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Geek Weekly #4

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GW#4 - Cover

Geek weekly #4

(Photocopied Drawing of a pilot) Fighting. We just Keep on fighting.

Inside...

Foreign Lands: - San Francisco - The Midwest - New York City - Memphis City of Rock (or is that rock city?) - Columbia, Missouri

Interviews: - Railroad Jerk - Teen Titans1,4,5's - The Think Fellers Union Local 282

Plus: - Art - Cooking Tips - Crap - Blah - Blah - Blah - Blah

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Table of Contents

Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 an interview by susan and steve.....................1

Memphis, Tennessee jennifer's road trip journal...........................10

Rekkerd Reviews ...........................................16

Minnesota, Chicago and the Grifters Jennifer keeps on travelin'............................18

From the Musty Basement of... ...Steve Deconstructionalist..............................23

An Open Letter To Michael Corcoran Jason Trent flies off the handle.......................24

Nickerson Goes West another failed attempt to escape..........................29

Columbia Breeze a Missouri college scene report......................33

Jackie Takes Manhattan New York as Seen through the eyes of a Louisiana native................................36

Gourmet Cookin' two recipes and hot cookin' tips.........................38

Print Reviews ...........................................40

Railroad Jerk an interview by susan ...............................41

1,4,5s and Teen Titans an interview by susan ...............................49

Tomato Time..............................................57

[clip art of dictionary illustration for 'beavers': "Beavers 1. beaver raised 2. beaver closed"]]

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Our friends from Columbia, Missouri arrived around 7 pm and we all headed down to Ellen's Soul Food for the best friend chicken I've ever had (besides my mommy's of course). Then, with out bellies so full we could hardly more, we headed down to Barrister's for the first night of the Dixie Fried Backalley Brawl. Amazingly, we ran into [Casey]] of Make Room fanzine fame, another proud Texan who had journeyed north to worship at the garage rock altar.

The entrance to Barrister's is on an alley, which makes it easy to take a between-band breather with beer in hand. Memphis seemed to have a lot of unenforced laws and the open-contained law was one of the, (Another curious Memphian alcohol law is that you can't sell a container of beer larger than 38 oz- that's right, folks... no 40s.)

Inside testosterone surged through the air. An ancient big-screen TV was showing clips from early 60s-ish sexploitation films. People were shooting pool, buying records from the merch table and drinking beer. The crowd was much livelier than the typical Austin crowd, and there were a lot more girls out!

The first band was the Hate Bombs, a classic 60s-style garage band who played more songs about girls than any other band I've ever seen. Everyone in the band sings lead except the bassist who, incidentally, bears a striking resemblance to a young Elvis. I thoroughly enjoyed this set. Next up was AMF (which stands for many things, including Adolescent Music Fantasy). Their drummer, Ross Johnson, who emceed the whole event (and who had played with Panther Burns, Gibson Brothers, Alex Chilton and Pink Slip Daddy) kept demanding that the proprietor "play more nekkid movies." AMF took it slow and easy (they were self-proclaimed "middle-aged, over-weight rock'n'rollers") and they played mostly covers, but there were fine choices like "Drunk Again," "Theme From A Summer Place," and "I Walked With the Zombies." '68 Comeback (or rather Jeff Evans + the Oblivians) was next. Not being familiar with Jeff's stuff, I didn't know what to expect, but I was very pleased with their set.

Then came the Oblivians. I'd only seen them once before (at that horribly ill-attended Thanksgiving-night show at Emo's) and I had almost forgotten how great their show are. I was speechless. Luckily we got some of it on tape, including most of "Motorcycle Leather Boy" as sung very

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COLUMBIA MISSOURI: A Scene Report

What is it that you do in a college town? In the middle of the midwest, it isn't so much what there is to do, as what you find to do. Certainly it is that way most places but it all seems more prevalent when the shows that come to town that are worth seeing are all organized by kids that I'm friends with and anything interesting that happens is either by a stroke of pure luck or the fact that someone didn't know what they were doing is cool.

What is good about this town? Well there are some good bands. Any college town has to have a few and we do, from the country rock of the Starkweathers to the garage induced mayhem of the Revelators to the obtuse acoustic stylings of the Northerns and the usual cadre of noise bands like the Carters and Product 19. We try, but it is the best we can do.

The fact that there are about 1 1/4 decent venues in town doesn't make going out very easy or worthwhile. The Blue Note holds about 800 people and uses that to their advantage, and our disadvantage. All of the shows that make it in are big and have to negotiate around the regularly scheduled dance nights every Wednesday and Saturday. Sunday and Monday find the Blue Note almost always closed.

That ends up working out okay now as the 200 person capacity blues club has taken to booking, well, "Alternative" bands on Monday nights. Deep Blues brings in decent local blues acts the rest of the week and the occasional good touring blues act. (OH and Missouri blues acts don't typically match up to those Antone's offers)

After that we really start to fake it. The Grifters had the privilege of playing in one of my friends basements until the cops came. The Fusebox used to book shows in the back of a coffee shop. Now they use various rooms around campus and the meeting room adjacent to the radio station. I've been trying to use University money to book some cool bands, but there's only so much I can do. Although I think I got the New Bomb Turks and Teengenerate to play in either an auditorium on campus or the bowling alley in the main Commons. Either way, it is an example of what we can do and how we make shit up in order to do it.

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