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"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."
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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)
Juventudes ! - 4/28: : Backlash PPV countdown 3,2,1.....pfffffffffffftttttttttt
M@@N-eyes , R.F., hotrod and tiki stuff. This is Fink country! "
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Juventudes ! ..and spoilers 4/27
Seven Sisters :
oop's, I'm the Juventude ! 4/26
Giuliani Shocker : Innocent Black Man Framed! (fwd)
Got this as an e.mail, must be going around......
Juventudes ! - 4/25 : There are two U's in Juventude
Juventudes ! 4/21 - You want jimmies on that ?
Juventudes ! 4/20 - Yes we have no Juventudes !
Juventudes 4/19 - "The bee's got our president"
Area 51 in powers of 10
Von Dutch, late period Amerikan precisionist artist and King of Southern Kalifornia Kar Kulture.
Hairy Smith - Most people have in their home a bag bag. The shopping bag you keep your all the other shopping bags in. Hell, I even have a battery of dead batteries. Harry was a human bag bag, a list of lists keeper and a links link.