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Speaker 2 Mark Desi in the studio for the Underground Cafe Video show

Well heck Almighty no I'm not done Mr. Sulu, I'm Mark Desi here for the Underground Cafe. Good evening and welcome to show 11 We've got a great show coming up for you tonight. We're in the studios of the underground cafe and where they actually did film a part of the Star Trek series, but of course they cut it out at the last minute and nah. Hey, I'll tell you who's coming on tonight though we have the Joneses down at the dirt club and Bloomfield, Richie Havens, a real favorite of mine from the 60s, a guy who developed his own style, definitive strummer extraordinaire, and he'll be on the show tonight at the High Tide Cafe. And we got the Blues Legend from Asbury Park, Big Danny Gallagher, plus a lot more. So don't go away.
Yes, yes, Captain.

Display of an electric guitar hooked up to portable electronic equipment (from Private Rocker)

CU tv monitor with The Underground Cafe graphic displayed, pan out to announcer at the controls in the studio and talking on the phone.

Cutaway to host from the Dirt Club in New Jersey:
We're here at the Dirt Club on Blue Sunday and I'm here with an incredible group called The Joneses.

Pam Tate, member of The Joneses:
Well, I found these guys through the Village Voice Yes, another ad in The Village Voice, and they turned out to be regular people instead of like some. I hooked up with them. Julie and I are old friends so now she's with us too.

Host from The Dirt Club
How long have the Jones been together?

Mike Kaplan from the Joneses
So it's an interesting question.

Julie Vee from the Joneses
I just got into the Joneses.

Mike Kaplan
We sort of evolved into our present state you know there's been varying editions but in this in this particular band about a year or so.

Show breaks for Greetings from members of the US Air Force
Staff Sergeant John Davis: Hi Happy Holidays I'm Staff Sergeant John Davis stationed at Hellenic on air airbase in Athens, Greece with the US Air Force. I want to say hello to all my friends and relatives. My mom and dad John and Alden Davis, my sister D. My niece nephew join Frank and also my family in California and my brother Rick and his family and to all my friends and relatives in the Delaware Valley in the great state of New Jersey. Happy holidays.

Sergeant Clarence Smith:\
Season's greetings from Suwon airbase Korea. My name is Sergeant Clarence Smith stationed here with the Air Force during the holiday season this year. To all my family and friends back in Trenton, New Jersey, and to all the great people in the state of New Jersey. Happy holidays. Hey Mom, Dad, how you doing? Be home with you soon love you.

Cut to the High Tide Cafe for interview with musician Richie Havens

Richie Havens:
The resurgence of folk music today seems amazing, younger audiences are getting turned on to it.

Unseen unknown Interviewer
And it's still a lot of the same people the same performers

Richie Havens: True because I think that the folk "the Folkey" type performer in his non-commercialness supposed non commercialness, has has a good protection in that in that he doesn't get - his music means more than him. And so he definitely hangs out to try to do that as much as he can, more than the solo, the tour type rock and roll. Well you know, so he's right, solidly there. If whatever happens, goes down where the commercial comes and goes, he's always there. He's always still there. He sings to everyday people in small places and sometimes on the street, but the point is that, that his dedication is what's gonna allow the message to come through this time again, you know, down to the younger

Interviewer
the universal message

Richie Havens
For sure, sure, absolutely. Certainly and there are a hell of a lot of young people who are already doing it and who have been touched, you know, which is what we're talking about, about the folk music coming back again, you know. It's wonderful because what it is really is that they've never heard it before. And then when you get young people into a place where they either accidentally hear it, or they hear it, they make sure that they get to say, wow, this isn't bad music. It isn't what I thought it was, you know, something comes through. And I think that's the human part of it, is that there's still some human fiber in in the traditional music, including original rock and roll.

Back in the studio with Announcer Big Danny Gallagher

Mark Desi
Calling Mary Taylor calling Mary Taylor down at the Asbury Park Rock'n'Roll Museum with Big Danny Gallagher. calling Mary Taylor. Let's see what's going on. Hello.

Cut to Mary Taylor with Big Danny live at the Rock and Roll Museum
Hi, this is Mary Taylor. We're down at the Rock and Roll Museum in Asbury Park. And I'm sitting here with Big Danny here and he's gonna tell us a little bit of history about where he came from in music and how he started and where he is now. Big Danny, what was your influences in the beginning?

Big Danny - with long beard down to his chest and a big 'ol fat belly:
I think that the first thing I remember was my mother vacuuming and me listening to the radio sitting on the couch. I must have been about four or five years old. And I heard how much is that doggie in the window? And I said to myself, Geez that's awful stupid. How much is that doggy in the window? And then after that, I guess it was like down at the beach I heard some lines off of Hound Dog, they said you was high class, but that was just a lie. And I guess after that it was like Chuck Berry and then all the old Alan Freed movies. And then it was like we used to get to go to the convention hall when we were kids and see Jackie Wilson and Ray Charles and stuff like that a lot. A lot of R & B Soul Stax kind of stuff. And then I found Motown. It was like, wow,

Mary Taylor
And how old were you when you first went to your first concert?

Big Danny
I guess about 11 or 12.

Mary Taylor
What instrument did you pick up first?

CU Big Danny

Big Danny 12:29
Well, my father taught me some stuff on the four string guitars called the tenor guitar. He learned it when he's in the war in the South Sea Islands, because he got it off a ukulele. And he taught me as much as he could. And then like, I didn't have anywhere to go to get any more. So I stopped and I started playing football. But meanwhile, I met up with these Black guys in the locker room. We started singing do ops, you know? Yeah, it was it was some pretty crazy stuff. And the songs hardly meant anything it was mostly saying stuff about your sister and your mother and stuff. And it was like see how funny it could get. And it was just you know, snap and towels and stuff. And then after that, I guess, Motown in high school. I got real heavy into Motown and got out of high school and I had a band called Big Fats and the Fellas. And we did a couple of things. We had a little backup band that used to come with us and we used to sing. And then after that I met Brucie and ever since I've been a stone guitar, drums in Oregon kinda guy.

commercial for Private Rocker

Title card: "Waveman Goes Windsurfing"

Animation, Funky surfer cartoon to the music of Wipeout.

Back in the studio with Mark Desi at the helm. (on the phone)

Host Pam Myers
This is Pam with the Underground Cafe and I'm here with Carrie and Jeff from Slayer. They're one of the hottest heavy metal bands to hit the town in a long time. We're here at the Ritz. How're you guys doing tonight?
(Carrie and Jeff: Pretty good. Pretty good). Just pretty good? You guys excited about the show at the Ritz tonight? (Carrie: Yeah very) . Heard you guys had an incredible showing last night.

Carrie from Slayer
I was impressed.

Jeff from Slayer
pretty packed.

Carrie
Very packed.

Pam Myers
Where did you guys originate from?

Carrie
Los Angeles

Pam Myers
You like the New York scene?

Carrie
Scene's great. That's as far as it'll go

Pam Myers
What about New York don't you like?

Carrie
Too cold

Jeff
Too crowded. They honk too much.

Pam Myers
How'd you guys get first interested in doing heavy metal rock and roll?

Jeff
Listening to Priest and punk stuff. Like we kind of combined both of them together and do what we do.

Pam Myers
Did you start out like outta school? Just a bunch of friends jammin' around or did you come together through auditions? Or what happened? How did you get together?

Jeff 19:18
I met him, he was trying out for a band. And I knew him. And we were hanging out, and we decided we didn't like those guys, and they didn't like us. So we started our own band.

Pam Myers
Do you have anything that's going to be on vinyl anytime soon?

Carrie 19:33
We just put out "Raign in'Blood" about a month ago and it's just broken top 100 Billboard chart. So we won't be in the studio again until at least next summer.

Cut to Mark Desi at the Underground Cafe studio. Muted sound from outer space

Host from the Dirt Club:
Hi, there rockin fans. I am here with Stuart Brody and in the basement of the Dirt Club. And he is a self made music man from Mountainside and we're gonna just talk to him a little bit. Right now. Just notice your guitar. I mean, how could you help it notice this guitar? It's absolutely gorgeous. Did you haven't made specially for yourself?

Stuart Brody
This is a regular production model from the Gibson company. And I saw once in an ad in a paper I just you know, I just had to have that type of thing. Yeah, good Gibson sound as well. He'll Gibson's the best they say.

Host from Dirt Club
New Release that you have coming out? Why wait for Christmas. It's a really good title. Tell us a little bit more about it.

Stuart Brody
Shall we for Christmas was released in August of 1985. It was inspired by the song We Are the World I wrote. I just wrote the song just days after the single came out. Because I was thinking at that time, what happens when all this Christmas interest dies down? Yeah, because like the help is obviously needed all year round. And I wrote the song and wrote it in like a matter of 20 minutes. And I thought you know, I thought it'd be like just a great idea to get all the all the notables from the local Jersey scene to show that even the little guy cares.

Dirt Club Host
Why don't you tell us about some of the people that played on Why Wait for Christmas

Stuart Brody
Well people are contributing Eddie Testa who initiated the jam 86 Deal. Glenn Burtnick is on here. Let's see who else is on here. Some of the better known names would include the Catholic Girls, the Whirling Dervishes, from the shore area there was Mama Tried. T total of 14 bands in all including myself.

Dirt Club Host
And it that just a single or is that a full album

Cut to Underground Cafe and Mark Desi at the control board.

Mark Desi
Hey If you want to contact us any old way, you can write to us at the Underground Cafe 56 Wallace Street in Belleville and let us know what you're thinkin', let us know what you want to hear and what you think about the show. And the zip code on that of course is 07109. Don't forget that. Okay. Y

Pan in to CU on the TV monitor with the Underground Cafe's address

Mark Desi on the phone with his mom: Yeah, I know mom, its my favorite, casserole. I know it's my favorite. I'm on TV right now. I can't talk. No. I'm on TV right now. Bye Mom.

Desi hangs up the phone looks into the camera and says, "I told her never to call me here".
My mom told him to call me here.

Mark Desi 25:07
Well that's it for this week's show. Next week we have part two with an interview with Jim Monahan. You've seen the first part all ready and an nterview with Billy Hector, one of my favorite fabulous crazy people. And we'll be talking with Chris Williamson, the booking agent for the Rockwood talent at the Ritz, plus a whole lot more and a bunch of surprises. So thanks for listening and watching and we'll see you next time here at the Underground Cafe, Mark Desi -
Bye

Christmas greeting from service woman in the Air Force

Season's greetings from Osan Air Base South Korea I'm staff sergeant Jan Elder here on duty with the Air Force Hi to all my family and friends back in Trenton and all the great people in the state of New Jersey Hi Kelly and Matthew mommy misses you and will be home soon.

Countdown. Two eighties gals with big hair and bigger earrings introduce the show and give big kisses to the camera. Show opener continues.

Underground Cafe Announcer Chris Barry with his small child standing outside under the Diner sign.
Hi We're at the Sandy Hook Diner in Highlands where the infamous Scorpions did their video for MTV. And I'm Chris Barry and this week's segment of the Underground Cafe we're gonna be hopping all over the place. First we're going to start up in the Big Apple visiting with The Trust then we're heading down to the shore and we're going to talk to Big Danny Gallagher and Blue Rue and the Drivers. We're gonna wrap up the Asbury segment of our show over at the High Tide Cafe with the second part of our Richie Havens interview, which was done at the Better World Music and Arts Festival this past fall.
We'll finally wrap it all up down in Cologne with an interview with Anvil Bitch. So stay put, we'll be right back with some really good stuff right Cotcha? . Right, we're really excited. So stay put.

30:31 B
Break to commercial for Zound Studios.

Cable Television Network CTN of New Jersey - commercial and promotion for The Invaders, a science fiction classic movie.

Rock Band, the Trust, gathered around a piano and singing a song.

Charlie Frick 34:12
You guys have been playing around in the Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania area what uh, how's how's the response and the reaction been?

Pete 34:18
real good, we have, we have a lot of people who still come out to nearly all the gigs with a fairly big mailing list. And the ones who see us for the first time usually come back.

Frank 34:31
get around to the whole thing. Stick around for the whole show.

Charlie Frick 34:35
What what places you guys gonna be playing in the future?

Paul
Well, January 7, we're going to be at CBGBs on Bleecker and Valerie, on the 15th will be at the Court Tavern right off of Rutgers in New Brunswick. And the 14th of February St. Valentine's Day will be at Nirvana in New York City.

Pete
So bring your girlfriends.

Charlie Frick
So Where's Nirvana again?

Paul
Nirvana is right around Times Square it's in the heart of Times Square.

Charlie Frick
Let's talk a little bit about the the new video.

Pete 35:03
Yea it was one of our song tides going out, and it was directed by Jesse Dylan. And we filmed it at the Bitter End in New York.

Charlie Frick
Jesse Dylan that name sounds very familiar.

Pete and the others chiming in 35:16
Yeah. It's it's he's one of those Dylans. it's the other Dylan. He's ? brother. It's not Bob Dylan it's the other Dylan. He's Bob Dylan's son. And also some shots were done. Did you say at an art gallery? Yeah down on Hudson Street in New York.

Charlie Frick
And uh you filmed some live footage?

Pete
Yeah, the final finish at the Bitter End. Yeah.

Charlie Frick
And how did that go?

Pete 35:39
It went real well.

Paul
The footage that he actually saw, he said looked excellent.

Charlie Frick
And the video will be out when?

Pete
In February when the album is finished is when it will be available to independent video stations as well as MTV.

Charlie Frick
MTV will be having a rotation but right now on the Underground Cafe a world premier a behind the scenes look at the filming of - he turns to Pete

Pete
Tide's Going Out

Charlie Frick
Tide's Going Out from the Trust. Let's go to the video tape...

Speaker 22 35:40

Cutaway from the video to Underground Cafe announcer Chris Barry in a diner going over a menu with his tiny child about 2 years old:

Chris Barry
How about the eggplant parmigian or seafood kebab?
He looks up at the camera:
Oh excuse me. Right now we're gonna go back down to the Asbury Park rock'n'roll museum. And Mary Taylor is going to wrap up her interview with big Danny Gallagher. C'mon along.
I think i'll just have a cheeseburger.

Mary Taylor (now seen)
39:50
You're watching the best in new rock and roll this is the Underground Cafe so don't go away.

unknown unseen narrator - video promotion for the movie about the band, Pharaoh 39:56
They said no one was more destructive than the Sex Pistols they have not seen Pharaoh, banned in their own country. America's Pharaoh denied admittance to major US cities shocked to rock and roll, experienced, best and worst movie of the year

Commercial for Zounds Video Studios 40:55

Richie Havens 42:41
Hearts of Fire. Fiona is in it and Ron Woods and guys from Dire Straits, and guys from Genesis, and all guys who are playing it's an actual dramatic film, love story kind of thing, but but based on success and non success. Successful and unsuccessful people, that's what it's based on. Yes, a lot of good information and too about what it takes to be successful on the real side. So it's it's got a lot of messages in it this film and it's really wonderful to actually come back around again and be working with Bob. We started out with the same manager with Al Grossman the same manager. So we've been together a long time too. And now we're getting a chance again to just do something together so it's really , yea second time around, first time for real.

CU electric guitar, Anvil Bitch hits it on stage. Clip of the band performing a song.

Jack Patton 44:33
Here at the Omni in Cologne with anvil bitch. They just got done playing. He turns and the band is seated at a table next to him.
This is the group here would you like to introduce yourself.

Gary from the band, Anvil Bitch
I'm Gary.

John
He's Gary. I'm John.

the band introduces themselves:
Herb. Dave. Chuck.

Jack Patton
Can you tell me a little bit about the band like what you're all about?

Gary
What we're about, what are we about, music? Jam noise

Jack Patton
Yea I understand your album has it been released yet?

Gary
It was held up, yeah it'll be out like a week and for us it was changing like distributors switch from Green World to Important.

Band member maybe John
so that delayed it. It'll be out this week, so buy it

Jack Patton
Okay um this album What what are you exactly trying to get across to people to say to people with this album

Gary 45:26
rise to offend

John 45:29
Yeah stand up for your own rights. it's called Rise to Offend and like a couple of tunes are about how like like kids and teenagers and stuff get pushed around by their parents and and they become like servants, but I'm we're not saying totally, excuse me, but we're not saying totally reject authority. We're just saying just sort of be more independent and not be afraid to be different

Dave 45:50
Think for yourself what you believe in, don't let, you can't let other people tell you what to do. You have to you know, be what you want to be.

Jack Patton
And exactly what are your plans for the future with the group?

Gary
Whatever, we do what we can.

John
We're playing nowhere tonight.

Jack Patton
Do you have a heavy schedule together?

Dave and John 46:12
Yeah. Two, two heavy, two shows in one day. nerve racking.

Jack Patton
Are you playing in different states yet?

John 46:19
The drummers can't take it. our next goal is, the minute the album comes out next Friday we're gonna head over there and try to play our first goal is playing the Moors in Brooklyn, which we already have a place. He wants to play Japan. At the Kennel Club, we played at The Kennel Club recently and him and him these guys slam like like maniacs right, no I'm serious, especially him right. We walk in and they're like Oh, what's this long hair metal core night, you know like a derogatory term. And then all these guys with Mohawks and like total total hardcore, like into the hardcore fashion right? They're standing there and we're slammin', and these guys are slamming and they're just standing there you know? And then they got the balls, excuse me, the nerve to cut these guys down cause they got long hair. We were both there to see the same band.

Dave
man up there there are a lot of them up there, which we appreciate you know we stand for that that's great you know. Because we're we'd be up there for them if they were on stage. Something that we love we love we'd be there too you know

Pair of feet wearing Red Converse sneakers and cuffed jeans walking down some stairs.

Chris Barry 48:39
Now we're gonna head back up the coast of the legendaryStone Pony, where we caught up with Blue Rue and the Drivers. Let's see what Ruth has to say about rock and roll.

48:50 Host
We're backstage at the Stone Pony talking to Blue Rue and the Drivers. Blue and the Drivers are from Atlantic City and we're going to let them introduce themselves right now.

Speaker 27 Ruth Wyan (sp?) 48:58
Ruth Wyan I'm from Atlantic City, I play guitar and vocals. I also write all the songs.

Fred (from Blue Rue)
Fred and I play the bass and make the coffee.

Kenner 49:09
Kenner Way I am drummer extraordinaire.

Host / Interviewer 49:13
Blue Rue and the Drivers as you can see our three piece power trio plays a really hard edge guitar oriented sound. And Ruth How long has the band been together?

Ruth
11 months

Host 49:26
Do you play around the Atlantic City area mainly or just been starting to play up around the shore area. What's the itinerary like?

Ruth -close up 49:35
Well, Atlantic City only has about two places to play. So we play there as much as possible. But we are trying to get in this area a lot more. So we average more up here than we do there. Two times a month up there about four times a month up here. Every weekend.

Host 49:52
How would you describe playing with Blue Rue and the Drivers?

Fred:
Excellent. Enjoy it.

Kenner
Having a great time. It's working really well.

Host / Interviewer 1:38
Ruth I understand you play with Dolly Parton?

Ruth 51:45
not with Dolly Parton. No I played, all right I was playing in a Blues club in Atlantic City called The Last Resort and she was playing at resorts. I was playing at Last Resort and her band used to come in after hours and I played
with um Jim (unknown speaker - those are really fine boots too by the way). Yes.
When I went to Colorado. Anyway, The Last Resort and her band used to come in. I played with her guitar player, her her banjo player and this guy used to play harmonica. So we used to jam every Thursday night for about four weeks.

Cut to promotional music video clip for the 80's metal band, Pharaoh, in full makeup and colorful wild hair.

Cut to performance by alternative rock band, Pharaoh. Credits scroll over performance for the Underground Cafe.

Chris Barry returns.

Chris 58:32
Hi I'm Chris Berry and this is The Underground Cafe. Tonight we've got a really hot lineup, starting with Jim Monahan and his band Bums in the Park. Plus, we've got a brand new video by 77 Sunset Strip. Also, there'll be an update on the NJ RA plus all the usual good stuff in between. So don't go away. We'll be right back with the Underground Cafe.

Commercial for Zounds Studios

Monahan 1:01:53
No I actually, we've got a couple of originals that we've been working on. I couldn't tell you begin to tell you what they sound like because it's a bunch of different things. It's whatever we came up with at the time, but we're planning to go in the beginning of March and actually put some of the stuff down on tape and see if we can stand it

Charlie Frick 20 1:02:08
you guys have been doing the circuit playing the Jersey, New York area how you guys been received so far? Pretty well a lot of people coming out to see ya?

Monahan 1:02:19
we opened for Loan Justice at the Stone Pony a couple of weeks back and the crowd was predominantly there to see Loan Justice we went over real well which kind of surprised us.

Band member, unknown - 1:02:28
after we were done they all left this

Charlie Frick 1:02:33
so there's something else you guys were gonna play? Heard you guys are doing a thing for WNEW some kind of thing?

Monahan 1:02:38. (He talks over footage of The Drivers performing.

Yeah, we're doing a Valentine's party where you go, you have to come with a member of your own sex you get an invitation for two but if you're a guy you can only bring a guy if your girl you know but it's so what's gonna boil down to is a big CYO dance. Guys on the left girls on the right and everybody will stand there and look at each other all night. So that should be fun. We're looking forward to it.

Back with Chris Barry standing outside
Chris Barry
it up time now for our weekly update on the NJRA brought to you by Zounds Rehearsal Studios. Mention The underground Cafe when you go to Zounds and get a discount. Let's go now with Pam Meyer so she talks to Bo Blaze about the NJRA distribution system.

Pam Meyer at Escapades 2:03:59
I'm here with Bo Blaze. We're here at Escapades in Jersey City for the second meeting of New Jersey Rock Alliance (NJRA). This is Bo Blaza one of the Co- founding members of New Jersey rock Alliance. How're things going with the NJRA?

Bo Blaze 1:04:10
things are going very well at the NJRA we're here at our second monthly meeting at as you said Escapades, and today we're going to be discussing a little bit more in depth at this meeting the distribution and making some committees up and you know, so getting things really rolling this month and we've been it's been fantastic. how much support we've gotten from places like the Underground Cafe and from different newspapers and magazines and things have been just great so far.

Pam Meyer 1:04:36
Okay, as far as distribution goes, how are you going to be distributing records, information etc.

Bo 28 1:04:42
Okay, well the distribution is set up kind of parallel with the fact that we're gonna have something called the jammies which is going to be Jersey arts and music awards, okay. And those jammies are going to be what really is amounts to the Grammys, okay? And what's gonna happen is with these awards is going to go the distribution and the distribution is going to be from places that you might not ordinarily think of distribution. Everybody go to a record store and a lot of people can get distribution that way but we want to do is we want to get a distribution a little bit different. As a matter of fact, this very show the Underground Cafe is going to be distributing. It's going to be distributing records and cassettes through here through the, we'll be giving out free videos which I'm sure they'll be telling you about. Sam ash stores in New Jersey, we'll be distributing, Stars Rehearsal Studios will be distributing many other Rehearsal Studios, many other stores, record stores, everything but we're going to be unconventional places so other other people in the industry can support other people in the industry. That's basically going to be the whole idea.

Live commercial for Zounds Rehearsal and Video Studios

CU what looks like an IBM Selectric typewriter, hands on keyboard typing fast, pan out to a male typing quickly at the keyboard.

Man at keyboard (Paul Bubny) turns to the camera stands up and states:
Oh, I didn't know you were here. Well, anyway, I don't believe I caught your name. But I'm glad you could make it down. I'm Paul, I'm from the East Coast Rocker News and whose offices you are at right now. And what's going to be happening here at about this time over the next several weeks in the foreseeable future is that I'm going to be giving you a little bit of a rundown on what's going on in the New Jersey music scene as we see it.

One thing which has been happening lately which has come to my attention is Gut Bank is coming out with an album. Finally, they've been on vinyl here and there in the past, but it isn't until now that they're finally going to be releasing a full length double sided platter. They opened up to the Wires not too long ago. So they probably gave a little bit of a preview of what the new album will sound like at that show in New York. The album will be out on Coyote by way of Twin Tone ,and if you want to get in contact with Coyotes, or Twin Tone or any other record company or anybody in the music business for that matter, the best place to look is the 1987 East Coast Rock Music Directory which is being cooked up right now in the East Coast Rocker experimental kitchen. Pick up a copy and everything is in there, everything, agents to zucchini, well not zucchini squash but a to z , entire music industry a very comprehensive picture thereof. One of the things in there is a story about how a band can make it. One of the lessons of that story in parts is that every band should play every show as though it matters. Don't have an off night you don't know who might be watching. Oh and One Driver found that out not too long ago. They were playing in a club and they were being watched. John Eddie was in the audience. He came back stage and introduced himself and had a grand old time. He obviously didn't get them a major label deal right away. But point is always do your best. You never know who's going to be watching you. Speaking of best, in a few weeks there are going to be the finals of the East Coast Rocker Stars best band search. Six bands made it to the finals, Five Standards, Driver, Kim Randy and the Future, Onyx, Grace and Skin Type. All of them have the right stuff to come out on top in the semi finals. But only one of them is going to be the ultimate winner. Which one of those is going to be? Your guess is as good as mine. But you can find out by showing up at Obsessions on March 14. And then and there, the whole thing will be decided . There's not alot to say for right now. In the meantime, until next week, keep rocking, keep rolling, keep a song in your heart and keep those bugs splats off your windshield, they make it really hard to see everything. Bye bye now.

Commercial break - a plug for the band, Fresh Fish and their first record.

Chris Barry 1:12:43
Welcome back we're at the Green Parrot in Neptune. And that was the new video Beat the Clock by 77 Sunset Strip. Incidentally, Joey George of the Strip tells us they had a really hot night at the Pony this past Tuesday. By the way, Sunset Strip will be opening for Lesley West this coming Friday the 27th at Obsessions in Randolph. For more info about that Leslie West date call 77 Sunset Strip at 201-653-5474.

Back with Chris Barry with an old Beatles poster in the bkgd. He introduces one of the show's hosts, Charlie Frick.

Chris Barry 1:13:39
Man Charlie Frick is at it again. He cornered those teachers from Detroit at Escapades recently, let's find out if they're really teachers.

Charlie Frick 1:13:48
We're here on a hot Saturday night, the club was packed and I'm here with the band The Teachers from Detroit and they are going to introduce themselves.

Dave Kibler lead guitar, Linda (?) vocals, Aaron Giordana vocals guitar, Pete Dressle drums, Scott DeVito bass vocals.

Charlie Frick
]nice very nice you guys teachers from Detroit. Are you really from Detroit?

Linda
No, we're not.

Charlie Frick
where you guys from?

1:14:11
Oldridge, all over Jersey, Central Central Jersey

Charlie Frick
A Central Jersey band. you guys been playing the area doing a lot of the clubs. What's been the reaction of the band so far?

Linda 1:14:21
It's been a great reaction really going places

Band members Dave and Aaron 1:14:23
lots of people looking for us. Definitely positive

Cutaway to unknown band performing a song live at a club

Cut to a band (Kocomojoe?)playing live at a club.

Cut to CU at the studio, Chris Barry tinkering with equipment, he turns to the camera:
Chris Barry: 21:30
Oh, and if you'd like to write us write The Underground Cafe PO Box 274 Nutley New Jersey. O7110.
Chris continues at a different setting standing beside a poster of Jimi Hendrix:
Doug Deutsch was at City Gardens recently for a glimpse at the Henry Rollins poetry tour. Let's go with Doug now for the first of a two part piece on Henry.

Jonathan Levine (Faith Fanzine) 1:21:52
I thought it was real different, i thought it was real cool. Instead of like just doing music, he was just talking and just like being himself and showing everybody that he was just like a person and stuff.

Doug Deutsch unseen 1:22:00
when did you start the Spoken Word Tour? And how long are you going to take it for?

Henry Rollins (formerly of Blackflag) 1:22:05
What this ? I mean, the thing I did tonight? Oh, this is this is just for 12 show something like that. It's real quick. A few weeks. It started the other night in Cleveland. Went Cleveland, New York, Boston, Providence, New Haven tonight is Trenton, tomorrow New Brunswick and DC a few days off. Minneapolis, Madison, few days off Albuquerque, Denver, then back to LA.

Doug (Unseen) 1:22:29
Uh huh. When did you finally decide to split the Flag up and do this? Or how long have you been thinking about it?

Henry Rollins 1:22:36
The Flag thing kind of came to an end this summer. And we just decided it's time to do other things. And Craig is off working on a one man band thing where he's using a I don't really know exactly what he's doing. So I don't I'm not going to talk about what I don't know about but from what I hear it's pretty awesome.

Cut back to Chris Barry
2:23:48
Up next is Karen Tortorella with her report from the industry. She'll be talking with Gary Sykes of IRS records, and some of his thoughts on the bands that are playing out now.

Karen Tortorella 1:23:59
We're at the stone pony with Gary Sykes of IRS records. Gary, what does the band have to do today to get out there and getting their name noticed?

Gary Sykes 1:24:08
Ooh alot. Alot of playing, alot of rehearsin. a lot of gigging, and a lot of love. Well, thank you. That's my fan club out here.

Karen T 1:24:23
How is it changed. How has it changed maybe in the last 10 to 15 years from some of the early groups in getting recognition and making your name stick out there?

Gary Sykes 1:24:31
Well first of all, I think, you say like 15 years ago? 10 or 15 years ago, I really think that the bands are a lot better musically. I really believe that I think a lot of people believe that. Nowadays. A lot of stuff is just show.

Cutaway to Chris Barry 1:24:46. Credits scroll up as he speaks.
That's about it for this week. Tune in next time when we'll be visiting with Gary talent at surefire studios. Plus, we'll be touching base again with Doug Wayne of the NJRA and a whole lot more. Just remember New Jersey rocks with The Underground Cafe.

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