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Greetings Earthling!
This Monday, 22 May 2000, at Noon Pacific Daylight Savings Time [1900UTC], The Archivists at The Rhino Handmade Institute Of Petromusicologywill begin taking orders for DAVID PEEL & THE LOWER EAST SIDE 'And TheRest Is History: The Elektra Recordings'.
DAVID PEEL was, and still is, a street musician and political activist from the Lower East Side of New York City. With a collection of friends who became his bandmates, and who were eponymously called THE LOWER EAST SIDE, he recorded two groundbreaking albums of social reflections, urban tales and hippie mythology for Elektra Records. The first, entitled 'Have A Marijuana', was released in 1968. The second, 'The American Revolution', was released in 1970. Both were, well, what can we say, just exactly as you would think they would be from their album titles: Musical Counterculture Manifestos Presented With Guitars And Grins.
DAVID PEEL & THE LOWER EAST SIDE 'And The Rest Is History: The Elektra Recordings' collects both of these albums, remastered -of course- from the original tapes, as well as two previously unissued tracks recorded for, but not used on, the second album. It also includes a nifty informative booklet with Mr Peel's recollections of the recording of the albums and a track-by-track commentary on his composition of the songs.
Since their release three decades ago, legions of bipedal non-hoofed ungulates from all around the world have adopted several songs from these DAVID PEEL & THE LOWER EAST SIDE albums as the equivalent of National Anthems. And, since these two Elektra albums, David has continued to record and release albums which express his unique vision and musical viewpoints as well as remain active as an icon, advocate and volunteer for social and political reform in which he strongly believes.
So return with us now to the time of pink prismed eyeglasses, hand-rolled patchouli incense and colorfully patched denims. To the time of co-ed bodypainting, cross-country Volkswagen expeditions and 'In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida' played at full volume. To the time of peace, love and understanding before Warfare was conducted from Satellites, before generic names of Antibiotics were Household Words and before Cynicism became a full-time National Sport.
Both 'Have A Marijuana' and 'The American Revolution' have been out of print in the United States for about a quarter of a century and neither has ever before been released on compact disc anywhere on Planet Earth. How blessed then that The Archivists at The Rhino Handmade Institute Of
Petromusicology have painstakingly cultivated all of the original master tapes in order to again plant the creative seeds of 'And The Rest Is History: The Elektra Recordings' into your personal audio stash.
DAVID PEEL & THE LOWER EAST SIDE 'And The Rest Is History: The Elektra Recordings' is available in an individually-numbered limited edition of 7,500 (seven thousand five hundred) copies. It is not distributed to any store on the planet. It is distributed directly from us to you. It is available only from The Archivists at the Rhino Handmade Website at: http://www.rhinohandmade.com
The complete track listing for DAVID PEEL & THE LOWER EAST SIDE 'And The Rest Is History: The Elektra Recordings' is at the bottom of this e-mail. And sound samples for every track will be available on the Rhino Handmade Website this coming Monday at Noon.
When we again meet I shall certainly bring you word of the next Rhino Handmade release though, as I write this, The Archivists are not yet certain whether it will be long out-of-print 1950s treasures from JACK WEBB or a previously unreleased album from the mid-1990s by THE SKY
KINGS. (As you should know by now, The Archivists are a very wacky and very musically diverse lot.) Anyway between now and then I promise you that, if nothing else, we will
flip a coin.
Always Blissfully Yours,
R W Hand
Curator
e-mail: mr.hand@rhino.com
[Mr Hand carefully reads each and every e-mail you send but, regretfully, cannot always personally answer each one.
DAVID PEEL & THE LOWER EAST SIDE
'And The Rest Is History: The Elektra Recordings'
Catalogue Number: RHM2 7713
ALL TIMES APPROXIMATE
[Approximately 67:45 Total Time]
1. Mother Where Is My Father? 3:07
2. I Like Marijuana 5:17
3. Here Comes A Cop 2:36
4. I've Got Some Grass 0:38
5. Happy Mother's Day 2:06
6. Up Against The Wall 1:44
7. I Do My Bawling In The Bathroom 6:51
8. The Alphabet Song 2:27
9. Show Me The Way To Get Stoned 2:28
10. We Love You 3:15
Tracks 1 to 10 taken from Elektra album EKS-74032 'HAVE A MARIJUANA'
11. Lower East Side 3:12
12. Pledge Of Allegiance 0:36
13. Legalize Marijuana 2:57
14. Oink, Oink 3:48
15. I Want To Get High 4:59
16. I Want To Kill You 4:22
17. Girls Girls Girls 4:33
18. Hey Mr. Draft Board 4:31
19. God 3:03
Tracks 11 to 19 taken from Elektra album EKS-74069 'THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION'
21. I Am A Runaway 3:34
Tracks 20 and 21 are PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED <1970>
Hell's Angle: The Life and Times of Sonny Barger and The Hell's Angles Motorcycle Club
MORE-MUSIC,MORE-MUSIC,MORE-MUSIC,MORE-MUSIC:
6/2 - Ian Hunter @ Bowery Ballroom
6/3 - Shell @ The Cooler
"SHELL "Shell is Swell" (Abaton) CD $13.99
"Marianne Nowottny, teen queen of the glissando vocals, teams up with her best friend Donna Bailey for their second release. These spokeswomen for
freaky girls everywhere give us a reminder that men do not understand women (and never will!). It's girl's night out, and throbs of distortion set the scene: spooooky. Minor chords march up and down: PJ Harvey and early Tom Waits are definite influences, but Nowottny's style is her own -- not even the late Marc Bolan could slide up to notes like this. If you love the first minute, you'll love the entire record." [GF - Other Music]
"Harry Smith's Anthology Of American Folk Music, Volume Four" (Revenant) 2xCD $29.99
"It's almost fifty years since Folkways released the three volumes of Harry Smith's "Anthology Of American Folk Music," and thousands of words have
been written about the thousands of lives it supposedly changed. But even the thunderous publicity given the 1997 CD reissue didn't reveal that we were only given three-quarters of the story. The original three volumes were colored green, red and blue, which, in Smith's highly personal alchemical system, were meant to symbolize water, fire, and air. Smith intended to complete the series with a fourth volume, colored yellow and symbolizing earth. He assembled a track list and began work on his notes, but the release was derailed by an argument with a Folkways representative, who insisted that he include a Delmore Brothers song celebrating the reelection of FDR. Now Revenant has reverentially stepped in and released the 28 items on Smith's list, on two CDs tucked into a beautiful 96-page hardcover book featuring essays and descriptions by Ed Sanders, Greil Marcus, John Fahey, John Cohen, and Dick Spottswood. Nothing can replace Smith's lost notes, though, so the correlations he intended to make between his selections will remain a mystery. And, ironically, the excitement which Smith's efforts first engendered might even make this volume a bit superfluous for some collectors, as other reissues have rendered the works of performers such as the Carter Family, Uncle Dave Macon, Leadbelly, Robert Johnson, and others considerably less esoteric than they once were.
>Nevertheless, there are rarities here, by the likes of the Arthur Smith Trio, Sister Clara Hudmon, Al Hopkins and His Buckle Busters, and more, and every selection is worth owning. Dark, haunting, an elegant work of American backyard surrealism, this set comes as close as anything probably mever will to completing a seminal work of recorded popular music." [AL - Other Music]
Links : NO LINKS (put on your sneakers and walk over)
OHM The Early Gurus of Electronic Music
VON DUTCH
More great info on a guy who was completely under the radar prior to the net.
Gene !
In response to your letter and book. First off I have never read any books other than trade manuals-motorcycle engines or guns. I am not nor ever interested in people, only in what they make. When I was in business I gave them some courtesy and did not speak my mind. Now I have know reason to do that. So they get the truth and hopefully they go away. I also not use the telephone either anymore. I use people to make money or to lift heavy things for me. And would just as soon see everything covered in concrete. I don’t like mud or keeping care of landscaping. I went through a lot of crap with my wife because I wanted sex. When my kids were in there teens I wasn’t to go through all that shit. So I left them completely alone with any pain in the ass relatives.
Religion, All of them are bullshit! Happens the Christians are fucking up the world the worst than the others. They are the only one with a healer so they capture sick people more.
So gett off me with it!
BYE
VonDutch
V.D. Home Page ?
More Von Dutch info.
V.D. Gallery
Great Bio and pics
post mortem rip off
Site Listing NYC Restaurant Inspections Starts a Feeding Frenzy on the Web - nyt metro 5/18
"The city's Department of Health created an instant sensation among food-crazed (read : health concerned) New Yorkers yesterday by inaugurating a Web site listing every blemish noted by inspectors at all licensed restaurants in the five boroughs."
J.C. Community Bulletin Board 5/16 :
From Brian @ WFMU :
Hello friends,
www.wfmu.org now has a discussion board for listeners , click here for the "message board".
"We're giving it a trial run, so feel free to post any pertinent info and start threads-a-plenty. It will probably go down as soon as the topic turns to Fred Durst, or male DJs here start pathetically hassling female posters for dates, whichever comes first." - Brian
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Is there room in your life for a new dog ?
A friend is trying to place two puppies in a good home. If you know someone that might want one or both of these cuties, you can contact Michael at the number below.
Otis/bill
"I came across two puppies in a junk yard that need homes.
They're 10 wks. old & very very cute. shepard, chow, pit bull mother, rottie father. (big paws).
I know one's a male, reddish brown, more rottie looking, not sure of the sex of the second, lighter tannish-brown, more shepard looking.
If you know anyone who might be interested, the poor little guys are living outside w/ no mommie or daddie, very little human contact. The guy owns a towing company, and keeps them in a dog house in the parking lot. they're well fed and healthy looking . He's given away the other six of the litter & would be happy to find homes for these two. the mother dissapeared.
I found them quite friendly and eager to make somebody a happy new parent. again, very good looking puppies. (and we all know mutts are the way to go!)
Please forward to anyone who might be interested.
and leave a comment to be recontacted. - ed
Went to see Mr Quinntron and Miss Pussycat last Wednesday night at the Polish home in Greenpoint Bklyn. They went on at midnight. He played many of the songs off of "These Hands of Mine" his latest release. They opted against preforming on the actual stage as the rest of the acts did and set up on the gym floor. The crowd formed a large circle around him, his bigole Hammond organ and Miss Pussycat w/ mic. He busted funky trance grooves from his low tec, home-made rhythm machine "drum buddy" and Miss Pussycat sang punk sharp back up licks a la' B-52 girls. They are from New Orleans and he has a very dark, swamp-voodoo gumbo of influences which include early 70's Sparks, late 70's punk and new-wave (from B-52's to Suicide), R and R (JeryLee Lewis), R and B (Stax) and a hard rock edge (read Deep Purple).
Afterwards he and Miss Pussycat preformed her hand puppet theater which included a heavy metal puppet band that received encores.
After that he came back and did a semi-pro style demonstration of "Drum Buddy" which seamed to use a modified Victrola and interchangeable cartridges made from 45 records glued to cardboard (?).
This guy, for being stuck in an analog world is breathing new life into all those old genres and makes live music still feel new and vital and worth staying out past midnight on a school night.
ALSO :
I'd like to second D.F.s choice of Nick Drake as music worth spending your $ on, so if you haven't done so yet, please reconsider. I went ahead and bought the box cd set which included all 3 of his original albums plus an outakes disc. This super cool English folky guy died at like 27 yo cause he was too fucking sensitive to survive in this crusty ass world. He wrote many beautiful love songs to his true love, a female named Mary Jane. Only thing is, she wasn't a human but a plant. It will make you want to cry.
“Albert Kahn,1869-1942, an architect of German-Jewish origin, born 1869 (Rhaunen, Germany) died 1942 (Detroit), had an astonishing career fromthe beginning of this century. He is best known for his industrial architecture as related to the rising auto industry and the US war effort in World War I and World War II. He was responsible not only for almost all of the major industrial plants of the Big Three and other auto manufacturers in the US, but also for aviation industry plants, hospitals, banks, commercial buildings, public buildings, temples, libraries, clubs and over one hundred beautiful mansions.
During the Great Depression in the US, the Soviet Union government comissioned him to design most of the industrial complexes of the so-called Five Year Plan, which turned out to be more than 530 plants in a period of two-and-a-half years.
His aesthetic in industrial architecture was adopted by the leading architects of the Bauhaus movement and, with the increasing influence of the so-called International Style, it shaped the twentieth century's architecture as a whole.”
Smithsonian Sketchbook
U of M Image Archeives
Great Buildings Online
A.K and associates home site
A.K a film
Detroit News Tribute
The Fabulous Ruins of Detroit
Juventude ! 5/9 - Pantsuit exclusive !
Juventudles ! - May 8 - Happy belated Birthday Jim !
and Happy berated Birthday Don Rickles (74).
Reinhard Mucha
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“A long time ago, John Scott was a surf photographer. During the 60’s he took a photo of glassy, evening Stockton Avenue that became one of the most popular SURFER posters ever. Sometime between then and now, Scott had a change of heart, and decided that cameras, the media and the surf-industrial complex were a dagger aimed straight at the heart of surfing. He chose to express his views by writing them in Magic-Marker on the exterior of his car. When a surf contest rolls into Santa Cruz, Scott rises early, grabs a choice parking spot along the walkway to Streamer Lane and presents his views to anyone who will read or listen.”
The Car writing includes the following passages :
Surfing Contests have no authority without your recognition, disregard them.
Contest surfers interfere with us every day of the year. Competition is a contagious virus injected by the media.
Ban the hostile take-over forever.
Wave riding lacks an immune system - without one the wilderness experience suffers.
Competition makes the rat race run faster, Your participation adds momentum to it.
BOYCOTT ALL CONTEST SPONSORS.
If it is illegal to have an open alcohol-container at the beach, how can it be acceptable to advertise at the beach, Just say No! Stop surfing under the influence - deprogram yourself, de-pressurise Surfing. Only hot surfers can burn cool surfers. TURN OFF THE RADIATION.
The crowd hates it-self - with good cause. If you hate the crowd, turn off the crowd machinery. Blackout the media. The ever increasing crowds of hyper aggressive surfers are living proof that surf movies and surfing magazines cultivate crowds of well conditioned consumers. It takes time, make surf photographers pay. Surfers, don't feel obligated to donate you day(s). Demand pay.
Make them pay per-hour or make them go Away.
When it becomes too dangerous and too competitive to enjoy riding waves, do you know whom to blame ? Blame your self. Blame yourself if you allow Surf Photographers to use you as unpaid stunt men. (ego feed is not payment) Blame yourself if you tolerate being an unpaid extra. BLAME YOURSELF IF YOU ATTEND SURF MOVIES. BLAME YOURSELF IF YOU SUPPORT THESE PARASITES.
If you you recognize the problem, be part of the Solution deprogram yourself - De-pressurise wave riding.
If even ten surfers each day would demand pay from all the surf photographers then either they would pay or they would go away and either way. wave riding conditions would improve. You have the right to on-the-spot compensation. otherwise you serve the media as a slave.
From SURFER Mag. 7/92 Vol.33 No.7
"They Built This City on Rock and Roll New York's most important rock artists come together to spin some freaky old yarn by Carlo McCormick May 2, 2000 for EdificeRex
No one would dispute that this naked city of ours offers an ideal backdrop for stories of any kind. And on May 7, you can expect some of the best, as an unbelievable (and still coalescing) cast of characters culled from New York City's rock and roll underground will gather to swap war stories and bizarre tales of music and mischief. Rock in New York: The Sound and the Stories celebrates forty years of local rock music -- a scene that is, in the words of Stonewall vet and Danceteria founder Jim Fouratt, "The epicenter of that messy, erotic lust for life that confronts everything dull, sedentary and boring."
Organized by sixty-five-years-young wizard of rock, Giorgio Gomelsky, the night's lineup of both stories and musical performances is, characteristically, not yet set in stone. But a casual flip through Gomelsky's decades-spanning
Rolodex promises to yield a roster of the famous and infamous alike.Gomelsky, after all, came to New York in the seventies with a stint as the manager and producer of the Yardbirds under his belt, not to mention the credit for having introduced the Rolling Stones to the Beatles. And if Gomelsky's cred isn't enough, music critic John Strasbaugh also lent a hand in assembling Rock in New York's participants.
Confirmed names on the lineup run the gamut from seventy-six-year-old Tuli Kupferberg, of the scandalous pioneering Sixties ensemble the Fugs, to self-taught, seventeen-year-old art-rock prodigy, Marianne Nowottny. Also on
board will be David Johansen, the former New York Dolls front man turned louche bandleader Buster Poindexter; Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo; M. Doughty, formerly of the jazz-art-noise act Soul Coughing; and MTV's acerbic newsman Kurt Loder. And the rumors have been flying: Don't be surprised if local legends like, say, Joey Ramone, Ronnie Spector, Lenny Kaye or even Patti Smith show up to put their two cents in. (But you didn't hear that from us.)
Strasbaugh has transformed the Bowery Ballroom stage into the definitive Gotham rock bar and has arranged the performances chronologically, beginning with the last days of Tin Pan Alley glory and ending with the kids who are carrying the transgressive torch today. That's about all we can tell you, though: None of the performers we spoke to has a clue about how the night will actually go down. Of course, given the subject matter and the names on the bill, what else is new?
The spirit of the event, however, is easier to pin down. Participant Danny Fields, the maverick manager who once "couldn't get the Stooges or the Ramones arrested," is most excited about the younger musicians in attendance. He believes these young'uns are still discovering "what it is to rock out, to be yourself, your own generation, and not live by old virtuoso standards." Bebe Buell (Liv Tyler's mom and Todd Rundgren's ex) may be busy working on her autobiography for St. Martin's Press, but she's even more excited about the second part of the evening, when the bands take the stage: "I'm not there to talk, I'm there to rock!" (Not hard to figure out what Steven Tyler loved about her.) And even though the night is a celebration of all things dark and deviant, show up and you'll be doing somebody some good: Proceeds from the $15-per-ticket event will benefit Flemister House, which provides lodging to people suffering from AIDS.
Rock in New York: The Sound and the Stories May 7, stories at 5 p.m., concert at 8 p.m.; Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancey Street, (212) 533-2111; $15 Carlo McCormick is the senior editor of Paper Magazine"
Juventudes ! - 5/4 - and spoilers and beowulf and his horse
Juventudes ! 5/3/00 - Ladatudes, Nadatudes !
Bidding for the boat By Daryl Lindsey May 3, 2000
"EBay has a mess on its hands after a rogue auctioneer tries to sell Elián's "genuine" raft."
at salon
Post Media (conceptual photography) @ Gugenheim uptown up till 5/7 open till 8 fri and sat eves.
"Postmedia presents various ways that artists of the time incorporated the photographic into their work as a critical
tool, including photography as a recording device for ephemeral or durational events (as in the work of Jan
Dibbets and Douglas Huebler); as a document of art created outside the gallery environment (Hamish Fulton, Richard Long, Gordon Matta-Clark, and Robert Smithson); as a tool to analyze the seriality of architecture and industry (Dan Graham); as a record of the performative, corporeal gesture (Marina Abramovic, Vito Acconci, and Ana Mendieta); and as a means to examine the relationship between image, text, and meaning (Robert Barry and Joseph Kosuth)."
—Nancy Spector, Curator of Contemporary Art
QUINTRON COUNT DOWN!!! :
Beer and Sausage at the Polish National Home
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 thats 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]
Juventudes ! May Twoventudes ! (5/2)