Courtney Love, claiming her house is like a giant Kurt Cobain mausoleum has decided to sell most of Kurt’s shit. Love, the biggest ho in rock history, claims she’s doing this for her daughter and not for the money. Yeah, why don’t you sell me real estate that’s in my own ass?

"My daughter doesn’t need to inherit a giant bag full of flannel shirts," says Love, former frontwoman of the rock band Hole. "A sweater, a guitar and the lyrics to ‘(Smells Like) Teen Spirit’ — that’s what my daughter gets. And the rest of it we’ll just sell."

Love titty? So do we!

"I still wear his pajamas to bed. How am I ever going to go form another relationship in my lifetime wearing Kurt’s pajamas?"
 
No word has yet come on the shotgun or empty shells that ended Cobain’s life in 1994 or anything else of Courtney’s murder plan will be sold at the auction.
 
Proceeds from the Christie’s auction will go to future liposuction and rhinoplasty for Courtney and daughter Francis Bean who love is encouraging to get plastic surgery—to get the Kurt out of her.

I pre-apologize for this one, but I just can’ resist that rare oozy grey area where bad politics and bad music intersect. Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas and Rebuplican presidential hopeful, has been getting the boys in the band in shape for the less-than-a-percent of the vote he will receive. The name of the band is Capital Offense, and as far as I can tell, the only song they do is an ass-blistering version of Steppenwolf’s "Born to Be Wild."

Ever since Clinton busted his best Lisa Simpson sax-stylings on the Arsenio Hall show, candidates have felt inclined to kick out their novelty hobbies just to show you they don’t have to keep their day jobs. A lot of candidates hunt, but I’m not sure I count hunting as an occupation. No matter, as long they have that extra little pop rock sizzle for C-SPAN clips, who gives a fuck. Canidates be warned, this can indeed backfire as seen with John Kerry ruining his’04 by throwing baseballs and footballs like a complete pussy.

Recall his embarrassing attempt to wing out the first pitch at a Yankees-Red Sox game, where he tossed like a girl having her first period from halfway to the home plate. Obviously aiming for an ant bed, he threw a complete dirt ball, and then blamed the National Guardsman who was trying to catch the wild pitch, claiming that he had eased up and thrown a change-up because he was afraid the vet may have a bit of the ole shell-shock.

Anyway, I’ll let you judge for yourself how right Huckabee, the conservative slap ‘n’ pop master, fares on what I like to term as the "hobby bump." Here is one of many versions of Capitol Offense doing the BTBW. This one comes from Pop-Up Video and is kind of annoying but you know the drill.

Oh, I’m not a bass player, but is he playing a Kawai bass through a GK head with a Carwin cabinet? I want to get a Mike Huckabee gear list posted so please help me if you are a bass geek.

So I’ve been staring at a computer screen a lot these last few weeks working on completing the Rock Bible. As such, I’ve been keeping a mental note of some bands that I’ve been meaning to find live/demo/rare recordings by. On the flight back from LA, I hunkered down and wrote down what I’m looking for. If anybody out there is mp3 saavy or willing to trade CD-Rs, get in touch! I’ve got tons of stuff I can reciprocate with, and hell, this site has become a tribute to my obsessiveness. I’ve earned this, dammit…..

These are in no special order:
Buzzcocks, Bad Brains, Stooges, Johnny Thunders, The Clash, The Misfits, 13th Floor Elevators/Roky Erickson, Thin Lizzy, Captain Beefheart, The Ramones, Generation X, Black Flag, Black Sabbath, The Fall, New York Dolls, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ramones, Germs, Dead Boys, any band on Dangerhouse, any mp3 CDs collecting material on the Document label, Bo Diddley, Van Halen, Link Wray, X Ray Spex, Birthday Party, The Buzzcocks, Devo, Jimi Hendrix, T-Rex, Roxy Music, James Brown, Minor Threat, Booker T and the MGs, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Velvet Underground, The Saints, Swell Maps, Gun Club, AC/DC, Brian Wilson-era Beach Boys, Electric Eels, The Pagans, Gene Vincent, King Crimson, Scott Walker and The Cramps

Doesn’t hurt to ask, now does it?

While I’m at it, I’m also looking for recordings of the following. They’re so butt ass rare and I don’t "do" the bit-torrent thing, so maybe somebody out there can help:

The Simpletones – s/t single
The Valves
The Machines
The Dancing Cigarettes

Okay, that’s it. Hit me up directly if you can help or wanna trade or something.

Yet another part to the Bible which I’m hoping to wrap up this week. Jordan Mamone and Sean Howe did an article about this in Issue 15 back in 2000 or so, but I’m sure it needs to be revamped by now…..

Here’s a smidge of words……
lo-fi
sonics (as a noun)
sonic (as an adj; of course it’s sonic, it’s a fucking record)
electronica
hip (and, of course, überhip)
sound (as in a band’s…)
stoner rock
emo
deliver (bands are not mailmen; they do not deliver music)
here (as in “here, Ricky Martin melds spicy Latin rhythms and ska-influenced horns”’; a record is not a place, asshole)
serve up
shards
fretwork

Obviously, post any words in the comments section. We’re all ears!

It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times…..

Flew across the country for barely 40 hours in Southern Calfornia only to high tail it back and get home by 5am last night. Oh goody.  

On the polo grounds at 10am with JAMC (photo by Gooch)

Arrived on time at Coachella at 9:30am. Got squared away. This left us with time to survey the polo grounds with nothing other than crew there. Luther and I went to catering and heard what we thought were people soundchecking for The Jesus And Mary Chain. When we realized "holy shit, that really IS the Jesus And Mary Chain" we went over and had a 30 minute soundcheck/performance where we were two of probably 5 people watching them. Of course, 12 hours later, they’d play to a few more ten thousand. Scarlett Johansson came out and sound checked with them and (obviously) came out to do two songs with them that night. I was thoroughly unimpressed. I would’ve thought any slightly talented yahoo in the crowd could’ve done the job. Of course, they succeeded in having Scarlett fill in.

Being a human easel for Zach…

The COC show went super well. Brent Weinbach, HardNPhirm and Howard Kremer were new to the mix. Overall great sets. Zach got a standing ovation as did Patton. The crowd noise for the entire 2 1/2 hour set was akin to an airplane engine. Just deafening. Last time it was like that was at the Logan Square show in Chicago.

Ran into a lot of friends, got to leave by 10 and took Posehn back to his house. Went for sushi Saturday morning and hopped a plane home. Except for the show, it was so uneventful it wasn’t even funny.

Part 1 is gonna be REALLY short because I am fucking tired. As you can see by the date of posting i only went to one day of Coachella. So fucking what? One day was enough.

So, as most of you may know, H2O was nominated this year for a Grammy for the Fonotone box set. He lost. But not only did he lose, he lost to this piece of garbage:

Box Set Of The YEAR?

He was pretty pissed. Isn’t that the ultimate "fuck you?" A shitty band you hate beats you with anachronstic artwork they designed in high school, exhumed last year to remind them what drugs effects marijuana had on their chemistry class book covers, and doctored up with filters from Photoshop 3.

Yesterday we were riding around back and forth from tent to tent all day long on a golf cart. At one point we passed Flea going the opposite direction on another cart. Sadly, the gist of anything witty Henry could think to say would have been lost in the dopler effect no matter how loud it was shouted at him and probably would have been interpreted as a shout for his driver to slow down.

At the end of the evening as we said goodbye to our friend Syd and his wife, Henry was lamenting this missed opportunity. Just as he had finished saying how he’d thought of all kinds of really great shit to shout at that fucking tattoed slap and tap funk machine I stopped him to point out that the person riding up on a golf cart was Anthony Kiedis.

Now, I’d like to point out that I believe that there is very little comedy in saying that something sucks without any explanation, no matter how true it may be. However, when shouted at a rockstar passing on a golfcart the absurdity of shouting "Your box set sucked" is funny enough to elicit laughter from that rockstars own accompanying groupies. Henry then shouted "You owe me a fucking Grammy!" Ah, Henry…..

It’s easy! Become a marketing gimmick/reality show sponsored by Dr. Pepper.

That’s right, local abortion peddlars Cartel are going to do a reality show. At first, I didn’t know who they were. Then I heard them on the radio before I knew it was them (and hated it). And now I can rest assured that in two years, nobody will remember them because, well, they’re going to become to music what Puck on The Real Life was to reality television.

Hi, you’ll forget us even sooner now!

Maybe I revel in seeing this too much, but this makes me sooooo happy. (insert smiley emoticon here)

I was recently talking to a friend of mine that works in the music biz who, when growing up, lived in Missouri. When she stated her joy and shock that Drunks with Guns were from her fair state and that she’d never heard of them before, I knew it was time to post this cassette I’ve had for a few years.

DWG tape case…..

Now, I certainly don’t consider myself a DWG authority by any stretch. Mike Dosckocil was considered (at least by me and a few of my friends) the main force behind the band and was inarugably a nihilist character driving this band that perfectly encapsulated dark midwestern punk rage in the mid to late ’80s. To be honest, I don’t know much else other than what regular Chunklet contributor Jordan Mamone has written for Trouser Press and that is still an awful lot to absorb.

Reflecting upon this, it irks me that contemporary punk bands by and large ignore bands like DWG or even more visible sociopathic rock like Halo of Flies claiming it’s produced too much like everything else at that time and sounds "dated". Such idiots….. Also, I feel it necessary to go out on a limb here and say that Pennsylvania’s Pissed Jeans are slowing taking the rightful crown that DWG once wore.

There’s a total of 10 tracks on this tape, but I tried to avoid including material that I’ve heard on other blogs or are already on CD. Enjoy this tape and revel in the anti-fidelity.

Drunks With Guns – Zombie

Drunks With Guns – Punched In The Head

Drunks With Guns – Leprosy

Drunks With Guns – Hellhouse

Drunks With Guns – Drunks Theme

Drunks With Guns – New Wave

Drunks With Guns – Bloodbath

For as humorless the DC scene eventually became during the 90’s, I can’t help but think that it must’ve been a great place in the mid to late 80’s. But then again, what do I know? I was living in Fort Collins, Colorado at the time. Hardcore had only begun to rear its ugly head for me with the seminal Rat Music comps and a couple lucky live encounters with bands like Minutemen and Black Flag (who I later found out played with Nig Heist the night I saw them!).

Anyway, what I’m saying is, I think DC was a fun place. And Insurrection was a band that I can’t imagine being taken too seriously, but well, when you know the bands that they went to spawn (Rites of Spring, One Last Wish, Happy Go Licky, Miighty Flashlight, Fugazi) you can’t help but have a morbid curiosity to know what they sounded like.

Insurrection, 1983. From Touch & Go fanzine.

Rites of Spring was a band I obsessed over just as Fugazi started, and then n-th generation cassettes were my glimpse into One Last Wish and HGL, but recordings by Insurrection never pop up.

Lucky for everybody, I found this recording of them live in ’83. I really don’t have anything to add other than this is a shaky, but decent first step for these guys. So just listen. Oh! And there’s this interview from Touch and Go fanzine from ’83 and these lyrics to check out.

From cassette insert

For future reference, is there anything you’d like to see posted to this site? I’ve got a library of illicit recordings that’d make your head swell…..

Feel free to post suggestions in comments……

Insurrection – Live ’83

I have had my mind blown before, but god damn!

UPDATE: Youtube in their infinite wisdom removed this video. However, FMU were smart enough to capture it. Check it out.

YET ANOTHER UPDATE: I found yet another Vagina Power video on youtube. It’s replaced the one that didn’t work for this entry! ENJOY!