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Garage music is the sound of a thousand tex-
tured visions rumbling loud and proud, igniting
imaginations all over the world. Its surreal
strains are strange and somewhat elusive,
especially to the noise police, who can never
quite eradicate it. Only certain magical, mystical
record stores seem to carry it, but that's never
stopped it. Most garagers never make it big
anyway; they just jam the night away with
friends at small clubs, parties, keggers and the
occasional boondocker. It's a tradition that's as
old as rock and roll itself. Before there were
garages, it was played on the porch... One of
the illustrious few groups that made it big yet
remained insane is the Meat Puppets. This trio
from Tempe, AZ, still play incredible guitar-
blown harmonies with twisted, smoke-filled
lyrics. It's been two years since the release of
Monsters, due to label/legal hassles, but the
Pups finally have a new one called Forbidden
Places. Bass pumper Cris Kirkwood says "It's
a hodgepodge, a culture dispose-all. We throw
it all in and churn it up into our own unique
brand of paté." Are the Puppets still a garage
band? "Fuck yeah! We still practice in our
garage," says Cris, "T'd call us an alleyway band
and a canal band, and any place that's between
two fences or a hedge and a fence. We're a
bunch of yahoos who forgot we aren't teens
anymore. It's extended adolescence. It's the
Peter Pan syndrome taken to an extreme." Yes,
the Meat Puppets used to skate, and their in-
trepid lightman Danny Moped still seeks the
perfect kidney. But somewhere between riding
Big Wheels down the legendarily steep and
treacherous "Pink Sidewalk of Squaw Peak in
They're loud, they're silly and they jump around a lot. The Mr. T Experience jams down at the Chameleon in S.F.
Phoenix, Arizona, and playing loud rocking
psychosomatic sounds, the Puppets discov
ered they didn't need wheels to go fast. "We
graduated from the wheel thing when we real
ized we could go faster without touching the
ground at all," says Cris. "We just take musical
flight. It saved our knees.". Another intense
garageland aberration is The Outcrowd, who
rock a melodious backbeat from the streets of
New York City. Like any decent garage band,
they sing what they mean with feeling, and
FROM THE UNDERGROUND
Calling all
unregistered
potential vot-
ers, Rock the
Vote says you
can make a
difference at
the polls, and
the Ramones,
Iggy Pop,
Megadeath,
REM, Billy
Bragg and
Warrant all
insist that you
at least try
Don't wait.
Register now
before it's too
late. Tad's
Eight Way
Santa was
yanked from
production
after the new
husband of
that halter-
clad female on
the cover dis-
covered the
boosted color
iration on dis-
play at a local
record store.
that's what makes them shine... From the car-
ports of South Africa, Tribe After Tribe, led by
ex-native Robbi Robb, tap a powerful, spacy,
rock and roll menagerie on their new self-titled
Lp.
They call the sound "township rock," and it
rolls with tribal drums, psychedic emanations
and shouts to end apartheid. Needless to say,
this never went over too well with South African
cops, who pulled the plug on the PA at one gig
while the audience of 3,000 participated in a
loud and hearty singalong. Nowadays the band
is based in LA with plans to tour the U.S.....
Do they play garage music in France? You
betcha. Dig Les Thugs' International Anti-
Boredom Front, a wall of fuzz guitar with har-
monious background vocals that proves garage
VEGETARIAN VOICES OF REVOLUTION
It's a war which we fight in
defense of earth's future and all
forms of life/Against those in the
way, all is justified/And for what
I believe, I'm willing to die/To
free those enslaved, I'll take a
life/Won't shed a tear, I know I
am right, and if I am caught, I'll
pay the price...
-No One Is Innocent"
Vegan Reich
Hardliners are straight-edge
animal liberation/environmental
vegan (don't eat meat, eggs.or
milk) revolutionaries. They fore-
see impending global doom and
are prepared to make major sac-
rifices to wake the world from its
sleepwalk toward destruction.
Hardliners have a simple ideolo
gy: All life is sacred and has the
right to live without interference.
Anyone who infringes on any
creature's life or habitat loses
their own rights and is fair
game. Thrasher Magazine in-
terviewed Sean, owner of Hard-
line Records, and asked if they
were serious about their threats.
"We are serious, but a lot of
people have interpreted the
lyrics to be something they're
not. We don't mean if you eat
meat we want to kill you. Our
ideology is not one of violence.
It sees all life as being equal-
and deserving of rights. Vio-
lence is merely a tool we are
willing to use to gain the libera-
tion of all life when attempts at
peaceful persuasion have failed.
We're not talking about doing
something for the love of vio-
lence. We want to get the point
across that people must affect
their lives and not contribute to
the slaughter of animals. There
have to be consequences to peo-
ple's actions. People know that
If they commit murder, there is a
price to pay; we're extending.
that to animals."
Are they worried their anti-
meat eater stance will effective-
ly alienate most of the popu-
lation and hamper the cause? "Il
people are turned off by our
extreme stance, that's unfor-
tunate, but there is no other
option, Other environmental and
animal rights groups have taken
moderate stances for years and
the planet is being destroyed
faster than ever. It we come
across with a militant message
it has a better chance of making
someone strive to another level
of understanding and concern."
Do hardliners expect to see
major changes in the world in
their lifetime? "We believe that
drastic changes will occur, for
better or worse. If something is
not done soon to reverse the pat-
tern of environmental destruc-
tion, our fate is certain extinc
tion. And, as the economies
collapse, and drought and
famine spread throughout the
world, it is certain that right-
wing groups, from the CIA to the
Klan, will use that climate of
public dissatisfaction and ram-
pant chaps to further their own
fascistic agenda. We may be up
against Impossible odds, but we
have to try. The only hope we
have is to implement revolution-
ary change. If that isn't accom
plished in time, we have to at
least be prepared to defend our-
selves against those who will
seek to enslave us."
What keeps hardliners going
when most of the population
can't deal with their strict
lifestyle and guidelines? "For us
there is no other choice. We
might not win, but to sit back
and let things fall apart is to give
up on your own life."
Current Hardline bands in-
clude Vegan Reich from Cali-
fornia, Statement from England,
and Raid from Memphis, Ten-
nessee. Look for new bands The
11th Hour, Monkey Wrench, Pure
Blood and Deliverance, Hard-
line's first reggae band.
For information on environ
mental and animal rights, vegan
nutrition, vegan collective farms
or new releases write: Hardline
Records, P.O. Box 490, Laguna
Beach, California 92652.
-Kurt Carlson
brouhaha is a universal language...
Meanwhile from Hungary, there's the
tripping garage mania gone bad of The
Galloping Coroners, who've been
around since 1975. Jello Biafra calls
them "the Iron Curtain's Butthole
Surfers. Here's a garage group that's
so good they were banned in their own
country for eleven years... Crank up
that smoke machine; the Fuzztones
are back. The Creatures That Time
Forgot is a chronicle of the band's cami-
val freak show of reverb-laden electricity
and hallucinatory psycho punk... The
Seers rock a harmonic landscape of
driving guitar and surreal backup vocals
with their latest, Psych Out, which testi-
fies that garage music is definitely alive
and kicking in the nineties. The
Miracle Workers have a new slab of
mind-expansion out called Roll Out The
Red Carpet, an out-of-body collection of
drone tones and meandering melodies
...Digging up the flowers in the Sound-
garden, it was inevitable that Temple of
the Dog should find the Mother Love
Bone. Chris Cornell and Matt Cam-
eron from Garden came together with
Stone Gossard and Mike McCready
from Bone to form Temple of the Dog.
The band's album is about as 70s acid
bluesy garage pop as you can get with-
out a prescription. Four Brits with
blond mop-tops who call themselves
Birdland recently invaded the States
only to destroy all their instruments on
stage at CBGB's during a gig that lasted
all of two minutes. Birdland's self-titled
album is a 60s-stylee pop rocker that
conjures images of flowery Buzzcocks
...No cross-section of psychedelic
garage revival is complete without a
passing, gassing mention of Naz No-
mad and the Nightmare's (also known
as The Damned's) Give Daddy the
Knife Cindy, which will forever rank as a
gem in the halls of electric trippers...
Speaking of great slabs floating around
in the used-record bins, check for The
Battle Of The Garages, Highs In The
Mid-Sixties, and especially The Electric
Sugarcube Flashbacks, which is virtual-
ly guaranteed to make the walls melt
and turn the acoustic ceiling into a vast
gathering of shimmering worm colonies
Deep Purple's dreamy, gothic
Slaves and Masters wasn't recorded in
a hallway with mattresses on the walls
like Machine Head (the album with the
rotund riffings of "Smoke On The
Water"). It was recorded in an empty
video production warehouse with a
blanket over the studio window so the
stares of the engineers wouldn't intrude
on the jams. "It's a bit magical and mys-
terious," says singer Joe Lynn Turner,
formerly of Rainbow, "because to me,
when I hear it, there's more going on
than meets the first listen." Turner also
used to skate. "Before you guys did all
these tricks and stuff," he told Thrasher,
we used to go down the hills by our
house at 90 m.p.h."
-Brian Brannon
RICKTER
SCALE
Urge Overkill, Flipside release
The Supersonic that'll put most of
Storybook, Lp. your collection to
Another master sleep.
Naked
piece. It's new, it's City. Torture
now and it's not to Garden, Lp. If you
be missed. Su liked the first-
perchunk, Fish Napalm Death
ing, 7. Krunchy, Lp. then this is up
noisy, straight your alley. John
forward rock from Zara on chaotic
North Carolina sax. This one's a
Bad
Totally boss ripper
Butthole Surfers, Religion, Spit, 7.
Ploughd (pro- The A-side is an
nounced PEE anti-war commen
owed). Lp. How tary by Noam
can you refuse Chomsky, the B-
any Butthole re- side has two un
lease? "Hurdy released cuts of
Gurdy Man" sticks resistance.
in my head
Ickey Joey, Pooh Billeeeeaaauss
Lp. I love this gghh! Compi
band's name and lation, 7. Forty-
it has music to one bands and
must-have
match. Northwest sixty-four songs
fest of fun-filled on one 7 speaks
tunes with a mem for itself, I liked
ber of Mudhoney "Pizza Boy" the
Hullabaloo, best. A real HC
Labritorium, Lp. extravaganza
Maelstroms of Bullets For Pus-
hard-hitting riffs sy, Penetration
with deep bluesy Blvd., 7. A pre-
belches of violent lude to the forth-
vocalism Bab coming Lp. Super
bing For Pave heavy and hard to
ment. A Seattle get... Eye For An
Compilation. Eye, Omega Drone,
There's a cool 7. A four-song Ep
Derelicts song from one of the
and cuts by Gas new regimes in
Huffer and Ham Boston. Decent
merbox. Already hardcore in the
out-of-print. traditional way, no
Shoulda got one fringe attached
while ya had a Crawlpappy. 7.
Steel Underrated N.Y
chance
Pale Bathtub, three-piece with
Tulip Lp. I dig the Prong inspiration.
cover, but no Worth investigat
comic book with ing Slug. 7.
this one. Ever so Here's one for all
enlightening sonic you grunge mas-
fusion that jams ters. Slow, drip-
till you dropping magma that
The Big One, Flip- will melt your dia
side Compilation, monds. Two bass
Coffin
Lp. There's a players
Steel Pole Mel Break, Kill The
vins Task Force President. 7. A
contribution and timely release in
more on this all correspondence
star shoot-out with the war that
They also put City ended so quickly.
of LA. comp on Barefoot punk at
the CD for a battle its best. The title
of bands between track is self-ex-
SF. and LA. Good planatory, but the
job. Al Anus B-side is a real
The Menace, Lp. crusher.
Here's another -Rick Rotsaert
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