NOTES FROM THE
Freeway mood
swings are the
inspiration for various
Don't Mean Maybe
tunes. Guitarist/
vocalist Mark Andrea,
bassist John How
thorne and drummer
Ron Sloan motored
unexplored byways
at the Last Day
Saloon in SF.
In The Monkeywrench Gang, a book by Edward Abbey.
a group of citizens fed-up with the pillage of the desert
eco-system take matters into their own hands. The deeds
of the fictitious ultra activists sowed the seeds of the
radical environmental group Earth First! and inspired a
band featuring Tim Kerr (ex-Big Boys, Poison 13. Bad
Mother Goose), Steve Turner and Mark Arm (Mud-
honey). Tom Price (U-Men Gashuffer) and Martin
Bland (ex-Lubricated Goat). The result is a psycho
grunge blues machine of the first degree. Fear not,
thought police. The Monkeywrench is not an elusive unit
of mad machinery saboteurs but a gang of basement-
born musical stylists who take up where Poison 13 left
off. "If you're going to do something that really matters."
says Kerr, "you're going to end up assassinated, dead
or in jail, so everything else must not be hitting them
real hard if they're still letting you doing it Like sugar
in the tank of a giant earth mover, Clean As A Broke
Dick Dog hammers forward downhome blues
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bombardments in the
psycho punk plater vein
"I've got a place in my heart for
garagy sixties stuff crossed with
Black Flag" says Kerr The
thunderous flood of girl bands
including L7, Babes In Toyland, Bikini
Kill and Mudwimmin is more than a
coincidence, says guitarist
Stephanie Sargent of
Seven Year Bitch
from Seattle. "It's
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really a big
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It was all planned
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Kill Rock Stars compilation and one on an all-female compilation caled
There's A Dyke in The Pit The increase in ladies' bands is a chain reaction
says drummer Valerie Agnew. "I was really inspired by Dickless," she says.
"I knew if they could do it. I could do it. Tribute albums are thicker than
thieves with Another Damned Seattle Compilation, Gabba Gabba Heya
coming Dead Kennedys comp called Vinus 100 and rumors of Pat Smear
working on a Germs covers comp. Now, Something's Gone Wrong Again a
Buzzcocks smorgasboard, features Naked Raygun. Alice Donut
Accused, Big Drill Car, Doughboys, Didjits. Coffin Break and The Fluid
doing poetic justice to the originals while throwing in mangled twists of their
own Porn Orchard's reverential version of "Why Can't Touch it is
interrupted by a tape of guitarist Curtiss Pernice asking talk show magnate
Larry King, "If it looks so real I can see it, if it sounds so real I can hear it, if
It tastes so good I can taste it, why, oh why, Larry, can't I touch it?" the talk
show host replies. "Tm not good at riddles. The band doesn't think the
Kingster will mind being part of the song Says Pernice. "Larry King appre-
ciates attention in any form Eugene, Oregon, super trippers Marble
Orchard are out to dose the nation with auditory hallucinations via the
mighty fuzz psychemuff vibrato of the album
Savage Sleep Hard, true garage freak-outs like
RICKTER SCALE Please Come Down" "Girl With No Name' and
Poison Idea Blank Blackout Vacant CD I don't give a
hootenanny what other critics say. Buisht on them. This
record wil make you bleed, cry and laugh Genitor
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for my cocking pierced cover, purple vinyl and adult
inserts Gen and her disciples of discipline get it going
with their brand of pain and visual performances and
this says nothing about their brutal music. Il sign them
nobody else does Olivelawn Sophomore JxCD
Great follow-up by one of the finer SoCal outfits O
blasts off with riffs made in heaven I love the cover
Neomort World of Hurt CD. Hel spawned hatecore
hom the Midwest. These guys reach inside you like a
bad dream, do a little redecorating and leave you in a
world of hurt. Ugly very ugly Therapy? Caucasan
Psychosis Lp Amazing Irish unt that incorporates the
industrial revolution with a heavy dose of skins and axe
grinding Godflesh Pun CD. This beats the shit out
of their last release back to the real pulverizing stuf
"Never Existed" are vitamins for home-grown mind
gardens. Says drummer Steven Frothingham, "All
we want to do is something that's so bitchin' it can't
be believed. Dick Dale, the monarch of huge
wave sounds, lent his big hand to Psychefunka-
pus on "Surfing on Jupiter," a pseudo Beach Boys
funk romp on the Lp Skin During the session
guitarist Jon Axtell told Dale, "We like it better
when you're not playing so much of the blueskind
of stuff. Dick reportedly got all fired up and said,
"Who's playing blues? That's a mountain lion
raging out there. That ain't Chuck Berry, that's a
wave coming over your head." Mad scientist
keyboard master poet Bernie Worrell from
Funkadelic also joins the Psyche for a fine
sprinkling of cosmic grooves. "There's some bizarre
conceptual things," says bassist Atom Ellis. "I
your music's really talking, it's saying something
beyond words. Seeking the wettest reverb
imaginable for the water-sking behind a loose
outboard motor tune "Take Up The Slack Daddy-
0. The A-Bones naturally set up in the bathroom
of an expensive German recording studio when the
regular room didn't sound right. Says guitarist Billy
Miller. "When the owner of the studio came in
thinking. Let's see how these puny Americans like
our big modern technology, we had all our stuff in
the bathroom saying. This room's the coolest."
The Bones also recorded for the soundtrack of a
black & white cheese horror flick called / Was A
Teenage Mummy "Imagine the most low budget
thing you've ever seen, then go below that ten
times," says Miller. Write the A-Bones at Norton
Records, Box 646, Cooper Station, NY, NY 10003
Between flashes of melody and motion on the
Lp Real Good Life Don't Mean Maybe covers
"Tranquil Sea" by Neil Blender's ex-group Worked
World. The tune describes the annual Huntington
Beach surf contest police versus citizens gang war
where cars are apt to get set on fire and full-suited
helmet-shielded goose-stepping authoritarian
overlords occasionally get pushed off the pier. 1 like music that evokes an
environment or a certain kind of feeling," says gutarist Mark Andrea... The
hairy, wild-ass stage shows of San Jose's Skankin' Pickle are captured for the
world to hear on Skatunkrastapunk Tunes like "Road Zombie," "Burnt Head" and
Racist World" deal a taste to those who have never swallowed the live Pickle
Bald bassist Mike Mattingly explains the overwhelming Pickle presence.
"Anarchy on stage is the only way to be."
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Hogan's Heroes Lo. Great skatecore by veteran
Herpes. Their best yet-hard fast and in the way t
should be. Accused Splatter Rock Lp. Their baaack
and better than ever. Baine sounds great. I really got
into this on the first listen, even with the Accused style
rap. Fuckin wicked dudes Hellmenn Electric
Crazyland CD. The best by these Aussie punkers-
crunchy and catchy. They were on Skate Rock Seven
so there Gwar, America Must Be Destroyed CO
Gwar takes it to another extreme by proving they can
play and sing. Look for the movie Phallus in Wond
Coffin Break Cat CD. Meral intros blaze into CB
well-known assaut style. Nice people, but I liked ther
older stuff better-not Just as essental as the rest
Honeymoon Killers Hung Far Low CD. This band s
bets out a grunge like no other The Young Gods TV
Sky CD. By far the best release from this Sw
industrial complex. The Doors meer Ministry Super-
suckers, Like A Big Fuckin Tan 7. Now this is punk
Zip Gun Together Dumb 7 Ver Seattle homeys strate
all competitors. Rat a tat-tat The Superkools 7.1
was taking to my buddy Russ and someone put this on
Russ said. This tucun rocks. He was right Geo
Probing the Gash in Her Head 7 Tele of the month
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Knife in Japan to Chrissie Hynde and Pat
Benatar in America are also
involved, says Sargent
Seven Year Bitch is
contributing to the coup with a
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