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Books, Synths, Music. Record collector since age 6. SF/CA musician (guitar/bass). Screenprinter 25+yrs
Punk.Electronic.Goth.Industrial.Deathrock.Experimental.Stoner.Doom.FreeJazz.Subculture.WeirdShit.DaDa.Perpetual outsider.
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I usually have a few things going. I'm about halfway through Cosey's book, also reading Love,Sex,Fear,Death about the Process church and Black and Blur by Moten, a modern poet and thinker.
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it's exhausting just to keep up with the bullshit. Reading books, listening to and making music keep me sane.
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Paisley Underground! I caught them in SF for the kickoff of their 2012 reunion shows. They sounded amazing.
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I have a Wipers tribute band here in SF. We cover the title track from this one. 🖤
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Nice. I have the book but not the cd.
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Ha wow! Yeah ask him and report back. I also saw there was a 75th anniversary project in 2012 where they made a "Play the Golden Gate Bridge" app.
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Yeah, it's where I keep the ticket stub from that show, so there's that. Ha! Having a large collection means you might suffer a few incidents here and there, I've mostly been lucky.
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It happens. Luckily only a couple times. Buying sealed merch from a box that has been rolling around on a vehicle for weeks on a tour can be a bit of a crapshoot.
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I got vol 1 at a Sharon Jones show but when I got it home and opened it, it was warped. Contacted. the label but never heard back, to this day it sits on a shelf unplayed. I still have the memory of a great show though.
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youtu.be/Um4lOWPHGo0?...
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Had to dig it out but do you know this cd? Hard to find but there is some stuff on youtube about it. Recordings from 1987 released in 2011 on McKechnie Records. No other info besides a dead website.
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This was just hiding out on youtube before his 'rediscovery" if this is any indication, he must've been having a blast!
youtu.be/0rConeeD1AI?...
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There's an earlier press of Vol 1 from 2020, I have that one. The initial run was a little over 300. It was repressed in 2022. They released Vol 2 shortly afterwards. Not sure there's any way to ID the different variants tho. Indeed these are amazing and we're lucky these recordings surfaced!👽
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Awesome, I was in touch with someone a few years ago who was doing a series of collabs and had Doug on the list. Not sure it ever happened but it's nice to see that a few of these guys are still around and creatively active.
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👽 Nice!
What was your involvement? I grabbed the first run vinyl when this dropped. Amazing story and an important part of this history, the reach and influence of the Bay Area scene on the "Kosmiche"
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I used to see these guys around this time, small early shows. I still have one of the diy cds they pressed of this gifted to me at one of those gigs. Great songs and vibe.🖤
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Viva Mia! 🖤
Attended this Steve Moriarty reading a few months ago.
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Still vital.🖤
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Nice one! You inspired me to pull these out. Always loved their album covers! I met Jo Dog a few times when those guys were hanging around Hollywood in the 90's, we worked at the same print shop at different times. Also Bam was doing Bubble with Share, I went to a couple of those shows.
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I had a friend who was selling off his records to go live like a monk and I bought a bunch of great eye opening stuff that I still have and cherish. This one was my intro to a lot of this kinda music:
youtu.be/FU9nHEXBNAk?...
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My ears were primed for it as I'd already been into punk and straight edge hardcore for years. Most of those early HC 7"s were dreadful musically and sounded like ass sonically lol. As soon as people got used to that we moved on to weirder harder stuff in our quest to clear squares from parties.☠️
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Was just spinning this one:
Tony Conrad "Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain". A live set recorded in NY 1972 with Rhys Chatham and Laurie Spiegel.
2LP 2017 on Superior Viaduct.
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Got this when it came out, the first NWW record I ever bought!
All my punker friends hated it, I knew I was on to something.
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I still have a load of CDs. Just happened to have this one out. EXP with Roger Alan Painter aka Rozz Williams on bass. Hand stamped tissue paper overlay with an extra little clip art bit.
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Cool comp! Shared a bill with Penis Flytrap once, Dinah Cancer’s band. I should dig out the flyer.
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I have them all. I was lucky enough to play a bunch of those songs as I was in the band from '96-2000'. Did a load of shows and an album.🖤
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I see it every so often, never cheap. I got mine back in the early 90's and it was $30 even then!
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I have most of his books. I still need Gun and Sword. I was playing with Chris while he was working on that and I’ve seen the rough draft, it was enormous!
Vocals on N.Q.A. are unhinged, we did Suicide Saddle once or twice during that period.
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Here's Patrik's
patrikmata.bandcamp.com
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Likely to purge a few older releases soon but here is my bandcamp. I don't use streaming services.
alphastare.bandcamp.com/music
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We haven't released anything as of yet. The only piece online is a video made for a livestream. Here is an upload of that and we both have bandcamp sites that I'll link to in the comments:
youtu.be/ykd764dTpqA?...
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Reminds me of a passage in Lol’s book “Goth”. All those guys were inspired by Sex Pistols & Clash and those guys just listened to dub and reggae records cause there were no punk records yet. Don Letts was a big factor here.
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A live drone from 1972, wonderful.
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Glad to see kids embracing the dark but Idk about "brought it back" is it back? Methinks it never went away 'cause it was never really "here".
Either way, perpetually marginalized, underground, outsider culture, passively discovered via the internet, hardly warrants a proclamation of "revival".