Re: To hoax or not to hoax

1999-03-15 Thread Diana Quinn
actually, the email that's being sent around talks about a bill in Congress dealing with the internet and local/long distance phone rates. There IS NO BILL remotely like this. That email, indeed, IS a hoax and I cringe every time it's sent to me (several times a week). The FCC story, however, is

Re: elena,ghostrockets,htc review

1999-03-02 Thread Diana Quinn
ountry pain of "It Still Hurts" with "Are You Armed," a cool honky-tonk/surf music instrumental hybrid. The evening's most unadulterated twang was provided by the four men and one woman of Honky Tonk Confidential. Carried by the vocals of Diana Quinn, Mike Woods and Geff King an

Re: The song Wah! Hoo! by Cliff Friend

1999-02-17 Thread Diana Quinn
My latest ebay acquisition (and count me among those of you who have bought an un-needed accordian from this site! I think I'm going to have to have a feature (on the soon-to-be-launched ezine) called Accordian Tales! stories of people who have been forced by supernatural powers to buy

web site -Reply

1999-02-03 Thread Diana Quinn
hi laura i'll link to you --- and we are Honky Tonk Confidential http://www.muddypaws.com/honkytonk.html and I'm starting a little ezine -- which should be up in a few weeks Twang Thang Magazine http://www.twangthang.com

Re: Wahrs and Thangs

1999-02-03 Thread Diana Quinn
Yep -- we use a lot of cables and wahrs here in DC, too on Twangthang.com y'know, after i registered the domain name (twangthang) i thought -- gee i hope that no one gets mad at me -- but i couldn't resist, and, besides, we've been bantering about the twangthang in DC for years (Bill Kirchen's

RE:looking fora phone number

1999-02-03 Thread Diana Quinn
Willie Nelson's manager -- anyone have it? please email privately! (and I'll tell you why i want it) diana

RE: why we hate line-dancing

1999-01-22 Thread Diana Quinn
The reason musicians hate line-dancing (and I love to dance) is because, with a few exceptions, those who go out specifically to line-dance will dance only to those songs they know. Sure, we get line-dancers occasionally dancing to Ray Price or Buck Owens songs, but they are a rarity. Most of

Re: old people's music

1999-01-20 Thread Diana Quinn
kip l wrote: "this P2 bag, this Americana/Alt-Country/Roots-Rock thing that gets discussed here? It's Old People Music" Well, isn't the american population getting older? Aren't we (me, anyway -- on the tail end) baby boomers the majority? I'm banking on the hope that folks my age group -- now

Re: dang me!

1999-01-20 Thread Diana Quinn
I wrote Twenty years ago I had to go to Skip Groff's indie store in Rockville to hear the new punk 45s -- now all I have to do is dial of twangcast.com... jon weisberger wrote: ??? What the hell are you up to over there, Mike? You mean that wasnt THe Angry Young Turds I heard on twangcast.com

Re: cd reviewing ethics Danger: long and a bit preachy!

1999-01-19 Thread Diana Quinn
linda ray wrote: "Nobody's Dan Rather, here, and nobody's covering Congress." (i can't help but reply!) Close but no cigar -- I DO cover congress and I did give dan a copy of the HTC cd the other day and invited him to sit in with us and sing a coupla train songs any day (we both work for the

RE:ethics and growing a scene-one more thing

1999-01-19 Thread Diana Quinn
One big difference between growing a scene today and twenty years ago is that today we have the internet. We have a way to link to others (you all) who are interested in this kind of music and working in their home towns on growing the scene -- locally and nationally. Twenty years ago I had to go

Re: the TNN awards

1999-01-18 Thread Diana Quinn
Well, i held my nose and just voted in JUST A FEW of the TNN Music City News Country Awards. Pukesville! no wonder country radio is starting to fade! We have a country music monthly in the DC-area called Country Plus -- it used to be 40 pages and was down to something like 16 pages in the last

Re: Twangcast

1999-01-18 Thread Diana Quinn
well i finally got twangcast.com to work on my computer and had a very enjoyable afternoon -- especially liking the Heather Myles (surprised me!) and Cigar Store Indians cuts. wah-hoo!