Re: Be Like Mike (no, the other Mike)/Dr. Dre
One thing that Michael did was singlehandedly destroy Black Music. Phooey. NW
Me existing
Yeah, Rche was probably telling the truth (he is apt to pull a fast one , however). I do exist. Many on this list can attest to that. --Matt Cook P.S.--I always wear a beard, glasses, jeans, white t-shirt, underwear, socks, and shoes when I'm out of my cage. JP Riedie wrote: So does Matt Cook exist? Or is he a publicist's creation? Every time I see the Gourds at the Electric Lounge I ask soundguy Rche if he's seen Matt Cook. he always says yes, but he thinks Matt left for a bit or he went into the crowd. I want to see this man with my own eyes.
Re: The East Tennessee Contigent Expands (Was: Re: The JudyBats (family tree))
Kevin Russell of The Gourds, too (Beaumont). I wouldn't call that East Texas, though. You gotta go a little further North to the pines (where the sun never shines...). --Matt Cook (from East Texas, much more fucked up than even Vidor) JP Riedie wrote: She's not country, but Marcia Ball's from Vidor too. JXH The towns in question are Vidor, Orange and Port Arthur. Janis Joplin and Marc Chesnutt are from this area also.
Re: Texans and odd hats
Is this a joke? I shot tons of that show. And I was so high/drunk that I was stuck sitting on that tiny stage about an inch from Claude the whole second set. And I met many P1 and 2ers that night. --Matt Cook Ross Whitwam wrote: You know, when The Gourds played at The Rodeo Bar here in NYC not too long ago I couldn't find any "Matt Cook" either. Strangely enough, though, singer-keyboardist David Paich from Toto -- LA-studio faves in the 80's and Randy Newman's favourite band -- was there videotaping the group. He looked very good for his age. More like 20 than 50. I was hoping he'd jump onstage to lead the band in a Gourdsified version of "Way down in Africa", but he confined himself to filming the band and drinking Bud.
Fw: SILOS Silos @ Brownie's on Valentine's Day
Thought someone in the NYC area might want to know this. The Silos are at their best when Mary Rowell's playing fiddle. And since, last time I heard, she's got a VIP day gig that doesn't let her play with them often, you oughta catch them with her when you get the chance. The woman flat-out **smokes** that fiddle. Steve Kirsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** The Silos will perform at Brownie's on Avenue A at 10th Street in New York City this Sunday, February 14, Valentine's Day The band: Walter Salas-Humara - voice, guitar Mary Rowell - violin Drew Glackin - bass, lap steel, voice Nancy Polstein - drums, voice The bill: Star City @ 8pm Willard Grant Conspiracy @ 9pm The Silos @ 10pm There will be plenty of love songs. Cheers, The Silos http://world.std.com/~silos
Clip: MP3 article from today's Boston Globe
The prophet Chuck D, on MP3 By Patti Hartigan, Globe Staff, 02/12/99 In the words of Cornel West, he's ''a freedom fighter of his generation.'' In the words of Spike Lee, he's ''one of the most politically and socially conscious artists of any generation.'' But forget the superlatives. Chuck D, founder of the rap group Public Enemy, has roared about the Three E's: education, economics, and enforcement (as in law). Now he's aiming at another alphabetical trio, an Information Age version of the three Rs - record companies, radio stations, and retail stores. ''I'm the person who waves a flag for the artists to have a fair shot,'' Chuck D says during a phone interview from Atlanta. ''The record companies hide behind bushes when I talk because I'm the mouth that roars. They're full of `No comments.''' His latest rap condemns the music industry. ''If you don't own the master/then the master owns you,'' the song proclaims, comparing the artist-industry relationship to slavery. ''Dollar a rhyme/but we barely get a dime.'' Needless to say, you won't find record company executives touting the tune, you won't hear it on the radio, and you won't find it in retail stores. It's available only on the Internet at www.public-enemy.com. The provocative song is the latest salvo fired in Chuck D's dispute with his former label Def Jam Recordings and its parent company Polygram (now part of Universal Music Group). Now, you could write this off as a typical artist-management skirmish if it didn't involve a technological advance that is rapidly changing the way music is produced, marketed, and distributed. The record industry is facing its most monumental shakeup, more daunting than what happened when vinyl gave way to the CD. It's all thanks to a simple but groundbreaking computer format that rhymes with MTV. They call it MP3. The controversial format enables anyone with a modem and a mouse to download digital copies of recorded music that sound almost exactly like the originals. It's the hottest thing in cyberspace these days, and companies like Lycos and JamTV are racing to come up with products and services as fast as you can say, ''I want my MP3!'' Depending on whom you talk to, though, MP3 is either the beginning of a brave new world of artistic freedom or a return to the days when the pirates ruled the seas. Certain artists (including Public Enemy, Billy Idol, the Beastie Boys, and the surviving members of the Grateful Dead) are way ahead of the industry executives, who are scrambling to catch up with the chaotic, constantly changing world of cyberspace. Public Enemy, for instance, used the MP3 format to post recordings from its unreleased remix album on its Web site late last year. Def Jam demanded that the band remove the songs from the site, and Public Enemy eventually severed its ties with the label, which has produced every Public Enemy album since its debut in 1987. ''That was the straw that broke the camel's back,'' says Chuck D. When asked about the split, a Def Jam spokeswoman said, ''No comment.'' But the Recording Industry Association of America is hardly hiding behind the bushes. ''With the touch of a button, any 13-year-old can make music available to millions of people around the world,'' says Cary Sherman, the industry group's senior executive vice president and general counsel. ''We're talking about a whole new dimension of piracy.'' Chuck D, however, downplays these fears. ''They're trying to come up with a two-minute offense,'' he says. ''That's what we say in football when you're behind and you come up with some rush plays.'' Here's the play by play: The recording industry association has been scouring the Internet to shut down illegal MP3 sites, and in December, it launched the Secure Digital Music Initiative, or SDMI, a plan to develop standards to protect copyrighted music in cyberspace. When the Internet portal Lycos launched an MP3 search engine last week, the industry association forced the company to vow it would not link to illegal sites offering bootleg music. MP3 files, after all, aren't scratchy cassette tapes with gaps between tracks. They're high-quality recordings. Many Web sites, including www.mp3.com and www.goodnoise.com, offer legal MP3 recordings to download for about $1 a song; the files are compressed, so it takes only a minute or so to download a track using a high-speed modem. Browsers can then play the tunes right on their computer using one of the free players, such as Real Player, that are readily available on the Internet. MP3 is all the rage among today's technologically savvy college students, who can easily use ''ripper'' software to copy their CDs into the MP3 format and distribute it for free - or for profit - over the Internet. David Weekly, a 20-year-old Arlington native and a computer science student at Stanford University, put his entire music collection up on his Web site two years ago, and his site was so popular it almost crashed the
Re: Dylan
At 10:19 AM + 12/2/99, Girvan Burnside wrote: Ross Whitwam said: I want to vote for the "Live At Budokan" album as Dylan's worst live album. No I didn't. I too like the _At Budokan_ album. Someone else said that. Ross Whitwam[EMAIL PROTECTED] Molecular Pharmacology Therapeutics Program Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, NYC
RE: Shot My Baby Down
"Perfume, Powder And Lead," Lonesome River Band, Finding The Way Jon Weisberger Kenton County, KY [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.fuse.net/jonweisberger/
Re: Shot My Baby Down
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trying to remember some songs for the sunday nite show that feature the timeless theme of - shot my baby down, etc. Wanna Rock And Roll Ray Wylie Hubbard But then you probably already planned to play that one. -jp
Re: Dylan
sorry, bad editing of all the previous messages. Girvan Ross Whitwam wrote: At 10:19 AM + 12/2/99, Girvan Burnside wrote: Ross Whitwam said: I want to vote for the "Live At Budokan" album as Dylan's worst live album. No I didn't. I too like the _At Budokan_ album. Someone else said that. Ross Whitwam[EMAIL PROTECTED] Molecular Pharmacology Therapeutics Program Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, NYC
Re: Shot My Baby Down
"Hey Joe" Heard you shot your old lady down. Jimi (Tex) Hendrix -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: passenger side [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Shot My Baby Down Date: Thursday, February 11, 1999 4:30 PM Got that sinus medicine cloudin' my already murky mind.. Trying to remember some songs for the sunday nite show that feature the timeless theme of - shot my baby down, etc. Ever time I try to concentrate, all I get are these little snatches of lyrics, none of which are attached to song titles. All I can think of for sure is - NY's Down By The River. Somebody hep me, please. Thanks in advance. Joe X. Third Coast
Re: Shot My Baby Down
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trying to remember some songs for the sunday nite show that feature the timeless theme of - shot my baby down, etc. Wasn't there a song which has a character named "Lady Mondegreen" getting herself killed off? g -jp
RE: Shot My Baby Down
Then there's "Hey Joe". Not the Boudleaux Bryant tune, but the one written by Chet Powers, aka Dino Valenti, who is also the author of the hippie anthem "Get Together". There's a pretty twangy - and oddball - version of that on Jerry Douglas' Slide Rule (Sugar Hill), with Jerry, Artie McGlynn on guitar and Tim O'Brien on mandolin and vocal. Why anyone would want to record anything, ever, without a good strong bass track is beyond me, but there you have it... Jon Weisberger Kenton County, KY [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.fuse.net/jonweisberger/
Re: WOW! (from Alex)
Joe Gracey wrote: Our first tour was, however, pretty damn funny on the nights when we would land in one of the clubs where they kept yelling "Crystal Chandelier" at you all night long and made you play that damn song while they did the confederate uniform routine. Argh! That's the other favourite - The Crystal Chandeliers. They never get sick of that song. However, the food at them services is still unforgiveable. How they manage to suck all of the flavor out of a sausage is a mystery to me to this day. Lesson no.1. Never eat food at country western clubs. You don't know where it's come from g Louise -- If you like rocking country music, check out the Okeh Wranglers web site at: http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/bluesmoke
Re: Texans and odd hats
On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Ross Whitwam wrote: At 1:39 AM -0600 12/2/99, Matt Cook wrote: Is this a joke? I shot tons of that [NYC] show. WRONG! At the Gourds' NYC show the bearded guy from Toto was filming the show. I know. I saw him. Holy shit, yer right! I just checked out a Toto webpage, and the guy I *thought* was Matt Cook is actually Toto's David Paich. All right, Mr. Paich, now that you've been outed, what the hell are you doing tryin' to infiltrate the alt-country community?--don
Re: Shot My Baby Down (the list)
Thanks to everybody who responded. My head's a little clearer today, I came up with a couple more. Based on what's available in our library, for those interested, here's the list I've come up with: BR-549 - Knoxville Girl Honky Tonk Confidential - Fourty-Four Steve Earle - Taneytown (? Gotta listen to this one, but I think he kills *someone*) Dean Hall - Ghost of James Bell Ray Wylie Hubbard - Wanna Rock 'n Roll Buckwheat Zydeco - Hey Joe Waylon Jennings - Out of Jail Asylum Street Spankers - Lee Harvey (don't fit, but couldn't resist...back and to the left) Earfood - Junco Partner Steve James - Frankie and Albert Hollisters - Deacon Brown Terry Allen - Ourland (can't resist a song that includes garroting g) Thanks again. Joe Horn In a message dated 99-02-12 11:24:26 EST, you write: On Thu, 11 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All I can think of for sure is - NY's Down By The River. Somebody hep me, please. Thanks in advance. "Son, Oh Son" by Boiled in Lead, on "Orb". Better cuz the baby he cuts down is his sister. jamie www.hogwaller.com "An analog band trapped in a digital world."
RE: Shot My Baby Down
Over You - Aaron Neville Cocaine - Johnny Cash (I don't remember the name of this song, but it's the one about taking a line of cocaine, shooting my baby down, etc.) My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama - Frank Zappa Pardon Me (I've Got Someone To Kill) - Johnny Paycheck
Swingin' Doors, 2/11/99
The first hour of last night's show should be up on the KCMU web page in the next day or two. Listen in at: http://www.kcmu.org/listen.htm You'll hear new stuff from Steve Earle, Del McCoury, Ricky Skaggs, J.D. Crowe, Neko Case, Damnations TX, Hadacol, Beaver Nelson, Cisco, and James Hand, along with some cool old stuff. Tennessee Ernie Ford (with Kay Starr) - Ain't Nobody's Business But My Own Merrill Moore - Cooing To The Wrong Pigeon Steve Earle and the Del McCoury Band - The Graveyard Shift The Del McCoury Band - Backslidin' Blues Ricky Skaggs - Coal Minin' Man J.D. Crowe and the New South - I'm So Afraid Of Losin' You Again Neko Case - Rated X (3/11 at the Tractor) Dave Dudley - This Night Ain't Fit For Nothing But Drinking Jerry Lee Lewis - Bottles and Barstools Charley Pride - In My World (You Don't Belong) Dallas Frazier - Sweetheart Don't Throw Yourself Away Damnations TX - Jack's Waltz (3/13 at the Crocodile w/ Richard Buckner) Hadacol - Poorer Than Dead Beaver Nelson - Strong As I Look Cisco - The Bum You Say I Am James Hand - I Can't Afford To Go Hank Williams - Dear John (request) Smokey Stover - Go On And Leave My Baby Alone Carl Smith - Satisfaction Guaranteed Red Sovine - Juke Joint Johnny Flatirons - Hearts On Fire Lefty Frizzell - Stranger Jim Reeves - The Blizzard (request) Billy Walker - Cross The Brazos At Waco Marty Robbins - Bound For Old Mexico David Olney - Barrabas Fred Eaglesmith - White Rose (2/18 at the Tractor) Richard Buckner - Brief Boundless (3/13 at the Croc. w/ the Damnations) Countrypolitans - That Train R.B. Morris - Don't Forget The Coffee Billy Joe Tom T. Hall - Ravishing Ruby Loretta Lynn - Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (request) Jimmy Griggs - Overloaded Diesel Red Simpson - Highway Man Jim and Jesse - Pardon Me Bad Livers - Honey I've Found A Brand New Way/It's (2/13 at the Tractor) The Gourds - Cold Bed (3/26 at the Tractor) Paul Burch the WPA Ballclub - Winner's Circle Willie Nelson and Beck - Drivin' Nails In My Coffin Big Sandy his Fly-Rite Boys - If I Wrote A Song About Our Love Affair Merle Travis - Cincinnati Lou Hank Thompson - Drunkard's Blues Wynn Stewart - Couples Only Justin Trevino - Texas Honky Tonk Porter Wagoner - My Baby Turns The Lights On Uptown Stonewall Jackson - Big House On The Corner George Jones - You're Still On My Mind Goldie Hill - Living Alone Mike Ireland and Holler - Worst Of All (request) Cal Smith - Drinking Champagne Charlie Rich - I Almost Lost My Mind Roger Miller - A World I Can't Live In Country Johnny Mathis - All I Need Is You Bruce Robison (with Kelly Willis) - When I Loved You Harris/Ronstadt/Parton - Lover's Return Swingin' Doors can be heard Thursdays from 6-9pm on KCMU 90.3FM in Seattle. Email me if you have any questions about the music played.--don
Re: Clip: MP3 article from today's Boston Globe
On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Brad Bechtel wrote: The technology is relatively easy to master, the sound is quite good, and the sizes are decent. For example, I made an MP3 of the song "Dwight's Blues" from Rob Ickes' new CD "Slide City" (for testing purposes, not for dissemination). The original 16 bit 44kHz stereo AIFF file was 36.3 Mb. The MP3 was 3.3 Mb. I have to admit some curiosity. One of the reasons Sony's MiniDisc has been met with disdain is that it uses a lossy format. MP3 doesn't strike me as all that different, and I do wonder why many people seem to feel so differently about the two. (I'm not implying you have, Brad, just taking off on your comments.) Bob
Re: Clip: MP3 article from today's Boston Globe
Bob Soron writes: I have to admit some curiosity. One of the reasons Sony's MiniDisc has been met with disdain is that it uses a lossy format. MP3 doesn't strike me as all that different, and I do wonder why many people seem to feel so differently about the two. (I'm not implying you have, Brad, just taking off on your comments.) My theory is that its popularity has to do with the fact that the technology isn't proprietary (that is, Sony, Seagrams, Panasonic, Microsoft, etc. doesn't get a cut of each sale) and that it's software-based, not hardware based, so it requires no outlay of cash, unlike MiniDisc, DAT, DCC, or the other digital consumer formats. The resistance from the major labels certainly hasn't hurt, either, giving the format a Robin Hood-esque aura. No one particularly minds seeing the majors squirm a little. --Jon Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wollaston, Massachusetts
RE: Clip: MP3 article from today's Boston Globe
Bob says: I have to admit some curiosity. One of the reasons Sony's MiniDisc has been met with disdain is that it uses a lossy format. MP3 doesn't strike me as all that different, and I do wonder why many people seem to feel so differently about the two. I don't have the specs in front of me, but I believe that the MP3 compression algorithm loses a bit less than the MiniDisc one. More to the point, though, I think there's a market positioning aspect here; Sony's positioning of the MiniDisc pretty well sucks (or sucked; maybe they're changing it), since it appeared to place it as a straightforward substitute for a combination of CD and CD-R. Around here, at least, most of the MD shelf space is given over to audio system component units - tabletop player/recorders, sometimes in packages with a portable player-only unit. That's direct competition of sorts with the Diamond Rio MP3 player, but the Rio doesn't have any moving parts, which renders it superior. MP3s are, I think, mostly played back on computer audio systems (duh), on which the difference between an MP3 and a CD is barely detectable, if at all. IMO, the MD's survival depends on the extent to which it's adopted as a portable recording format; I know a lot of musicians and radio folks who use them, for listening to mixes and dubs for the former (superior to cassettes) and for doing out-of-studio interviews, station promos from stars, etc. Jon Weisberger Kenton County, KY [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.fuse.net/jonweisberger/
Re: Clip: MP3 article from today's Boston Globe
I have to admit some curiosity. One of the reasons Sony's MiniDisc has been met with disdain is that it uses a lossy format. MP3 doesn't strike me as all that different, and I do wonder why many people seem to feel so differently about the two. (I'm not implying you have, Brad, just taking off on your comments.) The MP3 file format is different from the Sony MiniDisc delivery format, just as an Microsoft Excel spreadsheet file is different from a lined sheet of accounting paper. Both can be used for the same purpose, but in different ways. I couldn't see buying a MiniDisc player unless I were doing a lot of recording. I could see buying an additional hard drive (or a Jaz drive) to store MP3 files on my computer, if I were into that sort of thing, which I'm not. I would expect that bands will end up doing a lot of recording to hard disk in whatever format they see fit, but I wouldn't be surprised to see MP3 being the delivery format for a while. The Diamond Rio MP3 player is actually pretty cool (see http://www.diamondmm.com/rio). I don't see an MP3 recorder anywhere in the near future. You have to record in AIFF or WAV format, then translate to MP3 format. np: Nine Pound Hammer, by the Robby Robot Band (http://www.mp3.com/music/folk/7023.html) - featuring Stacy Phillips on Dobro, Tony Trischka on banjo.
New American Roots 2/12/9
Title: New American Roots 2/12/9 Jim Caliguiri left town and I hijacked his show...Austin wins! Hayden - Bad As They Seem - Everything I Long For johnny cash - Rusty Cage - Unchained Bare Jr. - Loveless - Boo-Tay White Hassle - Out of Control - s/t Drive By Truckers - The Living Bubba - Gangstabilly Liquor Giants - Something's Always on Fire - Here Damnations - Things I Once Adored - Half Mad Moon John P. Styrohm - Better Than Nothing - Vestavia You Am I - The Cream the Crock - #4 Record Beaver Nelson - Forget Thinking - The Last Hurrah Vulgar Boatmen - You Don't Love Me yet - Safehouse Wreck Room Sampler Elliot Smith - Waltz #2 (XO) - XO Al Tuck No Action - Can I Count on You - Brave Last Days Pete Droge - Sunspot Stopwatch - Necktie Second Soul Asylum - Cartoon - Hang Time WHEE!!! np: Pinetops - Above Ground Vertical
Re: The East Tennessee Contigent Expands (Was: Re: The JudyBats(family tree))
JP Riedie wrote: In a message dated 99-02-10 18:27:31 EST, you write: On Wed, 10 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought the KKK originated in lovely east Texas, specifically the town of Vidor. I'm referring to the area north of scenic Beaumont, near the Louisiana border. There is a trio of small towns there (Vidor being one, I can't remember the names of the other two) that are known in local medical circles as the "septic triangle". People have come out of there with the most amazing and unique genetic characteristics. So have lotsa great country artists, like George Jones.--don She's not country, but Marcia Ball's from Vidor too. JXH The towns in question are Vidor, Orange and Port Arthur. Janis Joplin and Marc Chesnutt are from this area also. Big Bopper too. Jack Clement moved down there after Sun closed and built a studio and cut a bunch of stuff down there. The kid he had working for him, building and varnishing the echo chamber, etc, was Allen Reynolds who produced Crystal Gayle and now Garth. Beaumont was a little scene for awhile there, lots of Cajuns. He cut a hit record on Rod Bernard there and pitched songs to George Jones (Just A Girl I Used to Know, She Thinks I Still Care, etc.). This is where Jack became known as "Cowboy"- during one of his parties he rode a big white horse through the front door of his house, through the house, out the patio doors and into the swimming pool. -- Joe Gracey President-For-Life, Jackalope Records http://www.kimmierhodes.com
RE: Clip: MP3 article from today's Boston Globe
I don't see an MP3 recorder anywhere in the near future. You have to record in AIFF or WAV format, then translate to MP3 format. If your CD drive supports it - and most do - it appears, judging by the elapsed time it takes, you can extract CD audio files directly to MP3 format; there's a huge variety of commercial, shareware and I think even a few freeware products that do this. That's a substantial part of the piracy concern; it's easier to copy a commercially-released CD than it is to record your own stuff. Jon Weisberger Kenton County, KY [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.fuse.net/jonweisberger/
Re: New American Roots 2/12/9
You go--Jenni! Jennifer Sperandeo wrote: Jim Caliguiri left town and I hijacked his show...Austin wins! WHEE!!!
Re: Clip: MP3 article from today's Boston Globe
Brad Bechtel wrote: I'll admit it. I downloaded the Other Ones' MP3 of ''Mississippi Half Step.'' It sucked, to quote Jeff Wall. There are a lot of decent MP3s out there (see http://www.mp3.com for legal ones; search for the others). The technology is relatively easy to master, the sound is quite good, and the sizes are decent. For example, I made an MP3 of the song "Dwight's Blues" from Rob Ickes' new CD "Slide City" (for testing purposes, not for dissemination). The original 16 bit 44kHz stereo AIFF file was 36.3 Mb. The MP3 was 3.3 Mb. I wonder when someone will come up with a way to translate RealAudio files into MP3. I think MP3 sounds pretty good, but I do hear artifacts from its compression- the high end sounds sort of swirly, but it is still pretty decent sound. I have one on our page if you want to check it out at: http://www.kimmierhodes.com/wonderfulsound.html -- Joe Gracey President-For-Life, Jackalope Records http://www.kimmierhodes.com
RE: Shot My Baby Down
Delia - Johnny Cash Jeff Wall http://www.twangzine.com The Webs least sucky music magazine 3421 Daisy Crescent - Va Beach, Va - 23456
Re: Clip: MP3 article from today's Boston Globe
Brad Bechtel wrote: I would expect that bands will end up doing a lot of recording to hard disk in whatever format they see fit, but I wouldn't be surprised to see MP3 being the delivery format for a while. Yeah, MP3 is only useful as a way to compress an existing master audio file into a file small enough to be downloaded in a reasonable amount of time, which has been the holy grail of internet music dreamers for years. I think it is close enough to CD quality that some fans won't even notice, but the hard-core ones will notice and still want the CD. It is, of course, only the first in a series of these compression schemes and we are rapidly reaching the point where a lot of music is about to be sold and downloaded instantly. The record industry is scrambling to try to force people to put an encoder into audio files for the 'net which makes it impossible to clone the file. -- Joe Gracey President-For-Life, Jackalope Records http://www.kimmierhodes.com
Buckner, free agent status?
May be old news but I just heard that Richard Buckner and MCA have parted ways. Bill Lavery http://villagerecords.com/
Re: Buckner, free agent status?
May be old news but I just heard that Richard Buckner and MCA have parted ways. Bill Lavery http://villagerecords.com/ If you're looking for confirmation, I can tell you that Buckner is indeed the lateset victim of "Unigram"
Re: Buckner, free agent status?
I knew the White Sox fired Bill Buckner as hitting coach, but I thought he picked up another gig. I assumed the Red Sox weren't in the running though. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Feb 12 11:20:29 1999 Received: from [140.142.56.2] by hotmail.com (1.1) with SMTP id MHotMailB88DC9F82D3AFD10170758C8E38020F950; Fri Feb 12 11:20:29 1999 Received: from host (lists.u.washington.edu [140.142.56.13]) by lists4.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with SMTP id LAA27203; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 11:20:00 -0800 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.2+UW99.01/8.9.2+UW99.01) with ESMTP id LAA19076 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 11:19:54 -0800 Received: from gvi.gvi.net (ns1.gvi.net [204.251.236.2]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id LAA01787 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 11:19:53 -0800 Received: from default (mdm1-01.max4.gvi.net [208.0.208.97]) by gvi.gvi.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id NAA23247; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 13:15:10 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 12:51:55 -0600 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: bulk From: Village Records [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "passenger side" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Buckner, free agent status? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN May be old news but I just heard that Richard Buckner and MCA have parted ways. Bill Lavery http://villagerecords.com/ __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: Buckner, free agent status?
If you're looking for confirmation, I can tell you that Buckner is indeed the lateset victim of "Unigram" Can I make a request here? As the heads roll, can y'all either post the info on P2 or, if the masses aren't interested, drop me a line offlist? I want to keep tabs on the bloodletting. Neal Weiss
Re: Be Like Mike (no, the other Mike)
Will Miner wrote: It's been 16 years since Thriller and 15 since Purple Rain, 12 since Sign O The Times. None of them has been snip ... influential on the hip and new in a while. Even the Prince clones are old history. Um, Beatles clones were old history a lot longer ago but does that mean the Beatles are not (for better or worse) a lasting influence? I see Prince's influence quite plainly in much new RB, trip-hop etc. (Tricky and Massive Attack are obvious cases, and you see him cited by even more wildly un-Princelike bands in interviews all the time.) Als I suspect the real impact of TAFKAP will have to wait out the annoying pomposity of the glyph-o-maniac's public pronouncements (just as late-Miles's influence has resurged among jazzers and rockers alike, now that his personal tics are fading in time's amnesia). And tho, yeah, he seems to be in a less incandescent phase, every record he puts out has enough brilliant strokes for me to be far from counting him out yet. Unless he just gets crazier and crazier with the years, in a Howard Hughes rather than Brian Wilson sorta way. As for MJ - listen to the radio, man. From Hanson on up, the people who are makin' hits were born to the sound of Thriller. Carl W. A man after my own heart! Prince has also been cited by Chuck D. as a profound influence, while Dr. Dre has pointed to the Black Album as a major influence on NWA.
Re: Buckner, free agent status?
Excerpts from internet.listserv.postcard2: 12-Feb-99 Re: Buckner, free agent sta.. by [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can I make a request here? As the heads roll, can y'all either post the info on P2 or, if the masses aren't interested, drop me a line offlist? I want to keep tabs on the bloodletting. The masses are interested, or at least this bit of the mass is. Carl Z.
RE: Buckner, free agent status?
The masses are interested, or at least this bit of the mass is. How could anyone not be? Hell, I don't even like Buckner's stuff too much, and I am. Jon Weisberger Kenton County, KY [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.fuse.net/jonweisberger/
Why I love Kentucky #47
-Original Message- From: Bluegrass music discussion. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Bo McCarty Sent: Thursday, February 11, 1999 10:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Rigsby, Front page Today's editon of the Daily Independent (Ashland, Ky) on the front page is a picture of Don Rigsby, KY Gov. Paul Patton and KY State Rep. Rocky Adkins. Gov. Patton is kicking off is re-election bid and visited Sandy Hook, Ky. Don was there with others and played the Gov. Patton a little grass. According to the paper Gov. Patton joined in the chorus on "Fox On The Run." Gov. Patton is a HUGE bluegrass fan. The year he was elected he and a few members of his staff disappeared to a back room of the Capitol and did a little pickin'. Bo McCarty, "THE BO-MAN" "Bluegrass, Pick It Up! http://www.wwd.net/user/boman
Re: Why I love Kentucky #47
Jon Weisberger writes: Gov. Patton is kicking off is re-election bid and visited Sandy Hook, Ky. Don was there with others and played the Gov. Patton a little grass. According to the paper Gov. Patton joined in the chorus on "Fox On The Run." Yeah, I was always a big fan of the Sweet, too. Can't really see what a '70s British glitter rock hit has to do with Kentucky politics, though. ;-) --Jon Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wollaston, Massachusetts
RE: Opry this week
Saw that Ricky Skaggs-Osborne Brothers-Healther Myles, Loretta Lynn, Porter Wagoner and others are on the Opry this weekend. Jeff White will be performing a song or two from his new album on each of the three shows, though not on the televised portion (though Heather will be); the AOTD will be on tap as mandolin player/tenor singer, together with Mike Bub of the Del McCoury Band, Jeff Guernsey and a banjo player. Worth tuning in... Jon Weisberger Kenton County, KY [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.fuse.net/jonweisberger/
Re: Buckner, free agent status?
On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, David Markovits wrote: I knew the White Sox fired Bill Buckner as hitting coach, but I thought he picked up another gig. I assumed the Red Sox weren't in the running though. Sure, hit me where it hurts. g Bob
RE: Why I love Kentucky #47
Jon Weisberger writes: Gov. Patton is kicking off is re-election bid and visited Sandy Hook, Ky. Don was there with others and played the Gov. Patton a little grass. According to the paper Gov. Patton joined in the chorus on "Fox On The Run." Yeah, I was always a big fan of the Sweet, too. Can't really see what a '70s British glitter rock hit has to do with Kentucky politics, though. ;-) Aw, man, everyone knows that the Country Gentlemen were the first ones to cover it; I'll bet the Sweet got it from them. g Jon Weisberger Kenton County, KY [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.fuse.net/jonweisberger/
RE: Clip: MP3 article from today's Boston Globe
On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Jon Weisberger wrote: [...] MP3s are, I think, mostly played back on computer audio systems (duh), on which the difference between an MP3 and a CD is barely detectable, if at all. Well, here's another of those areas in which I get confused. Why do people use their computers to play back audio and, even weirder, video? I'd suspect a K Mart boombox is going to offer better sound than a typical computer setup (this was the problem, BTW, when I asked a couple of weeks ago about MP3 quality; it turned out to be the speakers). And you have the advantage of portability; the computer's CD drive isn't going anywhere, but you can take that boombox with you. As I say, I'm even more baffled by the huge demand for DVD players for computers. I can't imagine any less-comfortable way to watch a movie than sitting in a desk chair and staring at a computer monitor for a good 90 minutes. Bob
Re: Buckner, free agent status?
I knew the White Sox fired Bill Buckner as hitting coach, but I thought he picked up another gig. I assumed the Red Sox weren't in the running though. Sure, hit me where it hurts. g I feel your pain, Bob. Of course Buckner will always be a Dodger to me. My Dodger season tix just arrived. W hooo. Any P2ers in town during the season who want to visit the finest stadium in the west, give me a hollar. But only if you're Dodger fans, or at least fan enough to not be rooting against them at that moment in time. I hate sharing beers with someone rooting for their loser team. Koufax Weiss
Re: Melba Montgomery, still going strong??
Sitting listening to the title track of Randy Travis' "You and You Alone", I was struck by the beautiful harmonies on the title track. I remembered Vince Gill was in the mix there, but when I checked the credits, Melba Montgomery turned up too. Wow. I didnt know she was still around. And what's more, turns out she co-wrote it. Am I being really dim? Is she still very much in the biz? Also, I was wondering where might be a good place to start to put a tentative toe into Vince Gill's back catalog. If it helps, I like most of what Randy Travis does (as a point of comparison) except for schlock like "I Did My Part", and I detest things like "Holes in the Floor of Heaven and other assorted unfortunate metaphors" (thanks, Louise, for reminding me how much I dislike that song)... on or off list guidance much appreciated Stevie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Melba Montgomery, still going strong??
On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Stevie Simkin wrote: Sitting listening to the title track of Randy Travis' "You and You Alone", I was struck by the beautiful harmonies on the title track. I remembered Vince Gill was in the mix there, but when I checked the credits, Melba Montgomery turned up too. Wow. I didnt know she was still around. And what's more, turns out she co-wrote it. Am I being really dim? Is she still very much in the biz? Speaking of Miss Melba, does anyone know if any of her solo stuff has been issued on CD? I have a bunch of her albums, but have never seen anything but her duet stuff and the occassional "No Charge" on a compilation on CD. I really like those albums a lot. Joyce
Shot My Baby Down
You are looking for murder ballads? Here's about 500 that I pulled together before I stopped keeping track. http://mail.iuma.com/~kscu/programming/djpromo/gardner/murder.html Careful, though, the blood can get kinda deep. Also, check out http://www.topsoil.net/moider.htm for some stories to go along with the deaths. There's even Booth Shot Lincoln which would be especially a propos (and sick) because today is Lincoln's Birthday. steve
Vince Gill (was Re: Melba Montgomery, still going strong??
On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Stevie Simkin wrote: Also, I was wondering where might be a good place to start to put a tentative toe into Vince Gill's back catalog. I take it you must already have The Key, so if that's the case, I'd start with When I Call Your Name, the title song of which has to be one of the best HARD country songs of the past 10 years.--don
RE: Melba Montgomery, still going strong??
Melba Montgomery's been writing fairly steadily, I think; there's a great song by her and a couple of other folks on Rhonda Vincent's Trouble Free that had a recent copyright date, and I believe I've seen her name elsewhere on some more-or-less mainstream album credits. I think that her singing appearance on the Travis cut was her first in a while. The All-Music Guide shows one in-print CD from 1992 - a nice mix of classics and new stuff, including a great great song co-written by Russell Smith and a couple of other people that Pam Tillis did called "Do You Know Where Your Man Is" - and that's about it, although a duet with Carl Jackson is listed on a really obscure album from '96 called Nashville Country Duets (hmm, Skaggs, Emmylou, Jackson, Montgomery and the Whites, I'm going to have to check this out). As far as Gill goes, Stevie, I'd think you'd want to start with The Key and see how badly you react to his smoother stuff g; either that or High Lonesome Sound. Jon Weisberger Kenton County, KY [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.fuse.net/jonweisberger/
Re: Sun closed
Sun closed It's still there, different, but it's still there. The old instruments, everything. Also Phillips still has a studio in Memphis, and Roland is still there too Slow, and still rolling on the river in Memphis
Re: Shot My Baby Down
L.A. County - Lyle Lovett
Re: POSTCARD2 digest 1310
Friends, Has no one on this list yet picked up on the Hank Dogs ? (Apart from slagging off their name) They are a South London-based band who music is a mix between late-60s Island folk (ie Drake/Martyn) and Texas s/s like Townes, and John Hiatt. An acoustic guitar player and two female voices. Fabulous beyond measure. English pantheistic stuff. Their album "Bareback' from Ryko was the best album of last year that wasn't recorded by Lucinda Williams. It's a staggering collection of songs. They are the first English band signed by Joe Boyd for Hannibel since god know when. They are supporting Baez on some shows in the States in Feb. You should definitely go and see them.They're also doing SXSW. BTW has anybody else heard John Wesley Harding's album of Nic Jones' songs. I can't believe how well he's carried it off. Nick West Bucketfull Of Brains PO Box 11301, London WC1H 8HF 44(0)171 916 4661 (phone/fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Top 10 Music Critics Organization
This came from a Music Critics group off the internet. Hi Everyone, The top ten albums of 1998 according to you, the critics, have been tabulated. We had an overwhelming number of participants for which we thank you all. We know our chart is very different from any other and your choices for the top artists will probably be quite different from the Grammys. Please feel free to reprint the chart in your outlets. The Critical List for 1998. 1. Lucinda Williams Car Wheels on a Gravel Road Mercury 2. Lauryn HillThe Miseducation of Lauryn Hill Ruffhouse/Columbia 3. Billy Bragg and Wilco Mermaid Avenue Elektra 4. Bob Dylan The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert)Columbia/Legacy 5. Rufus Wainwright Rufus WainwrightDreamWorks 6. GarbageVersion 2.0 Almo 7. R.E.M. Up Warner Bros 8. Elliott Smith XO DreamWorks 9. MadonnaRay of LightWarner Bros 10. HoleCelebrity Skin Geffen © Music Critics Organization, 1998. All rights reserved. Reproduction of the above is permissable only if accompanied by notice of MCO's copyright and reservation of rights. We will tabulate the results according to genre in the next week, so please stay tuned for the critics choice for top jazz, indie and country albums. Look for regular voting to begin anew next week. Again, thank you all.
Compression in radio? (was MP3 article)
BTW, following up on Joe Gracey's comments on the sound quality and nature of these files, I have a related question for Joe or others who know, regarding radio broadcast... That is: do radio broadcasts add compression to the recording being broadcast? In listening to various recordings on the radio, I've gotten this impression, but in technical terms I don't really understand what's going on. Thanks, --junior
Re: Shot My Baby Down
Did we get "Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room (She Wore Red Dresses)" yet? That's Dwight Yoakam of course. Thanks to Don and Jon for guidance on Gill. Just gonna check some sound samples on cdnow before I part with hard earned cash and easily-earned 10 dollar off voucher... Want to make sure he's not *too* smooth.. g Stevie
SF Local: Red Meat/Hollisters at Club Deluxe
This will be one hell of a show. Hollisters at 10, Red Meat at 11. Come early, as the Deluxe is small and will sell out. Club Deluxe is on Haight Street at Ashbury in San Francisco! Hope to see some of you SF'ers there. Owen Bly Ranchero Records Oakland, CA
addendum to SF local
Oh, by the way, this show happens Saturday night. Oops. This will be one hell of a show. Hollisters at 10, Red Meat at 11. Come early, as the Deluxe is small and will sell out. Club Deluxe is on Haight Street at Ashbury in San Francisco! Hope to see some of you SF'ers there. Owen Bly Ranchero Records Oakland, CA
MP3 and MD
An interesting twist on MD and RIO. One guy reviewing the RIO somewhere on the Internet suggested that while it was a cool concept, a portable MD player was actually a better solution for listening to MP3 away from the computer. You just record them on the MD from the computer. If you can't go digital to digital you get a little added noise from the analogue to digital conversion, but probably nothing you couldn't live with through walkman headphones. The upside? Each MD holds 74 min music vs RIO's 30-60 min and you can bring more than one MD with you, so the capacity is actually even larger. I'm sure they'll solve this issue on the RIO side soon enough with ROM cards or something. But my guess is that MDs at $5 a piece will be cheaper for the foreseable future. In addition, a portable MD player/recorder is only $50-$75 more than RIO and much more flexible (especially if you're a musician like me). Don't think of it as replacing CDs. Think of it as replacing cassettes. If this is the comparison you make, you realize it's a pretty cool format. Jake L Jake London
Re: Top 10 Music Critics Organization
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Lucinda WilliamsCar Wheels on a Gravel Road Mercury 2. Lauryn Hill The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill Ruffhouse/Columbia 3. Billy Bragg and Wilco Mermaid Avenue Elektra 4. Bob Dylan The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live 1966 (The Royal Albert Hall Concert) Columbia/Legacy 5. Rufus Wainwright Rufus WainwrightDreamWorks 6. Garbage Version 2.0 Almo 7. R.E.M.Up Warner Bros 8. Elliott Smith XO DreamWorks 9. Madonna Ray of LightWarner Bros 10. Hole Celebrity Skin Geffen Anyone care to guess which ONE of these albums I own? (and love) Madonna, right Slim? What do I win? Second price is TWO copies. Okay...off to make a mess of those P2ers who ventured to Nashvegas this weekend. I'll just follow the trail of littered bottles and bodies no doubt, Sarah = Vince Bell's new CD and book are available at: Miles of Music http://www.milesofmusic.com/ =
Clip: Red Meat
No, I'm not above a little chest-thumping...
BAM Magazine, 2/12/99
FEATURE: Red Meat Is Rare and Well Done
by David John Farinella
(First appeared in BAM magazine, 2/12/99)
Jill Olson is breaking into a bit of an odd smile under her red felt
cowboy hat. She's leaning forward to watch Smelley Kelley, her Red Meat
bandmate, go up to the bar at the People's Cafe on Haight Street to order
his first ever latt*. For Smelley it's akin to a wholesale karmic shift in
his coffee culture awareness. "This is amazing," she confides in an amazed
whisper. A couple of minutes later Smelley's back at the table, latte in
hand. "I can identify one of them now, I've passed my latte identification
class," he says with a laugh. A few seconds later Scott Young, the band's
chief songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, sits down with his own double
espresso. Turns out that it's the quiet Scott (who even after a double
espresso is calm) who has acclimated a bit faster to the California
lifestyle.
While both Scott and Smelley come from the pig farming land of Keokuk,
Iowa-Smelley's term-the rest of Red Meat come from a variety of spots in
the United States, thus proving the point that anything that's a little
loose will eventually roll West. Bassist Olson is from Ottumwa, Iowa; Steve
Cornell, who adds pedal-steel guitar, is from New York; guitarist Michael
Montalto is from Ohio; and drummer Les James is a true Okie. "One of the
reasons we all moved here is that we're kind of weird in our hometowns,"
explains Olson. "I was, a lot," interjects Smelley.
Either way, they found themselves in San Francisco and started to play
in a number of local bands. From the Movie Stars to the Genuine Diamelles,
each band member was playing music that wasn't necessarily what they wanted
to do, which was country, honky tonk, western-or whatever you want to call
it. Of course, they had all known and admired each others work, but when
their respective band's broke up they knew it was time to do a country
band. "Me and Smelley were going to do a duet and I was thinking, 'Let's
have a city western band,'" explains Scott. "So, I wrote a bunch of songs
and then we booked our first gig. It was just the two of us, and Steve
Cornell, our old pedal-steel player said, 'Can I play with you guys?' We
said, 'Yeah, we're not worthy.'" Cornell, who knew Olson, then commented
out of the blue how great it would be if she could join them. The next day,
while Scott was at a local ATM he ran into Olson, and Red Meat was about to
be formed.
That was 1993 when San Francisco was still known for it's punk rock,
but the burgeoning band pushed on. They started out playing a handful of
originals from Scott's notebook, as well as some covers from some of their
musical heroes like George Jones, Johnny Paycheck, Stanley Brothers and
Buck Owens. Meet Red Meat, their debut album, came out in 1997 and was
written entirely by Scott. Their latest offering, 13, includes five Scott
originals as well as contributions by Cornell, Olson, Montalto and band
friend Chuck Poling, and a cover of Johnny Horton's "I'm a One Woman Man."
The album was produced by Dave Alvin, known for his own solo work and as
the man behind the Blasters. It's Scott, though, that seems to be the
creative force in the band. "The flavor of how Scott writes a honky-tonk
song and the way Scott spins a lyric that gives continuity between the
two," explains Smelley.
With a smile Scott explains his songwriting technique. "Sometimes when
I'm trying to write a song I make a list of topics. Trucking? Check.
Drinking? Check. Divorce? Check. I haven't done trains yet, but I've done
the dogs. That song is about whining dogs trying to get out of the house to
pee." Ah yes, classic country music fare. In fact, it's true that the band
has sung about everything from love to heartbreak ("The Heartache's On Me")
drinking to getting sober ("Teetotalin' Time"), and even a good old SM
song titled "Baby Beats Me the Best."
Though Scott and Smelley split the lead singing duties, with Olson
adding backgrounds here and there, it's Smelley that gets to sing "Baby
Beats Me the Best." "I like to do a disclaimer in the beginning [of that
song] because it was written from a masochist standpoint and I've always
been a sadist," he reports. "So, I have to adjust the audience's mind
before I do it. I say, 'This is an acting job and I'll be done acting in a
second.'"
Where the band is not acting, however, is in their ultimate love and
respect for country music. While other bands have to constantly justify
their indie credibility, Red Meat have found themselves at times justifying
their choice in musical styles. "I think we feel that way because we're
from San Francisco and people think San Francisco is the home of all these
weird wacky bands," says Olson. "How can you be a country band in San
Francisco? But, we're all from other places."
"So, we got this indigenous music anyhow, might as
RE: Melba Montgomery, still going strong??
"Out Of Control Raging Fire" - Tracy Byrd (a duet with the incomparable Dawn Sears) "Easier Said Than Done" - Billy Yates "If You Ever Want My Lovin'" - Sara Evans She's got a huge listing at BMI's database; 10 or so pages, many, if not most, of which are co-writes. I don't know whether she's had any huge hits - she might have - but I'll bet if you piece it together, she's got quite a few fairly recent album cuts. Jon Weisberger Kenton County, KY [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.fuse.net/jonweisberger/
RE: Buckner, free agent status?
I don't think he needs a job... the Mets still have him on their payroll. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bob Soron Sent: Friday, February 12, 1999 4:05 PM To: passenger side Subject: Re: Buckner, free agent status? On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, David Markovits wrote: I knew the White Sox fired Bill Buckner as hitting coach, but I thought he picked up another gig. I assumed the Red Sox weren't in the running though. Sure, hit me where it hurts. g Bob
Garth plays ball (was:Buckner, free agent status?)
On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Thomas Wodock wrote: I don't think he needs a job... the Mets still have him on their payroll. And, um, the Padres have Garth Brooks on their payroll. Unless I am hallucinating, the local news just reported that Garth has joined the San Diego Padres, and will take a year off from music to play ball. Oh, and according to the report, he is a switch hitter. Joyce
Re: Garth plays ball (was:Buckner, free agent status?)
Joyce writes: And, um, the Padres have Garth Brooks on their payroll. Unless I am hallucinating, the local news just reported that Garth has joined the San Diego Padres, and will take a year off from music to play ball. Um , quick, someone tell me who's the best beanball pitcher in the majors!!! --junior
Re: Garth plays ball (was:Buckner, free agent status?)
And, um, the Padres have Garth Brooks on their payroll. Unless I am hallucinating, the local news just reported that Garth has joined the San Diego Padres, and will take a year off from music to play ball. Oh, and according to the report, he is a switch hitter. Ha, I saw this on CNN as well. Although the way they reported it, and this makes more sense, is that he's gonna participate in spring training in hopes of making the club. Yeah right. I'm not sure whose publicity stunt this is, but that's all it *can* be. Let's let the give the superstar celeb some PT with the big boys for a while. There's not a chance in hell he's making an A- ball roster, let alone the majors. I mean, if Michael Jordan, arguably one of the best athletes in the world, couldn't even hit his weight in AA, I don't think ol' Garth's gonna do much better. Mostly, I'm just fucking jealous. I'd love to be running around the base paths with an MLB team, or, if nothing else, the Padres. Damn him. Neal Weiss, #10, left field, Watertower Productions team, LA City softball league, Poinsettia Park, Hollywood, CA npimh - Vin Scully, of course, as I'm stepping to the plate
OKEH WRANGLERS
I just finished a good listen to the OKEH WRANGLERS Lonesome Vista's CD and am happy to report a fine effort. With no guest credits I can only assume Louise "Accordion" Kyme and family did a bang up job of performing all the parts and the songwriting holds up well for the most part. Coming soon to TwangCast! Mike Hays http://www.TwangCast.com TM RealCountry 24 X 7 Please Visit Then let us know what you think! Mike Hays www.MikeHays.RealCountry.net For the best country artist web hosting, www.RealCountry.net
RE: Garth plays ball (was:Buckner, free agent status?)
I found a fairly lengthy AP-sourced story on the subject at: http://www.canoe.ca/JamMusicCountry/feb12_garth.html And from Country Now, this quote: Garth Brooks will attend spring training with the San Diego Padres as a non-roster invitee. He'll play the outfield and wear No. 77. The singer's realistic goal? "For these guys to look at me and say, 'If you'd gotten to invest your time from early on . . . you could've played in this league,'" says Garth. Which sounds like at least a faintly plausible goal g. I'll say this, though: I'll bet he's no Jim Reeves on the diamond. Jon Weisberger Kenton County, KY [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.fuse.net/jonweisberger/
RE: Compression in radio? (was MP3 article)
In my immense experience - i.e., 2 stations - some do, some don't. WOBO does, WYSO doesn't. When you don't, it's hell on those broadcasters who tend to use volume rather than pitch for emphasis and inflection - not that I know that from my immense experience, of course, but I have this friend... ... Could you further explan that last statement? A compressor reduces the dynamic variation in a signal; if, as I do, you have a tendency to raise your voice volume-wise to emphasize words or syllables, applying compression to the station's output presents a more consistent (though not flattened) volume level to the listener, which IMO is a good thing. I suspect that good announcers don't need it (at least, not as much), but that's only a hypothesis, as I have don't have any personal experience in that regard g. Jon Weisberger Kenton County, KY [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.fuse.net/jonweisberger/
Re: Top 10 Music Critics Organization
In a message dated 2/12/99 5:50:50 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyone care to guess which ONE of these albums I own? (and love) Madonna, right Slim? What do I win? Second price is TWO copies. Dang. I wish. Lauryn Hill's album is one of the most intelligent and listenable Hiphop albums I have ever heard. Great stuff, and deserving of all the honors she is gonna get. Michael who? Slim
RE: Garth plays ball (was:Buckner, free agent status?)
At 08:39 PM 2/12/99 -0500, JW wrote of the Sultan of Schlock: I'll bet he's no Jim Reeves on the diamond. Or Charley Pride neither. --dc
Re: Garth plays ball (was:Buckner, free agent status?)
Wait, stop, halt, desist, come back. Are you guys *serious*? I thought the first few posts were jokes. Is Garth Brooks *really* joining the Pod People? Come on, surely they don't take celebrities seriously enough to actually field them in a game that counts!! Let him sing the National Anthem, sure. Throw out the opening day pitch, maybe. But play pro ball? Surely you jest! Mary Katherine
RE: Garth plays ball (was:Buckner, free agent status?)
Wait, stop, halt, desist, come back. Are you guys *serious*? I thought the first few posts were jokes. Is Garth Brooks *really* joining the Pod People? Come on, surely they don't take celebrities seriously enough to actually field them in a game that counts!! Let him sing the National Anthem, sure. Throw out the opening day pitch, maybe. But play pro ball? Surely you jest! He's attending spring training as a non-roster invitee. He spent some time there last year, and made one game appearance (pinch-running), so this isn't terribly new. The Padres are donating $200,000 to a new kids charity Brooks, Tony Gwynn, Wally Joyner and Greg Vaughn set up (headed by the former Padre VP for marketing) as part of the whole thing. AP quotes the Padres' manager as saying ""There's no chance of him being on the major league club, but we're excited to have him because I think he's going to bring a lot of enthusiasm and hard work into camp, because that's how he goes about his business," which is true enough g. Jon Weisberger Kenton County, KY [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.fuse.net/jonweisberger/
RE: Garth plays ball (was:Buckner, free agent status?)
He'd be a hell of a shortstop. With that big ole punkinhead of his, there wouldn't be room for a line drive to slip by. Of course, the eclipse that head would cause might distract people from the game. Jeff Wall http://www.twangzine.com The Webs least sucky music magazine 3421 Daisy Crescent - Va Beach, Va - 23456
Prominent Folksinger Sells Banjo
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 14:32:10 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: nysernet.org: majordom set sender to owner-folk_music@localhost using -f From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Prominent Folksinger Sells Banjo Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have to report this. We have to accept facts: SanFrancisco (A B Press)--Folksinger John Stewart, former member of the popular Bay Area-based folk group the Kingston Trio in their second incarnation from 1961 to 1967, sold his trademark long-necked Vega banjo Monday. Stewart, of Novato, California, sold the banjo to 108 people calling themselves "Bloodliners," who pledged at least $16,781.37 to the common cause of paying for an emergency surgery for Stewart's wife, folksinger Buffy Ford Stewart. The offer exceeded the asking price for the banjo, recently offered for sale by Stewart for $15,000. Buffy will undergo gamma knife surgery this week in Virginia, and was left without medical coverage recently while facing the $30,000 operation. A spokesperson for the so-called Bloodliner contributors, said "Well, shit- fire, we were shooting for $5,000. Then we were shooting to approach the $10,500 down payment John and Buffy needed for the operation. Getting to almost $17,000 is some goddam accomplishment." The Bloodliner fund for the operation should run even higher, with more donations expected this week, and further donations from Bloodliners planning to send money in the future not counted in the $16,781.37 total. "We only counted pledges that specifically would be mailed within 7 days," said the source. "Several pledges were made for weeks from now, but not included in this count." In addition, a mixup in the counting of money sent from the United Kingdom certainly resulted in a lower final figure. "I believe seven Bloodliners pooled their money in England," said the source, "and today sent a total of 500 pounds to the cause. Since we don't know which Bloodliners they were, and did count a few English pledges, we're not sure how much that will add to the cause. Plus, the money counters at the Finger Headquarters near Detroit, Michigan, are too stupid to know how much cash 500 pounds amounts to." A spokesman for all 108 of the (thus far) contributors was asked what they would do with the famous banjo. "Well," he replied, "we were considering sending it from home to home, all of 108 of them, kind of like the Stanley Cup, with everyone possessing it for one week. But that would take over two years, and seemed too impractical. So we're just gonna give the damn thing back to him." -Tom DeLisle ___ Bloodlines is the email list for singer-songwriter John Stewart. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The initial funds were raised in about three days from members of the mailing list. Sometimes the net amazes me. Buffy's surgery is on Thursday, following additional tests in Charlottesville on Wednesday. This is Buffy's third and we hope final surgery, following operations in October 1997 and a few months ago in Phoenix. There is more information at my website for Stewart, Clack's Cellar, at http://members.aol.com/clackclack/rebeffa1.htm If you know John and Buffy, plese keep them in your thoughts and send whatever positive energy or prayers you can their way. Ron Beffa Jeff Wall http://www.twangzine.com The Webs least sucky music magazine 3421 Daisy Crescent - Va Beach, Va - 23456
Re: Garth plays ball (was:Buckner, free agent status?)
Damn - I thought you were talking about Garth Iorg... peace, Clancey On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Thomas Wodock wrote: I don't think he needs a job... the Mets still have him on their payroll. And, um, the Padres have Garth Brooks on their payroll.
