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Post by skswede on Oct 25, 2017 11:59:49 GMT -5
I read somewhere that other artists who saw Dara Puspita i Europe said that the drummer was the best they ever seen.
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Post by tangerinesun on Oct 25, 2017 15:00:13 GMT -5
I read somewhere that other artists who saw Dara Puspita i Europe said that the drummer was the best they ever seen. I wish I could have been there to see it! You can't tell anything from the video of everybody synching to the recording of "Surabaya", with Susy miming and looking like she doesn't know if she should laugh or just get up and leave. Their Wikipedia page links to an article at Bitch Media.org that makes a point of their 3-year exile being a matter of running away from Sukarno's culture crackdown to save themselves and their music careers. ADVENTURES IN FEMINISTORY: Dara Puspita, The First Indonesian All-Woman Rock Band2011 OCT 03 by by Mac Pogue for Bitch Media www.bitchmedia.org/post/adventures-in-feministory-dara-puspita-the-first-indonesian-all-woman-rock-band-draft In 1965, things changed for Dara Puspita. The Koes Bersaudara, by now both friends and boyfriends of the band, were reportedly jailed for three months for a riot-inducing take on “I Saw Her Standing There.”
Dara Puspita were harassed regularly by government workers, and at one point were taken in for a month-long interrogation by the Indonesian police. So, following a grand tradition of rock and rollers under duress, Dara Puspita skipped town and found someone who would gladly hand over cash for their services. Specifically, they holed up in a Bangkok club, which led them to meet some international hotshots and get shows as far away as London and starting their international fame...
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Post by skswede on Oct 26, 2017 7:38:09 GMT -5
I read somewhere that other artists who saw Dara Puspita i Europe said that the drummer was the best they ever seen. I wish I could have been there to see it! You can't tell anything from the video of everybody synching to the recording of "Surabaya", with Susy miming and looking like she doesn't know if she should laugh or just get up and leave. Their Wikipedia page links to an article at Bitch Media.org that makes a point of their 3-year exile being a matter of running away from Sukarno's culture crackdown to save themselves and their music careers. ADVENTURES IN FEMINISTORY: Dara Puspita, The First Indonesian All-Woman Rock Band2011 OCT 03 by by Mac Pogue for Bitch Media www.bitchmedia.org/post/adventures-in-feministory-dara-puspita-the-first-indonesian-all-woman-rock-band-draft In 1965, things changed for Dara Puspita. The Koes Bersaudara, by now both friends and boyfriends of the band, were reportedly jailed for three months for a riot-inducing take on “I Saw Her Standing There.”
Dara Puspita were harassed regularly by government workers, and at one point were taken in for a month-long interrogation by the Indonesian police. So, following a grand tradition of rock and rollers under duress, Dara Puspita skipped town and found someone who would gladly hand over cash for their services. Specifically, they holed up in a Bangkok club, which led them to meet some international hotshots and get shows as far away as London and starting their international fame...Well something from 2014.
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Post by skswede on Oct 26, 2017 8:14:53 GMT -5
a tribute...
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Post by skswede on Oct 26, 2017 8:52:17 GMT -5
This is the drummers ordinary band
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Post by tangerinesun on Oct 26, 2017 16:50:37 GMT -5
....it's not Ginger Baker, but it wants to be. You can't take decades off and sit right back down to the same groove. The tribute band sounds good but ends up making Dara Puspita sound even better. I didn't realize at all how much there is written and recorded about these guys. They deserve their own individual thread, so I'm starting one but I don't know how I'm going to get time to make good on it. I'll never catch up with Shonen Knife. 〜〜〜 The quote above about getting interrogated by the police for a month should make you wonder. Other sources who are better informed state that the interrogations took place over an extended period, but didn't amount to a weeks-long lockup. It looks like a pattern of steady harassment and intimidation calculated to wear Dara Puspita out and get them to quit, go home, and act like good girls. The people that the Indonesian government wanted in jail were the peer boy-band Koes Bersaudara, because they deliberately and loudly broke the Beatles ban to test the authorities, and because they were a focus for anti-Sukarno dissidents. The legendary riot after the cover of "I Saw Her Standing There" is said to have started with pro-government agitators who came to the show with rocks ready for throwing.
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Post by tangerinesun on Oct 27, 2017 18:41:16 GMT -5
67 minutes to a more marvelous you Girl Groups - The Story of a Sound2013 MAR 23 by Roy Gardnerra (01:07:30) A rip from I assume VHS tape, of the 1983 made-for-TV movie… • From the 1982 book by Alan Betrock • Also available on LP and CD and, um, Compact Cassette • Soundtrack recreated as a Spotify playlist Girl Groups: The Story of a Sound (1983) 66 min | Documentary, Music | TV Movie 1983 Director: Steve Alpert Writers: Alan Betrock (based on the book by), Gary Goldsmith (scriptwriter) Stars: The Angels, Crystals, Dixie Cups, Ronettes, Shirelles… Supremes… and everybody www.imdb.com/title/tt5095456/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm 〜〜〜 The story of "The Story of…": Girl Groups - Story Of A Sound (1983)2011 JUL 28 by Joshua Kirby for The Depths of NETFLIX blog depthsofnetflix.blogspot.com/2011/07/girl-groups-story-of-sound-1983.html The only written history I can find is actually a review on Amazon that the director, Steve Alpert wrote. He tells tales of trying to get clearances for clips from ABC that they didn't know they even had and going to Detroit in a blizzard to find clips from their local version of American Bandstand, called "Teen Town"...
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Post by lazybone712 on Oct 30, 2017 22:26:34 GMT -5
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Post by lazybone712 on Nov 12, 2017 13:59:07 GMT -5
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Post by tangerinesun on Nov 17, 2017 0:38:14 GMT -5
Rolling Stone dredges the files 50 Greatest Pop-Punk Albums From Blink-182 to the Buzzcocks, we count down the best of punk's most lovable, lovelorn offshoot2017 NOV 14 by a bunch of people www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/50-greatest-pop-punk-albums-w508222/Descendants, check. Distillers, check. Ramones, OK. Stiff Little Fingers, check. Rancid, why pop, because they sold records? Bad Religion, check. Jawbreaker, surprise, surprise. Green Day, unavoidable. Blink 182, completely unnecessary.
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Post by lazybone712 on Nov 19, 2017 0:08:47 GMT -5
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Post by lazybone712 on Nov 23, 2017 0:36:27 GMT -5
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Post by skswede on Nov 23, 2017 11:11:20 GMT -5
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Post by skswede on Nov 24, 2017 13:15:56 GMT -5
Wow rockabilly from Finland
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Post by skswede on Nov 24, 2017 14:59:22 GMT -5
the one and only JB
Johan Blom.
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