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FREE ADMISSION!\nSPECIALS SPECIALS SPECIALS\nTHE BEST PLACE TO PARTY!!!\n315 East Broadway\n(almost West) at Kingsway J\nUPSTAIRS:\ncontemporary dance top 40\n876-7003\nPARTY PARTY PARTY!\nDOWNSTAIRS\nclassic rock at Route 66 MAY 1991 - ISSUE 100!!!\n\u25a0 I...Wi|*-M.ti\n1991 READERS' SURVEY\nNow's your chance! 7\nWHERE ARE THEY NOW?\nWho's who; who's married 9\nSHINDIG 100\nHey, Loser! 10\nBUSKERS\nBut what about the troll with the pipe? 11\nPOP QUIZ\nBring Nardwuar an apple\t\nKING OF CLUBS\nGav has one tequila sunrise too many (1)\t\nBUTTHOLE SURFERS\nHolier than Angie Finley\t\nMINISMISHMASH\nYou better fuckin' read it; we slaved all night\t\nVANCOUVER: WHO I HATE\nCall us for Jerome's home address\t\nCAUSING A SCENE\nChow, McDonagh, & Humphrey tell it like it is .22\nARMCHAIR EYE 100\nStill sittin' in that damn chair: Oof! Smell the cushion...25\nROVING EAR 100\nPJ. Tilwyche 'waxes' poetic.\nFICTION\nPull Tab by Rob Howatson....\n\u25a0 rt-W.--M.ti\nAIRHEAD 5 VANCOUVER SPECIAL 31\nSUBTEXT .27 FUTURE RAP 31\nUNDER REVIEW 100 .28 CHARTS 32\nDATEBOOK 30 ON THE DIAL 33\n\u25a0\u00bb]jjMi'H-f']:iVi\nEDITRIX Lisa Marr ART DIRECTOR Robynn Iwata DISCORDERLY ORDERLY Lydia Schymansky EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS Bill Baker, Paul\nFunk, Randy Iwata, Julia Marr, Bill Mullan, Adam Sloan, Kevin Smith\nPRODUCTION Bill Baker, Paul Funk, Randy Iwata, Robynn Iwata, Lucy\nGRAPHICS Scott Fearnley, Kyle Menzlea WORD PROCESSING Dleael\nMahler SPINLIST Robynn Iwata ADVERTISING Greg Elsle\/UndaScholten\nADVERTISING PRODUCTION Paul Funk, Robynn Iwata, Lydia Schymansky\nLOCAL DISTRIBUTION Matt Stefflch SUBSCRIPTIONS\/MAIL DISTRIBUTION Lydia Schymansky PROGRAM GUIDE\/DATEBOOK\/DEUVERY FRIEND\nRandy Iwata ACCOUNTS Linda Scholten TECHNICAL SUPPORT Tod 'n'\nSue PUBLISHER Unda Scholten\nDiscorder Copyright \u00a91991 by Tha Student Radio Society of the University of British\nColumbia. All rights reserved. Discorder Is that magazine Irom CITR 101.9 fM, and Is\nprinted monthly ki Canada on paper manufactured ki Canada. Discorder prints what\nIt wan ts t o, Inclu ding the CIT R On The Dial program guide and the CITR SplnUs t pi ay list\ncharts. Circulation Is 17,500 copies distributed free to over 230 locations. 12 month\nsubscriptions are $15 In Canada, $15 (US) to the states, and $24 elsewhere. Please\nmake cheques or money orders payable to Discorder Magazine. \"If yea put mrwy\nDISCORDER mer printed In a\u00abn\u00ab,\u00ab would stretch tU tht way fo the cHydtimp'- Bettl\nKuper. Deadline for ads and submissions Is the 15th of toe month. We want your\nstuff\u2014sand It our way, and If we Hke ft, we'l use It; If not, we'l lose tt.\nCITR 101.9 fM Is 1800 watts of neurotic bliss torn UBC to Langley, Squamish, and\npoints beyond. We're also on all major cable systems In the Lower Mainland except\nShaw In Whits Rock. Office hours for CITR, Mobile Sound, and Discorder are Mf, 10-\n4. Call CITR DJ line 0 822-CITR, our offices S 822-3017, our news + sports \u2022 222-\n2487, fax us c\/o CITR t 8224093, or write Discorder, *233\u00ab138 SUB Boulevard,\nBC, CANADA V6T 1Z1\nthank you all so much.\nWell, at press time it hasn't happened yet, but\nunless something really fucked up, our 100th issue\nbash at the cruel elephant was a big hit, enjoyed\nby all who attended. We'd like to thank the following (in no particular order): Ed Lasko, Thee Evaporators, Octatrackter, Young Youth, The Muffs, The\nWhistler Brewing Co., Non-Fiction Design, Teamworks,\nA&M, BMG, Capitol, Cargo, CBS\/Sony, MCA, Nettwerk, Polygram, SubPop, Warner, and most of all,\nPaul Moes (The Cruel Elephant Man) and all the\ngang atthe coooool elephant. Thanks once again,\nalia youse people, and we'll see you all around.\n\u2014\nH\n\u25a0K\nWBANDS\n684-BAND\n5 FEAR+LOATHING\n-ALTERNATIVE\nim BASH $1.25\nNOIZE\nCiTR DJ JUNE\nDOUBLE LONG\nISLAND NIGHT\nLADiES IN FREE BEFORE 10PM\nL00N+M00SE\nNIGHT\nHIGHBALLS $1,75\nCAGED GO GO\nDANCERS\nSHOOTER SHOCK EVERY HOUR\nSTUDENTS IN FOR FREE WITH ID!\nWIN TICKETS TO JESUS JONESI CALL FOR INFO.\n..\u00ab=_ .wilfgnP _ZLon__-\n\\#7 ALEXANDER STREET. GASTOWN 682-8550\nMAY 1991 3 Ximb>re Presents\nBMG RECORDING ARTISTS\nIop Fill\nl\nMONDAY\nAPRIL 29\nDOORS 8:00PM SHOW 9:30PM\nAT HTSELF]\nSSSS. LIMBO MANIACS!\nCThe Fabulous\nOMMODORE\n870 Granville Mall\nSUNDAY\nMAY 5\nDOORS 8:00PM SHOW 9:00PM\nTOWN\nPUMP\n6. Water Street Gastown\n683 6695\/681 2222\nFRIDAY\nMAY 10\nDOORS 8pm SHOW 9:30pm\n5 5Bob Mould\nwith very special guest \\7Tf~1 C^JTT? ^ISIT \/'\/ *\/ '\nCiTR presents\n101.9 fM\nb_ mt IVIMT H\n*m __-_h. D00RS 8Pm SH0W 9:3\u00b0\nuttholeSurters (*\u00a7>\nwith c=t r-.(=* r^ i ^. I 01 i\u00ab^c;tc; f\" fl \/ \/ f~V I I m***^\n'Throwing\ning \/ S\nMuses \u201e \/Nipples\nOPM f DOOR 11:\nwith special guests THE WALKABOUTS\nDOOR 8:00PM SHOW 9:00PM\nI SATURDAY\nMAY 18\nTWO SHOWS, ONE NIGHT AT\nTOWN\nPUMP\n:OOPM SHOW 12:00AM\nCOMING SOONl\nJuly 2 BELA FLECK AND FLECKTONES\nat the Voncouver Eost Cultural Centre\nJuly 13 THE BLASTERS at 86 Street Dear Airhead:\nDear (Mr.\/Mrs.\/Miss\/Ms.) Airh.\n>l sound li\nngsseemt.\nmorning, or when fm in the toilet.\n2. Too many songs have screams in tne\nix lhat sound like my mom yelling my\n~ e songs are generally only\nplayed when mymom isn'tcxpected home\nfor 3 raorehours, which usually coincides\nwith me doing something strange in my\nbedroom.\nDear Airhead,\nThe misog;\nCORDER oSlysetves Wtumpeopleaway\nfrom CITR -people whooth\nbe interested in alternative\nAlmost all of thealbums mentioned\nin DISCORDER arefromall-male bands.\nMost of the writing is by men and about\nmen. Females are rarely mentioned, and if\nthey are it's usually a put-down to build\nup the ego of the writer.\nAnd why do the CITR airplay lists\ninclude such a low percentage of bands\nwith one or more female members? The\ninequality of the CITR lists (albums and\nAirhead,\nI am continually amazed and appalled at\nthe cynical approach DISCORDER often\ntakes toward the local scene. I.forone, am\n\\e. copy-boy too insecure to put his\n\"DEMO DERBY\" usually has its\nir share of cheap shots. \"Be hip: be\nit\" seems to be your creed. It is not\nat emerging talent so\ny, bul downright stupid and self-\nAll of us at Point Grey's finest radio station are pleased to present Discorder. Caution though! Discorder is not meant to be taken on its own.\nChances are, that if this mag is read in its entirety by a non-listener, terrible things might happen; bewilderment, nausea, or even death. For\nthis reason we advise that Discorder be cut with 100% pure CITR. One part Discorder to nine parts CITR. Simple. Remember though, don't\nget carried away with Discorder. Its purpose is not to curb your aural fixation, but to enhance it.\nSo what is Discorder? Why does a radio station put out a program guide? Essentially, to improve communication, and isn't that what\nradio is all about? By improving communication everyone benefits. Publishing this guide means that you'll be able to read about the music\nthat CITR playlists and to find out when CITR broadcasts its various features. At the same time Discorder gives us (the people behind the\ndials) a chance to hear from you. Something on your mind? Write to the Airhead. He wants to hear from you. Hopefully Discorder will reflect\nnot only what happens at Vancouver's alternative music station, but what happens in the city itself so far as music, entertainment, and\ninnovation are concerned.\nNow that you know what Discorder is, I'll tell you a few things about CITR. CITR is UBC's student radio station which broadcasts from\nthe Point Grey campus. Because the station is licensed as a low power operation, some parts of the city get better reception than others. If you\ncan't get us at precisely 101.9 FM, even with an antenna, you're in a sound warp and will have to plug into your cablevision outlet and tune\nto 100.1 FM. (Call CITR or the cable company for details).\nCITR is a non-profit, non-commercial station. Money comes from two sources: directly from students' pockets via Alma Mater Society\nTees, and from off-air activities undertaken by the station. These things include playing music in UBC's Pit and hiring out our mobile sound\nservice. The station is run by about 100 volunteers (with one full-time, paid employee) who are mostly UBC students. Membership is open\nto everyone: students and non-students. Your support and help is always needed, so ifyou are interested, why not drop by?\nBeing a non-commercial station CITR is free to explore the vast realm of today's music which is located just beyond the sight (or should:;\nI s*y \"sonnd\") of most other music stations. Our Playlist is not generated by a computer from somewhere \"back east\" or \"down south.\" We\nare not afraid of playing music or airing spoken word material that transcends what commercial programmers view as the \"proper norm.\"\nCITR has been an alternative music station since the mid-seventies and we know that there are no \"proper norms\" for music or anything else.\nWe also know that a large segment ofthe city's population is sick of listening to the same old tried-and-true sounds of commercial radio. You\nknow that an alternative exists. As one longtime CITR deejay recently remarked \"We have no target market, we have nothing to sell.\nmarket is anyone who wants to listen.\" Nuff said.\nIf all goes well, Discorder will be your monthly guide to CFTR. It will continue to be free and will be available at some of Vancouver\ntest locations. Wasn't the place you got this one nice? Till March 1st then, keep listening. CITR is designed to satisfy you aurally.\nMichael Mines, Editor\nIssue #1\nFebruary, 1983\nThe more things change, the more they stay the same, eh?\nLisa Marr, Editrix\nIssue #100\nMay, 1991\ncoffee or whatever, thatlvjakes less time\nto read Discorder than it takes for an\naverage flow to pass...\nDiscorder:\n...I will wipemy ass with this rag in page\nby page fashion for the entire month of\nSeptember.\nDiscorder,\n\u25a0., I am having read your Discorder called\n\"Drugs.'' I think you are all horrible com-\nddeservetodiehomblcstway\nisible. Why are you telling\n|jg|>le\u2122fc drug-things. Also, you are\nBead this thing and go for horrible ac id\njourney, maybe toss his bodie from Lion's Gate Bridge.\nDear Discorder:\nWhere Discorder once used t \u2022> he fresh\n:i.do, it is now\npainfully self-cent red and ineffectual! >\n.:nt even worth bcndiilgdowrt to pick it up\nAirhead,\nWhat's happened to Discorder? 1 used to\nlook forward to each issue... Now it's\npublication doesn't improve posthaste.\nThe latest issue (March 88) looks like it\nwas thrown togetherforthesakeof fulfill-\nNot only was it dull and extremely pretentious, it was poorly designed and devoid\nof style. The lack of imagination is evident throughout...\nDear Discorder,\n...You chumps with your criticisms of a\nyour ideas for chatter in the cafeteria.\nSlop printing this nonsense... Someone\ndrive these poeticules from publishing...\nDear Airhead\nThis is the most vile, disgusting, confus-\nnated.se\n;e of publical\nieyes\nDear Airhead,\n...the September issue was boring and th\nOctober issue didn't makeup for it...\nMy Dear Airhead,\nI can't sleep, Uhhh... is \"Yo. Yo. (rru\nMuhthufuhckert''n\n' -.o? I've heard niore A\nTHIS LITTLE PIGGIES GETTIN* THE FUCK OUTTA HERE!\nSATURDAY\nMAY\nLast chance to see 'em before they\ntake off an a never-endin' Canada \/\nUS tour, hogbait!\nthe cruel\nelephant\n3L 176\ngranville\n_S____\nVlNCUnT\\UV\u00a3oN\\\n'\\Z\n**4Bfii_-i4-&\nQuriiPl\nI H_f AnUFfDDft c^ifQua\n___2__n__fiTS!IE*_^^\nMAY 1991 5 WORLD TOUR '> Monster Beat\nwith\nDJ Mixtress Venus\n \u00a5 doors open at 9pm &\nGRACELAND\n1250 Richards St, Alley Entrance, Vancouver 688-2648 ^^^ GAV BROWN IS W\" \u25bc\" ^^ f^i\nThe King Of Clubs\n,^^a^^^^r-fiWmwm**mmM fYDADS As*5\nMrs are\nThe only cool way to dr\nfloor of a closet swimming in\nyour own body juices, contemplating suicide. At least that's\nmore interesting than sitting\non an ass-bending velvet\nstool, staring at the ceiling and\nbeing rubbed on by a skinny\nties like glasses, paper umbrellas, olives on swords, celery and salt on the rim; instead,\nhuff some glue in a parking lot,\nslam down some cheap wine,\nyell at old ladies and puke on\nthe slurpee machine at 7-11.\nUnfortunately, however, most\npeople like paying big coin to\nsit in a hell of a smokey noisy\ncrowded room, and we at Discorder realize this. So, just for\nyou, we checked out all the\nbars we could get into for free\nand here, for you perusal, is\n1991's Big Bar Roundup.\nCLUB SODA rpntralheadquartersofVancou- In the tradition of Vanm,\u2122 \u2022\nver-sleopard-pnru-spandex^mous^ herethalrales about zero music scene for the pastel u$ ^ ^ terror>^ng the loca\nin from^e suburbs^-\u2014 ^^^\nunless you. ought *el^\nMoral Monday tends to higruigni Tnesdav has yet to death metal h,^ \u00ab,._, aaaturulg\u00b0utoftownh;,nHc \u25a0*_\u201e.\nve^leopard-print-spanac.-...^^-^ thaUales aboutzero musicsceneforfop^r*\"^ \u00ab\u25a0 las been terrorizing the local\na thought *ete^\n,nday tends to hlghlgnt Tuesday has yet to death metal band Morbid 0^f\u00b0Ut\u00b0f t0Wnba\"ds. The Greek\nld their newly-revived Mtem lay those Gennan act Srh*.Z L 0beSlty P1*^ there a whil. uL, ,\nfeature \u00abu .\t\n- :e alternative\nthe same 1\n. showcases.\n\u00ab*\u00bb\u2014*e anyone but\nCommodore altern\nCOMMODORE BAUROOM\nY\u00b0*--Ow. I graduated in this\nhalLMeandmydatewerekicked\nout of our seats'cause cool kids\nwanted to sit with their friends,\nso I cho wed down on some\nSwedish meatballs, made my\ndate cry and hung out with the\nheavy metal losers at the back of\nthe room. Later that nighU got\nnpped on Scotch and gingerale\nand a grade 11 tried to beat me\nup at the Stardust Roller Rink I\nhate the Commodore.\nTHE CRUEL ELEPHANT\nSuccessor to the Arts Club\nthrone. Vancouver's only cool\nlive venue, this bar has been\n; of good bands to\ntown while still charging reasonable door prices. This is one\nhappemngplace:small, nendly\nandTun. Plus you can slam and\nstaeedive\u2014perhaps \"stagehop\nrfbetterferm here-all you\nwantwithoutsomemoromcthug\nroughingyouup.Theonlywords\nof caution: avoid the Mystery\nMeal at all costs.\nPIT ^L^M\nGirls wearing big pants\/wide\nblack belts\/mini skirts\/Birken-\nstocks\/Fluevogs techno dirty-\ndance with guys wearing worn-\nout501s\/cowboy boots\/coUared\nshirts\/fiat tat on their ass. Pretty\nbad scene going on in here, but if\nyou think university is about\ngetting drunk, knowing all the\nwords toINXS songs, and going\nall the way, you won't be disappointed.\nT\u00abE RAILWAY CLUB\nwith W stick thlghtruck\n^anyofe^50\" idon't\nSOON ARO Wl\n3g^^ g=a\u00bbJf*\u00a3.t5?5\u00a3*-\n-SXr^i-^ ' \"*\nGRACELAND\nI am an alternative student\/artist\/secretary\/executive, I wear\nblack\/silver\/leather\/nothing, my\ndrug of choice is ecstacy\/acid\/\nbooze, and I listen to acid house\/\nfunk\/technohousedisco. I am every thing; you are nothing. Pick\nyour adjectives and label yourself. Have you ever noticed how\npeople can seem so disposable?\nLUV-AJ-AIR\nTHE TOWH\nH^\nTOWN PUMP: LEONARD'\nWE TOWN PUMP\nTHE ROXY\n^~t\u00a3___**-\nmg the night away njav;\u201e\u201e\nlS3sss=\u00a3\n14 THE 100TH DISCORDER\n\"-UV-A-FAIR rOWNPUNP:U:ONAl_.W\u00abMl_K .\u201e_, .\u00ab\u00bb.., ^......\nTo hang out her h Unfortunately, this is Vancouver's only medium-sized live venue. It\nblack, tight stuf^S* t\u00b0,be reaUy COo] which means wearinp lends to smell like urinal cakes, features high door prices, attitude-\nmusic and etther'hugTmTve^3'^^ * W\u2122\u2122 'echno-dance mon^^ *\u00ab* Staff md * CmpPy 8ttf'But' 5 *? ^ *?*\nPunk rock The \"A^f\u00bbo0neyOUmeetoractmg really aloof Set Sood bands every \u00b0nCe m * Whlle' md ^ ^ P\nschool dances who hTc _ y' Remember those girls at hid.\" machines. The first thing you notice after attending a few shows at\ndressed in Le Chateau Rl J f^ PiCtUrCS in their l\u00ab*er_ who *\u00ab ^P *\u00bb ** soundboard apparently possesses only three tapes\nmg ttb0at^^^^'^'\u00bb^mcmmc0B^ which means you have to listen to the same Bad Brams\/Faith No\nhow drunk they wl? ^ .T ^P^ng, and telling everyone More\/Chilis crap between every set. Lame, but nil TAD agrees to\ny were. ihey re here. \" * play m my basement, you have no choice. (g| We F0rget\nTHE EDGE\nThe Edge is an afterhours club\n(11 p.m. to 5 a.m. Fridays and\nSaturdays. Recently they have\nbeen videotaping punk concerts\nearly Friday evenings.) The clientele is mainly new wave fash-\nion-people-who-dress in black-\nBesides the usual soft drinks, the\nsnack bar sells Winstons (yea)\nand poppers (boo). Poppers are\nlittle legal bottles of a liquid a lot\nlike paint thinner. Poppers are\nthe moral equivalent of sniffing\nglue. The people who frequent\nThe Edge think they are decadent. The washrooms at the Edge\nare open to either sex... Themusic\nis mostly electronic disco with a\nhard edge. No pun intended...\nHEAVEN\nHeaven is also an after hours\nclub, open 9 pm to 5 am Friday\nand Saturdays... The dancefloor\nfeatures a smoke machine, four\nracks of lights, eight neon lightning bolts and a UFO, a very\nrotatable circular ring of lights...\nThe music is progressive\/disco\/\ntop 40... After 4 am the beat and\nthe volume drop and people begin leaving like they just remembered that they left the tub running...\nSHAKERS\nShakers is filled with a 12 to 18\ncrowd that all dream of their\n19th birthday, so they can all go\nto Richards on Richards... Most\nof the boys are preppies or new\nromantics in white sweaters.\nMany of the girls wear dresses,\nheels and coiffered hair... The\ndance floor is usually fully occupied... Going into Shakers is\nlike entering a parallel universe\nwhich never had a Joey Ramone.\n(Dave Watson, 1985)\nTHE SAVOY\nThe Savoy nightclub is housed\nin one ofthe few remaining structures erected before the city of\nVancouver was\none year old. In\n1886 John\nBoultbee's law\noffice was located at the\nsoutheast corner of Carrall\nand Powell\nStreets, which\ntoday looks out\nover the cobblestone street\nwhich passes\nthrough Maple\nTree Square.\nMr. Boultbee\nwas the first\nmagistrate of\nthe City of Vancouver and was\nappointed at the\nfirst meeting of\nCity Council on\nthe tenth day of\nMay, 1886...\nAlthough the history of the\nSavoy is rather difficult to trace\n(owing to changing street names\nand addresses), it is certain that\nthe neighbourhood was certainly a thriving and active area...\nFinally in 1973, the Savoy Cabaret arose, showcasing rock and\njazz music.\nHappily, this fine old building at 6 Powell is still kept out of\nits life and it very nearly was\ndemolished, along with the spirit of Rose Campbell. The Smi-\nlin' Buddha faces the same danger as so many ofthe other wonderful venues and theatres which\nonce dotted Vancouver's downtown area near Hastings and\nMain... The Railway Club and\nthe Commodore Ballroom are\nalso on the City Council's insidious \"hit list.\" This means that\ntentative development permit applications have been filed with\nthe City Council on both these\nbuildings, which will subsequently reduce the lot and make\nway for the increasingly popular\nBauhausian skyscraper. It is up\nto the City Planning Department\nto save these and other buildings\n(such as the Tudor Manor on\nPacific Avenue) which ought to\nbe designated heritage sites.\nIronically, 1986 is Vancouver's 100th birthday, and yet, so\nmany of Vancouver's finest examples of architecture arequick-\nly becoming demolished to make\nway for the anniversary. The\nOrillia, once the famed Tamale\nParlour and home to Vancouver's first gay club, met a sad\ndemise last April when a Hong\nKong financier ordered the place\nrazed. Our favourite nightspots\nmust be preserved, if not for\ntheir architecturalvirtues, at least\nfor their sociological values. The\nnext time you walk into your\nfave club to see your fave band,\nwhether that place might be the\nCommodore, The Railway Club,\nThe New York Theatre, The\nSavoy or the Smilin' Buddha,\nthink of all the different people\nthat have passed through their\ndanger, having been designated doorsoverthelastcentury.Think\na heritage site. However, John about how much history is\nBoultbee's office is the only one packed between the walls and\nwhich is protected from bull- consider what Vancouver enter-\ndozers. In 1979 the Friends of tainment once represented...\nthe York Theatre had to fight for (Elspeth Robinson, 1985)\ntl^^_\ngavs guiBEto getting in underage\n)ER BOOZE FROM SERVERS OR BARTENDERS: GET FRIENDS T<\n3SE OTHERS CAN AND WILL ID YOU LIKE THE DOORGUYS \/\nfSEE. YOU'RE BUSTED. DUDE. ;j__?\nMAY 1991 15 PROFESSIONAL QUALITY DEMOS\nFULLY EQUIPPED 8 TRACK\n$12\/hr INCLUDES ENGINEER\nDEADBEAT\nSTUDIOS\n (604) 687-5803\nclothworks of Vancouver\nioo%\nFABRICS\nCOTTON\ni& T-SHIRTS\nPLAIN COTTON\nFABRICS FROM\n36\" TO 103\" WIDE\n\u2022 Broadcloth \u2022 Fleece \u2022 Muslin\n\u2022Cheesecloth \u2022 Ticking\n\u2022 Drill \u2022 Duck \u2022 Canvas \u2022 Poplin \u2022 Sheeting'\n\u2022 Flannelette \u2022 Jersey \u2022 Terry Towelling\nclothworks \u2022 textile dyers and printers, wholesale & retail\n132 POWELL STREET 688-1 752 (PHONE OR FAX) & 669-01 27 BUTTHOLE\nSURFERS:\nTHAT WAS THEN,\nby Angie Finley, Travis Bickle, Jay Scott and Noddy\n\"It was just a wild show, but it didn't really get wild until the\nshow was over. You have a band with three sort of hippies and\nthree bright but psychotic people\u2014the three front people.\nGibby, Paul and Pinkus. And after the show, Gibby had cut his\narm and we'd taken him to the hospital. Meanwhile, Paul, the\nguitar player, was really mad at Pinkus, the bass player, for\nsome reason or other. We had to restrain him, actually pin him\nto the ground on four separate occasions, just to calm him\ndown. He threw a bottle of beer at us. We had to duck and it\nsmashed against the wall behind our heads. He smashed every\nglass in the place. At one point, he sprayed. Pinkus with lighter\nfluid and tried to set him on fire. That was a little harsh. You\ndon't usually run into that sort of attitude.\"\nSo you say to yourself, the Butthole Surfers, big fucking deal,\njust what are they? Rumours\nalways precede historical\nevents, that's a fact, and the\nrumours say that the B u tt holes\nare living in a van with a dog,\naccountant types on acid, militant homosexuals, devil worshippers in white tube socks.\nNone of this is true. This band\nis CLEAN, upstanding and\nresponsible. These people are\nfrom the heartland ofthe USA\nand they grew up on TV and\nevangelism, corn flakes and a\nmorality that reflects all that\nis right and good in America.\nDiSCORDER: Hi, how's it going?\nJEFF PINKUS: All right. You\ncaught me right after a bong hit;\nI was just having a coffee break.\nI didn't realize I h^d another\ninterview. Lucky I didn't leave.\nWhere are you out of?\nVancouver, B.C.\nOh, OK, I think we're coming\nthere. Actually, I think it's the\nonly place in Canada we are going to...\nWhat kind of special plans do\nyou have for this tour?\nA couple of elephants and two\nblack guys with, like, these cowboy hats. Not really anything I\nshould tell you about. You\nwouldn't want to write about it\nbecause then if we got there and\neveryone knows, it's always a\ndrag when we get to town and\neveryone's talking about the fire\ncymbal and all that.\n\"Well, it was sort of like 1NNA-\nGADDA-DA-VIDA, only longer, stranger, and more dangerous, with more feedback and\nbrighter strobe lights, with valuable input from Jacques Coust-\neau, the Ohio State Patrol and\nvarious dead people, with more\nbrutal human nakedness than a\nresponsible society needs, and\nGibby kept lighting his hand on\nfire, and the audience didn't\nknow whether they should slam\ndance or pray, and a lot of punkers didr. t Ifkeii(neither didTom\nSelleck, tiho was there-f^-and\nthen Gibby lit a cymbal on fire\nand cut his hand on ii, and suddenly it was all over sooner than\nanyone realized,\" remembers\nNoddy.\nAny reason your new album's\ncalled PIOUGHD?\nNo. It's not really called PIOUGHD. I think Rough Trade\nmade that up. No, it's actually a\nrough one to pronounce; it's like\nlblblb click click click click\nIblblbl click. But you see, it was\nrough to come up for a spelling\nfor it. I think there might be a\nguy who's an Indian over at\nRough Trade and he saw that\nand related it to his language...\nWe wanted to name something\nfor a long time and since I named\nmy dog Lincoln\u2014well, we could\nhave called the album Lincoln\nbut I don't think it would have\nbeen as good.\nIs there any reason this album\nsounds more mainstream than\npast efforts?\nThere's not really much reason\nat all, it's just more or less the\nway it turned out. That was home\nrecording and we were playing\nwith all of our toys... We did that\nalbum about a year and a half\nago and we already had a whole\nbunch of other songs that we still\nhadn't recorded that will come\nout on our. next album wliich\nwe've already got enough material for. But that stuff, a lot of it,\nwe just kinda did in the studio\nwhile we were hanging out and\nblew off the songs we knew just\n'cause they were entertainment\nat the time.\nAre you aiming for mainstream acceptance?\nI think if we do get that with this\nalbum, then people are gonna\nhate us when the next album\ncomes out because the material\nis no thin' like that... I don' t think\n\"No, I'mlron Man\" is very commercial, but there are a couple\nthat definitely I can see getting\nit. But we're kind of proud that\npeople would consider it sounds\ngood enough to be commercial\neven though we recorded it at\nhome.\nSome of your fans are \"distressed\" thatyou'regoing commercial.\nThat's great. Commercial people make lots of money, don't\nthey? I wanna make money and\nthen you can call me commer-\nciaL And I don't mind a bit...\nPeople said the same-thing about\nthe commercial thing when Rembrandt Pussyhorsecame out, then\nwe put out Locust Abortionist\nTechnician after that and people\nwere saying they liked that a lot\nmore and then we put out Hair-\nway and then people went back\nto the commercial thing again. I\nguess this is like two [albums]\npeople have told us are commercial, that's two in a row, so I\nguess people must be getting\nworried about the Butthole Surf-\nNoisemongering is born and\nthe Buttholes are the foundation of a new movement in\nmusic that reflects all the traditional ways to sell records.\nNo haircuts, no fashion, no\nimage, mysterious enigmas\nwho exist only in the minds of\nhysterical devotees. Small\nrecord pressings, not major\nlabel deals or promo hype here,\njust rock and roll noise, distorted vocals and wild guitars\npunctuated by the scream or\nplea.\nIs your music a statement?\nI don'tknow. I don'treally write\nthe lyrics. Gibby writes the lyrics and I write music. Music\ndoesn't really have a philosophy. Like Gibby says, I might be\nthinking about things blowing\nup and he's thinking of flowers\nand we hear the same melody.\nWhat are you trying to do with\nyour music?\nWell, I wanna buy a ranch and\nhave a studio and have a $ 10,000\npool table and have at least four\nhot rods and three muscle cars\nand I'll take one economy car, as\nlong as it's not, like, a BMW or\nsomething, and that's more or\nless what we're trying to do.\nTell me about your band, the\nJack Officers.\nThe J.O. are still going. That just\ncame out about a month ago, I\nguess, but that's stuff that we\nhad worked on for about two and\na half years.\nWhy did you decide to do it?\nIt was just something we ended\nup doing. We kinda got a kick\nout of the songs we were coming\nup with and we had the equipment and it was just a lot of fun\nto do. It wasn't something we\ndid in a week or two weeks. We\nwrote songs and kept throwing\nthem out with the intentions of\nmaking a J.O. record eventually.\nSome people call it House; other\npeople call it other things... It\njust doesn't sound anything like\nthe BHs. We didn't even want to\nmention the BH but it was the\nonly way Rough Trade could\nsell it.\nSo are you going to tour?\nNo. Actually, I played my last\nshow as the J.O. the other week,\nbut Gibby might take it on the\nBy himself?\nWell, not by himself, but probably with our dancer, Kathleen.\nMaybe with Al Jorgensen. Who\nknows?\nFor those brave enough to try,\nfew will succeed, as the Butt-\nholes and the whole noisemon-\ngering movement forces you\nto think. This is not nice music\nthat floats over your head... it\nhits you right in the glands\nwhen you least expect it. Good\nluck, you'll need all you can\nget.\nTHIS IS NOW\nWhat's up your butt? Tell DiSCORDER (Room 233, 6138\nS.U.B. Blvd., Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z1) and win yerself a\ncopy of \"Piouhgd\". Buttons too!\nMAY 1991 17 i\ni .\nc\u00a3\nE v\" c\n1\nrings,\nlike so\npopula\naft Din\nc3\n. g t> 3*2\ne\u00a3 \u2022\nI |S \u00ab.!\n_>B\nIt\nsp your lips togi\nn't wear real he\nyourself. 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SHAYNE AND\nJOHN TANNER\nCall it unrequited love, but these\nguys used to be heroes of mine\nwhen they were on Cable Ten's\nNIGHT DRE AMS. It was agreat\nvideo show\u2014before there were\nvideo shows\u2014around '79 to \"81.\nNow as DJs on Soap 800, they\nsound, like they wouldn't be out\nof place on QM FM. Maybe it's\nthe effect of commercial radio\non intelligent minds, but these\nguys have definitely lost their\nedge.\nPAULA SPURR\nFormerly CiTR's \"Paula the\nRadio Sex Goddess,\" she wasn' t\nthe best female voice to grace\nIhe mighty R 's airwaves but was\ncertainly up near the top. Now,\nto hear her on Soap 800, she\nsounds like someone's about to\naskher: \"Paula, how's thetraffie\nout diere?\" To quote a friend,\n\"She's lost her sex.\"\nKIM CLARK CHAMP-\nNESS\nIgnoring the fact that Much\nMucous has the largest collection of the least talented people\nin the country, this former Van-\ncouverite is heir to Robin Leach:\nknid, obnoxious, and equipped\nwith an exaggerated phony British accent. If Shayne and Tanner\nhave lost their edge, Champness\nshould just get LOST.\nTHE GRIFFITHS\nOwners of the Vancouver\nCanucks and Western Broadcasting (whose holdings include\nCKNW, CFMI and BCTV),\nthey are the kin(|\u00ab\u00a3rich fat cats\nthat plays used to be written\nabout in Maoist China. They\nhave been ripping off the hockey fans in this city for years by\ncharging exorbitant ticket prices while presenting an inferior\nproduct. What kind of cheapskate operation takes rows of\nseats that have always been in\nthe medium-priced blues, paints\nthem red and cranks up the ticket\nprice tai bucks apiece. Will they\never spend any of this profit on\nthe free-agent market or on\nscouting? No! Should they be\ntried before a People's Tribunal? Yes!\nBERNIE PASCALL\nToupeed Head of the Sports\nDepartment at BCTV. I defy\nanyone to find a blander human\nbeing on the face of the earth.\nWhy Bernie isn't covering gardening instead of sports is something for Unsolved Mysteries.\nTOM LARSCHIED\nColour commentator for 'NW\nand BCTV Canucks' games,\nTom combines ihe two worst\npossible aspects of sports broad-\ncasting: he talks too much and\nknows nothing about the topic.\nEvery time he opens his mouth,\nhackneyed mispronunciations\npour out Of course, knowing\nabsolutely nothing about hockey hasn't stopped the King of\nCliches from being an apologist\nfor every mediocre player and\ninane move the Canuckleheads\nmake.\nTERRY DAVID MULLIGAN\nNeed I say more?\nSTU JEFFRIES\nT.D. Mulligan Jr. Nothing good\nor rockin' about this guy. My\nchoice for person I'd most like\nto see become a Nancy-Re-\nagan's-worst-nightm are-drug\naddict. But would heroin turn\noff that piano key smile?\nMR, SMITH\nA weird former landlord who\"\ngave me an eviction notice five\ndays into my tenancy. Afterwards, he insisted I wasn't even\na tenant, just a visitor. And of\nlandtords,Smith played the old\nstiff- 'em-on-the-damage-depos-\nit game when I moved oul\nRASPUTIN\nNot the counsellor to Tsar Nicholas's wife, but the former\nmanager of the band featured in\nJanuary's Discorder. An evil\nopportunist hiding in socialist\nclothing.\nALL EMPLOYEES OF\nUNITOW\nThe City's towing contractor.\nCOMMODORE BOUNCERS\nThe social equivalent to working for Unitow.\nANYONE WORKING\nFORC-FOSSIL\nTheradio equivalent of working\nfor Unitow.\nANYONE WHO LISTENS TO KISS FM\nRadio for people on the critical\nlist in the intensive care unit at\nVGH.\nPETER TOIGO\nOwner of the White Spot restaurants and a bidder on the\nExpo land site. Toigo's to be\nhated not for being a buddy of\ndeposed Premier FantasyZalm,\nbut for raining a good restaurant of my childhood. When the\nemployees went on strike for\nfairer p ay, Mr. Toigo bu lldozed\nthe struck restaurants and sold\nthe property. The giant White\nSpot at 68th and Granville,\nwhich mysteriously burnt to the\nground, has been replaced by a\nplastic mall. Thanks for destroying the memories, Peter.\nDENNY BOYD\nVancouver Sun columnist.\nThere is nothing worse than a\n\"\"Self-righteous reformed boozer. I thought it was funny when\ntired old Denny wrote columns\nabout what low-lifes people\nwere who drank, and then\npromptly went out and got himself an impaired charge. When\nhe isn't preaching, he's writing\nnostalgic pap. His impassioned\npleas in his columns for Eleni\nand Nelson Skalbania to get\nback together were an all-time\nlow point in Vancouver jour\nnalism. An average UBC English major would be a vast\nimprovement.\nJIM SANDLAK\nVancouver Canucks forward.\nSandbag, as some people call\nhim, is big, strong, and useless.\nThi s former fir s t round draft pick\nmakes more per year than you\ndo in ten, but plays about as hard\nas you do with your cat. 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Van-\nd into a cyclical\nle destined to re-\n\u2022 peat itself every few\nyears. New kids come\nand go but the casualties remain. Fuckin' huffed-out, dried-out junkies slumped over in an East\nSide cafe shaking an empty coffee cup; hair that has died from\nbeing badly cut, coloured and spiked once to often; arms and\nknuckles covered in spidery green homemade tattoos that barely\ncover the needle tracks; a brain that was at its intellectual peak\nyelling \"Fuck You!\" at the cops trying to break up a rowdy\nBuddha show a decade ago. You resisted the urge to hock the\nstudded jacket with Crass on the back but everything else has\nbeen sold or lost. The chains, the bullet belt, the boots and the\npawnshop guitarf rom that band you started a long time ago. Yup,\nthe stories you could tell ifyou could just remember. About the\ngood old days, the Rat's Nest in Victoria, the Buddha and Stalag\nin Vancouver, the time Black Flag played at what is now\nRichards on Richards, all the legendary punk houses you lived in\noverthe years, all yourold friends. Man, I envy you; you were the\nscene. You were there, beginning to end; a veritable punk rock\ngod. Now, when you scrape up the quarters to go see a show,\nnobody will even stand next to you.\nBut things being the way they be, kids are still attracted to\nthat despicably dirty entity, punk rock. Oh sure, il's changed and\nevolved over the years into a generic profusion of rampant\nlabelling and backslabbing, but still, the basic components remain. Cruise any suburb late at night and you'll see them, the\nburgeoning embryos of the new scene. They skate around convenience store parking lots with T-shirts ordered out of thrasher\nmagazines, showing today's superheroes oryesterday's legends.\nThe classic Holiday in Cambodia, the Sid Is Dead shirt, or just the\nbasic Flag bars, all printed on 50\/50 Screen Stars competing for\nspace in the 7-11 skank-a-thon with heavy-duty Beefy Ts proudly\nscreened with Judge, Chain of Strength or Youth of Today.\nWho's cooler? The kids with the dyed hair, silver skull jewelry,\nmusty dark clothes and Export A breath vs the straight edge crew\nwith fingers nimble after a night of WWF video wrestling,\ndrinking orange juice, and saying thank you to the guy at 7-11.\nOh, the blood to be shed! One side hands off uncreased SI50\nleather biker jackets emblazoned with crisp paintings of the\nMisfits' skull to their girlfriends who hand back busted beerbot-\ntles to cut up the other crew who, meanwhile, carefully fold up\nhooded sweats and exchange them with THEIR girlfriends for\nbroken Clearly Canadian bottles.\nIn reality, however, these disparate groups raising hell in\nparking lots never face off in a gladatorial battle to the finish. A\ngreater evil kills them: apathy. Six months of hanging out in the\n7-11 parking lot wears you down: you've skated all the curbs\nthere are to skate, you've listened to the same Discharge\/Shelter\ntape a zillion times, even your mom is no longer shocked at your\nwacky antics. Besides that, punk rock doesn't fit in with roller\nblading.\nLike a bad rerun, this scene, too, will drift into the void, the\nleftovers using a retro lifestyle to cling to a vestige of parking lot\nglory. The scene is dead. Long live the scene. I hear there's\nanother one right around the corner.\nEdward Humphrey\n\u25a0fupE\nmm\nq#OS \/\n**kn SHC\nTtf\u00a3\nb\u00a3n\n*\u00ab \u201e\niZ^\n$\n-^L'f>rcffrl Sep}-'a\u00a3e\nBAMJKXJM lillC *** ,^\u201e\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb-\u00ab*;'^__.r\u00bb2'',f*i\u201e.B.\u00bb'\"'IU\nMAY 1991 23 WEST INDIES RECORDS & TAPES\nWe Spin To Suit!\n\"LARGEST SELECTION OF REGGAE\n& WEST INDIES MUSIC\"\n\u2022REGGAE \u2022VIDEOS\n\u2022CALYPSO 'TAPES\n\u2022AFRICAN \u2022SOUVENIRS\n\u2022R & R \u2022MAGAZINES\nMail Order Service Available\nREGGAE\nVIDEO RENTALS\nELECTRONICS\nREPAIR &SALES\nWe service VCR's, TVs,\nHome & Car Stereos!\nS81 254-4232\n1859 COMMERCIAL DRIVE\n(BETWEEN 2ND _ 3RD AVENUES)\nVANCOUVER, B.C. V6N 4A6\nTHE BEST IN LIVE\nRHYTHM & BLUES\nEACH NIGHT\n1300 GRANVILLE (AT DRAKE)\nFOR MORE INFORMATION CALL\n681-YALE\nVANCOUVER'S HOTTEST BLUES NIGHTCLUB\nMay 1 - 4\nMay 8 -11\nMay 14 -18\nMay 21 - 25\nMay 29 - 31\nB.B. 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Gulf War, Greenhouse Effect, First Nations Land\nClaims, Free Trade, Meech Lake,\nThe Homeless, The Refugees,\nThe Neighbours, CNN, CIA,\nFBI, PMRC, CSIS, The Trilat\neral Commission, Date Rape,\nArnold Schwartzeneger, The\nBook Of Revelations \u2014 not to\nmention holes in the ozone, Vanilla Ice, drought in Ethiopia,\nbreakdown in the Soviet Union,\nthe War on Drugs, GeorgeBush,\nNorm Schwartzkopf, the burning Amazon Rain Forests. This\nis just a short list, of course. You\nknow it by heart anyway, right?\nIt's like a dream I had recently. I\nwas a successful stockbroker. I\nhad a condo on Granville Island.\nI had a beautiful wife I sort of\nloved. I think we had children\nbut they kept to the background.\nEverything was going fine 'til I\nturned on the television. Wife\nand kids weren'thome. I was all\nalone. I thought I was tuning in\n\"thirty something\" but something\nwas wrong\u2014\nCUT SUDDENLY TO VIDEO THE CHANNEL CHANGES\nIMAGERY.\nA Computer Animated Globe is\nmoving toward us. The focus is\non Canada and the United States.\nVOICE OVER: \"The Battle for\nthe Mind of North America will\nbe fought in the Video Arena.\"\nTHE CHANNEL CHANGES!\nThis triggers all manner of wild\nnoise and indecipherable TV.\nimagery. Hints of GULF WAR\nCOVERAGE jammed together\nwith the BRADY BUNCH,\nTHAT'S INCREDIBLE,\nTRANSFORMERS andMUCH\nMUSIC. Then the screen goes\nentirely psychotic, blasts white\nnoise and static which smashes\nthe logic centre of your brain to\noblivion. The wall is down. The\nYou come to be tuned in to a\ntropical island. It's a movie,\nblack and white, not a very good\nprint. Two young boys are alone\non a hill overlooking the sea.\nUpperClassBritishsnots. Yeah,\nyou read the story in High School\nSenior English. But did you pay\nattention?\n\"Are there ghosts, Piggy?\n\u2014or beasts.\"\n\"Of course there aren't.\"\n\"Why not?\"\n\"Because things wouldn't\nmake sense. Houses and streets\nand TV\u2014they wouldn't work.\"\n\"But what if things don't\nmake sense? Not here on this\nisland. What if things are out\nthere\u2014watching us?\"\nAn Academic-type is addressing a lecture hall full of attentive\nstudents. His attitude is flippant,\nalmost arrogant. We pick him up\nin mid-sentence: \"Simply the\nidea that things have causes, that\nwe live in an ordered world, that\nany event that seems to be patterned is produced by some definite cause operating for that result, and that randomness is\nsomething frightening and rare\nand it doesn't produce pattern\nanyway, and if it exists is only\nresponsible for chaos\u2014\"\nTHE CHANNEL CHANGES!\nThe A-Team. George Peppard\nand Mr. T are attacking a whole\nwarehouse full of drug dealing\nbad guys in business suits. There\nare lots of explosions and two\ngreat car wrecks. Nobody actually gets killed though. The bad\nguys just get their guns shot out\nof their hands.\nA White North American Adult\nMale, conservatively dressed,\nregards us seriously. There's a\nnoose around his neck instead of\na necktie. \"It can be a Giant Hallucination Machine and much\nmuch more,\" he says frankly.\nWe meet a second White\nNorth American Adult Male\n(also conservatively dressed\nand wearing a noose instead\nof a tie). \"Society has entered an age of evil,\" he says\nmelodramatically, \"Is your\nfamily prepared to face it?\"\nA horror film. A team of medical\nexperts gape open-mouthed as\nthe corpse strapped to the table\nin front of them springs suddenly to vile life. Its skin peels back\nand reveals a skeletal humanoid\nmonster all red and slimy with\nexposed flesh and entrails. The\nmonster busts its straps, leaps\nforward and rips the head off the\ndoctor in charge. It cracks his\nskull open, jams its face inside\nand starts chomping on his\nTHE CHANNEL CHANGES!\nthe cathode ray tube has suddenly activated, and it's sucking\neverything together into one\nmind breaking melt of video\nhallucination. The beast is suddenly no longer a divided multi-\nchanneled entity as it synergizes\ninto this new atrocity. Describing it is like trying to describe\nBLACK (it's not acolour per se;\nit's the presence of all colours).\nSuffice it to say, the dream is\nnow a full-blown infinity nightmare. This is sleep after all. The\nrules of Time and Space no longer apply. The black hole that\nused to be your television now\nconsumes your entire living\nroom. You sit on your couch and\nsuffer forever\u2014\nUNTIL YOU WAKE UP.\nYou stick your head through\nthe smashed front window and\nscream at the empty neighbourhood\u2014\"WHAT THE FUCK IS\nGOING ON?\" But the only response comes from the TV\u2014\nsmashed to pieces on the sidewalk, but it's still working. \"Our\ncause is just. Our cause is moral. Our cause is right.\" But now\nthere's something new on the\nsoundtrack. Subtle at first, barely audible, but it's getting louder. Black laughter\u2014sick,\nwracked with pain. It's pure,\nblood-curdling malevolence\u2014\nIT IS AT THIS POINT THAT\nYOU FINALLY DO WAKE\nUP!\nBlack and White documentary\nfootage focuses on a young boy\nin a typical 1960s suburban\nkitchen. He looks kind of like\nThe Beaver. He speaks hesitantly. \"You're introduced to\nLSD and unless you've taken\nsome other drug like\u2014uhhhh,\nmarijuana or something, well,\nyou know, it's an altogether\nnew thing. And uhhh\u2014you actually can have a religious experience and it can be evenmore\nimportant than reading the Bible six times or becoming a\nPope or something like that\u2014\"\nA very British Narrator interrupts the flow: \"At Millbrook,\nchildren as young as nine were\ngiven LSD.\"\nTHE CHANNEL CHANGES!\nSome movie. James Woods is\nwatching television. A serious\nlooking guy in a tweed suit looks\nout at him and says, \"Your reality is already half video halluci-\nIt's the first North American\nMale Adult again: \"It can be a\ngiant hallucination machine and\nmuch, much more,\" he says, repeating himself\u2014\nAND THIS TIME THE CHANNEL DOESN'T CHANGE.\nNo, this transition is more like\nan implosion\u2014as though some\nmagnet deep in the marrow of\nIt was all just a nightmare you\nrealize. You fell asleep on the\ncouch while watching The Gulf\nWar onTV. Hell, PresidentBush\nhimself is speaking. It's one of\nthose State of the Union occasions. The War is ten or so days\nold and the time is ripe to come\nclean on what exactly is going\ndown. \"This we do know,\" says\nGeorge. \"Our cause is just. Our\ncause is moral. Our cause is\nright.\"\nAnd then rapturous applause explodes through the auditorium.\nBut something is wrong. The\nbroadcast is going wonky.\nGeorge is repeating himself.\n\"Our cause is just. Our cause is\nmoral. Our cause is right.\" Over\nand over again\u2014like a stuck\nrecord. It dawns on you that the\nnightmare isn't over after all. In\nfact, you're stuck in one those\ndream-within-a-dream scenarios. You try to change the channel, but it's the same thing on all\nstations. You try to turn the TV\noff, but no such luck. Just more\nGeorge. So you unplug it, but\nthe box keeps talking.\nPanic is creeping up your spine.\nYou pick up the TV, raise it over\nyour head and toss it through the\nfront window of your condo to\nthe sidewalk two storeys below.\nIt feels good suddenly, this act of\nalmost sacrilegious violence.\nKind of like listening to Slayer\non your Walkman while walking through a churchyard. Hold\non a second. SLAYER? You're\na stockbroker. You have a wife\nand kids. You don't listen to\nSlayer. You don't even know\nwhat Death-Metal is.\nThat is, I\u2014who am\nnor ever have been, a stockbroker. It was all just a dream remember. I fell asleep watching\na Vincent Price flick on the late\nshow.Idon'townacondo.Hell,\nI can't even afford rent. But I\ndid do LSD when I was nine\nand nothing's been the same\nsince (there's a lie if I've ever\nheard one).\nTruth is, there is no truth anymore. Maybe there never was,\nbut the illusion was at least occasionally convincing. The Gulf\nWar was just a TV show\u2014a\nsmokescreen for the Real War\nwhich is a hell of a lot closer to\nhome. Fact is, we're fighting it\nright now, aren't we? IT'S IN\nYOUR FACE.It'sin your brain.\nIt's deep in the marrow of your\nfucked up modern soul. It's inner conflict, inferiority complex, nervous tension, the habit\nof worry. It's your deepest,\ndarkest, most debilitating fear.\nYeah, you know what I'm talking about.\nIt's 1991\u2014last decade of the\nsecond millenium\u2014and I don't\nknow about you, but I'm seeing\nmore evidence of state-sponsored, institutionalized cannibalism every day. Viva Discorder.\nMAY 1991 25 the cruel elephant\nby not being very receptive ta alternative shows, and the cruel elephant it barely afloat.\nVancouver it ki a etl k, 86 itreet would be the only place to gol You\ngel the picture? If you have any suggestions or want to correspond in any way at all, here\nit is: phone 688-5748, fax (c\/o hotel California) 688-8335, or write 1176 Granville St,\nVancouver, BCV6ZI It. SO, MAY IS IT. We can tlatl forever. Ali you snivelling complaining\n'oh it's too stark, too loud, loo early, too inexpensive,' well Fuck you all. I mean, SKIN YARD\nan_the MELVINS barely a week apart! I mean, MELVINS _j__.SKIN YARD, for Fuck's sake.\nPlus the COWS, the EX, the MONO MEN lo name a few. Plus the best of local and Canada-\nwide killer R.R. and wild surprise shows like NOMEANSNO, SONS OF FREEDOM, JEF, \u00a7 REIN\nSANCTION (held-over), MR. T EXPERIENCE, the fucking MELVINS, man! SKIN YARDI If you\ndon't support local or any live music, you are killing your own scene. It's up to everyone\nto show interest in a unique situation, a dining lounge fully geared to a vibrant alternative\na jukebox as cool at this one. But if no one goes lo see the bands, no bands play, if no\nbands play, no one comes, if no one comes, nothing happens, if nothing happens...\nBut something is happening...\nIkun2lwowrrio_ith\u00bbavyntwb\u00abdiwmddoljoodpl^^\nFri J aiSI\u00bbI.MMpie\u00bbnh one dfce bands lhal ltaledlldaidilll^^\nYARDII (Jack E. Michael 6. PofP. loneff M. aid Im M.) w\/ Van\u00abxn\u00ab't CAN SAK (Tiey icae me' \u2022 Nad wa-)\n*\/ USTEK. WACON \u25a0 a baid to wdcti oul lor\nSol 4 EUSENE RIPPER and DE AC HE AO COOL\nlues 7 JEFInocovwIII\nDim\u00bbrock trom across western Canada: SOU CHAKE (Victoria), SKIN BARN (Cd jay), 12 EYES (Winnipeg)\nFri 10 the lejendariocdjurla dud. CHRIS HOUSTON J IHE EVIL WANS\nSd 11 CHE 101 ,\u00bbfM presents tie hearlost bad In the world, VanecWi only chanc. lo tee a MNtngti hoadlne\nappearaico c<_i_ujiif _-Mj^ f u\nCiTR\nMOBILE\nSOUND\nw 228-3017\n26 THE lOOTH DISCORDER\nROVING EAR\nThis month from\nadBlightye\nby PJ. Tilwyche,\nEmotionally uack-\nmailed into blowing $800 on a\ntrip back to dear old Blighty to\nsee various elderly relatives, I\nreconciled myself with the fact\nthat at least I'd get exposed to\nsome trendy new bands and\nmaybe pick up some impossi-\nble-to-get-in-Vancouver CDs.\nSo, having arrived, drunk off\nthe jet lag with pints of Hook\nNorton, and shown Granny my\nphotos, I set off to find out what\nwas going on musically. Where\nto start? Good question. Obviously with the Radio, right?\nWell, in the U.K., there's basically one radio station for \"popular\" music, appropriately\nenough called Radio One. This\nis run by the BBC, which also\nruns Radio Two (housewife Valium favourites), Radio Three\n(bourgeois Valium classical),\nRadio Four (news, plays, comedy and impossibly bad soap operas with oxbridge accents).\nThere's also a network of inde- .\npendent regional stations which\nmix the lamest\nof Radio One's\nplaylist with\nRadio Two fod-\nback to Radio\nespecially as there's no other\noutlet for popular music. This\ngoes for independent record labels and \"alternative*'bands too.\nThere is no alternative to Radio\nOne: if you want to make any\nmoney in music, you have to get\non and to get on you have to get\ninto the singles chart. Due to\nBritain's regulated mass media,\nthe singles charl is a vitally important indicator of the UK music scene, completely different\nfrom Canada where few people\ntheir country's best-sell-\n:. In Britain, literally\nfrom Goths to Grants the \"Number One,\"\nall sit down on a Sun-\nfning to hear the chart i\nn (you guessed it)\nThe pressure to get\n(ingles chart usually actor the taming of many\nbands. New bands\ngauge their success by the position of their latest single, gradually changing into chart dino- .\nsaurs like Queen or Phil Coll\nAbba! The monopoly of \"The\nBig One\" assures capitulation\nby even the so-called alterjjl-\ntives: The Happy Mondjlfs\npulled the lines \"Gonna buy an\nairforce base, gonna wipe oul\nyour race\" at Radio One's bidding, while The KLF removed\ntheir gunfire sample from \"3am\nEternal\" in order to get airplay.\nSometimes this backfires on the\nBeeb. Frankie's \"Relax\" was\ngoing nowhere until an over-\nzealous Radio One DJ announced lhat he wasn't going to -\nplay Mf\"smut\" anymore. Res\nthrough the rj\n\"rankie got a number\n\\the BBC refused t<\npioneered byj\n._\u201e.. Think about\nsecond: the British^\nthe BBC, that same public v\nin cash to make a record the\nbest-seller in the UK... and the\nBBC won't play it. Weird or\nwhat?\nThe most influential national TV exposure for a band\nOne.\nThis\nstate-owned and\nhas the monop-\nlittle\nat does get\npiss-poor\nwhich is a bless\ning, I guess-\nbut the new mu:\ndance pop pap, chosen, I'm\nsure, by faceless, out-of-touch\nbureaucrats, solely for it's lack\nof ability to offend anyone.\nSomething like 10 million\npeople listen to Radio One, so\nyou can imagine that THE\nRECORD BUSINESS is very\nkeen to get its product played.\nFrankie's \"Relax\" was going nowhere until an over-\nzealous Radio One DJ announced that he wasn ft\ngoing to play that \"smut\"\nanymore. Ik\nAnd to enjoy the-honour (and\npublicity) of being on this show,\nyou have to be going up rhe\nsingles chart!\nThis is all adding up to a\npretty dodgy situation for new\nbands, non-commercial music\nand small lji\nford payola to those guardia\nof public\nnot lost! There are still ways\nfor young and exciting bands to\nhe attention of poten-\nThanks to the efforts\nid determination of Radio\nOne's only decent, sane and un-\ncringeworthy DJ, John Peel,\nwho actually listens to thousands of new demos every week,\nsome good music manages to\nescape onto national airwaves.\nThe John Peel Show is an oasis\nin a desert of shit. BBC 2 (the\narty minority TV channel) hosts\nlate-night shows where bands\nsuch as the Cranes and the\nThrowing Muses get to play\nlive\u2014not mime. Despite their\nfaults, the music press performs\na valuable role\nin keeping readers up to date on\nnew bands and\ngigs so they can\nactually see\nthem for themselves. And last\nbut not least are\nthe pirate radio\nstations\u2014illegal, unlicensed\nsters\nlins.\nThe plot takes on a sinister\ntwist when Radio One assumes\nthe role of moral guardian of the\npeople, refusing to play things\nit finds offensive, often for the\nstrangest reasons. For example,\none of the many songs banned\nduring the Gulf War was Phil\nCollins' \"In the Air Tonight\";\nanother was \"Waterloo\" by\nrequires giving in and \"perform-\n'ops,the30-\nBC 1 (yes, it's them\n. MC'd by a self-important Radio One (!) personality\nwith a continuous stream of giggling glamour girls on each arm,\nthe bands lipsync their own\nsongs, whilst puppet-like dancers wiggle and smile inanely.\nness and fines\nusually operating from city\nghettos, playing\nexactly what\nthey want to\nplay. However,\nit's a risky busi-\nire high for those\ncaught challenging the might\nof the BBC. Anyway, most importantly, and perhaps surprisingly, it seems like every\nother young person is in a band\nof some sort; these musicians\nare finding their own influences, making their own music\nand saying \"Fuck You!\" to the\nBBC. SECRETS ENTRUSTED\nTO A FEW\nS\nU\nB\nT\nE\nX\nT\nBY JUDITH BEEMAN\nThis being Discorded\n100th issue, subtext turns its roving\neye upon... Vancouver! Local artists\nColin Upton and Rick Gibson to be\nexact. Rick, of \"Sniffy\" fame, supplies his answerto People Are Reading\u2014and also gives us a history lesson. Colin, who recently hit the big\ntime with a Fantagraphics release\/\ndeal\u2014after years of putting out his\nown-mini comics\u2014shared lunch to\ndiscuss his comic projects and inter-\nParents, however well-meaning, can\noften be wrong. Colin Upton's mom\nfelt he should learn a trade... vacuum\ncleaner repair, perhaps? Uh, no\nthanks mom\u2014at 19,heoptedforthe\nVancouver School of Art (later\nknown as Emily Carr) instead. At a\nteacher's urging, Colin took 2nd year\ntwice, spending the time solely on\ndrawing and anatomy classes. A cartoonist since childhood as therapy\nfor dyslexia, Colin was getting good!\nAspart of the small press scene,\nColin began to print his mini-comics\nin 1985, the first titles being Granville Street Gallery (portraits of assorted mall rats, punks and religious\nzealots) and Socialist Turtle (a very\ncranky Marxist-Leninist turtle and\nhis much-nicer pals).\nMany mini-comics later, Co\nlin got the urge for bigger things.\nRenowned local artist, Ed Varney,\nbasically stated the obvious: Why\ndidn't Colin put out his own regular-\nsize comic? Would Varney bankroll\nthe project? Yep. With the commitment of three Gs (for 3,000 copies),\nthe two lumbered their way through\nBig Thing's release with advice\nfrom David Boswell (of Reid Hemming fame) and others. Colin Up-\nton'sBig Thing has sold about 1,500\ncopies; pretty good for an independent small press book.\nThe introduction to Big Thing\nis by Harvey Pekar, the American\ncartoonist whose autobiographical\nstyle heavily influenced Colin's\nwork. The stories are all true slice-\nof-life: a New Year's concert\/riot\nwith Ogre; a spooky store clerk in\n\"loonys\"; crossing the US border\nand more. Funny and touching, never dull.\nColin Upton's Other Big\nThing was recendy released by Fantagraphics, Colin's new publisher.\nBased out of Seattle, Fantagraphics\nwill be publishing Colin's stuff four\ntimes a year\u2014great in terms of recognition\/distribution in the world of\nwords and pictures.\nUnlikeBigThing.Colin'sOth-\ner Big Thing has a mix of fiction\nalong with the autobiography. \"In-\ncatpacitated,\" about a guy who\nawakes one mom to find his cat has\ncrawled into his head, is fantasy,\nwhile \"What I Know About Sikhs\" is\nthe writer's history of his neighborhood in Little India. Other tales include \"I'm Not English,\" explaining\nhow Upton developed a quasi -accent\nfrom years of Monty Python and\nBBC listening; \"Pay-Phone\"is about\nthat infamous loser who calls a downtown phone and requests strange\nfavours. \"Stalingrad,\" a tale of demons and war, went over my head,\nbut proves Colin is turning his attention towards historical writings.\nThe next Big Thing, entitled\nColin Upton's Other Slightly\nSmaller Big Thing, should be out\nthis month. Its regular-size comic\nbook format will contain a complete\nstory in one issue: the true saga of\nwhen the Haters performance group\nwent to the Slates and were arrested\nfor trespassing in a state park on\nWhidby Island.\nComix\/anthologies Colin's\nbeen in:\nPlasticene - By the Vancouver Comic Book Club. Socialist Turtle first\npublished.\nStreet Music #6 - Story Rooftop Traffic.\nDISCORDER (revised Social! st Turtle), F\/X (Seattle small press paper),\nNoize paper.\nGiant sized mini-comics #4 - A Happy Ned strip.\nGraphic Story Monthly #7 - Artistic\nLicence with pal Steve Geary.\nAll 9 issues of New Reality - The\nsmall press digest from members of\nthe (now defunct) Vancouver Car-\nCerebus #138 - 8-page preview of\nBig Thing.\nRants, raves and reflections - Illustrations forpoetry book by local David Bouvier.\nFamous Bus Rides\nTrue tales of public transit. Colin\noften takes the Fraser\/Davie route.\nHappy Ned\nA homicidal bom-again Christian\nwho totes an Uzi, Ned and his rabbit,\nSpot, preach the good word.\nArtistic License\nFrom 1989, a one-shot thing with\nStephen Geary's art and Colin's storyline about artistic ethics.\nThe Happy Hater\nWhile subext questions the violence\nportrayed, the 'toon is unique and\nrah-ther bizarre.\nSelf Indulgent Comics\nRead about the Fraser Street Safeway closing down, family squabbles, dodging cops and more!\nWrite Colin for his catalog! 6424\nChester, Vancouver, B.C., V5W 3C3.\nDon't delay, do it today!\nLike comics? Like America? Wanna\ndo something kinky this summer?\nYou should check out the San Diego\nComic-Convention this July 4th\nweekend. It's the biggest comic event\nin the States! Colin will be there too!\nBooks, comics, arts, films... pretty\ncool. For info, call (619) 491 -2089 or\nwrite PO Box 128458, San Diego,\nCA.92112.\nPEOPLE ARE READING\nEver wonder what people are reading? I do. Rick Gibson, who is very pleasant, took time to write and tell subtext.\nA couple of months ago, I gave away 100 Canadian $2 bills aspart of astreet event\nin downtown Vancouver. On each ofthe banknotes, the British queen's portrait\nhad been covered with white paint The words \"GET RID OFTHE QUEEN\" were\nwritten over lop of the paint.\nThe purpose of this event was to draw into question the use of British royal\nimages as official Canadian symbols.\nMuch of the thinking behind this event came from an article I read by S.M.\nLipset entitled, \"Revolution and Counterrevolution: The United States and\nCanada\" (this article is part of an anthology of essays about Canadian society,\nentitled Passion and Identity by Mandel and Taras). Lipset postulates that the\nAmerican Revolution was a key factor in shaping the modern character of\nEnglish-speaking central Canada\nAt the end of the American Revolution, about 100,000 loyalist refugees left\nthe US and fled north to Canada. Here, they re-established British institutions\nwith British symbols. Images of British royalty were officially used to symbolically differentiate elitist and law abiding central Canadians from the populist and\nradical Americans.\nI went to the library and flipped through a few books on the history of the\nUnited Empire Loyalists. There's no doubt about it; some of them had a terrible\ntime before they fled the United States. They had their property seized, they were\nattacked by republican vigilantes and they were forced to restart a much harsher\nlife on the central Canadian frontier.\nLipset proposes that the world's \"oldest anti-Americans\" have clung to their\nBritish symbols because of their 200-year-old fear of American republicai\nThese symbols are rarely questioned, regardless of how obsolete they are, bei\nit is believed that the only alternative is a political and cultural void which v\nbe quickly filled by the US.\nFor most of the time since Confederation, English-speaking central Canada\nhas set the agenda for this nation. It has federally reproduced its institution\nstamped them with its symbols. Its fears of American domination have resull\nnational policies which encourage political, economic and cultural protectioi\nFear, rather than pride, is the driving force behind this country.\nThis research into the history of English-speaking central Canadamac\ncurious about British Columbia's history. I found George Woodcock's \"British\nColumbia: A History of the Province\" a good introduction.\nThe history of this province is quite different from that of central Canadr\nTo begin with, it was not settled by refugees who had lost a war. As a result, th\noutlook of British Columbians is more positive and self-confident than that of\ncentral Canadians. There is no grand fear of the US or republicanism. If anything,\nit is developing its own unique sense of nationhood.\nNo doubt, with lime, this province could create ils own images, institutions\nand nation. It no longer needs the inappropriate British symbols imposed by\ncentral Canada. Nor does il need the meaningless name \"British Columbia'\nwas chosen by the unimaginative Queen Victoria\n\u25a0\nI lit another I\ncigarette and \u25a0\ntook a look\n_\u25a0__\u25a0\nat the dental \u25a0\nsupply bill\nagain, when\nthere was a\nknock at the ^M\ndoor. It was 1\na brunette. ^B\nA brunette\n^____l\nthat could\nmake a bishop \u25a0\n'\u25a0\u25a0\nkick a hole ^M\n__t\\ __\nM\nthrough a\nstained glass WM\n_____L_3\nwindow. 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HALL 1882 Adanac Street 254-5858\nTHE YALE 1300 Granville Street 681-9253\n1 WEDNESDAY CiTR Hot Wednesdays at the Pit Pub... Mayworks\nMay Day Cabaret with Utah Philips and Kin Lalat plus speakers Musqueam\nelder Vincent Stogan, Nancy Riche of the Canadian Labour Congress and\nJose Canchola of the Centre of Information and Immigration Studies,\nMexico, at the Maritime Labour Centre)... Billy Cowsill at Hogan's Alley-\nWesley Furamoto at the WISE Club...\n2 THURSDAY CiTR Rock 'n' Roll Thursdays at the Pit Pub... Chrome\nDog with Restricted at the Cruel Elephant... Tippia Irie with Michey Tuff and\nPeter Spence at the Town Pump... Salsa Ferreras at the WISE Club... Billy\nCowsill at Hogan's Alley... The Box at 86 Street... Chris Sigerson Trio at\nCafe Django... Pianist Brandon Konoval with guests at the UBC Recital Hall...\nMayworks Evening of Latin American Solidarity with video premiere of The\nStreets Belong to Us\/Las Calles Son Nuestras at Pacific Cinematheque...\n3 FRIDAY Skin Yard with Cat's Game and Lester's Wagon at the Cruel\nElephant... Goo Goo Dolls with the Wongs and the Bombshells at the Town\nPump... Boiled in Lead at the WISE Club... Dread Zeppelin with Roy Harper\nat 86 Street... Stein Valley Benefit Festival with Spirit of the West, UHF,\nClyde Roulette, and Paul Janz at the Commodore... Mayworks Swing, Satire\n& Social Cabaret\/Dance with Sheila Gostiek, Margo Kane and Ranch\nRomance at the Maritime Labour Centre... Billy Cowsill at Hogan's Alley...\nChris Sigerson Trio at Cafe Django... Hammerbox at the Backstage\n(Seattle)... Rocky Horror Picture Show (midnight) at the Lux... Christopher\nCatalano painting exhibition opens at A Walk Is... until the 31st...\n4 SATURDAY CiTR presents Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet with\nGirt Trouble and the Sweaters at the Town Pump... Eugene Ripperand\nDead Head Cool atthe Cruel Elephant... Loose and the Groovaholics at\nStation Street... Mayworks Peace, Land & Bread Dance with Lillian Allen\nand the Revolutionary Tea Party Band and theatre performed by the\nVancouver Sath Collective at the Maritime Labour Centre... Billy Cowsill at\nHogan's Alley... Traditional Irish Ballad Night with Tiochfaidh Ar La Band at\nLa Quena... Vancouver Welsh Men's Choir at the Centennial Theatre... Chris\nSigerson Trio at Cafe Django... May Works video screening at the Video In...\nMayworks Homemade Afternoon at the Maritime Labour Centre...\n5 SUNDAY Bob Mould with Vic Chesnutt at the Town Pump... Guy\nKlucevsek at the Glass Slipper... Chris Sigerson Trio at Cafe Django...\nMayworks Mural Arts Symposium at the Maritime Labour Centre...\n6 MONDAY Tokyosphere at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre...\n8 WEDNESDAY CiTR Hot Wednesdays atthe Pit Pub... Kentucky\nHeadhunters atthe Commodore...\n9 THURSDAY CiTR Rock V Roll Thursdays at the Pit Pub... Soul\nCharge with Skin Barn and 12 Eyes at the Cruel Elephant.. John Stowell\nTrio at Cafe Django... Amanda Hughes at Hogan's Alley...\n10 FRIDAY CiTR presents the Butthole Surfers with Redd Kross at 86\nStreet... CiTR presents Country Dick Montana's Birthday with the Beat\nFarmers and special guests Jr Gone Wild at the Commodore... Chris\nHouston & Evil Twang atthe Cruel Elephant... James Keelaghan Trio atthe\nWISE Club... The Phantoms at the Town Pump... John Stowell Trio at Cafe\nDjango... Amanda Hughes at Hogan's Alley... Rocky Horror Picture Show\n(midnight) at the Lux...\n11 SATURDAY CiTR presents Country Dick Montana's Birthday with\nthe Beat Farmers and special guests Jr Gone Wild at the Commodore...\nThe Melvins with Sludge at the Cruel Elephant... John Stowell Trio at Cafe\nDjango... Amanda Hughes at Hogan's Alley...\n12 SUNDAY Poison Idea with the Melvins and Facepuller at the Town\nPump... John Stowell Trio at Cafe Django... Storyteller Laura Simms at the\nFrederic Wood Theatre... Canada-Wide Science Fair opens at the War\nMemorial Gym (UBC)...\n13 MONDAY Michael Kalanj and Jim Byrnes at Cafe Django... Paper\nTiger Television at the Video In... Canada-Wide Science Fair continues at\nthe War Memorial Gym (UBC)...\n14 TUESDAY CiTR presents Reggae Sunsplash '91 with Shinehead,\nDennis Brown, Maxi Priest, Andrew Tosh, Carlene Davis, Little Lennie and\nthe A Team atthe Pacific Coliseum... The Bendersat Hogan's Alley...\nStoryteller Laura Simms at the Robson Square Conference Centre...\nCanada-Wide Science Fair continues at the War Memorial Gym (UBC)...\n15 WEDNESDAY CiTR Hot Wednesdays at the Pit Pub... INRIwith\nSun Dog Sun at the Cruel Elephant... Canada-Wide Science Fair continues\nat the War Memorial Gym (UBC)...\n16 THURSDAY CiTR Rock 'n' Roll Thursdays at the Pit Pub... The\nCows with Facepuller at the Cruel Elephant... Loketo at the Town Pump...\nFabulous Thunderbirds at 86 Street... The Benders at Hogan's Alley...\nCanada-Wide Science Fair continues at the War Memorial Gym (UBC)...\n17 FRIDAY The Gits, Gas Huffer and M99 at the Cruel Elephant...\nHorseflies with Slavek Hanzlik at the WISE Club.. John Korsrud's Hard\nRubber Orchestra at the Glass Slipper... The Benders at Hogan's Alley...\nRocky Horror Picture Show (midnight) at the Lux... Canada-Wide Science\nFair continues at the War Memorial Gym (UBC)...\n18 SATURDAY Throwing Muses, the Walkabouts and Sweaty Nipples\nat the Town Pump... The Benders at Hogan's Alley... Nitty Gritty Dirt Band\nwith Carlene Carter at 86 Street... Canada-Wide Science Fair continues at\nthe War Memorial Gym (UBC)...\n19 SUNDAY Young Fresh Fellows at the Cruel Elephant... Jesus Jones\nat the Commodore... Canada-Wide Science Fair closes at the War Memorial\nGym (UBC)...\n21 TUESDAY The Flesheaters at the Cruel Elephant... The Benders at\nHogan's Alley...\n22 WEDNESDAY CiTR Hot Wednesdays at the Pit Pub... Riot Actat\nthe Cruel Elephant... The Benders at Hogan's Alley...\n23 THURSDAY CiTR Rock 'n' Roll Thursdays at the Pit Pub... Jack\nFeels Fine with Loose atthe Cruel Elephant... Don Thompson at Cafe\nDjango... The Benders at Hogan's Alley...\n24 FRIDAY Fastbacks with Flop at the Cruel Elephant... James Cotton\nand Al Walker's Rock Party at the Commodore... Don Thompson at Cafe\nDjango... The Benders at Hogan's Alley... Dawn of Garagerock with The\nMono Men, Gas Huffer and Game for Vultures at Bellingham Bay Brewing\nCompany (Bellingham).. Rocky Horror Picture Show (midnight) at the Lux...\n25 SATURDAY Shutdown with Section 46 and Mickey Christ at the\nCruel Elephant... 8th Annual Harambe with One Riddim, Tropical Breeze,\nSoul Survivors and Dido at the Commodore... Don Thompson at Cafe\nDjango... The Benders at Hogan's Alley... Son of Garage Rock with Young\nFresh Fellows, Seaweed, and Marble Orchard at the Bellingham Bay\nBrewing Company (Bellingham)...\n26 SUNDAY Don Thompson at Cafe Django... Revenge of Garagerock\nwith Girl Trouble, The Mummies and Phantom Surfers at Bellingham Bay\nBrewing Company (Bellingham)...\n27 MONDAY The Mono Men, The Mummies and Phantom Surfers a!\nHarpo's Cabaret (Victoria)...\n28 TUESDAY The Mono Men with The Mummies and Phantom Surfers\nat the Cruel Elephant... The Benders at Hogan's Alley... 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SHOW INFO: 681-1732 VANCOUVER POLICE SUPPORT\nHARDCORE!!!\nThe evening of April 6th was an\neventful one for the Gest Quest Co-\nOp and for all the folks who attended\ntheir five-band hardcore blowout in\nNorth Van.\nI missed the Deprogrammers\nbut I did catch the rest of the show.\nTen Feet Tall was up second and\nalthough these guys arcpretty young,\ntheirfuture holds great things if they\ncan stick it out. The bass player's\nsound was something that really got\nme; it jumped out at you instead of\nbeing a plain, heavy sound. Perfectly capturing the spirit of an all-ages\ngig, Ten Feet Tall played a solid set\nof fast songs without getting boring.\nSpark Marker was the thirdband to\nhitthestageandtu med ou l to be a bi t\ndisappointing. The word is they're\nlike Fugazi: an expectation virtually\nimpossible to live up to. Except for\nthe last one, their songs were uninteresting but it was an off-night for\nguitarist Kim Kinakin, so maybe that\nwas part ofthe problem. Sludge, the\nfourth band ofthe night, started their\nslow heavy hot set with a few songs\nlead by their former singer. It's too\nbad he couldn't stay with the band\nbecause he really was excellent: a\nscreamer but with a low voice from\nthe gut\u2014pits of hell type. After this,\nthe present-day Sludge vocalist took\nover. Having two singers is a cool\nand original idea, however, they\ndidn't have the really interesting\nvoices or crazy moves to take full\nadvantage of it. After Sludge finished up, Cat's Game got ready.\nAfter a while, the curtain opened to\nreveal a huge backdrop painting of a\ngas-masked creature with the reflec-\nlenses. That was nothing compared\nto the impact of the costumes the\nband was wearing. They (guitar, bass,\ndrummer, singer) each had a hand-\npainted jumpsuit type thing and a\nwhite stocking on the head with the\neyes, nose and mouth cut out. These\nguys are DEVO from hell. Describing their stage show is easy: excellent punk songs, great sound, awesome costumes and a frontman with\nwickedmoves. Unfortunately,Cat's\nGame's set was rudely interrupted\nby certain individuals who were denied entrance to the show. These\nhoodlums decided to take action by\nbreaking the glass in the front door.\nConsequently, everyone went to the\nentrance to get a closer look. The\nlights went on, the band stopped\nplaying, thelandlord\nThe next\nonstage^\nthe advice\n\"remain in the building.\" Thr\ning losers responsible were holed up\nat the motel across the street and Ae\npossibility of knives, guns, rifles,\nnuclear weapons had not been ruled\nout. It was pretty exciting. When my\nfriends and I finally left, there were\nno less than five cop cars parked in\nfront of the hall or at the motel across\nthe street. A few days later, 1 went\ndown to the Vancouver Police station on Main to get the facts, but\ngetting my hand s on the repo rt lurncd\nout to be a little much in the way of\na hassle. \"Do you have any media\nID?\"\"NTo,ConstableJones,Idon't.\"\nI'd liketosuckwithGest-Qucst\nCo-op for a bit because it deserves\nsome special aitention. Ifyou don't\nknow anything about it, here's a\nbroken-down version of the pamphlet they've put out. The (oiks at\nGest Quest arc trving to get non-\n; ore shows performed on\na regular basis while keeping four\nbasic guidelines in mind:\n1. no drugs\/alcohol\n3. no racist\/sexist attitude\n4. all ages\nOnce a show is planned, the band\nline-up is to be drawn at random\nwith each band receiving equal pay.\nAll money will be pumped back into\nfuture shows wiuie ihc profits wit!\ngo to Ihe band unless it's a benefit\nconcert. I'm happy to say that the\nshow on the 6th sold out and earned\nthe Co-op's bank account $ 1000 for\nthe purchase of better PA equipment, etc. An excellent way for local\nhardcore bands to get some exposure. From an audience point of view,\nit'll give you a break from beerpric-\nes no one can afford and people who\ndon't give a shit about the band\nthey're watching unless it's one of\ntheirpersonal favorites. At this show,\nevery band had a sincere bunch of\nthrashers in front of them. If you'd\nhke to give Gest-Quest a hand, give\nthem a call at 525-3570. They need\nyou and Vancouver needs this.\nOn the 5th, I saw Rollcage for\nthe firsttime, opening up for NOFX.\nTo narrow it down, they were playing Doughboys- style friendly rock\nn' roll without being lameass. Original songs with clean, catchy riffs:\nthere's nothing hke having two guitars sounding really connected while\nputting out heavy, warm chords.\nElvis Lovechild could certainly leam something from Rollcage. I\ncaught most of the Elvis set at the\nHog show on April 8th when I should\nhave been watching Canucks' overtime. Atfirstldefinitely heard something that attracted my attention, but\nwhen I got closer to the Lovechild, I\nfound a band with their amps at the\nwrong settings. These guys were\ngoing for an abrasive sound when\nthey shouldn' t have been. The props\nand the film they had were cool, but\ntheir sloppy sound bit the big one.\nThe Hog brothers wereupnext,\nbut too late did I realize that I've just\nplain seen them too many times.\nBaby Hog kicked ass as usual by\nsmashing a glass right off the bat,\nrolling around on it and then scraping a piece of it over his belly. His\narm was bleeding, his tit was bleeding\u2014shit, man, that's good entertainment! Terry was really pounding that night too, but the problem is,\nthey need to throw more new songs\ninto Ihe lineup. Theyhadanew thing\ncalled \"the Intro\" to start the set,\nwhich was definitely up to Hog standard, but there's gotta be more.\nHamm Hog and the guitar brothers\nsaid they have some new stuff but\nit's just not ready for an audience\nyet; I think the Town Pump on a\nrainy Monday night is a good time to\ntake some chances. Other items in\nthis month's Hog Report includenew\nmanagement under Mint Records'\nBill Baker. Old friends meets good\nbusiness deal? Hope so. The Hog\nbrothers intend lo tour Canada in\nmid-May and then swing down into\nthe east coast Stales lo tag -team with\nsome Sub Pop band, preferably ol'\nman TAD. Unfortunately, the European TADHOG tour fell through\ndue lo a ycllabelly booking agent\npossibility of a 7\" in the fall, so keep\nyour fingers crossed^KJ*\nIhismomhV'LocalBandGets\nGood Show Award\" goes to\npearance under its belt, the band has\nia i Jed [he opening job for ' ,\ncoming Poison Idea\/Melvins show\nat the Cruel Elephant on May 12.\nWay to go, you lucky fuckers!!\nSoulcharge are in the studio\nrecording their second tape but\nthey're breaking with Victoria tradition by actually contemplating a vinyl release. Also, the band will hopefully be releasing a split 7\" wilh\nVancouver's own Paste (who have\nyet to play a gig as far as I know) on\nChikara Records sometime in the\nnear future. Gotta love those well-\ndefined record-release dates.\nNow it's time for the. long-\nawaited Wongs bio. Why do they\nget it? Because they rock with original songs, that's why, and don't let\nanyone tell you different unless\nyou 've seen and heard them foryour-\nself.\nBandmembers are Dr. Pig (vocals), Kevin Rose (S.G.), Ralph Allan (bass) and KerrBeliveau (drams).\nRalph and Kevin had been successfully jamming for two years when\nthey got together with Doug Donut.\nAs good as Doug was, things didn't\nwork out so along came Kerr. This\ntime the magic was still there, leaving only the singing portion of the\nband unfilled. It was at a Forgotten\nRebels show that the band was introduced to ex-SNFUer Ken Chin.\nAfter coming up with some good\nstuff at their first jam, the Pig decided to move to our fair city and thus\nthe Wongs were bom.\nTheirfirst show was excellent:\ngreen, plaster-type shit on the rhythm\nfaces, a sharp three-piece on the guitarist and the Chi-ness popping oul\nof a hand-painted, puffed-wheat-\nfilled asbestos suit. Fuck yeah!\nSpunk never should have gotten on\nstage.\nAs far as recording goes, the\nWongs want to have a lot of songs to\nchoose from before putting out their\nfirst album. They've had a few offers, but so far a deal with Cargo\nRecords is the only one they're seriously considering. Independent vs.\ncommercial release is the Wongs'\npresent dilemma. The technical end\nof their recording situation is well\nunderway, with a studio being built\nin Kevin's basement. They've got\nthe twelve track, they've got the\nCecil English connection and they've\ngot quality hard rock. When the\nWongs have a disc, il will be a good\nthing. Their next show is with the\nGoo Goo Dolls and the 'Shells on\nMay 3, followed by a possible all-\nagers the next night at the Lux, featuring Octatractcr, Gorilla Gorilla\nand maybe Rollcage. If the Gorilla\ncan drop their new-found fame and\nfortune crap and get down to some\nraw hardcore business, it should be a\nreally hot line-up.\nIn closing, a personal message\nfrom me and the Tom. If you've got\na demo, if you've got information, if\nyou've got upcoming shows, if\nyou've got GUEST LISTS, then we\nwant to know about it. Special's our\nname, Vancouver's our game, and\nwe want to help. Until next month\u2014\nROCK OUT.\n< FUTURE\nBY ADAM SLOAN\nIII this edition of Future Rap,\nI look at what's happening locally;\nI'll get back to the reviews again\nnext month. If you don't see your\nname here and you're doing something, send me some information\nand a tape (if you have one) c\/o this\ncolumn,Discorder Magazine, Room\n233, 6138 SUB Blvd, V6T1Z1.\nThe biggest thing I know of\nhappening in Vancouveris EQ, who\nare Ease and Quase, originally from\nthe American Gulf Islands but now\nbased here. They've released a vinyl\nEP and a cassette EP, and have\nopened up for a few rap acts, including Public Enemy. EQ's \"Put Your\nBody In It\" received airplay on\nLG73\u2014a pretty good accomplishment for anyone. Pete Finesse and\nShowbiz\u2014who are also being\nplayed on LG73 with their song\n\"Where You At!\"\u2014were formerly\nknown as Somethin' Smooth and\nRicky Dee; Somethin' Smooth, a\/k\/\na Neil Scobie, started CiTR's firsl\nall-rap show. In Effect. Terror T\nand the Beat Assassinator released\na full-length cassette last fall and\nwon best MC at CiTR's DJ Sound-\nwar. BZ Jam and the Urban Brotherhood Committee are kickin'\naround some demos, as are The Eskimo Tribe. Craig Crush and First\nOffence have been doing a lot of\nshows in clubs, and just landed a\ndeal with Flex Management of\nToronto. Most of these people have\nmore stuff coming out soon so keep\nyourears open. Othergroups comin'\nup include Chaz EB and Code\nBlack, Killa D and DJ Force, the\nInvincible Rhyme Society, and\nKing V. Give the scene a few more\nyears and it could be lookin' good.\nPresently, CiTR FM 101.9 has\ntwo rap shows: In Effect, Saturdays\n3-5 pm and Megablasl!, Thursday\nnights 1-4 am. CJIV 93.9 FM cable\nhas Soul Sonic Shocks 9-12 Friday\nnights and CFRO FM 102.7 has a hip\nhop show Wednesday nights, 9-12.\nAnd finally, a few interesting\nfacts about rap in Vancouver. The\nfirst big rap competition was the DJ\nSoundwar, held by CiTR here at\nUBC last September\u2014by the way,\nPart II will be held this September,\nso start thinking about it now if you\nwant to enter. Also of note, the first\nfour rap acts to come io Vancouver\nwere: Grandmaster Flash, summer,\n1984; The Fat Boys, August, 1988;\nBoogie Down Productions, August,\n1988; and Ice-T, August, 1989.\nThis month's best rap comes\nfrom Stetsasonic'sfi\/ood, Sweat and\nNo Tears album. Slammin'!\nMAY 1991 31 i-I _E_-_-_-l\nSoundtrack fe\/m\/na\/Cffy\/Wcoc\/\u00bbef(Altemative Tentacles)\nVarious Artists 0\/iGod\/wyMom'\u00abOnC\/KJnne\/ren\/(Nardwuar)\nSpiritoftheWest ! A.Stony Plain)\nCowboy Junkies Caution Hones (BMG)\nChills....\n Submarine,\nBete(WEA*Slash)\nAtillatheStockb. AuralTraditbn)\nCramps opitoI.EnigmcO\nExcel TheJoke'sOn You (A&M*Caroline)\nThe Fall _xMeote(PolyGram*Fontana)\nLegendary Pink Dots\nNewOrder \u00ab*..**..\nClock DVA TheHacker (Play It AgainSam)\nGuadalcanal Diary F*pF\/op(WEA*Elektra)\nMarshmallaw Overcoat fry \u00ab*\u00bb>*... (Get Hip)\nThrowing Muses Hunkapa (4AD)\nFrontline Assembfy Ofc\/to\/rensfonDemen\/faahirdMind)\nVarious Artists SubPop200(Sub Pop)\nMorrissey Last ot the Famous&te)\nRobyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians Queen F\/Ws(Twin\\Tone)\nPixies Comeon\u00ab\u00a3ri\/T)(PolyGram*4AD*Vertigo)\nWoodentops Wooden FootCops on the Highway (CBS.Co\\umbia)\nSineadO'Connor U CA.Chrysafe)\nPogues If I Should Fall From Grace .^and* Antilles)\nNoMeansNo The Day Everything Became. . (Alternative Tentacles)\nDeath Sentence Slop KillingMeCFringe)\nCurrent93\t\nJazz Butcher\t\nSisters of Mercy...\nScreaming Blue Messiahs Bikini Red (WEA)\n True (North) Strong and Free (Profile)\n Six Friends (Zulu)\n \u00a9.#. Warehouse: Songs and Stories (\\N\u00a3A)\n AngelWIthaLariatQNEA)\n Fool Revelation (Edge)\n' #-\u00a3|-...- Snakedrlll EP (Mute)\nDead Kennedys Bedtime for Democracy (Alternative Tentacles)\nGinger Baker Horses and Trees (Celluloid)\nFirehose Ragln'Fut-On (SST)\nBeastie Boys Licensed to \/\/\/(CBS* Def Jam)\nCramps A Date With Elvis (BigBeat)\nPandoras\t\nSlow\t\nPublic Image Limited.\nRhythm Mission WBdMcodSwingsi\nCamper Van Beethoven.\nViolentFemmes Thei\nSoundtrack OecoderfWhat's So Funny)\nClassic Ruins Lassie Eats Chickens (Throbbing Lobster)\nVarious Artists Restless Variations (Restless)\nVelvet Underground VU(PolyGram)\nMonochrome Set Jacob's .odder (WEA)\nj-g\u2014 m^_\u201e\u2122^=s\nThe Smiths _*. .^JMeo\/fcMurder(WEA*Sire)\nGame Theory. ##**\u25a0#\u00bb\u25a0\u00ab\u2022\u2022 _.\u2022*!\u00ab DeodCen\/erfl-olita)\nTriffids Raining Pleasure (Cartel)\nBunnydrums.... :.: ..,,..:. Holy Moty (Fundamental)\nIggy Pop and the Stooges\nLaurie Anderson\t\nViolentFemmes\t\nEcho and the Bunnymen\t\nThe Smiths\t\nCramps\t\nSiouxsieand the Banshees...\nTheThreeO'Clock\t\nTheClash\t\nTheCure\t\nMAY 84\nISSU1 #t&\nrr :::;;\nPhilSmith ThePhllSmlthAlbum(Zu\\u)\nDead Kennedys Plastic Surgery Disasters (Alternative Tentnacles)\nUprhythm, Downbeat (Arista)\n TheBadSeed(4AD)\n Porcup#ie(WEA)\n War(WEA)\n Sundown(WEA)\nSubterranean Jungle WEA)\ni6oadSZ...Z CalloftheWest(A&.M)\nBlack Uhuru TheDubFactor(Mango)\nSiouxsie and the Banshees A\/flw\/nW>eDreomhouse(PolyGram)\nMission of Burma VS(Ace of Hearts)\nDOA Waion45 (Fringe)\nWallofVoodoo CaUoftheWest(A&M)\nRank&File St\u00abx*>wn (WEA)\nStiff Little Fingers T..m.!z. Wow Then... (Chrysalis)\niggy Pop Zombk>Birdhouse(Cap\\\\o\\)\nTheGunClub .. .. MtomKCapitol)\nThe Jam DigrheNewBreed(PotyGram)\nGrace Jones Living My UfeQNEA)\n32 THE 100TH DISCORDER\nwav c_i \u25a0 OMf_ fipnnnnnvFJ. 1 nt\nVarious Artists Electro Clips (SRI\u2022Diffusion I Media)\nButthole Surfers Ptouhgd (Warner* Rough Trade)\nDream Warriors And NowThe Legacy Begins (A&M. Island)\nMonie Love Monie Down to Earth (MCA*Chrysalis)\nVarious Artists Death of V\/ny\/(dovEntertainment)\nStetsasonic Blood, Sweat andNoTears (Tommy Boy)\nHelmet S\/rap\/\/On(Amphetamine Reptile)\nBeat Happening Dreamy (SubPop*K)\nAnimalSlaves A Fine End (AnimalSlaves*Cargo)\nTad fl-WaySanto(SubPop)\nJello Biafra & NoMeansNo 77ieSky\/*Fa\/\/\/n0(Fringe*Alt. Tentacles)\nGruntruck Inside Yours (Empty)\nStereo MCs Supematural(A&M\u00bbIsland)\nGangsta rr Stepln the Arena(MCA*Chrysalis)\nPitch Fork \u00a3ueo\/ypfO\u00bb(Cargo\u00bbNemesis)\nDinosaur Jr Green Mind (Warner* Blanco Y Negro)\nBran Nubian OneForA\/\/(Elektra)\nFeelies Time for a Witness (A&M)\nJesus Lizard Goof (Touch & Go)\nBrand New Heavies Brand New Heavies (Delicious Vinyl)\nBobMarley&the Wailers 7d*in'B\/ue*w\u00ab>Bo6Mo7fey(A&M.lsland)\nBuck Pets Mercurolones(A&M. Island)\nBoogie Down Productions Uve Hardcore World Wide (BMG* Jive)\nEskimoPointetRankin Inlet Mus\/guese\/Chanfr\/nu\/f(SRI*UMMUS)\nBorschach Remain Sedate (Vermiform)\nOffspring O*prir>0(Cargo*Nemesis)\nRamonas Out ofthe Basement (De tour Productions)\nThree Legged Dog ioaded(Bompl)\nVarious Artists Satyricon... The Album (Juggler)\nChapterhouse Pearf(Dedicated)\nKitchens of Distinction StrangeFree(A&M*One Little Indian)\nSpermbirds Common Thread^ Mist)\nNOFX Rbbed (Epitaph)\nSilverfish FaMjr\/(Touch&Go*Southern Studios)\nSideshow 5\u00abes\/K>w(Caulfield)\nKroumata Percussion Ensemble \/annfcXena\/Ws (SRUBIS)\n2Bad \/d\/o\/7ree(XMisf)\nThrowingMuses The RealRamona(Warner*Sire)\nCrash Test Dummies TheGhostsThaf Haunt Me (BMG)\nLifers Group #\u00ab064(Warner*Elektra*Hollywood)\nManufacture Vo\/ce of* WoridCon\/ro\/(Nettwerk)\nVarious Artists Ha\/ogene*(SRI*UMMUS)\nEleventh Dream Day UvedtoTellQNamer.Atlantic)\nGodflesh Sfreefcteaner(Combat*Earache)\nFishwife Sna#MWer(Cargo*Headhunter)\nWeathermen Beyond\/he Bey ond(Warner*Mute)\nThomas Mapfumo Shumba (A&M* Virgin*Earttiworks)\nMorgoth TheEtemalFall\/ResurrectionAbsurd(CenvaryMedia)\nVarious Artists Estrus Lunch Bucket (Estrus)\nVarious Artists Mm\/r)\/nA\/\u00bb\/>\/)0\u00abt\/t(Rockville*Crepuscule)\nBlackGirte Happy (Mammoth)\nSkin WoridofSkln: lOSongsforAnotherWorid(\\iooghTrade)\nJohannes Brahms SonafasOp. I20,No. land No. 2 (Bridge)\nCbckhammer Ctoc\/Wiommer(First Warning)\nVarious Artists Grind Crusher (Combat)\nHeavenScent \/hePerfec\/Dfca*\/er(DutchE_stlndia* Roughneck)\nMontreal Jubilation Gospel Choir Jubilation \/\/\/(Justin Time)\nRed Bliss F\u00abifc#\/(RoughTrade*Axis)\nSpacemen3 \/?ec_\/l*l0(BMG*Fire)\nJohnOswald\/Plunderphonics Rubaiyat (Wamer*Elektra)\nSuperchunk Superchunk (Matador)\n1313 Mockingbird Lane Have Hearse VW\/\/7\/ave\/(Sundazed*Scarab)\nHappy Family iuc\/^(50\u00abX).0(X)^)(M,000\u00ab)0.000.000\u00abJO\u00abjOWatts)\nVarious Artists Crac*o\/a8e\/0tanWr>*>(Cargo.|>\u00bb-\/>_y(Spikey)\nSabbat Mourning Has Br oken (BMG*Noise International)\nVarious Artists MustcottheBKizllanNorirr&astVolume3r_r-\\\/i=<_ Rn\nMy Lifewith the Thrill KillKultb\/w KMFDM split 12*(Cargo*Wax Trax)\nQueen \"WeWIIRockYou\"CD-5*(Warner*Elektra.Hollywood)\nBeautiful Happiness... .\n \"SomethlngSonlc\" 12* (Cheree)\nChris Connelly\t\n \"Stowaway\" 12* (Cargo* Wax Trax)\nMotorhead\t\n \"It'sAlmost... 1916* CD-5\" (Sony.WTG)\nGreater Than One\t\n \"Index\" 12* (Cargo*WaxTrax)\nHole\t\n \"Dlcknall\" 7* (SubPop)\nLush\t\n \"MadLove\"12*(PolyGram.4AD)\nLemonheads\t\nFavow\/tfeSpanfch Dfrhe*C_>-5\"(Wamer.Attantic)\nMecca Normal\t\n ICan Hear Me Fine 7\" _P(Smarten Up!)\nRevolting Cocks.... \"Beers, Steers &... (Remixes)\" 12\" (Cargo* WaxTrax)\nShadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet Music of Pets 7\" EP(K)\nMindfunk\t\n \"Big House Burning\" CD-5* (Sony.Epic)\nDouble XX Posse\t\n \"Executive Class\" 12* (Big Beat)\nCyberaktif\t\n \"NothlngStays\"12*(Cargo*WaxTrax)\n -Ways to En\/oy Life 7\"FF*(Empty)\nCoil\t\n \"Window pane\" 12* (Cargo* WaxTrax)\nN-Joi\t\n \"Anthem\" 12* (BMG*DeConstruction)\nSkatenigs\t\nChemical Imbalance \/_\"F\/\u00bb(Cargo* Wax Trax)\nFireclown\t\n \"Junkie\" 7\" (New Rage)\nBorn Against\t\n \"Eulogy\" 7\" (Vermiform)\nStickFarm\t\n.... \"Doorsot Perception\" 7\" (Weed Productions)\nGits\t\n Precious Blood 7\" EP (Big Flaming Ego)\nRun DMC\t\n \"What'sltAHAbout\"12*(PolyGram.Profile)\nBrightLikelce\t\n Brf9h\/i\/\/te\/ce7*FP(SmartenUp!)\nDefinition of Sound....\n \"Now Is Tomorrow\" CD-5\" (Cardiac)\nMrTExperience\t\n \"Sex Offender\" 7\" (Vital Music)\nWhipping Boy\t\n WhlpplngBoy *_-_P(Cheree)\nUnrest\t\n YesShelsMySklnheadGlrl7\"EP(K)\nPigface\t\n Spoon Breakfast 12\"EPQnv\\sib\\e)\nYoung FreshFellows...\n Madeln Canada 7\" F\/*(Lance Rock)\nSick Of It All\t\n We Stand Alone 7* FP(Combat.ln-Effect)\nRein Sanction\t\n \"Creel\" 7\" (Sub Pop)\nNova Mob\t\n \"Admiral of the Sea\" CD-5\" (Rough Trade)\nPeyote\t\n\"Shaman's Call\" 12\" (Sony GMBH* Dance Pool)\nPickerts\t\n Pfcke\u00abs7\"FP(PopLbma)\nHl-C\t\n \"I'm Your Puppet\" 12\" (Warner* Hollywood)\nJamtheMutha\t\n... \"HotelCalifornia\" 12\" (WauMr Modo\/PolyDor)\nIdora\t\n ldora7\"EP(MCQ Company)\nBark\t\n \"Psychosis\" 12\" (Cheree)\nBriefWeeds\t\n AVeryGenerousPoriralf7\"EP(K)\nThe Brood\t\n \"But You're Gone\" 7\" (Get Hip)\nVarious Artists\t\n SllenceSamplerNo. \/(Silence)\nClockhammer\t\n Sun Goes Black 7\" FP(FirstWaming)\nCode Assault\t\n \"Action\"! 2\" (Technika)\nMAY Q1 SINftl F MAfSNFTir* PARTY HI nTHFJS f_A\nSludge\t\n \"Have You Died Yet?\"\nSweaters\t\n \"DoAnythlng You Want\"\nWndwalker\t\n \"RIppedAway\"\nBliss\t\n \"BlackRed\"\nRumble Fish\t\n \"SI range Things\"\nNoFun\t\n \"The Night Smells Like a Dog\"\n7th Fire\t\n \"My Heart Is a Stray Bullet\"\nAbdomen of Hypnosis\n \"WestmlnsterAquarlum\"\nBig Scary Daddies\t\n \"Queens Student Hunting\"\nMarkSigal\t\n \"Mean to My Baby\"\nCaptain Crunch\t\n \"You Don't Exist In Transit\"\nElectronic Dream Factory \"So What ot Tomorrow? \"\nJho Nek Bone\t\n \"Judge and Jury\"\nBias Ply\t\n \"rsNotaThreat\"\nRhythm ActMsm\t\n \"Apocarypso\"\nSponge\t\n \"Fe-theFlsh\"\nThat Melancholy Dree\nm \"Model Image\"\nWetspots\t\n \"IWannaKnow\"\nClubDD\t\n \"Welcome to the Drug War\"\nZa Za and the Angels.\n \"Dr. Nightmare\"\nIndigenous\t\n \"PtanetCazk>'l4i_l![li;IHII\nARE YOU\nSERIOUS\nMUSIC\nI'M MM**]\nROCKERS\nSHOW\nINEWKHI\nARGO SHOW\nMEDIA\nCONTROL\nONE STEP\nKYONO\/BADIO\nFKE AMEBCA\nIN THE\nGRP OF\n\u25a0oner\nBREAKFAST\nWITH THE\nBROWNS BUMP EMC\nGOtBUDOH M000-ZICK\nS0UICHUKH LUC DMSDALE\nCYSER SYD\nAND\nTAGENVADEB\nIM\njSeoon HASJAZZ\n-iai*:\u00bbi;*X*li!H:14\nCONTENTS DCK OAK'S\nmi PRESSURE HEAP 0HITS\nitmmmmmmmmkmmst\nSCRAMBLED\nEGGS\nHCMNGHA68\nmm\nloo!\nNOIZ ONE\/\nNARDWUAR\/\nARTS CAFE\nHOME\nVIDEO\nHI-FI\nHOME\nBASS\nSWINGIN' th e\nSP0l*fS DJGEST KEWflflAffAB-\nNORMAN'S\nFLEX\nKITCHEN h?ad\n\u00bb_i*i-i-a \u2014\nTHE\nSATURDAY\nEDGE\n\"power\nCHORD\nii\nAFRICAN\nSHOW\nRADIO\nFREE\nPARKING\nTHE\nELECTRIC\nENEMA\nMAY 1991 33 bull \"tab\nby\nO o\nchip?\nmitty: he's dead,\nsue: how did hf\nmitty: he swallowed a pull-tab.\nsue: a what?\nmitty: a pull-tab, those ring things on beer cans,\nsue: you mean the metal thing you pull on?\nmitty: yeah, the pull-tab thing, i don't know what they're called,\nsue: how'd he manage that?\nmitty: it must've come loose and fallen in his beer, he choked on it.\nsue: i always take mine oft, first thing, as soon as i crack open a fresh one, off comes the ring-thing,\nmitty: yeah, well, chip was different.\nchip: when i'm finished a can of beer, i pry the pull-tab off the top and drop it through the little hole, that's the way i drink my beers, it just seems natural to me. then when\nthe bar and shake the can around, I don't have to say anything, the bartender hears this rattling noise, he turns around, he gives me another beer, it works like a charm, or a\nit worked good until the night i took the big fall.\nthe commodore ballroom is the grand old dame of Vancouver's night circuit, she flourished in the forties when people used to go and dance to big bands, sometime since then, the\nbig bands vanished and were replaced by smaller ones, nowadays, people go to the commodore, not to dance, but to stand around at the foot of the stage and watch small bands,\nif the music's really good, the crowd jumps up and down In unison and the dance floor jumps with them.\nthe underside of the commodore dance floor is lined with springs or foam or horsehair or tennis balls\u2014depending on who you talk to.\nsometimes they doesn't always stay riveted, them pull-tabs.\nhe was at a concert at the commodore, somehow the pull-tab on his can of beerfell inside his drink, when he went to take a gulp, the pull-tab lodged itself in his windpipe, he began\nchoking, people saw him bent over and crashing around on the dancefloor. everyone thought he was drunk, his head brushed against the backside of a very large man and that man\ntu med around and threw chip across the hall, chip did a kind of bellyflop onto a table and the pull-tab came shooting out of his mouth, it stuck to the collarbone of a young w\nin a black bustier, as the woman was about to remove the projectile from her chest, the metal tab suddenly came unfixed and slid down the shadowy chasm of her cleavage, all of '\nthis, from the bellyf lop onwards, was witnessed by one of the club's bouncers, who, it just so happens, was dating the bustier woman at the time. The boyfriend bouncer wrapped Q\nchip in a full-nelson and carried him to the top of the stairs, where he proceeded to punt the young man's body off the upper landing.\nchip half-flew, half-rolled down the red carpeted stairs and crashed through the big red double doors, he spilled oi\nto the sidewalk, and lay very still; a bloody dishevelled heap,\nlim a little kick, there was no response, so the old man took\n34 THE 100TH DISCORDER ,..SAMt\u00a3e^ajk\/Ahf..^\nCANADA'S LARGEST AND BEST KNOWN RECORD STORES\nIN A WORLD OF ROLES AND LIMITATIONS\nDREAD ZEPPELIN\n5,000,000*\n*TORTELVIS FANS CAN'T BE WRONG\nLIVE IN CONCERT, MAY 3 &4\nNOT EVERYTHING HAS TO BE BLACK OR WHITE\n\"\u20ac&\nQlQeQnQtQ QHQiQEgy\nJESUS JONES-\n[j MAGGIE'S DREAM -Maggie's Dream\ni \u25a0\n\u25a0 ,\u25a1\n\u25a1 QUEENSRYCHE-Empire\n\u25a1 GEORGE THOROGOOD-Boogie People\n\u25a1 HAVANA 3 A.M. -Havana 3 a.m.\n\u25a1 RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS -Mother's Milk,\n\u25a1 RED HOT CHIU PEPPERS -Uplift Mofo Party j\nU SCHOOL OF FISH -School of Fish\nI \u25a1 RHEOSTATICS -Melville\n| \u25a1 LESLIE SPIT TREEO-Donl Cry Too Hard I\n\u25a1 THE ALARM -Standards\n\u25a1 SPUNKADELIC-Spunk Junk\n\u25a1 DAVE WAKELING -No Warning\nta kar wm i r\u00bb o n r -featuring k.d. lang, Erasure, Belinda Carlisle,\n\u25a1 I AM t YUUHScLr Raw Youth, B-52-s, Pretenders and morel\n\u25a1 BILLY SQUIER -Creatures of Habit\nI\nI\nDOWNTOWN\n568 Seymour St.\n$Q99 $1K99\nI \u25a0 or less I \u25a0 I or less\n%0 CASS \u25a0 VwjW CD\n*mrfAM*tte\nr__##lr\nLIVE IN CONCERT\nMAY 7 -Victoria \u2022Harpo's\nMAY8 fi f -Whistler \u2022Buffalo Bill's ww* \u25a1 Loud, Plowed and Live\nMAY 10& 11 -Vancouver\u2022Commodore q Glad N'Greasy\nCant Find It? 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Permission to publish, copy, or otherwise use these recordings must be obtained from CiTR-FM: http:\/\/www.citr.ca","@language":"en"}],"SortDate":[{"@value":"1991-05-01 AD","@language":"en"},{"@value":"1991-05-01 AD","@language":"en"}],"Source":[{"@value":"Original Format: Student Radio Society of University of British Columbia","@language":"en"}],"Subject":[{"@value":"Rock music--Periodicals","@language":"en"}],"Title":[{"@value":"Discorder","@language":"en"}],"Type":[{"@value":"Text","@language":"en"}],"Translation":[{"@value":"","@language":"en"}],"@id":"doi:10.14288\/1.0049926"}