"Incomplete Glossary (A-Z) of Recent Phenomena in the Bay Area"
compiled by Vale and Andrea Juno
ADOLESCENT RECORDS / SEARCH & DESTROY PRODUCTIONS: a merger to release trans-time/avant garde records & cassettess. Scheduled new albums di Factrix / Slava / Sleepers; re-release of Throbbing Gristle's "We Hate You (Little Girls) / Five Knuckle Shuffle", etc. P.O. Box 99350, S.F., CA 94109 or 20 Romolo, No. B, S.F., CA 94133
APPLIANCES: 3 girls 2 guys. R&R plus homemade instruments. Songs like: Miami / Run Me Over With Your Cadillac / Cease to Exist...
BACHELORS EVEN: 2 wry experimentors from NY/Boston: like, rhythm tracks arerecords sawed apart & recombined...Have destroyed TV sets on both coasts...
BAY OF PIGS: "A continuing experiment in merging language & sound" - music/noise experiments plus Andrew on vocal seizures. Influence: Demetrio Stratos, Italian sound poet. New 45: Addiction / Aliens, Forthcoming EP: Polyphrenic Man / The Flux Patrol / The Schizoid Void. Hawaiian lap guitar, guitars trumpet, drums, vocal effects, etc. Other song titles: Revolution of the Senses / Your Climb Photographs / Life After Time / I Feel a Fuck Coming On / San Francisco's a Small Town / Mind Machine..
CAZAZZA, MONTE / TANA EMMOLO: Oakland's genetic terrorists with Something for Nobody - their new EP on Industrial Records...
CLUB FOOT: The place for special performance / music events. Like, Bruce Conner showed films while the Bachelors "played" recently. New LP forthcoming with the LONGSHOREMEN / ALTER BOYS / BAY OF PIGS / NAKED CITY ...
DEB-U-TAUNT BALL: June 21st A summer solstice torchlit ritual for girls by girls. Held under a freeway next to a canal, it included a voodoo metabolic soundtrack by FACTRIX, an emergency flarelined presentation walkway, and an unplanned medieval bonfire, climaxed by appearance of polic. (Unreported post-punk peak event)
DNA: recent NY assult on SF. Basic R&R Tools (12-string guitar, bass, drums) re-invented to blast black sound patterns against stark white space. High-wire Minimalism....
MR. E & THE NECROMANTICS: domination of Hotel Utah, 4th/Bryant. Bomb Threat Graphics...
FACTRIX: "slow motion soundtrack is flesh" from SF's most industrial/experimental 'live' ensemble. New LP featuring Phantom Pain / Center of the Doll / Heavy Breathing / Snuff Box / Eerie Lights...forthcoming
FALSE IDOLS: military / punk madness from Max Volume & cohorts. (415)
GREY MATTER: New Band forming by Heidi (x-VS)
INFLATABLE BOY CLAMS: "4 primitive virgin witches that change instruments / 10-year-old tinkertoy skeleton sound". Carol & Judy from PINK SECTION, Jo Jo Plqnteen (who recently did Child Hood Prostitute at the Savoy) Genvieve from Paris on sax.
JEORGIA ANDERSON: One woman band, the inventor of Girl's War (Ladies First - Draft Girls!)
LEWD (the New): Satz & Bob from Seattle + Olga & Alex from VS. with songs like Climate of Fear / Walter's Lips (Cronkite) / Go to Hell in Hollywood / Mentally 17 / Public Exectution..
MAGGOTS: 6 or 7 teenagers. New 45 with pet maggot in handmade package: (Let's Get) Tammy Wynette / 2-2-79 ("the date that Sid Vicious died - about him croaking")...
MINIMAL MAN: did soundtrack for Fred Klein's Racktown (sleazy movie of manslaughtering girls on rollerskate), & performed with giant skull at Eureka Theater recently.
NAKED CITY: musician-types "intending to expand to an orchesta.."
NEGATIVELAND: 3-6 from Corcord who've produced experimental LP (S7 from Seeland, Box 54, Concord, CA 94522) with Individual Cover Art. Performed once at Savoy with "baby-attract-home" movie (super 8, mostly overexposed). Autentic suburban frustrations sublimated...
OUT-OF-TOWN-BANDS can get booked in SF at Mabuhay / Sound of Music / Back-Dor-Rock City which Robert Hanrahan books / Club Generic / Club Foot / and the Savoy / in Berkeley at Barrington Hall & the Berkely Square (also a record company).
PALACE OF FINE ARTS where Tuxedomoon & DNA played. "Majestic change, all red drapres & black soudn reflectors. Big white screeen reflected huge shadows onstage. Red rocking chairs. Half the crowd were heckling fools from suburbs who just didn't get it. After the show I was surprised more people didn't walk around the lake..." (Heidi)
PUNK ROCK LIVES: Flipper / Vktms / Tools / Regime / Impatient Youth / Nocturnal Emissions / etc.
RAT, PAUL: since the defunct Geary Temple now booking Independent Halls like the Victoria Theater, California Hall
R&N2 Productions: "vaudeo incision of crisis data tranfer - rhythm & noise deploys" (tales of life & death from the electronic battleground). Alve at The Compound Sept. 12-13 (415)
ROUGH TRADE: Legenday London Record Company / Store / Distributor now in San Francisco! Mail order catalog: 1412 Grant Ave, SF CA 94133 (415)
SAVOY: wide variety of innovative performances / one of the best atmospheres in SF now
SHOOT A MONKEY: oblique triangle of explorers: Peter Worrall (London), Alan Brown (New Zealand), Jo Jo Planteen (USA) New 45 forthcoming: Islamatic / Mother Is...
SLAVA: Mad synthesizer shaman unleashes arctic hysteria upon a hollow earth soon!
SLEEPERS: Micheal Belfer, Ricky Williams back! plus band. Forthcoming album includes Zenith / The Mind / Let Me Free - "when there's sleep there's no pain..."
SOCIETY DOGS: hardcore anarchist punk band with new 45: Working Class People / Bad Dread. Johnithin Christ on vocals, Joe Dirt (g), Jamil Hell (b), David Del Prado (d). some songs: The Baby Is Dead / Metropolitican Rus / How Can I Miss You When You Won't Even Stay?
STAND THEATER: Sleazy Market St. Moviehouse featuring James bond, Ilse She-Wolf of the SS, etc. now a significant punk burrowing hole...
THREE: new ensemble with films / slides / sound: "we always use something new as soon as we find it." some works: Breakfast of Chairmans (Mao) / Paranoia & Persecution / The Airplane Song (video piece)
TOMMY TADLOCK & THE LOCKETTES: "C&W Punk - combining basic attitudes of shit kickin' southern dixie R&R with punk stance." some songs: Queer & Ashamed/ No Mobility / Don't Blame It on My Mama / Me & My Uniform. from gay subculture.
TONG, WINSTON & BRUCE GEDULDIG: Internationally famous duo's recent SF performances: Against Nature, Schweitzer / Coward, Close to You / Privilegs, The Mermaid, Prostitute (with JoJo), Dancin in the Streets, Water Burns, Frankie & Johnnie
UNDEAD, THE: with the original David Vacant (g), Sid Terror (v), Bob Noxious (d), Larry Conquest (b). Hardcore roots-punk with songs like Hitler's Brain, Supermarket Music, One-Handed Love Affair, Is the President a Moron?, Fido Is a Crotch Sniffer.
UPTIGHTS: Guy Ana, Cary Cruel, Larry Godwin from Eureka with White War, Foxholes, Break the Law, Court of the Dead & other songs
WOLFARINES: "Jimmy" plus R&R band (including Bruce, Dead Kennedys): "Why do you think we have a band - to make music or to make girlfriends?"
WOUNDS: Teenagers from Oakland plus Paul from Petaluma: "We're a band centered around soulful rhythmic patterns, droning overtones; very likeable." / "lifes jsut a bowl of rocks."
ZEV: Important local percussionist / trance innovator with found 'junk' percussion tools. Recently returned from NYC (where his UNS equipment was stolen). 12" 45 on LUST/UNLUST Records "Slat of Heavy Metals." ("Skin on Thigh. Thorns.")
ZRU VOGUE: Palo Alto / Experimenting heavily in percussion - tropical jungle track music wild boar sounds, etc. Forthcoming 45: Nakweda Dream / Kyoo-mye-loh-nim-bas....
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