Portland punk, Top Ten of 2020, Pell Mell... All This and More with special guest Bob Beerman. 
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YOU DON’T KNOW MOJACK is a podcast dedicated to exploring the entire SST catalogue, in order, from start to finish. During the podcast we will discuss all the releases that are part of our core DNA, as well as many lesser-known releases that deserve a second chance, or releases that we are discovering for the very first time (we actually don’t know Mojack!). First and foremost we are fans, and acknowledge that we are not perfect and don’t know everything – sometimes the discussion is more about a time, place, feeling, personal experience or random tangents, and less about the facts (but we will try to get to the facts too). Facebook: www.facebook.com/mojackpod/ Twitter: @mojackpod Instagram: www.instagram.com/mojackpod/ Blog: www.mojackpod.com/ Tumblr: www.tumblr.com/blog/mojackpod Theme Song: Shockflesh

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158 Pell Mell "The Bumper Crop" w/ Bob Beerman

A podcast exploring each release on SST Records, in order, from start to finish.

factcheckr(AKA Philip C. Hertz)was/is a dear talented friend. He passed in 2018. He played drums in Tiny Holes, Jumbo Zen, Paris Working and Scientists. He was also adept at samplers, analog synths, audio collage’ and making noise. This page features music we made together. We had a lot of help. There are notes on each track. There will be more music coming.  Be sure and checkout Peabody and Sherman his dubsmart duo with Curtis Ruptash: https://peabodysherman.bandcamp.com Learn more about Philip and his band Tiny Holes:https://youtu.be/cnQgR0c3GoA

Multi-instrumentalist in New York's East Village. 

Always looking to expand my network of people to collaborate and jam with.

Currently interested in doing either of two things:

• "Post-Rock" instrumental music in the style of 'Pell Mell'. NOT the dirge-y stuff that's more about effects than music. More melody and groove-based. Like an atmospheric Booker T & the MGs. (Other bands I might cite besides Pell Mell would be 'Magyar Posse' and 'Friends Of Dean Martinez'.)

• Country - either 60s/70s honky-tonk, or Alt that's a little weird. Or some form of country that doesn't sound like a Chevy Truck commercial.

I play guitar, pedal steel, bass and a little keyboard. I also do a thing where I play bass and guitar simultaneously on a special instrument I've cooked up. I call it "dual-range guitar".

BIO:

Jon's musical career began with punk bands in college, one of which evolved into an experimental pop band called "Paper Dolls". Based in Northampton MA, Paper Dolls played around the northeast from 1979-1982, released a 45 which got regional airplay and opened shows for Talking Heads, Buzzcocks and John Cale. Jon wrote and sang half the material, the rest penned by bandmate Peter Sikowitz.&#13;
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Jon moved to New York in 1982 to pursue a career in advertising. In the late 80s he replaced Lary Lamé as the guitarist in The Jickets, an exercise in irony that was often painful to listen to, but at times soared to Pere Ubu-ish heights.&#13;
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In the 90s Jon began writing songs again, and in '94 formed Furniture. Shunning the loose guitar strumming of the Grunge era, Furniture had an articulated sound that was driven by complex basslines and frenetic organ. The band performed from 1994-1997, and released an album in 1996 on Cavalcade Records. They played to their largest audience at their last show, opening for the Stranglers at a rare US concert in 1997.&#13;
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In 1998 Jon's attention shifted from playing music to forming a company to market his music-related inventions. Under the name Blackstone Appliances, he produces the popular Blackstone Mosfet Overdrive, a guitar effects pedal. &#13;
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In 2012 Jon surfaced again as a performer, this time backing up singer Dennie Hausen with his "dual-range guitar", on which he plays bass and guitar simultaneously.
(see http://blackstoneappliances.com/odka/dual-range_guitar.html)

158 Pell Mell "The Bumper Crop" w/ Bob Beerman

You Don't Know Mojack