Chalkhills Digest Volume 10, Issue 18
Date: Monday, 26 April 2004
Chalkhills Digest, Volume 10, Number 18
Monday, 26 April 2004
Topics:
Re: Dave & PG
Chimp Or Astro-Chimp?
Chalkhills "via" RSS
sorry for the deprived
P Hux: Collaborator.
The Age of reason has checked out to lunch
I Liked That...
Switchfoot?
Finally recorded an XTC cover
The Big Express
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---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 01:45:10 +1000 From: "Dunks" <dunks58@milesago.com> Subject: Re: Dave & PG Message-ID: <000801c42300$a4149140$d4bafea9@alsokim> What an oversight -- I checked the liner and he's on "I Don't Remember" and "Family Snapshot" -- but no, he's not on 'GWF'. Funnily enough I always thought he was (oh, the old people and their funny minds) but also odd that the people who put the unpaid royalties data together didn't think to check that. On a trivia tangent, I recently had confirmation that (as I'd believed) PG's original post-Genesis music director was Australian guitarist Rob Mackenzie, formerly of much admired Aussie 70s prog band Mackenzie Theory and currently lead guitarist with (believe it or not) Sha Na Na. According to my contact, Rob revealed during a chat that he quit PGs band just before the Angelic One's solo career really took off, AND he subsequently turned down the offer to replace Steve Hackett in Genesis. Talk about 'things that make you go "D'oh!". .. which reminds me of another Aussie muso (ex of cult Melbourne 70s funk outfit Hot City Bump Band) who contacted me recently, and admitted that he had turned down the offer to join an up-and-coming local band as their keyboard player, although his bandmate took up the offer to be their bass player. The newbies were about to head off to America, and shortly after that they made it BIG -- turned out it was ... Air Supply. Dontcha hate it when that happens? Still, it could be worse -- you could be one of those infamous Xerox executives who, when presented with the Palo Alto lab's prototype Graphic User Interface, which was created for the lab's newly developed desktop computer system, totally missed the potential of the whole thing, responding along the predictable lines of "we're a copier company, not a computer company", and ordered them to sell it off. Their loss was Steve Jobs' gain ... Dunks
------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 12:29:31 -0400 From: "Duncan Watt" <dwatt@fastestmanintheworld.com> Subject: Chimp Or Astro-Chimp? Message-ID: <200404151640.i3FGeL1n3008122@els.sgi.com> "Ed Kedzierski" <Ed.Kedzierski@teligencecom.com> made a good point: > Whoa, looks like the fastest man in the world could use some meds. <snip> > I'm quite through meekly acquiescing to the loudest > voice or most threatening presence and then being led to think that > that's as it should be because anger is such an "extra legitimate" > emotion, especially in musical and arts circles. You're absolutely right, Ed, I could have made the same point without the bluster. Emotional subject for me, I apologize to the list. Cheers! Don't steal music! Duncan
------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 14:42:23 -0400 From: John Relph <relph@tmbg.org> Subject: Chalkhills "via" RSS Message-ID: <16510.55183.839115.676876@f5.idiot-dog.com> Chalkhellboys (and girls), At the instigation of Doug Goans, I now provide some RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds of Chalkhills information. Use your favorite RSS aggregator to read the following: Headline News http://chalkhills.org/headlines.xml Recent Changes and Additions http://chalkhills.org/recent.xml Recent Postings http://chalkhills.org/digests/digest.xml Discography Updates http://chalkhills.org/discog/recent.xml Please don't ask me what "RSS" is or where to get a good aggregator, though http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss is a good place to start. Enjoy! -- John
------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 22:33:31 -0600 From: "John McGuiness" <dsapallius@hotmail.com> Subject: sorry for the deprived Message-ID: <BAY7-DAV19Z2GWc4Ct200038807@hotmail.com> Greetings on the hill, A rare message from Pallius. My daughter wishes to express her sympathy for anyone who had to grow up without XTC tunes. She's 14 now. This from the girl who at 12 was sure the Yacht Dance refrain was "In all your pa-a-ants". She's a jewel. She came home from high school today all jazzed because she finally met another girl who is an XTC fan. Yes! G'day from Colorado
------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 16:52:44 -0500 From: Chris Vreeland <CVREELAND@austin.rr.com> Subject: P Hux: Collaborator. Message-ID: <8E904112-90B9-11D8-B60B-003065A1FEC2@austin.rr.com> On Apr 3, 2004, at 10:26 AM, Chalkhills wrote: > From: Michael Versaci <mversaci@bellsouth.net> > Subject: P. Hux in Your Parlour > > If you are interested, go to the P. Hux store > http://www.parthenonhuxley.com/phuxstore.html and buy yourself a > present. > > Michael Versaci First off, Thanks Michael for turning me on to P.Hux last year. I just finished doing the right thing, and ordering Deluxe, Purgatory Falls and the new one from his site. Here's what I noted on his website discography though which raised an eyebrow: As Collaborator XTC Oranges and Lemons "Cynical Days" (percussionist) Geffen Records CD and Double LP 1989 Well, how about that. You learn something new every day. Chris
------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 03:36:23 +0000 From: "WAYNE KLEIN" <wtdk12@msn.com> Subject: The Age of reason has checked out to lunch Message-ID: <BAY3-F22FjTfm4F0QIE00055e82@hotmail.com> Figures. Just as I was about to check out the song "Waterfalls", it gets pulled. Anybody have a version of the song in mp3 format? (or for that matter a version of Colin's "Mates" song on CD). Totally unrelated to XTC-- Harry Nilsson's classic album "Nilsson Schmilsson" has been remastered and reissued with bonus tracks most of which have never seen the light of day before. It sounds better than the UK remaster of a couple of years ago (which sounded like it was from a second or third generation mastertape). My fav song still has to be "The Moonbeam Song" (along with "Gotta Get Up"). Remember, the age of reason has checked out to lunch.
------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 19:26:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Seb Maury <sebasu101@yahoo.com> Subject: I Liked That... Message-ID: <20040419022604.84480.qmail@web20725.mail.yahoo.com> Further to Paul's musings on Andy and cinematic treatises: of course there was the glorious use of "I'd Like That" (I think) in the majestic Jim Carrey vehicule (accident?) "Me, Myself & Irene". That song and JC's Rhode Island cop earmuffs were the two towering achievements in that schlock. seb
------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 08:10:51 -0400 From: "Ben Gott" <bgott@rectoryschool.org> Subject: Switchfoot? Message-ID: <fc.00870b4a001d6ff000870b4a001d6ff0.1d70a2@rectoryschool.org> Gang, This morning, one of my students handed me a CD by a band called "Switchfoot." I didn't listen to the CD (no time on a Monday morning), but I did check out the credits. The album was mixed by Jack Joseph Puig and both of the Lord-Alge brothers, but, more importantly, it was produced by our own John "Strawberry" Fields! (I mean, are there be many other music producers named "John Fields" out there?) I'm going to try to download some samples from iTunes Music Store today. I'll let you know how it sounds. By the way -- does anyone want a copy of The Grays' "Ro Sham Bo"? I saw one on eBay for, like, $10 (and the price is rising!) Isn't that unfair? Anyway, I'll burn you one if you'd like. Ian C Stewart was kind enough to send me a copy he'd bought in a cut-out bin a while back, and it's been spinning a lot recently. (Speaking of The Grays: the new Morrissey album, "You Are The Quarry," apparently features Jellyfish keyboardist Roger Manning on a few tracks. Interesting!) In music, -Ben
------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 20:07:08 -0400 From: Steve Dockery <sdockery@mac.com> Subject: Finally recorded an XTC cover Message-ID: <AA2B6298-925E-11D8-8E9B-0003938AC4BC@mac.com> Hi Fellow Chalkhillians- The wife got me a USB audio interface for my Powerbook for my birthday. It's an M-Audio MobilePre USB, a USB bus-powered interface with two inputs, built-in preamps, even phantom power! It's got two 1/4" inputs and two XLR connectors too. I hooked it up and recorded my first song in 15 years, using Apple's Garageband application. Sure, it's not an original song (I'll get to that), but I'm still excited to be able to cook up this kind of audio at home. If I'd had this technology when I was in my band in college, our demos would have been much better-sounding. The fact that I could do this at *all* with a wild one-year-old in the house is pretty impressive in itself, I'd say. For my first effort, I did a cover of "Earn Enough For Us." If you want to check it out, read my blog entry for notes on how it was done, some excuses for why it's not perfect (ha!), and a download link. Please be kind! http://homepage.mac.com/sdockery/StevoBlog/ -Steve Dockery
------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 16:00:26 -0400 From: John Relph <relph@tmbg.org> Subject: The Big Express Message-ID: <200404202000.i3KK0Qu14772@f5.idiot-dog.com> Folks, minna-no design has a page about "The Big Express" at http://www.interq.or.jp/bass/piro/pick_up/pickup_d10.html What's it all mean, Mr. Natural? -- John
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