Chalkhills, Number 24 Sunday, 21 May 1989 Today's Topics: obscene abominations new XTC bootleg Re: new XTC bootleg
[][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] Date: Sat, 20 May 89 16:52:02 EDT From: jsd@umass.bitnet Subject: obscene abominations From: mmlai!barash@uunet.uu.net By the way, who speaks that line at the end about "that is the most obscene abomination..." ?? That is an unidentied person calling in to a radio show to complain about a song called "Go Fuck Yourself With Your Atom Bomb". Dukes and early XTC producer John Leckie taped it and they threw it on the album. Incidentally, the little backwards gibberish at the end of "Mole From The Ministry" is someone singing "Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb." In other news, it is clear from reading the Musician interview, and hearing the demo for "My Paint Heroes" that Andy Partridge has bought a Roland D-50 synthesizer. Hopefully, it will break before it has a chance to infect XTC records... Let's all pray, brothers and sisters. ------------- ! !\ BITNET: jsd@umass \!on !/rukman ARPANET: jsd%umass.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu "Miro, Miro on my wall, I love you the most of all." -- XTC
[][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] From: barth@ihlpf.att.com (Richards) Subject: new XTC bootleg Date: 20 May 89 21:33:27 GMT I recently found a new XTC bootleg, BLACK SEA TOUR '81. It looks like a US-made boot, though I'm not sure. It has the artwork from the "Generals And Majors" EP on the front cover, and a promo photo of the band members on the back. It was recorded in February, 1981 at the Hammersmith Odeon, and the sound quality is great. It's in full stereo, and was obviously taken from a professionally done tape, and as it's just under an hour long, I'm lead to believe that it might be from the BBC College Concert Series, King Biscuit Flour Hour, or some other such radio concert series. Anyway, the tracks are: Side One: Side Two: -------- -------- Life Begins At The Hop Towers of London Burning With Optimism's Flames Battery Brides Love At First Sight Egyptian Solutions Respectable Street Living Through Another Cuba No Language In Our Lungs Generals And Majors This Is Pop Set Myself On Fire Scissor Man I can't recommend this boot enough. If you see it, by all means, pick it up! 888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888 88 88 88 Language is a virus from outer space. Barth Richards 88 88 AT&T Bell Labs 88 88 Naperville, IL 88 88 - William S. Burroughs !att!ihlpf!barth 88 88 88 888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888
[][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] Date: Sun, 21 May 1989 11:37:14 PDT From: John M. Relph <relph@presto.ig.com> Subject: Re: new XTC bootleg barth@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Richards) sez (in Love-Hounds): >I recently found a new XTC bootleg, BLACK SEA TOUR '81. > > It's in full stereo, and was obviously taken from a >professionally done tape, and as it's just under an hour long, I'm lead to >believe that it might be from the BBC College Concert Series, King Biscuit >Flour Hour, or some other such radio concert series. Yes, it's from the BBC College Concert series. This bootleg (I just saw this today, also) was probably taken directly from the BBC transcription disc. The sound quality of the original is really great, and this is a pretty good performance, including the crowd sing-along with the beginning of "Respectable Street". The original BBC record has an announcer at the beginning, and at the end of the first half. However, I believe "Set Myself on Fire" is the B-side to the "Towers of London" single, and wasn't on the original BBC concert vinyl. Also, I believe that "Egyptian Solutions" should actually be called "Bushman President". -- John
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