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  • Perhaps you have more information than Gramme Chaddock, one of the survivors, but he gave a statement about Davidians intentionally lighting a fire after the ATF used teargas.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The Clinton Terror Bill 2010

  • YouTube video of a concert performance of "Totally Wired" from the 1980 album Grotesque After the Gramme

    Friday Music: Mark E. Smith and The Fall Kay Olson 2009

  • YouTube video of a concert performance of "Totally Wired" from the 1980 album Grotesque After the Gramme

    Archive 2009-04-01 Kay Olson 2009

  • His observation that a Gramme dynamo that was being run as a motor in a classroom demonstration sparked badly between its commutator and brushes led him to suggest that a motor without a commutator might be devised, an idea that his professor ridiculed.

    Tesla, Nikola 2008

  • It should suffice to state that the ring-armature Gramme dynamo generator was introduced in 1870; it mostly ran on steam power, which goes to show that truth is stranger than fiction.

    Archive 2006-02-01 Holly 2006

  • It should suffice to state that the ring-armature Gramme dynamo generator was introduced in 1870; it mostly ran on steam power, which goes to show that truth is stranger than fiction.

    for the curious Holly 2006

  • The singles "How I Wrote Elastic Man" and "Totally Wired" (Smith and The Fall were by now committed amphetamine sulphate vultures); the album "Grotesque (After The Gramme)", which introduced Smith's heroic, insurrectional alter-ego Roman Totale - as well as Marc Riley's whacked out use of the kazoo - and ended in the ten-minute masterpiece "The North Will Ride Again".

    FallNews - Hey Peasants! 2000

  • Impression of J. Temperance is a stark, mud-stained tale of cloning gone horribly wrong, while Gramme Friday is a Thursday morning come-down hymn to amphetamines, that also draws in the willingness of Hitler's personal physician to prescribe the Fuhrer something for the weekend.

    FallNews 1999

  • The last of their albums he sent me was Grotesque (After the Gramme) (Rough Trade 18), which I must've played but don't remember.

    The Fall 1999

  • Most of the audience -- looking old enough to have lived through punk's first wave in the '70s, the era out of which the Fall rose to some acclaim with albums such as Live at the Witch Trials and Grotesque (After the Gramme) -- absorbed the show in rapt silence as if they were satisfied by being in mere proximity to one of rock's most prolific and intelligent practitioners.

    FallNews - all mud and witches 1998

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