Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!mit-eddie!nessus From: nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Bill Laswell, Material, Massacre Message-ID: <5081@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Fri, 23-Aug-85 05:12:10 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.5081 Posted: Fri Aug 23 05:12:10 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 05:39:22 EDT Distribution: net.music Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 19 > From: brandx@ihlpl.UUCP (H. D. Weisberg) > Does anyone know what Laswell is up to now (as a musician, not a > producer)? "Omaha" is considered old news. I heard something about a > band called Deadline that he formed as a successor to Material. Any > similar news? I don't know what Laswell is up to now. (He writes Herbie Hancock's music for him, every now and then, to make money, doesn't he?) A few years back, the three guys that made up Material (Fred Frith, Bill Laswell, and some other guy I can't remember right now) also had a group called Massacre. Massacre is *really* great, and very different from Material, but not for the weak of ear. "Why kill time, when you can kill yourself?" Doug Alan nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (or ARPA)