MUSIC NOW! By Mike Cooper Joan Baez has a compilation album of her older material coming out in September. An EP released in 1985 by the group Psi-Corn, featuring Perry Farrell in the days before Jane's Addiction, is to be reissued in September (on Triple X Records). George Thorogood says he's proud of only a few tracks on his new album, Only 1,500 copies of the original release were sold Farrell supervised remastering Haircut, and says his record label insisted that he release a full-length LP "I came of the EP and helped with new cover artwork up with two songs that I really wanted to make a record with, 'Nowlin' For My Baby' and 'Get A Haircut.' So that's two. And then you've got to go and get eight more, and A Sisters Of Mercy compilation album coming out at the beginning of September boy, does that suck," Thorogood says. "I would have been happy to put out an EP will include a new track featuring singer Otra Haza instead of a whole album, but the record company wouldn't let me." Wilson Phillips repodedlv will reunite after Carole and Wendy Wilson release a Glenn Frey says music videos have ruined the art of songwriting. "Fortunately, I Christmas album anc Chynna Phillips puts out a solo LP "I hate to read people became a songwriter before MTV. As a result, being visual was, as far as I was con- say we broke up," Carnie Wilson says. 'Ifs not true." The trio's "Shadows And cerned, the first and most important aspect of lyric writing," he says. "You can look Light" album fared poorly when released last year and the group canceled a planned at the list of Eagles songs from 'Take It Easy' through 'Hotel California' and in the !our in support of the LP first four lines, we put you someplace. 'On a dark desert highway,' I'm running down the road trying to loosen my load," Frey says. Chris Tinsley ii Follow For Now is going through the resumes of producers to decide who the band will work with on its second album. "Our new stuff is vastly The Recording Industry Association of America says 153 people were arrested for different from the first one," he says. "It's heavier, darker, more mature. There's a lot music piracy in the first half of this year, a 47 percent increase over the same period of Stephen King in there. Also, it's more like Sly Stone and less like Metallica." last year. Convictions totaled 54 in the first part of this year, also an increase from last year. Seizures of counterfeit cassettes rose to 1.3 million, mostly through raids Paw are getting some live experience touring in support of their new album, and confiscations involving street vendors. "It's not enough just to get the tapes off "Dragline" (on A&M Records). The band signed its major label record deal having the streets," says RIM executive vice-president Steven D'Onofrio. "We have to played only about 30 shows. "I guess, looking back, we were short on live experi- ensure the counterfeit-cassette manufacturers receive the brunt of the law and are ence, but long on an eagerness to leam," says guitarist Grant Fitch. "I think the removed from this illegal industry." trick is to play every night for three or four weeks. It really brings it together fast. It's easy to figure out where you're going wrong, what's working and what's not." The Th, Swinging Steaks have five songs in the new film "Benefit Of The Doubt," band originally recorded its LP as a demo tape at a studio in Wisconsin. "The songs which stars Donald Sutherland and Amy Irving. Two of the songs appear on the are really personal to us," Fitch says. "I wasn't being fliP....It's just that people are band's "Southside Of The Sky" album coming out in mid-September (on Capricorn going to like it or not. That's secondary First and foremost, I love it and I'm really Records). That LP includes five songs from the band's self-distributed album of last proud of it." year as well as new material produced by Gary Katz in Minneapolis earlier this year. Guitarist Scott Ian says singer Joey Belladona was fired from Anthrax because Angeline Ball Bronagh Gallagher, the backing vocalists in the movie "The "he didn't contribute." "He never wrote anything in the band," Ian says. "It was like Commitments are now starring in a comedy program on British television called he was this voice that sang our material — and even that, he never did anything with 'Owl Hie Rainbow" it. We felt stifled because when we wrote, it was like, 'Well, we can't do that What's he gonna do with it?" Ian says the addition of former Armored Saint singer John An inventor who lost a lawsuit against Michael Jackson has been convicted of Bush has helped the band's songwriting. "I'm just blunt — there's Scott standing battery for assaulting three attorneys. Hugo Zuccarelli was also fined $3,520, on a box, screaming at people with his opinions," Ian says. "John is the type of ordered to work 60 days on freeways, undergo at least nine months of psychiatric writer who basically buried things in as many metaphors as possible. When it came counseling and serve three years on probation. He attacked the attorneys in March together, both styles rubbed off on each other." after a judge dismissed Zuccarelli's trademark infringement lawsuit which claimed Jackson's "Bad" album used his sound system without paying him. The Mystery Tramps will have a rap version of Bob Dylan's "Like A Rolling Stone" out later this year (on Imago Records). The group was formed by San The Earth Communications Office has given special awards to Bonnie Raitt the Francisco guitarist and producer Bill Cutler with his partner, producer Afar* V. Beach Boys and Raffi on behalf of recording artists who shunned CD long box The track is also being remixed by Tony Garcia, who's done the dance versions of packaging before it was eliminated earlier this year. Ata luncheon in Los Angeles, the Captain Hollywood Projects "More And More." It's the first time that Dylan awards were also given to Ban the Box founders Rob Simonds and Martin Folkman. has allowed one of his own recordings to be sampled Among those attending were the Red Not Chili Peppers, Stephen Stills, John Stewart, Toad The Wet Sprocket and Roy Bitten. ECO is now asking record The first "Unplugged" album to be released is now out of print. Paul McCartney's companies to use recycled plastic in the black tray part of CD jewel boxes. A "Fill In "Unplugged" record is no longer available, since the former Beatle ordered that only The Box" campaign hopes to have the jewel boxes made from 30 percent recycled a hall a million CDs and half a million cassettes of the album be manufactured material by January 1995. Before the awards presentation, Stephen Stills said he was "too cynical" to believe that record companies and retailers eliminated the long- Seattle band Young Fresh Fellows have been talking to an Australian record label box to help the environment "They did this because they were forced to," Stills said. about releasing its next album. "It seems like in the last couple of years, we've been "This took forever and is so stupidly logical I'm surprised it took this long." discovered outside of the States," says singer Scott McCaughey "I think people in the States have gotten really blase about us in the last couple years because we've Ohio Governor George Voinovich is upset with the performance by rappers N-Town been around for so long and we're not the hip, cool, new thing. But all of a sudden at the Ohio State Fair. The rappers simulated sex with teenage girls in the audience. we've been discovered everywhere else, and that makes us want to keep going." Voinovich has written a letter to the Ohio Expositions Commission saying, "I trust Ihev will not he back" Soundgarden bass player Ben Shepherd plays on the new album from Hater coming out next month. Hater is a band started by Shepherd with Soundgarden Naughty By Nature refused to perform at the Birmingham, Alabama, Heritage drummer Matt Cameron —mer Monster Magnet guitarist John McBain and because it wanted the second half of its fee in cash instead of by check. bass player John Waterman Cameron makes his debut as a vocalist on the I P About 2,000 people waited more than two hours to see the rappers and they won't be which also feattii Brian "Drift" Wood the brother of the late Mother Love able to get their ticket money refunded. Bone singe' Andrew Wood The group has no plans to tour after the album is released Jon Bon Jovl has been inducted into the Spectrum Wall of Fame in Philadelphia The venue honored the rock singer because Bon Jovi's four shows in April 1987 A boxed set of material lIOU Paul Simon .17 the works. It would include some of were the four fastest sellouts in Spectrum history. Bon Jovi joins the Grateful the material he recorded n Art Garfunkel ,vhen the two called themselves Tom Dead, Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Presley, Billy Joel, Frank Sinatra and & Jerry. Sammy Davis Jr. on the wall, which is located on the north side of the building on the concourse behind the Spectrum's press box.