Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!bellcore!petrus!sabre!zeta!epsilon!gamma!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!gds From: gds@mit-eddie.UUCP (Greg Skinner) Newsgroups: mod.music Subject: Love-Hounds Digest Message-ID: <823@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Sat, 21-Dec-85 13:51:30 EST Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.823 Posted: Sat Dec 21 13:51:30 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 22-Dec-85 10:56:13 EST Organization: MIT Lusers and Hosers Inc., Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 249 Approved: gds@mit-eddie.mit.edu Love-Hounds Digest Saturday, December 21, 1985, 13:56 Today's Topics: Drinking is Great Robert Fripp Today's History Lesson Suzanne Vega Dead Kennedys/STD/Mighty Sphincter Re: Today's History Lesson [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Wed, 11 Dec 85 9:51:38 EST From: Jim Hofmann Subject: Drinking is Great Not really sure if this is "appropriate to this newsgroup" but I had this review sitting on my disk for awhile with nothing to do with it (after I sent it to my local friendly zine) ... tell me if you don't like this ... Various Artist, Drinking is Great (Fatal Erection, 1985) This comp was mostly brought about through the efforts of Portland scenesters and Tom Pig of Poison Idea who basically chipped in to form a their own label called, ahem, Fatal Erection. This 45 RPM disc just reeks of hell-bent leather and hardcore gospel that absolutely shreds. The title comes as reaction to the Oregon liquor control piggies who have banned all underage people from clubs even if a separate drinking area existed. This has killed a large portion of these bands audience and until they can get a hall or a bar willing to have non-alcoholic shows (fat chance), it don't look too good. Well, score up another one for right wing piggies at least for the moment 'cause judging from the urgency of this music, I doubt if this scene will die. Side one starts off with Poison Idea, who you may be familiar with through that killer Pushead compi- lation, Cleanse the Bacteria. This band features two heavies (and I mean that literally these guys are BIG!) of the Portland scene, Tom Pig (who I mentioned before) and Jerry A. who also have their own wrecking company (!). I wonder if this means they practice in condemned buildings. Anyway, based on first hand knowledge, a Poison Idea show is an exercise in gross and offending excesses. In short, fun. They throw boogers at each other and Jerry A. has been known to spit on the ceiling and let the slime drip back into his mouth. Under- neath this hard shell lies guys who write lyrics like "when you laugh at those with less, where's the humor at" (Laughing Boy), so there must be something here, huh? The other song on this side is by Etherteen (E-13) and is about discovering you have Pancreatis disease by noticing "yellow floaters" in your toilet. I feel the bile rising just thinking about it. Anyway, you might notice the chorus is metered at 7/4 - thereby implying t there might be more to these guys than first imagined. Second Side starts of with Lockjaw, hate band from Seattle, that enjoys popularity among the skinheads in the area. It's called "You Dick". Final Warn- ing ends up the 7" with "I quit" a protest song protesting, gee, against just about anything they could think of. Since this recording, Final Warning has quit and broke up. Either way, you can't go wrong with the price (2.25 through Systematic mail order) and it's great to hear another side of the country that isn't L.A. or San Francisco. [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Wed, 11 Dec 85 11:31:47 cst From: Chris Jepeway Subject: Robert Fripp is touring??? Where? When? jepeway [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Wed, 11 Dec 85 22:48:00 est From: Tim Wicinski Subject: Today's History Lesson on this date (Dec. 11) in 1844 - Nitrous Oxide was first used for tooth extraction. on this date one hundered and thirty years later (1844 + 130 = 1974), Hofmann used Nitrous Oxide for the first time at a party. The outcome...well see for yourself. you lh babbling idiot...but at least I'm not hofmann. tim [][][][][][][][][][] From: umcp-cs!aplcen!uucp@seismo.CSS.GOV Return-Path: Date: Wed, 11 Dec 85 23:30:34 EST >From ins_aset@jhunix Wed Dec 11 15:23:36 1985 remote from jhunix Date: Wed, 11 Dec 85 15:23:23 EST From: Susanne E Trowbridge To: love-hounds%mit-eddie.arpa@seismo.UUCP Subject: Suzanne Vega VEGA SHEDS THE FOLK LABEL (c) Baltimore City Paper. Reprinted without permission. Perhaps Suzanne Vega should have run the other way the first time someone called her a folk singer. Granted it's not an entirely inappropriate tag - her roots are in New York's famed Folk City club, and her self-titled debut album earned raves for the best girl-and-her-guitar musings since Joni Mitchell's early LPs. Still, the folk label will probably just serve to turn off a lot of people who might otherwise enjoy Vega's considerable talents as a songwriter and performer. And judging from her November 23 performance at Goucher's Kraushaar Auditorium, Vega's out to prove that she wants to go way beyond that narrow niche of folk. She and her four-piece band opted firmly for popcraft, often reducing her acoustic guitar to just part of the mix, contrary to the sparse sound of the album. If the fleshed-out, full-band treatment detracted a bit from the delicacy of Vega's compositions, the capacity crowd didn't seem to mind. They applauded the beginnings of the songs as well as the ends, and gave her a rousing standing ovation. Even Vega seemed a bit bemused by the intensity of the reception. Of course, she could have led the crowd in a chorus of "Tom Dooley" and still have sounded positively modern after her opening act, Roger McGuinn. It was a little sad to see the former Byrds frontman performing feeble acoustic versions of classics like "R "Turn, Turn, Turn" and "Mr. Tambourine Man"; his quavering voice only served to make the absence of the legendary Byrds harmonies that much more noticeable. His dazzling fretwork on "Eight Miles High" almost saved the show, but on the whole it was embarrassing to watch, and made Vega look even more fresh and exciting by comparison. If she at first seemed to embody the captivating cool of her heroine, German actress Marlene Dietrich, she gradually turned on a winsome charm, delighting the audience with tales of her travels through Europe. After opening with an a capella number, "Tom's Diner," Vega launched into a set that included all 10 songs from her album. There was the eerie, empty soul speaking in "Cracking," lover's games of "Freeze Tag," and a punchy version of her should-have-been-a-hit single, "Marlene on the Wall." She also introduced several new numbers, some very good, like the gently rocking "Luka." Then she announced giddily that she had written a song for an upcoming film, \fIPretty in Pink\fR, directed by teen movie meister John Hughes of \fIBreakfast Club\fR fame. But Vega couldn't transcend the wretched category of Movie Soundtrack Song - "Left of Center" was the low point of her performance, and as she sang her hand firmly covered the strings of her guitar, as if she had to will herself not to play along, just for this one song. Since she has been touring both alone and with her band, it is hard to tell where she'll go from here. If a little more electric guitar and a tougher beat will get her a wider audience, that's ok; her clear, pretty voice doesn't need to change a bit. Vega is simply too good to be written off with a confining label like "folk singer." [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Wed, 11 Dec 85 23:49 MST From: "James J. Lippard" Subject: Dead Kennedys/STD/Mighty Sphincter Reply-To: Lippard@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA Today it snowed in Phoenix for the first time since 1939. The weather was cold, windy, and rainy all day and most of the night. That's important for what I describe later. The show was held at the Party Gardens, which used to be Madame Toussad's Royal London Wax Museum. All that's left of the wax museum stuff is a little carousel with horses which used to have wax figures of Goldie Hawn and some other movie stars on it. This is near the back of a pretty large room, a stage was built in the front. Since STD didn't show up (they were arrested in New Orleans while en route to Phoenix), the show was opened up by a folk singer who sounded a lot like Bob Dylan. I didn't catch his name. Surprisingly, nobody booed him or anything, and he got applause and whistles. Mighty Sphincter was pretty bad, the most entertaining things they did were play the theme from the TV show "The Munsters" and have a shouting match with some girl in the audience. They came up with an impromptu song for her benefit, called "suck my dog's weenie" (that being the full lyrical content). Then, after a fairly long delay, somebody from the Party Gardens came on and said that the contract with the DKs said they were supposed to play outside (the Party Gardens has a large grassy area out back) and that Jello refused to sing unless everything was moved out there. He then asked people to please go out quickly and not make a fuss. I was surprised at how many people actually did, given the weather conditions I mentioned above. After a bunch of people went out, the band came on and began playing (and then the people realized they'd been had and came back). The DKs put on a really good show, a lot like the ones described here earlier. Jello did make a number of local comments, like talking about apartheid in Arizona--the indian reservations--when he did his spiel on "USA for South Africa". I was pretty impressed, this was the first time I'd seen them. They've been in Phoenix a couple times before, and I was going to go the last time, but the show was postponed due to Jello's laryngitis and I couldn't make it to the rescheduled shows. Jim (Lippard at MIT-MULTICS.ARPA) [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Thu, 12 Dec 85 03:53:09 est From: nessus (Doug Alan) Subject: Re: Today's History Lesson > From: Tim Wicinski > on this date one hundered and thirty years later (1844 + 130 = 1974), Hofmann > used Nitrous Oxide for the first time at a party. What took him so long? "Cutting out little lines" Doug [][][][][][][][][][] -- It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under. Greg Skinner (gregbo) {decvax!genrad, allegra, ihnp4}!mit-eddie!gds gds@mit-eddie.mit.edu