Your musical mentor

[TragicMagic]

Joyce is one sexy bee-artch [:D]


My Early Musical mentor was Lars Ulrich from Metallica. I was a drummer in a metal/grunge cover band after high school... I played metal, but always had the New Wave side to me (I just tried not to let the other guys know in case they chucked me out

TM

[tatermaven]

A few classmates from grade school were probably the earliest influence on my musical tastes.

<I>The Trouser Press Guide to New Wave Records</I> was my first real exposure to a lot of the bands I still listen to. Another book called <I>The New Music</I> worked its magic in tandem. After that, it was probably early issues of SPIN.

Before it veered towards playlists and heavy rotation, eventually became downright atrocious (morning SPORTS show?!), and finally unceremoniously had its plug pulled and its format switched, 99.1 WHFS used to be a great station. I remember hearing songs that I liked and not hearing them again for weeks. I listened to the Reggae Splashdown AND Dr. Demento faithfully every Sunday night. How's that for eclecticism!

Later, I discovered local college radio, which pretty much rendered WHFS moot anyway.

Although I outgrew them, MAXIMUMROCKNROLL and Flipside introduced me to tons of new music.

But <I>Forced Exposure</I> is probably the magazine that I miss the most.

[bpdp3]

It was pretty much all from magazines for me. I lived in a small town in upstate NY with no radio, no cool cable shows, no cool clubs, no no nuthin'.

Trouser Press. Creem (very supportive of the new wave). Hit Parader (yes, that's right, late 70's early 80's Hit Parader would cover Rush and the Yachts on the same page, treating them as equals).

And when MTV came along for us, I'd be lying if I said it didn't introduce me to alot of the 'classic MTV bands' from england (ie Haircut 100, Fixx, Flock of Seagulls, etc).

[tatermaven]

<I>Hit Parader (yes, that's right, late 70's early 80's Hit Parader would cover Rush and the Yachts on the same page, treating them as equals).</I>

Although it was primarily a metal magazine when I was reading it ('84, '85), I remember noticing that every so often <I>Hit Parader</I> would feature artists that clearly did not fit into the genre. Actually, <I>Circus</I> was the same way. Even more schizophrenic was the short-lived <I>RIP</I>, which once had Nina Hagen <I>and</I> Ozzy Osbourne on the cover!

[Mechi]

My other musical mentor was a show that a radio put on every Sunday that lasted like 10 hours and was called "Classic of classics"... and they were racy in their choices not like Aspen. They used to put on Joy Division, Siouxsie, non-hits The Police songs.

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[Ollie Stench]

[quote][i]Originally posted by tatermaven[/i] Another book called <I>The New Music</I> worked its magic in tandem. [/quote]

Oh man, how could I have forgotten about the 2 books The New Music and The New Rock adn Roll? I remember the day I bought my first copy of The New Music (I've since gone through 3 more copies), I had to mow 4 lawns on a Saturday to get the money to buy the book but it changed my life.


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[Frank_Chickens]

As for me:

Channel 4 Teletext - Their article about the 80s that got me initially started.

Smaash Hits - Ignore the teenybopper stuff, they covered some diverse acts, The Planets, Small Ads, Malaria!, The Europeans etc.

TVCream Creamup - The monthly mailinglist covering topics from the 'creamy' period of nostalgia, ie late 70s/80s discovered The Pinkees for me so for that I'm forever grateful.

Torchomatic - Without Simon we would all be poorer people. Too many bands to mention, but Leisure Process is one of the standouts.

e - Unknown to many unless you have access to the MP3 & Indie newsgroups. Posted many forgotten acts like Intaferon, Life, etc.

New Wave Complex series - This collection covered a wide variety of artists around the world and has influenced me greatly. Once you hear Nova, The Metronomes and Tom Ware you don't go back!

Reader's Digest Young at Heart 80s comp - Don't laugh because it's Reader's Digest! This is the first time that someone had created a compilation just for me. Blue Zoo, Monsoon, The Look etc. The person who compiled this had exquisite taste! [:D]

Eight6 - Anyone who can find my requests deserves a mention! [8D]


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"As chairman of the Cradle of Filth fanclub I'm the most insensitive man in Britain, but even I can see there's tension there"

[eight6]

[quote][i]Originally posted by Frank_Chickens[/i]
<br>As for me:

Channel 4 Teletext - Their article about the 80s that got me initially started.

Smaash Hits - Ignore the teenybopper stuff, they covered some diverse acts, The Planets, Small Ads, Malaria!, The Europeans etc.

TVCream Creamup - The monthly mailinglist covering topics from the 'creamy' period of nostalgia, ie late 70s/80s discovered The Pinkees for me so for that I'm forever grateful.

Torchomatic - Without Simon we would all be poorer people. Too many bands to mention, but Leisure Process is one of the standouts.

e - Unknown to many unless you have access to the MP3 & Indie newsgroups. Posted many forgotten acts like Intaferon, Life, etc.

New Wave Complex series - This collection covered a wide variety of artists around the world and has influenced me greatly. Once you hear Nova, The Metronomes and Tom Ware you don't go back!

Reader's Digest Young at Heart 80s comp - Don't laugh because it's Reader's Digest! This is the first time that someone had created a compilation just for me. Blue Zoo, Monsoon, The Look etc. The person who compiled this had exquisite taste! [:D]

[b]Eight6 - Anyone who can find my requests deserves a mention! [/b][8D]


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"As chairman of the Cradle of Filth fanclub I'm the most insensitive man in Britain, but even I can see there's tension there"

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That deserves a reward Frank:

First Aid - The Wibbley Brothers


http://s41.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0D03 ... 3EYPRDPK2T


For those not familiar, Ronnie and Terry Wibbley (not their real names) made an album in the 80's which was, well, let's say unique, titled "Go Weird". Some great synth & guitar stuff on the lp, with great sense of humour throughout.

Hope you like it Frank.



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[BffloGrl85]

[quote][i]Originally posted by WolverineSyr[/i]
<br>I'd have to say Bfflogrrl really helped me out back in the early 80's. While I was only hearing the hits & still didn't have Mtv, she managed to turn me on to Echo, Depeche Mode, Yaz, Trio, the Smiths, The The, etc. None of those groups were getting played on our crappy AOR stations. I know those were popular groups for most of you - but not for us in the vast wasteland of REO Spudwagon & Styx.

Once I got cable, Night Flight was a huge influence, as was New Wave Theatre and another video show, which I can't remember the name of (maybe Rockworld?)

I also read Trouser Press and Creem.
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Thank you Wolvie, I am happy to learn that I had some positive influence on you during our formative years. And if not for you, I never would have listened to Patti Smith's "Horses" while drinking Tabs and smoking Vantage Ultra Lights in your bedroom.

How your mother stood us in all our faux hip pretentiousness, I'll never know. Lord knows, we scared the crap out of my mother by bopping around my bedroom playing "New Toy" while we prepped to go clubbing.

[Frank_Chickens]

[quote][i]Originally posted by eight6[/i]

That deserves a reward Frank:

First Aid - The Wibbley Brothers


http://s41.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0D03 ... 3EYPRDPK2T


For those not familiar, Ronnie and Terry Wibbley (not their real names) made an album in the 80's which was, well, let's say unique, titled "Go Weird". Some great synth & guitar stuff on the lp, with great sense of humour throughout.

Hope you like it Frank.


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<downloads and listens>

Ok..

Now remind me again how they avoided being sectioned? [;)]

Their website is in the same manner as the song ( http://www.wibbley.com )

It's a great track and I really enjoyed listening to it, thanks for making it available. [8D]



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"As chairman of the Cradle of Filth fanclub I'm the most insensitive man in Britain, but even I can see there's tension there"

[audiofool]

[quote][i]Originally posted by eight6[/i]
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[quote]
I'd have to go with David Marsden (good pick audiofool), who was the local equivalent to John Peel.

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Yeah, Marsbar/Dave Mickey is a certainty. I first used to listen to him in the early 60's on a small AM station out of St Thomas, Ontario.

Best of all, he's still doing 2 shows a week at 94.9fm Oshawa Thurs and Fri nites from 7-midnite ET. Streaming at http://www.therock.fm/.
And they give him carte blanche musically and verbally, just like the old days.

Plus he's a very nice guy, according to some of his previous employees.

[Ollie Stench]

[quote][i]Originally posted by Frank_Chickens[/i]
<br>A
New Wave Complex series - This collection covered a wide variety of artists around the world and has influenced me greatly. Once you hear Nova, The Metronomes and Tom Ware you don't go back![/quote]

These are the ones that aren't for sale, only posted on P2P sites, right? I don't do slsk or anything, is there another way to get these?

[KYYX4ever]

2 words:
<font size=7>Stephen Rabow</font size=7>

and all the djs on Seattle's KYYX 96.5 FM (RIP). But especially Rabow. He'd play the srangest stuff, the 12"s nobody knew about, the B-Sides, the obscure, the valiant, the struggling, the unknown, the local acts, (and sometimes stuff played backwards and at different speeds) all mixed together from his "Rabow's Record Ranch and Cassette Corral" on his "Rabow's Adventures, Romance, Danger, and Lust" shows. I was completely in awe. he was a bit of a comedian (if you haven't already guessed) and part of my respect and adoration was that he always made it known that he was having a great time on the radio, too. Sigh....unbeatable.

[EverydayItsTomorrow]

Tim Johnstone was a DJ at the college station in Boise Idaho (DO not laugh or apologize) and he tought me at age 14 and 15 about bands outside of my Nightflight Mtv world. He always had the first imports of everything.

Thank you Tim, wherever you are!

[hexicon]

[quote][i]Originally posted by KYYX4ever[/i]
<br>2 words:
<font size=7>Stephen Rabow</font size=7>

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What KYYX said.

I will also have to put in a plug for this dude Clayton, who was a friend of a friend. KYYX dropped the new wave format in 1984, and the slack was taken up by KJET, where I discovered Lloyd Cole, Erasure, etc. Then KJET dropped NW in 1988. The years from 1988 to 1991, when KNDD adopted an alternative format, would have been musical black holes if it weren't for Clayton. (Also, that gap in alternative radio coincided precisely with my law school years, so I have a gaping pop culture lacuna for other reasons.)

clayton must have combed every music magazine for tips on the best 45s to buy--late new wave, alternative, dance, college rock--and then he combined them into his signature "Clay-Tel" mix tapes. And this was in the days when you had to rely on whatever was in stock next to the bongs at the local DJ's Sound City--not like now where we can find many obscurities with a mere click of the mouse. I still have some of these Clay-Tel tapes, Charlatans, Electronic, Hoodoo Gurus, Marc Almond.

Clayton and our mutual friend fell out of touch and last I heard he'd been having some troubles. Wherever he is, I wish him well. Thanks!