THE ‘PARTY’S OVER’ SYMBOL WILL OUTLIVE THE BAND SPREADING AS FAR AWAY AS JAPAN AND SOUTH AFRICA. MANY PEOPLE WHO THINK THE WESTERN CAPITALIST WORLD IS IN THE LAW OF GRAVITY AND WILL ENEVITABLY COLLAPSE HAVE BEEN SPRAY PAINTING THE UPSIDE DOWN DRINKING GLASS ALL OVER THE WORLD. MF‘S POLITICS CAME FROM THE LEFT THE HOUSING WAR AND THE RESISTANCE TO STOP GENTRIFICATION WHICH IN TURN KILLS ALL CULTURE IN THE YEARS THE BAND LIVED IN THE GHETTO IN SQUATS ON THE LOWER EAST SIDE. THE BAND PRACTICED WHAT THEY PREACHED WARNING AMERICA AND NEW YORK OF THE DRASTIC CONCEPT ‘A NEW WORLD ORDER’ BRINGING THE ALLTERNATIVE TO AN END, ROUNDING UP OF THE HOMELESS AND PUTTING THEM IN CAMPS BUILDING MORE PRISONS HIRING MORE COPS AND BASICALLY ANYONE WHO HAS THEIR OWN MIND WILL REALIZE THAT THEY ARE NOT FREE. AFTER 1000 REVEIWS THE CRITICS HAD THEIR FIELD DAY WITH MF TRASHING THEM ON A THREE DAY T.V. SPECIAL ON CBS CALLED THE CULT OF RAGE. AFTER THE F.B.I. AND THE POLICE INFILTRATED P. MISSING AND DAVE KELLY ‘S HOUSE ON 6TH ST. THE SPECIAL TURNED OUT TO BE ONE LIE AFTER ANOTHER ESPECIALLY THE PART ABOUT HOW MF WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR ENCITING RIOTS IN NEW YORK. THE ENERGY OF MF WAS SO HIGH THAT THE AUDIENCES WENT CRAZY AND OUT OF THEIR BODIES THE FIRES CREATED BY MF CREATED PANIC AND THE REPETATIVE PRECISE DRUMMING COMBINED WITH TOTALSPECTACLE PUSHED THE BAND INTO A POWER OF IT’S OWN. MANY TIMES THE AUDIENCE TOOK ADVANTAGE OF MF FREEDOM FOR THEIR OWN FREEDOM DISRUPTING AND DESTROYING THE CLUBS TO GET THEIR ANGER OUT THIS EVENTUALLY PUSHED MF OFF THE CIRCUIT AND THEY WERE EVENTUALLY BANNED FROM EVERY CLUB IN N.Y. AND AMERICA.

MF WAS NOT ABOUT DESTROYING CLUBS IT WAS A STATEMENT BEYOND DESTRUCTION WHICH IS ALSO A FORM OF CREATION. IT WAS A REBELLION AGAINST A GOVERNMENT WHO LOST SIGHT OF CULTURE AND HUMANITY. THE ALBUM THAT PUT THE BAND ON THE MAP WAS IN 1988 ENTITLED ‘1933 - YOUR HOUSE IS MINE’ LISTED IN THE TIMES AS A CLASSIC MOOD MUSIC FOR URBAN CHAOS. OUTSTANDING TRACKS: ‘MARTYR OF THE CITY’; ‘JAMEELS TURMOIL’; ‘1933’; ‘AT THE GATES’. THIS ALBUM WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR MANY OTHER BANDS POPPING UP AROUND THE GLOBE IN 1988 AFTER THE RELEASE MAJOR RIOTS BROKE OUT ON THE LOWER EAST SIDE.
DECLARING 1988=1933 THIS IS GERMANY THE BANDS REASONING WAS THAT AMERICA 1988 WAS LOOKING LIKE GERMANY 1933 THE ALBUM’S EXPERIMENTAL VOCALS FROM PETE COMBINED WITH THE BANDS ARTISTIC EGDE MADE THIS RECORD TIMELESS. IN 1989 THE BAND STARTED IT’S OWN LABEL ‘HUMANITY RECORDS’ RELEASING THE TOTAL ABRASIVE INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH NOISE ALBUM OF THE DECADE SMASHING PIANOS METAL PIPES SLAMMED INTO FANS AND PERCUSSION THAT DELT WITH EVERY MATERIAL POSSIBLE INCLUDING CARDBOARD BOXES. RIOT SOUND TRACKS, CONDENSER MIKES LODGED IN THE THROAT, GHETTO BOXES AND SONY WALKMANS CREATED A LOAD NOISE OR DIN AT OUR KINGSLAND STUDIO IN BROOKLYN. CRACKED WALLS WAS A COMMON OCCURENCE. AFTER HOURS OF SPRAY PAINTING AND POLITICAL POSTERING THE BAND USUALLY MET AT THE ‘INTERNATIONAL BAR’ ON 2ND AV. TO DISCUSS NEW IDEAS FOR MUSIC OR HOW TO VISUALLY TRANCEND THE STAGE. - AFTER MUCH HYPE AND HYSTERIA THE BAND EVENTAULLY WAS SIGNED TO RESTLESS RECORDS THEY RELEASED 5 CD’S WITH VERY LITTLE ADVERTIZING AND NEVER SEEING THE BAND LIVE. HERE IS THE MF DISCOGRAPHY IN 1990 THE BAND HAD REACHED IT’S POINT WITH ‘IGNORE THE WHITE CULTURE’ THEIR MOST MEMORABLE RECORDINGS TO DATE. HERE THE LYRICS WERE INCLUDED. MF WAS NOT ABOUT HATE BUT ACCUALLY LOOKING FOR SOLUTONS TO SAVE THE PLANET AND NOT PUT ALL OUR FAITH IN THE MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS. ‘AUDIT THE U.S.’ WAS THE LAST LINE ON THE LYRIC SHEET ( IMAGINE WHAT THEY WOULD FIND, ESPECIALLY CORRUPTION, AND HOW FAR IT’S

WHEN I MET MF BACK STAGE I ALSO REALIZED THEY WERE NOT JUST A BUNCH OF MADMEN ALTHOUGH INTELLIGENT THEY COULD BE DANGEROUS IF YOU HIT THE WRONG BUTTON WITH THEM. THEY WERE ALL AS STRONG AS THE MUSIC THEY INVENTED. TRACKS TO LOOK FOR HERE WOULD BE ’TERRORISM’ WITH FLORIANS INCREDIBLE SAX PLAYING AND DAVES TIBETAN BELLS -’SHINING PATH’ WITH ARABIC STYLE VOCALS AND A BASELINE FROM ADAM THAT CROSSED THE COMMERCIAL LINE WITH A HEAVY MESSAGE. THE TITLE CUT ‘IGNORE THE WHITE CULTURE’ CREATED SOME CONFUSION AS TO WHO THE WHITE CULTURE IS. I THINK IF WE PAINTED THE WHITE HOUSE BLUE THE PEOPLE THEY SPEAK ABOUT WOULD STILL BE INSIDE ANY GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO PUSH BLACKS AND MINORITIES OUT OF NEIBORHOOD’S WOULD BE CONSIDERED THE WHITE CULTURE. THE BAND STUCK TO THE RAW ENERGY IGNORING SOUND QUALITY AND A SINCERE HATRED FOR ROCK MUSIC WITH GUITARS. IT WAS VERY SELDOM THEY WOULD INVITE A GUITAR TO THE STUDIO; FLORIAN WAS GOOD AT SAWING THEM IN HALF AT THE CONCERTS. LATER HE SHOWED A SQAURE GUITAR IN A BERLIN EXHIBITION.

THE METAL BANGING OF MF WAS NEVER RANDOM. FLORIAN CHRIS AND MARK COULD PLAY IT WITH BLOOD, SWEAT AND ACCURACY. WHEN THE BAND FINISHED THEIR 1989 EURO TOUR IT WAS OBVIOUS AT THIS TIME THAT MF WAS IN A CATAGORY OF THEIR OWN. AFTER MOST OF THEIR SHOWS THE AUDIENCE WAS LEFT DAZED AND CONFUSED. AND THE WRITTEN FLYERS THROWN INTO THE CROWD WAS AS THOUGHT PROVOKING AS THE SINGER HIMSELF COMING UP WITH ALL NEW SLOGANS THAT ARE NOW FOUND IN 30 MUSEUMS AROUND THE WORLD IN THE ‘YOUR HOUSE IS MINE’ BOOK, INCLUDING THE N.Y. LIBRARY. THE BOOK PROJECT INCLUDED 100 ARTISTS ’PUBLIC ENEMY’+’COP SHOOT COP‘ WERE TWO OF MANY WHO HAD THEIR SAY IN THE WORLD AROUND THEM. BULLET SPACE - 292 EAST 3RD ST. N.Y.C. 10009 LOWER EAST SIDE. THEN THE 91’ ‘ANTI GULF EUROTOUR’ WITH 5 LITERS OF PETRO BURNED AT EVERY SHOW. HEAVY BURNING OIL DRUMS FLYING OFF THE STAGE AND A PIT THAT MADE AMERICA PITIFUL IN COMPARISON. AMERICAN FLAGS WERE BURNED AS FOUR DRUMMERS AND BASE WITH PETE ON MEGAPHONE PAINTED A PICTURE TOO REAL WHICH IN TURN GOT THE PEOPLE TO EITHER RUN AWAY OR JUMP INTO THE MIX. PETES VOCALS HAVE ELEMENTS OF PRIMAL SCREAM THERAPY RESEMBLING JOHN LENNON FOR EXAMPLE MIXED WITH HIS ARTISTIC APPROACH TO IN HIS OPPINION THE GREATEST INSTRUMENT OF ALL ’THE VOCAL CORD’ IF THE WORLD HAD TIME TO REALLY LISTEN TO PETES VOCALS THEY WOULD SEE THE GENIUS IN HIS WORK. - AFTER THIS EXPLOSIVE TOUR WITH ‘MUTOID WASTE’ IN AMSTERDAM AND A GIG IN BUDAPEST THAT LEFT THE AUDIENCE FREE TO TAKE OVER THE STAGE AND START PLAYING THE BANDS EQUIPMENT, SMOKE BILLOWING FROM THE STAGES YOU WERE FORCED TO SUBMIT YOUR INNER SPIRIT TO THE DRUM N’ BASS WITH A RANGE FROM THE VOCALIST THAT CUT DEEP WITH INTENSE ENERGY AND STAGE PRESENCE.

 

THEY ARE INFAMOUS AND A LIVING LEGEND IN THE HISTORY OF RADICAL PERFORMERS AND TO THE WORLD WHO HAVE SEEN THEM THEY ARE ALSO A MYSTERY. THE NEW YORK POST CALLED THEM A SHADOWY ORGANIZATION THE NEW YORK TIMES CLAIMED THE BAND WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR A DROP IN REALESTATE. THE BANDS SYMBOL WAS USED FOR WHATEVER SINCE IT WAS EVERYWHERE AND IN PUBLIC DOMAINE. BAND MEMBERS WERE ARRESTED A NUMBER OF TIMES BUT MOSTLY FOR CIVIL AND HOUSING RIGHTS. WITH THIS BAND POLITICS AND MUSIC WAS A DEADLY MIXTURE. FEW WOULD RISK THEIR REPUTATIONS TO BREAK BOUNDRIES IN THE LINES OF ‘FREEDOM OF SPEECH‘ OR APPROACHING MUSIC FROM AN IMPROVISATIONAL PATTERN. ONE CONCERT IN THIS VAIN WAS AT ‘THE KNITTING FACTORY’ WITH JOHN ZORN P.MISSING AND MARK RIBOT. AT THIS CONCERT ALL LAWS WERE BROKEN FLOWING LIKE A CLOCK OUT OF CONTROL. THE ATMOSPHERIC MUSIC FROZE EVERYONE AND IT COMMANDED ATTENTION. IN 1992 THE BAND RELEASED ‘GO INTO EXILE‘ AND KICKED IT OFF WITH A EURO TOUR OF EAST AND WEST. ON THIS TOUR THE SINGER TURNED TO A SPIRITUAL ATMOSPHERE: INCENSE SMOKE AND FIREWORKS WERE ALLWAYS ON HAND TAKING NOISE TO INDUCE TRANCE OR CHANGE THE BRAINS WAVE LENGTHS. THE BAND WAS RUMORED TO BE USING SONIC DECEPTION TAPES ON TOUR AND IN THEIR RECORDS. PRESENTLY PETE IS MAKING INSTALLATIONS, FLORIAN IS WORKING AS AN ARTIST AND PRODUCTIONDESIGNER IN HAMBURG, CHRIS IS PHOTO JOURNALIST IN N.Y.C., MARK WAS IN A BAND CALLED ‘THE SPITTERS’ HE DIED 2000.