Remlah

[RICHARD ROMEO]

Whilst perusing Kim's Underground here in the Big Apple on Friday, I came 
across a 1996 release called _Boeing_ by a group called Remlah.  Some 
members of the band are also in a group called Skullflower--they might be 
Brits but can't be sure.  The label comes out of Seattle.  Anyway, the 
album cover has a pic of a rocket, and a copy of a handwritten letter 
about the V weapons, copiously mentioning TRP, Slothrop and the Fool rock 
group, GR being a book about the dream of a dying soldier in Vietnam 
(Jacob's Ladder sounds like), some rocket strike hitting a Dutch theater 
in 44 killing many as TRP's inspiration.  There aren't any 
lyrics--guitar, drum, organ--my buddy said I'd buy it and listen to it 
once--he's heard them before--droning and heavy guitars, not much else.  
I know one song is called Knight of Wands

Also saw some docu about some guy from NYC who pplays jokes on the media, 
creating his own events and seeing CNN, ABC, cover them for real.--killer 
fat squads making sure people stay on their diet, a portable confessional 
at the Democratic National Convention in '92, a computer program 
adjudicating criminal cases, for instance.  He's been on Nightline and 
other shows but we'll never see it because the networks can't admit to 
their gullability.  Guy's name is Joey Skaggs.  Quite interesting guy...

Richard Romeo
Coordinator of Cooperating Collections
The Foundation Center-NYC
212-807-2417
rromeo at fdncenter.org