Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site mit-eddie.MIT.EDU Path: utzoo!decvax!bellcore!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!gds From: gds@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU (Greg Skinner) Newsgroups: mod.music Subject: Love-Hounds Digest Message-ID: <2122@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU> Date: Wed, 28-May-86 00:32:02 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.2122 Posted: Wed May 28 00:32:02 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 28-May-86 19:47:02 EDT Organization: MIT Lusers and Hosers Inc., Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 227 Approved: gds@eddie.mit.edu Love-Hounds Digest Wednesday, May 28, 1986, 00:35 EDT Topics: Art, with a capital A meatmen,tesco Prof. Longhair My evening with Helios Drugged out idea for today [][][][][][][][][][] Organization: The MITRE Corp., Bedford, MA Posted-Date: Thu, 22 May 86 09:50:56 edt Date: Thu, 22 May 86 09:50:56 edt From: cv%linus@mitre-bedford.ARPA >Some people seem to think, "Well, I love (music type A), so anybody >who doesn't listen to (music type A) and prefers (music type B) must >be a WANKER." It isn't so. Some of my best friends are Madonna >fans... Are some of your best friends WANKERS too? ...couldn't resist, so sue me ... suzie. o & o chris [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Thu, 22 May 86 16:47:19 edt From: Bob Krajewski Subject: Art, with a capital A When I mentioned the Buttholes as being Art Damaged, I was talking more about their effect that any ``credentials'' they might posess (but they didn't they pop out of college anyway ?). I don't want to get into arguments about Art, but what I'm definitely interested in is the end product, and how it hits me. The Meatmen played a local club here (T.T. the Bears) and were rock hard. As far as sex'n'stuff goes, Tesco himself is probably an omnisexual. Anyway, they may be coming to your town, though there doesn't seem to be any new record... [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Thu, 22 May 86 20:59:44 EDT From: Swingset Disaster Subject: meatmen,tesco sheet, come to our town, the mmen live here! i was suprised they play clubs they claim to be holding out for an arena show. which would be wild. Tesco is married btw but still fantasizes about Agnetha of ABBA aand your mother. Maddona, Kate and Me. [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Wed, 21 May 86 15:56:37 cdt From: ll-xn!uwvax!astroatc!gtaylor (G.N. Excelsis-Deo) Subject: Prof. Longhair Organization: Tandoori House of Tofu and Speedcore of Madison, WI Enquiring Minds wonder about life beyond Pop Culture.... > >Professor Longhair is dead???!!! Say it ain't so, Greg. Say it ain't >so ... > >Who was Professor Longhair and why does he merit comparision with Kate Bush? I was thinking of someone else besides KB who did what they did in a particularly idiosyncratic way (not that that betokens goodness or badness, mind you....) and the Professor just popped into my head. Professor Longhair *is* indeed deceased. He was an extremely unusual New Orleans-style piano player who influenced the daylights out of everybody from Fats Domino to Alan Toussaint and Mac "Dr. John" Rebennac. His style crosses this crazy left-hand driven syncopation with a kind of standard "whomp those key clusters and whistle" barrelhouse right hand that you can spot a mile off. Little Feat and the Meters both have that kind of stop-time gumbo in their stuff. I know it's stupid and unexact and whatever, but this is honest-to-G*d the way that I understand the phrase "toe-tapping." The Professor is probably not real popular these days also because the stuff if *unbelievably* snappy...happy in that way that less moderate drinkers than myself may define as the "excuse me, I seem to have slipped..." party out of bounds whoop it up happy. Very outre in these days of cynical dissonance and power tool solos in the dub version. Anyway, George "If I get any more mellow, my heart will stop" Winston took some of his megabucks and re-released a great record of the professor's stuff recently-I'm almost sure that it's on Dancing Cat. The album was rescued from a French production and given the standard Windy Hole custom cut and press. I sounds great, and is a fantastic record. It ain't for everybody, but then neither is.... A laugh for the sun red falling/through the thermal inversion haze/A laugh for the nuclear good-time boys/numbering all our days......... Gregory Alan Taylor / gtaylor@astroatc / Astronautics, Madison, WI [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Fri, 23 May 86 14:10:28 EST From: hsut@ec.purdue.edu (Bill Hsu) Random observations: Seems like we have big problems in recent anarchic discussions here. We can't agree whether or not rock is a fad. We can't justify putting down "commercial" music and hence cannot give good reasons why people should listen to progressive music instead of top 40 (at least without using quasi-moral arguments "Madonna promotes pathological materialistic values" or vague quasi-elitist statements "Residents are more challenging music because they deconstruct pop :-)"). We can't argue against trendiness because if rock is a fad, then we're all guilty of trendiness. Anyone wants to try to sort this out? Where's Greg Taylor when we need him? :-) Back to music. A short review: SCIENCE FICTION WORMS Behold, I stand at the door, and knock... The Worms are a local duo who play in other more conventional local bands. This is their first tape, and there's a wide range of sounds on it. There are snatches of early Bauhaus, but without that band's self-indulgence, and a stiff dose of industrial music. (I would list Chrome as an influence, but the band assured me they were not familiar with Chrome when they cut these tracks.) Some of the lyrics are humorous, overdone just to the point of parody (try "All I need is a gun" :-) with a driving hardcore beat). There are lots of distorted vocals over wailing, distorted guitar/bass and thumping drums, a superb Chrome-like epic ("Real Horror Show Like") and tape loop-based tracks ("Sick in Bed"). There's even a 6 min. danceable fake "club hit". A nice first effort, certainly more interesting than most of the other bands I've heard around here. If you're interested contact me, and I'll try to get extra copies. Bill Hsu [][][][][][][][][][] From: allynh@calder.berkeley.edu (Allyn Hardyck) Subject: My evening with Helios Date: Fri, 23 May 86 18:41:44 PDT Hello all... lot of things have happened since my last posting to anybody... First off, one of the people in the building has become Helios Creed's manager, so I got a chance to meet him. He used to be in Chrome, a band which, paraphrasing the TP Guide, explored dark psychotic realms only hinted at by 60s psychedelia. He and Damon Edge, the other chief member of the band, had a falling out resulting in Edge recruiting new members, taking the band to Europe and becoming a big cult band. Not big in a commercial sense, but a comfortable living. Meanwhile, Helios just had the bus he lives in rammed, and a favorite guitar stolen, so when I met him he was pretty depressed - was considering crashing in Barrington for a while. He's 33, has two ex-wives and two kids, tall blond guy with a porkpie hat, fatigue jacket, stubble and board (That's board, not beard). He reminisced about when Chrome went into the studio to do cuts for the Subterranean compilation also featuring the Residents, MX-80 Sound, Tuxedomoon etc - "that was fun...". He also talked about how the manager of Judas Priest (I think) once told him that he could make Chrome a big metal band, and of course he turned him down. A lot of the evening was spent playing old folk songs after I found him a guitar (my suitemate's) - he used to do the early 70's SF coffeehouse thing if you can believe it. One of his favorites is Shawn Phillips, so we heard lots of that, also Jethro Tull..! He talked about how he used to play X song and X couple would move just a little closer to each other, hands held across the table, and would leave him a nice big gratuity... I got him about $2 in pot from a reliable house dealer... He'd like to do all acoustic on his next album, but for now he has _X-Rated Fairy Tales_ out on Subterranean, with some acoustic touches but mostly really raw. He played a great show at the V.I.S. Club in SF last May 16, a record release party, and apparently attracted the largest crowd they've had there in a while... Piglatin opened, they're sort of Einsturzende Neubautenish (percussion guy had a shopping cart full of large springs, water bottles etc.), I kinda liked them but then I was on my 2nd Southern Comfort. John (Helios's new manager) got through to Damon at his headquarters in France and so there's a communication line if not a reconciliation. allyn [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Sat, 24 May 86 03:28:33 EDT From: nessus (Doug Alan) Subject: Drugged out idea for today While reading net.rec.drugs today, the following philosphical quandary occurred to me. If someone invented a machine that could stimulate my brain in precisely the same way that the sixth listen of one of Kate's best songs does, would I ever have any reason to listen to Kate or any other music ever again? And would I die of starvation while refusing to let anyone unplug me? "They put a hot-wire to my head For the things I did and said" Doug [][][][][][][][][][] -- 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 gds@eddie.mit.edu