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Love-Hounds Digest			    Sunday, March 9, 1986, 02:24

Today's Topics:

			   Princess Tinymeat?
	    My encounter with "The Most Feared Man In Rock"!
		      I think I'm going to die...
			 The Handsome Cabin Boy

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Date: Wed, 5 Mar 86 13:37:25 est
From: David Oskard <dno@cvl.umd.edu>
Subject: Princess Tinymeat?

	Somebody tell me about Princess Tinymeat!  Sounds like a real winner.

dno
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Date:     Wed, 5 Mar 86 15:53:20 EST
From: Susanne E Trowbridge <umcp-cs!jhunix!ins_aset@seismo.CSS.GOV>
Subject:  My encounter with "The Most Feared Man In Rock"!

The Fall are my favorite band currently in existence (that neatly
sidesteps Roxy Music and Joy Division).  Maybe that's why I was
so nervous yesterday as I sat in Washington's 9:30 Club, waiting
for them to emerge...I've interviewed so many musicians, both
famous and obscure, and I thought that jittery feeling had gone
away forever!  

But then again, lead singer Mark E. Smith is "The Most Feared
Man In Rock," according to the British music weeklies (forgot who
it was exactly who gave him this tag).  He sing-speaks his acerbic
lyrics, often unintelligible, and has been known to show hostility
to many an interviewer.  I was hoping and praying that I would 
get to speak to his wife, Brix, one of The Fall's three guitarists
and a Californian.  Of course, things never go as planned...the
tour manager handed Brix over to everyone's fave rockcrit guy,
J.D. Considine, as I silently fumed and tore up the two pages of
questions I had been wanting to ask Brix...

Then I saw MARK E.  He looks exactly like he does on the record
covers.  He wasn't snarling or anything, but I was still worried.
Karen, the aforementioned tour manager, broke the news that I'd
be speaking with Mark and guitarist/bassist Craig Scanlon.  We
were told to go to a bar and grill about two blocks from the club.
We weren't told exactly where it was.  Fortunately, my fellow
interviewer/boyfriend had spotted it on the way and we managed to
get there without too much difficulty.

Well, believe it or not, Mark E. Smith is a nice guy!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He'
He has a great sense of humor, and although he said he'd done ten
interviews the day before and wanted to leave most of the talking to
Craig, he ended up joining in the conversation and even staying
around to talk to us after Craig had gone back to the soundcheck.
We talked about politics, Japan, all kinds of weird things.  Craig
told me that he had spent his free day in DC touring the NRA...
Best line from Mark: an obnoxious DJ from a Rochester, NY station
came to the bar to fetch him back to the soundcheck, and on the way
walking back, asked what guarantee the Fall had gotten (i.e. $$$).
Mark said, "We don't talk about things like that in England.  It's
like asking me what kind of sex I have with my wife!"

The Feared Side of Mark E. emerged at the show itself, when the
monitors weren't working.  Mark kicked over the synthesizer (it
still worked!), the mike stand, and threw beer on the audience.
The audience soon joined in the violence, and a few started slam-
dancing madly.  I had a great place near the front and found myself
so jostled around that I attempted to move to the left...however,
the slamming grew wilder and I spent the entire show in much closer
contact with my fellow audience members than I cared to be.  As
for the show, it was OK, not great...the band wasn't in a good
mood, perhaps because of the equipment...Mark E. was commenting
earlier about how badly the 9:30 Club was run.  The versions of
"Cruisers Creek" and "L.A." were rather lame.  They did lots of
new material and obscure single b-sides...

All in all, the interview was by far the best part of the show.
Sorry to have prattled on for so long, but if you aren't interested
in the Fall, you probably haven't read this far anyway.

sue

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Date: Wed, 5 Mar 86 18:07:14 est
From: bdmrrr!potomac!jsl@seismo.CSS.GOV (John Labovitz)
Subject: I think I'm going to die...

There are SOOO many good concerts and shows this month that I think my brain
might explode.  For you people in the DC area, here's what I think are
interesting.  Some of these are on tour, so check for them in your town.

13th	Jonathan Richman [Saba Club].  Yeah yeah yeah!  This is his yearly
	(or so) appearance (last year he came twice).  I think the modern
	lovers are going to be with him, at least some form of them.

15th	Tru Fax and the Insaniacs [9:30 Club].  Ok, so they aren't a hot new
	band, but they're silly and fun.

16th	Pussy Galore, Madhouse, (others) [1819 H St NW (some bar -- if
	anyone's interested, mail me and I'll find out)].  Pussy Galore is
	supposedly really bad, so it should be interesting.  Madhouse is
	good.

28th	Robyn Hitchcock [9:30 Club].  YEA YEA YEA again.  He just played here
	a couple of months ago, did he come back again from England, or
	is this still the same tour?  Anyway, should be good.  This time
	I'm going to tape it...  (altho the 9:30 club just started frisking
	people for things like that).

28th	Troubled Garden [dc space].  WHY ARE THEY PLAYING THE SAME DATE
	AS ROBYN???  ARGG!  This is a *great* band.  And they had supposedly
	broken up.  Since 9:30 club is always late for everything, you could
	probably walk down to dc space and stand outside and listen, then
	go see Robyn.

Support your local scene.  Support your remote scene.  Just support something.

John Labovitz		..!{rlgvax,seismo}!bdmrrr!potomac!jsl
--
Don't act so embarrassed
It's a family trait
	-- Robyn Hitchcock

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Date: Thu, 6 Mar 86 02:00:31 EST
From: nessus (Doug Alan)
Subject: The Handsome Cabin Boy

Kate's new import twelve-inch single has been available in the U.S.
for more than a week now, so I trust you have all run out and bought
it, so that you have every note KB has ever put down on vinyl.  But
for those errant few who do not have it yet or who have not researched
it's entire history, I will tell you about it.

The A side contains a totally new version of the song "Hounds Of
Love".  It is *not* a remix, but a totally new version called
"Alternate Hounds Of Love".  It is so different from the original, you
could even say it's a new song.  The drum beat is similar and it has
the cellos chugging away, but the melody and lyrics are different.  It
is better than the original, musically, though the lyrics are more in
the extended remix vein.  The background vocals border on the silly
(even more so than on the original), but someohow the sillyness fits
perfectly and it sounds great.

The B-side contains the album version of "Jig Of Life" and a new song
"The Handsome Cabin Boy".  "The Handsome Cabin Boy" is a traditional
dirty sea chantey, and Kate sings it a cappela in her best Scottish
accent.  Throughout there is a haunting chorus of Kates in the
background droning a continuous two notes that are a fifth apart.
This is really neat not only because it sounds *really* intense, but
also because this is what bag pipes do.  Bag pipes have three pipes.
The pitch of one of the pipes can be controlled, but the other two
pipes always play the same two notes which are a fifth apart.

I have known for a while that Kate Bush was introduced to music as a
kid by singing dirty sea chanteys with her brothers, and I find it
strange that a dirty sea chantey now appears on her record.  When I
interviewed Kate, one of the questions I was going to ask if I had the
time was if she would be willing to sing one of the dirty sea chanteys
she sang as a kid.  And now one is on her record!  In any case, I have
heard the song "The Handsome Cabin Boy" before.  In fact, I heard it on
a tape of a radio show done about five years ago where KB was guest
DJ.  HCB was one of the songs she played, and she said it's an
"absolutely classic story".  It was peformed by A. L. Loyd and Euwan
McCall.  I'm told that has also been performed by Gordon Bok.

These are the lyrics as Kate sings them:

It's of a pretty female as you may understand
Her mind been bent for rambling into some foreign land
She dressed herself in sailor's clothes, or so it does appear
And she hired with a captain to serve him for a year

Her cheeks they were like roses and her hair all in a curl
The sailors often smiled and said he looked just like a girl
But eating all the captain's biscuit her colour did destroy
And the waist did swell of pretty Nell, the handsome cabin boy

It was in the Bay of Biscay her gallant ship did plow
One night among the sailors was a fearful floorin' row
They tumbled from their hammocks, for their sleep it did destroy
And they swarmed about the groanin' of the handsome cabin boy

"Oh doctor, dear.  Oh doctor," the cabin boy did cry
"The time has come -- I am undone, and I will surely die"
The doctor come a'runnin' and a'smilin' at their fun --
To think a sailor lad should have a daughter or a son

The sailors when they saw the joke, they all did stand and stare
The child belonged to none of them, they solemnly did swear
And the captain's wife she says to him, "My dear I wish you joy
For 'tis either you or me's betrayed the handsome cabin boy"

[the end]

There are two verses to the song which Kate has left out.  One is the
second verse:

The captain's wife she being on board, she seem-ed in great joy
To see her husband had engaged such a handsome cabin boy
And now and then she'd slip in a kiss, and she would have liked to toy
But it was the captain found out the secret of the handsome cabin boy

[end of second verse]

The other is the last verse:

Then each man took his tot of rum, and drunk success to trade
And likewise to the cabin boy, who was neither man nor maid
Here's hopin' the wars don't rise again, our sailors to destroy
And here's hoping for a jolly lot more like the handsome cabin boy

[end of last verse]

Coming soon: Kate directs her first video ("Hounds of Love") and they
are showing it on Night Flight and V66....

			"Run, run, run, run, run, run, Honey
			 Run from the hounds of love"

			 Doug

P.S.  KB trivia for today: I know two different people who heard Tod
Rungren guest DJ two different radio shows back in '78 or '79, and he
played nothing but Kate Bush....  (So you see, Jim, Tod is good for
something!)


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

Greg Skinner (gregbo)
{decvax!genrad, allegra, gatech, ihnp4}!mit-eddie!gds
gds@eddie.mit.edu