Chalkhills Digest Volume 5, Issue 258
Date: Saturday, 28 August 1999
Chalkhills Digest, Volume 5, Number 258
Saturday, 28 August 1999
Today's Topics:
Dave and Andy: my what have we here
Respectable Al.
French, Frith, Kaiser, Thompson
The Mayor Of Burlington
things, stuff and etc.
Re: derivative drivel
Re: Dancing Around the Topic
Re: Synth
Flamed?
Pink Thing
Now now........
Pedants of the world unite
trop belle pour toi
Defending Dave
Stage Fright
Re: Dead Fish
My take on "Pink Thing" + Iron Giant
Life Begins on the Hill
What's new?
AV1 - For Our Ears Only?
Gentleman Dave
Aural Arithmetic
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---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: JStrole@aol.com Message-ID: <4f94a38a.24f75402@aol.com> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 22:37:54 EDT Subject: Dave and Andy: my what have we here It seems the battle lines are being drawn. AV2 is just being recorded and from the nature of the recent posts, there are trenches being dug in these 'hills. Are you for Andy or are you for Dave? Maybe I'm getting the wrong impression, but I highly doubt the actual participants in this "feud" are as passionate about it at this point as some of the fans. I think some people are ready to go out and buy AV2 just to listen to it and write here to say why they miss Dave so much. I guess that would be the equivalent of buying a ticket to see Dylan in 1966 just to boo his electric set. Come on, he moved on. Yes, I felt he was an integral part of XTC, but I also feel Andy is a capable musician. I personally can't wait to hear what new sounds Andy & Colin can add to the career they have already put together. Once again I have to point to XTC as a band that has put out a body of work that maybe unequaled in the annals of rock music, both in quality and quantity. Sure their record sales may not put them up with the "big boys" but with fans getting this involved in a personality clash, I think that says something about the passion the band puts into their music. "Neil, what exactly does messing with the 'big boys' entail" -Rick Harry
------------------------------ From: CCooli9575@aol.com Message-ID: <c1c6561c.24f75bcb@aol.com> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:11:07 EDT Subject: Respectable Al. >Everybody always gets along >Life's a fantasy - there on Sesame Street >Something in THAT picture doesn't belong >Not reality - not on Sesame Street >No relevancy, on Sesame Street >You won't see me, there on SESAME STREET!!! >(Hopefully something to offend EVERYBODY in there somewhere...actually no >offense intended!) :~) >Bob BRILLIANT! Only one quibble, though- if you go back over the chorus, you may notice the "here" in "here on Sesame Street" throws the whole line off and causes it not to scan. Leave it out each time and the line fits the melody. Try it in your head imagining Andy singing it and you'll see. Works every time perfectly. Otherwise, a great piece of work, though I'm not sure Weird Al would do it in the extremely late 90's. Chris
------------------------------ From: CCooli9575@aol.com Message-ID: <77204232.24f75b9a@aol.com> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:10:18 EDT Subject: French, Frith, Kaiser, Thompson >"Gravity" is, again, a wonderful, challenging recording. His >"Speechless" is every bit as good. I also recommend "Cheap at Half the >Price", which seems to be Frith's low-tech experiment. Recorded on >4-track equipment, it's his least polished recording that I know of >(excepting those Frith, French, Kaiser and Thompson records that really >aren't that good, especially considring the talent involved) and also >contains his most pop-like songs, and is the only record of his I know >of where he sings! If you're a fan of Frith's guitar talents you might have a point about FFKT; since there were already two talented guitarists in Kaiser and Thompson, Frith ageed to explore his bass and violin talents. Still, I find both albums very entertaining, though side two of the first, Live Love Larf and Loaf, kind of drags. Side one has some of the loopiest stuff Thompson has ever written or put his voice to, and Frith does sing on at least one song, the one he wrote, "Where's The Money." Admittedly he is not a great singer, and he wisely keeps his mouth shut and writes some nice instrumentals on the other album Invisible Means. I highly recommend Invisible Means to any XTC fan, it's very quirky, but more consistent than LLL and L, and drummer John French contributes some great songs that would fit well in XTC's catalogue should they ask him to join.(not a stretch, John was Captain Beefheart's longtime drummer, so he's used to dealing with prickly individuals)Richard Thompson's contributions are quirkier than his own albums, one song, "March Of The Cosmetic Surgeons," is downright strange, but at least indulges his somewhat Pythonesque sense of humor, as does the group effort, "Days Of Our Lives," based on actual episodes of the soap opera. Has to be heard to be believed. Chris
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From: CCooli9575@aol.com
Message-ID: <fab92fd9.24f75bd0@aol.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:11:12 EDT
Subject: The Mayor Of Burlington
>On to some opinion of my own. On the question of what song Weird Al should
>do a parody of. I think that they, instead, did one of him called "The
>Mayor of Simpleton". The problem is XTC doesn't take themselves seriously
>enough for Al to be as effective as when he hits someone like Michael
>Jackson. So when he does consult with me (as he does on a regular basis) I
>will tell him to seek matial elsewhere.
>Will ("Nirvana and XTC totally ROCK, dude!...") Lewis
>Humble, pants'ed and sweltering in TX
Well, you're obviously not the Will Lewis I work with here in Vermont, I
didn't think he was online or even computer savvy. I'm still waiting for
the mayor here in Burlington, VT to use TMOS for his next reelection
campaign, with one word changed in the lyrics. "Well I may be the Mayor of
Burlington..." Except I suspect he can't sing, if his former Progressive
Coalition cohort now in Congress(Bernie Panda, uh, Sanders)'s unlistenable
version of "We Shall Overcome" is any indication.
------------------------------ Message-ID: <19990827031515.4727.rocketmail@web115.yahoomail.com> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 20:15:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Tyler Hewitt <tahewitt@yahoo.com> Subject: things, stuff and etc. Comments on recent posts: 70% of the Phish I've heard has been lame replicas of other bands, especially the Beatles White Album (um, why not just listen to the White Album?) and their original music is just plain annoying. It smacks of "we're really talented because we went to SCHOOL for it, so let's do really wacky things that only really talented people do, and our fans will love it 'cause they're all stoned!" Wow! you were a lot nicer to Phish than I would have been, had it been my post! I just dont see the point in a bunch of stoned noodling for stoned noodles. The running joke around the record store where I worked at the time of Jerry Garcia's death was that Phish paid to have him killed to help their own careers. All those deadheads without the Dead around started following Phish (and half of them probably coulden't tell the difference). If you've ever wondered what musical masturbation sounds like,pick up a Phish record. Oh, their name sucks, too. I would have named them Ghoti. sorry, guys, got to go with William S. Burroughs. Where you going? Actually, I don't think it's a Burroughs quote either. My vote is for Zappa, though I have no way of proving it. Sounds more like Zappa than Burroughs or Costello. Speaking of Zappa and Burroughs,I have a recording of Zappa reading the Talking Asshole section of 'Naked Lunch". Like it better than the Burroughs read version on his cd 'Spare Ass Annie' (which is a great cd, by the way). So what would all of *you* say if someone asked for your take on "Pink Thing?" I would say it's about a penis. I know it's supposed to be about Andy's son, too, but its so much more fun to think that such a lovely song is about a dick.
------------------------------ From: music@telisphere.com Message-ID: <37C5FB14.7DE6@telisphere.com> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 19:42:28 -0700 Subject: Re: derivative drivel Jason spoke: "..I've heard has been lame replicas of other bands, especially the Beatles White Album (um, why not just listen to the White Album?)" Many bands have influences and are "derivative". Better to mirror the Beatles or some other great bands than say Duran Duran and other lamers.. (putting on asbestos suit). Jason continuted: "..and their original music is just plain annoying. It smacks of "we're really talented because we went to SCHOOL for it, so let's do really wacky things that only really talented people do, and our fans will love it 'cause they're all stoned!" Not everyone likes the same thing, but I prefer gifted, articulate musicians to a lot of the drivel that thrives today. Back to lurking... Rich Frerz
------------------------------ From: CCooli9575@aol.com Message-ID: <2efab918.24f75bc7@aol.com> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:11:03 EDT Subject: Re: Dancing Around the Topic >As Elvis Costello sagely >observed: > "Talking about music is like dancing about architecture" >Did Elvis say that? I'd heard that quote before, but didn't know who it >was attributed to. >I like that quote just fine, but must say that I have seen some dancing >about archetecture that was actually quite good. Really. I think it was Laurie Anderson, when asked in an interview why she likes talking about anything but her music(uh...performances, maybe?)itself. Or if Gertrude stein had been a musician, she could have said that, but she wasn't and she didn't. Chris
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From: CCooli9575@aol.com
Message-ID: <5b5ccc73.24f75bc1@aol.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:10:57 EDT
Subject: Re: Synth
>2. The first XTC record to use synths - yet in such
a way that the listener is not immediately
conscious of the fact (during the new romantic
explosion, at that!)...
"Travels In Nihilon" on Black Sea is loaded with synths. Listen to it
again. I think its the only track on Black Sea that uses them, though.
Chris
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Message-ID: <19990827032316.10478.qmail@ww181.netaddress.usa.net>
Date: 26 Aug 99 20:23:16 PDT
From: vee tube <veetube@netscape.net>
Subject: Flamed?
Well,not really. It was only a suggestion.
In the late '70's. I played in a bar band.We did 75% covers and 25%
original music. We didn't make any money, but we knew a lot of people who
liked us and helped take care of us.
It was so cool to play a Bob Seeger tune, Followed by an AC/DC tune
and
then hit "the unsuspecting masses" with...
..."Crowded Room" It was the only XTC song my P.O.S. bar band was capable of
playing.
M: You Go Girl!
"Save The Free Range Trout" }---:)
P.S. Can you go to sleep after listening to "Human Alchemy"?
I can't
Long Live Mummer!
P.P.S. I think CD World In Dallas still has a new copy of the "I'd Like
That" single 214-826-1885
}--;) <- Winky Fish.
------------------------------ From: music@telisphere.com Message-ID: <37C60442.16D1@telisphere.com> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 20:21:38 -0700 Subject: Pink Thing Derek asked: "So what would all of *you* say if someone asked for your take on "Pink Thing?" Possible replies: I'm in favor of them (ducking flying vegetables).. I've never met one I didn't like.. Which shade...? anyone else? Silly from the heat.. - Ricardo Frerzobahn
------------------------------ Message-ID: <19990827051727.37228.qmail@hotmail.com> From: "Amanda Owens" <daveizgod@hotmail.com> Subject: Now now........ Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 00:17:25 CDT Coming out of snooze mode once again........ Had to add to my favorite ES moments, song by song..... Runaways-Mesa likes how it fades in. (Mesa called Jar Jar Binks......) Ball and Chain-I have no favorite moment because I loathe this song. Senses Working Overtime-Zee crows at the end...or whatever odd bird sound that was. Jason and the Argonauts-Kinda like the whole middle section on that one. No Thugs-AAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yacht Dance-"Ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho......" All Of a Sudden-I like the whole thing so much I can't single out one particular thing. I can't. I can't! I WON'T, DAMNIT! Melt the Guns-The "Justice League of America" part Leisure-That...."interesting" sax part in the middle It's Nearly Africa-that other "interesting" sax part Knuckle Down-"Soon the whole world will lay down swords and shields for singing!!!!!!!!" Fly On the Wall-Sorry, but I don't think ES contained many of Colin's stronger songs. Flame away if you must, tis just my opinion. Down In the Cockpit-"Look, what is this creature down in the hole?..." English Roundabout-Whip me and chain me, because I have yet to listen to this song fully. Snowman-"People will always be tempted to wipe their feet/on anything with welcome written on it" And now for something completely different....... Chrisc did sayeth: >Andy B , I'm sorry but you are talking a load of bollocks! Here here! >Dave's parting was not good for the band; I agree, but it was definitely for the best. If not, either he or Andy would've probably been jailed for murdering the other. >If your main love was playing guitar, and you were constantly told to play >keyboards, you'd get pissed off too. As he has told me himself on several occasions...... Jon Rosenberger did sayeth: >Hello all. Glad to have an XTC post to throw my opinion on..... Same here, medear! >I personally feel that Dave will be sorely missed on the next LP. It >being a guitar album. Good point. The album may have Andy's fanciful playing, but I bet it will lack Dave's polish. >I am sad though that Andy and Dave are not speaking to one another. I >think at one point they had a pretty good freindship and I hate to see >that get thrown away. Sad, but such is the course of life, especially when one half is going to say that the two of them were never really good friends at all. >Attention Ben Gott: Yep it sure is! Attention Ben Gott: Give yourself a hand! I know you want to, I know you can! I will come and get you in the morning! Who put the cat in the cat house? Tis all for now, Amanda C. Owens "It seems the thinkers you call greatest are the sort who often fall ill young or pine away. how can they help but drag the species down?"-Brad Roberts XTC song of the day-Then She Appeared non XTC song-Someday We'll Know-New Radicals
------------------------------ From: "Don Rogalski" <tonikuo@ms10.hinet.net> Subject: Pedants of the world unite Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 14:02:39 +0800 Message-ID: <000201bef051$c4957920$6df81ea3@user> I smell a pedant.... > From: "Simon Deane/Gina Chong" <ginsim@netvigator.com> > Subject: Re: Chocolate Pastiche > > Sorry Dorothy, but you wrote: > >The album [English Settlement]is a pastiche of aural treats; >> it's a sampler of quality chocolates. > > You mean that ES is not actually an aural treat but a kind of a > copy/imitation of one; and that it's not the chocolate box itself but > just a few examples....? > I think I know what you mean but I suggest you have a look at a > dictionary before you send your next post. In Webster's New World Dictionary, 1970 version, "pastiche" is defined thusly: 1. a) a literary, artistic, or musical composition made up of bits from various sources; potpourri b) such a composition intended to imitate or ridicule another artist's style 2. a jumbled mixture; hodgepodge Pastiche, then, is not necessarily an imitation, but can be a mixture. This, at least to me, was her obvious intended meaning. And, "sampler": 1. a) a person who prepares or selects samples for inspection 2. a) a collection or assortment of representative selections "Sampler" implies just a few examples of representative selections, but does NOT necessarily imply that the collection is paltry in number itself. After all, a sampler box of chocolates usually has just as many chocolates inside as a box that has only one flavour. Sorry Simon, but her meaning was crystal clear from the get go, and the definitions only back her up. Your comrade in rigorous Aristotelianism, Don "define your terms" Rogalski
------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 16:21:29 +1000 From: Sebastien Maury 02 9950 3315 <maury.sebastien@a2.abc.net.au> Subject: trop belle pour toi Message-id: <E1165IBP3JNW7*/R=A1/R=ABCNET/U=MAURYS6G/@MHS> Uh, Roger, I'll take the 40,000 now thanks. Cash, unmarked bills. Keep up the good (and fascinating) work, Dunks. You, Harrison and Dom, the government mole, make work a little easier to bear. Cheers, Seb.
------------------------------ Message-ID: <19990827140116.6273.qmail@hotmail.com> From: "Ralph Simpson DeMarco" <sawpit@hotmail.com> Subject: Defending Dave Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 07:01:16 PDT Dear Affiliated: I must defend Dave Gregory's right to his opinion. First of all, he was supposed talk about the songs - that was the whole point of the book! Just because he didn't write songs for XTC, does not mean that his ideas and contributions were not important. Andy and Colin must have felt his opinion was worth something since he generally had equal voting power about which songs XTC would record. Colin and Dave often over-ruled Andy about what songs of his should be recorded for the next LP and which wouldn't. Dave often gushes about Andy and Colin's songs. He rarely dislikes them - just read the book. As any artist knows, it's great to have another ear to bounce ideas off of. We are often too close to our own work to see how great or how poor our final product is. To me, more often than not, Dave is right on the money. The Big Express may well have become my favorite XTC album were it not for the programmed drums which often do not sound good at all. Looking back, Andy concedes that it was a bad idea. Dave knew it was a bad idea from the start. It was Dave who picked out Todd Rudgren to produce Skylarking, which Andy now says is a great album - one of their best. So, are you saying that, if you don't write great songs, you have no right to an opinion about them. That would leave us all with very little to say in Chalkhills. So... Dave will be missed on AV2, and I think that I will scream if I hear any more Dave bashing! Ralph
------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 12:02:57 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <199908271002.MAA11016@majestix.xs4all.nl> From: jan <jan@xs4all.nl> Subject: Stage Fright * The Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad had a special on 'stress' the other day. There was an article on stagefright and it mentioned XTC. The author says that XTC were so scared to perform live, they played their songs in as quickly as possible, so they could leave the stage in no time! Can anybody confirm this story? It sounds highly unlikely to me (they could have played less songs). * A lot has been said about 'Angry young men' and the 'Steely Dan feel' this song has. Indeed, it might be Steely Dan-inspired. And the inspiration might have come from Dave Gregory. At least Dave Gregory is a Steely Dan fan - check out guitargonauts.com, the great new Dave Grgory website! Jan Bletz Homepage: http://www.xs4all.nl/~jan
------------------------------ Message-Id: <199908271227.IAA28060@hammurabi.nh.ultra.net> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 08:26:50 -0400 Subject: Re: Dead Fish From: "Duncan Watt" <kanuba@nh.ultranet.com> Testy "Jason Garcia" <hhname@hotmail.com> unloads his clip: >I would pay good money to see Phish take a long walk off a short pier. 70% >of the Phish I've heard has been lame replicas of other bands, especially >the Beatles White Album (um, why not just listen to the White Album?) and >their original music is just plain annoying. It smacks of "we're really >talented because we went to SCHOOL for it, so let's do really wacky things >that only really talented people do, and our fans will love it 'cause >they're all stoned!" So, Jason, who DO you actually like? Duncan Watt ps no generalizations
------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 16:08:55 +0100 Message-Id: <VA.00000476.05c8ad27@champies400.empire-interactive.com> Subject: My take on "Pink Thing" + Iron Giant From: Richard Horrocks <champie@fat.compulink.co.uk> Like most people, I suspect, the first time I heard it I took it to be a song about his penis. I found it to be mildly embarrassing, mainly because it seemed a little childish. However on reflection it seems a more honest song then many "love" songs which are really about the same thing. After a few more listens, it occurred to me that it _almost_ works as a song about a baby boy. It wouldn't surprise me to find that I reacted as Andy planned. If Derek's friend is really repulsed by the idea of male and female pink things getting together, try adding a comma in that line after "female". ------ As someone who enjoyed Pete Townshend's album "The Iron Man", I too was a little disappointed that the new film couldn't have been based around it, though I'll probably still go and see it when it comes out (in the UK). I suspect that Pete being an executive producer on the film has more to do with his position in Faber & Faber, who published the Ted Hughes original book, than that album. Of course his decision to do an album about it was probably also influenced in the same way.
------------------------------ From: Melsta@aol.com Message-ID: <bef8f337.24f80722@aol.com> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 11:22:10 EDT Subject: Life Begins on the Hill Life Begins on the Hill I have learnt there's a magical spot on the Hill Come with me to the soapbox on the web the Hill There's nuts and fruits and v-v-venom on tap Discussions galore by the boys and girls on the Hill Tell me what do you say Tell me what do you say When I tell you Life begins on the Hill, boys and girls Prostrate yourself before the boys in the band on the Hill Guitargonauts and black kettles and pots on the Hill We'll jive around, make fools of ourselves - what a thrill Back next week to give somebody else a good grill Tell me what do you say Tell me what do you say When I tell you Life begins on the Hill, boys and girls --Melissa Reaves
------------------------------ From: Melsta@aol.com Message-ID: <6aee3657.24f81aec@aol.com> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 12:46:36 EDT Subject: What's new? Hey Chalkers! So, Andy sez Vol. 2 is going well. That's good to hear. I'm curious to know how the parties involved feel about sales numbers for Vol. 1. Was it a success? What were they hoping for and how did the reality compare? For Andy & Colin, was all that signing worthwhile from a sales perspective? From a fan relations perspective? From a let-the-world-know-we're-here perspective? For Cooking Vinyl, TVT and Wounded Horse (is that right?) did the sales justify the marketing efforts? Do they wish they did more or less? What are the plans for Vol. 2? How can I get Andy & Colin to come to Cleveland? Answers, please. Melissa "I've run out of tag lines for between my names" Reaves
------------------------------ Message-ID: <19990827171040.32912.qmail@hotmail.com> From: "Ralph Simpson DeMarco" <sawpit@hotmail.com> Subject: AV1 - For Our Ears Only? Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 10:10:40 PDT Yikes! I didn't want to respond to this, but I can't help myself: In Aug 24 Chalkhills "Zack 'Vegetable & Mineral' Rock" wrote: <"Why the hell would anyone here want ANY song on AV1 to be a hit? Do <you know what that leads to? Herpes? <I don't know about you guys, but if "Greenman" becomes a hit, and it <gets played on the radio, and all the mindless consumer bastards buy <it, and I see it in my friend's sister's collection of CD's along <with Limp Biskshit and Puff Daddy and all that other "R&B", Britney <Spears (who by the way looks like a redneck hoochie with too much <make-up) junk, then I WILL BLOW MY BRIAN'S OUT!" What?! Look, you are either a friend to XTC - meaning you wish them success and hope they make some money - or you want them to stay poor and invisible to the majority of the listening public. Critical praise and a cult following does not make for a comfortable living. There is room on the charts for all kinds of artists. Selling records does not mean you are selling out!!! When I heard Mayor of Simpleton on the radio a lot back in '89, I didn't say to myself - oh no, it's all over for them - the next album will be too commercial sounding. Hell, O&L is the most commercial sounding of any XTC album! If any band has ever resisted selling out, it's our boys from Swindon. And don't worry, why would anyone who listens to Puff Daddy or Britney Spears have anything to do with Green Man anyway? <I don't know about the rest of you, but seeing just a tremendous <work of art such as AV1 side-by-side with living, singing proof that <western civilization is nose-diving straight into the deepest circle <of hell would break my heart. Let AV1 alone. It's not an album for <the retarded masses. Andy was smart to split Apple Venus into two <different records. AV2 will be the hit maker, just wait, and leave <AV1 and all it's splendor for the ones that know what music is. Ahh yes the retarded masses who would contradict your claims if they liked AV1? Would that raise them in your eyes a bit, or lower the obviously inflated view you have of yourself? I am sick and tired of the bullshit elitist hyperbole I read on this site. You sound like an evangelical Christian talking about the decline of Western Civilization. Gimme a break! And only YOU know what music is, huh? You would think that the possible success of AV1 would raise your spirits, not destroy them! When I heard AV1 at the listening station of Barnes and Noble, I was happy, nay ecstatic that our boys are getting some exposure. They even played them in the store! Horrors! Ralph
------------------------------ Message-ID: <000d01bef0b2$0a0b24e0$765791d2@johnboud> From: "John Boudreau" <aso1@mocha.ocn.ne.jp> Subject: Gentleman Dave Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 02:31:04 +0900 Chris Chapman from down under wrote : > but Dave was the catalyst which made their songs so good. If your main love was playing guitar, and you were constantly told to play keyboards, you'd get pissed off too. Got to agree with Chris . Dave's guitar work defined ( along with Terry Chamber's drumming on everything he played on ) XTC's sound for me to a great extent . I still get goose bumps every time I hear the five note intro to the middle eight of " Towers Of London " and the subsequent tasty licks in it . .. That said , Andy is certainly no slouch on the guitar and I am sure he has more than a few tricks up his sleeve . I expect great things on AV2 and HOPE like hell Dave Mattacks appears on 2 ; he is THE KING ...In closing I would like to say that ALL of the drummers XTC have used since Terry's departure are phenomenal in their own right and deserve our respect . John in Japan " A face is only a skull cover for a while , so stretch that skull cover and smile ! " [ Jack Keroauc ]
------------------------------ Message-ID: <000701bef0b6$324cca40$1df1c4cc@doa.state.la.us> From: "John Voorhees" <griffon@earthling.net> Subject: Aural Arithmetic Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 13:01:31 -0500 Chalky'all, As the time grows closer for AV2 (no, we don't know when, but we know we're closer than we were yesterday) I'm starting to get a little keyed up. I mean, it's nothing like the frothing anticipation on AV1 (as well documented on this list), at least not yet, but yeah, I'm anxious. I know a lot of you folks have already heard demos of the majority of tracks to be offered. I've only heard a snippet of "Playground" on that cool online demos sampler a month or two back. I seem to recall somebody (maybe even Andy!) making an interesting comparison, saying, in effect... AV2 will be to Black Sea as AV1 is to Skylarking. I guess I'm looking for a little confirmation of this idea from those of you who have heard the demos. Is this a valid comparison? I mean, it's gonna rock pretty hard, isn't it? Is it? Is it gona rock hard? HOW hard will it be a-rockin? And similar fanboy droolings. On previous posts... fflynt? You are a sick individual, and that was a hilarious introduction. Welcome aboard. And the origins of the Knights who say "Ni" threw me for an absolute loop. I refused to believe there could possibly be any connection to the Swedish language... until I remembered those silly subtitles at the beginning. Ye gods! That's pretty obscure humor. Later, John Voorhees
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