From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V9 #21 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, January 23 2000 Volume 09 : Number 021 Today's Subjects: ----------------- NMH [Eb ] guilty pleasure ["The Rooneys" ] Fwd: Hello from Italy ["Faecal Emergency" ] and then there were four... [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Miscellaneous remarks, some more facetious than others ["Michael R. R] Re: We already saw the Audities list... [steve ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 15:36:38 -0800 From: Eb Subject: NMH Anyone know what's up with the main Neutral Milk Hotel website? It's been dead for weeks, seemingly.... (http://btc.gatech.edu/neutral) Eb PS I note that http://www.neutralmilkhotel.com is "reserved" for the band, but not implemented...yet http://www.nmh.com gets you something called "New Media Hollywood." Ha. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 19:21:55 -0700 From: "The Rooneys" Subject: guilty pleasure I guess the gist of the "game" was "cheesiest" or "guilty pleasure" album, not necessarily embarrassing.... I cuddle up with Groovy Decoy and replay the "have you got any of those sticky things...." track until I giggle myself silly, but perhaps that's more "schmaltziest" or even "schmendrigest" than "cheesiest"... - - bill ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 00:49:50 PST From: "Faecal Emergency" Subject: Fwd: Hello from Italy Hello Eddie, I catched Robyn last night in Ferrara Renfe Club; he swicthed some dates and cancelled others so the tour was a mess and I could only get there yesterday. (he didn't play in Parma that was only 10 miles from my home!) I recorded and filmed him, 90 minutes long show with great setlists of songs I never heard before playing by him solo. I spoke with him after the show he was in a good mood even if the acoustic guitar had many many problems (you'll hear that!). He was with his girlfriend Michelle and she was very nice too. Unfortunately he did not have with him the new CD so maybe you'll be able to get a copy for me? Thanks so much. I have managed to find (waiting for) a tape of his Arezzo show so as soon as I get this I'll send both tapes of his dates in Italy and for "The Asking Tree" I'll try to track down correctly the dates for this Italian tour. He said that maybe he will be back in July and possibly with the band......... Keep me updated and speak to you soon. Ciao! Paolo ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 06:10:40 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: and then there were four... major label com-blob-uments. http://cnn.com/2000/SHOWBIZ/Music/01/22/time.emi/index.html Sunday Telegraph: Time Warner and EMI set for music mega-merger January 22, 2000 Web posted at: 9:29 p.m. EST (0229 GMT) LONDON (Reuters) -- Time Warner Inc. of the United States is set to take a majority stake in Britain's EMI Group Plc in a multibillion-dollar deal to create the world's largest record company, the Sunday Telegraph newspaper said. Time Warner, the parent company of CNN, announced its own merger with Internet giant America Online two weeks ago. The EMI deal would, above all, give EMI access to new Internet-based distribution channels for its music. The report said senior EMI directors led by Chairman Eric Nicoli had been locked in talks over the weekend with Time Warner executives including Roger Ames, head of Warner Music Group, which would be merged with EMI. It said the deal was set to be finalized over the weekend and announced to the Stock Exchange on Monday. "We will not comment on the report," an EMI spokesman said. No one at Time Warner was immediately available to comment. The report said the deal would create a business with sales of more than 5 billion pounds ($8 billion) a year. The report did not provide details of the terms of the purchase or the exact stake that Time Warner planned to take. But it valued the deal at $12 billion pounds ($20 billion) and added in an editorial that EMI shareholders might protest that Time Warner was not paying a premium for control of the group. The Sunday Telegraph also said Nicoli would relinquish his role as EMI chairman, but that a leading role had been reserved for Ken Berry, the chief executive of EMI's record business. EMI's artists include the Spice Girls, the Rolling Stones and Robbie Williams, while Warner Music has Cher, Eric Clapton, Phil Collins, Madonna and Fleetwood Mac on its books. The merger would also bring together a handful of well-known record labels including Virgin, Atlantic, WEA and HMV. Recent industry speculation has swirled around the likelihood of German media group Bertelsmann AG making a bid for EMI, though neither group has commented. Warner is the fourth largest music business in the world and EMI is fifth, but the combined group would be catapulted into global leadership, the report said. Warner Music is trying to recover from a drop in its nine-month earnings to $279 million from $288 million. Meanwhile, EMI has reported a 10 percent rise in first-half pre-tax profit to 75.4 million pounds. The report said that the deal would bring about cost savings of as much as 500 million pounds a year. It said the transaction was being brokered by Warburg Dillon Read for EMI and by Morgan Stanley Dean Witter for Warner. EMI's shares closed down 6.6 percent in London on Friday at 648 pence. Time Warner was up $3-5/16 in New York at $91-1/4. ===== "America's greatest natural resource, still, to this day, is the moron" --Martin Mull __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 05:09:27 -0800 From: "Michael R. Runion" Subject: Re: Miscellaneous remarks, some more facetious than others Of course, I shouldn't admit to this yet again, but that was me... Mike (and I'm gonna keep o-on loving you, cause it's the...) Runion MARKEEFE@aol.com wrote: > > In a message dated 1/21/00 7:07:12 AM Pacific Standard Time, > hssmrg@bath.ac.uk writes: > > << PS Michael K. thought that I nominated Chicago, but I didn't - I was the > Bee Gees fan. Oh dear... >> > > Drat! Okat, then, who had the Journey, Chicago, and REO Speedwagon > albums? Sorry for the mix-up :-) > > ------Michael K. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 21:15:06 -0600 From: steve Subject: Re: We already saw the Audities list... mad: >>13. UNIVERSE ZERO - THE HARD QUEST - 29 > >I haven't heard this yet but will probably pick it up. Their previous >stuff is dark, noisy music made all sorts of instruments. Also, their name >is Univers Zero (without the e). And like the rest of the bands on the Cuneiform label, they probably don't fit it too well with what passes for prog these days. See: www.waysidemusic.com (and check out Forever Einstein). - - Steve _______________ We're all Jesus, Buddha, and the Wizard of Oz! - Andy Partridge ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V9 #21 ******************************