RW #1


#1 DECEMBER 1993

The Cadillac of Music Magazines

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Can You Dig It?
MotherScratcher Interview
by Joey Germ

Beer, Brats & Broads
On the Road with The Woodrows
Interview by P.C. Jones

One Word Records Reviews

How to be a Smart-Ass
by Tom Ziegler

Some Record Reviews

Movie Reviews

The Duel Review

The Budget Movie Critic
by Lollipop

Village Plug
by Lollipop

The Right Column
by B.S. Brown


Publishers
Christopher P. Auman & Thomas J. Ziegler

Editor
Christopher P. Auman

Contributing Editors
Thomas J. Ziegler, Joey Germ

Art Direction & Layout
Joey Germ

Contributing Writers
P.C. Jones, B.S. Brown, Jayne Wayne, Muggsy McMurphy, Tom Ziegler, Lollipop

Copy Editor
Magdalena Babblejack

Legal Counsel
Jim Willie, Jr., Esq.

Public Relations
Mickey "The Martian" Battaglia

Special Thanks To
Jason L. Thip, Dovie Lou Knuckler, Ted Wilman, Reinhold Squeege, Sara Donaldson, Epcy & Cletus

No Thanks To
Blanche Pubis (you broke my heart and smoked it-Ed.)


Reglar Wiglar is published from time to time by Christopher P. Auman & Thomas J. Zielger. Copyright © 1993 Big Little Bucharest Productions

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MOTHERSCRATCHER

Can You Dig It?

Interviewed by JOEY GERM

For the past six years, MotherScratcher has been stuck to the underbelly of the Chicago music scene like bubble gum on a Doc Martin. Some say MotherScratcher is too completely inaccessible to ever be anything but an underground novelty. Others say that MotherScratcher collectively, are too stupid and lazy to ever make anything out of their talentless existence. Some call them geniuses. Most have never heard of them.

I first saw MotherScratcher in 1989 at a loft party in Wicker Park or somewhere around there. They played with such a drunken intensity that it was . . . well, really embarrassing. I was actually embarrassed for them. They looked very foolish up there on that honky-rigged stage with their tiny amps and fucked up guitars. Their drummer didn't even have a drum kit back in those days—garbage cans served as the tools of his trade. It's no wonder that MotherScratcher was expelled with physical force from that residential venue and their instruments destroyed by angry party-goers.

MotherScratcher have been banished from just about every club in the Midwest, a feat they take pride in, but goddamn it's hard to get a gig!

I had the chance to interview the band, which has since relocated to Aurora. What follows is a transcript of the event. Event? Nay, a drunken ordeal it t'was.

Read the Complete Interview


BEER, BRATS & BROADS

On the Road with the Woodrows

Interview by P.C. JONES

Dude, I don't even care what you think of The Woodrows. Whatever you feel about these guys, they couldn't possibly care less. I know the very mention of The Woodrows will offend just about every otic never in the straight-edge world, but hey, it's punk rock, man. And, like their latest apocalyptic full-length release will testify: Punk's Not Dead, It Was Just in Rehab. Well all right!

Read the Complete Interview


HOW TO BE A SMART-ASS

WITHOUT GETTING YOUR SKINNY LITTLE BUTT KICKED IN WHILE MAINTAINING AN OVERALL SENSE OF SUPERIORTY


Unapologetically by TOM ZIEGLER


Are you fed up? Does every last loser on this festering hole of a planet grate on the one nerve you have left? Are your friends a bunch of leeching sycophants, or do they simply ignore you, those snobs? Is your family out to get you—Mom and Dad will just not get off your back to finish school, get a real goddamn job, find a mate? What about your job—slogging away forty plus hours a week, punching buttons on a computer, absorbing cathode rays until your bones glow green through your skin for some no-neck boss, breathing down your butt, a cretin who revels in reminding you that yes, you are indeed expendable, so you better drop that attitude mister, and remember this is your life? Are you having a hard time sticking to Mom's old adage, "If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all?" Are you sick of listening to self-righteous assholes prattle on about how much they hate their friends, family and their boss?

If you gave a big fat YES to any of these questions, if you feel as though you can go no further, if you are ready to just pitch it all, I suggest you consult a therapist. What the fuck do I look like Ann Landers? Sorry, Charlie, sucks to be you.

Read the Complete Article


ONE WORD RECORD REVIEWS

Nirvana
In Utero (DGC)
Venerable.

The Woodrows
Beer, Brats and Broads '87-'93 (Woodrow Hill)
Seminal.

Noodle Cruncher/Pole Smoker
God Only Knows split EP (RoosterCow)
Stellar.

Teenaged Tyrants
I'll Have You Yet b/w Naked Frisbee (Really Rad)
Seltzer.

Monster Magnet
Superjudge (A&M)
Stoned.

Sebadoh
Bubble and Scrape (Sub Pop)
Lugubrious.

Stone Temple Pilots
Core (Atlantic)
Pearljamesque (it's a word).

Steel Pole Bath Tub
The Miracle of Sound in Motion (Boner)
Lacteal.

Radioactive Hermits
All You Lovely People (Buttered Bread)
Blows.

Sin Nation Sinsation
Welcome to the Sin Nation Sinsation (Metalli-Size)
Really blows! (sorry)

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