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The recent murder case involving OJ Simpson has
caused Ice-T to rethink Body Count's cover of "Hey
Joe," by Jimi Hendrix, off the new album Born
Dead. "We're remaking it into 'Hey O."" says Ice,
who reports the new chorus goes, "Hey O, where
are you going with that knife in your hand?" But Ice
says the whole Simpson thing is not without its
bright points. There are plenty of people who are
still down with OJ. "You heard what Michael
Jackson told him?" Ice asks. "He said, 'Don't
worry, I'll watch the kids""... Don't let the name
fool you, Sicko isn't into bondage, dildos or child
pornography. A trio of regular Joes from Seattle,
Sicko plays fast and clean urban sounds. Their
debut, You Can Feel The Love In This Room, is
tight, light and bright. Guitarist/bassist lan says he
found out the hard way that skateboarding down
hills can be hazardous to your health. "It was like
fifteen days of pain to my knees and elbows," he
says. "I went into the student health place where
the nurse goes, 'Oh, we're going to have to take
care of this,' and then she pours a bunch of iodine
on it, and I guess I'd gotten gravel in it, and then
she takes this thing, it looked like a weird dog
brush or something, with little plastic comb teeth
on it, and she just goes, 'Okay, it's going to hurt,"
and just digs in the cut and all this blood and shit
and rocks were coming out of my arm. Needless to
say, I was an awful skater"... Every single sell-out
motherfucker on the planet is striving for a piece of
Sicko
New Bomb Turks, Devil Dogs, Teengenerate,
Mighty Caesars, Gories, Jon Spencer Blues
Explosion, Beguiled, Raunch Hands, Nine Pound
Hammer, Headcoats, Fireworks, Lazy Cowgirls,
Pagans, Oblivians, Lyres and Pleasure Fuckers...
Dragsters, racing stripes and hot rod culture are
but a few of the driving ingredients behind
Gearhead, a psycho 'zine put out by occasional
Thrasher contributor Mike LaVella. Issue number
two features an interview with Dick Dale and a
Gil Scott-Heron &
Amnesia Express
underground credibility. We could sit here and list
their lying asses for hours, but these sad fakirs
know who they are. The false prophets of the music
industry may have the adoration of brainwashed
fans everywhere, but they will never get any
respect because they've sold their souls for a pile
of chump change. One man who continues to tell it
like it is regardless of the tide of popular opinion is
Gil Scott-Heron. Spirits, his first album in far too
long, is filled with smooth and stirring songs that
echo with the power of knowledge. Instead of
dime a dozen beats and signifying raps, Spirits
brims with a forest of textured chords, a sea of
soulful grooves and a starry sky of truth and revo-
lution... Savor the raw flavor of Crypt Records with
the Cheapo Crypt Sampler CD. Loud, lewd and
socially unacceptable, this raucous disc features
88
mighty Clawhammer/Red
Aunts split single... Sick of
sludge songs that sound like
industrial accidents? Earth
Eighteen melds a dark,
pounding industrial flume
that ain't too heavy on the
noise pedal... On the sub-
ject of burning punk rock,
the high-powered sounds
that inspire you to get off
your ass and do something,
meet The Bollweevils and
their non-self-righteous CD
called Stick Your Neck Out!
... For a straight introduc-
tion to the rap talent comin'
off of the streets of San
Francisco, observe the
Bomb Hip Hop Compila-
tion featuring Jig Mastas,
Charizma & Peanut Butter
Wolf, Mental Prizm, Eyedi Mode, Dereliks, The
Nugs, Black Alicious, Homeliss Derelix, Mystik
Journeymen, Madchild featuring DJ Q-Bert,
Bored Stiff, Total Devastation and Product
Pushers. This comp proves once again that the rap
magazine known as The Bomb brings out the best
in the Bay Area... In the late fifties/early sixties
Del-Fi Records put out some truly epic sounds,
including the surf sonatas of The Lively Ones, the
rebel rockin' strains of Bobby Fuller Four, the his-
panic heritage of Ritchie Valens, and the early
freaky fun of Frank Zappa. Once only available on
the scratched up vinyl sitting in your parents' attic,
the Del-Fi originals are back on the clean sheen of
CD... Department of Corrections: The photo of
Dime Bag Darrell of Pantera in the July 1994 issue
was taken by Stuart Taylor. -Brian Brannon
Dickter
Scale
NOFX. Punk In Drublic, CD. Another highly
tuned quality product where punk is job
one... Green Magnet School, Revisionist,
CD/LP. The Ben Franklins of alternative.
get a bit more metalized but maintain a
core of tweaked experimentation Polvo,
Celebrate The New Dark Age. CD. Noisy
and disjointed adventures of misery...
Kyuss, Sky Valley. CD. Rocks beyond your
wildest wet dreams. Rocket From The
Crypt/Blood Thirsty Butchers. Double 7.
First official release on Pushead's new label
is choice pickins for artwork, with gatefold
sleeve and powercore control... Shorty.
Fresh Breath, CD/EP. The fertilizer of gar-
den variety HC. The Mermen, Food For
Other Fish, CD. Surf/psych entrepreneurs
of the Bay Area, best served with drugs....
Foreskin 500. Manpussy. CD. Re-writes
rock n' roll history... Bullet In The Head,
Jawbone Of An Ass, CD. Twin guitar noise.
blowout, pure and simple... The Beguiled.
Blue Dirge, CD. Blastin' trouble makers will
tear you up... Fireworkst. Set The World
On Fire, CD. Darrin (68 Comeback) Wood's
new outfit pump out the 3-gult punkabilly
attack... Pagans. Everybody Hates You.
CD. Punk immortals from 1977-79 now on
dise... 7 Year Bitch, Viva Zapata!, CD.
This crusher melts wax... Slege, Drop
Dead, CD. Long awaited release from this
legendary MA HC unit of yore... Jale.
Dream Cake, CD. These chicks from
Canada pound out some rough catchy rock
Helmet. Betty, CD. New members, new
sounds, same heaviness... Tenderloin, Let
It Leak, CD. Tongue n' cheek words of wis-
dom with blues botulism as a side dish.
-Rick Rotsaert
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