“COMMAND PERFORMANCE” -THE ARTHUR MAILING LIST BULLETIN
NUMBER 23
AUGUST 23, 2005
Hello you,
1. ARTHURFEST — SEPT. 4-5 IN LOS ANGELES — NEWS/ALERT/CAUTION.
If you haven’t got tix for the festival yet, don’t dawdle and be left outside. Barnsdall Park is a small outdoor/indoor venue with a capacity of just 2,000. The LATimes, LAWeekly, KTLA Channel 5 (?!) and other major local TV/radio/newsprint media outlets are all doing major features on ArthurFest in the days just prior to the big event. ArthurFest will sell out. If you’re planning on showing up on the day of the show, you might not get in. And we wouldn’t want that.
We are selling tickets online thru Ticketweb, which charges much lower handling fees than Ticketmaster. Right now, for a limited time, we are offering a $10 discount on the ArthurFest Two-Day Pass to Arthur Mailing List Bulletin members. Take us up on this offer before they’re gone.
Go to
http://www.ticketweb.com/user/?region=socal&query=detail&event=611985&interface=
For the type of ticket, choose: 2 DAY PASS (PROMOTION)
For promotion code, enter: ROGER
The discount price is $65 (instead of $75) for a two-day pass. Sorry, there are no discounts on the one-day tickets, which go for $40.
Of course, the ** cheapest ** way to buy tickets is IN PERSON at one of the following fine record stores in Southern California: Amoeba Music (Hollywood), Aron’s Records (Hollywood), Benway Records (Venice), The Brat Store (Santa Monica), Fingerprints (Long Beach) and Sea Level Records (Echo Park). Addresses/phone numbers are for these stores are available at arthurmag.com
2. NEW ARTHUR OUT THIS WEEK/END.
It’s our “Border Crossing” issue… at least that’s the loose them… look for the striking cover illustration by PAUL POPE…. inside:
* John Payne visits with a true master: JON HASSELL, composer, trumpeter and visionary theorist-enacter of a sensual new kind of music. Plus, a beginner’s guide to Hassell by John Adamian, and a provocative new essay by Hassell himself. Photography by W. T. Nelson.
* Stricken by skin cancer, David Reeves journeyed to IQUITOS, PERU. There, he found witchdoctors, ayahuasca, deluded gringos, fears of American ‘facepeelers,’ the legacy of the CIA, the boat from Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo, a shantytown built on water and more. Photography by Simon Lund.
* Could it be that SERIAL MONOGAMY is at the root of all of our civilization’s problems? Columnist DANIEL PINCHBECK is on the case.
* Swedish psych-pop wunderperson DUNGEN and Earth’s finest living crooner RICHARD HAWLEY get to work in their respective kitchens.
* Arthur assembles its knights for a Round Table discussion on the gems worth checking out in THE GRATEFUL DEAD’s vast catalog. Up for the task are members of Animal Collective, Comets On Fire, Brightblack Morning Light and the Duna Records braintrust as well as Barry Smolin, Erik Davis, Michael Simmons, The Seth Man and Daniel Chamberlin.
* ALAN BISHOP of Sun City Girls speaks with Brandon Stosuy about terrorism, travel, clueless Americans and curating the cut-up world music collages of his Sublime Frequencies label.
* Oliver Hall encounters AFRIRAMPO, Osaka’s number one freedom paradise rock duo in downtown Los Angeles. Photography by W.T. Nelson.
* New full-page comics by Keith Jones (“Bacter-Area”), Vanessa Davis (“Preparation Information”), Chris Wright (“Letter to Rachel”) and David Lasky (“Diary of a Bread Delivery Man”).
* New artwork by John Lurie, Able Brown and Dennis Culver.
* After a controversial sabbatical, 85-year-old bluesman T-MODEL FORD returns to the counselor’s desk.
* Columnist DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF wonders if some techniques of persuasion are so inherently wrong that they should never be used, no matter how noble the purpose.
* “Bull Tongue” columnists BYRON COLEY & THURSTON MOORE review the latest emanations from the underground, including new stuff from Picks & Lighters, Zaika, The Friday Group, Christina Carter/Andrew MacGregor, My Cat Is an Alien, Sun Ra: The Immeasurable Equation book, Richard Youngs, Andrew Paine, Alexander Neilson, Trinie Dalton, Vee Dee, Karate Party, Human Eye, Klyd Watkins, Charles Potts, Ex-Cocaine, Wayne Rogers, Marco Fursinato, Paul Metzger, Paper Rodeo mag, Roktop mag, Modern Arf mag, Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, Leprechaun Gathering, Whysp, French Sex Murders dvd, Dangerous Seductress dvd, Lady Terminator dvd, Samara Lubelski, Bummer Road, Nemo Bidstrup, Dream Magazine, zine, Prague Literary Review, La Societe des Timides a la Parade des Oiseaux, Legendary Pink Dots, Ka-Spel, Current 93, Kemialliset Ystavat, Maniacs Dream and Paul Flaherty/Chris Corsano.
* C & D come to important understandings about new audio and video recordings, including new makings from Ween, Shel Silverstein, Devendra Banhart, Silver Jews, Sinead O’Connor, Terry Reid, The 88, Flamin Groovies, The Time Flys, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Chris Cunningham, Bjork, Birds (feat. Cotton Casino, ex-Acid Mothers Temple), August Born, Coco Rosie, Modey Lemon, Sonny Sharrock and Earthless, plus a quick look at the Dick Cavett Rock Icons DVD set featuring Sly & the Family Stone, David Bowie and Janis Joplin.
3. “Bread, Beard & Bear’s Prayers” CD EXPERIENCES PRODUCTION HICCUPS
A long time ago, Ethan Miller of Comets On Fire gathered 13 gnarly tunes from high and low, and lower still: bloody nose street folk, dangerous shit rock, drunken cosmic slop and some true goneria. We speak here of Albert Ayler, Monoshock, Colossal Yes, Ghost, Electric Six Organs of Admittance, Michael Yonkers, Shit Spangled Banner, Brother JT, Joshua, 7 Year Rabbit Cycle, August Born (Six Organs and L), Dark Inside the Sun and Comets on Fire. Then Ethan got the idea to have each sleeve silk-screened, with a booklet bound in by hand. Well, this takes time, more time than any of us realized. So far we’ve gone through 150-plus out of the 500 that Ethan’s sent us. All orders will eventually be filled, hopefully on the sooner side, so…all orders through last week have been filled, and any orders since then will be filled as soon as possible. Trust us, for 12 bucks American and some patience, you will be rewarded with a one-of-a-kind (okay, one of 500) object that you will treasure. Again we apologize for any delays and headaches and heartyearnings this delay may have cause you. And that’s the double truth, Ruth.
We love you all and there’s nothing you can do about it,
ArthurFest Preparation Committee
Los Angeles, California
Arthur Magazine 