Like the energy and the spirit of these guys, but really, they suck, right? They are not the Feelies, or X or Black Flag. Cool in a way I guess., if discordant, raggedy performance done with energy is your thing.
I think theyre great punk because theyre so genuine. like, this kind of music makes me think i could make my own record. they're not as technically talented as those bands, sure, but they're not trying to be. They're just having fun
Such great stuff! I bought the original "The Problem with Saxophones" cassette in the basement at the 9:30 about a million years ago, and it's long been one of my prized possessions! I was tickled to death when it finally got reissued on CD!
and i agree with you, @Josh Gold got it from the documentary "Half Japanese: the band that would be king" (1993) with a permission from mr. Jad Fair himself =) This doc is not that hard to find, but if ya have prob, inbox me!
So,l please, if you want to expose your opinion about the way some guy got his job and to criticize his opinion, please do it with care and attention to information, or else you will sound like a sexist/homophobic person.
a deep lack of information to form an opinion about our subject. If you look up also here in the YT, you will find out that this show was responsible for presenting some of the "best bands" (when he says that, i know that he is aiming at a specific audience, we, who love noisy garage experimental music, not the entire world) like Beastie Boys, Butthole Surfers and Velvet Monkeys. If you look up in the web, you will find out that HJ is a highly influent band in the works of Nirvana, for example
there's a whole myth around Half Japanese and it's influence; they are known as the band that would be king, if they sold themselves to mainstream industry. I deeply respect your opinion, and i agree that they are far from being "the best band", but i guess that you exposed it in an unhealthy and hateful way. Public television access has a short range, but is way more democratic than corporate media; so, when you say that someone has sucked someone to be on this sort of broadcast, you show me
it is public access television; the host is "the boss". Guess you need plenty of information to say that someone lost a job or like dikksucking. Now, shall we talk about this cocksucking fixation that is responsible for an homophobic and stupid behavior? Who am i to conclude that a person with a male name and a nat geo pic of an afghan woman is trapped in a closet?
This is quite a piece, i specially love "no direct line..."; sometimes i've wanted to hear this from other computers so i've decided to edit and upload it.
