Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 17:33:35 +0000
From: erhoek@comcast.net
To: audities@smoe.org
Subject: Wax Trax
Message-ID:
<042120041733.12352.4086B06F00040919000030402200734076FF949A90978D@comcast.n
et>

The store that was supposed to be Wax Trax was in Pretty in Pink.
I used to make pilgrimages to Wax Trax to buy their VHS bootlegs of Echo and
the Bunnymen tapes from Japan some 17 or 18 years ago.
I thought they did a fairly decent job of recreating the Wax Trax location
somewhere in California but it would have garnered John Hughes some major
indie cred if he would have taken a crew to the actual Chicago
location.Unions ,travel expenses etc probably made the California  store
creation more feasible.
I remember reading that the store owners were frustrated with rumors that Al
Jourgensen (of Ministry) was the owner which resulted in droves of poseurs
and fans hoping to get a glimpse of their industrial techno music hero
picking up the daily receipts or something.

I used to spend scads of money at Wax Trax back in the day, but, man, that
was a record store that had some serious attitude. I used to love reading
some of the comments about bands that the staff wrote on the dividers in
their LP bins. Two that I remember were on the dividers for the Cure
("Interesting hair does not a good band make") and ZZ Top ("Formed from the
wreckage of the vastly better and more interesting Moving Sidewalks. Go look
under M.").

And I can thank the constant pounding of the Wax Trax p.a. for developing my
aversion to industrial music.


Gregory Sager