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i finally got around to see the Lips doc. i liked a lot for the first 45 minutes and then the tragic and hero-ey stuff was a little much. Being an Oklahoman roughly contemporary with the preliminary "rise" of the Lips and the scene from which....i got a little heartstrung (along with the filmmaker Beesley).

i used to buy records from a couple of the interviewees, and one fronted a band that i thought was at least as good as the Lips (before the Chainsaw Kittens). played little league baseball against one of the interviewees. Damn, i've been to THAT Long John Silvers...with my grammaw.

i bought all the records through Priest Driven Ambulance on the colored vinyl. YEAH! I owned the original EP, and that's something. my sister stole it but won't cop to it.

i know it's been on the board before maybe bizzarofelice or someone......but, those guys still awwright with me.

i DID always like the shitty, dirty guitar sound better than the new stuff. still do.

sin,

grampa.

as an addnedum: they were supposed to play in Colorado Springs opening for the crappy but media friendly "alt" looking Soup Dragons....and they cancelled the show. The Soups played, but the Lips had bailed the tour.

being a longtimer in my mind i write Wayne a letter about how i'm kinda curious about it since i bought tickets and got friends to buy tickets...i just wanna know (since we're homies, and i saw them all the time and i'm i'm trying to turn some squares on.....")

and he sends me a handwritten 3-4 page with several Diane Arbus photos in color copies....this was about 6 months right before Priest/Ambulance came out....it was pretty cool.

apology is the Soups were nice guys but posers and we didn't want to play with them anymore.

It took me a little while to come around, but I eventually decided Transmissions from the Satellite Heart is their best album. Like you said about the dirty guitar sound - just awesome.

I even think Dins would appreciate it. At least compared to what he has heard of them (which sounds like two completely different bands).

King Crimson wrote: i DID always like the shitty, dirty guitar sound better than the new stuff. still do.

I sometimes get the guitar from Slow Nerve Action stuck in my head.

I've heard stories about the Soup Dragons playing corporate functions. Or maybe I'm thinking of Jesus Jones. I don't think it really matters.

weren't the soup dragons Manchester? I can't imagine manchester rock being played corporate. I CAN imagine the band that brought RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW being corporate.

i think maybe you are thinking the Stone Roses or someone else. the Soup Dragons fucking sucked out loud....they were an MTV band from the git-go.

Jesus Jones was probably taking money from the Reagan administration for right here, right now.

"watching the world wake up from history"....

they were the musical equivilent of Yakov Smirnoff.

King Crimson wrote:Jesus Jones was probably taking money from the Reagan administration for right here, right now.

If that's the only JJ you know, you've been short-shrifted by commercial radio.
"International Bright Young Thing" and "Real, Real, Real" were superior tracks
off the "Doubt" album, IMO.