From: owner-bomp-digest@xnet2.com (bomp-digest) To: bomp-digest@xnet2.com Subject: bomp-digest V2000 #25 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 X-BompList-Administrator: efd@xnet2.com bomp-digest Thursday, January 20 2000 Volume 2000 : Number 025 It's another issue of bomp-digest, the digest version of the Bomp list. To unsubscribe, send an e-mail with the words "unsubscribe bomp-digest" to majordomo@xnet2.com or use the form at . The following subjects are included in this digest: Re: Movies and Girl Names (decidedly non-Bomp) LeaLethargic@aol.com Re: Biafra for pres/Anarchy in the UK LeaLethargic@aol.com Re: Song suggestions... LeaLethargic@aol.com Re: Song Suggestions LeaLethargic@aol.com australian live garage bands "Gothadelic FreakOut" Re:Velvet Underground "Karl Roper" German tv series, pop 2000 Don Smith all this crap Don Smith The Wayback Machine Playlist (1/16/00) "Jeff Kopp" Virtual Yellow Submarine Ride "Lenny Smith" Re: velvet underground... "fbrandon" Re: Video for the bed-resting "fbrandon" OK, High Llamas "Kip Shepherd" Re: velvet underground... "Kip Shepherd" video underground... "Kip Shepherd" Blair's literary question/Vendetta #13/VU=Warhol colorcoat@home.com Re: Velvets Kim Cooper Re: Zappa and the VU "Joseph Beretta" Re: velvet underground... "Lenny Smith" Re: Zappa and the VU "Lenny Smith" Re: Jimi and the Velvet Underground "Lenny Smith" Re: velvet underground... pekka.laine@yle.fi Re: velvet underground... "Wings of Desire" Re: velvet underground... "Wings of Desire" Re: Zappa and the VU "Wings of Desire" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 20:42:03 EST From: LeaLethargic@aol.com Subject: Re: Movies and Girl Names (decidedly non-Bomp) .....Resi, Monet, Litalie, ...and of corse Lea.... - -Lea Lethargic ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 20:48:34 EST From: LeaLethargic@aol.com Subject: Re: Biafra for pres/Anarchy in the UK Oh dear lord..... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 20:53:19 EST From: LeaLethargic@aol.com Subject: Re: Song suggestions... In a message dated 1/18/00 9:06:33 PM Eastern Standard Time, rsmccull@planetkc.com writes: << Is that Santana or Sinatra? They're both classey, uh classy. >> LoL i'm sorry, Sinatra. I should read over these things before i send them. - -Lea ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 20:55:27 EST From: LeaLethargic@aol.com Subject: Re: Song Suggestions In a message dated 1/18/00 9:16:37 PM Eastern Standard Time, joeyb@aa.net writes: << Yep, that'll be on there... Joey >> Jive....I'd also stick in The Stooges "Till the End of the Night", cause i dig that song, but it's your wedding sir. - -Lea ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 02:03:35 GMT From: "Gothadelic FreakOut" Subject: australian live garage bands I know a guy who has all these old reel to reels of australian bands concerts from the late 60s, many garage bands etc. He has put them onto 6 CDs but is planing to cut it down to three and releasing them. Wont that be cool? Also does anyone know about a group from england i think called East Wood? They are either late 60s or early 70s. i cant find out any info on them any where. Also is "moving in a circle" by the executives on any compilation CDs? And speaking lately about australian hey joe covers, there was one done later but it was based on the hendrix version, and i dont remember who it was by. Also an adelaide band did "stone free" but i dont know if they ever recorded it. Bye ______________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 12:58:23 +1000 From: "Karl Roper" Subject: Re:Velvet Underground Genius without a doubt. Just listen to 'White Light/White Heat' (esp. 'Heard Her Call My Name' & 'Sister Ray'-quite possibly two of the greatest murderous sounding guitar noise workouts I've ever heard) & try to disagree..... > genius, overrated or just a solid rock band? > > curious what everyone thinks.. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 22:06:56 -0500 From: Don Smith Subject: German tv series, pop 2000 Oh yeah, so I guess I was the only one who cared about the German history of rock and roll type tv series, a woman I know who speaks German tried her hand at translating the online description of the rockabilly epsiode I think, umm, if it's as good as it is described here, it's a must see, ya tea rodent. Don - ------------- Teenagers (1949 - 1963) "young ones" are suddenly called "Rock'n'Roll" in divided postwar Germany: The new heroes are Bill Haley and Elvis Presley or the canvas rebels James Dean and Marlon Brando. The troubles of the reconstruction are pervasive, but teens in Jeans and leather jackets let the hips now circle to more American "negro music". Parents ask themselves: That own children should be? Peter Kraus and Ted Herold replace those towards motion picture films as new teen idol. In German cinema and concert halls - in addition, in the domestic living rooms - fly the Fetzen: The youth is "except for edge and tape", has for the first time its own culture. Strokes as the society is sceptical over there. The young, their Elvis mad ones still hide before the slaps of the fathers. But the luring of the western Wirtschaftswunder Glitzerwelt continue to increase. The Rock'n'Roll is earned handzahm, with music and mode cash, a bang-multicolored marketing concept makes the young people now the tea rodent and supplies it with everything that makes teen life so beautiful: Of the BRAVO up to the petticoat, of the Hula Hoop tire up to the portable receiver. The SED regime has trouble with the loose way of life. Despite party parteitanz " Lipsi ", despite FDJ, despite slow growing up east star - the youth loves the music of the " class enemy " and does not want also otherwise not into the socialist grasp be brought to let itself. But liberty dreams find soon a sudden end: The wall built... A film by Christian Bettges ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 22:20:21 -0500 From: Don Smith Subject: all this crap > I can't stand stand critics who say the Velvets were the forerunners of crap like Nirvana I will say that Nirvana loved the Sonics & NW catalog, Billy Childish, and other garage types (also, obviously, Dinosaur Jr) which directly influenced their sound and were the real forerunners of that crap. The big N toured out to DC in 90 when I was friends with a lot of Olympia, WA types and chatted with us while we waited at great length to interview like Loop or whatever band they were touring with. I mean, look at the records that Steve from Mudhoney released (http://www.superelectro.com/) and that basically sums up that crowd. I seriously have to wonder if another band so influenced by garage rawk had a number 1 hit in the US in the 1990s. Of course Nirvana saved rock and roll radio, but I won't go into that now. (think Ratt, Cinderella, and pre-Nirvana radio). >I once thought it'd be really cool for someone to do an alternate timeline >book where Elvis never made it, but kept on playing, only to become a fan >fave of the stature of, say, Ronnie Dawson, when the late 80s came around. >In fact, I told Miriam Linna she should be the one to write it... (I still >say she'd be the perfect one.) I think Billy once said something along the lines of, "can you imagine if Heartbreak Hotel was a lost single and you came upon it at a thriftstore." Damn, that would be a find. Guys on the Move think H.I.S. is the groove. Don ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 22:34:04 -0600 From: "Jeff Kopp" Subject: The Wayback Machine Playlist (1/16/00) Playlist for January 16th, 2000: The Hypnomen: Watusi 99 (Watusi 99/MuSick) H-Bomb Ferguson: Midnite Ramble (V/A: Jook Block Busters Vol. 1/Valmor) The Drags: Jet Lag (Set Right Fit To Blow Clean Up/Estrus) Los Straitjackets: Sterno (The Velvet Touch Of.../Yep Roc) The Illusions: Moanin' (Surfin' & Stompin'/Gee-Dee) The Treblemakers: Seven Seconds To Perfection (Vs. The Doomsday Device!/Dionysus) The Lazy Cowgirls: Heartache (V/A: Straight Outta Burbank/Bomp/Alive) The Dropouts: New Job (Come On!/Unclean) The Makers: I'm Not A Social Kinda Guy (The Makers/Estrus) The Bobbyteens: Fast Livin' (Fast Livin' & Rock'n'Roll/Estrus) The Rondelles: Mission: Irresistible (Fiction Romance, Fast Machines/Smells Like) Thee Headcoatees: Meet Jacqueline (Girlsville/Damaged Goods) Rocky & Friends: Riot City (V/A: Riot City!/Satan) The Conquerors: It's A Crime (Turn On Tune Out Drop Dead 10"/Get Hip) Fortune & Maltese And The Phabulous Pallbearers: Take My Word (Fortune & Maltese And The Phabulous Pallbearers/Get Hip) The Royal Beat Conspiracy: The Real Thing (V/A: Pushing Scandinavian Rock To The Man/Bad Afro) The Barracudas: Codeine (Drop Out With.../Voxx) The Saturn V featuring Orbit: Whoa Dad (V/A: Takin' Out The Trash/Double Crown) The Fathoms: Walk Don't Run (V/A: Swingin' Creepers/MuSick) The Loafers: Honey Hush (V/A: Gamma Knee Kappa/Satan) The Beat Merchants: Messin' With The Man (V/A: English Freakbeat Vol. 2/AIP) The Vandals: I Saw Her In A Mustang (V/A: Riot City!/Satan) The Shaynes: From My Window (V/A: I'm Down Today/Teenage Shutdown) The Belles: Melvin (V/A: Riot City!/Satan) The Supersonicos: Ejecuten Plan A (Irrupcion En El Cosmos/UrquizZonics) Fifty Foot Combo: Doe De Duif (Go Hunting!/MuSick) T.V. Killers: Dancehall Music (Have A Blitz On You/Estrus) The Scientists: Frantic Romantic (V/A: Murder Punk Vol. 1/Murder Punk Inc.) Radio Birdman: You're Gonna Miss Me (Radios Appear/Trafalgar) Lyres: I'm Tellin' You Girl (On Fyre/Ace Of Hearts/Matador) MC5: Ramblin' Rose (Kick Out The Jams/Elektra) The Squares: Teenage Surf Madness (Teenage Surf Madness!/Eat Meat) The Knights: Cut Out Y2K (Surfin' The Southwest, Santa Fe Style/Lance) The Strollers: Little Cheater (Falling Right Down!/Low Impact) The Kact-Ties: Let Your Love Light Shine (V/A: Wolf Call!/Norton) Glen Barber: Ice Water (V/A: Desperate Rock'n'Roll Vol. 2/Flame) The Untamed Youth: Iron Cross (Youth Runs Wild!/Norton) Los Straitjackets: Tabouli (The Velvet Touch Of.../Yep Roc) Chuck Berry: It's My Own Business (The Chess Box/Chess/MCA) The Greenhornes: What A Fool (Gun For You/Prince) The Loved Ones: Sticks And Stones (7"/Get Hip) Hound Dog Taylor: You Can't Sit Down (Natural Boogie/Alligator) The Romancers: The Slauson Shuffle (V/A: Delphonic Sounds Today/Del-Fi) The Mummies: Introduction To The Mummies (Get Late 7"/Estrus) Gonn: Come On Up (With The Wind/MCCM) Bill Haley And The Comets: Rockin' Thru The Rye (Golden Hits/MCA) Tenpole Tudor: Rock Around The Clock (The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle Soundtrack/Jem) The Heartbreakers: Can't Keep My Eyes On You (Live At Mothers 10"/Munster) Delta 72: Got A Train To Catch (7"/Kill Rock Stars) The Zeros: Yo No Quiero (Right Now/Bomp) The Deadcats: She Devil (Bucket O' Love/Flying Saucer) The Del-Tino's: Ramrod (The Del-Tino's Meet The Hesitations - Go! Go! Go!/Norton) George Darro And The Vikings: Viking Twist (7"/Get Hip) Troy Hess: Please Don't Go Topless Mother (V/A: God less America/C&W) The Cadillac Hitmen: Bullwhip (The Assassin/Hellhouse) The Revels: The Monkey Bird (Intoxica!!!/Sundazed) The Sub-Mersians: Dr. Yes (V/A: Surf Monsters/Del-Fi) The Men From S.P.E.C.T.R.E.: Fantastic Device (With The Finger On The Trigger/Sheep) The Surf Punks: Teenage Girls (My Beach/Epic) The Hombres: Am I High? (Let It Out/Verve) The Strangemen: The Beat From 20,000 Fathoms (Channel 2000/Omnipotent) Little Richard: Jenny Jenny (The Best Of.../Pegasus) Gene And Wendell: The Roach (Dance) (Hairspray Soundtrack/MCA) Lord High Fixers: The On Going Saga Of The Side Show Bob Syndrome (Is Your Club A Secret Weapon/Estrus) The Kinks: I've Been Drivin' On Bald Mountain (The Kinks/Castle/Essential) Nick Lowe: Long Walk Back (The Rose Of England/CBS) The Teenagers: Fallin' Star (V/A: Six Miles From The Cage Vol. 1/Royal) The Quests: I'm Tempted (V/A: She'll Hurt You In The End/Teenage Shutdown) The Del-Rays: Like I Do (V/A: Searching For Love/Action) Man Or Astro-Man?: Engines Of Difference (Eeviac/Touch & Go) The Flamin' Groovies: Going Out Theme (Version 2) (Teenage Head/Buddha/BMG) ================================================================ The Wayback Machine: A Rock'n'Roll Action Adventure (in stereo!) 43,000 watts of primitive garage punk, R&B, surf, & rockabilly Saturday nights: Midnight-3am (CST) KDHX FM 88.1, St. Louis, MO Check out our new web site: http://www.inlink.com/~kopper Live netcast in RealAudio: http://www.kdhx.org/listen.html ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 22:27:09 -0500 From: "Lenny Smith" Subject: Virtual Yellow Submarine Ride This item appeared on the Flamin' Groovies e-mail list: <
> Now if only someone would turn Never Mind the Bollocks into a theme park ride... Could you imagine? "Throw up in an airport!" "Swear on TV!" "Beat up Pete Townshend!" "Overdose with Sid!" Lenny ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 20:52:02 -0800 From: "fbrandon" Subject: Re: velvet underground... you are definitely missing out on one of the great ones---start with the first two albums... - -----Original Message----- From: SHBEVLON1@aol.com To: bomp@xnet2.com Date: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 7:52 AM Subject: Re: velvet underground... > > I've only heard a compilation of songs written by Lou Reed. I'd have to >say that "Herione" is good and the rest is boring crap. People tell me to >check out the "White Light, White Heat" album but I still haven't gotten >around to it. I know I don't like the song that much. >Evan ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 20:55:14 -0800 From: "fbrandon" Subject: Re: Video for the bed-resting diva and betty blue by beniex tie me up, tie me down, women on the verge, kika--anything by almodovar confidentially yours---truffaut trouble in mind actually i could get really carried away so i'll just stop here for now - -----Original Message----- From: Brian Phillips To: bomp@xnet2.com Date: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 8:46 AM Subject: Video for the bed-resting > > >>(I'm at home on bedrest until the babies arrive. Which could be another 2 >>months for all I know. Any good video suggestions? I gots no cable tv.) > >Depending on your taste: > >Pecker >In and Out >The King of Comedy >The Great Man >Citizen Kane >All About Eve >My Brilliant Career >My Favorite Year > > >Hope these help. Let me know what you dig in movies and I can suggest others. > ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 22:49:50 -0600 From: "Kip Shepherd" Subject: OK, High Llamas > High Llamas comes to mind and I haven't seen any discussion bout' bands like > this on the list. > > PEKKA > I like the Llamas. I think 'Hawaii' is one of the better albums of the past few years. 'Cold and Bouncy' was ok but the new one is really good. Sara Essex described 'Lollo Rosso' as being the kind of music she would hear playing in a bar she didn't want to be in. Seeya, Kip Anybody heard the new Drags yet? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 22:55:34 -0600 From: "Kip Shepherd" Subject: Re: velvet underground... > > genius, overrated or just a solid rock band? > All of the above. Just depends on what song you have playing. Kip ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 23:00:34 -0600 From: "Kip Shepherd" Subject: video underground... > (I'm at home on bedrest until the babies arrive. Which could be another 2 > months for all I know. Any good video suggestions? I gots no cable tv.) > > Paige Iron Giant Drop Dead Gorgeous All You Need Is Cash The Searchers The Mole People King Of The Zombies Heaven Night Of The Comet Seeya, Kip ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 22:40:32 -0700 From: colorcoat@home.com Subject: Blair's literary question/Vendetta #13/VU=Warhol Also, I know there was a book where someone manages to either go back in time or is there to make sure certain "lost" albums are finished. (_Smile_ was one of them, as I remember.) I just can't remember the title or the author. I think it was mentioned on here a couple years ago. Can someone (a) refresh my memory and (b) recommend a place to pick it up? (As I recall, I had amazon.com or bn.com keeping their eyes open, but there are better places for such things.) The book you are referring to is "Glimpses" by Lewis Shiner. I have not read it, but I remember reading reviews of it back in the mid-90's and also in this recent article on Brian Wilson and Smile from the Phoenix New Times. http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/issues/1999-12-23/music3.html While recently purchasing "Hamburger" by the Muffs at Stinkweeds Records in Tempe, I came across Vendetta #13 on the 'zine rack. What caught my eye was Paul Revere & the Raiders on the cover. The issue is especially bomp-ish with interviews with Greg Shaw, The Loons, Mark Lindsay, Outrageous Cherry and a update on the Beachwood Sparks. Here's the web link to this publication. http://www.angelfire.com/ma2/vendetta/ Writing of books and the Velvet Underground, I just finished "The Velvet Years 65-67: Warhol's Factory." This is a excellent black and white photography-coffee table book on that whole scene. According to drummer Moe Tucker, Andy Warhol volunteered at soup kitchens! The photographs are by Stephen Shore and text by Lynne Tillman. I picked up a copy for $6.00 from one of Barnes & Nobles' bargain tables. Who Loves the Sun, Ted L. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 23:18:56 -0800 From: Kim Cooper Subject: Re: Velvets In all truth, I wouldn't mind if I never heard the VU again. I liked 'em when I was a teenager, but the music is just too cool, too aloof, to keep my interest past the hundredth playing. I think John Cale's "Paris 1919" and Nico's 1968-75 albums are better than anything the Velvets or Lou Reed ever recorded. You want sheer brutal punk intensity, listen to "The Marble Index." Kim http://surf.to/Scram coming in February, Scram #11: Embrooks, Johnny Ramone, Greg Shaw on '60s zines, "My boss, Kim Fowley," the Chamber Strings and more... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 23:33:02 -0800 From: "Joseph Beretta" Subject: Re: Zappa and the VU > I love the Velvets. But I also love the early Mothers records, > particularly the first three. Trouble is, those two bands hated each > other. In fact, Zappa disliked the VU so much that he went out of his > way to bash them on his "We're Only In It For The Money" album. He did? I missed that. What song? Joey ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 02:40:22 -0500 From: "Lenny Smith" Subject: Re: velvet underground... lee sound views < SoundViews@aol.com > asked: <> wow--maybe it's a sign of my advanced age, but I'm always surprised when someone asks... . Lee, if you really haven't looked into 'em--RUN, do not walk to your local purveyor. They are probably the single most influential band that never had a hit, and with REALLY good reason. Seriously, they are the ONLY band that is as important to me as The Stooges. And they were SOOOOOOOOOOOO damn punk when the concept didn't even exist. Yeah, they do hold some appeal to an artsy crowd, which CAN be a bad sign, but it's only 'cause Lou is so literate (GREAT songwriter) and Cale played a classical instrument and acts artsy, and of course 'cause of the Warhol connection. But they made the most AWESOME primitive R&R ya ever heard. As far as the influence thing goes, they had a profound impact on TONS of the folks ya like best. It IS unfortunate that there are a lot of SUCKY artsy-fartsy bozo bands that cite them as an influence too, even though their own records BLOW. Makes ya wonder just what the hell they thought they were hearing. But there's dorks to be found ANY time something good attracts a crowd. I'd suggest starting with the first two (VU & Nico, White Light/White Heat), but I'd be very surprised if you don't move on to every damn thing you can get your hands on. You too, Evan--love 'em or hate 'em, you should at least HEAR 'em. (By the way Evan, enjoyed the Adverts review! I for one am glad you'll be posting these--and Gaye Advert was my very first punk rock crush!). Lenny ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 02:53:15 -0500 From: "Lenny Smith" Subject: Re: Zappa and the VU Rick McCullough wrote: <> Wow, I love those first few Mothers lp's too, but somehow all these years, I've missed the VU bashing. Could you elaborate, please? Lenny ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 02:53:29 -0500 From: "Lenny Smith" Subject: Re: Jimi and the Velvet Underground It's really almost funny to me to hear these discussions amongst folks who know so MUCH about great bands that NO ONE else knows anything about. As a group, here, we almost sound tentative about these folks that EVERYbody knows about. Kind of amusing. Hendrix really DOES rule, as do the Velvets; don't let the fact that other people think so too discourage you, LOL! And as for Jimi and the guitar thing: It really IS eerie to hear someone with such a complete, fluent and fluid connection to his instrument--that there really ARE people out there so completely able to express themselves through a musical instrument is really one of the wilder miracles of life. I second Dennis' recommendations ("enjoy Jimi for the genius he was (esp the first two Lps and his BBC stuff). I especially dig his earlier, more blues-influenced music"), and I'd add that the early stuff absolutely CREATED heaviness in R&R, and is psychedelic as HELL. Think the first 2 Blue Cheer lps (which I LOVE), only, to be honest, 1000's of times better. Lenny ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 10:26:34 +0200 From: pekka.laine@yle.fi Subject: Re: velvet underground... SoundViews@aol.com on 19.01.2000 16:50:25 Please respond to bomp@xnet2.com To: bomp@xnet2.com cc: (bcc: Pekka Laine/YLE) Subject: velvet underground... genius, overrated or just a solid rock band? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I'd go with genius. Pekka ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 08:44:41 GMT From: "Wings of Desire" Subject: Re: velvet underground... Paige, This could go on all day, but the first four thoughts that popped into my hear were: Night of the Hunter Witness for the Prosecution. It Happened One Night The Court Jester Paul >From: "Totaro" >Reply-To: bomp@xnet2.com >To: >Subject: Re: velvet underground... >Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 10:30:11 -0500 > >I vote for solid rock band. Moving toward genius, I guess. > >(I'm at home on bedrest until the babies arrive. Which could be another 2 >months for all I know. Any good video suggestions? I gots no cable tv.) > >Paige > > ______________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 08:52:01 GMT From: "Wings of Desire" Subject: Re: velvet underground... I've always had a major problem with hipper-than-thou New York art school crap(VU, Talking Heads, etc.), though he/they did a lot of great stuff. If I had to choose one of the three options given, however, I'd have to go for overrated. >From: SoundViews@aol.com >Reply-To: bomp@xnet2.com >To: bomp@xnet2.com >Subject: velvet underground... >Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 09:50:25 EST > >genius, overrated or just a solid rock band? > >curious what everyone thinks... > >lee sound views >--- >http://members.aol.com/Shake6677/DeadFlowers.html >(garage, punk, psych, soul, r&b, beat, blues, r&r, etc.) > > > ______________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 09:21:22 GMT From: "Wings of Desire" Subject: Re: Zappa and the VU I don't the album, but I'd always heard "We're only in it for the money" was Zappa's reaction to Sgt Pepper....is that not the case? >From: Rick McCullough >Reply-To: bomp@xnet2.com >To: Bomp@xnet2.com >Subject: Zappa and the VU >Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 19:44:53 -0800 > >I love the Velvets. But I also love the early Mothers records, >particularly the first three. Trouble is, those two bands hated each >other. In fact, Zappa disliked the VU so much that he went out of his >way to bash them on his "We're Only In It For The Money" album. What a >shame, considering how really alike they were: both taking a decidedly >non-commercial art-rock approach; both recording for Verve; and both >ardently opposed to the then reigning flower power hype. I dunno, it's >almost like having to choose one of your parents if they divorce. Rick > ______________________________________________________ ------------------------------ End of bomp-digest V2000 #25 **************************** ===================================================================== You've been reading bomp-digest, the digest version of the Bomp list. To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe bomp-digest" to majordomo@xnet2.com