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do you think george bush is deep throat?

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me

Tim, is it 'no wave' or 'no-wave'?

Tim, did I ever send you a package from when you sent me those issues of your magazine 4 years ago?

Gygax!, I pretty much stopped eating at Roberto's...wait...Alberto's...I pretty much stopped eating at all of the 'berto's probably not too long after becoming a vegetarian around 1989 (lard in the beanz, or so it is believed, anyway!). (I actually started eating meat again just a year ago.)

The first issue of Rock Mag! (1992) contained a bunch of short little pieces of writing. Uh...the basic gist of the issue is that I wanted indie-rock to be more rock and roll oriented at the time. The last two essays are about rock and roll and colors.Then album reviews in the back. (I reviewed Of Thick Tum!)

Ally, I do not know about whether George Bush was deep throat. I certainly would like to know.

And Dan, I'm gonna go with "No Wave" (captitalized) if you're talking about the original scene, "no wave" if you're talking about how the first Ruins album was a no wave rekkerd!

Where do you usually get your enemas from again ?

Thanks,

Vic

Take sides on a couple of these like a playoff tree:

Lake Of Dracula vs. REM

Pink Floyd vs. Night Soil Man

Gygax!, remember when REM were on the cover of Rolling Stone ca. Lifes Rich Pageant and the heading said "America's Best Rock and Roll Band?" Word. Lake of Dracula were better than the Scissor Girls. The Pink Floyd were the greatest of all psychedelic rock bands, while Night Soil Man were the Jane's Addiction of San Diego.

Follow up question, do you like the Tar Babies?

I had Honey bubble as a kid...not too much worth talking about...Joyride is a solid track.

I put on No Contest (I bought it for a $1 a year or so ago) the other day and some of the songs sounded pretty great!

I have to give serious consideration to Carol Kaye.

http://www.carolkaye.com

Just a little bit o' sample:

Whipped Cream - Herb Alpert
Good Vibrations, Help Me Rhonda, Sloop John B, I Get Around, Wouldn't It Be Nice (dano), Calif. Girls, God Only Knows, Pet Sounds lp, Heroes & Villains, Caroline No, Surf's Up, Child Is The Father Of The Man, Do You Like Worms?, Smile lp, Cabinessence, Fire sessions, I Was Made To Love Her, Let Him Run Wild - Beach Boys
Something Stupid - Frank & Nancy Sinatra
Boots, Sugar Town, You Only Live Twice theme, etc. - Nancy Sinatra
Feelin' Alright - Joe Cocker
The Way We Were - Barbra Streisand
Tell Her You Love Her, The World We Knew (OD dano fuzz on "World"), etc. - Frank Sinatra
Hold Me Thrill Me etc. - Mel Carter
Godfather Theme, Love Story etc. - Andy Williams
In The Heat Of The Night, I Don't Need No Doctor, America The Beautiful, Eleanor Rigby, I Chose To Sing The Blues, Here We Go Again, Don't Change On Me, Feel So Bad, Understanding etc. - Ray Charles
Romeo & Juliet Theme (A Time For Love), Willow Weep For Me, Godfather Theme, others & Doc Severinson lp etc. - Henry Mancini
Natural Man, Love Is A Hurtin' Thing, Unforgettable, Your Good Thing etc. - Lou Rawls
Song Of Innocence - David Axelrod
I Was Made To Love Her - Stevie Wonder
What'd I Say, A Little Less Conversation, Suspicious Minds etc. - Elvis Presley
Wichita Lineman, Galveston, Rhinestone Cowboy etc. - Glen Campbell
Someday We'll Be together Again, Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Diana Ross
If I Could Build My Whole World Around You, Ain't Nothin' But The Real Thing - Marvin Gaye & Tami Terrell (Steiner's studio - LA)
Don't Pull Your Love Out On Me baby - Hamilton, Joe Franks & Reynolds
It Must Be Him etc. - Vickie Carr
12th Of Never, Alone Again, Memories, etc. - Johnny Mathis
Tiny Bubbles etc. - Don Ho
I'm A Believer, Last Train To Clarksville & others - Monkees
Homeward Bound, I Am A Rock, Scarborough Fair - Simon & Garfunkle
River Deep, Mountain High - Tina Turner
No Matter What Shape Your Stomach's In - T-Bones
This Diamond Ring, Just My Style, etc. - Gary Lewis and Playboys
Soul & Inspiration - Righteous Bros.
Chump Change - Quincy Jones
It's A Small World - Mike Curb & Congregation (at Disneyworld too)
Light My Fire - Doors
In Crowd, Going To The Gogo, etc. (dano, el. bass) - Dobie Gray
Love Child, Baby Love, Stop In The Name Of Love, Back In My Arms Again, You Can't Hurry Love, My World Is Empty Without You, Reflections, Love Is Here And Now You're Gone, You're All I Need To Get By etc. - Supremes
Come Together - Count Basie
I Can't Help Myself, Bernadette etc. - 4 Tops
Willow Weep For Me - Chad & Jeremy
This Is My Song - Petula Clarke
A Time For Love - Tony Bennett
Northern Windows lp - Hampton Hawes Trio
Get Ready, I Second That Emotion - Temptations
Doo Ron Ron - Crystals
Count Me In etc. - Bobby Vee
Yellow Balloon - Gary Zekeley
Baby The Rain Must Fall - Glenn Yarborough
You Made Me So Very Happy - Brenda Holloway
Sixteen Tons (60s recut heard now on radio, others) - Tenn. Ernie Ford
Alone Again Or, Dailey Planet - Love
Bang Bang, Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves - Cher
Expected to Fly - Buffalo Springfield
The Summer Wind - Wayne Newton

BUT!

FUCK A SESSION PLAYER!

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/pic200/drp400/p455/p45590sywqg.jpg

Tom Lax, too, now. I'm thinking I'd rather buy a SWA album.

Carol Kaye--awesome.

LARRY GRAHAM AND BOOTSY.

The Doors made, what, six great albums? And it was, you know, full-blown MUSIC, as opposed to goofin'? Godz were brilliant, but there's no comparison in the overall scope of the two bandz!

IMO!!!

Jim Morrison or Meatloaf?

who is the most overweight musician that you like?

What is this 1993?!?!?!

do you use PC or Mac?

just an idea, plus you'd look so suave doing this, your friends and family will think you're a dotcom ceo.

More bass playaz: Chris Hillman ca. 5D and Younger than Yesterday. Plus:

ROCKETTE MORTON

I only ever read one issue of Rock Mag but I liked it a lot. It was the one with the ELP as "No Wave" article. That was a hoot.

Also it had that really kick-ass Alan Licht piece about Easter Everywhere. That guy should do more writing.

ok, bye!

anyone have his email?

You need a fly's eye to see it,
Aaron

WHAT THE HELL HAS CHRIS WOO BEEN UP TO??!?!?!?!?!?!

G!

T.

Haha, I just read the SMiLE thread... Dude, that is what's called the OLD ILM PROTECTION PROGRAM. Good riddance, yet they all lurk anyway. Even here too.

g!

Btw, I talked to Chris Woo last week and I gave him your greeting. He was trying to figure out who you were. Did you ever play in Physics?

Chris posted a little bit on sp0ckm0rgu3 last week coincidentally enough, I hadn't seem him on there before that.

I guess what I'm interested most in doing is playing raunchy rhythm guitar, but with a clean tube amp sound like, say, Velvet Underground/Pretty Things/Yardbirds/early Captain Beefheart/etc. Soloing, I'm interested in doing more abstract things like, say, Yardbirds era Beck/Page, but sometimes I just go for doing more melodic stuff, trying to maintain high energy (with fuzztone or without). A lot of the Nephews stuff was garage oriented, but with a heavier overdrive sound.

I played a lot of the fuzztone parts in the Music Machine.

Can you play the "Over Under Upside Down"/"Happenings..." stuff from the later live Yardbirds? Intense!

sincerely,
jack "the butter knife" cole

What was your favorite one?

GET ONE TRITON

where do you keep them? in the garage?

"you musicians sure seem to care a lot about music!"

BROS.

where do you keep them? in the garage?

-- kippax lad, ls? (...), March 4th, 2005.

Ironically, I was just listening to an old Rough Trade compilation album called Wanna Buy a Bridge this morning. I thought to put it on initially because I wanted to listen to the TV Personalities doing "Part Time Punks." The fantastic "Read About Seymour" comes on after it. Even more ironically, I realized that one of the things that's cool about Franz Ferdinand is that they really kind of sound like "Read About Seymour." And before anyone gets all up in arms about me saying this, let me add that yes, of course, Franz Ferdinand are not as ballistic as the Swell Maps and their lyrics aren't as cool.

So maybe, ironically, those of you who hate Franz Ferdinand do so because you're just not all that partial to the "Read About Seymour" spirit?

Have you ever pretended to like a piece of music? Ironically or unironically?

Love,
gygax!

Wed. 2pm ish We were on the same train, we got off together, I said "I saw you jamming out to your ipod, what were you listening too?" you said "the Killers", I walked away in the crowd, not because of the music, it was really crowded.

a long shot that you would see this, but I feel I have to try to post again. Send me an email.

Could you tell me a little more about the structure of the new Orthrelm album? How often do changes occur, would you say? Are they regularly or irregularly spaced? Are the repetitions EXACT repetitions, or is there some permutation?

Best,
IJ

I actually gave that album an A, not an A- and am waiting to hear why the grade was changed without my being consulted.

I finally picked up Traffic Sound's Lux! Amazing!! What an awesome record. Half of sounds like some kind of Malo/Santana/El Chicano thing and the other half is just really strange; love the long track. Then it ends with like three short tracks that sound like Blues Image or Grand Funk Railroad up-with-people singalongs. Great stuff.

Have you ever heard the album Better Can't Make Your Life Better by Lilys?

When are you visiting Britain again?

I was there last November for Bonniwell Music Machine tour. We played at Islington Academy and it was the most poorly attended show on the tour. I love England, however.

Maybe there was football that night?

WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU ORDERED FROM ALBERTO'S?

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-- cutty (holle...), August 12th, 2004 2:00 PM. (mcutt) (admin)

"That's a good one, but I'm not sure that there aren't plenty of songs on Positraction that I like as much.

Positraction is, to me, one of the only rock albums that goes beyond being emotionally cathartic music into something that feels like genuine TRAGEDY. The other albums that, for me, are in this category are Pet Sounds, Astral Weeks, and the Verlaines' Ready to Fly (another indie monolith that maybe, in part, did not get recognized as such because it was just another album put out near the end of their career).

-- Tim Ellison (thefriendlyfriendlybubbl..."

This one is "Funeral at Sea":

http://s21.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0Q38QTXO6TCHF20HU5RM6X2JP4

And this one is "El Matador":

http://s22.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0W6XFZBVXEEON2JVZ6YDIWU5EO

These were recorded in 1994.

What are your thoughts regarding the fact that the song is named "Taxman, Mr Thief", but in fact they sing "Taxman, Mr Heath"?

what is your favorite meal?

love,
pops

(By the way, I'll bet you did not know that Mark Tucker who did the great '70s/'80s private press LPs Batstew and In the Sack changed his name at some point to T. Storm Hunter and goes by the nickname Stormy. He is a nice guy. Last time I was in touch with him he had been working as a letter carrier for many years in Encinitas, CA - one of Steve Shasta's favorite towns.)

POPS: THAI YELLOW CURRY WITH SCALLOPS AND POTATOES (STEAMED RICE)

Taking a Side: "Cecilia" vs. "Solsbury Hill"

Steve

Solsbury Hill by about a hundred billion lite years.

Dear Jason,

That is a very good spoof. Very funnish.

Dear Jon,

Why you break heart all time?

How similar are the guitar parts?

yesssssss!

Generally overlooked in the ex-Beatle's solo discography, 1982's GONE TROPPO finds George Harrison flirting with radio-friendly, synth-driven pop hooks of the early-1980s, while still demonstrating his penchant for great, timeless melodies. The opener, "Wake Up My Love," establishes the light, breezy tone of the album, which continues through the Caribbean-via-Fab Four vibe of the title track. The languid love song "Unknown Delight" and the goofy doo-wop of "I Really Love You," which recalls Beatles novelty numbers such as "You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)," vary the record's feel and pace. The 2004 reissue includes an acoustic demo version of the song "Mystical One," which is arguably--given its intimacy and stripped-down production--the album's strongest track.

i just have a short attention span. i do a lot of magazine reading. but i just finished Sedaris's Naked. first non-music book i've read since i moved to SF i think.

WHAT ELSE SOUNDS LIKE MCCARTNEY II???!!!

http://www.maccafan.net/Bootlegs/TheLostMcCartneyAlbum/lost.htm

I have the old vinyl bootleg version.

I ask that you watch this:
http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=1c2845b36680a6dc97d85b9505b3c303.737019

Steve

DO NOT SWEAT THAT SHIT ON YOUR THREADS. CONSIDER THE SOURCE: WHINY MISERABLE COMPLAINING KOOKS.

RISE ABOVE DUDE!

STEVE SHASTA

that thread was good until other people started posting on it.

after 26 years i've turned over a new leaf and decided that i like rem. what's their best record keeping in mind that i hate what's the frequency kenneth?

what's the last SD show you went to?

have you been to himalayan cuisine?

Hola Tim,

I was listening to a podcast that mentioned that Night Soil Man for undisclosed reasons that 2 members of the band refused to talk about.

A quick perusal of the LA Times site circa 1990 mentions that The Pulltoys singer Scott Ireland broke his neck during a video shoot. NSM singer Rosebud was romantically involved with Scott but no idea why those dudes would refuse to mention anything about this accident on the podcast 25 years later.

Do you have the scoop?

"... a podcast that mentioned that Night Soil Man BROKE UP for undisclosed reasons ..."

HÜSKER PÖLL: Warehouse - Songs and Stories

Hope you are okay, Tim, wondering why you never appear on the Emitt Rhodes thread.

WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU ORDERED FROM ALBERTO'S?

pouring 1 out for all the -bertos this week

https://www.kpbs.org/news/2020/jul/30/matriarch-robertos-taco-shop-dies/