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- From: skmurphy@ernie.Princeton.EDU (Sean Keric Murphy)
- Subject: Re: New Pearl Jam
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.180033.9410@Princeton.EDU>
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:00:33 GMT
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- In article <chappy.724997199@cygnus.cis.ksu.edu.cis.ksu.edu> chappy@cis.ksu.edu (Douglas R Chapman) writes:
- >
- >We just receive a new 45rpm single from pearl jam. It is called Sonic Reducer
- >which is a cover song(cant remember who did it originally). Does anyone have
- >any info on this? Is it just a single they felt like releasing or is a new
- >album coming out?
- >
-
- The original is by the DEAD BOYS, one of the snottiest punk bands ever
- (and unfortunately, probably the best known Cleveland band ever). The
- song was actually written before there was a Dead Boys -
- most of the Dead Boys used to be in a totally ruling band called Rocket
- From The Tombs, along with David Thomas and Peter Laughner, who founded
- Pere Ubu. Sonic Reducer is one of the few Dead Boys songs that Thomas
- admits to writing anymore, although he basically wrote half of the Dead
- Boys first LP.
-
- Bullet LaVolta also does a cover of Sonic Reducer, on a single I found
- last Christmas on Glitterhouse (it blows away Pearl Jam, but then most
- bands blow away Pearl Jam :) ).
-
- For real Cleveland musici from the old days, check out Pere Ubu (old stuff, not
- the new shit), Rocket From The Tombs (bootleg LP - it's fucking awesome), the
- Styrenes (re-released on Homestead on CD last December), the Mirrors,
- and the Electric Eels (also re-released last year on H-stead). The Dead
- Boys are OK, but they don't hold a candle to any of these guys.
-
- Sean Murphy
- skmurphy@phoenix.princeton.edu
-
- Plainfield, Wisconsin,
- home of Ed Gein,
- Can we go there?
- - Unrest
-
-