From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V11 #416 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, December 9 2002 Volume 11 : Number 416 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Lew Zealand (100% SNL/PHISH) [Mike Swedene ] Mac Audio [Mike Swedene ] headphones [bayard ] Re: Two in a year ["Michael E. Kupietz, wearing a pointy hat" ] That Joan Jett letter to Rolling Stone (Slight Return) [Jeff Dwarf Subject: Lew Zealand (100% SNL/PHISH) Got this phrom a phish head (yes, he is kinda "rolly-polly"): AP Newswire December 6, 2002 Network executives from NBC announced today that 'Saturday Night Live' will not be taped in front of a live studio audience for the first time in the show's glamorous history this upcoming December 14th. This harsh announcement was made in response to the number of crazed "Phish Heads", obsessive fans of the rock quartet Phish, who bombarded NBC headquarters in New York with phone calls and personal visits to Rockefeller Plaza soon thereafter it was announced that Phish would be the musical guest. This performance marks Phish's first official musical performance together since going on indefinite hiatus over two years ago. "I mean it's not like it's the Beatles getting back together," a stern Lorne Michaels responded. It was also reported that some cast members are even being stalked. "I had this stoned looking white dude with dreadlocks following me home all last week," added Tracy Morgan. "All he kept saying was 'The dank for your miracle' as he pointed a finger up in the air. Then he would hop in his Ranger Rover and be gone." Neither Phish nor their management were available for comment. Phish will also be appearing on 'The Late Show with David Letterman" on December 19th, but tickets have already been distributed. Douglas Madden, AP - -- Herbie np-> "Isolation" Joy Division ===== - --------------------------------------------- View my Websight & CDR Trade page at: http://midy.topcities.com/ _____________________________________________ Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 19:10:30 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Swedene Subject: Mac Audio Any recomendations for a multi track recording program on the MAC that you can listen to the other tracks while laying down some new ones? Herbie np-> "Suedehead" Morrissey Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 23:09:20 -0800 (PST) From: bayard Subject: headphones i need recommendations on a pair of headphones - should be decent sounding, obviously, but also durable and reasonable in price (under $60 would be nice if possible.) you can email me directly - thank! - -- http://glasshotel.net "If you ever get close to a Human... be ready to get confused" - bjork ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 03:55:58 -0800 From: "Michael E. Kupietz, wearing a pointy hat" Subject: Re: Two in a year Seems to me you're failing to draw an important distinction: artists who were prolific enough to produce two (or more) worthwhile albums in a year, and artists who thought for some reason that Bruce Springsteen's contrived marketing gimmick of releasing a double album as "two separate albums" at once was in some way cool enough to repeat. Christ, even Guns'n'Roses had the dignity to call it "Use Your Illusion I" and "Use Your Illusion II" instead of trying to pretend it was 2 separate albums. At 5:21 PM -0800 12/7/02, those funny voices I hear when no one else is around called themselves Eb and whispered: >Today, I was considering that it's somewhat unusual that Tom Waits, >Frank Black, Paul Westerberg and Badly Drawn Boy all released *two* >worthwhile albums, this year. And in the first two cases, the albums >even came out simultaneously. > >Then I was thinking about the *overall* best dual-releases-in-a-year, >within the pop/rock genre. (It's so much easier to be prolific in >jazz, so never mind that world.) > >Here was the chronological list I came up with, for my own all-time >favorites. There are lots more examples of this, but I only picked >the cream o' the crop. Once I narrowed the list down to the below, I >had trouble cutting it any further. > >I'd be curious to see what others would add to this list -- your very >favorites, not just *any* example. Where *both* albums are really >high-quality. And please, no live albums or compilations! I'm talking >about coming up with two new albums of fresh material, conceived in >the time period immediately preceding the albums' release. > >Bob Dylan: Another Side of Bob Dylan, The Times They Are A-Changin' (1964) >The Beatles: A Hard Day's Night, Beatles for Sale (1964) >The Beatles: Help!, Rubber Soul (1965) >The Rolling Stones: The Rolling Stones Now!, Out of Our Heads, 12 x >5, December's Children (And Everybody's) (1965) [four!] >The Beach Boys: Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!), Today! (1965) >The Byrds: Mr. Tambourine Man, Turn! Turn! Turn! (1965) >Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited, Bringing It All Back Home (1965) >The Doors: The Doors, Strange Days (1967) >The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Magical Mystery Tour >(1967) >Traffic: Heaven is in Your Mind, Traffic (1968) >The Kinks: Something Else, The Village Green Preservation Society (1968) >The Byrds: Sweetheart of the Rodeo, The Notorious Byrd Brothers (1968) >Jimi Hendrix: Axis: Bold as Love, Electric Ladyland (1968) >Frank Zappa: We're Only in It for the Money, Lumpy Gravy, Cruising >With Ruben & the Jets (1968) [three!] >Frank Zappa: Uncle Meat, Hot Rats (1969) >Creedence Clearwater Revival: Green River, Willy and the Poorboys (1969) >Led Zeppelin: Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin II (1969) >Fairport Convention: Fairport Convention, Unhalfbricking (1969) >Van Morrison: Moondance, His Band and the Street Choir (1970) >Stevie Wonder: Music of My Mind, Talking Book (1972) >Roxy Music: For Your Pleasure, Stranded (1973) >King Crimson: Starless and Bible Black, Red (1974) >Bob Dylan: Blood on the Tracks, Desire (1975) >David Bowie: Low, Heroes (1977) >Pere Ubu: The Modern Dance, Dub Housing (1978) >The dB's: Stands for Decibels, Repercussion (1981) >Husker Du: New Day Rising, Flip Your Wig (1985) >Elvis Costello: King of America, Blood & Chocolate (1986) >Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: Your Funeral...My Trial, Kicking Against >the Pricks (1986) >--------- >Some top second-tier examples, which I "eliminated": >Badfinger: Magic Christian Music, No Dice (1970) >Badly Drawn Boy: About a Boy, Have You Fed the Fish? (2002) >Beck: Mellow Gold, One Foot in the Grave, Stereopathetic Soulmanure (1994) >Brian Eno: Music for Films, Ambient #1: Music for Airports (1978) >Captain Beefheart: Mirror Man, Strictly Personal (1968) >Captain Beefheart: Clear Spot, The Spotlight Kid (1972) >Emitt Rhodes: The American Dream, Emitt Rhodes (1970) >Frank Zappa: The Grand Wazoo, Waka/Jawaka (1972) >Genesis: A Trick of the Tail, Wind & Wuthering (1976) >Graham Parker: Heat Treatment, Howlin Wind (1976) >Jefferson Airplane: Surrealistic Pillow, After Bathing at Baxter's (1967) >Joe Cocker: Joe Cocker!, With a Little Help From My Friends (1969) >Lou Reed: Lou Reed, Transformer (1972) >Love: Da Capo, Forever Changes (1967) >Neil Young: Neil Young, Everybody Knows This is Nowhere (1969) >Ramones: Rocket to Russia, Leave Home (1977) >Soul Asylum: Made to Be Broken, While You Were Out (1986) >Syd Barrett: The Madcap Laughs, Barrett (1970) >The Beatles: Please Please Me, With the Beatles (1963) >The Buzzcocks: Another Music in a Different Kitchen, Love Bites (1978) >The Byrds: Ballad of Easy Rider, Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde (1969) >The Kinks: Kinks-Size, Kinda Kinks, Kinks Kinkdom, The Kink Kontroversy >(1965) >The Monkees: More of the Monkees, Headquarters, Pisces, Aquarius, >Capricorn & Jones Ltd. (1967) >The Residents: Duck Stab, Not Available (1978) >The Rolling Stones: Between the Buttons, Their Satanic Majesties Request >(1967) >The Who: The Who Sings My Generation, A Quick One (1966) >Tom Waits: Blood Money, Alice (2002) >Yes: Fragile, Close to the Edge (1972) - -- ======== We need love, expression, and truth. We must not allow ourselves to believe that we can fill the round hole of our spirit with the square peg of objective rationale. - Paul Eppinger At non effugies meos iambos - Gaius Valerius Catallus ("...but you won't get away from my poems.") "Moderation in all things, except Wild Turkey." - Evel Knievel ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 04:11:00 -0800 From: "Michael E. Kupietz, wearing a pointy hat" Subject: Re: Mac Audio Let me guess, have you been getting frustrated with SoundEdit? Digidesign Pro Tools Free can do it, and as the name implies, it's free. I believe it's limited to 8 tracks audio, 64 midi. Deck II can do it too - and in fact I liked Deck better than Protools - but the last version I got crashes under OS9.2.2. Deck has advanced a few versions since then but I haven't found a pirated serial number so I haven't checked it out. (Oooops, did I say that?). At 7:10 PM -0800 12/7/02, those funny voices I hear when no one else is around called themselves Mike Swedene and whispered: >Any recomendations for a multi track recording program >on the MAC that you can listen to the other tracks >while laying down some new ones? > >Herbie > >np-> "Suedehead" Morrissey >Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. >http://mailplus.yahoo.com - -- ======== We need love, expression, and truth. We must not allow ourselves to believe that we can fill the round hole of our spirit with the square peg of objective rationale. - Paul Eppinger At non effugies meos iambos - Gaius Valerius Catallus ("...but you won't get away from my poems.") "Moderation in all things, except Wild Turkey." - Evel Knievel ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 11:49:18 -0600 From: "Gene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: Bitchin' AC/DC news Oh yeah, baby. New live performance with Bon on DVD coming, and deluxe reissues of the LPs. AC/DC Rides The Highway To Epic By Jonathan Cohen Billboard NEW YORK - Australian rock icons AC/DC have signed a multi-album deal with Epic, the first fruit of which will be refurbished reissues of seminal albums such as "Back in Black," "Highway to Hell," and "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap," due early next year. Further reissues will follow, all of which will sport new liner notes and rare photos, and utilize Sony's proprietary ConnecteD technology to unlock special online content created for each release. It is understood that AC/DC's next studio album, due sometime next year, will complete the group's contractual obligation to Elektra. AC/DC has spent the past 26 years of its career recording under the Warner Music Group umbrella. The group's back catalog is one of the most consistent sellers on Billboard's Top Pop Catalog chart. According to Epic parent Sony, 1980's "Back in Black" has sold 41 million copies worldwide, making it the sixth highest-selling album in history. It has sold 318,000 copies this year alone, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The move to Epic reunites AC/DC with Epic chairman Dave Glew, who previously worked with the group at Atlantic, as well as Epic executive VP/GM Steve Barnett, formerly the group's manager. The new deal brings 16 of AC/DC's 18 U.S. releases to the label, which plans to also reissue some of the albums on vinyl and compile DVD releases. "Today AC/DC is going stronger than ever, making it a true pleasure to welcome the band into the Sony Music family, and an honor to have the opportunity to bring both their classic repertoire and new releases to fans across the country and around the world," Sony Music chairman/CEO Thomas D. Mottola said in a statement. AC/DC's last Elektra studio set, "Stiff Upper Lip," debuted in March 2000 at No. 7 on The Billboard 200 and has sold 842,000 copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan. The title track from that album hit No. 1 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. Meanwhile, Image Entertainment has set a Feb. 18 release date for the DVD "Rockmasters -- AC/DC," capturing an Oct. 27, 1977, concert in London. The video finds the band, at the time fronted by the late Bon Scott, running through such favorites as "Let There Be Rock," "T.N.T.," and "Bad Boy Boogie." ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 11:27:23 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: That Joan Jett letter to Rolling Stone (Slight Return) http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/joanjett.htm ===== "If we don't allow journalists, politicians, and every two-bit Joe Schmo with a cause to grandstand by using 9-11 as a lame rhetorical device, then the terrorists have already won." -- "Shredder" "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -- Theodore Roosevelt . Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:04:55 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: Two in a year >Today, I was considering that it's somewhat unusual that Tom Waits, >Frank Black, Paul Westerberg and Badly Drawn Boy all released *two* >worthwhile albums, this year. And in the first two cases, the albums >even came out simultaneously. > >I'd be curious to see what others would add to this list -- your very >favorites, not just *any* example. Where *both* albums are really >high-quality. And please, no live albums or compilations! I'm talking >about coming up with two new albums of fresh material, conceived in >the time period immediately preceding the albums' release. Ed Kuepper must've copme up with two in ayear worthy of mention - he puts 'em out every six months or so! I initially thought Serene Machine and Character Assassination, but they were in '93 and '94 respectively. how about the following? Apologies if I've got any years wrong... * Simon& Garfunkel, Sounds of Silence and Parsley Sage Rosemary and Thyme, 1966 * Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin and Led Zeppelin II, 1969 * The Jam, In the City and This is the Modern World, 1977 * Billy Joel, The Stranger and 52nd Street, 1977 (yeah I know, but they were huge, and the same year) * The Stranglers, Rattus Norvegicus and No More Heroes, 1977 * Kate Bush, The Kick Inside and Lionheart, 1978 * Joe Jackson, I'm the Man and Look Sharp!, 1979 * Split Enz, Frenzy and True Colours, 1979 * OMD, Organisation and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, 1980 * Eurythmics, Sweet Dreams are Made of This and Touch, 1983 * Billy Bragg, Lifes a Riot with Spy vs Spy, Brewing Up, 1984 * The Smiths, The Smiths, Hatful of Hollow, 1984 * Julian Cope, Fried and World Shut Your Mouth, 1984 * Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Love Songs and Devotional Songs, 1988 * Straitjacket Fits, Hail and Melt, 1990 * House of Love, House of Love (Butterfly) and (A spy in) the House of Love, 1990 * Brian Eno, The Shutov Assembly and Nerve Net, 1992 James James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand. =-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= .-=-.-=-.-=-.- .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-. -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= You talk to me as if from a distance =-.-=-. And I reply with impressions chosen from another time -=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- (Brian Eno - "By this River") ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V11 #416 ********************************