on-reflection-digest Tuesday, September 7 1999 Volume 01 : Number 1852 gg: many thanks gg: first LP and first GG. gg: Re: many thanks gg: Re: first LP and first GG. Re: gg: Re: on-reflection-digest V1 #1847 gg: Re: invitro pre-music theory gg: Re: Fwd: Doctor Nerve, Knit Fac, Wed, Sept 8 Re: gg: Gabriel's instrument of choice gg: Re: Fwd: Doctor Nerve, Knit Fac, Wed, Sept 8 Re: gg: "AtT"/"Hex"/"Low Flying Aircraft"/"In The Land of Grey and Pink" Re: gg: Re: First LP poll and some GG Re: gg: This should get your attention. Re: gg: New Tull gg: =?ISO-8859-1?B?sQ==?=1973 gg: great news =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Re:=20gg:=20=B11973?= gg: Addition to the Oldham Family gg: Some GG: Five to be Exact gg: Labor day ANTics... Re: gg: Addition to the Oldham Family Re: gg: great news gg: Re: Addition to the Oldham Family Re: gg: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=B11973?= gg: More New Tull Re: gg: NOGG: New Tull ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 10:25:06 -0400 (EDT) From: dashthecat@webtv.net Subject: gg: many thanks I wanted to thank all of you who welcomed me publicly and privately to the newsletter. I have already had some good advice, and not just on Music! So, if someone is lurking out there, be sure to join in, you'll shortly feel like part of the group. ~meow~ Kathy ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 11:02:07 -0400 (EDT) From: MERRIGAN PHILIP Subject: gg: first LP and first GG. This requires a bit of history. when I was 13 (1970), I gave english lessons to a neighbor. One evening he told me the former occupant of his home was a cellist for the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and that when he moved he left them a record and asked me if I wanted it, I said OK. We had a pick-up audio system at home mainly used by my mother to hear her Tom Jones and Engelbert recordings. So I got home and listened to the record. It was in a white sleeve because it came from Karajan's boxed set of Beethoven's 9 symphonies. The record had the 8th on one side and the first movement of the 9th on the other. That was my first LP. The first three classical LP's I bought (the same day) with my own money were Vivaldi's 4 Seasons, Handel's Water Music and Saint-Saens' 3rd symphony for organ and orchestra. The autumn of the same year, my cousin who came from a small town far from Montreal, came to live in our home to go to college in Montreal and he brought his whole record collection with him, so I could listen to Woodstock, Led Zep, Beatles, Ten years After, CSN&Y, Rolling Stones, Cream, Grand Funk, Janis, Jimi etc... It was great, for 2 years, I could listen to all these records without dishing out any cash, and at the same time continue my collecton of classical music. Finally, my cousin left for his own place to live, ( 5 houses north of ours, basically, he wanted privacy with his new girl friend !!), he also took his records with him. But I never liked rock music enough to actually spend money on rock music records. But I had heard about this new trend called Progressive Rock and had some friends who had Yes records as well as KC, ELP, Genesis or FZ. They all sounded quite interesting but not enough for me to buy the records. In the fall of 73, I believe, I walk into my cousin's and he says to me that he saw this absolutely incredible band the evening before and rushed the next day to buy their records at the store he got two and put on his turntable side one of Octopus. I just sat there and listened to Octopus and then Three Friends, bewildered. i could not believe that rock musicians could produce music of the same quality as the great classical composers. So the next day I went to the store and bought Octopus and Three Friends. Then AtT and Giant, IaGH was released but there was no IaGH North American tour. Finally, PatG was released and they finally returned to Montreal and I saw them for the first time at the Montreal Forum in 74, without Phil. My cousin saw them with Phil, and always said that the live shows were even more dynamic and strange with Phil. Again, I was bewildered. The Live show was better than the recordings. Then came Free Hand. We learned that they were giving performances in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec City and Montreal. My friend which was now on the GG bandwagon and I decided to see all three shows which were all fantastic. This started a tradition of us going to GG shows in the Montreal area (actually one year we even travelled to Toronto). In all we went to 13 peformances. Also, by then, we were about 6 guys going to all these concerts, including my cousin who being from the Phil Generation could simply not understand Giant for a Day and refused to attend the Civilian Tour concerts (which were fantastic but a bit short). Phil Sorry for being long winded ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 11:28:03 -0400 From: "David and Stacey Shur" Subject: gg: Re: many thanks > I wanted to thank all of you who welcomed me publicly and privately to > the newsletter. I have already had some good advice, and not just on > Music! > Kathy There are a lot of extremely talented and intelligent people writing in this digest. I've made friends with many people, and have been turned on to some incredible music based on recommendations from here. You're in the right place. -David Eric ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 11:45:41 -0700 From: "Frank Lauria" Subject: gg: Re: first LP and first GG. From: MERRIGAN PHILIP "I just sat there and listened to Octopus and then Three Friends, bewildered. I could not believe that rock musicians could produce music of the same quality as the great classical composers." You nailed it, Philip. That's how I've always felt about GG as well. P-Frank ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:54:25 +0100 From: Bob Taylor Subject: Re: gg: Re: on-reflection-digest V1 #1847 Ant writes >Actually Tales is just over 80 minutes long. >Ant > Really? As brief as that? Bob - -- Robert Taylor ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:13:16 -0400 (EDT) From: dashthecat@webtv.net Subject: gg: Re: invitro pre-music theory The concept of training the neonatal mind is an interesting theory. While I never set out to do this, I did have an interesting experience. When I was pregnant I began to play music LOUD (maybe my hearing was affected by the pregnancy?) And then, when he could barely walk he would hold records up for me to play (not kiddie stuff by the way) and has gone through rap and alternative for hours each day... and now at 13 he has taken hold of King Crimson, Adrian Belew, Peter Gabriel, and Jethro Tull with the same gusto that his 18 month old self had for the Bangles. Can't _wait_ to get Gentle Giant in here. ~meow~ KaT ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0400 From: Tatsurou Ueda Subject: gg: Re: Fwd: Doctor Nerve, Knit Fac, Wed, Sept 8 Hi all. I got the following info from Hiroshi Masuda-san. How's your calendar for Wed? To Masuda-san, thank you very much for the info! I am very much tempted to attending the show. Hiroshi Masuda wrote: > > Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1999 23:14:21 -0400 (EDT) > > FROM: drnerve@ingress.com > > SUBJECT: Doctor Nerve, Knit Fac, Wed, Sept 8 > > > > THE DOWNTOWN MUSIC GALLERY 8th YEAR ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION > > AND CUNEIFORM RECORDS PROGRESSIVE MUSIC FESTIVAL > > ON WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 8th AT 8PM AT THE KNITTING FACTORY > > > > FEATURING: > > THINKING PLAGUE (Colorado) > > DR. NERVE w/ Meridian Arts Ensemble (NYC) > > THE HOSEMOBILE (Tennessee) > > > > Downtown Music Gallery & Cuneiform Records are joining forces to present a > > night of extraordinary progressive/rock/jazz music at the Knit for DMG's 8th > year > > as NYC's foremost outlet for challenging music. > > > > THINKING PLAGUE are a legendary and mysterious Colorado-based progressive > > band. This is their first ever US tour! > > > > DR. NERVE has have been NYC's first & foremost progressive/rock/jazz > > ensemble for about 15 years and have recorded six superb releases for the > Cuneiform label. > > Dr.Nerve have been working on their next release with members of the Sirius > String Quartet > > for the past year and are almost done. Dr. Nerve have wowed audiences in > both Europe, > > Canada and the US for a number of years and will no doubt knock all in > attendance out > > once more with unique brand of throttling, tight, complex sounds. Meridian > Arts Ensemble > > will join them for a set of conducted improv in addition to Nerve's composed > tunes. > > > > THE HOSEMOBILE are another one of those astonishing young prog units (like > > Volare, Boud Deun or Smokin'Granny) to come from down south (Cookeville, > Tennessee) > > and play powerful music way beyond their years. > > > > Want off of Nerve's mailing list? Think it over, count to 10, > > then send "Remove me, Satanspawn" to drnerve@ingress.com > > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 11:16:39 PDT From: "Dan Weese" Subject: Re: gg: Gabriel's instrument of choice >Trumpets, ugh. > >You were expecting mellotrons, perhaps? Hey, Rich, how' bout those cheezy trumpet patches on some of the early 80's synths? Four oscillators roasting away on a sound that sounded like it emanated from a dryer vent.... ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 14:20:28 -0400 From: Alan Benjamin Subject: gg: Re: Fwd: Doctor Nerve, Knit Fac, Wed, Sept 8 Hi Tatsurou (Hiroshi and Randy too!), I might actually be able to make this one. Do you know what time the show starts, by any chance? Thanks and take care, Alan At 01:04 PM 9/6/99 -0400, Tatsurou Ueda wrote: >Hi all. >I got the following info from Hiroshi Masuda-san. How's your calendar for Wed? > >To Masuda-san, thank you very much for the info! >I am very much tempted to attending the show. > >Hiroshi Masuda wrote: > >> > Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1999 23:14:21 -0400 (EDT) >> > FROM: drnerve@ingress.com >> > SUBJECT: Doctor Nerve, Knit Fac, Wed, Sept 8 >> > >> > THE DOWNTOWN MUSIC GALLERY 8th YEAR ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION >> > AND CUNEIFORM RECORDS PROGRESSIVE MUSIC FESTIVAL >> > ON WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 8th AT 8PM AT THE KNITTING FACTORY >> > >> > FEATURING: >> > THINKING PLAGUE (Colorado) >> > DR. NERVE w/ Meridian Arts Ensemble (NYC) >> > THE HOSEMOBILE (Tennessee) >> > >> > Downtown Music Gallery & Cuneiform Records are joining forces to present a >> > night of extraordinary progressive/rock/jazz music at the Knit for DMG's 8th >> year >> > as NYC's foremost outlet for challenging music. >> > >> > THINKING PLAGUE are a legendary and mysterious Colorado-based progressive >> > band. This is their first ever US tour! >> > >> > DR. NERVE has have been NYC's first & foremost progressive/rock/jazz >> > ensemble for about 15 years and have recorded six superb releases for the >> Cuneiform label. >> > Dr.Nerve have been working on their next release with members of the Sirius >> String Quartet >> > for the past year and are almost done. Dr. Nerve have wowed audiences in >> both Europe, >> > Canada and the US for a number of years and will no doubt knock all in >> attendance out >> > once more with unique brand of throttling, tight, complex sounds. Meridian >> Arts Ensemble >> > will join them for a set of conducted improv in addition to Nerve's composed >> tunes. >> > >> > THE HOSEMOBILE are another one of those astonishing young prog units (like >> > Volare, Boud Deun or Smokin'Granny) to come from down south (Cookeville, >> Tennessee) >> > and play powerful music way beyond their years. >> > >> > Want off of Nerve's mailing list? Think it over, count to 10, >> > then send "Remove me, Satanspawn" to drnerve@ingress.com >> > > > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | Alan Benjamin e-mail: adbenjamin@earthlink.net | | Advent Home Page: http://home.earthlink.net/~adbenjamin/advent.html | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 14:04:58 +0000 From: Diana Green Subject: Re: gg: "AtT"/"Hex"/"Low Flying Aircraft"/"In The Land of Grey and Pink" hail; re: Reginald Dunlop wrote: > Hello > > Bob Angilly wrote: > > > > >Got my first GG album "Acquiring the Taste" when it first came out in the > >early '70's. Liked some of the songs but what not overwhelmingly > >impressed by the album. > > Wow! I can't see how anyone couldn't be overwhelmingly impressed. Well, you could do what I did... buy it used in '73... set the needle down randomly and hit the little violin bit in "black cat" just before the last verse.. myopically decide that's all there was to it and not give it a spin again for three years! > When I > first heard it back in 1991 after a few puffs of that Chatham-Kent > homegrown, I was completely blown away. I have never heard anything like it > since. Personally, I find "AtT" the pinnacle of Prog. Rock. Everything else > known as a *classic*("In The Court Of", "Dark Side Of The...") is 2nd rate > compared to "AtT", IMHO of course. I get chills everytime I hear "AtT". It > changed my music listening habits for the rest of my life. Agreed.. when I finally gave it a fair chance at the urging of John Sinks, it really opened my ears! > I'm just waiting for another record like > that to come along(AtT & Hex). Hopefully soon, because I'm getting bored > with new music these days. there's some interesting Latino music around... you could try that... still, dg np: FZ: Jazz From Hell ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 14:28:48 +0000 From: Diana Green Subject: Re: gg: Re: First LP poll and some GG hail; First real music LP (not kiddy music stuff) that I bought with my very own money: the Monkees Headquarters. Lest you scoff at my terminal uncoolness, pray let me remind you that this album is one of (possibly THE) the first where they were allowed ANY creative control, and includes a couple excellent Nez songs and performances. shortly thereafter, I branched to the Door's Waiting for the Sun and Steppenwolf Live. 1st GG LP: AtT. still, dg np:Zappa: Jazz From Hell ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 14:52:35 +0000 From: Diana Green Subject: Re: gg: This should get your attention. hail; re: mammienun@webtv.net wrote: > Please answer the following 2-part question. 1st part) Is Gentle Giant > your favorite band? You mean there are others? still, dg np: Leo Kottke: 6 and 12 String guitar (armadillo album) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 14:57:35 +0000 From: Diana Green Subject: Re: gg: New Tull hail; re: JohnEric wrote: > What's the verdict on the new Tull? I've held off buying only because of > the price ($18 at Borders). I'll wait for a sale ... Borders... there's your trouble. do yourself a favor and buy your music someplace cheaper, preferably an independent shop, if you have a choice. I saw the new Annie Haslam Live there- a One Way album- for $18. gougers. One Way is a BARGAIN label, folks. That price is usury, pure and simple! still, dg Kottke plays on... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 23:57:17 +0200 From: "Jan Dubbe" Subject: gg: =?ISO-8859-1?B?sQ==?=1973 > Dit bericht heeft een MIME-indeling. Omdat uw e-maillezer deze indeling niet ondersteunt, is dit bericht mogelijk gedeeltelijk of geheel niet leesbaar. - --MS_Mac_OE_3019507037_25994_MIME_Part Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Bob Angilly wrote: > > And what exactly were you boys listening to in 1973? Well, since I once started to categorize all my albums in my first little Apple Macintosh Plus, and since then sort of kept this up, this wasn't too difficult to check up on. I chose the years1970, 1971 and 1972 as release years. Mind you, I did not yet own all of these albums at the time. Some I got to appreciate through my parents (Oscar Peterson etc.). One thing becam= e quite clear, while reading through this list: the early seventies gave us heaps of really great music which, imho, can still stand the test of time, anytime.... The Who/Jimi Hendrix was my first serious buy. I was 16 in 1973.... Akkerman,Jan Talent for sale American Spring Spring Beach Boys, The Carl & The Passions /So Tough Beach Boys, The Holland (incl. "Single") Blood,Sweat&Tears New Blood Blunstone, Colin Ennismore Caravan Waterloo Lily Carpenters, The Ticket to Ride Chicago Chicago 3 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Four Way Street Deep Purple Made in Japan Denny, Sandy Sandy Gentle Giant Acquiring the taste Gentle Giant Three Friends Gershwin,George Rhapsody in Blue, An American in Paris Gnidrolog In Spite Of Harry=BAs Toenail Golden Earring Together Jethro Tull Thick As A Brick cd 1972 King's Singers, The Collection Manassas Manassas O'Sullivan,Gilbert Back to front Parks,Van Dyke Discover America Rundgren,Todd Something Solution Divergence Supersister Pudding and Gisteren Warwick,Dionne From Within Yes Close to the Edge Young,Neil Harvest Beach Boys, The Surf's Up Caravan In the land of grey and pink Dylan,Bob Greatest Hits Fairport Convention "Babbacombe" Lee Focus Focus 2 Focus Focus 3 Genesis Nutsery Crime Gentle Giant Gentle Giant Golden Earring Seven Tears Jethro Tull Aqualung Led Zeppelin 4 Love, Geoff & His Orchestra Big War Movie Themes Mancini,Henri Mancini Concert O'Sullivan,Gilbert Himself Petersen,Oscar + Singers Unlimited In Tune Procol Harum Live With Edmonton Symph./Da Camera Singers Rundgren,Todd The Ballad of Shaffy, Ramses Zonder bagage Solution 1st album Stewart,Rod Every Picture Tells A Story Stills, Stephen 2 Yes The Yes Album Yes Fragile Beach Boys, The Sunflower Blood,Sweat&Tears 3 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young D=BBj=9B Vu Deep Purple In Rock Evans, Bill From Left to Right Focus In and out of Focus Golden Earring Golden Earring Hendrix, Jimi The Who & The Jimi Hendrix Experience Kerr,Anita Kerr Singers Anita Kerr '70 Mendes, Sergio & Brasil '66 Rundgren,Todd Runt Simon & Garfunkel Bridge over troubled water Who,The Live At Leeds Young,Neil After the Goldrush np: Bauer demo-tapes (Debut album November 1st 1999). - --MS_Mac_OE_3019507037_25994_MIME_Part Content-type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable =B11973 Bob Angilly wrote:
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> And what exactly were you boys listening to in 1973?
Well, since I once started to categorize all my albums in my first little A= pple Macintosh Plus, and since then sort of kept this up, this wasn't too di= fficult to check up on. I chose the years1970, 1971 and 1972 as release year= s. Mind you, I did not yet own all of these albums at the time. Some I got t= o appreciate through my parents (Oscar Peterson etc.). One thing became quit= e clear, while reading through this list: the early seventies gave us heaps = of really great music which, imho, can still stand the test of time, anytime= .... The Who/Jimi Hendrix was my first serious buy. I was 16 in 1973....

Akkerman,Jan Talent for sale
American Spring Spring  
Beach Boys, The Carl & The Passions  /So Tough
Beach Boys, The Holland (incl. "Single")  
Blood,Sweat&Tears New Blood
Blunstone, Colin  Ennismore  
Caravan Waterloo Lily  
Carpenters, The Ticket to Ride  
Chicago Chicago 3   
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Four Way Street
Deep Purple Made in Japan
Denny, Sandy Sandy  
Gentle Giant Acquiring the taste  
Gentle Giant Three Friends  
Gershwin,George Rhapsody in Blue, An American in Paris
Gnidrolog In Spite Of Harry=BAs Toenail  
Golden Earring Together   
Jethro Tull Thick As A Brick cd 1972
King's Singers, The Collection  
Manassas Manassas  
O'Sullivan,Gilbert Back to front
Parks,Van Dyke  Discover America
Rundgren,Todd Something
Solution Divergence
Supersister Pudding and Gisteren
Warwick,Dionne From Within
Yes Close to the Edge
Young,Neil Harvest
Beach Boys, The Surf's Up  
Caravan In the land of grey and pink
Dylan,Bob Greatest Hits
Fairport Convention "Babbacombe" Lee  
Focus Focus 2
Focus Focus 3  
Genesis Nutsery Crime
Gentle Giant Gentle Giant
Golden Earring Seven Tears
Jethro Tull Aqualung
Led Zeppelin 4  
Love, Geoff & His Orchestra Big War Movie Themes
Mancini,Henri Mancini Concert
O'Sullivan,Gilbert Himself
Petersen,Oscar + Singers Unlimited In Tune
Procol Harum Live  With Edmonton Symph./Da Camera Singers
Rundgren,Todd The Ballad of  
Shaffy, Ramses Zonder bagage
Solution 1st album
Stewart,Rod Every Picture Tells A Story  
Stills, Stephen 2  
Yes The Yes Album  
Yes Fragile
Beach Boys, The Sunflower
Blood,Sweat&Tears 3  
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young D=BBj=9B Vu
Deep Purple In Rock
Evans, Bill From Left to Right
Focus In and out of Focus
Golden Earring Golden Earring
Hendrix, Jimi The Who & The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Kerr,Anita Kerr Singers Anita Kerr '70
Mendes, Sergio & Brasil '66
Rundgren,Todd Runt
Simon & Garfunkel Bridge over troubled water
Who,The Live At Leeds  
Young,Neil After the Goldrush

np: Bauer demo-tapes (Debut album November 1st 1999).=    - --MS_Mac_OE_3019507037_25994_MIME_Part-- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 18:44:47 -0400 From: astley@ica.net Subject: gg: great news Hi all, just got back from Progday 99... Stan Whitaker was playing guitar with the band Ten Jinn for the last time because... he's moving back east to reform Happy the Man,with the original line-up,and will be headlining next years NEARFEST!!!! gotta get some sleep now.... Dave Sr.mature student ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 18:47:15 EDT From: WhytePunk@aol.com Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Re:=20gg:=20=B11973?= In a message dated 09/06/1999 5:03:38 PM Eastern Standard Time, jdubbe@xs4all.nl writes: << > And what exactly were you boys listening to in 1973? >> Cool!...is this another poll? I was only 13 when 1973 started, and I turned 14 halfway through...I remember this being an interesting year as I was just going into "high" school! Actually, I wasn't a W.P.O.D. quite yet and I was into a lot of different music as I hadn't yet been affected much by high school peer-pressure. I was funkin' to the groove of The Isley Brothers and Kool and the Gang, and rockin' to the Edgar Winter Group I believe... I also remember getting into Loggins and Messina and Bobby ''Boris" Pickett and the Crypt Kickers!...LOL...If I remember correctly, I was still buying 8-tracks and 45's and "Columbia House" was coming into it's own...I can also remember having a Seals and Crofts 8-track and a double album by CSNY that used to get a lot of air play....Man!!! This topic has me scurrying to CDNOW for some sound samples of all the stuff I listened to before I started "growing up"...yeah right!!! LOL When I went into 10th grade in '74 I remained at that intellectual and emotional level for a good 10 years!!! My fondest memory of 1973 was Linda from Parma Ohio!!! Oh, If I only knew then......well, you know the story!!! ; ) Neil ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 15:57:52 PDT From: "Brad Oldham" Subject: gg: Addition to the Oldham Family GGreetings, My wife and I just returned home to Austin after 3 weeks in Moscow. I'm happy and proud to report that returning home with us was a beautiful 15-month old girl, Brooke Elizaveta Oldham. Brooke had been in a Moscow orphanage since birth, and we were fortunate to adopt her so that we can provide her with a loving family and Gentle Giant music! As we were in the car driving from the orphange to our hotel, my wife and I both noticed Brooke moving to the music on the radio. Once in the hotel, I fired up the mp3 player on my laptop and watched in joy as Brooke danced to the PTF versions of Free Hand and Just the Same. Glad to be home, Brad Oldham Austin, Texas ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 18:22:44 -0500 From: Jim Klocek Subject: gg: Some GG: Five to be Exact Gotta share this with my fellow musicheads... Just finished making my 56th CD mix featuring the 1000th unrepeated song ("For a Thousand Mothers", Jethro Tull). GG has been included six times (Mix #4 "Memories of Old Days" title track, #5 "The Boys in the Band", #9 "School Days", #17 "Just the Same", #21 "A Cry for Everyone" and #31 "Peel The Paint"). CD burners are the t*ts, 'specially on a Labor Day Monday with nuthin' else to do. Great for the autobahn. Jim n.d. Basking in the glow of 5 Sammies during the CD burn n.p. Jim's Mixes 56 "Dreaming of 4000", track "Future Love Paradise", Seal ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 23:34:46 -0400 (EDT) From: mammienun@webtv.net Subject: gg: Labor day ANTics... - --WebTV-Mail-15779-9098 Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit This morning I was in the back yard when I noticed an ant climbing a blade of grass. As it neared the top its weight caused the grass to bend down. Twisting its thorax, the ant grabbed the next blade of grass and proceeded to scale it like the one before. As I watched the ant moving across the lawn, covering as much distance vertically as it did horizontally I had an epiphony, a moment of enlightened awareness and heightened perception. Crouching over the ant on my hands and knees I knew at that moment what I had to do. Quit drinking before noon. HAHAHAHAhohohoho....sigh. Later, Ez - --WebTV-Mail-15779-9098 Content-Description: signature Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Text/HTML; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit
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The ever-inquiring Dan6 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 00:16:51 -0700 From: "Frank Lauria" Subject: gg: Re: Addition to the Oldham Family From: Brad Oldham "I'm happy and proud to report that returning home with us was a beautiful 15-month old girl, Brooke Elizaveta Oldham." Congratulations! Make sure when she's old enough (maybe next year) you take her over to the Iron Works for some big ol' ribs. P-Frank ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 21:40:30 -0700 From: badmoodguy@earthlink.net Subject: Re: gg: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=B11973?= I was 8 & it was Sabbath Bloody Sabbath all the way. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 12:52:28 +0100 (BST) From: Rik Beck Subject: gg: More New Tull Hi everybody, Sorry I've taken a while to reply, but as a Busy Healthcare Professional (TM), I've had a lot to do. Continuing our discussion: > From: Biffyshrew@aol.com > > ... the part about the songs being "indistinguishable" from one another, > which is demonstrably false. There's a wide variety of styles on > _Dot Com_, from hard rock to acoustic waltz to odd-time prog to > pseudo-tropical looniness. I wrote _almost_ indistinguishable, trying to communicate my feelings about the 'same-ness' of the last few songs. I can't hear a lot of variation - sure, one's got an acoustic gtr, one's got an accordion, one's a bit more up-tempo than the others etc., but I found it a bit tedious. > I disagree if you're suggesting that it has to include something "new" in > order to be good, but the use of an Indian singer on "Dot Com" is > unprecedented in Tull (and a fascinating sound, IMO). Yes it's pleasant in a nice kind of way, but hardly ground-breaking (surely it's not the first time a backing singer has been used, Indian or not?). The song itself reminds me of something else, but I can't thnk what. Anyway. > "Hot Mango Flush" is certainly a "new" direction for Tull, but you > just called it annoying (and I have to agree). I _just_ called it annoying, because I find it annoying. I agree with an earlier comment that it might have been better as an instrumental. > >I challenge you to hum any of the tunes off the top of your head (or > >with your mouth, whichever is easier). > > What kind of challenge is that? There are several "stick in the head" tunes > here. Sorry if you find them "stick in the throat" tunes... I don't know about you, but I feel I can measure the impact of music on me by how much it infiltrates my waking hours, especially a new release. As it happens, 'Dot Com' (the track) has lodged in my brain after many listens over the weekend. BTW, 'you' in the original comment was itended as the plural pronoun. The parentheses were to fend off sarcastic comments from one or two more sardonic O-R members, and weren't to imply a deep loathing (which there certainly isn't). Asking anyone to hum a tune with anywhere but the mouth could lead to weeks of badinage on this list :-) > [Re: WW] In a promo sampler for the album, Ian refers to "bad guys in > history" who wore wire-rim spectacles, and introduces this song as > being about "one of history's worst, whose name should be > forgotten--unless the harsh lesson needs to be relearned. See if > you can figure out the villainous identity." I don't know what he's > talking about, myself. If it's good enough for him, then that's fine by me. Sorry to drag this on, but Biffy had some interesting points (IMO) which I thought I'd respond to. go well rb ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 08:49:13 -0400 From: Bob Angilly Subject: Re: gg: NOGG: New Tull Aqualung and Thick as a Brick were released by EMI/Chrysalis in special remastered editions a little while ago. Most of the early albums (through Songs from the Woods) have come out on Mobile Fidelity. All of these have been remastered. EMI/Chrysalis in general have not been very interested in remastering their old catalogs unlike Polygram and WEA which have remastered the entire back catalogs of many artists. JohnEric wrote: > I guess I'm rather outdated in my information. I'll recheck the bins with > my eyes open. > > JEE > > --- "Robert Eksteen, Leiden" wrote: > > Hi John-Eric, > > At 19:52 2-9-99 -0700, you wrote: > > >Question. why > > >haven't I seen a quality re-mastering on Tull's CD's? > > > > Because there are far to many? > > > > Best, > > > > > > Robert Eksteen, Leiden, The Netherlands > > > > rke@xs4all.nl > > > > === > http://www.mindspring.com/~jjellison/nightsky.htm > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com ------------------------------ End of on-reflection-digest V1 #1852 ************************************