From: owner-bomp-digest@xnet2.com (bomp-digest) To: bomp-digest@xnet2.com Subject: bomp-digest V2002 #95 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, February 14 2002 Volume 2002 : Number 095 This is 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: Syl,Red Planets Planckzoo@aol.com The Heaters Tim Lakritz Re: Manson and Bonniwell Sknoof@aol.com How I caught the rockin' pneumonia... Tim Lakritz Another one about the sun Tim Lakritz Rejects for a reject: MY intro to garage 45s! "Jeff Lemlich" Re: RE:SUN SONGS: "mykel" Re: raunch hands/live skull BB Re: Re: Syl Sylvain show jerk@club-internet.fr ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 22:49:53 EST From: Planckzoo@aol.com Subject: Syl,Red Planets I caught this bill in lovely Baltimore last night, not a bad rockin evening. I enjoyed Red Planet,except for some of the guitar wanking by the lead guitar player, I just knew they would cover something by Van Halen.. they closed with umm, Panama. I enjoyed Syl, he is a funny guy and the band rocked out . I went out with a smile on my face, what else could I ask for? Next up,the Dictators on Saturday in DC. Eric That's "Mr. Rock-n-Roll" to you ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 20:11:33 -0800 (PST) From: Tim Lakritz Subject: The Heaters >These guys toured with Heart and the Knack in the >early '80's with their killer power pop style. >Created tunes as "I Don't Like Your Face," and >"Have an Idea". They chose to reunite a few years >back. I don't know if they TOURED with 'em, but I saw them open up for the Kinks, too. I was only fourteen at the time, but I dug the shit out of them - "I Don't Like Your Face" is a GREAT song! Tim __________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 23:27:54 EST From: Sknoof@aol.com Subject: Re: Manson and Bonniwell Rocky sez: << Dee and I were watching the low-budget 1971 film, "The Helter Skelter Murders" last night and despite not being mentioned on the viewer discretion disclaimer, there was definitely some nudity shown. Deena described a hippie guy gyrating all his equipment to the sounds of the Music Machine. Funny, but that flick had 4 or 5 killer (no pun intended) MM tunes (like "Eagle Never Hunts the Fly" and "point of No Return")sprinkled throughout the first half. Not sure, but I don't think Boniwell authorized use of these songs... >> Bonniwell talks about this in his book. He had nothing to do with the use of his songs, and was not very happy about it. Still isn't. Mike F. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 20:37:41 -0800 (PST) From: Tim Lakritz Subject: How I caught the rockin' pneumonia... Here's my "how I discovered garage/punk" story: It was 1983 - I was 16, still in high school in Weatherford, Texas, and ready to get the fuck OUT! I'd already digested all the classic rock and oldies I could stand, and even though I loved a lot of that stuff, I was bored and ready for something new. Lo and behold, I went to the big flea market there in Weatherford (which, at the time, focused mainly on the livestock trade) and found the Ramones 1st LP, brand new, in the shrink-wrap and everything, for $3. I'd read a little bit about punk rock in Creem, but didn't really know what it was all about - when I got that record home and played it, though, it was ALL OVER! I ran out and bought as many other Ramones releases as I could (they were ALL in the cutout bins at the time), and they were all great - and when you find something THAT good, you want more more more! So I started checking out other bands and going to shows. At around the same time, there was a KILLER AM oldies station comin' outta Dallas called KROQ that played not only the Stones, Kinks, Yardbirds, and Them, but lots of the Nuggets-type stuff - I mean, they weren't playing "Five Years Ahead Of My Time" or "Story Of My Life", but they played all the ones that were hits ("Lies", "Talk Talk", "Little Girl", "Question Of Temperature", etc.) that you NEVER hear on the radio now. ANYWAY, hearing all that great old stuff on the radio at the same time the Ramones were covering the Chambers Bros. and the Music Explosion sparked an interest that has yet to fizzle out, and won't - I'm goin' to the grave with my Back From The Graves! Tim __________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 20:47:32 -0800 (PST) From: Tim Lakritz Subject: Another one about the sun "Don't Want The Sun" - The Fall-Outs Tim __________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 23:48:54 -0500 From: "Jeff Lemlich" Subject: Rejects for a reject: MY intro to garage 45s! I didn't have an introduction to garage! It was part of the rock 'n roll landscape when I first got into radio, records, and music surveys in 1966. We called everything rock 'n roll back then. It wasn't until later that true 60s terms such as "surf", "soul", "bubblegum", and "underground" came into my consciousness. The songs we'd call "garage" were just rock 'n roll songs to me at the time. Then came 1970 and 1971 and top 40 radio just didn't seem as exciting anymore. I still bought current records, but found myself going to Goodwill and buying lots of cool-sounding unknowns for ten cents each (and the 6-records-for-69 cents packs at Kresges and Zayre). I started listening to a lot of unknown records that fell beneath the top 40 radar, and enjoying them very much. Of course I felt like a freak because it felt like nobody else who was listening to groups like the Unrelated Segments and the Montells in 1971. The good thing is NOBODY ELSE locally was buying these records, so they'd sit at Goodwill until I got there. Rejects for a reject, I thought! Especially those local band records that collectors turned their noses at! Then in 1972 I bought "Nuggets" on Elektra, mainly to get "My World Fell Down" by the Sagittarius, which I loved so much in 1967! A sort of context was forming. I'd heard of most of the bands, but some (the Magicians, Mouse & The Traps, etc.) were unknown to me at the time. Then I got a copy of "Who Put The Bomp" and my life changed... because I saw that there were other people out there documenting local scenes... and trying to find out where unknown bands came from! With the WPTB issue with the Standells, Seeds, and Knickerbockers in it, I had terms for this music -- new compartments with which to work -- and my fanaticism was growing to new heights. If only I'd bought soul 45s with as much fervor... who knows, maybe Ian Levine wouldn't have gotten those thousands of records out of the Miami Goodwill (and shipped them to England), and maybe Northern soul history would have been changed???? As for Garage 101... for a concise history of what a garage band is, and why they are so important in keeping rock from losing their roll, check out pages 1 through 5 of the book "Savage Lost". Thanks Doc Downey & Dick Starr (WFUN), Roby Yonge (WQAM), Lenny Kaye (Nuggets), and of course Greg Shaw & Ken Barnes for the education. Jeff Lemlich ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 23:24:09 -0600 From: "mykel" Subject: Re: RE:SUN SONGS: > > Hey BOMPERS- > I'm compiling a couple of hours of songs about the sun for my > little girl. > "sunny afternoon" kinks "blister in the sun" violent femmes "a place in the sun" hoodoo gurus "earth and sun and moon" midnight oil "face toward the sun" died pretty "liquid sunshine" parliament "johnny sunshine" liz phair "stargazing" the solarflares alright, that last one's kinda stretching and i surely wouldn't be playing my young daughter (if i had one) a couple of the ones that qualified legit-like. haha, i was gonna put i am the cosmos up but my housemate informed me that it's "i am the wind" rather then "sun"...all this time i musta been too busy singing along to bother to actually listen. oh well and later np: "i am the cosmos" yup, he right. ;) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 20:28:11 -0500 From: BB Subject: Re: raunch hands/live skull > Don't you think the poor kid has enough going against > her, being daughter of Jon Weiss, without exposing her > impressionable young mind to the RAUNCH HANDS??? > > whatever happened to that bunch? They got back together to play Cavestomp '98 (and Crypt released a live disc of it). A year and a half back, they played the Las Vegas Shakedown, doing a show in NYC a week or two earlier. Mariconda's in Texas, Chandler's in New England (tho' he's been talking about moving to NYC again), and the rest of the band's still around the Big Apple. - - Blair ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 10:12:22 +0100 (CET) From: jerk@club-internet.fr Subject: Re: Re: Syl Sylvain show I also enjoyed their set-closer, a poppier version of Van Halen's >"Panama". C'mon Blair, Red Planet is a good band but this is arena rock crap! (at least basing myself on the version they played at the Vegas Shakedown) Laurent ------------------------------ End of bomp-digest V2002 #95 **************************** ===================================================================== You've been reading bomp-digest, the digest version of the Bomp list. 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