From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V2 #11 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Tuesday, January 12 1999 Volume 02 : Number 011 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: idealcopy-digest V2 #10 ["charles / wmo" ] Re: re: My North American Radio Rant! ["Jack Steinmann" ] there's worse..... [Chester Ward ] Re: MP3's and internet radio [Chester Ward ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 22:31:10 -0800 From: "charles / wmo" Subject: Re: idealcopy-digest V2 #10 >You can make WMO a much better thing than it is if you try ... >you're almost there. If you think about it, the Residents are doing >the exact same thing you're doing, and it took them a few years >before it started being something other than a labor of love for >them. You may need to focus on the investment rather than the >mundane. What you're doing has such a cult/sleeper nature >anyway that if you simply hang on and come up with interesting >ways to spark our interest and dangle the carrot to us, you'll end >up with something much bigger and better and WMO releases can >break even. > >Sincerely, >Keef. Well, at least things are down to civil! Thank you Keef for your mammoth size post on how you would improve WMO! (Which reminds me of a John Cage quote). It also seems that you have the vinyl copy of Turns & Strokes which IS a bootleg, as it was meant to be! Realize that they're really isn't a lot of choices on what to release and what not to. For instance, the Band is against releasing any live recordings from the 80's. That's that. Defend Coatings? - I don't think anyone has to - but should I take the fact that 90% didn't respond to the second disc as a negative response to the CD? Don't think that was it. It's much deeper than that. I will end with this: WMO was started as a fan club, as a way to release things that were previously documented (and recorded), on compact disc for all to enjoy - even though no one knew what "all" meant. It's a finite list of things to release and it's done with implicit approval from Wire and we're almost done. But there really aren't that many Wire fans out there. We really got the "all" wrong. It's not WMO's place to "make" more Wire fans. That is something for Bruce Gilbert, Colin Newman and Graham Lewis to do. I think very few, including Wire, realise this. Keef Buying those CD's and thanks for your support, charles/wmo ------------------------------ Date: 12 Jan 99 00:40:25 -0600 From: "Jack Steinmann" Subject: Re: re: My North American Radio Rant! Reply to: Re: re: My North American Radio Rant! There's a reason for that. Advertising copywriters want their work to stand out, not to blend in. (The toughest problem in the Ad Biz is standing out.) Also, the median writer's age must be -- what? -- maybe 27? These people still enjoy music. Jack Steve Loubert wrote: >...Other than that, radio sucks. You hear better, more adventurous stuff on >TV in car and shoe commercials and in the background during football shows. >It is absolutely disgusting. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 22:54:21 -0800 From: Brian Subject: Re: My North American Radio Rant! Excuse me car commercial's, football games and shoe commercials they all suck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! As bugs would say Moroons. Jack Steinmann wrote: > Reply to: Re: re: My North American Radio Rant! > > There's a reason for that. Advertising copywriters want their work to stand out, not to blend in. (The toughest problem in the Ad Biz is standing out.) Also, the median writer's age must be -- what? -- maybe 27? These people still enjoy music. > > Jack > > Steve Loubert wrote: > >...Other than that, radio sucks. You hear better, more adventurous stuff on >TV in car and shoe commercials and in the background during football shows. > >It is absolutely disgusting. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 01:09:33 -0800 (PST) From: Chester Ward Subject: there's worse..... Here's a lyric i wrote out of sheer boredom, and the wrong drugs. it will never? happen? again? PROMIS#4 they gave me speed to ease my breathe disease for greed to all who need it cosh for cash and crap on credit credence to the cat who's fed it my mouse in my mouth is my might mighty awful terror tonight paused to paws that hit the floors of nevermind the oh-what-forceps doctor can't you be a nurse and lactate loose upon this urchin searching scissors seeking something wrenching loose this wretched foreskin severed ties that bound but nothing wrapped around the necks of odd men looks like you're forgetting something looks like you're forgetting something _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 01:24:06 -0800 (PST) From: Chester Ward Subject: Re: MP3's and internet radio & BTW.... The only possibility of an audience that I'd want is one that seeks what I'm doing out what from the rest of the current pack are about. I've been composing for websites, and I find it to be better suited to my own sensibilities by far than writing for clothes-horses. I can say that now because I'm old and fat. I don't suppose you are. LOVE & CHEERS CCW _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V2 #11 ******************************