From: owner-good-noise-digest@smoe.org (good-noise-digest) To: good-noise-digest@smoe.org Subject: good-noise-digest V3 #93 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 Wednesday, October 18 2000 Volume 03 : Number 093 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: First vinyl [Smithfinn@aol.com] Good-Noise Compilation ["Mike Smith" ] Re: Good-Noise Compilation AND first vinyl [Twhobar@aol.com] Re: A New Thread for a Quiet List [Mary Sansone ] Re: Good-Noise Compilation AND first vinyl [ThePsyche@aol.com] New to the board [Twhobar@aol.com] Re: A New Thread for a Quiet List [JSJPMize@aol.com] Re: A New Thread for a Quiet List ["Brett and Jodi Carter" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 09:45:28 EDT From: Smithfinn@aol.com Subject: Re: First vinyl Oh my god, Tay...I DO know how old you are now! My first album ever bought was "Meet the Beatles" too!!! I had very hip parents who bought me the second Beatles album for getting good grades when it came out. I still have all my old Beatles albums and when the compilation CD's came out a few years ago, I bought them all and made my kids listen to them. Now all they hear is Gorka everywhere, Gorka in the car, Gorka as I work on my computer, Gorka as I make dinner. I called home from the car a few days ago and didn't say anything, just started singing, "Freedom for freedom, call that an even scheme, Give me time to wonder and to dream...." and my daughter hung up on me before I could sing any more! When I got home the kids told me I was whacked! But they were laughing. AND they know all the words to all the songs! Thanks, Bryn, for this trip down memory lane....ah, to be 12 again! Susan ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 17:10:42 GMT From: "Mike Smith" Subject: Good-Noise Compilation It's been about a week since I first made an offer to the members of the Good-Noise list to create a compilation of John Gorka's "other" songs. I thought it might be interesting to put together a CD from contributions from people on this list and then make it available to anyone who would be interested, not in an effort to make money, just to share some John Gorka material during this long dry spell between his own CD's. I had envisioned maybe 10 songs or something like that (4 from me) and then as a group deciding how to give something to the artist who filled the CD with such wonderful songs. There are, according to majordomo@smoe.org 118 other people on this list besides myself. I knew the first requirement of actually having a song to contribute would weed out a large number of you out there. If you did have one, I figured that the technical requirements to be able to get a song from a CD to an .mp3 to upload would take another group of you out. From there on out it was up to me to get it all together on a CD to be sent out. Well, the results are in. The number of people contributing a song is..............zero. To say I'm underwhelmed is an understatement :) Only one person e-mailed me and that was to say they were interested in the CD, but didn't have a song to add. For whatever reasons, the compilation CD idea did not make it off the drawing board. This is the list for die-hard John Gorka fans, isn't it? Just checking. ;] I'm going to leave the idea open ended. Anybody interested in sharing/trading JG's "other" songs can still contact me. I'm always interested in hearing new/different John Gorka music. Mike PS For those of you who might think that I'm out to undermine JG's career by making a suggestion like this compilation CD, I'd like you to know that I am going to be the guy knocking everyone over racing to the music rack to buy his new CD (I have bought all of them), that I'm the guy going to see him in concert this Saturday in Cedarburg, WI (and hopefully will get to see him every year), and that I'm the guy telling anyone who will listen about the artist who I think is the best singer/songwriter out there. I would think that John Gorka would love to have more fans just like me. _________________________________________________________________________ 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: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 14:14:30 EDT From: Twhobar@aol.com Subject: Re: Good-Noise Compilation AND first vinyl The compilation sounds like a great idea, but I don't have have the technology (unfortunately) to participate, and I am a little worried about the legality of the whole thing. I am always interested in hearing some of John's music I've never heard before. I would especially like to hear a bootleg version of the "Body Parts Medley". As far as first vinyl goes, it was probably a Monkees album or, (gulp) the Bay City Rollers. Now you know what era I grew up in. Tammy Hobar ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 14:07:03 -0500 From: Mary Sansone Subject: Re: A New Thread for a Quiet List I think my 1st was James Taylor "Sweet Baby James"...or perhaps Carole King's Tapestry. I also owned Horse with no Name Mary >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? > >Adios, Bryn, who has never been through the desert on a horse with no name ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 18:46:40 EDT From: ThePsyche@aol.com Subject: Re: Good-Noise Compilation AND first vinyl Twhobar@aol.com writes: << As far as first vinyl goes, it was probably a Monkees album or, (gulp) the Bay City Rollers. Now you know what era I grew up in. Tammy Hobar >> Tammy, Part of getting over something is admitting you were powerless to it......and now that you are into Gorka.....I see you are *over* that cheerful, bublegummy, teenbopper music and on your way to the dark, slow ,negative music that is known as Gorka. Bryn, who will get to see John on S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y NIGHT!!!!! S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y NIGHT!!!!! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 19:34:08 EDT From: Twhobar@aol.com Subject: New to the board I am relatively new to the board (but not to Gorka's music) and I wondered how many of you have had a chance to see him at his "home" club - Godfrey Daniels in Bethlehem, PA? I am fortunate enough to live locally to Godfrey's and have seen him there numerous times. It really is a magical experience. Anyone have any experiences to share from Godfrey's? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 20:33:23 EDT From: JSJPMize@aol.com Subject: Re: A New Thread for a Quiet List In a message dated 10/16/00 1:51:50 PM Central Daylight Time, ThePsyche@aol.com writes: << 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? >> Guns and Roses -Appetite for Destruction. and Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever. 8th grade. Still think they're both great albumns. (although I've come to appreciate better lyrics than Mr. Axl Rose's) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 20:39:54 -0500 From: "Brett and Jodi Carter" Subject: Re: A New Thread for a Quiet List I can't recall my first album, but my first 45's purchased for hard-earned 77 cents at Pamida were "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" and "One Tin Soldier." I believe I still know the words. That long-term memory has deep grooves. Jodi ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 21:59:44 EDT From: ThePsyche@aol.com Subject: Re: A New Thread for a Quiet List zcarters@bitstream.net writes: << "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" and "One Tin Soldier."....I believe I still know the words. That long-term memory has deep grooves. Jodi >> Go for it Jodi! I want to see if you DO remember all the words! Adios, Bryn Weee-hee-eee-eee-eee-eee-eee-eee-eee-a wum wum away ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 22:44:32 -0400 From: John Olsen Subject: Re: A New Thread for a Quiet List I remember buying Grateful Dead's Skeletons From the Closet (vinyl) & The Who's Greatest Hits (tape)--both from pawn shops...and I'm only 26. Maybe I was born too late. Best, John 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? >> John Olsen Field of Environmental Toxicology Veterinary Medicine VMC C4-134 Cornell University 607.253.3332 ------------------------------ End of good-noise-digest V3 #93 *******************************