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"I’m just not sure I can slop a gallon and a half of mousse into my hair, pay six bucks for some disgusting mint-flavoured microbrew and listen to kids in thrift store clothes whine several times a week. "
errr…. I think I will stay away from Chapel of Hell!
I thought the only thing hard to take about micro breweries was the pathetic "oohhh" and "aahhh" ing
over watery fermented hop soda…Also I think the MTV crowd got a little tired of J kicking their ass in skiing and golf.
I don’t know what role the MTVers play in album promotion these days (I never really cared for MTV…) but I imagin it’s still pretty significant. I think the whole 90s indy rock revolution was the result of people getting music they saw on MTV rather then what they heard on the radio.
I have not even glimpsed MTV lately but I imagin it is, like the chain stores, controled by the Majors.
But then again didn’t Time/warner/(AOL?) go bankrupt the other day…. hay, HEY!! No credit, no payola!!!
I read in the paper today that little Botaswana has a better credit rating then Japan… Maybe integrety can pay off better then payola!
Errr….
Correct me if I am wrong but don’t the major lables sort of own the chain stores through marketing contracts? Therefore if what you want is a major promotional advertizing and distribution blitz you have to go to the major lables.
I believe there was promotion done by Ultimatum in independent stores and used record stores.
Didn’t they give away guitars and stuff?
But a small record lable can’t be expected to pay out the "Payola." They are supposed to actually have some integrety if they are independent arn’t they?!?!?! I was under the impression that was the reason that Dino was on Homstead and SST in the begining. It was my understanding that while Green mind got good promotion, it was released a year late becase the major lable (I forget which…) rejected Js’ mix.
I don’t know if integrety is the reason that J chose Ultimatum but their name kind of implies the same thing that the title of the album "Hand It Over" implies. Namely, give the artist their due finacially and control of thier product.
But if Free So Free is potentially popular enough to provide a payoff for the investment of payola….
Ehhh… So be it.
Chiris Cutler (Per Ubu, David Thomas and the Pedestrian, Wooden Birds, Verious dumb european avant garde experiments, ect.)
Guiguo Chenevere (Etron Fou Lelublan, solo, Fred Frith, ?)They are both Communists… Good drummers though!
Guiguo is The most unusual drummer ever, bar none. If you have heard Captain Beef Heart and thought the drumming was crazy he takes that kind of nutso New Orleans tom tumping madness to an extreem. Or he can make any song his own with a kind of jerky french beat. His drumming reminds me of Jean Cocteu movies.
Chris Cutler is more subtle but equally innovative. Especially with cymbal textures.
I just thought I should add those two in there as the usual suspects had already been included (except Ringo Star who still believes he is the greatest!)
Lou Barlow is said to have written a couple of… uh… well lets just say he vented some spleen at J.
One’s called "The Freed Pig."
Anyway Lou seems to be "FEELING MUCH BETTER NOW A DAYS!!!!!" </sarchasm>
I don’t know about deadly, but in High School J was an enthusiastic Ultimate Frisbee player. Amherst being the hippy dippy town it is had ultimate frisbee as an option for Gym class. The "Punk" clique at ARHS was really composed of hippy types with thier hair cut. They would effect a fascade of "Punk" like ferocity. I don’t think any of them were really deadly.
ANy way I think they all liked frisbee a lot more then slam dancing. (except for J who I think liked both equally.) J has a rather un-athletic aperance, but he seemed to always be among the best athletes.
I went to a couple of Dino pracatice sessions in the mid 80’s. J and Lou seemed pretty intent on finishing thier rehersal so they could check out the soaps. They talked about Guns and Roses, REM and the soaps.
I could not understand it at the time, but I guess there was a method to thier madness…
I was kind of exasperated actually. I wanted them to do some Captain Beefheart covers or some other crazyness and here they were talking about soap operas!
But they were actually able to make some thing great out of thier… uhhh… …influences.
I just realized that some of my favorite musicians are ass holes. That is why I like thier style. All the punks were ass holes. It was part of being a punk. The trick was to see how much of an ass hole you could be with out being uncool.
My favorit punk ass hole was Jean Jaque Burnel of the Stranglers. He was a Karate expert and would go into the audiece and beat people up. WHAT AN ASSHOLE!! …good bass player and singer though. Just keep that asshole away from your sister!!!
Then there is Keith Moon… About the most pompus A$$ HOLE you will ever hear of. If you ever see his solo album you will know what I mean. It’s called "Two Sides of the Moon." You can guess what’s on the cover. Exactly what an A$$ HOLE going by the name of Moon would put on his album cover! It’s an ugly thing which I almost bid on at eBay. But then the picture loaded!! I decided to STAY AWAY from that A$$ HOLES’ solo record!!! …great drummer though…..
…maybe that isn’t what you ment by an ass hole…. ..I always thought John Entwistle was pretty cool….
Uncool A$$ HOLES (I.M. not so H.O.)
Henry Rollins
Steven Taylor
Gene Simmons
Rod Stewart (Except when playing with Jeff Beck)
Mick Jaggar
Jonney "Rotten" Lyden
Dick Clark
Cher
Mariah Carey
Robert Plant
Ike Turner
Tina Turner
Phil Specter
Sun Ra (an obscure, racist, black, avant-gard jazz ass hole.)I have to say that the BIG problem with Michael Jackson is HIS FANS!!
You have to admit that he is a victem of his success as a child star. The point about some people not being able to handle fame is true, but this guy Michael really could not have backed out of becomeing his F@#$& up self.
Now hopefully his fans will develope the sense to keep their children away from him!!
And he better just stay away from those plastic surgeons!!! First he tried to look like a black Michael York. Then he tried to look like HIS SISTER!! Who knows who he will try to look like next. Some one should go into the Medical schools where they teach plastic surgeons and warn the students of the ethical black hole epitomized by Michael Jackson.
But as pathetic as he is is fans are the real A$$ HOLES!!
There’s this sick joke going around.
You see they are planning to rebuild the towers, only this time there will be FOUR!
There would be three shorter towers and one REALLY TALL tower. They would be arranged so that they would "FLIP THE BIRD" at those who destroyed the origional towers!
But seriosly I think that days of the super tall sky scrapers are over. It is inconvienient to supply them. With modern communications the nessecity of being in the city is just not so great as to make the cost of building and maintaing a super sky scraper so important.
But I think the idea of another park in NYC will just attract the homeless. They sould just build a nice building there. Maybe have it on stilts like the Seagram building (if I remember correctly the Seagram building was one of the first "Glass Box" type sky scrapers.) Then there could be a memorial underneath it.
Maybe they could have a archetecture contest for the basic design ideas.
The 9-11 event has really got me thinking about something. True Islam condems suicide. All this dying for Allah stuff is BS! And yet there is is. But I think this come out of the Assasin cult or something equally strange. These guys ought to be treated as the true infidels by the Islamic world. Prehaps true Moslems could make a contribution to a WTC memorial that expresses this.
Raw ONions, Raw GarLik!! and Italian SAUsAGE!!
Z Best!!!
I will have to investigate this force field business. I think I may have a force field already though, so I may not be able to get any acrate findings on the subject…
In the Homestead Records part of the Dutch-East India records site
Here: http://63.145.26.5/scripts/wsisa.dll/homestead.r
…they have the self titled Dinosaur album on casset as well as the Repulsion 7" and a bunch of Lous’ sebedoh, and other stuff from that era.
Or maybe that page is old and out dated…
I voted for the Stones because that seems to be what J usually says. But he also says that Dinosaur was supposed to be really loud country which I have never understood. THe Stones have a definite country influence though. When I first heard Dinosaur I thought the idea was sort of slowed down Hard Core but that was just the attitude not really the sound.
Dinosaur in my opinion was a parody of 70s rock and roll. J sort of speeded it up a little some times and added a Guns and Roses influence and a Neil Young influence.
I don’t know what to say about The Fog. He seems to be using a kind of crunchy 70s pop to express religious ideas that I don’t really understand. By pop I mean all kinds of stuff from Carly Simon to KISS.
Uhh.. Maybe I should have just voted in the poll and kept my personal opinions to myself….
I voted for the Stones because that seems to be what J usually says. But he also says that Dinosaur was supposed to be really loud country which I have never understood. THe Stones have a definite country influence though. When I first heard Dinosaur I thought the idea was sort of slowed down Hard Core but that was just the attitude not really the sound.
Dinosaur in my opinion was a parody of 70s rock and roll. J sort of speeded it up a little some times and added a Guns and Roses influence and a Neil Young influence.
I don’t know what to say about The Fog. He seems to be using a kind of crunchy 70s pop to express religious ideas that I don’t really understand. By pop I mean all kinds of stuff from Carly Simon to KISS.
Uhh.. Maybe I should have just voted in the poll and kept my personal opinions to myself….
