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Just heard about two interesting music fests :
Jim O'Rourke is booking the"New Music Series" shows for the month of April at Tonic . I saw his band open for Stereo Lab (forget them), he plays guitar like John Fayhe and laptop like Eno. Jim seams to be Thurstons darlin' du jour but please dont let that put you off, besides you can stop by and say hey to J and MB enroute. Of particular note is Daniel Johnston on 4/18.
QUINTRON ALERT!!! :
"The other is a three day goofball fest in our own bklyn."
Beer and Sausage at the Polish National Home
New York, NY—March 19, 2000 Red Stone Sound Productions presents “Beer and Sausage at the Polish National Home,” a three-day festival of experimental music to be held in Greenpoint,
exciting musical event in Brooklyn this year.
For those unfamiliar with the Polish National Home, it is easily accessible from the G train Nassau Ave. stop. Facilities include a ballroom with high ceilings, a great stage, a balcony and massive oil paintings. Of course, having the Polish National Home as host to this event also has its culinary advantages. Food will include pierogies, kielbasa, meatballs and all the beer a rational human can swallow. Ticket prices are $13 advance purchase, $15 “night of” and $35 for a 3-day pass; they can be purchased at Other Music (15 East 4th St.), Earwax Records (Bedford Ave. in Williamsburg, Brooklyn), or by calling (212) 252-6800 on or after April 1st.
Schedule is as follows:
Weds., May 10, 2000
8:00 PM Andrew W.-K.
8:45 PM TBA
9:30 PM The Melted Men
10:30 PM People Like Us
12:00 PM Mr. Quintron & Miss Pussycat
[DJ: Bill Bronson]
Thurs., May 11, 2000
8:00 PM Electrophilia ("Yes our Steve Parino !" - Ed)
8:45 PM Flux Information Sciences
10:00 PM Speedranch^Jansky Noise
10:45 PM To Live and Shave in L.A.
12:00 PM Matt Wand (of Stock, Hausen &
Walkman/Vicki Bennett (of People Like Us)
[DJ: Otefsu]
Fri., May 12, 2000
8:00 PM Larry Seven
8:45 PM Electro-Putas
9:45 PM Pita/Christian Fennesz
11:00 PM Ed Quist
12:00 PM Pan Sonic
[DJ: Fabio]
THE (UN)OFFICIAL MARIANNE NOWOTTNY TRIBUTE SITE :
Homeless Again, Naturaly
Some folks will remember the Marianne Nowottny performance @ Tonic last Christmas time and that Steve Doughton filmed a stunning video for her on his 5th St roof top last summer.
Since her parents split up when she was still quite young M.N. has bounced back and forth between her Moms house in South Jersey and her Dads digs in North Jersey. Never made to feel quite welcome in either place, her Moms got a creepy used car-salesman boyfriend and her Dad (an over medicated house painter) has always favored her brothers. Instead of celebrating her 17th birthday last Oct 31st, she was packing up her clothes in the face of eviction for nonpayment of rent. On that last day of the month, she, her dad and her brother moved from the 1 br half cape cod housette in Sparta NJ to a 1 room flat elsewhere in town. “Not so fast !” the new landlord said “This is a room for two, as agreed". The single room had previously been a photography studio and Dad had promised her the darkroom to be her own.
This “goth girl” (we affectionately refer to as “Pasty” as in "Pasty Princess”, as coined from a positive review in a Buffalo music zine) tends to land on her feet.So when her dad and brother stayed on at the photo studio, M.N. found lodging with a girl pal from her class named Lindsey. The idea was that after a month her dad would have found more suitable long term housing. She got back her job at the Sparta Burger King and continued her studies as a Junior @ S.H.S. Her boyfriend also works at the BK and she would see her little brother in the halls in between classes at school.
Last night Lindseys Dad found an empty 12 pack of Bud hid in their back yard. It was left over from a party Lindsey had last weekend while her dad was away and did not belong to Marianne. It is entirely possible that if the dad did search MN’s stuff, he probably could find adequate reason to bounce her out anyway. So, with a phone call from Lindseys Dad to MNs Dad the pleasant home life she had enjoyed over the last 4 months was over. When Pasty called her Dad he just said “You better call Mark and Laurie” (her manager and producer couple). M and L had offered an open invitation all along for her to stay with them but it’s different. They live in near by Newton plus they're moving to Jersey City in May or June. So many things are now up in the air, including her senior year.
Don't forget to pick up the new CD from her band “SHELL” from the “Other Music” record store, it will be out in a couple of weeks....and it’s Hot.
Hey Joe !
“.....there was this song called ‘Hey Joe’ that everybody and his fuckin’ brother not only recorded but claimed to have written even though it was obviously the psychedelic mutation of some hoary old folk song which was about murderin’ somebody for love just like nine-tenths of the rest of them hoary folk ballads”
- Bangs, Lester “Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung : A tale of these times, Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung (New York : Random House, 1987)
Note : Despite Lesters’(Our Hero) confident tone, we can’t really advance our cause from this quote, since : A) He does not say who wrote Hey Joe, and B) We have not found any real connection to any recorded (or preformed) call and response type song about a guy named Joe involved in a (double) murder over an adulterous spouse previous to Billy Roberts obtaining publishing rights in January 1962.
On Thursdays Mr. Wilson and I often meet for pints of Bass at Toad Hall after work. Over the ales one day Mr.W. brought up a personal quandary, the mystery of ‘who wrote Hey Joe ?’. On various albums from the 60’s and 70's, writing credits went to : Dino Valenti, Chester (or Chet or C.) Powers, Jesse Oris Farrow, William (or Billy or W. or B.) Moses Roberts Jr. At the time, I had internet access and he didn’t. So I started doing word searches on different search engines and found a little info and more than a little disinfo.
After checking the net for answers, I found more questions :
Who recorded it first ?
Is the (!) part of the title ?
Who all have covered (recorded) the song ?
Is there a pre-Byrds, David Crosby version, possibly with Les Baxter & the Baladeers ?
What is the deal with a fast version vs. a slow version ?
Why can't we find it recorded by Valenti or Roberts ?
If it is a Hoary old folk song (as Hendrix believed) why are there no "real close" versions on record prior to the 60’s ?
I have done quite a bit of checking around for answers to these questions and will start posting ASAP some of the answers that I do have (with links when available). Jim B. will enabled this page to be as interactive as possible so we hope you can all can join in and contribute towards resolving some of the questions at hand.