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Music Shit / Re: American Soul Spiders

« on: December 21, 2006, 03:19:20 PM »

I have CD-R comp of all the ASS stuff- it's floating around Soulseek.  Not so essential but cool to listen to. They had two single on Sympathy and backed-up Jeff Dahl in Japan which produced an e.p.

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Music Shit / Jesse Hector Documentary

« on: December 05, 2006, 04:26:47 AM »

(via the Next Big Thing blog - I just relaunched my blog with some Hector cuts)

JESSE HECTOR - A MESSAGE TO THE WORLD - Documentary Film Premier - London

A Message To The World is being shown at 9pm on December 4th at 242 Acklam Road W10 at the Westbourne Studios, London. Admission is free.

Press Release: 'A Message To The World'

Mutton-chopped Jesse Hector was a permanent fixture in the English music press of the mid-Seventies and the electrifying live performances of his band The Gorillas proved an inspiration to such faces on the burgeoning Punk scene as Paul Weller, Billy Idol, Shane McGowan and Rat Scabies.

Jesse has always believed in the revolutionary and rejuvenating power of music - the cover of The Gorillas album showed his band of space ace Mods hurtling towards earth on a meteorite to save the world with rock n' roll - and his belief in music is as strong today as it ever has been.

He now works as a cleaner at Hackney Empire and The Royal Horticultural Society and this documentary follows him as he journeys around London and retraces his fifty years in rock n' roll - skiffling at the 2 I's in Old Compton Street at the age of 12, playing guitar with Mod Freakbeat legends The Clique, fronting proto-punk bruisers Crushed Butler and The Hammersmith Gorillas - and attempts to find out, as the NME's Roy Carr wrote in 1977, Whatever Happened To Jesse Hector?'

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Non-Music Shit / Re: For those that went to college...

« on: November 24, 2006, 06:40:26 AM »

Moving to Japan right now is also off the table for me since I'm actually, uh,  in love for the first time in my life and want to ride things out here for the time being.

The sound of 10,000 panties drying up in Tokyo....Hope it works out for ya...

Undergrad degrees are fairly useless and are just another social weed-out device. But you can get a job teaching English in Japan with any four-year degree- well, most people can. My own twisted educational past has bits and pieces of what everyone else has stated but throw in psilocibin mushrooms, the zapatistas, the DEA and NorKor missile radars on the Sea of Japan coast. I'd still love to have a chance to get a post-grad degree in something marketable like translation or something completely "useless" like philosophy or theology.

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Music Shit / Re: listening to Dead Moon and drinking bourbon

« on: November 17, 2006, 06:24:41 PM »

I've only seen them once at the 2000 Shakedown and it was hard to get into them since I came in halfway through their set but a while later I was listening to their Live Evil when their greatness hit me. That's definitely one to pick up. I think there's another live one isn't there?? Fuck, I have to get that docu.. It must mention their rabid Euro. fan base. I ran into a German guy on the backside of Kho Pha Ngan wearing a Dead Moon t-shirt. I asked him what other bands he listened to: "None. Only Dead Moon."

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Welcome to Paris

« on: October 25, 2006, 02:03:15 PM »

The article is more about the problems the Japanese have. No other country on earth gives service like Japan and they do have a very romantic fixation about France. I can only imagine Japlish vs. Francish...Actually my wife went a few weeks ago and had no trouble scoring some nice cheese and salami in the Marseilles market...

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Music Shit / Re: Your 1st punk show ever...

« on: October 20, 2006, 04:21:24 PM »

First "punk" show was definitely The Hated from O.C. and The Injections ("Prison Walls" might've played as well as one other OC band. My second show was Black Flag/Battalion of Saints/Cheifs/Minutmen. I was blown away to find a recording of that show circulating on Soulseek! "Mad" Marc Rude guests vocals on "Louie, Louie".
Funny, before that I was definitely a "power pop geek" (in jr. high) and went to dances with San Diego bands that I sometime see popping up in reissues like Manual Scan or Claude Coma and the I.V.s but those bands were definittely not considered punk back then.

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Music Shit / Re: What's everyone listening to?

« on: October 18, 2006, 04:51:11 AM »

Minutemen -  Post- Mersh Vol. 2
Amon Duul II - Die Losung: um yeah, what was that about they should've changed their name or just given up? Proto-Scorpions at best...
The Chills - Brave World: Hands down classic. Dark, intricate "pop". I hear they're making a mean Pinot Noir in Otago these days- it'd probably go quite well with this.
Artemis Pyledriver: Generic rawk but I needed a pickmeup trying to translate "remote monitoring monitoring system for a microturbine cogeneration package" at 3:00 PM on this balmy Fall day...
Union Carbide Productions- various: SO GOOD LYDIA LUNCH WROTE A REVIEW IN ALL CAPS ABOUT THEM but yeah great shit, Stooges meet early Jefferson Airplane or somethin'
More Minutemen on the way way home and then some Rat At Rat R which was the first time I heard them and although they always were lumped with Sonic Youth, Live Skull et. al. I'll defer to Coley:
At the time, Rat At Rat R was probably the most trad-sounding of these combos, but the group imploded before garnering much positive notice outside its neighborhood. The records combine swinging, fucked-up guitar rock with neo-artsy mouth action.

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Music Shit / Re: The END of CDs

« on: October 13, 2006, 03:54:55 PM »

I'm no /. geek but you really have to consider the speed of technological develpoment especially in regards to storage capacity. It's already at a poing were you can integrate an I-Pod into a mobile phone. But the real leap will be nanotech and the implications of that leap are enormous and highly unpredictable..

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Music Shit / Re: The END of CDs

« on: October 13, 2006, 06:17:52 AM »

may the next "higher order" laugh at us for our stupidity.

we already laffin'


Not much to add but I'm trying to get past fist-wringing and pining for the old days. Technology is speeding up way too fast....I suggest  reading  McLuhan to understand how technologies affect us.

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Music Shit / Re: Argument: X vs. X

« on: October 04, 2006, 05:08:26 AM »

I started a similar topic on the garageforum some years ago while that forum still was interesting

http://www.garagepunk.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5773&start=0

Yep, fuqq, there's Tricknee saying the L.A. X is OK a few post before I drooled about thee olden dayze...doodleys...Todd, see ya in Melbourne in a few years and I'll shout ya a bottle of Torbrecks...

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Music Shit / Re: Bomp! catalog

« on: October 04, 2006, 03:38:42 AM »

Early State cuts with Asheton!?- somebody puhleeze mp3 blog those!!

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Music Shit / Re: Argument: X vs. X

« on: October 04, 2006, 03:36:29 AM »

Now, this isn't to set off a ten page back and forth about the Clash, cuz I don't really give a fuck what any of you think.

Well, just wait until Tricknee gets here- how many times does he have to proclaim his hatred for the Clash? I'm sure he hates the L.A. X too. And I can see why people could dislike the Clash and the L.A. X. I have to admit semi-sentimental reasons...My first clutch of true punkeroo records included Los Angeles and Black Market Clash. Mebbe six months later I dumped them for hahdcore but still one of my first shows was X/Circle Jerks. But in my foggiedom I have come back to early Clash (dig the first On Broadway disc with all the early singles) and Los Angeles and Wild Gift have some admitted fire but nonetheless I bow down at all things Ozzie and if forced to choose, well sure Aspirations...Even something like Degenerate Boy from their second album runs through my head alla the time but mostly because of the Bored cover. Ya see Aspirations and the Aus. X were really only something the Coley would mention- I mean, how many copies of the original  Aspirations made it to the US?? Sure after finally hearing it I realized from whence feedtime and, of course, the Cosmic Psychos sprung...

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Music Shit / Re: Fave Las Vegas Grind / Jungle Exotica song

« on: October 03, 2006, 10:07:59 AM »

I thought that I wouldn't like 'em but they slowly drew me in...totally feel like a shriner in the '50s...Can't think of my fave tune off hand but they definitely got played whilst partying in Bangkok.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: I think I drove my roommate to suicide

« on: October 03, 2006, 05:13:04 AM »

Just remember that death is not the end...

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Dispatches from Osaka, Japan

« on: September 25, 2006, 02:40:46 PM »

Yeah that giant sucking sound is Tokyo sucking all the talent from the rest of the country- that's one reason why I hate it. Not just lame gaijin but everyone thinks it's the center of the world and they go there to be discovered so it's kind of like L.A. in that sense. Ayhow, I think Osaka and Kyoto both have palpable personalities and their denizens reflect them which is something you don't get in Tokyo. Just my 2 cents. I'll still be coming up to Tokyo and crashing in your 3.5 mat, 200,000 yen apt....
Bandwise- well definitely not your cup but the whole noise scene was centered around Osaka namely folks like the Boredoms, Masonna, etc. I'll have to check on the whole Acid Mother's Temple group but they might be from Kansai. Not sure about High Rise et. al. but an early release of theirs was on Time Bomb so they might be from there also. Speaking of Time Bomb, it'd be the best place to check out for info. on gigs and new bands. As as Garage punk or whatever, King Joe who did Soft Hell zine and is now mostly a DJ (kind of the Japanese Bazooka Joe methinks), does a lot of gigs in collaboration with Time Bomb. As far as new bands from Kansai, I can't say offhand but I haven't been paying much attention lately. Still they get decent shows and some touring foreign bands will play at least one gig in the area. Oh yeah, Masonna has a garage punk band called Acid Eater who is on a comp. that Time Bomb just released.. click on the Demonic Freak Scene "More Info" tab - the links at the bottom of the popup window are vids...

Tokyo's all right, if you like shakuhachi...