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Love-Hounds Digest			Wednesday, May 28, 1986, 00:35 EDT

Topics:

			 Art, with a capital A
			     meatmen,tesco
			     Prof. Longhair
			 My evening with Helios
		       Drugged out idea for today

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Organization: The MITRE Corp., Bedford, MA
Posted-Date: Thu, 22 May 86 09:50:56 edt
Date: Thu, 22 May 86 09:50:56 edt
From: cv%linus@mitre-bedford.ARPA

>Some people seem to think, "Well, I love (music type A), so anybody
>who doesn't listen to (music type A) and prefers (music type B) must
>be a WANKER."  It isn't so.  Some of my best friends are Madonna
>fans...

Are some of your best friends WANKERS too?

...couldn't resist, so sue me ... suzie.

o & o
chris

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Date: Thu, 22 May 86 16:47:19 edt
From: Bob Krajewski <lmi-angel!rpk>
Subject: Art, with a capital A

When I mentioned the Buttholes as being Art Damaged, I was talking more
about their effect that any ``credentials'' they might posess (but they
didn't they pop out of college anyway ?).  I don't want to get into
arguments about Art, but what I'm definitely interested in is the end
product, and how it hits me.

The Meatmen played a local club here (T.T. the Bears) and were rock hard.
As far as sex'n'stuff goes, Tesco himself is probably an omnisexual.
Anyway, they may be coming to your town, though there doesn't seem to be any
new record...

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Date:     Thu, 22 May 86 20:59:44 EDT
From: Swingset Disaster <hofmann@AMSAA.ARPA>
Subject:  meatmen,tesco

sheet, come to our town, the mmen
live here!
i was suprised they play clubs they
claim to be holding out for an arena
show.  which would be wild.

Tesco is married btw but still fantasizes
about Agnetha of ABBA aand your mother.

Maddona, Kate and Me.

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Date: Wed, 21 May 86 15:56:37 cdt
From: ll-xn!uwvax!astroatc!gtaylor (G.N. Excelsis-Deo)
Subject: Prof. Longhair
Organization: Tandoori House of Tofu and Speedcore of Madison, WI

Enquiring Minds wonder about life beyond Pop Culture....
>
>Professor Longhair is dead???!!! Say it ain't so, Greg.  Say it ain't
>so ... 
>
>Who was Professor Longhair and why does he  merit comparision with Kate Bush?

I was thinking of someone else besides KB who did what they did in a
particularly idiosyncratic way (not that that betokens goodness or
badness, mind you....) and the Professor just popped into my head.

Professor Longhair *is* indeed deceased. He was an extremely unusual
New Orleans-style piano player who influenced the daylights out of
everybody from Fats Domino to Alan Toussaint and Mac "Dr. John"
Rebennac. His style crosses this crazy left-hand driven syncopation
with a kind of standard "whomp those key clusters and whistle" barrelhouse
right hand that you can spot a mile off. Little Feat and the Meters
both have that kind of stop-time gumbo in their stuff. I know it's
stupid and unexact and whatever, but this is honest-to-G*d the way
that I understand the phrase "toe-tapping." The Professor is probably
not real popular these days also because the stuff if *unbelievably*
snappy...happy in that way that less moderate drinkers than myself
may define as the "excuse me, I seem to have slipped..." party out
of bounds whoop it up happy. Very outre in these days of cynical
dissonance and power tool solos in the dub version.

Anyway, George "If I get any more mellow, my heart will stop" Winston
took some of his megabucks and re-released a great record of the 
professor's stuff recently-I'm almost sure that it's on Dancing Cat.
The album was rescued from a French production and given the standard
Windy Hole custom cut and press. I sounds great, and is a fantastic
record.

It ain't for everybody, but then neither is....

A laugh for the sun red falling/through the thermal inversion haze/A
laugh for the nuclear good-time boys/numbering all our days.........
Gregory Alan Taylor / gtaylor@astroatc / Astronautics, Madison, WI

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Date: Fri, 23 May 86 14:10:28 EST
From: hsut@ec.purdue.edu (Bill Hsu)


Random observations:
Seems like we have big problems in recent anarchic discussions here.
We can't agree whether or not rock is a fad. We can't justify putting down
"commercial" music and hence cannot give good reasons why people
should listen to progressive music instead of top 40 (at least without using 
quasi-moral arguments "Madonna promotes pathological materialistic values"
or vague quasi-elitist statements "Residents are more challenging music
because they deconstruct pop :-)"). We can't argue against trendiness
because if rock is a fad, then we're all guilty of trendiness. Anyone
wants to try to sort this out? Where's Greg Taylor when we need him? :-)


Back to music. A short review:


SCIENCE FICTION WORMS		Behold, I stand at the door, and knock...

	The Worms are a local duo who play in other more conventional local
bands. This is their first tape, and there's a wide range of sounds on it.
There are snatches of early Bauhaus, but without that band's self-indulgence,
and a stiff dose of industrial music. (I would list Chrome as an influence, 
but the band assured me they were not familiar with Chrome when they cut 
these tracks.) 

	Some of the lyrics are humorous, overdone just to the point of
parody (try "All I need is a gun" :-) with a driving hardcore beat). There
are lots of distorted vocals over wailing, distorted guitar/bass and
thumping drums, a superb Chrome-like epic ("Real Horror Show Like")
and tape loop-based tracks ("Sick in Bed"). There's even a 6 min. 
danceable fake "club hit". A nice first effort, certainly more 
interesting than most of the other bands I've heard around here.

	If you're interested contact me, and I'll try to get extra copies.


				Bill Hsu


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From: allynh@calder.berkeley.edu (Allyn Hardyck)
Subject: My evening with Helios
Date: Fri, 23 May 86 18:41:44 PDT

Hello all... lot of things have happened since my last posting to anybody...

First off, one of the people in the building has become Helios Creed's
manager, so I got a chance to meet him.  He used to be in Chrome, a
band which, paraphrasing the TP Guide, explored dark psychotic realms
only hinted at by 60s psychedelia.  He and Damon Edge, the other chief
member of the band, had a falling out resulting in Edge recruiting new
members, taking the band to Europe and becoming a big cult band.  Not
big in a commercial sense, but a comfortable living.  Meanwhile, Helios
just had the bus he lives in rammed, and a favorite guitar stolen, so
when I met him he was pretty depressed - was considering crashing in
Barrington for a while.  He's 33, has two ex-wives and two kids, tall
blond guy with a porkpie hat, fatigue jacket, stubble and board (That's
board, not beard).  He reminisced about when Chrome went into the
studio to do cuts for the Subterranean compilation also featuring the
Residents, MX-80 Sound, Tuxedomoon etc - "that was fun...".  He also
talked about how the manager of Judas Priest (I think) once told him
that he could make Chrome a big metal band, and of course he turned him
down.  A lot of the evening was spent playing old folk songs after I
found him a guitar (my suitemate's) - he used to do the early 70's SF
coffeehouse thing if you can believe it.  One of his favorites is Shawn
Phillips, so we heard lots of that, also Jethro Tull..!  He talked
about how he used to play X song and X couple would move just a little
closer to each other, hands held across the table, and would leave him
a nice big gratuity...  I got him about $2 in pot from a reliable house
dealer...  He'd like to do all acoustic on his next album, but for now
he has _X-Rated Fairy Tales_ out on Subterranean, with some acoustic
touches but mostly really raw.  He played a great show at the V.I.S.
Club in SF last May 16, a record release party, and apparently
attracted the largest crowd they've had there in a while...  Piglatin
opened, they're sort of Einsturzende Neubautenish (percussion guy had a
shopping cart full of large springs, water bottles etc.), I kinda liked
them but then I was on my 2nd Southern Comfort.

John (Helios's new manager) got through to Damon at his headquarters in
France and so there's a communication line if not a reconciliation.

allyn

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Date: Sat, 24 May 86 03:28:33 EDT
From: nessus (Doug Alan)
Subject: Drugged out idea for today

While reading net.rec.drugs today, the following philosphical quandary
occurred to me.  If someone invented a machine that could stimulate my
brain in precisely the same way that the sixth listen of one of Kate's
best songs does, would I ever have any reason to listen to Kate or any
other music ever again?  And would I die of starvation while refusing
to let anyone unplug me?

		"They put a hot-wire to my head
		 For the things I did and said"

		 Doug

			

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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