BOC: Meltzer and BOC in Boston stuff

[Bolts of Ungodly Vision]

Curiouser and curiouser...
I think if there was ever a top 10 list for _WEIRD_ weeks for the list,
this and the last one would have to be tops.  It's been more intense than
the weekend of the Tshirt design deluge waaaay back when to say the least.
Some comments:

12. About the lyrics for the Oyster Boys- In one of the interviews out
there w/Albert or somebody else (buck perhaps?), it was said that the BOC
used to carry around "sheaves(or is that sheafs?) of lyrics" to set to
music that were thought to be of cool quality.

4. On Meltzer, Oyster Cults and Bears, oh my! --
What really interests me after running the SFG stuff a few times in the
weekend while deleting a heck of a lot of email :), is the really drastic
transition that the group did undergo from St. Cecila, for example, to 7
Screaming Diz-busters (a la OYF).  The shift in song construction (and
group dynamics too I suppose)is really quite staggering. IF SFG could have
made it as psychadelic people/warlords, Buck's style would probably be very
differnt fer one. The mind wobbles gently in the cranium...  For me, at
least, that's been one of my top 3 burning questions. I don't remember the
other two, but that isn't important.

>Yeah, maybe it's just because I got to see them live again last week,
>and I don't want anyone pissing on my good time...
That's why one should always wear a raincoat and bring an umbrella :)
(stupid comment, but true)

>I realized afterward that there had been no previous
>discussion on BOC-L about this article (in fact most of BOC-L probably
>didn't know about it), so my initial "Meltzer is a Dick" comment must
>have been surprising.  Guess I just thought everyone who didn't know
>what I was referring to would assume that "Dick" was slang for
>"Richard"...  :-)
Or a private eye. ... So in the end, yu did the list a service by bringing
the
Meltzer thing to our attention. You go John! heh.

>My interpretation was, and still is, that it WAS a gig review.  Of
>course, I don't know exactly what kind of magazine "Rocket" is...
A friend of mine who is fond of and familiar with Portland says its a
weekly magazine much like the local rags full of music reviews, concert
listings, obscure news articles and things like that.  I thought it was a
gig review too, but what makes it weird to read for us I think is the
historical embedding of Meltzer into the whole BOC phenom.  If "Joe q.
Twentysomething" had submitted an account of the same show, god knows it
would be drastically different. Melter was definately confronting something
in revisiting the music he helped spawn. His comments about the music I
thought were interesting in regardsto ME 262's near impossible line
"blasting all 4m quinjets in my snout"   -- (I'm probably a little wrong in
typing it here, since I lent the lyric book from Bolle's organization to a
potential convert).

Not as good as good old Joe,
Jason

(PS-  I think my "new" sig line is strangely appropriate to the list. Let's
all go drink some cappucinos and call it a night.)
"I'm in a FOUL mood today. Stay outa my way or I'll CRITIQUE YOUR ASS to
hell. Just ME,just YOU...a decent song. You wanna see THEM, see THEM. I
don't give a shit." -  Richard Meltzer