Favourite SST Release of... 1985

they sound like a country version of straitjacket fits or something

Meat Puppets got stuck with Lightning Strikes at Klub Foot and what appear to be a couple of little known indie bands. Hard Rain and Kingfisher Catch Fire,
IU think Lightning Strikes were an identikit punk band verging on metal.

Marquee wound up with them getting a generic metal band called something like Headmistress.

I'll probably find out taht all of thsoe bands were stepping stones for further longterm musical careers or not as the case may be.

Tear gas thing was indeed crazy, all of audience had to be filed out of the venue. Apparently McGee chased teh girl who let off the cannister halfway across the neighborhood. Then he lost her. I know I heard more of the story than I was aware of at the time later on. But not sure f that was a public source or something said to me.
Primal Scream were just going into a Detroit hard rock thing that I don't think suited them taht brilliantly. I don't think Gillespie has a very strong voice though I do enjoy what they were doing with sound a decade later, but that could be the players and sound manipulation as much. I think he may know a lot about music but not one of my favourite frontmen.
I think guitarist at the time left shortly after and formed Spirea X.

i hope that mcgee was chasing the girl to offer her a contract, cos that is way more rock'n'roll than some of the shite he put out on creation

Spot must have really pissed off Husker Du during the making of New Day Rising

I remember talk about Flaming Lips playing in Camden around the time of the Meat puppets debut at that debut. Not sure if that was a debut and not sure if they made it back to London for a long while after. I missed the gig and think I only just saw them for the first time last year.

Marquee wound up with them getting a generic metal band called something like Headmistress.

Getting a little off-topic here but the Meat Puppets support at the Marquee were Headmaster, a vile Van Halen/Benatar ripoff who as I recall it attempted a singalong in their last song ("Oh yeah!") to the deafening sound of (tumblin') tumbleweeds. Excruciating! That's what you'd get at that stupid venue back then though for support acts.

Did anyone ever actually see Zoogz Rift play?

the kids said rock!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIQcPERpcQI

haha thats awful, but at the same time its made me very nostalgic. purest essence of marquee rawk

I remember a terrible glam metal band called the Dirt Merchants opening for Pussy Galore in L.A. in 1989. Similar sort of "who's available to play on Monday night?" feeling.

if you play in a local band you get stuck on all kinds of weird bills

at that point in LA it was probably "who's willing to pay the most to open for Pussy Galore"

I absolutely fucking love "Love Dissolves" on that Angst album and hope one day to like more of it

I kind of think YES, cos I think we need a definitive answer on the Jambang vs Mojack question.

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u&k q imo

Did anyone ever actually see Zoogz Rift play?

I was at this show, but don't remember a thing about ZR

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I would not have imagined ZR played out a lot.

Full disclosure I listened to Island of Living Puke about a hundred times in the late 80s

Full disclosure I wore the grooves clean on Always August "Largeness With (W)holes" in 1987 or so