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	Rocket
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		Rocket From The Tombs Rocket From The Tombs was a band that began around Television.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/rocket.html (1794 words)

	Rocket from the Tombs: Rocket Redux: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Rocket from the Tombs were originally only a band for about 200 days in the winter of 1974 and the spring of 1975, but what transpired in that condensed period was intense, and helped to plot the course of punk and post-punk a couple of years before either of those phenomena reached the mainstream.
		Rocket Redux never sounds like a complacent reunion record, and in a way, I suppose it's not really a reunion record in the first place so much as it's a debut album, played with all the hunger and fire of a band eager to make their mark on the world.
		Rocket from the Tombs have already done that, of course, but I'm glad they came back to give it one more go, because the result is an album anyone investigating the roots of punk should have-- one that finally completes the band's chapter in rock's great book.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/r/rocket-from-the-tombs/rocket-redux.shtml (702 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Music: The Day the Earth Met the Rocket from the Tombs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Rocket From The Tombs were fronted by Crocus Behemoth, aka David Thomas of Pere Ubu, who would go on to record, in more refined form, many of the songs featured here.
		Rocket From The Tombs brought something different, however--a lumpen, toxic guitar sensibility borne of their post-industrial Cleveland surroundings as well as a quivering, heightened existential awareness, personified by David Thomas on "30 Seconds Over Tokyo" and "Final Solution".
		Rocket from the Tombs were the earliest incarnation of the band that would become Pere Ubu- a band who would produce some of the most mindblowing releases of the late70s (Datapanik in the Year Zero, The Modern Dance, Dub Housing).
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005Y4HY (785 words)

	Rocket from the Tombs: The Day the Earth Met Rocket from the Tombs: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		And this is one of the main reasons Rocket from the Tombs is one of the most mythologized bands ever.
		Active for less than a year-- from winter 1974 to late summer '75-- RFTT released only one single during its brief lifespan, but its legacy was magnified by the two bands that sprung from its ashes: the scuzzy Dead Boys and arty, Beefheartian new wavers Pere Ubu.
		And Rocket from the Tombs perfectly embodied the bleakness of the city.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/r/rocket-from-the-tombs/day-the-earth-met.shtml (713 words)

	trakMARX - Rocket From The Tombs - Rocket Redux
		Rocket From The Tombs never got round to recording an official LP during their first incarnation and when Glitterhouse Records released The Day The Earth Met The Rocket From The Tombs (GRCD549) in 2002, many were hearing the group for the first time.
		Rocket Redux is a 12-track affair that features re-recordings of RFTT originals laid down at EGB Studios, NYC, in 2003 with Richard Lloyd at the controls.
		Rocket From The Tombs are resolutely not one of those type of groups and Rocket Redux deserves its place on your shelf next to The Day The Earth Met Rocket From The Tombs, The Shape Of Things, Terminal Tower and Modern Dance.
	www.trakmarx.com /2004_01/15_tomb.htm (606 words)

	Blast Off
		The missing link that few knew was missing, Rocket from the Tombs existed for barely eights months, and left behind virtually nothing to prove that they’d ever existed: three songs broadcast on the radio and the memories of those who’d seen them in their hometown of Cleveland.
		For decades, Rocket from the Tombs material had circulated on a variety of often abysmal-sounding bootlegs, but it wasn't until the release last year of The Day the Earth Met the Rocket from the Tombs (Smog Veil) that more than the most intrepid fans got a chance to hear what all the fuss was about.
		Though he's intrigued by the possibility of writing and recording new Rocket from the Tombs material, Thomas says he is "studiously avoiding" future plans, waiting to see if their first-ever tour will weld them together or blow them apart.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/2003-06-05/music.shtml (1006 words)

	Rocket From the Tombs at Abbey Pub
		A footnote to a footnote in rock history, Cleveland's Rocket From the Tombs billed itself as "The World's Only Dumb-Metal Mind-Death Rock and Roll Band," but it has come to be recognized as one of the first American punk groups.
		That divide symbolized what made Rocket From the Tombs great: Both reformed rock critics, Thomas and Laughner brought a super-smart art-rock sensibility to the band, while Chrome epitomized the sheer stupidity and unbridled energy of the rawest punk.
		This Rocket featured two stand-ins, but as ringers go, they were impressive: Television guitarist Rich-ard Lloyd filled in for Laughner (who died of drug and alcohol abuse in 1977), and current Ubu drummer Steve Mehlman took the place of Blitz (who is otherwise missing in action).
	www.jimdero.com /News2003/June6Rocket.htm (491 words)

	* Dusted Reviews - Rocket From the Tombs *
		Rocket from the Tombs were a ghost for nearly 30 years, a mostly unheard footnote to early US punk.
		In the Tombs, his voice hadn't developed the warble which was abundant on even the earliest Pere Ubu; he forced growls more than he yelped.
		In the Tombs’ favor is the newfound chemistry between Richard Lloyd and Cheetah Chrome on this record, most notably on “30 Seconds Over Tokyo”; they're the guitar heroes that never quite were.
	www.dustedmagazine.com /reviews/473 (785 words)

	Music \| Pre-punk launch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Yet by some miracle the members of Rocket from the Tombs managed to find one another.
		The first actual Rocket from the Tombs record appeared around 1990, a bootleg LP called Life Stinks.
		With 18 songs (and a fragment of "Satisfaction") assembled from two live shows and a radio tape recorded in their rehearsal space, it’s a fuzzy and dusty but invaluably potent piece of history.
	bostonphoenix.com /boston/music/other_stories/documents/02192124.htm (912 words)

	New life in Tombs
		Rocket from the Tombs never released an album during its lifetime, and it lasted only a year and a half before disbanding in late 1975.
		But the group has come to be recognized as one of the first American punk bands, and during a memorable reunion tour last summer, it proved to be worthy of its venerated legend.
		Somebody came up with the idea of Rocket, because Gene and Craig and I had been talking during the process of putting that compilation CD together ["The Day the Earth Met Rocket from the Tombs"].
	www.jimdero.com /News2003/Nov28Rocket.htm (1390 words)

	San Diego CityBEAT
		RFTT’s inner turmoil was matched only by the intensity they turned outward, and they rank high on rock historians’ all-time lists.
		Cleveland’s Smog Veil Records exposed RFTT to a whole new generation last year by releasing a critically acclaimed retrospective, The Day the Earth Met the Rocket from the Tombs.
		Rocket from the Tombs performs with the Von Bondies, The Weekend Blacks and the Manifolds, 8:30 p.m.
	www.sdcitybeat.com /article.php?id=1481 (774 words)

	Splendid Magazine reviews Rocket From the Tombs: Rocket Redux
		RFTT was beset with internal strife from the word go, and creative differences split them in their infancy.
		Rocket Redux is about legitimizing the past, acknowledging its impact on the present, and not caring too much about the future.
		Rocket From the Tombs have been living on borrowed time for almost thirty years; Rocket Redux is simply their opportunity to give fifty-one minutes of it back.
	www.splendidezine.com /review.html?reviewid=1078892101491101 (595 words)

	Rocket launch - The Washington Times: Entertainment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Rocket From the Tombs, Cleveland's jumping-off point for most of that city's punk-rock legacy, played the Black Cat Sunday evening with a vigor by turns intense and raucous.
		These are songs that immortalized Rocket in some quarters but made little dent in even the most rarefied precincts of the avant-garde music culture of the mid-'70s, when non-corporate music was just beginning to be taken seriously.
		Rocket From the Tombs played about a dozen shows in its first incarnation, gigs that impressed most of its peers and provided fodder for an underground legacy that would span a lifetime.
	washingtontimes.com /entertainment/20031209-095106-7324r.htm (723 words)

	reviewed
		RFTT were a precursor of both the Dead Boys and Pere Ubu, containing principal members of both seminal Cleveland bands.
		RFTT hadn’t played in nearly three decades when they reconvened for a one-off show in L.A., following that with a short run of dates and the aforementioned lengthier tour in ’03.
		Although RFTT is reclaiming what was originally theirs, a few of these tunes will be more familiar in other bands’ hands (“What Love Is”, “Down in Flames” and “Ain’t It Fun”, for example, were a good chunk of the Dead Boys’ recorded output).
	www.i94bar.com /reviews/rftt.html (1155 words)

	village voice > music > Rocket From the Tombs' The Day the Earth Met the Rocket From the Tombs by Howard Hampton
		History is unmade at night: In 1975, Rocket From the Tombs had all the ingredients, from the coolest name (shades of Edgar Allan Poe fronting the Shadows of Knight or 13th Floor Elevators) to the darkest, most desperately unforgiving sound ("All the pretty living dead/Pretty egos to be fed").
		With the Stooges and Velvets for role-remodels, a payload of achingly funny-brutal-mortifying songs ("Never Gonna Kill Myself Again," "Down in Flames") and Cleveland's rust-belted heart/wasteland as ground zero, Rocket From the Tombs were the little engine that exploded.
		The Rocket Saga stands as a story of what might have been: a mix of riotous elements (populist, dadaist, teen-revanchist) that coulda-shoulda resonated beyond the fringes of subculture.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0219/hampton.php (491 words)

	Baltimore City Paper: MUSIC Can't Think, Need a Drink, and Seeing Pink--Almost 30 Years Later, Cleveland's Rocket from ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		But in regard to the activities of Rocket From the Tombs, the short-lived, circa-1975 Cleveland-based post-Chuck Berry-vs.-Alice Cooper band from whose ashes rose Pere Ubu, Thomas is speaking very much in the present tense.
		The writers of those songs, however, are pushing well through their 40s and are side by side again as Rocket From the Tombs for the first time since the mid-'70s, save for a handful of dates after a reunion early this year.
		Rocket From the Tombs plays the Black Cat in Washington on Dec. 7 with the Snuff Project.
	www.citypaper.com /music/story.asp?id=5644 (1058 words)

	Cosmiclava.de : : Rocket From The Tombs
		They were only active for less than a year-- from winter 1974 to late summer 1975-- RFTT released only one single during its very short lifespan, but its legacy was magnified by the two bands that sprung from its ashes: the mighty Dead Boys and arty, Beefheartian new wavers Pere Ubu.
		But the most important man behind RFTT was Peter Laughner, who lived without any compromize on the edge of life and died in 1977, due to constant drug abuse.
		The first nine songs were recorded in 1975 in the rehearsel loft of RFTT and they belong to the strongest historical recordings of this band.
	www.cosmiclava.de /index.php?id=223 (747 words)

	IDS: These boys ain't dead yet (Weekend, 12/11/2003) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		While RFTT lived and died in mid-'70s Cleveland before anyone had heard of The Ramones, their intense guitar-driven rock is generally considered a major influence on later punk bands.
		This new incarnation of Rocket from the Tombs is touring in support of the first official album release of their only studio recordings, Rocket Redux, due early next year.
		With the inclusion of RFTT songs later released by Pere Ubu as well as tracks previously available only as bootlegs, Monday night's show was a rare treat for '70s rock aficionados and new fans alike.
	www.idsnews.com /story1_modify.php?id=20348 (410 words)

	Skyscraper Magazine
		Though only together for a short period in the mid-Seventies and having never recorded a studio album, Rocket From The Tombs is often ranked alongside the Stooges, MC5 and Patti Smith in terms of raw punk rock abandon.
		Collected on Smog Veil's excellent Rocket From The Tombs Live From Punk Ground Zero, Cleveland 1975 is a compilation of three performances representing the band at its most reckless.
		For historical clarification, the San Diego-based alternarockers Rocket From The Crypt are related in name-only, though ex-Rocket From The Tombs members have gone on to play in the Dead Boys (fronted by Stiv Bators) and Pere Ubu.
	www.skyscrapermagazine.com /features/rev-rocketfromthetombs.html (301 words)

	thirty seconds and a one-way ride (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Cleveland's Rocket from the Tombs was one of the early-midseventies bands whose existence belies the notion of a Dark Ages between the demise of the Stooges and the rise of punk rock.
		Of the bands that formed from Rocket from the Tombs' collapse, the longest running is, of course, Pere Ubu, who released a brilliant and indispensable series of albums in the late seventies and early eighties and, having re-formed twice since, reappear once more with St Arkansas.
		Rocket from the Tombs made damned sure you paid attention; Pere Ubu is going to play whether you're paying attention or not.
	www.uwm.edu /~jenor/rfttubu.html (832 words)

	Splendid: Features: Richard Lloyd
		I spoke to Lloyd right before he started a second tour with Rocket from the Tombs, talking about RFTT now and before, art, self destruction, the definition of temporary and the powerhouse live experience of the current Rocket from the Tombs.
		Rocket from the Tombs has some of the greatest paeans to nihilism and teenage megalomania, maniacal sorts of angst, that I know of.
		Splendid: When I was doing the research for this interview, it occurred to me that Rocket From the Tombs is one of those names that has always been around, but I didn't realize that they had almost no recorded output until about last year.
	www.splendidezine.com /features/lloyd (3225 words)

	The Stranger - Music - Feature - Last Breath
		Like many a long-lost cult band, Rocket from the Tombs' story is 90 percent myth, 10 percent hazy memories.
		Rocket, and in some measure their similarly dustbin-tossed Cleve-O cohorts of that era, Electric Eels and the Mirrors, have come to represent for many the match strike for the entire worldwide punk rock explosion of the 1970s and beyond.
		Theirs is the biographical plotline for the curious way in which rock 'n' roll's post-'60s innovators are often doomed to obscurity by their birth in out-of-the-industry-loop locations, their volatile crash-up of the genre (usually brief in existence), and a subsequently long-simmering legend born of blurry Mythic Tales.
	www.thestranger.com /seattle/Content?oid=16330 (745 words)

	Kraft-o-Matic Bed o' Nails Playlist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Pere Ubu and the Dead Boys rose from the ashes of Rocket from the Tombs.
		Peter Laughner of Rocket from the Tombs was at at least one of those shows.
		Two of Rocket from the Tombs' big nights were the 2 nights that they played with Television in Cleveland on a bill that Peter Laughner organized.
	www.cox-internet.com /kombon/Content/Playlists/2003-12/ap2003-12-09.htm (456 words)

	Afghanistan - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Afghanistan
		It was first built in the 12th century but has been rebuilt several times since, for like many of the historic sites of the city, it has been damaged by successive waves of war and conquest.
		However, his return coincided with renewed Taliban rocket attacks on the city and Kabul fell in August 1996.
		The Taliban seized power and a six-member interim council of clerics, headed by Muhammad Rabbani, was installed and strict Islamic law imposed, including the prohibition of the employment and education of females, compulsory beards for men, and a ban on television.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Afghanistan (3182 words)

	Tombs' reunion sticks - The Washington Times: Washington Weekend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		But the guitarist and singer is very much alive, as is Rocket from the Tombs, the band that launched his career.
		One of the original architects of American punk rock, Rocket from the Tombs, which visits the Black Cat on Sunday, reunited in February of this year after 28 years apart.
		Rocket from the Tombs endured a series of lineup changes during its original incarnation from 1974 to 1975.
	washingtontimes.com /weekend/20031202-104914-9723r.htm (759 words)

	something I learned today...
		Man, I was thrilled when I finally tracked down a copy of the Rocket From The Tombs archival juggernaut The Day The Earth Met...
		For those in the dark Rocket From The Tombs where a proto-art-skronk-punk band from Cleveland circa 1974-1975 and served as the first band for underground rock dudes David Thomas, Peter Laughner, and Gene O'Connor (aka Cheetah Chrome).
		Rocket From The Tombs regrouped (with Television's Richard Lloyd filling in for the deceased Laughner) to tour and properly record many of the tracks for release as 2004's Rocket Redux.
	somethingilearned.blogspot.com (1178 words)

	Whatever Happened to Cheetah Chrome?: Seminal punk band Rocket From the Tombs reunited, back on the road - Thursday, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Rocket was significant primarily because of its Cleveland origins.
		The problem for Rocket was that, though punk cognoscenti knew their legend, few other people did.
		Rocket From the Tombs performs at 9pm Wed., Dec. 17, at Exit/In, 2208 Elliston Place.
	www.nashvillerage.com /music/archives/03/12/43875827.shtml (626 words)

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