | | Monday nights 12-2am CST | St. Louis area. | | http://www.kdhxfm88.org/ | Email for more info! | ===================================================================== ==================================================================== 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: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 00:27:11 -0500 (EST) From: Plattrpuss@aol.com Subject: Japanese garage/punk bands Has anyone heard The Phantom Rats yet? They're a relatively new garage/punk band out of Japan who are very Devil Dogs influenced. In addition to a slew of really cool originals, they do a really wild version of "Red Hot". ==================================================================== 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 #87 *************************