A-Infos (en) The Music Militia and the AntiGrammys

[Dale Pfeiffer <Pfeif324@concentric.net>]

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Hello folks,

I get a lot of wierd shit through my website email.
At first, I thought the following post was some kind
of joke, but I'm not so sure.  Anybody hear anything
about a press conference?

Looking for elucidation,

Dale

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/5309

(Oh, and by the by, I'm getting awfully sick of
the personality clashes at org.  Come on, people,
if we can't work together, how can we expect
anyone else to do so.)

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Subject:
             The Music Militia and The Antigrammys
        Date:
             Sun, 22 Feb 1998 15:57:41 -0500
       From:
             Timothy Martin <pieut@transcendent.org>
 Organization:
             Transcendent Recordings
         To:
             daleallen@geocities.com




Hello,
 Please, please, PLEASE help us.  Due to technical difficulties, we
have been delayed in getttin gthis message out and time is quickly
disappearing. Please disseminate this message to as many people as you
can.  This will be the spark of the New World Ardor...
Tim MArtin



This is a historic moment in the battle for creative
independence and we think you'll be very interested in
this...  Please forward this message to everyone you
know and consider including the www.antigrammy.org
link on your webpage....

Contact Tim Martin at <pieut@transcendent.org> or visit
the Anti-Grammy Website at http://www.antigrammy.org

Dear friends, rebels, and activists,

         This is the call to arms for those of you who perhaps
have slipped into passive acceptance of being a pawn to
mediocre or misinformed ideas, etc.  You people who had
lost hope in any possibility for cultural redemption.  Friends,
it is time to shake off the distracting and hypnotic haze of
television and corporate drivel.  It is no longer enough to sit on
the sidelines or the couch taking bong hits, and commenting
on all the things that suck.  This is the signal you've all been
waiting for.  It is time to initiate the Cultural Renaissance for
the New Age.
         The subject matter of this transmission is extremely
urgent!  On Monday February 23, 1998, we are
holding a press conference to announce the formation
of The Music Militia, a league of disgruntled artists,
entertainers, independent record labels, film companies
and publishers, and politically dissident groups who
are absolutely fed up with the deterioration of quality
and lack of substance which pervades the mainstream
culture of today's society.  This is not just another
bleeding heart leftist movement of complainers.
In fact this movement is not at all about left vs. right or
right vs. left.  It is about the truth versus the lies and
that which stems from the root of lies.  The time
has come to fight back.  Being that we live in an age
of extreme terrorism, it seems appropriate that the
initiatory act of the Music Militia be to engage in
a healthy dose of entertainment terrorism.
        Let it be known that the Music Militia,
through various guerilla methods and tactics, has
infiltrated every facet of the Grammy awards
celebration- from executive members of The
Recording Academy to Radio City Music Hall
Security, from video technicians to artists actually
nominated for the much coveted award- and that
we are poised to fully disrupt the Grammy Awards
ceremony.
            Let it also be known that at 1800 hours
on Wednesday, February 24 5-10,000 members
of the Music Militia from so far twenty-two countries
planning to surround the perimeter of Radio City Music
Hall. The Militia, armed not with weapons of destruction
but with instruments of music  will then proceed to wage
a sonic riot with their horns, drums, voices and noisemakers
of all descriptions, in an effort to liberate music from the
corporate accountants who now control it.. The Music
Militia will take to the streets and wave the freak-flag
high.  In the throes of the noise riot, Radio City Music
Hall will be levitated.
            In conjunction with this miltiary action, the Militia
has organized the Anti-Grammy Awards to be held at
Coney Island High beginning at 2200 hours the same night.
Just as the Grammy Awards represent the music industry's
enslavement of artists to the almighty dollar, the Anti-Grammy's
will showcase artists who have clearly not compromised
their artistic message for sterile pop acceptance and profits.
Winning the Best Heavy Performance is CANDIRIA    .
Winning Best Rant/Spoken Word is Rev. Ivan Stang of
The SubGenius Foundation   . Winning Best New
Artist is OSIVA   .  Winning the Lifetime Achievement
Award is John Hall of King Missile fame.    Winning Best
Acoustic Performance is Grass.  And nominated for Best
Album is Sonic Youth? Ween? Bob Dylan? Don
Cabalero? Shellac? The event will be MC'd by Rev. Stang.
The aim is that all of the artists winning the anti-grammy
will play the Anti-Grammy awards.  So far, OSIVA,
Rev. Stang, John Hall, and Grass have confirmed.
We're working on Candiria, Ani, Ween, Don Cabalero
and Shellac.  Sonic Youth and Bobby D? Unlikely,
but hey you never know.

          We need your help in supporting the MUSIC
MILITIA!!!  The word of this Uprising must be spread
far and wide so that everyone who is sick of having
valueless bullshit shoved down their throats by all the
insidious forms of mainstream media are aware of this
opportunity to revolt.  Until recently, this would have
been difficult to achieve in a mere week.  However,
with the advent of e-mail and the World Wide Web,
this thing can spread like wildfire.   We are asking
that you forward this e-mail and the http://www.antigrammy.org
link to everyone that you know.  Every website geared
towards political dissidence should have the anti-grammy
link on their home page.  Every e-mail list should have this
message on it.  The time to act is NOW- if we don't do
this, we will most likely fade into eternal mindless
automaton existence.
          We realize that there are many groups who
espouse an activist approach to the injustices of the
status quo, and that the power of solidarity is not a
novel idea.  What separates the Music Militia from the
rest is our comprehensive transcendent paradigm and
the sheer audacity to initiate the revolution long overdue.
We are not fascists, but catalysts.  Thus this campaign
is not directed against any particular artists, or the
Recording Academy for that matter, but against the
system that perpetuates hollow, homogenized pop-
for-profit; against that part of the music industry
dominated by financially induced hype instead of
creative substance.


The AntiGrammy Response Questionaire

Thanks for taking the time to read our statement
indicting the music industry and the Awards ceremony
that rewards it...  Indeed, the time is at hand to fight
back against the behemoth and liberate the music
from the corporate accountants- Music first in the
Music industry!!!  Ok so we've said it before.   This
is the time to put your 2 cents in and let us (and the
world) know what pisses YOU off.  This questionairre
is meant to gather more perspectives and peeves from
you all, rockers of the first order... please compress
your points into list form or into 'soundbyte' format...

What is it that's sick about the mentality in art
industries (especially music)?


What are some tangible manifestations of this mentality?
(ie what sucks?)



Can you offer any solutions to the problems you mention
above?  Like what?



You cannot quell the tidal swell-
the New World Ardor sounds the age's death knell

 The time is at hand!



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