From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V2 #190 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Thursday, October 7 1999 Volume 02 : Number 190 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Claude Bessy ["Cambra, Robert" ] Re: Claude Bessy ["tube disaster" ] Re: Claude Bessy [osanders ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 12:24:43 -0400 From: "Cambra, Robert" Subject: Claude Bessy Speaking of Claude Bessy, can anyone tell us anything more about him? Robert From: "IBRAHIM BOZAI" Not sure if this is true but I heard that Claude Bessey who read poetry on "Naked, Whooping And Such-Like" from the First Letter has passed on after a battle with cancer. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 11:57:20 -0700 From: "tube disaster" Subject: Re: Claude Bessy He made a name for himself as "Kickboy Face," writing for the near-legendary US punk zine Slash in the late '70s. He also sang for a short-lived group called Catholic Discipline, whose Underground Babylon is by far my favorite song from the first Decline of Western Civilization documentary. French native ... I think he returned to Europe in the early '80s, I suppose after the demise of Slash (last issue would've come out in late '80, I guess -- in any event, I believe I picked it up while visiting Phoenix in 12/80), & may've worked for Rough Trade. Dan >Speaking of Claude Bessy, can anyone tell us anything more about him? > >Robert > From: "IBRAHIM BOZAI" Not sure if this is true but I heard that Claude Bessey who read >poetry on "Naked, Whooping And Such-Like" from the First Letter has passed on after a battle with cancer. > > ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 10:30:31 -0700 From: osanders Subject: Re: Claude Bessy Wow , that's great info. I too loved the song from Catholic Discipline , and the little interview on "Decline" where he "lays it down" about how the term "New Wave doesn't mean shit". God bless that guy. tube disaster wrote: > > He made a name for himself as "Kickboy Face," writing for the near-legendary > US punk zine Slash in the late '70s. He also sang for a short-lived group > called Catholic Discipline, whose Underground Babylon is by far my favorite > song from the first Decline of Western Civilization documentary. French > native ... I think he returned to Europe in the early '80s, I suppose after > the demise of Slash (last issue would've come out in late '80, I guess -- in > any event, I believe I picked it up while visiting Phoenix in 12/80), & > may've worked for Rough Trade. > > Dan > > >Speaking of Claude Bessy, can anyone tell us anything more about him? > > > >Robert > > From: "IBRAHIM BOZAI" Not sure if this is true but I > heard that Claude Bessey who read > >poetry on "Naked, Whooping And Such-Like" from the First Letter has passed > on after a battle with cancer. > > > > - -- **************************** Obie Sanders/ System Administrator ADN - --------------------------- osanders@adnc.com/ext.273 **************************** ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V2 #190 *******************************