From ne-raves-owner@techno.Stanford.EDU Mon Nov  8 09:47:08 1993
From: STASIKS%AM.mrgate@aspen.uml.edu
Date: Mon, 08 Nov 1993 12:43:13 EST
Subject: 11-1-93 people magazine article on Moby!!!
Status: OR

Hi fellow ravers and netters!

well, while I was at work tonight In Lowell, doing my once a week radio thang, 
i was poking thru a people (gasp!!) magazine, and was 'shocked and surprised to 
discover' a one pager article on Moby!!

Here it is...  

People Magazine  11-1-93

WHALE SIGHTING:  One of Herman Melville's Descendants surfaces as a top techno 
rocker; just call him Moby.

Although he is a acclaimed music maker, Moby - otherwise known as Richard 
Melville Hall - lives in a disused New York City factory with no bathroom, 
kitchen or running water.  "I guess I just have a melodramatic side," he says.

     That side may be inherited.  Moby, 28, is the great-great-grandnephew of 
Moby Dick author Herman melvile, whose own personal melodrama purportedly 
included living briefly among cannibals in the Soth Pacific.  Nicknamed after 
the great white whale, Moby is a leviathan in techo-music - the pulsating 
electronic sound popular at clubs and raves.  Already a star in Europe, he's 
had two No. 1 club singles in the U.S. and was dubbed King of Techno by 
Billboard following the August release of his EP 'Move'.

     Born to James Melville, a chemistry professor who died when his son was 
2, and his wife, Elizabeth, now a doctor's aide, Moby grew up in Darien, 
Conn., where he formed his first punk rock band, the Vatican Commandoes.  
After dropping out of SUNY Purchase, he deejayed at a trendy Manhatten club 
and used his homemade remixes to score a British record contract.  Stateside, 
he remixed singles for Micheal Jackson and the B-52's and in July signed a 
five-record deal with Elektra.

     Unlike his whale-hunting ancestor, Mody is a vegan, as such he and 
girlfriend Laurel Sheriden, 20, a college student, have forsworn meat and 
other animal products ("Though in a moment of weakness, I might buy leather 
shoes," Moby admits).   He is also a Christian who abstains from drinking or 
drugs, in part because his father was killed while driving drunk.  "There 
seems to be a tradition of tragic male figures in the Melville family," Moby 
says, "I'm sure [something tragic] will happen to me."

      Mayby so, but when it comes to literary matters, nobody is likely to 
confuse him with Herman.  "I've tried reading Mody Dick about three times," 
he says, "but the long passages where he gets bogged down describing 
whales just loses me."  []



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well, i thought it wasn't bad considering the source....

- Stef

 
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