« 432 HOMER SI VANCOUVER DiScORDER That from CITR Radio 102 April 1988 Vol. V Issue #64 EDITOR Bill Mullan WRITERS Don Chow, Esther Hadley, Michael Dezell, Matt Richards, Janis McKenzie, ART DIRECTOR Matt Richards ILLUSTRATORS Marty George, William Thompson, Peter Perry PHOTOS Mandel Ngan COVER Marty George PRODUCTION MANAGER Michael Grigg LAYOUT Byron Salahor, Marty George, Barb Wilson, Don Chow, Gregory Zbltnew, PROGRAM PAGES Katherine Hayashl TYPESETTING Barbara Wilson, (etc) . . . ACCOUNTS MANAGER Randy Iwata ADVERTISING MANAGER Matt Richards PUBLISHER Harry Hertscheg Discorder Magazine, c/o CITR - UBC Radio 6138 SUB Blvd., Vancouver, B.C. Canada V6T 2A5 S(6©4) 228-3017 Discorder is That Magazine from CITR Radio 102 and is published monthly by the Student Radio Society of the University of British Columbia, although it winds up being printed deep from within Surrey, Canada. Discorder Magazine prints what it wants to, but pledges to put the CITR On The Dial program schedule and SpinList record chart in every issue. Discorder also vows to circulate 17,500 copies by the first of each month. Subscriptions are encouraged. Twelve issues: $12 in Canada, $12(US) in the States, $18 elsewhere. Make money orders or certified cheques payable to CITR Publications'. CITR Radio 102 broadcasts a 49-watt stereo signal throughout the Vancouver area at 101.9 FM. But for best reception, hook up to the FM cable network. CITR is at 101.9 cable FM on Rogers (Lower Mainland) and Shaw (North Shore) cable systems, but is still at 100.1 on Rogers (Fraser Valley). Inquiries about CITR, Discorder or the Mobile Sound System can be directed to station manager Harry Hertscheg at 228-3017, between 10 am - 4 pm, Monday to Friday. If you want to talk to the deejay, call 228-2487 or 228-CITR. Destination: Outer Space. A man willvsoon look out on space from cockpit of the rocket 6. THE NEW SCENE DREAM MACHINES Music's Hi-Tech future is now 10. WHAT DO YOU THINK FUTURE HOLDS? Answers to that most crucial of questions 14. BOB'S YOUR UNCLE Your Basic Abuse of Country & Western 23. V-C0N 16 It's a Science Fiction Convention IN MOST ISSUES 4. AIRHEAD readers who write 17. LOCAL MOTION in a city near you 17. DIS CHORD what's the the best record of the year (so far)? 20. ON THE DIAL everyperson's guide to CiTR 21. SPINLIST the hipper sounds April 1988 AIRHEAD c/o crm •iMSuewv* Vancouver, B.C. VtT2A5 Dazed and Concerned Dear Airhead, I've been reading the Discorder on and off for a few years now and I've always wondered: are the people who run/write it normal? I mean, are they really cool or are they just like me? Do they have hang-ups and do they worry what people will think? Do they long for a mate? Do they walk into a club and think everyone is looking at them? Do they walk into a club and worry if no one is looking at them? Do they see someone on the street who they know-but-doesn't-look-so- cool, so pretend not to see them? Do they have weird relatives they pray they'll never see when their friends are around? Do they pretend to know a song that everyond instantly recognizes when really they've never heard of it? Do they con their way through work/school and then tell everyone how dilligent and hard they are working/studying? Do they go home with someone they never met while under the inlfuence of something they never did and wake up the next morning and wish they never did either? Do they wish they were really together like that person they met at some artsy fartsy cafe? Do they go to the art gallery and pretend to be really interested when actually they wish they were at Burger King chowing down a Whopper? Do they buy their clothes at The Bay bargain basement and tell everyone they get them at the Sally Ann just because it's cool to be poor, but uncool to be cheap? Do they write desperate letters to obscure magazines then hope they will publish the letter just because if they do maybe they will be famous for just a minute, but then no one will believe them because they used a phoney name just in case someone they liked read it and thought it was stupid and swore never to talk to that person again, and who wants them in the first place? PLEASE RESPOND. MY MIND CAN'T TAKE IT. Grlzzelda Bonaflde Yes and no. Conspiracy! Dear Airhead, How dare you! I'm disgusted! I was calmly reading my April Discorder when I came across Matt Richards' "Social Tourniquet". I read it and at first thought nothing of it. It was an interesting piece. Then I thought, "this is strange, what on earth would possess someone to write a 1001 word run-on sentence?' Revenge on a past English teacher? Or was it perhaps just some form of self-gratification which used the word "and" eighty-one times in a sentence. But then it struck me! The first word, the middle word and the last word form another sentence: "SO LOVE TIME"! I was shocked! I never thought Discorder would stoop so low as to send subliminal messages to innocent readers through seemingly innocent reading material. Never again will you be trusted . .. Never! I'm tempted to tell the mayor about this! I'm sure if he knew he would cancel his 4 DISCORDER subscription! And keep in mind as well my fiendish friends that there is but one REAL blasphemy, and that is the mutated mind! So remember ... I am watching. I wish you a thought- provoking, stimulating and entertaining evening. PS. re: Drainpipe. Skateboarding is NOT a form of deviant behaviour. Slmone We talked to the mayor and he said he didn't care what we did as long as we didn't make any gratuitous comments about his Yuppy image or his stupid idea to get rid of Granville Street Mall The Essential Letter Dear Airhead, I just finished the first half of April's Airhead letters. Here, let me pass you a kleenex! It's a wonder your creative juices haven't freeze dried altogether. I'll tell you a secret: those guys are the ones that run out first to get this mag! I wonder how they'd do putting it together each month and still pleasing everyone. Creativity is an individual and personal thing. By listening to them, you'll be losing everything we truly get off on in the Discorder. They ought to read between the lines and appreciate the effort and uniqueness that goes into each mag. Judgement is pretentious as far as I can see. If they want a regular layout and easy reading for the eye, tell them The Enquirer has all that, and keep up the great work. I love you, Discorder. Bubba Your cheque's in the mail. No Man's Land Dear Airhead, Wot's up peoples Ass about Surrey? I dislike most of the neaderthaloids out there but some are OK! Surprisingly enuf, some of those fuckin-A goofs read "that magazine from CITR". I for one am not a Fuckin-A goof, but I listen to, shudder, rockin tunes occasionally. Maybe it's just me, but the Discorder is in a state of confusion. In some issues, y'all are anti-skater, anti- alternative and anti-self. Why? Are you confused? Confused enough to call a rocker a skinhead with hair, or Webster an illiterate skinny person? And to end all the criticism, good mag! Like it!!! P.S. Do you people watch Polka Time? Illustriously yours, Commensurablllty (Sean from FINAL NOTICE) Re: Surrey. We at Discorder have nothing against the place. Indeed the magazine is actually printed there. Don Chow's from Surrey. Maybe that explains it. Re: the state of confusion. Of course we're in one. Aren't you? Isn't everybody. Is the sky black? Re: "Polka Time". Ya, we watch it, but we'd never go so far as to brag about it in a magazine with a circulation of 17$00. Whoops. Wet Logic Dear Airhead, Just a thought. If humans are composed of 84% water and God created us in his own image, wouldn't that mean God is water? Allan No, it means God is 84% water. Calling All Bands Dear Airhead, Hi, it's me, 12 Midnite, Vancouver's best known unknown enlisting your help. Since my last Arts Club show I have gone into seclusion on rainy Van Isle, immersing myself into several new projects including finishing up work on my solo album (far removed from my days with Young Adults) and other things you all will be hearing about soon soon. But that's all beside the point. Where I need your help is, I am currently working on a movie proposal (script, locations etc) and would like to use only Vancouver bands on the soundtrack. Now I know there are bands out there that I don't know or even know of, so if you could explain the situation to your readers and pass on my request that any bands/artists who play urban gritty music and may want to have their music in an urban gritty movie about sex, rejection, failure and overcoming odds in an uncaring subculture of art, drugs and perversion to forward tapes and info to: 12 Midnite c/o The Grey Area/Rant'n'Rave, Vancouver, V6B-1C9. Thankyou for any help. Tapes will be returned if a contact number is included. Love and Kisses, 12 Midnite Calling All Travelling Bands Airhead, Winnipeg has a new venue for alternative entertainment! The Cauldron is a co-operatively run hall, staffed by volunteers and has been open since mid-January. We are booking acts from the wide spectrum of the alternative arts and would like to include performers from your area. Please contact us if you are interested. Call us at 1-204- 957-5895 and talk to Kent or Max, or drop us a line at The Cauldron, 72 Princess, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3B-1K2. Max Yates (Found on a table at The Railway Club) God. Where Is God? Have you met the devil this week? The devil Is God's evil twin brother. The devil dates Morgan Falrchlkf. Morgan Falrchlld and God do not see eye to eye. God dates Elizabeth Taylor. Elizabeth Taylor, much to God's chagrin, Is a loose woman. But God likes her anyways. Do you like Liz? Do you like God? They like you. You, God and Liz all have something In common. You do not date Morgan Falrchlld. You are not the devil. Malmle Van Doren More Questions Dear Airhead, Thanks for printing my letter. It feels good to be in print. I realize now that there is a bit of a non-sequitur at the end, but isn't that what life's all about: confusion at the end. To Argh Arg Fuckface: take a look at Safeway. It's an anagram for 'a few say'. What, I don't know, but it's pretty spooky all the same. Does anybody know what happens when you send a letter to an artist by way of their record company? Does it get there or does it end up being giggled at by a bunch of coked up record execs? April Discorder was good. I laughed more than I have for a while. Purple is a good color for the cover. What sort of photographs are printable? No wait, I mean like: color or slides or what? And remember, the only good stickers are free, stolen or homemade. It's good to see more people riding skates on campus. Drainpipe We don't care what goes on inside major record companies. Why do you think we hang out at CITR? As for photos, good black & white prints reproduce best. Color stuff is so so, depending on the colors and the ammount of contrast. Slides are out. Love, Peace and Litigation Discorder, Re: Retinal Circus. This past summer a local band managed by Karen Lund used this name for a short time without my permission. I told them that I still value the name and intend to use it again for some nefarious purpose or other but Karen said they want to resume its use. I thought you might like to see the letter I sent her. Notices have also been sent to many venues and agents in the Lower Mainland. I hope you will join in any protest campaign should these people try this again. Yours truly, Roger Schiffer and Retinal Music Corp Dear Ms. Lund, Re: Retinal Circus. You have asked me to confirm in writing my claim to the above name which was used by a band you manage when they performed at The Town Pump on 12 August 1987. In the years 1967 and 1968 I was the president and eventually the sole shareholder of Magic Theatre Ltd which did business under the trade name and style of "RETINAL CIRCUS". We operated a Light Show and Dance Hall at 1024 Davie Street, Vancouver and presented concerts by many well known U.S. and British recording acts as well as all of Vancouver's original rock scene, as it then was. The name "RETINAL CIRCUS" was promoted on a saturation basis on radio, television, newspaper and through psychedelic posters and postcards/handbills (which I still have by the tens of thousands). We produced Be-ins throughout the city; housed the Free Clinic; ran benefits for Cool-Aid, various Native organizations and even the White Panthers. Once or twice we opened doors and used our premises as a free crash-pad, so that kids who'd come to town for a special event would have somehere to spend the night. For a while, we held regular meetings of the City Government, a YIPPEE-style organization set up to counter Mayor Tom Campbell, and I was the Minister of Culture. When the place closed, I kept the name and sponsored a few events under its "umbrella". I have had many offers to buy it and only once did I consider "passing it on" to someone else who might do for your generation what we did for ours. In 1985 there were some discussions with the Centennial Committee about producing a special event under that name, bringing together all us "old-hippy" performers, crew and audience and the generations which have followed. Now, I think we'll leave that to some future date . .. If you think the impact of "RETINAL CIRCUS" was light, I suggest you look through the clippings at the Sun or the Province, or even the Seattle or Edmonton Papers. You could talk to J.B. Shane, Mulligan, Burge, or Latrimo; Cliff Jones, Feldman, Bruce or Valley; the people at VTC/CBO; Dan McLeod, Tripper, Cramer, Bachman or the guys in Trooper, Fairbaim or Duris Maxwell. Or you could speak to Donald K. Donald, Lou Reed or Bill Graham. You'll see - - I paid my dues and that name is MINE! Because it is and because Cliff and the others in your band have not acted responsibly I have decided to firmly consolidate my rights to this name. Please be advised that I am now the sole shareholder and president of "Retinal Circus Music Corp." a company incorporated under the laws of this province. Accordingly, any further use or attempted use of the name "Retinal Circus" or anything resembling that name will result in legal action against you, all members of the band, and those agents and venues involved. In order to further protect our exclusive right to this name in connection with music and youth oriented activities, I am prepared to send similar notices to all agents and venues in this area. I would urge you, however, to write to me immediately confirming that the band will not use this name again. I remind you that I can already pursue you and the band members for damages for your unauthorized use of "RETINAL CIRCUS" to date. If I receive such a letter from you by 30 December 1987, however, I am prepared to release all of you from any such liability to me. I trust you will act accordingly. Yours truly, Roger Schiffer We've been hanging on to this correspondence for a couple months now at Discorder, mainly because we found it so bizarre. Only after several readings and deep study have we concluded that far from being a serious tome, it is in fact a dark satirical poke at the corrupted values of the once idealistic 60s generation. Mr Schiffer, in posing as an ex-hippy-type turned lawyer, has found the penultimate caricature through which to pursue this end. What did happen to those free easy values the 'hippies' once pursued so proudly? How can an ex-Acid freak sell Life Insurance and still live with his soul? Where is this Spiritual Materialism taking us, and what would John Lennon have to say about it had he not been assassinated by a minion of satan? Is it any wonder that kids today wear black and profess not to care? Discorder, of course, does not have any answers. Though we don' t deny that 1967and the Summer of Love must have been a pretty amazing party, we aren't sorry we missed it. Those heady days appear to have warped an untold number of then young minds instilling in them the delusion that they'd hit a peak of sorts, that what was can never be again. The hangover lingers. Those who once had something continue to do their darnedest to grind it into nothing. We of subsequent generations who have only the Autumn of Apathy (1977) and The Winter of Hate (1987) to hold dear (read: nothing to get excited about) continue to do our best to create something. By the way, we're changing the name of the magazine to RETINAL CIRCUS. April 1988 5 THE Gncnc J mfiCHines SCEnE T here are those of you that will scoff at electronic instruments. ■ Mm Maybe you are a gutarist Maybe you think you are a punk. Prepare yourself for old age. Don't get me wrong- you can continue doing what you're doing. Just like the dance bands that were popular before electric guitars. The fact is, synthesizers and electronic sounds are no longer the domain of wimp-shit British new wave pop, bands. A lot has changed in the field of electronic music in the last five years or so. This is an understatement. These days, any sound is game and can be used with relative ease. The punk ethic of D.I. Y. has been stolen by kids with samplers. Musicians and composers have been waiting for the sampler for at least 75 years. If the futurists of the early 1910's who came up with The Art Of Noise manifesto were around today, they would shit their pants in amazement. And sample it. What follows is something of an overview of some of the musical technology available at the moment. If you're interested, you will want and need to find out more. Much has been written in more detail. Look through some magazines, like Electronic Musician, for example. If you're not a musician, there's no better time to get involved. You won't have to hide out for five years practicing scales before you can do anything. Not that it won't help, but the rules have definitely changed. You don't even have to join a band. How's that for punk ethic? Anyway, read on: the clock's running a little faster every fifteen seconds. WHAT IS IT? WHAT DOES IT DO? SAMPLERS are devices that record sound, convert it to digital information (numbers), and store it in memory where it can be recalled, or TRIGGERED, from a keyboard or button of some sort. This means that any sound you put into the machine can be played back at will, as if it were a musical instrument: car crashes, mooing cows, fingernails across a chalkboard... anything. You can steal sounds from other records if you want How much you can record at once depends on how long a sampling TIME your sampler is capable of. How good it will sound depends on how high a sampling RATE you can use. There should be a disk drive to store your samples on. If you're a working musician, samplers can save you time (money) in the studio and on the road. For example, instead of taking the time to record every repeat of a backup vocal, you could record the perfect take just once, sample it from the tape, and then trigger it from the sampler whenever you want it Instead of spending hours miking up your drums to get the right sound every time you move the kit you only need to sample each drum once and trigger it whenever. Want a different sound? Just pop in another disk. "If this was 1971, and I were to refer to someone as an electronic musician, we would all have a definite concept of what that meant. And we would have an idea of what that might sound like. But if I were to refer to someone as an electronic musician today, it's really a whole different kind of a concept. It could mean any kind of style. It could mean anything." -Paul Rice (Sam Ash Music, NYC) WHO. I mU! MIDI is simply a language which allows musical instruments (and devices into which you can plug a MIDI cable) to communicate with one another. For example, a MIDI keyboard can hook up to a sampler or other synthesizer and play whatever sounds those devices are capable of making. MIDI eliminates, or at least reduces, the need for multiple keyboards in order to play a variety of sounds. MIDI CONTROLLERS are devices which are capable of TRANSMITTING MIDI information. The most common controllers are in the form of keyboards, but lately there have been WIND controllers you can blow into. Controllers for guitars and string instruments are still at a very crude stage of development, but are available in the form of PITCHRIDERS. They are limited in the AMOUNT of MIDI information they are able to transmit, which is the measure of any controller. DISCORDER MIDI INFORMATION is not musical information any more than the scroll inside a player piano consists of music. It consists of things like' KEY NUMBER (which note), VELOCITY (how hard you hit the note), AFfERtOUCH, PROGRAM CHANGES, etc., etc. All of these parameters are translated into numbers and sent from machine to machine through MIDI cables. "The only advantage I see of tape is the ability to record. But in a few years time, we'll probably have recordable CD's. In many ways, DAT (Digital Audio Tape) is only an interim technology. It has all the disadvantages that tape has: it's subject to wear and tear, it h&s dropouts, it has wow and flutter. And in the end, the machine is going to eat it up at some point." -Guenther Hensler (Polygram CD-Video) SEQUENCERS are devices which record, play and organize MIDI information on a number of tracks. Like a multi-track tape recorder, but much more versatile (except that it doesn't record actual sound, just MIDI numbers). You can record on a sequencer either in REAL-TIME or you can take as long as you like, inputting one note at a time. A sequencer reduces the need for physical dexterity in playing an instrument. You can just program the notes in and play them back at will (boring live!). A sequencer will not make any sound on its own, but will cause whatever device to sound (ie. sampler or synthesizer) that you MIDI it up to. Sequencers can be bought either as portable, stand-alone units, or as software packages for various computers. com. p. 8 fft^v Looking for a Challenge?! \^Q\& WITH Countdown Basketball AT UBC SUB Lower Concourse All Aoes Welcome [ND I SAW A DOOR IN HEAVEN AND HEARD THE ,SAME VOICE SPEAKING THE VOICE LIKE A TRUMPET SAYING "COME UP AND I WILL SHOW YOU WHAT IT IS TO COME TO THE FUTURE" VANCOUVER 852 GRANVILLE STREET V6Z 1K3 (604) 688-2828 SEATTLE 16? J FIRST AVENUE 98101 (206) 441-1065 BOSTON 328 NEWBURY STREET 02115 (617) 266-1079 April 1988 &l _j SJIl'H $ 1. ^BjW ji "1 i^jj^t ^|th 5J3i|l : 1 a:•■■:im<dL .^ "When I look around at the new technologies and how, every season, the manufacturers terrorize the consumers with new technologies and new information protocols they must learn, wondering what's going to become obsolete or not, it becomes real rough. It's actually a new challenge, and it's created a more intelligent user than we've ever seen in the past. "Technologies that once cost a few hundred thousand dollars are, all of a sudden, being shrunk down and put into consumer products that have a lot more ease of use and flexibility. And for the first tune, manufacturers are taking the foresight to build instruments that can be updated with a software disk." Jim Mothersbaugh (Roland Corp.) DRUM MACHINES are specialized sequencers that use their own drum sounds. As sequencers, they are limited, but can sound interesting when MIDI'ed to another sound source. Again, using a drum machine eliminates the need to spend years hammering on a kit in order to develop the coordination necessary to pound out a steady beat. In fact, the beat generated from a drum machine is as steady as you can get, which is why some people hate them. But, one of the great things about drum machines is that you can turn the volume down to whatever level you want. So instead of being banished to the garage for practices and having as-of-yet unconverted admirers threatening to kill you if you don't turn that shit down, you can sit in the comfort of your little apartment with a pair of headphones or ghetto blaster and turn your drummer on or off as you like. Nowadays, you needn't settle for a drum machine that doesn't have DIGITALLY RECORDED drum sounds built in. Also, take a look at the NUMBER of audio OUTPUTS available on the machine; ideally, you ought to have one for each drum so that you can EQ them individually. And if you have already spent years learning to be a drummer, don't worry, go out and get a drum machine yourself. You can't lose if you can use both. SIGNAL PROCESSORS, or effects, can alter sound in a number of ways, such as with REVERB, DELAY, PHASING, and so forth. DIGITAL processors have recently made these effects cheap and easy to use. You can get single units that are capable of producing many different effects for very little money, compared to just a few years ago. Machines like the Alesis MID- IVERB have a variety of effects for a few hundred dollars, but are limited in that you can't vary the effects PARAMETERS. The Yamaha SPX90 TL can be bought for under a thousand dollars, and has programmable parameters as well as a much improved delay time over the original SPX90. Signal processors will continue to come down drastically in price and improved features, perhaps more so than other types of machines. "This line of advancing technology isn't going to slow down, it's going to accelerate, and we're going to have the merging of all different areas of producing music. The instruments themselves, which are evolving into workstations from one end, and the recording facilities, which are evolving into workstations from another point of view, are really starting to merge. The high-end synthesizer companies are becoming recording studio technology companies, and a few of the recording studio technology companies are advancing into areas of sound modification that are touching on synthesis. I think the logical progression that we're going to see, over the next decade or so, will be the general purposl workstation: something that encompasses the best of all the instruments we currently have, and MIDI recording, as well as actual sound recording, for the capturing of sounds which don't begin as an electronic sound by themselves. And I also think we'll be seeing dramatic price reductions, so that the portastudio of the future will probably include all of these features. "As artists, what we' ll probably see is more and more individuals working at their own rate, their own times, and making up their own rules, using this expansive technology and tailoring it to their own needs. I don't think studios will go away, but I think they'll become an area where specialists will be able to work in concert with each other and help each other on projects. You'll go there more for advice and consultation on how to achieve your project, rather than to just get what you've done recorded. There will probably be some elements of needing a central place to put the recorded material into a common format, for distribution either by record companies or whatever the mode of mass distribution might be by then- which is also something that could drastically change. The technology is perched where it's ready for something different from what we' ve been doing for nearly a hundred years, in record distribution." -Larry Fast (Synergy) SO WHERE DOES THIS LEAVE US? For the first time, it is possible to have everything. Total control over sound. But there is a catch- in order to have everything, first you have to buy everything. Be careful! There are plenty of people who will sell it to you. Many have experienced the despair of buying the latest thing and finding it obsolete a year later. As with all new technology, more can be bought with less as time progresses. (Technology starts with the military establishment and gets handed down.) The question is, how long can you wait? Even DJs are putting records out. There comes a time when you have to dive in. If you know what you're looking for, try to find it used. It is often better to get the top-of-the- line of the last generation than the middle of the current crop. More features are constantly being crammed into smaller spaces, and there has to be some compromise. Newer gear is often more plastic fless durable) and more mass-produced. Find out what your friends have and get stuff that will work together. Despite what music manufacturers and others would have you believe, not everything changes easily. Machines are stupid. They won't do anything by themselves and sometimes fuck up. Ask a lot of questions. Find out everything you can, but be careful you don't get swallowed up (it's easy to do). The great sampler that everyone can afford to buy hasn't quite arrived yet, but it's coming. If you do your homework, it'll be here by then. Don Chow 8 DISCORDER jmqpT&JXbys/pofif' * SKATEBOARDS* POWELL It /C ccsncRZ. 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AVAIL ABLE AT: COLLECTORS RPM. 7ULU.MAIN ST RECORDS What do you think the future In which Esther Hadley steps out onto the ugly streets of this fine town armed only with a portable tape recorder and microphone and asks that question which is on everyone's mind: What do you think the future holds? ***************** *Dear J.R. * + In reply to your letter* * about AD rates in Dis- * Reorder: Yes, we do have * * special rates for local * * bands, CITR presentations,* * and non-profit organiza- ^ * tions. In fact we are a * * non-profit organization * * ourselves, lie also have * * the best rates in the city* *for our circulation of ^17,500 issues, for any AD.* * * * If you would like more * * information, why not give * *us a call. * * 9-5 Mon.-Fri. * * 683-7238 or * * 228-3017 I * Yours respectfully, * * Matt * * DISCORDER ADVERTISING * * **************** 10 DISCORDER -1 really don't know and I don't give a damn! - The future looks good. We got a real good leader in the U.S.S.R. and a good one in the U.S. and they're gctlin' real warm. - God! I'm glad I'm on the way out!! - Gettin' up in the momin'. - Begging and begging...and a hard on. - It all depends on whose side you're on. Esther: And whose side are you on? - God's. Esther: What's in store for the subjects of God? - There's only two roads: the broad and spacious that leads to eternal destruction and the straight and narrow that leads to light. But the straight and narrow that goes up the mountain is full of pitfalls and snares...ah! Just get a Bible! The Bible's the truth: keep away from religion and politics. That's garbage. It's cracking now. The economy all over the world's finished. - More of the same. Esther: And what's that? - Nothin' - Very little. - It'll get better. - I'm pretty positive about it - Bleak. - No good! No good! No good I tell ya! - It's either A.C. Democracy or ConfederAC/DC -1 think the future's going to get a lot brighter than it is now. - People should be more aware of exactly what's going on in the world because I don't know about anybody else but I do know a lot of people that know that Jesus is coming. -1 try not to think about it too much -1 get depressed. - I'm trying to kill time. - The future's going to be great. - Whatever you put into it. - I'm going to go skating. -Ahh. Ijustgotup. I think I'll pass. - From a planetary point of view? A cleansing happening. ^>w - Time changes. - Plenty everything. - Trees. - Not too close to my mouth -1 hate some thing close to my mouth. Esther: Would you like to hold the microphone? -No! I'm not that stupid. I don't get paid to hold it. If you paid me $5000 I'd hold it. T wouldn't do nothin' for nothin'! What do you want to know? Esther: What do you think the future holds? -Ha! That's a laugh! I'll drink to that! - It's none of my business! -1 think everyone's going to die of AIDS. -1 don't know I'm not into that. -1 hope they've got money for me at the back. - The world's gonna end in 1999...July. - Much of the same only more pollution, more violence, more problems...so as an individual you just have to have fun. - Self-realization and all that - that's the only answer. - The Bible says it's comin* through and it's coming through, eh? There's not going to be much worrr...it*s comin' through. - What do you think the future holds? Esther: Disaster - Hazard. Complied by Esther Hadley There are more scientists alive today than in iall previous history. Alvin Toffler, among others tsays this means we will have more changes in th jnext thirty years than in all previous history. W ^should therefore: (a) Force half or more of the scientists to become shoe clerks or grocers so things don't change too fast; (b) Establish a government commitee to supervise all scientific research thereby slowing it down even more; (c) Learn to raise general intelligence to cope with change. - There's gonna be maybe two-seater flying cars. The buildings are gonna be round. Everybody might have equal money. - Celibacy for the Moral Majority...and the Immoral Majority. THE HIDDEN AGENDA I did some research into William Shrode and discovered the Humana Corporation which had financed his artificial heart. The Humana Corporation is a two hundred million dollar a yea medicine for profit business. What I discovered is that about twenty days after receiving his arti ficial heart, the material in the heart began to clot and Shroder began to have strokes so he wa actually reduced to a vegetable very quickly, or a near vegetable. He couldn't move his body. Bu the Humana Corporation who were financing th artificial heart, who were developing it to make profits obviously, kept using Shroder in carefully controlled publicity stunts about how good the artificial heart was. It's quite macabre when you think of it Here's this guy who's still alive bu that's the only thing he is. He's actually incredi bly suicidal, totally depressed, and he's being used for these horrific publicity stunts simply due to pressures of capitalism. And it's actually quit interesting that the Humana Corporation go started by some people doing old age homes. So you wonder, where has the old age home gone when we move into artificial hearts? Well, the artificial heart is the old age home because it' going to keep these people alive just to suck mor and more money out of their families and insur ance companies and the like. Russel Stephen) FREE FALL Being creative people, we have a lot to show for our endeavours up to date We have managed to survive our mad careening jaunt on the brink of self destruction and, brats that we are, show no signs of relenting. At the moment, fanaticism, be i religious, political or patriotic, seems to be the widespread excuse for not getting on with wha we want: prosperity. Fear of death and the unknown is still predominant and is holding us back. Technology has served us well and wil continue to do so in the years to come. I don' believe that we will be run by the live machines created in our passion for computers but I do believe these machines will allow us the time an( the energy to develop ourselves beyond anything previously attempted. Today, we have spare bod; parts, artificial or not, tomorrow, Cyborgs. And where will music fit in our future? What with space travel, commuting to colonie beyond the stratosphere and state control, it can appear to be oppressive. But there will be music more than ever, because music is movement, heel it might even be our fuel or our means of commu nication with extraterrestrials. The sounds we make come from within, within is without, it's a] the same. And what condition will the planet be in? A state of recuperation most likely, yet it still har bors life, albeit amphibian, reptilian, protozoan o inorganic. Is there life beyond our errors? But, right now, silicon is replacing plastic on the adoration scale and the concepts of trans mutation and limital energy are but fantasies in few twisted minds. Cosmic cops haven't even been put on the rollcall yet and the pyramids stil stand there, waiting in free fall. Denlse Richard aMAZing ALBION BOOKS Can you find it? 523 Richards St. Vancouver • 662-3113 We buy and sell books and records. April 1988 11 CITR FM 101.9 PRESENTS] A YOUTH EXPLOSIONIYENT 1369KICH7 (AT PACIF Ph.6SS-780 SlduMAURIER INTERNATIONAL THIRD ANNUAL 170 Performances 350 Musicians Canada • USA • Europe Africa • South America Australia JAZZ AT THE PLAZA July 1,2,3, 12:00-8:00 pm FREE ADMISSION Plaza of Nations, Discovery Theatre, Comedy Club. 40 national and international bands, international food fair and festivities. Presented By JAZZ BLUES brave new jazz traditional and contemporary uniquely west coast Concert tickets and festival passes on sale at Black Swan Records, Highlife Records, and all Ticketmaster/VTC outlets. Charge by Phone 280-4444. Festival Passes Jazz Pass I $140 (Entry to all 20 concerts except Expo Theatre. Only 100 passes on sale.) Jazz Pass II $85 (Entry to all 9 VECC and 5 Western Front concerts. Only 100 passes on sale) Jazz Pass III $60 (Entry to the 2 86 Street and 3 Commodore shows. Only 300 passes on sale) VANCOUVER JUNE 24 - JULY 3 1988' Expo Theatre Friday June 24, 8:30 pm Opening Night Double Bill The Zawinul Syndicate • Youssou NDour et les Super Etoiles de Dakar Vancouver Playhouse Sunday June 26, 8:00 pm J.J. Johnson Quintet Weetern Front Sunday June 26, 5:30 pm Horace Tapscott Monday June 27, 5:30 pm George Lewis Tuesday June 28, 5:30 pm John Oswald and Alex Varty Wednesday June 29, 5:30 pm Hal Russell's NRG Ensemble Thursday June 30, 5:30 pm Tom Cora 86 Street Music Hall Saturday June 25, 10:00 pm Manteca Tuesday June 28, 10:00 pm — Double Bill Randy Brecker Quartet • Hugh Marsh Commodore Ballroom Friday July 1, 10:00 pm Real Sounds (of Zimbabwe) plus Themba Tana's African Heritage Saturday July 2, 10:00 pm Bill Bruford's Earthworks Sunday July 3, 10:00 pm Ornette Coleman and Prime Time plus Lunar Adventures Vancouver Eaet Cultural Centre Saturday June 25, 8:00 pm Andrew Hill plus Unit E VECC con'td. Sunday June 26, 8:00 pm String Trio of New York with Jay Clayton plus Joe Bjornson Quartet Monday June 27, 8:00 pm Six Winds plus Chief Feature Tuesday June 28, 8:00 pm Masqualero plus Video Barbeque Wednesday June 29, 8:00 pm Charlie Haden's Quartet West plus Claude Ranger Quartet Thursday June 30, 8:00 pm Mlcheie Rosewoman Quintet plus Turnaround Friday July 1, 8:00 pm Semantics plus Rene Lussier, Jean Derome and Tom Cora Saturday July 2, 8:00 pm Gary Burton Quintet plus John Rapson Quartet Sunday July 3, 8:00 pm Archie Shepp and Horace Parian plus Celso Machado Landmark Jazz Bar, Hot Jazz Club, Isadora's, Classical Joint, Hogan s Alley. French Cultural Centre. s daily at Granville Island Public Market, Pacific Centre TD Plaza. Oakridge Centre THE JAZZ HOTLINE 682-0706 BOB'S YOUR UNCLE: THE LOVING ABUSE OF COUNTRY AND WESTERN Some bands see themselves as being on a mission. With Bob's Yer Uncle, it's more like an errand. Face it, they're the home handymen of the local arts community. Well, just what kind of band would commit themselves to 3 1/2 years (so far) along such a road to righteousness? They claim that they do what they do because they "love music". Heh heh. And they seem so guileless when they admit it that you don't have the heart to dismiss them just yet. Given a chance to redeem themselves by surrendering the dreaded "description of their music", each member's version fits nicely with the traditional view of his or her instrument's role in the band. Peter, the harp player, considers the lads to be a blues band. Bemie, the man on the bass, hears more than a little bit o' disco in the group. Sook-Yin, the singer, a hairball band. And so on. James, the man from Nova Scotia, opts for country and western, and you've gotta go with him on that one. Think about it. Their music is spare. They sing well, and aren't adverse to harmony. They're never overbearing. In fact, they're often downright jaunty. They may be exotic. They may be ethereal. They may even be existential. But if they ain't kissing cousinsto c & w, the sun don't set in Lynnwood. So if you too picked country, you win. You win a Bob's Your Uncle fact sheet, to be picked up in the paragraph below. For instance, what of the cross-country tour that culminates with a local lads make good homecoming in Halifax in late May? It's all true!! What of the rhythm section's new obsession: auto mechanics, resulting in a tour bus that has finally been dubbed roadadworthy and a band that is proud to call themselves "manichanically inclined". It's all true!! And what about the inevitable working vacation of small town America, which they hope will begin with the usual ugly scene at Blaine turning into a howlin' beer- barrel polka in the nearest available public house, as Bemie and James make no small mention of their lengthy tour of duty in the Canadian Navy to the boys at U.S. Border Patrol. Listen carefully. You can hear the scar-swapping tales of adventure from here. And there's an album. Someone proposes that an album's worth of material is simply too much of a good thing, an aural version of Chocolate Insanity, and definitely much too much of a bad thing. These good sports are thrown for a loss. They rush at the opportunity to become surly. James dons his Gordon Gekko (Wall Street) mask and illustrates that since an e.p. can only be sold at one-half of an l.p.'s price, one would have to sell twice as many to make an equal amount of money!! Peter draws a line in the carpet and declares that "no Johnny Winter album could ever be considered too long.pal..." Steve poinds out that musicians have to make at least one album in their career, "like Buddy Rich", fr'instance, (who probably made at least 65). They all chortle over the scam that would see some poor consumer tear the wrapping off their next release and find nothing inside but a quaint pictorial history of their youth, the ol' photographic record, enabling 14 DISCORDER them to entitle it Bob's Your Uncle: The View- master Days. Believe me, they've been wanting to do that for a long time. And if they actually have to buckle down and come up with an authentic long playing record album instead? Well, it will be recorded at Profile Studios, produced by Craig Burner and Bill Buckingham, and will be completed at their leisure. False deadlines will be forced to take a backseat, or fake the offbeat, one of the two. Yer typical biodegradable sci-fi cartoon video, which was finished in one very long day at the end of January, will accompany it, hopefully prefaced by a good limerick or two, as is the new policy at MuchMusic. There once was a sailor named Bates Who professed to romancing on skates He fell on his cutlass Which rendered him nutless And for all intense purposes useless on dates. (The above was supplied by James as a work-in- progress piece at the abusive insistence of the interviewer.) It's nice to talk with a band that is unwilling to keep their distance. In the end, Bob's Our Uncle are just the kind of people that like quiet times and a good cup of tea. Oh, and watermelon wine. If this was Esquire, you'd be determined to find out just what is beneath that unguarded surface. You'd turn immediately to the written exam that follows, being sure to read all questions carefully. 1) CITR wants to know what you're "readin' and ridin". Name your favorite automobile and work of literature, and if you think it's fortuitous to seat yourself behind the wheel with a copy of Ulysses on your lap. James: Ridin' yellow girl's 5-speed minus back brake. White feather on handlebars. Readin' Flashman by G.M. Fraser. Car - ? Bernie: Limo - My black 10-speed limo ... Kurt Vonnegut, Discorder... No, it's not fruity, fortuitous, or flamboyant to read Ulysses, but any form of reading material will enhance your knowledge. Sook-Yin: Riding - Burgundy bike minus the front brake. Fave auto - Ford Bluebird Bus, 1969 39 seater. Fave lit. - Webster's Dictionary; translations to useful Latin phrases, eg. Fiat experi- mentum in maya corpore vili - Let experiments be made on my worthless body. Ulysses - NO!! Steve: Automobile- 1954 Oldsmobile convertible. Favorite book Encyclopedia of Foreskins. Peter: I read the disco problems affecting our city in the Discorder Airhead column, and make sure the Montreal Canadians are in first place. I have a bike with yuppie tires. 2) Lately there's been a spate of well-produced, semi-popular (even) films dealing with that age old riddle, love vs. freedom (Sammy & Rosie, Broadcast News, The Unbearable Lightness of Being). These people must be trying to tell us something. Do you agree that it is finally impossible for two vibrant, vital, whatever, people to carry on a monogamous, fulfilling, relationship with a happy ending? James: I'd say it's possible but I don't see it very much; people change hourly, daily, monthly, yearly, etc. Bernie: Only if your eyes don't wander, or was that waddle? Steve: Yes. Peter: No. Sook-Yin: No ... Yes ... No. 3) If you were to vapourize into Corral St. after soundcheck tonite, could you be at peace with what you had done with your life? James: Once I'd vapourized it probably wouldn't matter what I thought, but if it did, I'd say yes. Bernie: If I vapourized into a sewer, I would say life has been the shits. More likely, it would be into the air, which would sum up my life: spaced out!! Sook-Yin: ?????????????????? Steve: Yes, but I'd be back again sometime. Peter: Yes. I guess. 4) The cover to a recent Georgia Straight had a picture of Robin Williams and the caption "... and a few of the folks that live in his head." Tell us about some of the folks that live in your head. James: Myself in different romantic and heroic settings. Bernie: Musical notes that jump over fences. Sook-Yin: Zero and Spot, the Martians; pig people; Blut, the walking building; Chico LaMarre, the missing nightclub singer. Steve: Mr. Bellaak is an Old World pants presser. Boobla the King of the Gypsies, and the Great Punyechka.a psychic gypsy. Peter: Pig people. 5) Have you ever attended: (Write name under appropriate section.) a) Vancouver Canadians baseball: Peter Sook-Yin: Caught the ball!! Bernie: Isnuckin. Didn't catch a ball, but Peter did. b) Abbotsford International Air Show: - c) B.C. Place Truck & Tractor Pull: - d) Night School: (Not post-secondary, those 6 week Adult Ed sessions.) Sook-Yin: German conversation course. Learnt very litde, though I have a book full of caricatures of the staunch, scary teacher. e) Dutch Masters Exhibit at the VAG: Peter: 1/2 (saw it elsewhere) f) Whistler: Steve: For a gig. Bernie: Tried it once, sprained my thumb. James: Yes. Sook-Yin: Water slide!! And a visit with my sister. Michael Dezell The "Ml %tf* And to celebrate ... we're having a HALF PRICE Sale! Book 5 hours in May (at regular rates) and well give you 5 hours more for only $5.00! It's our birthday but the presents are for you! Space is limited . .. book now. BULLFROG Recording Studios 734-4617 Hop on down to The Frog! Everything Under the Sun from the 50's to the 80's ini r - i i i 1 ■* April 1988 15 : JACK LAWN'S I SATURDAY 3-8 pm JAMSESSIONSl SUNDAY7-12pm Z^&4>t^Tfa^i&rt^9lP- Well, I guess I should start with the bad news: Playdoh Republic have broken up (just when they were in the studio, too, and getting really good). I'm hoping it's just temporary, or the band will somehow go on in another form, but there's no telling right now. The Rainwalkers are going into Profile this month to start work on an LP to come out, they hope, by the end of summer. The bad news here is that it's without drummer Brian Watson - those notorious musical differences again. (But I'm sure Brian's gotta be in a lot of demand...) Terminal City's just come out of the studio, having finished recording an album, and are shopping their tape around looking for someone to press and distribute it. Since I've finally seen them play, I'm a converted fan, and can hardly wait to hear it. And things are really happening in the demo department around here lately! New tapes include: The Bride Stripped Bare - "Schizophrenia." Is it spring or what? I'm a Sonic Youth fan, and generally partial to guitars, so I guess I like this in spite of the the line in The Bride's letter about "not using enough gel to make it on college radio". Maybe it's because this is clearly not another basement synth band. There are some nice, thoughtful (dare I say, even, subtle?) touches here. The Merry Pranksters - "Welcome to Bill Vander Zalm's Gardens From Hell." Well, the title says it all, doesn't it? A band can only be so serious with one member each from Coquitlam, Port Coquidam, Surrey, and Victoria, but these fellows claim to be planning a record in the fall. Unfortunately I missed them at the big CJIV benefit at Club Soda a while back, so I can only imagine how they deliver lines like "Isn't that Jim Keegstra on Grace McCarthy's face?". Only in a Tree' country, eh? And at just under two minutes, this song's just the right length. The Bravados - "King's Crown." Very slick, very expensive production. Unfortunately it sounds pretty standard. But then this tape was meant to impress the Spotlight people so I shouldn't jump to any conclusions... The Surf Hippies - "Love is a Dream Machine." Awesome cover art (it'd look good in the stores - stuff like this is pretty well wasted on behind-the-scenes radio types), good sludgy-ish songs - my only complaint is that the vocals are a bit too low in the mix. Just in time for summer. 64 Funny Cars - "Again and Again." Sometimes I almost wish I lived in Victoria. This | probably isn't the best song on the tape, but they're all so good it was tough to choose just one. These guys remind me a lot of The Young Fresh Fellows with their type of humour and general sense of fun, as well as overall utter lack of pretension. A really good tape and the band should sell it in stores. And come play here. Catherine Wheel - "Fortune." Yup, this is the same song they had at CITR when they were called Retinal Circus, but my goodness, what a great recording. In spite of the obvious REM comparison (and this song does give me that same feeling in the pit of my stomach that "Pretty Persuasion" used to) I don't think it's fair to write this band off so simply. This is a great song, with nice subtle touches, very well recorded (on 24 tracks, at Profile), and should be pressed. Definitely single material. Janis Trying to choose my favorite album of 1988 has been a little tricky. My family photo album is definitely out of the picture. One option is to approach it subjectively and choose one that has first presented itself to me this year, never mind its actual release date. A few albums come to mind: Negativland, Flaming Lips, King Missile (dogfly religion), all actually released in '87. Then there's the idea that certain cuts on some albums are real winners: "Stop this Car" (Woodentops), "Master Dik" (Sonic Youth), "Ballistic Statues" (A Split Second). But for some reason, a lot of these don't add up to my favorite album, a word which has become very flexible in these changing times. For example, a lot of good rap vinyl doesn't qualify to me as album because they invariably will have a good (baad) rap tune simply done up four to six times on Side A and B but given different names like "dance mix", "radio mix", "club mix", "dub mix", "instrumental mix". Kool Moe Dee's "How Ya Like Me Now?" or the Boogie Boys and Ice T exceptions true, but those drum machines and heavy bass are so addictive that it becomes like food for the nervous system, and favorite foods and drugs of 1988 isn't what we're after here. Or is it? I don't know what my favorite food is anyway. Last week it was Captain Crunch and spanacopitas. No, a favorite album would have to be a compilation of material which, regardless of single theme or concept, would have each cut stand on its own. To top it all off, I've just been informed that I got the question wrong. It's favorite record of the year, not album. Oh well, how about the fact that I haven't lost my mind yet? That's gotta be some sort of record. One thing's for sure: here at CTTR, we DJs try to digest as much as possible so that we can regurgitate only the cream of what's out there asking for your money and time. Unfortunately, a common result is that the input is so diverse and confusing that more than just the records end up spinning Kevin Williams Being the junior member of a college radio station is a real test of jam - nobody respects you till you punch them out. So I hope no-one laughs when I tell them my favourite record of 1988 was recorded 22 years ago. I'm still playing by the rules, though, because it's finally being officially released this spring. (I've gotten personal with it through boodegs.) It's "Smile" by the Beach Boys. Those who dislike the Beach Boys because of "Help Me Rhonda", "Barbara Anne", and Mike Love, trust me. This record is the most unstoppably gorgeously narcotic album made, more alluring than sprinklers on a summer lawn. Funnily enough, this pursuit of peacefulness drove Brian Wilson completely over the top in his attempt to complete it - he ended up installing a sandbox and a circus tent in his living room. Why not buy it and see what it can do for you???? Michael Dezell My favorite album? Well, what gets played most on the We Be Botanists show? Driving dance rhythms are hard to categorize and narrow down into a single album. (Most of my friends say it all sounds the same anyway but they're all mindless lackeys.) So, using a complicated mathematical formula, I deduced that most of the albums I played were produced by Adrian Sherwood. So instead of favorite album, I'll say my favorite demi-god is What's the Best Adrian Sherwood. Check out your Tackhead Sound System album. Plant Master Grant Trini Lopez's Greatest Hits The undeniable beauty and strength of this album makes it timeless. Trini's profound lyrics and tremendous foresight sends me into delirium every time I listen to this unmatched collection. Songs like "If I had a Hammer", "Lemon Tree" and the powerful "America" just can't be ignored. What's that? It was released almost fifteen years ago. You're kidding. First time I heard it was February and it sounded so fresh. Oh well. How about Cheap Trick's "In Colour and Black and White"? (But seriously, I think Big Black's seven inch single release of Cheap Trick's "He's a Whore" and Kraftwerk's "The Model" is fuckin rad and narley.) Beat master Garn (Hot Pink) MIDNIGHT OIL "Diesel and Dust" The experimental nature of Midnight Oil's last two albums "Red Sails at Sunset" and "10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1" has given way to the mastery of economical songwriting. Turning the limitation of the pop song format to their advantage, the arrangements are sparse but effective, the rhythms driving and propulsive, the overall delivery more immediate and focussed than ever. Written and produced after their "Black fella/White fella" tour of the Aboriginal Settlements in Australia's outback, the album's principal theme centers on the whiteman's near elimination of the original native culture. Though (as usual) The Oils have written from a specifically Australian point of view, the messages remain truely universal. Don't be put off by "Diesel and Dusts" current commercial success. It's an album that demands to be heard. Paul Clarke Composer: ELLIOTT SHARP Record: TESSELATION ROW Performer: THE SOLDIER STRING QUARTET No sweet melodies here; this is energy. Devil's string effects scream through strategically placed contact mikes. Primitive, dirty, seemingly instinctive, yet with enough esoteric mathematical formulae (fractal geometry, the Fibonacci series) to stimulate hardcore analysts. A truly liberating sound experience which is not just Cage-influenced nonsense. Buy it or hear it on "ARE YOU SERIOUS MUSIC," Sundays 8 am-noon. Paul B.A. Steenhulsen My fave rave of 1988 so far is Kool Moe Dee's "How Ya Like Me Now." Yeah, I know it was released in 1987 but I didn't hear it "til this year so shut up. Moe Dee's rap style is aggressive and hard. His bassy voice intimidates and stiffens even the most jaded listener. I cranked this on my stereo and my cat, Puffy, who just happened to be walking by the front of the speakers, vapourized. POOF! Just like that. Moe Dee's inventive rhythms and bofo beats make "How Ya Like Me Now" twice as interesting as anything released this year unless you want to count those motivational/inspirational tapes that my girfriend has. Mark Quail Aretha Aretha Franklin must be numbered among the half dozen ot so all-time greats of Black music. With a recoranm career which stretches back thirty years, withjrpore hit records and Top Ten singles than most artists, even highly successful ones, could hope for in two lifetimes, and with undeniable, bankable 'crossover' appeal, her credentials are impeccable. She is one of the world's greatest singers, regardless of genre. Nowhere is this more evident than on the tour de force double album she herself produced in the waning months of 1987. The record, "One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism", recorded live at New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit, is a document of pure artistic truth, and could very well be the high point of her illustrious career, yet may go overlooked for one simple reason: it is Gospel. Anyone with an even rudimentary understanding of popular music in this century should appreciate the debt owed Gospel music. Along with the Blues, it is the original 4rock' music; this is an unshakable fact. What Aretha Franklin has done by assembling a cast of "Gospel giants" and by covering in completely contemporary fashion proven traditional standards, is to create a record which is greater than the sum of its parts: it is no less than a testament to the magnificence of Black American music in the twentieth century. An exploration of Aretha's roots, it is also an exploration of the roots of those thousands of other singers, Black and White, who have roared, floated aria-like, crooned, screamed, and sung like angels or devils over the decades. This is the real thing. For the record, accompanying Aretha are her three sisters, Erma, Brenda, and Carolyn, also honey-and-sandpaper-throated Mavis Staples of Staples family fame, and a host of visiting reverends and preachers who double as singers, or, most electrifyingly, are both at once. The highlights, if there can be such on an album like this, deserve special note. First, Jesse Jackson, shaking the rafters in a manner which, if it were ever unleashed on a Democratic Convention, would leave a sea of limp rags - in other words, the real Jesse, onetime right-hand man to that master of Black oratory, Martin Luther King. And second, the closing two cuts of the album, "I've Been In The Storm Too Long", a duet featuring Aretha with Joe Ligon of The Mighty Clouds of Joy, in which the two singers escalate in subde and beautiful vocal interplay untU the whole thing explodes with Ligon's earth-moving full-throated bellow; and "Packing Up, Getting Ready To Go", fittingly the final cut, five-and-a- half minutes of frenetic gutbucket mayhem showcasing the whole gang barely reined in. No rock band could ever touch the honesty and passion of this record, and something you may have guessed by now: religion is actually secondary to great art on One Lord. Get hip to it before the critics start hading it as a classic; for me it is the year's "best", if not the decades's. Lachlan Murray "Soul City" 18 DISCORDER Record of the Year So Far? I've always felt a truely good record should have to stand the classic desert island test. BE: is it going to stand up to repeated listenings and, more important, is it going to go along way toward keeping me sane through long periods of physical and psychological torture? Of course, it's too early in 1988 to tell for sure which product could stand this test, so my recommendations must include the necessary disclaimer: "I could be wrong. I could end up hating these records." Note the plural there. I have three favorite records of the year so far. In no particular order they are: 1. NEGATPVLAND: "Is there any Escape from Noise?" The state of the art in tape mishing, mashing, sound effecting and editing. It is funny. It is noisy. But is it music? 2. ENNIO MORRICONE: "Film Music 1967- 1987" Best known for his spaghetti western themes and, more recendy, his score for "The Mission", Morricone is nothing if not a veteran. He's scored over two hundred films in his life so this is necessarily a very limited collection. Still, it is powerful, wonderful, awesome and beautiful. If "The Man with the Harmonica" from "Once Upon a time in the West" isn't the theme for looking the devU in the eye and understanding eternity, I don't know what is. 3. GARY CLAIL'S TACKHEAD SOUND SYSTEM: People gotta dance, so why not think at the same time? Not as good as Tackhead live, but what is? If you haven't hooked into Tackhead's beat yet, why the hell not? Imagine Cream with computers and a fondness for funk. Finally, where's Prince's infamous "Black Album" and the soundtrack from "Colors"? I need to know. Bill Mullan CURRENT 93 "Christ and the Pale Queens Mighty In Sorrow" (Maldoror, U.K.) Record collectors all have one thing in common. We're all innately acquisitive. There are certain things we must have at any price. This does not, however, prevent us from saying "At $60 plus postage, it fucking well better be good". And it is. If you're a collector and love Current 93, it's worth every penny. Only 93 copies were made. There are two discs (3 sides of music and 1 side engraved by Steven Stapleton.) Side 1 consists of an upbeat, noisy cut with smippets from "Dawn" here and there and a beautifully simple pair of ballad-like songs that recall some of the work David Tibet did in "Swastikas for Noddy". Side 2 is very special. It's one cut that goes on and on and on. The background has some of the most interesting sounds the Current has provided us with in years. Strings predominate (ranging from fiddles to string quartets). Rose McDowell sings hypnotically in the background in similar style to her work on "In Menstrual Night". It's a haunting, compelling piece that stays with you a long time. Side 3 is also one cut - a repetitive (sic) passage of pastoral bells and viols which is hinted at in side 2. Anyhow, it's great. At that price it has to be my favorite or I'd be kicking myself for buying it and masochism isn't my thing (anymore). Larry Thiessen STEVE LACEY Weird things can happen anytime. For instance, on the day of the Steve Lacey show which was the culmination of two or three weeks eager anticipation, WHAM! the brand new Steve Lacey LP appears. Great, so I listen and hey, it sounds great. Kind of arty (it says so right on the record), but I haven't much time. I've got to get off to the show. The Steve Lacey Sextet. The Vancouver East Cultural Center ("The Cultch") is a great place to see a band, and Steve Lacey's band is pretty amazing. What a line-up. The piano player was the best reincarnation of Thelonious Monk I've ever heard. The bass player was another one of those awesome European double bassists that just punch you in the face with the power of their playing; likewise, the saxman who did a lot of soloing, all of it hot There was also the singer/violinist, on hand to give things a classical twist. She gave us one of the jazziest blues solos I've ever heard and her vocals touched deeply into the operatic. Needless to say, Steve Lacey himself was just as creamy as the rest of his cream-of-the-European-crop sextet. The whole show pushed things to their limit The album does the same with a wide variety of ideas employed in its four compositions. Lacey is the forefront of jazz in my mind. I look forward to being blowm away in the future. John Frymlre April 1988 19 On The Dial MONDAYS Garrison (bass) and Elvin Jones (drums). May 23: A change of pace for the Jazz Feature....vocals....by two of the very best....Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Arm strong.... with Oscar Perterson, Buddy Rich and others....all together doin' it. A total delight and a timeless experience. May 30: Alto saxophone great Jackie McLean recorded a great many albums during his career (some conservative and some on the outer edge of the music) ....tonight the outer edge of Jackie with Ornette Coleman on trumpet (Ornette's only appearence as a sideman ever). Recorded in 1966...."New And Old Gospel" is a latter day classic. SOUP DE JOUR 11:00 am-1:00 pm Chewy, Meaty, Beefy, Chunky of Buttery Badness served up by the master chef El Khavan and his assistant Reed Lopez. This Month's special — Hot & Sour Soup — If you can keep it down, it might do you some good. FOR NO APPARENT REASON 1:00 pm — 3:00 pm Apocalypse when? Let's just say that in a society that believes in chicken soup and golden silence, there should be a full mental racket that causes severe radioation. A multi-media feast for senses working overtime. May 2: What our parents made us do. May 9: For Chrissakes Mildred! Hosts: Milo and Pete CRAPSHOOT 5:30 pm • 6:00 pm A slap happy, zany show of serious discussion. Moderated by Dylan (G.Q.) Armbrust and including panelists Donovan Kuehn (NDP), Robbie (The Boy) Withers and Rob (Not less but) Morehouse. Upcoming topics for April are Bill Vander Zalm, Mila Mulroney, Free Trade and that ever important issue... abortion. Remember, it's a phone in show, so participate. THE JAZZ SHOW 9:00 pm-12:30 am Vancouver's longest-running prime time Jazz program, featuring all the classic players, the occasional interview and local music news. May 2: "Milestones" by Miles Davis and his Sextet with Cannonball Adderley (alto) and John Coltrane (tenor) has been called many things but drummer Tony Williams says "this is the best Jazz album ever made". Hear it tonight! May 9: "Focus" by tenor saxophonist Stan Getz (with Eddie Sauter's writing) was issued in 1961 it was a unique listening experience then and it is today. Getz himself feels that this record is his high watermark. "Focus" in it's entirety this evening. May 16. "Coltrane" was the title of the tenor saxophonist's first album by his "classic quartet", coltrane playing both the tenor and soprano saxophone revolutionized the way we listen to music. "Trane" with McCoy Tyner (piano) Jimmy TUESDAYS BLOOD ON THE SADDLE 1:00 pm -3:00 pm Music to scrape the cowshit off your boots too. NEON MEATE DREAM 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm The Show that gives you more meat. Occasionally including Neonethnomeatmare' — an overview of the new Asian & Middle Eastern pop. Operator: Pete. BUNKUM OBSCURA is no more. 9:00 pm - midnight Swirlin' Lifelike Colours of Vinyl Spin Before you get a chance to look around, the picnic's over! Shell Shocked survivors of epic sound battles norm V.R. and Dub-Master Mikey G. Host. WEDNESDAYS OBJECTS CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR 5:20 pm — 5:50 pm Listen and find out. THE CLASSICAL SHOW 7:30 am -10:00 am A variety of musical styles ranging from the early <SfWf ARTIST PIXIES WOODENTOPS SDNEAD O'CONNER THEPOGUES ♦NOMEANSNO *DEATH SENTENCE CURRENT93 JAZZ BUTCHER SISTERS OF MERCY SCREAMING BLUE MESSIAHS RENEGADE SOUND WAVE VARIOUS ♦COWBOY JUNKIES THE DICKIES HEAD OF DAVID WALL OFVOODOO SONIC YOUTH WIRE JERRY HARISON NEGATTVLAND THE SUGAR CUBES MIDNIGHT OIL PSYCHIC TV ROB YN HITCHCOCK THETRIFFIDS TITLE Come On Pilgrim Wooden Foot Cops On The Highway Lion and the Cobra If I Should Fall from the Grace With God The Day Everything Became Nothing Stop Killing Me Swastikas for Noddy Fishcothequc Floodland Bikini Red Sex Mixes Salvation Soundtrack The Trinity Sessions Killer Kk>wns Dustbowl Ugly Americans in Australia Master Dik On Beat Kidney Bingos Casual Gods Escape From Noise Cold Sweat Diesel and Dust Temporary Temple Globe Of Frogs Calenture LABEL VERTIGO/4AD CBS/COLUMBIA CHRYSALIS ANTILLES/ISLAND ALTERNATIVE TENTACLE FRINGE LAYLAH POLYGRAM WEA WEA RHYTHM KING/MUTE POLYGRAM LATENT ENIGMA BLAST FIRST IRS BLAST FIRST MUTE SIRE SST OraLTTTLE INDIAN CBS TEMPLE A+M ANTILLES/ISLAND DEMOS ♦SURF HD?PIES ♦SONS OF FREEDOM ♦64 FUNNY CARS ♦RHYTHM MISSIQN ♦FRANK FINK 5 ♦THE BRIDE STRIPPED BARE ♦The 4 ONES ♦ROOTS ROUND UP ♦LENDOOBAY ♦VELVETEENS Love Is A Dream Machine Fuck The System Again and Again King Blood The Bridge/Tennesse Birdwalk Schizophrenia Telefon Rock the Botha White Dwarf Forgiven Denotes Canadian Content 20 DISCORDER CiTR 101.9 fM 7:30 8:00 9:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 1:00 2:00 3:00 4:00 5:00 6:00 7:00 8:00 9:00 10:00 11:00 12:00- 1:00- 2:00 3:00 4:00- NEWSL STOWriS. WEATOER. GENERIC REVIEW ANDWSKHfT Warehaus Show Random Designs Soup de Jour The Jennifer Chan Show Pest Control NoApparent Reason Radio Vomit Blood On The Saddle Quality Time For Latchkey Kids The Classical Show fl\ * 4* CTTR NEWSs STQRTS AND The PTL Show The PTL Show (Cont) The Spice of Life Fine Lines Beuer Hohm's & Garlick's In Context Tribes And Shadows The Joanna Graystone Show First Blood Dwarfs Drunk on Coolers Narduwar Absolute Value of Noise NEWS, SPORTS, WEATHER. CENEtUC REVIEW, rNSIGHT AND DAILY WATURE CrapShoot Hot Pink More Dinosaurs The Jazz Show Environmental Scatology Neon Meat Dream Vinyl Spin Aural Tentacles Objects. Kathy Day The African Show Permanent Culture Shock The Knight After The Vinyl Frontier Top Of The Bops The Can-Con Job Crack Rhythm Louis Louis The Edge on Folk Are you Serious Music Power Chord We Be Botanists Sat Magazine 1 fi *J3 Tunes •R' Us The Rockers Show Blues, Blues, Soul City Sun. Magazine Just Like Women/ Electronic Smoke Signals Pla^oud/ This Is Not A Test In The Grip Of Incoherency WEEKDAY REPORTS 3 C SATURDAY REPORTS SUNDAY REPORTS MAJCR NtWSSPOKT-S NEWSBRIEF NEWSBREAK MAJC* NEWSfiPOBTS VANCOUVER NEW MUSIC CALENDAR NEWS SUNDAY MAGAZINE Medieval to the Twentieth Century. All styles will be discussed with historical importance. Requests taken. Hosted by Wolfgang J. Ehebald. THE AFRICAN SHOW 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm The latest in modern African dance music plus / minus a few oldies but greats and extras. Your way we come every Wednesday at 8:00 pm. Information and news as they come at 8:30 pm. Possible features at 9:00 pm. Your host Umerah P. Onukwulu. Welcome. THE KNIGHT AFTER midnight - very late Turn it up — Annoy your neighbours — Don't be coy — Still Featuring the MARLIN PERKINS EXOTIC MUSICAL HOUR: The very best in psychotic music from all over the worlds — Guest apppearances by Vern Lutner. THURSDAYS FACIST DWARFS DRUNK ON COOLERS 3:00 pm • 5:00 pm The ultimate in repression, oppression, depression and idiocy. Who cares? Who Listens? It appears no-body. Hosts — Mike & Gavin THE CAN CON JOB 9:00 pm - midnight Three hours of 100% homebrew. Who is Les Clark??? Find out May 6th with Ultramarine. EXHIBITIONISM midnight • 3:30 am "So long and thanks for all the fish" Douglas Adams. FRIDAYS IN CONTEXT 8:30 am •10:00 am May 6: " MAYWORKS" A Profile -Reviewing: JOHNSCOFIELD Big V.A.G. Party tonight (After Dark) An interview: KAREN JAMIESON. May 13: Some info: Vancouver Children's Fest. Interview: Pierre Bensvjan (France acoustics) Arts Umbrella: At the V.A.G. and the Cultch Architecture: New issues. May 20: Preview: SUKAY: Traditional Andes Music. A Profile of Up & Coming Festival Events: The Dumaurie Jazz Festival. May 27: Previewing DANCE IN JUNE (Anna Wyman, Lynda Raino) & much more... CATS. TRIBES AND SHADOWS 10:30 am-11:30 am May 6: Back to Ritual: an exploration of more "Pam Cultural musics. Music for Dance. May 13: Egypt (Trnsformations: part IV) & guest artists, contemporary music, Appolinaire's ghost and much much more. Staye Tuned for some potentiallly dynamic interviews with some of the world's leading Architects, Anthropologists, Linguists, and much more. Transformations are here... Note: if I could do a rewrite of these I would appreciate it...CMON. 18/88 INTERFERENCE 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm For maximum enjoyment of this program, please turn your radio off. STOMP ON THAT BIG BOPPA-TRON 9:00 pm • midnight Was Crack Rhythm — is now as you see. Only the name has been changed to protect the innocent. Same cool music. Same def DJ's. Mike the "H" mostly & first Fri. of each month Scott & Todd. Get down to the funky beat! SATURDAYS THE EDGE ON FOLK 8:00 am -— noon Every Saturday morning Steve Edge presents four hous of the best, the latest, the most obscure, the rarest, the sometimes irrelevant, and the always irreverent in all types of roots music. The show features World Music from 8 to 9, Rogue Folk from 9 to 10, Celtic & more Rogue Folk from 10 to 11:30, the latest U.K. soccer results at 11:30, British comedy and more music to noon. April 1988 21 POWER CHORD noon • 3:00 pm Vancouver's only true metal show, featuring the underground alternative to mainstream metal: Local demo tapes, imports and other rarities, plus album giveaways. WE BE BOTANISTS 3:00 pm • 6:00 pm Finally! The Botanist Show gains some legitimacy. Plant Master Grant has obtained 13 educational Botany tapes. Now you too can learn about "Plants — The Pioneers of Life on Earth" while dancing to the hottest and hippest club sounds. May 7 — Back to the very beginning - Bacteria. May 14 — The Wonderful World of Algae. May 21 — Fungi - Neither plants nor animals. May 28 — Lichens - Mutual Associations of fungi and algae. Learn something this summer. Boom, Boom, Dance. Experiment with Kool-Aid and nitrogen fertilizers. Honey, I got rhythms I haven't used yet. NOCTURNES 9:00 pm — midnight It is Savage and Superstitious to accept the world as it is! Change it... Adapt it... Improve it. — anonymous TUNES 'R' us midnight - 4:00 am ZIGGY MARLEY &THE MELODY MAKERS 86 ST. MUSIC HALL THURSDAY MAY 5TH Doors 7:30 pm W/Guests SMALL AXE Tickets: VTC/CBO & all usual outlets. Info & Charge by Phone 280-4444 Just For The Taste Of k The incredible music show from two uncredible people. Join us for four hours of fun and foolishness. But mostly music! SUNDAYS ARE YOU SERIOUS MUSIC 8:00am — noon Hosted By: Ian Crutchley and Paul B.A. Steenhuisen Exploring the worlds of "Serious" and "Non- Serious" music, emphasizing Canadian Contemporary music and anything that screams, screeches and makes logic go amuck. THE ROCKERS SHOW noon - 3:00 pm Reggae, Rock Steady and Ska. At 1:30, Reggae Beat International Hour: News and interviews about Reggae music worldwide. Host: George Barrett. BLUES BLUES BLUES 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm May 8: HAWK SQUAT!!! J.B. Hutto & the Hawks May 22: I'MAKINGBEE Slim Harpo SOUL CITY 5:00 pm • 6:00 pm The best in soul music from the '50's to the '80's: R 'n B, Southern Soul, Atlantic, Motown, Philly International, plus the latest in Dance Floor Funk. JUST LIKE WOMEN / ELECTRONIC SMOKE SIGNALS 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm May1 Just Like Women: tune in for feminist news and analysis and women's music. May Day! M'aidez? May 8 JOst Like Women: it's Mother's Day, so tune in for more feminist news and analysisand women's music. May 15 Just Like Women: the third week in a row of news and analysis from a feminist perspective and women's music. May 22 Electronic Smoke Signals: tune in for a special feature preview of the International Congress on Uranium Mining to be held in Saskatoon, 16-21 June, 1988. Uranium is in my cranium; give me back my geranium. Eric will have updates from the International Indian Treaty council and the Indigenous Uranium Forum. May 29 Just Like Women: it's just like, about, by and for women. Our last show for the month of May. IN THE GRIP OF INCOHERENCY midnight - 'til plenty late The wee hours will never be the same. Late-Night chaos with the evil bareman and his almost recovered sidekick: guidmeister. Tonz O Toonz guaranteed to roust even the most hardened narcoleptics. I_ 22 DISCORDER A SCIENCE FICTION CONVENTION MAY 27-29, 1988 Gage Residence, University of British Columbia. Every spring after the regular classes have finished, an odd looking crowd of humanoids descends upon the U.B.C.campus. As the May long weekend approaches, rooms in the Gage Tower are booked up with members of the V-Con Science Fiction Convention. It was four years ago that I attended my first "Con" and, believe me, it was pretty radical. Strange unadvertised things happen. No, I am not going to let the cat out of the bag. You'll just have to go and find out for yourself. Fun and fantasy are the main ingredients, so find yourself a costume, hop on the galactic express (Metro Transit), and cough up the membership fee. The organisers of the convention brainstorm for months to come up with a new theme every year. This year they have chosen "the SCIENCE in science fiction", also known to some as hard (technically correct) science fiction. Accordingly they have chosen guests of honor who are well versed in the technical areas of science. James P. Hogan, once an electronics engineer specializing in digital systems, has published ten novels to date. They arc characterised by the positive aspects of human reason and man's ability to create a better tommorrow. He will be presiding as toastmaster. John G. Cramer will be attending as science guest He is a professor of physics at the University of Washington and director of their Nuclear Physics Laboratory, where they have a new ten million dollar superconductor linear accelerator. You may want to ask this man a few questions about sub atomic particles. Hal Clement, nominated for both the Hugo and Nebula awards in 1971 for his book "Star Light", and recipient of the International Fantasy Award for his book "Mission of Gravity", has accepted the chair as Guest of Honor. Many other authors will be in attendance including Spider & Jeanne Robinson, Eileen Kemaghan, and Michael G. Coney. The event will certainly not lack humour and to make dam sure of this, "Mr. Science" will also be present, in some form or another, to answer those pressing questions that you've always wanted to ask. Why is the sky blue? Mr. Science's answer: "The present colour of the sky is caused by an accumulation of the traces of blue aniline dyes produced by the burning of tobacco in cigarettes. As the foul habit of cigarette smoking is stamped out, and photo destruction of these insidious dyes takes place in the upper atmospere, the sky will slowly return to its normal, beautiful salmon pink colour." Mr. Science is a non- smoker. You're probably wondering what actually happens once these eggheads gather together on a deserted campus. Some call it "high-minded social intercourse of genre cognocientie". Others just say "Party", but that's not all. There will be panel dicussions, readings by the authors themselves, art displays, slide shows, gaming rooms, a dealers room, writers workshops, many many movies and tv shows, a costume contest and a dance. Fact is, there will be so many things going on that it is impossible to see everything. Get there early on friday evening so you can plan ahead. I remember the first time I attended, it was difficult to decide whether I should check out a showing of "Metropolis" with it's original soundtrack, the brass brassiere slide show, or a panel discusion with Robert Block on the subject of brutality in horror films. A tough decision to say the least. For the collector, this may be the place to find that rare book or medallion that has been missing from your collection for so long. For artists who paint and draw fantasy and science Fiction oriented work, this is a place to not only display your work but make a few bucks too, as there is an auction at the close of the of convention. For those who like to socialise there is a hospitality room where one might find any number of loquatious conventioneers who are willing to dicuss far fetched philosophies and theories concerning our ever expanding universe. The earlier you join, the cheaper it is. The price for a weekend pass bought before May 16th is a mere $20. At the door it will cost $24. Children under twelve accompanied by an adult are admitted for half price, under six are admitted free. Last time I attended a convention they were selling passes for the following year's event at the give away price" of $ 10. So, theoretically, if you joined before your sixth birthday.and took out a life time membership, you might never have to pay anything. With the ever increasing possibli- ties of life extension it could turn out to one heck of a saving, but don't take my word for it, they may have changed their policy to compensate for this. To join, send a cheque or money order to: V-CON 16 P.O. Box 48478, Bentall Centre Vancouver, B.C., V7X 1A2 Matt Richards HduMAURIER THIRD ANNUAL 170 Performances 350 Musicians Canada • USA • Europe Africa • South America Australia JAZZ AT THE PLAZA July 1,2,3, 12:00-8:00 pm FREE ADMISSION Plaza of Nations, Discovery Theatre, Comedy Club. 40 national and international bands, international food fair and festivities. Presented By JA2Z INTERNATIONAL brave new jazz traditional and contemporary uniquely west coast Concert tickets and festival passes on sale at Black Swan Records, Highlife Records, and all Ticketmaster/VTC outlets. Charge by Phone 280-4444. Festival Passes Jazz Pass I $140 (Entry to all 20 concerts except Expo Theatre. Only 100 passes on sale.) Jazz Pass II $85 (Entry to all 9 VECC and 5 Western Front concerts. Only 100 passes on sale) Jazz Pass III $60 (Entry to the 2 86 Street and 3 Commodore shows. Only 300 passes on sale) VANCOUVER JUNE 24 - JULY 3 1988' Expo Theatre Friday June 24, 8:30 pm Opening Night Double Bill The Zawinul Syndicate • Youssou NDour et les Super Etoiles de Dakar Vancouver Playhouse Sunday June 26, 8:00 pm J.J. Johnson Quintet Western Front Sunday June 26, 5:30 pm Horace Tapscott Monday June 27, 5:30 pm George Lewis Tuesday June 28, 5:30 pm John Oswald and Alex Varty Wednesday June 29, 5:30 pm Hal Russell's NRG Ensemble Thursday June 30, 5:30 pm Tom Cora 86 Street Music Hall Saturday June 25, 10:00 pm Manteca Tuesday June 28, 10:00 pm - Double Bill Randy Brecker Quartet • Hugh Marsh Commodore Ballroom Friday July 1, 10:00 pm Real Sounds (of Zimbabwe) plus Themba Tana's African Heritage Saturday July 2, 10:00 pm Bill Bruford's Earthworks Sunday July 3, 10:00 pm Ornette Coleman and Prime Time plus Lunar Adventures Vancouver East Cultural Centre Saturday June 25, 8:00 pm Andrew Hill plus Unit E VECC con'td. Sunday June 26, 8:00 pm String Trio of New York with Jay Clayton plus Joe Bjornson Quartet Monday June 27, 8:00 pm Six Winds plus Chief Feature Tuesday June 28, 8:00 pm Masqualero plus Video Barbeque Wednesday June 29, 8:00 pm Charlie Haden's Quartet West plus Claude Ranger Quartet Thursday June 30, 8:00 pm Michele Rosewoman Quintet plus Turnaround Friday July 1, 8:00 pm Semantics plus Rene Lussier, Jean Derome and Tom Cora Saturday July 2, 8:00 pm Gary Burton Quintet plus John Rapson Quartet Sunday July 3, 8:00 pm Archie Shepp and Horace Parian plus Celso Machado I Landmark Jazz Bar, Hot Jazz Club, Isadora's, Classical Joint. Hogan s Alley. French Cultural Centre. s daily at Granville Island Public Market, Pacific Centre TO Plaza. Oakridge Centre THE JAZZ HOTLINE 682-0706
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