He's Richard Meltzer and we're not.
He's Richard Meltzer and we're not.
This is a page with everything I've been able to link up to and not get bored by - the process of linking isn't as exciting as one would be led to believe - written by Richard Meltzer.
Simply put: I think/feel/gut-instictively-get-the-sense that he writes more humanly about whatever he's writing about than a pen ordinarily endures. Oh yeah...
Despite the summations provided by every John/Jane Q Summarizer,
HE AIN'T GONZO!! Gonzo's a muppet.
With that said,
Enjoy (?)
(Here's some Meltzer-y trivia! The nom de plum under which which all my sundry "pages" are stowed, not to mention my email alias, is derived from is a lyrical snippet of his. The song is "Brain from Terra Incognita" by the The Brain Surgeons.
There's.... oh, I'd say, um... a few
One is verbiage for vocal chords.
An Other is
Scroll down til you see big friendly letters in a familiar name's configuration.
it's related to the above, 'cept by marriage.
ALthough it ceased a few moons back, he had a column that wasn't supporting any arches or angular surfaces, but it was definately load bearing.
I mean that in a good way, you slangophiles. Rhymes With Seltzer
offered his lowdown on things yet-to-be,in the concert sense of the future.
Jim DeRogatis, writing for Horror House on Highway 5. RM's listed in the creds as an actor innit. Meltzer even has an IMDB entry; "His star has arrived!"
Anthologically, here's a point of view from the person responsible for the showings of Meltzer's filmsnot too long ago. Probably just right ago.
365x4 days ago (give/take), Handsome Dick Manitoba and RM found themselves questioned by a pleasant looking interviewer for
Exotic Magazine in July of 2003.
Continuing with shots of prose (not shots to the pros... that would be unethical):
MIXED DRINKS: COOLER THAN CELERY AND CREAM CHEESE? -- That's the question we all ask at some time.
AND....
Another.
Card games, of a kind.
Have you heard of This band, the Star Spangles?... I saw them as the openers for The Soft Boys down in NYC and they got their act together. Not talkin' Ibsen, either. (Though Ibsen's a great playwright.)
Lastly, ere I go (fer honest), an interview with Chris S. of Off Records fame. Go Chris, shake that there music industry till its dentures fall out and break its toes!
For those of you with a hankering for words on things you don't want to buy, may this officially blessed edifice convince you to part with your market-determined currency. (shorthand: Smemga,pollard,meltzer and vom lyrics, kids). Aw shucks, I'm so benevolently linkhappy right now, here's a person's take on MPSA(?)
This is an INTER/OVER view.> My First Interview" with The big cheese and good guy behind Off Records, about the Tropic of Nipples.
Speaking of linkage:
To heck with valentine's day or sweetest day, write "an appreciation." There seem to be plenty.
A new appreciation! Phil Mulloy: An Appreciation. Read your screen about it today!
A not-quite appreciation! This page offers a review of the the below imaged collection. It shows you that ATN editor Michael G. was indirectly right when he said there were two kinds of people in this world: those that get it, and those that don't. (it=Blue Oyster Cult, but in this case it=Meltzer's werk. Sure I haven't listened to the album yet becaue I don't have it. (failed to get the dough in before the stocks were zero.))
For those of you who wonder when will da Man ever acknowledge Richard Meltzer for the rockwrite he wrote, your query will be dealt with by going This ASCAP-tastic page.
Deborah Frost will be on tour this summer with the Brain Surgeons.
"Handsome Dick" Manitoba is on tour, too! So don't ye ever say that rock and roll is nto comign to a geographic location in your proximity.
Off Records successfuylly sold out of its limited run vinyl ep by Robert Pollard, Richard Meltzer, Smegma & Antler: TROPIC OF NIPPLES.
A new appreciation! Phil Mulloy: An Appreciation. Read your screen about it today!
2. "Curse of the Hidden Mirrors" - the song - had been in set lists for the Brain Surgeons, featuring Albert on the gee-tar.
3. New York City was very very recently the home of a film fest which let the silver screen come alive with Meltzer's visual stylings on film, the Rhymes With Seltzer disc/vid and Good Grief mentioned before. he also called in from his home in the West to say words about these things.
It's out. What's it?
On said platter, Meltzer penned the following with Drummer Extrordinaire Albert Bouchard (whose band, the Brain Surgeons, has a mention in the liner notes):
A new interview with R.M. by an nameless person (the unknown soldier?).
THIS lists films he has done.
Another film that, I think, has to be seen to be believed is callled Horror House on Highway 5.
RM's listed in the creds as an actor. Heck, Meltzer even has an IMDB entry; "His star has arrived!"
A review of a CD for the San Diego Reader. Chances are this changes a bit so a Meltzer blurb may not always be there. Either way, there's one there now (at the bottom of the page... saving the best for last?).
Addicted to Noise's depository of prose.ack. Sadly, the "e-zine" is no more. I've created a very special Blossom, I mean PA(i)GE to house the directions to these beauties.
My Century, Your Century, Bobo Olson's Century. It isn't ATN stuff, but its prose nonetheless.
A review of the listographic kind.Also availible on pulped tree in A Whore Just Like the Rest.
BUT how can YOU EVER GO WRONG with Maple Leaf Cow Poop Round-UIp? Can ya? I don't think so!
This is one of my favorite - Denny Lile
CAN YOU SAY CRAWDADDY!? I KNEW YOU COULD.
You might however, be looking for those things called LYRICS. He wrote some for Blue Oyster Cult in the long past present, but heres da linx too da woids:
After that, there's kind of a lull....until
For the David Roter Method's Find Something Beautiful, he wropte the woids to "It's Only a Handjob, Irene.
"Money, that's what I want."
There are a gaggle of reviews about A Whore Just Like the Rest. If you're the kinda person who enjoys reviews and judge the risk of purchasing a product on their sentences, here's alist of a goodly sum of 'em.
The Whore of Babylon:Richard Meltzer and the Mischief of the Rockcrit by Stevan Allred for The Portland Mercury.
Rock and Roll Middle School does a job of describing who is/isn't Greil Marcus contra the topic of this page.
Holes: A Book Not Entirely About Golf from Future Tense Books.
Three pieces of his (Days of Beer and Daisies, Okay With You?, What Is This Thing Called Night?) appear in Avant-Pop: Fiction for a Daydream Nation ed. Larry McCaffery (Black Ice Books 0-932511-72-4, Mar ?3, $7.00, 247pp, tp, cover by John Bergin)
"But," one may ask, "what of his other writings and fun?"
The following tomes are AWOL:
Quantitatively, you are this special: 6
Fret not true (and tardy or broke-at-the-time) believers, the 7" ep over 12 minutes of rights and wrongs HAS BEEN REINCARNATED (digital form this time)AS A CD, SIGNED BY "mR. vOM" HIMSELF!!!!
It is chockful of other funtastic tunes -- including, "I'm In Love With Your Mom" and other vintage tunes for the family sing-a-long.
Click on the picture above for ordering information and to see what else that cool company has in story for your wallet to invest in. You'll be glad you did!
Some of you may be keeping up on BOC's remastering by Sony. On the remastered editions of Blue Oyster Cult , Tyranny and Mutation and Secret Treaties you will find, including the previously unreleased kicker "Mommy." Good stuff!
O-a. Osmotic Tongue Pressure review in a magazine. the link I had isn't usable anymore (sniff, sob, gnashing of teeth).
0-y. LA Weekly review w/ some Meltzer words in it (its a Smegma album review.)
0-b (or zerobee). Smegma plays beautiful music has not been updated in a while.
zero-see: This page is a Conversation about Mr. Melzter's "contributions" to the state of Art/writing/thought-processes.
1. Culled from a Don Roeser demo tape made in the mists of time and Ampex, R. Meltzer has a writing credit on the tune "Stone of Love" on Blue Oyster Cult's new'un Curse of the Hidden Mirrors which is a tune that the band used to do in Stalk-Forrest days.
Unfortunately, I was out of the country (honest!) so I couldn't attend the shindig. If anyone has been privy to such viewing splendor/boredom (pending your interp.), send it my way at js3619@acmenet.net and I'll be sure to put it up here nice and pretty like. Or as pretty as my hamfisted html skillz allow.
(OLD NEWS, pass it on)
The Stalk Forrest Group CD. It's cargo's liner notes has a good re-telling of the tales that went into the SFG album being made and unmade, the atmosphere of the goings-on
through recollections by Sandy Pearlman, Meltzer, and other. It's sold out but feel free to ogle it's place-holder at
Rhino Handmade Records.
"Arthur Comics", "Bonomo's Turkish Taffy", "Curse of the Hidden Mirrors", "Ragamuffin Dumpling", "A Fact About Sneakers", and "Donovan's Monkey." With Allan Lanier,
he gave words to "What is Quicksand?" and "John L. Sullivan Readymade." This latter ditty, however was only mentioned in Aesthetics of Rock and is not on the disc.
HOWEVAH, it was on a promo sampler of tunes from the first 4 BOC remasters. That is hard to find.
What's REALLY COOL is the words, save for John L, are all reproduced in the booklet!! woohoo!
A good interview by Chris Robinson. It's RECENT too! Savor the new-interview smell.
Why Richard Meltzer (Now) Hates Rock 'N' Roll
Not Unless You're Nuts from the LA WEEKLY
stunningly titled "RICHARD MELTZER INTERVIEW" it's hot of the "press."
Kicks just keep getting harder to find is not Mark Lindsay'autobiography. (Phew!)
Emmett Matheson (Thismusicismylife) shares some verbiage with R. Meltzer.
i'm the one without
A contribution.
The Seven Seas of Love is "art and animation" in SIGNUM magazine. He did the words.
This has pictures of kissing a rubber face and Metal Mike Saunders of Angry Samoans fame (and to a stranger extent, VOM fame)
He's in a FILM. yes, a FILM. (or, film). It's name is Good Grief.
Radio Etheopia gets an airing, just like a cupboard.
Kaprow 101 is something I JUST FOUND. Its about Alan Kaprow. Read it now!!! OR LATER.later always is an option, right?
A review of "Lucas and Friends Discover a World of Sounds" (Vinyl Communications). It really has to be read.
Pig in a Poke reviews some Grateful Dead.
another review (but this time of deweyrawk) not (shudder) from Addicted to Noise
It's not quite a review. It's a Vinyl Reckoning.
It can be found in paper form in A Whore Just Like the Rest.
I Was There is an account of a well known Buffalo NY Rock symposium hoedown.
FRONT OF THE BOOK: Burnin' for You -- My life with the Blue Oyster Cult. Again, not really a review but an overview of sounds he was/is responsible for contributions to the production thereof (huh>)
My First Record.
Third Spud From the Sun is about that Almost Famous wool pulling.
a blurt not (gasp) from Addicted to Noise.Friends and Relations and people I don't personally know...(though he did/does)
Cars and girls and other web pages brought to you by The Dictators. They have a goodly feature on Borneo Jimmy, too.
The World of Cellsum is where Albert Bouchard and family and other band peeps reside on the net, like David Roter, Joe Bouchard (Albert's bro), and others.
It's back these days. Go to "The Aesthetics of Rock" in March '67.
"The Stones, the Beatles and Spyder Turner's Raunch Epistimology" in May, '67.
"My Sgt Pepper Trip" and "Pythagoras the Cave Painter" in Septement and October 67. [NOTE:the latter's in his recently published Book. yay.]
"AH, ONTOLOGY! A Survey of the Heaven Rock Scene" in the 12th month of the year of our lord (and drinking buddy?) 1967.
"R. Meltzer Survesys the British Scene" in FebRUARY '68.
"RICHARD MELTZER INTERVIEWED" has a different but more original title in the book aforementioned.
Stairway to the Stars
& She's as Beautiful as a Foot from the LP Blue Oyster Cult, c. 1972.
Teen Archer is on Tyranny and Mutation in 1973.
Cagey Cretins and
Harvester of Eyes are what you got on Secret Treatiesfrom 1974.
Death Valley Nights is on two albums: Spectres, by Blue Oyster Cult, as well as Malpractice by the aforementioned Brain Surgeons. -- Raising the question: electric or acoustic, or good evening?
Lips in the Hills chatter a bit on Cultosaurus Erectus
some listeners found themselves Burnin' for You due to a Fire of Unknown Origin
Veins pop out during The Revolution by Night
Even Club Ninja had its Spy in the House of the Night.
The Brain Surgeons.
To view the tunes he wrote with/for them, you takes your mouse and clicks on
Trepanation,
(see Gimme Nothin' and Hansel and Gretel)
Box of Hammers,
(see Earthquake Boogie, Laura's Plastic Swords, Tender Was the Night (which, during a Brain Surgeons show in the Northwest, featured Richard coming out on stage and reading some of his poetry as the band played on)
and
Piece of Work.
(see: On the Road (Again), Bad Hair Day)
Although unlisted on the site, the lyrics for Meltzer's words on tBS' Eponymous album are found nestled snuggly in guitars,drums,horns, vox and bass in:
Most Romantic Place in the World, Brain from Terra Incognita, Mad Dude.
On Donald Roeser's- I mean Buck Dharma's - solo LP Flat Out, he penned Wind, Weather and Storm.
Also on Cellsum Records, is Joe Bouchard Presents The X Brothers: Solid Citizens , which features the tune Run for the Sun
At present, you can purchase the following good'uns from the Meltzer Library (at amazon.com):
Get A Whore Just Like the Rest: The Music Writings of Richard Meltzer published by Da Capo Press.
Richard Meltzer Approximatse the Awkward Ballet of Speech by Jonathan Dixon.
Entertainment Weekly Book Review
Sex & Drugs & Rock Writing: Three New Books on Rock Writing Icons -- RIchard Meltzer, Nick Tosches, and Lester Bangs
Fufkin.com Book Review from 6/2000
Djangos.com review by Eric Gregory.
BookWire.com review by Brigitte Frase.
MAD, BAD AND DANGEROUS TO KNOW: James Carter Rocks, Richard
Meltzer Roils by Rob Brookman.
Seminary Co-Op Bookstore review.
The Noise Boys: Richard Metlzer, Nick Tosches, and the late Lester Bangs by Chirs Morris.
Of more (?) interesting note than the above is this one: The Noise Boys Ride Again: Impolite Discourse by Robert Christgau, since he's one of the many denizens who populate the collected essays in Meltzer's book.
In famoulsy (3 points for the Three Amigos reference), The Aesthetics of Rock also from Da Capo. Aren't they great?
Here's a review of Hole... at Willamette Week by Valerie Cashman.
Order it from Fiction Collection Two, c/o English Department. (They be excperts from The Night (Alone).
Publications Center
College Box 494
University of Colorado at Boulder
Boulder CO 80309-0494
"You," I may answer,"can find a plethora of them (including used versions of some of the above) at
on-line used book person pages. Bookfinder is an ordinarily good way to pick up a copy or 5 (the 3rd copy you'll be getting for me. Cursed graduate student funding!) of:"
Gulcher: Post Rock Cultural Pluralism in America (1649-1980)
LA is the Capital of Kansas: Painful Lessons in Post-New York Living
The Night (Alone)
Tropic of Nipples
Frankie, pts. 1 and 2 (his Talltale Series)
Richard Meltzer's Guide to the Ugliest Buildings of Los Angeles
17 Insects die in your heart
All of Caned Out: The Authorized Autobiography of Richard Meltzer, consisting of:
Post-Natal Trash, Prickly Heat and Cold, & Boat Ride Down the Maguire
Post Natal Trash Reading (cassette)
Reading of (not speaking of) cassettes and such,
Rhymes with Seltzer: Richard Meltzer Reads Some Stuff is a video he did.