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SCHOOL WORK DEATH with an ANIMAL THEME!
August 8 - 10th: JMM shoots 200 SACHEN "GANZ NEU" video for Sony in Wiesbaden Germany!
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(L-R) Tob, Katta, Lefty, JMM, Uzi, Fabian
www.200sachen.de
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Hot off the heels of the WILLOWZ shoot, this video marks a first for JMM leaving Memphis to shoot with a band and crew he had never met. But thanks to Tob le Rone(lead guitar), Katta Strophe(vocals), Lefty Luv(bass), Uzi Mayer(drums), and Fabi Feuer(rhythm guitar), things went incredibly smooth over the three day shoot!
"I thought "Ganz Neu" (or "Brand New") sounded like a cross between the Bay City Rollers and Steppenwolf!". Locations in Wiesbaden included a schoolroom, an ancient sematary, lumber factory, Tob's garden, Petting Zoo, and the street where Priscilla lived in 1958. Sony BMG will release the song on September 26, 2005.
Special thanks goes to managers Andrea Petricca and Susanna Ott, Mudel, Walter Combi! Thorsten and Sandy from Sony! Pia and Sara who were very nice to me! and last but not least Antje (Tob's mom) who fed us and drove me to the airport.
Watch the video, Ganz Neu (Brand New) Edited by Wheat!
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JMM UNVEILED his latest persona in the country where Elvis began using speed and toting a gun. JMM calls him LATE GREAT and dedicates it to the better virtues of segregation and the 'unfinality' of death: Half of the mask features dead black Memphis musicians and the other 'hemis-fear' sports dead white Memphis musicians with a 17 year old Elvis as the third eye. "It is the half-way point of the decade. Super Tupelo and Pop Kop had good runs but you can't be the thin white trash forever."
LATE GREAT made his first appearance in Wiesbaden at a Jewish cemetary directing 200 SACHEN. Onlookers later caused a street accident by watching the masked director and band go about their business. Conceptually LATE GREAT is tired of talking. "It doesn't seem to do any good." LATE GREAT will show up and let the mask do the talking. "Just give me a good old doomsday paperback with a christian ending!" Future appearances may involve laying in a coffin, taking it easy. Upon viewing, voyeurs may touch the 'official corpse of 20th century American Pop Culture' wherever they please.
This LATE GREAT mask is still a work in progress: Concept: JMM/Execution: Graphic hot shot: Charlynn. The wondrous cape (available now in black or white) is designed by Paulaseye@aol.com.
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END TIME! LATE GREAT with FABIAN WELLER of 200 SACHEN!

Satan is alive and well but American Pop Culture is dead. Would a third world war bring about a new golden age in American Pop Culture? (photo+fx: Fabian)
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