From: owner-50s60s70s-digest@smoe.org (50s60s70s-digest) To: 50s60s70s-digest@smoe.org Subject: 50s60s70s-digest V1 #5 Reply-To: 50s60s70s@smoe.org Sender: owner-50s60s70s-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-50s60s70s-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk 50s60s70s-digest Sunday, January 20 2002 Volume 01 : Number 005 * If you ever wish to unsubscribe from this digest, send an email to * 50s60s70s-digest-request@smoe.org with ONLY the word * unsubscribe in the BODY of the email * . * PLEASE :) when you reply to this digest to send a post TO the list, * change the subject to reflect what your post is about. A subject * of Re: 50s60s70s-digest V1 #xxx or the like gives fellow list readers * no clue as to what your message is about. Today's Subjects: ----------------- R&R: New Monkees use ["Lew - New World Warehouse" ] R&R: Seeking collectors [Honoku@aol.com] R&R: Re: Danny O'Keefe (was Seeking collectors) ["Paul Castle" ] R&R: Re: Re: Monkees. ["Paul Castle" ] R&R: people say we Monkee around [Honoku@aol.com] Re: R&R: Desperately Seeking [Mike Connell ] Re: R&R: people say we Monkee around [Honoku@aol.com] R&R: a mixed and canned message with Crosby, Monkeys and Fogerty! ["Pablo] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 01:47:43 -0600 From: "Lew - New World Warehouse" Subject: R&R: New Monkees use By the way, it might be worth mentioning for all you Monkees fans out there, that they actually used "Porpoise Song" (is that how you spell it ?) in that new movie Vanilla Sky...very fitting in the scene as well. Kinda neat to hear it in a new "mess with your head" film. Lew www.coilback.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 09:13:01 -0000 From: "Paul Castle" Subject: R&R: Desperately Seeking Steve Honoku@aol.com hit a....whatever you Americans call a home run off the first pitch on an innings > $ 12.95 @ www.collectorschoicemusic.com Wow! That was quick!! Looks like this list is in gear already! Have you used 'collectorschoicemusic' before - any thoughts? The one I've been going to first when I'm stuck trying to find an album is http://www.gemm.com (although I've never bought from them myself - just referred people - again, anyone had any experience with Gemm? - Linking direct to record dealers all over the world, with one central secure payment point, seems like yet another wonder of the internet, to me. I've also had some success finding things very cheaply on the US-based second hand record site http://www.secondspin.com and I'm told that http://www.cddb.com is a good starting point if you want to know whether what you're looking for even exists in the first place. Seems like a good list of online CD/Cassette/Vinyl retailers, with good 50s60s70s catalogues, would be a valuable resource for this list, so if anyone has suggestions (and why, perhaps), I for one would really appreciate it. All the best Paul PS Seeing listmike's credentials when I signed up, he and others might be interested in a small feature about Jewel's forthcoming CD I saw last night in the February edition of the UK magazine 'Record Collector' (www.recordcollector.co.uk) -you probably know about this already, Mike - sorry, nothing about Tiny Tim is this issue ;-) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 05:54:28 EST From: Honoku@aol.com Subject: R&R: Seeking collectors In a message dated 1/19/2002 4:15:25 AM Eastern Standard Time, pdcmusic@freeuk.com writes: > Have you used 'collectorschoicemusic' before - any thoughts? > collectors choice is not a bargain place like cd universe, or cd now, or amazon, but they have some very good exclusives. they get the rights to, and produce their own reissues, of long lost gems, and they do have some good sales, and their customer relations is excellent. through them, i have been able to complete my tom rush, and danny o'keefe, collections. with both of these guys, ( both essential to me), they have supplied missing pieces not available elsewhere. they are good for obscure psychedelic, like ultimate spinach, old folk, like, we 5, kingston trio, but they are most strongly a 50's, and pop (i.e.dean martin, peggy lee) label. they also do some nice twofers. it was a funny coincidence to receive on the same day in my e-mails, a request for fred neil, and a notification of him as a new release at collectors choice. steve ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 13:10:45 -0000 From: "Paul Castle" Subject: R&R: Re: Danny O'Keefe (was Seeking collectors) Steve Honoku@aol.com wrote >through them, i have been able to complete my tom rush, >and danny o'keefe collections. with both of these guys, >( both essential to me) Must admit I'd never heard of Danny O'Keefe, but doing a search, I just found this link where he talks about songwriting and the creative process with Stephen Wacker http://www.wackerwordsandmusic.com/MusicEssays/OKeefe2.html I find this insightful - "If you can invoke the feeling of a key experience that you don't have adequate words for, you'll make that connection with your audience--because that's what they're really there for. They're making their song up as you sing yours." All the best Paul pdcmusic@freeuk.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 08:12:16 EST From: SCJoniGuy@aol.com Subject: Re: R&R: Seeking collectors << collectors choice is not a bargain place like cd universe, or cd now, or amazon, but they have some very good exclusives. they get the rights to, and produce their own reissues, of long lost gems, and they do have some good sales, and their customer relations is excellent. >> I second that...I've used Collector's Choice with great success. I wanted to find some Earl Bostic collections on CD & they had exactly what I was looking for. And now I'm on their mailing list so I get their catalog every so often, and it's great reading! Unlike Gemm, they're not selling used and sometimes hard to find material, they're selling re-lisenced re-packaged sometimes previously OOP stuff. CDDB is just a database, you can't buy anything from them, but like you say Paul is a nice source of information. They have been a great help to me in my Joni Mitchell covers project! Bob ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 08:44:00 EST From: Rongrittz@aol.com Subject: R&R: Re: Monkees. << Anyway, Monkees rule! I still have to upgrade Headquarters & Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones, and I don't think I'll check out any of their later stuff. >> Those two are definitely the two to get, especially for the great Mike Nesmith stuff like "What Am I Doing Hangin' Round" and "Door Into Summer." Anything later ("The Birds, the Bees & The Monkees," etc.) is pretty terrible. The Monkees, BTW, are the reason I first started playing guitar back in 1966 or so. I went to take guitar lessons, and my teacher wanted me to learn how to read music, theory, all that stuff. And I told him all I wanted was to learn Monkees songs. He refused. So I bought myself the songbook for "More of the Monkees," quit lessons and tought myself. I was one tough 11-year old. RG ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 09:03:14 EST From: Honoku@aol.com Subject: Re: R&R: Re: Danny O'Keefe In a message dated 1/19/2002 8:12:52 AM Eastern Standard Time, pdcmusic@freeuk.com writes: > I find this insightful - > > "If you can invoke the feeling of a key experience that you > don't have adequate words for, you'll make that connection > with your audience--because that's what they're really there > for. They're making their song up as you sing yours." > > yeah i love that quote. danny is best known as a song writer, for people like jackson brown, he had one well known hit"good time charlie's got the blues", and my favorite song of his, a favorite song by anyone, is called "hard times". but he has a lot of great songs, if you like that genre, "so long harry truman" etc. steve ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 09:19:22 -0500 From: Gerald Notaro Subject: Re: R&R: Monkees I just read in Dream Brother that one of Tom Buckl.ey's first television appearance was on The Monkees, introduced and friends with Mickey Dolenz. That was a big surprise to me. Jerry ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 14:13:03 -0000 From: "Paul Castle" Subject: R&R: Re: Re: Monkees. > I was one tough 11-year old. Sounds more like one tough teacher who couldn't work out the chords to me - you don't teach someone to read by giving them the complete works of Shakespeare! All the best Paul pdcmusic@freeuk.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 10:36:06 EST From: Honoku@aol.com Subject: R&R: people say we Monkee around In a message dated 1/19/2002 9:11:18 AM Eastern Standard Time, notaro@bayflash.stpt.usf.edu writes: > Tom Buckl.ey's first television > appearance was on The Monkees, introduced and friends with Mickey > Dolenz. That was a big surprise to me. > you mean *tim* buckley. on the final episode of the monkees television show, he premiered "song to the siren" in an incredibly beautiful version, this version of this song is on a recent collection of rare and unreleased tim buckley recordings called "the dream belongs to me" a collection worth the investment just for this incredible, ethereal version in this performance the monkees were quite the cultural ball of wax, hendrix was their opening act for a short time at the beginning of his solo career. steve ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 11:15:09 -0500 From: Mike Connell Subject: Re: R&R: Desperately Seeking Paul Castle wrote: >Steve Honoku@aol.com hit a....whatever you Americans >call a home run off the first pitch on an innings > > $ 12.95 @ www.collectorschoicemusic.com >Wow! That was quick!! Looks like this list is in gear already! {snip} >Seems like a good list of online CD/Cassette/Vinyl retailers, >with good 50s60s70s catalogues, would be a valuable resource >for this list, so if anyone has suggestions (and why, perhaps), I >for one would really appreciate it. Since the mid-1970s my absolute favorite place for finding rare new & used vinyl has been The House Of Guitars in Rochester NY. Rather large, it's primarily an instrument & electronics store for virtually all aspects of the music industry, they also specialized in selling hard-to-find recorded music. To hazard a guess as to how much vinyl they had, when comparing it to the size of my former (approx) 5,000+ vinyl collection, in the old days they must have had at least 150,000 vinyl albums, maybe more, maybe less, it's all a calculated guess (*roughly* 75 vinyl per foot was my standard)...none the less, they had a ___load. My last visit there (1996 or so, I'm 3 hours away by horseless-carriage) showed maybe half of what they used to have in vinyl, as CDs had moved in and taken probably half of the space, but perhaps the vinyl inventory is about the same and partially stored in another region of the place or in a warehouse. Anyhow, thought I'd share. While this place used to have an official website, an unofficial one is at http://home.rochester.rr.com/rrours/ which includes the store's # (assuming they'd tell you if they have in stock a rare item you seek) Mike np - Paul McCartney - Standing Stone ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 14:23:32 EST From: Honoku@aol.com Subject: Re: R&R: people say we Monkee around In a message dated 1/19/2002 10:39:38 AM Eastern Standard Time, notaro@bayflash.stpt.usf.edu writes: > Yes, I know. It's called a typo. > I have the box set. > > what is the box set? monkees, or tim buckley? i don't know of a tim buckley box set. and did you enjoy the book? steve ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 07:24:30 -0500 From: "Pablo" Subject: R&R: a mixed and canned message with Crosby, Monkeys and Fogerty! Hi, everybody! :) I forgot to mention the live album of David Crosby I was listening when writing my last e-mail... and anyone mentioned that one anyway... well, it was The King Biscuit Flower Hour at Philadelphia on april 8, 1989... I'm sure everyone could enjoy this live recording with his best songs so far... and there's "if only I could remember my name"... thanx for the feedback... that info is really helpful. I've never been a fan of The Monkeys but I saw a couple of months ago a movie relating their journey through music... and I gotta tell ya.. every bad thoughts I had about them was vanished.. you know, I heard they weren't real musician, they didn't play any instruments and every bashing you can imagine... what I'd like now is some recommendations about the best Monkeys album, live or recopilation so I could test my ears on them once more. I know John Fogerty lost every right on his own music a long time ago... sad story... but I wonder how things look today for him... I read somewhere back in 1997 that his old (ungrateful) band Creedence Clearwater Revival was touring with a little name twist like Creedence Clearwater Revisited... YUK!! :P... is he doing some touring this year?... Do he appealed that court resolution concerning his music? ... I know John Fogerty recorded a studio album lately but don't remember when... how was it?... it is worth listening?? Pablo a fan of Folk, Blues and Rock&Roll from Ecuador "And I am not frightened of dying, any time will do, I don't mind. Why should I be frightened of dying? There's no reason for it, you've gotta go sometime." Pink Floyd - The Great Gig in the Sky (Wright) ------------------------------ End of 50s60s70s-digest V1 #5 *****************************