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Date:         Fri, 13 Nov 1992 01:03:00 CST
From:         SOUND CAN WASH CLOTHES <TBUCK@KNOX.BITNET>
Subject:      interesting Pete Townshend quote....

Found this in someone's sig.file from the funky-music list, the owner
actually. I doubt he'd mind the cross posting.

     "It's not up to us to try to understand [rap music].
      It's not even up to us to buy it.  We just have to
      get the f*ck out of the way."
                                     - Pete Townshend

Me thinks a rather interesting (and good) quote. Random OMC to follow....

I picked up the latest Goldmine Magazine yesterday for the first time in
many months. Anybody got an extra $1,000 they can loan me for just a little
while? Oh please, oh please, oh please!!! ;-)

Just saw the Simpsons earlier tonight. Bart and some prospective girlfriend
of his were playing a video game in a 7-11 type store. In the game you were
a convict in the U.S. prison system. First Bart runs away from the guards
who are beating on him only to run into (scary fully-diminished-seventh
chords) "The Conservative Judge" (Oh no!) who is weilding a huge gavel the
size of a large axe. Bart hits the "Change Of Venue" button. The screen
flashes to a picture of the con in an electric chair getting fried. Then
Bart says: "Oh no! I landed in Texas! Should've used the remorse button
more." I about fell out of my chair laughing. Sick humor, but that line
about the conservative judge and texas were frightningly funny.

Back to the windmill-man, I heard that Rykodisc is releasing Townsend's
first solo album "Who Came First" for the first time on CD, with 6 bonus
tracks no less. I haven't heard any solo-Pete that hasn't been pretty damn
good, but this album came out in the early 70's long before he went solo.
Anybody ever heard it? Is it any good?

Anybody heard Keith Richards' new one? Is it as good as his 1988 solo
outing "Talk Is Cheap"? My two favorite Keef-related tunes are 1) the first
track on "Talk Is Cheap" (can't remember the title) which features Bootsy
Collins on major-funky bass and Bernie Worrel on keys, and 2) the first
tune on Bernie Worrel's 1989 album "Funk Of Ages" which features Bootsy and
Keef. (Bootsy and Bernie were both a big part of the George (no releation
to Bill) Clinton P-Funk thang throughout the 70's.)

Anybody remember the band David And David and their 1986 album "Boomtown"?
Davis Baerwald (of D&D) did a solo album last year called "Bedtime Stories"
and I just wanted to say that both are among my all-time favorite AOR albums
of all time. F*cking masterful both musically and lyrically. If you find
either of them in the cut-out bins or used-CD piles, don't pass them up.

I'm stuggling with the question of whether to renew my subscription of
Rolling Stone. I've been with them for 6 years now, mostly cuz I was buying
every 5th issue anyway, and with a 3 year subscription, the price per issue
was less expensive, only about $.45 each compaired to a cover price of
$2.50. I'd rather subscribe to a jazz mag, but Downbeat and Jazziz often
leave me cold. I mean, hell, this month Downbeat did a several page article
on our beloved Kenny G and how he's paved the way for so many, like Dave Koz
and others. They even listed all his equipment. I mean, I know Downbeat has
to pay the bills, but geez, Sun Ra hasn't been on their cover in over a
decade. I wish they'd do a huge article on him now, before he "returns to
the great Saturn in the sky." Are there any other jazz mags out there that
I should take a look at?

For that matter, I wish Rolling Stone would do a piece on Sun Ra. He was
doing stuff in the 60's that could be called the origins of "industrial"
music. Sure it was with jazz instrumentation, but Ra's farthest out stuff
isn't that much different than what some do with samplers and sequencers
today, no?

Well, I guess that's all my trivial mind can come up with at the moment.
Happy Trails and Later Days....

                                                  Tom "Buck-Naked" Buck,
                                                  who wishes it were not
                                                  cold and wet outside!!
                                                  I really miss going to
                                                  nudist-resort. :-( :-(
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