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Re: untolerable news

From: hogge@p.cs.uiuc.edu (John Hogge)
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 87 01:24:19 cst
Subject: Re: untolerable news


>Really-From: nessus (Doug Alan)

>Why shoot Genesis P. Orridge?  His insanity is harmless, isn't it?
>I mean, if he couldn't be out making noise and up on stage piercing
>his penis and uttering Satanic things, he might be out on the street,
>piercing other people's penises, but since that isn't the case, what's
>the problem?

He should be taken out on principle.  Like PTV releasing 23 LP's of live
performances is almost as obnoxious as Tangerine Dream releasing over 20
albums of their synth mersh.  Both bands don't have near enough artistic
strength or diversity to warrant that many releases.  Granted, PTV's releases
will be much more limited and less money than TD's.

>I mean I didn't even want to kill him when I bought Psychic TV's
>limited pressing CD-only live album for $16.95 to find that it's
>full of hum and static and poor frequency response, which is
>probably exactly why G.P. Orridge had it released that way....

I don't know, I thought the sound was reasonable.  Hey, if there weren't any
hum or static, it wouldn't be PTV.

--John