ISSUE 14   WINTER 2002/2003

page 6 of 27 

 

ROLL CALL OF DUB EXEMPLARS  (GALLERY)   

1Poe    

 2
Baudelaire    

 

3    Joyce        4  Russolo      

 

 Honegger     6 Leon Theremin  

 

7 Pound   Pound  

 

8 Bunuel       9 Duchamp   

10 Man Ray   11 Henry Miller  

 

12 Leger    13 Dali 

 

14    

 

15 The Three Stooges   16 Welles  

 

17 Nin   18 Dot Parker  

19 Callas   

 

20 Lee Krasner, Noon (1947)     

 

21 Burroughs   22 Lee Marvin  

 

23 the Pierres   the Pierres   

 

24  that sad Nazi bastard Veit Harlan and his 1958 homoerotic apartment wrestling film (with partial live electronic music soundtrack) The Third Sex      25 Sun Ra   

 

26 Partch


27 Karlheinz    

28 Saul Bass   Saul Bass  

29 Joseph Stefano 

 

 30 B&W Kubrick   B&W Kubrick  

 

31 Cage

 

32 Ken Anger   Ken Anger


33 Iannis  

 

34 RM's Women      35 Fluxus (in doses)

 

36 Albert and   Don Ayler   

37 Jess Franco's  zoom    

 

38 Witold Lutoslawski

39 Cecil Taylor 

 
40 Price  Steele Lee/Cushing 

 

41 mid-to-late  Albert Zugsmith   

 

42 all atomic   test footage  

43 all Toho monster kino

 

44 Link Wray

 

45 all Doris Wishman  

 

46 Situationists (esp. those with bad hair)   

 

47 global student revolt and the inevitable erotic aftermath  48 Soviet sci-fi kino

 

49  Funkadelic (particularly America Eats Its Young, which is still too brilliant for words)

50 early Mothers  

51 Yoko   Ono's Apple   albs

52 Hendrix (Band of Gypsies)   53 Jack Bruce's first three solo albums and his live Cream work


54 Fela (ca. '71, thanks to Ginger Baker)  

55 all Uriah Heep fans

 

56 New York Dolls (for their music, esp. the staggering Too Much Too Soon)  

57 Can/Cow/Faust/Wyatt (specifically for End of an Ear and Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard)  58 Nitsch, Muehl and ander Vienna Actionists

 

59 (Iggy and) Stooges (purists prefer Asheton, but Williamson was the King Tubby of guitar -- his complete and utter flameout post-Stooges only amplifies the truth of the assertion)   60 American television director Greg Garrison

 

61 Miles (1969-1975 only, and woe to all pretenders)   62 some Mahavishnu (but nothing after the original quintet split in '73)

 

63 Sparks (the first five albums, especially Indiscreet, still audaciously brilliant after 20+ years)   64 Jamie Muir

 

65 La Barbara   66 For Your Pleasure (hundreds of spins)

 

67 all noir fatales (1944-1961)   68 The Slider


69 "Time" from Aladdin Sane  70 Nico/Eno/Cale/VU

 

71 most pre-Utopia Todd, esp. the peerless Wizard (but not Todd)   72 Portsmouth Sinfonia

 

73 Gary Glitter/Glitter Band  

 

74 a photo of the Sex Pistols in an April '76 issue of Melody Maker (which for me was almost as significant as actually hearing their music)   

75 the titanic Electric Eels   76 the unknown promise suggested by Verlaine's "Break It Up" solo from Horses

 

77 Braxton, the one true living God   

 

78 Ramones' first two albs (but nothing after)  

 

BLASTITUDE #14

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