From: owner-bomp-digest@xnet2.com (bomp-digest) To: bomp-digest@xnet2.com Subject: bomp-digest V2001 #12 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 Friday, January 5 2001 Volume 2001 : Number 012 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: ROCK AND ROLL SPECTULAR THIS SATURDAY!!! DCAMPA@austin.rr.com The Suck List "Mike Dugo" RE: Lewd Alan Wright Re: More thoughts on that Classic Rock Radio stuff.... Moparlary@aol.com Re: The Suck List pekka.laine@yle.fi Re: Mooney Suzuki Evan Davies Re:A Pot Of Flowers ronald and karen sanchez RE: ATV @ Maxwell's Andrew Nicolaou RE: ATV @ Maxwell's Evan Davies What Kind of a Gorilla are you? Andies Candies Re: Orangu-Tones news.. Kurt & Karen Ohlen Re: bomp-digest V2001 #11 BFaceRat@aol.com Real good news re: that OTHER Markley Sknoof@aol.com DEAD FLOWERS WEBZINE updated, 1/5 SoundViews@aol.com Boss with the Hot Sauce Jeff Kopp RE: ATV @ Maxwell's Andrew Nicolaou RE: Free (was ARGGHH! Just gotta say it...) "Canale, Deena" The Konks and Triple Thick rock'n'roll Boston Mekios Re: Vintage Dead Steve Coleman Super-hatred Rocky Serkowney Porkers yeeyeemgt@webtv.net (Michael Quirk) Re: Vintage Dead "Lenny Smith" Re: Super-hatred Moparlary@aol.com Re: MJ Quirk School Of Guitar yeeyeemgt@webtv.net (Michael Quirk) Re: Castaways troggman@webtv.net (Todd Lucas) It's Them "Jeroen Vedder" RE: bomp-digest V2001 #10 Alan Wright RE: bomp-digest V2001 #10 Alan Wright Re: MopTop and Classic Rock Radio Euphorik6@aol.com Re: MopTop and Classic Rock Radio Evan Davies Re: Mr T (&rudy ray moore)rule(s)! Euphorik6@aol.com Re: MopTop and Classic Rock Radio Euphorik6@aol.com Re: MopTop and Classic Rock Radio Rat Pfink Re: Mr T (&rudy ray moore)rule(s)! Rat Pfink Re: One Hit wonders Re: Cream Puff War Re: zeppelin Euphorik6@aol.com Re: Cream Puff War Euphorik6@aol.com Re: MopTop and Classic Rock Radio; Think, Ronnie Dove, and MORE... "Mike Markesich" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 12:56:34 -0800 From: DCAMPA@austin.rr.com Subject: ROCK AND ROLL SPECTULAR THIS SATURDAY!!! (Apoligies in advance for those receiving this on mulitiple lists). For all of those in the Austin area: This Saturday @ Emo's, Three band fun! The Regrettes (Austin's most glamourous and rockin' all girl band) The Gospel Swingers (soulful garage rock from Dallas) and The Dead-ites (wild, crazy rock'n'roll from three Texas cities!) HOpe to see ya'll there! DEnnis ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 12:48:12 -0600 From: "Mike Dugo" Subject: The Suck List "Stairway To Boredom" (I say insert any Zep song, but this one makes me vomit profusely) "All Right Now" "Layla" (the original is bad enough, but how about the prozac shufflebeat rendition?) "Whipping Post" (In my book, there is "blues", and then there is "BLOOZ"...) "Aqualung" (no comment) Man...I can't argue with any of the above...but HAVE to add anything by Elton John. I can't stand him (no pun intended). Even the stuff that I used to be able to tolerate I turn off after the first few notes due to heavy overexposure. I'd also add "Vehicle" by the Ides Of March. Though the band's '66-67 material is outstanding, "Vehicle" is garbage. It's unlistenable... Mike Dugo Staff Writer U.S. '60's Garage Band Columnist Lance Monthly http://www.lancerecords.com _________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 11:03:34 -0800 From: Alan Wright Subject: RE: Lewd where was this at joey??? i may have been at that one too - - -----Original Message----- From: Joey Beretta To: bomp@xnet2.com Date: Thursday, January 04, 2001 8:55 PM Subject: Re: Lewd in Seattle!! > >> The Lewd, one of Seattle's first punk bands will be playing two select >> nights at The Breakroom . > >The first rock'n'roll show I ever attended was the Ramones with the Lewd >opening, Feb 3 1978. I never thought about it before, but I guess they were >the first rock group I ever saw live--but I really don't remember much about >them. > >Joey > It was at the Paramount. Not that I was there, for one thing I didn't live here then, and I would've been 13 years old! A guy I work with was at the show, and I'm pretty sure Tom Price (U-Men, Gas Huffer, etc.) was at it as well. Alan W. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 13:59:38 EST From: Moparlary@aol.com Subject: Re: More thoughts on that Classic Rock Radio stuff.... That's a great idea, but consider the mentality of the programmers you're dealing with. They're scare to death that people will hear something unfamilier and change the station. Case in point: consider the size of the Who's and the Kinks catalog. Now think of the same songs classic schlock radio plays of theirs by comparision. The difference between them and us is we actually listen to and enjoy music. They are people with no imagination who can't pick a song without checking the "Friday Morning Quarterback" or a demographic spread sheet. the kids aren't alright...Moparlary In a message dated Fri, 5 Jan 2001 1:06:19 PM Eastern Standard Time, "Blair Buscareno" writes: << It'd be great if there was some way to get the Classic Rock stations to do a study and ask this very question. Maybe they could even ask what their listeners would prefer to hear in place of these overplayed tracks. >> ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 21:06:05 +0200 From: pekka.laine@yle.fi Subject: Re: The Suck List Hey, This far I've agreed with everything on this classic- rock- suck-list- topic, except for Free. I think they were great. Nobody has mentioned the worst of them all: QUEEN. There so much wrong with this band I don't were to start. Mercury's teeth, guitar solos, clothing... you all know the list is endless. Pekka ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 14:08:55 -0500 From: Evan Davies Subject: Re: Mooney Suzuki >pretty sad to look at the ads for that venue NOW. I won't embarrass either >the venue or the performer by naming 'em, but the Mooneys were supposed to >play on a Saturday in January, okay? And the Friday night act is now playing >BOTH nights, with the large blurb "Second show added due to unprecedented >demand!!" or something like that. Just to clarify, so that the wrong venue isn't being anonymously besmirched, it's actually the place that Mooney Suzuki were scheduled to play on *Friday* -- the Bowery Ballroom -- that's running the 'unprecedented demand' ad. Maxwells, where they were supposed to play on Saturday, has lined up the re-united Alternative TV (!) and a couple of other bands. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 12:10:38 -0700 From: ronald and karen sanchez Subject: Re:A Pot Of Flowers > Being a San Jose boy, it was the Other Side track that was always the highlight on A Pot Of Flowers. ("...are both hard rock songs, that really take off and swing") I'm sure I they actually played Wallking Down The Road one of > the times I saw them. It's really too bad none of their other stuff has come out. They were the perfect compliment to the Watchband's punky sound. A friend of mine used to claim his brother had taped some of these bands, but he > never could deliver the proof, so I'll just have to try and hang on to the memories. While the only Watchband reunion recording I've heard is the KFJC session, I'm pretty sure they used to be a lot more exciting. It's funny to > hear them play all those album tracks, which they never played in '66-67. > The other band on the comp is Euphoria, who were from Houston! Aaah sweet youth Ron > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 19:35:26 EST > From: Euphorik6@aol.com > Subject: Re: Nuggets From The Golden State > > In a message dated 1/4/01 2:17:03 PM, eldeluxe@mcn.net writes: > > << He really has done the business, but I think they are getting down to the > bottom of the barrel. There are a couple of things he talked about that > haven't seen the light like the Stained Glass and Otherside/Bogus Thunder. >> > > one thing i would really love to see come out as a part of this series is > the mainstream label comp "a pot of flowers," w/ the otherside, the harbinger > complex, the family tree and somebody else...can't remember who. that's a > real rosetta stone of early SF sounds...i've heard rumors for quite awhile of > a boot CD of the LP, but i've never seen one. anybody ever seen one of these? > that really is a superb series, though.... > > rob > > ------------------------------ > - -- - -- The Donovan's Brain Web Site: http://www.btinternet.com/~manband.archive/brains/index.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 13:24:11 -0600 From: Andrew Nicolaou Subject: RE: ATV @ Maxwell's Evan Davies wrote: <> I'd be really interested in seeing this if it came anywhere within easy driving distance, are there any other dates/is it a full tour? thanks, Andrew ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 15:25:18 -0500 From: Evan Davies Subject: RE: ATV @ Maxwell's ><Saturday, has lined up the re-united Alternative TV (!) and a couple of >other bands.>> > >I'd be really interested in seeing this if it came anywhere within easy >driving distance, are there any other dates/is it a full tour? I'm afraid I don't know... I know they're playing a show in Brooklyn next Thursday, but I'm not aware of any other dates elsewhere in the US. (By the way, I bought a lovely watch for Justina from ashford.com and was very happy with the service!) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 12:35:46 -0800 (PST) From: Andies Candies Subject: What Kind of a Gorilla are you? I got this email from Discovery, with the subject "Andrea, What Kind of a Gorilla Would You Make?" and just HAD to check this out. I'm Kudzoo, the "Princess" gorilla. Okay, so it's not about music -- but I think gorillas (and chimps and orangutans) are BOMP worthy! - --Andrea In the Spotlight YOU BIG APE! We mean that in a GOOD way. Visit the gorillas in live streaming video at the Franklin Park Zoo in Boston. http://ww9.lfmn.com/actv/sr2.asp?u=1002751345&v=1865&url=1&c=137236&pr=1297&cf=1&pa=41&e=S What Kind of Gorilla Would YOU make? At last, we can help you answer the question that any self-respecting human eventually confronts. http://ww9.lfmn.com/actv/sr2.asp?u=1002751345&v=1865&url=2&c=137236&pr=1297&cf=1&pa=41&e=S We hope you liked the above message and that you'll sign up for MyDiscovery at Discovery.com. To sign up, please visit http://www.discovery.com/MyDiscovery/login.html?joinsource=28 - --------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 13:31:19 -0700 From: Kurt & Karen Ohlen Subject: Re: Orangu-Tones news.. Just added to this show: DJ DOGBOY - Spinnin' the finest in Rock and Roll, Rhythm and Blues, Doo Wop and more! That's right, the Orangu-Tones and DJ Dogboy are gonna keep 'em dancin' at the Lion's Lair tomorrow (Saturday, Jan. 6th)! Hope to see some folks there! Regards, Kurt ABG/OCB > > > Denver area bomp-types are cordially invited to attend our show this > Saturday night at the Lion's Lair! > > 2022 E. Colfax Avenue > Denver, CO 80206 > Phone: (303) 320-9200 > > It'll be a couple sets of pure R&B/Frat/Soul/Surf with plenty o' twistin' > and drinkin' to go with it. Hope to see ya there. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 15:37:26 EST From: BFaceRat@aol.com Subject: Re: bomp-digest V2001 #11 In a message dated 1/5/01 3:17:05 PM Eastern Standard Time, owner-bomp-digest@xnet2.com writes: > That song is enough to make me rip the radio > out of my car and hurl it into the street in a John Cusack-'Better off > Dead' > fashion. > Jeff Clayton of Antiseen did precisely that a number of years ago while stuck in traffic. For real! I forget what song was playing, though. B-Face ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 15:55:46 EST From: Sknoof@aol.com Subject: Real good news re: that OTHER Markley If you haven't seen this yet, here's a chunk of text I pulled off the SUNDAZED website just now: <> These are great albums. "Smell Of Incense" is a jewelly little chunk of psychedelia that even psychedelia-haters like. Or at least they're afraid to deny it when it's playing at MY house. I'm still trying to track down which 'zine last year had a looooong WCPAEB article/interview wherein either Lloyd or one of the Harrises claimed that Bob Markley does not even appear on the LPs. It's well-documented that his, uh, "talents" were not particularly well-admired or necessary. If you have the LPs, you'll also note that Michael Lloyd's participation is downplayed on some, and completely NON-EXISTENT--at least per the liners and photos--on others. Yet both he and the Harrises claim that he's all over the damned things. As soon as I find out where all that was written, I'll advise ya's. In the meantime, Sundazed hasn't yet offered a time-frame on these. But I imagine that the 'Dazers, as is their wont, will give us the definitive Last Word on Who Played What on these records. Mike F. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 16:04:06 EST From: SoundViews@aol.com Subject: DEAD FLOWERS WEBZINE updated, 1/5 just uploaded... january's music picks/reviews pigshit #8 ("top records of 2000") some new records in our mailorder and more! more! more! drop in and drop out... http://fade.to/DeadFlowers or http://members.aol.com/Shake6677/DeadFlowers.html (and if you haven't already, please sign the guestbook while yer there) ------------------------------ Date: 05 Jan 2001 15:05:45 +0000 From: Jeff Kopp Subject: Boss with the Hot Sauce For anyone interested, I'll be spinning three hours' worth of greasy R&B, groovy soul, and lowdown, dirty blues on KDHX today from 4-7pm (CST), filling in for Art Dwyer's "Blues in the Night" program. Should be fun, so check it out if you can (I think our RealAudio stream is working OK). Yes, that's less than an hour from now. Sorry for the short notice, and apologies to those receiving the Digest who probably won't know about it 'til it's too late... Thanks, kopper (The Boss with the Hot Sauce) http://www.kdhx.org/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 15:25:20 -0600 From: Andrew Nicolaou Subject: RE: ATV @ Maxwell's Evan Davies wrote: <> I'm pretty doubtful they'll make it past the East Coast, but dare to dream, right? If anyone makes it to either show, I would love to read their thoughts on it. <<(By the way, I bought a lovely watch for Justina from ashford.com and was very happy with the service!)>> LOL, glad to hear it! Andrew ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 16:17:45 -0500 From: "Canale, Deena" Subject: RE: Free (was ARGGHH! Just gotta say it...) Don't get me wrong, I hate Free too...but they were oddly endearing to me when I saw them in the "Message to Love: The 1970 Isle of Wight Festival" movie. Their performance was so ridden with cheesy rock star cliches, Spinal Tap could've picked up a few pointers from 'em! Great movie all around, by the way--if Altamont and "Gimme Shelter" represent the anti-Woodstock, Isle of Wight is Bizarro-Woodstock. Signed Snoopy D.C. (in Good Company) >>> From: "Mike Markesich" Subject: ARRGGHH! Just gotta say it.... >1969, the Free recorded "Broad daylight" and "The worm" at London's Morgan Recording Studios. These were the A & B of their debut single, in March, 1969. "Broad daylight" also found it's way onto the Free's second untitled lp; I HATE this band, Lord Have Mercy! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 16:46:44 -0500 (EST) From: Mekios Subject: The Konks and Triple Thick rock'n'roll Boston Fellow bompers, Just wanted to report that The Konks and Triple Thick, two Boston bands I had not seen before, played rocking sets last night at the Abbey Lounge. Triple Thick did great versions of the Remains "Why do I cry"(the band didn't seem happy with their version but it was amazingly raw! how not to like it?), La Peste's "Better off dead", and Nervous Eaters' "Loretta" (right after an original called Loretta, as well) along with their own Jonathan Richman influenced songs. The Konks who followed brought the place down with a great uninhibited blues-punk set (their song "I don't wanna" is a killer!) that ended with the drummer and his drumset falling off the scene! The Real Kids tonight at Lilly's! Dinos ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 21:47:31 +0000 From: Steve Coleman Subject: Re: Vintage Dead At 12:45 5/1/01 -0600, Lenny wrote: >Garcia. Marred what would have been an otherwise pleasant enough work day >with about 150 minutes of squirm and headache inducing hell. They should be >SHOT for what they did to Wilson Pickett's "In the Midnight Hour" and Martha >and the Vandellas' "Dancing In the Street." Sounds like your co-worker was playing you the "Vintage Dead" album on Polydor. If so, that stuff was recorded at the Avalon Ballroom in '66. Quite a year in those parts by all accounts. Steve - --------------------------------------------- Have you entered The Garage? http://www.garage.clara.net The Fleshtones Hall of Fame http://www.fleshtones.co.uk - --------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 16:50:16 From: Rocky Serkowney Subject: Super-hatred Garrett wrote: > >And re. this "most-hated" thread, I'm surprised noone's mentioned >Supertramp! I'm a pretty mellow guy, but as soon as I hear that twerp's >voice I wanna kill people... Well, I'm not into the killing thang, but you are absolutely right about Supertramp. Worst group ever! Squirrely. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 16:56:04 -0500 (EST) From: yeeyeemgt@webtv.net (Michael Quirk) Subject: Porkers Anybody know anything about this band? They sound kinda ska. I was looking on Napster for the theme to Cool McCool. They covered it, they only sing "Danger Is My Business". They sound like they have a huge following by the size of the crowd. Anyone know anything about them? It sounds like they use a Vox organ on it. MJ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 16:59:44 -0500 From: "Lenny Smith" Subject: Re: Vintage Dead Steve Coleman wrote: >Sounds like your co-worker was playing you the "Vintage Dead" album on >Polydor. If so, that stuff was recorded at the Avalon Ballroom in >'66. Quite a year in those parts by all accounts. Actually, the set he had was called "The Phil [as in Lesh] Zone". Don't know if it was one continuous show I didn't like, or stuff culled from a variety of sources. Just know it was really hard to hear day in and day out, LOL! Lenny ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 17:16:00 EST From: Moparlary@aol.com Subject: Re: Super-hatred And how about their evil whiney twin Styx. Should that name be Stinx? Never did a band symbolize the kind of wankish self importance of that outfit. If there ever was a band that would inspire me to go on a gun toting, postal style lock myself in the tower rampange, Styx fits the bill. The only good Styx song was Cartman's version of "Sail Away" on South Park... one of these days a real rain's gonna come and wash away all the grammy winners....Moparlary In a message dated Fri, 5 Jan 2001 4:55:17 PM Eastern Standard Time, Rocky Serkowney writes: << Garrett wrote: > >And re. this "most-hated" thread, I'm surprised noone's mentioned >Supertramp! I'm a pretty mellow guy, but as soon as I hear that twerp's >voice I wanna kill people... Well, I'm not into the killing thang, but you are absolutely right about Supertramp. Worst group ever! Squirrely. >> ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 17:47:36 -0500 (EST) From: yeeyeemgt@webtv.net (Michael Quirk) Subject: Re: MJ Quirk School Of Guitar I work the night shift at the Post Office (drop kicking parcels at an A-Rod esque salary as Alex Piandes likes to point out). One of the guys that works in the Siberia section of the building came up to me and said he heard I played in a wild band (gotta love my buddy Bob. He tells people my band is better than the Stones, which is convincing to non-record collectors) Anyway, he tells me he has a guitar in his locker. Of course, I always have one in my locker. So I break out my trademark Rick and we've been swapping info on our lunch breaks, kinda like Syd Barrett and David Gilmour. I must confess, he's showing me how to play The Rain Song by Led Zeppelin. He's even doing it in normal tuning! I gave up any chance of learning it after discovering that it was in a weird tuning. That's not as dreadful as Stairway. I'm an old Zeppelin fan as well, but can you say overkill? So in between showing the chords to some early Stones (Heart Of Stone), Yardbirds (For Your Love), and Beatles (Day Tripper), he asks me what my band does. So I play the chords for Everybody's A Lyre, and sing and play Kenne's old Gizmo chestnut That's Cool. He was floored by the bar chords. I guess if you don't use them much, it can be a painful workout. Don't know, I use them about 90 % of my set, myself. Then I showed him songs from Lyres (Pain, Touch, Baby I Still Want Your Lovin', Lovin' Cup), Not much Zeppelin or Stevie Ray being played in the locker room anymore. Plus people watch us play and think we're writing our own songs. Chalk up another one for garage rock! MJ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 17:52:31 -0500 (EST) From: troggman@webtv.net (Todd Lucas) Subject: Re: Castaways >"Goodbye Babe." It didn't chart either. Again, >"Liar, Liar" was their only charting song. Yeah, "Goodbye Babe" failed to make Billboard's Hot 100 (it peaked at #101) but it did manage to make the Cashbox chart, peaking at #90. Todd ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 23:38:34 +0100 From: "Jeroen Vedder" Subject: It's Them While spinnin' some discs this evening I came across 'Highs In The Mid Sixties vol.21' and noticed the original version of 'Baby I Still Need Your Loving' by It's Them, as later covered by the Lyres (call me slow, I own both records for something like a decade, but never noticed that I had both versions). Anyways what I'd like to know is if there is a better soundin' version of the It's Them tune around somewhere, 'cause this version on 'Highs' sounds as it was taped off some MW radio show back in the 60s, anybody knows ?, Mike ?. Thanks, Jeroen ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 15:16:47 -0800 From: Alan Wright Subject: RE: bomp-digest V2001 #10 Speaking of the SoK, has anyone heard that live CD, the one with the Music Machine style cover from a live '72 show? I saw a copy and was wondering if it was any good. Alan ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 15:28:46 -0800 From: Alan Wright Subject: RE: bomp-digest V2001 #10 <"Stairway To Boredom" (I say insert any Zep song, but this one makes me vomit profusely) "All Right Now" "Layla" (the original is bad enough, but how about the prozac shufflebeat rendition?) "Whipping Post" (In my book, there is "blues", and then there is "BLOOZ"...) "Aqualung" (no comment)> Geez, what is wrong with you people!?! These are all classic rock songs, the songs that speak to our generation, the songs that um, okay, I'm kidding. While I do like some early Zep (I just got a free boot CD from a place I ordered a live Clash CD, why the guy thought I'd like Zep is another question, but I digress - - it's '68/'69 stuff, including a version of "Train Kept A Rolling" that I'd never heard them do), STH is not one of my fave songs, maybe because I heard it at every friggin' dance I went to in high school! I have a great version by an '80s Canadian punk band called the Sons Of Ishmael who condense the entire song (solo and everything) into about 2 mins, playing it at lightening speed! It's hilarious! As to the other songs, I don't mind "All Right Now," but then on the other hand, I've never bought a Free album either, and the rest of the songs I can't stomach at all. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 18:26:58 EST From: Euphorik6@aol.com Subject: Re: MopTop and Classic Rock Radio In a message dated 1/5/01 10:23:35 AM, Sknoof@aol.com writes: << At least they don't play the Outlaws' "Green Grass & High Tides" >> oooooooh yeah....now we're talkin. << Hocus Pocus by Focus (art rock yodelling?) >> fuck yeah! now we're breakin out the BIG guns. as far as contributions to the "never-mind-who-LIKES-this-who-can-SIT-THROUGH-it" genre, my attempt to round out this mighty troika of truly unlistenable shit-rock FM crud is "i wouldn't wanna be like you" by supertramp. i don't know if this gets played as much anywhere else, but here in indy - at least to the point a couple of years ago when i got a car stereo - this was on quite a bit. it's a real Q-95 classic, maybe brian, todd and mark & other indy-area folks can volunteer some other jimmy "mad-dog" matis show classics i've neglected to mention...but jesus h christ, when this piece of shit comes on, you can actually SEE visible putrescence emitting from the speakers, like heat waves. truly amazing. & who did that "save my life i'm goin down for the last time, woman with the sweet lovin better than a white line" song? god have mercy! a couple more times and I'M going down for the last time. never mind the smelling salts - just nuke the transmitter! rob ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 18:37:19 -0500 From: Evan Davies Subject: Re: MopTop and Classic Rock Radio >out this mighty troika of truly unlistenable shit-rock FM crud is "i wouldn't >wanna be like you" by supertramp. i don't know if this gets played as much Isn't that the Alan Parsons Project? > & who did that "save my life i'm goin down for the last time, woman with >the sweet lovin better than a white line" song? god have mercy! a couple more That would be "Never Been Any Reason" by Head East. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 18:37:54 EST From: Euphorik6@aol.com Subject: Re: Mr T (&rudy ray moore)rule(s)! In a message dated 1/5/01 12:42:54 PM, webmaster@coololdstuff.com writes: << Watching the A Team (yeah, slacking today!). The guys are posing as window washers and have a radio playing the Police's "Roxanne". Mr T is annoyed with the music. He tells Murdock if he doesn't turn down the radio, he's gonna smash it, fool. Murdock says, "you wouldn't do that", and sure 'nuff, Mr T takes that Sting-playing radio and smashes it to the ground! YEAH! >> laughing - linda - didn't mr t do one of those "just say no" records around 84 or 85? i'd love to hear that now. i remember digging through the bargain videos at a drug store a few years back and finding an unwatched (imagine that) copy of mr t's jusy-say-no classic "be somebody or be somebody's FOOL." well, i was definitely somebodys fool that day, b/c i didn't buy it...i've regretted it ever since. i think it was sort of a mohawked preteen version of "the man with the golden arm." & while i am on the greater subject of ass-kicking black men who have taken a serious dislike to exploited ghetto youngsters on drugs, a week or so brian marshall was talking about rudy ray moore's dust-the-dust classic "rudy ray moore is the avenging disco godfather." i'd like to enthusiastically second his thumbs up on this - this is definitely my second fave rudy movie (after dolemite) - any movie with rudy tripping his balls off on angel dust AND bustin a funky hustle on the dance floor yelling "put your WEIGHT on it, put your WEIGHT on it" - well, suffice it to say, a masterpiece. B.A. stands for Bad Attitude, fool! rob ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 18:41:59 EST From: Euphorik6@aol.com Subject: Re: MopTop and Classic Rock Radio In a message dated 1/5/01 6:38:23 PM, efd@xnet2.com writes: << >out this mighty troika of truly unlistenable shit-rock FM crud is "i wouldn't >wanna be like you" by supertramp. i don't know if this gets played as much Isn't that the Alan Parsons Project? >> doh! i think you're right! maybe i blocked it out.... rob ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 18:43:59 -0500 From: Rat Pfink Subject: Re: MopTop and Classic Rock Radio Actually, "I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You" is by the Alan Parsons Project. It's still bad, though... At 06:26 PM 1/5/01 EST, you wrote: >out this mighty troika of truly unlistenable shit-rock FM crud is "i wouldn't >wanna be like you" by supertramp. i don't know if this gets played as much >anywhere else, but here in indy - at least to the point a couple of years >ago when i got a car stereo - this was on quite a bit. - ----------------------------------- | Rat Pfink ratpfink@akamail.com | - ----------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 19:03:49 -0500 From: Rat Pfink Subject: Re: Mr T (&rudy ray moore)rule(s)! Wasn't that record called "Mr. T's Commandments"? "I pity the fool that does drugs!" At 06:37 PM 1/5/01 EST, you wrote: > linda - didn't mr t do one of those "just say no" records around 84 or >85? i'd love to hear that now. i remember digging through the bargain videos >at a drug store a few years back and finding an unwatched (imagine that) copy >of mr t's jusy-say-no classic "be somebody or be somebody's FOOL." well, i >was definitely somebodys fool that day, b/c i didn't buy it...i've regretted >it ever since. i think it was sort of a mohawked preteen version of "the man >with the golden arm." - ----------------------------------- | Rat Pfink ratpfink@akamail.com | - ----------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Jan 01 11:08:33 +1100 From: Subject: Re: One Hit wonders >Can anyone tell me with which single the Count 5 followed "Psychotic >Reaction" with and how it charted? I've always wondered that. Same with the >Castaways and "Liar, Liar". > > >James B. Count V - 'Peace Of Mind' and Castaways 'A Man's Gotta Be A Man' - I think? Both bombed, rendering their perpetrators forever as one hit wonders (with lotsa great songs). - -Peter M ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Jan 01 11:15:21 +1100 From: Subject: Re: Cream Puff War >From: Alan Wright >Subject: RE: bomp-digest V2001 #10 > > rick> > >Speaking of Cream Puff war, but this time the mag, what's up with that? I >heard a rumor a long time ago that Jud and Alec had >a big falling out. Is it true? Anyone know? > >Alan I wonder - that was the best '60s mag of all tyme, but it's been several years since the last issue. I'm considering asking for a refund on my subscription! - -Peter M ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 19:16:01 EST From: Euphorik6@aol.com Subject: Re: zeppelin In a message dated 1/5/01 6:25:32 PM, AlanW@SeattleArtMuseum.org writes: << I do like some early Zep >> the only zeppelin i don't like (aside from overplayed stuff like stairway) is most of "in through the out door" (too synthy) and just about everything on "coda" (too boring). this is asheton-specs-and-fleece-jacket-wearing teenage stoner music par excellence. at least it was when i was in high school....there's a lot of bong-water under the bridge with me and physical graffiti. whenever i think of zeppelin, i will always think of those stoner kids that used to hang out and get high in the parking lot before high school, cranking "i can't quit you baby" or "ten years gone." anyway, i still like em. rob ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 19:18:49 EST From: Euphorik6@aol.com Subject: Re: Cream Puff War In a message dated 1/5/01 7:15:43 PM, sykadelik@one.net.au writes: << that was the best '60s mag of all tyme, but it's been several years since the last issue >> yeah, that was a great mag - i think #2 came out in the spring of 1993...i'm still waiting for #3, too. wasn't there a flexi of final solution stuff with the first pressings of #1?? if anybody has this & is interested in a trade, please email me off list!! rob ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 19:24:22 -0500 From: "Mike Markesich" Subject: Re: MopTop and Classic Rock Radio; Think, Ronnie Dove, and MORE... >Markesich opines: <<"Stairway To Boredom" (I say insert any Zep song, but this one makes me vomit profusely) "All Right Now" "Layla" (the original is bad enough, but how about the prozac shufflebeat rendition?) "Whipping Post" (In my book, there is "blues", and then there is "BLOOZ"...) "Aqualung" (no comment) There are a lot more, but these were across the board victors. And likely your older brother's all time fave songs.>> Hey, Mophead!! **I'M** yer older brother.....and I will have to gently chastise you by, ironically, AGREEING wholeheartedly with your choices there. You forgot quite a few, of course. "Free Bird"....AIIGGH!!! At least they don't play the Outlaws' "Green Grass & High Tides" anymore. That one was a REAL pain in the ass for a whole lotta years. Respect yer elders, ya punk-ass!! :) Mike F. Where's my dang Geritol??? Hey Bro' I didn't forget "Freebird", hell that should've made our top 5 +1, but the other guy LIKES the damn thing. Thoze 5 were tunes we BOTH agreed upon. The process started by each of us naming a song we hated - it had to be a classic rock radio staple from '69-79...Then, it was a process of elimination, and the 5 aforementioned are the Remaining Few Upchuckers...Hell, if I had my way, there'd be more songs...I hate "Hotel California"...I trashed the kid's cassette tape of that LP who lived down the street from me in '77. This kid was a card-carrying lover of the Doors, Eagles, and one of thee most boring bands of all time, Pink Floyd (now, before ya start in with the coolness of their first LP, I'm talking about that whole 70's *coma-thon* inducing stuff that is revered). Anyway, this kid we called "Swabby", since he had platinum blonde hair, (don't ask me why, we were kids), made fun of me because I used to come home from our local record shop with a pile of O-L-D 45's by the Animals, Paul Revere & Raiders, as well as numerous "soul" 45's. I'll gladly stomach "Billy Don't Be A Hero" ANYDAY over trying to listen to those overplayed and over-rated classic rock tunes...or should I type, "toonz"...What really galls me is watching high school kids nowadays, driving around on weekends with their beer clenched in one hand, and cranking up either the radio or CD...the sounds blasting from the speakers (at least 'round these parts) is all of the crap from the 70's. It's like time has frozen, and it's 1975...the hair is different, the cars are different, but the 'song remains the same'...I couldn't resist.... Those other AM pop type songs mentioned - "Once You Understand" by Think, which is hilarious on first listen, then you never need to hear it again - doncha love the bumbling "dad", when his son dies in the hospital from a drug overdose, and he starts sobbing, while the angelic chorus drifts in from the background: 'Things Get A Little Easier...Once You Understand'...; "Run Joey Run" by David Geddes - hey- he's from Michigan! So there WAS some dreck from that hallowed state... Well, those cannot be compared as equals on the puke-o-meter to the classic rock drivel. The only people who LIKE those AM Top 40 losers are the radio chart geek collectors. The guys who "have to collect everything" that made The Billboard Hot 100 charts, or Top 40 charts. I mean, these guys have Ronnie Dove 45's in their collections!!! WHO the HELL can listen to a syrupy country-pop whiner and say they ENJOY it??? Maybe your grandma! Ronnie had around a dozen top 40 hits in roughly a three year span...sorry Joey, I'm not looking at Whitburn as I type - it's from memory........Meanwhile, those classic rock toonz mentioned are FAVORITES by a huge majority of the know-nothing public. Iam Fuzzco typed: >Please refer to recent Fleshtones shows to hear their version of "Communication Breakdown", with vocal ala Keith Streng. It's great. Well, this proves that every band has flaws, heh heh. Mike F tagged: >Respect yer elders, ya punk-ass!! :) ONLY if it's via the Rationals. I say their cover of the Redding thumper is THEE best, screw the Vagrants version. That oughta get youse Forest Hills alumni up in arms... MopTop Mike ------------------------------ End of bomp-digest V2001 #12 **************************** ===================================================================== You've been reading bomp-digest, the digest version of the Bomp list. To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe bomp-digest" to majordomo@xnet2.com