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Article from Making Music, August 1987 |
The Surgeon Of Suss has had his critical scalpel out again. Join him in the Operating Theatre Of The Absurd by sending your samples (of dodgy writing, that is) to: The Registrar, Making Music, (Contact Details).
"In Guitar Craft we say, there are no mistakes. That is, there are no mistakes save one: the failure to learn from mistakes."
— Robert Fripp selling guitar lessons, Guitarist
"The plaintive cries of 'Lips Like Sugar' project 'Crocodiles' onto the windscreen with verses coated with saccharine and spiked with ball bearings and ecstasy..."
— that Ted Mico reviewing the new Bunnymen LP, Melody Maker
"Britians (sic) Only (sic) Free Musicians Monthly Magazine"
— cover line on 'Note This', an Ilkeston-based rag
"Playing fast is just like playing slow — except that you're doing it faster."
— bassist Brian Bromberg, US Guitar Player (from An Anonymous Reader)
"'Cuckoo' consists of a series of manipulations of a few basic types of furniture — chairs, wardrobes, small tables, standard lamps and carpets in which multiples are arranged and rearranged to create a drama of fluctuating emotions and ideas."
— Riverside Theatre monthly newsletter
...one of the best slices of Death to emerge from Sweden."
— Gung-Ho review, Kerrang!
"The neo-psychedelic axman's wild signal chain chemistry stretches the limits of the Steinberger as a manipulative joystick."
— David Torn picture caption, US Guitar World
"Muscle-glam grease-rock, lipstick junkie glittergods."
— Kerrang!'s appraisal of Faster Pussycat
"... the classic sheep-exploding-in-the-distance Simmons sound..."
— Nick Rowland eulogises electronic toms, Rhythm
"'Scale' contains the hexadecimal ASCII representations of the chromatic scale for use in decoding the transposition function value..."
— Honeybone speaking technically, Making Music
"...the laminates with thinning hair suddenly realise the bank may suffer from chronic vertigo and will be unable to appear."
— Ted Mica on the roof without Echo & The Bunnymen, Melody Maker
"On stage is a lower intestine bursting with waste..."
— Suicidal Tendencies reviewed by Push, Melody Maker
"This thing called Loop, a glistening pink missing link, kissing mink and pissing zinc, is very capable of mediocrity."
— Chris Roberts warming up to his Loop interview, Melody Maker
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