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Re: (TV) A wider circle for Laughner



Steve

I've been looking for the Take The Guitar Player..............album for a
while since lots of people on this list were waxing lyrical..........haven't
found it yet. I was interested though where you say it is on Tim Kerr
records.......is that the Tim Kerr that used to be in the fantastic Big
Boys?
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Lippincott <stevelip@email.msn.com>
To: tv@obbard.com <tv@obbard.com>
Date: Thursday, February 22, 2001 4:45 AM
Subject: (TV) A wider circle for Laughner


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>Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 18:28:58 EST
>From: Alsnow4750@aol.com
>Subject: Re: (TV) Time for a new thread?
>
>In a message dated 2/20/01 4:01:20 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>esgregory@uswest.net writes:
>
><<
> a shitload of p. laughner boots (thanks, steve lippincott!)
> gang of 4- 100 flowers bloom >>
>
>how can we get to hear laughner?
>
>Sure, I'd  welcome trade or B&P (off list) -its time for the man to get
>wider appreciation/credit rather than being slogged off as a
>self-destructive "what-if" (even tho you probably needed the patience of a
>saint or be on valium to be around him).  And yet he influenced a lot of
>people (and not just in Cleveland). Amazingly, there are some 14 sessions
>(rehearsal and live) with Peter (and various line-ups) floating now in a
>(seemingly) tight trader circle. I only have 4 sessions, myself. There was
a
>commercial release that was a good overview but its o/p ("Take the Guitar
>Player For A Ride", Tim Kerr Records). Even with the preponderance of cover
>songs in his set lists (he does Prove It, Venus, Heroin, Fire Engine,
Baby's
>On Fire for instance) he was still truly an original.  His own songs, "Life
>Stinks", "Amphetamine", "Ain't it fun", etc were jagged, incandescent,
>sloppy visions. The best Ubu (to me) is the laughner era; the Hearthan
>singles (Final Solution, 30 Seconds Over Tokyo, etc) with the
>Herman/Laughner crunching guitars roaring off the rails (wallowing and
>ascending simultaneously). Even "Modern dance" (post-Peter) had his ghost
>all over it. And all of that is in print.
>Steve
>
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