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Date: Sat, 15-Feb-86 11:09:34 EST
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mod.music				    Saturday, February 15, 1986, 11:08

Today's Topics:

			Kate question and Reggae
	 residents identity partially revealed (for mod.music)

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Date: Mon, 3 Feb 86 09:56:15 MST
From: nusbaum@utah-cs.arpa (James Nusbaum)
Subject: Kate question and Reggae


I am a big fan of Kate Bush's music but know very little about her
personally.  Could someone out there give a summary of some
personal data like age, birthplace, marital status, education,
current residence, etc.?   Also does anybody have a video tape
of Kate's Saturday Night Live performance from many years ago?

It is my understanding that 'Fine Young Cannibals' consists of most
of the former members of the Beat except for Dave Wakeling and Ranking
Roger.

If any one out there is interested, I am a huge reggae and ska fan and
would be glad to discuss any reggae topics or answer questions.

February 6 - Bob Marley's birthday


Jim Nusbaum
University of Utah CS Dept.
Salt Lake City, UT

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Date: Fri, 7 Feb 86 21:24:19 est
From: allegra!ames!jaw
Subject: residents identity partially revealed (for mod.music)

     the blurb below is a re-post from usenet, june 1984.
i never did put this on the (now defunct?) ralph records bbs.
the band does play around town, and the current lead singer's face
indeed looks like the foreground character on the recent
"big bubble" disk.

     there is nothing particular to indicate that the stage band
is all original personnel anymore -- except for snakefinger's visible
presence, it's pretty easy to contract out the "musick", as they put it.

     from the sound of it, renaldo & the loaf are residents also.
but then, we all are.

--jaw

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#  There's something I must tell you,
   There's something I must say;
   The only really perfect love
   Is one that gets away.     -- The Residents, from "The Commercial Album"

     My abstract expressionist uncle Michael Kennedy used to
work in the S.F. post office in the sixties with two of these chaps
from Louisiana.  One of 'em is John Kennedy (no relation), and
they were fringe artists even then, into Sun Ra mostly.

     Mike remembers that the guy wore Hawaiian shirts and liked to
paint his shoes blue.  Everyone was being psychedelicized in the Haight,
but the embryonic Residents traced a slightly different "curve".
They eventually moved on to do some part-time bedpan work at U.C.S.F. hospital.
The rest is history.

     The John Kennedy name is backed up by an old (2 year) S. F. Chronicle
Sunday supplement Residents puff piece, which runs down a roster of Ralph
Records "employees" (I neglected to save the list.)  Anyway, now that the
Residents cultish anonymity is fraying at the edges, why doesn't someone
post this on the Ralph BBS for reaction?

     I suspect that Jay Clem, who did some radio interviews with
KPFA's Charles Amirkhanian (sp?), is also a Resident.  Hmmm ... have
to walk down to Ralph to find the real info.

	-- James Alien  (ames!jaw)




-- 
It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under.

Greg Skinner (gregbo)
{decvax!genrad, allegra, gatech, ihnp4}!mit-eddie!gds
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