From: owner-bomp-digest@xnet2.com (bomp-digest) To: bomp-digest@xnet2.com Subject: bomp-digest V98 #1075 Reply-To: bomp Sender: owner-bomp-digest@xnet2.com Errors-To: owner-bomp-digest@xnet2.com Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send e-mail to majordomo@xnet2.com with "unsubscribe bomp-digest" in the body X-Bomp-web-site: http://www.bomp.com/bomp/Index.html X-BompList-Administrator: efd@interport.net bomp-digest Wednesday, March 4 1998 Volume 98 : Number 1075 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 03 Mar 98 15:07:03 -0500 From: "Andrea Lauritzen" Subject: Where I'm From Boston -- 1969 - 1993 New Orleans -- 1993 - 1995 Boston -- 1995 - Present New Orleans -- Future???? Can anyone suggest a place for me to move to? Boston holds no charm for me. Paige, welcome back to the list!!!!! - -Andrea ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 15:15:24 -0500 From: Evan Davies Subject: Phew (?!) (re-send) For the benefit of bomp-digest subscribers, I'm reposting the following messages (slightly editing Wilson's). Unfortunately, because of the problems with the XNet2 server, none of the messages sent between around 2:30am CST Sunday and 1:40pm CST today were properly flagged to be digested. >On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Wilson Smith wrote: > >There may be a fair number of test messages today, both from me >to xnet2, but also to the bomp list from evan (who is, make no >mistake about it, NOT responsible for these problems)... > >> >> Sorry sorry sorry... > >Doubly so for the poor bompers, who thought they'd finally found >a reliable host... > >> >> W, self-flagellating, bigtime... > >Wilson Smith Yin/yang, >Austin, Texas you're my >neslon@panix.com thang. >http://www.panix.com/~neslon ... -- Jagger/Richards - ------------- >Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 09:58:31 -0500 >To: bomp@xnet2.com >From: Evan Davies >Subject: Phew (?!) > >Well, as you have no doubt noticed, the Bomp list was once again beset with problems yesterday and part of Sunday due to some untimely reluctance of the XNet2 server to perform its appointed function. This situation was particularly noticable to those of us who were trying to post. It does have the appearance of working again at this point, so let's see how it holds up today. Rest assured that I have a backup plan close at hand; hopefully it won't come to that, but if we can't get things stable then I'm not averse to relocating yet again. > >Sorry for the ongoing turmoil... a numerologist was trying to explain that it's related to the letter 'm' in Bomp being the 13th letter in the alphabet, and if you subtract 2 ('b') from 15 ('o') then you get 13 again... > >Evan > ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 21:50:53 +0100 From: Sander van Malssen Subject: Re: Where I'm From On Tuesday, 03 March 1998 at 15:07:03 -0500, Andrea Lauritzen wrote: > Boston -- 1969 - 1993 > New Orleans -- 1993 - 1995 > Boston -- 1995 - Present > New Orleans -- Future???? > > Can anyone suggest a place for me to move to? Boston holds no charm > for me. Amsterdam's a nice place to live. And you're already about as close to it as you can get from within the US. Cheers, Sander (deep jungle of Surinam -> Amsterdam -> Rotterdam -> Moordrecht - -> Capelle a/d Ijssel -> Gouda) - -- Sander van Malssen -- svm@kozmix.ow.nl -- http://svm.www.cistron.nl/ * The 1-2-5 Page: http://svm.www.cistron.nl/music/ * ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 16:47:18 EST From: ATDelbos Subject: where Andrea should move >March 3 Andrea Lauritzen wrote: "Can any one suggest a place..." I'm from Boston and outside of five years spent in NYC I've lived here my whole life. I agree, Boston has become somewhat charmless. I might suggest going to visit Charleston S.C. or Savannah GA. I was down there in November and they are absolutely gorgeous big towns. On tour last year I went to coast to coast in five weeks, Portland OR. and Seattle WA (for what it's worth) were both really cool. 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CLICK HERE TO VISIT THE TOP 1000! - --------------6B19325CCC-- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 19:28:03 -0500 (EST) From: dy288@freenet.carleton.ca (Gregory Watson) Subject: Re: Where I'm From Andrea wrote: >Boston -- 1969 - 1993 >New Orleans -- 1993 - 1995 >Boston -- 1995 - Present >New Orleans -- Future???? > >Can anyone suggest a place for me to move to? Boston holds no charm for me. Well, New Orleans *is* pretty cool - it's got that crazy energy, man. I'd really like to go back there sometime. As for myself.... Ottawa, ON -- 1970 - 1989 (bands: The Buzzards, Groove Serum) Kingston, ON -- 1989 - 1994 (bands: The 14th Wray, The Deadbeatniks) New Orleans, LA -- 1992 (for two months, anyway!) (band: The Minstrels) Vancouver, BC -- 1994 - 1997 (band: The Fiends) Ottawa, ON -- 1997 - ? (band: The Knurlings) Take it easy, Grog theoam@psynet.net www.psynet.net/theoam ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 02:07:32 +0100 From: "Didier Georgieff" Subject: RE: Where in the world? On 28 Feb 98 at 2:30, Sylvain.Collette@chuv.hospvd.ch wrote: > By the way...other frenchies here, apart from me ??????? Y'en a un qui > cause francais lad'dans ? Well, i'm an other "fuckin' french" as says a well known & friendly australian label manager. But frenchies seems to be outside of the Net, especially those who like garage and related. > this list is a fuckin' good way to progress in english... In fact i've learned more with rock records and e-lists than at school ! And you can see the result : bad grammar and wrong words. But I guess it's better than learnin from surf instrumentals. Didier ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 02:07:32 +0100 From: "Didier Georgieff" Subject: Re: Where in the world? Well, I guess if you're not born French but arrogant enough, it will count too ;-) And i know what i'm talkin' about. Ha ! On 28 Feb 98 at 2:30, Brian Phillips wrote: > I am not French either, but I bought "Sounds of the Sixties" on Eva Records! > > >Je ne suis pas francais, mais je suis toutefois un > >grand ami de la causerie (et la culture) francaise. > Didier ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 21:01:35 -0900 From: Greg Colburn Subject: Donnas Review in Boston Phoenix This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - --------------780B4D51C5F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit q - --------------780B4D51C5F Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="THE_DONNAS.html" The Donnas
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The Donnas are the real thing

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The Donnas Ancient history: find a bunch of girls, write them some songs, pick 'em a name, sit back, and cash the checks. Phil Spector perfected it commercially and validated it artistically with booming "little symphonies for the kids" that changed the way pop sounded. The songs went to number one for the interchangeable Crystals, Shangri-Las, Ronettes. Thirty years go by: rock-and-roll girls write their own songs; the Spector system comes to be seen as a patriarchal anachronism reserved for vapid, commercial teenage Top 40. Limey manager assembles the Spice Girls via a newspaper ad: they fire him two months in, take over the world themselves. Suddenly pop's royalty is lip-synching the same tune as rock's insurgent guerrillas: empowerment. Read between the lines: eliminate the middleman, sell yourself.

Phil Spector flips off the Spice Girls while receiving a lifetime-achievement award from Britain's Q magazine. Read between the lines: they've cut guys like him out of the loop. Peg him: a harmless anachronism, wandering around the world collecting lifetime-achievement awards.

Meanwhile, in America, amateur historians live out their rock-and-roll fantasies in microcosm. California, 1993: as "sorta like an experiment," Mike Lucas assembles the Trashwomen -- a saucy, no-fi, all-female surf trio with a penchant for leopard-print lingerie and hearses -- and teaches them some songs. A month later they're writing their own tunes, becoming a sub-underground backdoor cult attraction. Bye-bye, Lucas.

California, 1995: Radio X label owner Darin Raffaelli breaks up his no-fi slop-punk band Supercharger, becomes an uncredited member of the otherwise all-girl slop-punk band the Brentwoods ("You Broke My Heart (And I Broke Your Jaw)"), whose line-up coincidentally features Trashwoman Danielle Pimm. About to put Radio X in mothballs, he comes across Ragady Anne, four enormously spirited teenage high-school girls from Palo Alto who share a love of Kiss, Mötley Crüe, and Metallica and have been playing together since eighth grade. "I had written songs for bands before," he tells BAM, "and I asked them if they wanted to record some songs that I had written and they said `Yeah.' "

Raffaelli, a no-fi Spector/Kim Fowley, rechristens Ragady Anne as the Donnas. Read between the lines: in-joke rebop, the Ramones meet Heathers, rock and roll as exclusive insider's clique -- his, not theirs. His secret handshakes, his clubhouse gestures, his jailbait bubblegum-garage ditties, and probably his idea to have them cover "Da Doo Ron Ron." An album of sticky-fingered garage candy, The Donnas, on Super*Teem follows singles on Radio X. Quasi-containment: the Donnas -- Donna A./Brett Anderson; Donna R./Allison Robertson; Donna F./Maya Ford; Donna C./Torry Castellano -- form a concurrent alter-ego metal side project, the Electrocutes, who trash-talk about the Donnas and live out their wildest rock-and-roll fantasies. Raffaelli: now just "their biggest fan."

Circa: now. The Donnas break containment, using several songs that began as Electrocutes numbers for their new American Teenage Rock 'n' Roll Machine (Lookout!). No more between-the-lines: tomboy glam, five-finger-discounted Kiss/New York Dolls delivered in a bracing, cocky stylistic shorthand. Their secret handshakes: the paranoid guitar riff from Crüe's "Looks That Kill" on "You Make Me Hot"; uncanny Ace Frehley spears on "Speed Demon"; Johnny Thunders's wailing Chuck-Berry-in-drag nods on "Checkin' It Out"; the entire first half of the Velvets' "We're Gonna Have a Real Good Time Together" shoplifted wholesale for "Wanna Get Some Stuff."

Rock and roll isn't about sex and drugs and speed even when it's about sex and drugs and speed -- it's about gestures/winks/shorthand. Their gestures: nympho jailbait jukebox revenge, streetcorner everygirls playing dress-up with Gene Simmons's libido. "I know about gettin' it on," sings Donna A. in a voice that isn't quite so sure, "and I wanna little piece of you/I'm thinkin' 'bout taking a bite if you know what I mean." Too fast for love, too bored for school, too young to care: one second she's too busy partying to worry about gettin' laid, the next she's got a radar lock on some knuckle-dragging longhair. Is this their teenage shorthand, like the Runaways' "Cherry Bomb" or the Crystals' "Da Doo Ron Ron?" Or is it impossible to be that straightforward anymore -- is it just mix-and-match signifying?

Match 'em up: intentions/history/authenticity -- a real, live girl group, with a real, live Spector/Fowley in their past, real, live teenagers, real, live rock-and-roll burn. Call it: the real, live thing. And they could care less: "I'm a hero, yeah I know/Everybody tells me so/I don't wanna go to school no mo'/So gimme my radio, gimme my radio . . ."

The Donnas join the Groovie Ghoulies at the Middle East this Tuesday, March 3. Call 864-EAST.
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- --------------780B4D51C5F-- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 21:25:16 EST From: Rmerchandz Subject: Mitch Easter <> Mitch adds ambient noise to his production so beautifully. I love Lets Active "Room With A View" from Afoot. All of the REM material he recorded was brilliant. He really is a pioneer, kind of an American southern Brian Eno. <> Richard is going to sing on an upcoming session of the Baskervilles in New York. He's a wonderful person. Richard is also an amazing producer, I might add. Thanks! Baskerville Rob ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 00:37:45 -0500 (EST) From: Wes Freeman Subject: Where Andrea should move to Come to Wilmington in North Carolina. It's one of the great old southern coast towns. Has that eccentirc Southern-coastal-city-charm, like Savannah and Charleston, but without the tourists. It's also supposed to have a pretty good music scene (teenagers there actually know what rockabilly is). ------------------------------ End of bomp-digest V98 #1075 **************************** ===================================================================== You've been reading bomp-digest, the digest version of the Bomp list. To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe bomp-digest" to majordomo@xnet2.com