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The Best Show on WFMU => Show Discussion => Topic started by: Alexander on July 22, 2008, 11:08:02 PM
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Some time ago, Tom kept mentioning a Tom Hazelmeyer interview he was going to read/critique on the air. Did that ever happen?
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I was recently listening to those archives. I don't think he ever did.
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Some time ago, Tom kept mentioning a Tom Hazelmeyer interview he was going to read/critique on the air. Did that ever happen?
Tom teased this for a couple of weeks before officially abandoning it on the 4/11/06 show, saying that the world needs more people being for stuff, not against stuff. I think this was the interview in question:
http://www.markprindle.com/hazelmyer-i.htm
A couple of months before this Tom also considered doing an AmRep retrospective to illuminate the catalog's failure to age well. I hope he eventually gets around to dissecting the Guzzard discography.
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I don't think there's much to prove to that end. The catalog aged because it abruptly ceased. I have a hard time imaging that bands like Guzzard were ever under any illusion that what they were doing was timeless.
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The AmRep stuff that stood up then for me -- Lubricated Goat, Hammerhead, Halo of Flies -- stands up now for me, but the stuff that didn't still doesn't.
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Definitely agree TK. Some of that stuff I might never entirely stop listening to. I'll probably wind up the crazy old man in the retirement home who still occasionally tosses in Hammerhead.
I think it's safe to consider myself as having been a pretty big AmRep guy and even I really only got into about half of the roster. But that's a fair enough ratio for any record label, honestly. If it weren't for AmRep I might have never fully developed my taste for punk rock at all. Would have chalked up as over and left it at that.
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http://www.emusic.com/lists/showlist.html?lid=16541608
The AmRep aesthetic is still fairly influential in certain quarters.
http://www.subpop.com/releases/pissed_jeans/full_lengths/hope_for_men
http://www.myspace.com/clockcleaner
http://www.loadrecords.com/
I've heard countless times that Haze is a creep, but I didn't think that Prindle interview was THAT bad. And I'm glad Tom didn't spend his time picking on a crabby old man who's not doing anything newsworthy.
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Of all the subjects to be discussing, this has to be one of the most arcane!
However, now I really would like to hear Tom's thoughts on this half-assed, aged interview with the nearly forgotten former owner of a noise rock label in Minneapolis! I was a big Lubricated Goat fan, but have to concur that there can't be more than 8 titles in that entire catalog anyone could want to hear now.
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Load is pretty much the new AmRep. That much was clear the first time I heard Sightings' "Two Thoughts" (on WFMU).
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Here is Tom's full explanation on the old board:
http://www.friendsoftom.com/newboard/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=asktom;action=display;num=1144940414
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Thanks Omar - we can put this one to bed!
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I'm pretty forgiving of any notion of Hazelmeyer as "cranky old punk" since it really only seems fitting. Though I do also think there's probably some room to tease him a little about it too. Not like the guy couldn't take it. ;)