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| From | "John L. Micek" <jlmicek@comcast.net> |
| Subject | Re: Loud bands ...My Bloody Valentine |
| Date | Wed, 7 Dec 2005 13:38:11 -0500 |
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>I read in David Cavanagh's My Magpie Eyes Are Hungry for the Prize book
>about Creation Records that main MBV guy Kevin Shields had an eerie
>fascination with pain >thresholds to sound and was in a Joseph Mengelev
>sort of way doing his own experiments with his audiences as guinea pigs.
I read that section of the book with great interest. Shields really was such
a mad scientist. Apparently, MBV were preoccupied with causing as much
audience discomfort as they could through their stage volume. If I remember
right, some folks in the audience even got physically ill because of it.
And I'd recommend "Magpie Eyes," to anyone looking for a definitive history
of Creation Records and its era. The book is as thick as the phone book, but
it's eminently readable.
john micek
----- Original Message -----
From: <erhoek@comcast.net>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 1:22 PM
Subject: Loud bands ...My Bloody Valentine
> The loudest concert I remember had to have been My Bloody Valentine at St
> Andrews Hall in Detroit .. Some of the show was amazing but quite a bit of
> it was akin to a chainsaw on sheet metal. I> Speaking of MBV has anyone
> (who enjoys the so-called shoegaze style of dreampop) heard the Club AC30
> comp of neo shoegaze bands (and some original ones like the Ecstacy of
> Saint Theresa) doing covers of songs by such artists as
> Chapterhouse,Slowdive,MBV,Swervedriver,Ride,Lush,Telescopes,etc?
> It is called Never Lose That Feeling Volume 1 and can be had for around
> 13.00 from Parasol which is currently having a 15% off sale on every cd in
> stock:
> http://www.parasol.com/catalog/catalog.asp?words=club+ac30&qsearch=all
>
> Douglas Heart who I mentioned here before do a faithful version of
> Slowdive's Alison and their Labrador labelmates South Ambulance cover Pale
> Saint's Kinky Love.
> -r.
>
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: "Robert Sutliff" <rsutliff@columbus.rr.com>
>> I think the loudest show I ever saw was Aerosmith on the Rocks tour. Holy
>> cow they were loud (and damned great too). I was never a fan of Kiss but
>> did
>> see them in 76. I was immediately impressed with just how awful Ace
>> Frehley
>> was on guitar. He play the same solo on pretty much every song and not
>> very
>> well either. Still, Gene Simmons does have an amazingly large tongue...
>>
>> Bobby Sutliff
>>
>>
>
>
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