Newsgroups: bit.listserv.allmusic
Date:         Wed, 23 Dec 1992 14:25:43 MST
From:         Thumper <watson@HG.ULETH.CA>
Subject:      warning: blatent self-commotion

Michael said:

>Let me get the business out of the way first: I'll be playing again at the
>Middle East Cafe under the name "Chenrezi" (my favorite Tibetan god-- he's
>the one with the thousand arms and thousand eyes).

Would your god like to meet my goddess, Kilonippi, the one with a thousand
nipples...   :*)

>It'll be largely improv,

duh... :)

>me on the Indonesian tuned gongs and marimba and whatever other percussion

There you go, Adam, another chance to see Michael play with his gonad bongs!
I just thought of the reason why you found these gongs so intriguing, dearest
Bloomie -- it's because each it shaped like a brass breast and you bang on the
nipples!   :)

>We're playing with "Nixon's Leg,"

Gee... I wonder if tricky dicky's ticklish?  :)

>an ad hoc band

it's his leg, so it's a pork hoc band...   :)

>This all takes place a week from today, Wednesday, December 30, at 9PM.

Wish I were there to see all that percussive foreplay... bang a gong at
midnight in my honor, ok?   :)

>saxophones = jazz, Marshall amps = metal, pedal steel = country & western,
>accordions = polka, etc.

you forgot one:   bagpipes = sex

>> Ummm... did I miss something?!  I hope this offer wasn't embedded in lyrics
>> of "Hey Mickey"...
>
>I had trouble believing it either, so I went back and checked. (No, I don't
>own this record, I went to the Tufts radio station and played their copy.)

Sure yah did...   ;*}

>The relevant verse goes: "So go ahead and give it to me, any way you can /
>Any way you wanna do it, I'll take you like a man," the last phrase sung in
>her breathiest Mae West. How else can you interpret this? :-)

ummm... ok... i get it...  i mean, i don't *get* it, but i get it... get it?

> ...  My faves:  "The Beat of Black Wings", "Coyote", "Woodstock".
> Bloomdido proof: "The Beat of Black Wings", "River", "Refuge of the Road".

I forgot to mention that "The Beat..." is ripe with drones and nice percussion
provided by didjeridoo, kjembe, udu, and caxixi... there's some chanting too.

>"Refuge of the Road" is a terrific song, as is "Coyote," and I could see Spirit

"Refuge..." has some nice synth tidbits with some sampling and assorted clunks
and clangs...  :)

John Mann's vocals (drool, drool) are lovely in "Coyote"... oh yeah... and the
violin and vox in "Shades of Scarlett..." too!  And in that song I can swear
that I hear one of those sound tubes (akin to a ribbed vaccuum hose) that kids
buy and swing around in the air to get that high pitched spooky wooooooing
sound.   :)

>of the West doing a kick version of it. I do notice a preponderance of tunes I
>dislike-- all those giggling airhead soliloquies from _Blue_, for instance.

"Giggling airhead soliloquies"??  yipes...  :)   Sonia... you hold him down and
I'll tickle him to death.   :*)

>> Libby says, "forget it, if all yer gonna do is listen."   :)
>
>Okay, I'll bang the bodhran too.

Lovely metaphor: banging on goatskin  -- considering that i'm a Capricorn...
:)

>> my dentist and told him that I'd ask y'all for recommendations to add to his
>> playlist -- what do you guys think?
>
>John Zorn. Skinny Puppy. _Uncle Meat_.

eesh... does your dentist wear black?  :)

>> Lower Beverly - Razorbacks (Carol)     <--- the give head song
>
>How come you never played this for me?

I played that flute tune for you, remember?   ;*}

>>           ...  OK?   Who's gonna be around anyhow?
>
>I don't get vacations *sniff*

Yah... like Indonesia was a working trip?  BTW, what's with all the disasterous
earthquakes there lately.... looks like you got out in time.  Yipes.


Adam said:

>The point is for certain types of music, you aren't going to get a 3 minute
>ditty. Tim's gonna have to dig us up some pocket concertos.

Nah... Timmy'd do Tull...

>That isn't the argument. The argument is that with the wide variety of tastes
>that people have here, to please everyone and to be comprehensive, you'll need
>a 10 hour tape.

I'll pass on volunteering to dub for that one!

>I'd distinguish Ratt & Poison as pap, er I mean pop metal.

Just take out the & and that's how I'd describe them both....  :)

>>I wanted to wish anyone whose signing off for the holidays a Merry Christmas
>>and a Happy New Year!  And to those die-hards like me who'll be hanging
 around,
>>let's get together and e-party and make everyone else feel like they missed
 out
>>on all the fun.  OK?   Who's gonna be around anyhow?
>
>I'll be here with the yuletide beer.

I'll bring the moose jerky... Bloomie, what are you bringing??

Seeya Gary said:

>Fuck! Shot down in flames. Mr. Bloom, is there anything you *don't* have,

the clap??  ;)

>anything you *haven't* heard? For once, just once, I thought I mighta had
>something none of you all heard of. Fuck! You even have the same album (they
>have 5 or so) I am ordering. It's called _The Music Of Erich Zann_. Shit!

Don't torture yourself, Gary... Bloomie used to do this for a living... (not
the self-torture, but the music research/critic thing)...  :)

>I like your umulat.

Gee... you never showed *me* your umulat, Michael...  :)

Yours in net terrorism,
Libby Doe
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