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A lot of people are complaining about the ascii formatting of my
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T-Philes. Most people ask what kind of commodore, err, computer I use. Yes,
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I have an old 8bit atari, but that isn't the problem at all. I found out an
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hour ago that it's my modem. And my dip switches look like this:
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>-----------------<
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alligator : alligator
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clip : clip
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bell
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wire.
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AND I'M NOT TOUCHIN 'EM UNLESS SOMEONE LENDS ME A 12 OR 24 HUNDRED BAUD
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MODEM IN CASE I SCREW IT UP BIGTIME.
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The only other complaint I'm hearin' is the 40 column format. I'm sorry,
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but until EVERY computer hosts 80 columns I will publish at 40 columns. If
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you want an 80 column issue, get out your favorite text editor or word processor.
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At any rate, if you find yourself unable to read these issues, try
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downloading them another way, or from another board. Some sysops have changed
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the format using some program that's out there. When I find out what the name
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of the program is, I'll publish it here, and/or publish names of boards now
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and then where it's formatted "properly."
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FLASH!!! WHO IS THE BAND THAT DID THE REMAKE OF LED ZEPPELIN'S "LIVIN
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LOVIN MAID"? Sounds like Fatboys, but it sounds awesome.
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NOTAS MUSICAS!!!
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--- -------- --- ----- -------
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The official ATI music section.
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To the tune of "Frito Bandito" commercial:
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Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye.
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Your mother sucks chrome
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off a bumper hitch.
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When stuck between two lousy choices ie: Bush/Duke, US/SU, Coke/Pepsi,
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McDonalds/Burger King-- I always say choose BEER
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Then instead of having to come up with an explaination, simply
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say, "Dunno, I was cocked".
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"Little" Steven Van Zandt told me last April that SPIN was really about
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the only worthwhile RockRag to check out any more. I guess he was just as
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angry with Hit Parayder, Creme, and Rolling Bone as I was. I didn't notice
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so obviously until this month.
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(sept 88 issue)
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(the one with Traci Chapman on the cover...
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you know, the black chick with the nappi hair)
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Anyways, here's a few thoughts from various musicians I decided to
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highlight for you in case you cant get out and steal a copy or buy it maybe.
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(I did)
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HOLLY NEAR: If you write a generic peace song that just talks about peace
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really propose solutions or if you put forward some kind of analysis of what
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is causing war or racism or sexism.
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You saw that when Little Steven was doing much more specific things about
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south africa. It was alright to feed the Africans, but when we talked about
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actually wanting the Africans to liberate themselves and take control of their
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own countries, then it was less of a hit than the humanitarian concept of just
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feeding the poor African people.
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BILLY BRAGG: For some artists, being political is what sells their
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record, for good or bad. Certainly my audience is based on political stuff.
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Nobody ever asks me what guitar strings I use or what I was doing in my next
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video. They all want to know when I am going to think of a good rhyme for
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"socialism".
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PETER GABRIEL: I really hope young people get a sense that they CAN make
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a difference in what is going on. I think that is the most important thing-
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that they dont feel victims of the world; that they feel in charge of the
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world, because it's theirs to inherit.
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NONA HENDRYX: To me, the basic problem is to continue. Not only for the
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artist to do it but the audience or the people who are listening to stay
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involved. Not only on the large level, but on the small level, in your
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community, your neighborhood, your state.
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MERLE HAGGARD: was always necessary. From the time I was in the fourth,
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5th grade, it would be on my report cards, only the teachers would call it
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staring out the window. But what I was doing was trying to write songs.
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JACKSON BROWN: A door was kicked open with Band Aid and Live Aid so that
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you saw a little bit of the rest of the world. Then the door opened a little
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further when you saw that there was apartheid in south africa. Now the door
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has really been kicked wide open because you see that our government is
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involved in a lot of things like selling arms to Iran, trading arms for
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hostages, and diverting money illegally to wars that really can only be
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called private wars now.
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LITTLE STEVEN: In the media, that's where the battle is. that's where
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the communication is going on -- where the public opinion is going to be
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effected. That's were education is going to take place.
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Any of you who attended the Rutgers Convention last spring will remember
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the seminar called Media, Modem, and Music put on by Abbie Hoffman, Marc
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Greenberg, and Little Steven. They dealt with a revolution in the music
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industry, (and moreso the WHOLE media industry) saying a major change was
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on its way. These quotes, and many others in last month's SPIN just grabbed
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my attention, and made me think that change might be already powerfully on
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its way. (especially if you heard any of Traci Chapman's other (pronounced
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"not played on the radio statons")) songs.
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At any rate, I didnt mean for this article to make sense as a whole. It
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was more or less a collage, of musical stuff that might get you grabbin' your
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acoustic; or hopefully your million watt marshall stack.
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"'cause this shit has GOT to get out."
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s/ prime.
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