From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #226 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, June 6 2007 Volume 16 : Number 226 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Speaking of reunited bands... ["Gene Hopstetter Jr." ] Re: Constellations and Aussie V8s [Rex ] Re: Constellations and Aussie V8s [Eleanore Adams ] Re: Constellations and Aussie V8s [Benjamin Lukoff ] Re: Southern Cross ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: good band names ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] [0% rh] If stuck in LA, what to do? ["Stewart Russell" ] Re: Constellations and Aussie V8s [kevin ] RE: Constellations and Aussie V8s ["Bachman, Michael" ] RE: [0% rh] If stuck in LA, what to do? ["Marc Alberts" ] RE: Ohh noooes! Ben Curtis left The Secret Machines? ["Michael Wells" ] RE: good band names [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: [0% rh] If stuck in LA, what to do? [Tom Clark ] Re: Ohh noooes! Ben Curtis left The Secret Machines? [Tom Clark ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 12:25:23 -0500 From: "Gene Hopstetter Jr." Subject: Re: Speaking of reunited bands... > From: Christopher Gross > > Though mentioning Skinny Puppy on the Feg list was once sort of a > hobby of > mine, I've never actually seen them live before. I did see cEvin play > drums for Ogre in 2001, though, which should count for something. I've seen them three times. Twice on the 1986 tour (Edward Ka-Spel opened once, Severed Heads the other), and in 1993 or so in a small club in Baton Rouge. The first two shows rank as some of the best live performances I've ever seen -- unbelievably loud analog synths, grinders on steel cans, banging, the whole bit. Glorious. And I was convinced Ogre was going to stab me with a railroad tie. I still even have some of the fake money stained with fake blood he threw into the crowd at those shows. The 1993 show was a real yawner, but Key's work with Hilt and Download was pretty good. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 16:01:58 -0400 (EDT) From: djini@voicenet.com Subject: Re: Southern Cross >>On Mon, 4 Jun 2007 grutness@slingshot.co.nz wrote: >> >>> >Wasn't "Southern Cross" a Stills song, though? >>> >>> Indeed so. The yacht imagery fools a lot of people. That song has >>> some resonance for me personally, since I can still remember seeing >>> the Southern Cross for the first time, at age eleven, and waving >>> goodbye to the Plough, which I haven't seen since around the same >>> time. >> >>"What on earth is the Plough?" I thought, and then I Googled "plough >>constellation" and find out that it's the Big Dipper as Brits (and >>apparently New Zealanders) call it. Is "Big Dipper" US and Canada only, >>then? Or even US only? > > Big Dipper is known in the UK, but Plough is probably more common. I > don't know that kiwis really call it anything much - I learnt the > name during my childhood in the UK. I tend to think of it as The Drinking Gourd. I love that song. To take a very flimsy tangent off this discussion - I unexpectedly saw Roger McGuinn perform last weekend in New York. He "special guests" with the Rock Bottom Remainders, which, for those blissfully unaware, is a band made up entirely of best-selling authors who play the publishing trade show BEA every year for charity. Two words for you: Author Karaoke. At a certain point my friend and I came to the conclusion that it was an evening of surpassing dorkitude, we were clearly dorks just for being there, and we might as well dance, even though no one else was. You haven't lived until you've heard Steven King "sing" Werewolves of London. After that we went to a bar in the Bowery, where we heard a really *good* band, New York Howl. I need to pick up their CD. It's been a good few weeks for me, musically - Bjork, Elvis Costello (hi Lauren!), and Angelique Kidjo within a three week span; a deliciously dreadful cover band with random folk great McGuinn (plus Lesley "It's My Party" Gore, I have no idea why, but she certainly was having fun up there with Matt Groening and Amy Tan and - honestly, it was a bizarre scene) and then a new-to-me band that really caught my interest. Of course, it could've just been by comparison. And the free drinks probably didn't hurt. I'll listen to their CD and report back. still kind of hungover, Jeanne ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 12:02:47 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: Remember those fabulous sixties? > > Article in the paper today mentions other 40 year olds this year: > > "Disraeli Gears" > > "Are You Experienced?" > > "The Velvet Underground and Nico" > > "The Doors" > > "Surrealistic Pillow" > > "The Who Sell Out" > > "Axis: Bold as Love" >And a few others. including: >Younger Than Yesterday >After Bathing At Baxter's >John Wesley Harding >Between the Buttons/Satanic Majesties >Something Else By the Kinks >Smiley Smile >Songs By Leonard Cohen >Fred Neil >Absolutely Free >Pandemonium Shadow Show >Strange Days >Magical Mystery Tour (US LP anyway) >5000 Spirits Or the Layers Of the Onion >Safe As Milk >Gorilla >and the end-of the-line Yardbirds' Little Games A gift from a flower to a garden Alice's restaurant Buffalo Springfield again Chelsea girl Electric music for the mind and body Forever changes Moby Grape The way I feel Mellow yellow Sunshine superman Happy together Canned Heat ...and the eponymous first David Bowie album PS - it's "Songs *of* Leonard Cohen" 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") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 12:11:32 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Constellations and Aussie V8s > >"What on earth is the Plough?" I thought, and then I Googled "plough >>constellation" and find out that it's the Big Dipper as Brits (and >>apparently New Zealanders) call it. Is "Big Dipper" US and Canada only, > >then? Or even US only? FWIW, for those keeping track, the only distinctly NZ name for any constellation that has wide recognition in the general population is Matariki, which is the Maori name for the Pleiades (IIRC it means "the eyes of the gods"). It's also the name of the Maori New Year, which occurs in midwinter (a few weeks from now), when those stars become visible just before dawn in the eastern sky. MJB wrote: >My favorite car racing these days are the Aussie V-8 Super Cars. They >run on OZ road courses and city circuits and actually look like their >showroom (Ford Falcon and Holden Commodore) showroom counterparts. ISTR telling Marc about that - he hadn't heard of Holden as a car make. If you're a fan of the Aussie V8s, you're no doubt waiting for October's big race at Mt. Panorama, the Bathurst 1000 - the highlight of the Aussie motor-racing year. One race of the circuit is held in NZ, BTW, at the Pukekohe circuit south of Auckland. 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") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 17:17:26 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Southern Cross / McGuinn / Lloyd On 6/5/07, djini@voicenet.com wrote: > > > To take a very flimsy tangent off this discussion - I unexpectedly saw > Roger McGuinn > perform last weekend in New York. He "special guests" with the Rock Bottom > Remainders, > which, for those blissfully unaware, is a band made up entirely of > best-selling authors > who play the publishing trade show BEA every year for charity. Weird indeed. You know how we all have favorite artists that we've unaccountably never seen live? McGuinn is one for me-- at least he's a big part of several of my very favorite records-- but although he still seems to be able to do what he always did well, I've never felt that compelled to see him because he just hasn't done anything that vital for a long, long time... for some reason his appearances have, for a long time, had more of a whiff of "oldies act" to them than most of his contemporaries of similar stature. (If you rate the Byrds as highly as I do, and I know not everyone would.) Maybe because he was never much of a songwriter per se? I sure do wish I'd seen Gene Clark live (although by the time I was able to, it might've been kind of sad). Also off topic: Richard Lloyd is apparently hospitalized in the UK, meaning that the putatively "last" Television show may not happen after all. He's supposed to be doing better, but had a nasty bout of pneumonia. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 17:19:49 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Constellations and Aussie V8s On 6/5/07, grutness@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > > One race of the circuit is held in > NZ, BTW, at the Pukekohe circuit south of Auckland. Kiwis have the best names for evarything. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 17:31:10 -0700 From: Eleanore Adams Subject: Re: Constellations and Aussie V8s The Big dipper also known as the Souther Cross, and the little Dipper, were in my youth also called the Big Bear and the Little Bear. Those constillations have many names. stars are cool eleanore On Jun 5, 2007, at 5:11 PM, grutness@slingshot.co.nz wrote: >> >"What on earth is the Plough?" I thought, and then I Googled >> "plough >>> constellation" and find out that it's the Big Dipper as Brits (and >>> apparently New Zealanders) call it. Is "Big Dipper" US and Canada >>> only, >> >then? Or even US only? > > FWIW, for those keeping track, the only distinctly NZ name for any > constellation that has wide recognition in the general population > is Matariki, which is the Maori name for the Pleiades (IIRC it > means "the eyes of the gods"). It's also the name of the Maori New > Year, which occurs in midwinter (a few weeks from now), when those > stars become visible just before dawn in the eastern sky. > > > MJB wrote: >> My favorite car racing these days are the Aussie V-8 Super Cars. They >> run on OZ road courses and city circuits and actually look like their >> showroom (Ford Falcon and Holden Commodore) showroom counterparts. > > ISTR telling Marc about that - he hadn't heard of Holden as a car > make. If you're a fan of the Aussie V8s, you're no doubt waiting > for October's big race at Mt. Panorama, the Bathurst 1000 - the > highlight of the Aussie motor-racing year. One race of the circuit > is held in NZ, BTW, at the Pukekohe circuit south of Auckland. > > 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") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 18:25:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Benjamin Lukoff Subject: Re: Constellations and Aussie V8s The Big Dipper and the Southern Cross are two separate constellations, no? On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Eleanore Adams wrote: > The Big dipper also known as the Souther Cross, and the little > Dipper, were in my youth also called the Big Bear and the Little > Bear. Those constillations have many names. > > stars are cool > > eleanore > > On Jun 5, 2007, at 5:11 PM, grutness@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > > >> >"What on earth is the Plough?" I thought, and then I Googled > >> "plough > >>> constellation" and find out that it's the Big Dipper as Brits (and > >>> apparently New Zealanders) call it. Is "Big Dipper" US and Canada > >>> only, > >> >then? Or even US only? > > > > FWIW, for those keeping track, the only distinctly NZ name for any > > constellation that has wide recognition in the general population > > is Matariki, which is the Maori name for the Pleiades (IIRC it > > means "the eyes of the gods"). It's also the name of the Maori New > > Year, which occurs in midwinter (a few weeks from now), when those > > stars become visible just before dawn in the eastern sky. > > > > > > MJB wrote: > >> My favorite car racing these days are the Aussie V-8 Super Cars. They > >> run on OZ road courses and city circuits and actually look like their > >> showroom (Ford Falcon and Holden Commodore) showroom counterparts. > > > > ISTR telling Marc about that - he hadn't heard of Holden as a car > > make. If you're a fan of the Aussie V8s, you're no doubt waiting > > for October's big race at Mt. Panorama, the Bathurst 1000 - the > > highlight of the Aussie motor-racing year. One race of the circuit > > is held in NZ, BTW, at the Pukekohe circuit south of Auckland. > > > > 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") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 00:46:35 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: Southern Cross Ben says: > "What on earth is the Plough?" I thought, and then I Googled "plough > constellation" and find out that it's the Big Dipper as Brits (and > apparently New Zealanders) call it. i was listening to belle & sebastian on the way home (from class, yay) and they said: "later on, as i walked home the plough was showing, and orion" there might be a word for what i am thinking of. it's not "synchronicity" but rather the phenomenon of noticing something once it has been named (so-to-speak.) for instance, once a co-worker bought some sort of bland american car, and after i saw his car, i started seeing that type of car quite frequently. it's not that the type of car suddenly started being driven by everyone (this would be more the meaning of "synchronicity") but since i sort of acknowledged the type of car's existence by seeing one and having a name for it (which obviously didn't make a lasting impression), my brain was open to noticing that class of object. i had just never noticed it before. an aside - it's too bad the same thing didn't happen once i, for example, learned the word for "zebra." it's one of the few things i resent about childhood - you are taught all these names of wonderful animals as if to prepare you (like how you go out in the world and see "yellow", "purple", and all the colours whose names you are taught) and it turns out that well, you can visit the zoo, but otherwise it's dogs, cats, an occasional cow, and rats if you're lucky enough to live near central park. xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 02:19:09 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: good band names to-day's good band name: gutterball that is so sort of dumb that i like it. its existence was made known to me by dimeadozen. i think it's associated with steve wynn so it might even be a good band as well. oh, anyone want to play "best band names ever?" my top five band names: 1. pulp 2. pulp 3. pulp 4. pulp 5. pulp you get the idea. the thing i really about it is how well it suits the band it names. xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 02:55:03 -0400 From: "Stewart Russell" Subject: [0% rh] If stuck in LA, what to do? Looks like I'm stuck in downtown Los Angeles for the next couple of evenings. What would fegs recommend doing? cheers, Stewart - -- http://scruss.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 05:30:24 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: Constellations and Aussie V8s >Kiwis have the best names for evarything. They make a really nice fruit salad with bananas and tangerines, too. Maybe some white grapes... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 09:23:27 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Constellations and Aussie V8s - -----Original Message----- From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On Behalf Of grutness@slingshot.co.nz Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 8:12 PM To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Subject: Constellations and Aussie V8s MJB wrote: >>My favorite car racing these days are the Aussie V-8 Super Cars. They >>run on OZ road courses and city circuits and actually look like their >>showroom (Ford Falcon and Holden Commodore) showroom counterparts. James came back with: >ISTR telling Marc about that - he hadn't heard of Holden as a car make. If you're a fan of the Aussie V8s, you're no doubt waiting for October's big race at Mt. Panorama, the Bathurst 1000 - the highlight of the Aussie motor-racing year. One race of the circuit is held in NZ, BTW, at the Pukekohe circuit south of Auckland. Fanuc has sold numerous robots to Holden, and we have a divison there but it reports directly to Fanuc LTD in Japan. The Pontiac GTO that is build by Holden and imported to North America is based on the Commodore I think. It's too bad the OZ Ford Falcon isn't imported to North America, as Ford probably thinks it would cut into Mustang sales. I've watched a couple of the Bathurst 1000's on our SPEED network. Previous two-time Aussie V-8 champ Marcus Ambrose is doing pretty good in NASCAR. MJ Bachman NP Horace Silver - Doin' The Thing at The Village Gate ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 09:27:08 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Constellations and Aussie V8s Shawn Colvin's song Orion In The Sky from her "Fat City" album has the Southern Cross and the Seven Sisters as well as Orion in it's lyrics. MJB - -----Original Message----- From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Eleanore Adams Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 8:31 PM To: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Cc: fegmaniax@smoe.org Subject: Re: Constellations and Aussie V8s The Big dipper also known as the Souther Cross, and the little Dipper, were in my youth also called the Big Bear and the Little Bear. Those constillations have many names. stars are cool eleanore On Jun 5, 2007, at 5:11 PM, grutness@slingshot.co.nz wrote: >> >"What on earth is the Plough?" I thought, and then I Googled >> "plough >>> constellation" and find out that it's the Big Dipper as Brits (and >>> apparently New Zealanders) call it. Is "Big Dipper" US and Canada >>> only, >> >then? Or even US only? > > FWIW, for those keeping track, the only distinctly NZ name for any > constellation that has wide recognition in the general population is > Matariki, which is the Maori name for the Pleiades (IIRC it means "the > eyes of the gods"). It's also the name of the Maori New Year, which > occurs in midwinter (a few weeks from now), when those stars become > visible just before dawn in the eastern sky. > > > MJB wrote: >> My favorite car racing these days are the Aussie V-8 Super Cars. They >> run on OZ road courses and city circuits and actually look like their >> showroom (Ford Falcon and Holden Commodore) showroom counterparts. > > ISTR telling Marc about that - he hadn't heard of Holden as a car > make. If you're a fan of the Aussie V8s, you're no doubt waiting for > October's big race at Mt. Panorama, the Bathurst 1000 - the highlight > of the Aussie motor-racing year. One race of the circuit is held in > NZ, BTW, at the Pukekohe circuit south of Auckland. > > 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") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 11:08:16 -0500 From: "Gene Hopstetter Jr." Subject: Ohh noooes! Ben Curtis left The Secret Machines? I'm reading rumors that The Secret Machine's guitar player, Ben Curtis, has left the band; he's not listed on their MySpace page. Anybody got the dope on this? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 09:15:44 -0700 From: "Marc Alberts" Subject: RE: good band names Lauren wrote: > oh, anyone want to play "best band names ever?" > > my top five band names: > 1. pulp > 2. pulp > 3. pulp > 4. pulp > 5. pulp > > you get the idea. the thing i really about it is how well it suits > the band it names. > If that's the criteria, then Throbbing Gristle definitely needs to be on the list. Marc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 09:25:57 -0700 From: "Marc Alberts" Subject: RE: [0% rh] If stuck in LA, what to do? Stewart asked: > Looks like I'm stuck in downtown Los Angeles for the next couple of > evenings. What would fegs recommend doing? I'm always in favor of going to Pink's when in LA. Love those Bacon chili cheese dogs. Marc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 09:37:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: RE: good band names 1. Camper Van Beethoven 2. Luna 3. Ramones 4. The Velvet Underground 5. The Shins* *If for no other reason than provoking a record store clerk to tell me, when I was buying Chutes Too Narrow, how disappointed he was to find out they were 4 Asian guys who had all adopted Shin as a fake family band name a la Ramones. "Children have always enjoyed my movies. They are just not allowed to watch many of them." -- John Waters . ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better Globetrotter. Get better travel answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545469 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 12:10:05 -0500 From: "Michael Wells" Subject: RE: Ohh noooes! Ben Curtis left The Secret Machines? Gene: > I'm reading rumors that The Secret Machine's guitar player, Ben Curtis, has left the band; he's not listed on their MySpace page. Yep. It's even on wiki ;) "Benjamin Curtis left the band on March 3, 2007 to focus full time on his new band, School of Seven Bells. The news was posted by Brandon Curtis on the Secret Machines' messageboard." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Machines MW P.s Gene, I think I've finally found a place with pulled pork worthy of The Salt Lick, and it's right down the road from my house! http://tinyurl.com/23926s ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 10:12:36 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: good band names >oh, anyone want to play "best band names ever?" off the top of my head: The Stooges Flipper MC 900 Foot Jesus The Fags (local boys from the early 80s, never broke out of Seattle) The Ultimate Spinach Root Boy Slim & the Sex Change Band Godspeed You! Black Emperor Tigers Of Pan Tang Kinky Friedman & the Texas Jewboys Steely Dan ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 10:34:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: RE: good band names Jeff Dwarf wrote: > 1. Camper Van Beethoven > 2. Luna > 3. Ramones > 4. The Velvet Underground > 5. The Shins* > > > *If for no other reason than provoking a record store clerk to tell > me, when I was buying Chutes Too Narrow, how disappointed he was to > find out they were 4 Asian guys who had all adopted Shin as a fake > family band name a la Ramones. Obviously, that should be WEREN'T four Asian guys.... "Children have always enjoyed my movies. They are just not allowed to watch many of them." -- John Waters . ____________________________________________________________________________________ Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos & more. http://mobile.yahoo.com/go?refer=1GNXIC ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 11:11:51 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: [0% rh] If stuck in LA, what to do? On Jun 5, 2007, at 11:55 PM, Stewart Russell wrote: > Looks like I'm stuck in downtown Los Angeles for the next couple of > evenings. What would fegs recommend doing? Play folk music with Rex? Then you two could go find Eb and beat the shit out him. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 11:19:44 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Ohh noooes! Ben Curtis left The Secret Machines? On Jun 6, 2007, at 10:10 AM, Michael Wells wrote: > Gene: >> I'm reading rumors that The Secret Machine's guitar player, Ben > Curtis, has left the band; he's not listed on their MySpace page. > > Yep. It's even on wiki ;) > > "Benjamin Curtis left the band on March 3, 2007 to focus full time on > his new band, School of Seven Bells. The news was posted by Brandon > Curtis on the Secret Machines' messageboard." > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Machines Brandon Curtis announced it on the band's site: "I am writing to make a couple of announcements. First of all I want to let everybody know that The Secret Machines have begun work on our third album. We expect to begin recording sometime in the beginning of May. Unfortunately, I also must share that after 7 and 1/2 years of playing music together Benjamin has decided to no longer be a part of the band. It is a sad day but also an exciting one as he prepares to focus full time on his new creative venture, School of Seven Bells. He has told me that he expects to be finished with a new record very soon as well as there being plans in the works to play some shows here in New York debuting the band. Of course Josh and I wish him all the best. I don't know what t make of this. I suppose Brandon is more the voice of the band, but I really love the sounds Ben created. I can only hope both bands are successful. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 12:14:13 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: good band names >oh, anyone want to play "best band names ever?" Oh, and -- Jodie Foster's Army The Flying Burrito Brothers X-Ray Spex Toiling Midgets Grinderswitch Monks Of Doom and of course The United States Of America ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #226 ********************************