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Some of its pages were gone, including the cover page, but it didn't need one. This bit of literature spoke for itself. It wasn' t Playboy or one of the softer top-shelf magazines that are available to the consumer either, this was one of the more racier, lewd and indecent forms of published smut on the market. Looking at it alone, in the middle ofthe street, made me hark back to a time when I was just a wee lad. This kid I went to school with lived up in Shaughnessy with his wealthy family and sometimes after school I'd go over to his house to watch cartoons, torment his younger sister, or just avoid going home. Usually his mother was home but one day it was just the two of us and he told me that his Dad had a dirty magazine collection up in his closet. Now, while we were years before the recognized age of what the scientists and sociologists call puberty, we knew the score and I figured this would be one of those need to know situations. "Let's see 'em," I said. We went up to his parent's bedroom, opened up the bedroom closet, and he pulled out a stack of Playboy magazines. I never asked how he found them Maybe he was looking for hidden away Christmas presents one year, maybe he was just casing tbe joint, as it were, when his parents weren't home. We leafed through them and had a good laugh at his father's expense. Years later his father would become a high-ranking member of the Social Credit government in the late 1980's. I can remember watching the news at home and seeing him act so civil and political in news conferences, but I could picture him at home, spread-eagled across his bed, pulling his pud Uke a drunken gorilla. But it's one thing to find your friend's Dad's or your own fathers Playboy magazine collection: it's a safer choice. If you ever approached him about it he could pass it off as "artistic interest in the female form" or something wishy-washy Uke that. It's another scenario completely to having him explain why he has a tucked away collection of magazines Uke Swank, Hustlers or Mass Orgies in his possession—the kind of magazine that I now had in my hands. This was an uptight, west side neighbourhood, deep in the heart of Kerrisdale. The Florida of Vancouver; where the old people die and nobody notices. But here it was, a beacon of photographic vulgarity lying in the open sun in the middle ofthe road. Li ving in Kerrisdale is Uke Uving in a small, rich town but it has its other side too. You can stroll the streets after dark and as you walk by the houses hear the alcoholic husbands beat then- wives, children scream from the trees and people screech their cars down the long straightaway streets coming from somewhere and bringing the trouble with them. How did the magazine end up here? Perhaps the previous owner had been driving and masturbating at the same time, and upon reaching a frenzied climax in his erotic delirium the magazine flew from his hands onto the road. Ashamed and too scared to go back for it he roared off into the night with his sperm-slackened, Uterally white-knuckled hand- gripping the steering wheel? But this was not the question for me to ask. Nor why fate brought this magazine and I together. As I looked around to see what to do with it, well, not what to do with it but where to put it, I noticed a kid's treehouse in the backyard of a house across the street. I strolled with perfect nonchalance across the street, casually looking around to see if I was being watched as I looked over the fence which surrounded the property. It didn't sound like anybody was home and I couldn't see anybody in the windows. Secondly, I Ustened to see if any youngsters happened to be in the treehouse. Nobody. Now all treehouses have that one window; not a glass window, just an open orifice to look out from. And U ke all treehouses they are never as high up as they should be, so it made it pretty easy, after carefully weighing the porno mag in my hand, to frisbee it up and through the window of the treehouse. It was a beautiful scene and I would have loved to see it in slow motion: the way the pages flew apart and rattled in the air like a lame bird, and how it flapped and scored Uke the winning basket as it went through the treehouse window. It was majestic. In a way, I felt Uke the Wright Brothers must have felt. I turned up my collar and walked briskly to my dentist appointment, arriving right on time. And as I sat comfortably in the dentist's chair, as he went to work on my lengthy root canal, I thought about that magazine in the treehouse. It made me feel good to set a kid straight like that, and in many ways I felt Uke a good citizen of the community.

When I came across magazines Uke that when I was young, finding them in similar circumstances as the one I found that day, I saw it on a metaphysical level. The first one I came across I thought to myself, holding its flimsy pages, that this was not the only one in the world Uke it. There was a big factory somewhere, a huge printing press, that made THE REAL DEAL millions of these. I looked at the women in them and thought, "This is somebody's daughter. How did they get here? There are people who probably make a Uving making these magazines'.*" 1 thought of the photographers. 1 wondered where the pictures were taicen. In short, my mind was opened to a whole new world that I never knew existed. But I was a pretty smart kid—too philosophical for my age—and maybe every kid shouldn' t be expected to see it the same way I did. Even so, I think I did exactly the right thing that day. It's not my fault if the kid who owns that treehouse turns out to be a goody-goody and turns that magazine over to his parents. Don't get me wrong, I'm not into corrupting children. I don't hang out in parks wearing an overcoat asking kids if they want to come back to my place and get drunk on wine-gums. But as I sat there having my root canal, looking up into the bright light shining down on me, I thought that maybe when the kid goes up there next time he's going to find that porno magazine and think God sent it down? Maybe he'll call up all his friends and be the hero ofthe neighbourhood for possessing this forbidden fruit. Some kids have some pretty strange ideas about sexuality. And why not? All that birds and bees nonsense. It's the parent's fault for feeding them Ues about how the stork brings children to a family to avoid the embarrassment of the cold, hard reaUty of two bodies humping in a creaking bed. Nope, I gave this kid the straight goods. The real deal. Some people that I've already told this story to got pretty upset. Jaws dropped and they accused me of planting the seeds of perversity in that anonymous youngster. To hell with that. We give children too little credit and consider them possessing too short a bandwidth to recognise stuff for what it is. I wouldn't go so far as to state that I taught that kid anything about romance, no way. By the look of some of the stuff in that magazine nothing could be further from it He'll learn romance Uke everybody else: feebly quoting Unes from movies to his first girlfriend who'll dump him for some jackass, after which he'll sulk and write poetry to her and embarrass himself in front of his buddies and get played like a fiddle at the Annual Sap's Convention. Or maybe he'll leam it all from his brother's Bon Jovi records, drown his sorrows in Pilsner beer at truck and tractor pulls, and turn out to be a real shmuck. But that's completely up to him. I diverted that kids stream 180 degrees without anybody's permission. I opened up a door that can't be closed and, goddamnit, I feel good about it Maybe he'll turn out rightan d desire what the real people in this world want: "To sleep late, have fun, get wild, and stomp on the earth with nothing in mind except falling in love and not getting arrested..."

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"llcy.isn'tthal San Diego- enthuses Petey X, pulbng himself away from Ik 28th world in SuperMarioland for a glimpse oul tk port window at tk blue-grey marble thai is Earth A fleeting thought; much like all of his thoughts ales Iky involve a way out of this damn mission and off of this damn craft Tk Rocket Fran Tk Crypt's Commander, Petey is a procedure man -rough and through if only in tk sense thai k ca dford to sloth about and sit behind Ik gold-embroidered bars adorning his jacket because k worked » damn hard lo get where k is today. "Okay, where was IT k rktoricdly mum­ bles to himself as k shifts in his custom-made, CorinthianteatkrLay-Z-Boyrecliner. Petey doea't hide Ik facl that he is stuck in this Sne of work- experienced and intelligent enough to do what k does bul lacking tk sheep-skin on Ik wal: tk by to an early retirement and enjoying a pension by golfing out on tk links. He'll never hve down Sis "School ain't shit, I read it ma book" valetklonan

Atom, on Ik other hand, is young, anbi- tious, over-anxious and a rookie.Sady , tk only thing that keeps Corporal Atom from king a top- notch caifclis his exuberance. Like abd in acandy store, Atom has a hard lime defining ad distin­ oddmes begin." And wilh tk conclusion to his I'm going tospar e you Ik ways of our cuslans guishing tk thrill of Ik journey from Ik agenda. and tk death of your Commander but I suggest Bul king a spindly, scrawny, Irown-nosing keener tied tk pigeons from their roosts rose from Ik you make your visit here brief. Tk nun that you still searching for his space-legs it's hard not to attentive c_is_ner_ Captivated by Ik wisdom inquire about is named Apollo. Be careful whal sympathize for him. lie graduated at tk topo f his ad power of this king toI k derckls.tk Rocket you say k's a shy boy." And wilh that enigmatic I class from flight school but nc From Tk Crypt crew were anxious for answers to instruction tk old ma dipped ido tk crowd like could prepare him for Ik n unding Ihis man: ttaumaof being thrown into space for a year with "Old wanan," spoke Speedo. three men who would hve, breath, sleep, work and "Man!" spired Ik androgenic and for­ "Hey, you with Ik funny haircut, I klcha eat tk 86,000 seconds of each (by together. lorn (Sifter with a undctstandable amount cf paid a lotta money for that," Muted Commander "1 wanl my mommy. ft» poo diaper. Poo Petey in a impudent attempt to gel Apollo's Jehu. Fart Nasty nun touched ny private- Mom Tm sony, sir, but who is this man who altendon. And attention it did get by Apollo and my! Daddy make pee pee in Ik backyard khindtk speaks to tk masses Bk a propktT asked Spee­ every other soul within ea__ot of lis sacrilegious ' woodshed. He's tk nasty man who loockd my do behind Us embarrassment, gesturing to tk remark. A hush so gigantic and frightening fell private place. Milk, I wat my milky bottle." Atom icon perched above tk heads of tk crowd like a down blanket over Ik crowd and crew. All had finallylos t it, as expected. His on had been "You must k from anotkr planet," eyes were riveted to tk man whose mouth had pulled out of tk water, so to sptak, and k couldn't transcended his 1Q in tk short time lhat tk have picked a worse hme to do so: tk Rocket From "Why, yes, we •__" boasted Petey. Rocket From Tk Crypt had stationed. Tk Crypt's mysterious destination hlipped onto tk "My poor friend, you Canucks are so mi "You, young ma, should show more re­ spect to Ik person wk saved your patkdc life," "Get this man to sick hy, pronto!" onfeied "We're from Sa Diego, asshole," replied said Apollo, pointing his scepter at Petey X as k Speedo. "ND?! ND!" bellowed tk Captain owr Ik Petey defensively. And kfore another word was descended fk concrete podium. Throwing glanc­ intercom, "We gotla nun comin' down. Take care of -Xhadhis es from ND to Speedo, looking for that certainty in

12 E_£j£_2-S-3__-a his comrades, fttey retreated fromt k intimidat­ lion. May a ma perished trying to unlock tk ing figure of Apollo until his Captain spoke ad mysteries that dwell upon Disco," apprised Speedo refocussed Apollo's rage: "Enough with Ik questions, I've pd it "So whal separates you from a band Sk "What do you mean wkn you say you into layman's terms already. Now bow aboul you Helmet wk were enSsted to do tk same thing?" 'saved' his life?" questioned Speedo. three answer a few questions for mer asked pryed ApoUo. "Are you thai daft lhat you have no idea of Apollo with more demand in his voice than query. "One what I'm talking about?" asked Apollo Ik three "My pleasure, Apollo, you've been more guitars and a kick ass lawyer," said tk Captain wilh men exchanging clueless glances ad shrugging than cooperative towards us, even Ikugh my a heir of pretention. in—"You don't do Commander's ignorance and rudeness is inexcus­ "Seems like a small price to pay to save your able. If you've saved our Sves like you claim I'm rock n roll," voiced Apollc "I'm sorry, sir, I don't Our mission, thus sure Ik least we ca do is accommodate a few of enthusiasm. "Nonetheless, you gendemen should fa, has been exemplary, bd fer some sickness experienced by our Corporal ad a simple matter of our changing couse which brought us here," explained Speedo, obviously proud of his crew ad their accomplishments. "Thai is exactly what I speak of," declaed Apollo "Your changing of course was due entire - ly to me and this instrument" Tk Rocket From Tk Crypt crew looked al each otkr in puzzle­ ment ad wonder al what power tk scepter and Apollo possessed: brass-coloured and phallic, re­ sembling a squashed letter J, Ik contours of tk instrumed were defined by bold lines and a soft, almost minor-like. buff. Tk instrument was en­ chanting-id seductive ad hai a large opening to tk opposite end of Ik one which was blown upon. Apollo demonstrated tk manipulation of tk in­ strument by holding tk scepter to lis lips ad exhaling a breath so mighty lhal it chilled tk air with eddies of sound. Tk deep and tempestuous groan which was expelled swirled aboul and en­ raptured tk crew like a angel's whisper could, leaving Ik men of tk Rocket From Tk Crypt ill- your questions," obliged Captain Speedo. k proud of yourself. Undertaking such a meaning­ surprised when people all around tkm withdrew This mission that you speak of, what is ful and arduous task with such earnestness is inspir­ from their upright stance to crouched knees ad tk agenda for it?" inquired Apollo. ing. I only wish I could teo f son bowed heals. Tky were praying. "I'm a divinity "Well, simply, we were contracted by on this planet," offered Apollo humbly. Inlerscope for 1.3 million dollars to save rock n A silence filled the air as tk Rocket men "I'm impressed," responded ND, secretly roll We're nine mondis into a one-year program scratched their heads and chins. Dumb longing for his own magical scepter which k and before we abandoned our course, bringing us founded Iky pondered; blankly tky would probably employ lo kip him pick up chicks. here, we were en route toou r final and mosl Ik inventory of Iheir minds; perplexedly Iky came "I'm not," announced Petey. "Anyone with abstruse destination: tk planet Grunge," declared up clueless. Until Speedo suggested: "Well," wilh a hit of charisma and intelligence ca k a cult Speedo with some uncertainly in his tone. a Sttk: hesitation, "why don'l you join our mis­ leader. I'm not buying it." "I sense fear. Do you have some reserva­ sion?" Tk lightbulb over lis head glowed rafiat- Tm not asking you to buy anything Tk tions about completing your mission? Does a visit simple fact of tk mailer is that with tk power ad to this planet Grange frighten your pressed Apol­ Indecision ad uncertainty knowledge to use this tool,a d tk sense lhat your lo. ad reflected in tk eyes ad on tk wrinkled fore­ vessel was is absolute danger of a eradicating ND, Petey ad Speedo looked at each heads of tk huddled men Set back by Ik invita­ collision with tk moon of Courtney, I summoned other fully realizingI k weight of this understate­ tion, tk commonly confident Apollo was left fum- you off course ad onto a safer route" Disbelief ment Snickering aside, ND proclaimed "Grange bling for words ad a decision like a fidgety child hung thick in tk air as Speedo, ND ad Petey has been tk single most cause of death in medical "BuL."statedApolk>kforeSpee(locotl_- abrupt looked for some rhyme or reason in Apollo's and musical history since Ik Black Plague. More "Now don't k too hasty with your deci­ explaation Eyebrows rose; eyes rolled back. recently, actually in Ik '70s, there was greal fear sion. Our crew could use a ma Sk you, if in Ik least in our public relations," Speed) quipped while swiping a glance at a unaraused Petey. "Your d k valu­ able assets toI k Rocket From Tk Qypt We'll have to do somelhing about your appearance but beyond that I think thai you would k a welcome addition tot k crew. Tk pay's okay, we set our own hours, ttere's health and dental benefits all around, and we get lo say bad words, 'cuz punk rockers say bad words." This pleased ApoUo im­ mensely; he grinned in appreciation as tk prover­ bial pot sweetened. "But il's not all fame and fortune, timos ad chicks, 4-star hotels and mam­ moth, Va Halen-type ryders. It requires a lot of hardwork.determinati on, motivation andwillpower on your part Tk schedule we keep ca often times k gruelfing tat I ca'l see a man of your physical health budding under tk pressure...well?" "WelL that's exactly whal you said about Atom, Captain," spok ND sarcastically, "and now k's back in sick bay strapped lo a rubber gurney." "1 appreciate your medical interpretation of the situation, ND, tateve n you were suspicious of Corporal Atom's mental and physical condition upon joining Ik mission, il lo Apollo just lo offer him this opportunity, "Listen, I'm not Kresltin ad I'm nol claiming to ad concern for tk perilous toxins in tk atmo­ Speedo said sympatktically. k a psychic. I ca't knd spoons with my roind sphere of Disco, kt that planet has since been TS and I ca't tell you who's going to win tk Wodd quarantined ad only a fool would forsake his life Series, butldoknowthatevery3 years Courtney's to pass within a tight year of it" "Whaddya call that scepter-thing, orbital velocity increases ten-fold as it emerges "An intensive amount of researc h has gone ayways?" inquired Petey as red-brown soil from a bSck kle on her course. Our circumlunar into this mission toassur e our safety tatn o mon­ of Ik planet flicked off of their heels on tk short radar equipment read your vessel's position as etary figure can banish fear or erase tk night­ walk back to tte RocteL directly above that black hole; had you failed to mares thai Ikse men kve of tewIhei r colleagues "Oh, this?" asked Apollo rhetorically. "I receive Ik signal or foBow its pulse your mission died on a planet likened to tk one we're scheduled Hk to call it..a saxophone." would not only be complete but you would all k to visit; Grange, unfortunately, seems to kve a very similar almospkre ad geological composi- lo be continued... GRACELAND 1250 RICHARDS STREET C^^&ueidcuf, PHAT GROOVE WITH D.J. CZECH ALLEY ENTRANCE

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We try to push ourselves in the label we're on doesn't do taposition between two very dif­ so far? arrived in fine form to put on a those lines. as many different directions as records anymore, which is kind of ferent elements: the low-end We were taken into a police sta­ blistering display of harmo- we can just to keep from getting a sad thing. We demanded that we bass and metal banging has a tion in Gent, Belgium, for hav- Discorder: I notice you're bored. So I hope if any band is have vinyl so they had to put it out very low-tech minimalist as­ Dercussion jam at a con- Yours truly was able wearing a Smith & inspired by us it's just to sound through an inde.. We're on pect to it and then ther iction site. We ended to wring a few words Wesson hat. Does that nothing like us—to do music that Interscope in the states and an the high-tech that yoi p having an hour and a from the weary wan­ mean anything or is it has never been heard before. inde. called Big Cat in Europe. deal with. Do you see half long political dis­ dering minstrels af­ just a damn hat? Interscope is a corporate rock that end taking on a cussion with one of ter the show. Due to We're doing an en­ Discorder: It's been suggested monolith. more important role? the policemen there. circumstances, the in­ dorsement for Smith & that Cop Shoot Cop would have Well, on one hand, as It was pretty interest­ terview was shared Wesson firearms so they been a better choice for the Are you happy being with them? far as being able to af­ ing; pretty fun. Other wilh a representative give us free merchan- Lollapalooza line-up than some Well, it's allowed us to quit our ford to buy better equip­ than that, we had five from the Bellinghar ofthe bands that were actually jobs and concentrate on music, ment and having the fire engines called to a fanzine, Throwrug. on it. Would you have wanted and they haven't made us change time to learn it, techno Jtel in Albany, NY, for Well, you're anti-authoritar­ to be on the tour? anything about our music, so, yeah, ogy is a useful tool b lting off fireworks in­ Cop Shoot Cop are: ian but guns = N.R.A.-right- I think in theory it's a good thing. I'm happy. Basically we've been don't want it to dominate the side. That was eventually Tod A. (high-end bass, wing lobbies. It just seems like Actually, it's sorta based on all able to do whatever the fuck we music. Ultimately, it's all got to blamed on some high-school kids. crooning/griping) a bit of an incongruity. the festivals they have in Eu­ want and they pay for it, that's remain pretty simple but it's im­ portant to have good sample Filer (sampler and piano) Well, let me put it this way, I rope, we've played quite a few of fine by me. It's better than being Did Canada customs give you equipment, hard drives and all Natz (low-end bass) don't own a gun but sometimes those. What it actually amounts broke and eating peanut butter any trouble? to at the moment isn't that great. that, they make your life easier. Phil Puleo (metal and drums) it seems like a good idea. sandwiches. Not this time. They have in the Compared to the shows that I Sometimes they make it a lot past. This guy was pretty cool, went to when I was seventeen, harder. Sometimes the hardware Tod A.: You guys have to trade Where is this tour taking you? Cliched question, but questions he was telling us how Millions the Who, the Clash and Santana, doesn't work and it's a fucking off, make this fair, one ques­ This is your second time in Van- the fans want to hear: where are of Dead Cops had given him a it's a lot better than that but I nightmare, and the sampling proc­ tion from you and then one from you going with your music, how CD when they were through last think you can see better bands. I ess can take a long time. No Yeah, uh...third? We just came are you changing, did you try summer. He knew what was go­ guess it's a way of exposing peo­ matter how high-tech you get back from a month and a half in doing anything different on this ing on. Inthe past they've threat­ ple to bands they might not check it's like automobiles, you can't Discorder: First, the basics: Europe, we did the east coast of album than the last, and any ened to throw me in jail and take out if they were playing alone, in literally fix them. Cop Shoot Cop, the name, the States before that, Toronto, new directions with the next? all our equipment. I was looking that way it's a good thing, but the seems to suggest a distaste for the west coast, California.... I have no idea what the next al­ at $2,000 just to get turned over bands they're being exposed to police in general. Could you That's a boring question, no one bum is going to sound like be­ So you're somewhat at the to the NY State troopers. aren't that mind-boggling. I don't further enlighten us? cause we haven't even started writ­ think we'd ever play it. mercy ofthe technology...? Well, there's the drug refer­ ing the songs yet. We have learned ; Yeah, at times it can be incred­ Do you have a strong scene ence and the anti-authoritarian Where have you received the to play our instruments a little bit ibly frustrating having those cer­ supporting you at home? better and we know our way around reference, you figure it out. most support...the best re- Why not? tain boundaries put on me but There seems to be something I the studio a little bit more. Also, Italy for some reason. Seven Because we don't like playing it's really important to have those call the "Vancouver syndrome" we now know how to manipulate That seems to come out in the outdoors, the sound dissipates and boundaries, to be forced to work afflicting local bands Skinny course meals and a lot of vio­ the accidents, shape the chaos. title of your latest release, Ask it's not as controlled. within those confines. Sampling Puppy and Front Line Assem­ lence at the shows. We seem to There's no plan. Questions Later, which seems is pretty limitless but there are be big in fascist countries, ex- bly. They seem to be nearly in­ to refer to police brutality. Throwrug: The video for "Ten certain limitations to the equip­ fascist countries, which is a lit­ visible at home but get very en­ Yeah, well, it's the old play on Dollar Bill" is equal parts goofy Do you have any agenda, any ment. For me, sampling is a very thusiastic response abroad. We tle scary. I haven't figured it and creepy. Are you in total message in your lyrics? tiny window that opens into a get good support, good turnout, out, couldn't tell you why. artistic control? We try to piss people off, confuse at our shows. I think there's a Throwrug: Why are you in a Well, we directed it, we had the them, maybe inspire them. We may misconception about the scene Throwrug: Would it be too idea for it. We decided that since be political but we're not correct. Have you ever had to pay a NY. "Scene" is a weird Because I'm not much good much of a cliche to ask we were so talentless and ugly fee to use a sampli This is Jim [Filer], he can answer word. There are a lot of at anything else. you about your influ- that we should hire some people the rest of your questions. Never had to. Most of the people doing a lot of with real talent to play us in the stuff we use is pretty ob­ / different types of mu­ Why are you in this Yes. video. So we got some dwarves How do you choose your sam­ scure, though one of the sic and somehow we and circus freaks and went down ples? Are you in charge of what songs on our Suck City all wind up knowing Well, if I was wiser, or O.K., if other bands to Mexico to try and lose the the band uses? EP, which borrowed each other. It gets sort if I was sleazier, I would claimed you as an in­ New York garbage association Jim Filer: We get them from eve­ something from the Ex- at time- have been a politician. I fluence what would that's always followed us around. rywhere, really. A lot of the spo­ orcistlll, we had to fuck cohesive group mov- can kinda play bass and you hope they would We're pretty happy with it. We ken word stuff is from late-night with to get released ir direction, I can sorta fake singing be like? wanted to get that surreal circus radio, there's bass feedback from America. Not something so I do that. But I I would hope they would atmosphere because that's what I wanted to do but it be- there's a lot of diver- going to do it forever, probably id nothing like us. We've the song seems to suggest. noise...everywhere. ty. So we have support three more years at the most, always tried to not have a sound, but I'm not sure about the word then maybe something in the and if we do it's purely because Discorder: Your label, Restless... The virtual absence of any gui- AUGUST ^ wmmwU

day whilst innocently flipping through Andre Gibeault's Canadian Records Discography a name popped out from the page that would be the key to unlocking ONE the mysteries of 1960's Maritime rock happenings and a burgeoning 1990's punk scene - all in the fair province of New Brunswick. Yes, indeed, it Could only be The Stonemen. Described as having released the "wildest punk fuzz screamer*' to ever come out of Canada, their 1966 single was also incredibly rare - only one copy had been known to have survived the test of time. No other information on the Stonemen existed. Period. From that moment on I constantly hounded every band from the Maritimes that graced the CiTR playlist asking if they ever heard of the Stonemen. Of course, nothing. DEAD FUCKING END! Did these guys actually exist or was it all cruel hoax? Well, to my total surprise, almost three years to the date of my first catching "Stonemania," Hampton, New Brunswick's Jason Ogden of the combo NFA reported that not only had he been aware DKN (!•««) tUrltia-. of the Stonemen legend but his good pals in Moncton's Bad Luck #13 actually cover a Stonemen tune "In the Evening"! Yahoo. Further cross-Canada correspondence with Jason revealed that Bad Luck #13 of lt. If. r..lljr . nighta.r. of Thi. 1. th. HILDEST PUNK F UZZ SCREAMER that I' va h.. learnt about the "Stoney men" through Mark Gaud let, drummer for Eric's Trip, who actually owned a copy of mr f.vorlt. PSYCHEDELIC Along with "Expedition To E.rth" .nd "P.lnt.d Shlp" KP» ths of the single! When Mark passsed through Vancouver only a few days later with the Trip he promised to search ful doubl.-.ld.d ilngla to out the Stonemen upon return to Moncton. And, boy, did he come through! Phone numbers, photos and facts. IN TH E EVENINO/FADED COLORS (l>( 2) MARITIME 006 1968 •100. All I had to do was dial. Whew! And dial I did. The following is an interview with Fernand and Danny LeBlanc from Canadian Records by Andre Gibeauk (Montreal: Underworld, 1987) of the Stonemen:

DISCORDER: So where haveyou been Danny: We were playing at a boy's what was going on then. all these years? What happened to club in Moncton and there was a guy Danny: Ha ha, you might say that. We you ? Gosh, I mean, the Stonemen that was working at CKCW producing had some pretty wild stuff, compared were the wildest 60s punk to come some music, Bill McFadden. Through to the songs "Faded Colours" and "In out of the Maritimes! What happened him we got a deal. the Evening." to the band? Fernand: We disbanded about I dont Where did you record the single? You didn't have any other really wild know, I've been married now for al­ Fernand: Well, that was in an old numbers? most twenty-five years! record studio at CKCW back in 1967. Fernand: Well, we used to. At that particular time there wasnt any such When did the band get together? Did you cut any other songs in the thing as a cassette tape or anything When did the Stonemen form? session? like that. There used to be what is Fernand: It was about 1964 or some­ Fernand: No. We were going to do an called a cartridge that they used to thing like that. LP after that but we disbanded and use in radio stations just for commer­ the whole thing just dropped like that cials. We used those to record on and Danny: We were on a TV show, Top once in a while they plugged those in Ten Plus, they had every Saturday to play on the radio. afternoon and we recorded quite a Who was actually in the Stonemen? few songs for that. We probably re­ Do you remember any of the song Fernand: There were four brothers. corded a dozen songs altogether. titles? Don't ask me where they went or Fernand: No, not really, just the two where they are now, they were mostly that were on the 45. on tapes. Was the 45 distributed at all? Did you Exactly how many copies of your 45 Are any of those still around? get any feedback from it at all? were pressed? Fernand: Geez, I dont know. I had a Fernand: Well, there were a few sales Fernand: I don't know. We did that for master copy of the whole thing - ten, that we heard of but we never found a guy who came from Riverview. We fifteen songs - but the thing erased. out how many. I also heard that there disbanded shortly after that and we were some sold in the United States never heard anything about it again. I "In the Even! ng" is such a classic 60's after that. donl how many records were pressed, punk song! Ifs totally wild! we never heard anything from him. Fernand: Well, we were a bit ahead of The 45 was on the Maritime Label. We just disbanded and the whole our time. Who ran the Maritime Label? thing stopped right there. Danny: Ah, geez. I cant remember THE STONEMEN! Danny: I think we had a thousand. It The sound is totally intense! Where who it was. My other brothers, Bert Danny LebJanc, lead was distributed all throughout New did you get the weird guitar sounds? and Fernand, were doing most ofthe guitar • Fernand LeWanc, Brunswick, PEI, and Nova Scotia. The Fernand: We used to work at it quite legal stuff. Eric and I just played and rhythm guitar & vocal • single helped us out quite a bit, you Nofbert LeWanc, bass & a bit. I dont know, that's just the way fooled around! lead vocal • Eric Leblanc, know. As a matter of fact, when it first itwas. Fernand: Well, this would be the guy came out, it sold about five hundred who had us make the tape, the record. copies in one month! It sounds like the guys in the studio didn't really know how to handle you. Were the Stonemen the wildest group Do you remember the guy? Fernand: They didn't, really. We used in the Maritimes? Fernand: Geez, I don't remember his to tell them what to do. Fernand: At the time, yes, I would say name. so. We were the first group with long Is that one of the tamest songs that hair, I know that for sure. What was his background? you guys had, 'cause I heard you Danny: Wewerentrealrywild.Weallhad Fernand: Well, he was a disk-jockey picked the two tamest songs for the long hair, we were the only band with on CKCW at that particular time. His 45? long hair back in 1966/67. Our music radio name was Willy-Q. Fernand: Well, no, that was pretty well was a little bit "off-ball" for that year.

16 B3_£-5_®__05___rt ******* ********* Who were some of the other groups Scotia. road in Moncton. They belted out the really. That's when I stopped playing Vancouver, somewhere. This was back you remember from the area? Do you Danny: We played at the University punk-psychedelia while a blue strobe music. I said,"lf I have to do this stuff in the early 80's. Where he's at now I'd and some coffee houses in Moncton. light pulsed and fluxed." Is that true? to play music it's not for me!" be guessing. Fernand: Yeah, they were on at that We played throughout the Maritimes, Fernand: I'm afraid not. particular time. They were on before and in Montreal and Toronto also. Danny: Yeah, it was on a float! Yup. It Mark from Eric's Trip supplied me Anything else interesting about the us, they wore ties and coat type things, was on a tractor/trailer float They with this little clipping that says, "The Stonemen? but they were still on when we were. Where were the Stonemen from? stopped all the traffic on Main Street. Stonemen show and invite you to an Fernand: Well, geez, I dont know, it's Fernand: Cape Pete, New Brunswick. We were there for about ten minutes excursion into your mind called The been almost thirty years now! And what did you guys wear? and played two songs. This was around Quest of the Purple King." Danny: I play a lot of golf with alot of Fernand: Anything we could think of Were the Stonemen actually the time we had the 45 out.Actually, Danny: John Owen came up with this. people and sometimes they say, "You to make people talk. "stonemen**? there was another member in the That summer the Stonemen dis­ were an original member of the Danny: Well, we were stonemasons. group when we did that. After we banded and we were left with only Stonemen," and "I remember watch­ How about Eight Point Five? Have My dad's a bricklayer by trade - a made the record we were looking for myself, John Owen and Eric. That's ing you here and watching you there you heard about them? They were mason. I'm still a mason by trade. a keyboard player and we found this when we went to Montreal and To­ and stuff like that!" In fact, this year the from from Bathurst, New Brunswick? fellow from St. John. His name was ronto.... I have another brother, Roger, Canadian Amateur Golf Champion­ Fernand: I don't remember. Why did you change your name from John Owen. Actually, he was probably who played with us after we broke up ship is being held in Victoria, out your the Wytes to the Stonemen? the person who got us "wild." He kind from the Stonemen. We formed an­ way. So if I make the team I'll pop over The Great Scots? The Rockatones? Fernand: We wanted to change the of brought us to another level. other group with myself, Eric, John and see you! Fernand: The Rockatones, that sounds whole thing because we used to play, Owen, and Roger playing bass. We familiar. like what the Playboys used to play, Was he on the single? changed the name of the band to Thanks very much and keep on rawkin' the same type of music. We wanted to Danny: No, he wasnt. King Zeek. in the free worid! Do you remember the names of any change the music so we changed the Fernand: Thanks. Ifyou ever find any­ of the groups you played with in New name along with it Did he get the Stonemen "stoned" What happened to the rest of the thing else out about our band, the Brunswick? and bring in drugs? Stonemen? What are they doing? Stonemen, give me a shout! Fernand: Geez, I'd have to think back Do you still have any of your same Danny: No drugs at all; none whatso­ Danny: Fernand's working at bricklay­ instruments? ever. As a matter of fact when we ing... Eric, when he turnedabout21 or Fernand: Oh, no. disbanded I went to San Diego, Cali­ 22, when we got back from Montreal, So there it be. An interview of 60's Did the Stonemen pull off any neat fornia, in 1969.1 worked out there for he had a mental disease, you know, Maritime punk legends the stunts on stage? Another famous legend I heard about about eight months and when I got schizophrenia. I'm not to familiar with Stonemen made possible by Mari­ the Stonemen comes from Ray 13, back I was approached by a band these terms doctors use but he got Fernand: Yeah, sometimes we did time 90's punk legends, NFA Bad things. I remember once I smashed a who plays in a Moncton band called from Nova Scotia -1 cant remember really bad. It's just something that Luck *13, and Eric's Trip. Now, I guitar on stage. Bad Luck *13 - they cover "In the their name, they're a popular band happens I guess. Bert passed away of Evening.*' They're a modem 1990*8 now - they used drugs. They said it a heart attack three years ago in To­ wonder if current Newfoundland Where did you play most of your group. Ray 13 has said, "In the later was part of the rituals. And I said,"If ronto. noise guys Hardship Post have any gigs? days of the Stonemen's musical ca­ that's the way it is you're gonna have info on Newfoundland GCsfuzz kings Fernand: We played all over New reer they played out of the back of a to find yourself another guitar player." the Du-Cats? Hmmm Just wonder­ Brunswick, PEI and parts of Nova truck while cruising down some main That's when I stopped playing guitar, ing-

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I "Personally, I can't get enough of it, f and it's turning me | into a pusher. So With on oil-star cast of musicians; Richard Uoyd (Teteviso4), Robert get out there and Quin* {lou Reed; Richard Hell), Ivan Julian (Voidoids), drummers Rick try it, but careful, Menck (Velvet Crush), Fred Maher (co-producer of .C?!f Irriend), Ron it's addictive." Pangborn (Mas Not Ulas), Pete Don McSuuiney Thomas (Elvis Costal los Attractions), Mick Fleetwood fit Jody Vox Magazine Stephens (Big-Star), pedal steel/dobro player Greg leisz (k.d. R long's Reclines), & piano player Nicky Hopkins (Seatles, Stones, John lennon:). Produced by Richard Oashut (Fleetwood Mac's Rumours *Tusk). 0__Sc__]3 Cifc73[_^P_l_X-3D^ can't (and probably never will) up about his work overthe years. One man's harp can be an­ be bothered with tbe wants and "I can do almost as good a job as other man's crutch: "You can't protocol ofthe business, he's too you could by looking back at the blame your environment on the busy making music: "We basi­ records and trying to figure out mess you make sonically," said cally hand the record company why they got done. Every time Gelb. "If it does I don't want to an ashtray," he explains, "and we you do a record it puts some con­ be aware of it. I don't think that tell them that's the next record. trast on the record you did be­ Thelonious Monk would make And if they' re worth their weight fore. " Getti ng Ho we to talk about any different music if he was out in salt they'll sell it, whatever the past work is particulariy diffi­ here in Tuscon.... The last three fuck it is. We give them an ash­ cult, he seems to be thinking of years I was literally out in the tray and tell them it's a record, the next set of songs. "I work on middle of nowhere in Rimrock, but we don't do demonstration that [record] up until the point it and that was cool, but I found ashtrays." Gelb's frreverence gets done and then I'm free of it. myself loving it so much that I could easily be mistaken for irre- That's when you [the Ustener] wasn't available for otlier things sponsibility at times. When be step into it. It's something you Even though it's a few hours from and long-time drummer Jon can touch and hear, almost taste. L.A. it seems like being in Tuscon. Then you talk about how it sounds, Convertino and bassist Joe Bums Maybe it's just tbe schools and tastes and flies with you. But I cametoVancouverfortheirTown the kid. It just seems like I'm couldn't even touch on that. It's ANT Pump appearance they arrived busier here. I think it's age more not for me to do. It's not for forty-minutes before tbe ten PM than anything. In the next few anyone to Usten to me do either. starting time because Howe drove years I'll have the most energy to I'd be wasting their time and my through tbe border crossi ng three get some work done and then go times (?). Upon arrival they set back to the middle of nowhere". up their gear, grabbed a quick Gelb also finds it a chore to Long Stem Rant, released i n beer and played. "It used to be we talk about songwriting, probably 1989, qualifies as the strangest didn't do a set Ust," explained due to the fact that he doesn't release Gelb & Co. have to offer. Gelb. "Now we don't do sound think too much abon*. it. He goes Recorded shortly after his divorce ^^H*W n a Saturday night last May, I learned bow it felt to be Danish. I'd spent the last checks." They didn't need one. to bed with a welcome mat at the from Brown, Rant is an off-bal­ hour or so of that evening at a Chinatown restaurant having dinner with the members of Few bands possess the shared door, the next moming there's a ance collection of filled out songs Giant Sand, a couple of friends accompanying them on their first excursion into the Pacific intuition that Gelb, Burns and baby in a basket on the front ("Searchlight," "Sucker In A Northwest and some newfound friends they made while in Vancouver. After a filling meal Convertino have bve. Set lists? stoop: "It's not completely un- Cage"), stop and starts ("Smash of vegetarian Chinese food in the company of six Americans and curious locals, I couldn't Soundcheck-? What, um, new probably more sub- Jazz," "Long About Now"), and understand why I felt that way. The feelings I had weren't punctuated by cravings of frontiers are left for them live? i, although there have sound bites. Gelb and Convertino Advocaat and Havarti cheese, I was just feeling silly. (Well, I was. Thelonious Monk and "Very soon I'm sure we'll have been periods of unconsciousness. put Rant together during a single Howe Gelb are both talented musicians.) During dinner I attempted to interview Howe the technology, at an affordable A song wrote itself down last weekend, in a red shack outside Gelb, Sand's founder/leader/proprietor. The experience reminded me of a humorous cost to the average consumer, to night. It's a great old country of Tuscon, with long-time engi­ moment from the Thelonious Monk film documentary, Monk: Straight, No Chaser, in phone in our parts. I think we song. It could have just as well neer Eric WestfaU writing aU the which a Danish music writer asked Monk if tbe hats that he wore had any influence on his could get two phone bnes, actu­ been around for sixty-years. songs during their stay there. music. "Ha haha. Uhh...no." ally, one is the left and one is the Maybe it was, I don't know. I Besides "Searchlight" and Ten years, thirteen albums and hundreds of frustrated music writers later, Gelb still right..." don't know why it chose last night "Sucker," two other classics on finds it difficult to talk about what he does or, rather, what he's done. It isn't because he's During the 77ii'n Line/Storm to come around. I didn't sit down the record are "Loving Cup" a jerk; "I can't talk very good", he offered. "Anything you make up, I'll sign it. Anything period, Gelb and Brown got mar­ to wnte the thing. You get sounds; ("Now he sits alone without a you say, it'll be alright." For acouple of days following that first attempt I considered doing ried and bestowed fife to their you bear things. I don't even crowd, his hurt is silent, but bis just that. But after conversing long distance with Kate "Jazz Cat" Hyman, a long-time daughter, Indiosa, while living understand the principle of radio pain is loud") and "Bloodstone," friend of Howe's from New York, I thought it was worth another try. I'd interview him in Los Angeles. It was here where waves. My daughter asked me a heapin' dose of metallic b.o. again when he got home and talk to a couple of his closest friends. He consented to do a Howe met long-time band-mate last night as we passed three big chronicling an experience with a second interview with me over tbe phone ("All that stuff they say about me is just stuff," Convertino, who was Uving in radio towers how Uttle and skinny collection agent ("Knock knock he warned). Some help his friends turned out to be: "This is very Citizen Kane-like," joked the same apartment building with the towers were for people to live knocking knocking knock, go Steve Wynn. "His sled was named Rosebud..." the Gelbs. Convertino, a well in. And I was trying to explain to away. Don't need to supportyou, Howe Gelb left Rosebud and the cold winters of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania behind rounded musician who left home her that no one lives in those go awayyyy..."). Gelb's weap­ forTuscon, Arizona. While growing up Howe learned piano and latertaught himself guitar. at sixteen to play with a band towers, but she wouldn't have ons of choice for the record (and Around 1980, Gelb formed his first of many versions of the band (known as Giant comprised of members of his fam­ any of it. She didn't get the fact for most of his career) are acous­ Sandworms at the time) and later completed their first record, a 7" EP pressed on white ily from Oklahoma, played on that they're there to make the tics or electric acoustics enhanced vinyl. Will Wallow and Roam After the Ruin turned out to be tbe last record Gelb would Sand's fourth platter, The Love radio work. I could technically with lots of volume, distortion make for five years. The generally accepted beginning of Giant Sand as we know it, Songs, and has been part of the explain it to her but I still didn't and a Uttle bit of wah (the elec­ recording-wise, began with Valley of Rain in 1985. Rain was released during a period of ever changing Sand roster since. really believe that there were tric/acoustic was made by Har­ fascination by mostly American artists and bands to combine the intensity of west coast Songs was the first of three discs waves floating around all the time. mony , whose guitars were mostly punk with the themes and dynamics of country mu­ released on Homestead Records, Maybe somebody wrote that coun­ made for and bought at Sears). sic. Rankand File, Green ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ On Red, True West, The a part nershi p that was alternately try song sixty-years ago. With Convertino favours simple, no- LongRyders.TheDream • Syndicate, X, Divine profitable (Usteners didn't have the earth spinning the way it does friUs kits: the Ludwig kit that he Horsemen, Thin White Rope, Naked Prey and the to pay stiff import prices for their it's catching up to the spot where played here looked like a begin­ Sidewinders, among oth- ers, circled their wagons records anymore) and frustrating it was sixty-years ago and I'm ner's set. Gearheads they ain't. around L.A. and blasted audiences with songs of (Homestead were tardy in paying hearing it. I'm tbe antenna that's The informabty of the at­ drifters, betrayal and the downtrodden with Tel- Howe publishing money. Check picking it up. That's about as mosphere Gelb sets in the studio the Unernotes from Ramp, Sand's co ncreteas lean get."Steve Wynn is appreciated by his many friends were lumped in with this mid-eighties posse from the ninth release). This disc includes has him figured out probably better who have contributed to his re­ start, Giant Sand stood out due to Gelb's some of Gelb's best chestnuts that anyone: "Howe's from tbe cordings in the past. Chris songwriting,whichdealt with personal themes as ("Wearing The Robes Of The Bi­ school where you throw the paint Cacavas, the former Green On ble Black," "One Man's Women, against the wall and describe it Red keyboardist (now the leader The following year, I with a slightly (and, as it No Man's Land," "Almost The later." of his ownband, Junkyard Love), turned out, fatefully) I * retooled line-up, the Gelb PoUtician's Wife") and a skewered Out in the desert in and has been a contributor to Sand gang created their sec- ond record, Ballad of a version ofthe Leiber/Stoller (made around Tuscon, with all that open both bve and on virtually every Thin Line Man, one of those rare little classics famous by Peggy Lee) classic "Is space, you'd think that Howe record since Valley of Rain. that's abundant with di- vergcncy, power and sonic That All There Is?". chose to live there to improve his "Thinking about those sessions, envisionment. It'sopened by the songtoeiulalldrifter "I remember, when I was a reception of those waves (or they were always real loose and a songs, "Thin Line Man," **************************w******m**w a se.'en-minute epic em­ kid, I was watching The Honey- "sonics" as he likes to put it). It's great time," recounted Cacavas. bellished wilh a guitar solo that qualifies as mooners and the whole damn T.V. part and parcel with Giant Sand's "Sometimes he'll have an idea Howe's thesis paper in Neil Young. Gelb along with bassist Scott Garber, drummer Tom set caught on fire. Dad picked me identity. ButHowe'sUvedinL.A. and want me to play a specific Larkins (who at the time was also a member of Naked Prey, another Tuscon outfit) and up Uke a football, got me out the and even New York, and if he can thing, and I don't have a problem Paula Jean Brown (a guitarist/bassist who did a short stint with the Go-Go's as Jane house, and I stood there in my do it there..."I could do it any­ with it, other times he leaves it up Wiedlin's departure replacement) were arguably the tightest version ofthe band, studio- pyjamas watching tbe whole thing where, definitely. I don't want to to me. Him [Gelb] being a key­ wise. The influence of styles (Leaving Trains' Falling James sings "Last Legs,"a cocktail- bum. And when it was all done rely on that." Wynn, a long-time board player himself, he would jazz inspired song which he co-wrote with Gelb), admi red predecessors (a cover ofthe late and tbe fire trucks had left I said friend of Gelb's, agrees; "He's hear certain melodical ideas and Johnny Thunders' "You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory"), and shared contribu­ to myself, Ts that all there is to a bved in Pennsylvania and Ari­ would have me play on his inter­ tion (Brown gets a chance to showcase a good singing voice on "The Chill Outside"), along fire?'" zona, tbe desert and HoUywood, pretation." Cacavas also appre­ with the other songs on the record ("A Hard Man To Get To Know," "Graveyard" and Two weeks following his and has retained tbe things he ciates Howe's not often heard "Body Of Water") made Ballad a prototype for the band's future releases. stay in Vancouver I called Howe does through all of that," said piano stylings, which often re­ Storm followed two years later and was their third release on as many labels. Gelb at his home in Tuscon and had Wynn. "He'snot too fond of L.A. semble one of his favourite play­ better luck in getting him to open though..." ers: "I just love hearing other Interveiw by Rob Harrison people play," said Cacavas. "Even there regularly. One of these tours Jon Convertino will sit down at provided one ofthe funniest (and the piano and amazing stuff will more gruesome) Sand stories ever come out of his fingertips. But heard. As told by Mr. Cacavas: Howe has a real cool style, very "At the end of this show in Co­ Monk inspired." logne, we' re walking home, kind Former Dream Syndicate of loose, we had a good show, leader, now solo performer, Steve drank some beers. We were at a Wynn (who recently completed a train station, walking towards the disc with a band comprised of hotel, and we saw a set of escala­ old friends called Gutterball) finds tors completely abandoned. As a Gelb's spontaneous approach to kid, you always wanted to mn up recording especially pleasurable. the down escalator or vice-versa, "It's very inspiring to go into tbe so we were Uke, 'Yeah, let'shave studio with someone where you races'. So we all go down to the play the song once through and bottom. I did the first ran be­ say T think I'm ready to do the cause I was feeUng giddy, so I rake now,' andhe'dsay 'that was ran up and made pretty good time. tbe take. Next'. There's stuff that Boosta, the tour manager, ran up everyone on the track played but and ended up gouging his knee would have played again. They up near the top. Howe was next. would have played it better or He was making pretty good time. sanded down their first impres­ He's a pretly lanky guy and he's sion to the point where it's a little hauUng ass up this down escala­ more average, competent, bor­ tor, which was pretty funny and ing. He goes forthe best moment surreal looking. He wipes out and where you're stiU fascinated and smashes his knee open. Those discovering." guys are taken to the top and they Wynn and Gelb played on had to crawl the last few steps. It each other's 1990 releases, Steve was pretty pathetic. When they adding guitar to Swerve ("My only went to the Hospital the next day lead-guitar work, ever," bemoaned to have their wounds looked at, Wynn) with Howe returning the Howe had a couple of half-inch favour on Wynn's solo platter, gouges that he put a couple of Kerosene Man. As it turns out, dots above for eyes, and he started Gelb is just as dedicated to mak­ making them sing. We have all of ing it work on projects other than this on video-tape. It's pretty hys­ his own. "There's a song on there terical, so ifyou ever need video called 'Carolyn'," remembered documentation..." Wynn, "that he was originally Ramp was Joe Bums' first going to play solo on (Howe's record with Giant S and o n a record "fringed lunabc" guitar is heard that kept the guests to a timely on the creepy song "Younger"). minimum. Victoria Williams plays He came to a rehearsal before we banjo and sings on many of the did the record and played a solo songs (including aduet with I lo we that was amazing. I had it re­ on "Wonder") and Pappy AUen, corded on a tiny, twenty-doUar a local country singer/songwriter recorder and thought 'this is the Gelb met in one of his many for­ perfect solo'. We brought him in ays into the desert, sings on a to do the record, I played it for memorable cover of "Welcome him and said, 'This was great To My World." Gelb seems to what you did, just do this here'. have no shortage of friends and He can't do anything twice. It's they all invariably end up on his not that he won't, he can't. We records. One Usten to Gelb's ac­ spent about five hours trying to cumulative madness by a main­ get him to replay this one mo­ stream country music fan might ment he had in a rehearsal room leave them scratching their head, before realizing he had to play especially if they knew that some- the same thing twice and end up oneofLucindaWilbams' stature being mental. He was such a good had ever made a record with him. sport about it. He was sleeping But there she is, her name spelled on my couch at the time and he Lucienda (she was experiencing took the tape home. I heard him problems with her record com­ until seven in the morning trying pany at the time), on a duet with to duplicate the solo and it just Howe: "BurningDesire."A Gelb couldn't happen." original that's part of Sage Ad­ Swerve assembled an aU- vice, one of three records Gelb star cast. Included with Wynn has made under the moniker of and Cacavas were Mark Walton Blacky Ranchette. Ranchette is (Wynn's ex-bandmate & bassist Gelb's conduit forexploring coun­ with Dream Syndicate), Blake try music, whether it's with pre­ Baby Juliana Hatfield, frequent viously recorded songs, intended contributor FalUng James, sev­ originals, and/or covers. eral members of the Austin, Texas With the release of Center band Poi Dog Pondering, ex-band ofthe Universe, Giant Sand ap­ member Brown (who is presently pear to finally be ready to attract the bassist for Wynn's backing some long deserved attention. If band) and many others. The fol­ they don't, people will catch up lowing year Giant Sand made with them eventually. "People Rump, which became their first get bored with a certain kind of release on Restless Records— music after awhile," said Gelb. Restless plan to re-issue the en­ "You get the few who are satu­ tire Sand back-catalogue. rated enough and look for the Throughout Giant Sand's ex­ dissonance, tbe new rhythms, the istence, Demon (and its satelUte new melodies...something that's label Zippo) have kept their mu­ pushing the envelope. Whether sic circulating in Europe, where it's months or years later, the sales oftheir records are healthy multitudeof people will find that enough to enable them to tour acceptable." -VtiA-fKi mammm Aug. 3-7 SONNY RHODES & THE TEXAS TWISTERS Aug. 10-14 LINDA HORNBUCKLE w/ THE NO DELAY BAND Aug. 11 JOE LOUIS WALKER Aug. 17-21 TONY FLAIME w/ THE DEMONS Aug. 24-28 RUSSEL JACKSON w/ THE JACK BAND Aug. 31-Sept. 1 THE ORIGINAL SINNERS

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. "There wasn' t much planning for the record but there was enough chemistry there where if Steven looked at Bryan a the cruel elephant certain way, Bryan knew he was taking the solo." concert productions Harvey's role in the en­ deavour is equally as sub­ stantial as Wynn's. Having presents known Wynn during his time in Los Angeles, Harvey left him an open invitation to visit him in Richmond. As soon as he completed work on his 1992 solo effort, Dazzling EVERY Display, Wynn travelled East on a writing junket (includ­ ing a stop in Nashville) and took Harvey up on the invite, with immediate results. "We TUESDAY! hit it off great and wrote eight songs in two days," said Wynn, who in a decade-plus songwriting career has very few collaborative efforts on his resume. "I'm not a big fan of collaborating because in my head I hear what I want by Rob> Harrison to hear. I've found that col­ laborating usually means compromising what you want "...they called for an Ambu­ tbe stuff on tape, all first takes, for the opener "Trial Separa­ all live, just so we'd have things tion Blues" and closer "Bless­ and getting something bland lance and one was sent, some­ in the end." Maybe he's fi­ one got lucky but it was an to listen to later on. It's gone ing In Disguise") the record­ from that to being a record." ings have remarkable clarity nally found an ideal partner. — Bob Dylan As it turned out Gutterball despite the bleeding prevalent "In this situation it really (Mute/WEA) is an enjoyably throughout. When it came time clicked. We' ve gotten together Demo recordings hold a cer­ ragged collection of mistakes, to mix the tapes, though, edit­ • thei t just tain amount of fascination performances and good songs. ing on some songs was im­ the luck of a certain two day whenever they' re made avail­ Following two fairly polished possible. Such was the case period. He's a Southern gen­ able, especially those made solo offerings on Rhino with "Motorcycle Boy" and tleman, very easy-going, by artists who have compiled Records' now defunct RNA its distinctive (some think an­ friendly, patient, with a good a large body of work over label, Wynn's contribution to noying) backing vocals: "We sense of humour. All those time. Depending on circum­ Gutterball (he sang lead and were thinking, 'You know, good things work for co-writ­ stances, you may get the op­ played guitar on the disc's those background vocals kind ing. Bryan would show me a portunity to hear a different, twelve cuts) is the rawest and of get on your nerves after riff and I'd come up with some arguably best work he's done awhile. Let's cut them out of maybe even better, version ridiculous verse about in years. "Usually the first half the song.' When they came Che- (h,s of of a song that's more endear­ record you ever do is pretty up we pressed mute and fig­ ing than a polished, intended songwriting choice on two primitive and live. This is ac- ured they' d be out of there but tracks) and rain.... We were rendering. A simplified ar­ they kept singing. We real­ rangement, less (or more) in- egging each other on and it than anything I' ve done, even ized that they were singing so cording quality because of became a good spirited 'can more than the first Dream Syn­ loud in the room while we you top this' (contest) more crappy equipment or techni­ dicate record." were tracking it, they were cal ignorance may sway your Considering the cumula­ singing like lunatics while we preference. The pressure mu­ tive experience on Gutterball's were doing the basic track, The curse of affluence crueletephant sicians face in attempting to rolls it's hard to believe that that they got caught on tape ("Top Of The. Hill"), today's turn in a perfect take, espe­ any of these guys (especially and we're stuck with 'em." seeming surplus of "rebels" cially when bed tracks (bass Wynn, who's had previous pro­ The band's recording meth­ ("Motorcycle Boy") and hope and drums) are recorded, can ducing credit) could be lost in ods weren' t the only aspect of in a stalled relationship - •»A~_ turn well adjusted, laid back a studio. They weren't, but: the session that was casual: ("When You Make Up Your players into neurotic, snip­ "We did everything wrong," "We had a bunch of guys sit­ Mind") are a few ofthe themes ing egg walkers. Recording explained Wynn of their self- ting around with whiskey and they cover. Rounding out the demos, in most cases, doesn't production methods, which a lot of spunk(?) and that's record are three songs writ­ involve that kind of pressure, resulted in a disc that has its what came out of it. I hear ten solely of Wynn's hand, K_3_J that is if the band is already share of amusing but non-dam­ that's going to be tbe second the most endearing being the signed. All they're really aging problems. "We put all single, which cracks me up." Weill/Cohen flavoured "One meant to accomplish is to give the amps in the same room Like the recording qual­ By One," a tale of an out of ity of the disc, the playing a band (or a prospective record with no baffles; I sang live in work, out of luck copy writer lacks some of the polish that label) an idea of where they the same room with the other clinging to existence in New guys and a monitor that was Wynndicate-Ryder-Silo and York. "It was actually a re­ Freaks fans are used to, but Steve Wynn of blasting in the room; the kick ject from my last two albums" nite drum mike fell over half-way on record they're a tight, co­ laughs Wynn. My manager Gutterball felt that way a lit­ hesive band and it isn't by tle over a year ago when he through the session—we didn't has been trying to flog that us know when, we just noticed accident. Since moving back song off for years." Wynn's and old friends Bryan Harvey to their hometown of Rich­ atthM___°, and Johnny Hott of House Of that it had fallen over; and we previous background as a recorded at half speed on much mond, Harvey and drummer sportswriter bears question­ Freaks, former Long Ryder Hott have expanded their lit­ Stephen McCarthy and ex- used tape. We did everything ing on how much resemblance wrong because we didn' t know tle two-piece into a foursome, he has to the song's charac­ Silos bassist Bob Rupe stum­ bringing to it McCarthy's (an­ bled into a Richmond, Vir­ we were making a record. ter; "I was never so much of We're very fortunate that we other Richmond native who a loser as the guy in the song," ginia studio to record some returned home after another songs he and Harvey had writ­ didn't know we were making clarified W > un. "I never wrote a record because if we put more band he fronted in L.A. failed for the Post and I never got ten. "It was really only meant to get notice) deft Telecaster to become a notebook type time and care into this thing it fired from a newspaper, wouldn't be nearly as good." touch and Rupe's bass for tour­ though, okay, I missed a few of thing," stated Wynn. "We ing. The results of this move had one evening of studio Virtually issued in the or­ are in evidence throughout. time and went in and threw der it was recorded (except

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Yo, "Future Rap" is in the house competition in the female rap has come out with What's the Bricks," the title track, "Sleep got his bass down on this re­ doubt who you're listening to. once again! Startin' things off scene has matured now. Listen Flavour? (Capitol), his second for Dinner" and the wicked lease (you can feel it kick on Look, ma, no shoelaces! is the impressive soundtrack to to "A Blind Date With Boss" release. It sounds like he'stryin' "Chief Rocka": "I walk with that other level on almost all of Last on the list for this Menace IISociety (Jive). Spice or "Catch A Bad One" and to cop the Tribe Called Quest the funk, I talk with the funk, I the tracks) and tliat classic 2Pac issue is Da Youngsters with 1, Too Short and Ant Barks you'll know what I mean. street style to stay current and eat with the funk, I sleep with vocal effect of pitch shifting an their debut, The Aftermath come out strong with classic On the female rap tip, the but still be commercial with the funk, I live for the funk, I octavedown is almost as char­ (Eastwest). Adding to the west coast bass-ed funk with original gangstress Yo Yo is his Young MC-isms. He die for the funk..." acteristic as what Too Short young-kid mob of rappers in­ the Bankster' s "Packin* aGun" back with her third album You shouklajust stayed totally com­ Guess what? [Chicken does to his voice. Redman's cluding Kriss Kross, Da being the funkiest, live, Parlia­ Better AskSomebody. This one mercial and made a whole butt? ed.] Yet another new still rappm' about how he grew Youngsters are more talented ment-style keyboard jam ever. picks up where her first one bunch of ends 'cause he ain't group! This time we' re over on up without a father, which is (if they're writing their own Brand Nubian give a strong ended— you can forget her gonna get no respect from the the west coast with a group on cool, but, for the most part, it's raps) and have a harder sound. showing for the east coast with second one— with Ice Cube street for this release. See Ya! that crazy new tip that the gettin' a litde bit thin now. A But they're still too young. their track "Lick Dem overseein' things once again There's a new group Pharcyde are the undisputed decent release. Their beats, although they are Muthaphuckas", as does BDP there are a whole bunch of comin' up from the east coast masters of. You know, that Hittin* ten years since they hardcore, are very generic and with a remake of "P is Still producers helpin' out with this called C.E.B. with an album crazy shit that shouldn't work dropped their firstbomb . Run uncreative, and there are no Free" from back in '86. Da one, each oftheir different fla­ called Countin' Endless Bank but it does? Where was I? Oh DMC are still goin' strong with dynamics to either the beats or Lench Mob, DJ Quick and the vours giving a good fresh feel (Ruffhouse/Columbia). Pro­ yea, this new group's called their latest, Down With The the raps. Da Youngsters sound Underground Kings also kick to the album. "Givin' It Up" duced by group member Sab ir, Y'all So Stupid and their King (Profile). The reason this prefabricated like New Edition out some dope, as does Mz and "Westside Story" are tlie the tracks have a distinctive release is called Van Full of works is because Run DMC and other kid R&B groups of Kilo with her track "All Over a funkiest for my money with kick to them and good high- Pakistans (Rowdy/BMG). got themselves a lot of help ten years ago. I'm sure Da Ho," produced by Cold 187um "The Bonnie and Clyde end, but the bass is a little bit Unkle Buk, Logic, H20, and from some heavyweights of Youngsters will turn out with from Above theLaw.Allinall, Theme" and "IB Win* Wit My lacking for me. Most of the Sha Boogie are into that loose, the industry, instandy updat­ their ownflavourin afewyears one hell of a soundtrack. Crewin'" sure to get a lot of tracks are good party tracks near freestyle sound for their ing their sound to keep with the andstart makin' their own beats Next up is tha Jungle play. "Pass It On" features about kickin' it in the hood, raps with the beats being a times. Thekillertidetrackfea- to complement it, bu t right now Brothers with their third re­ some smooth flow from IB WC using samples you've heard combo of some breakbeats tures Pete Rock producin', Q- I'll pass. lease, the newest since Done (Intelligent Black Women's before with an originality that mixed with crazy, unconven­ Tip doing his thang on "Come Well waddaya know? by the Forces of Nature, J. Coalition) members Nick keeps them dope. Songs like tional piano, organ, etc. sam­ On Everybody," and EPMD [Chicken bone? ed.] It's over Beez Wit the Remedy (Warner Nack, Sukii, Chann, Lady "T", "Seems You Forget", "Back ples. Anyways, most of it is and Kay Gee of Naughty By for another coupla. Rapper of Bros.). A lot of their stuff is Shorty and Dawn talkin' bout Up In Da Joint," "Get The good with the tide track, "The Nature having their way be­ the month goes to KAM for hard to get to with hip hop/ the Sess. Sounds like Yo Yo's Point" and "Pass The B uddha" Planet," "Super Nigga" and hind the board as well. With bringin' forth the knowledge noise/found sound exploration back in the fold with a smoother are a good start to a hopefully "On and On" worth checkin' the classic Jam Master Jay and understanding, as well as tracks but there is no denyin' more mature flow and more long career; they gots poten- out. They also cover the cur­ scratches and the unique Run his P-funkified beats. Peace the lyrical flow and originality flavour. Check it out. rent hot topic of tape boodeg- DMC style raps there is no Out! in the straight-up slammin' KAM, another righteous Anothercrew on the come ging on "Bootleg Beatdown," tracks like "40 Below nigga that Ice Cube has hoisted up are The Lords of the sparked off by BrandNubian's Trooper," "Book of Rhyme out ofthe L.A. ghettos (not to Underground fromNew Jer­ "Stedy BooUeggin'," but one Pages" and "Good Ole Hype get away from it, but to explain sey. These guys, Doitall, Mr. thing I really hate about this Shit". My overall impression the life and problems of it while Funky, and Lord Jazz, com­ release are the 8 wack fake of the album is that there are a making funky music for it) onto bine old-school breakbeats and telephone "interludes" which few good hits, but they've lost his Street Knowledge label, is drummachines with heavy bass appear throughout. And ifyou the street feeling by experi­ kickin' knowledge like nobody with jazz horn samples, and can find it, peep out the "Van menting too much. Then again, on the west coast has done the occasional jazz bassline for Full of Pakistans/The Plant" it is starting to grow on me. befo' for his debut, Neva Again their debut release Here Come 40 minute CD single. Now There's a new female rap­ (Eastwest Records). I mean The Lords (Pendulum/Elektra). that's the real dope rightthere . per on the scene and her name he's got the muthaphunkin' P- Produced by Marley Marl, eve- "Some say I got more juice is Boss. Her debut albumfiom funk so deep it could be rything's here but there isn't than 2 Pac," Redman said. Gangstaz (DJ West/Colum­ knowledgin' y'all even if the anything spectacular, beat- Well here's his second release, bia), comes off strong and tracks were instrumental! Add wise. The lyrics, on the other Strictly 4 My Niggaz hardcore with the enlisted help to that some commentary on hand, are pretty dope. With (Interscope), and he's got alot of a lot of different producers: the L.A. riots, the Bloods'/ high bpm, fast lyrics, and the of guests backin' him up. In his Def Jef handles most of the Crips' peace treaty, the teach­ Lords triple- teamin' on the quest to put together some real tracks, including the outstand­ ings of the Nation of Islam, the choruses, the raps kinda sound hardcore-funk rap tracks he's ing "Deeper" and "Progress of irrelevance of most of like Onyx without the irritat­ enlisted the services of such Elimination," while Erick Ser­ Amerikkka's holidays... the list ing, rough-throat, fake industry heavyweights as Ice mon, AMG (her brother), MC goes on. KAM don't quit and dancehall raggamuffin-style Cube and Ice-T for "Last Serch and JamMaster Jay each he delivers with all the flow of that they tried to borrow. That Wordz," Digital Underground take a pair. I think Boss is a veteran. Deeper than you style's gonna be played out for "I Get Around" and Treach gonna give Nikki D a run for think and highly recom­ fast but the Lords just keep the of Naughty B y Nature, Apache her money as tlie hardest ofthe mended. lyrics swift-flowin'. Check out and Live Squad for "5 Dealy female rappers, although the On the flip, Young MC "L.O.T.U.G.," "From Da Venoms". All solid tracks. He's

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Surely rooted around the de- a blender, put it onto tbe handy one of the best bands to win "fuck-up" mode, and send it to Shindig in recent years, Brand Mulroney adminis­ Seattle? Answer: The Thank­ New Unit actually represent less Dogs. Given those ingre­ be, that 20 second, cuddle-core tration and are so political, in power. A great release and the Welcome back, children, what's happenin' in the scene dients you belter believe they poem at the end (sung/recited fact, that they almost come off kids'll love the title of the last and salutes of admiration to all right now. Reminiscent of old- rock, and rock hard! They've by some faceless, cutesy au­ like a long, musical guilt trip song: "Dinosaurs." (Sub Pop) the Vancouver bands who have school Vancouver punks Curi­ got two kickin' singles out on dio-boy) makes me wanna barf directed towards the listener. Descending back into the released 7" singles this sum­ ous George, mixed with con­ Bag Of Hammers so check 'em all over the seven inches of Couple that with the singer's States, to the inevitable Seat­ mer! It's amazing for this town, temporary Yankee hit-makers out... (Bag Of Hammers hard stuff cub have given me. hoarse growl and it's pretty tle, first and foremost on the let me tell ya. And the good like Green Day or NOFX, BNU Records, P.O. Box 928, Seat­ By the way, it's Superior and hard to sit through this one to list is The Falllouts new 7", thing is, on the whole, most of hit the mark with a no-holds- tle, W A 98111 USA) Huron! (Mint, #669-810, West the end. Could be that the songs "This is Mine b/w Jealous the singles are of quality just aren't that great. listenin'. Geez, I guess we do Broadway, Vancouver, BC Kind," on Regal Select Peach is a new group have apurdy good scene going V5Z 4C9) That's where Stand Records. To put it bluntly as from Seattle which features here. 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The recording is ripe and fairly Total Goombah. ple, Dustemichtstr. 14, 5000 sole complaint is that they got to catch up on and could have just come clean with amusing yet instantly forget­ Estrus rockers Gravel Vancouver's ever-popular Koln 41, Germany) two songs; the third tune, table. Then there's No Offense. possible this is more amazing (who I believe are from the fine Sparkmarker have released I'm guessing that the Where do I start? These dudes town of Gig Harbour, Wash­ guy(s) at Scratch Records have "City," tends to bog down an rock 'n' roll from the most un­ their second single on Selfless already good record. A minor have possibly the worst record­ ington) were solicited to put Records of Texas! Congrats to a very warped sense of humour derrated band in Seattle. (Re­ gripe, nonetheless. (Three ing sound live ever heard. gal Select, P.O. Box 986, out #XXIX in the series. "Yes­ the 'Marker for spreadin' out and very tolerable ears to put Limp, lame punk but I still terday, "the A-side, is a mourn­ out something as musically in­ Minute Mile, c/o CJSF Radio, Issaquah, WA 98027 USA) their extremely powerful, T.C. 216, SFU, Burnaby, BC manage a grain of respect for ful, folksy-garage tune a la the angst-fuelled punk rage world­ ept as their new split single by Top Drawer Records are a V5A 1S6) their effort. (En Guard, 1671 fairly new label from Seattle Byrds, andthe B-side, "In Your wide. Once again, a great pack­ Nimrod and Roughage St. Hubert, Montreal, PQ H2L Eye," gets it all a-rockin' with aging job complete Now let's move on to the and so far they're off to a fine rest of Canada. Eastward into 3Z1) start. Top Drawer's first 7" re­ an intense Stooges/Fluid blast with a beautiful hand- from the crypt. Good stuff. screened cover. All in Edmonton we find Lurch, who The Maritimes' redeem- lease happens to be the last all, a great record. have put out a four song, very thing we will ever here #XXXI V comes from a bi­ (Selfless, 2157 Pueblo dirty 7" entitled Pet My Pussy. from Stumpy Joe, an­ zarre DC combo called The Garland, Texas 75040 Check this song title: "Fist Me other sadly underrated Brief Weeds who deliver an USA) With Your Wrist-Watch On" Emerald City combo EP entitled Songs Of Innocence ...no thanks, babe. Gnarly, lo- who just recently broke And Experience. Beside the full Then there's the fi, riot grrl gone bad rock. standGT up. The A-side of this frontal nudity on the cover of a combo that surprised (Smilin' Skull Records, 35 farewell is a hard ga­ man, woman, boy and girl, the us all, those saucy Greystone Cres., Sherwood rage rocker titled music is a strange mix of sounds bitches we call Cub. Park, AB T8A 3E3) "Sugar and Glue" (dig harkening from the Beach Back for round two in Over in Toronto and not a&-. the Ramones-ish har­ Boys' Pet Sounds, to Spinal the 7" circle, the babes quite so abrasive to my ears monies), and the B -side Tap's "Listen To The Flower who can do no wrong is a cool, unplugged People". Fairly psychedelic have given us Hot Dog are the fabulous Leather Up­ pers, who, this time, have Stumpy doin' John and, frankly, boring. Day : six more songs Sebastion's classic TV of their now-trade- done a split single with San Lastly, my fave new re­ Francisco's Icky Boyfriends. theme "Welcome mark, minimalistic sexy pop Masonna Picture Yoda and lease on the most recent IPU. The Uppers spew out two more Back" (Kotter). A Vol. XXXVI, is Tiger Trap's crunch. Like their first, this EP the Terminator getting together swell single and a teary is as catchy and original as ever tunes of two-piece (guitar and sweet as honey, all girl, Beat and jamming. The A-side is drums), trashy, Cramp-style goodbye. * though some of that girly i nno- pure noise, whereas the B-side Happening-meets-Heavenly, rock V roll (more surfy than love rockin' 7" slab. Magnetic cence may be long gone—take of this unlistenable chunk is a ing quality, however, comes in Next up from Top Drawer the first 7") and the Icky Boy­ as hell and a must have. Oh, for instance the tune "Through noise/karaoke version of the the form of Moncton's Eric's is a split single between San My Hoop," a song of uncon­ friends have come up with Trip and their new 7" EP, Fran's Mr. T Experience and how nice it is to end the column 60's hit "Calender Girl." And some cool shit for the flip: with such a pleasant gold- trolled, uncircumsized, cub- that, therefore, is absolute crap. Songs for Chris, on Sub Pop Seattle's Sicko. Now every­ popping, lust-filled madness. poppy crap (in a good way) in Records. Now this is good Ca­ body probably knows that I r ringer! (K, Box 7154, Olym (Scratch, 317A Cambie St., the vein of fellow-Friscers However great this record may Vancouver, BC V6B 2N4) nadian rock: original, fuzzy, ally love MTX, but my one big pia, WA 98507 USA).

AUGUST © SMUGGLERS then you'd best check yourself and perhaps because of that, there In The Hall of Fame into a home for the terminally isn't any shredding on par with (Popllama) mundane. Even in this post­ much of Dimeola's earlier work. modern, overly-analytical The Smugglers' latest offering Instead the playing is slow and world, like the first track says, is a damn fine, post-modem, non- subtle. "rock n' roll was never this vinyl(H) musical treat. The The music discussed in fun." Cheezy, but true. Discorder is considered to be Smugglers' sound has kinda Kirsty Smith always been distinctive because alternative by most people, but it's a bit of a throwback to the from a global perspective so much music coming out of Vancouver ALDIMEOLA'S WORLD of it is only a slight variation of in the late fifties and early sixties SINFONIA contemporary North American (remember "Latromotion" or the Heart of the Immigrant and European pop/rock. While Nocturnals?). Somehow the boys (Justin Time Records) Al Dimeola has toyed with some of its variants from time to time, In The Crypt Style!, namely have managed to capture that I've never been to Argentina this is not one of those times. So, blaxploi spunky, innocent, fun-rock and I don't know if I'd really if you'd like to hear something soundtracks like Black Caesar, sound and warp it so that it want to go. What with coup that's truly alternative, yet don't Dolomite, and Blackbelt Jones becomes not-so-innocent, d'etats, hyper-inflation, soccer want to go for some "authentic" downright naughty, and riots and a lack of hockey, I local players, this CD is a great Right off the bat there's unmistakably contemporary. don't think I could handle it. place to start. "Afro," the movie's opening What' cha get is this vague feeling However, that's not to say that theme, complete with cheese- like the Smugglers are an Argentina's culture can't be Brian Wieser driven organ, and "Soul anachronistic band who have enjoyed here to a limited extent. Typecast" which has Jon blended the earnest Al Dimeola's latest release, KING COBB STEELIE shouting "Don't you know unpretentiousness of the fifties Heart of the Immigrant, bring (Raw Energy/A&M) for. The LP doesn' t let up oi GIRL TROUBLE there's gonna be trouble!" with the frank insolence of the across that culture quite well on as the band goes wild in their New American Shame while Blackbelt Jones takes on nineties (Yeah, whatever. I'm so the many taago-esque songs I saw these guys before I heard frenzy of raw energy, ripping those ten guys in the car wash, full of shit). What also makes composed almost exclusively their CD, so I was expecting the (Empty/Cargo) through songs like "To Tame A flyin' fist style. Then after along this CD post-modemish is its by the guitarist Dimeola and sort-of-Dinosaur-ish stuff they It must be a real drag having your Woman" (featuring 80-year old day's fightin' it's time for mix of old and new songs, twenty songwriter Astor Piazzollo. played hve from the CD. But name always mentioned on the go-go dancer Granny Go-Go), a litde maxin' and relaxin' at in all. There's stuff on here from King Cobb Steelie are much more tail-end of Seattle. Despite that "House of Stone", "Ritual of the This isn't a regionally- the local jive palace with the the. Atlanta Whiskey Flats and Al varied and experimental than they Tacoma has the ability to pro­ Lame", and... well you get the exclusive world music album, duce rockers! The new album sounds of "Train #2" to keep Marineland LP's and the At though. Besides the rendition present hve. This Toronto-based idea. Go buy it. things rollin' well into the Germany 7" as well as seven (their third) shakes yer butt in Mofo of "Someday My Prince Will act can combine the Mascis-type new V wondrous ways with a night. brand spankin' new tunes. Come" in tribute to Miles Davis, playing and quaalude-induced But for the secret agents There's no point in try ing to select performed by guitar and vocals with groovy melodies and dozen over-the-top classics of JON SPENCER BLUES American music. Girl Trouble's ofballs-o'-firerawkandrol], the favourite songs because they are bandoneon only, as is most of original uses of the usual chords. style is straight-ahead '60s-type EXPLOSION night never ends, 'cuz all so damn good but check out the album, there's a song which There are also tons of nifty trash rock a la Count Five, Extra Width "Inside the World of the Blues the exotic ".landolin playing on gives a definite feeling of being sample-based experimental bits Kingsmen, etc.. Singer K.P. (Matador) Explosion" can be a cold and track 4 (Bourbon 92), it's in a Northern Exposure forest in between such great song tides Kendall has a bellow that would With this, their third long lonely place, if they magical. I realiy can't praise this before it died from pollution. as "Dangerous Dangling Arm" put Lux Interior to shame and player, Spencer & co. move into don't have damn fine music like CD enough. Within the first few The recording itself is excellent and "Time=Money. Kahuna's guitar has this choice some decidedly different this to keep them goin'. minutes of listening to it, ifyou' re With a full sound achieved by Money=Pizza. (therefore) vintage sound most would kill territory from ...Presents Jams Bryce Dunn not dancing, or at least smiling. the four members of the band, Time-Pizza." The band can shift

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Dead Corps, who have a rocks hard! Total satisfaction ab­ worthwhile. wildly energetic, early-80's solutely guaranteed. Mofo hardcore-punk sound (MDC, Eric FYH Black Flag), show a lot of potential and were the real FLAT DUO JETS BILLY CHILDISH memorable band for me off of Native American Sampler Safari this compilation. No In-City (Norton) Venue is worth checking out if - A History 1983-1993 This could probably be just to see what's going on in (Sub Pop) considered a "fans-only" LP as Saint John. (P.O. Box 267, With over 50 recordings to his credit, this isn't exactly new material BUM Hampton, New Brunswick EOG it probably wasn't too hard to (we'll have to wait until later this Wanna Smash 1Z0) compile 18 tracks that could fittingly month on Sky Records), but Tom Milne be placed on an album tided Native instead a smattering of stuff from Sensation American Sampler. This album (PopLlama) previously unreleased lo-fi TSUNAMI spans 10 years of BiUy Chddish's After creaming the world with career and includes two of his poems cassettes. Don't dismay tho', as Deep End these tunes showcase everything five 7" singles in their first year and his contribution ofthe cover art from Texter Romweber' s multi- as a "real" group. Bum are back (Simple Machines) (which rules). The songs are talented musicianship on "Fuzzy for the knock-out punch with Deep End is good, clean, pop primarily stripped-down, low-fi, And Wild" and "The Springheel their first fuU-length album, apdy ra\wk, and Jenny and Kirstin's rockabilly-ish ditties with a groovy Jack," to their supercharged hve tided "Wanna Smash Sensation", vocals are mosdy sweet, but hook. Some of the songs are shows with "Rock It," "Cast Iron on Seatde's PopLlama label. AU overaU it's boring. The songs are influenced by native music butmost Arm" and "Mr. Guitar." True of the A-sides from the singles catchy but don' treaUy work; they of the rhythms just remind me of fans will stick with this LP, but if are here (the B-sides were left don'thookyou. But, on the other classic rock songs that "I can't you're foolhardy enough to get exclusive to 7" vinyl) as are a hand, you might like it for those remember. And, hey, the profits go the CD version you' 11 be dealin' slew of brand new Bum style to Survival International! with 34 tracks of tribal fury! Dig H.I.T.S. Listen up, indie-rock Soya Sauce it! fanatics, whether yer into Green Day, FreeStone, orthe5.6.7.8's, Bryce Dunn it's aU here for you on Smash. Though most easily classified as What he said. 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Brooks Hits minimum of production that (Estrus) suits the music quite well, the FLUF As I've stated before, and will primary disappointment comes Mangravy again, these rockers are one of via the vocalist: he sounds less (Cargo/Head hunter) Seattle's most underrated inspired. I appreciate Big Drill Hey! O is big, very big. So is combos. The Fallouts have been Car's honesty in letting their Fluf s new release, Mangravy. I around for years and have just audience know (read the liner like O. I like Fluf. I like recendy come out from the dark notes) that the motivation for Mangravy. I also liked and into the shade with a new releasing this recording was for Olivelawn, O and Jonny's old album of bits on a label-branch the money, but if you're not a die band, whose sound and style of Sub Pop called Super Electro. hard fan I would recommend that could perhaps be used as a refer­ But that ain't this album. 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Cool as fuck and raw, unbridled energy. So getoff years late. Usually rmprejudiced worthy of your hard earned buck. your ass and catch up with the against all things British, but I Pick it up! thought I'd see if all the good Eric FYH. FaUouts. things I've heard about the Fall Grant Lawrence were true. They are. VARIOUS ARTISTS CLUTCH The songs are upbeat and No In-City Venue — A Passive Restraints poppy in a loungy way and they Compilation of Saint stick in your head like those (Earache/Relativity) John Bands Utde bugs from Star Trek that For those unexposed to Clutch a eat your brain. "Words of (Underground typical initial response upon Expectation" is nine minutes long Productions) hearing Passive Restraints could and it's catchy to the point of As one would expect from a be "What bell hath Helmet craziness, "Kimble" and "Gut compilation of underground wrought?" 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StilL they were the ton of songs including great old ones Uke band most devoted to volume and power that the rockin' "Miserlou" and "Let's Go night, and the crowd liked them. NEVER get Trippin'," phis fab new ones Uke "Cara­ a BOY to tune your instruments for you. van" off the new album. As for the Del After hearing all my friends call Tones, diey were a basic lame backup band; Bratmobile a worthless abombination, I was a guy who looked Uke a melalhc Tootsie on preparing for a bunch of humourless cater­ bass, and some teen-aged drummer boy. wauling idiots with out-of-tune guitars in one But it was Dick Dale's show, and lhat's hand and bloody scissors in the other. Fortu­ where the audience's attention was. HeU, nately, they were tight, funny, driven, catchy, he even signed autographs for an hour after and all female except for their fucking drum­ the show. 1 guess I'm glad I actuaUy got to mer. Their guitarist had absolutely mastered see this bizarre, unique and underrated star the E-string, and I'm not even making fun of her. Yeah, here was some caterwauling, but Grant Lawrence it fiti n perfectly with their garage-rock style, and they all seemed so happy and jumpy that The The it was hard not lo like them. Kindamakesyou Swell sick, huh? Anyway, a near faultless perform­ ance from a band I expected a lot less of. Orpheum Theatre mental counterparts. Someone smart should bring them to Van­ Thursday, July 22 new tunes. Their tour with the Smugglers However, just prior to The The's couver before they all take ecstasy and go Most of us struggle for recognition; but has done cub a lot of good; they were a lot departure from the stage before they were some are born to genius— Matt Johnson is tighter, and it hasn't hurt sales. According lo harkened back for a deserved encore, aU this one of those people. A humble and intro­ Mint Bill, cub's latest offering "Hot Dog Jacky was thrown to the wind in an ignorant, and spective lad, Johnson, the brain-child be­ Day", is inlo ils second pressing of a thou­ quile frankly arrogant, attempt at some pub- hind The The, is not so much a powerful sand copies.Nowthat'salot of warm fuzzies. style rock. If Matt Johnson believes that the presence as he is a craftsman who has per­ Girl Trouble had a lot of moshing as audience at his concerts are there lo hear and fected his trade and thus must initiate flaw. well, lt was a bit of a strange sight to see see him cany on in some self-righteous, His voice, as enticing and effortlessly po­ people carried on top of the crowd to primo Pogues-cum-Wonderstuff fashion, then he's etic as ripples from a faUen leaf, is the tool surf rawk. The lead singer reminded me of a holding some hoUow thoughts that are only from which the tapestry of his master skinnier, less-repulsive Lux Interior, with partiaUy correct: Malt Johnson is making the Polly Joan photo by Joel Fraser songwriting is drawn. His songwriting his unhealthy pallor and pelvic thrusts, and Butthole Surfers audience perform everytime he proudly paid the ticket price got completely burned: weaves pain and passion— emotions usu- the music was pure surf. Girl Trouble were Stone Temple Pilots slunks to front-and-centre, and only the na­ so tight, they came on aboul fifteen minutes the Butthole Barbeque was one lame-ass aUy left cowering in opposite comers of the ive wiU be able to appreciate and understand fIREHOSE after cub, which was a nice change from the excuse for a show. heart's darkest embers— into a silky thread the reasons for which The The depart from a Basehead usual interminable between-set waits. Svea with a non-chalance that is frighteningly mesmerizing performance into sheer insip­ PNE Aqua stage unnerving. idness. Nonetheless, beautiful words in bat­ Then, Shadowy Men On a Shadowy Wednesday, July 7 PJ Harvey The The commands an audience, tered times for the beat(en) generation. Planet, a trio of guys lhat make you proud to Due to public transit, I missed the one band rather lhan performs for one, with a preci­ be Canadian, eh. The crowd was a sea of Moonshake Paul t. Brooks blissful hopping bodies, and with good rea­ of the evening that I really wanted to see Commodore Ballroom sion not unlike the tide's ebb and flow son— Shadowy Men are tons of fun! Every­ (Basehead) so the evening started off on a Friday July 8,1993 pledge to its lunar chaperone. Done with an bad note and got progressively worse. Billed elaborate texture to their music, The The Shadowy Men On A Shadowy body went predictably berserkers at the "Kids Here it is, quick and painless. I got there a bit as the "Butthole Barbeque," I was shocked capture the emotional essence of each note Planet in the HaU" theme, and other faves like "Five late, but saw most of Moonshake. I liked to find no barbeque-just agreasy concession Dick Dale and the Dettones from every instrument and voice and encap­ Girl Trouble Americans, Six Canadians." The show was them a lot. Interesting songs with a cool stand with plenty of overpriced slimy shit The Surfdusters sulate those notes, in turn those instruments cub marred halfway by an audience member groove, baby. No star-trips, man, just a band being crushed against the barricade and first passing as food. The Evaporators and voices, into an autonomous script, lim­ Commodore Ballroom rockin' out. I'd explain what they sound aid people were caUed in. But the show did After sitting for what seemed an Commodore Ballrom ited only by the song they are a piece of. Saturday, July 24 like, but I can't be bothered. Now it's your go on lo wild acclaim; you had to be pretty eternity, the 1040 MC announced that Wednesday, July 21 Each song is therefore a composition of And we'll have fun, fun, fun, 'till Daddy hard-hearted not to have enjoyed yourself. fIREHOSE would either be late or a no- problem. several layers and that's why it is so easy to My evening started out early at the Cargo- takes the T-bird away... The encore consisted of easily recognizable show 'cause their van had broken down PJ Harvey. Lady Harvey. The band enrapture yourself in the piano of "Lung sponsored Sub Pop party al the Barracuda 1 was worried that cub would get lost riffs, such as "Layla", interspersed with Shad­ somewhere in the U.S.A.. Instead, some Harvey. Don't love 'em. Don't hate 'em. Shadows," the harmonica of "Slow Emo­ Club. And what a bizzare party it was ... It's in the large confines of the Commodore, but owy Men snippets. freak-awful band from God-knows-where Good songs. Bad songs. Waay too much tion Replay," the percussive rhythm of "So­ purpose was to actually promote a Sub Pop I shouldn't have been worried; the cubsters went on stage. Booed by the crowd because hype. She came on late. Too late. Smiled too dium Light Baby," or the vocal tn_ce of And we'll have fun, fun, fun, 'till gig happening a week later at the Town were in form. There was much throwing of of their lameness, members of the audience much — where's the attitude, the anger? "Bluer Than Midnight" while remaining Daddy takes the T-Bird away .... Pump. Were the Sub Pop bands (Pond, Eric's candy, (gentle) moshing and even somebrand were pulled on stage to do their own fill-in. Seemed reserved, didn't rock out enough. completely obUvious to the song's instru­ June Scudeler Trip) there? No. They were somewhere in the The result was a putrid sounding, but enter­ Faithful (boring) renditions of hit tunes. Lot's middle of the prairies! Were they giving taining set. fIREHOSE eventually showed, o' hero-worship from the crowd. Is she de­ away tons of free Sub Pop shit and beer? Oh to the delight of the crowd, and played a serving? I dunno, not yet, I think. yeah. And that's why me and about a hundred weak 4 song set. Mr. Normalskull other "losers" were on hand. Of course the After another long break theStone Girlschock '93 free hootch ran out after about an hour (big Temple Pilots appeared, featuring a gro­ surprise), so it was off to the Commodore to tesque Gwar-looking figurinea s a prop that Bratmobile witness the always-entertaining Evaporators 1 kept expecting to do something, but it just Kreviss with Nardwaur the Human Serviette on lead II all it: s. STP w Hussy vocals and organ. They played all their awful. Hello wannabe Pearl JamlTheir songs Show Off Gallery warped-garage 'hits' including "Winnipeg sounded all the same, and their show went on Bellingham, WA '64", "france" and the super-trooper dedi­ so long I eventually plugged into my Saturday, July 9 cated to Dick Dale, "Welcome to My Castle". walkman. The vocalist's disco moves were The Show Off Gallery is a small building Enjoyable were also Nardwaur's organ dives quite brilliant however, and he was cute. pretty close to the centre of Bellingham and and his pathetic, out of breath, between song Butthole Surfers were on last. run by some fairly nice people. It's all ages, According to my friend Carol, who was up and while I was there, the toilet seat seemed The Surfdusters were up next, and front taking pictures, it was a miracle the to stay down and clean. since I had never seen them before, I was a lead singer was even standing he was so Hussy was the firstup , all female Uttle shocked at how ancient they are. How­ gooned. Their set contained some older hits except for their fucking drummer, and an apt ever old they may be (50s or 60s?), they still mixed with new tunes from Independent comparison would be to locals cub, although managed to pound out a pretty cool surf beat. Worm Saloon, "Goofy's Concern" being Hussy seemed to spend a Uttle less time But geez, the woman on keyboards looked one of the crowd's favourite picks, who worrying about whether or not you can sing like she should have been filinglibrar y books enthusiastically packed the floor. Big strikes their songs around a campfire. If they put a instead of on stage with a rock band. against Gabby, who used the voice box ma­ song that I think was called "Pretty Boy" on Then there was the mighy Dick Dale; chine like it was a new toy in the hands of an a single, I'll buy it. A good messy guitar a man who hasn't cut his hair since 79, a man annoying child, and the the light show, which sound and some catchy songs sum them up, who has just put out a new album (though it's was pointless as the sun had barely sunk unless you want to hear about wigs, under- the first in 18 years),aman who for the better below the horizon. Overall, anyone who

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You Seattle guys about buying one of these damn creatively tided "Theme", from the ing girlfriend's car last week), Sesa­ are very odd. things unless you use your student Man From Uncle soundtrack), me Street Fever, and Chipmunk Thanx to both of you. Now, loan money or are in the sex trade choice Martin Denny and Sergio Punk. Bill Cosby is in the house with I' d print their addresses if I had tlieir industry. But trip on this: the digital Mendes cuts (the uncrowned kings a torturous, Barry Whitc-ish "ASim- permission, so you could trade tapes, revolution hasn't preserved any of EZ Listening; any of their LPs are ple Love Affair" and "What D'Ya whatever, with them, but you'll have warmth to the music the way analog worth their weight in cubic zirconia) Think About Licken My Chicken1?" to wait 'til later for that. Keep the did that's why most recordings are and littered with selections from done JB-style— these were from tapes coining. I think the next tape I done analog up to the mastering Astrid Gilbrto and the Breakfast at Disco Bill, apparently done in Bill's get together will be the Reader Se­ stage. Also, the fact that there is no Tiffany's soundtrack. Mr. Karty rec­ lean times. Truly excruciating. Pe­ lected Edition, so hurry! Send hiss to warn you how loud the song ommends a cocktail while listening ter shifts 180 degrees by giving the reqests, comments/abuse, money for is gonna be can blast your ears out but I suggest tiki torches to make the sect I love to hate some time with an tapes, etc., to: (owners of Discmans can vouch for atmosphere complete. Part Two, excerpt of "Battlefield Earth," the this)! And, finally, we've been He Uo. Future!, is culled from some soundtrack to one of L Ron Hub­ Hey Mofo! through the 8-track, LP, cassette, amazing forward-thinking LPs cir­ bard's more famous tree-wasters. 2054 E. Broadway and CD already, do we really need to ca the "Dry Look", "Cool Whip" era Genuine Musak follows before he Vancouver, BC drop another format for a new one? (as RK would say). The high points drifts back to matters spiritual, clos­ V5N1W7 It's time to say "Whoa, hold off for include moon landing tapes from ing off with a Mormon clip. Sid- a decade or two! Buying systems the Apollo 11, "UFOs" by the Un­ two is Story Time, with some So, it's the 90's, man, technology become hostage to CDs these two every few years is a waste erf money, disputed Truth, a Motown act with marches on, and the grabbing hands moguls have decided we, as con­ I should know, I have four computer (no he!) spherical, stark white Afros that grab all they can have come up sumers, need more ways to drop systems at home none of which is as and metallic designs on their pusses, PRIZE FUN!!!!! The person who writes from the furthest with two bold formats for you to dollars. Here's a capsule descrip- current as they need to be. However, as well as Shostako vitch done on the locale will also recieve a canned meat of my choice as an listen to yer music on. Yup, Sony- music has a Uttle more longevity Moog synth. And let's not forget added bonus!!! Deadline is Roctober31, 1993. Corp and PhilipsCorp have, repec- Mini-Disk — Sony's got this thing than data so it is possible for us to not "The Girl From Impanema" with tively, brought forth the MiniDisc which is a little smaller than a 3 1/2" buy either of these new devices until the song stylings of Richard Hay­ MiniDisk vs. DCC Comparison Chart and Digital Compact Cassette in the floppy disc, supposedly for increased we are forced to by the shops (like man and His Genuine Electric Latin hopes that you, the music buying portability. There are three pros to they did with CDs.) Another thing to Love Machine!!! Richard ends off M____uk _2_£ public (or, as they put it, the sheep), this format: 1) the discs are small; 2) wait for is to see if the record labels the tape with Music From the Gold­ Is the DCC/Disk easy to lose? will drop the shekels for their prod­ they record digitally up to 74 min­ will freak out over this like they did en Age of Nudity: neither of the ves ves uct and forsake the other. utes; 3) well, the discs are small. On with DAT recorders. I figure DCC choice, rare groove cuts Uke Ohio Do you need a magnifying glass to read the liner notes? It's a bugger when companies the downside, the players are in the will win over the MiniDisk, just Players' "Skin Tight" and Brass ves ves come out with these new formats, $700 range and a recorder will cost because of its compatiblity. Construction's "Peekin"' won points Do the companies have subsidiaries in thedefense in­ witness what happened when CDs you about 900 clams (I don't have a with the more conscious sistahs, price on the walkman version yet). I know what you're saying, lemme tell you! This is an excellent dustry (i.e. do they make bomb parts?) came out. The propaganda machine ves vup told us all CDs would give us far Also, remember, this is a Sony prod­ you're saying "Format, schmormat, tape, and twisted Richard promises better audio, would get cheaper, uct, the Einstiens that invented Beta get on to the LPs, 'cause all I got is Can you put it near a magnet without fucking it up? wouldn't scratch, etc., and we fell and the Elcaset (nobody believes one of those Candle stereos where The last tape comes from Pe­ nope uh-uh for it Even vinyl purists were forced that this existed but I did some re­ the turntable is set in the same box as ter Vollan who does a 'zine called Is MeatIoaf*s Bat Out of Hell available on the format? to hunt around for a shop that still search and found a photo circa 1977. everything else, man!" Well, count Culture Schuck. It's an erratic blend oh veah sure carried records or take the plunge Sony figured that if they used 1/4" yourself lucky if you got one be­ of weirdness that is just as great as into CD. Since then we've found tape and jammed it into a humun­ cause those truly horrifying things Ric's, though not with as many cuts. that if a CD gets scratched that song gous cassette styleshell, audiofreaks at least have a 78 setting! Since I've simply will not play or will loop would buy thousands— I doubt they blown most of my space with col­ infinitely, none of which is as cool sold more than 500 machines), both umn, I just have enough room to tell as a scratched record can be. CDs of which died with a whimper. you about a couple of tapes I just got. certainly aren't cheaper for us. I Both of these tapes come from mean, if Facepuller and Club Gro­ Digital Compact Cassette our friendly city to the south, the tesque can sell CDs at decent prices Philips is behind this one. Basically, home of that shining blight of the and have a good chance at breaking this is a cassette that can record future, Microsoft. Of course, I ;ven, what with the high costs of digitally. The pros: 1) they will play Seattle! small runs, then the majors, with analog cassettes so it's not like you The first tape comes from Ri­ their own pressing plants, can put gotta throw them out; 2) they record chard Karty, and it's only about five discs out at 1/3 of their present cost longer than MiniDisks; 3) they'll fit months late, meaning Richard has and still make scads of cash (but in your cassette case. The cons (no the same reliable qualities as I do! don't hold your breath waiting for pun intended): 1) a recorder cost- Definitely worth the wait, the first the greedy fucks to drop prices!) about $900; 2) no-one knows how part, creatively titled Where Have Now that we have essentially well they play your analog cassettes; All the Stainless SteelMartini Pitch-

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Murray McLauchlan at Vancouver East Cultural The Miracle (7:30pm) and The Crying Game (9:25pm) at the Ridge... Centre... Tony Flaime with the Demons at the Yale... Rhythm Method The Young One (7:30pm) and "El" (9:20pm) at Pacific at the Railway... Back to Bassix with T-Bone at Graceland... Ju Dou Cinematheque... (7:30pm) and Raise the Red Lantern (9:30pm) at the Ridge... Clips 8 SUN CiTR PRESENTS UNDER THE VOLCANO FESTIVAL AT CATES PARK from Adult Films (7:30pm) at Pacific Cinematheque... FEATURING AZTLAN NATION, BOB'S YOUR UNCLE. WITHOUT 20 FRI Tony Flaime with the Demons at the Yale... Rick Colboume & REZERVATION, CESAR DAVILA & KIN LALAT. CULTURE HYPE CREW, Hard Poetry at the Railway... Murray McLauchlan at Vancouver ZOLTY CRACKER. SPARKMARKER. JEET KEI, TICKLE TRUNK AND East Cultural Centre... Wild Cherry with DJ Czech at Graceland... FRACUS... CITR PRESENTS DRIVE LIKE JEHU WITH UNWOUND AT THE Buck Pets with Mind Over Four, Season to Risk, Poison Bone at the TOWN PUMP... 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Sister Psychic with Diamond Fist Werny and Peach The Judge & the Assassin (9:40pm) at Pacific Cinematheque... at the Offramp... Tampopo (7:15pm) and Like Water for Chocolate 10 TUE Cruel 70s Disco at the Co y odore... Linda Hornbuckle with (9:25pm) at the Ridge... Wutherlng Heights (7:30pm) and Death In DATEBOOK the No Delay Band at the Yal... Jelly Roll Blues Band at the the Garden (9:15pm) at Pacific Cinematheque... Railway... Phat Groove with DJ Czech at Graceland... Truly with 22 SUN movies of the week at the Railway... Tampopo (7:15pm) and 1 SUN Bad Brains with the Didjits. Trigger Happy and Shades of Crunt at the Offramp... Ethan Frome (7:30pm) and Howards End Like Water for Chocolate (9:25pm) at the Ridge... A Week's Vaca­ Culture at the Town Pump... Orquesta B.C. Salsa with Esplrltu Libre (9:25pm) at the Ridge... tion (7:30pm) and Beatrice (9:30pm) at Pacific Cinematheque... at the Commodore... movies of the week at the Railway... 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Gnome at & his Death Groove Love Party at the Railway... Russell Jackson 2 MON Transit Police with Johnny Trout at the Railway... Penn & the Offramp... Leolo (7:30pm) and Calendar (9:35pm) at the Ridge- with the Jack Band at the Yale... Reggae Night with CiTR's own DJ Teller at the Vogue... Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and Post Modern Sisters: Just Beneath the Skin (Program Two) at George Barrett at Graceland... Betty Blue (7:30pm) and IP5: The the Media (7:30pm) at the Ridge... A Sunday In the Country (7:30pm) Pacific Cinematheque (7:30pm)... Island of the Pachyderms (9:30pm) at the Ridge... Blue Angel and Let Joy Reign Supreme (9:20pm) at Pacific Cinematheque- 13 FRI Bum with Zumpano at Station Street Arts Centre... Memphis (7:30pm) and The Last Laugh (9:25pm) at Pacific Clnematheque... Ban Clearcuts in Clayoquot Sound March and Rally at MacBlo HQ Slax, Barney Bentall, West End Girls at the Commodore... Frank 26 THU Sub-Sonic Thursdays at the Pit Pub with Copyright and (noon, 925 West Georgia)... Frink Five at the Railway... Linda Hornbuckle with the No Delay Coal... Carmaig de Forest & his Death Groove Love Party at the 3 TUE Johnny Clegg & Savuka with Murray Attaway at the Vogue- Band at the Yale... Wild Cherry with DJ Czech at Graceland... Railway... Russell Jackson with the Jack Band at the Yale... Back to Cruel 70s Disco at the Commodore... Transit Police with Johnny Grotus with Lung, Captain Enema, Tchkung at the Offramp... The Bassix with T-Bone at Graceland... Betty Blue (7:30pm) and IP5: The Trout at the Railway... Sonny Rhodes & the Texas Twisters at the Shunning at Richmond Gateway Theatre... Waiting (7:30pm) and Island of the Pachyderms (9:30pm) at the Ridge... The Phantom of Yale... Phat Groove with DJ Czech at Graceland... The Didjits with Strictly Ballroom (9:30pm) at the Ridge... The Milky Way (7:30pm) Liberty (7:30pm) and The Criminal Life of Arch, de la Cruz (9:30pm) The Muffs and Sinister Six at the Offramp... Manufacturing Con­ and The River and Death (9:30pm) at Pacific Cinematheque... at Pacific Cinematheque... sent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (7:30pm) at the Ridge... 14 SAT CiTR PRESENTS MICHELLE SHOCKED AT VANCOUVER EAST 27 FRI Carmaig de Forest & his Death Groove Love Party at the 4 WED CiTR HOT WEDNESDAYS AT THE PIT PUB... Angellque Kidjo. CULTURAL CENTRE... Copyright with Art Bergmann at Station Street Railway... Russell Jackson with the Jack Band at the Yale... Wild Baaba Maal, Ismael Lo at the Commodore... Elizabeth Fischer at Arts Centre... Aerosmith with Megadeth at Pacific Coliseum... Cherry with DJ Czech at Graceland... Sage with Silkworm and the Railway... Sonny Rhodes & the Texas Twisters at the Yale... Slowburn at the Railway... Linda Hornbuckle with the No Delay Stymie at the Offramp... 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Waiting (7:30pm) and Strictly Ballroom (9:30pm) Thelma and Louise. Backlash, Paris Texas, Detour, Highway 61 at Freakscene, Deflowers and Those Who Dig at the Offramp... Last at the Ridge... "Round Midnight (9:15pm) and Spoiled Children Pacific Cinematheque... Call at Maud's (7:30pm & 9:15pm) at the Ridge... Truth or Dare (9:40pm) at Pacific Cinematheque... 29 SUN movies of the week at the Railway... The Pickle (7:30pm) and (9:30pm) at Pacific Cinematheque... Embroidered Traditions exhi­ 16 MON The Neville Brothers at the Orpheum... Reading Railroad at Dave (9:35pm) at the Ridge... Daddy Nostalgia (7:30pm) and Life bition/demonstration at Canadian Craft Museum... the Railway... Sebadoh at the Offramp... The Lover (7pm) and and Nothing But (9:30pm) at Pacific Cinematheque... 6 FRI CiTR PRESENTS X WITH BEST KISSERS IN THE WORLD AT THE TOWN Indochine (9pm) at the Ridge... 'Round Midnight (9:15pm) and 30 MON Za Za & the Angels at the Railway... Distant Voices. Still PUMP... Sonny Rhodes & the Texas Twisters at the Yale... J.J. Cale Spoiled Children (9:40pm) at Pacific Cinematheque... Lives (7:30pm) and The Long Day Closes (9:15pm) at the Ridge- with John Hammond at the Commodore... Happy Man at the 17 TUE CITR PRESENTS SEBADOH WITH ENGINE KID AND SUNNY DAY Daddy Nostalgia (7:30pm) and Life and Nothing But (9:30pm) at Railway... Wild Cherry with DJ Czech at Graceland... MDC with REAL ESTATE AT THE TOWN PUMP... Tony Flaime with the Demons at Pacific Cinematheque... JFA. Impatient Youth, White Trash Debutantes and Jack Killed Jill the Yale... Spin Doctors with Soul Asylum and Screaming Trees at 31 TUE Za Za & the Angels at the Railway... The Original Sinners at at the Offramp... The Shunning at Centennial Auditorium Coliseum Concert Bowl... Cruel 70s Disco at the Commodore... the Yale... Phat Groove with DJ Czech at Graceland... Distant (Abbotsf ord)... The Miracle (7:30pm) and The Crying Game (9:25pm) Daniel Jahnke at the Railway... Phat Groove with DJ Czech at Voices. Still Lives (7:30pm) and The Long Day Closes (9:15pm) at at the Ridge... The Young One (7:30pm) and "0* (9:20pm) at Graceland.., The Lover (7pm) and Indochine (9pm) at the Ridge... the Ridge...

•A. I"; can get through on the phone! Ida Bean's •ouch*. Sk-ene-the music, Conwaysthe '—r on the tip! voioe. The whole is edging the limits. THE JAZZ SHOW 9:00PM 12:0OAM THE UNHEARD MUSIC 7:00-9:00PM Meat Iranian music. This show is dedicated to LO-FI HXWuWPM lofi action with archie. Vancouver's longest tunning pirns time jazz the unherd where the unheard and the Iranian music ranging from traditional, velvet aid rowena. program. Hoeted by the ever-suave Gavin hordes of hardly herd are heard, courtesy folk, ethnic, mystic, old and contemporary NARDWUAR THE HUMAN SERVIETTE 1 lil Water. Features at 11. )f host and demo director Dale Sawyer. pop. Music of various parts of Iran ie. PRESENTS.. 3:3tM.-00PMTheguywho Aug 2 *t: The Jazz Show with Gavin invented K-Tel was bom in Winnipeg. m Water wiU take a holiday. THE CiTR DINNER REPORT 5«M_0PM SPIING Aug 18: Back or the scene with Grant With The Voice of Reason,' our weekly Green. The great guitarist cooks with an look back at the week in the news, tongues aH-star rtiythmsection . Sonny Clark on tili ijj lr piano, Sam Jones on bass and Art Blakey IT. NOT EASY BEING GREEN 5:30 - on Aums drive Green to some of his best 6:00PM Kelowna babbles mostly about work. A dassic Blue Note dale from 1962 - 1 y Aug 23: *Ela in Berlin ... considered Bou hosts: Bepi and anything else that may come to rrind by many to be among Ella F itzgera Ids best Crespan and Greg. Alternating with Woi on a Friday afternoon. (Yeah, rightCath i - 1 ^ n?¥^a5 recordings. Ifs a Ive' date done in 1960 at the Door. Dave) Guests... usually. in with her working band led by pianist Paul AURAL TENTACLES MIDNITE UNTIL native land. Your hostess Coral plays COCKTAILS WITH DARYL AND SUSI 6:00- Smith. Al the tunes she sings here are THE MOON DROPS Fun for the whole your local and national favorites. 9:00PM Underground sound system-style family to enjoyl Weird chunks of news, REVENGE OF THE NERD* 1:00 3:00PM n. Youll kn odd pieces of tuneage, Pierre and the Lie is big. MEAT-UP ^ ^»i^-s 2AM WWOD. FLEX YOUR HEAD 3:00_:00PM attain. You'll know why she is caled the -—HARD ERIC—- first lady of song and scat*. WEDNESDAYS -—ERIC CORE—- Aug 30: 'The uncrowned king' was THE YACHT CLUB 11:30AM-1:15PM A GET IN THE RING 5:3O-:0OPM Join Mike what Art Blakey called trumpeter Kenny nautical tour of the four comers of the and Brian every week to hear them tag DJ Noah on the wheels of steel. Dorham whose birthday it is today. Kenny musical world. Drop anchor. Hosted by team the issues with guests from all over would have been 69... he died in N.Y.C. in ON THE DIAL Mart & DJ. Gav. the political spectrum. Dec. 1972. Kenny was as much an innova­ NOOLEY TUNES 1:15-3:00PM Spinning the OUT FOR KICKS 6:00-7:30PM No tor as Miles Davis and Dizzy GMespie but beat and worst of CiTR's playlist, only the Fire Pip* - SUNDAYS 3:00PM CiTRsontyallrdustrial/hdustnal never got the acclaim and was relegated to We donl get paid so you're damn nght we *She mashed it harder and harder, but she had /ambient show with dfferent features every being a 'musician's musician'. Ton _ht Mr. have fun with it. Hosted by Chris B. fun, and it was her banana.' Fire Pipe was ARE YOU SERIOUS? MUSIC 8:00AM week. With your dj pais June and Ren. Rhys Dorham with his working band, proving his EDSVILLE, POP.6 7:30-9:OOPM Roots of brought to you by the number '180' and 12:00PM All of time is measured by its Fulber hates you alL status as a Jazz giant. Rock'n' Rol -1 you donl get into Rock 'n' the letter 'G\ art Most broadcasting shuns art for in­ SONIC SALAD 3:3am). Mystical, magical 9:00-11:00PM Local muzsakc from 9. Paul Steenhuisen and lan Crutchley. immerse you in radoactive Bhungra! ESOTERIC 5:30-7:00PM Go Ahead. It wont Live banz play tha blues from 10. THE ROCKERS SHOW 12:15-3:00PM •Chakkh de phutay". Listen to all our SATURDAYS Reggae inna all styles and fashion. RADIO TRAMS UBSTANTIATION lavorite Punjabi tunes - remixes and origK AND SOMETIMES WHY 7:0O-0:00PM THE SATURDAY EDGE 8«lAM-12fl0PM George Barret, Mike Cherry and Peter TUESDAYS YEA!!11:00PM-1AM alternating Thurs­ Megan Mallett and Miko Hoffman play Now n its 8th year on the ar, The Edge on Williams alternate as hosts. MADONNA DEATHWATCH 8:00-11:00AM days with Gigablast. Are you a prisoner or THE CiTR DINNER REPORT 5:00-5:30PM elevator music the way it should be. Fokfeaturesmusicyouworft hear anywhere SOUL CHURCH 3:00.:00 PM Alternating Bryce and Scooter get the U.R.G.E.! a warden? Oh baby, what a crazy scene, OPEN COUNTRY JOY 12:OO-4:0OAM,1ST else: new releases in the realmofCelic,Pol ­ Sundays with Brent Argo. Vancouver's HELEN'S HUT 11:0OAM-1:0OPM This month we're back from the darkest depths of hell WED. OF EVERY MONTH. Don't let the and Roots; studio guests; British comedy only program devoted entirely to Africa n- we're out in the yard - for Helen's Picnic! and, as it turns out Sammy Davis Jr. is ?#?%?«? fool you. sketches; and British soccer resuls at 1130 Canadan and African- American Gospel Stories.tunes.recipesandacheckedtable- the devil andwe'rerealrygoodtapclancers, TALES FROM THE INFINITE UVMGROOM AM. 8-9 AM: AfricarVWorti roots. 9-12 noon: music. Your rotating hosts are Vence cloth. Is it a date? and thus weVe been granted a new Hfe, 12:00-?:00AM, 2ND, 3RD, 4TH WED. Celtic music and feature performances. Yeh and Dave Langille (every second BLOOD ON THE SADDLE 1:15-3:00PM hey hallelujah! Managafeeliadapalenza!! Country muse to scrape the oowshi off your OF EVERY MONTH. Join Chris Pariah as POWERCHOflD 12:1S-3:00PM Vaxxxwer. he guides you through the scapes and only true metal show; local demo tapes, BLACK MUSIC 6:00-8:00PM Everything U B C Thunderbird boots to. Wih yer host-pote Jeff Gray. FRIDAYS dream images of the Infinite Livingroom, MEET IDA BEAN 6:00-7:00PM Rap, hip I BEE NORMAL 10:00-11:00AM Pioneers of the only place where the utterly absurd and Metal Ron do the dan^e. Blues, Gospel, Jazz. Soul, R&B, Funk, hop,and Super Dope Lyrics- so fry that Radio Sound advocating the mentally/ meets the profoundy i THE AFRICAN SHOW 3»«:00PM Ifs a Hip Hop, and current Dance Tracks. you'll do 3-5 justfor getting caught listening physically chalenged community with con- music thing from al 'Africa.' Ifs an aware­ Mouldy vinyl to shiny CDs. Your host, ness thing of sel and others. Ifs an African Lachlan Murray. SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT house party. Stories, music, dance fun. Wel­ LULU'S BACK M TOWN 8.-OO-9:0OPM Tur­ THE CI _H!M"_t__l come! Your hosts: Umerah and Maweie. in as your hosts VinnieCarpelliandSonny i-mM-Hii-i •W.'MU.W ERVICE THE SATURDAY MAGAZNE 5OO6:30PM Prince play some of the honest crooners SHOUR/NAVA VENUS UBC. weekend news. Al the latest news, on wax. Names like Tony Bennett, ARE YOU BREAKFAST MADONNA DIGITAL FLYTRAP Sammy Davis, Jr., Engelbert WITH THE DEATH ALARM DISCO THE SERIOUS? INTERNTL. Humper_nckandrr_ny,n_ny more-lots BROWNS WATCH CHRONO­ SATURDAY INEFFECT6.«W:00PMTwohouisolfatfuckirr of great cuts and plenty of polyester. MUSIC METER MUSIC 1 BEE NORM EDGE beats to smoke fat fuckin' Blunts to wth the GEETANJAU 9:0O-10:0OPM Geetanjali is DON AND funkmanPDS. a one-hour rado show which features a GOURDS HELENS CANADIAN PEAKING THE HEIMLICH MANOUVRE 8O0-10O0PM wide range of music from Inda. This THE YACHT STUPID HUT CANUCK Soph_tic_edradiofcr the after rJtYier crowd. includes classical music, both Hindustani l.l-ftU-LH CLUB LUNCH RADIO SHOW GROOVE JUMPNG 10:00PM-1:00AM Terry and Carnatic, popular music from Indian EQEE and John? Justin and Torrf? Choose your movies from the 1930s to the 199.S, ROCKERS MEKANIKAL BLOOD ON hunksf Semi-classical music such as Ghazals NOOLEY REVENGE OF POWER SHOW OBJEKT THE LO-FI SOMETHNG 1:004:00AM A cute little blurb and Bhajans, and also Quawwalis, Folk TUNES THE NERD CHORD Songs, etc. Hosted by J. Dhar, A. Patel NOIZE SADDLE with a sutveisive undertone and a sight and V. Ranjan. BRENT MARY MEGABLAST/ joke that you donl RADIO FREE AMERICA 10:00PM- SONIC SALAD ARGO/ TYLER NORMANS FLEX YOUR NARDWUAR/ AFRICAN 12:00AM Join host Dave Emory and SOUL THUR§ .PM AUfl. 5 colleague Nip Tuck for some extraord- MOORE KITCHEN HEAD NOIZ SHOW SHOW CHURCH JALLUNDAR SHOW nary political research guaranteed to FRI 6PM AUG. 6 make you think twice. Bring your tape BLACK&TAN THE SPORTS »!•:•:•- deck and two C-90s. Originally broad­ -MUM cast on KFX (Los Altos, California). • -'a "-1 MEET IDA ESOTERIC BLACK l BEAN OUT FOR COCKTAILS IN MUSIC •JAd, _ • .!,l KICKS MONDAYS BOXER WITH DARYL EFFECT TIMES WHY THEMORNINGSHOW 7:30-8:15AMWake SHORT UNHEARD AND up with the CiTR Morning Show. All the THE REAL EDSVILLE, WHOM & HOW LULUS BACK MUSIC SUSI ARTS JOHN SEMINOFF news, sports and weather you need to BOYZ POP.6 IN TOWN DEAL HEIMLICH BOARD CHAIR HARRY HERTSCHEG start your day. Plus what's happening at MANOUVRE CURRENTAFFAIRS ANGUSWILSON UBC each day with UBC Digest, a fea­ GEETANJALI LIVE FROM DEMOS/CASSETTES DALE SAWYER ture interview and more. Topped off with WOLF AT THE ENTER­ ENGINEER RICHARD ANDERSON THE JAZZ THUNDERBIRD ENTERTAINMENT CHRIS CHEN theBBC World ServiceNew»at8:00AM, ONE STEP THE DOOR/ TAINMENT RADIO HELL HOME UBRARIAN ^^^^^^^.INCE YEH^ live from London, England. 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Warner Bros, recording artist £^ and CJSF presenl with special guests Touch and Go Epic recording artists recording artsits from Chicago ris from Washington DC W didjits jt)^/nS TRIGGERHAPPYond eMent v # -^ * CUAHCC AcrniTiinc "I can count on three fingers the number of people who impressed me as much the first time I saw them bve..." - John Prine, Rolling Stone SUNDAY AUGUST 1 "Sung in a sweet, gospel-tinged voice, she binds the melodic strains of folk, country and particular­ ly white southern gospel music to gentle and wise TOWN PUMP lyrics." - Boston Globe WEDNESDAY AUGUST 11 TOM LEE MUSIC HALL 929 GRANVILLE DOORS 7:15pm « SHOW 8:00 pm

POLYGRAM RECORDING ARTIST MMkSk with guests

SATURDAY AUG. 14 CiTR and CJSF present from San Diego Cargo/Headhanter recording artists and SUNDAY AUG. 15 VANCOUVER EAST with special guests CULTURAL CENTRE doors 7:15pm • show 8:00 pm L *, - *v * UNWOUND FPOM CALIFORNIA SUNDAY AUGUST 8 TOWN PUMP citr presents sub pop recording artists

P M HiWITH GUESTS l e o SUNDAY AUG. I5TH with guests ENGINE KID and SUNNY DAY REAL ESTATE tuesday august 17 • TOWN PUMP TOWN PUMP doors 8:00 pm

Tickets Available At: Zulu, Black Swan, Track, Highlife, Scratch, Ticketmaster outlets or charge by phone 280-4444. Tickets for X, DRIVE LIKE JEHU and SEBADOH available only at record stores and the Town Pump. 1869 W 4th Ave.. STORE HOURS Vancouver. BC Mon to Wed 10:30-7:00 V6J1M4 Thurs and Fri 10:30-9:00 Sat 9:30-6:30 CANADA Sun 12:00-6:00 tel 604.738 3232

ZULU RECORDING ARTISTS PERFORMING Show Business Giants Smashing Pumpkins ® Maybe Its Just Me... ® Siamese Dream Victoria's Show Business Giants ; Beyond and beneath Billy Corgans solemn and ceremonious knucklehead Tom Holliston with a little help from his friends songwriting lies the emotional cleansing of the Smashing (including John Wright from Nomeansno). With songs like Pumpkins' long-awaited follow-up to Gish. Although the "(I've Got the) Soul of a Woman (Inside Me)". "My Slacks", and Smashing Pumpkins take on 70's-influenced prog rock is "I'm a Square", you know you're dealing with something a nothing more than a blurring of the traditional cliches. little odd... but we mean that in the good sense. Siamese Dream cradles gorgeous guitar and aggro- ambience in all of its vicious beauty and grace. SALE 14.98cd/9.98cass SALE 14.98cd/9-98cass

Huevos Rancheros Smog ® Endsville ® Julius Caesar If you think that Shadowy Men are Canada's only cool More melancholy songs, moodily performed by the instrumental group then you've got egg on your face, buddy. perpetually introverted Bill Callahan. Although displaying a Aug 5 Commodore Ballroom Calgary's Huevos Rancheros follow-up some way-rockin' more musical quality than past recordings.Juliu s Caesar still singles with their excellent C/Z Records debut full-length offer the introspective lyrical and musical wanderings that (w/They Might Be Giants) Tour release. Endsville. charmed his earlier records — check it out Aug 8 Under The Volcano Festival SALE U.98c_/9.98cass SALE 14.98cd IMPORT Uncle Aug 24 PNE w/Kashtin Aug 28 Town Pump Palace Brothers Julep Sep 3 Bumbershoot (in Seattle) ® There is No-one What ® Yo Yo Compilation (various) Will Take Care of You Following up on the "Throw" compilation. Pat Malay's Yo Yo Mournful music from some farmland hicks who used to play Records continues to support independent music with with Slint and the Breeders. They ditched the distortion for another collection of fine bands including local acts Cub and banjos and moonshine, creating slow introspective country Kreviss. So display your dedication to indie rock and give the Aug 13 Off Ramp (Seattle) w/Grotus Julep comp a spin. with a slick bent Aug 14 Hungry Eye SALE 14.98cd/9.98cass IMPORT SALE 14.98c- IMPORT Aug 21 Lunatic Fringe

Swirlies The Silver Jews ® Broke Dick Car ® The Arizona Record ep This latest ep by that Massachusetts-based band. The Fuzzy, quirky, incredibly catchy, low-fi rock that owes a Aug 12 Harpo's (Victoria) w/© Swirlies. offers a fine sample of new material as well as a whole lot to Pavement Actually, ft sure sounds a lot like Aug 27 Pop (featuring art by Nicole) danceable remake of the song "Pancake". If you liked them Pavement And isn't that a couple of the Pavement guys on COAL the back cover? rlmmm... live, you'll also like this.

SALE 11.98cd IMPORT SALE 9.98cd IMPORT STORE ZULU LWEFrida:y Jul y 30 • 2:30pm mmm m^ mm warn Thrill Squad

Formerly Go Four 3. they're back from doing time in Toronto to check in with their

hometown before heading off to recording sessions in England for an upcoming

release. Take a late lunch break and sneak down to Zulu for their performance. The Fine Print... Sale prices are in effect until August 31.1993. Magazines? Box sets? Tshirts? Odds and sods? We gots lots!