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Crack the Sky
The Best of the Rest (And Then Some) is a compact disc that compiles tracks from Crack the Sky's second incarnation (from the albums White Music and Photoflamingo), third incarnation (from the albums From the Greenhouse and Dog City), and John Palumbo's first two solo albums (Innocent Bystander and Blowing Up Detroit). It also includes two songs left off the original CD reissues of the band's first two albums (Crack the Sky and Animal Notes). It was released in 2000 by Winthrop.

Track listing

 * 1) "Lost in America" g
 * 2) "Too Nice for That" e
 * 3) "Blowing Up Detroit" f
 * 4) "Good Child Gone Wild" e
 * 5) "The Radio Cries (It's Singles Time)" d
 * 6) "Mr. President" h
 * 7) "Poptown" d
 * 8) "Last Time" e
 * 9) "From the Greenhouse" g
 * 10) "Only Lonely" e
 * 11) "We Want Mine" b
 * 12) "Mind Baby" a
 * 13) "Drifting Back to Motown" f
 * 14) "I Lean on You" c
 * 15) "All American Boy" d
 * 16) "Dear, Dear" c


 * a Crack the Sky (1975)
 * b Animal Notes (1976)
 * c John Palumbo's Innocent Bystander (1978)
 * d White Music (1980)


 * e Photoflamingo (1981)
 * f John Palumbo's Blowing Up Detroit (1984)
 * g From the Greenhouse (1989)
 * h Dog City (1990)

Bands rock for Chupacabra

 * Tristram Lozaw, Boston Herald, Nov 27, 1998, pg. s.25

There are many causes worthy of our charity. But none has affected Quintaine Americana bassist Marc Schleicher quite like the plight of Mexico's El Chupacabra. This creature of "beauty and splendor," Schleicher said, is hunted for its tusks, which prevent scurvy, and is in danger of being killed off.

To help, he has gathered 21 Boston bands for the "Benefit for El Chupacabra" (PolterChrist) CD and organized two shows, with a portion of the proceeds going to the Chupacabra Outreach and Survival Foundation. Sort of.

While El Chupacabra exists in the minds of some - a Sasquatch-type being blamed for the deaths of dogs, cows, chickens - it's only as well documented as an Elvis sighting.

That's enough for Schleicher. "I think people will enjoy the humor of helping to save a phantom," he said. In this case, the "benefit" is all about exposure for the groups on the CD, which include Quintaine, Vic Firecracker, Los Conquistadors, Moveable, Honey Glazed, Slughog, Cathode.

"We're selling it for just $5 in stores," said Schleicher, who runs PolterChrist. "The idea is to get the music heard. It's a lot of the bands' first recordings."

The first "El Chupacabra" CD party happens Monday at O'Brien's in Allston, with Planet Queen, Claymore, Los Conquistadors and the final show of Ass Tractor. Problemo Stupido will emcee. Wednesday at the Lizard Lounge in Cambridge, Stupido's Bluegrass Mutantears joins Honey Glazed, X-rated New York's Ducky Doolittle, and the usual entertaining "Marlene" cabaret. The shows are co-presented by Krapp Magazine, published by bassist Tim Catz (Honey Glazed, Roadsaw).

Upcoming PolterChrist releases include a Claymore album and a split CD with Cracktorch and Los Conquistadors. Schleicher says Quintaine Americana records demos for a new album in December and then hits the road in January.


 * review - Dark Thirty @ Baby Sue http://www.babysue.com/LMNOP-Reviews-January-04.html#anchor505236

Great vibes come from SuperSonic

 * Robin Vaughan, Boston Herald, Nov 19, 1999, pg. S.25

Many will move up the street to the Middle East, where glam-rockers Honeyglazed are playing, along with the notoriously dissonant, determinedly obnoxious Coke Dealer (fronted by "Harlem Greenwood," the slimy, raving, audience-harassing alter-ego of Quintaine Americana's Marc Schleicher).

A Welcome Millennium

 * http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/longterm/music/brace64.htm
 * Eric Brace, Washington Post, August 22, 1997, Page N10.

Michael Reidy's voice is a mess, all cracking and breaking. "Sorry," he manages to spit out over the phone line. "I've been screaming my head off down here in Bill's basement. We've been practicing." He pauses, realizing something. "Funny, this is the same [expletive] basement I was screaming my head off in 1971 when we started."

Can it really have been that long ago? He's talking about the beginnings of his near-legendary band, Razz, a raucous proto-punk/hard rock/performance art group that in its heyday (roughly 1977-1979) was the biggest thing on the local club circuit and was considered a sure bet for major label stardom. The band "should have been a national force," writes Mark Opsasnick in his excellent recent history of Washington's rock 'n' roll scene, "Capitol Rock." (Order a copy for $17 by writing P.O. Box 189, Riverdale, MD 20738.)

Razz broke up at the end of 1979, but there have been a handful of reunions in the '90s. Saturday brings us another when Razz opens two shows for the also reuniting Monkees at the 9:30 club (202/393-0930). "After I booked the Monkees, I was wondering who else I could add to the bill," explains Seth Hurwitz, owner of the 9:30 club and I.M.P. productions. "I was thinking `reunion,' I was thinking `cool' and I knew who I had to get. Razz! In my opinion -- and no one's going to believe this but it's true -- Razz is one of my all-time favorite bands. Not Washington bands. Just bands, period. And I've seen a lot of [expletive] bands."

Reidy, who clearly still has as much inspired mania in him as he ever did while fronting Razz, was at first reluctant to take the gig: "The phone rings and it's Seth. He says, `Reidy? Hurwitz.' I said, `I know why you're calling and the answer's no. I'm not doing another Razz reunion.' But then he tells me he wants us to open for the Monkees and I say `We're there! What's the date?' "

Though the final incarnation of the band included Tommy Keene, that power-pop prince won't be performing Saturday. Nor will one-time Razz bassist Ted Nicely, who's in London being a hot-shot producer, which is what he's become over the years, having worked with Fugazi, Jawbox, Shudder to Think and Girls Against Boys, among others. But present will be old Razz hands Doug Tull on drums, Bill Craig and Abaad Behram playing guitars, and Jim Crenca joining in on bass.

"I hear the Monkees are pretty slick sounding with all their session musicians with them, so if you're in the audience, I have a feeling our set's going to be a stick in your eye, or your ear or whatever. We're not exactly a monkey-ass pop group! We might even cause a little trouble. You know I tower over that midget Davey Jones! If there's one thing we know how to do it's spank a Monkee!"

Reidy is cackling madly as he hangs up.