From: Todd J Sines <tsines@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: body release and enhanced
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 22:38:35 GMT
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those of you who have been interested (even a little) in body release in the 
past should read this:

the past few months have been very TURBULENT in the status of body release. a 
brief history:

my last official posting about our band was probably about the demo tapes that 
we made. we were also attempting to get gigs out of state, some on the west 
coast, some on the east coast, texas, canada...etc.

what has happened since then:
(the agony of body release)

we played on 24 july 92 at the smart bar in cleveland, ohio to a crowd of maybe
600 or more... we got jipped $100 cause we played two extra songs (and 
therefore, according to the owner, lost her crowd). we then played the 
following wednesday at 700 on the day of the cleveland lollapalooza, so we had 
maybe 100 people show up.

the next week, we played in ft wayne, indiana. the crowd was about 200. we had 
the worst set of our life cause the sound fuck head was too interested in 
creating little zig zag patterns with the mixing console and graphic 
equilizer...turning up microphones and stray lines we didn;t use to create even
more noise... etc. the day after, we were about to play at the monster rave in 
chicago, which, coincidentally got busted, so we went home.

on the 28 of august 92, mel ske dred booked orgas from akron and us to go play 
at the r tyme / final call rave. it was hyped as being a three day rave, it was
gonna be really fucking big, huge, 20,000 people. etc..and when we got there, 
the total amount of people during the day amounted to about.....
40 people.

we went home, one guy in our band was cooked from all the acid he did, and he 
was a total turtle laying on his back in the sun....(read as *USELESS*) so we 
had to drive the entire trip from WISCONSIN (we were about 10 minutes from 
there) to columbus, ohio between my ex girlfriend amy and i... it sucked.

we then played 10 sept 92 at the metropolis. we were booked with playing with 
orgas again, plus dj's mike gallicchio and kevy kev were coming up from 
cleveland to spin that night as well. well. about 75 to 100 people showed up, 
the promoter didn;t do barely any promotion and didn't pay us, as well as the 
same cooked guy remembering as we drove into cleveland that he forgot his 
disks in columbus. and one of the dj's showed up at 1:30, after the entire
thing happened...he was pulled over...

things were not looking good. we had some really lame ass gigs and we weren't 
concentrating on the demo tape at all. i neglected to send posts about what the
state was for i had figured it would just be a few more days or weeks and then 
everything would be alright.

our next gig turned out to be a smash. we played in a bar called cedar's in 
youngstown on 25 september 92. we have i think near 400 (maybe a little less) 
and the crowd was really into the music that was going on...which always feels 
good when you consider the show to be really lame. we had such a hellish ride 
there and we were really pushing our limits on our way back...

shortly before this gig, we recorded a live DAT of our stuff. we had been 
waiting to record a few more songs, but it seems like an eternal wait...

i then decided that it would be the best time for me to quit the band.. i was 
fed up with all the shit that mike did, and i was tired of doing all the work 
with loading, packing, promoting when other people were getting high and 
ripped.

so for a while, i was out of the band and i was determined to do something. i 
had been waiting for a chance to do something else other than the usual.

then i started to reevaluate my judgement... i thought that i was really 
trashing a lot of stuff and a lot of good possibilities. working with these 
guys brought a lot of anger between us, but so many good things came out of 
it.. i really liked playing with them and it made me feel good.

titonton then bought a juno 106 with a 3 tier stand. concurrently though, his 
ensoniq eps has been in the shop for well over a month... so we haven't been 
able to do too much without it. we have been using our korg dsm-1 a lot for 
charles' stuff, and i am getting my esq.1 next week. which helps out A LOT>>

so our demo is still up in the air, i would like to get more shit going on.. 
and one of the guys keeps his interest only if the band is gonna get 
signed...otherwise, it is back to his crack and other drugs. we had thought of 
attempting to replace him with someone else but we are just mainly concerned 
with getting our shit back together in an orderly fashion, smoothly, and we 
want to begin our quest of making our music accessible to more people. this 
includes playing out more and getting our stuff released (someone said they 
heard that we were signed to PLUS 8...haha. not us...) so this is the topic 
being addressed..

i guess i want to contact some people on the east coast area, as well as people 
in chicago to hook up with about promoters as well as labels. i know that radio
play would be good too, so there you go...


sines

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