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From: chertok@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU (Grady Toss)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Groovy Cassette Compilation
Message-ID: <10778@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Wed, 23-Oct-85 19:43:55 EDT
Article-I.D.: ucbvax.10778
Posted: Wed Oct 23 19:43:55 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 25-Oct-85 02:13:23 EDT
Reply-To: ebm%ingres@ucbvax.ARPA (Grady Toss)
Organization: Pandora's Box
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Keywords: Cassette, Compilation, Garage Door, 84 Rooms

_Behind the Garage Door Volume 1: An Anthology_

A friend of mine in the band _84 Rooms_ gave me this cassette compilation
of people and songs he'd worked with and on (not necessarily in that order)
from 1979 through 1982.  I think the tape was released two or three years
ago.  If it's still obtainable (and it likely is), it's from Rackit Records,
Box 113, 2440 16th St., San Francisco, CA  94103.

I latched onto this after hearing _84 Rooms_ debut EP (also on Rackit), and
writing to see if there was any more material available.  One of the 84 Rooms,
Tracy Santa sent me this cassette which compiles lots of different "groups"
out of a pool of 19 Bay Area musicians (none of whom I'm familiar with from
any other local bands).

The tape features a wide array of musical styles, from Tuxedomoon like synth
pieces to (sorry Doug Alan) honest-to-gosh Rock 'n' Roll.  Lots of interesting
covers, including The Melon Colony doing Billy Joe Royal's _Down in the
Boondocks_; Master Cylinder doing a demented medley of Glen Campbell's
Witchita Lineman_ and Smokey Robinson's _Tears of a Clown_; Flatt Top doing
Bill Monroe's _Blue Moon of Kentucky_ with a vocal harmony and synthesized
percussion arrangement; Little Carl Day covering the Elvis hit _Little
Sister_; East Wind Rain doing a nice synth instrumental rendition of Tony 
Hatch's _Call Me_.

Many good originals:  Tracy Santa as The Little Big Men doing an 84 Rooms
like track titled _Message to His People_.  Great pop from the Poison Ivy
League (I believe this name is a pun on the English vocal group, The Ivy
League, who sang the background vocals on The Who's _Can't Explain_).  Great
pop-rock 'n' roll from The Exploding Pintos (_Van Gogh's Ear_), and a number
of interesting instrumentals, including Mighty Dog's _Mighty Dog vs. Jah
Flea_, a synth piece with reggae undertones.

Plus lots lots more--17 action packed tracks in all.  Every time I take this
tape out and carry it around in my Personal Potable I realize how great the
cassette-only music world really is.

... gt  (ebm%ingres@ucbvax.ARPA  -or-  ucbvax!ucbingres!ebm)