Big Black was from Chicago / Evanston, Illinois, and consisted of Steve Albini, Dave Riley, Santiago Durango, and Roland [drums]. Steve and a few others from Scratch Acid formed Rapeman, another favorite of mine, also on Touch & Go. Then he started producing other people... Breeders being one of the biggest acts. He still does his band, Shellac, now.
Pretty sure they were one of the first pseudo-"punk" bands to be touring with just a drum machine. Dave was a member of Mojo's "Midnight Funk Association"; I never knew what the hell that was until years and years later, having bought Atomizer first, on cassette, in 1987 at age 14. Perhaps I subconsciously drew interest from the card into Electrifyin' Mojo > Detroit? My interest, aside from Motown, only developed as the 808 State + Biorhythms comps started floating across the water. doh! +odd -- At 9:14 AM +0000 07.01.2003, Robert Taylor wrote: > I second Big Black - weren't they from Detroit? This may be an extremely > tenuous 313-link but doesn't the cover have a matchbook or a membership card > or something (sorry, I haven't seen it in years) depicting the Electrifying > Mojo's radio show? > Re: Hall and Oates - I always preferred Maneater! -- Todd Sines icq: 11117580 SCALE:form | image | sound http://www.scalestudio.com
