more pussy galore

[Don Smith <DonTGD@xxxxxxxxx>]

I sat on this email for a day and edited the political commentary out,
you all should be at least a little happy.

In one sentence?  Neither Jello nor Donald Trump are serious candidates
nor could either win because both are using the concept of presidential
candidacy as a way of playing with media exposure, one for fun/political
ideas the other for commerce branding which made Martha Stewart a
billionaire.  Also I first heard about Mumia in the late 80s, so you
know, the publicity has picked up speed, but this all happened like 18
years ago.

ok, someone mentioned that in the early 80s in Providence some band that
played in the apt. next to them was pussy galore.  Most likely that was
Jon's first band Shithaus which he was in with, I believe, one of the
principles in the noise rock band Cop Shoot Cop.  I have the Shithaus
cassette which was the soundtrack to a student film or something circa
84-85.  I am not positive but I thought Pussy Galore was an idea in
Providence but became a band when Julie and Jon moved to DC in like
summer 1985.  Where Neil lived I don't remember.  Christina, Jon's wife,
from Boss Hog lived in DC then and worked at Hagen Dasz 83/84-ish with
Ian Mackaye and Henry Rollins, but I was too young to know all this at
the time. They were resoundingly hated here because their lyrics were so
harsh and their attitude so unlike DC.  for me the thing is that people
thought they were arty because they had no other frame of reference.  If
you were a critic who never heard the Keggs or the Green Fuzz, but you
liked no wave bands, ehh... It's like the people who talk about VU as
new wave but never seem to notice the rock roots which form a lot of
their songs.  I don't hear the sun ra references in people's stuff
because I don't have that in my repetoire.

Don