[Deth Specula Home Page] Deth Specula Fanline - August 2, 1994

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DETH SPECULA AT SCO FORUM

We'll be opening for Big Bang Beat at this year's SCO Forum. At last, a reason to attend the Tuesday night party at UCSC. It'll be in the Cowell Patio. We'll play really loud, scream a lot, and smash some computers. We were hoping to drive a bus through a wall of monitors, but there is no way to get up enough speed with a bus in the dance area (Dennis Hopper's new movie notwithstanding), so we're going to use a tricycle.

Looks like we'll have two new parody songs for the show, and we may rewrie some lyrics for one or two of our old favorites ("I think I'm speaking legalese, I think I'm speaking legalese, I really think so ....")

DETH SPECULA LIVE ON THE INTERNET

7:45pm to 8:30pm PDT
Tuesday, August 23rd.
Strum Baby. Deth Specula will be performing a live audio/video MBONE broadcast of the gig at the SCO Forum. Our music and antics will go out to the entire world. Talk about critical use of the net bandwidth!

We'll keep you posted on where to tune for the broadcast.

We are also hoping to simulcast this on VAT (Internet) radio and have a live feed available via World-Wide Web at IUMA: http://www.iuma.com/

SPECULA ON CD

Well, it's not what you think. An excerpt of the Deth Specula classic "Updated" is going to be on the Skunkworks 2.0 CD being produced by SCO for distribution to SCO customers and fans. Besides two-gritty minutes of Specula music, the Skunkworks CD will feature a bunch of software, some video stuff, and other things that Ron Record and Dion Johnson think is cool.

The purpose of the CD is to demonstrate some of the cool things that can be done on SCO systems. And what is cooler than a Specula tune?

OJ SIMPSON SONG CONTEST

Not.

Malcom wanted to do a contest soliciting lyrics and ideas for a song about OJ. But the rest of the band deep-sixed the idea. They said it was tasteless. Fooey. Malcom never gets to have any fun.

GIG REVIEW: SPECULA IN THE BACKYARDS OF SANTA CRUZ

We came, we were seen, we played. Malcom forgot his guitar for one gig (but was rescued by one of Yam's friends with a loaner Telecaster; nice guitar).

Then Yam un-redeemed himself by forgetting the time of the subsequent gig at Larry's Revel Alliance party. Donations for a personal secretary (sorry, administrative assistant) for Yam can be sent to the Deth Specula snail mail address below.

The Revel Alliance also saw Larry Colen's angry neighbors descend on his backyard armed with sawed-off pitchforks, Saturday Night Special beer, and semi-automatic rotting vegetables to tell us to turn down damnit. But we won over the crowd of one-toothed, overall-wearing dope growers with our maximum volume music. The neighbors liked it, too. However, one particularly surly caller threatened us with The Police. I don't know about you, but I am sick to deth of hearing Zenatta Mondatta, so we turned down a bit towards the end. Do-doo-doo-dooo, da da-da-da, is all I ever get from them anyway.

The evening ended with a pyrotechnic display by John Dubois and friend, who almost burned down the entire San Lorenzo Valley chasing each other around with flaming spray cans. Timmy also scored a 14-year-old groupie, but what else is new.

Revel Alliance show-openers Avalon Rising were most excellent. They played two cool sets of Gaelic Rock. Malcom sez "check 'em out."

NEWS FROM THE FORMER SOVIET UNION

We got some e-mail from one Dmitri Bender, who runs an alternative music program on the only radio station in the city of Izhevsk (pop. 800,000) in the Udmurt Republic, Russia. The Russians are hip to alternative music, something a centrally-planned economy is not particularly adept at providing. Tapes are on their way to the Udmurt Republic even as you read this. We'll keep you posted on any Russian tour dates.

REMINDER: NEW DETH SPECULA MAILING ADDRESS

You can send money, burnt offerings, paper correspondence, and so forth to the following snail-mail address:
Deth Specula
849 Almar Ave., Suite C-170
Santa Cruz, CA 95060

NEW URL FOR DETH SPECULA HOME PAGE

Since the Yamster was maintaining the Deth Specula Home Page, and since he has moved from Echo St., Santa Cruz, the Deth Specula Home Page has moved also:
http://klinzhai.iuma.com/specula/index.html
Please make a note if it. If you forget, you can reach us through our entry on IUMA (http://www.iuma.com/). Of course, we'll soon be changing the address to something better and more stable, because ...

COMING SOON: deth.com

Atsa-right, we've registered deth.com as a domain. Soon you'll be able to send mail to us as specula@deth.com. This is NOT OPERATIONAL YET, BUT WILL BE SOON. So don't try it yet, it'll just bounce. We'll keep you posted.

We're soooo excited.

DETH SPECULA T-SHIRTS

Still no t-shirts? Yeah ... they're coming ... they're coming.

But we do have...

DETH SPECULA TAPES

Deth Specula's audio tape, "Weasel's and Cream" is still available.

Only $5.00. Includes lyrics.

Trust me,

Malcom 

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