CHICKS they’ve got an allegedly huge following in By J . Christaan Whalen Staff Writer Europe, they’ve got a rubber fly that they sometimes give birth to on stage and their so-called “scum-rock” monkeyshines give Becky Wreck isn’t exactly sure who the new meaning to the word "adjectives.” prime minister of England is, but she thinks How about “nasty?” Or “grizzled,” he wears glasses. And she wants to “squash “screaming punkrockercombo,” “dumb,” bad things” with her rock and roll. “kool-aid soaked, electric-lit surge of cata If she’s to be believed, we’re in trouble strophic Motor City mayhem” or the inex deep. The Lunachicks — Brooklyn’s an plicable “tasto?” — all things they’ve been swer to red meat — have come to make called in the New York and European rock and roll fools of us all with their press. spccn-bending cuitar and beat histrionics. All things considered, the Lunachicks On Aug. 7, when the “Chicks and Dicks“ are the direct result of too much “Brady iour — S coast-to-coast jaunt with punk Bunch,” too much art school and too much pioneers the Dictators — comes to Isla involvement in New York street gangs. Vista’s own Anaconda Theatre, don’t in They have a song about bestiality and— get vite your mother and be sure to hide the th¡¿ — they think it’s funny\ good silver. Their“ drummed, Lhe aforementioned They’ve got five women, they’ve got an Becky Wreck, and lead singer 7 ÍÍ0 *°°*c album — Babysitters on Acid, they’ve got a rubber chicken, they’ve got a tour minivan, See LUNACHICKS, p£A 2 A Wednesday, July 31,1991 Daily Nexus
John Edwarde hair design LUNACHICKS: On Acid for men and women Continued from p.lA use regularly? 6991 Trigo Road Isla Vista. CA time out of their oh-so-busy New York City life to dis B ecky : Uh, a rubber cuss some things about chicken, a rubber fly, a big FOR MEN • FOR WOMEN • FOR NAILS themselves and their band. cigar. We had a lot o f stuff In two separate interviews, stolen from our shows combined here, they dis when we were on tour in cussed the ethics of drunk England, actually. It was driving, Foreigner and, ap more like people wanted to parently, acorn squash. I take a souvenir home. It think you’ll understand. wasn’t like — I mean they did steal it, but it wasn’t like vicious like. Actually, someone broke into our BECKY WRECK van and stole some things, too. Becky Wreck: There’s a lot of hate in our music. Arts: What did they steal? Arte: Where does the hate come from? Patrick Becky: They stole a pair BOWLING Swayze? Is any of it di o f T heo’s ... Theo had this rected at Patrick Swayze? giant pair of purple creep ers and like this really blue, IT'S A BLAST Becky: No, no. Well, you glittery-like top hat You know. No. We write songs know, shit like — silly Open 24 Hours • Automatic Scoring like “Glad I’m Not You,” things. Although she Minutes from UCSB • A Great Place to Party which is not like we’re dis- doesn’t think they’re silly, sing anybody, we’re just but ... Billiards • Video Games • Coffee Shop dissing everybody. I’m sure Lunachicks are good girls gone rad. everybody is glad they’re Arts: If you could com not somebody else, you pare your m usic to a veget I------1 know. able, which vegetable THURSDAY NIGHTS I would it be? dest childhood memory? said “we are all just a Arte: What are some of bunch of raving luna 9:30 ■ MIDNIGHT your favorite countries? Becky: Fuck. OK, great. Becky: Oh, the first time chicks.” And then I guess I You gotta give me a minute I got a girl to kiss me. the name was so cool, they ROCK N'BOIM. I Becky: This one. I mean, to think about this. Veget had to start a band. I’ve never been to Japan, able. Uh, squash. Arts: How long ago was • All you can Bowl for $10/person but 1 love their culture I th at? Arts: Is it punk? • KTYD DJ plays rock videos I think it’s a very cool cul Arte: Squash? Why? • Prizes from IVCNCOMmCT ture. I’d love to go there, Becky: A real kiss with a Becky: Is it punk? It’s Santa Barbara I C olata I’ve never been there so I Becky: ’Cause hopefully tongue, I must’ve been like not punk. It’s punk of the • supQQeRppr Beer O i S imsn* C Isla V ista I can’t really say it’s my fa the music will be so power 14. But I was kissing girls ’90s, if there is such a thing. I vorite country. I don’t ful it squashes people ... since, like, second grade. I mean, a lot of people say • Domino's Pizza Specials we are like the “female think it is. I think this is de and bad things. And also, J D ead Boys” or that type of finitely my favorite country isn’t a squash somehow Arts: What do you think thing. only because I can get ar connected to an acom? of the new Foreigner al ound so well in it bum? Do you have it? ORCH/D BOW L^m Arts: A aah... Arts: Did anyone ever 5925 Calle Real • HWY101 at Fairview in Goleta • 967-0128 Arte: What's your bowl Becky: 1 don’t have it, I call you the “female Led Becky: Well, whatever. I ing average? don’t know, but I liked the Z ep p elin ?” think it is. We like acorns. song, uh. ... “Double Bring Us Any Competitors’ Ad Vision. ” Becky: No. I wish they Becky: It’s really low. Arte: Because they grow & We Will Like, I don’t know. What would, though, ’cause I into mighty oaks? love John Bonham and I’m ever s the bad one, that Arts: That’s a real good the drummer, so ... BEAT THEIR PRICE! would be mine. one. Do you remember Becky: Yeah, something ‘7uke Box Hero?” like that Just ’cause it Arte: Can you say some Arts: Is it punk to kick sounds good: “acorn. ” Billboard Top 100 thing in French? Becky: JUKE BOX som eon e? HERO! Yeah. I don’t think Arts: But you don’t want & Becky: Je pense que vous I liked that one very much, Becky: I think it is if they etes une merde! to get a com on your foot. but I remember it. deserve to be kicked. I ALL New Releases don’t think it’s punk to fust Becky: No, nothing to do Arts: Could you trans Arts: What’s the last go around and kick some Always On Sale! with that, fu st the 7vord: late th at? thing you said to your body for no reason. I think “acom . ” m other? that’s stupid. But if some Becky: I think you’re a Arts: Who is the prime one’s being an asshole, big piece of shit! minister of England? Becky: See ya later. rather than sit there and be passive, yeah, I think you Arte: OK, thank you very Becky: Fuck, I don’t Arts: Why the Luna should kick him and I m uch. know his name, but he has chicks? The name. think that would be a glasses. Wait, wait, OK... i pretty punk thing to do. Becky: No offense. It’s can’t remember his name. I Becky: I think, before 1 the only phrase I’m really know he has glasses, joined the band, because I Arts: What is the last fe g ood at. though. Does that give me am the last joining person, lony you’ve committed? any points? they were all hanging out, I Arts: What are some think this was even before stage props that you guys Arte: What is your fon they had a band, and Sindy See LUNACHICKS, p.4A Cash Paid For Your Used CDs & Tapes ST] TWO THUMBS UP! Great Summer Films at UCSB COMPACT
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Many other desti some Juliet Stevenson), nations available, both b o ' one-way and who has been grieving the roundtrip. ISLA VISTA • 968-4665 loss of her husband (or boy Truly Syrup! 910 Embarcadero del Norte Council Trave Open 10*10 Daily, 12-8 Sundays friend, we are never told) Ja 14515 Ventura BMd. #250 SANTA BARBARA • 966-0266 mie (played by the warmly more. It is an album filled Sherman Oaks, CA. 91403 1218 State Street snide Alan Rickman). She ♦ Album Review Open 10-10 Daily, 10-6 Sundays with one-line songs that — 800-888-8786 has been sensing his pre Yours Truly thanks to a lot of repeti Eurailpasses sence and hearing his voice ‘Truly Yours” tion varied only by the fa Issued on the spoil for apparendy some time, Motown Records miliar modern Motown telling her to lock the door vocal style — last a real By Dylan Callaghan and advising her on proper long time. Staff W riter dental hygiene. Her life at ______This is the album meant Recycle this point is trapped in a to be popped in the stereo cycle of grief and denial that The singer’s voice is like during one of those “spe keeps her sheltered from the real good Cognac — cial moments” with that living world and happily smooth and intoxicating “special girl” or “guy” who bound to her heartache. They look good and do a as he croons the words, likes to make-out to long, But then, Jamie comes good imitation of the trad “Baby, I wanna make love swooning songs that go: SPANISH back! As a ghost! Nina and itional soul-love-song- to you ... with my finger.” “Giving you all of me is Jamie sing and dance and groove sound, but they It’s the soulful Motown what I really want to do LANGUAGE play and love each other don’t go much farther than sound of Yours Truly, of baby, whoo whoo w h o o ... truly, madly, deeply. that, truly. All the same, fering up one of the sweet I’m serious. Take me baby, But no movie — even a the album is as smooth as CAMPI and slow cuts off their new take me baby, every day foreign movie — can have a the velvet interior of a ’79 album Truly Yours — and every night, oh yeah, 4 weekly sessions ghost that comes back and Monte Carlo, and a lot of don’t hold the syrup. oh yeah.” Aug. 5-10 Aug. 19-23 everything’s cool. So, we fun to listen to. If you’re a Ages 7-12 Yes, that’s right, Yours No, but truly, composed Aug. 12-17 Aug. 26-30 find that the real reason he fan of average copies of the Truly, Truly Yours. Pretty of the three savvy, well- came back was to annoy her funny. And it’s good that oiled vocalists Ricky La Baby, Baby, Baby sappy, A unique language opportunity for your child. so much that she gets over these guys have such a mar Jones, Terence De A l Jarreau,r Neville him and gets to go out with Brothers sound, pick up SPEAK-SPANISH bright sense of humor be Vaughn Brooks and Jerry the loveable (and living) L. Brinson Jr., Y ours Truly Yours’ new album. WRITE-SPANISH cause that way they can psychologist who does enjoy their music all the Truly, is pretty mediocre. Yours truly. READ-SPAN ISH magic tricks in restaurants. COOK-SPANISH DANCE-SPANISH $75 per week 967-9924 Director: Elvira Gomez De Tafoya MA University of the Americas, Mexico City LUNACHICKS: Scum Continued from p.2A them and l think anybody can croon like that. $15 O FF Becky: What’s a felony? It has to be something that’s so big it’s ... federal? Arts: Anyone can croon like the Chairman of the for FULL monthly enrollment Board? with this ad Arts: I don’t know exactly what the definition of a fe lony is, but I guess a “major crime.” Becky: 1 think so. 1 can.
Becky: Well, 1 don’t think drunk driving is a major Arts: What is the sound of one hand clapping? crime, so that’s not it, but 1 was in jail for that. Becky: It’s when you slap a girl’s ass or something, l Arts: How long did you have to go in for? don’t know. SMACK1 It depends on how fat her ass is.
Becky: About 48 hours. Long enough to make me real THEO ize 1 didn’t want to go back. So felonies aren’t like one of my hobbies. Arts: You’re from New Y ork ... maybe you know how David Copperfield made the Statue of Liberty disappear?. Arts: What is your ideal mate? Theo: Just because I’m from New York I’m supposed to Becky: You know the movie Thelma and Louise? I don ’t know that? know which is which. Not Susan Sarandon. Geena Da vis. If she was like that but not as dumb. Like that, you Arts: Is your music “scum-rock?” know, “yeah, let’s go, let’s have fun,’’ drinking all the time, that’s cooL But she was a little too stupid. Some of Theo: That’s Just sort of a thing that was made up be the things she did, I don’t know. The other woman had a cause there was a bunch of bands of punks who grew out lot of patience. their hair and we’re still playing sort of punk music, you IilliIfilHfli(t§ know, sort of warped into whatever music has become or Arts: Who would win: Frank Sinatra versus Jerry Lewis whatever people are... Well, no one ever said “Oh, we’rea in five rounds? scum-rock band!” All of a sudden this one guy, Michael We Also Taught Bord, fust sort of named it that. And then it got all these Becky: 1 would hope Jerry Lewis. connotations like “Socially Conscious Underground The Competition. Music,” which is a load of shit. Or like scum, as in we’re Arts: You don’t like Frank Sinatra? the scum of the earth and stuff like that. Personally,. I’d" rather not be in a category, even if it’s a cool category. Peo Becky: Not any more. 1 just don’t like him. 1 mean, l ple try to put us in a category all the time. We just don’t like some of the songs he did, but he probably didn’t write want it
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