From: owner-good-noise-digest@smoe.org (good-noise-digest) To: good-noise-digest@smoe.org Subject: good-noise-digest V3 #92 Reply-To: good-noise@smoe.org Sender: owner-good-noise-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-good-noise-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk good-noise-digest Tuesday, October 17 2000 Volume 03 : Number 092 Today's Subjects: ----------------- The john Gorka Music Page [ThePsyche@aol.com] Re: The john Gorka Music Page ["Mike Smith" ] A New Thread for a Quiet List [ThePsyche@aol.com] Re: A New Thread for a Quiet List [John Spies ] John Gorka Music Page [Tay Mueller ] Re: A New Thread for a Quiet List [Greg Steele ] Re: A New Thread for a Quiet List [Tay Mueller ] Re: A New Thread for a Quiet List [NMasullo@aol.com] First Album [ImSerius2@aol.com] Re: A New Thread for a Quiet List [SMOKEY596@aol.com] Re: A New Thread for a Quiet List [SMOKEY596@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 09:16:16 EDT From: ThePsyche@aol.com Subject: The john Gorka Music Page Hello fellow Good Noisers. Well, after much hard work and good fun, the new and hopefully improved John Gorka Music Page is up and running. Please go and check it out and spread the word and sign the guest book and share your personal Gorka Encounters with us. It has truly been a labor of love and we hope you enjoy it as much as we have enjoyed putting it together. Thanks again to Anne Nugent for turning it over to us. Here is the link and please let us know what you want at the site! The Music of John Gorka - Welcome! Happy Monday one and all! Bryn and Susan, Mother Folkers Web Management ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 16:57:53 GMT From: "Mike Smith" Subject: Re: The john Gorka Music Page Just took a quick look at the web page and it looks great. Clicked the link for the video, charged it to my credit card, and can't wait for it to arrive. I plan on contributing a photo to the collection as soon as I can think of a good one to doctor-up. Mike _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 14:39:38 EDT From: ThePsyche@aol.com Subject: A New Thread for a Quiet List I posted this to another email list I am part of, and got to thinking it would make a nice thead here as well....seeing as it has been less than *noisey* here of late. Enjoy and respond! Friday morning at breakfast, my son Ian tells me he wants to go to Borders after school and get a CD. This was a momentous occasion. Of course he has CDs he listens to, all bought by his Dad and I or his aunt, uncle and cousins....our choices. He has everything from Raffi to Hans Mayer (THE best kids musician around) to a compilation of rock n roll songs they play at Bulls games to Yellow Submarine to Rockapella. This was to be his first acquisition all on his own...his money, his idea. After school, we drove to Borders, made our way to the upper level and quickly found that which he desired....Arron Carter. Who? Aaron Carter, somebody named Nick Carter's younger brother. (from one of those boy bands) Of course it did take some time to actually make that THE purchase of the afternoon. We had to look at the Baja Men and some 90's Rock Compilations. He put on headphones at the listening station and heard In Sync, The Backstreet Boys and Brittany Spears. I wandered around, looked at the folk section and got to talking to the twenty-something boys who worked there. I told them, only half kiddingly, that this was a momentous day for me as a Mother....a right of passage was happening the next aisle over.....it was my almost eight year old's first CD purchase, all on his own, I explained. They smiled and told me of their first music purchases. One had bought Phil Collins, No Jacket Required. The other had bought Def Leopard as his first CD...sorry I forget the album title. It was nice to share that moment with them and have them understand. They wanted to know who my first one had been. A guy named Billy I said. Oh, you meant my first CD purchase? My first album (and yes it was really and album) was Horse With No Name by America. (Please don't ask me about all the Sammy Davis Jr. albums littering my bedroom...most of them bought at garage sales.) So, here is a new thread for all of you. What was the first album you spent your own money on, the one you just had to have and wore it out listening over and over and over? Ian is at this moment in his room, door closed and the strains of Aaron's' Party are slipping through the walls into this room where I sit typing. Kids and music....I will still play Wilcox, Gorka, Werner, Prasada-Rao, Roth, Conoscenti, Norman, Lavin, Peacock, etc.....he might occasionally still be listening. Adios, Bryn, who has never been through the desert on a horse with no name ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 14:55:59 -0400 From: John Spies Subject: Re: A New Thread for a Quiet List :-) Great thread. John Denver, Rocky Mountain High, and did I ever wear it out. John Spies ThePsyche@aol.com wrote: > I posted this to another email list I am part of, and got to thinking it > would make a nice thead here as well....seeing as it has been less than > *noisey* here of late. > > Enjoy and respond! > > Friday morning at breakfast, my son Ian tells me he wants to go to Borders > after school and get a CD. > > This was a momentous occasion. Of course he has CDs he listens to, all > bought by his Dad and I or his aunt, uncle and cousins....our choices. He > has everything from Raffi to Hans Mayer (THE best kids musician around) to a > compilation of rock n roll songs they play at Bulls games to Yellow Submarine > to Rockapella. > > This was to be his first acquisition all on his own...his money, his idea. > > After school, we drove to Borders, made our way to the upper level and > quickly found that which he desired....Arron Carter. Who? Aaron Carter, > somebody named Nick Carter's younger brother. (from one of those boy bands) > > Of course it did take some time to actually make that THE purchase of > the afternoon. We had to look at the Baja Men and some 90's Rock > Compilations. He put on headphones at the listening station and heard In > Sync, The Backstreet Boys and Brittany Spears. > > I wandered around, looked at the folk section and got to talking to the > twenty-something boys who worked there. I told them, only half kiddingly, > that this was a momentous day for me as a Mother....a right of passage was > happening the next aisle over.....it was my almost eight year old's first CD > purchase, all on his own, I explained. > > They smiled and told me of their first music purchases. One had bought Phil > Collins, No Jacket Required. The other had bought Def Leopard as his first > CD...sorry I forget the album title. > > It was nice to share that moment with them and have them understand. They > wanted to know who my first one had been. > > A guy named Billy I said. Oh, you meant my first CD purchase? > > My first album (and yes it was really and album) was Horse With No Name by > America. (Please don't ask me about all the Sammy Davis Jr. albums littering > my bedroom...most of them bought at garage sales.) > > So, here is a new thread for all of you. What was the first album you spent > your own money on, the one you just had to have and wore it out listening > over and over and over? > > Ian is at this moment in his room, door closed and the strains of Aaron's' > Party are slipping through the walls into this room where I sit typing. Kids > and music....I will still play Wilcox, Gorka, Werner, Prasada-Rao, Roth, > Conoscenti, Norman, Lavin, Peacock, etc.....he might occasionally still be > listening. > > Adios, Bryn, who has never been through the desert on a horse with no name - -- John Spies mailto:jspies@acninc.net home: 301-934-4627 work: 301-918-5435 pager: 877-242-4366 pager email: mailto:8777208398.2424366@pagenetmessage.net ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 15:13:17 -0400 From: Tay Mueller Subject: John Gorka Music Page I poped over to take a quick look at the website - Wow, it looks great! And to think you did it without a Mac! ;-) Seriously, a great effort. Well laid out, good info, quick loading and clear. The background is pleasing but doesn't make your text hard to read. A Great effort. I will be watching it's evolution, and when I have a moment, I will try (and I'll to get Chris to try) to send you some anecdotes. I do have to admit though- I didn't take the two photos you credit to me (and thanks for that!), they were taken by my husband Jim. - ----------------------------- Gaudete, Tay In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice,there is. -Chuck Reid Music: 24 hour Hotline: 609-259-5764 http://outtasightsandsounds.com Cybrarian-Publicity-Publishing for Outta Sights & Sounds, Hightstown, NJ - ------------------------------------- Visit my dwarf hamsters at The Figgery http://members.home.com/powzie ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 15:16:16 -0400 From: Greg Steele Subject: Re: A New Thread for a Quiet List ThePsyche@aol.com wrote: > > My first album (and yes it was really and album) was Horse With No Name by > America. (Please don't ask me about all the Sammy Davis Jr. albums littering > my bedroom...most of them bought at garage sales.) > > So, here is a new thread for all of you. What was the first album you spent > your own money on, the one you just had to have and wore it out listening > over and over and over? My first (album) was probably "Help" or "Rubber Soul" by the Beatles. My older sister and I started out alternating buying their albums because neither one of us could afford to buy them all and we shared most of our records anyway. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 15:31:51 -0400 From: Tay Mueller Subject: Re: A New Thread for a Quiet List >So, here is a new thread for all of you. What was the first album you spent >your own money on, the one you just had to have and wore it out listening >over and over and over? I think this is just a clever plot to figure out how old we are! The first vinyl album I bought was Meet The Beatles. Yes, I do still have it, (we still have approx. 9 linear feet of vinyl) but it can't be played anymore, because these days replacing the stylus in the record player costs more than an album! I owned music before that, though. Most of it I appropriated from around the house. I had Magic Mirror Movie Records (on the red raven lable) and remember that I loved Perry Como (hot diggity and find a ring) and Louis Prima. But before people bought albums, we spent our birthday money on 45's. Remember them? They needed a yellow adaptor in the center? (I still have those, too. When I turned 45, my husband turned two of them into earrings for me) The first one I remember buying was Buddy Holly. Eventually I had a bunch, and I don't remember which came first. I was about 7 when Buddy died, so it must have been before that. My Mom (who must have been about 27 herself) was a big music fan, and Buddy and The Everly Brothers were our favorites. We always sang them in the car, which frequently had no working radio at that time. I can remember watching American Bandstand with her when I was about 3 or 4 ( my earliest clear TV memories are Bandstand, The People's Choice, Crusader Rabbit and the Joe McCarthy hearings) So, did y'all figure out how old I am??? - ----------------------------- Gaudete, Tay In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice,there is. -Chuck Reid Music: 24 hour Hotline: 609-259-5764 http://outtasightsandsounds.com Cybrarian-Publicity-Publishing for Outta Sights & Sounds, Hightstown, NJ - ------------------------------------- Visit my dwarf hamsters at The Figgery http://members.home.com/powzie ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 15:50:51 EDT From: NMasullo@aol.com Subject: Re: A New Thread for a Quiet List Mine were 45rpm singles of Roy Orbison: Pretty Woman and Stevie Wonder: You Are the Sunshine of My Life Nick << What was the first album you spent your own money on>> ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 15:56:55 EDT From: ImSerius2@aol.com Subject: First Album No question, no problem remembering my first album (yup, vinyl) ever purchased on my own - 'Sweet Baby James', James Taylor. Thanks for the flashback! ST ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 16:13:35 EDT From: SMOKEY596@aol.com Subject: Re: A New Thread for a Quiet List >>>I will still play Wilcox, Gorka, Werner, Prasada-Rao, Roth, Conoscenti, Norman, Lavin, Peacock, etc.....he might occasionally still be listening.<<< Bryn, Conoscenti? DON Conoscenti?? And no Paul, ELLIS Paul on your list?? For shame. :-) I saw Don for the first time last week, only because he's touring and playing with Ellis and Christopher Williams. Ellis came and got me before the show to sell CDs for them, which was cool. Anyway, Don only sang one song, but I thought he was pretty good. I'll have to do some more listening. :-) SMOKEY ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 16:16:31 EDT From: SMOKEY596@aol.com Subject: Re: A New Thread for a Quiet List The first album I ever bought with my own money was John Denver's "Greatest Hits". I marched myself right uptown to the dime store and bought it. :-) Quite a coincidence...just last night I was playing Discs One and Two from the "Country Roads" collection, and I was thinking how very talented this man was. There is SO much out there besides "Sunshine on my Shoulders". I feel sorry for people who never get past the "hits" of some artists and who never really discover what great music is out there. SMOKEY ------------------------------ End of good-noise-digest V3 #92 *******************************