The band's former drummer, Hugo Burnham, is an Associate Professor at the New England Institute of Art in Boston, and an adjunct faculty member at Endicott College in Beverly, Massachusetts.
Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant
---------- Original Message ---------- From: Alan Rudy <alan.rudy at gmail.com> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Gang of Four updates Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 10:28:24 -0400
I really really loved Entertainment and skipped the needle to the end - to Anthrax - so often I almost wore the track out... and did wear some of my welcome out with dormmates... ahhhhh, controoolllllled ffeeeeeeeeedbbbbaaaaaaaaakk.
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> [The Gang of Four is trying to raise some money for some charities -
> Amnesty International and Plan International (which promotes "child rights,"
> whatever that means) - via the release of its new album. If you pledge, you
> get periodic updates. Here's the latest, which is more interesting than
> most.]
>
> Hello from Pledge Music here in London,
>
> Gang Of Four has posted 4 new updates for "New Album - 'Content'":
>
>
> "A Love Like Anthrax original lyrics" from Jon (4):
>
> [ “You know, I know I’m exploiting you, but I’m not doing it on purpose”]
>
>
> I first saw this in 1970, reproduced in an academic book I’d found called
> “The Action-Image of Society”. The book, pretty dry, had photographs of
> street art alongside interviews with the student radicals who’d had such a
> great time making revolution, making love, lobbing pave at fascist riot cops
> and being totally unreasonable ( “Demand the Impossible!” ) . Yes!
>
> To the 15 year old I then was - and the ruin I am now - what’s not to like?
> Situationism was exciting, relevant, sharp. 7 years on , the first signature
> Gang of Four tune turned out to be Anthrax: where the meaning was contingent
> on circumstances, improvised and different every time. It still excites me
> because it’s never the same.
>
> By then, we were worn out of genre, finally serious about the music having
> learned what it meant be on a stage and had had the luxury of being
> completely ignored by the music biz. We could do what we liked. But the
> wheels of oppression turn slowly...
>
>
>
> [“ Things are getting back to normal”]
>
> This update includes 1 image.
>
> http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/gangoffour/updates/972
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
> "A Love Like Anthrax original lyrics" from Jon (3):
>
> Godard’s film was of a piece with the détournement street-art that popped
> up all over Paris during the ‘68 attempt at revolution in France. Like this
> poster, which carried a new augmented message:
>
>
>
> This update includes 1 image.
>
> http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/gangoffour/updates/973
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
> "A Love Like Anthrax original lyrics" from Jon (2):
>
> Gill & I wrote the song structure down on paper without playing anything,
> like this:
>
> 1/ guitar feedback solo 2/ Heavy drums & bass kick in with repetitive riff
> that never changes 3/ guitar drops out, Andy & Jon vocals battle it out- JK
> to sing a set of words and Gill to improvise about whatever he is thinking
> about 4/ Feedback again 5/ guitar drops out, more battling vocals. 6/ Bass
> and drums to end.
>
> It was enough to take into a rehearsal room and Hugo & dave could be relied
> on to deliver a massive rhythm section, funky and brutal, like Can on
> Tetley’s.
>
> The vocal parts were inspired by Jean Luc Godard’s movies, which we saw a
> lot of . I loved , in particular, the brilliant “ Numero Deux” ( Number Two)
> , which used a split screen technique in which you saw a scene from 2
> different points of view and where sometimes there were noises off
> commentaries on what was going on.
>
> Going on, this also inspired the inner sleeve art in Entertainment!
>
>
>
> This update includes 1 image.
>
> http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/gangoffour/updates/975
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
> "A Love Like Anthrax original lyrics" from Jon (1):
>
> Going through a box in the attic, I found ,among the kibble, the original
> lyrics to Anthrax from 1977. Here they are. I’d forgotten about the
> additional verses. They’re not very good. .
>
> This update includes 1 image.
>
> http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/gangoffour/updates/976
>
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