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...from a surplus radio equipment business he operated out of his home to market his band's records by mail. Soon he began to put out albums by other bands who, like Black Flag, were too rough-hewn and eccentric to attract major record labels. Solid State Tuners, or SST, as it became known, was the name of both the radio parts enterprise and the tiny record label he used to release whatever obscurities he pleased...
...SST was one of many "indie" record labels at large in the '80s, but it had the foresight to sign Sonic Youth and Dinosaur, Jr., bands whose followings both eventually dwarfed that of Black Flag and those of their `80s punk contemporaries, like Boston's Mission of Burma and Washington D.C.'s Minor Threat. The shows they played were booked at venues older proto-alternative bands had already played, but they had their work cut out for them selling America and Europe on innovative, unpolished sounds...
...Giardi (2), Tedrow, BPs Harvard 2, BU 1. Len Harvard 10, BU 11, 20s Hill, Giardi, Madden, Donato. 3B: None. HR: Morgan, SSt Hill, Morgan, Donste, Auflero OSt None. Harvard IP N BR BS SO Alien, W (2-0) 9 10 1 1 2 8 BU IP N BR BS SO Goldstein, L (1-5) 0.2 6 8 5 0 0 Anselmo 3.1 5 2 2 1 1 Brown 3 4 3 3 1 0 Cohen 0 0 0 0 1 0 Millstein...
...Screaming Trees spent the last eight years in Ellensburg, Wash. recording feedback-laden grungy tunes for independent labels like SST and Velvetone and endured an obscurity they never deserved. Even though their major label debut Uncle Anesthesia ranked high among the year's most critically acclaimed, the Trees' insolent musical attack forced them into the shadow of more accessible stars Nirvana and Pearl Jam, who stormed sales charts during the Seattle/Sub Pop Revolution...
...future. It can fly from New York City to London in just three hours, for which passengers pay an astronomical $4,167 each way. Yet for all its speed and prestige, the Concorde has always been a money loser for its operators, Air France and British Airways. The SST guzzles too much fuel, carries too small a passenger load and makes so much noise that 30 countries have restricted...