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Sometimes it feels like the world works at a glacial pace and I’m just this hummingbird buzzin around. I had heard of this recording and it’s astounding to finally hear it. Some of the bands earliest jams that I snuck onto the Anthem DVD appear in all their lofi splendor. Circa late 92. Oh, and a Kiss cover. Thanks to Paulie for digging it up and jason for transferring.

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Found in storage last weekend. Harvey Milk press kit I made probably in 1993? This was my ill-fated attempt to be a booking agent. I had booked a Harvey Milk and Jack’o’Nuts mini Southeast tour in Dec. 1993, then went and stayed and surfed in St. Croix for about a month. When I returned after my birthday in January, I talked to Laura Carter, who told me she no longer wanted to do the tour, which was understandable. I guess I salvaged a couple Milk dates and they probably booked some of their own. They played the first show of tour in Atlanta and then stayed with me in Virginia Highlands. When they got up to leave to start tour the next morning, they went outside to their van and somebody had broken in and stolen all their stuff. They had to cancel their tour and I felt miserable. At the time I was working a full time job in Master Control, dj’ing a club until 4am on Thursday thru Saturday, freelancing at WSB TV news, going back to grad school at UGA (79 miles away) three days a week, booking shows, dating girls, and going on surf trips— so a recipe for disaster; and I didn’t have time to play phone tag and games with booking agents in clubs in other cities. It had been much easier helping Ian set up Southeast tours for Fugazi, because you would call a venue to hold the date and say the show had to be all ages, $5 door, with a door split, just clear white lights on stage, etc. Easy breezy. The Fugazi Masquerade show in 1991? had been the most paying customers ever at that venue ( the Ramones had more people but they had a massive guest list). The Exit Inn owner told me he did not think Fugazi would draw enough people. So many people showed up, that the Fire Marshal shut the club down. Oh yeah, Harvey Milk were amazing. #harveymilk (Also I wasn’t charging bands any money for my help)

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Among the countless Harvey Milk recordings I’ve accumulated over the years is a spotless recording of the band performing on Atlanta radio stalwart WREK 91.1 over at Georgia Tech in 1994. By this point the band had been kicking around the club circuit for barely two years. Two freakin’ years. Harvey Milk drove into Atlanta from Athens on a weeknight to perform their mystifying Southern Gothic dirge for the weirdos that religiously tune in to hear the vanguard of Georgia music on the Tech airwaves.
All these years later, I listen back to this recording and sit in sheer awe of what a fully formed, self-actualized, and succinct powerhouse Harvey Milk had become so quickly after their beginning not two years prior. While the band’s albums are unassailably well conceived and airtight, their live performances of the era leaned more on the material that lurked on their many seven-inch releases that sat dormant on local record shelves until the world outside of Georgia caught on, leading the locals to finally take stock of this puzzling and extremely righteous band. Taut megajams like “Probolcoc/Jim’s Polish,” “Yer Mouse Gets My Dander Up,” and “Women Dig It” were merely tucked away in singles bins while their full-length masterpieces had yet to find their fans across the globe. Nary a hair out of place.
Sitting on my patio during an extended layover a couple of years back, Tanner said, “Anything you ever want to put out by me, Creston, and Paulie is fair game.” Enter WhaRvEy milK. Originally engineered by Joe Whitaker with his legion of assistants at WREK and perfectly sweetened by Jason NeSmith, this release shows not just a band at the height of their powers but a band on the balls of their ass. No recognition. No cult of devoted superfans. Not yet. Just three dweebs becoming the astonishment we now know them to be.
Sleeve photography by the always amazing Hillery Terenzi. Set list drawn by Tanner. Each copy comes with one of four repro flyers from the band's shows around Athens and Atlanta during this time. All the other thankless slop done by yours truly because why the heck not. Dedicated with love to Doug Ahern.

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“catching up with” Two Hours In Tongues on @eastvillageradio - here’s the August 8 episode, comprised entirely of requests transmitted telepathically, received and decoded with the aid of a parisienne scoop(or “witch’s melon-baller”), and delicately dumped into the bubbling cauldron of freeform broadcasting. Summer isn’t over, so why is everyone cackling?

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Pran Nath raaga asavaria
La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela The Tortoise, His Dreams and Journeys
Persona Introducão
Persona Monte
Danzig Sistinas
Coil Sex With Sun Ra (Part One - Saturnalia)
Sun Ra with Pharoah Sanders & Black Harold The Voice of Pan
Leonard Cohen One of Us Cannot Be Wrong
Harvey Milk One of Us Cannot Be Wrong
Psychic TV The Orchids
Prizehog paradiggum (low-frequency extended SGG version)
Folk Implosion Simean Groove
Submissions Sunken
Jandek Glasgow Monday (The Cell) part three
Les Rallizes Dénudés Tales of Cruel Love
Depeche Mode Any Second Now
Alice Coltrane Africa part one

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$🌊 ⚫️ 🏮 ⚫️ 🪞 🌊 🛶 @fractured_like_polvo, “Lantern,” Shapes. Polvo means “Dust” en español. ⏺️by Bob Weston in Chicago, Raleigh & Kernersville, NC Mixed: Fidelitorium, Kernersville Released on @touchandgorecords on Tuesday 23 Sep 97 🏃‍♂️⏳: 50:04 🎶 Why do you take life so slow Imaginary shadow I saw a light like a mirror And I chased it all the way back to shore The tide is drawing me nearer And the boat is just an amber set door I saw the lantern on a moving lake I had to stay and wait 🎶 “Shapes is gr8💿that takes liberties w/🤘. They combine fuzzed-out blasts ala🔵Cheer w/ quasi-psych twanging/droning.🐝ing trippy🤘dogs, unsuspecting👂er is liable2️⃣🐝derailed & needs debriefing from fan🐝4️⃣feeling safe around instrumental🤘💿s again. Band shared stage w/ Sonic Youth. There’s similarities but Polvo more consistent/turns tighter corners. Does that make them better? Polvo will🐝👀on as1️⃣of better bands of 90s.” —Tom Schulte, AllMusic A1 Enemy🐞🐞 6:13 A2 Fighting🪁🪁 1:31 A3 🪨Post🪨 4:11 A4 Golden🪜 3:04 A5 Downtown Dedication 🎺Spott 3:39 A6 Pulchritude 1:46 A7 Twenty⚪️Tents 5:14 B1 Everything N🔥🔥! 3:28 B2 D.D. (S.R.) 4:54 B3 El Rocío 12:41 B4 🏮 3:21 © Polvo 1997 © & ℗ T&G Made in Canada Phonographic © ℗ T&G © T&G © Polvo Mixed: Fidelitorium Mastered: Record Technology Inc – 1710 Pressed: Europadisk 🥁Brian Walsby (A3, A7-B3) Lacquer Cut/Mastered: DG Performer: Polvo Back Photo: Iam Williams Issued w/ 11” x 11” b&w insert, printed on 1 side only (credits, pics). ‘thanks to brian paulson, steve albini & mitch easter for equipment rentals’ & also thanks to a lot of others: family, friends, labels...’ #polvo #lantern #shapes #bobweston #fidelitorium #kernersville #touchandgorecords #polvoband #mergerecords #touchandgo #merge #ashbowie #davebrylawski #stevepopson #brianwalsby #eddiewatkins #brianquast #stevealbini #ashleyhideyobowie #robertwestoniv #chapelhill #northcarolina #nc #unwoundband #sonicyouth #juneof44 #brianpaulson #unwound #shellacband #shellac$

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