ROCK 'N' ROLL NEWS
Our Beer Desk reports that an ingenious series of ads promoting their longtime faves, the Replacements, recently appeared in what they call the "tip sheets” of this, the music industry. Seeing that the Mats are this month’s CREEM profile, and that the aforementioned ads bear a passing resemblance to that hallowed institution, Rock ’n’ Roll News is happy to reprint the tip sheet stuff for its sheer historicity, and other great reasons.
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ROCK 'N' ROLL NEWS
RUMORS KEEP ON SPREADING
Our Beer Desk reports that an ingenious series of ads promoting their longtime faves, the Replacements, recently appeared in what they call the "tip sheets” of this, the music industry. Seeing that the Mats are this month’s CREEM profile, and that the aforementioned ads bear a passing resemblance to that hallowed institution, Rock ’n’ Roll News is happy to reprint the tip sheet stuff for its sheer historicity, and other great reasons.
The Eurythmics are being sued by their former record label, Transatlantic, for alleged unpaid royalties. Those must be from their alleged records purchased by alleged people. . . Michael Jackson, who releases albums with reckless abandon, is slated to perform at the Hong Kong Coliseum in midOctober; ticket prices “won’t exceed $85,” according to promoters. .. Photographer Robert Farber is completing a book called By The Sea, due out in October—it will feature 60 pix of star-type people along with their "comment on what feeling or mood the sea evokes from them.” Among the many featured are James Brown, Yoko Ono, the Bangles, Peter, Paul & Mary, Dick Clark, Chaka Khan and others we’re too tired to mention; frankly, it looks like a James Brown/Yoko Ono haiku battle to this Bureau.
PAUL WESTERBERG
HOME: FAR AWAY
AGE. UNDECIDED
PROFESSION: CAD
HOBBIES: KITE FLYING
LAST BOOK READ: YELLOW PAGES
FAVORITE ACCOMPLISHMENT: ORGASM
FAVORITE PLACE PLAYED: UNCLE’S WEDDING
ARREST RECORD: A LOT
TOMBSTONE QUOTE: LOUSE LIES HERE
FAVORITE REPLACEMENTS SONG: LE LEDGE
WHY DON’T YOU GET A HAIRCUT, SISTER?
TOMMY STINSON
HOME. IN TRANSIT
AGE: MANY
PROFESSION: GEEK
HOBBIES. ASKING DIRECTIONS
LAST BOOK READ: YES I CAN
FAVORITE ACCOMPLISHMENT: MILKING SNAKES
FAVORITE PLACE PLAYED: OUTSIDE
ARREST RECORD: MOSTLY FELONIES
TOMBSTONE QUOTE: MY, I’M COLD
FAVORITE REPLACEMENTS SONG: YO, LEDGE
SPEWING DIRTY LIES
HOME: EASY STREET AGE: ASSORTED
PROFESSION: TRASH COLLECTOR
HOBBIES: SUING
LAST BOOK READ: HEIDI
FAVORITE ACCOMPLISHMENT: INCITING A RIOT
FAVORITE PLACE PLAYED: TOMMY’S HOUSE
ARREST RECORD: DOING TIME
TOMBSTONE QUOTE: ALL DONE
FAVORITE REPLACEMENTS SONG: DA LEDGE
On Friday, September 11, MTV will announce the winners of something called the ”1987 Video Music Awards.” Sadly, that date coincides with the stern Biblical injunction to wash your hair several times in the evening...
Nikki Sixx, bassist/lyricist/ tuff guy of Motley Crue and Vanity are engaged. To be married. Bully. In other romantic doin’s, Margot Kidder and Nick Lowe have been seen hanging out in N.Y. of late. R ’n’ R News must ask, Margot: Do you want a man of steel—or do you want a man that’s real?
Speaking of quite reasonable concert rates, as we were earlier in that Mike Jackson item, we understand that ticket scalpers in Tokyo were getting $700 per ticket for the opening date of Madonna’s tour. Good.
And speaking of Mike Jackson, as we seem to be doing with Replacements-like regularity this month, we note that his brother, Marlon, has left the Jacksons, who used to be a band before everybody left them. Marlon has signed to Capitol, where his self-produced LP on which he plays all the instruments should be out momentarily.
It’ll be one of those new musical paths things.
Speaking of Capitol Records, they had a monkey—yepper, a simian—deliver copies of Heart’s Bad Animals LP to radio stations in Los Angeles. This Bureau refuses to enter the evolution vs. creationism fray.
And, speaking of evolution, Howard Jones had his dream, such as it is, come true earlier this summer when he played Madison Square Garden. Most noteworthy was Jones’s manager, David Stopps’s, offer to buy a drink for everyone in the Garden. Indeed, ticket stubs were later honored for the same at an establishment called Nowhere. Fortunately, Rock ’n’ Roll News had its usual 6,386 tickets to the concert.
R.E.M. will be touring from October 1 through Thanksgiving in support of their Document album. .. PolyGram plans on issuing a six-record Eric Clapton boxed set next year as a 25th anniversary in the biz retrospective; the set will ostensibly include Yardbirds tracks, Cream outtakes and some stuff from an un released Derek & The
Dominos album. . .and Robbie Robertson, ex of the Band, is due to have a solo album out on Geffen later this year.
In case you haven’t seen it yet, Back To The Beach—the latest Frankie Avalon/Annette Funicello romp—features a soundtrack this Bureau, in its aesthetic grandeur, must recommend. Check out Pee-wee Herman’s version of “Surfin Bird,” then congratulate us on our sheer coolness.
Recently overheard by our He’p Desk was Adam Yauch (MCA) of the Beastie Boys, poolside at Los Angeles’ posh, we believe, Le Mondrian Hotel, saying: “I wanna get out of this.” Incredibly, Adam was referring to his world-famous comedy troupe, not the water.
SHOULD WE GIVE IT UP?
SLIM DUNLAP
HOME: CLUTTERED
I AGE: RETIRED
PROFESSION: EVANGELIST
HOBBIES: EEL SKINNING
LAST BOOK READ: MOBY DICK
FAVORITE ACCOMPLISHMENT: SHINING GUNS
FAVORITE PLACE PLAYED: UNDERGROUND
ARREST RECORD: CLEARED
TOMBSTONE QUOTE: KILL ME IF YOU CAN
FAVORITE REPLACEMENTS SONG: SLIM PREFEF THE LEDGE
