From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V15 #854 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Friday, September 26 2014 Volume 15 : Number 854 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [AVALON] Mailing Lists...a few memories [Simon Galloway Subject: Re: [AVALON] Mailing Lists...a few memories Quick. Fetch me a hanky! On 15 September 2014 03:18, Chris Turner wrote: > I think the appeal of a mailing list is still a seductive one but > unfortunately the need for more secure forms of email is making this method of > delivery more difficult. > > But this list has never been about the mechanics. > Or even Roxy Music particularly. It's been about the people here. Our relative > lack of numbers gave us some exclusivity. Or were we just shepherded here to > keep our obsession away from decent society? Hmmm... > > How about the hours > spent talking about Floris or Phytofix or white socks or cellists or b-sides > or bassists or backing singers or bootlegs? The lyrical analysis? The trouser > analysis? The conspiracy theories? The flame wars? Racing home from a gig to > write your review? > > > Who remembers Jason Greshes or Rhode Island Red or Webgal > or Peanut or eman or Monquiboy or Betsy Fowler or Decophile or Will Frechette > or Jim Spellman or Arnie or Grant Goggans or M or David Firmin or Han or > Daniel Atterbom or a phalanx of other regular contributors (apologies for any > omissions)? Even dear old Martineaux has lapsed lately. > > How about > Flangebracket or Mr Avalon or Lawn-gate or Rhett Davies' niece? DavdMock's > ENORMOUS sig file? The wonderfully Machiavellian Jimmy Vapor (who described > Avalon as 'this glam-rock toilet bowl')? KBP vs Tom Wallace? Kwil loves > Michiel? Roger Eno's PR Machine? The comedy stylings of JFRoxy? Reecey's > microscopically-detailed European travelogues? Statto? (wait, that was me...) > There are a few names there for the greybeards. > > Remember the twin wonders > that were 'A Mad Affair' I and II? How about 'A Perfumed Sigh' or 'A Rhapsody > Divine'? The palpable excitement of attending the BBC recordings? What about > the CD Trees? Or Kicki's list website? > > > How many people got the seats they > wanted for the reunion or the inside griff on new material via this place? Or > got to meet like-minded strangers at gigs who became friends just because of > this silly obsession? Or indeed people you will never meet who you know better > than many friends? And then there was the drinking and the, um, 'horizontal > liaisons'. Don't think there wasn't... > > Anyhoo, we still have 154 members on > the main list and 112 on the digest now. Allowing for dual registered members, > ghost entries and lurkers, probably 100 odd members now, quite a way from its > heyday around the turn of the century, but there is an astonishing hardcore > who have been here almost from the start. I know it's been 15 years of my > life. And it's been bloody brilliant, > > Avalon has served us well, and I think > it has a few years left in it yet. Let us hope BF has too... > > > > > Chris > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon > - -- http://glossoprecordclub.wordpress.com/ http://albumzone.co.uk/Hello/Simon_G.html ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V15 #854 ***************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest