From: owner-find-your-mind-digest@smoe.org (find-your-mind-digest) To: find-your-mind-digest@smoe.org Subject: find-your-mind-digest V2 #160 Reply-To: find-your-mind@smoe.org Sender: owner-find-your-mind-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-find-your-mind-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk find-your-mind-digest Sunday, November 14 1999 Volume 02 : Number 160 Today's Subjects: ----------------- find-your-mind Re: other acts [Miles Durrie ] Re: find-your-mind LJ bios ?? [Fumblchick@aol.com] Re: find-your-mind LJ bios ?? ["Kate Y" ] Re: find-your-mind Re: other acts ["Kate Y" ] Re: find-your-mind LJ bios ?? ["Kate Y" ] Re: find-your-mind LJ bios ?? [Fumblchick@aol.com] find-your-mind Assmasters! ["Marge Simpson" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 08:41:06 -0700 From: Miles Durrie Subject: find-your-mind Re: other acts Favorites of all time (not just current spins): - -Luscious Jackson (duh) - -The Beatles - -The Clash - -Radiohead - -1960s Motown (might as well be one band -- many of the same people played on all the records) - -1950s rockabilly (Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, Elvis's Sun recordings) - -Duke Ellington (and some other big bands) - -Fiona Apple (so new, I know, but I believe time will prove her to be a significant artist) - -Alanis Morissette (no apologies -- she's unbelievably talented, creative, marches to her own drummer) - -Late-70s punk rock (Sex Pistols, Buzzcocks, Undertones, early Ramones, etc.) - -1990s grunge/punk (Green Day, Foo Fighters, Stone Temple Pilots, Soundgarden, Live, Elastica, Cracker, etc.) Finally, here's a couple of little-known recent albums that I would recommend highly to LJ fans: - - Komeda, "What Makes It Go?" I have read that the members of Luscious Jackson got hooked on this album when it came out last year, and went to great lengths to see Komeda live. For more, see http://www.mintyfresh.com/kom.html - - Parlor James, "Old Dreams." Eerie vocal harmonies and timeless songwriting seem to echo from a thousand years ago. Ultra-techno-hip production with plenty of electronica enhances the mood, believe it or not. Go to http://www.cdnow.com and type Parlor James into the search field. There's some info there. I'll shut up now. miles > Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 14:47:42 +0000 > From: Meighan McFalls > Subject: find-your-mind LJ age/sex check > > Also, a question- what other acts > do all of you listen to other than LJ? I > love Tori Amos, Beastie Boys, and Bob Dylan. I'd love to hear everybody > else's favorites! > > Meighan ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 10:47:51 EST From: Fumblchick@aol.com Subject: Re: find-your-mind LJ bios ?? kate!!! i live near u in buffalo...u r a sarah fan? been to any of her concerts around herer? w/b steph ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 19:58:53 GMT From: "Kate Y" Subject: Re: find-your-mind LJ bios ?? >Actually, Jill is August 17 1966. And Viv is May 24 1963. I think Kate is the one with the January 5 1966 birthday. As for Gabby, I don't know exactly, but I think it's around December 20 1965. Or something. >Marie I can never remember whether Jill is 32 or 33 but she looks so young it's hard to believe she's even in her 30's in the first place. I think you're right and she is 33 so that does make it 1966...wow! I can't believe these girls are so much older than me...I'll be 23 in February. :) Anyway...none of them are water signs like me...that sucks, but oh well. haha. Viv's birthday is the day after my mom's. OK...have a great weekend everyone! ~Kate~ ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 20:08:22 GMT From: "Kate Y" Subject: Re: find-your-mind Re: other acts >Finally, here's a couple of little-known recent albums that I would recommend highly to LJ fans: - - Komeda, "What Makes It Go?" I have read that the members of Luscious >Jackson got hooked on this album when it came out last year, and went to >great lengths to see Komeda live. For more, see >http://www.mintyfresh.com/kom.html That Komeda CD is cool...so is the other one I have of theirs...can't remember the name right now and it's not on the actual CD (the case is home). Anyway...I saw Komeda with LJ after a show in Philly two June's ago...it was so cool! I didn't know who Komeda was at the time but they sounded good and Jill told me that they were this cool Swedish band. They were playing at the Pontiac Grille on South St. after the TLA show...a bunch of us girls followed LJ there after the show. It was awesome...Kate and Tia went up in front and danced and I stayed behind and danced with my friend and Jill was like 3 feet away... it was so cool to be watching and dancing to another band with them instead of it being me watching and dancing at their shows. I was talking to Jill and I mentioned that I knew Sara was so she brought me back to where the concert was and I got to hang out and meet Sara for the first time. Sorry this is so long...I'm out of it but just thought I would share. Shortly after that I went out and looked for Komeda CD's. It was hard to find them but I managed to get the two CD's I found...anyone know if they have anymore or any other info on them? I would like to see them again if I can. OK....bye again! ~Kate~ ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 20:12:17 GMT From: "Kate Y" Subject: Re: find-your-mind LJ bios ?? >kate!!! > >i live near u in buffalo...u r a sarah fan? been to any of her concerts >around here? > >w/b >steph Hey...I love Sarah! She's my second fave and I've only seen her twice. First time at a headlining show two April's ago at the Rochester War Memorial (now the Blue Cross arena) and then again later that summer for the second Lilith tour at the Fingerlakes Performing Art Center. I hope she tours again soon. Anyway...I have all her CD's except for the singles...she's rocks! I wish I could have seen her and LJ together but none of their Lilith shows came close to us as you probably already know...that sucked! OK...nice to know someone's sort of close and also a fan of LJ and Sarah. ~Kate~ ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 19:56:37 EST From: Fumblchick@aol.com Subject: Re: find-your-mind LJ bios ?? kate wow that is soo awesom!! i saw her at lilith this summer in toronto, last summer at darien lake, and 2 april's ago at marine midland arena. i luv her she is sooo great. i wish Lj and sarah would have been at lilith around here.i have all of sarah's cd's and other related stuff. i am alos in her official fan club and am a **fumbler** if you don't know what that is they r they crazy cool people at her concerts with the glow sticks. well does that help? hehe get me talkin about sarah and i'll never stop. ~ steph ~ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 20:29:12 EST From: "Marge Simpson" Subject: find-your-mind Assmasters! Oddly enough, I found this article while doing research for term papers in my university database. It's worth the read. enjoy, Marie Flatiron maidens Melody Maker; London; Jul 3, 1999; Robin Bresnark. With their new single set to storm the charts, we meet LUSCIOUS JACKSON on a tour of New York and try not to mention the Beastie Boys "Do you consider yourself sexy?" smirks Gabby Glaser, guitarist, singer and songwriter with New York's incomparably playful, all-singing, all-dancing Luscious Jackson. For the first time in its life, The Maker is nonplussed. Erm, well, uhhhh... in our capacity as representatives of our raeders we do. Sure. They're all very sexy. Ahem. Too evasive, and Gabby's not having any of it. Just to show The Maker exactly whose turf we're on, she treats the swarming crowds outside NYC's celebrated Flatiron Buildingin to a prime piece of Brit-baiting. "Da yoo like yaw bum?" she leers, pisstaking your correspondent's London ways with super-Cockney intonation. "Is it a firm bum? Don't need a really firm bum." "Have you heard of this new machine called Assmaster?" chips in lead singer, bassist and songwriter, Jill Cunniff. "Well, we are the Assmasters of rock!" "We come to ass you!" howls Gabby. "We've always been the Assmasters, baby!" "Is the Assmaster the one that what's-her-name endorses?" muses drummer Kate Schellenbach, quizzically scratching her head. "We endorse it!" cackles Jill. "You know, that infomercial we did? The one that airs at 12 in the morning? "You know," she squels again, "the commercial!" THE commercial may well be all you know, but it wasn't for the Asstmaster. It was for Gap (or, as the Americans have it, "The Gap"), and it featured Luscious Jackson playing "Let it Snow" in Santa hats, freebie clobber and... bugger all else. No models No slogans. No yellow puppet Just Luscious' contagiously confident elastic hip-pop music and buckets of free airtime. Bit of a coup all round - except that, for a group so indelibly connected with cool, Gap did seem a bit of a rubbish choice. "Oh, The Gap's OK," insists Jill, as we stroll past Madison Square and the even cackier clothing stores surrounding it on a tour of the girls' hood. "Besides, we got a load of free stuff! I'm wearing a Gap top right now." And very nice it is, Jill. Maybe their stuff's better over here in the States. "You'd be surprised. Besides, when I saw those other ads, the ones with LL Cool J and Missy and Aerosmith, I really didn't see it as endorsing The Gap. I saw them almost as a little advert for the band. Anyway, I guess a lot of people in Britain probably came across us for the first time on that ad, right? ft was, like, everywhere." It was indeed. So, any message for those new, Luscious Jackson virgins? "Hmmm," she ponders. "Just dive in, baby. Just expect a good time!" Kate offers her own message. "We're glad, mad, sad.. ." ". .. Been had!" sniggers Gabby. "All the 'ad's." If a braces-wearing, nonprescription-glasses-sporting advertising executive were to come up with a Lucious Jackson ad campaign, chances are the slogans "Sassy!", "Feminist!" and "Beastie Boys!" would dominate your screens. Now, that's getting to be a somewhat tired cliche but, surprisingly, LJ are happy to run with it. "Sassy?" smiles Kate. "Yeah, that's cool. We had a friend who said 'sassy' in such a ridiculous way, we learned to enjoy it! 'Those plaaaaarstic boxes are so saaaarseeee!" "And Beastie Boys?" yips Gabby. "Love 'em! We don't mind people talking about them. It's a mutual appreciation thing." "They're like our little brothers," adds Kate, and original-line-up Beastie herself. (She left at least partly because "Licensed To Ill" was originally going to be called "Don't Be A Faggot".) "Yeah, they're our bros." "Horovitz is like a little, bitty doggie!" giggles Gabby. "He's the best." "But Mikey is kinda like the big brother," says Jill. "He was very helpful, teaching us to navigate the world of big business." And, indeed, signing Luscious to his Gm Royal label, bless im. OK, well how about "feminist"? Surely one of ths cliches rankles? Uh-uh, that one scores a unanimous "Right on". "People seem to think 'feminist' is a dirty word," shrugs Gabby, "and it's really not. 'Underarm odour', on the other hand-now that's a dirty word!" SINCE their last, landmark album, "Fever In Fever Out", Lucious Jackson have slimmed down to a three-piece, losing keyboard-player Vivian Trimble -either due to her increasing reluctance to tour or, as Jill has it, because "she couldn't stand the sight of us without our make-up on. Shit, all we had to do was groom!" Or even, less probably, because "she couldn't deal with our flatulence". Thanks, Gabby. Anyway, since the last album, the three-piece Lucious Jackson have bided their time drumming for numerous tribute bands with their Lunachick ex-bandmates (Kate), cleaning their house while listening to just about every record ever made (Gabby), and...studying opera singing. Sorry, opera singing? "Yeah!" yells Jill over the screech of several thousand police sirens. "It was a lot of fun." Surely you're far too thin to sing that stuff! "No! It's nothing to do with weight -that's just a way for those guys to eat as much as they want 'Well, I have to guzzle this cheesecake cos my voice depends on it." But I learned a lot doing that, especially going to this workshop and watching all the senior master pupils at work. It's very intense, very involved." Nothing at all,then, like Luscious' own music. If you want a typical reaction to their funkily bubbling pop, you cant top Gabby s description of the behaviour of shoppers confronted by an in-store airing of one of their old singles, "Naked Eye". "They started moving their hips," she boasts, "in a very sensual way." And, if you want a comparison, you could do worse than Blondie, at least in terms of their similar sheer scope and style. Appropriate enough, then, that Debbie Harry herself should lend some guest sneering to the ultra-bitchy "Fantastic Fabulous" from LI's deliciously colourful new album, "Electric Honey". "Well, we've been compared to them since day one," nods Gabby, "and of all the people in the world, they're the ones we really relate to. A lot of people use the words hip-hop to describe us, but tere funny words. We were influenced by early ray that whole New York, b-boything." ".. . As well as punk and rock'n'roll and reggae and dub," adds Jill. "People always tended to focus on the beat aspect of it, but we never did rap in a strictly traditional way. And, in the same way, Blondie always experimented with all those different kinds of music, too." "And, what with them having a new record out, the timing was great," adds Kate, who recently had a childhood dream come true when she got to drum for Blondie at a recent US club date. "Hopefully, we can ride their wave! Actually, I ran into them recently and Debbie told me they were playing huge sheds. So I asked: 'Maybe we can open for your And she said:Yeah, well maybe we can open for you!" IT'S not so far-fetched. Luscious Jackson's new single, the sunburst electro of "Ladyfingers", is so damn radio-friendly it's just set up home with a four-band transistor. From its opening, acoustic harmonised loveliness, via its scratching, pulsing verse to its jump-,ul and-down headnod chores, it's a taste of LJ's decidedly more tuneful new direction. And it's about cakes. Obviously. "Ladyfingers are a very sweet kind of dessert," explains Jill, now safely ensconced back at Us sr azzi modern record company offices, just off Lexington Avenue. "it's a song about being sweet, about letting down that tough exter." "We're really nice girls," puns Gabby. "I do so many nice things on an hourly, minutely basis I couldn't even begin to pick one." "We give directions every single day," suggests Kate. "And we always help blind people across ss, carry strollers up stairs:' adds Jill. So, beneath that sassy exterior beats a kind and sensitive heart, right? "Exactly," pouts Kate. "Beneath the sassy, feminist, Beastie Boy-laden..." "Assmasters!" Thanks, Gabby. Lucious Jackson, ladies and gentlemen. Firm favourites. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ End of find-your-mind-digest V2 #160 ************************************