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THE USELESS POST OF ROCK LISTS!

In case anybody out there wonders what today is the twenty-seventh anniversary of, it's that of the 1979 Kent Creative Arts Festival (taking place at where-else-but Kent State University in Ohio!) which, besides featuring a headlining Daevid Allen and (New York) Gong doing the entire Radio Gnome Trilogy also had Gilli Smyth and Mother Gong, a pre-Material Zu Band, euro tenorman Yo'cho Seffer (hope I got the name right!), Giorgio Gromelsky, longtime Cleveland progressive snoozers Orb, Tin Huey and (subbing for a couldn't make it William Burroughs) the Styrenes who evidently made the biggest impression on me that day. And if you think it was a hard-enough fact for me to cram down my throat that is was TEN years since that fateful day back inna spring o' '89, just think how old and crotchety I feel about this very same fact TODAY!!!

Anyway, since I don't have anything particularly witty or off-the-cuff to say I thought I'd pull a Dave Marsh on you and just fling a list of the tops-in-pops getting a spin here at BLOG TO COMM central these past few days. Remember when there'd be some letter sent to the fine folks at THE NEW YORK ROCKER and often-or-not there would be some guy (usually a hardcore aficionado) who just hadda end his note with a list of his top faves for the day? Or maybe you remember the old FUTURE fanzine where Greg Prevost would do the exact same thing mixing up the British Invasion with krautrock and some of the six-oh garage squall that would eventually overtake the young ruffian. Well, consider this a continuum on this theme of old which not only gives one insight into the inner workings and mindset of the blogger who refuses to die!, but it also make for a good SPACE FILLER, dontcha think???

(....in no particular order....)

DG-307-HYSTORIE/HYSTERIE 2-CD set (Guerilla)

Luther Thomas et. al.-THE RAP CD-R (No Label)

NOISETET OBSCURE CD (artists' label)

MARZETTE WATTS CD (ZYX/ESP Germany)

Cecil Taylor-NEFERTITI, THE BEAUTIFUL ONE HAS COME 2-CD set (Revenant)

CHARLES TYLER ENSEMBLE; Charles Tyler-EASTERN MAN ALONE CDs (both ZYX/ESP Germany)

Chinaboise-THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD CD (Gulcher) (in memorium Dave Mahoney)

The Modern Lovers-SONGS OF REMEMBRANCE CD-R (Punk Vault)

(Ronald) Shannon Jackson and the Decoding Society-STREET PRIEST CD (Moers Music Germany)

Phillip Glass-NORTH STAR CD (Virgin)

Roxy Music-FOR YOUR PLEASURE CD (Virgin)

Howzat? Kinda reflects a nice li'l seventies niche that I've settled into which I sure think's a lot sweller'n all of those eighties/nineties niches we see nowadays. Next time I'll post something real...