Rock Around The World: Tracy Nelson-Joey Ramone-Ivan Kral - Article/TITLE><script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-9302529-2']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 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border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 196.100000pt; height: 16.150000pt; top: 10pt; left: 14.400000pt;" > <LAYER top=13.333333px left=19.200000px width=261.466667px height=21.533333px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,261,21" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 1.330000; margin-top: 7.200000px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 36px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: -0.380000pt;" >12<SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 6.370000pt;" > Rock Around The World / April 1978 </SPAN></SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 371.550000pt; height: 35.500000pt; top: 57.850000pt; left: 23.500000pt;" > <LAYER top=77.133333px left=31.333333px width=495.400000px height=47.333333px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,495,47" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 0.730000; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 40.680000pt; letter-spacing: -3.380000pt;" >Manhattan MADNESS </SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 332.400000pt; height: 9.100000pt; top: 664.800000pt; left: 25.900000pt;" > <LAYER top=886.400000px left=34.533333px width=443.200000px height=12.133333px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,443,12" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: right; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 0.960000; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Joey Ramone with buddies at a punk press party held in a local pool hall. </SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 174pt; height: 306.350000pt; top: 673.900000pt; left: 25.900000pt;" > <LAYER top=898.533333px left=34.533333px width=232.000000px height=408.466667px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,232,408" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.400000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 7.200000px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >The Great New York Blizzard of 1978 <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >nearly KO'ed the city, but it didn't stop </SPAN>the hardcore rock 'n' rollers. After the <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Ramones/Runaways concert at the Pal</SPAN>ladium, press and guests turned out to a <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >celebration in a nearby pool hall (as in </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >billiards, not swimming). Some of the </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >New Yorkiest celebs were there: Rick </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Derringer (a resident of Greenwich Vil</SPAN>lage), Daryl Hall, David Johansson, the Dictators, Ivan Kral (formerly of the Patti <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Smith Group), the Patti Smith Group </SPAN>(without Patti), and Television. </SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.400000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 14.400000px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Speaking of Derringer, his ex-lead <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >guitarist Danny Johnson and drummer </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Vinny Appice (yes, he's Carmine's little </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >bro) have formed a heavy rock trio with </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >bassist Jay Davis (he worked with Mick </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Ronson and Ian McDonald & Mick Jones </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >of Foreigner). They're called Axis, and </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >that's just what they'll knock you right </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >off of. The band has been recording with </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >producer Andy Johns (if you haven't </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >heard the name, just check the liner notes </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >on your best rock albums) and will issue </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >their first release on Hologram Records, </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >the new label opened by the Record Plant studios in New York. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 1.350000; margin-top: 16.800000px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 2.400000px; margin-left: 14.400000px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Daryl Hall's solo album is having its </SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 173.700000pt; height: 299.600000pt; top: 680.650000pt; left: 213.900000pt;" > <LAYER top=907.533333px left=285.200000px width=231.600000px height=399.466667px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,231,399" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >final touches done at the Record Plant. <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Also in that studio for a few days was </SPAN>David Johansson, cutting a French version of his single for release in Europe. <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >David didn't have too much trouble with </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >pronunciation, but when it came time to </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >translate the lyrics, he called on the </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Record Plant's talented night receptionist </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >for help. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: justify; text-indent: 14.400000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 28.800000px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 7.200000px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Underground filmmaker Amos Poe <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >debuted this new new wave (not to be </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >confused with the cinematic "new wave" </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >a la Godard) film on the New York punk </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >scene. Called </SPAN><SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >The Foreigner, </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >the semi</SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >documentary movie features Blondie's </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Debbie Harry in a cameo role, music by </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Ivan Kral, and an appearance by the </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Cramps. Harlem was hopping as the Cot</SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >ton Club re-opened on 125th Street. The </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >club, once known as "the artistocrat of </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Harlem" in the 20s and 30s, used to </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >feature bootleg liquor and the great enter</SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >tainers of the Harlem Renaissance era </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >(Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, etc.). The </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >new club maintains the art deco look and </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >extravagant atmosphere. Its opening night </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >featured headliner Cab Calloway (whose </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >name was synonymous with the original </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Cotton Club). </SPAN></SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 171.200000pt; height: 365.500000pt; top: 192pt; left: 401.900000pt;" > <LAYER top=256px left=535.866667px width=228.266667px height=487.333333px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,228,487" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: justify; text-indent: 9.600000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >In the packed audience were Muham<SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >med Ali, Donald Byrd, flautist Bobbi </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Humphrey, jazzman Eubie Blake, Ossie </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Davis and Ruby Dee, Mrs. Duke Elling</SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >ton, Carl Stokes, Broadway's </SPAN><SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Bubbling </SPAN><SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Brown Sugar </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >star Josephine Premice, </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >vaudeville veteran PegLeg Bates, and a </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >camera-shy Ella Fitzgerald. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: justify; text-indent: 9.600000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 2.400000px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >While the Cotton Club celebrated up<SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >town, that same evening Bette Midler </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >opened her run at the Copacabana. Did </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >our flame-haired heroine plotz when she </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >noticed Mayor Koch and consumer ad</SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >vocate Bess Myerson in her audience? Not </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >at all; the divine Miss M simply began </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >joshing them and made even their police </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >contingent feel at home. Now </SPAN><SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >that's </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >chutzpah. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: justify; text-indent: 9.600000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 9.600000px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Earlier that night (a frenetic one for <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >the music business) the Stereo Review </SPAN>Awards party was held at the St. Regis <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >hotel. Among the guests were Carly </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Simon and James Taylor, actresses Cel</SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >este Holm and Millicent Martin, guest of </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >honor composer Richard Rodgers, Eubie </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Blake (for a man over 65 he sure gets </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >around!), and more Broadway names </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >than you could fit on one marquee. Carly </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >got her picture snapped by a newspaper </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >photographer as she was chomping a </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >mouthful of food, and her facial reaction </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >was akin to something Grace Slick might </SPAN>have pulled in her more rambunctious <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: -0.380000pt;" >days. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: justify; text-indent: 9.600000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 19.200000px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 360px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Long-lost Tracy Nelson appeared at <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >New York's only country music club, the </SPAN></SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 174pt; height: 152.250000pt; top: 828pt; left: 401.900000pt;" > <LAYER top=1104px left=535.866667px width=232.000000px height=203px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,232,203" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 1.310000; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Tracy Nelson backstage at the Lone Star </SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 14.400000px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 7.200000px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Lone Star, for two nights. Despite the <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >biting cold, fans waited in a line to the </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >ing of the block for standing room. Mrs. </SPAN>Nelson, as she promised in a personal <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >letter to the </SPAN><SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Village Voice </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >newspaper </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >earlier this month, gave the show of her </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >life. The most complex songs became </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >effortless for Nelson's rich voice as she </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >swung from country to blues, gospel and rock. With the sheer emotional power and </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >range of interpretive ability this woman </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >has, it's an utter absurdity that she's </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >without a record label right now. </SPAN></SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 129.100000pt; height: 10.800000pt; top: 84pt; left: 634.800000pt;" > <LAYER top=112px left=846.400000px width=172.133333px height=14.400000px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,172,14" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 0.850000; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >by Kris DiLorenzo </SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 174pt; height: 622.150000pt; top: 358.100000pt; left: 589.900000pt;" > <LAYER top=477.466667px left=786.533333px width=232.000000px height=829.533333px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,232,829" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 1.150000; margin-top: 2.400000px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Ivan Kral of the Patti Smith Group <BR><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >composed the music for <BR></SPAN>Amos Poe's "The Foreigner." </SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: justify; text-indent: 9.600000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 7.200000px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Gildersleeves, the less tacky rock club <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >on the Bowery, is showcasing new talent </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >and happened to hit on a winner lately. </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Rochester group Witz dished out their </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >own unique progressive rock to an ap</SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >preciative audience, and in between orig</SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >inal tunes surprised everyone with blister</SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >ing Kinks covers. The band has two </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >keyboard players and a John Oates ringer </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >as a drummer, but their strength is their </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >amazing ability with a hook, locomotive </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >drive, and a rhythm section that is split-second tight. With those ingredients and </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >their two excellent vocalists, Witz has </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >more going for them than any ten ordin</SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >ary rock bands put together. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: justify; text-indent: 9.600000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 16.800000px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Steve Khan and Maynard Ferguson <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >raised the roof at Avery Fisher Hall </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >recently. Guitarist Khan appeared with </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >session honchos Don Grolnick (key</SPAN>boards), Will Lee (bass), Mike Brecker (sax), and Steve Gadd (drums)--a com<SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >bination too hot for words. If you don't recognize the individual names, just assoc</SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >iate them with Phoebe Snow, Stuff, The Brecker Brothers, David Sanborn </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: justify; text-indent: 9.600000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Ferguson's trumpet hit some of the <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >most stratospheric notes imaginable as he flashed his way through material from his </SPAN><SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Primal Scream </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >and </SPAN><SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >New Vintage </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >LPs and </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >some not-yet-released tunes. 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