From: owner-bomp-digest@ (bomp-digest) To: bomp-digest@Bolis.com Subject: bomp-digest V1 #91 Reply-To: bomp Sender: owner-bomp-digest@ Errors-To: owner-bomp-digest@ Precedence: bulk bomp-digest Thursday, April 3 1997 Volume 01 : Number 091 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 06:40:30 -0500 From: "White, Rob E." Subject: Razz Records Since Razz was from the DC area (where I am), their records are a little easier to find here. Yesterday & Today Records in Rockville, MD has many copies of each Razz 45. Call 301-279-7007 and ask for Skip Groff. He's a great guy, and his store has about half a million 45s. He advertises in Goldmine, but only a one page ad each issue, and that's mostly C&W stuff. IMO, the early Razz with Abhad Beram is far superior to the later band with Tommy Keene (he replaced Abhad when he left to form Johnny Bombay & the Reactions - they also put out one EP that Skip carries, and folks on this list would like it a lot). Robbie White ==================================================================== 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, 3 Apr 1997 09:04:06 -0500 From: Don Smith Subject: birdwatchers I have a Jack Chick pamphlet where he wrote the history of a Florida christian guitarist who got into drugs, met Satan, then reformed and became a loyal follower of all that is Chick. The guy's beatles-esque band, complete with Jack-drawn vox-ish guitars, etc was the Birdwatchers. I assumed it was a fake band until I ran across a 45 of theirs. I would be interested in interviewing the other members, the ones who saw Satan, but didn't seem to react the same way. I mean, most bands would've been lucky to have a hotshot promoter or record executive show up at one of their gigs, but the Birdwatchers garnered interest from the prince of darkness. Don ==================================================================== 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, 03 Apr 1997 09:36:56 -0500 From: Brian Poust Subject: Re: birdwatchers I'd be more interested in interviewing the guy who signed them to Mala Records after they were on Scott. Maybe he's the devil! Does this mean that Alex Chilton knows the devil too, since the Box Tops were on Mala? Maybe he made a better deal with the devil. I'm so much happier now! I've got two 45's with Jack Chick on them!!! Incidentally, in the new issue of Bad Trip, the Birdwatchers also come up in the section where thrift store finds are reviewed. Bruce's wife, Paige, found a Birdwatchers 45. Brian Poust At 09:04 AM 4/3/97 -0500, you wrote: >I have a Jack Chick pamphlet where he wrote the history of a Florida >christian guitarist who got into drugs, met Satan, then reformed and >became a loyal follower of all that is Chick. The guy's beatles-esque >band, complete with Jack-drawn vox-ish guitars, etc was the >Birdwatchers. > >I assumed it was a fake band until I ran across a 45 of theirs. > >I would be interested in interviewing the other members, the ones who >saw Satan, but didn't seem to react the same way. I mean, most bands >would've been lucky to have a hotshot promoter or record executive >show up at one of their gigs, but the Birdwatchers garnered interest >from the prince of darkness. > >Don >==================================================================== >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. > Brian Poust MindSpring Enterprises, Inc. Technical Support support@mindspring.com http://help.mindspring.com 800.719.4660 404.815.9111 ==================================================================== 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, 3 Apr 1997 11:13:40 -0500 (EST) From: Mccorndog@aol.com Subject: Re: birdwatchers In a message dated 97-04-03 09:48:04 EST, you write: << I'd be more interested in interviewing the guy who signed them to Mala Records after they were on Scott. Maybe he's the devil! Does this mean that Alex Chilton knows the devil too, since the Box Tops were on Mala? Maybe he made a better deal with the devil. >> No. Alex Chilton IS the devil!!! ==================================================================== 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, 03 Apr 1997 11:01:16 PST From: "T.J. O'Brien" Subject: New Bomb Turks/13 Frightened Girls w/ Craig Moore Time for some more shameless self promotion... Anybody bompsters in the Midwest may want to take note: On Thursday, April 10, The New Bomb Turks will be playing Peoria at the Bradley University student center. My band, 13 Frightened Girls, will be opening, and Craig "The godfather of punk" Moore will be joining us on stage, doing the spoken word intro for "Blackout Of Gretely", one of many garage covers we pull off. I don't know the price of admission or what time the show starts, but it is an all-ages show, so I would imagine it'll start kinda early. T.J. - --------------------------------------------------------- Get Your *Web-Based* Free Email at http://www.hotmail.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: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 18:53:17 -0500 (EST) From: John Lee Subject: Guitar Wolf Here's something I read about Guitar Wolf on the Matador Records web site, at: http://www.matador.recs.com/bios/bio_guitar.html It's a pretty funny story... can anyone fill me on the details of this, whether or not this incident is true, how accurate it is, and which store it was? Matador brass proferred contracts after witnessing a frenzied NYC in-store that had downtown hipsters cowering and hoisting the white flag of surrender. After the band inhaled a few bottles of hooch, guitarist Seiji proceeded to stomp across counters and record bins (trailed by an alarmed shopkeep) before launching himself headfirst into the ceiling fan, the kind of shit you only see in cartoons. The mid-air collision laid him out on the concrete like a pancake but Seiji popped right back up and still managed to miss several notes. By the way, Guitar Wolf are playing Maxwell's in Hoboken, NJ on Friday, April 11th. Fuckin' yeah! **************************************************************************** ** john lee ** jlee@echonyc.com ** http://www.echonyc.com/~jlee/crazyivan ** **************************************************************************** P.S. Make that _double_ fuckin' yeah!!! The Descendents are coming to NYC's Roseland on May 16th and I'm going to see them!!! Yeee-haaaaaaa!!!! ==================================================================== 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, 03 Apr 1997 20:30:58 -0800 From: Roger Joseph Mah Subject: Re: twinkeyz whoever posted that interesting tidbit about the twinkeyz lp...i'd have to disagree, i think their lone lp "alpha jerk" sounds terrific. granted its been 15 plus years since i've listened to it, but so what? 'twas released on the dutch label plurex in '79, with a real new wavey pink cover. some of the lp songs had been released earlier on 45s (on the band's own "grok" label). i do remember reading somewhere that donnie jupiter was collaborating with scott miller (alrn/game theory/loud family) fairly recently. if anyone has any knowledge/info/tapes of this, please contact me! also, if anyone can help me locate a copy of the "aliens in our midst" 45 that has "1,000 reasons" as the flip, get in touch. lastly, can anyone verify/dispel the rumored existence of a twinkeyz 45 on plurex entitled "watch out for her kiss"? thanks... roger ==================================================================== 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: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 02:31:46 -0500 (EST) From: jschwart@voicenet.com Subject: Fwd: URGENT L-P REQUEST >Forwarded message: >Subj: Re: URGENT L-P REQUEST >Date: 97-03-19 15:14:47 EST >LIBRARYPALOOZA: Rock and Roll Philly Supports the Free Library >FEATURING: Buzz Zeemer, Rolling Hayseeds, Mondo Topless, Butterfly >Joe Armada, Chuck Eddy, Secret Cinema > >Librarypalooza will be a multi-media benefit rock show, with performances by >four of Philly's favorite local bands, a book sale and signing by a nationally known >rock critic, and screenings of vintage film clips by one of the >city's foremost collectors of rare and oddball footage. Librarypalooza will >be rock and roll fun for the whole family. > >Librarypalooza will take place Sunday, April 6, from 1-5 p.m. in the >Montgomery Auditorium of the Central Library. It's one of a series of events >being held all over the city to raise money for the library's Big Change >campaign. Advance tickets cost $5, and are available at the Central Library >Music Department, 19th and Vine, across the Parkway from the Franklin >Institute, and at Main Street Music in Manayunk. For ticket information or >more information about the program, call 685-9293 or 685-9294. > >Buzz Zeemer, the Rolling Hayseeds, Mondo Topless, and Butterfly Joe Armada >are all donating performances to this event in support of the library. Buzz >Zeemer, a power-pop combo featuring the legendary Tommy Conwell on guitar, is >guaranteed to "come on with a melodic subtlety that keeps bringing you back" >(Dan Deluca, Philadelphia Inquirer). With local sales of 2,000 copies, the >Rolling Hayseeds' latest CD, "Tangled Up in You," is a triumph for this >"major Americana band in the making" (Velvet Rope). The Hayseeds' >crowd-pleasing originals carry on the honky tonking tradition of the Hank >Williams numbers they cover live. Mondo Topless, a "killer retro-mod band" >(D.J. Johnson, Cosmic Debris) will add a garage sound to the mix-- "This >Philadelphia garage band is definitely going somewhere" (Cyberbabble). >Butterfly Joe Armada is what some of the Dead Milkmen are doing lately, with >a low novelty quotient and a high proportion of grown-up "quirky minimalist >acoustic-indie stuff" (Velvet Rope). > >Chuck Eddy, a regular contributor to Rolling Stone, the Village Voice, Spin, >and Entertainment Weekly, will be signing copies of his new book, The Accidental >Evolution of Rock and Roll (DaCapo Books, cover price $15.95, Librarypalooza >price, $15). Eddy has been called, by Anthony Decurtis of VH-1, "among the >boldest critics of popular music this country has produced." His new book is >part history, part joke book, part buying guide, and part book of lists. >According to pop culture analyst Simon Frith, "After taking this trip through >rock history, you'll never be able to hear your record collection in quite >the same way again." > >Globetrotting film curator Jay Schwartz will feature selections from his >Secret Cinema treasures. Begun in 1992, the Secret Cinema >floating repertory has screened unusual and lost films in the coffehouses and >clubs of Philadelphia and at film festivals in Europe. > >For a small amount of money and a very good cause, Librarypalooza promises to >be a really big show. And for every $3 rock and roll Philadelphia earns for >its library system, Pew Charitable Trusts will kick in an additional $1. > - - Jay Schwartz - ---------------------------- Secret Cinema website: www.voicenet.com/~jschwart ==================================================================== This message is from the Bomp Mailing List. 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