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Perhaps your ("Jiggle" boys, that's Mike and GAVIN, right?)lead to the real identity of this spoiled, counterproductive, pseudo jaded, paranoid character was jusl an eggshell resting atop a large compost heap. Perhaps Bruno is not any one person bul an ENTITY which manifests itself in many forms throughout Discorder, CiTR and well... yes... the very STREETS of Vancouver. Seeing Bruno on pg. 22 of your March issue through the eyes of it's animus archetype was reassuring that perhaps we won't have to lazer blast every cell that spreads his disease, but we're still looking for the core of the Bruno being. We killed on in vien bul we are nol above the vengeful destruction of all in question until we're sure his forum has The Whitney Punks HUNTER PS. It was the best of times, it was the worst of limes. OK, we'11 try to make this simple for you. From now on, when there's a joke in Discorder, we'll write THIS IS A JOKE after it so you'll know when to laugh. GREG'S BIG ADVENTURE Dear Airhead: I spent ihe month of March on the Sandwich Islands, Maui lo be specific. My goal was lo "dive" in lo that crazy Hawaiian music scene. Apart from a new rasta-ish style of clothing (called "Jawaiian"), not much has changed since I was here, years ago. Two names lhat ARE the music scene, as much as pineapple IS TH E fun food to eat, come directly to my pen. Those names... STEVE WIN- WOOD, and DON HO. That's it, the story has broken. Thanks for being part of ii. Bye. Greg Elsie. P.S. Dispite what they say, the natives ain't friendly. Sure, pal, rub it in. While you're lounging in Ihe tropical sun enjoying those grass skirts and pu-pu platters, we're slaving away, covering your sunburnt ad-rep ass. ATTENTION PLEASE... YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE... TheMayDucorderwillbethe 100th issue of That Magazine from CiTR. Yes, things have changed a lot since that first li'l 'zine appeared 'way back in February of 1983, but some things have stayed the same. Take this here column for instance. Airhead has been around since the start, acting as a public forum/dialogue for complaint, and criticism, purges and praise. And it's always served its purpose pretty dam well, hasn't it? Until now. For the first time ever, we have a complaint bigger lhan the bounds of Airhead, in fact, il has moved into lhat mosl hallowed of all arenas: LAW. And so, for the record, we would like to everyone out there lo know lhal the bouncers at the Town Pump arc not Nazis, never have been Nazis, and never will be Nazis. We would like to assure all Town Pump bouncers and others that at no lime did Discorder intend to misrepresent the bouncers al the Town Pump who in this instance, we have been told, were just doing their job. As you know, Discorder intends only to enlighten; never to insult. 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B.C., FAT AMERICANS, CRIMSON SEEDS WEDNESDAY 17 SHE STOLE MY BEER THURSDAY 18 Warner recording artists CRASH VEGAS FRIDAY 19 AN EMOTIONAL FISH SATURDAY 20 SKA-BOOM with DOUG DEEP SUNDAY 21 From Jacksonville. Florida. REINSANCTION with special guests CHROME DOG MONDAY 22 Showcase: CHARLES ON CHARGES, THE SEARCH, PEPE'S BANNED, URBAN COYOTES TUESDAY 23 MARYS DANISH WEDNESDAY 24 EVIL TWANG THURSDAY 25 SUPERCONDUCTOR FRIDAY 26 TBA SATURDAY 27 TBA SUNDAY 28 SubPop recording artists THE FASTBACKS MONDAY 29 TBA TUESDAY 30 CLUB OF ROME ' T ' T T T ' 1 1 1 Z_ _r< OW XT j> ZJMP 66 Wc iTcyr Strc?c?t G^Q-s/owv/. *3H 3-6695/6S1 -2222 Ain't mUCh todoinOhio like that for Sockeye and I just except shoot stuff, beat the hell turned 11. outta hippies at Kent State, get drunk and fuck up. Now that's punk rock, dude. That's Sock- eye. Named after a fish that comes out of a can, these four lyrical geniuses have produced such classical tuneage as '^Veg^* Are WaBps.'a'Dbo'Pv What the fuck happens in Stow, Ohio? D: Well, guess what? We don't really live in Stow; I have a PO Box thsrejpit I don't live there Wlitfth Kent. Whal what political activists we really are so in other words— [Dave choices on something again] Have you ever opened for Bad M: That's a really hard question to answer. You would think it ; just a yes or no question, but Fuck With Foghat,"TheEldcr- underps ly LoveGrilledCh*$se,"Andthe M: I never lived classic "I Usud To\ook Uke I lived in Munroc Sean Penn andTOgrtl Grew Up." ifomia^N Famed for releasing tapes with d*$$ *»• % ^ anything aboul Sti D: Hey, wc were ipcitvHieo. nStoyf? I don't know, really there are several deter mining facts that would leave you to determine either way. D: There's a grey area there, as far as whether we've ever opened for Bad Brains. M: It's actually the otheT way around. I guess it's the other way around 'cause we have opened a of salmon for them. more than thirty songs (tji these geeks hape b"|ilt upa following amtolsaotie'y, ugly, mentally and aeveloAentalljr* crippled sociopMto* suchts my- What is the most negali\ self. Yet despitaRheir massive ment anyone has ever mriHe legion of fans, thfWsill f_wi aboul the band?S> * f \Jo you all work in crappy placr time to talk to their gmupifc. So D: I think somebody once said agH when Dave, head SocrajE^leT) jye jwS^jopd. y\ ^^plfeAs you can tell by the credits me know that they would dig M: 1 think the most negative ou our last 7", Dave has a Mas- doing an interview, I fired sornV ^hBtg'I vtajfcwa was some- fteSsDegree.soyeshedoeshav. questions down to OhidL^jjp bdd*/ wC&le audience said "plai Vcrappyjob.butalltherestofus band got really drunk—the kindn^oi another hour" and I was reali wt>rk in real classy places... Dar- of drunk where you think youle V piss^d^ql think we killed dpi Aeftfi^s to college, Greg'Works making sense but you're n^^^^fjersori^aVw killedhim-wj 'cause you're talking really a_S4You«art«ll^ slowly and mumbUng a lot and ^jxt 'qjfts^*": things keep falling out of your \Ve're <dHhkii mouth—and proceeded to enlighten me via tape. Gimme names, ages, occupations. DAVE: First up, I'll start by saying two people from the band aren't present this evening but that's because one has a pigface girlfriend and the other is just drunk/like you're not, Dave]. Or something, or dumb. The two people that aren't here tonight are Darrell, who is a drummer, 22, and his occupation is... Greg has baggy pants, plays guitars; his occupation is alcoholic and he is also... [Davechokeson his own spit}. And myself is Dave and I was never given a last name 'cause I'm poor and poor people can't afford last names so I don't have one. I would usually use a microphone and do dumb stuff to cats and cattle, that's my occupation; I'm very old. MATT: I play guitars and junk pretty punk. Doyouplay a lot of shows? How big are they? M: I don't think we play a lot of shows but that doesn't matter; our shows are huge. D: The smallest show we ever played was the US Festival and that's just 'cause wc felt bad for them, and then we played for that political cause like Farmers Against America. Mtlthink it was Farmers Against Kids who throw frisbees and have their dogs catch them, and then they got pissed, 'cause in our lyrics we said the farmers fucked those kids, which is true, and they didn't realize that but who cares. D: Once they realized they were fucking those kids, they realized k in a bafufat opens at noon, and I in a place where I just put f*flally phallic things to- afftoght, but we were Jtonplo^ed by any place ippy^lace, but if there restaurant called >y Place we would be willing to give it a try. D: But in all seriousness, I used to work for your mom for years and then I worked my way up till when I owned your mom. Where did the inspiration for "Fuckin' Shit" [a song about the joys of restaurant employment] come from? D: It's about a time I dishwashed at a place and crab forks were very hard to come by in the restaurant and the waiters would yell at us to give them some crab | forks so whenever crab forks came back dirty we would throw them in the trash. That' s no t gross but that's about it. For a band that's as humorous asyou are, do y cm find it hard to get taken seriously? M: I don't know anybody that thinks we're joking around; I don't really even understand the question. The only time I saw a trace of doubt in anybody's mind was when Dave said he thought Vietnam was funny. Other than that, everybody takes it real seriously. Do you go through a lot of lineup changes? D: Well, in the past it was true but who cares. M: Their bass players are like Spinal Tap drummers: they blow up. I' ve been in the band for one day, J mean, five years. liave you,ever been beaten up or beaten on-by straight edge kids [Sockeye have a song called "Straight Edge F^tf^ D: I don't thinlkf M: Let me say that One-th_e*a band I was in that wasn't Sock- eye played in a bar and I told them thateverybody went to bars to not be straightedge and if theyy were playing there to get th6ir- point across they were being fuckin' ioSot^i. But Greg^llow Sockeye) has beaten up everyone on this planet except for the band and a couple of girls and also two members of Living Colour; he just insulted them. D: One of them had a dead mom or something and he made fun of her and the guy started crying so he just left them alone. What's the most disappointing thing that ever happened to you? [Mine was buying a flight jacket to look tough and then realizing only old men and Tony Danza wore them any more] M: I tried to get this girl to sleep with me and I found out she was my sister's lover and I had just seen her the day before riding really fast beside an 18-wheeler JB a pink baby crib lined with crushed York Peppermint pat- grade nine, so 1 dropped out and went back a year later and finished on the seven year plan; it was cool being the oldest person in my school 'cause I like to have sex with younger girls and stuff. Describe some ofthe hale mail Sockeye gets. D: I get letters every once in a while from some weirdo in California, but I don't really understand them. Who in the bdrtd has the cutest fmtr-y. hS M: All the way Darrell's mom; she's very good-looking for her ever met Dave's mom, met Darrell's mom, ;'s mom and my mom, and _U'*mcH» is a superior girl l«i 'tViiijd'^iAing^md dmrng^fer-A V^T^ D: I think that is'**$gl]y tru< she's cute, Jj ^ M: Would you do her? ** D: Idon'tknow. AwrighUll-ave; I guess I shoaldn-< try to hide it. I fucked^D&a"- M:I(Wk*sedher. ly those who would die, because that's not good for them at all. I don't think it's a very good idea and I will be more than glad to refuse to go over there if called upon to do so. M: I have a few friends who are over there and one in particular has a kid on the way from his wife: that's fucked. I wish he could be excluded and come home. I hate it all; it's out of our Got any redneck stories? M: Greg beats up everybody, he ,.jchased a bunch of rednecks down the street even though he's real short and skinny but he had a shaved head and suspenders on; they were scared of him. D: That's a good redneck story. We're watching Flipper right now. woul. How was high school? D: I can summarize it by saying that by the time I was in the middle of my Junior year, I didn' t have enough credits to complete Do you-gftys like Ri Youth of Today: D: Yeah, cool dude; I used to be in Youth of Today, but I quit. They were cool, I was not. I had to quit. It was disappointing but at the same kind of heartwarming. M: I just want to sidetrack and say that my friend Ryan from California told me this, story about a kid who lived down his block that jacked his dog off for the other kids and I really wish I had been there. What about the Gulf Crisis: do you have any friends there? What's the general feeling in Stow? ____■_)____. D: Well, there's that Stow problem again. I think, though, they pretty much dig the war in Stow in a general way but in a specific way, at the risk of sounding like a criminal element of the punk rock scene, I think this war could be very bad for people, especial- Ifyou were given a genital, what >uld you name it; why would you take it to parties and exalt it as something greater than yourself almost a godlike figure? *vD: The ap^er to lhat is very ; simple afi&pasy... Any genital I was given would go by the name of John and plus I would go further than that and say that at any party it would most likely be my date and, if not, it would be the most special person I had ever known, so that it would be quite simple to see that it would be a godlike being and somebody I would lend my toaster to. M: I myself would think the same thing, but I would tattoo the name Booty Bear on it, 'cause that's the name of our super rap group that's sweeping the nation. There's really no need to be ashamed about that or feel any fear or hesitancy about it because in the future, once we have sweeped over the whole world, everyone will appreciate that Yup, just a couple of guys in Ohio: really drunk, really stupid, really incoherent and really funny. Rad. Sockeye. Write them at Wheelchair Full Of Old Men, PO Box 2143, Stow, OH USA 44224 APRIL 1991 7 AMBITIOUS LOVERS DiSCOrder recently spoke with Pete Scherer and Arto Lindsay of the Ambitious l_>ven. Their new album. Lust, has a dance/ jazz/pop/funk sound with a heavy Brazilian influence and '90s production values. We talked about Lust and their past projects. How did you two meet? A: We were both working on a session for Kip Hanrahan... P: ...and we hit it off pretty well; we had a lot of similar ideas, very different backgrounds, a lot of things lhat just sort of connected in the sense lhat we both really liked pop music, bul we also had very avante garde A: At that time I had just gotten a contract with EG, and I didn't quite know what I was going to do, so Peter and I decided to do that record together, and then we got along so well we decided to form a band, form a partnership, and keep on going. How long did It take to record your first album, A: We did the firsl album in maybe a month; we did it really quickly. P: The first album was done on a really short budget, and when you have very little money and you're trying to make a record, you tend to work completely differently, and a lot of how the reoord came out had to do with that, I think. We didn't do the pre-production like everybody does today, we didn't work all the stuff out before and we jusl went into the studio. We didn't How did It come about 8 DISCORDER that you recorded with BUI Frisell on his album Before We Were Born'! P: He's a friend; he's somebody I really admire. He had worked on our second album. Greed, on a couple of songs, and he asked us if we wanted to do something on [Before We Were Born]. How has the recording of your albums changed over the years? P: We tried lo develop our song writing skills and tried out different ways of writing with this new record. I think it's important io do lhat; il's easy to fall in a sort of line. We also decided to do more of a band approach. Greed was pretty much all sequenced and sampled, I played all of the drum sounds and bass stuff. This lime we wanted to use our band. Il actually didn't turn oul to be our band, but we had our bass player Melvin Gibbs who's played wilh us for years, and our drummer Tony Lewis. Then Marc Ribol [guitar] came in, and Nana Vasconcelos [percussion], Nile Rodgers [guitar]... Whodoyou have on your live line- years, and at this point we just have the drummer, Tony Lewis... A: The guys had to lea ve to do thei r P: ...we're putting a band together right now... A: We've got aboul three weeks to get ii all together and then we're going lo be playing. We're going lo play Germany for a week, then New York for a week. So you wouldn't have Marc Ribot tour with you. P: No, unfortunately not; he's pretty amazing. How did you meet him? A: I guess I met him first when he was playing with The Lounge Lizards... I was in The Lounge Lizards from the very beginning. They started as a live group and after a year and a half or so wc made (thefirsl Lounge Lizards LP]. Right afler the record I left the band. [Marc Ribot became the guitar player on the next three Lounge Lizards albums,and the Jazz Passengers, among numerous other guest appearances.] Do you play much live? P: Yeah, wc usually play every three or four months during the year. Will you be coming to Vancouver? P: We've been hoping lo come up and lour [Ihe Northwest] for a long time; it's easier lo play in Europe, or Japan, or Brazil. Here, it's a different situation, there's no support from governments. If you do a tour in Europe and play a few festivals, they're sponsored by the government and you make enough money to finance a whole tour. This kind of thing hardly exists here. Arto, you write all the lyrics. Do you generally write them after the music has been created? A: Generally. Peter has something to start wilh, and I come up with a few lines, pretend lo make sense of a fragment of music, and then wc keep going separately, bul often in the same room, throwing ideas back and forth. P: Right, usually we always start from the music and...in varying degrees the music is pretty much finished or arranged, sometimes it's just a sketch or something... when you finish the mix months, and in those months you are exposed to new ideas, so it's a constantly evolving thing... How did you meet John Zorn? A: Through Anton Fier... I wrole the narration for his [John Zorn's] Spillane composition, and sang on it. I also played on The Big Gundown. P: I worked on this music [Zorn] did for of toons, called Kiri Kok- ugo. It was shown in theatres (in Japan]. They were short films, five or ten minute clips, really great though. I think it's available on import here. THIN WHITE heard were '70s meul bands. Maybe that's the only music loud enough to make it over the mountains. Thin White Rope has had a real problem with labelling; no one knows what to call your kind of music. You've been known as by Mindy Abramovitz Ever sinceiheardThin White Rope's latest offering. Sack Full of Stiver, I've wondered, "What kind of weird band is this and who's lhat man wilh the coffee-grinder voice?" Well, that man is Guy Kyser and this is what he told me. Sack FuU of Silver was mostly written on the road, wasn't It? Were some of the songs written during, or Inspired by, your tour ofthe Soviet Union? Yeah, "The Triangle Song" was. What Ideasdid you take back with you from that tour? Well, aside from die mood of the whole trip, which was a Utile frazzled, probably the biggest musical influence we found was a folk singer named Vladimir Vissolsky. He's sort of like a Russian Tom Waits, if you can imagine. A lot of ihe bands we Yeah, lhal was our first hassle. We got over lhat within a year, after Exploring the Axis which admittedly did have a couple of songs aboul trains on it. Then Moonhead was about as far from cowpunk as we could get It was probably the most limiting thing we were stuck with. Since then we've been called Desert Rock. We had to try real hard to gel out of lhal. Wc were also called the Scariest Band on Earth Right Now. I'm sure there's another label in the works. Last year someone came up with Guitar Deconstraction. Looks hke it might be around for a couple Did you actually identify yourself with the Nashville country scene when you were writing Exploring the Axis': No, lhat was just an accident of me spending the summer without the band, writing songs on the acoustic guitar and having them turn out lhat way. It wasn't until three years after that album that we discovered that we liked country music. Now wc work it into our style more knowl- edgeably, without letting it show. Where do you see yourselves fitting In to the Grand Scheme of Music, ifyou do at all? We've been told thai we're just part of the college rock ghetto. What about your covers of'Town Without Pity," "Some Velvety Morning," and "Ghost" on Sack Full of Silver? How do you arrive at your version from the original? For "The Ghost," I wrote the words first and "Amazing Grace" kepi popping into my mind. I tried real hard to think of somelhing else to do wilh it but I finally gave What cut on the new album are you most proud of? "Diesel Man."Il's about a bum guy standing in a phone booth in Denver. How would you like to wrap this up? I've been telling people not to breed too much. OYSTER BAND by Tom Milne Folk mUSiC has always had a grassroots accessibility but, until the recent past, it was never considered hip enough to have underground viability. Folk music is no longer jusl music for "folkies;" it now attracts a much wider range of audiences, but along wilh such changes have come changes in the approach to the music. Some are angered by what they see as a bastardization of an age-old tradition, bul John from the Oyster Band argues that such attitudes deny the existence of folk music as a living force: I don't think wc would have been effective if we hadn't upset some people. For some people, folk music of the past. For us, it's got lo move on. I really think that good traditional music has always moved on anyways, that it' s neverbeen set in stone. Is there still a fairly strong grassroots existence for folk over there? Yeah, very much in Ireland. You actually get the traditional players themselves, not just people like us. Of course.I think thatmore recently, folk is leaning more towards the garage approach, the punkier approach, with bands like the Pogues and, loa certain extent, us. Of course, it's very difficult to identify somelhing that is just a folk scene. I think that there are a lot of very different styles, from Cajun to African, that get put under the big umbrella of That's not really surprising since all those different forms of "people's" music share something in It has been for a lot of people the only means of expressing themselves. People experience grassroots; they experience history ralher than make it. I think that's what we try to do. Instead of trying to write "love hits," we're just writing from an alternative viewpoint, looking at things around us lhat we see: political events, social events, emotional problems and difficulties. Traditionally,folk music has been quite rebellious. Do you think that rebelliousness is getting at all diluted by folk music's increasing popular acceptance and commercial viability? In a sense, what could be more rebellious these days in the era of tech- nopop and machines than lo actually get up on stage with accordions and violins? And ifyou then smash 'em, and really whack 'em, it can be quite a powerful statement. It depends who's doin' it; if you just get up there and be precious about il, then you 're just helping to kill it off as far as I'm concerned. I don't think the record companies are ever gonna latch onto it as a huge commercial prospect because it's very much a live music form. For thai reason, I don't think it'll ever depend purely on record sales and I don't think record companies will ever find it a mass marketable commodity. 1 always find it interesting the way folk bands seem to crop up out of nowhere when often times they've really been around for a very long time and it's just been people's bias that have kept them unknown. I think that's been very true for bands hke us and even the Pogues. The musical climate changes and allows us to write this sort of thing. A lot of post-punk people have ended up in roots music and folk music. I'm sure, because it has a very basic similarity in its simplicity. If you can get three chords together, you can play folk How did the team-up with June Tabor occur; was it on an individual level? Yeah, it was a chance conversation when you're drunk, which at the time always seems like a great idea. Normally, in the morning, these ideas go away but this one stuck. We left it for awhile and then finally got together and started to pick the songs. We figured if it works, great; if it doesn 't work, we'll still remain friends. Il was hard work putting them together because she is quite a unique singer and is not used lo singing with a band. I thought your choice of covers was quite interesting. Yeah, well, I always wanted lo hear June Tabor sing "All Tomorrow's Parties." LOVE BATTERY by Angie Finley JuSt another Seattle Sub Pop band or the next big thing? Discorder did ihe interview; you be the judge. How did you guys get started? RON: I used to be in a band called Room 9. We split up and I was looking for people lo jam with and I was jamming with tons and tons of people, never really getting anything clicking and then... I ran into Jason. JASON: Of course, I was immediately brilliant with Ron's material... Ron was playing with another bass player who's a very nice guy but just wasn't right for the material. I lived wilh Kevin and Tommy [the original bassist]. I said, "Ron, come over to my house and play with us... And once we had him in the door of course... You trapped him. J: It was really messy in lhat house. He couldn't find his way oul R: It was great. These guys lived a block away from me and they'd been living there for aboul a year. They'd really been lo my house— J: —foroneof Ron's infamous "bar- beque,"- R: —and I'd never been to their house. I really didn't know them until we got together in ihis band. And then we got to practice in the livingroom a block away from my house, right downstairs from their bedrooms. It was bliss It was great. Men. JIM: Jason and I were playing in a band lhal we had gotten together with various people from Seattle called Icky Joey. At the time, there were difficulties wilh the Tommy unit I guess. At that point, he was a good friend of mine too, so I stayed out of the midst of that, but Jason and I had been playing together in Icky Joey for awhile and had lots of fun. He missed me so he asked me to come play with them. What's coming up for Love Battery? R: We did record a single [for Sub Pop], which will be out in April... We are recording another EP which will probably be out early summer... J: Keeping in mind that the new single's a lot better than the album. It's newer stuff. We're more mature. R: We have matured. Diversity. Put maturity in quotes. J: We're closer to the roots of our Who does the writing for the band? J: We're all contributing members. Ron is what we call "the dominant writer" and the songs are arranged through a procedure we call "violent argument." There's a lot of screaming, a lol of stopping, a lot of despondency, a lol of smoking pot, which doesn't help any bul it's fun. How would you describe your music? R: Someone in England labelled us as neo-psychedelic garage grunge or something. I liked that. J: Rock-noir at it- bleakest; '60s garage-type stuff. What are the origins of your name? R: It's originally from a Buzzcocks song and, actually an artist-friend told me later, il's a Marcel Duchamp sculpture also. If I want it to conjure up anything, well... Ifyou think about a band lhat came out of San Francisco in the late '60s, Jefferson Airplane or something, I'd like il to fit in with that category. In a sense, that's how I'd like to sort of when people were trying to stretch the KEVIN: He saw the Doors movie the other night. Break on through... WEATHERMEN by June TheWeathermanareaBelgian- based electronic duo comprised of Chuck B and Jimmy Joe SnariV IK. Suiting off as a more aggressive techno band, they have now evolved into "aggressive techno pop." Discorder talked to ex-patriale San Franciscan Chuck B on the phone all the way from Bmssells, Belgium about their album Beyond The Beyond, no w a year old but only recently available in Canada. How long ha ve you been together? We've been together almost three and a half, almost four years. Some of your songs seem pretty satirical and your cover photo Is certainly not serious. What's your philosophy? We don't intend to write funny things; it just comes out that way sometimes. They're not all satirical songs but a lot of limes there's that kind of edge. We started wilh the intention of doing things satirical and more light lhan the so-called electronic body bands which were happening in '87, '88. Here in Belgium, they were all talking about suicide and the apocalypse and we don't see life that way; I think there's other ways to look al life. I'm certainly not a dyed -in -the - wool optimist, but I'm not a pessimist either. For us, it's a more realistic way of looking at life or our ideas. I think we both have a pretty solid sense of humour. How would you describe your sound? We've sort of got ourselves in between categories in a way. A lot of people liked us more in the beginning when we were more aggressive wilh the sound and we're getting more towards, I would say, pop. It's how wc feel. I get bored by lhal dark stuff and I kinda hke ihis schizy popish stuff that comes oul of Jimmy Joe's work. I would describe it as aggressive, electronic pop or techno pop or whatever they call il these days. I don't know where these names come from, they try to throw us into oneor the other. It's fine with me to gel categorized as long as we fit in and as long as ii gives the public a handle on how to take us. Sometimes I feel there needs to be more categories (laughs). What kind of music are you influenced by? Beyond Ihe Beyond has a wide variance of sound. It's true... We just lei ourselves goon this record and said "We'll jusl do whatever we want," and consequently, I diink some of the songs sound a little bit like Tom Waits, who I would love lo be influenced by. I suppose that Yello would be an influence. Some people compare us to the Pet Shop Boys. I used lo hate them, but now I can see the similarities and I can also see where their merits are; they're certainly well- produced and I think they're very clever, the w»y «"ey make melodies. Early Human League can be thrown in ihere and a lot of people compare us to early '80s English electronic What is the music scene like in Belgium: lots of bands, venues and support? No. Il's very loose-knit; there's a lol of bands lhat don't know each other very well. Ihis is my feeling as an expatriate here; maybe if I'd grown up here I'd know things belter. I don't see lhat there's much of a concourse or cross-breeding or any kind of fertile ground for people lo share their talents. As far as venues go, here in Brussells there's one or two that medium-sized bands hke Front [242] or Chris Isaaks would play. Apart from thai, it's really underground. So far as we're concerned, we never play in this country. We played here once at a festival and at Antwerp. How did you end up living in Bel- glum? I wanted to live in Europe and the opportunity came around. We were looking for record companies and we got the most enthusiasm and interest out of Play It Again Sam at lhat time and it sort of synced up. So that explains the fascination with the US in your lyrics. I'm still pretty much American in my heart and mind. I've always fell some kind of kinship wilh Europe; I've been coming here quite a bil since I've been much younger. I was kind of fed up wilh California, actual- Win yourself a copy of The Weathermen's latest release, Beyond the Beyond. Il's so easy: send Discorder your weaiherpredictions for the 26th,the date of Discorder's 100th issue party get-together. The closest five get the tapes. Get out those farmers' almanacs.... BLAKE BABIES by Mindy Abramowitz ThOUghtS Of Spinal Tap haunt me as the guitar player from the Blake Babies leads me down an endless hallway, passing countless doors along the way. Finally he throws open a door to a blue room where the melancholy is so thick you could cut it wilh a knife. Sitting at a table playing with the torn cuffs of her sweater, languishes the waiflike Juliana, vocalist and bassist of the band. After we're introduced, she sighs that their soundman didn't make it over the border. I decide not to grill her too hard; I wouldn 't want to make her cry. I start with an easy Have you had a chance to see much of Vancouver? Jusl this neighborhood [Gastown]. Maybe it's not lhal representative of the whole city. Did you name yourselves after William Blake? Well, not exactly. We were named by someone else. For us the name has absolutely no significance. You know Allen Ginsberg? He was reading at Harvard John and Freda [guharistand drummer, respectively] wenttoseehim. Afterwards they went up and asked him what he would name a rock band and that's what he said. He was talking about William Blake. I hate to make comparisons, but I have to say that your vocals sounds like a cross between Bjork from the Sugarcubes and Rickie Lee Jones. Oh wow. [sarcastically?] That sounds really cooL No one has ever compared me lo Rickie Lee Jones before—tomy face. I think Bjork has a great voice. I don't like that band. I think she's the only good thing about that band. The Blake Babies used to have more people in it; you used to play guitar and you had another bassist, correct? Yeah, we've had about four different bass players [Evan Dando ofthe Lemonheads, among others]. Then we became a trio. Then just recently wegotanotherguitarplayer, so we're a quartet again. Our drummer, Freda, isn't wilh us right now. She got really sick. [On cue, a mournful strain of blues played on a sax wafts in poignantly.] My brother is filling in on drums. You've achieved critical acclaim in the States andyouhavea strong college following. What are your plans for touring in Canada? [shrugs helplessly] It's not really something I can do anything about, but if the people in power want us to go across Canada that'd be fine. I have no really huge desire to be big in Canada or anywhere. What is your "huge desire"? Nothin' really. ANIMAL SLAVES by Pete Lutwyche LaSt month, Elizabeth and Ryan from the newly reformed Animal Slaves were guests on my show. An unidentified telephone call- erintervie wed them. R: Oh no! It's return of the Art Band from 1983! UC: Nostalgia! Yeah 1 saw your gig—Red Herring, Rhythm Machine and you guys—a long lime ago. Fabulous show. E: Where we pulled down Roscoe's UC: Yeah, and your dog Schultze was walking around onstage. Is il just yourself that's original in the band, Elizabeth? E:Yeah. UC: When you guys disbanded, it broke my heart, and I'm really happy you guys are back. I tuned in tonight and heard you talking and recognized your E: You're gonna cryai UC: Sol guess the rest of the band are slill in Toronto? E: No, Roscoe lives here. He's an R: Yeah, you can see him on Richard Claydcrman commercials. E: Rachel lives in Toronto. But whal you call the disbanding, we didn't disband at all, we actually played with Ryan and Paul for a year and then for the pasl two years we haven't done anything of course, bul now we're starting lo do things again. UC: So you've released a new record then? E: It's gonna be on CD and cassette. UC: That's great, because your music is fabulous. Back dien it was fabulous, you guys were really ahead of yourtimeinalotof ways-you sounded like nobody I E: Well, we still sound like nobody. APRIL 1991 9 june flies to Anybody who knows me doesn't have to ask why I went to the Windy City, but since you might not have the pleasure of my acquaintance, I'll tell you — Wax Trax Records, pure and simple. During my eight days in mid-February in Chicago, I got to do some major schmoozing, go on a shopping spree at the Wax Trax records store, and see Front Line Assembly live at the Cabaret Metro. Yep, I was one happy camper. Here are some interviews for your perusal, so pull up a comfortable seat, dear reader, and enjoy! CHRIS CONNELLY Chris Connelly is probably best known for being the Scottish member of Ministry and the Revolting Cocks, but worked first with the Fini Tribe, which is based in his native Edinburgh. I talked to him in the beautifully appointed "poster room" above the Wax Trax label offices. He warned me the day before that he might be hungover, but instead he was feeling "groovy." Could you describe the music on your album Whiplash Boychild? Will people be surprised if they're used to Fini Tribe, Revco etc? Yeah, yeah, in fact some eyebrows have been raised already. It's not surprising to me to have done it; I didn't do it to surprise people. Basically, I wanted to do an lp of music that I wanted to do with that freedom. It's amusical record, but first and foremost, as much as I could possibly do it's the music I was thinking of in my head, getting that from there onto the tape. It turned out pretty much exactly how I wanted it and I think it's pretty surreal-lyrically and musically. It's the way I see it. Surreal? Yeah, surreal. The album shifts in intensities all the way through. There's eight tracks and some of them are really minimal, just piano and vocal, and some of them are really intense, louder songs. As I say, it shifts and peaks and I think it's real emotional, as well. Lyrically, what's the album about? Well, I don't know... I think I'm quite disturbed! (laughs) And rather than channelling that into... negative energy I want to use it to my advantage to be creative because I certainly know that maybe I have some problems, whatever, that I do nol want them to be problems in my life, and therefore I use this 10 DISCORDER CHIC as escapism. Were you touring and recording at the same time? I recorded the album straight after last year's Ministry lour. I went in and started on April 9th and worked right away through to two days before the [Revolting] Cocks tour. I finished recording in June and then started mixing down— it took a week to mix—then started rehearsing with the Cocks, so it kind of fitted niceiy into it. Where does Pigface nt into all of this? Pigface! After the Ministry tour as well. We started, like a day after we got back while we were still all crazy and mental and everything like that. It's basically [Ministry tour drummers] Martin's [Atkins] and Bill's [Rieflin] project and on tour we decided that once sound checks get a bit more slack, we can maybe start composing. We decided on the tour, "Fuck this, let's justgo into the studio to see what happens." And that's exactly what happened, we just went into the studio and composed the material there. We're going to tour with Pigface in April. Vancouver? No, I've never played in Vancouver, actually. Have you been to Vancouver? No, but I've heard a lot about it. I have friends there. But, I don't know, a short three week tour, probably just America, whoever will have us. Who will be on that tour? At the moment it looks like it's going to be myself, Martin & Bill, Ogre, Paul Raven's playing bass, from Killing Joke, Matt Schultz is playing his ATG, which is the Anti-Tank Guitar. It's an invention — it's a great big long structure which incorporates wires at different tensions and you play it and it resonates ina soundbox and it'sreally cool. Who else? — maybe David from Jesus Lizard, I think that'll be it for this band. We're still unsure who's going to play guitar; the guy who played guitar on most of the album is going out to do sound for KMFDM so-hc won'tbe able to do it. So are you living here in Chicago? Yep, I've been here since 1988. I go back (to Edinburgh) every so often to renew my work permit. What's happening with Fini Tribe? I saw them a couple of weeks ago. actually. They've just built anew studio and they're working on a new album and they' re sending me over some DATs of some tracks which I'm going to do vocals for. Yeah, it was great to see them; they're working hard as usual; they're workaholics. Are you? Yeah, for sure. I don't know what I would do with my time if I wasn't. Being creative isn't'work'in the usual sense... I know what you mean. That's one of the best things about not having a nine- to-five job, being able to do what I want at my own pace; I really appreciate that. How did you get hooked up with Revco and Ministry? We'd just done a Fini Tribe EP —Let the Tribe Grow — and it was doing okay and we kind of outgrew the record company we were with. Not outgrew; they didn't have the money to further our career. So I went to Wax Trax, having heard of the Revolting Cocks and the Young Gods, about signing a deal and did that. That's where Al (Jourgensen) was recording at the time, Wax Trax in London, there's a studio there. I just met him and started recording, we hit it off really well. So are you guys getting along with Skinny Puppy? I have no problems with anyone in Skinny Puppy. Maybe there was some problems, but it's certainly got nothing to do with me and I don't know what went on. I've been phoning Ogre almost everyday trying to get in touch with him; not spoken to him for ages because I was away when they played here, but Ogre's a really good friend, I really like him. He's dead nice, pretty shy, but he's really nice. There seems to be a lot of gossip and rumour flying around. I know, gossip and gossip and bitch and bitch, it doesn't really achieve anything. I certainly remove myself from that childish behaviour. Life's too short to bother about these kind of trivialities. WRECK Wreck's four-song EP released last year gained the band some initial attention, and their recent Steve Albini-produced album, garnering comparisons to the M inutemen, is doing even better. I talked to guitarist and vocalist Dean Schlabo wske about Wreck's history and their upcoming EP, House of Boris, finding him to be a most jovial interviewee in the process. THE HISTORY OF WRECK: The nucleus of the band, Bart (Flores, drums) and I are from just west of Mil waukee, Wisconsin and we played in bands in Milwaukee for a long time. We sort of got fed up with the lack of anything there and decided to try the East Coast; wasn't happy there either because of the expense, we were just outside New York in wonderful Jersey City in the garbage state. We were rehearsing and writing new material and basically through a friend of a friend, we got kind of 'in' with Steve Albini and got the chance to book time in his home studio and decided Chicago was a reasonable compromise between M il- waukee and New York. Recorded the EP, a friend Keith Brammer (bassist from Die Kreuzen) was nice enough to help us out, then basically shopped the tape around and, despite the fact I was working at Wax Trax, they weren't terribly interested in it. It was sort of a different attitude at Wax Trax then; since then they've come to the conclu- ofthe reasons it appeals to us! (laughs) We're friends with most of the local bands, that we've met. A lot of the smaller cities, like Milwaukee for example, would try and have this attitude 'all the bands are just joining together in this solidarity and we're all going to make this wonderful new music scene happen'. For the most part it's a bunch of people patting each other on the back and nobody goes to see the bands except other bands. In Chicago, it's more of a big city 'everybody out for themselves' but everybody gets along. UDS ACRE sion they've got to broaden their spectrum of music as they seem to be pigeon-holed into the industrial dance thing which isn't really true. Nobody was interested except for Play It Again Sam in Brussells, so we had no choice but go with them. They released the EP and it did pretty well. UPCOMING PLANS: Kurt (More, the new bassist) and the rest of us just got through recording a new six-song EP called House of Boris, named after a hair salon on Ackland Avenue here in Chicago that has one of the most disgusting looking signs I've «»or./eal.:JuneScudetor ever seen. It's these people with ridiculous '78 haircuts and guys with perms and sleazy moustaches. Also on that, and we're banking on college radio being dumb enough to play (laughs), is a cover of "Atomic Dog." We figured it would be a natural goofy college radio THE STATE OF ALTERNATIVE MUSIC IN CHICAGO: It's a good city to be in for music all around — lots of venues a fair amount of decent local bands. Chicago, in general, has this "We're better than you- fuck off" kind of attitude, which is one X Burke is the newest member and also the drummer of Chicago's God's Acre, which got a glowing review in our very own Discorder for their album Ten Gospel Greats. I talked to Brendan about his feelings about the whole Seattle thing since they get compared to that sound an awful lot. [The album] got compared to Seattle a lot, that's for sure. I just didn't think it sounded like that; I was really surprised it got that kind of r It could be positive, unless you don't want to get lumped in... Yeah, I don't think we're like that. I like some of those bands, I think Mudhoney is okay, I think they've turned out to be more of asingles band.They still haven't been able to put together an album that's good all the way through. Have you seen Mudhoney live? Yeah, I've seen them a couple of times. That's the other thing that makes us really different from those bands is that those bands come out live and just play their shit straight ahead, which is pretty much like their records, where we get into long improvisational stuff. I always thought the record sounded way much more like Sonic Youth. Is Seattle stuff popular here? Yeah, our record came out when that stuff was really big, so lots of people compared it to that. A short sketch of God's Acre? Mark (Blade, bass) and Peter (Houpt, vocals.guitar) had the band for three years. It originally started out just Pete with Doug from Eleventh Dream Day on bass and Johnny from Precious Wax Drippings on drums and those guys had to leave because they had their regular bands. Mark came in on bass; they went through a couple of drummers, which didn't really last and I joined about a year and a half ago. Not too long after I joined we got signed to Wax Trax. Any tour plans? (groans) You've asked a bad question. We want lo tour, unfortunately the way the situation is working right now... there's the big booking Agencies and then in the underground, there's three or four people who booked the smaller bands. There's Michelle who had Bulging Eye, who had all the Sub Pop bands, she just went under. Basically, three of the big four went under, all of a sudden, the only person left as far as I know is Pete Davis in Minneapolis. He's nice and he's liked but he's just swamped. So now we'd really like to go on the When you do go on tour are there any plans for Canadian dates? Yeah, I'd really like to. I lived in Montreal for a long time; I'd love to play there and Vancouver. MY UFE WITH THE THRILL KILL KBIT My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, out of Chicago, is probably the most weird and wonderful band on Wax Trax, or any other label. With their blend of techno dance and irreverent horror movie themes. I witnessed the show by comedy duo Buzz McCoy and Groovy M an in their apartment above Wax Trax and learned they're planning to play Vancouver on their next tour-you read it here first. How long has Thrill Kill been together? B: It's been about three or four years; probably our first release came out three years ago and that was a 12" and we did an album. G: We went to Belgium to record our first album at Luc Van Acker's and then we did some tours — big tour of the US with all the Bomb Gang Girls and the whole band and lights. It was pretty wild for a first tour. How many people are in the band? It seems huge. B: It varies. Sometimes there's just Groovy and myself and sometimes there's ten or eleven. The next tour there'll be that many people because of the new scheme of things we're thinking about We do the music but we're influenced by many things and other people arc apart of it even though they don't physically do the music; they're part of the whole concept. G: Yeah, they take on the parts. B: We're not in it to be a 'band'. We're just creating scenarios, visually and aurally... like Las Vegas! G: The situation is us and you. Do you get your sampler from 'B' horror movies? Some of them are a scream! B: Well, yeah, in the early stages that was one phase of it, a lot of horror movies, not a lot, maybe one or two that were our favourites. G: ...Soap operas B: Yeah, that's like, just TV soap operas. G: Sometimes they just find us. That's how it seems to go now, they come to us. We don't have to search anything out or spend much time going to movies. B: We never do that! Some bands actually do that, sit around all night and listen to tapes for good lines. We've' never done that; they've always popped out at us. G: Like, OH MY GOD!... B: I can't believe they've just said that! And when you take it out of context, it becomes strange. So you don't have any messages? B: We don't have any political message... G: Or any message at all, except to be yourself... B: ...and someone else, too!! How would you describe your upcoming album, Sexpbsion? B:Sexy G: Wanky B: Sleazy. Sexy and weird. Any similarities between Sexplosion and Confessions of a Knife? B: No, because it's a different theme. Thelastalbum was acompilationof two years of work. We didn't do it with a concept, it was two years of work. The first album was an idea, the second album took a while to get done because we were touring and lots of projects so it was a growing process. Any tour plans and are you coming to Vancouver? G: We'll probably be there for the Sex- plosion tour. Probably do Seattle, Portland. B: That's the only place we've never been. It's just really far up there and they didn't want to pay enough money. APRIL 1991 11 m. THE TIME this article was being prepared, der press release from M ute Records. Headline: "Yugoslavia: New Political Conservatism Angers Artistic Community." It read: On January 25th, 1991, Dragon Zivadinov, a member ofthe Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK) artistic movement in Slovenia, Yugoslavia met with Minister Dr. Andre j Capuder ofthe Secretariat for Culture of the Republic of Slovenia. On behalf of NSK. he spoke out against the government's reactionary isolationist policies that have recently halted all movement towards a more open cultural exchange. Zivadinov charged that conservative nationalistic trends were reversing the progress made by developmental artistic groups like NSK (which is comprised of IRWIN painting group, the Theatre of the Sisters of Scipion Nasice and Red Pilot Theatre, and their musical offshoot, Laibach) over the last decade. Minister Dr. Adrej Capuder refused to discuss the matter, and inpro- test. Dragon Zivadinov began a hunger strike in the Secretariat building. By order ofthe Minister, he was forcibly removed by police, but continues his public hunger strike at the GT Gallery in Ljubljana. \X Five hundred kilometres away in the volatile province of Serbia, Belgrade's Good Mah- |fers,Society—heafled up by public figures, artists and business people—-is meeting. Their mandate: to combat pessimism, promote lolertncc and basic culture in the family organization, at work, and other situations. In other words: to fight tho consequences of socio-economic crisis. Amidst the Suffocating 300-500% annt||l inflation rate, c rivalries reach- mass homicidal proportions, and the failures oi" de-Tito-i/at ion and at us cote the stagnating im pigmentation of market-oriented economic reform, the hgartof disenchanted youth still beat beat bcats-per-minute in the Slovenian centre of Ljubljana in Northern Yugoslavia. From the musical community that serves :is home for Autopsia, Boris Mikulic and, again, Laibach, come Aldo lvancic and Dario Sevcrhl—Borghesia: an emerging favorite of disillusioned youth in this part of the world weaned on the likes of Front Line Assembly, 242, and dre 12 DISCORDER A high rate of inflation hampers to an increasing extent, the operations of cultural organizations, as inflation is growing more rapidly than their earnings and income. Overhead expenses account for the major part of outlays, due to rising prices of goods and services used by cultural organizations. As a result of this, the number of high quality programmes, premiers, performances, exhibitions, and other cultural activities has been on the decline. —Milivoje Ivanisevic in Organizations of Associated Labour in the Held of Culture psuedo-anti-conformist jargon of Consolidated. What 1$ the inspiration for Borghesia? ALDO IVANCIC: The main inspiration for Borghesia isdef- initely individualism and the fight against systems of repression like the family, church, stale, police, military... stuff like zines, and cultural centres. So, all the time in ihc air is present thi* «eative atmosphere and subsequently a lot of ideas... On the Escorts and Models album, "Toxido," "Beat And Scream" (Beat meUYou can piss im my mouth/A nd PB suck youlLet me serve you, master/ Destroy me master/Destroy!) and "Pasto Nu- do" (/ will pay Why, in your opinion, is Ljubljana such a hotbed of new music? I think that this is the result of the *68 revolution and since Ljubljana is a very strong student centre. Students have developed a lot of independent media power like radio, maga- meat/You are my pleasure/1 am your butcher) have references to homosexual relationships made in them. Where do these references originate from? These songs don't onlyhave homosexual references, but they have much wider references to consumer society. In fact, we use this s&m and sexual language as metaphors for the buy and sell relationship in society where you can buy and sell everything, including yourself. I get the feeling Yugoslavian culture Ls obsessed with Western culture with the references to motorbikes ("Naked Uniformed Dead"), the clips of Ronald Reagan on "Ni Upan- Ja," and the Marlon Brando/ Elvis Presley computer graphic on the Ni Upanja album. Yugoslavia, in fact, is part of Western culture. We grew up with Hendrix and James Dean and the Doors, and stuff like that. So this is part of our culture just as mathematics or science is not Arabian culture, but a global culture. Rock and roll is also part of global culture. Could you please talk about your new album, Resistance? It is an album about violence: individual violence, state violence, nationalistic violence... more hate than love. Why did you choose to cover Sonic Youth's "She Is Not Alone"? Well, because we really like Sonic Youth,especially the first mini-album where "She Is Not Alone" appears. Most people like Sonic Youth because of their hardcoresongs.but forus. Sonic Youth are attheirbest when they are doing their slow pieces. Borghesia is not falling Into the same trap as Laibach did, are you? Laibach were propelled into the ears of North American listeners by doing other people's songs, you mast remember. I'm not sure (laughs), 1 think not, because we've done cover versions from our beginning and we only do cover versions from the groups which we like and not from those we hope to make some money off of. Is there much anti-military-spending sentiment in Yugoslavia considering your economy is In such a mess? Well, Yugoslavians (laughs), if this term can exist now, are very traditional people and they very much like arms but there is a very strong anti-military movement here in Slovenia. What is the statement you are trying to make with "Discipline," from the Surveillance and Technology EP? In die relation toward word and meaning, "discipline" is in be tween love and hate. In fact "discipline" can be very positive, yet also very negative. If you want to make something of yourself in life, then you have to have discipline. In what you do, in being creative or anything, you have to be disciplined. The negativemeaningof "discipline" comes from the state, the police, the church, or family system of repression when you can't express your individuality. You are disciplined by the authorities. "Naked Uniformed Dead" was "dedicated to full Hme leath- ermen and bikers." It is a com - mon North American belief that bikers are connected with crime and anti-social behavior. Is this form of leisure tolerated In Yugoslavia? I think that this is very middle class, stereotypical thinking. We use these themes in a more poetical way, like urban cowboys/ "Bom to be Wild" imagery and stuff like that. So for us, bikers are more like individuals who are not participating in family life. Bijelo Dugume, who are said to be Yugoslavia's most popular rock group, toured China last spring. A Belgrade newspaper said that this tour will open up the way for other groups. Has Borghesia bene- did, however, start to play much earlier in Western Europe than Bijelo Dugume did, so what they are doing doesn't affect us at all. I have noticed a great middle- eastern flavor (plus sampled horns and trumpets, too) in much of your music. Is it reflective of traditional Slovenian music, or is It Just your preference to Incorporate this sound? The majority of the Muslim population of Yugoslavia does not live in Slovenia, correct? Yes, it's correct. Slovenia is in a very special position in Europe, I think. It's kind of a triangle withthreedifferentcultures: one side German, one Italian, one Slavic, with Muslim and Orthodox cultures to the south. It's really cross-cultural. Idon't think it's an influence of traditional culture. We really like rich arrangements, and trumpets sound quite good. Has Borghesia ever been censored in any way? Article 133 ofthe Yugoslavian Penal code, which warns against the "malicious and false presentation of socio-political conditions in Yugoslavia," sounds quite rigid. We had some problems in Yugoslavia with the police and the authorities, but our biggest surprise came on the English tour Aldo and colleague Dario Severhl are currently composing music for a dance theatre project in Ljubljana, lvancic is hoping to have this work made available on disc. He claims "It will be quite a surprise for our fans because it is much different than the music we're used to making." Upon the completion of that project, Borghesia head out on tour in Europe and North America. Borghesia's Resistance and earlier releases, including NI Upanja NI Strahu and Escorts and Models, are all available through Play It Again Sam Records. _&_* fited or will Borghesia benefit? We are quite a different group from Bijelo Dugume, plus we never have played in the Eastern part of Europe or in China. We where we had to cancel eight gigs because of a video which we had behind us. It was a real surprise for us that we were censored in a so-called democratic, i country like Britain. lOU TC probably saying to yourself, "Ah, yes, this is the part in A'ida when the King of Egypt drags his fat ass off the throne to embrace (and, of course, use this tender moment to plant a big, wet, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani kiss on) Ramades, the Stormin' Norman Schwarzkopf of the Egyptian Army who have just returned from decimating the Ethiopians." Yeah, and if that is what you said, pal, listen: put the magazine down, get some Aquanet in that Canadian Soccer League hair of yours, throw on your Consolidated t-shirt with Warholian Archie Bunker graphic (Mao Tse-Tung baseball hat with "Sid Vicious is Alive"/"Sid Vicious Rulcs"pins is optional, by the way), and spend the rest of the afternoon at the department store of your choice and see if they've received their new shipment of Cleveland Browns youth gang- wear. You are one fucking dangerous individual. Mind you, I wouldn't feel all that safe around our friend Marc Grewe, either, co-author of this literary masterpiece and tenor for German death metal troupe, Morgoth. Recording for an upcoming release in New York— that petri dish of infected hospital waste and fermenting fecal matter, shaken, stirred and served up in shooter glasses by Satan's bartender, the maggot, whose every jerk, whose every fight- to-the-death battle against his cannibalistic brother, whose every life-ending defecation, as petty an offering as it (they?) may seem, is a sacrifice to the one true supreme being, Lucifer—Morgoth tread for dear life until the Kreator Coma of Souls North American Tour Bus comes to take them away. As a "death metal" group, are you saddened that the Persian Gulf Crisis didn't end in some atomic catastrophe? I'm very happy about it, actually, because there were so , many bad things about this war. We Germans, I think, have another opinion about war. It's not the same for an American. We had two wars in our own country. I'm against it. I'm happy it's over now. The Americans had to do something against Hussein. What is the basic philosophy of a death metal band and how do you view yourselves? Difficult question... it's not easy to say it in one sentence. We are not a typical death metal band with typical death metal lyrics. We like words. We love to play heartfelt mu sic... a very brutal music. Have you ever lost someone? Does belonging to a death metal band assist you in confronting death? Does it act as therapy in some way in that there are worse things in life than death—war, disease, addiction, famine? I would say no. For me, It's Just a profession or a hobby and nothing you should take too seriously. We take ourselves seriously, but most of the time It's fun. You can't link this music to love and things. Our lyrics are not brutal like slaughtering virgins and stuff. We don't like this. We want to record songs that are Intelligent. We do lyrics about things around us which are brutal a.s well. It's not only about death and blood and Satan. I would say It's a little bit different to other death metal bands who only write about this stuff. Are you concerned at all that lyrics like Kill all the others Make them bleed Feel like a hero Greedy about victory Do the work now That has to be done Create the pain The tune still runs Blow out their lives God's on your side, be satisfied When their guts are open wide Think about the glory You soon will get It doesn't matter That others pay from "Dictated Deliverance" might be taken as a command to murder? I don't like typical death lyrics. I want to say something to the people. They should think about it, but they shouldn't take it all too seriously. It's just music with lyrics. The lyrics are important, but you shouldn't take all lyrics seriously. If in some sentences you say, "Go and kill," maybe some people will go out and kill somebody, but in my opinion it's stupid. We wanna explain something to our listeners and we want to provoke, but also promote thinking. Record companies put warning stickers on records in North America. Do they do the same in Germany? No, nothing like that. We don't do this. I know in America that you have this, but I've never seen it in Germany or England or elsewhere. Is your record company being forced to put warning stickers on your records marked for distribution over here? I don't know. Would it bother you if they did? I don't know. If it's good for promotion, why not? (laughs) But I don't care. Who listens to death metal? Is there a typical listener? I would say kids from 12 to 30. I think people who like extreme music listen to death metal because it's something very new and something very extreme. Maybe they also like thrash metal bands, punk bands, stuff like that... Independent bands. I don't know who Is a typical death metal listener. Who's got the best t-shirts in metal? Difficult question. I would say Obituary. Your press release states, "Imagine the most brutal form of death metal in existence," referring to you. You must have some favou rites, though? I don't listen only to death metal. I like bands like Fields of Nephilim, or old stuff like Led Zeppelin or Thin Lizzy. Death metal bands... I like Obituary. How about Bolt Thrower? Yeah, they're cool. In Battle [There is No Imw, their LP] was great. Defecation? Yeah. Cancer? Yeah, we played with them in London. Winter? Winter? No, never heard of them. Ken Baumgartner? Ken Baumgartner? Ooh, I don't think so. We've got a pretty healthy death metal scene in Vancouver. I'm sure you've heard of a couple of these bands... Busted Ribs? (Pause) No. Meatrack? Meatrack? No. Scholten? Sounds like a German band, but they're from here. No. Wayne Cody's Locker Room? (laughs) No, sorry, (laughs) Morgoth appear at the New York Theatre with Kreator and Blitzspeer on Sunday 14 April. APRIL 1991 13 ^*^T0Rt0**,, LEMYSTEREDESVOIXBULGARES ►The Bulgarian State Female Vocal Choir ONE OF THE WONDERS OF HUMAN SOUND FRIDAY APRIL 19 8PM THE ORPHEUM Milton Nascimento THE MOST RENOWNED OF BRAZIL'S SINGER-SONGWRITERS RETURNS TO VANCOUVER ON A TOUR IN SUPPORT OF THE PRESERVATION OF THE AMAZON RAINFOREST AND ITS INDIGENOUS PEOPLES. THURSDAY APRIL 25 8PM THE ORPHEUM BUCK SWAN RECORDS. HIGHLIFE RECORDS. THE VA MUSIC FESTIVAL • WMMI. THF. COASTAL JAZZ AND BILES SOCIETY • 683-0706 _OR THROUGH TICKETMASTER • MM±M • SEWTCECHARGES .MJ Discorder's 100th issue bash OK, alia youse Discorder Disciples, now's the time to REALLY save your pathetic soul. We (OK, not the same people the whole time, and yes, some of us (not "us" as in the people right now) have gone on to big hi- payin' careers) have been slavin' away livin' on nuttin' but Pizza and King Dons for nine mutherluvvln' years to bring you this fantastic magazine (or paper, depending on who you ask), so now that we're about ta publish #]fJQ. we thought you'd pay us back by attending a revival of sorts at the cruel elephant featuring 4 of our finest local bands (OK, we got the Evaporaters and Octatrackter (sp??) confirmed, but believe you me, there's more bigger bands where those came from, bud.) Bait wait, pal, there's more: we'll be glvin' out free t-shirts, and have some other lame- ass ideas boiled up just for the occasion. If you're still readin' this far, then you mus' luv the cruel elephant as much as we luv it (which is about the same as It luvs us), and you'll appreciate the clever parody of their ads, but anyway, I garanteee it's nnnnn bgj,, of thos<-> nights you'll wish you hadn't missed. After all, haven>»^ejjli*U^!! Loiil&^hrough in the pas'? And besides, what else ya doilY Friday April 26th from 7-12pm, romeo? SAVE YOUR FUCK .ANDCOME BRADEN ZRNO WAKES UP WITH It'S 10AM... Time for the interview... I'm still sleeping. 10:15... The phone rings at the foot of my bed. "Uhh... Braden here." "Hey, Braden, it's Phil from Blitzspeer," croaks a voice. Obv iously, we've both had a long night. Establishing the fact we're both "fine," the co-founder and frontman ofthe New York metal band and I charge up our brains enough to get down to business. DISCORDER: Blltzspeer's music Is really agresslve, yet at the same time It's got well- structured tempo changes and flowing progressions. How do you approach writing your music? Is it done in a very orderly way or does it Just come out? PHIL CAIV ANO: We just let it go. Either Scott [Lano, guitar/ vocalsj or I will start something on guitar and we'll let each other check out what we've done... After that, it just grows. Everyone in the band helps to shape the sound and has a hand in the arrangements. Being some relatively new b lood, what type of a sty le could you assign yourselves? Well, we're not a speed metal band, not that I have anything against it... I'd say that we're more a straight-ahead rock n' roll band. Yeah, we're heavy and we play fast at times but...we don't try to be any one style; we just are what we are, the way it naturally comes out. And that's the way we like it I mean, thrash has gone out of control, and MTV's a joke. So we're firm believers in just doing what you will, and not falling into channeling any certain type of audience or style of music. Do you see the band sound as a mosaic of the independent players or a melting pot where things are more "together"? It's definitely a melting pot. We really stick together when wc make music. That way, things are always flowing and nothing will sound the same. This band formed and, although we didn't really know each other, the sounds meshed and that will keep the music sounding fresh. At the beginning of Blitzspeer Live, the MC could have been introducing a hip hop show. How did he end up with the show? That's Joe Bruno. He's just been around all of our shows while we were touring around New York and he just jumped on stage a few times before, so we were backstage and said, "Hey, Joey, go introduce us, man." So he just grabbed the mic and gave us a quick intro. He's a big hip hop fan and that explains the way he talks, but it's nothing new in New York for people of different styles to hang out. Everyone just does their own thing and it'scool. When we go on the road, our music library has everything from Johnny Cash to P.E. and NWA to Led Zeppelin to the Supremes to Motorhead. Do you guys get a wide variety of people at your shows then? Yeah, we tour a lot around the New York area and that's how we first started out. We didn't concentrate on getting a record deal, we just went out and had fun. I see a lot of bands that sit around and wait for "the perfect tour" or "the perfect record deal," but we didn't bother with that. We've got a good following in New York and we figure that we'll get better as we keep playing in front of more people. How long have you been at this? Four years. Do you think the trend will continue and metal will be accepted on a wider scale, with a lot of different people getting Into It? Definitely. Metal's survived the test of time and it always will. Although it was uncool during the Punk Ages, I was still listening to Sabbath and Zeppelin. Obviously, others were too, and now it's back. Take a look at Public Enemy sampling Slayer. It's growing and I think it will Do you think metal fans will open their minds to different styles of music? I mean, conservatism has been a big part of the metal ideal since it began. Metal fans already have anew set of ideals. Cock rock bands are out there, but there's plenty of fans who aren't into that at all. The music will get better and that will strengthen metal in general. MTV's "Headbanger's Ball" doesn't have a good video on it and this is the stuff a lot of people are exposed to. But rebellion will happen. All the future metal bands will be saying "Fuck you, we don't wanna be a spandcx-hair- spray-poser band." You were quoted assaying that when you and Scott first met, you had a puddle of puke in your lap. Obviously something was left out. Well, Scott and I were both playing in Jersey and we had a mutual friend introduce us at a party. Neither of us were very serious about our music back then and we just partied like crazy. So basically, it was at one of these parties that we met each other and things just clicked between us. We had five songs written within two weeks of knowing each other. We've been at it ever since. Also, I guess you could say our music's a lot like puke: it all comes back out after being worked around for awhile, y'know? We're on tour with Kreator and we're having a blast puking across the country. 14 DISCORDER KOJfiH! BY RUSS HERGERT Apart from undoubtedly being the World's leading authority on Bob Marley, originator of the Reggae Beat Mag - azine, host of a syndicated Reggae radio show on 130 stations internationally, and personal friend of Bob Marley, his family. Bunny Wailer and any other name you could draw from the Reggae world, Roger Steffcns has the unique gift of making friends with absolutely every person he meets. Spending a day with Roger after his sellout lecture on Bob Marley provided the nigh impossible task of editing down the vast amounts of information and stories on Bob Marley that never seem to stop flowing from this well spoken, generous person, to this excerpt of Roger kicking back and relaxing as we talked about what it is that gives Bob Marley, the man and his music, such lasting endurance. Wc pick up at the point where Roger recounts his indoctrination to Bob Marley: The '60s music of course had an incredible political and personal impact on anybody whose mind was open in those days, but by 1970 the lawyers and the accountants had bought out the American music business and it became business not music. In the summer of 1973 I heard "Catch a Fire" for the first time — the first time I had heard Bob Marley — and saw The Harder They Come — Jimmy Cliffs movie — and read Michael Thomas's Babylon on a Thin Wire in Rolling Stone. And [early Reggae] so intrigued me, it had all the elements of early rock and roll: the passion, the power, the playfulness, the message added to it. I wouldn't say early rock and roll was message music, but early Reggae certainly was, and today the best Reggae is message music still. And your actual collection? My Marley collection started because of my absolute fascination with what he and the Wailers seemed to stand for, and the lyricism with which they expressed their points of view. And [the collection's] gotten bigger and bigger and acted now like a magnet, because if people all over the world—from Poland to Brazil—come up with something that I have never been able to find in twenty years of collecting, they really get off on that. So I started lecturing onMarleyin'84, when I was invited to the American Film Institute in Hollywood, where I live, to end the National Video Festival on a double bill with David Byrne doing the world premier of Stop Making Sense. So I did my first Marley video show eveT and then David showed his movie, it was a heck ofanight; packed to the rafters. And it took off from there. What is it that is so powerful about Bob, that has pushed him somuch further beyond his peers, the music? Wow. (laughing) I've often tried to put my finger on that... Alright, Bob Marley has everything. He was a future person, he was the prototype of what's going to put an end to all 1 .. \ |' was so wealthy and so powerful he could do anything he wanted to do. And he chose those three years to play to white, Cauca- this ridiculous separation by sian audiences in Europe and race. His father was a white Ja- America. He didn't go to Africa; maican. You can't deny the fact he was half white. He was a black symbol and ablack leader, but to me, Bob wanted to reach he didn' t go tour across Africa to his people, although he paid $250,000 US to bring his troupe to Zimbabwe as his contribution the white people as badly as he to their independence on April wanted to reach the North 17, 1980. He supported a lot of American blacks. And I know freedom struggles, especially that because in the later years of when he played the Amandla his career, in '78, '79, '80, Bob Concert. A prophet is somebody who listens to what everybody is saying around him, and then restates it to himself in a simplified form so he can understand it better and, in so doing, illuminates our common situation. And by that definition, Bob is assuredly aprophet. He wrote "Zimbabwe" for the freedom fighters, and sung it on the night he "opened" the country. The African returning forward to his home. The greatest moment, according to Bob, in his life. Why do you think that has been so smothered, or... suppressed? Suppressed is the word. Because they don't want people to think that Bob is a revolutionary. As a Martin Luther King, or a Malcolm X with a band, or a Marcus Garvey.He'sallof these and more. He had the most wonderful melodic gift; a natural feel for instantly recognizable and remembered harmonies and melodies. He was an As you suggested, a direction towards the future... Yes, there are certain things that fall out of the future into our present, because this is when we need them, and one of my crusades is getting the music in the vaults out to the public. Forceitout.lt took me eight years to force Island Records to release "Am A Do," and the alternate 'Talking Blues," and the alternate "Bend Down Low." The whole concept of the music mix with the new interview album was mine, and I'll fight for another eight years if we could get the Amadla Concert out on video. How much is still in the vaults, as of yet "unreleased?" Nobody knows. Junior Murvyn said thirty albums worth of unreleased material, Tyronne Down- ie laughed and said no more than three, so nobody really knows.... I know of vast storehouses of tapes that I'venever had access to for lack of money and time, and thai makes a lifetime ahead of me to find out more and more Marley. I'd much rather find a tape every couple of months, than suddenly come on a hundred tapes, because Bob will sustain me for the rest of my life, I know that-Theman wrote (one, two, three) four songs a day virtually every day of his life. He was a phenomenon. That's a good word to use, I couldn't agree with you more. What direction are you going to take from here? I don't know. Wherever JAH sends me (smiling). We Just keep going, eh? (both laugh) Yes, whatever JAH makes manifest in my life, beckons me toward. You have to be alert to the possibilities. You're coming back for a show, or forward I should say? Forward. Coming forward for a show, never back. Forward. Roger, I know we've talked about this, but for the record, what did you think ofthe show (your lecture) last night? Well hey, I was blown away. It was so much much more than I expected. I try not to have expectations, but what I like to do is fill whatever room I'm in, whether 100 peopleor 1700. If it's full that makes for a good evening. And I thought there was something going on in that room last night that I have rarely encountered in my life. Especially when we were doing the show, which I have done at least a hundred times in the past six years. There is a feeling in Vancouver that is very appealing. Just on first glance you get in touch with it, and I can't wait to find out what this town is all about, and who is here, and why you're all here, it's aprivilege to leam about all of you and thanks for your patience Russ and blessings on your work. I mean we're all Reggae mormons, aren't we? (laughs) Nuff respect to all Vancouverites. 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It is truly amazing to witness the inhabitants of dreary London welcome the first days of spring! Aside from hormonal fluxes, the issue heating most everyone's mind is the political battle currently raging over Poll Tax reforms. As we approach the anniversary of the Poll Tax Riot that last year ended in a bloody battle waged throughout the streets of central London, the Conservative Government are finally bowing to intense pressure and are poised to announce the abolition of the Head tax. Apart from the political chaos, much as been happening in the music scene over the past month. lane's Addiction played to a thriving crowd at the Marquee Club March 4th; members of the Wondersruff were seen ranting to Perry Farrell's prescription of raucous music. AndtheWonderstuff themselves have something to celebrate about. They are releasing a new single, "Size of a Cow," their first since last year's successful "Circle Square" 7", and hope to have their third album out in the early summer. See See Rider played a free gig at London's ULU (university bar) on the 27th of February and both the Farm and Ride, two of the new heart-throb indie bands, were sold out well in advance of their early March London gigs. But the best gig I saw had to be February 23, again at the Venue, when I caught the up-and-coming indie band Chapterhouse. They released their third 7", "Pearl," on the Dedicated label March 18th and will soon start a 17 date English tour to promote this single and the imminent release of their first full-length album, Whirlpool. Formed in Reading in 1988, Chapterhouse have been compared to Oxford's Ride by the musical press here, but hey, they were playing gigs before Ride even formed! In keeping with the incestuous nature of the local scene, they called themselves Incest when they first formed, more in spite of the Reading scene than to be part of it. After two cheeky gigs, they adopted the esoteric title Chapterhouse. There is a reason for the name, but I'm not going to tell you. Read Huxley! Then again, don't. It's not worth it; I'm sure the band would agree. It's the same old story: I first heard the music of Chapterhouse during a Peel Session broadcast in October, 1990, and their vigourous sound and potency left a lasting impression. The band is: singer/guitarist Andrew Sherrif, singer/guitarist Stephen Pat- man; guitarist Simon Rowe; bassist Russel Barrett (a Greek and Latin scholar!!), and, on drums, Ashley Bates. The night of their Venue gig, I struck up a short conversation with Andrew. In pursuit of a more extensive talk, I trudged off, some weeks later, to a place called the Playground in Camden where Chapterhouse were putting in some practice-time before heading off on their UK tour. When I arrived for the interview, I listened to the band roll off a few songs before we all huddled around my poor excuse for a tape recorder. What's It like doing a Peel Session? S: Nerve wracking! We thought that you just went in and recorded like you would in a studio but faster. We sel up, they miked us and then we played and lhat's it. You do everything live apart from ihe vocals. You go into this big BBC building and into this big deadened room and they basically hassle you to finish as soon as you can. We recorded all four tracks in less lhan four hours and then they mixed each song in less than half an hour. We didn't enjoy it when we were playing because they were really pretty nasty. How would you describe your music? S: It's very hard to describe, I mean, it changes all the time. A lot of our songs are very diverse. I suppose the only category you could put it into is Pop Music... A: I think our music is very English and is a different sound than what you get in America. It basically comes out of our whole listening experience. S: It goes right back to our teens to some of the stuff we were listening to like Cocteau Twins, Mary Chain and I suppose some ofthe early My Bloody Valentine. These are bands that all started off with new sounds that've taken years to really get used to. S: Yeah, I think it's coming together now in a real culmination of all those kinds of ideas, like pushing guitars to different levels, using guitars to make sounds which guitars don't make; just trying to change the format of a guitar band to something a bit more melodic, a bit more sort of symphonic, orchestral... Is your music Intense? S: We try and structure our songs in a way where they do build so thai you don't start off on a peak and then just drop. Even if we do start off on a high note, we want to maintain that, not drift... A: Intense is quite a good description, I think, because a lot of the songs are quite intense rather than dreamy and drifty. When we gel an idea for the atmosphere we want to track, we go the whole hog with it. How do you lit Into the British Scene? S: The British Scene is a bit strange... We're into quite selected bands and we're trying lo move it a bil farther by taking some ofthe more extreme sides of the j indie scene. We're not into psychedelic escapism... It's more like realistic escapism: atmosphere and mood. We let the music speakforitself. A lot of people say, like, "Why don't you move?" when we play but we're not performers, we just play our guitars and try to sing sbestw A lot of people find lhat the sound is intense enough to keep it going. Maybe we should gel a good light show. Our strength is not in the way we play, it's more what we're playing and the sound of il all. You're signed to the indie label Dedicated? S: Yeah, it's a good label. It's a new one that has four or five people working for it. It is affiliated with RCA and we signed wilh it to get our first two albums released independently. We sacrificed a lot of money just to get that independent distribution. It was something we found was quite important, even though we realized that the indie ideal is a real farce. All it means is that you're being distributed independently. It doesn't mean anything more than that, except for the fact that there is a certain amount of credibility by doing it. I understand you have a new album coming out. S: The thing is, the album was actually recorded the whole of last year, before our new single, "Pearl,"...and its B-side, "Come Heaven"... Although the album is dubbed as being the latest thing, in a lot of ways it's a mixture of old stuff and new stuff. I think that it is set to be released in early April. Are you planning to go Stateside towards the end of the summer? S: We've been told it's going to be a two month stay and thai we're going to play in only major places. I think what they [RCA] will do is release the videos for 'Tearl" and "Falling Down" just before we go over there and hopefully we'll already be getting some college radio recognition. How many videos do you have? S: We did one for "Something More," which was really low budget. We've just finished one with Angela Conway who's from A.C. Maria. She filmed the video for "Pearl" and we watched it yesterday and it's excellent. It will come out first and then we will do a video for the remix of "Falling Down."The video for "Pearl" was head shots of the band with watery images and nice colours. We wanted naturalistic images related to pearls so we had this 190 million year old fossil lit on a turntable and filmed it spinning. The thing about the video is that it adds to the song, it doesn't interfere with it. Why did you call your first album WhirlpooP. S: We wanted a nondescript title that conjures up images but not specific ones. All of our music is basically like that. Our lyrics are not too definite so you don't know exactly what's being said. Instead, they lead you, draw you into the music. I don't like getting heavy about it. Whirlpool is a drawing-in image... sucking you into it. The image typifies the sound we're tying to make; something that is gentle but intense; something that is powerful yet mellow at the same time. What kind of music do you listen to? S: I've been finding lately that I'm listening to stuff that I don't know how it's done: that's why I can like it. It's using things that I wouldn't automatically use and it has sounds that are so interesting. I'm even getting into the dancey stuff. It's really good to listen to because it's so abstract from what we've been doing that it's like light relief. We have to gel out of our intensity and blow off some steam. I can't listen to music so innocently anymore because I'm always playing it. When you've been playing it and you know how it's done, when you listen to music in your style, you always end up analyzing it. Are you still experimenting with new sounds? S: We definitely feel we haven't reached anywhere near our real potential. We are still trying to get there but I think once we do get there, we should split up. There are certain things we know we want to improve on. We'd like to get into extra percussion and put on some bongo loops and get a live bongo player. I think that when you'remaking really airy sort of washy music, you need a rhythm track to grasp, something to hold onto, in a song. When it is flowing away, you can ultimately alienate some people. If you can do things which people would not normally listen to and then put them into a pop context with a good vocal melody and a good beat, then you can get more people listening to stuff they'd normally walk away from. What were your most enjoyable gigs; bands you've enjoyed playing with? S; Well Slowdive come from Reading and they are friends of ours. They have played with us a few times. We played with Spacemen 3 on a tour. In fact, we recorded most of our album in their studio. What's your new single like? S: The guy who produced EMF's "Unbelievable" produced "Pearl" and he was really good to get the rhythm track heavy. The rhythm track samples some drum loops—it's like a Led Zeppelin drum loop and a Schooly D drum loop together—with a load of bongo stuff. "Pearl" is so guitar orientated that the well-used loop doesn't stick out. I think it's really good. Any last words? S: I'd just like to say lhat the Cocteau Twins, in a lot of ways, have been the besl undercurrent influence to our band. I think they have been really ahead of their time for so long and lhat their styleof music—which has always been excellent—is really coming to the forefront and it is actually starling to integrate into Pop. 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After playing with The Wongs— another hot, semi-new band—on a cross-country tour last summer, Gorilla Gorilla packed in the security of being the big fish in Winnipeg ' s smal 1 pond and moved west. Tight, fast, funky, whatever Gorilla Gorilla rock. Drummer Brett and bassist Kent formed the band about three years ago and added Randy on guitar two years ago, while vocalist Bif joined the band ayear later. Still struggling to establish themselves in Vancouver, they can, nonetheless, headline on a Friday night at the Cruel Elephant and make money, or play PD's Hot Shop at 7:00 on a Sunday night and pack the place. Yet one of their most impressive shows was at the OK Hotel in Seattle where, despite big technical difficulties, they wowed aero wdof about 600, 14-year-old, chain-smoking, dreadlocked kids who sweated as much for the Gorilla as they did for headliners NoMeansNo. Yup, this is one cool band that I can't shut up about, so I decided to interview them. (Actually, I agreed to do the interview in exchange for the edit- rix's Morgoth tape, but I would have done it for nothing.) So here's a paraphrased version of a very chaotic interview. GAV LOVES ON THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WINNIPEG AND VANCOUVER: Vancouver has this way more aggro scene: more fights, whatever. But it | seems like nobody that lives here is from here; they all moved from ] Victoriaorbackeast-Still.it'scool. More shows, more places to play | and the location is better. It'll be easiw to tour the west coast from | here. ON ALL-AGES SHOWS: We like kids getting into shows •cause they're so appreciative. On the secondnote they'11 be going off. going crazy, but on the other hand, tt clubs you can drink and you get ] i paid. ON DRIVING CROSS-COUNTRY: Our van leaks oil so it's not fun. We also have a serious problem with Bif: when she gets hot, she gets naked. The worst, though, was running out of gas at 3AM in northern Ontario. Just rocks, trees and moose. We has to use a stolen auto club card to get outta that one. | Or another time Bif got alcohol poisoning and puked in the van for two days. I JJ^T.V^"; 111 liM in m mm H 1 HTn SFX1SM AND BEING A | rScKN ROLL WOMAN (BIF ANSWERED THIS ONE): I I've been billed a sex symbol- although I don't consider myself one_and it's really hard 'cause a I lot of people don't think achick can I be a vulgar bitch in a band, or smg for a punk rock band. Most people thinkfemalesingersshouldbemore I demure than myself. Either people I think of you as a stupid slut and are r;yinglikatdieS^ofherUts,or they're impressed that you canac- I Jlydoit.Afnendofm.nesa stripperand,asfaraslamconcerned I she'sexploitingtheguysmthefront I room: they're paying her to watch her. If people ogle me. U s *e*r problem.notmine.Ijustdowhatll want to do. I was talking to a corporate record type and he was say^ ^g that because I'm a woman siingforapunk-funkband.lbe-1 c^ea8marketing*ool;becauseits differenUtheywoulduseme^seUI records.Butldon'tcare;Ijustwantl to be me. Jessica Rabbit. Exene, Madonna. Roseanne Barr, and Billie Holiday rolledmtoon lLM^TVRBAT1ON (YEAH ^ YOU DONT, PAL). ' 'nessy whl R ^ JU" don'* be Ae question -J'" ^^ **>*<• -^ssas*-*' ON FUTURE PLANS, I Motlpv <- to t0Ur with I ^ouey Crue and Faster d, We don't w_bT, P^ycat. WmSrJS* heanhe record' W»„ ' | ON DREADLOCKS: [ good thing going. 8°ta APRIL 1991 19 SOME KIDS LIKE TO GET DRUNK and body- Be eyeful with me, OK? stoned on the weekends. Some kids like to go N: Sure, shopping with their moms on Friday nights. And KF: Just because I'm sitting here and look stupid doesn't some kids, dear Vancouverites, like to froth at the mouth mean I'm not dangerous. in awe of the strange and delightful happenings associated N: Well, just because I'm sitting here and look stupid with the Twentieth Annual doesn't mean I'm not dangerous. Juno Awards. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ KF: Keep it up, man, and we'll go Wilh "thee Ju- I H outside and I'll deal with you. nos" hilling V-lown this I H N: No, thank you, because I'm year, affiliated and not-so- I H only a C+ at fighting and you're affiliated events sprung up I H probably A+. So I don't want to all around the City. One cool I H mess with you. non light crotched gathering I H KF: You guys (pointing to volun- was the super-duper, re- I B tecr Heavy Metal security leam). vamped for 1991, West Coast I H Whal'II we do with him? If he Music Exposition (Westex), I ^H keeps doing one-upmanship then held at the Robson Square H H I'm gonna have to take him out- Media Centre. A thorough fl H side, I mean, that's how 1 think, examination of the Westex fl ____{__■ ^ny (*on ' you (mean'n£ Eugene program revealed that ■■■■ ■£ Rjp[X:r |lKa) singer/Westex offi Expositon-goers would be ■ -f^Sa ^^^B cial) take him outside and talk to graced by Uk presence of. K|m ..Runaw .. Fowtoy. „. a|way. him about what we're supposed to gentleman whose credent,.!, ^^ . ^ . ,_ h|_ ^^ be do.ng here 1 either won , con- screamed Rock n Roll: ere- tmueor III deal with him on a man .tor and manager of the wicked Runaways, writer of the to man level, and I will win. So why don't you lake him ultimate frat hit "Alley Oop" .nd the erie flower anthem outside, please. "The Trip," the anti-Zappacosta himself: Mr. Kim "I N: I won't say anything anymore! charge a dollar a minute" Fowley. His workshop early on KF: You can say whatever you want to, but do it in the a Friday Westex moming, simply titled "A Chat With Kim context of a music business interface. As long as you keep Fowley," packed a small room lull of bodies, rock wives, up then you antagonize me, and I'll keep up. There': Nelson wannabes, Richard Gere outfits and excitement. Excitement indeed: nothing sacred about any of this so (looks away) you guys talk to him, or you talk to him or I'll talk to him. You two, you, or me. Pick one. C'mon. KIM FOWLEY: I was on U-TV last night, if you know N: Can't I just stay here on the warm seat? I'm afraid. what that is. KF: Yeah, but you're a jerk. Go out (pointing again to NARDWUAR: Yeah, U-TV lets you say the word "shil" Eugene) aid talk to him. You ulk lo him or I'll talk to him. on it so lhat's pretty good. KF: I wonder who invented the word "shit." As it turned out, I, Nardwuar the Human N: 1 wondeT who invented the word "Sloppy Seconds." Serviette, fearing for my nose, skull, belly and jaw, took KF: The same person who got it... I can do repartee with Fowley's advice and immediately exited the premises. you man, I'm real good at it. Perhaps that evenings' "Hard Rock, Hardcore, Heavy N: I'll wait till after the conference. Metal—The Real Cutting Edge" seminar would fulfill my KF: No, I'll do it right now with you. Judo and boxing in quotient for safe, clean, musically-inspired stimulation. Ya case it gets too intense. I'm very aggressive, right or Nordwuoi: &»g EMe wrong. I'm here to do music but I'll get into shit. N: I was just mentioning U- TV- KF: No dude, boieesee! N: Gagickth! KF: What do you do? Let's get into yer shit. N: I like to listen. KF: Well then, listen. But if you want to get down let's get down. There's a weapon in here (points to his bag); I'm serious. Just to let you know, sometimes when I speak to audiences, I wave this (takes out black cloth that reads "Bom to be Bad"). What does it say? Be nice. N: Keep on rawking in the free world. KF: No, it says "Bom to be Bad." I'm a bad boy. Anytime it gets intense, I put it out. NSony. KF: Don't be sorry. Get ready to boogie. N: OK, I'm ready. KF: What's yer weapon? Ignorance or knowledge? Which is it? N: Hot Chocolate KF: ...You know what, we'll devote this whole meeting to you. Here's how we're going to do this. I'm real smart and I am. real successful, and I will talk on any level that you N: Where are you originally from? approach me on. |t depends if you want to leam. I'll deal F: Well, I'm originally from Melbourne, Australia, but I wilh you on your level, man, and exclude everybody else left when I was four years old. I lived in New York until and in the end I'll beat the shit out of you just for the sheer I was twelve years old, and then moved to Hollywood. joy of it, or I'll be a gentleman and I'll ulk reality to you. Now I'm 28. 20 CODE 5 DETECTIVE N: You're married to a Victoria girl, aren't you? F: I was up until three months .go. N: Victoria's also home of one of the best bass players in the world. F: Who's that? N: From the rock band No— F:No? N: No—Means— F: NoMeansNo! N: Victoria's the home of Rob Wright from NoMeansNo. So you, being a bassplayer yourself, and you, marrying a Victoria girl, did you realize the correlation lhat perhaps you were tying into a big bass scene there? F: I never realized the cosmic implications of it all. However, when I did meet her she did tell mc there was this band called NoMeansNo and they were really, really good. N: And since then you've bought the entire NoMeansNo collection? F: I actually do have one of their records and I like il very much. N: You would call Rob's bass playing "wicked"? F: I would call it very good, and very influenced by Mike Watt. N: How 'bout your own bass playing; how would you describe that? F: I dunno. I jusl kinda do my thing. N: Besides yourself, do you know of anybody else, relatively famous, married to Vancouver girls? F: You mean like very famous people on TV? Ah— N: Dennis Miller! F: Who's Dennis Miller? N: Dennis Miller from Saturday Night Live's married to some young lass from Richmond, I think. And you know Hugh Hefner's wife, she's from West Vancouver. She went to a high school that I once stood in. That's pretty good,eh? F: That's great! I think that's amazing. It's just incredible, it's zingy, it's zany, it's wacky, it's crazy. It's really a mind- blowing thing. As a matter of fact, I've never heard anything like that before in my life N: Also, Flea, 1 was wondering: see this picture of yourself? (It's a picture of Flea giving "the finger" that appeared in the Georgia Straight for weeks preceeding Westex.) Hea, the bass player he married a girl from Victoria. Was It mere coincidence? know what, Sparkey? It sure did, courtesy of the zany Fle_-man. NARDWUAR: Who are you and why we you here? FLEA: My name is Flea and I play bass in the Red Hot Chili Peppers, this band I started several years back. My manager called me up last week and said, "Hey, doya want to go up to Vancouver next weekend, 'cause there's this thing going on up there and you could be on the panel and go up to Vancouver for a few days." And I said, "Yeah, I'd like lo go and get out of the city for a few days." So here Why are you giving the finger here? F: Because I'm angry- N: Do you remember that incident? F: 1 do remember that particular incident. It was when we were in the recording studio, recording the Mother's Milk record, and I had just cut off half of my hair. I was getting ready to see the Lakers play the Detroit Pistons, and I gave the finger, Mel Shaw: he stairs-did he want Nardwuar 'The Human" Serviette, who would later fr NARDWUAR "THE HUM BRAVES THE ^^ ii thei I dunno why. N: See this other photo I have of you? (It's a pix of Flea giving "the tongue.") Why we you, Mr. Rea, giving the tongue here? Had you just seen the LA Kings lose? F: Well, I don't really like hockey very much. N: Do you like the punkish combo, DOA? F: Yeah, I love DOA. N: They worship Hockey religiously. F: I know they do. But see, I was brought up on basketball. I was brought up in Hollywood. There's no snow or ice there, so I don't know much about hockey. I'm a basketball guy. But as for the tongue, I dunno man. N: Is Ska dead? F: You know that band I was talking about, the Travelling Dingleber- ries, featuring Mr. Moore from Fishbone? They're a really great Ska band. N: Have you ever been spotted with Heather Locklear or Christina Brinkley poolside? F: I dunno, but last weekend I was hanging out with Julio Iglesias, backstage, after seeing his show at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. And he was there with these four beautiful Spanish women, and I was there with a few of my buddies, and he said to the women, he goes, "Here's these guys, these young men; they could fuck all of you five times each." N: What is Vancouver known for? F: The whales. Where the whales are. N: Why do you like the Beatles, Flea? F: 'Cause they're a good band. They write good songs. N: They're in commercials, too, just like the Peppers. F: Well, ya know, me and Paul, ever since we were working on the "Live the first one dowrv Nardwuar'kicked out'? y in New York's electric chair, strikes a proud pose AN" SERVIETTE . * G,\5- Zeppelin suck? F: You ha ve to figure that out for yourself. It could possibly be that they were one of the most soulful, innovative, hardrock bands to ever play. N: Are drugs bad? F: I refuse to answer that question. N: Who is the Prime Minister of Canada? F: Mulroney? N: You got it, pardner; thanks, and here's a lucky chesnut! Sunday, March 3, signalled the end ofthe wonderful Westex weekend workshops, and the beginning of the Juno countdown. Rendezvousing at approximately 1:30 PM outside the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, CiTR delegates Bepi Crespan and myself had no trouble passing through the media gate with our Student Radio Society identification. Once inside, we were led to a location deep down beneath the theatre which was set aside as the Press Room. Here's how it worked: after each Juno award winner had accepted their prize upstairs in the QE Thealre, they were led to the basement below to answer any questions directed their way by the Media. A real "Rockline" deep-voiced GQ-styled guy acted as the moderator for the press conference, controlling the number of questions from the floor. One of the very first Juno recipients paraded our way was Walt with me in the Shades of Blonde, who later became the 49th Parallel. N: How did the 49th Parallel do compared to the Stampeders? MS: The Stampeders were on television, and the most popular group, but the next group thai was coming up was Danny Lowe and the 49th Parallel. In fact, I told the Stampeders that if they stayed in Calgary, the 49th Parallel would surely become the most popular group. N: So how come, with hits like "Labourer," "Citizen Freak," and Twilight Women," the 49th Parallel didn't hit it big? GQ DEEP-VOICED MODERATOR GUY: Sorry to interrupt your thoughts, I just want to—I hate to jump in like this— N: How can you stop the 49th Parallel with such great lyrics as "I gel up earlylEal your oats/Gel your paper/Go and vole/You shave each morninglYou re so meekJ' Cause day by day, week by week/We hale you—Citizen FreakT The 49th Parallel, they're— GQDVMG: This has turned into a variety package, hasn't it folks! Now, onto the President of CARAS... To be quite honest, I was flabbergasted, dumbfounded and downright upset that this GQ Deep-Voiced Toronto Powcr-Luncher Moderator guy had cut mc off, not for lack of time, but for the simple reason he probably didn't think my questions were Rolling Stone enough. Caught up in this confusion, my eyes failed to notice a hulking figure moving closer and closer and closer and... BANG! "YOU'RE OUTTA HERE KID!" "No, please sir, for the love of the Junos, let me stay! Let me talk to MC Hammer. Let me gab with Glass Tiger. Let me ask basic que- It was a brutal killing. But why did they snuff out the life of that innocent boy? Why? rhy? Why? The answer finally came as esult of a brilliant police investigation. Fantastic Tour," decided that we would get together and whore ourselves for thccommericialization of several products, and useour music to further corporate systems. N: 1 was in a club the other night, wearing a touque, and a girl came up to me and said, "How dare you wear a touque in here," and then walked away. Guess what she was wearing on the back of her leather jacket? F: Not a Chili Peppers sticker! N: Yup, and then the day, I went into 7-11 and picked up the new College issue of Spin, where some University of Missouri students said their favorite band was... F: The Red Hot Chili The 49th Parallel: If only the Stampeders had stayed in Calgary, Peppers. they would have become 'the most popular group' N: So, did I, a young boy, encounter two typical Red Hot Chili Peppers Fans—the Frat guys in ihe Spin magazine, and sort of the rocker- altemative type who didn't like my touque in the hot, sweaty, club? Are those two typical Red Hot fans? F: I really couldn't tell you. We get little chubby kids, tall skinny old men, retarded Mexican people, and genius Bulgarians. All kinds of different people come to see up play. We just do what we do. But I think that should be my closing statement... N: Just a few more quick questions, please. Flea? Why dosen't Led Here, in a courtroom re-creation, "the plea to the Juno committee: "How Grealis Industry Builder Award winner, Mel Shaw: former manager of the Stampeders, founding president of CARAS, and general Canadian music busi- anything about the explosive, dynamic, 1960's Calgary rock n' roll scene? Believing this to be a legitimate question I uttered: NARDWUAR Mel, you're from Calgary? MEL SHAW: Yes. N: And the Stampeders were the most famous group to come from Calgary? MS: Yes. N: Have you ever heard of the legendary '60s punk rock band, the 49th Parallel? MS: Yes, Danny Lowe, who's currently involved with Q-Sound, recorded his first record Serviette"makes an empassioned "So ,ong. can you stop the 49th Parallel?" Sucker, the GQ Deep-Voiced Toronto Power-Lunch M oderator smi rked in true Family Feud style as I was dragged up the stairs, past the Media Reception room containing free kegs of Molson's beer, past Paul Janz, and out into the real world. I HAD BEEN BOOTED OUT OF THE J UNOS FOR ASKING A RUDIMENTARY HISTORICAL QUESTION ABOUT MADONNA! "Madonna?" you ask. Yes, Madonna indeed. Danny Lowe, lead screamer of the 49th Parallel, had, in later years, gone on to develop Q-Sound, used exclusively by MADONNA. Didn't that GQ DEEP-VOICED POWER-LUNCHING TORONTO MODERATOR BOZO know he was insulting a Top 40 relic like Madonna when he decided to deprive me of attending the Twentieth Annual Juno Awards? Mel Shaw had no problem in relating the intriguing 49th Parallel-Madonna relationship, however, Mr. GQ Deep-Voiced Moderator did. Why? He had a job to do which did not include allowing anyone to gain any more than the most basic insights into the Candian Music Industry. 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APRIL 1973 21 PACIFIC NATIONAL EXHIBITION'S ALL-TIME, GOOD-TIME FAIR" presents a "Salute to Music" in 1991 (August 16 - September 2) The P.N.E. is about to begin its annual recruitment drive for Fairtime employees. The job opportunities are vast and varied, including ticket sellers, patrol, hosts/hostesses, waiters/waitresses, ground maintenance, pet and poultry, tour train conductors/drivers and many, manv more. There are over 1,500 positions waiting to be filled, ranging from $7.06 to $10.16/hour. If you would like to join in the fun, please apply in person at our JOB FAIR, where a listing of positions together with pay rates will be available: Thursday, May 9, 1991 11am-6pm Friday, May 10, 1991 11am-6pm Saturday, May 11, 1991 9am - 4pm GARDEN AUDITORIUM EXHIBITION PARK RENFREW & HASTINGS VANCOUVER, R.C. UBC STUDENT UNION BUILDING LOWER CONCOURSE ALL AGES WELCOME Hi, this is David Hawkes from CiTR 101.9 fM in Vancouver. Who are you? I'm Clint from Pop Will Eat Itself. Are you coming to North America soon? Yeah, in about just over two weeks... I'm looking forward to IL You know it's the land of commercialism. We've been there a couple of times now and I like it; I'm an American fan. Iguess you guys are quite familiar with your success here in North America. People say to us, "Oh well you're coming to America, you're gonna go and play America and there'll probably be, you know, few people there to see ya" and we go "Fun. Great." I mean, we just turn up and play; some nights there's a lot of people and there's other nights where there's not so many. It's sort of really hard to equate what it all means; we're just playing the gigs as far as we can see... I enjoy touring... I sort of just like the lifestyle, I suppose.... It's mostly about having fun; getting up in the morning and travelling can be a drag, but..I just like having fun, you know. Have you felt that, as a guy, that you've come along since the Beaver Patrol days, or it that still very much an agreeable attitude? I'd like to think so, really. Did you get any flack for that? Yeah, we got a lot, and due to that, I think we learned a lot, really... I mean, I'm not saying we've turned into new men or something, you just sort of, like, I guess get to understand the different sort of attitude because it's been brought to your attention, and I think that's good... If you didn't leam any lessons, you'd still be like wearing diapers as they say, I suppose... Is Grebo Patrol still happening with the Beaver Patrol, or are you guys in it for the money now? I don't think so...I mean, I saw a guy in the street the other day that I haven't seen for quite a while, and he comes to me and says, "Oh, I saw you on some TV show... It was great. Well pleased for you; are you making lots of money now?" And I said, "Well no..." It doesn't really work like that, I don't think. 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(from THE IMCREDBLEPWEJ vs TVE MORAL MAJORITY) PWELDH when you're touring or you can have a better hotel... People look after you a little better, maybe that starts for them to make you a little pampered, I suppose, and maybe you lose that sort of gritty edge that made you write certain songs that you've written... We've just done Australia where we're sort of reasonably popular so we're quite well looked after there. You're very popular there. I spend a lot of time in Brisbane, andthafswherelfirstgottumed on to you guys, actually. We were in Brisbane about three weeks ago, and we did a club called the Manhattan Club... It was a bit of a wild night actually; the PA blew up halfway through the gig, and we were on stage for about half an hour while they fixed it, and so we were really pissed of at this. Butwe went back on, and itwas an absolute riot, we had probably most of the crowd on the stage... It was a great night in the end. I saw New Order across the street at the Roxy, and they played for twenty minutes; are you guys playing longer than twenty minutes these days? Yes, we're doing a mammoth set at the moment; we're up to at least 27 minutes. You thank James "cunt" Brown on Box Frenzy, right? (laughs) It's a different James Brown. On "This is the Day," you described the arrest of James Brown, the Godfather of Soul... Did you get any flack for hassling him, or basically pointing out to people what a drug addict he was at the time of his arrest? No, we didn't at all actually; I mean, that song just seems to have been universally well-liked because of the way we did it, which was nice. In Canada, you guys are getting huge rotation on MuchMusic. Do you think people expect to see a music video when they see you in concert? Do they expect this really slick package continuously for your 27 minutes? They probably get a really slick package for the first 27 minutes, then for the next 45 minutes we completely drop apart (laughs). When we play live, as far as we're concerned, we're just like an extension of the crowd, just four more guys that are getting into it, and we hope that everybody would be getting into it with us. I don't know whether we'll ever come across as being 'slick' or not, that's one thing that we've never ever really been called I don't think... The "XYZ" single was pretty damn slick, in the way that it was beautifully produced. It could almost be called overproduced to a certain degree. Is that how you feel about it? If somebody said that about it, I wouldn't be alarmed. How did you find [producer] John Waddell? He used to be in a band called Nasty Rox Inc. They toured with us once over here, and we were looking for somebody to, like, remix "XYZ" for the single and we used a guy called Pascal Gabriel who's done a fair amount of mixes and that, and I don't know, [Gabriel's version] didn't really have it, but John did "XYZ" and it seemed to really kick. I was wondering about the Yellow Vinyl. Did you have anything to do with re-releasing something on Yellow Vinyl? As a Yellow Vinyl junkie, it was nice to have a collector's item again. In England, they like a format for the record, somebody's got a choice between two records. They might go for the one that's got a little bit of extra something about it to make them buy it the first week of release so you can get in the charts basically. Some bands don't really like that type of stuff, and I myself don'treally care, I don't really have a problem with How is BMG, your label, in giving you the space and the time to record what you want? They're good.... We were on independent label [Chapter 22] for a couple of years over here, and we were being reasonably successful in our field. Because we already set ourselves up quite well, the guy that signed us basically understood the type of band that we were. Itwas better off leaving us to it. Obviously they put up with this and that, but they leave us alone by and large... We're pretty affable guys, we get along with people On video, it looks like you are actually having fun as opposed to |ust sort of doing it. On that "XY and Z" video though, it was a pretty good day. Who directed that? A guy called John Klein. He's an American actually, you might not know him but he did a TV program over here called "Buzz" that was like a video montage type of program that was very good. What do you think about this whole Manchester Happy Mondays thing? Are they too baggy or what? It's the same with anything; you got a bunch of bands and some of them are going to be good and some of them are shit What are you listening to now yourself? It sort of varies; bunch of stuff really. I went to see Jane's Addiction last night, who I really like. African Headcharge are a bit of a favorite; they're quite good. I like a lot of dance stuff as well; I like KLF, they tend to be a bit erratic but, I mean, I like 'em. Vestan Pance seems to be writing everything for the band. Are you getting your little bit in there? We used Vestan Pance... Well , ifs like a hangover from when we were on the dole over here, and we had our first records out and you have to put down your publisher, and ralher than having our four names we just did it under a pseudonym of Vestan Pance. Where did that come from? Well, you wear a vest and pants... Ahh. That's pretty stupid... Can you basically walk through the streets and feel pretty much that you're left alone and can live normally? Yeah... where I live is a pretty smallish town anyway. I just go down to the pub... When you really felt that you had really done something, where you had touched the world with your music, when wasthat,andhowdid you know? I don't really think about it that much, I'm just thinking about what I'm going to do next I don't really sit back and think "Wow aren't we great," at any point... [It's] really odd, the fact that you can go around the world and there could be x amount of people come to one of your shows and they all know the words to some song that you wrote in your bedroom...half a world away... I suppose to a certain degree you have touched them but I don't really think about it too much or I try not to. I can't understand why people need this idea of someone who is in a band or a film star being some kind of mega being. They're just somebody who's doing something... People start thinking you are larger than life and I think maybe that's going to be pretty shirty... Are you guys all scared of flying? No, it's just me. Why, do you have vertigo? I don't know what it is. I don't think it is a question of vertigo; it might be claustrophobia or just the tact that I'm completely scared of dying in a big hunk of metal. I look at these people and I think I don't know you at all but we might make history together if this baby goes down. I don't need to be part of that piece. I like to think that I'll go peacefully in my sleep at about 99... I don't need all that hero stuff; I'm quite happy to go with a cup of tea by the bed. It must be kind of nice to have Matthew Oliivier and Alan Moulder in engineering with you. When you make a record it's kind of nice to have people who are good, (a) good at their job and (b) just good people that you get on with. So that it's like a happy camp of everybody just enjoying themselves because obviously there are times that it does seem like really hard work and if everybody is getting along it makes it all that easier. So you sit there for six months in a studio, then you have your record out, then you're hearing it on the radio and then you have to go play the damn thing in the clubs; you must get sick of it. (laughs) Yeah, you do, to be quite honest. That's why it's good that a tour is three weeks long or maybe amonthlong. Ifyoudo longer than that, you really start to, not hide the songs, but you really can't put the conviction into them that you could at the start of the tour. I never really listen to our records anyway—or try not to, not that I try not to but I don't sort of listen to them: the only time I hear them after about a month of finishing them is when we are doing them on tour. The Incredible Pop Will Eat Itself vs. The Moral Majority is an incredible piece, with the samples of everything. Do you believe music is a gift from God, to exult him? Or are you basically just religious-free? 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It's a good way of reaching lots of kids, lots of people. So I went through a guy called David [Funkenklein] Klein, who was with Red Alert Productions at the time, who was goin' to Hollywood Records as director of rap. He was familiar with the program already, and one idea grew to another idea. He had two producers from Denmark, Solid Productions, come in and they brought in the studio. Then I went to a couple of guys in here who were into rap music and I asked them could they define for me in a rap format what everyday prison life is for you in here because I want to send a message out to the youth. They wanted to rap about other things also, but I kept it within my guidelines and then we recorded everything. What rap groups are popular In there? I listen to Gang Starr, KRS-1; I like comedic rap. Digital Underground, Chubb Rock, Kool G Rap, a little bit of [Big Daddy] Kane. I like a little bit of somethin* of each rapper, whether it's the creative- ness of it or the production of it; I like some part of every rapper who's done somethin'. As far as Public Enemy goes, I like their music, and no one speaks about blackness better than themselves. As far as NWA and Ice Cube, they speak about Compton and gangsta rap. The Lifers Group speak about the harsh realities of everyday prison life, and we do it better than anyone else 'cause we're livin' it every day. They're [NWA and Ice Cube, who also speak about "prison life"] livin'by a fairy tale and we'relivin'the real deal. Kids look up to NWA, the Geto Boys, Above the Law and groups like that who tell them that they were runnin' things when they were in prison when in fact it's nothin' like that. They don't say that a guy might have been extortin' him or a guy was tryin' to rape him; they don't tell the kids this when they get out of jail. For instance. Ice Cube said he spent a week in the county jail and it was like a piece of cake to him. Well, that's bullshit Inhere you don't know what time of night you're gonna have to wake up, you don't know when somebody might try to take your life; you don't know these things. Prison life is glorified in gangsta rap, and I'm tryin' to tell the kids that prison is hell, 'cause it is. The only reason that we were allowed to do this is because The Lifers Group is a rap act which consists of convicts serving life sentences at the Railway Maximum Security Prison in New Jersey. Recently they released an EP entitled The Real Deal. Discorder talked to Maxwell Melvins, #66064. we're in the business of dealin' with kids and people were pretty much in support of what the Lifers Group do. Are there plans to do any more tunes to follow up your EP? Yes, there is. We're plannin' on doin' an album. How does the Scared Straight Program operate? We have two tours a day, an AM tour and a PM tour [where the kids are brought in]. Different organizations outside that are familiar with the Lifers Group call and schedule the tour. They bring the kids in so that they can experience prison life first hand. We give them a tour up a couple of the wings, put a couple of them inside a cell to let them get the feelin' of what it's like bein' in a tiny cell, then we have a couple of guys roll up on them as though, you know, this is what could happen to you and what could you do about it if these guys approach you like this... you can be overpowered. From there they are taken up to the auditorium for a presentation. Six or seven guys give a spill, which is personal experiences that they've been through in their life. Then we have a rap session with them. And we have an advantage over counsellors or law enforcement who might have went to school for this because we actually lived this life when we were out there... You know what I'd like you to do for me if you could? I would like you to let the kids know that we still have our Juvenile Awareness Hotline here. hav- Do you have a number? Yeah,it's908-574-2107.It' also for parents who ing problems with their kids. You straight? Yeah. Alright, see ya. Who are the Residents? Well, I guess you could say that the Residents are a group of artistic types who like to do projects. Tell us about the Residents' history. It's kind of difficult to capsulate. They spent about ten years in the studio, and recorded as many albums, and then decided that they wanted to try touring. Three years later they went on tour again, and then three years after that, which is the current tour. What is the current tour about? It's called Cube-E, subtitled the History of American Music in Three E-Z Pieces. The first piece is cowboy music, and then there's black music, and finally the music of "the King," that is to say Elvis, who is called "the baby king." Did this tour develop from the concept of the album The King and Eye? Should it be considered part of the American Composer series? The concept of the tour sort of spun off from the American composer series and the album The King and Eye developed out of that concept. Will the Residents come to Vancou- finding out stuff that we didn't know was out there. Well, the Residents are self-supporting; they're not like a rock band on tour and so they generally lose a bit of money every time they tour. They would have liked to go there, but there were scheduling problems, and there isn't enough of a supporting area there to make a trip up there economically worthwhile. That includes Washington and Oregon. Are the Residents still connected with Ralph Records? Lately their work has been appearing on a number of different labels. The Residents actually formed Ralph Records; it was their label. The Cryptic Corporation formed around developing Ralph, and then Ralph was sold to an independent. At this point the Residents were no longer tied contractually to anyone and had freedom to go where they wanted, and we could look for the best deals for them for each new project. What is your current status with the Residents? Well, we're their managers, but we've pulled back a bit and a new guy, Rich Shupe, is handling the monetary and organizational side of things. Officially we're their personal managers. How many albums have the Residents produced in total? That's hard to answer because there are all these grey areas, like compilations and EPs which are almost album length, and joint efforts. Then there are the compilations which have been released only in Japan, or only in Europe so it's really hard to say. We use the figure of eighteen, about one a year. The Residents themselves count by projects, which includes live shows and videos, When will this be released? I just saw the first draft of this today; it's really complete and on a data base, so we're hoping late fall of '91. What's the true story of why the Residents wear big eyeballs over their heads? Originally the eyeballs were a one-shot concept, just for the cover of Eskimo, but it grabbed the public's attention; people really had a taste for it. They tried to leave it right after that but people kept talking about it, they'd say 'The Residents: those guys with the eyeballs," and so the Cryptic Corporation made the decision to keep it from a promotional standpoint. The eyeball and top hat and tuxedo is like an icon, it seems. Of course, they don't care about such things, but they went along with it. It's changing a bit too: on the latest tour they have these big cubist eyeballs that cover their whole body. Why does one of the Residents have a skull instead? I've heard something about one of the eyes being stolen. Yeah, on their previous tour they were in LA and someone stole one of the eyeballs right out of the dressing room. It was on a tour so we needed to take action quickly... The Residents were wearing white tuxedos on this tour, so the one whose it was went into mourning and put on a black tuxedo and this skull, and the skull was blind, you see; he couldn't see out of it because his eye had been stolen. Of course, now it's been accepted as part of their image so it's been made permanent. Is there a third part to The Mole Trilogy, or does it go one, two, four? Yes, there is. That is, it's never been recorded or released, but to the Residents it exists. The Mole Trilogy concept is for three sets of double albums, three music and three story, so part three will be the story that'/Tie Big Bubble is the music for, and then parts five and six will be story and music again. What are some of the Residents' influences? Film. All their music is visually oriented and written with the dramatic approach in mind. They think of "sound movies" when they write music. Snakeflnger had been an associate of the Residents since the very beginning. How did his death affect them? Did it affect their music at all? Well, by far the greatest effect was personally. He was their friend before they became musicians and their musical association was a result of that friendship. He had a history of heart trouble, so they weren't too shocked, but it still affected them deeply, although maybe more in the sense of "Well, we're still alive, so we've still got time to finish some more projects, so let's get working." Of course, they have his shoes and they consider those to be •^ DJING DJ DARREN REITER (I'M BACK!) DEMF. Unbelievable 2) Jane's Addiction • Been Caught Stealing 3) Bootsauce • Masterstroke 4) Charlatans • The Only One I Know 5) KMFDM • Godlike 6) Front 242 • Tragedy (For You) 7) JMC • Tower of Song 8) Jesus • International Bright Young Thing 9} Ministry • Thieves 10) Skinny Puppy • Smothered Hope with the Cryptic Corporation: those mysterious men who manage The Residents spiritual home, so they're hap- His "sole"? Yeah, somethinglike that. Where did the Residents go on the Cube-E tour? We went across the US and to Europe twice, and to Montreal and Toronto. We had wanted to go to Russia, but there were financial problems due to the Russian economy. and they count twenty-two of those. Is there a definitive discography of the Residents? Well, a number of people, including myself, are attempting this. It will be in book form, completely cross-indexed, with countries of release and dates. We didn't keep recordsofthisstuff, so we're relying a lot on real heavy collectors, and we're Are the Residents a CD-only band now? Yes. In America, you can't sell albums/vinyl at all anymore, only CDs and tapes. After an album is released, though, they may sell vinyl rights, especially to countries like Spain and Greece where they don't have CDs. What will be the Residents' next release? It's calledFreakshowand it's coming out in March and it's really hot. Of course, UWEB [Uncle Willie's Eyeball Buddies, the Resident's "fan club"] is releasing limited-edition CDs as well; if you're interested, contact them at 35 Montana Street, San Francisco, CA USA 94112. BEAT ASSASSINATOR'S TOP TEN TUNES 1. Meat Beat Manifesto • Now 2. Public Enemy • Anti-Nigger Machine 3. Morgoth • Dictated Deliverance 4. Gang Starr • Step in the Arena 5. Front 242 • Neurobashing 6. Renegade Soundwave • Thunder 7.KMFDM»Friede 8. Sad Mondays • Step Off 9. AC • Radar Code 10) Skinny Puppy • Spasmolytic THE CHRONIC SESSION 10 1) My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult • A Girl Doesn't Get Killed by a Make-Believe Lover 2) Sisters of Mercy • Dr. Jeep 3) Front 242 • This World Must Be Destroyed 4) Meat Beat Manifesto • Psyche Out (Version ] 5) KMFDM • Naive 6) Revolting Cocks • Stainless Steel Providers 7) Pop Will Eat Itself • X, Y, Zee 8) Happy Mondays • Kinky Afro 9) Renegade Sound Wave • Thunder 10) Chris Connelly • Stowaway APRIL 1991 25 we ddn't wont to do tha keyboard player hidden behind the amp*lef situation Ira a lot ot hard rock groupi do Donl run down lha loverboy kayboord ployar too much, bacouoa, remember, ha rahioad to do lha ooundtrock tor top four guys and a girl, we have a new keyboard player. Gerry Vanel. a San Francisco legend, and we're jmt people who like to go out on itage and perform rock and rol numbers that we penned ourselves and you know, we Ike to Just do It and we Ike to play for people; It's a fun thing. Who are the olher members of Redd Kross, specifically then? Myself Jell, my brother Steven plays bass and sings, and Robert Hecker plays lead guitar, he's been wtth us lor six years. And we have two new members: Brian Wetzel, the drummer, and Jay Vanel. she's Ike our newest legendary oddrtion. she plays You said the word "legendary" twice. What's her legend? She's just a very famous keyboards player around the San Francisco area, she's a cabaret pi- Youm mshedc does; she plays organ and piano She's like a classically trained person so It's amazing 'cause when we break strings she goes into C hopin and various things to keep the audience entertained so there's no dead space What happened? Weill! took off because we wer< with our current pop culti frowned upon as being a cutture-iess society but It's totaty urtrue; It's there In our foce We just Ike are lucky enough to recognize that 'Wow. It is going down * I mean, you know, at the great artists in the past starved to death. Ike France for Instance, ond then they totally based their existence on people they let starve. Wei we pay homage to David Cassidy whle he's stiaUve so he doesn't have to starve lot of the records he put out and Bomp Magazine was realy great. It was kind of like a guide for us teens Hos there been some mystery surrounding the beginning ol Redd Kross? I always hear something about Greg Helton ; whot- he doing In Redd K ross ? Wo il Greg went to school with me in Hawthorne. Calfomia at Hawthorne High School, thai was the school of the Beach Boys, the legendary Brian Wilson went there. So you went to school with Wilson Phillips? Wei the parents of WHson PWtps. they later moved out to Hollywood before the kids were bom. but Emmett Roach of Merry Go Round went to Hawthorne High so It kind of had a rock and rol vibe. We a real vibe that we thought It was our duty to keep the legend... I use the word 'legend' a lot; It's an impor- iisdayar iagetx there's a lot of unrecognized legends en Crag Hetson wot a good pal of yours and he just jumped in the band, at simple a* that. Wei. not really. We were in photography class together and I was developing my first negatives and they wereof Exene fromXand I had seen one of thek first shows In Ho»ywood and he sold. "Oh wow. you Ik* X." and he hod the Go-Gos' very first gig at the Whiskey A Go Go on tape so we realized wow. played guitar I said. wow. I play guitar and write songs and my brother plays bass and he jusl went " Really?" but then he realized my brother was 11 years old and he though It was too unhlp to play with an 11 year old so we hod to like try- to find someone else, then he Jammed wtth us and sold'Wow.thlskiealy good!' so we got a drummer who was In the school orchestra with my brother and we Just started playing out of our garage and before we knew It. we we re making records ond playing clubs. What about the story ol the two girls in Ihe band? the Som Innocent period, our first full-length album. There wos an Interview of you In FUpttd* a little while ago with two girls in the band. A little while ago? That was ike 80/81; it might have beenanoldpicture We hoda girl drummer. Janet Howsden. ond a very Brian Jonos-esaue rhythm guitarist named Tracey Lee and they were friends of ours from ou neighborhood and when Greg He fson I the Circle Jerks and our drummer left Join Block Flag- mot we wanted to keep It going to we got our two friend and that's when we <_d the very poychedelc atoum. Bom And then you began to worship Ihe legendary Cramps; are Redd Knot the bollard tons ol the Cramps? Oh. I think so We never mode o point of being prodigies of the Cramps, you know, they weren't our mentors, but wed go see them Actually, we learned how to be rock stars by watching the Cramps We notlcedthat when the Cramps played a they w thread that goes through al of us and it's kind of a cool little menoge a trois we have going Why does the world need an album like Third ly* when the Partridge Family already exists without C-FOX quality production? Wei. see.the Partridge Famiry. they exist but In the past; they don't make new records and you can only listen to the old records so much, so we feel It's our duty to keep the spirit alive Is the average age ol Redd Kross, Jeff McDonald ol the rock group Redd Kross, still only 21 yean old? Yeah. 23 to 27. How about you personalty? I'm 27. yean? We just started very young; twos 14 and he was 11 when we started writing songs and ploying In clubs. -, Who It Kim Fowley? If I'm gonna use that word "legend.* I might as weltus. It wtth Kim Fowley. Kim Fowley Is a recoid-pro- ducer/song-wrtter/Svengoli ttxjt has been around since the '50s He wqt a rtxal of Phi Spector's at one time. c*»_ he wrote and produced mony hit ingles bke Popcicles and Icicles by the Mermaids and Alley Oop. and he later wirrt on to produce great groups like The Quick and the Runaways; he helped to create the Runaways. Kim Fowley Is truly a genius, although he may offend some wtth his modern attitudes about sex... He Is just a very brilliant man Whafs the scoop onyer former la bal, Big Time Records; was it, asubskJiary ola big Independent? WeU. Big Time was a record label that spawned the original Air Suppy recordings, and the person who managed ond was responsible for that group Air Supply, started a label wtlh the profits he made from that group and signed groups like Hoodoo Gurus. Alex Chilton, and Christmas and Redd Kross. It was a nice little thing while it last ed but unfortunately Ike a bt of good things. It wos misunderstood and slightly mismanged and It kind of went the way of a bt of other groovy things. You're on Atlantic now? Yes. going to produce one of the tracks off the Thkdly atoum but she wanted us to go to record at her house In Long Wand and we were behind schedule so we didn't have time to do It. urtortu- How old it Debbie Gibson? I think she's So poosibty, 10 yean ago, It the wot hip enough, the could've been In attendance at a Redd Kross gig? Wei. she theirs and check out soma of their riffs. You snow, l's kind of *ke a rock community, kind of thing. Where do you play when you play your shows? In HoRywood? Yes In fact, we just ployed one lat night and we're ploying one tonight at the Henry Fondo T heat re When you were starting out os Redd mlftng around In the oudlence being m they pul much Importance on their entrance, which wos very theatrical So we learned that by observing the Cramps from afor ond you know, what they did and their attitudes The Cramps were Ike the first underground rock star group at the big. huge rock concerts but as for as the ckjbt. the underground scene, everyone was kind of anti-rock star ond there the Cramps were being rock stars and we thought. Wow, you know, that's realy cool, we need some rock stars In this scene because everyone was too afraid to be rock stem Are Jellyfish and the Posies the bollard toru of Redd K root? I think quite possibly, to an extent they both were Influenced by us and It's so great I think muslcalY. Jellyfish, the Posies and Redd Kross are Why doyou like LedZeppelin? Why donl they tuck? I think it's Robert Plant's incredible mystical lyrics I mean, he wrote "Stairway to Heaven' In 20 minutes Crazy. I know So I figure. OK. that's fine. And. you know. Jimmy Page is a witch so. therefore, he'sgotalot go ingfor him. Why do people like Soundgarden? I think people like Soundgarden because they've got that Sab-Mod quality thot locks Ina lot of othercurrent rock groups Such at The Gibson. Debbie? Debbie locks in Sab-Mod quality-let's turn that Into Mod-Sab-and I think that Debbie might be a little y. Black Sabbath. But. you know. I think that Soundgarden are quite in touch with it; they're another one of those bands that had the guts to go and acknowledge true genius. there? It thai a huge tuper-duper excellent place? Wei It's rnedkjm tuper-duper excelent ploce and It's a legitimate theatre; True hod just been running there so It kind of has that Broadway \ribe I think that. yeah, when we first started, our dream was to play the Whiskey A Go-Go It that godlike structure stilt standing? It wot no* heaven, wail? It wot dirty and terrible Donl you get otot pteudo-hlp- py, nice drink-juice people coming to ~ oteptoywthyou Ihe true tplril of Redd Krooo? No. very fortunately the think there are alot of people who ire to wear alot of groovy clothes but the hippy mentally it pretty much very stagnant on Haight Street m Son Francisco And those people on Haight Street don't goto letheysc Has II ever closed down? Yes. tt did. We octuaty played the last show ever at the Whiskey A Go-Go with the Bongs and the Aleycats. two great bands from Loo Angeles: the Bangs who later became the Bangles and the Aleycats were one ot the first bands in town. They were supposed to the very last show ever at the Whiskey and they were supposed to turn It into a bank ond It was closed for. Ike. two yean and then they reopened Ike celebrity dob or toys that we Ike or a cool pak of ports or maybe a shirt. large, or great books. Um. I'm sure that youl get backstage so Whot was the whole idea behind the Tater Totz concept? Wei. I think we were al extremely bored at one point because we didn't have a record deal yet and we were kinda of just sitting around doing nothing so we Just started Jamming ot an eight-trock studio, and we have alot of friends who are obo musi- clons. and we Just started doing these recordings and there was somebody who wanted to put them out and they Just ended up in the record stores For rea den who would Totz lo a Yoko Ono... w, Ihe Tater v That olbum she put Almost right up there with Gerry Roslie of the Sonlct? Oh yeah; I think he's up there wtth Jim Morrison Have you ever met Danny Sugorman? Um. actually 1 think I hove. I'm not really sure ..>le used lo Befriends with one of purguitar ptayers. Trocey your gigs and olmott jumped U| itoge? Debbie Harry <x -eafterih possible. We hove a k coming to check us out. Last night, the Cowslb jumped up on-stoge. the Origl- qurte aware and she's into tt. She understands the cause Yoko's been struggling for a long time. I think the B-52s in alot of ways were her personal Jellyfish What about Yoko? Dont you think Yoko wrecked Ihe leaflet? They had great tuneo before the got Involved. And also great ALBUMS after she got involved. Have you ever heard the Two Virgins YQuenJoyodfhoTbookTf lenjoyedthat that book? Oh y»_ definitely l resented everybody whoneod that book, but then l peked up a copy and 1 found that l couldn't put it dowt. Was Danny Bonaduce in that new movie, nieDpoi»?ltw»orlsawh|rn in there. Did he play Ed Sullivan? but I think it's quite possible that he has a cameo in The Doors film. When you see the Ed Sullivan character, I think you should look very closely and you might see some tinge of Danny Bonaduce In Who it Mary Beth Mann? That's an incredible question! She's a top fashion designer in New York. Thot you just happened to meet ot a power lunch? Yeah, we had power lunch; she designed some of our clothes fom our earlier endevours and she's realy big now so we can't realty afford anymore, but she's still a friend. So we did have power lunch. DESIGNS your clothes! So you don't hunt out junk shops anymore? It's ol top designers or people who wil be top He couldn't have Jumped up on-stoge then. No. Bo* wasn't there but we had Joha Bob. Paul and Susan last night. Doyou think the Cowtlllt are better than Old Skull? Oh I think they're way better than Old Skul. I think they were responsible for thekmuslc and not thek parents although thek mother was great. I think we are suspicious of Old Skul We are supportive of Old Skul and we think It's greot ond we think the kids should just keep on doing what they're doing. We fear that thek father writes some ot thek lyrics. "Ronald Reagan! tad guyl" That's one of Iheir lyrics, isnt It? Wei there's a song wheretheysayNke.youknow. "Mymom pooed ki my shoe." or something Ike that. I think thek father must have wrote ended up leaving Yoko a few times. What would have happened if John Len- non got married fo Sutan Dey or tome- thing like thot? Thatwouldbeadisasrer Because Susan Dey would be free to be Susan Dey and John I think would just turn Into a hen-pecked man. Who would Sutan Dey be free to be then? She'd be free to be the Ray Manzarek-mfluenced keyboardist of the John Lennon solo project. Did you alto tee her on Amenio Halt? She kept on taying, "I have to start new projectt." And Anenio didnt once ask about past projects. Itn'tthatterrible. He was probably briefed by her protocol. So ■ Anenio Ihe anti-Yoko Ono? I think Anenio Is Hee The Butt-Kiss King of the planet. But It's cool, you know. He does his scene. Anyone who's gonna go on television and admit he's friends of MC Hammer has got problems. I figure he knew he was dealing with royalty Come on, you like some MC Hammer, dont you? No. I hate MC Hammer. I hate him. I hate MC Hammer wtth c passion because people con try to say he's blowing Michael Jackson out of the water with his incredible moves. Michael Jackson is the King. The minute he comes bock onto the ckcuit, MC Hammer wi be completely forgotten about. Do you have a but Robert Hecker's father does. He has about tea Even ones without turn signals, with just flog- like ones straight out of Nazi Germany? Pte-'44? Yes. I don't know much about know he has ALL the vintage Bugs. Anton Fig ot lata Night wih David Ik*- fermon tame part of the gigantic Redd Krooo Alumni organization? Anton's a nice man. What should I say? He's got a gig, he's comfortable. ity ki It and we weren't realy into It but they were. So we kind of drove them out by being completely irresponsible ond (I Um. Debbie Gfoson \ and actuc-y. Debbie w In Circus Circus? No We did tt Weekly, with vorious memben of LA Guns ond Redd Kross and it was really a nice little piece. That's' So they started coming to our shows and checking or But Critpin Clover, your favourite pal, wot on L*t1*rmon. You see. Crispin Glover went on David Latterman disguised as Jeff and/or Steve of Redd Kross and he kind of blew it for us. But you know It's fine; r» national television. But youknowI'djustassoonbeontoteAJghf " TNcke. videos like (licks ol Ihe Chocolate Watchband Where it the guy from the Chocolate Watchband th.se dayt? Oakland We have lots of great videos In fact. Roger from Jellyfish fumed us on to this Incredible group called St or Rock from San Francisco. They hod thek own television show, public access television show And they consisted of blues singer Monica West ond the Incredible keyboard styiings of Roland Grant I think they were the predecesson to W* to Power, one of our al time favourite period where they were kind of embarrassed about thek past and It took young musician! who are current and hip in the underground scene to telthem. "No. It's get them now. al that stuff's been disconnected, rightfully so because altt hat stuff was pretty cheesy to start off with. Crispin Glover The thing that's inter ing about Crispin Glover's phone m ber is he ahvays has a machine on b Phil Spector erewad wou Who It the Letter longs of the '90s? Uh. Ramones but hi Hkes Red-Kro gee. 1. that's hard — con 1 get bock to Ramones were you on thot one? Who was the Letter longs of the 'BOs? You mean getting locked up house? And guns pointed at -Byron Coley Irom Spin Magazine? Oh you're gonna do a record v. 3t type of behavior as one In the '80s — Peter Amett? Oh. wel maybe r hear ol the Hock*! mogaz id what happened to Phil Spector on your new album? No. because I think they thanked Phil Spec- tor on thek album As artists they can truly undentand Phil, but working wtth the man was probably another story altogether, ond they weren't emotionally prepared for it Jett, ofthe rock group Redd Kross, where it Rachel Sweet today? Rachel Sweet; that's really good because a friend of mine. Vicki Peterson, formerly of the and they write songs together I when Vicki does her record, there'I couple ol Rachel Sweet songs i Rachel Sweet song songs for the n Cry Baby, she did all the vocals fc leadcharocter. end she sang the tt song to Hmspro) What bond wos he In lo begin with? Fear? He was actually in the ChU Pep- pen Ant and then he did a little stmt wtth he was In Suburbia Quite brWant. Flea said on MuchMusic that Jimi Hen- drix-l dont know if thit lo true or not- had hit cock bronzed. It thai true? Oh. quite possibly Was he referring to the Plaster Casten of Chicago? They may have bronzed him from thek original mold they took of Jimi. The Plaster Cast- en are the famous groupies from Chicago who mode plaster molds of their favorite Idols' penises So who ess* made it in Ihere? Oh. everybody did from the '60s through the •70s; I think they retired in the '70s. rd Cohenl Leonard Cohen's cool but Suzanne Vega's Just ' "jt.Thethingaboutherislike.ldont ir music and 1 never have, but I was wtth someone that she was talking to and she's one of these people that you can be wtth someone else and she wont bokatyouand If yousayanything to her she'll barely acknowledge you so I've come to the conclusion that she's o BAD witch, probably a WICKED witch. e that od in that Angeles right now. So why did they I magazine eight m ing happened really? Wel. you know the movie business. It's very fickle, bizarre, confused and unorganized And Redd Kross wrole a song," T974," for The Spirt of '76. which it going to be coming thit way? Well the song Sonthe e released in BC. But it might Or at least on video What are soi Krou have Spirit of 76. t of the top movies Redd ten involved in, besides >u mean coming up? Which were moderately successful? Moderately successful in the underground, kind of elite, intellectual circles; and I was just In another film. I did another octing job ha movie called Gas. Food, and lodging wtth one of my actresses, lone Sky and James Brolin. Who was the hardest cock to get a bronze And also theMr T. Experience Irom San or? Jimi Hendrix, legend has tt. ntxi the Francisco, Mey cover ftochei Sweets large* one BUT r s not true. The person •What's In the Cuckoo Clock?*on their Who actually hod the largest penis was new LP. See, thcS's incredible. 1 think It's Peter Ton. of the group The Monkees; important for people to acknowledge ftochei Sweet you listen to the CD from The Monkees tVeln'67. they introduce Peter as "the But Ihe had greot songwritentoo didn't gargantuan Peter To*." Pete wosacool What obout Walt Disney? Hewasavoy- cess PnnctWfrom Japan eur, what can 1 say? Who it Princess Princess? A top group He't been preserved In tome way too. hasn't he? Wasn't be In tome sleep chamber? Yeah, he's froaen. frozen in 1 donl undentand theShonen Knife thing. Shonen Knife are an increcfcle group. They're Dylan. They're Dylan, The Beat Hoveyou seen the body ol Walt Disney? les and Squeeze all wrapped Up into NO, I've not been fortunate enough to one small petite Sttle package w« the body of WW Disney but 1 've not been fortunate"enough to meet Micha el Jackson so there afew things in my Ufe greatness ol "Thee Kniters" who've now thaM hove to do. become legendary after their unfoitu- Will it be hard lo meet Michael Jackson? broken up They have a new album Yes. 1 think so. OH. watt, woB. wart a had a feud wtth Ice T. It Ihere a central place lo find you. Mr Redd Krou? Hollywood Book 4 Potter? Hollywood Book & Poster. Farmers Market, at 11 o'clock in the morning, you'll find one us there eating donuts. eating coffee and reading the Star. stars? When you goto Farmers Marki are all the stars like Karl Maiden just Are they promiscuo walking up and down? Well no. but so. you'll see Sally Kellerman and an occasional Jodie Foster My friend Shannon Smith, a very good friend of ours. she was working at a mall in Santa )d she was having lunch and asleep on the floorand Billend Barbara Lijdli put this tape on and it jutrblew my mind sjla so I instantly started writing the people bockyard. who put the tape out and it got the Shonen Knife's address and we started writing to them and we found all their earlier records and rt was just like discovering the Beatles, you know, like digging up the Beatles or something. forth ? I don't think Cloris o light a cigarette n walked by. Ana sne just went. "Oh wow, Cloris Leachman! Hello!" and Cloris said. "Oh. hi!" sat down wtth her and then said, "Oh my gosh, you're smoking! I can't believe it!" and proceded to give her a 20 minute lecture on smoking. She said Because they have that tong Public Botht. I don't think "public bath" in Japan is like a public bath in this portion of the planet. I think it's more of a wholesome, clean place. Is Night Ranger's "Sister Christian" one ol the greatest songs ever written? It's one of the greatest tragedies in rock history. Whathappene e 'Ranger? Ic young girl. I can't believe you would do this to your body; I can't believe it!" and she just went on for olmost half an One Hme my dad wot taking an airplane bock from Alaska and he tat betide a normal looking guy with a wild guitar. Whaddya know, later, he found Night Ranger, they were there, ready to influence hoards of young musicians. They broke up too soon. And your Damn Yankees; I can't hang with Tommy Shaw. My prediction will be. somebody will say "Commie" Shaw in the presence of Ted Nugent, and it will all come into place and Ted will realize Tommy Shaw is a communist and hunt him down with a bow and orrow and eventually Cowsill and The Beach Boys are the greatest harmony singers of al time. We just turned out to be friends. n onto you: that you ley're totally bored e going through a think Roky It more of a genius thonSky. Roky has the riches In an artistic level, much more than Sky Were you on that Roky Ertkton tribute LP? i really rv. e LPs. to ten together the Shonen Knife tribute album but I think It stops there I mean, who else you've paid a fun. complete tribute to Shonen Knife? Certainly not Nel Young. Certainly not Brian Jones, which I've just Sheen is a very nice guy but he's a d he goes out with that guy from Kung fu I think his name is David Carradine I shattered her delusions ol love... We've been trying to get Arthur Lee'jphone number, there'safew Arthur Lees, but they're usually Chinese There areacouple I have some stars'names What happened to Salami? Salami Is the son of Dick Van Patten and I think he wil always be the son of Dick Van Patten sc To me, he'll always be Salami. Where it he now? I don't know, unfortunately I don't know. But I think there is time for a comeback Look at the kids from Fame, they are huge Stan in England How about the movie LA Story with Steve Martin? Oh. with Steve Mortin and the girt from Square Pegs, one ot the great- That'i what I wot going to ask you a bout! tt wot an early '«)• ihow, wain't It? Yes. tt was really weird because when Square Pegs fint came on. I was Ike. Oh great. never wrote a song with the Rolling He did do a good job, though. Too bod he lell asleep in a pool. He fell asleep a lot I do agree that Mick and Keith killed him I'm a big fan of Brian Jones but what do you cover? His early demos? percL Dovil. it titar work. ( work in "Sympathy fc Do you guys every wish you were girls? Oh. sure. I'm 30% female. I remember «/hen that big Pete Townsend scandal came out because he said. "I am a <voman!' well shit. I am a womon too. I think all rock and roll performers have to a successful ro be in tune with BOTH genders, they mi be able to bring out BOTH sides of the in their performers All the great perfon ers—Mick Jaggar. David Bowie. Mi Reno-lhey ALL a tion But then when they showed rt In reruns. I felt really unhip because I realized the show was so great ond I didn't acknowledge It when it was going down So you Immediately recognized her? Yeah, what's her name? Sarah something Parker Stevenson. was standing on of Roxbury and Carmelrta and I was just standing there by myself, getting my heod together for the next scene, and this grungy '65 Mustang with primer paint pulled up and stopped at the stop sign and I looked In the car ond It was Michael Jockson. It wasn't a Michael Impersonator, tt wasTHE Michael Jackson: I would recognbe that nose- job anywhere. I just said. 'Oh. hi Michael.' That was all I could say. It was weird. You didn't jump on the car? No. I was just. Ike. very casual; I had makeup smeared aH over my face. I said. "HI. Michael.' and he just sold. *HI.' and How did you link up with The Cows ills? Actually. I hod anotherfriend who found the Cowsills. you know, where they were living In Los Angeles and turned me onto common. I've always been a huge ta Where it the greatest guitar shop in America? Oh God. if s really hard to say because I fear that Guitar Centre is spreading like a hideous cancer and putting aH those poor mom n' pop guitar stores out of business I like various guttar stores in Los Angeles, like Voltage Guitars: it's a vintage guitar shop in Hollywood and they sell the used guitars of Rick Nielsen and Suzanna Hoffs. When I was in there the other day. I wos checking out a' 76 Gibson Firebird; I was In the shop with Charlotte of the Go-Gos/ Graces lame and who walked in but Billy Mummy from Lost In Space, one of my favorite shows of all time, and he was complaining to thisguy.' Man. all you try go for any variation in your guitar sound. Get rt together, man!' I thought Wow, this guy Is really on top of it. and he's quite a good guitar player. Unfortunately, he was Involved in that hideousgroup Hollywood Bowt It's amphitheatre In the Hollywood F guess the rock music that came the John Anson Ford Theatre was from Hollywood Bowl. I think it stemmed from a performance that Fitzgerald was trying to perform and Butthole Surfen were playing at the son Ford Theatre and I guess the soi leakoge was too much, tt was just distracting for poor Miss Ella In your Third Eye CD, there's tome picture! ol you playing outdoon. Thatwas a lunchtime gig at UCLA. Complete with go-go dancen! Yes. go- go dancers; Laura Lovelace, she some- thal band; that racitt, homophobic band? Slash is half-black and half-Jewish so I don't know why racist Well, that was racist for me to say that; racism comes in all shapes, sizes and coloure. and there's no such thing term in Itself Racism is Just racism an ugly. Slash is one of these people believes in freedom of speech and My goth, aren't you ashamed to play a wouldn't think of censoring the lyrics of Carvin? 1 actually got myCarvinforfree. an Axl Rose, who is a slighry c 1 wos desperate and 1 only had a Korean copy of an Explorer ond Vicki Peterson of the Bangles, she's a very generous It Traci Lord! overrrated? Whc friend of mine, ond she said "Carvin Rust Meyer's girts; are they t e best? she just gave It to me. That one I have is actually good because they custom made tt for her; it's unlike the shit that And what about Vox guitars, aren't they the favorite of Redd Krost? Oh.lloveVox guitars I like the Saturn model and I like the Phantom is always nice. It there really one with a built-in organ in 1? There's one wtth a fake organ sound. I think it's the bass that has the organ tone; Steven had one. Usually when you Traci Lords could never compare to vintage Erika Gavin or anyone from the Beyond the Valley of the Dolls film. Have you been able lo get to Ruts Meyer's house? Anyone can get to Russ Meyer's, he's listed in the phonebook and he answera his phone. Anyone who wants to talk to him, he'll talk to them The Ruts Meyer movie, Vixen, was shot in Victoria. Russ, John Lennon, ten; there's a smal group that we can cal true artists in the past twenty yean. Who else from LA Is in the phonebook? APRIL 1991 27 SECRETS ENTRUSTED TO A FEW S U B T E X T BY JUDITH BEEMAN in-priton writing from this disturbed rocker. The Unrepentant Necrophlle h with Karen Green- Welcome to subtext #5. if you've been reading this column on any sort of basis, you'll notice I alternate writer profiles with book/ theme reviews. I'd welcome any profile suggestions you're interested in or other correspondence. Just send a Idler in my name via Dis- I've been wanting to write aboul ihc following titles for some time, but felt the Wintermonths were too dreary for the topics. Now with Spring, if it gets too much, go for a walk 'n feed the ducks... APOCALYPSE CULTURE In 1987, a book of essays on the darker side of life was released. Apocalypse Culture, published by Amok press, was divided into four chapters: Theological/Arl/Sciencc/ Politics. A guidebook to theories and practices of "questionable" nature. Apocalypse Culture soon became legendary, partly due to the fact it was hard to gel. Well, yippee, it's been rere- leased in an expanded and revised edition, this time by Feral House (who use a nifty pitchfork logo!). The text is divided into two sections; Apocalypse Theologies and The Invisible War. A dozen articles from the fini edition have been deleted, with cighlccn new pieces added, so, if you're lucky enough lo own the original (like me!), you may wish lo have both. F.ach edition has a cover painting by Joe Coleman, the thoroughly insane performance artist, depicting the end ofthe world in cheery tcchnicolour. (By the way, Feral House will soon release Cosmic Retribution: The Infernal Art of Joe Coleman, a collection of his art and documentation of performances.) Apocalypse Culture isn't a light read. Most of the chapters, especially in the second part, have extensive footnotes and encourage further investigations. If you like the Re/Search series, you should be mildly enthused aboul this stuff. The Theologies section is of most interest to the casual reader. Subjects include: Fakir Musafar - interviews and pictures of his "body play." Lycanthropy - y'know, werewolves. G.G. Allin - background and Art in the Dark - a history of performance an. Surgeons and Gluttons - outrageous body modifications. Cut It Off - a case for self-castra The Invisible War section studies alternative occult history, some would say "crackpot theories" of religion and politics. Subjects Who Rules Over Earth? - subtitled : The Archetype of the World Rule and the Work of Universal Regeneration. Whew. The Invisible War - by Anton LaVey. Beware your television set A History of Vengeance and Assasination in Secret Societies - Do you know a Mason? Meditation on the Atom and Time - an attempt lo define the imagery of war and death in the late 20th Century. SPLATTERPUNKS The rcccnl collection of "Extreme Horror," Splatterpunks, is an uneven groupofpost-you-name-it talcs. The writers are "wilh it," equally at home wilh rawk music, slashing taboos and vi-o-lence. Much of the writing is definitely pool-good taste. Indeed, the book is dedicated "to bad taste." The sixteen storiesAwo essays range from the inane (a six page dirge on constipation) to the compelling (a romantic youth's life on a decidedly un -Green planet). The two mosl shocking/original reads are "Film At F.leven" by John Skipp and "Night They Missed The Horror Show" by Joe R. Lansdale. Reading the former, I felt as I had upon first discovering ol' Steve King (remember when he was fresh?). There's a terrifying look al post-nuclear LA. (written by one J.S. Russell, a pseud onym for a Californian author) and the silly "Gooscbumps" (aboul being scared to death from reading. Uh-huh.). Together, the stories don't merit the "Extreme Horror" lag on the cover, but scares do pop up. So here's whal you get: a bunch of "cutting edge" writers who aren't shy. And a few essays for good measure (one on gore films; the other, "Outlaws" by Paul M. Sammon, editor of this project, with an overview of Ihe Splatlerpunk genre.) Roberta Lannes, a contributor, gave this simple definition of the "S" word: Splatterpunks, wilh ils inherent gratuitous blood, guts, gore Had enough of "Spring Cheer"? Don'l believe in the Easter Bunny? You might enjoy the following... Taxi Driver by Paul Schrader (Faber & Faber): Take a trip with Travis ■Bidcle. *» '* Silence of tke Lambs by Thomas Harris (SMP): Clarice Starling versus Hannibal Lectere. Cruelly sure is popular these days. Naked City by Weegee (DaCapo Press): Photographs of the Big Apple Fires, murders, the Bowery, Coney Island. Circa the old days. Drugstore Cowboy by James Fogle (Delta): Bob Hughes and his roving band of junkies. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (Picador): The Cowboy travels across the plains. Wonderful prose; a modem-ancient fable. Panorama of Hell by Hino (Blast Books): Graphic novel reaching into the depths of one man's post-nuclear hell. Japanese Read from back to front. Gruesome. and graphic sex, intends to disgust and gratify a reader's lowest self needs. Nuff said. AMERICAN PSYCHO We're all ex pens on American Psycho, but not many of us will actually read it. Personally, I can't wait to read ii. I imagine I'll be sickened and shocked, but man, is my interest peaked! I'll spare you yet another rani about the "book of the year," but thought you might enjoy a look at a description of the book from the company which distributes ii. The Spring 1991 Random House of Canada catalogue (which distributes Vintage) contained the following, which booksellers see before deciding to order the book. Only one bookstore in British Columbia ordered the book. DearGod... try to ha ve happy reading, everyone. AMERICAN PSYCHO By Bret Easton Ellis A novel that unflinchin Violence - frequently baroque indiscriminate violence — committed by the American white male against Native Americans, blocks, women, homosexuals, foreigners, anyone of another ilk. is simply a fact of that country's history American Psycho is a purposeful parody, a grotesque caricature of such a man every important issue reg Won and of publishing in our society Booksellers and readers will want to excercise their own judgement Be it a photograph by Robert Mopplefhorpe. a recording by 7 Live Crew, or even a classic woik ot literature we live in times when the banning of that which sc objectionable is on the rise American Psycho is being published in this context Bret Easton Ellis is the author of Less Than Zero and The Rules of Attraction Ever wonder what people are reading? I do. Renee Rodin, who runs R2B2 Books, took time to write and tell subtext. rjv_-=_E_r Ft ODIN "She unbent her mind afterwards over a book." (Charles Lamb) Me loo, after being totally enGulfed for a while, I'm finally gathering whatever's left of my mind by concentrating on reading. The west coast is packed wilh good writers and almost all the books 1'im currently interested in (ii was hard to narrow it down) were written by locals, more or less, and published in Vancouver. Hot of f the press is Azure Blues (Talonbooks, $11.95), the latest masterfperson?)piece by poet extraordinaire Gerry Gilbert. Full of gentle incites and sharp perceptions of ihc quotidian, Azure Blues is always touching and often tickling. Very high, and accessible (Gilbert describes it as "user friendly"), you 28 DISCORDER can open it at any point and easily get inlo it. As comfortable as soaking in a warm bath— a sheer delight. Gilbert's also got a wonderful photography show happening at the Con - temporary Art Gallery (555 Hamilton) until Lee Maracle's Sojourner's Truth (Press Gang, $10.95) is a collection of short stories focussing on her experiences as a Native woman. Her style is incredibly direct; her observations powerfully clear. Just oul, too is Bobbi Lee: Indian Rebel (Woman's Press, Toronto, $12.95), her autobiography through to ihe 60's and 70's with a chapter aboul being at Oka this fall. Il look a lot of courage for Maracle lo share her hard-truth reminiscences. Given that our "legal" system has once again proven how blatantly and repulsively racist it is, now's a good time to read A Death Feast in Dimlahamid by Sun journalist Terry Glavin. A Death Feast is a very readable history of the Gitksan- Wet'suwet'en and an account of their land claims. Glavin, who is not Native, was asked by the Gitksan to wnte this—it's accurate and authentic. The book quickly sold out in clolh when it was published this winter. New Star Books has just re-printed it in the more affordable paperback (14.95). Smart deci- Another book lhat recently got reissued in paperback is Sky Lee's The Dis appearing Moon Cafe (Douglas & Mclnty- re, $12.95). This well-written and, at times, beautiful novel traces a Chinese family from ils beginnings in B.C. (1800's) up to the present generation. The inter-relationships are often very dramatic and much of the material is based on actual events. Poet bill bisseU's/k_-d2*e/««v(Talonbooks,$l 1.95) is a total treat. Parts of it are hilariously funny, but there wasn't a piece in it lhat didn't have some strong affect on me. I'm about to re-read (again) one of my all-time favorites, The True Story of Ida Johnson by Sharon Riis, in Saskatoon. The True Story is a multi-layered short novel that was an underground classic until it surfaced last year (D&M. $10.95). It never dales and, with ils tripping from one reality to another, it's a real stunner. What I'm looking forward to is Dorothy Livesay 's auldbiography, Journeys With My Selves, due out in the spring. Livesay, who is now in her' 80s, has been fighting for feminism and other progressive thinking, and writing passionate poelry for the past si decades. Her memoir should be fascinating. As I mentioned earlier, reading is one of the besl ways I know to get my head together. You'll find there's tons of good books around, new and used and in libraries, lo get off on. So enjoy. And lots of light for us all—it's been a dark winter. ROOTS ROUNDUP/ BLAKE BABIES Town Pump Friday 22 February Granted they were missing iheir sound man and their drummer, bul the Blake Babies just weren't as entertaining and lively as I had expected them to be after listening lo Iheir interesting LPSunburn. In fact, they weren't even lifelike; all they were was depressing. Lacklustre vocals and sloppy playing discouraged even the mosl avid revellers from abandoning their spots on the outskirts of the dance floor to frolic therein. Mercifully, however, the Blake Babies' sel was short and Roots Roundup took the slage. Resplendent in dreads and tartans, they roused me from my torpor and imparted some of iheir organically-inspired enthusiasm. In no lime al all, impatient Flower Punks plunged from ihe stage inlo the affectionate mob posing as a slam-pit below. Roots Roundup's performance ofthe cvcr-calchy "Bike Song" and their interpretation of one band member's first snowboarding experience almost move me to resurrect the words "eclectic"and"irrepressible" from their watery graves. But jargon will be ig Traas : Leonord Whistler jargon, so let me jusl say: Roots Roundup-good, Blake Babies-bad. Mindy Abramowitz THIRD PERSON/CHUNK/ SONNY SHARROCK Town Pump Sunday 24 February Jazz? Well, that depends. Define your terms. If by jazz you mean Sky walk and similar harmless LA. mush, then no, this isn't jazz. Just like New Kids isn't rock. These three bands are featured on the Knitting Factory Goes to the Northwest CD, but the disc is a watered-down version of whal you gel live Third Person makes for challenging listening. Samm Bennett (percussion), Wayne Horvitz (keyboards), and Tom Cora (cello) romped ihrough a series of whal must have been group improvisations, but through some undetectable cues managed lo give some shape lo Ihe music and begin and end each piece as a team. This is disjointed ex perimentalism: just when il seemed like Benncl had established a groove, or Cora had found a cool new way lo abuse his cello (this has to be heard lo be believed), ily transport lo some other planet and start all over again. And a DX-7 has never sounded as wild as Horvitz' did that nighL Alone point Benncl announced: "Just a note lo the lighting man: it's dangerous lo assume what's going lo happen next" If Third Person is Ministry/Stockhausen in jazz, Chunk is War. They were so funky you'd expect a cover of "Low Rider." Instead ihey did "Dear Prudence" The same Samm Bennett leads this group, with yer basic power trio behind him. Still thrashing aboul on his electronic percussion, Bennett, with a voice like Randy Newman or Elvis Costello, wailed and whined through a set of rhythmically complex bul infinitely funky lunes, "Hell Outa Bessemer" in 7/8 (you were right, K.G.) from (he CD, being one of the best. And despite the available gear, their sound is refreshing in its sparseness. Last, and regrettably least, on the bill was ihe Sonny Sharrock Band. Shar- rock's solo album Guitar had some beautiful sounds on it, and his work wilh Peter Brontzman and Roland Shannon Jackson in Last Exit is above reproach. The guy can play, no doubt, but some variety in the colour of his sound is sorely lacking. The story is that Sharrock went inlo hiding for yean just lo work on his chops. While he was gone he should have learned another mode, and maybe noticed ,nhis And the volume control! Above all else, this band was LOUD. There were moments of brilliance: the amazing bass solo by Charles Ball al the opening of "Kale (Variations on a theme by Kate Bush)," which appears on iheir new CDHighlife, and a piece reminiscent of ELP's "Take a Pebble," in which Dave Snyder showed off the Mi's great piano sound. But the duel ling drumkit solo by Abe Speller and Lance Carter was totally pointless. The band grew steadily more aggressive, and by the end of ihc nighl ihey were zooming ihrough rock and roll chromala, spy movie music, Mahavishnu Orchestra on speed, and dance music lhat beat the hell out of any techno/rap/disco. Unfortunately by then my ears had given up. Oh, well. You can call ii jazz if you wanl io. Tiny Sparks. NOMEANSNO Cruel Elephant Sunday 24 February OK, so me and the Bruncue get this call from Mr. ElephanL He says they've got something really big for us, and maybe we should haul our bulls down there. So we schmooze our way in and mingle wilh the crowd. The mystery band was billed as "Nobody in Particular." Oh, who could it be? The crowd sort of gave il away; every olher person was sporting a NoMeansNo T-shirt and I.au- rie Mercer was ralher conspicuous. Apparently everyone in Vancouver was hip to this gig but us. Oh well, we were all in a good mood and NMN rocked out in a long set which ihey treated as a "practice." The "No" are easily one ofthe mosl energetic and powerful bands around. They played tons of old songs such as "LoveThing" and "Dead Bob," plus a load of new material which ihey wanted to test out on the kids in this intimate setting. But aside from their immense musical talent, what sets NoMeansNo apart from other bands is iheir total confidence on suge. They're funny without being juvenile; they're serious without being pretentious. I guess it helps that Rob Wright looks so much like Phil Donahue In short, NoMeansNo are rock gods; this was the best show I've seen in months. Too bad for everyone who missed oul. Finally me and the Brunette witnessed a true punk rock happening. Mikey COP SHOOT COP/ PORK QUEEN Cruel Elephant Sunday 3 March Have you ever actually seen a wall of sound? I have. In fact anyone who saw Cop Shoot Cop probably did. Pork Queen wasn't much to comment on—just a bunch of preuy uninteresting tape loops repeated endlessly wilh some mind- wrenching recorder to boot. (Yes, he really did incorporate one of those grade school symbols of musical hell into his "loop artistry".) Boring background noise However, since I really didn't pay much attention lo it, I wasn't particularly annoyed. But getting back lo this wall of sound, one of New York's latest belches, Cop Shoot Cop, played typically raunchy and aggressive, repeatedly asking to have the guitars turned up. Two brave thrashers had their ear-protecting toilet paper removed by force wilh ihe words, "If we're going to go deaf playing ihis shit, then you are too." I particularly liked Ihe shecl-mctal cage behind, on which the drummer pounded mercilessly. Allhough the guitarist/lead singer didn'l much like playing in a "dinner thealre," it was a real brain-bursting experience. Great stuff. Angie Finley DONT MEAN MAYBE/ ATLANTIS BUS Town Pump Thursday 7 March Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday had been cruelly toying with my sanity and 1 didn't forsee a whole lot of hope for ihe rest of ihe week eilher as I walked through the front doors of the Town Pump. Tired, grumpy and cynical as hell, I & figured I would put my fate in * the hands of a higher power— 2 beer—and see if things might ai just take a turn for the better. <■" And whal do ya know, they 5 did. £ Atlantis Bus, one of y Vancouver's better, but unfortunately su II lesser-known, local talents, got things off to a great sun with a particularly energetic perfonnanceof folk-influenced rock with an edge — and great beau Next up was LA's Don't Mean Maybe. Despite the rather cheesy name, this band was a pleasant surprise These three guys produced the kind of straight-ahead, don't- give-a-fuck punk sound lhat's been all but miss ing on the Vancouvermusic scene lately. The band reminded me of early DOA, minus die crude and lewd stage presence that gave that band its immortal reputation. Overall, the whole evening was a welcomed bright spot to an otherwise scary week. Katrina XIUnas SCREAMING TREES/ NIRVANA/ DOUGHBOYS/WONGS Commodore Ballroom Friday 8 March Lost deep in the carnivorous, cavernous Commodore, the Wongs rocked out their heavy, metal-tinged tunes to a largely un interested collegecrowd. Still, it didn't slow down Chi from being his usual maniacal self and screeching to those who cared. Next up were the Doughboys—whose merchandizing department makes T-shirt selection al a New Kids concert look lame—with their schlocky brand of 'We are really good and could make it bul ibe whole music industry is against us" calculated college-commercial rock. Their hair looks like a marketing decision and their Axl Rose hip- shakes make them look like a choreographed Top 40 cover band who would get the shil kicked out of them at nursery school, let alone Club 88 in Langley. Oh and while I'm al it, did anybody notice that Nirvana kinda blew? Oh sure, they played their "hits," and everybody Tod: Leonard Whfatter bounced up and down, guys with rugby shirts and co wboy boots s lammed and got sweaty and then bragged about it to their girlfriends in black miniskirts while the "alternative" music crowd congratulated each other on their latest find now that the Happy Mondays are played on CFMI. But man, didn't anybody watch the band? They were just playing around; ihey had your money, they didn'l care. Doesn't anybody remember the glazed eyes, the raw emotion, ihe wrecked guitars, the fuckin' power of Nirvana just a year and a half ago? On the other hand, the Screaming Trees, who lend io put out wimpy vinyl, just rocked. Now THAT'S rock n' roll, lhat's a band living, feeling their music, regardless of what it sound- like. But damn it sounded good: frenzied raw guitar and those killer vocals. As for the Mudhoney superjam, 1 could' ve cared less. Jusl one pipe-smoking, tweed- sports-coated, apathetic, leaning-against- the-back-wall-complaining boy's opinion. Fuck you! Bruno TAD/HELMET/ LOVE BATTERY Town Pump Saturday 9 March Love Battery are living proof thai Sub Pop will put oul a record by jusl about anybody. They blew hard. Really hard. Fuckin' Helmet, on the other hand, raged. Mainlining from New York, their all- loo-short set kicked ass, booty, crack and any other anal reference you could possibly dream up. These are four clean-cul, freshly-showered athletic types whose musical assault destroys anything. When they launched into a Melvins cover on their second song, I shit my pan is and my friend passed oul Unbelievably devastating; if you can be! ieve it their Amphet- aminc Reptile recordStrap It On is even heavier. I bled from my palms and ankles during Iheir scL I liked ihem quite a bit. Tad was unusually jovial and fat but still very cool, playing tons of new stuff from 8-Way Sa/t'_ihat showed they aren't the one-dimensional wonders everybody was saying ihey were after Salt Lick. Distortion has been turned down but they slill maintain a very heavy presence. "Jack Pepsi" was the set highlight Beer, big trucks and fucking are whal Tad's about and they do it welL Outstanding show; bell, I even paid to get in and didn't whine. Love, Bruno CULTURE/ THE SOUL SURVIVORS Commodore Ballroom Friday 15 March Vancouver's own steel band, the Soul Survivors, opened for the legendary reggae band from Jamaica. Allhough ihe Soul Survivors played well, as ihey always do, the band seemed a little out of place at the Commodore. They managed lo incite a few people to dance, but mosl held out for the main anraction. Culture got a late start, hitting the slage with their vibrant roots-reggae around midnight. The band had a harder edge than before, wilh heavier rock guitar. They played a wide selection of their material which has been accumulating for over len years. The audience enjoyed singing along to tunes such as "See Them A Come" and "Bob Marley's Song." However, some dedicated listeners complained that some of the favorites were left out and the usual vocal harmonies were lacking due lo (he absence of two band members. But while ihe band was on stage, the energy was there; the dance floor was filled from the moment they suited. At one point lead singer Joseph Hill told the crowd, "We came here lo fix you up." Afler dancing for almost two hours to that constant reggae beat, I think most people would agree they were fixed up quite well. Jah Rasiafan! Catherine Dickson MONO MEN/ THE BOMBSHELLS Bellingham Bay Brewing Company Tavern, Bellingham Friday 15 March Recently reopened as the BBBC and festooned with monstrous trophies, pool tables and electronic dart boards that flashed "BE A WINNER... PLAY DARTS!", yeah, this is ihe place lhat used to be Buck's Tavern, the haven for '60s-r&b-cover bands. Il appears thai they forgot lo mention the switch to the former Buck's clientele, as a few oldies showed up Friday night, and much to their dismay/horror/pleasure were instead met with The Bombshells from Vancouver. Although plagued by an amp that refused to stay upright (and that actually toppled once, narrowly missing the bass player), they sounded great and seemed to gain some new fans in the process. The Bombshells puzzled me. In the past, they have fallen far short, but maybe it was performing in a "foreign" place lhat made them play better. The Mono Men, however, were playing right in their own backyard (or garage) after a long absence from the "local" stage Marx, Dave, Dave and Aaron played for hours. And they played every song they knew from their first single "Burning Bush" to "Sweet Home Alabama". And they played them loud. Everything just blurred into one thick'n'crunchy chunk of grunge. By the way, all you Jerry Roslie-esquecrooners lake note: the well- carved chunk is now searching for a lead vocalist. Anyways, an ear-ringing, pitcher-swilling good time was had by al I. Reasons to cross the border? To chug a Green River soda, chomp some Tim's Cascade Style Alder Smoke Barbeque potato chips, and lo see the Mono Men. Rowena EEK-A-MOUSE/ ROOTABEGAS Town Pump Tuesday 19 March The Rooiabegas, composed of two members of Roots Roundup, started ihe show around eleven. They played covers; many a groan was heard as they massacred a number of Bob Marley songs. The due lacked the vitality of Roots Roundup, and although they improved slightly with the addition of another member from the crowd, ihe audience anxiously awaited their exu. A long break followed while Eck- A-Mouse set up. The crowd grew impatient, and despite the laborious preparations, there was slill feed back and band members gave the soundmen constant directions during the first few numbers. However, with his distinct vocal style backed by a strong Jamaican roots band, Eek-A-Mouse did not disappoint. When he asked the audience if they were ready to go home and received a negative response, he told ihem "Don' t blame me if you go to work late tomorrow," and continued lo play. Although the long delays prevented the buildup of any real energy, overall it was slill an enjoyable show. Catherine Dickson ROOTS ROUNDUP/ THE LUDWIGS/NGOMA Graceland Friday 22 March This benefil for communily recycling started wilh Ngoma and their funky-fun worldbeat music. If you haven't seen this band yet, you've been missing ouL Their infectious dance music has elements of Latin American, ska and African rhythms This was the first time I had seen The Ludwigs and, although ihey didn't really fit in with the other bands, ihey had lots of people on the floor for the last few songs of their heavy set Roots Roundup played an excellent set to a full floor of happy people They played a cool dub song I'd never heard before, with a guest singer, and their two encore songs were really smooth and subtle. A great benefit for an important cause... recycling starts wilh you. A Voice of Dissent GWAR 86 Street Music Hall Saturday 23 March Miasmas of multi-coloured baptismal blood bathed by all the fury modem technology could muster. Cooz-encrust- ed demons whirling about amidst oceans of frothing blood and constant beheadings and flying guts. Cheesy souped-up Kiss-style speed metal with graphic homophobic, sexist material that bordered on satire but was more likely taken as straight-forward jerk-off locker-room humour by many of the bullheads in the audience. Eating poo. 86 Street bouncers/thugs whose heavy-handed idiocy helped ensure that ihe bloodbath spread from the stage into the multitudes. The biggest-haired Elvis I've ever seen overseeing the face-shredding destruction of Eddie Munster into a blood-spurting, eye-bulging, spoo-covered leering skull. A vortex of indecipherable noise and chaos. Or maybe it was all just ihe acid. Tom Milne found it Bruno. Al first I thought the memory lapse indicated I should return lo the hospital for some more intense therapy but then il occurred lo me that perhaps they were bullshitting. For anyone who really gives a fuck, Gavin Brown is Bruno. I hope he gels spanked. [And I hope this is finally the end of all this ultra-boring Who Is Bruno bullshit. Why don't you little boys just spank each other and get it over with? ■ ed j The olher day I had ihe chance lo ulkthcltchguy.a/k/aMarkYritchley: a man with a single, a man with a show, a man with a story. Along wilh his tapes (Sonic Bloom, Playing for Dinner and Jojoka), Dr. Itch has now officially released a prelty crazy single. It's called 88 Bones (eighly-cighl piano keys, gel it?) and it's really good. Both sides have the same two songs, "The Club" and "Energy Vampire." The trick is lhat "The Club" on the first side has Crilchlcy on vocals, piano and bass, Mr. Right on drums and Mr. Wrong on guitar. For "Energy Vampire," Mark sings as well as playing piano piano, guitar and bass, while Windwalker's Glenn D'Cruze plays drums. As for the second side, the Itch goes acoustic, doing both songs solo wilh his grand piano and his desperate/ anxious-sounding lyrics. One extra thing aboul 88 Bones: if you like crazy vinyl with your single, you won't be disappointed. It took a hell of a lot of work to get ihe packaging and the actual record right but boy, was it worth il! The recordre lease show, held al the Cruel Elephant on March 23, was as good as it promised to be. Guesl musicians wcreButtercupon bass, Glenn D'Cruze on drums and Rob "that crazy Krishna guy" Dixon on guitar. This Itch slage band really enjoyed what they were doing, especially Rob Wright. The man was really joking around between songs and giving 110% while playing. Rob Dixon was right there as well, with some chord fingering that was beyond anything I've seen; Glenn KoiKonn'n D'Cruze's drumming was on the money as well. Learning someone else's music, especially stuff as complex and as fast-paced as Critchley's, is a real feat. The credit really goes to Critchley himself for writing and arranging all the material and putting on such a unique and entertaining show. I always wondered what the hell happened to Supercaustic Fertilizer. Well, I just found out diat the rhythm section now resides in the apUy-named Facepuller. Facepuller's brand new single in three words: OH- DA-LOLLY! You gotta like a first effort lhat's heavy, has an original sound and a great sleeve. Pull This has two songs: "Snakes in the Grass" and "Immortalizer." Both songs are really good, but il's "Snakes in the Grass" that has the riff of death; I'm talking pupils rolling inlo ihe lop of your head as you slowly rock back and forth. The full and solid sound is great. A fier Ihe Itch deal, 1 skated over lo ihe Arts Club to catch Facepuller's first live seL Ohhhhhhhhhhh loud. Allhough ihey weren't able lo play for very long, ihere were definitely enough songs to make me want to come out next lime. With some live sound fine tuning (as well as turning it down a bit), Facepuller's worth checking oul Shovlhed has broken up, as anyone who's tried to see them ihe last few limes al the Cruel Elephant probably already knows. Ihe breakup is partly due to guitarist/vocalist Scott Henderson wanting lo spend more time with his recent bundle of bouncing joy, and partly due lo the ever popular "personal differences." Iguess he and bass istChrisdidn'l see things quite the same way. Anyways, this changes the future for Shovlhed slightly. The second and newest album is beingmixed by John Wright as you read ihis, and should be available in the next little while, allhough it'll be another cassette only release. Scott claims he's recorded enough demos himself lo make up what would have been Shovlhed's third album, bul instead he'll be releasing ihem as a solo project under the moniker Noxious Landscape. self; the fuckhcad doesn't stop bitchin' andcussin' loeven lakeabrcalh. If I had a dad like lhat I think I'd be driven lo strike a hypodermic in his eye. If you write to PO Box 1457, Station A, Van- covuer, BC V6C 21*7, c/o Final Notice Records, maybe they'll send you a copy. Modern Sniper Rifles, Jack Feels Fine and The Ludwigs all on the same bill. I'd never heard any of ihese bands before and il turned out to be a hell of a mixed bag. There were plenty of wildly flailing limbs and thrashing bodies during iheshort bul aggressively intense sel of raw hardcore-punk belched oul by MSR. They were definitely ihc highlight of the evening for mc and, apparently, for a lol of other people too, since a large part of ihe crowd wandered oul afler iheir set was done. Check c-m oul al the Arts Club April 5 with Gorilla Gorilla. Jack Feels Fine delivered a truly great set of high-energy, jangly guitar tunes; a completely new crowd of people popped oul of nowhere and filled the dance floor. The Jacks have a really melodic two- song cassette available, bul I think I prefer the energy of their live set The Ludwigs, on the other hand, were incredibly lame. The opening blast of raw, wiry rock n' roll, which firsl seemed lo demand my attention, soon revealed it- Speaking of noxious, Revolution Gone's demo lape sounds like every shitty lounge-metal band I've ever heard. I'm surprised these guys aren't on ihe charts; ihis is exactly the kind of lame-ass metal lhal commercial radio likes to gobble up and vomit out in large doses. Complete poopy. And in keeping with glam metal for just a moment: Smash LA's Law n Authority. Instead of talking about ihe lape, I'll jusl let thesong titles speak for themselves: "Soul on Fire," "Come and Get ll," "Country Girl," "City Heat," "Feed Your Hunger," "Breakin'AlltheRules,""BoogieMan," "Homeless Child," "Pushin' and Shovin'," "Dancing in the Mirror," I repeat, DANCING IN THE MIRROR!!! The production is good. All they need is aone-way ticket to Glam Metal HcMTT Racer's canyon baggage perhaps? I was recently offered the chance to listen to Bonemeal's demo lape and, innocently enough, I agreed. Several levels of hell later, I realized I had discovered the bastard offspring of the Butthole Surfers, or perhaps jusl ihe gutter-induced rantings of two babbling idiot savants. This lape is cool and also quite fucked. "Phone Call from Satan #2" and "If the People Only Knew" are the best songs, the former being a great heavy metal dirge and the latter featuring some intense tribal drumming. The most amazing thing though, is the recording someone made of his Dad playing Atari Pac-Man and talking to him self lo be fairly repetitious pub rock; ihe frantic bum-wiggling of the lead singer did nothing to alleviate my utler bore- So call me out of touch, but I had no idea Front Line Assembly are from Vancouver. They've never actually played live here, but who the hell can blame them? They get loads of attention wherever they go (including headlining ihe Festival of Darkness in Hanover on iheir upcoming six-week European tour) and all Vancouver seems to be able to manage is a bleary-eyed yawn in their direction. Kind of reminds me of the rcactionSkinny Puppy gol around these parts until ihey suddenly gol so huge everywhere else. They've just recently released a 12" and video for the song "Spasmolytic" wilh two non-LP live iracks included on ihe 12". FLA is planning on doing an LP project widi Italian band Pankow; it's also worth noting that Bill Leeb's side project. Delirium, has jusl released an LP. A few last-minute quick notes before we go. Sons of Freedom arc due lo release iheir major label dcbul album, Gump, sometime in April; let's hope they have more luck with ihe majors lhan the Scramblers did. 54-40 have finally inked a deal withSony Music for iheir fifth LP (yawn), and if you haven't seen Sludge live, be prepared to witness a real heavy fuckin' grind machine. Join us for more drivel next month. APRIL 1991 31 ZULU RECORDS presents... The second in a series of sales and special events. More majorly cool Cargo releases are on sale from April 1-15 for the extra super low prices of... CD: 14.98 Cass: 8, VARIOUS - Heaven and Hell (Communion) Velvet Underground tribute album which features Nirvana, Buffalo Tom, Galaxie 500, Screaming Trees, Ride, Telescopes and James JACK OFFICERS - Digital Dump (Rough Trade) Weird danceable shit from Gibby and Jeff of the Butthole Surfers. If you don't wanna dance then we have the new Buttholes for ya. NOVA MOB - Last Days of Pompeii (Rough Trade) Former Husker Du drummer/singer Grant Hart jumps out from behind his kit to sing and play guitar in Nova Mob. THE KLF-Chill Out iwaxtrax) "What Time is Love" was the #1 UK hit. This is the album everyone has been asking for. ACCUSED - Grinning Like an Undertaker (Nastymix) More splatter rock from these Seattle lads. Produced by Jack Endino. SHADOWY MEN ON A SHADOWY PLANET - Savvy Show Stoppers (cargo) Canada's own truly excellent instrumental garage/surf/pop/TV theme combo. One of our biggest sellers is now on sale. OTHER NOTEWORTHY STUFF - Listening booths for new and used CDs 7" singles and UK posters - Ask us about special orders Watch for in-store appearances 32 DISCORDER ZULU RECORDS 1869 W.4th Ave. Vancouver, BC (604)738-3232 ALSTON BECKET CYRUS Teaser Cocoa For soci fans, Teaser offers a slightly slower soca rhythm wilh humourous lyrics, and a refrain thai slays in the tradition of sing along, party-time soca. This 12" has done rather well in New York, and seems to be able lo gel a crowd moving. On the flip side is a greal dance hall cross-over version by the DJ. "Stone Wash Daddy," which adds more energy to the song with a rapid bul familiar DJ style. Nol hugely innovative, but the strong musical backing makes in a worthwhile addition to any soca collection. Russ Hergert BEAT HAPPENING Dreamy What is it about a band thai can trigger such extreme adoration or disdain as Beat Happening does? Jusl like the blurry cover of this album (and the blurry grey vinyl within), there's always been something aboul Beat Happening thafs just a liulc bil (well, often alol)off-kiltcr, off-foe us, off-key... yel somehow very lovely (to me at lcasi). A band in which, among other things but most importantly, there's a guy who many say can't sing (al least not according lo ihe conventional idea of 'sing'). Bul really, how can anyone scoff at them? They're the musical equivalent of a wel puppy that has been kicked too much, but still returns wilh your slippers. But don't gel me wrong this isn'tsympathy-like, it's recognition-like. Dreamy it's called and dreamy it is, tho' their "Dreamy" tune is nowhere in sight. A near-perfect bitter-sweel pop album, il's music lhat makes me wanna cry. Join in and sing along. Rowena ELVIN BISHOP Don'f Let the Bossman Get You Down Warner-Alligator F.lvin Bishop is back,slill good humoured, slill "having one heck of a knock down good time yessirree bob." The album reminds one of a Minil-Lube commercial: "Some people want lo change the world; wc just want...." Elvin has nothing to prove, really; the album is light- hearted, inlenl on simply making sure Ihe listener docs little more than hum or up bisfter feel. My fa Food," "Rollin' Wilh My Eyes," "Fan nie Mae," and "Jusl Your Fool," the first two composed by Bishop, the latter two by ralher obscure blues types from many moons ago. Put this cassette in the AC Delco stereo of yer 1978 Chevy Caprice Classic and go drivin' down lo yer favourite fishin' hole. David Longrldge BRUJERIA Demoncia Nemesis The scariesiband Jiggle has heard in a long time. Apparently these five GG Allin lookalikes are from Los Angeles bul they sing in Spanish; rather they gurgle evil- sounding shit in Spanish. Extremely heavy fast muddy- sounding thrash wilh vocals rem in is ccntof a brutal prison rape. Yikes! Gav DIVINYLS Divinyls A&M-Vlrgln In the early '80s the Divinyls seemed destined lo clamber on the North American FM rock stations bandwagon; the "Boys in Town" single from their first album was a hard pile-driver of a song. Lead singer Christina Am- phlea countered rock siren Pat Benalar, queen of R'n'R FM radio. The Divinyls were off and running with appearances in the movie Monkey Grip, they did all the songs for the soundtrack and their "Boys in Town" video had a nmonMTV. But afler their second album, produced by Mike Chapman, the Divinyls splintered and only Amphleit and guitarist Mark McEniee were left to continue. This reduced version of the Divinyls put oul a third album lhat seemed to go nowhere except into cut-out bins. Well, Amphlett and McEnteehave gone ahead and with a new record company, intent on making themselves staples in the world of MOR FM radio. Their new release is well-produced with enough catchy riffs to set any yuppy's toe a-tappin' while driving in rush hour in his or her Beemer. Even the graphics suggest the Divinyls are destined to usurp the throne of MOR-dom from any female scream starlet Bul this album is robbed of the impact of their earlier work. While I've enjoyed some ofthe Divinyls releases in the past, the band now seem loo slick. Divinyls seems, well, jusl so calculated. Greg Garlick FISHWIFE Snail Killer Cargo-Headhunter Fishwife are one of those bands that are a nightmare to classify. They're kind of crazy quirky jazz-funk "change-core." You really need to bear it to fully comprehend the glory of Snail Killer. One of the highlights of Fishwife is the vocalist Ryan Foxe. He has the weirdest half- singing, half-shouting voice: totally expressive and powerful. All of the songs on this album are dripping wilh tongue- in-cheek humour and sarcasm. "Kiddy Duddy"conU ins ihelilerary masterpiece: "I was ai an art fag party swimming in social drool/When my punk friend Lisa showed everyone her laitoo." Fishwife are a raw bundle of fun. Even geeks will dig on this album. Mikey THE HOLLOW MEN Cresta BMG-Arista This unremarkable CD comes complete wilh a sleeve lhat is almost, well, alright, IS more interesting lhan the music. The Gorbachev caricature is the one lo look out for—it's quite cute really. With promising titles like "Louder Than God" and '1 leads truck" il was quite a disappointment lo find that everything the Hollow Men had to offer was a jusl that, HOLLOW. All the tracks sound the same: unobtrusive filler music for that evening at home with your parents. Antje Rauwerda LIVIN' IN A POWDER KEG AND GIVIN' OFF SPARKS Issues #9 and #10 Full Force Productions Well, the last two issues have arrived and they are hot, hot, hot Highly recommended for freaks, perverts, sadists and control lovers, these thick (80+ full pages) 'zines go beyond anything else out there. Essentially collections of clippings with some artwork, writing and reader letters, these publications take the subculture of psychotic ramblings over the edge. Full Force Frank bares no holds when he puts together sections on fool fetishes, amputee sex, child abuse, rape, torture and murder. Inspired psychosis. Think you are a pretty liberal person? Just lake a wander through the letters section where people describe iheir favorite kind of torture, or how to plan the perfect mass murder. Lock your doors; these geniuses are for real. These people admit their problems, and rather lhan solve ihem, seek to exploit them. Other highlights include full-colour xeroxes from Michael Diana of Boiled Angel and contact addresses for a few murderers doing time. Write to Full Force Productions, 453 Bay Ridge A venue, Suite #614, Brooklyn, NY 11220.Don'tputanything other than the above on the envelope, and Frank will send you back a consent form to sign before you can order any zines. Good hick in getting these across the border. Gav BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS Talkin'Blues A&M-Island Any fan of Reggaemusic has to sit up and take notice when the prophel Bob Marley appears with a release from the grave. Talkin' Blues, a newly released album from the vaults of Tuff Gong (Island Records), offers a stunning combination of music and interviews thai captures the moment when the Wailers were aboul to storm the popular music scene, and allows a first-hand glimpse of the man behind the music. Mosl of the iracks are familiar Wailers songs, but they are unique, alternate versions taken from a small San Francisco recording session on the heels of their firsl brief American tour in 1973. They are crisp, poignant examples of music captured exactly the way the Wailers wanted it lo sound, wilh a natural flow lhat often takes ihe songs into extended jams as the band lets the music dictate the length of the songs. Versions of "Raslaman Chant" and "Bumin' & Lootin'" are particularly good examples of Bob and the band becoming a part of ihe music. In addition, the album contains a live recording of "I Shot The Sheriff," and three rare, never before released studio recordings of 'Talkin' Blues," "Bend Down Low," and the gem ofthe album,"Am- A-Do." We can thank Roger Steffens' eighl years of prodding Island Records for ihc release of this wicked version ofthe latter; Bob goes so far as to insert a line from James Brown while creating a playful, scintillating, even sexual, play on words. It has lo be heard. Another track worth mentioning (as they all should be) is Tosh's powerful version of "You Can't Blame the Youth." Interspersed between songs arc well- placed, interesting excerpts of a rare 1975 interview wilh Bob Marley reflecting on his music, its origins, and his unique, positive view on life. In a combination style, this close-up experience with the man and his songs offers a refreshing perspective with excellent music, and poignant comments from ils creator. Simply a must have. Russ Hergert NOFX Ribbed Epitaph Fat Mike and crew are back wilh yel another offering of So Cal punk. Nol hardcore and definitely not metal, just plain old punk. They sound like Bad Religion a lot of the lime, the only difference is, you can understand the lyrics 'cause unlike BR, NOFX are definitely not lyrical brainsurgcons. Kind of rclro. very fun. Catch them al ihc Cruel Elephant April 5. Gav WHAT GOES ON Issue #4 Velvet Underground Appreciation Society For five yankee bucks you get just about everything a Velvets junkie could possibly want: a flexi-disc featuring an interview with Lou, John, Sterling and Moe describing their brief reunion last year in Jouy-en-Josas, a small village in France (yeah, I didn't hear anything aboul n either), a very in-depth interview with Moe Tucker, as well as one with her 16- year-old punk rock daughter Kerry, and tons of other VU info. The Moe interview is really amazing though because her down-to-earth comments about the history of the Velvet Underground appear a lot more insightful than the numerous Reed and Cale interviews ofthe past, this largely due to their daunting, often overpowering, personas. A lot of care goes into this mag; Penn Jilletie (of magicians Penn and Teller fame) even put up some money for this issue. Send your cheque to the VU Apprccialion Society, 5721 SE Laguna Avenue, Stuart Florida, 34997-78-28. Jusl don'l cx- been subscribing for nearly len years and I've received three issues in tolal.Steve Richards BY ADAM SLOAN With SUMMER APPROACH- ing fast, everybody is trying lo get their releases oul so they'll be boomin' from the cars when the good weather hits. Here's a rundown of a few recent offerings. Monie Love, who has appeared on albums by Queen Latifah and the Jungle Brothers, has her own out now called Down to Earth on the Cool Tempo label (distributed by MCA* Chrysalis). Originally from England,she is now based in New York and has put together quite a long (69 minute) and impressive debut. Afrika Baby Bam- baataaof the Jungle Brothers helped out on about half ihe tracks, as is evident by their genuine funky-ness. Most iracks on the album have a quick, danceable, bright-sounding rhythm to them, and some of these accessible raps even hit the house sound. Monie Love's raps are definitely worth listening to, as she's always saying something intelligent or at least putting things under a different light, giv ing a female point of v ie w sorely needed in this male-dominated field of music. Bul she also occasionally likes to have fun. Andy Coxand David Steele of the Fine Young Cannibals help out on four tracks, although their FYCsound is only obvious on one. "Monie in the Middle" and "It's A Shame(My Sister)" feature legendary bass player Bootsy Collins in the mix and should soon be putt in' the funk and the message back on the dancefloor. Two other excellent tracks are "Don't Funk Wid the Mo'" and "Swmey Swiney," the laucr a rap (with De La Soul doing some backing vocals) about whal Monie thinks of people who eat meat, following in the footsteps of BDP's "Beef." A few of the eighteen songs could have been cul to make a more coherent album, but this way there's sure to be somelhing to please everybody. Young Black Teenagers— already famous for iheir hit "Nobody Knows Kelli" and the fact that, unlike what their name suggests, they're four while guys—have juslreleased their full- length album on SOUL(Sound of Urban Listeners Records.distribulcdby MCA), operated by Bill Stephney of Def Jam Records fame. The production on this self-tided album is excellent and, as is obvious from one listen, is produced by Public Enemy's Bomb Squad team of HankandKeith ShocklecandG G-Wi_ But the Young Black Teenagers' raps, although backed by the hippest sound in rap today, have that corny Beastie Boys style. Despite this major shortcoming, the album should still sell great since a while and/or attracted to controversial titles like "Daddy Called Me Niga Cause I Likeded to Rhyme" and "Proud To Be Black." The Bomb Squad get back at Madonna on "To My Donna" for stealing a Public Enemy sample from PE's instrumental "Security of the First World" on the // Takes a Nation of Million lo Hold Us Backalbum. The sample formed the basis for her hit "Justify My An overlooked older release definitely worth mentioning is Criminal Nation's debut, Release the Pressure These Seattle rappers on NastyMIx (A&M distributes) put oul some of ihe hardest, maddest, baddesl rap around while swearing only where il's needed. They are pro-black in ihe raps and they slam down ihe lyrics to a hyped drum machine and sample powered beat. They are really into the funk, as you can hear on "I'm Rollin'," wilh lyrics flowin' practically the whole way ihrough the five-and-a-half-minute song, and old Parliament and olher old funky samples in the mix. And if you want lo hear hard, listen to "Take No Prisoners." Main Source are another brand new rap group on the scene. The trio have just bad their first record, Breaking Atoms, put oul by Wild Pitch Records (distributed by Altic). They sound like ihe Jungle Brothers/A Tribe Called Quest clan, but add their own twist to things, with the occasional live keyboard line thrown in. They don'l sell out to house music and they aren't anywhere near Public Enemy's hard rap; they just fit somewhere in between. Some ofthe raps arequileclever—in "Just a friendly Game of Baseball," the police are the bailers and shooting a brother is a hit—but most of the raps, while creative and clever, aren't delivered with as much enthusiasm as they could be. Their production is also a bit muddy compared to their competition who obviously have more money lo throw at it. An excellent new release by the Stereo MCs has hit Ihe streets. Supernatural on 4th & B'way (distributed by A&M-Island) is the follow-up to the British group's self-titled debut EP on Gee Street Rob B, the Head, and Owen If gel help on ihis release from Afrika Baby Bambaataa who raps on two tracks. Most tracks are based on old funk grooves from the early '70s, many of which have nol yet been found by olher rappers, but are still way funky. Rob B's lyrics are excellent mosl of the time; the typical rap cliches are replaced by clever allusions expressed in his articulate English style of rapping. "Whatcha Gonna Do?" with Afrika is a great track, as is "Goin* Back to the Wild," and most of ihe olher fourteen tracks, too. The top rap group for this month is Gang Starr for their intelligent raps from the Guru, and fresh style and truly creative scratches from DJ Premiere Their album, Step into the Arena, is distributed by MCA-Chrysalis. Word Out _f BY FELICITY DUNBAR Another month closer to summer and another month of singles to talk aboul The Scarlet Drops are a three-piece from Nepean, Ontario with a single out of Massachusetts Harriet Records. "Sweet Happiness" features Shadowy Men-csque music topped with perky/squealy girl vocals. The B side, "I See You," has uninteresting boy vocals and some wanking guitar solos. Highly derivative, but hey, they 're politically correct: "Scarlet Drops urge everyone in America and Canada to support native peoples in their struggle for 'justice,' 'equality,' and 'respect.'" Iggy fans will be glad to know Bomp Records (7112 Bur- bank, CA 91510) have released "ihe classic Raw Power oul- takes": "I Got A Right" and "Gimme Some Skin." Originally released in 1977 by a French fanclub, ihis is prime Stooges. Germany's Weed Productions (Sonnhalde 45 7800 Freiburg, Germany) recently sent us some cool stuff including a four-song 7" by Victoria's own Stickfarm, produced by ex-Shovlhed, Scott Henderson, and also a compilation of Greek, American and German bands called 16 Guys Against The Rest of ths World, Volume I Some good tunes for your next rockabilly bar-b-q are NYC's Norton Records' 7" releases by "The Great" Gaylord - The Sultan of Squat, and the A-Bones These four songs have lots of sax, throaty vocals and some good anal-retenlive lyrics. Remember: "The Twist is alright bul il's out of date... Do The Squat." For more hefty guitar noise from eMpTy Records, check out the Fumes' Ways to Enjoy LifeT. Nothing new, even the requisite Reciprocal/Charles lovely melodies! Especially check out the supreme interpretation here of "Liposuction by Ixrve" by ihe longtime silent Stagnant H20. [hank god, they're slill around! If you had a chance hear their tunes on both the Bellingham Comp II and Joy of Six compilation cassettes a while back, you would no doubt have ihe impression that Thin Men arc cringe- fully catchy and hook-laden. Iheir own cassette A Round Hear from 1989 presented a ralher confusing mixture of hard-driving rock and kinda early '80s- ish guitar noodling, giving you the impression thai they're eilher incredibly versatile or incredibly wishy washy. Wilh Iheir ncw7" "Watching" b/w "Girlfrien- dorpho" (oooh, clever title, non?), they've chopped away the excess and come up wilh a straight forward rock'n'roll 7". Still catchy, slill hard- driving. N.B: Is the photo on Ihe back supposed to be upside down or whal? Ihc Son of Man 7" is the third in ihe trio of recent .Szanktonerclcascs bul I don'l have it, I don't know... iheir cassette was good though. Finally, allhough il's really old, il's a rare oddity and with the upcoming gig, I think it's worth talking about. It's the Merge/Leopard Gecko/Simple Machines label collaboration entitled Three's Company. This compilation has stuff by Geek, Superchunk, and Seaweed, three bands thai toured Peterson connection. Justgood drunken party rubble. "Eat My Dust"??? Oh geez, a Tribute to Dust Blair?! Head all about this musical ensemble in the pages of Seattle's Backlash. And alright, so I was oneofihesuckers who linedDusi Blair's pockets with a couple bucks for their cassette. It was (and this tribute is) just the perfect thing for a cozy, quiet evening in at home wilh a good book. Ah, the about and had such good fun, they decided to pul out a 7". Goes in quiet, comes out loud1 Workin from the inside out'.- from "Garlic" by Superchunk. A lot of guitars but all distinctive. Seaweed's Aaron StaufTerhas a really good voice but Geek's "Stiff is the weakest song, kinda heavy surf rock stuff. I'm lookin' forward to the show. Seaweed and Superchunk are playing al ihe Cruel Elephant on ihe 13th. PROFESSIONAL QUALITY DEMOS FULLY EQUIPPED 8 TRACK $12/hr INCLUDES ENGINEER DEADBEAT STUDIOS (604) 687-5803 THEATRE PRODUCTIONS ASSOCIATION presents SPEAKING IN TONGUES a drama about Pier Paolo Pasolini by John Logan OPENS MARCH 27TH preview March 26th on stage until April 20th Tuesdays through Saturdays at 8:30pm (Tuesdays 2 for 1) SOgggK at The Vancouver Little Theatre, 3102 Main St., back door s 876-4165 ■ ■ ml APRIL 1991 33 OH.TUATi RIGHT-THi* l»-ff€ BR>W|>IV£W QLEfi^JHt^ »_C-lfi_- H/gd.1. EXCM5E Mf? W»? fV<7r- Sfazzwgt in PKfiocrtiL fjrf of khi.'enctrieE, Bur tv peFiVrfeLYtAVTHttryke AKTOF t t>£AXH H#>M. FI/VALLY acTrrX.tPFtNG- AK&. OTHER ''ART'. THE flA/LY OrR£rR ANinAt-^THAT KILL M OFTEN '#> \At PO.AfiE 0i-J> UOVr&tTh BA> TFJ£Tf\.A^> vveA^&Lf, /KH>T*KE- POOR , sap* [>ONteifetJ ftwre .'.. wg. all ofui are. imbux, itupip- URure^ uvrrw lo*j r*.-*><C AvJFHL AKtrUpB ...$OLfcj ,HeAkl AHO TtjtjC PLAIN (**?& ,X PPuBr W&C4N BVBV CKAwl *ct*/7 Wt MB91 WB lAfip* , If WE v^R_ HCZfE»y*/*nie<r0»5,THI.ri5E^u_-^<1g_^i:yTtfXgtfrK0fg.-- 'SHEP. If WAS m OWtV1 PeHtOAJAL ifctf-pflmt*-,} VWr WITH MM, HAv'A/f ToApt> MRTJ / ' fp jr.. y/tti... YER«*T TXC Fec_4W' THif&IRL'J *Z.nri.«- vvis*_*>.. IVTHl* AtF,TH/n*** 600>WKW*J. he y.' aiM" ?/• //"/) tf«? > sen* (F y<WRF SVHvmrzkcpf:. 34 DISCORDER . MONDAY Finks, Uneven Steps, The Road. Firsl Deep Kiss at the Town Pump... Al Walker's Blues Band at the Yale... Other People's Money at the Playhouse ('HI the 13th)... Unidentified Human Remains and The True Nature of Love at the Arts Club Seymour ('til the 13th)... Dead Serious at the Arts Club Granville Island ('til the 13th)... Eihibition by Magdalena Campos at Western Front ('til the 11th)... Recant works by Oerek Root and Proto/Zoan at Dianne Farrls Gal lery ('til ■Ml). rt of Manuel Alvarez Bravo at Presentation House Gallery (thru April)... Urban Animals a collective exhibit at the Surrey Art Gallery... S TUESDAY CiTR WorldBealatthe Pit Pub... Blu Rox, Real Eyes, Smileys, That Melancholy Dream at the Town Pump... Caustic Thought, False Witness, Fake It Bigtimejhe Kill atClub Soda... Happy Mondays and Jam MC's at the Commodore... Confessions at Tamahnous Studio... Al Walker's Blues Band atthe Yale... The Coloured Museum at Rrehall Arts Centre... Oscar Wilde in Earnest at Station Street Arts Centre... Primrose School District 108 at Studio 58 (til the 7th)... Speaking In Tongues at Vancouver Little Theatre... I WEDNESDAY CITR Hot Wednesdays at the Pit Pub... The Method and Restricted at the Cruel Elephant... Jack Feels Fine and Turf City at the Town Pump... Al Walker's Blues Band at the Yale... Bolo Brothers, Tba Klrbys. Mickey Fisher at New Melody Tavern (Seattle)... Confessions at Tamahnous Studio... Tba Coloured Museum at Firehall Arts Centre... Oscar Wilde in Earnest at Station Street Arts Centre... Speaking In Tongues at Vancouver Little Theatre... Tha Fourposter at Presentation House... I-THURSDAY CITR Cool Thursdays at the Pit Pub... The Bluchunks and The Smoking Rhythm Prawns at theCruel Elephant... Catherine Wheel attheTownPump.JImBymesatthe Yale... Crazy Fingers and Second Nature at the Commodore... Shawn Phillips at the Backstage (Seattle)... UBC Symphonic Wind Ensemble at the Old Auditorium (8pm)... Ad Veille Que Pourra at the WISE Club... Confessions at Tamahnous Studio... The Coloured Museum at Firehall Arts Centre... Oscar Wilde In Earnest at Station Street Arts Centre... Speaking in Tongues at Vancouver Little Theatre... Memoir at The Playroom (Maple Ridge)... The Fourposter at Presentation House... > FRIDAY Rosanne Cash at the Commodore... NOFX and Rollcage at the Cruel Elephant... The Hopping Penguins and King Apparatus at the Town Pump... JimByrnesatthe Yale... Themba Tana at the Glass Slipper. Hammerbox, First Thought, Sweet Water, Still Falling .Dogma Clp her al the Backstage (Seattle)... UBC Symphonic Wlad Ensemble at the Old Auditorium(12:30pm) Confessions at Tamahnous Studio... The Coloured Museum at Rrehall Arts Centre... Oscar Wilde la Earnest at Station Street Arts Centre... Speaking In Tongues at Vancouver LltfleThoatre... Memoir at The Playroom (Maple Ridge)... Tba Fourposter at Presentation House... Cm iff 6 SATURDAY Hopping Penguins with King Apparatus at the Town Pump... TTRacerandRollcageat the Cruel Elephant... David Thlaw at the Glass Slipper... A Cartoon Swear and The Sarcastic Manneqwosat the Arts Club... Jim Byrnes at the Yale.. No Mean Feet at the WISE Cluh... Red Platinum, Hungry Crocodiles, Molasses, Sad Happy. Ouitsy Stickat the Backstage (Seattle)... Capping Day at Green River Community College (WA)... Bill Cosby atthe Queen Elizabeth Theatre... Coolassions at Tamahnous Studio... Tba Coloured Museum at Firehall Arts Centre... Oscar Wilde in Earnest at Station Street Arts Centre.. Speaking in Tongues at Vancouver Little Theatre... Memoir at The Playroom (Maple Ridge)... The Fourposter at Presentation House... 7 SUNDAY Dogzllla tape release party with Llk DWat the Town Pump... Dose Pump and Rumble Fish at the CruelElepbanL..DenRossattheWISE Club... Bobby Watson & Horizon at Saturno... Bill Cosby at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre... Cinderella and Slaughter at the Pacific Coliseum. Tough Mama, Tribal Therapy, The Dick Powell Band, Scott Lindemuth at the Backstage (Se attle)... Confessions at Tamahnous Studio... The Coloured Museum at Firehall Arts Centre... PrfmroseSehool District 109 closes at studio 58.. 8 MONDAY Tankhog with Elvis Love Child at the Town Pump... Moonblood a! the RailwayClub...Son of Man, Sedated So uls .Scare Tactick at Club Soda... Confessions at Tamahnous Studio... 9 TUESDAY CITR World Beat at mc Pit Pub... RMI with Blue Law at the Town Pump... Little Mike S the Tornadoes at the Yale... Confessions at Tamahnous Studio... Speaking in Tongues at Vancouver Little Theatre... Recent works by Derek Root and Proto/Zoan closes at Dianne Farris STUDENTS - WELCOME TO __IPftRfl9ISfk VANCOUVER'S BEST SHOW VALUE! GREAT TRIPLE FEATURES! SEE 3 FILMS FOR ONLY $2.50! ENJOY THE BEST IN MOVIE ENTERTAINMENT AT THE LOWEST TICKET PRICE IN TOWN VANCOUVER'S ORIGINAL DISCOUNT THEATRE & STILL THE BEST! ALL SEATS ALL DAY IVE WANT TO MAKE THE PARADISE YOUR FAVOURITE THEATRE 24 HR. SHOW INFO: 681-1732 Gallery... 10 WEDNESDAY CUR Hot Wednesdays at the Pit Pub... Tba ludwigs sid Tame the Wasteland at theCruel Elephant. Havana SAM an i Ral Due Jett at the Town Pump False Wilnass, Fake It Biytime. Aragatnor. Big Sun at the Commodore... Les Granules al the Glass Slipper... LHtte Mike and the Tornadoes at the Yale... Vin Garbuttatthe WISE Club. Confessions al Tamahnous Studio.. Speaking in Tongues at Vancouver Little Theatre The Foe-poster .it Presentation 11 THURSDAY CiTR Cool Thursdays at the Pit Pub .. The Wingnuts and tue Slipshods at the Cruel Elephant... Material Issue with State pi Mind at the Town Pump .. Sawyer Brown at86Street... Les Granules at the Glass Slipper.. Chris Houston's Evil Twang, SUngln'Hornets. Coal at the Commodore... Little Mike & the Tornadoes at the Yale... Little Ed & the Blues Imperials at the Backstage (Seattle)... Confessionsai Tamahnous Studio... Speaking is Tongues at Vancouver little Theatre. Danny Grossman Dance Company at Cen tenniol Theatre... Magdalena Campos exhibit closes at Western Front... 12 FRIDAY Mf.TExperiencejtndTha Smugglers at Ihe Arts Club... The forgotten Rebels attheTown Pump... Thomas Mapfumo & Blacks Unlimited at the New York Theatre... Sonic Brain Jam, It. Avid Cats al the Cuei Elephant... James Cotton at the Commodore... Little Mike and the Tornadoes at the Yale... Capping Day at tie University ot Washington... Confessions at Tamahnous .Stucic Speaking in Tongues LHUe Theatre The Fourposter at Presentation House... Danny Grossman Dance Company atCert- fennfjt Thaalfe.. B Movie Festival opens at Siarlislu Cinema cut tue 21st)... f|*» %*■& 13SATURDAY Seaweed and SBperchunk at the Cruel Elephant.. Mr. T Expert encean d T he Smugglers at the Arts Club... The forgotten Rebels at the Town Pump... Rawlins closes at the Arts Club Granville Island... Speaking in Tongues at Vancouver Little Theatre The Fourposter at Presentation House... 14 SUNDAY Kreator. Blitzspeer, MorgotJi at the New York Theatre... Tba Wheat Chiefs at the Cruel Elephant.. Little Ed * the Blues Imperials at the Town Pump Christine Lavin at the Van East Cultural Centre... Tamahnous Studio... 15 MONDAY Vicious Rumours, Cross at jorand Tropical Breeze at ihe 'at'/he'Yaie.. Co-lauioVat ious Studio... Other People's y closes at the Playhouse... Unidentified Human Remains and The True Nature of Love close at the Arts Club Seymour... Dead Serious at Club Soda Diamond Consplracy, Terror of Tiny Town. Festive Eddies and Mofher at Bie Town Pump... 16 TUESDAY CiTR World Boataiihe Pit Pub The Detonators and Logan Soxatthe Cruel Elephant Hieroglyph, BC, Fat Americans, Crimson Seeds at the Town Pump... Sonic Brain Jam. ft, Kiss Kiss 4 Bang, Ilk Olrt at Club Soda... Eddy the Chief Clearwater at the Yale... Vancouver Men's Choir at the Orpheum... Speaking In Tongues at Vancouver Little Theatre... 17 WEDNESDAY CiTR Hot Wednesdays at the Pit Pub... Scattered Few, flower. I on You at the C ruel Elephant... She Stele My Bee r at the Town Pump.. The Vancouver Man'schems atthe Orpheum... Eddy tbeChiefClearwaterattheYale.. Nell VOimg & Crazy Horse with Sonic Youth and thfvlit' n' Cryin* at the Pacific Coliseum... Speaking In Tongues at Vancouver Little Theatre. . The fourposter at Presentation House... 18 THURSDAY CITR Cool Thursdays at the Pit Pub... Scattered few, flower, 1 on You at the Cruel Elephant... Crash Vegas at the Town Pump... Eddy the Chief Clearwater af tha Yale... An Emotional Fisk at the Backstage (Seattle)... Speaking in Tongues al Vancouver Little Theatre . The fourposter at Presentation 19 FRIDAY Bulgarian S late female Choir at the Orpheum... Strpereon- ductor and Rein Sanction al theCruel Elephant... An Emotional flstj at the Town Pump.. Pop Will Eat Itself wtth Ltmboraanhie* at the Commodore,.. Eddy the Chlel ClearwaterattheYale. Speaking In Tongues at Vancouver Litde Theatre.. Tie Foorposter at Presentation House... " **_ 20 SATURDAY Naked Luncb and The Sweaters at the Cruel Elephant... Skaboom with Doug Deep at the Town Pump... Eddy the Chief Clearwater at the Yale... Speaking ia Tongues at Vancouver Little Theatre... Tba Fourposter at Presentation House... Urban Animals a collective exhibit closes at the Surrey Art Gallery... 21 SUNDAY Rate Sanction with Chrome Dog at the Town Pump... Deee-Lite witn guest Bootsy Collins at the Commodore... Evan Parker Trio at the Glass Slipper... S-Movie Festival closes at StarUght Cinema 22 MONDAY Chtrtet on Charges. The Search. Pope's Banned. Urban Coyotes at the Town Pump... Evan Parker Trio at Ihe Glass Slipper.. 23 TUESDAY CITR World Bealatthe Pit Pub Mary's Danish at the Town Pump.. Cfcrome Dog, Sinner Squad, Lester's Wagon it Club Soda.. Pinetop Perkins & the Blues Messiahs at the Yale... 24 WEDNESDAY CITR Hot Wednesdays at AePitPub... Kiss Kiss & Bang at the duel Elephant... Evil Twang at the Town Pump... Pinetop Perkins ft thi Blues Messiahs at the 25 THURSDAY CiTR Cool Thursdays at the Pit Pub... Milton Nesdmonto at the Orpheum... Mary and Jack Feels Fine at the Cruel Elephant ... Superconductor at the Town Pump... Pinetop Perkins & the Blues 26 FRIDAY CITR presents Discorder's 100th Issue Gala Extravaganza at the Cruel Elephant... Kashtin at the Commodore... Pinetop Perkins ft tee Blues Messiahs at the Yale... Capping Oay at the OK Hotel (Seattle).. 27 SATURDAY Windwalker, Derelicts, Dirt at the Cruel Elephant.. Fastbacks at the Town Pump... Natural Elements at the WISE Club... Pinetop Perkins « Ihe Blues Messiahs at the 28 SUNDAY Thrill Hammer. Ear 'wig, But Flower at the Cruel Elephant. Fastbacks at the Town Pump.. Lo Jai at the Van East Cultural 29 MONDAY Andy Irvine at the WISE Club... HenryThreadgill atthe Van East Cultural Centre... 30 TUESDAY CITR World Bealatthe Pit Pub... Club of Rome at the Town Pump... The Original Sinners at the A wise ol'prophet once stated "DiSCORDER Magazine... it cant hurt you if you don't read If." It can't give you cool goodies either if you don't subscribe. If you do subscribe during this month of April and correctly answer the skill- testing question above, you could win a very special prize courtesy of Ray at BMG. A "CURE FOR SANITY" cassette by page 16 starlets POP WILL EAT ITSELF (catch them live at the Commodore on April 291). Send your answer plus $15cdn (in Canada), $15us (to the States) or $24 (to everywhere else) now to: DiSCORDER Subscriptions - PWEI!! 6138 SUB Blvd., Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z1. APRIL 1991 35 SUNDAYS ARE YOU SERIOUS? MUSIC 8:00AM- 12:00PM The newest new music and Information on concerts, recordings, composers with Ian Crutchley. THE BRUNCH REPORT 12:00-12:15PM News, sports, weather and more with the CITR News. Sports and Weather Departments. THE ROCKERS SHOW 12:15-3:00PM Host: George Barrett and Mike Cherry. Reggae Inna all styles and fashion. Dancehall. Dub. Roots. Lovers-rock. Rock Steady. Ska and beyondl THE SUNDAY MAGAZINE 5:00- 5:30PM All the days news, weather and sports. Plus an In- depth Interview, movie reviews and more. Hosted by Luc Dinsdale. HEARSAY 5:30-6:OOPM CiTR's literary arts program needs YOU to submit your works for on-air performance or reading. ELECTRONIC SMOKE SIGNALS 6:00- S:00PM From the global cultures of resistance hosted by Horacio de la Cueva. alternating Sundays with Smell the Bidet. SMELL THE BIDET 6:008:00PM John Casablanca's means nothing. Fresh faces means nothing. Cllnlque means nothing. Richmond bores me. Yes. Andrecka. satan loves you. Sundays with Electronic Smoke Signals.. RADIO FREE AMERICA 10:00PM- 12:00AM Join host Dave Emory and colleague Nip Tuck for some extraodinary political re- searchguaranteedtomakeyou think twice. Bring your tape deck and two C-POs. Originally broadcast on KFJC (Los Altos. California). MONDAYS THEMORNINGSHOW 7:30-8:15AM Wake up with the CiTR Morning Show. All the news, sports and weather you need to start your day. Plus whafs happening at UBC each day with UBC Digest, a feature interview and more. Topped off with the BBC World Service News at 8:00AM, live trom London. England. Hosted by Tracy Dolan. BREAKFAST WITH THE BROWNS 8:15- 11:00AM Your favourite brown- sters James and Peter offer a savoury blend of fhe fa miliar and exotic in an excitingly luscious blend of aural delights! Tune in and enjoy each weekly brown plate special. SOUL CHURCH 12:00-1:00PM Playing the best of African-American and African-Canadian gospel music traditions. Your 28 DISCORDER rotating hosts: Dave Langlle and Mark Harris. 1st Eoslcr Special: This second program In a two part Easter series. Songs about the Resurrection of Jesus, not bun- 8th Llv# Gospel: The best gospel music is live gospel music. Today, an hour of the best gospel acts captured live. 15th New releases: There have been some great gospel releases this year. We'll be playing cuts from the Winans. the Mighty Clouds of Joy, the ARC Gospel Choir and 22nd A Capella Gospel: A celebration of the core of the genius of African-American gospel-the pure, unaccompanied voice. Artists highlighted will Include Marion Williams, the Soul Stirrers. Take 6 and more 29th Gospel Roots: We dig Into the archives and play some of the pioneers of contemporary gospel: Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Thomas A Dorsey. the Sea Island Singers and enough others to fin up the THE AFTERNOON REPORT 1:00- 1:15PM News, sports and weather. MEKANIKAL OBJEKT NOIZE 1:15- 3:00PM A musical miasma of electronic effluvium with knob spinner June Scudeler. SWINGIN'SINGLES 3:00-5:OOPM Do you like singles? I do. too! Join me Felicity Dunbar and smell, the rubber each week at this new time slot! THE CITR DINNER REPORT 5:00- 5:30PM All the latest on campus: news, sports, an in-depth interview, theatre orfilm review, editorial commentary and more. Weekdays with host Ian SPORTS DIGEST 5:30-6:00PM Campus, amateur and professional sports with Keith Watson. BOXER SHORT BOYZ 7:00-9:OOPM Just a couple of guys who like to walk around in their boxer shorts with their big fat guts hanging out. Jerome Broadway and Garnet Timothy Harry alternate THE JAZZ SHOW 9:00PM-12:00AM Vancouver's longest running prime time jazz program. Hosted by theever-suave Gavin Walker. Features at 11. 1st Oblique is the name of an album by the great vibraharpist Bobby Hutch- erson. Although It was re corded in 1967. It until now has never been Issued In North Amedoa.onV ki Japan. Bobby with Herble Hancock and others... agreatalbuml 8th Stan Getz at Story***, recorded in 1951 when Getz was beginning his ascent as one of the leading voices of the tenor saxophone and as leader of a ground breaking group which Included guitar great Jimmy Raney. 15th One of the finest bands of all hme: the Kenny Clarke- Francy Boland Orchestra. Starstudded and multinational, this European band never toured In North America but some of their best music was made at the Ronnie Scott's Club In London. 22nd Tonight is the late great Charles Mingus' birthday. He would have been 69 today. Mingus played piano and composed and was one of the world's greatest virtuosos of fhe bass. He was also one of the most catalytic bandleaders ever. 29th Afro Bona is one of Duke Ellngton's masterpieces. Recorded for Frank Sinatra's label Reprise. Sinatra allowed Duke full control of this album... repertoire, cover, even the sequencing of the PHENOMENON ONE 12:0O-4:00AM Now hear thisl Roughneck dance hall Reggae, dub plates and live DJ selections that are ruling Jamaica and abroad, with whltey at the controls. TUESDAYS THEMORNINGSHOW 7:30-8:15AM Hosted by Antje Rauwerda. ESSENTIALLY ECLECTIC 10:00- 11:00AM Start your day with the Girl from Ipanema and the boy from Seattle...hosted by David Longrldge. BLOOD ON THE SADDLE 1:15- 3:00PM Country music toscrape the cowshlt off your boots to. With yer host-poke Jeff Gray. THE UNHEARD MUSIC 3:00-5:00PM Demo Director Dale Sawyer provides some insight into the best and the worst of the newest Canadian music. AVANT PIG 7:00-9:00PM Avant- garde thuggery with Pete Lutwyche. First Tuesday each month: World Music Exploration. WOLf AT THE DOOR 9:00PM- 12:00AM The latest In dance music and interesting drama every second week. With Lupus Yonderboy. WEDNESDAYS THEMORNINGSHOW 7:30-8:15AM Hosted by David Feldbloom. UVE FROM VENUS 10:00-11:00AM Tinkly women's music with Jane Tilley. CONTENTS UNDER PRESSURE 1:15- 3:00PM Spinning the best (and sometimes the worst) playlist material, bringing a variety of music styles from places you'll not hear on any other radio station... seriously. I appreciate all requests. I work best under pressure and the gods have seen to it that I am supplied well with sonic bliss... hence the title. NORMAN'S KITCHEN 3:00-5:00PM Blah blah blah god blah blah blah music blah blah blah noise!!! NO INTERMISSION 5:30-6:00PM Addressing the drama, theatre, film and arts communities. Wth Antje Rauwerda. HAN fORD N UCLEAR PIZZA PIE 6:00- 7:00PM Rowena wrecked her ear drums; too much loud music I s'pose. Totally bummed too... no more 'NO.* no more JIGGLE 7:009:00PM Just because you re fat. doesn't mean you're alternative. Mikey •tfrtyhalr' and Gav •Bristle-head: joined by their adoring groupie, serve up breakfast all day from their porta-kltchen. Jiggle Jiggle Jiggle! Lose al sphincter control. THURSDAYS THEMORNINGSHOW 7:30-8:15AM Hosted by Ian Gunn. NOW YOU HAS JAZZ 10:00AM- 1:00PM Jazz with Tommy Paley; special feature at noon. DICK CLARK'S COMPOST HEAP O HITS 1:15-3:00PM Far Indeed is Ihis from the way - Lao Tzu fLEX YOUR HEAD 3:00-5:00PM —ERIC CORE- VANCOUVER POCUS 5:30-6:00PM Current Affairs wtth Stefan Ellis. OUT FOR KICKS 6:00-8:OOPM Wildbeat protest music with Pat and Usa. TOP Of THE BOPS 8:00-9:00PM Musical chef Marc Coulevin bolls up a tasty pot of gumbo UVE FROM THUNDERBIRD RADIO HELL 9:00-11:00PM Local music from 9. Live bands from 10. ABSOLUTE VALUE OF NOISE 11:00PM-1:00AM 100% Canadian industriabm. Noise from the auditory fringe Practitioner: Peter Courtemanche. MEGABIASTIII 1:00-4KX)AM MUSIC BY BLACK ARTISTS ONLY. FRIDAYS THEMORNINGSHOW 7:30-8:15AM Hosted by David Feldbloomand Norm Hermant. SCRAMBLED EGGS 8:15-10:30AM A virtual potpourri of sounds from the smooth to the crunchy. Music to help you get your toast MOVING IMAGES 10:30-11:00AM Join host Ken Maclntyre as he takes you on a tour through the silver screen's back lot of live with film news, reviews. Interviews and soundtracks. THE INTERNATIONAL VENUS FLYTRAP NETWORK 11:00AM-1:00PM Greg's back and has "post- travel depression." Tune In. brothers and sisters for a whole month of depressing Joy Division, etc... (not). Bye. ABSOLUTE VALUE Of NOIZI 2:30- 3:30, 4:00-5:00PM Adam NoB Sloan. NARDWUAR THE HUMAN SERVIETTE PRESENTS... 3:30-4:00PM Join Nardwuar and his war cat Cleo von Fluffetstein tot half an hour of stimulating Manhattan clam chowder entertainment. THE CITR DINNER REPORT 5:00- 5:30PM With The Voice of Reason.* our weekly look back at the week In the news, tongues firmly h cheek. HOME TAPING HI-FI 6:00-9:OOPM Underground sound system- style mastermlx radio. FOR THE RECORD 6:30-6:45PM Excerpts from Dave Emory's Radio Free America Series HOMEBASS 900PM-12:30AM Dope jams and fresh beats for a groovy evening with DJ Noah on the wheels of steel JOURNEY TO THE SOFT CHEWY CENTRE OF THE UNIVERSE 12:30AM-4:00AM John Casablanca's means nothing. Yes. Andrecka. Satan loves you. Hosted by Uoyd Uliana. SATURDAYS THE SATURDAY EDGE 8:00AM- 12:00PM Vancouver's biggest and best acoustlc/roots/rogue radio show. Now In its 6th year on CITR! Roots music from around the world plus the World Cup Report at 11:30. POWERCHORD 12:15-3:00PM Vancouver's only true metal show; local demo tapes. Imports and other rarities. Gerald Rattlehead and Metal Ron do the damage. IN EFfECT 3:00-5:OOPM The HIpHop Beat and nuttin' butt. THE SATURDAY MAGAZINE 5:00- 5:30PM UBC's weekend news. All the latest news, sports, weather, a movie review, feature report and more. News with Luc Dlnsdale; Doug Richards has sports. ARTS CAFE 5:30-6:00PM Be informed about Art. theatre, film and any other cultural event happening In Vancouver. With Antje! THE AFRICAN SHOW 8:00- 10:00PM Its a music thing from all 'Africa.' Its an awareness thing of self and others. It's an African house party. Stories, music, dance fun.Welcomel Yourhost Umerah. RADIO FREE PARKING 10:00PM- 1:00AM A radio show with a life- force all Its own. Mixes come from seemingly nowhere much like the radio signals you pick up. An aural parking lot for the muses. No expectations. No disappointments. THE ELECTRIC ENEMA 1:00-4:00AM No heavy disco beats allowed. WHOM & HOW PLEASE NOTE NEW NAMES... ARTS JEROME PRINGLE BOARD CHAIR SONIA FRASER CURRENTAFfAIRS K1MTRAINOR DEMOS/CASSETTES DALE SAWYER ENGINEER RIC HARD ANDERSON ENTERTAINMENT LUC DINSDALE EXECUTIVE ENGINEER ADAM SLOAN UBRAR1AN CHACK SUN LEE MOBILESOUND UNDASCHOLTEN MUSIC ROBYNN IWATA NEWS IAN GUNN N EWS FEATURES TRACY DOLAN PRESIDENT DARREN REITER PRODUCTION JOELFRANSEN PROGRAMMING ADAM SLOAN PROMOTIONS MIKHELRANNISTE SPORTS TOMMY PALEY STATION MANAGER UNDA SCHOLTEN VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR BILL BAKER BUSINESS UNE 604/822-3017 DJ UNE 604/822-2487 (822-CiTR) NEWS UNE 604/222-2487 (222-OTR) FAX UNE 604/822^i093 ENVOY ID CITR.FM STAND IN UNE ROOM 233. EAST SIDE. SECOND FLOOR OF THE STUDENT UNION BUILDING, 6138 SUB BOULEVARD. UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA. VANCOUVER. BC, CANADA V6T 1Z1. Note the new postal codellllll CITR provides free alrttme for Community Access by groups and Individuals wishing to share some thoughts wtth our Isteners. If you or your group would like to say something to someone somewhere, please call the Program Director at 822-3017. CHARTS CiTR does not use rotations in its programming, all musical selections are chosen by individual programmers. The Long Groooooves Short Grooves and Single Magnetic Party clothes charts to the right are based and are organised solely on alrpla. These charts rather arbitrarily break up CiTR's musical playlist into three groups: long-playing albums. CDs and cassettes; 12* and 7* singles and EPs and CD-5*s; and single cassette and demo tape songs and other rare material that Is only playable dubbed into tape formatsuch as fragileflexidiscsetc. For more information on CiTR's musical programming, please call the Music Director at 822-3017. mi; ARE YOU SERIOUS MUSIC ROCKERS SHOW knew m ARGO SHOW h.A&AY aEcisonc-v SMELL THE BIDET ONE STEP IEYON0/SADIO FHE AMERICA iNfflE GHPOf ran l'i[i]»iU*Vi^__ii:iiH__^i THE SATURDAY EDGE KJWER CHORD NEK. &&£ ii AFRICAN SHOW RADIO FREE PARKING THE ELECTRIC ENEMA Not for anger and despair, but for peace and a kind of home - suicide note of Lewis Hill, founder of KPFA Berkeley, 1957 «=_■=:■ FrTgHTHPTiUMftft Smell the Bidet (alternating Sundays 6:0O-8:00PM) Morgoth "White GaMery" Sex-oAtatic "Wake Up and Smel Ihe Pussy" Front242 "Rhythm of Tkne" Mcoter/Slave Relationship "The Desire to Castrate Father Steinsky and Mass Media "The Motorcade Sped On" Kreator "Flag ol Hate" live Martyn Bates "GtowofSlghr Vasillsk "Into Ihe Circle" Ween "Mushroom Festival In Hell" Skatenlgs "Chemical Imbalance" Mechanikal Objekt Noize (Mondays 1:15-3:00PM) Front Line Assembly "Virus" 12* (Third Mind) Chris Connelly "Stowaway" 12* (Cargo*Wax Trax) Cyberaktrf "NolhlngSlays" *2*(Cargo«WaxTrax) Boris Mikulic Here»K(A&M*Vlrgin.Carollne) Pigface "Spoon Breaklast" 12* EP (Touch* Go. Invisible) lOOOHomoDJs "SupernauT (Wax Trax Sampler #2) ...fhe Thrill Kil Kult Days of Swine and Rotes (Cargo. Wax Trax) KMFDM NarVe(Cargo.WaxTrax) Doubting Thomas "Clocks" (Wax Trax Sampler #2) Various Artists Deaf/)o/V*ry/(dovEntertalnment) InSottoVoce Sequence* (Antler-Subway) Contents Under Pressure (Wednesdays 1:15-3:00PM) CRANES Inescapable **>*fP(Dedlcated) The Great Kat Beethoven on Speed (Cargo* Roadracer) Tooth&Nail /nHy»7e/tol_*£Paooth&NaiD JeloBiafra&NoMeansNo... TheSkylsFallng... (Fringe*Alternative Tent.) Front242 Tyranny For You (Sony* Epic) Chris Connelly "Stowaway" 12* (Cargo* Wax Trax) Various Artists Crack ot a Belgian Whlp(.Cargo*r<.K) 2Bad Idiot Tree OlMisi) Alien Sex Fiend Cu/se(Slnclalr*Anagram) Journey to tie Soft Chewy Centre of tie Universe (Fridays I2:30-4*OOAH) Chunk at the Pump Los ing review notes to same and finding them again Odds "4 Polntsof Smack" (demo) BobHolmanTrlo "\tW (.Knitting Factory *4 Hearing whatClubDDIsdoing now (basicalty no thing) PowerChord (Saturdays 12:15-3:00PM) Cyclone Temple /Ha*e7?>er»fo/»/Am(Combat) Fear of God Within Evil (Warner) Dark Angel Time Doe* Not HeaKCombat) WrathcNId America 3-D(Attantlc) Megadeth *us//nP«oce(CapitolEMI) Motorhead "1916"CD-5*(Sony*Wlg) Heloween HnkBuaWe«GoApe(CapltolEMI) MetalChurch Human factor (Sony*Eplc) Heathen Vfc«m»or-Deceprton(Roadracer) Sepultura Arise(RC) In Effect (Saturdays 12:15-5:OOPM Ice-T "New Jack Hustler" GangStarr "Who'sGonnaTakethe Weight" Young Black Teenagers "Punks, Ues * Videotapes" Chubb Rock -Treat 'Em Right- Ed O.G. and Da Bulldogs "I Got lo Have It" Father MC "Lisa Baby" Dream Warriors "Face In the Basin" MainSource "LooWn'OuttheFrontDoor" BG-The Prince of Rap "Rap to the World" P*D2 "Movement" i niafs _a_».rw>_r*_rw-i*4#_g_tt i r_-H Spermblrds Common Thread(X Mi Various Artists Satyricon (Juggler! 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Publisher | Vancouver : Student Radio Society of the University of British Columbia |
Date Issued | 1991-04-01 |
Extent | 40 pages |
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Date Available | 2015-03-11 |
Provider | Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library |
Rights | Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy, or otherwise use these recordings must be obtained from CiTR-FM: http://www.citr.ca |
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DOI | 10.14288/1.0050202 |
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