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t ucy LiZ/ard plays none ot the major labels but rather what you're going to see later on MTV" for
KRVM s Modern Mono, which airs Sunday nights trom 10 to midnight
Lizzard takes show underground
By Matthew Rendail
Emerald Contributor
When' m lingerie cun you
11nil music so deeply under
ground you'd need cin oil drill
to bring it to the surface; rec
ords th.it would strip the trans
mission id tinsel K.isom s turn
table. . ngs the Mi tel Majority
would never object to. because
they can't think fas! enough to
understand the lyrics?
Here's a c lue You can find
such alternative music being
played on lingerie's school dis
trie! radio station by a disc
jockey who insists. 1 still thick
Hitch was the best year for mu
sic:, ever.”
Givi up vet? Thu program is
kk\ M s Modern Mono, and its
impresario is Luc y l.i/./.urd As
l.i/j'ard explains i! tier Sunday
night show ts designed to
showcase music that listeners
would not otherwise hear
Her pedu \ is "basically to
play none of the major labels,
hut nither the minor labels and
what's going on in the under
ground today meaning, what
you're going to see later on
MTV. l.i/./.urd said
It's people doing music by
themselves, playing out their
own records (and) taking inure
i fiances than tin- oilier hands.”
In the past, this meant pri
me y punk roc k l.i/./.urd has
hi n following punk lor a long
tilin' 'I c ome from a smut I
low n site says, "and they had
one radio station They didn't
got serviced try it lot of tug l.i
in is So. whan I was growing
up 1 was listening to things like
the Stiindells or the Sollies, th.it
kind o! thing "
At first, however, the punk
wave of the 1970s splashed
p.ist Lizzard without catching
tier attention. Studying art his
lory in London in 1979, she
had no time for the city’s gui
tur toting .man lusts
"I was just too busy running
around and hanging out in the
National Gallery in London.'
Li/./.ard said "I used to read
my mail there, literally It
wasn't until the second time I
went there that I saw any
hands, and 1 saw some pretty
w uird ones
Hat k in the states, hut still in
trigued by what she had heard
in London. Lizzard tuned in
•.nine pretty Weird” records
More than anything 1 got into
the foreign stuff," she rei ailed
Punk rin k w as a movement. It
was a phenomenon, I think that
everybody was communicating
and really interested in what
everybody else was doing
When KKVM began to use
disc jockeys from the Lugene
community in the early '90s.
some of them asked Li/zanl il
they could borrow her records
Lizzard agreed, hut after they
played them, she recounts,
they (..line hack and they said
No, we i an t do this We don’t
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that lime I had never thought oi
doing radio at all."
Li/./ard began to volunteer at
KRVM. and also began to fill in
on or rasion for the disc jockeys
of Modern Mono, whir h was
then being aired on KLCC
When KLCC took Modern
Mono oil the air, she and the
show's creator, Lenny Tone, re
vived it at KKVM. ‘U.‘» I M
l.iz/.ard compiled a list of
hands she wanted to play, and
wrote letters to their record la
bels (I would) get promos in
the mail a lot. she sa id
These da\s 1 haven't had the
time to do that
While sin- still gels promo
tional releases, lately she buys
more records as well How big
is her personal record collec
tion? Li/./.urd would rather not
say There are, she explains,
"too many thieves in town
Despite Modern Mono's tin
derground music format, so far
the show has avoided contro
versy Its late night slot, lit to
midnight on Sundays, may
have something to do with this,
as may its very raucousness
"The way I always figure it,’
Li//ard said, "the people who
are going to get the most upset
usually turn off after the lirsl
ten minutes I've never had .1
complaint. And il the station's
had a complaint, they've never
told me "
Program Director John hther
idge said Li/./ard is fairly re
strained in choosing materia!
'"Lucy blushes easily," he ex
plained.
Not surprisingly. Modern
Mono's listeners tend to be
young However, during fund
raisers Lizzard gets most ol her
donations from people in their
tilts. "Out then," she added, "I
don't play hardcore a lot either
anymore 1 think the audience
has gotten older "
So is hardcore punk at its last
gasp?
"1 think everything that
could have been done with
hardcore has been done."
Li/./.urd said. "It's really hard to
find a band that's really good
Well then, whore is under
ground music heading?
"1 don’t know,” Lizzard said.
"And that's what makes it so
cool. 1 have no idea. II could be
something totally different. I
hate going into the past. And as
lar as the future goes, ! hope it
surprises the hell out of me, in
stead of boring me to death."