re: setting up a show

1995-12-31 Thread Brian Wieser
just my own two cents -- you can check out the massive article/piece on setting up shows (spec. all ages) in the august '95 Discorder magazine, which is on line (and fully hyper-texted!) at http://www.ams.ubc.ca/citr later brian, who's just returned from the completion of another self-promo'd sho

Re: adam PI sloan

1995-12-30 Thread Megan Lea Mallett
i don't know if adam PI sloan is the same one who nardwuar mentions, (but it probably is) adam "bootsy" sloan used to be the student engineer at citr (ubc radio station) and lived with valeria for a while last year. that's when they came up with their "side project" called Mishin Imposticle.

re: just a one question

1995-12-23 Thread Tara da Costa
hello! :) > >hello there and merry christmas. i have been off the list for a while now >and i'm just wondering about something. what's going on with the les the tapes are presently being run-off by tara lee :) we are beginning to work on cover art/sleeve design/zine stuff etc.. should be done s

Re: the republic(maybe)

1995-12-22 Thread Shant Pelley
On Thu, 21 Dec 1995, McHugh,Janet;Med; wrote: > It's now in it's fourth! Don't forget the moodring line up, and I heard that > the new line up played it's first gig recently. yeah...and i guess no one else *did* say anything about it, so i guess i will:) i thought it was great! they opened up

Re. Sloan gig on Realtime 23Dec

1995-12-20 Thread cp
rwarded message -- Date: Sun, 17 Dec 1995 21:23:31 -0800 (PST) From: realtime <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: cp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: looking FAR ahead to RT dec23 wooops sloan is at 9pm local times (an hour later atlantic, 1.5 newfoundland) I'd like to blame it on too much nog,

Re: Calgary band crap

1995-12-18 Thread Lisa Wilton
> I logged on figuring on finding a big post from Tara Lee herself > about the show, but alas, there was none. Who played on Friday, Lisa? Apparently, I was wrong about them not filming on Friday since they spent at least 10-15 minutes talking about the bands who played that night. I thou

Re: the republic(maybe)

1995-12-18 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
seek and ye shall find lame ob. sloan net references within... On Mon, 18 Dec 1995, Jeremy Harris Clarke wrote: > since i live in shitholeland i don't know where this is and my question > is only about "the republic" and not about the cure ripoff band that sold > 6 t-shirts. i'd just like to kno

Re: Logos / Pepsi bilked by Jesus

1995-12-18 Thread Andrew . Rodenhiser
"Pseudonym, Clever" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote }however, jpyanota and i saw a curious subvertee }for Jesus yesterday in the context of a Pepsi logo. }eyp, j-e-s-u-s right where you usually see the p-e-p-s-i. }jp remarked, "who does pepsi take on in that case?" I can see the bigwigs at Pepsico scre

Re: Jale, tour?? New Release??

1995-12-18 Thread Joyce Linehan
On Thu, 14 Dec 1995, Cory J. Boehm wrote: > Joyce Linehan writes: > > > jale is going home from Chicago today, having all but finished their new > > record with Brad Wood at Idful. They recorded 16 songs, 12-14 of which > > we be on the album. The rest will be used as b-sides and such. The

Re: rich

1995-12-18 Thread colin mackenzie
jale have infact released three vids for their Closed ep how did they afford it one "Double Edge" was sponsored by VideoFACT and the other two Jesus Loves Me and Long way Home were hand made at very low cost, shot on Super eight by Eve-Jesus Loves Me, and Jennifer-Long Way Home and they were eddit

Re: Logos / Pepsi bilked by Jesus

1995-12-17 Thread Pseudonym, Clever
i know i missed the ruminations re. Pathos - er, Logos... however, jpyanota and i saw a curious subvertee for Jesus yesterday in the context of a Pepsi logo. eyp, j-e-s-u-s right where you usually see the p-e-p-s-i. jp remarked, "who does pepsi take on in that case?" compliments of the

Re: schizoid reissue

1995-12-17 Thread McHugh,Janet;Med;
OK, this is a hoot. The "reissue" is just the left over copies of the original pressing with new covers on them. It was NOT recorded or released in '85 it was recorded in '86 and released in '87. The other guitar player was Bob Average (nee Armstrong) he is also the one who rereleased it and we

Re: Underwhelmed video!!

1995-12-15 Thread colin mackenzie
now are you talking the spin the bottle video or that car one? On Thu, 14 Dec 1995, Phreek Boy wrote: > > Don't mean to offend anyone but Underwhelmed wasn't that good > > of a video on the global scale either. > > > Yes it was cheaply done and it doesn't rank up there with > ace

Re: Jale, tour?? New Release??

1995-12-15 Thread colin mackenzie
jale will be doing a crazy 20 -21 date Canadian tour at some point this summer or fall, there will be an initial "regular spots" tour, of course. Last summer's tour was a great time, they loved it and feel badly that they have not toured Canada more, but they will be making up for it. cm

Re: Jale, tour?? New Release??

1995-12-14 Thread Joyce Linehan
On Wed, 13 Dec 1995, rod thurber wrote: > HEY, > Greetings from Vancouver where the expected high today is 12, that > is plus 12 degrees celcius ;-> Apparently no one out here has pissed off > the lady in control. > > Anyways what is up with Jale? Has anything been released since the

Re: jale's new vid

1995-12-14 Thread Michael Ligon
On Wed, 13 Dec 1995, Chen Wing Lisa L M wrote: > hey sloannet kids, > > so i saw jale's "jesus loves me" vid on the wedge yesterday. it > consists of shots of an amusement park, and eve in extreme close-up black > and white. and so i am wondering: where was the rest of the band? > is there some

Re: Sloan lyrics!!!

1995-12-13 Thread Andrew . Rodenhiser
The whole file, posted here just last week. Hope nobody else has sent it yet, these things eat drive space quickly Andrew UNDERWHELMED from _SMEARED_ LP She was underwhelmed If that's a word I know it's not 'Cause I looked it up That's one of those skills That I learned in my schoo

Re: Sloan lyrics!!!

1995-12-13 Thread Andrew . Rodenhiser
The whole file, posted here just last week. Hope nobody else has sent it yet, these things eat drive space quickly Andrew UNDERWHELMED from _SMEARED_ LP She was underwhelmed If that's a word I know it's not 'Cause I looked it up That's one of those skills That I learned in my schoo

Re: Sloan Lyrics-Medium Rare

1995-12-12 Thread James R. Covey
someone asked about the song "american groove" and i wrote: >> "american groove" is an MC5 song. and then chris trowbridge corrected me... >don't mean to be picky but..."american ruse" is an MC5 song. "New York >Groove" is an Ace Frehely song. "Groove is in the Heart" is a Deeelite >song. "We'

Re: A Band By Any Other Name

1995-12-12 Thread Michael Damian Catano
i've seen (no joke) 35 of these bands. he left out: infra dig, coffee in madrid, and a bunch more (maybe these are the ones he doesn't like - but he put essen in...) mc

Re: The Jammin' Monkey Again..

1995-12-12 Thread Lee Obrien
Do you have to be under 19 to go to this place? I thought that I read that somewhere here. I can't believe that I may have to get some sort of I.D saying that I'm under 19 to go see Ched... For those of you of legal age in nfld, one of the worlds great mysteries giver will be playing at the Spu

Re: biased towards Cinnamon Toast/Murderecords bands

1995-12-11 Thread Drew Lidkea
On Oct 16, 11:22am, murderecords wrote: > Subject: Re: biased towards Cinnamon Toast/Murderecords bands > hi mike, > the len crew, who suck balls, are originally from T.O. but they moved down >to Halifax for awhile (I don't know how long they were here for.hold on >I do

Re: help me

1995-12-11 Thread Bryce Colenbrander
>Hi this is Matt. I am looking for a Sloan song by the name >of "One Professionsl Care". At least I think that's what it is >called. Anyhoo, if anyone out there knows where I may locate it, it >would be much appreciated. that was from the chart magazine flexi disc with a demo of coax

Re: who cares if someones on yer bands case?/no ec-content.

1995-12-11 Thread Per L}ngstr|m
On Thu, 7 Dec 1995, Jonathan Dacey wrote a lot about logos getting ripped: > anyhow personally my 2 cents is that the whole thing is rather lame .. > most bands rip off "cool" logos.. ie youd probably wear a shirt with the > original logo on it cause its a cool logo... so whats the point reall

Re: Snailhouse.. on Sappy? + SFriendz etc.

1995-12-10 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
hey... sappy records 008 is a two song 7'' by snailhouse. the two songs are "plan" and "have a good time" and are performed really well. it's pretty moody stuff. i bought one for catano after he whined for a whole minute and then i traded a state champs 7'' with julie for one. julie took the p

Re: Pillow Fight

1995-12-10 Thread Joyce Linehan
On Sun, 10 Dec 1995, James Cooper wrote: > > > It's on, "Nevermind the mollusks" It's a small compilation with > > > sloan, jale, eric's trip and...someone help me with the last one!! > > > > that'd be Idee Du Nord. > > just where are they now? > > they've broken up:( Not trur. They're

Re: biased towards Cinnamon Toast/Murderecords bands

1995-12-10 Thread Waye Mason
Mike sez: >i think they actually make money, too. actually i think waye makes the >money :) I can tell you right now that the only record we have ever made money on was the Chaz Rules cassette, after 450 copies sold, we made, wait for it... $62.00. Thats right kids, indie rock is not a good

Re: biased towards Cinnamon Toast/Murderecords bands

1995-12-10 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
On Sun, 10 Dec 1995, Michael Ligon wrote: > I have to agree with sizzle teen that they are pretty awful(well that's poor carol, getting misquoted like that. how can anyone mix her up with that idiot? :) :) > excite me). Are there any good non-CT/murder bands that anyone can > suggest? um, ev

Re: grace babies

1995-12-10 Thread Roderick Affleck
grace babies are an awful band, featured on mucheast a few too many times. for inexplicable reasons, they have a debut full-length out on no records. It's really awful. umm.. lemme see.. they're very pop-rotten (or is that rawtten?), lots of crappy little ditties, and the songs make me puke :)

Re: Superfriendz in Toronto Star

1995-12-10 Thread Helen Luu
There's also an article in _Watch_ magazine/newspaper thingy whose distro includes Toronto area high skools and I *think* also sum 241 pizza stores? If there's interest, I'll post it.. if not, I'll save my fingers.. :) .HeLeN.. > >hey kids! > to y'all who live in toronto and/or the surround

Re: sticktoitiveness

1995-12-08 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
On Wed, 6 Dec 1995, Joey Charron wrote: > about a year ago i copied stickto... from someone but i forgot > to write down the names of the songs,,could someone please send > the list of them (in order) Karate Man (i like this version much better than the album one) Optimists Rescue Us From Boredo

Re: proposed end-of-year poll...

1995-12-08 Thread Dave Stacey
i think you should add catagories such as. best band of 1995, best east-coast band of 1995 or something to that extent... dave. On Thu, 7 Dec 1995, James R. Covey wrote: > ok, i'm officially offering my services in > tabulating your favorites of 1995. i will > take entries unti

Re: Sloan Lyrics-Medium Rare

1995-12-06 Thread C. Trowbridge
> > "american groove" is an MC5 song. don't mean to be picky but..."american ruse" is an MC5 song. "New York Groove" is an Ace Frehely song. "Groove is in the Heart" is a Deeelite song. "We're an American Band" is a Grand Funk Railroad song. I don't know any "American Groove", though it would b

Re: Sloan Lyrics-Medium Rare

1995-12-06 Thread James R. Covey
adam asks: >I realize this may be a difficult request to fulfill, but would anybody >have the lyrics to Pillow Fight, Rag Doll, and Laying Blame. Also, is >American Groove an unrecorded song? "american groove" is an MC5 song. here's my personal transcription of "pillow fight": PILLOW FIGHT -

Re: Review of Superfriendz, Al Tuck and Pluto

1995-12-06 Thread Michael Damian Catano
On Wed, 6 Dec 1995, Jeremy Harris Clarke wrote: > > > and pop sensibilities- but the SFZ have a noisier, more distorted sound that > ^ > what the hell are pop sensibilities? i see it written in all kinds of > reviews and it sounds really stupid. does it mean something?

Re: Sloan Lyrics-Medium Rare

1995-12-06 Thread Andrew . Rodenhiser
Adam Kozyra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked: }I realize this may be a difficult request to fulfill, but would anybody }have the lyrics to Pillow Fight, Rag Doll, and Laying Blame. Those lyrics were tagged onto the end of Deryl's recent post of Sloan lyrics (weakass attempt at appeasing everyone :) I

Re: the JAMMIN' MONKEY

1995-12-06 Thread Peter Dale King
hi yhis is my first post to sloan net, anyway i just want to comment on potatobug, these guys are definately headed for somthing good, they have a sound that appeals to everyone, they're heavy, fast, poppy, and probably the most talented band in st.john's, i myself am in the john kenneth wilks blue

Re: Birthday! + That Damned 'Before I Do' Monlogue

1995-12-06 Thread Andrew . Rodenhiser
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Bozikovic) wrote }Well, well... Andrew's (the non-Iron-Maiden-fan ;) - I presume, anyway) b-day }is December 5th? And that would imply that }yours, Andrew, is the 6th; today. Which also happens be mine! }Happy birthday. Hey, I knew there had to be a mathematician out the

Re: Birthday! + That Damned 'Before I Do' Monlogue

1995-12-06 Thread Alex Bozikovic
Andrew Rodenhiser, [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote: >A happy 28th birthday to some other guy named Andrew, who is a year and a >day older than me and used to play drums in a certain local band which is >defunct and does not have a new album coming out. Well, well... Andrew's (the non-Iron-Maiden-fan ;

Re: Review of Superfriendz, Al Tuck and Pluto

1995-12-06 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
On Tue, 5 Dec 1995, rod thurber transcribed the following from the Kevin Smith review in the Georgia Strait: [note: pluto do not suck. only justin sucks. :) ] > being a sucker for the type of lo-fi, lemon drop pop found on the SFZ's > Murderedords debut album, Mock Up, Scale Down. Live the grou

Re: Pillow Fight

1995-12-06 Thread Joyce Linehan
On Tue, 5 Dec 1995, cp wrote: > > > on which release is the Sloan song "Pillow Fight"? > > > > It's on, "Nevermind the mollusks" It's a small compilation with > > sloan, jale, eric's trip and...someone help me with the last one!! > > that'd be Idee Du Nord. > just where are they now? Th

Re: new sloan album

1995-12-05 Thread colin mackenzie
hey send one our way will ya On Sun, 3 Dec 1995, Jon Bartlett wrote: > yeah, the new sloan album is great. i got a copy the other day and > i've got to say, it's a heck of a lot better than anything they've > ever done. i don't think it sounds at all like the champs though. it > sounds to me m

Re: another rip off

1995-12-05 Thread niloc
> hi all, Hayden's a really good one for rip off shirts, try "OhHayden!" > after "OhHenry!" and his new one is a bayer logo with hayden in there > instead of bayer. > he'socute. > I have come up with the soloution to the bars and the underage clubs: coffee > shops with stages:) Think it would wo

RE: Pillow Fight/EL GRANDE HOAX

1995-12-05 Thread Anthony Bekavac
Hey Darryll, just some responses to your post >on which release is the Sloan song "Pillow Fight"? Never Mind the Mollusks... >and to contribute to that which has proven to be utterly >pointless... Feel free, but I promise to reply... >The "Hoax"... so what? I think that if you found yourself

Re: Sloan lyrics!!!

1995-12-05 Thread DERYL GALLANT
here's my good deed for the day. Enjoy!! Deryl; UNDERWHELMED from _SMEARED_ LP She was underwhelmed If that's a word I know it's not 'Cause I looked it up That's one of those skills That I learned in my school I was overwhelmed And I'm sure of that one 'Cause I learned

Re: fuck radioblaster!

1995-12-05 Thread Warren Rodericks
On Mon, 4 Dec 1995, Derek Tokar - PHAS/F93 wrote: > > FROM THE LOVABLE RIPOFF ARTIST, Mr. UNORIGINAL HIMSELF... DEREK (from RB): > First of all, I fuckin hope Catano was joking in all of his bitterness, > if not he can bite my ass. Secondly, I'm going to tell you all what > Radioblaster is all

Re: Putative new Sloan album

1995-12-05 Thread Waye Mason
Actually, SLoan did a set of 16 track preproduction recordings with Brendon MacG way back before PopX I and as I recall, tho don't hold me to this, it filled an whole 90 minute cassette... that was one of the reasons that they had the gear here to do the Smart Bomb EP for TH. Anyway, I almost

Re: the JAMMIN' MONKEY

1995-12-05 Thread McHugh,Janet;Med;
The only problem with this ALL AGES CLUB isn't really all ages as you have to be UNDER 19 to go to a show there. This problem needs to be remedied. So unfortunately I was unable to attend this show. I will however concur with Jeremy that Potatobug are the most fucking amazing band. I love them,

Re: Putative new Sloan album

1995-12-05 Thread Joel Healy
On Tue, 5 Dec 1995, Shant Pelley wrote: > > i want the double-live album! it's gonna be right up there with the best > of them! "alive" by kiss, "frampton comes alive", the nuge's "double live > gonzos", and "sloan rocks birdland!!!" ;););) > > and just for the record deryl...the above

Re: Putative new Sloan album

1995-12-05 Thread Shant Pelley
On Mon, 4 Dec 1995, Joe Clark wrote: > >> I remember a while back there were rumors about a few demos they > >>had and that maybe they were going to release a new album on Murder. > >>Any new news of this? > > > >i would say, don't look for it right away. i imagine there's various > >leg

Re: Sanisoft/Preppy Relatives/Jim Cooper show

1995-12-04 Thread Michael Damian Catano
On Mon, 4 Dec 1995, Bob Reeves wrote: > It should be cool show. Gordon is promising a Preppy Relatives show unlike > any anyone has ever seen. Sanisoft might (but it looks doubtful) actually the new preppy relatives (at least for this show): gordon isnor on organ tyler dewar on guitar ned lud

Re: new sloan album.

1995-12-04 Thread Joel Healy
On Sun, 3 Dec 1995, James R. Covey wrote: > you know, what *really* surprised me about the new sloan LP > wasn't the fact that there's *three* covers on it, or that > one of them is by the MC5. what took me totally by surprise I didn't like this, either... they ripped off the multiple album c

Re: bud nipping?

1995-12-04 Thread Shant Pelley
On Sun, 3 Dec 1995, Brian Wieser wrote: > murphy's john entwhistle-esque bass playing. Further, the string section > was most effective. I wasn't aware that David Foster was still arranging > music these days but i guess you can never say never? yeah...i thought the production sounded lik

Re: CASBY mystery band

1995-12-03 Thread Michael Damian Catano
ni?) and i bought some tama drums with double bass drums. we've got MESA/boogie staxxx and cool a.r.t. rack efx. i wrote this song called "skater grrrl" and we're releasing it on cruz records (it's produced by alvarez and stevenson - who else?). it's like a mo

Re: Tragically Hip Club Groove

1995-12-03 Thread Waye Mason
Heh heh heh. I can say with a great degree of certainty that there will not be a second HCG album on Murder anytime soon. Ask someone else why, I've been doing so well so far with the rumour mongering... You know, the new Sloan album is crappy, but then again, I haven't been into metal sinc

Re: Shaken By Spee

1995-12-03 Thread C. Trowbridge
I just talked to Courtney Love about all this and she said it looks like you have been taken in... There's no new Sloan record (unless you guys are talking about a bootleg). But Kurdt is alive and well and living in Brampton working at a Coffee Time.

Re: New sloan

1995-12-03 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
Hey Christian, didn't you read the original post? Brendan said all of this in it... :) On Sun, 3 Dec 1995, Christian Rodericks wrote: > a) How long has this album been out? five days (but i live across the country so maybe longer) > b) What is it called? _Shaken by Speed_ > c) How many track

Re: new sloan album

1995-12-03 Thread DERYL GALLANT
> yeah, the new sloan album is great. i got a copy the other day and Why...Why...oh why, Do you torture us unfourtunate people who are in the dark and know NOTHING about a new SLOAN album. You flaunt it like candy in front of a baby. You say, It's better than anything you've heard, but

Re: New Sloan Album?

1995-12-03 Thread Helen Luu
> >Well.. James, I hate to be the fly in your ointment.. but, I just >finished listening to the new Sloan record, "Shaken by the Speed". it >(and I know this word is tabu) rawks.. ten new songs. 55 minutes. I'd >say it sounds alot like the State Champs.. but I don't want to start any >rumors I

Re: New Sloan Album?

1995-12-02 Thread Brendan Ryan
Well.. James, I hate to be the fly in your ointment.. but, I just finished listening to the new Sloan record, "Shaken by the Speed". it (and I know this word is tabu) rawks.. ten new songs. 55 minutes. I'd say it sounds alot like the State Champs.. but I don't want to start any rumors I can't

Re: Coax Me

1995-12-01 Thread Brendan Ryan
It's not the fans I hate, it's consolidated.. Well.. from what I have heard (though I could be lying), is that one time in (I belive it was) New York, an unruley mob of people at one of their shows (played w/ Lemonheadz) totally ruined the show by insisting that sloan play this consolidated son

Re: SFZ & elvis

1995-11-30 Thread C. Trowbridge
It was a cool show. Elvis Mondays is kind of like an open mic night at the El Mocambo in T.O., so it was cool to see the Superfriendz there. The crowd was pretty good for a monday night, at least 150 or so people (I'm bad at judging crowd size, though). The set was pretty short, since 6 bands p

Re: Coax me

1995-11-30 Thread Andrew . Rodenhiser
MC abba wrote: }i don't think there's a sloan song in the world that doesn't rhyme }(except maybe uncle owen - which sort of rhymes...). their lyrical }interest is in whatthey are saying (that murphy's a pretty funny guy...), }as opposed to the poetic form. it's all pretty standard abab cdcd

Re: Coax me

1995-11-30 Thread Michael Damian Catano
On Wed, 29 Nov 1995, Tara Lee Wittchen wrote: > ...and about that whole coax/provokes/perverts thing. since when did > chris murphy use typical rhyming schemes? i think that's why i find his > lyrics so funny and interesting at times, because more often than not, he's > trying to play with se

Re: Eric's Trip breaking up?!!!

1995-11-30 Thread Michael Damian Catano
On Wed, 29 Nov 1995, Tara Lee Wittchen wrote: > the only things i can think of that came out before _forever again_ and > after _love tara_ are: > > - _the gordon street haunting_ EP > - eric's trip/sloan split 7'' (but that was a cover, so does it really >count? i don't know) > - *ma

Re: Mag-wheelin' and dealin'

1995-11-29 Thread Aaron Tuller
At 12:57 PM 11/29/95, James R. Covey wrote: >HARDSHIP POST 7" singles > >(a complete list, i trust.) > 5) Watchin' You b/w Yr Sunshine (album versions) on Sub Pop UK. Red vinyl. -aaron

Re: Coax me

1995-11-29 Thread James Cooper
> keeep going! one more line... > > > "Three cans of water provokes me, > coax me, cajole me" > > It just makes more sense to me. Ok, i can't believe that i'm responding to this, but here goes. it most definitely *is* perverts me. Chris is talking about fans who take there bands *way* t

Re: Mag-wheelin' and dealin'

1995-11-29 Thread James R. Covey
>I recently found a HP single on bubblegum pink vinyl on magwheel records fer >99 cents (sugarcane/canopy). This made me say: "Hmm... (actually I didn't say >this aloud lest I look like a total fool. I thunk it.) I have never seen >hide nor hair of this. I will purchase it." Which led me to think:

Re: one more sub pop album after "Purple Blue"?

1995-11-29 Thread Gord Dimitrieff
Joel Healy writes: > > I believe Eric's Trip signed a four lp deal to Sub Pop, which would leave > us with one more (assuming they don't re-sign). didn't julie once say (in an interview posted to sloannet, i belive) that she thought that every band had only four g

Re: Coax me

1995-11-28 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
On Tue, 28 Nov 1995, DERYL GALLANT wrote: > In Coax me...the second verseIs the last line before the > chorus."3 cans. Water provokes Me" 3 cans of water perverts me. old story that has been told here before, but anyway...last september when sloan played here, Vox magazine ran a fea

Re: motes

1995-11-28 Thread James R. Covey
dave asks: >Someone was saying the motes are heading in a different musical direction. >Anybody know anything about this? i can tell you a couple of things: - i had the privilege of interviewing the band for my zine, _man in demand_ (yes, the zine *is* coming, i've been spending all my spare t

Re: moonsocket releases

1995-11-28 Thread Bryce Colenbrander
>derivative are supposed to have a new moonsocket CD out, which i think >includes the ratfish single songs on it...i'm not too sure. i wish i had the >money to buy it... :( here's what it says in the derivative catalog: duh015CD Moonsocket - self titled CD we're on the la

Re: about shows this saturday.

1995-11-28 Thread colin mackenzie
orange glass will be playing at bout 2:30 on saturday bob wiseman will be playing at 9:30, well actually Broken girl will be playing at 9:30 and bob will be on at 10:15 ish but this all happens on Friday Dec 1 Wormwoods is just down Gottigen St, about two blocks from cogswell see ya colin m

Re: plumtree, supercar, christopher robin device, PR and...

1995-11-26 Thread colin mackenzie
hi ho the plum tree membership is as follows Amanda Braden-12 string guitar(mostly rhythm) and vocals Nina Martin-bass and vocals on one song on the new album, out jan.(nina is at mcgill having one hell of a good time, but they may play together at x mas Linnette Gillis-Drums and some vocals carl

Re: fuck math-rock!

1995-11-26 Thread Joel Healy
On Sat, 25 Nov 1995, Nina Riihiaho wrote: > > i also think that it's _bleach_. it started selling like hotcakes after > kurt died. my brother used to work in a record store and he said they It had already reached 600,000 copies by January of '93. joel

Re: Name that C/Straps lyric

1995-11-25 Thread Melanie Rusinak
this is sargent mike lewis from the chinstraps, kevin is not with me, but the song actually goes : "I saw the creature and I gavehimaballon" "and it blue Righteous, dirty rotten bag of chips On Thu, 16 Nov 1995, Bob Reeves wrote: > > >> > >> ps - katrina: I think that the chinstraps

Re: Something I heard about HP

1995-11-25 Thread McHugh,Janet;Med;
The movie is called Anchor Zone. HP did 2 or three tunes as did Bung, Liz Band and Liz Pickard (Liz Band) and Natalie Noseworthy (Potmaster). It was produced by Red Ochre Productions. It was made in St.John's Nfld. It stars Phelim Martin, Mark Critch, Henry Czerny, Andrew Younghusband (my broth

Re: hardship post geography and those pesky tshirts...

1995-11-25 Thread McHugh,Janet;Med;
I'd say Seb was aware of the fact that there are 2 Placentia's. He is kinda crafty in his songwriting, and usually has stuff pretty well thought out from what I know of him. ALthough it's very easy to read far more into his songs than he put into them as well. I remember they used to do this os

Re: Scarce Rumours

1995-11-25 Thread Michael Damian Catano
On Fri, 24 Nov 1995, Bob Reeves wrote: > Alright, you didn't hear it from me (unless, of course, it turns out to be > true) but I've heard rumours that the biggest disappointment of the PopX > (Joyce Raskin not playing) will be remedied in 1996. That's right, I've > heard that Scarce are booked

Re: fuck math-rock!

1995-11-25 Thread Michael Damian Catano
On Fri, 24 Nov 1995, Joel Healy wrote: > *Every* band that DGC promotes sells well. > > Nirvana, Hole, Sonic Youth, Beck, Weezer, Veruca Salt. with the exception of weezer, all of tose bands had exeptionally well recieved albums out on indies (or sort-of-indies) before signing to dgc, and, j

Re: Something to do with SLoan for once.

1995-11-24 Thread Elizabeth Greenan
As a certified nirvana-ologist (I was a huge fan before I was caught in the indie rock stranglehold, besides it sucks to like something the preps like:( ) I must say that that's a great book and a must read for anyone who gives a rat's ass about Nirvana. And the Sloan reference is pretty cool :

Re: Something to do with SLoan for once.

1995-11-24 Thread colin mackenzie
there is also a Sloan referance in rout 666 near the end, when they talk about sub pop, sloan are in the office, playing in town etc...

Re: The "Super Friends" (fwd)

1995-11-24 Thread Andrea Gin
On Thu, 23 Nov 1995, Tara Lee Wittchen wrote: > BTW, was the "Super Friends" a reference to the old cartoon > from the 1970s, with Superman, Batman et al? My childhood comes flowing > back, again - all we need now is a "Dukes of Hazard" reference... i asked them if they were named after

Re: The "Super Friends" (fwd)

1995-11-24 Thread Joel Healy
On Thu, 23 Nov 1995, Tara Lee Wittchen wrote: > I finally saw "Bart's Comet" yesterday, and I got a great laugh out of > Ham and the "Super Friends". (When they were riding on their bikes > singing "Oh, we are the Super Friends", I was ROTFLMAO!) Back in Junior > High, there was a gang just l

Re: T-shirt rant yet again

1995-11-23 Thread Michael Damian Catano
He still has my 10 > bucks. > ok, here's the scoop from the frontlines, re: dace-t's. the shipment of backordered t's came into the distributor last week or so, so the shirts should be done soon. jon's account is overloaded and he cen't open it because the

Re: sloan in spin (was Re: fuck math-rock! some more)

1995-11-23 Thread Katrina Grentz
> way back when, many moons ago, sloan were in some pull out section of > spin that was something like "bands of the future" or some tripe like > that. i think everyone in that article blew, except for sloan, the > swirlies and velocity girl. but i don't really remeber all that well ... > i t

Re: fuck math-rock!

1995-11-22 Thread James R. Covey
>Damn, this math-rock thing has gone on too long. This IS a SLOAN discussion >group is it not? So let's get down to some discussion! well, actually, it's a discussion not only of sloan, but also of the "east coast scene" in general. always has been. just to be nitpicky.:-) >My topic is ...

Re: Eric's TRip kick our asses

1995-11-22 Thread Jeremy Gara
>> Eric's Trip swung by Ottawa a second time last night, this time all-ages >> at another sub-pop jock bar. (not half as bad as spo-dee's mind you.) > >What on earth is a sub-pop jock bar? > I hope you didn't take this in a bad way at all... i really did not mean it in a negative way... but.. In

Re: Superfriendz?

1995-11-22 Thread colin mackenzie
ok folks here is the Super Friendz schedual wed 22 Sask amigo's thu 23 Win pyramid fri 24 thd bay crock's n roll sat 25 Sault St sun 26 drive drive drive mon elvis monday toronto tue 28 off wed 29 oshawa moon room thu 30 of(any ideas) fri 1 Windsor Loop sat 2 london embassy sun 3 mo

Re: Wanting Eric's Trip info

1995-11-22 Thread Joyce Linehan
On Wed, 22 Nov 1995, Joel Healy wrote: > > Well, as Roderick an I have been discussing in e-mail, Bob Weston only > helped remix 'Love Tara'... he might have played a big role in recording > the new album, but neither of us are sure. Bob Weston recorded Love Tara. He set up the studio at St

Re: Wanting Eric's Trip info

1995-11-22 Thread Joyce Linehan
On Wed, 22 Nov 1995, Joel Healy wrote: > > On Tue, 21 Nov 1995, Joyce Linehan wrote: > > > > Do you guys actually read each other's posts? This has to be the most > > asked question in the past couple of weeks. > > > > The Eric's Trip album, which was recorded this past fall in Moncton with

Re: fuck math-rock! some more

1995-11-22 Thread Warren Rodericks
On Tue, 21 Nov 1995, Derek Tokar - PHAS/F93 wrote: > > But on the other hand i would've liked to see them on Letterman, or in > Spin, or on Lollapalooza (however bad that is). Just for the fact that Actually, Sloan did make Spin magazine. If you check out the december 94 issue (the best of 9

Re: mucheast: the reply

1995-11-21 Thread Oblivious Lad
On Tue, 21 Nov 1995, Tara Lee Wittchen wrote: > besides, muchwest never visits anywhere but vancouver and the mountains. That's not true, Tara. Terry did an entire ten-minute spot on us last February, and recently devoted a whole show to Winnipeg. I'd say 70 minutes a year (minus commerc

Re: mucheast/ytv

1995-11-21 Thread Dave Stacey
i was at a cfmu benefit show where salon selectives played and i approached chris murphy to ask him about his kiss influences and also ask him to go out to the truck and grab a shirt for me and he was talking to theses 2 girls and then all of a sudden he turned to me as if in a kung-fu atta

Re: mucheast: the reply

1995-11-21 Thread Tara Lee Wittchen
hey too bad campbell didn't reply to jon's (i can't add but i can spell) fax with a little less condescension. i get the feeling he figures jon is just one of the kiddies who knows nothing about how the media works. knowing jon personally, it's safe to say campbell assumes wrong. :) while jon *

Re: sloan, geffen, matador

1995-11-21 Thread Brian Wieser
On Tue, 21 Nov 1995, Gord Dimitrieff wrote: > great bands they have also, i really have no sound basis for this, > but i belive that sloan had played a national tour before being > signed? at least i think they were signed after some geffen-guy saw > them in vancouver (which means that they

Re: birdland beatlemania

1995-11-19 Thread Raymond Yan
> so last night in halifax @ birdland there was > an all-beatles-covers night. a bunch of local > bands played. my memory is already foggy but > here goes: yeah, really foggy brother... > > STATE CHAMPS started off the evening with > an *excellent* version of "in my life" -- they > totally ma

Re: OG--7"

1995-11-19 Thread Joey Charron
>I was just wondering if the 7" here is the one with the pretty picture of >the telephone pole on the cover or if they've gotten around to recording a >new 7" that includes all of the members. > i know that orange glass recently recorded their new 7" as a three piece but i dont know if its even go

Re: rebecca west tour

1995-11-18 Thread Bob Reeves
>hi so i've heard the rebecca west tour has been cancelled/postponed. what >happened? i've heard they had some problems with allison getting a bad >cold and then i've also heard they had really small crowds at some shows. >i was really looking forward to seeing them here because well, duh, >_burner

Re: more math rock

1995-11-18 Thread James R. Covey
chris writes: >Although I don't know where the 'math' part comes in (because these boys >are good at math?because they play with mathematically weird precision?) I >can say that I certainly wish there were more of those math boys and girls >purveying their rock in Canada (let alone in Halifax--I'v

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