Geek Weekly #8

ReadAboutContentsHelp
1, 2 ... 40, 39

Pages

16
Complete

16

Sally Timms and Fred Armisen at the Bloodshot Party

Smudo, two years old

Last edit almost 5 years ago by cxex
17
Complete

17

Susan and our dear, departed (to NYC) Tim Stegall

Last edit almost 5 years ago by cxex
18
Complete

18

Jonathan Toubin plays with Grand Mal at CMJ

The Blacks at the Bloodshot Records party at CMJ

Last edit over 4 years ago by purplebow2
Austin Confidential
Complete

Austin Confidential

Geek Weekly Fanzine presents Rock Critic Interview #4: Margaret Moser of the Austin Chronicle. Even though Margaret is no longer really a rock critic, she was and that's good enough for us. Ms. Moser has written three books and has been writing about the Austin scene for over two decades.

M- But, you know, I was a groupie and I really approached it like... like military strategy!

S- Being a groupie was probably a lot more honorable before punk rock was supposed to make everything eqalitarian.

M- Yes and no, I mean the incidences of clap were just as bad as ever, but it's true that there was an innocence about it that can't exist today and that I really loved and when I finally came to grips with it a few years ago it was because something that Ann Powers had written about Pamela DesBarres and I'd always felt like Pamela DesBarres was like my soul sister, you know, like my role model. Did I need a groupie role model? Boom- here's this beautiful young blonde from southern California, and she fucked 'em all! She showed up at Mick Jagger's hotel room, and he opened the door naked, you know. Bam -- I wanna be like that! So my whole group of girlfriends, the Texas Blondes, were patterned after the GTOs, and we ran havoc in this town in the late seventies and early eighties. It's funny how we applied all that backstage strategy. One of my mottoes is always, "Gimme two backstage passes and I'll get an infinite number of girls backstage." So we used that to great advantage. But I was really good friends with all the promoters in town back then, and it behooved them to have happy musicians, so, you know, when the bands got to town. Jim Ramsey would call me immediately and say. "Will you come meet us at the hotel and bring some of the girls?" So, we'd put on our cute little clothes and go down to the hotel and let them buy us drinks and snort coke or whatever was going on back then. And this is all pretty much pre-AIDS. We were all pretty much out of commission by the time and I was beginning to think about social responsibility, I was beginning to think maybe my drug habits were not a good idea.

J- Kinda fucks up the whole things, doesn't it.

M- We were about fizzles out by '82 or '83. But we had a great four-year run from about '78 to '82. Prime time in this town for rock && roll! Those were great punk rock days.

S- Who were some of your favorites back then?

M- Psychedelic Furs. I loved those guys. REM. Michael Stripe was in love with my roommate back then and he used to call collect all the time. And she always said she was gonna pay for the calls and she never did, so I blame Michael Stripe for the fact that our phone got turned off once. I met John Cale back then. That was a show that

17

Last edit over 5 years ago by terriertle17
Austin Confidential
Complete

Austin Confidential

changed my life. If I can think of different points when my life just turned 90 degrees or 180 degrees, that was one of them. Musically he was such an influence on me.

S- How did you wind up in Austin? Are you from here?

M- No, I grew up in San Antonio and New Orleans and I came to Austin because my boyfriend wanted to move here and go to school and I thought it wounded like a really great place to live. When I was in San Antonio in high school, Austin was THE place. When people spoke about Austin they practically fell down and bowed.

S- When was this?

M- That was the late sixties and the only thing that was remotely hip in San Antonio was that every Sunday afternoon they would have these concerts in Sunken Gardens and everybody would go take acid and listen to Shiva's Headband and stuff like that. But you'd hear stuff like, "It's like this in Austin all the time."

J- "You can take acid every night in Austin."

S- Which high school did you drop out of in San Antonio?

M- Yeah, and I was foolish enough to go back to my high school reunion, my twentieth and it was so depressing to find myself there and still find that part of me wanting to be liked. "I've done really well, don't you like me now?" I felt so stupid you know? I left one of the things really early thinking, "God, what an idiot I am."

S- Were you a geek in high school?

M- I was a total geek in high school. One time I was coming out of the lunchroom at Nimitz High School and the gym was right across from it and in order to cross from the lunch room to the gym you had to pass the area where all the popular kids hung out and I was walking by them and I saw them kind of waving and laughing at me and I thought they were calling me over, and it turned out that they were making fun of me because I was riding my bicycle to school. This is eighth grade and in eight grade at that time in the sixties it was so uncool to ride a bicycle and I was the geek that rode the bicycle and I was really humiliated when I walke over to them and all they were doing was laughing at me and this really popular guy walked up to me and he goes, "So will you give me a ride on your bicycle?" And it really hurt my feelings terribly and I ran into the gym crying. As a matter of fact, I think I left school and didn't wanna go back for a couple of days. And I would never tell my parents what was wrong and they thought I was just being miserable about it, but really I was being traumatized. Today I think I could have grounds for a lawsuit, don't you?

S- Absolutely. Or reason to bring in a gun.

M- But that's one reason I really like working with young writers, and when I was editing at the Chronicle it was such a pleasure working with the young ones, because so many of them would come in and I could tell that they were exactly like that in high school, too.

18

Last edit over 5 years ago by terriertle17
Displaying pages 16 - 20 of 40 in total