DINOSAUR Jr
Where you BEEN
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skatenigs
Music's Most Rambunctious Tag Team
It's hard to begin a story without an ending. It's hard to end
a story when you've forgotten the beginning. It's hard to
pet a pit-bull when there's a chicken in your pants. The
Skatenigs are more a philosophy than a band, more an
attitude than a musical happening, more a drive-by shoot-
ing than an assassination attempt. Part chaos, part hard-
line street cheese, part inspired sickness and part random
unprovoked nudity. How do you touch a rainbow? How can
you contain the shine of a bright, yet distant, star. How do
you vomit into a campfire without burning your forehead?
You can't stop them, so why bother?
El Gallo a.k.a. Phildo (vocals) Raised by wild swine on a
Central Texas chicken ranch, El Gallo keeps his snout and
identity a secret to the world. Adversaries beware, El
Gallo's famous 'upside-down flying ham sandwich" has left
party mongers and bliss hounds alike crippled and askew.
He is no stranger to pain or pain relievers. El Gallo leaves
a trail of stench and destruction that rivals the Rio Grande
in size and majesty. Is it stinky? You betcha'.
El Matón a.k.a. Billy Jackson (guitar) Hailing from the
small island of Fellatios off the southern tip of Cuba, El
Matón is a deadly, wily force to be reck- (continued on page 6)
The
ermen
Merm
meet the Voodoo Chile
From birth, man carries gravity
out his shoulders. He is holled to
the earth But man has only to
again. Why does he
say this? If you play
this song at 66 rpm
you find that Jimi's
point of view is one of an alien
viewing the earth from a space
ship in outer space. He presents
himself as someone who com
municates with his "Starfleet
Command maybe God him
self) They tell him that the earth
AN ELECTRIC JOURNEY WITH AMERICA'S BEST UNSIGNED SURF BAND
In the costasy of our defiance,
we are outside, we are free All
exceptional skating, extraordi
nary surfing and breathtaking
music defies gravaty whether the
gravity of physics or the gravity
of what is accepted as "normal"
These ants are archetypical fooms
sink beneath the surface and
be is free Buoyed by water be
can fly in any direction. tp
down, sideways. Underwater
man becomes an Archangel
(JY C
Gravity was the original sitt.com
mitted by the first living being
who left the sea Redemption
would only come when we
returned to the sea as already
the seat mammals have done
(Sensitive Chaos, Theodor
Schenker
In defiance of gravity, we surf
we skate, we generate music. We
get air, we get off, we get high.
of movement done in different
flowing mediums. The music of
flowing forms is surf music Surf
music is music that defies gravi
ty, music that cuts you loose and
connets you with the power of
the otherworldly
Scuse me while I biss the sky
(Purple Haze Jimi Hendrix
In his song. Third Stone From
the Sun, Jimi Hendrix proclaims
You will never hear surf music
is known to have some form of
intelligent species. He tells
Starfleet he is going to check
earth out. Then, aller observing a
while, he speaks as a prophet to
the people of canh
Ob strange beautiful grass of
green with your tjestic sillen
scenes your mysterious AND
lains I wish to see cheer/may
land my kinky machine
Although your world wonders
Aerith your majestic superior
by the Skatengs
cackling ben your people I do
not understand to you we
to put an end and you'll never
bear surf music in Third
Stone From the Sua, Jimi
Hendrix)
Under too many restrictions
and limitations, he looks to cath
and doesn't find an intelligent
species. He finds people are not
longer free, no longer liquid,
They live within the limitations
of gravity Jim does not live
under these limitations. He is
one who defies and challenges
as one who is both above and
beyond, continually exploring,
the possible which is inherent in
the impossible (Jimi Hendrix
Electric Gypsy, Harry Shapiro
Who is able to kiss the sky? C
who is able to say:
Well I stand up next to a mon
fatin and (continued on page 66)
Many scientists agree
the dinosaurs died out
from excessive smoking,
socializing in public
restrooms and other
generational hazards.
Dinosaur Jr ponder this and
other themes on their new
album, Where you been,
which includes
"START CHOPPIN,"
"GET ME" and
"OUT THERE."
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