JOE BAIZA 
is a self-taught guitarist who started playing in the 70’s, during
the Punk era 
grew up in Wilmington, in the harbor area of Los Angeles 
has been eating sound for breakfast since 1970
was fascinated by the beat movement even before he learned to play the
guitar 
reads news commentary of ‘geographically diverse, politically-savvy,
pro-democracy’ content on the BuzzFlash web
is, according to most reviews, an awesome guitar player
once said in an interview that playing music with no rules precludes developing
a career game plan
one of his favourite films is the naturalistic film noir crime classic
‘The Asphalt Jungle’ by John Huston
and another film classic he likes is ‘A Clockwork Orange’
by Stanley Kubrick
has a house full of images, books, LP’s and CD’s
sometimes finds nice gadgets at the Veenvop shop
started out punk as a guitarist with Saccharine Trust
his grandparents came from Mexico and settled in California
discovered another reading of US history, in ‘The People's History
of the United States’, than what he learned at school
was, like his father, supposed to go and work at an oil refinery in El
Segundo but started taking art classes as well
like his colleague Nels Cline, is happy when he listens to music because
that’s when he learns something
made flyers and covers for Saccharine Trust
loves the underground Zap comics of the ‘60’s
is always taking photographs when he’s on tour
co-founded Saccharine Trust with Jack Brewer in 1980 and played with them
for six years
became known, with Saccharine Trust, for his rock/avant-garde jazz sound
was turned
on to jazz by Charlie Parker
especially likes the music Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers did in 1960 and also
played for bands like Universal Congress, The Minutemen and Mike Watt
founded
The Mecolodiacs with whom he made a record at Hazelwood studios in Germany was helped
out by the L.A. music community who organized a benefit concert for him
after he was attacked by a group of people in Berlin and broke his hand
got back
with Jack Brewer in 1996 to re-form the band
recorded in a new album with Saccharine Trust 1999 at Hazelwood in Germany
likes Serge
Jacques’ photographs for the French pin-up magazine ‘Paris-Hollywood’
always
inspects the bookshelves in other peoples houses and as soon as he can,
leaves the conversation to others, takes out a book and sits down to have
a quiet read
likes Free Jazz, people like Eric Dolphy and Ornette Coleman, and late
Sixties rock
is interested in the music on the Darkfunk web
his passions
are, as far as I know, music and Annemiek
has listed Dostoevsky’s ‘The Idiot!’ as one of his favourite
books likes
to keep his private life private
Appears on Piero Scaruffi’s list, between Gary Lucas and Keith Richards,
as the 11th greatest rock guitarist of all times
Saccharine Trust was described in an L.A weekly in 1985 as possibly the
most daringly "outside" on the SST record label, which produced
groups such as the The Black Flag, The Minutemen, Husker Du, and The Meat
Puppets
recorded music with Saccharine Trust, according to some reviews, of unequalled
terror, beauty and expression
likes to drink vodka and orange
recently played with Money Mark in a fundraising concert for Arts in Action,
and thinks his new album ‘Change is Coming’ is great
drives an old beetle named Osco
played on ‘Our Band Could Be Your Life: A Tribute to D. Boon and
the Minutemen’ which was released as a limited edition CD in 1994 played
guitar and vocals on the Universal Congress Of CD, ‘Salty Black
Wind’
was born in January 1952
his face can evoke something enigmatic, like big old Indian carvings of
faces likes
the Kurosawa film ‘Yojimbo’ and resembles the actor Toshiro
Mifune, who plays the main character
has been one of Mike Watt’s oldest friends, since the early days
of Punk
toured with Mike Watt as a guitarist in his Punk opera "Contemplating
the Engine Room"
likes the ‘Freelancing’ and ‘Black Rock’ albums
by James Ulmer
works at Cooke’s Crating when not touring with one of his bands
has a compact
muscular body March 4, 2003 feels
like a fish in water, or better, like a lizard in the sand, when he’s
in the desert, with its dazzling sunlight, dryness and different coloured
rock formations likes
the Sixties Bossa Nova sound on the CD ‘Rain Forest’ by Walter
Wanderley is
listed among the 200 guitarist admired by Nels Cline his
house is slowly filling up with all the things he collects, leaving less
and less space to move around brought
together the creative anarchy of improvised music with the independent
attitude of the punk scene at a time when the two philosophies seemed
mutually exclusive is
not too organized outside his work and moves at his own speed when it
comes to doing all the practical things one has to do like dealing with
insurance and tax played
with Saccharine Trust recently at Mr T’s Bowl in L.A., on the occasion
of Mr T’s birthday. October 27, 2003
is working with Saccharine Trust on the domestic version of the album “The
Great One is Dead.”
from time to time will go out with his male friends to Taylor’s Steakhouse,
a gathering they refer to as the ‘weenie roast’
is tending more and more towards classic male clothes that are graphic and colourful
his favourite vodka is Zubrovka
likes spicy food and sometimes talks to his Spanish pepper plants in order to
encourage them to carry fruits
has an uncontrollable urge to collect things
and likes to keep people’s voices and weird messages on his voicemail,
as a result of which one often can’t leave any message at all because the
mailbox is full
formed a jazz quartet ‘Joe Baiza Congress Of’ whose music walks a
thin line between experimental free from and groove carefully balancing between
the improvised and the arranged
his jazz quartet can be seen on a variety of stages from the Knitting Factory
to the little restaurant ‘El Salvador 2000’ on Sunset boulevard
is very critical of America and Americans and doesn’t quite understand
Annemiek’s enthusiasm about life in Los Angeles
October 3, 2004 did a long interview with a music magazine from Australia called ‘Perfect Sound Forever’, which has a list of his favourite music his album ‘Sparkling Fresh’, which he did with the band Universal Congress Of, is a unique testament to the vitality of alternative jazz rock sometimes listens to the very strange and detailed conspiracy stories of Dave Emory, which you can find in the archives on the WFMU radio station website often has a lot of fun with Annemiek, walking their new dog Browse in Griffith Park and watching him running and cutting capers his albums with Saccharine Trust, Paganicons (1981) and Surviving You (1984) attempted the boldest fusion of hardcore and jazz has just started to build his own personal website where you’ll soon be able to find information on his shows, music, arts and more worked on a project called ‘Puttanesca’ alongside a Garretson played at All Tomorrow's Parties UK 2004 festival with Sacharine Trust also played at the Spitz in London when he was in the UK for the All Tomorrow's Parties UK 2004 festival recently started to run again, almost ever day, after years of doing very little sports his new personal website will be designed by Mad Idea looks up his favourite cool TV theme songs on the ‘Melaman’ website played with The Sherpas in July at Tax Lounge on Sunset Boulevard hurt his arm when he tried to hit a toy clown with a shillelagh has had a fascination with maps and landmarks since his early childhood and very much likes the members.cox website , where one can find photographs of Los Angeles highways finds interesting photographs of outer space on the net, which almost resemble paintings when you enlarge them is looking forward to coming to Europe in October 2004 and meeting up with old friends in Berlin, Amsterdam and Brussels
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BuzzFlash Information BuzzFlash provides
headlines, news, and commentary for a geographically-diverse, politically-savvy,
pro-democracy, anti-hypocrisy web audience, reaching nearly a million
visitors a month and growing.
www.filmsite.org/asph.html
The Asphalt Jungle (1950) is a naturalistic film noir crime film classic
of the early 1950s from director John Huston. The sparse, gritty and tense
film with a linear narrative is often considered the definitive heist
or caper film, often copied and paid homage to by later films (e.g., Kubrick's
The Killing (1956) also with Sterling Hayden, Mackendrick's British film
The Ladykillers (1955), Jules Dassin's French-made Rififi (1954), Ocean's
Eleven (1960), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), and The Usual Suspects (1995)).
The realistic, documentary-like, urban crime film - advertised as "A John
Huston Production" - was one of the first films that completely and specifically
detailed how to pull off an authentic-looking heist - something usually
considered morally improper under the Production Code.
http://wso.williams.edu/~mhacker/clockwork.html
www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/1974/main.html
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie,
and Dim, Dim being really dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar making
up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening. . .
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online-store/scstore/p-bhchist1995phus.html?
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People's History of the United States, 1492-Present, revised and updated
edition is a comprehensive history from a different perspective than traditionally
taught to U.S. citizens. From the arrival of Columbus and the genocide
that followed to the mid-nineties Zinn tells it like it was. The truth
this time! ?Professor Zinn writes with an enthusiasm rarely encountered
in the leaden prose of academic history, and his text is studded with
telling quotations from labor leaders, war resisters and fugitive slaves.
There are vivid descriptions of events that are usually ignored, such
as the great railroad strike of 1877 and the brutal suppression of the
Philippine independence movement art the turn of the century. Professor
Zinn?s chapter on Vietnam?qbringing to life once again the free-fire zones,
secret bombings, massacres and cover-ups ?N should be required reading
for a new generation of students now facing conscription.O?L -Eric Foner,
New York Times Book Review
www.nelscline.com/message.html
My feelings/thoughts/emotions have been in a state of upheaval. Reassessment
has been rampant. Highs have been high. Lows...oh so low! Since you all
last checked in with me - and I with you - beauty is still beautiful,
ugliness is still ugly, lies are still lies, and the truth...can really
hurt! Inspiration ebbs and flows, but tends to flow and flow....where?
In, out, within, without. I have lost perspective. (?) More guitar - Too
much guitar - More guitar - Too much guitar - And what of life? A Life?
A lifetime? Like I said, reassessment. If you're reading this site for
the first time, I'm sorry. But you're gonna have to get used to this sort
of thing, because too much sound has passed through this head for me to
give a shit about whether or not I'm (pick one) a) advanced b) a pro c)
cool d) better than you e) all of the above. I'm trying to embrace you
and not lose myself in the process. I'm happy when I listen, because it's
then that I learn.
www.crumbmuseum.com/zapwing.html
www.typotheque.com/articles/zap.html
Zap Comics by Steven Heller Back in 1968, underground comix attacked the
peremptory values of a conservative society that less than a decade earlier
had imposed strict rules of conduct on its youth. During the early to
mid 1950s, at the height of the social and political purges known as McCarthyism,
Congress was engaged in an investigative frenzy to root out Communists
in government and adverse influences on the culture at large. They believed
that American kids ?q the offspring of a victorious post-war nation ?q were
susceptible to forces of evil being filtered into the collective unconscious
through such inflammatory media as comic books.
www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/
books/adults_only/all/facts/03214.htm"
Serge Jacques, whose work pushed the limits of the pin-up genre, bravely
fought back against the tough censors of the 1950s?qearning himself a bad
reputation with the authorities and a cult following among fans of erotic
photography. Here is a selection of the best work of the notorious photographer
and publisher of the legendary French pin-up magazine Paris-Hollywood
www.kiosek.com/dostoevsky/index.html
www.moneymark.com/
Money Mark ??Change Is Coming? This album, essentially, plays like a recording
of the time Money Mark was left in charge of the multicultural hour at
the easy-listening station--it is music that reassuringly pats the listener
on the head with one hand, while nonchalantly tickling his ribs with the
fingertips of the other
www2.tky.3web.ne.jp/~adk/kurosawa/filmo/
AKfilmo.htmlYojimbo
www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/Quarter/7055/Ulmer/
www.jwolf.com/iajo/iajo04/
brazil/wanderle.htm
The Jazz Organ Scene Brazil
Walter Wanderley
It was Tony Bennett who persuaded Walter to take off for New York in
1966. Bossa nova artists like Stan Getz, Antônio Carlos Jobim and
Astrud Gilberto had provided their label Verve with huge successes. Wanderley
joined in and became the Boss of the Bossa Nova. One of his songs, "Summer
Samba", reached no. 26 on the pop hit ladder.
In the course of the 70's, the bossa nova fever found its end, and also
the career of Walter Wanderley. He died, nearly forgotten, in San Francisco/USA
on 04 september 1986.
http://www.furious.com/perfect/
saccharinetrust.html
James Blood Ulmer Freelancing
Television Marquee Moon
The Meters Second Line Strut
Charlie Parker Savoy and Dial recordings
Gang of Four Entertainment
Pat Martino Baiyina (The Clear Evidence)
Sergei Rachmaninoff “Rachmaninoff plays Rachmaninoff
Charles Mingus Mingus at Antibes
Walter Wanderley Rain Forest
The Fall Live at
http://www.melaman2.com/tvshows/
When I was a kid growing up in the 70s, I enjoyed the shows on network television like Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, Love Boat and Charlies' Angels. But what I even enjoyed more were the syndicated shows of: Gilligan's Island, Hogan's Heroes, M*A*S*H, Brady Bunch and McHale's Navy. What I remember the most though is the actual song from those classics. How can anyone forget songs like the Munster's theme or even Edith singing and playing the piano on All In The Family. This website will focus on the classics which I was able to find and put together, but most importantly, the theme song in it's actual format (MP3). Though these songs generally take anywhere from 45 seconds to 2 minutes to download, this entire site is FREE for everyone. If you know your show, just click on the LETTER that the show begins and you will go to the next index page where all that LETTER's shows are listed.
