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Music Sound Advice - Tales from the Underground by Chris Bopst

People forget how bleak the 1980’s were for music.

MTV corporate creations and neutered, safe as milk rock and roll.

Lee Abrams transformed radio into a form of torture that it continues to be today with tightly controlled 30 song play lists

The only redeeming factor about that godforsaken decade was the music that was being made underground. As the mainstream was infected with Huey Lewis & The News, Journey and Kenny Loggins, a handful of committed souls were creating the last real American musical revolution. The story of hip-hop and rap has been told, but the history of underground sound of the 1980s is the great-lost chapter in the book of rock and roll.

Their single-minded gallantry is summed up when Black Flag guitarist and SST patriarch Greg Ginn’s returned from a week long stay in jail. His first words to singer Henry Rollins were, “Practice is at 7.” These weren’t your typical rock and roll dudes.

At the center of the book is Naomi Petersen, the photographer who cataloged everyone in the 80s underground music scene when the mainstream press wasn’t looking. Without her unflinching lens, the photographic history of seminal acts such as Black Flag, Sonic Youth and Minor Threat, as well as hundreds of others lesser-known bands would not have been preserved. She, like her numerous friends in the scene, was motivated by a genuine love of music.

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ROCK AND THE POP NARCOTIC – TESTAMENT FOR THE ELECTRIC CHURCH by Joe Carducci 529 pages, w/ photos, illustrations isbn 978-0-9627612-1-8 / $29.95 from the cover, by Simon Reynolds, author of “Rip It Up and Start Again.” “By some distance, R&TPN is the most original and provocative book on rock of the last fifteen years. The second section, an encyclopaedic survey of five decades of rock music, is particularly impressive…. But it’s Part One that will change all your ideas about music…”Upcoming releases scheduled for 2007 ENTER NAOMI – SST, L.A. AND ALL THAT… by Joe Carducci 270 pages, w/ photos, illustrations isbn 978-0-9627612-3-2 / $24.95 from the cover, by Mike Davis, author of “City of Quartz,” and “Planet of Slums.” “This is an absolutely mesmerizing introduction to L.A.’s punk pantheon of outside musicians, artists, photographers, and performers. As Carducci reminds us, the wild kids on the Strip, the Strand, and the Desert created a potent musical underground in the shadow of the corporate-entertainment industry and it continues to subvert and inspire.” WYOMING STORIES – YEUNG GIRL, THE WINTER HAND, HOMO VAMPYRUS by Joe Carducci. Introduction by David Lightbourne. 240 pages, w/ photos isbn 978-0-9627612-4-9 / $16.95 from the cover, by Budd Boetticher, director of “7 Men from Now,” “Comanche Station.” “I like how you write.”*******Coming 2008: LIFE AGAINST DEMENTIA – ESSAYS, REVIEWS, INTERVIEWS 1975 – 2007 by Joe Carducci A collection of pieces done for The Match!, Damage, Details, Arthur, and other fine publications, as well as a number of previously unpublished articles on music, film, politics, and sports. Specs to come.

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Redoubt Press was put together in 1990 to publish the first edition of Rock and the Pop Narcotic, by Joe Carducci. A second, revised edition was published by 2.13.61 in 1995. Redoubt was reactivated in 2005 to reprint R&TPN, as well as the rest of Carducci’s output.Joe Carducci was born in Merced, California in 1955. He grew up in Naperville, Illinois, attended the University of Denver for a year and a half before moving to Hollywood in 1976 to pursue screen-writing. Carducci co-founded Systematic Record Distribution in Portland in 1978, moved it to Berkeley at the end of 1979 and was involved in the Thermidor and Optional Music record labels. He moved back to Los Angeles in the fall of 1981 to work with Black Flag’s label, SST Records, until early 1986. Back in Chicago he wrote Rock and the Pop Narcotic, began the Provisional company with the release of the first four films by Raymond Pettibon, and continued writing screenplays. Carducci moved to Wyoming at the end of 1995.

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Enter Naomi: SST, L.A., and All That...

    ENTER NAOMI SST,L.A.,and All That Get your copy today from http://www.nightheronbooks.com/   How to Contact Us   You can reach us by email at [email protected] You...
Posted by Redoubt Press on Sat, 25 Nov 2006 09:50:00 PST

Storytelling: Mass Media to Massed Media....By David Lightbourne

Storytelling: Mass Media to Massed Media.. (Wyoming Stories introduction) by David Lightbourne "In the beginning was the word& If memory serves me, the novel died in 1959.  A professional ...
Posted by Redoubt Press on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 09:58:00 PST