From: owner-bomp-digest@ (bomp-digest) To: bomp-digest@Bolis.com Subject: bomp-digest V1 #92 Reply-To: bomp Sender: owner-bomp-digest@ Errors-To: owner-bomp-digest@ Precedence: bulk bomp-digest Friday, April 4 1997 Volume 01 : Number 092 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 09:16:16 -0500 (EST) From: JWBon@aol.com Subject: Switchblade (DCband) I am a long-ago transplant from the DC area, and reading Robbie White's mention of Johnny Bombay and The Reactions really brought me back. I'm wondering if anyone in the DC area has ever spotted the old Switchblade 45 "She Makes Me Rock Too much." I've been trying to locate that for years now. Is it pretty much unattainable? Joe Bonomo ==================================================================== 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 09:47:36 -0500 (EST) From: dcoyle@mail.bright.net (David J. Coyle) Subject: Guitar Wolf vs. Los Straitjackets? Okay, here's my dilemma. Guitar Wolf, playing Columbus, OH, Saturday night. Up the street, Los Straitjackets, same night. Cover to see GW, 3 bucks tops, to see LS, 5-7 bucks. What is the better deal? Obviously the Guitar Wolf show would be cheaper, but are Los Straitjackets worth a couple extra bucks over Guitar Wolf. Anyone with recommendations may e-mail me before tomorrow... Dave || David J. Coyle // E-Mail: dcoyle@bright.net || || Chillicothe, OH // Another minimum-wage college graduate || ====================================================================== ==================================================================== 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 10:59:56 -0500 (EST) From: JWBon@aol.com Subject: Chicago-area record stores? Anyone on this list from the Chicago-area who might be able to direct me to some good stores where I might find 60s garage-influenced bands? What are the good stores? Joe B. ==================================================================== 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 12:16:14 -0500 (EST) From: HayHuggins@aol.com Subject: Re: Guitar Wolf vs. Los Straitjackets? In a message dated 97-04-04 12:06:08 EST, you write: << What is the better deal? Obviously the Guitar Wolf show would be cheaper, but are Los Straitjackets worth a couple extra bucks over Guitar Wolf. Anyone with recommendations may e-mail me before tomorrow... >> Without getting into the debate about how good/sucky Guitar Wolf is (see Banana-Truffle!) I'd rather see Los Straightjackets. Another possibilty is if LS is playing two sets, as they often do, you might be able to do both. Richard Whig ==================================================================== 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 12:03:05 -0800 From: rhall@lfp.com (RICK HALL) Subject: Guitar Wolf (again!) John Lee said: >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! Unless this happened twice, it's probably a case of a story taking on bigger proportions in the retelling. Guitar Wolf did do an in-store appearance at the tiny Adult Crash record shop on Avenue A in winter of '95/'96. Seiji and Billy were drunk as skunks due to Steve Baise recklessly plying them with booze. It was an amazing performance nonetheless. Even though he was having trouble staying vertical, Seiji managed to climb onto the front counter and play a solo with his head bent slightly forward. Because of his dark shades (and being blind drunk), he was unable to see the ceiling fan blades spinning literally an inch from his unprotected head. He also wouldn't acknowledge the crowd's pleas for him to come down, until he lifted his guitar up in true rockstar fashion and the fan rotors kerranged into the guitar neck. Seiji eventually jumped down, and finished the set (after staggering into Toru's drums a couple of times). By this time, of course, no one could tell where too-hammered-to-play ended and out-of-tune began. But throughout it all, Guitar Wolf displayed the ruthless bravado, as well as an unshakable confidence in their own coolness, that has made them legends. After the show, Seiji retreated to the tiny bathroom in back of the store, where he was found moaning in embarrassment, his head in his hands. "So shameful... So shameful..." It took many assurances to convince Seiji that he hadn't disgraced his fans with his drunken antics. I don't remember seeing Matador brass there - it was only about 20 people. In any case, it was the most fun I ever had at a Guitar Wolf show. And that's a lot. - - Rick "Butobase" Hall ==================================================================== 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, 04 Apr 1997 22:29:24 +0100 From: Steve Coleman Subject: Another Great Japanese Band The best gig so far this year... Picking up lasts week thread about the current crop of Japanese garage bands, here is another one to add to the list. At present THE MICHELLE GUN ELEPHANT (Tokyo) are in London recording at Toe Rag Studios. They made an impromptu appearance at the Wild Boston Room last night and tore the place apart. They have a similar dress sense to the Flamin' Groovies on 'Shake Some Action' (black suits and pastel coloured shirts) and an abrasive Punk-R'n'B sound not a million miles from early Dr Feelgood. The extremely thin and gaunt lead player even plays a Telecaster and occasionally shreds off those classic Mick Green/Wilko Johnson riffs. Their set was a thirty minute barrage of high energy noise without a pause. From the opening blast of 'Peter Gunn' the meagre audience (only twenty paying customers!) knew they were in for something very special and by the close of the set everyone was on their feet. If this band visit your town then do yourself a favour and check them out, but be careful 'cause watching them is akin to standing in a room with a hurricane raging. They play two further gigs in London next Tuesday and Saturday before returning east. I *shall* attempt to stand near the front. By the way who are these guys? Hitomi have you heard of them? (Took some pictures of the show and will collect the film from the developers tomorrow. If anyone is interested I could post a couple on the WWW.) 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: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 22:54:10 -0600 From: kopper Subject: Gutterfest GUTTERFEST: When? Where? How Much? etc. More info, please! 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: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 23:42:35 -0600 From: kopper Subject: Re: Billy Childish Aneran@aol.com wrote: > > Hello-i'm a first time bomp subscriber and dont know wether there are any > medway freaks out there, but what the hell-- > I am trying to compile a discography of Childish covers. > I have all the obvious stuff like; the vendetta comp, devil dogs, mudhoney, > etc. > but would appreciate being hipped to any obscure or neglected recordings of > billy's songs. Any format, any one of his band's songs. Please include label > and label # as well as any comments you can. > Thanks I've got a great LP of Billy Childish covers that'll knock yer socks off. Good luck finding it, though! It's called THAT'S MIGHTY CHILDISH and it's on Vendetta Records (a division of Vinyl Vaults), 22 Byrd Close, Waterlooville, Hampshire, England P07 5UX. It features such great bands as The Trashwomen, Green Hornets, Thee Cybermen, Gorgons, Statics, Inhalants, Armitage Shanks, Jack O' Fire, Spider Babies, and others. HIGHLY recommended! 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: Fri, 4 Apr 97 22:15:37 -0800 From: Chris Barrus Subject: Radio Caroline Saw this article in alt.radio.pirate and thought that some list folk would be interested... - -c. From: nsrnnews@sierra.net Newsgroups: alt.radio.pirate Subject: RADIO CAROLINE: found this interestng article Date: Tue, 01 Apr 1997 13:01:18 GMT Organization: Sierra-Net NNTP-Posting-Host: chico-d59.sierra.net Monday March 31 8:13 AM EST LOST AND FOUND: Pirate Radio's Last Emperor By Rex Weiner NAME: Michael Pasternak, also known as Emperor Rosko DESCRIPTION: DJ on 1960s pirate station Radio Caroline. LAST SEEN: Reclaiming the airwaves in Calabasas. HOLLYWOOD (Variety) - In the U.K. of 1965, hip entrepreneurs got around BBC restrictions mandated by Harold Wilson's Labour government by beaming rock 'n' roll music to the mainland from floating transmitters outside territorial waters. Great Britain's rock-famished listeners tuned in to Radio Caroline, where Emperor Rosko was the "highly rated, often imitated, but rarely duplicated mayor of mayhem." "We liberated England," says the former "toe-tapping, hand-clapping, lean, mean record machine" now living a quieter existence Stateside at his ranch in Calabasas, a semi-rural area north of Los Angeles. There, Emperor Rosko is known by his given name, Michael Pasternak. Pasternak-Rosko spun the sounds of Motown and Stax, the Moody Blues, the Kinks, Stones and Beatles from a 200-foot rust-bucket freighter anchored four hours offshore. Beginning at Radio Caroline and going on to Radio One, Emperor Rosko was the toast of Swinging London, a frequenter of the Ad Lib Club, a buddy of Mick Jagger and other rock royalty. Most who only knew the voice believed the jive-talking DJ ("I'm rough, tough and hard to bluff") was black. In fact, the young white man behind the voice of pirate radio was a product of Hollywood. He was the rebellious son of producer Joe Pasternak, the man who made Destry Rides Again with Marlene Dietrich and Spinout with Elvis Presley. "I didn't like the movie business," Pasternak says now, "maybe because I grew up with it." Ironically, after a lifetime spent avoiding the movie biz, Pasternak is developing a film project about his life and the pirate radio scene of the 1960s with producer Beverly Camhe (Junior). Today, the Beverly Hills industry kid who grew up with Cyd Charisse, Elvis and Mario Lanza lounging by the backyard pool has his own recording studio, where he puts together 40 weekly hours of radio shows for 15 radio stations in the U.K. and others in Europe. He also runs his own party DJ business, and has been known to spin discs for wingdings from Abu Dhabi to Van Nuys. But he acknowledges things are tame now compared to when he used to bob about on the high seas beneath a 50,000-watt transmitter for two weeks at a stretch and buzz around London on his Norton 750 during shore leave with a "bird" hanging on. Pasternak was notorious for throwing records he didn't like out the portholes, even when they were on the label of the record company that owned the boat. He was fired repeatedly for hijinx such as sabotaging a Christian evangelist, who'd bought time on the station, by mixing in the sounds of lovemaking with the religious chorales. Payola was the norm. ("I never played a record I wouldn't have already played," he shrugs.) And even with lookouts stationed on the ship, the crew was forever dodging raids by British mobsters looking to muscle in on the outlaw enterprise. Those days will be revisited when Pasternak is the guest of honor at a Radio Caroline reunion in Belfast this summer, playing original Emperor Rosko tapes at a stadium appearance broadcast live over Northern Ireland's Citybeat station. He'll be spinning music that was once on the cutting edge but is now considered Classic Rock. But that's fine with Pasternak. "The Stones are still god as far as I'm concerned." Reuters/Variety - -------------------------------------------------------------------- Chris Barrus - No-Fi, IndieWeb, etc | "Who wouldn't want the Eyes of http://www.pacificnet.net/~xibalba/ | Frozen Shrimp on their side?" ==================================================================== 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: Sat, 05 Apr 1997 01:16:58 -0600 From: kopper Subject: Re: Guitar Wolf vs. Los Straitjackets? David J. Coyle wrote: > > Okay, here's my dilemma. Guitar Wolf, playing Columbus, OH, Saturday night. > Up the street, Los Straitjackets, same night. Cover to see GW, 3 bucks > tops, to see LS, 5-7 bucks. > > What is the better deal? Obviously the Guitar Wolf show would be cheaper, > but are Los Straitjackets worth a couple extra bucks over Guitar Wolf. > Anyone with recommendations may e-mail me before tomorrow... This may get to ya too late, but what the hell... I think Los Straitjackets are incredibly OVER-rated. And yes, I've seen them live. Nice schtick with the Mexican wrestling masks, but the music, IMHO, was sub-par. Go with Guitar Wolf, after all, they're from JAPAN. Los Straitjackets seem to be touring around a lot lately and you'll probably have another chance to catch 'em soon enough. 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. ------------------------------ End of bomp-digest V1 #92 *************************