NOTES
The funk punk muck is thick as mud nowa-
days. Everybody and their funky chicken is
popping a bad ass bass riff and trying to
prove who has the funkiest thumb in the
land. But with all the slapping, rapping,
thumping and thrashing, not to mention all
the electro guitar fuzz metal lead tones going
down, the deep, inner element of soul is
missing or obscured by ego in many of these
supposedly red hot bands, Fortunately, Bad
Mutha Goose's new four-song maxi single
(with bonus extendorama mixes) shows
there's still hope. It lays out enough soul to
go around. Then there's Bootsauce, who
have a sincere groove going down with The
Brown Album... One band that busts be-
yond the boundaries of funky is Fishbone.
The Reality Of Our Surrounding is the
Bone's latest. "It's a personal record about
how things in our neighborhood affect us
socially and politically," says guitarist
Kendall Ray Jones. A live band if there
ever was one, Fishbone is the founder of the
Coalition Against Tradition, which encour-
ages everybody do their own thing. "Em-
brace the old but bring it forward," says
Kendall Whatever happened to Agent
Orange? Well, those stalwart surf/skate
sounds still live, and there's more coming.
says guitarist Mike Palm. "We're going to
take our original roots and our original sound
and expound." The band now features
Derek O'Brien, drummer emeritus for So-
cial Distortion and Legal Weapon and
bassist Sam Bolle. A live album, The Real
Live Sound of Agent Orange, which included
a cover of "Police Truck" by
the Dead Kennedys never
made it out of Enigma's
vaults before that record
corporation went belly up...
The new Vision skate video
promises to have a ripping.
soundtrack. Alphabet Soup
rock and roll slides with the
Angry Samoans, DI, Tender
Fury, Kerplunk. The Shock-
waves. The Diesel Queens,
LAPD, and Johnny Kop's
band, Dana Lynn, among
others. The resemblance
between ripping rapper Kid
Rock and Bart Simpson is John Robison of the Flaid performs a rock and roll layback at the Kennel Club in SF
amazing. Kid claims he had the hair in high
school, long before Bart (unavailable for
comment) was even a gleam in Homer's
eye. Kid, a homeboy from Detroit, just fin-
ished a tour with Too Short and Ice-T, and
has a nasty new album out called Grits
Sandwiches For Breakfast... Still the
coolest record club going, the Sub Pop
Single of the Month Club keeps the good
sounds coming. Catching up on seven
inchers from moons passed, there's the hard
guitar haze of Rein Sanction on Creel, the
frothing at the mouth Rev. Horton Heat's
Psychobilly Freakout, the incomparably loud
and heavy Jinx by Tad, Beat Happening's
mono rocking drone Red Head Walking and
the messed up folk songs of The Free-
wheelin' Mark Arm... Anyone who ever
dug Bugs Bunny's piano rendition of Franz
FROM THE UNDERGROUND
Extra, extra,
read all about
it. The original
members of
TSOL have
again changed
their name due
to continuing
legal hassles.
What was
once LOST is
now known as
Superficial
Love. And in
other great old
So. Cal. punk
band news,
volume one of
the rarified
Dangerhouse
compilation
has been re-
birthed. This
collection of
cutting cuts
includes tunes
from the Aven-
gers, the Dils
the Weirdos,
the Eyes, X, the
Alleycats and
Rhino 39. A
whole album
of Weirdo
sides, Weird
World, is also
rolling down
the line.
70 THRASHER MAGAZINE
OD
Ghosts
ROCK & ROLL
LUT WEA
A revealing clothing line. Photo: John Stain
What do you get when you take a super-
star rock and roll drummer and add a
former world class pro skater? A clothing
line the chain stores won't touch. Rikki
Rockett, showman extraordinaire and
stickman for the chart-topping mega band
Poison, joined together with former skate
pro/artist John A. Grigley to form Old
Ghosts Designs.
The designs created by Grigley are
"definitely a city product, right off the
pavement that he skates," says Rockett.
"We are not a 'clothing line. We are not
sewing up little patterns and having
fashion shows.
"Our shirts with sayings on them are in
the greatest demand....Like 'dead people
are cool... It's a cold reality or a double
imponderment. It gives people something
to think about."
Like true artists, Grigley and Rocket
refuse to compromise their art at the sake
of mass acceptance.
"We did get banned," says Rockett, "by
a store in Pasadena, CA, but the store-
owner took it to the courtroom and it was
thrown out."
"As far as censorship goes," adds
Grigley, "initially we got banned in Pasa-
dena and Palm Springs, but that was
before our new catalog full of shirts came
out. Our new stuff is way extreme com-
pared to what these stores had objections
to. We are challenging the censorship
issue head on now. The shit is gonna hit
"You can't please everybody," Rocket
says. But while some parents are
bumming on Old Ghosts designs because
of the content, it's also driving the kids
from L.A. 's Melrose crazy. The elite
clientele that have been seen donning
Old Ghost T's include Skinny Puppy.
Cheap Trick, James Addiction, Sonic
Youth, Slash and Axl, Billy Idol, Tom
Petty, Poison (of course), Ghetto Boys,
Rick Rubin, Princess Stephanie of
Monaco-everyone from royalty to
rockers is sportin' these neo-primitive
and post-modern mix of sexual, religious
and punk metal attire. -John Stain
Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 will
definitely dig Richard Kastle's latest album
Streetwise. Don't judge Kastle by his leather
jacket, this punk plays classical... Speed
rap is here and it's blowin' ears. Check out
the positive rap of KMC and their debut
Three Men With The Power Of Ten... The
Odd Numbers are on tour of the states.
catch them if you can... Santa Monica has a
new skatin' blues combo raggin' the scales.
Ladies and gentleman, it's the Rolling Fork
Blues Band, featuring Colonel Z Ganzer's
son (Bo) James Ganzer, Jr. (age 14) on
drums, as well as Max Katz (15), Jason (13)
and Johna Greenburg (15). Look for a
whirlwind world tour sometime next month.
-Brian Brannon
RICKTER SCALE
Motörhead, 1916, Lp. ter than Kiss could ever
Although latter-day Mo- Imagine Beat Hap-
törhead albums may not pening, Dreamy, Lp. This
be your favorites, 1916 trio from Olympia, WA,
fills the order, delivering have put out records for
pure banging satisfaction years with their brand of
that'll bring the world to haunting yet upbeat and
its knees Silverfish, basic sound. Simple
Fat Avi Lp. Touch and Go music for simple people
saw the light with this... Screaming Trees, Un-
fearsome foursome and cle Anesthia, Lp. A lot of
re-released their two 12s Northwest bands are
and a new Lp. Scorching teaming up with major
guitar frenzies and pier labels and this one defin
cing shrieks by Lez wil itely put me under Great
put a smile on your face cover art, but their older
The Jesus Lizard, stuff was better
Goat, Lp. The latest maze
of madness will please all
Lizard fans with unrelent-
ing pounding rhythms of
retribution.
Drain,
Drain, 7. This industrial
strength brain cleaner will
dissolve your plumbing.
Ministry-style guitar as-
sault and bull-hom vocal
bellows Rocket From
The Crypt, Paint As Fra
grance, Lp. Killer debut
featuring former Pitch
fork members that will
rock your bones. Melodic
power punk mixed with
Descendants and Sub
Pop influences
Steel-
Dino-
saur J, Green Mind, CD.
The re-formed Dinosaur
are big label now and
they've turned down the
volume. Plenty of acous
tic tear jerkers that won't
leave you crying for more
Big Chief Drive It Off
Lp. This is a collection of
singles plus a couple of
unreleased tracks by Bar-
ry (Necres) Henssler's
band. If you missed out
so far, here's your chance.
Pure reck power that just
plain rips. Fishwife,
Snail Killer, Lp. Some
great bands are coming
out of San Diego these
pole Bathtub, 7 Har-
days. Grungy psychocore
monic retro disruption that's grab you hook, line
that jams like there's no and sinker... Gratus, 7
a brutal SF-based industrial
tomorrow with
samp-
Hendrix cover on the B- ling that's environmental
side Big Drill Car/ ly correct. One song is
Chemical People, split dedicated to Edward Ab-
7 BDC does Cheap bey, whose books woke
Trick's "Surrender" power the world to crimes taking
pop styles and Chemical place in our environment
People do "Getaway" bet-
-Rick Rotsaert
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