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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 14:31:07 EST
- Sender: Discussions on all forms of Music <ALLMUSIC@AUVM.BITNET>
- From: "Michael H. Bloom" <MHB@MITVMA.BITNET>
- Subject: Warning: contains self-promotion
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- Let me get the business out of the way first: I'll be playing again at the
- Middle East Cafe under the name "Chenrezi" (my favorite Tibetan god-- he's
- the one with the thousand arms and thousand eyes). It'll be largely improv,
- me on the Indonesian tuned gongs and marimba and whatever other percussion
- I feel like bringing, and bassist Craig Schildhauer, and some old analog
- synthesizers for ambience. We're playing with "Nixon's Leg," an ad hoc band
- of people that hang out with Inner Beauty and Debris, and "Happy New Year,"
- another ad hoc improvising association (notice a pattern here?) featuring
- Ron Anderson of the Molecules, Glenn Sorvisto of W.O.O., and 99 Hooker of
- Fracture (from San Francisco, New York, and San Francisco respectively).
- This all takes place a week from today, Wednesday, December 30, at 9PM.
-
- From: "Gary M. Gettier" <gmgettie@THAMA1.APGEA.ARMY.MIL>
- Subject: re: Epistemelogy 'R Us
-
- > different types of music. There are many types of heavy metal. You got
- > Progressive (Fates Warning, Queensryche), Thrash (Pantera, Metallica,
- > Megadeth), Industrial (Ministry), Death (Entombed, Possessed, Napalm Death),
- > Black (Venom, Celtic Frost), Pop [aka poseur glam crap] (Poison,
- > Warrant, Bon Jovi, ad nauseam), and then there's Hard Rock (Trouble, Tesla,
- > Great White) etc.
-
- I can (sometimes) tell these apart, but dollars to doughnuts Marcia can't,
- Leonard can't (and this isn't a criticism, I'll get to that later :-), and
- I might even bet against Tim on this one. You have to know the vocabulary
- of metal in general to know the differences. Whereas even a Ruxpin knows
- that it's classical if'n it's got lotsa violins in it :-), and similarly,
- saxophones = jazz, Marshall amps = metal, pedal steel = country & western,
- accordions = polka, etc.
-
- > ... Have any of *you* heard of Mekong Delta? Well, you'll hear about them
- > in a few weeks after I receive the CD by them I had to order specially from
- > Germany.
-
- Yeah, got a record (on a German label) titled after that Poe story, "The Music
- Of... " and I can't remember the guy's name. I thought it was impressive-- as
- apposed to most metalheads, they knew the virtues of judicious silences (and
- if that's not a straight line for Leonard, I don't know what is :-) and had
- some unusually bizarre changes and rhythms. Definitely a winner.
-
- > I want to hear your favorite Henry Cow tune.
-
- It's called "Amygdala" and it's on _The Henry Cow Legend_, the sock on the
- white background, available wherever fine ESD product is sold-- and since
- they share distribution with Rykodisc, they're available pretty widely.
- Everything on that record is great (except the bonus track, which is radical
- free improv and badly mixed to boot), so just buy the fucking thing already,
- you won't be wasting your money.
-
- From: Chrome-Plated Megaphone of Destiny <alevin@TOPCAT.BSC.MASS.EDU>
- Subject: Comp Tape & new stuff
-
- > *SHUDDER*
- > I actually like some Queensryche and Fates Warning, but don't EVER call them
- > Progressive. I know progressive, and they ain't it.
- ..
- I tried to not be Queensryche impaired, so I acquired a "preview copy" of
- _Operation Livecrime_ on video. I didn't mind that every frame had the words
- "Special Preview Copy" dropped in over the video image, but I did mind that
- the sound quality was sorta like listening to a Radio Shack clock radio with
- a pillow over it. However, based on the limited musical information coming
- out the speaker, I'd have to agree with Adam on this one. At best, they're
- munchkin progressives, not too far from Rush (who I like, but...)
-
- From: Leonard Watkins <ISTS024@UABDPO.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: piss metal
-
- > I don't really care what an artist does, i object to gov't funding for stuff
- > that is not art....pure and simple Mapplethorpe's work is not art a bottle of
- > piss is not art......it's not art...........L.W.
-
- Leonard, you're not catching on, are you? You simply can't make this statement
- and be taken seriously, not without floating more reasoned justification than
- "it's excrement." I happen to think war is icky, but does that mean I don't
- think movies depicting war aren't art? Or Picasso's "Guernica"? Or the "1812
- Overture"?
-
- And besides, it's not just a jar of piss (which I'd have a hard time finding
- the artistic relevance of by itself), it's a juxtaposition of two emotionally
- charged objects: the stream of piss, and the crucifix. Ya gotta admit, those
- images together certainly communicate *something,* real forcefully. Even you,
- who profess not to find it art, are powerfully moved by it-- at least enough
- to argue the point with some vehemence, thereby proving yourself wrong...
-
- From: "Out,
- out - you'll not feel the fall-out..." <OLIVOTTO@ITNCISCA.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: piss metal
-
- > The only point is that if you take this to the limit then you allow
- > a government (or whoever in charge of controlling funds) to decide what is
- > art and what is not. Not so easy, neither so right!
-
- Yup. One of the first things dictators seize control of is art. Tim's told us
- all the sordid tales of how Soviet thought control fucked over Prokofiev and
- Shostakovich. I saw an astonishing exhibit called "Decadent Art" in Chicago,
- a recreation of a show the Nazis put together when they first came to power in
- Germany, whereby they basically slandered everybody they didn't like-- came up
- with spurious justifications why any image that didn't make Aryans look like
- big, bland, conquering heroes was verboten. Of course racially impure artists
- were blacklisted, but ultimately, anything that wasn't a Hallmark card got the
- axe. Anton Webern couldn't get any of his obsessively detailed Swiss watch
- music performed (never mind that ten years before he'd been one of the
- unquestioned talents to watch), but he said the hardest part was having to
- sit in the concert halls and look respectful while they played mega-pompous
- orchestral marches at a volume well above his threshold of pain.
-
- From: "Out,
- out - you'll not feel the fall-out..." <OLIVOTTO@ITNCISCA.BITNET>
- Subject: Is this a foreign language or what?
-
- > Just thinking... I'm listening to the 3rd volume of the King Crimson's mon-
- > ster box "Frame By Frame". There are two songs I've known for some years,
- > but still the meaning of titles escapes me; they are
- >
- > Matte Kudasai
- > Thela Hun Jingeet
-
- Ilia's correct, "Matte Kudasai" is "Please wait" in Japanese. It's in the
- lyric too, Adrian is singing to his wife from on tour. He did a few tunes
- on this theme, but the marriage still didn't survive. _Inner Revolution_ is
- his equivalent of _US_-- of course, not as good.
-
- "Thela Hun Ginjeet" is an anagram for "Heat in the jungle," which refers to
- the streets. They didn't have a title for this, or lyrics, or anything-- just
- called it "the fast urban tune" or something like that-- so they sent Adrian
- out with a tape recorder in hand to try to come up with something. So he's
- mumbling stuff about urban danger into his tape recorder-- "He had a gun in
- his hand," etc.-- when some street thugs accost him. They hear the tape and
- think he's a narc or something, and he thinks they're gonna waste him, but
- he talks his way out of trouble-- then turns the corner and bumps into a
- couple of police officers, and goes through exactly the same rigamarole
- with them. All of this is in the lyrics.
-
- From: Thumper <watson@HG.ULETH.CA>
- Subject: pure fun
-
- > Isn't this what happened with Led Zep in the 70's?
-
- Kinda, yeah. Except they didn't have a huge marketing campaign to redefine
- the word "alternative" at the same time.
-
- > Ummm... did I miss something?! I hope this offer wasn't embedded in lyrics
- > of "Hey Mickey"...
-
- I had trouble believing it either, so I went back and checked. (No, I don't
- own this record, I went to the Tufts radio station and played their copy.)
- The relevant verse goes: "So go ahead and give it to me, any way you can /
- Any way you wanna do it, I'll take you like a man," the last phrase sung in
- her breathiest Mae West. How else can you interpret this? :-)
-
- > ... My faves: "The Beat of Black Wings", "Coyote", "Woodstock".
- > Bloomdido proof: "The Beat of Black Wings", "River", "Refuge of the Road".
-
- "Refuge of the Road" is a terrific song, as is "Coyote," and I could see Spirit
- of the West doing a kick version of it. I do notice a preponderance of tunes I
- dislike-- all those giggling airhead soliloquies from _Blue_, for instance.
-
- > Libby says, "forget it, if all yer gonna do is listen." :)
-
- Okay, I'll bang the bodhran too.
-
- > I paid a visit to my dentist the other day and put on the supplied ear phones
- > and was poked and drilled to Chet Baker's "Winter Wonderland"... how lovely.
- > It was nice... I suppose there would be inappropriate tunes for listening to
- > while you're getting tortured by a dentist... like "RDA" by the Rheostatics
- > which includes lovely samplings of high powered drills... I mentioned this to
- > my dentist and told him that I'd ask y'all for recommendations to add to his
- > playlist -- what do you guys think?
-
- John Zorn. Skinny Puppy. _Uncle Meat_.
-
- > Lower Beverly - Razorbacks (Carol) <--- the give head song
-
- How come you never played this for me?
-
- > ... OK? Who's gonna be around anyhow?
-
- I don't get vacations *sniff*
-