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Date Posted: Tuesday, May 18, 09:45:07pm
Author: Helga
Subject: Re: Skinny Puppy - Re: Youngin'
In reply to: AntiMusick 's message, "Skinny Puppy - Re: Youngin'" on Tuesday, May 18, 09:22:58pm

I was on a quest to find new music when I was around that age, as the stuff I loved listening to since Junior High School was getting old (Depeche Mode, The Cure, Erasure, New Order, Nitzer Ebb, Joy Division, etc). I needed more of an edge. And music is such a big part of my life.

Anyways on trips with friend up to SF, I'd grab all the music magazines I could, and read reviews. I'd send away for the free mail order music catalogs that were always listed in the back of the magazines. Then I'd buy the cheap compilations from the different mail order catalogs, just to try things out and give it a listen. This was when it used to take 6-8 weeks for things to arrive to you via snail mail.

Anyways I ordered an industrial compilation from ROIR which included SP's "Deadlines" .. as well as older FLA songs, Front 242 songs, KMFDM songs, 23 Skidoo, Meat Beat Manifesto, Severed Heads, DAF, MOEV, etc.

After that I just fell in love with it all. I started collecting anything I could afford and find (which was hard back then, since I was young and poor with no car, and didn't really know where to look). There were some older guys at my High School who hooked me up with more Skinny Puppy, KMFDM, Einsturzende Neubauten, and Throbbing Gristle and such. Then when they graduated when I was a High School Sophmore I was pretty much on my own in this little hick town, devoid of anything, until I moved to Southern California to go to College and got into the scene there.

>So how did you find out about them?
>
>I found out about them thanks to Muchmusic & Tower
>Records Pulse Magazine ads for Cleanse Fold & Mind the
>Perpetual Intercourse, Muchmusic would play there
>videos until they banned them for a little bit because
>of the Dig It video they thought there were
>subliminals hidden in the background letter box area.
>But then they played lots of Images in Vogue videos.
>
>some people have told me that they did play once in
>Fresno around 1986, I'm still looking for the proof
>they played here. I did not get to see them until 1988
>at the filmore in SF, it was for the VivisectVI tour,
>and they did perform Kill to Cure, that were I bought
>my patch, and some postcards. Not from EBay.
>
>
>>Yep, it will be my first time seeing them live. I'm
>>only 27. I didn't get into Skinny Puppy until I was
>>15, which was in 1991. I couldn't get into any shows
>>or concerts until I was 18 or 21, and by the time I
>>was old enough they had disbanded.
>>
>>I could say I was hardcore and got into them when I
>>was 5, but I'd rather just stick with the truth lol.
>>I'd say for a 15 year old girl in a small hick town to
>>find Skinny Puppy before the internet came along was a
>>pretty huge feat.
>>
>>>Will this be your first time seeing them live?

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