Issue 18--April '99
*Order the Lassie Foundation's full
length album "Pacifico" by mail-- Send $13 cash or money orders (made
out to Eric Campuzano) only, to 235 Doverfield, Placentia, CA 92870, USA
($15 for those ordering outside of the USA)
*Pictures from the Glasshouse show
in Pomona, have been added to the photo gallery on the website at http://www.rollanet.org/~johnston
--the pictures were taken by Lee Gilmore
Reader's Reviews (excerpts from originals)
Lassie Foundation's - "Pacifico"
"Pacifico" is very experimental without straying from being very good and
very listenable. Songs seem to be built around steady deliberate drum beats.
Each song has been carefully constructed with every track fitting neatly
into place, no slop. The only instrument that ever gets to stray from course
is guitar. It doesn't even sound like a project 8 -
track recording.
-Wesley
Sweden
"Scapa Flow" - This song is awesome
to me in that it just blew me away as soon as I turned on the tunes.
It's like the prelude to "Dive Bomber" in a way, an appetizer if you will.
I think it gives the Lassies a kickstart for
the rest of the album.
"Dive Bomber" - What can I say?
Pure pop magic. This song really got me excited for the new material when
I first heard it on the ep. Of all the songs on "Pacifico," I consider
it one of the catchiest and tightest. Perhaps "most likely to be
played on public radio." It's really perfect from beginning to end.
"Crown of the Sea" - This has to be
my own personal favorite song by Lassie. Eric's riffing on this tune
is really sonically catching - maybe even entrancing. It's a very
beautiful song, making me wish to God I had the lyrics.
"She's the Coming Sun- She's Long
Gone" - Sheezz, how can a guy like Wayne with such a big voice reach heights
above my mere normal range? This tune really features his wide range
for his "falsetto-ness" and then his coming
down to bring the song full circle
into the chorus.
"El Rey" - Just to officially hear
this song on "Pacifico" was a gift in itself. I loved it dearly from
the moment I heard it on the Nashville Revolt. A simple song with
few words, but terribly intoxicating with the sliding guitar leads, Wayne's
distant "walking right at you," and Julie Martin's sweet tart bgv's.
Possibly the most "romantic-longing" feeling
song in the barrel.
"Kisses Bounties" - I think one of
the greatest things about LF is that they can totally amaze you with
their music, and catch you within their pop web. Then, unexpectedly
they turn and throw something like this at you. "Bounties.." is a
simple laid back, grooving song that is very unreliant on the music itself,
leaving the vocals very upfront. It's the sing-along song of the
album, with a plethora of bgv's and finger snaps. "Sailing my way
back to Pacifico.."
"You are Infinity" - This is really
what it's about, redemption, forgiveness, and eternity. A very fitting
and honest closing for another chapter of the Lassie Foundation.
This song is a taste of heaven.
-Jon
Anderson
This is an A+ record. It's california
cool. It's everything you want from pop music. Inventive, exploratory,
experimental, harmonic, melodique, new, fresh. It's all here. America needs
Lassie Foundation.
-Wesley Sweden
*Did anyone videotape the Exit/In show
in Nashville? Or any other Lassie Foundation show for that matter?
Please contact me at johnston@rollanet.org if you have.
Links
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Nzine- http://come.to/nzine
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Thanks to-- Wesley Sweden, Jon Anderson, and the Lassie Foundation
-alyssa johnston