TOTALLY WIRED: POST-PUNK INTERVIEWS AND OVERVIEWS PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Simon Reynolds | 448 pages | 02 Sep 2010 | COUNTERPOINT | 9781593762865 | English | Berkeley, United States Totally Wired: Post-Punk Interviews and Overviews PDF Book He made the guys from Devo look stylin'. The third was that she didn't speak enough English for us to communicate and manage to build a 20 minute set of songs in less than 30 days. My single after leaving DNA, r. He wasn't an angry young man like others on the scene and there was no pretension visually either. He imagines young people today wondering why he and other writers of the post-punk generation cared so much about the ideas surrounding the music that they wrote about. The whole Disques Du Crepuscule and Crammed milieu? And what about the equipment? New York photographer Jimmy De Sana did the photoportrait for the album cover. One U. And in the past decade it's been the turn of the s themselves to enter the retro spotlight, with young groups pillaging ideas and imagery from New Romanticism's foppish synth-pop and from postpunk's angst and angularity. I read somewhere that there was this initial concept for Tuxedomoon as combining music, theatre and writing into some sort of "Unified Field"? Wednesday, May 13, SF is utimately a small town.. Jolly jaunts up and down the yellow brick hiway between S. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. The door policy was an underground parody of the Studio 54 policy. Tuxedomoon appear in in Downtown As for Totally Wired , little of it will make you want to go out immediately and investigate where the music is coming from to anything like the same degree Rip It Up And Start Again managed. Those are the sounds that have an exquisite intensity for me. I remember that night. Did they really think that pop music could matter as much as that? This signalled the start of, what Lydia coined in an interview as, "The No Wave" with a myriad of generations of bands to follow, as well as generations of new clubs opening up to the possibility of bands playing original material, rather than the Bleecker Street scene of clubs pushing "top 40" cover bands. Still I did enjoy this and will certainly listen to the "Rip it up" CD again and will look out for the book too. We soon had lots of work. Was there a sense of kinship between the twin bohemias of San Francisco and downtown Manhattan bohemias? Originally, the Erasers also included Jane's babyfaced boyfriend Donald on bass, but when he and Jane broke up, he left and was replaced by Chris Spedding's girlfriend Jody. Well I suppose in that sense we fit into the nihilist punk ethos just that we had different orchestration. Totally Wired Info and Hype. There was a very high quality City College where residents of SF could study for free. Feb 28, Rod rated it liked it. That seems more likely as TJ and Mars were the elder bands more likely to earn a Saturday night spot. In the Spring of , in the pursuit of a career in art, and through the constant support and encouragement of my friend David, I moved to New York to find an apartment in Greenwich Village. Joeboy R Police was a grafitto on a wall in Chinatown, San Francisco that Blaine picked up and ran with, creating a whole new mythical character called Joeboy the Electronic Ghost. You can probably research this online. About Simon Reynolds. Wonder what Dennis Bovell thought of the Slits? DNA is a 3-letter acronym representing the combination of molecular strands which make up and feature characteristics distinguishing one living thing from another. That rejection of indie-slacker scruffiness recalls the "we oppose all rock'n'roll" stance of postpunk outfits like Subway Sect. Reynolds uses the interviews as raw material to inform and form his own probably the definitive take on the history of post-punk, the only regrets are that: a despite probably heroic efforts, key figures like Mark E. This fact alone already gave him quasi dio status for some of us. What were the Ralph offices like? It was like Xmas. We went to the loft where Lydia was rehearsing. The Mudd Club was the epicenter of the New York scene for a good year or three. Lydia on guitar and vocals completed the trio. Crackling with argument and anecdote, the conversations in Totally Wired bring a rich human dimension to the postpunk story chronicled in the critically acclaimed Rip It Up. In my view, the post-punk era seemed rather earnest, verging on the colourless at times. We drifted apart. Totally Wired: Post-Punk Interviews and Overviews Writer The theatre of the Angels was a revelation. We completed the album, but Charles' creditors were after him, and the album remained tied up in the studio when he skipped town. Burroughs -- ideas concerning use of media - tapes, projections, his radical anti control politic in general as well as his outspoken gayness. David often wore neckties and pearls and chains and brooches and rings. I was so moved by the intensity, yet simplicity of what she was doing, that my emotions got the better of me and I cried. Tommy was the audio systems designer for the Group. Another postpunk hallmark is Vampire Weekend's emphasis on control, both aesthetic they produced their own album, ultimately electing to put out their demos and in business terms unusually, they own their recordings. Sep 01, AaronL rated it it was amazing. Paperback , pages. With the possible exception of highly informed musicomaniacs that lived through the period covered, "Rip It Up" is the type of book that will introduce at least a half-dozen artists worth discovering. What was it like? What happened was the tyranny of music over the other arts. Phil wanted to continue gigging for the extra income. An interesting collection of interviews and opinion: I guess I'd better read "Rip it up and start again" mow. Pinheads is you might say the soundtrack for these trips. Moved to Springfield Illinois. Lest you surmise that postpunk's inheritors are all clustered in one city on the North East coast of America, I'll conclude with some praise for the U. But yes we soon found to our amazement that there was a public there already and that yes in general we were treated like artists… something unheard of in USA. The subtitle is "the mental health project" and its assembly was an exercise in exorcising some of the demons of the psychiatric world--delusion and sleep disorder. My eyes weren't opened to the world until , the two years I spent under the influence of Alan Goldstein who taught sculpture, and my mentor and spiritual advisor Marion Anderson, in the Bucks County Community College fine arts department. Many of the people involved projected contempt and distrust over his perceived elitism, and their concern over the divisions of money. Joeboy R Police was a grafitto on a wall in Chinatown, San Francisco that Blaine picked up and ran with, creating a whole new mythical character called Joeboy the Electronic Ghost. I expect those of us who cared passionately about rock music while growing up with it at any time between the s and the s all have different perceptions of what it meant. She did have one thing going for her. Less impressive collection, but his love of the music shines through, and his scepticism about the more wanky post-punks helps considerably. He tagged his records with that, but let the artists choose the names for their labels so it looked like he had a whole stable of different record labels to his credit. We lived together in a big Victorian. And the fourth was that her visa was expiring and she was planning to leave the country 8 days after our scheduled gig. Totally Wired: Post-Punk Interviews and Overviews Reviews Rating details. The romance that the postpunk Eighties holds for today's young musicians makes perfect sense. The album was originally slated for release on Island Records but word has it that when the record company heard the mastertapes, they were so horrified at this financial blunder, that they tried to hush the already contracted, and paid for, project, by releasing it on their minor sub-label, Antilles, so as not to call too much attention to it. But hang on a minute: if the Eighties were so barren, why on earth would the coolest bands of the Noughties even look there for inspiration like they've been doing for most of this decade? Apr 16, Rog Harrison rated it liked it. Here there was a mix of nearby Castro Street queens and punks and artists of all sorts. As we were a trio, the balance was achieved, metaphorically, more like a seesaw, with Arto supplying the chaotic bursts and uncontrolled explosion of emotion, while I countered with tight, cold, controlled, confined, suppressed emotions and patterns, both of us balanced on Ikue's fulcrum, which weaved in and out of the two extremes, like a juggler juggling fire in one hand and water in the other, and managing to make steam, without extinguishing either fire or water. Interestingly, Brian Eno and Yoko Ono are hailed as among the most influential names on the scene for their pioneering avant-garde work in the preceding years. Suffice to say I ended up moving in with him. The time was already booked and rather than watch the engineers sit and twiddle their thumbs, I talked them into allowing me to play at the board with the tapes flipped over in reverse fashion, selecting the best bits from each song on the album, bathing them in a wall of echo, and riding the faders in and out to create six undoings new mixes of the original songs.