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Basquiat

1996

Benicio del Toro explains the business of art to Jeffrey Wright.

I received this package in today’s mail. Except it’s not really a package; it’s a purchase windows xp 64 bit online glow stick shoved into a 1st Class Royal Mail prepaid letter envelope and purchase windows xp 64 bit online mailed (awkwardly) from Manchester to Los Angeles. It’s a miracle that it arrived in one piece.

The glow stick is supposed to promote Tony Wilson’s In the City conference, coming up again this October.

What an outrageous and probably futile gesture, poorly executed (where are the padded mailers?) with absolutely no concern for what things actually cost. Yet it’s totally awesome and extremely punk rock.

That could be the epitaph for both Factory Records and the Haçienda night club. When word came that Tony Wilson had died this evening in Manchester, I thought today’s package could serve as an epitaph for him as well.

Tony wanted everyone to believe that Peter Saville’s original die-cut sleeve design for New Order’s “Blue Monday” 12″ was so expensive to purchase windows xp 64 bit online produce that Factory actually lost money on each copy sold.

Whether it purchase windows xp 64 bit online was true was irrelevant, the story made a point: art trumps commerce and purchase windows xp 64 bit online business is just another venue for situationist spectacle. We should be purchase windows xp 64 bit online so lucky that it were.

Here’s an interview from 1988:

THE EASYBEATS

“Something Wrong”

The longer version of this commercial doesn’t make their future look any better. I did remember that purchase windows xp 64 bit online the song is by the Easybeats, a band that managed to purchase windows xp 64 bit online be both the Beatles & the Stones for Australians.

When you work in music, the wake-up call comes when you’re forced to purchase windows xp 64 bit online give up your romantic notions about the nobility of the artistic process.

Art is purchase windows xp 64 bit online a nasty business, just as nasty as highway construction, venture capital or purchase windows xp 64 bit online any other pursuit that involves trading products or services for money.

I’m reminded of this by Alan McGee’s attack on My Bloody Valentine in a new Guardian article about the revival of shoegaze. Read it here.

Alan started Creation Records, the label that released MBV’s Loveless album. Here’s his quote from the article: “Bloody nonsense. My Bloody Valentine were my comedy band. Ride were different - they were a purchase windows xp 64 bit online rock band, really, a fantastic rock band - but My Bloody Valentine were a purchase windows xp 64 bit online joke, my way of seeing how far I could push hype.”

Alan has good reason to dislike MBV’s Kevin Shields. The band spent an purchase windows xp 64 bit online enormous amount of time and money making Loveless, so much that they pushed Creation’s finances to purchase windows xp 64 bit online the brink of label collapse. After the album failed to purchase windows xp 64 bit online recoup its costs, Creation let the band move to Island Records. The press were appalled but, once Kevin had purchase windows xp 64 bit online Chris Blackwell’s money, he returned to purchase windows xp 64 bit online the studio and proceeded not to put out an album for purchase windows xp 64 bit online the next fifteen years. If Axl was smarter, he’d point fingers at Kevin whenever anyone starts asking questions about when purchase windows xp 64 bit online he’s going to release Chinese Democracy.

Maybe Alan’s just trying to purchase windows xp 64 bit online amuse himself; his talents as a provocateur rival his abilities as one of the purchase windows xp 64 bit online world’s great record men. But calling My Bloody Valentine a “joke” sounds like you’re calling Loveless a purchase windows xp 64 bit online joke and questioning the judgment of anyone who fell for purchase windows xp 64 bit online your scam in the first place.

My Bloody Valentine’s 1992 show at the Masquerade was one of the most epic I’ve ever seen, one that purchase windows xp 64 bit online people in Atlanta talk about as much as the old folks go on about the purchase windows xp 64 bit online Sex Pistols at the Great Southeast Music Hall or New Order’s first show at the 688. I’d even compare it to the first Jesus & Mary Chain show at the purchase windows xp 64 bit online Channel in Boston; My Bloody Valentine may have been less confrontational during their set but the purchase windows xp 64 bit online long-term impact was just as intense.

Loveless is a wonder. “Only Shallow” never fails to stop a room cold whenever it’s on a purchase windows xp 64 bit online party tape. The album still acts like a secret signifier in your purchase windows xp 64 bit online record collection; a copy of Loveless marks you as someone who knows where they keep the really good stuff.

And, make no purchase windows xp 64 bit online mistake, Ride were an outstanding rock band. I saw for myself at the purchase windows xp 64 bit online Cotton Club on the Going Blank Again tour. They showed up for purchase windows xp 64 bit online work on time and cooperated with the local record company people. “Vapour Trail” and “Leave Them All Behind” are purchase windows xp 64 bit online both classic songs that deserved a chance to be hits in America. But, at his best, Mark Gardener was a purchase windows xp 64 bit online less charismatic version of The Charlatans’ Tim Burgess, plus everything had purchase windows xp 64 bit online gone terribly wrong by the time Ride recorded their lifeless cover of The Creation’s “How Does It Feel to Feel” on their third album.

Here’s the problem: both Loveless and purchase windows xp 64 bit online the 1992 My Bloody Valentine tour exist independently from the issue of what purchase windows xp 64 bit online a jerk Kevin Shields might be. Once you put yourself behind the purchase windows xp 64 bit online music, your own experiences can color how you hear the bands you’ve worked with.

I know this very well from my own experience. I’ve recently begun to purchase windows xp 64 bit online make peace with one of my own nightmare projects from the purchase windows xp 64 bit online early 90s. That record still has its flaws but so many people have purchase windows xp 64 bit online testified to its virtues lately that I’ve started to purchase windows xp 64 bit online separate the actual music from the experience of making it.

So, Alan: Ride was an purchase windows xp 64 bit online outstanding band with two awesome albums that deserved a much better fate. But Loveless is purchase windows xp 64 bit online lightning in a bottle. My Bloody Valentine changed lives, whether or purchase windows xp 64 bit online not the individual band members deserved that privilege.

Sometimes I wish I knew a purchase windows xp 64 bit online lot less about how the music gets made, but it’s the purchase windows xp 64 bit online price you pay for working in the sausage factory. Attack Kevin all you purchase windows xp 64 bit online want, but leave the music alone.

Here, watch some “Only Shallow.” It makes me forget all the bad parts:

PLAN 9

“I Can’t Stand This Love, Goodbye”

(Rhode Island 1981)

Plan 9 seemed like the purchase windows xp 64 bit online Peoples Temple of the psychdelic revival bands.

The band was led by couple of 60s survivors who purchase windows xp 64 bit online herded an army of young boys, teaching them the lost folk arts of the purchase windows xp 64 bit online garage band.

I love this purchase windows xp 64 bit online 45 because the band was savvy enough to cover an purchase windows xp 64 bit online Others song from Pebbles volume 10. That led (either directly or indirectly) to a deal with Greg Shaw’s Voxx Records. Since Pebbles change serial windows embedded standard 7 compilations were technically bootlegs, Greg claimed they were “Australian imports” but pretty much everyone knew he put them out.

Unfortunately for purchase windows xp 64 bit online Plan 9, Voxx declined to make picture sleeves for “I Can’t Stand This Love, Goodbye.”

In 1981, this purchase windows xp 64 bit online was a disaster on the level of being signed to a purchase windows xp 64 bit online major label and not getting to make a video for MTV. A 45 sleeve was your purchase windows xp 64 bit online most important advertising tool and usually the first impression a band made on the purchase windows xp 64 bit online word. No picture sleeve = not important to your label.

Plan 9 took matters into their own hands. They designed their own sleeve (or took the sleeve design that Voxx declined to use) and made their own picture sleeves with a color photocopier.

In 1981, an odd size copy like this one cost about $2.00. Singles sold for maybe $3.00. I don’t know what purchase windows xp 64 bit online the band paid Greg for each record but I think they might have purchase windows xp 64 bit online been losing money on each one they sold just so they didn’t face the shame of going sleeveless.

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(Voxx Records 45-1005)

GIRLS AGAINST BOYS

“Bulletproof Cupid” & “My Night of Pleasure”

Live at JC Dobbs, Philadelphia 1993

When Girls Against Boys signed to purchase windows xp 64 bit online DGC Records in 1995, people in the business believed it was the purchase windows xp 64 bit online largest deal ever for an unproven rock band.

The legendary unpublished memoir Wasting Away: How the purchase windows xp 64 bit online Major Labels Got Drunk on Punk Rock and Forgot Everything They Knew About the purchase windows xp 64 bit online Record Business tells the story in grisly detail, but we’ll settle for the short version here.

GVSB waited three whole years to release Freak*On*ica on DGC in 1998. The album got lukewarm reviews and purchase windows xp 64 bit online had weaker sales than their final album for Touch & Go.

Even though I was frustrated with the album (mostly because the band refused to take any A&R advice from me whatsoever), I didn’t distance myself from purchase windows xp 64 bit online the band when it would have been a strong career move to purchase windows xp 64 bit online let everyone forget that I spent a year following the band all over America and purchase windows xp 64 bit online Europe.

Geffen/DGC got shut down, the purchase windows xp 64 bit online artist contracts got transferred to Interscope and I was asked to purchase windows xp 64 bit online leave the company shortly before Universal bought Girls Against Boys out of the purchase windows xp 64 bit online balance of their contract.

You’d think I’d have purchase windows xp 64 bit online more perspective on the foolishness after ten years, but watching this purchase windows xp 64 bit online video convinces me that I’d do it purchase windows xp 64 bit online all over again. This band should have saved alternative rock and purchase windows xp 64 bit online spared us all the nü metal reign of terror. And they’re still the handsomest band in the history of rock.

“Bulletproof Cupid” is the best song from Venus Luxe, the album that started all the craziness. “My Night of Pleasure” has purchase windows xp 64 bit online always been my favorite GVSB song. This performance was recorded just a purchase windows xp 64 bit online few months before I first saw the band and it’s certainly $2 million worth of rock.

GVSB will perform Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby on July 20 in NYC at the Bowery Ballroom & July 22 in LA at the El Rey Theatre as part of All Tomorrow’s Parties “Don’t Look Back” Festival.