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I know that question up there may sound a little, um, unsavory, but it’s a pretty fundamental question that I’m not sure has ever really been asked: when it comes. Rock Censorship: Big Brother Meets Twisted Sister. Frank Zappa brought his lawyer, not to mention a copy of the First Amendment. John Denver spoke of Nazis and censorship. Dee Snider, sweating through his Twisted Sister muscle shirt, complained of being slandered by a housewife. The distinguished senator from South Carolina, Ernest . It was a fine show. When it was over, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation hadn't recommended any legislation, but it had familiarized itself with arguably the fifteen or so raunchiest rock albums in all the land. That a Senate committee which normally presides over such esoteric issues as trade reciprocity should be interpreting the lyrics of Bitch's Be My Slave album is not surprising, given the committee's members. The wife of its chairman, Senator John Danforth (R- Missouri), is affiliated with that champion of purified rock lyrics, the Parents' Music Resource Center (PMRC). So, too, is the wife of Senator Hollings. Mary Elizabeth . Another cofounder, Susan Baker, is married to James A. John McFerrin reviews the career and works of Frank Zappa. Hot Poop · Bob Zappa’s The Rest Of Our Story (the follow-up to Growing Up Zappa) is available here and NOW! Baker, who happens to be the very conservative secretary of the treasury. The committee hearing was, in fact, the culmination of a long summer's work by the women of the PMRC. In less than five months, the wives of some of Washington's most powerful men took their campaign against explicit rock lyrics from a church meeting to the national media to Capitol Hill. In the process, they pressured twenty- four record companies — over eighty percent of the music industry — into agreeing to place a PG warning label on all albums with lyrics deemed to be sexually explicit or promoting violence, suicide, rape, the occult or drug abuse. Thanks to the women of the PMRC, the first albums marked PARENTAL GUIDANCE: EXPLICIT LYRICS are now on view for parents at record stores. The record companies believed the PG label would satisfy the PMRC's expressed desire to alert the parents of young children who paw through record racks. The PMRC now wants the PG label upgraded to R on the theory that PG has been watered down by too many PG movies. The group also wants a panel of industry types and consumers to draw up guidelines for what constitutes an explicit lyric, rather than entrusting that chore to the very people who make dirty records. Mrs. Gore and Mrs. Baker say they won't be satisfied until questionable lyrics are printed on albums and tapes, until rock concerts are rated for content, until albums with objectionable covers are racked separately or sold in plain brown wrappers, until MTV . They also suggest that record companies . They suspect, too, that virgin minds are being poisoned by what they call . Gortikov — Tipper Gore calls him . All this, after a long summer spent writing endless letters to the PMRC, addressing its concerns with long, roman- numeraled, pro- and- con paragraphs. Gortikov, a ruddy- faced man with his silver hair slicked back, appeared before the PMRC husbands on the Senate committee and uttered these words: . About 3. 25 movies are released every year, compared to some 2. It cannot print lyrics on albums and cassettes — despite the endorsement of the idea by Zappa and Denver — because music publishers, not the record companies, own the rights to lyrics. It cannot provide printed lyrics to radio stations for the same reason. Nor can it control the music each station chooses to air. That's the FCC's province. It cannot control the actions, lewd or otherwise, of rock performers at concerts, nor rate concerts for content, because . It is as far as we can and should go. To demand a . I hope it does not allow a thirst for press, public and government attention to gain more priority than the olive branch we offer. The very day the PMRC opened up shop last May, for instance, the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) fired off a letter to its member stations to warn them of the sudden new national debate over what the letter called . George David Weiss, president of the Songwriters' Guild, wrote in a June 2. Billboard magazine commentary that the industry should exercise . Meanwhile, Mike Love of the Beach Boys was donating $5. PMRC, and Smokey Robinson, a Motown vice- president, was condemning . In 1. 95. 6, The Ed Sullivan Show refused to televise Elvis Presley below the waist. In 1. 96. 3, the FBI and FCC replayed the Kingsmen's . Conclusion: they couldn't make out the lyrics. In 1. 97. 0, Spiro Agnew called rock music . The PMRC women say they seek not to outlaw or even change rock & roll, but to strip it bare for parents to see and then rate anything objectionable as R. More significantly, they have the type of clout that counts — political clout. Many in the recording industry think they smell incipient censorship. After a curious silence all summer, rock performers are beginning to take notice. Among those who joined the Musical Majority, an antirating committee affiliated with the American Civil Liberties Union, are representatives of Tina Turner, Cyndi Lauper, Don Henley, Prince, Lionel Richie, the Pointer Sisters, John Cougar Mellencamp and members of Kiss and Duran Duran. Even Donny Osmond, speaking on ABC- TV's Nightline, has objected to ratings. John Denver, no whips- and- leather rocker, flatly equated record rating with Nazi- like tactics and said of the PMRC's goals, . Any rating system, Zappa added, . What if the next bunch of Washington Wives demands a large yellow J on material written or performed by Jews. Baker told the committee that explicit rock lyrics are at least partly to blame for teen pregnancies, teen suicides and rape. Why, just the week before, in a small Texas town, she said, . He was not the first. Ling has searched through record stores to amass one of the country's most complete collections of raunchy rock albums. The PMRC calls him a . The records are the centerpiece of a fast- paced slide presentation he gave for the committee, reminding the senators at one point of the inherent dangers of listening to AC/DC: . I love rock & roll. It motivates me. Rock & roll doesn't need pornography to do what it does best. He keeps his collection in a closet, away from his four- year- old son. He said he likes the Hooters and Bruce Springsteen and even, yes, some heavy- metal groups. Danny Goldberg, rock business manager, president of Gold Mountain Records and chairman of the Musical Majority, sat uncomfortably through Ling's presentation and the rest of the hearing. Later, he compared it to the Mc. Carthy hearings: . Are we going to string up Wagner? According to the RIAA, seven of the fifteen or so groups presented by Ling — W. A. S. P., Morris Day and the Time, Bitch, the Mentors, Abbator, Impaler and Piledriver — did not go gold. Yet, Goldberg pointed out, their lyrics drew most of the gasps at the hearing. There was this, for instance, from the Mentors' . She accuses the industry and its artists of deliberately confusing censorship with what she calls . Gore said after the hearing, shuttling between TV interviews and photo opportunities. She acknowledges that the grossly offensive lyrics are put out by a handful of groups, some of them obscure. But she contends that they are pushing more mainstream artists such as Prince and Madonna into the gutter: . If you don't like it, the RIAA says, don't buy it. And, according to the RIAA, only nine percent of buyers of rock music are between the ages of ten and fourteen. The PMRC doesn't buy that argument. More significantly, neither do the PMRC husbands on the commerce committee. Several senators warned the industry to . Record executives everywhere must have squirmed when Tipper Gore's husband, Senator Gore, scolded the industry in front of network cameras: ? How did mothers who listened to their children's clock radios one day get a Senate hearing the next? Gore said, smiling. She is thirty- seven, a blond, Washington- born mother of four, who describes herself as ! Gore in a Senate office, Mrs. Baker smiled, too. She is forty- seven, Texas- born, a tall, attractive woman with a rich Southern drawl. She calls herself a . Gore asked her. Baker replied.) Mrs. Baker says she has tried to listen to hard rock but can't make herself like it She prefers classical and . The Washington Wives had the levers of power in their homes, and they pulled them. Their direct, personal relationship with powerful men gave them instant name recognition that attracted the national media. It didn't hurt that they had also latched onto an irresistible issue — sex, drugs and rock & roll versus Senate motherhood. Through the PMRC, the media . By the time the PMRC husbands were grilling the industry in Senate chambers, record companies were suddenly hearing threats of two demons — legislation and regulation. The industry wasn't paying attention last spring, when Tipper Gore's eleven- year- old daughter played Prince's . Or when Susan Baker's seven- year- old daughter heard Madonna's . Or when Pam Howar, wife of the owner of a Washington construction firm, and soon to be the president of the PMRC, started listening to the lyrics of music played in her aerobics class. In mid- April, they got out their Christmas- card lists and address books and invited their friends and associates to a May 1. St. Columba's Episcopal Church in Washington. Some of the friends were U. S. Baker III and Mrs. Albert Gore, among others. Their husbands' names, they decided, packed a bigger wallop than their own. Gore says now, not without sarcasm. Ling says he had been showing the exhibit for six years around Washington, mostly to parents' groups and drug- counseling centers. But never to U. S. The lyrics seemed to get their attention. There was this poem from M. And an album called Rise of the Mutants by someone called Impaler. On the cover, a rocker in leather has a pulp of bloody meat in his hand and blood dripping from his mouth. On the back, a woman lay at the drummer's feet with blood on her face and torso. The next day, The Washington Post ran a small item about the meeting. Things took off from there.
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