- The Beatnigs
The Beatnigs were a San Francisco band, which combined hard-core punk, industrial and hip hop influences, described as "a kind of avant-guard industrial jazz poets collective" ["The Rough Guide to Rock",Peter Buckle, ed. Rough Guides (2003) ISBN 1843531054] . The band was the initial collaboration of
Michael Franti andRono Tse , who would later formDisposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy . The band's stage performance included the use of power tools such as a rotary saw on a metal bar to create industrial noise and pyrotechnics [Watrous, P. (1998) Rock From the Beatnigs, "New York Times" [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE4D6123FF930A25752C1A96E948260 November 13, 1988] ] . The Beatnigs released an LP ( [http://www.alternativetentacles.com/product.php?product=16 virus065, Jan 1988] ) and 12" EP of their most famous song [Friskics-Warren, W. (2005) "I'll Take You There: Pop Music And the Urge for Transcendence" Continuum International Publishing Group. ISBN 0826417000] [Goodwin, A. (1991). Popular music and postmodern theory "Cultural studies" 5:174-198] , "Television: The Drug of the Nation" (remixed byAdrian Sherwood ,Gary Clail , and Mark Stewart) onAlternative Tentacles in 1988 [Robbins, IA (1991) The Trouser Press Record Guide, 4th ed. Maxwell Macmillan International, ISBN 0020363613] . That same year the played their NYC "debut" at theNew Music Seminar [Watrous, P. (1998) Rock by Any Other Name Is "Alternative" "New York Times" [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE0D81F3FF936A25754C0A96E948260 July 15, 1988] ] , and recorded for theBBC 's Peel Sessions [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/johnpeel/sessions/1980s/1988/Dec04beatnigs] . The LP was recently reissued by Alternative Tentacles, which called it a "classic slab of late 1980's political rap/punk/industrial/???". One venue for the band was the infamousBarrington Hall . Franti at the time worked for Berkeley's Subway Guitars.References
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*Trouser Press.com [http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=beatnigs Album review]
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