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Love-Hounds Digest			Wednesday, December 18, 1985, 07:38

Today's Topics:

	   SuiCiDAL (or should we sat - Rockstar?) tENDencieS
			      Volcano Suns
	     Kate Bush interviews in Musician and Rockpool
			     An experiment
			  Berkeley at xmas ...

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Date:     Tue, 10 Dec 85 9:03:59 EST
From: Jim Hofmann <hofmann@AMSAA.ARPA>
Subject:  SuiCiDAL (or should we sat - Rockstar?) tENDencieS

They played here last night to a smaller than usual crowd.  Suprising, as it
was the only thing going on in town besides the taping of the "Christmas
with Larry" show at the galaxy lounge (special guest:  Dr. Ruthless).  

Many of the "cool", "in-the-know" upchuckpunks, said they were there for the
opening band, I guess to save face, I dunno.  I guess I should mention their
name - Per Capita for journalistic sake or perhaps I should mention thier 
fun-filled stomping and trashing of 60's pop songs - "I'm a believer" among
others as well as their slow, shredding rendition of "We are the World" -
dedicated to our favorite performer, Lionel Richie (who was reportedly
retaining water after hearing a tape of this version) ...... so, they
ended their set and we waited for Suicidal Tendencies .... and waited
..... and waited ..... and waited .... meanwhile back at the ranch .....
and waited .... a roadie came out and tuned their guitars and the sound man 
played an AC/DC tape .... and waited .... and waited ... Finally the drummer
and soon after the guitar and bass show up.  I was expecting lead singer, Mike
Muir to wait until everyone there lit up their lighters or started a cheer of
stomping and trashing of such gems from the poppy 60's (I'm a Believer)
"MIKE  MIKE MIKE ..." but he spared us and ripped into a bunch of songs off
the second, less superior, album.  (Fashion note for hardcore singers from
Mike Muir:  A Suicidal Tendencies T-shirt ($8.00), a crew cut, a blue bandana
tied just above your eyes, now sweat like a dog and hold your microphone 
like it is an organic chainsaw or at least a spastic machine gun.)  The
best songs of the night came off the first album - Subliminal, Suicidal
Tendencies, I Saw Your Mommy .... the worst song of the night came off the
first album - Institionalized.  The youngest kids there were making fun of
this one, kind of reminded me of the early crowd of hardcore types who made
fun of Led Zep ("Oh pls be cool and don't kill me, Mr. Hardcore" said the
pleading kid with a Dead Zep T-shirt) --- I wonder what music *they'll* be 
making in 2 or 3 years (perhaps everything will sound like the Church of
the Subgenius???).  Anyway, it wasn't the worst song because of this, it was
muddy and after hearing it so many times, I felt it to boring. They should
cut this song from their lineup ... though the psuedo-punks would probably
blubber and cry or something.  There was heavy slamming going on, not
recommended to the weak of heart like a certain wimp from nrl-css. (go ahead
post a volcano suns review - but I reserve the right to tear it down of
the supermarket wall! - what's next???? - Picture Week??) ....

Do I sound like a jaded punk?  Oh, did I mention I wore a 3 piece suit to see
how "open-minded" these punks really were?  The worst name I got called was
"dickhead."  One or two people came up and congratulated me for looking the
most different.  I just love this punk style!  

"Skinhead guys turn me on ... c'mon slamdance" - Fred's Song (BEEFEATER)

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Date: Tue, 10 Dec 85 11:20:35 est
From: Tim Wicinski <wicinski@nrl-css.ARPA>
Subject: Volcano Suns


VOLCANO SUNS/SKINNY PUPPY 9:30 CLUB 12/5/85

I showed up early for this show because I was hearing rumors that it
planned to sell out.  I was wrong.  The crowd tonite was small, but
still eager.  I arrived in time to see the first band, Skinny Puppy.
Hailing from British Columbia, this three member trio came onstage
under a huge cloud of smoke.  I thought this smoke nonsense went out
with Kiss ??  Well, they consisted of two synth players and a singer,
and all three had voice boxes for effects. Basically, they were awful.
Trying to imitate Bauhaus, they failed miserably and were stuck 
in the "depression from a bottle of valium" mode. 
At one point the singer
pretended to cut himself with a piece of glass and proceeded to have
fake blood gushing out of his wrist while moaning "I'm dying, I'm
dying...".  At best they are a bad imitation of Bauhaus, at worst, well
never mind.

After a long break, mainly because Skinny Puppy had so much junk on
stage they had to clear off, The Volcano Suns.  I knew I was in for a
treat when the guitarist walked onstage saying "Enough of this
synthesizer crap, now its time for some real music." With Peter
Prescott (ex -Mission of Burma) singing as well as drumming, this trio
ripped through their set in about 40 minutes.  After their second song,
the guitarist stopped and said "Look, look, I cut myself on my guitar
pick ! oh I'm dying I'm dying... look at the blood..." and other cracks
at the first band.  They had their set cut short due to the first band
taking so long, but still had enough time to go through most of their
songs from \fIBright Orange Years\fR and still play an encore, a
"burma-esque" version of "1999".  What an ending indeed.


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Date: Tue, 10 Dec 85 18:03:17 est
From: nessus (Doug Alan)
Subject: Kate Bush interviews in Musician and Rockpool

Kate Bush is the cover story of the 6 Dec 85 issue of Rockpool and there
is an interesting interview with her.  I hear that there is also a big
interview with Kate and Paddy in the January (?) issue of Musician, but
I haven't seen it yet cuz it hasn't appeared on the stands around here.

			"Watching storms
			 Start to form
			 Over America"

			 Doug

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Date: Tue, 10 Dec 85 18:44:30 est
From: nessus (Doug Alan)
Subject: An experiment

Just as an experiment, I'm going to be sending Love-Hounds digest to
mod.music and see what happens.  If bad things happen, I'll stop.

			-Doug

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Date: Tue, 10 Dec 85 21:34:16 PST
From: Jordan Hayes <jordan@ames.ARPA>
Subject: Berkeley at xmas ...

	From: hsut@purdue-ecn.ARPA (Tsun-Yuk Hsu)

	I'll be in Berkeley and the Bay Area from about Dec 18 to Jan 6.
	Are there any concerts I absolutely HAVE to see? What cool
	places are there to hit?

Fishbone will be there on the 27th or the 28th ... see them for sure.
There aren't really many "cool" places in Berkeley. It's a shame, but
that's how it goes.

/jordan

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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 85 02:17:31 EST

>From ins_aset@jhunix Tue Dec 10 17:52:57 1985 remote from jhunix
Date:     Tue, 10 Dec 85 17:52:46 EST
From:     Susanne E Trowbridge <ins_aset@jhunix>
To:       love-hounds%mit-eddie.arpa@seismo.UUCP

Hi again...I was just looking through my mail file and I noticed that the
reference to DJ Ennis (i.e. Anus) was in a personal note from Jim, not in
love-hounds.  Suffice to say that he and I are rival music directors at
the only two new music college stations in Baltimore, so we'll probably
never be the best of buddies...Hope that clears up the confusion.

Is anyone out there familiar with poet Anne Clark?  She has found a good
way to prevent her words from lingering in obscurity - she recites them
over very neat electronic music by John Foxx, David Harrow, and others.
She's quite prolific - I just bought her new album, the name eludes me at
the moment though.  I think she's Australian.  

I listened to the Jesus & Mary Chain album this morning - it's sort of
headache-inducing and the songs all run together after a while, but for
some reason I like it.  Of course, I also liked "Welcome to the Pleasure-
dome" when it was first released.  Entertainment through pain...

-Sue


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It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under.

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