From: Mike Batchelor 
Date: 5.4.2000

Hey man,
I'm not sure if you're in charge of the Numan Disography (a real
lifesaver) but anyways, for the studio release of Dance, Jess
Lidyard is spelt Lynard! Just thought i'd point that out

Thanks guys

Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 17:10:51 EDT
From: JDeane9814@aol.com
Subject: Telekon AlbumTo: numan@cs.uwp.edu
I bought, way back in 1980, an album called Telekon in a 2nd hand store, a while later I found another Telekon album this time with a free single, which being a great Numan fan I thought I had better buy, just for the free single.

Anyway, when I got the new album home I discovered that there was a different track on it, on looking at the album I had originally bought, I realised I had somehow picked up an American version, this has I Die: You Die as the lasttrack on side one and nothing free with it. The 2nd one I bought has Sleep By Windows as the last track on side one and the free single was On Broadway/Remember I Was Vapour.

So I am taking it Hansi, that this was quite possibly the original releasse and as I was a vinyl only person at the time, I completely missed the cassette version, so it looks like I missed out on a possible 3rd different version of Telekon(!!)

Jools

Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 06:00:17 -0800
From: alec way <errora@earthlink.net>
Subject: No Good TryingTo: numan@cs.uwp.edu
Hansi the Austrian brought up the Replicants record in connection with them doing a cover of AFE. I had this CD. I don't know what happened to it. It's a rockin' sort of version, albeit a bit uninspired. It's an all-covers album. Included is a version of No Good Trying by Syd Barrett.
No Good Trying, from the Barrett album Madcap Laughs, sounds to me like it could have been a Numan song. Not only is there much in common with the Numan voice and vocal range, the lyrics are odd, deadpan fantasmagorical, sci-fi in atmosphere and more-than-slightly paranoid. And yet extremely personal, multi-layered and metaphorical. Very Numan, the 1969 version.
When I talked to Numan, I brought up my Syd-compatible theory. He seemed interested but said he hadn't heard much Barrett.
I think there's an interesting link there.

I AM IN THE US & DON'T HAVE A PAL SYSTEM BUT KNOW SOMEONE WHO COULD
TRANSFER THE VIDEO TO US FORMAT.  I DO HAVE ALL 3 VIDEOS YOU MENTIONED &
WILL MAKE YOU COPIES BUT THEY ARE IN US FORMAT.  LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU
THINK.
cheers,
telekon

NUMANOID 4 LIFE!

HELLO,
MY NAME IS TOMMY & I AM HARDCORE NUMANOID SUCH AS YOURSELF.  I DON'T
HAVE MORE VINYL'S THAN YOU, BUT I DO HAVE MORE CD'S & VIDEOS.  WOULD IT
BE POSSIBLE TO GET A COPY OF THE SKIN MECHANIC VIDEO FROM YOU?
IT'S THE ONLY ONE I DON'T HAVE.  IF YOU WOULD LIKE ME TO LIST MY
COLLECTION LET ME KNOW.  I WILL MAKE YOU COPIES OF STUFF THAT YOU DON'T
HAVE.  GREAT WEBSITE! KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.
~TOMMY

NUMANOID 4 LIFE!

Name: Mark Rider
Website:
Referred by: NewsGroups
From: England
Time: 1998-08-13 23:18:00
Comments: Hello Hansi, An Austrian Numanoid, I'm very impressed! I work for an Austrian owned company (Julius Blum GmbH) and of all the people I speak to Cars is the only thing that Gary Numan is remembered for. So keep up the good work and spread the word to the rest of Austria! Cheers, Mark

Name: Patxi Villegas
Website: NumanMania
Referred by: Just Surfed On In
From: Spain - Bilbao
Time: 1998-08-13 22:17:00
Comments: Wellcome!!!! Soon your link in NumanMania!

Name: Matthias Hildebrand
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In!
From: Braunschweig, Germany
Time: 1998-01-16 14:18:00
Comments: Hallo Hansi ! Ich habe Deinen Eintrag im Gästebuch von Klaus Sauer gesehen, und ich wollte es mir nicht nehmen lassen, der erste (deutschsprachige) Numanoide in Deinem Gästebuch zu sein :-) --< Matthias >--