From thatcat Sent Sat, Sep 12th 1998, 04:49
From thatcat Sent Sat, Sep 12th 1998, 04:49
On 09/09/98 19:13:38 you wrote: > >Somebody fill in the rest, but the quick story - he's partially responsible >for a big push for industrial/ambient/electronic music in the late 70's. He >was the backbone of Throbbing Gristle (along with Cosey Fanni Tutti and >Chris Carter, not to mention Peter Christopherson [Coil]), which played some >of the earliest ambient/noise concerts in 1981 to a completely unsuspecting >audience; tg were pretty much broken up by '81....their earliest stuff was around 76-78... >worked with Cabaret Voltaire in the beginning (Chris & Cosey >formed out of this, more or less) out of tg, yes, but not cv.... ; started (?) Psychic TV (and the Temple of >Psychic Youth? Anyone?) which hosted some of the earliest "acid house" >parties, from which one could conceivably link rave culture; psychic tv def. had an acid house period, but they had nothing to do with the creation of acid house...although they did have a unique style of acid house which i suppose some bands may have ripped off later...(i think mr. mc dowall was bitching about someone else commenting that ptv started acid house???) > and continues >to work with modern industrial bands and such, especially Pigface. >An essential figure in the push away from the guitar in the late 70's considering that guitar and bass were tg's primary instruments at the start of their career, i wouldn't say this was entirely accurate...it was definitely set apart from (and predated) the punk movement, but tg weren't anti-guitar to any degree... >Contributions? Massive. agreed there, but genesis had no more contributions than any of the other members of tg to current idm...in fact chris and cosey and especially peter christopherson (coil) had much more influence on idm than psychic tv...a good lot of idm musicians cite coil (especially that black light district album) as an influence.... np: the cure "m" "a dream is worth a thousand pictures, the mouths of lampreys a thousand more..."