"Blastitude"
is a word coined by Angus MacLise, original drummer
of the Velvet Underground and quite possibly the
coolest hippie of all time. (cf. track four of his
posthumous CD release The Invasion of Thunderbolt
Pagoda, released by Siltbreeze/Quakebasket.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
i try
not to get too personal with reviews, y'know, and god knows
i've released plenty of shitty records myself... alas, i
often fail the restraint test. i just find certain olde
paradigms woefully fatigued these daze ("free jazz," "improv,"
"noise," etc.), and i feel compelled to be the small, dark
native at the front of the safari path, cutting away the
underbrush with an old copy of creem, the blood of a nitsch-slaughtered
bull coagulating under my toenails. (i kinda hate cd-r's
as "legit" release vectors too.) but, please, forgive my
impertinence. i'm sure you love what you do, or else you
wouldn't do it. i'm very pleased to hear from you, and again,
congratz on blastitude. a fine effort indeed! i'm quite
well, lawrence. kinda happy these days, preparing for the
new euro adventure (mein neue gruppe "ohne" feat. dave phillips
from r&g, et. al., und myself) - we're touring beginning
in october. otherwise, trying to make my bananafish deadline,
and wrapping up production of the sightings album. hope
things are well. yrz, tom
The AMM
show was pretty excellent, though surprising...for being
a trio for the last 30 years, they had a hell of a time
settling into a groove that night! The Keith Rowe solo show
on Saturday, on the other hand, was totally AMAZING! Really
beautiful, wonderful, great guy, so little ego. Among the
quotes of the evening from Keef: "If you feel like you have
to get up and walk around, go outside for a bit during this
show, feel free," (hmmm, guess that puts the "don't move,
don't talk" mantle on Mr. Prevost?), "Don't feel you have
to applaud when this is done...you don't applaud a truck
going by when you listen to it, or your refrigerator when
it is humming. Why applaud this just because I'm a human
making the sounds?" And the best one, right at the end of
the show, after everybody, yep, applauded...Keith got up,
walked over to the first row of seats, sat down and said,
gesturing to the guitar/modifications: "Okay, does anyone
else wanna have a go at it?" What a guy! Okay, hope to talk
to you soon. Take care! Later, Chris
BLASTITUDE
will be published on the 1st of each
month...or every other month. We're not sure yet. If we
go monthly, some issues may be kinda slight, but back issues
will always remain online. Since the 'fast-paced' web isn't
supposed to be for reading, and Blastitude offers lots of
reading, it might take you two months to get through all
this bullcrap anyhow. Either way, thanks for blasting in.
(If this is cyberspace, rather than, um, the cybersea
shouldn't we be 'blasting' around the internet, like in
rockets or spaceships, instead of 'surfing' the net?)
Letters, recommendations, complaints,
submissions: blastitude@hotmail.com
Any music/tapes/books/artifacts/records/documents
for consideration should be mailed to Blastitude
at 1136 A Street #2, Lincoln, NE 68502
editor,
designer, collater, curator, writer: Larry "Fuzz-O"
Dolman
"Spotlite on Spite" by Chris Sienko
"3 Parisian Conversations" by Keri Aspegren
"Only Seat in the House" by Christopher Dean
Heine
BLASTITUDE #7 © 2001
Published by Tiny Press
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