From: owner-bomp-digest@xnet2.com (bomp-digest) To: bomp-digest@xnet2.com Subject: bomp-digest V2001 #4 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 Tuesday, January 2 2001 Volume 2001 : Number 004 This the digest version of the Bomp list. ***HOW TO UNSUBSCRIBE:*** Send an e-mail with the words "unsubscribe bomp-digest" to majordomo@xnet2.com or go to . Here's what people are yacking about in this digest: Red's dreaming of Senator Bo Diddley "Jeffrey Lemlich" Icee Slurp Disc "Jeffrey Lemlich" Re: Live At the Rat "Alex Piandes" Re: Favorite Finds of 2000 "Jeffrey Lemlich" Re: the Wild Thing on Elektra Moreen5000@aol.com Re: Honeycombs rave-up TSanc43763@aol.com Re: sf sorrow in the garage "Linda" Legend City comp!! was Re: Favorite Finds of 2000 TSanc43763@aol.com dumber drummer? "Linda" Re: Magic Mushrooms TSanc43763@aol.com Huge Hipsters Thank you TSanc43763@aol.com Re: sf sorrow in the garage "Raymond Tucker" Re: sf sorrow in the garage "Blair" Re: dumber drummer? "Lenny Smith" Re: Icee Slurp Disc troggman@webtv.net (Todd Lucas) Re: Wild Thing(s) "Mike Markesich" Re: Wild Thing (Elektra) -- EEEEEK!!! Menachem Turchick Re: Pandora's Box 2001 "Vinny" Re: Favorite Finds of 2000 Jeff Kopp Re: Honeycombs DaGreasyChicken@aol.com Billy Childish "Angus McWhorter" Re: Live At The Rat HighlandNews@webtv.net (The Highlands) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 19:25:49 -0500 From: "Jeffrey Lemlich" Subject: Red's dreaming of Senator Bo Diddley JP wrote: << Louisiana Red: "I'm Too Poor To Die"/"Sugar Lips" (Great raw blues record) (Glover)>> If you dug this, seek out his Collectables CD, THE LOWDOWN BACKPORCH BLUES OF LOUISIANA RED, a reissue of an old Roulette album from the early sixties. Doesn't include either side of this 45, but it does have "Red's Dream," where he imagines that President Kennedy appoints him to "help run the Russians from the Western Hemisphere," but not before he decides to appoint Bo Diddley to the U.S. Senate.>> "Red's Dream" was also a single on the Roulette label. I found one at a Goodwill store back in the 80s. Lemlich... who also digs A.C. Reed's Boogaloo Tramp. Please check out my web page at: http://www.limestonerecords.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 19:29:51 -0500 From: "Jeffrey Lemlich" Subject: Icee Slurp Disc Todd wrote: >The Wildest...The Kookiest...The >Grooviest...The Slurpiest (7-Eleven) > It's one and the same! The WQAM Tiger deejays used to hold "Slurp Hops" at the 7-11 on Bird Road (now a Cuban farmacia). Bands would play, Icees would be slurped, and the cool cats bought this flipped-out 45! Slurpin' is the only life, the only life for me, now slurp, yeah slurp, Lemlich Please check out my web page at: http://www.limestonerecords.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 19:31:35 -0000 From: "Alex Piandes" Subject: Re: Live At the Rat > Check http://www.gemm.com, they have a couple copies > listed but they ain't cheap... You ain't kiddin' I got my copy some time late around '79 or so Discount Records or someplace like that for like 3 bucks new. I wonder now what my collection is actually worth... Alex C 'n' S __________________________________________________ Alex Piandes Coffee 'n' Smokes WMFO (91.5fm) Medford, MA "Featuring new & vintage garage/punk, surf, psychedelic, rockabilly, pop obscurities,...and a little bit o' greasy R & B" TUNE IN LIVE VIA WINAMP MP3 THROUGH THE NEW COFFEE 'N' SMOKES (http://coffeensmokes.freeservers.com) OR THE WMFO (www.wmfo.org) WEBSITES!!! Coffee 'n' Smokes airs every Saturday morning from 6-9am (EST) and... 3-6am (U.S.Pacific), 4-7am (U.S.Mountain), 5-8am (U.S.Central), 11am-2pm (GMT), Noon-3pm (Paris/Rome/Amsterdam), 1-4pm (Athens), 8-11pm (Tokyo), 9pm-Midnight (Sydney/Melbourne) and 10pm-1am Sunday (Auckland) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 19:32:46 -0500 From: "Jeffrey Lemlich" Subject: Re: Favorite Finds of 2000 Edward T wrote: <> Thanks Edward! I hope the show will continue. It's out of my hands right now! Lemlich Please check out my web page at: http://www.limestonerecords.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 19:48:00 EST From: Moreen5000@aol.com Subject: Re: the Wild Thing on Elektra from a 1990 ish of " Record Hunter " magazine, from an article and interview with Elektra Records president Jac Holzman: Not everything Elektra released was memorable: there are projects that Jac hopes the world will forget. At the mention of a band called THE WILD THING, he let's out a moan. Yet he remains unrepantant about signing a band of silk shirted Chicanos with their hair piled up to the ceiling, carefully plunking out the hits of the day to a boogie beat. " I wanted to make a dance record that was right for the moment, I wanted to do it and had fun doing it but it turned out to be an embarrassment for me. Everybody thought I was carzy to do that but since it was my money I could do whatever I damn pleased". And did Jac personally groom The Wild Thing ? " No, that's how they looked ! I found them playing in a little club and that was their thing. They took hours to do their hair - which was hardly surprising - but I thought they were interesting musically. Everybody considered The Wild Thing to be my greatest lapse of taste, " but Holzman's laugh suggest the regrets don't run too deep. I remember buying the LP " Partyin' with " when it came out ( hey it was on Elektra so I figured I oughta at least check it out ) and returning it the next day for a I think the second Buddy Miles Express LP which was definately better, which gives one an idea how bad The Wild Thing LP was. But I'll bet if I heard the Wild Thing Lp today, I'd get a great nostalgic laff outta it whereas that second Buddy Miles LP hasn't aged too well ( still like the first one tho' ) around here. Somewhere I have an article on The Wild Thing from Hit Parader around here but can't seem to find it. They sounded like a zillion other discotecque dance bands at the time and looked like Wayne Cochran on acid, with their hair ( which still looks like wigs to me or else those guys must be responsible for half the hole in the ozone with the amount of hairspray they musta used ) that reached up the ceiling and wore satin ruffled shirts . Only two of 'em actually looked to be Chicano, the other two looked like a big white Charlie Daniels lumberjack type guy with a beard and moustache and the other was a skinny white guy with a bad goatee, who looked like the kind a kid we used to beat up for his lunch money in the alley behind the milk machine. Looking at a pic of them today reminds me of a time in Key West a couple years ago. I was walking by Margaritaville, and heard this great rockin and rollin ' noise blastin' out of the place, which surprised me because I was expecting to hear bad Jimmy Buffett tunes spewing from the place, and all I heard in the other clubs was the usual house annd dance stuff. Anyway I go runnning to check this great obviously live rockin noise out and there on the stage are these guys that when I first looked at 'em I thought hey it's that band Wild Thing, cuz they all looked like Wayne Cochran on acid or real hopped up moonshine, or The Wild Thing as they had these HUGE white pompadour wigs on. I realized quickly it wasn't, cuz these guys were really good !!! It turned out to be The Strangemen from Boston ( didn't someone just post that Wild Thing were from Mass also ? ) and I managed to coerece my friends with beer ( who are into bad boy bands and teen divas and dance and house stuff ) to stick around long enuff for me to buy their CD " Channel 2000 ". As for The Wild Thing ... They were groomed for the top, but it was a case of hair today gone tomorrow .... Maureen In a message dated 12/31/00 6:05:44 PM, johntrembly@netzero.net writes: << Does anyone know anything about this band and their record? I first heard about them in The Book of Rock Lists under the list for " longest hair" then very recently I was checking out the webpage for Jac Holzman's book and in the discography it says it's one album Jac wishes had never appeared on his label. Then this morning as I open up Izzy's (after spending the night in the Watchungs in a hotel because of the storm, but hey, D&B paid), there it is sitting on the counter! Awful album ,all covers but I'm curious about them now as they seem to have been a late-sixties version of a Sunset Strip house band, like the Standells at PJs. John >> ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 19:56:02 EST From: TSanc43763@aol.com Subject: Re: Honeycombs rave-up In a message dated 12/31/00 7:50:55 PM Pacific Standard Time, noisejunkie@rocketmail.com writes: > It's on Warner Brothers. I know, because I have it! > that one is indeed on WB and their other stuff is on Interphon..."Have I the Right" "Color Slide" etc.. I think "ColorSlide" has one of the best US PSleeves, very hip. Groovily Tony Check out the Fuzz,Flaykes & Shakes website http://members.xoom.com/TonytheTyger ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 20:07:10 +0000 From: "Linda" Subject: Re: sf sorrow in the garage First, twig wrote: << New Years Resolution...OK Guys and gals...here it is....I want EVERY one of you to turn on JUST One friend to the best rock music EVER !! 60' s Garage.... >> and john replied: << I just did! I got a guy at work who listens to a lot of crap to buy "SF Sorrow" and he loves it!>> and then rob contended: cool, sf sorrow is a fantastic record, but it's hardly garage! Perhaps John's workmate doesn't give a shit if SF Sorrow is considered garage or not. Had John gone on about the differences between garage and psych and whatever blah blah blah, he might have lost a potential new fan. Many people find this classification stuff BORING. If you can get someone to dig non-mainstream music, that's really the point, isn't it? Way to go, John! - -Linda - -Linda ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 20:03:33 EST From: TSanc43763@aol.com Subject: Legend City comp!! was Re: Favorite Finds of 2000 In a message dated 1/1/01 10:30:19 AM Pacific Standard Time, dannowicki@qwest.net writes: > > > Don't miss the new "LEGEND CITY" comp -- out soon on Bacchus Archives -- for > both sides of the Apro 45 plus the scoop on Solid Ground and other boss > bands that recorded at Loy Clingman's Viv-Debra studios in Phoenix between > '65 and '67. > > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Here here, it is great with loads of obscurities from Arizona with great sound quality. I was fortunate enough to hear a test pressing, Highly recommended!!!! A superb job Dan!! Groovily Tony Check out the Fuzz,Flaykes & Shakes website http://members.xoom.com/TonytheTyger ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 20:09:29 +0000 From: "Linda" Subject: dumber drummer? <> As a drummer myself, it's funny how these jokes are always male-gendered. Somehow they don't sound right when you substitute "she" for "he". - -Linda ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 20:09:11 EST From: TSanc43763@aol.com Subject: Re: Magic Mushrooms In a message dated 1/1/01 7:16:23 AM Pacific Standard Time, Heyjoerein@aol.com writes: > > > Anyone know if the Magic Mushrooms 45 on the East West label > is the same group that did "It's A Happening"? > yes it is the same group from Philly, they also have another killer release "Never Let Go"/Look in my fave on the Phillips label. "Let the rain be me" was their last 45, I dig the out of synch tambourine. All three are great discs! Tony Check out the Fuzz,Flaykes & Shakes website http://members.xoom.com/TonytheTyger ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 20:24:21 EST From: TSanc43763@aol.com Subject: Huge Hipsters Thank you A huge thanks to everyone that made it to the Hipsters New Years in San Diego. It was smash with a sell out crowd and I had a blast. See ya Next Hipsters Jan 13th. Tony Check out the Fuzz,Flaykes & Shakes website http://members.xoom.com/TonytheTyger ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 20:47:27 -0500 From: "Raymond Tucker" Subject: Re: sf sorrow in the garage > Perhaps John's workmate doesn't give a shit if SF Sorrow is considered > garage or not. Had John gone on about the differences between garage and > psych and whatever blah blah blah, he might have lost a potential > new fan. Many people find this classification stuff BORING. If you can > get someone to dig non-mainstream music, that's really the point, isn't it? > Way to go, John! And it's most definitely a step in the right direction. > > -Linda > > -Linda > > ===> To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe bomp" to majordomo@xnet2.com <=== > ------------------------------ Date: 1 Jan 2001 20:49:30 -0500 From: "Blair" Subject: Re: sf sorrow in the garage >Perhaps John's workmate doesn't give a shit if SF Sorrow is considered >garage or not. Had John gone on about the differences between garage and >psych and whatever blah blah blah, he might have lost a potential >new fan. Many people find this classification stuff BORING. If you can >get someone to dig non-mainstream music, that's really the point, isn't it? Well said, Linda. Besides... It's also possible that said friend will want to dig further into the Pretty Things' discography. Heck, that's how it worked for many of us (with a variety of groups). At least a couple people I know were big fans of The Cramps and wanted to know more about the songs they were playing. For others (including myself) it was seeing a local band play great rock'n'roll and discovering who did the originals either via the band or via college radio, etc., then getting the records and finding whole new worlds opening up. Personally, I just like trying to turn people on to things they haven't heard.. Letting them know there's tons of other music out there besides what they hear on the radio. In 1993, I'd blast the first Swingin' Neckbreakers' LP for my then 12-year old cousin at full volume in the car. We'd be drivin' home from the beach singing "Saturday's Best" at the top of our lungs. When the Guns 'n' Roses cover of a Dead Boys' song came out, I mentioned to him and his older brother that they oughtta hear the original... And I played them a Dead Boys' tape. They loved it. I've also turned some of my students on to garage/punk/power pop, etc. Granted, not the large majority, but there's always some that are willing to give things a listen. Most recently, that's been The Monks. Sure, some kids think they're absolutely horrible, but a few others are absolutely NUTS about "Complication". (Kinda like yours truly.) - - Blair (Oh yeah, this past summer I was singing Jonathan Richman's "I'm A Little Airplane" to my then-18 month old niece. Over Christmas, my sis-in-law mentioned that the song was on Sesame Street. And my soon-to-be 2 year-old niece is in love with it.) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 21:04:38 -0500 From: "Lenny Smith" Subject: Re: dumber drummer? Linda wrote: ><up with his girlfriend??? homeless>> > >As a drummer myself, it's funny how these jokes are always male-gendered. >Somehow they don't sound right when you substitute "she" for "he". > Hmmm... OK, whaddaya call a drummer who breaks up with her girlfriend? A lesbian! Ba-da-BOOMP!!! Lenny ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 21:17:57 -0500 (EST) From: troggman@webtv.net (Todd Lucas) Subject: Re: Icee Slurp Disc >It's one and the same! The WQAM Tiger >deejays used to hold "Slurp Hops" at the 7-11 >on Bird Road (now a Cuban farmacia). Bands >would play, Icees would be slurped, and the >cool cats bought this flipped-out 45! >Slurpin' is the only life, the only life for me, now >slurp, yeah slurp, Lemlich I forgot to mention the best part about the on-air promo on that aircheck is the Slurp Disc playing in the background during the deejay voiceover! Todd ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 21:55:58 -0500 From: "Mike Markesich" Subject: Re: Wild Thing(s) I wrote a bit about this crew a while back; if you wanna check it out just look up the name via the bomplist archives... Dunno where they started, but by the mid 60's the Wild Things had established themselves on the Tidewater, Virginia scene, played clubs, and hooked up with Frank Guida of SPQR records. "Weird Hot Nights (Suffer Baby)" came out in mid '66; by years end, they were on the road again, a quick stop in NYC, then up to Beantown, where they resided for over a year. They were a real band, not a label creation, etc. Mop Top Mike ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 20:44:24 -0700 From: Menachem Turchick Subject: Re: Wild Thing (Elektra) -- EEEEEK!!! I recently got a copy of Fuz Brains #8 which has a brief interview with Wild Thing guitarist Poncho Vidal from around 16 years ago. There's not much on their early days, but some interesting stuff about the Elektra period. Some excerpts: Rev. Joe (Fuz Brains): How did you come up with your hair style? Poncho: We got it from Elvis. We started combing our hair like Elvis. As our hair grew longer it started to look like this (pointing to a picture). The more we teased our hair, the more it looked like one of those beehive hairdos. Our manager bought boxes of hair spray to keep our hair in place. Rev. Joe: How did you get up to New England [from Virginia]? Poncho: Our drummer was from Milford. So, we ended up gigging out up here a while. Rev. Joe: How did you get on Elektra? Poncho: Well, we were living in New York City. We built a reputation on our image. We used to party with all the Village rock stars, The Chambers Brothers, Jimi Hendrix....Elektra picked us up around that time. Rev. Joe: How did your first album do? Poncho: Not too well, I think it ended up being sold in grocery stores next to the fruit and vegetable section. Right after the album, we changed our name to the Bad Guys. We met up with some Hells Angels and started to party with them. Then we got bad. Elektra was giving us a lot of advance money, so we were staying at this luxury complex in Cambridge and partying with the Hells Angels. We started doing reds, tequila, LSD; we ended up getting busted. Rev. Joe: What happened? Poncho: One day the Hells Angels didn't have a key to get into our apartment, so they broke down two doors to get in. We weren't on good terms with the local police, so they busted us. Wild Thing recorded a second album but when they had a falling out with their manager after the bust, Elektra decided not to release it, and the band split up. Menachem > John Trembly rememblys: > > < about them in The Book of Rock Lists under the list for "longest hair" then > very recently I was checking out the webpage for Jac Holzman's book and in > the discography it says it's one album Jac wishes had never appeared on his > label. Then this morning as I open up Izzy's (after spending the night in the > Watchungs in a hotel because of the storm, but hey, D&B paid), there it is > sitting on the counter! Awful album ,all covers but I'm curious about them > now as they seem to have been a late-sixties version of a Sunset Strip house > band, like the Standells at PJs.>> > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 23:17:46 -0800 From: "Vinny" Subject: Re: Pandora's Box 2001 Thanks to everyone that came to our crazy 2001 Space Oddessey Bash at Pandora's Box in Boston. It was a great success & a sold out show...The highlights were the Pandora gogo gals wild outfits, the robotic countdown til' blast off, & of course the 6 foot tall giant Hal-9000 robot w/ lights that sped up & slowed down to the beat!! The Mood Makers 2001 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 23:11:51 -0600 From: Jeff Kopp Subject: Re: Favorite Finds of 2000 on 1/1/01 5:12 PM, Edward Tanner wrote: > Swamp Stomp-jeff Lemlich's radio show on eyeqradio Unfortunately, it looks like we won't be able to tune into this great show anymore. Check their site for an explanation: http://www.eyeqradio.com/ kopper ================================================================ THE WAYBACK MACHINE -- Shoveling The Shit Since 1995 43,000 watts of garage punk rock'n'roll, R&B, surf, & rockabilly Saturday nights: Midnight-2am (CST) KDHX-FM 88.1, St. Louis, MO For a good time go to: http://listen.to/wayback-machine Live netcast in RealAudio: http://www.kdhx.org/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 01:19:02 EST From: DaGreasyChicken@aol.com Subject: Re: Honeycombs In a message dated 12/31/00 11:20:22 AM Mountain Standard Time, jschwart@voicenet.com writes:<< >Anyone else have fave Honeycombs songs?? >> The Honeycombs recorded "Have I The Right" in German as "Hab Ich Das Recht" and it is a real kick to hear. I've also come across German versions of "Money" & "Tutti Frutti" by the Swinging Blue Jeans and the Searchers singing "Needles & Pins" as "Tausend Nadelstiche." Andre ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 23:30:48 -0700 From: "Angus McWhorter" Subject: Billy Childish Hey Kopper, The new url for the Billy Childish site is (I believe) http://www.theebillychildish.com. If you can not find it still, look it up on http://www.angelfire.com/ks/timelessgods/sonicallyspeaking.html Take it sleazy! thee ANTI-HIPSTER http://www.angelfire.com/ks/timelessgods ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 01:55:03 -0500 (EST) From: HighlandNews@webtv.net (The Highlands) Subject: Re: Live At The Rat ok let me see what I remember but DO buy this album! guess it was recorded September 76-I was recording O.Rex 45 in Brooklyn.My first night in Boston saturday 12 march 77 Oedipus debuted it on WTBS 88.1 Cambridge then saw Real Kids at Rat and Third Rail at the Club.Third Rail did "Rodney Rush"-it's some gay/s&m thang-Richard Nolan was kinda Bowiesque;I thought the band was kinda Blue Oyster Cult back then(only 20!) think it was a 45. When I got married the first tyme my band Afrika Korps debuted Cantone's and Thundertrain,Third Rail and the Destroyed played. Willie Alexander played my Divorce party ten years after,Jay Rassler of DMZ in attendance.For the Motor City Madman asking this question my father graduated Cooley High School 1952 and my grandmother lived at 12708 Hartwell off Grand River and is buried in South Lyon with the rest of the Highlands(except for my great-great-great-grandparents in Salem).i obviously am alive and lissenin to RL Burnside.Asspocket Full of Sobreity Chips,Kenne Highland. ------------------------------ End of bomp-digest V2001 #4 *************************** ===================================================================== You've been reading bomp-digest, the digest version of the Bomp list. To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe bomp-digest" to majordomo@xnet2.com