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THRASHER
Has everybody gone out and
bought your own personal copy of
the "We are the World Lp, seen the
video a million times, the video of
the making of the video, the book of
the video of the making of the video
and collected all the 7-11 Slurpen
cups and McDonald's soft drink "We
Are The World" commemorative
glasses with all the different singing
stars (Igor's got two Ray Charles
cups)? That song has been played
ten million times too many. And it's
number one for no other reason than
it's a novelty. It ain't even a good
song. And how come there's so
much attention being paid to this sex
music?! It's no big secret that SEX
SELLS, but to mix sex with bad,
catchy jingles, rhythms and beats is
Lemmy, of Motorhead, seems to think
THRASHER has good taste. Here
he samples a comer of the
October 84 issue at Dingwalls
Night Club in London.
hideous. Bands with overt homosex
ual connotations like, Frankie Goes
To Hollywood, Bronski Beat or any
number of off-shoot brackish homo-
rock. If you wanna see confused
boys, look at all these boys confused
in the fashion with high-water baggy
pants, mascara, no-socks, slippers,
forty-five degree angle hair cuts,
day-glo trappings and a fake effemi-
nate attitude. It ain't chic, it ain't even
cool. Hell, now it's cool in society to
have a miniscule trail of hair (tail)
cruising down the back of your head.
in office situations and the like. It
used to be, years ago, back in 79,
80, 81, that people were chased and
threatened with bodily harm for
wearing such. Now, housewives
Evidence that Tales of Terror are anything
BUT, a dull show. Raf's Ass going apeshil
BECKS BEER
Brian Brannon of JF.A, looking extremely hectic at
their recent show.
em
with three kids in private school have
Social-sexual
confu-
sion... Tales of Terror occasionally
erupt onto the stage these days.
Rat's Ass is as writhing as a decapi
tated snake under the flood
lights Keep on the lookout for
JFA's new live album, it's some of
The hottest on-the-road material, on
vinyl to date...Sci-Fi monsteresque.
Glen Danzig and Sam Hain, his
travelling road show, eclipsed the
West coast with some horror rock
business. As far as it goes, it was
damn good. Green on Red's new
album is out and is heard to be doing
well. Who is the Heaviest band that
you know of? All of us here at
THRASHER think that Venom carry
the most, punch for punch, in the
chord thrusty dept, write in and tell
us who you think is tougher. So far
a few votes for Motorhead,
Discharge,
GBH
and
BGK T.S.O.L. and Poison 13
played a furious evening in Los
Angeles a few weeks back. Cruising
the scenerio wore Terry "H.A."
Nails, M. Fo, Rockin' Steve Alba,
Mike from MIA and Pleasant
Gehman of the nasty Screamin' Si
rens. Later that eve, found Nails,
Salba and M.Fo at a posh, after
hours drink-easy with art on the
walls called the No-Art Club, or
something. It was alleged that M.Fo
paraded around saying he was an
ex Green Beret having a combat
flashback and tried to bite off some
guy's fashion mohawk before David
Lee Roth of Van Halen fame inter-
vened, calming the art-struck Fo
The next day found M.Fo with no
recollections whatsoever... Flipside
fanzine's new compilation is out and
sounds good so far...The Faction
Abeddon (left) and Mantaa (right)
of Venom, point out that Beck's
goes better with THRASHER.
ern
Glenn Danzig
of Samhain
backstage at
the Mab
He wears
his hair
ke this now.
are on tour....Since the recent "Anti-
prayer movements in public
schools," laws are being passed,
some clever students are petitioning
for fifteen minutes of privacy a day
to overdose on their favorite Rock
Roll. Curiously enough, the mod-
Euro-psycho-disco-romantic-
sex schlock is being shunned in
favor of more aggressive vile edged.
educational, true-to-rock riffs. Could
this movement be contagious?
Some news outbreaks of near vol-
lence have reached our solemn
ears, as educational authorities at
tempt to stifle this rock revela-
tion. As mysterious as dead flies,
the Drunk Injuns appeared for a
sudden show in late May, and then
sithered away to be heard from
again, who knows when?...And what
about this Paisley resurgence? This
Psychedelic crap-garbage? C'mon,
what ever happened to originality?
Shit, it's been done before. Is it some
meager affirmation that it worked be-
fore, or a sophomoric dress-up and
clothing resource accessibility? If
this keeps up, we'll be reliving the
70's next year and be forced into
ABBA, Bread, The Partridge Fam-
lly and Bay City Rollers re-
hash...NEWS FROM PHILADEL
PHIA (and other assorted
areas) All you Decontrol fans out
there can take heart at long last
the band has an album out. It's
called "Songs from the Gut," and it
captures the essence of Decontrol.
Write to Decontrol, Corporate
Plaza co 5 Wynmoor Road, Media,
PA 19063. Ultra-fans can also get a
"free" Decontrol skull-man t-shirt by
sending $6.50 postage and handling
to the same address...Plans have
been made to release a compilation
album with four bands: Little Gent-
lemen, Electric Love Muffin, M-
80's and Flag of Democracy. If all
goes well, that will be out in the not
too distant future Little Gentle-
men are planning to release a sec-
ond album. The addition of their new
gultarist has given their sound a lot
more power and depth, making them
a real force to be reckoned
with...Speaking of forces to be re-
ckoned with, Electric Love Muffin
ripped the stage with a blazing set
when they played on the same bill
with local band The Johnsons
and Husker Du. The Johnsons
were extremely tight with a rock,
twangy sound and Husker Du were
their usual rockin' selves. Ruin are
said to be back in the studio with the
possibility of a new release in the
works. Homo Picnic are recording
songs for a Speed of Sound compl
lation planned for late summer. Rich
Poor, ex-Homo Picnic is now put-
ting out a fanzine called Alcoholic
Tendencies. Everything you never
wanted to know about Philly, and
then some: Alcoholic Tendencies
at P.O. Box 13011, Philadelphia, PA
19101-3011... The Kennel Club is
now booking live bands and are
looking for videos of bands to play
(the emphasis at the club is on video
and performance stuff). If you have
a video or are planning a four, con-
tact the Kennel at P.O. Box 15921,
Philadelphia, PA 19103...New band
from Maryland called Roadside
Petz have a demo tape floating
around that's pretty good. It's
garagey-rock-punk with lots of
energy and a real sense of having
fun in the music. Contact the band
co Todd Morse, 100 Lexwood
Drive, Apt. 30 B, Lexington Park, MD
20653 Another Maryland band,
Reptile House, will have a 4-song.
7 Ep out on Discord pretty soon, so
keep your ears open for it. More
new releases out soon: Psychobud
from California is releasing a 3-song
Ep which sould be out in June...A
band called Bay of Pigs (also from
CA) have a release which is proba
bly out by the time you're reading
this...And two other bands from CA
-17 Pygmies and Paniolo will have
their releases out in mid-to-late sum-
mer. The Dicks are out on
tour... There's a High school for
homosexuals in New York and
another cease fire has been viciated
in Lebanon. So, what else is new?
IG
Exene, of the Knitters, at the I-Beam
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On
THE KNITTERS
Men also cover a Meat Puppets
POOR LITTLE CRITTER ON THE song This is definetely good stuff.
ROAD
dude.
SLASH RECORDS
Here is one hell of a slab of poly
vinylchloride for yer ears. Them forks
from X and The Blasters teamed up
with little ole Johnny Ray Bartel and
stanted a band just for fun and some
smoke money
RAW POWER
SCREAMS FROM THE GUTTER
TOXIC SHOCK RECORDS
This powerful unit from Italy
shows all it has to offer on their first
album. Raw Power literally scream
The Knitters are what they call from word ons Guitar and bass at
themselves and the life tootenanny tack furiously and the vocals come
they put together is called "Poor Lit out fighting in Italian-tinged English.
the Critter on the Road." What we got This 17 song Lo covers at all, cap-
here is Merle Haggard. Tammy tures it and spits it back out. I didn't
Wynette and Pete Seeger all com- hear one bad track. You gotta check
bined into one. Get my meaning? it out and see for yourself.
No punk rock from these folks but
lots of purdy songs thatel bring
some tears to yer eyes. Hell, one of THE BIG BOYS
my favorite songs even called Enigma Records Moment
Cryin But My Tears Are Far Away
and "Someone Like You' is as sad
as the day my dog died.
check it out.
finally it's here, it's in my hands, on
I've been waiting and waiting, and
Not all is sad and lonely on this album! This release is filled with the
my turntable, it's the new Big Boys
here elpee, it ends with a rousing stuff I love. Great thrash, like; "NO,"
version of "Rock island Line, a song and "Narrow view Cool turk, like:
made famous by the man in black. "What's the word?." even a scratch-
Johnny Cash. This record gets my type tune called 'Common beat
highest rating: 4 bass strings. The Big Boys always come thru with
guitar strings and 98 tears. Igor says sounds that make life worth livin', if
you live your life with music always
blastin, like me. Again this record is -
produced by SPOT, and is one of his
finer works. The only complaint 1
have with this one, is that the man-
ufacturer's suggested list price is
8.08. But what the title for this
tough disc is, 'No matter how long
the line is at the cafeteria, there's al
ways a seat
THE MINUTEMEN
TOUR SPIEL EP
REFLEX RECORDS
This Ep is a collection of live tracks
recorded on tour. All of the tracks
are cover songe and all are good.
Halen's "Ain't Talking Bout Love,"
and Blue Oyster Cult's The Red and
The Black show the humor of the Go buy a copy, you can't miss it.
Minutemen as they rework the orig The cover's got tive people and a
inals. But by far the best track is Jack-o-lantem in an empty pool, in
CCR's Green River," possibly the the upper right hand corner it says
best version ever recorded. The M. BIG BOYS, nuff said