From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V2 #179 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Wednesday, September 22 1999 Volume 02 : Number 179 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Shaggs [aargh@erols.com] Re: Shaggs ["Mack" ] Re: Shaggs [Andrew N Westmeyer ] Re: Shaggs WOT (way-off-topic) ["Mack" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 08:42:48 -0600 From: aargh@erols.com Subject: Re: Shaggs > > I think there is one CD re-issue on Arf Arf. No, Erik didn't reissue the Shaggs although he does have a live version of "Foot Foot" on Only In America. I remember when he discovered the tape -- it was like a kid in a candy store. :-) Terry from NRBQ reissued the Shaggs album .... it's on his label (I forget the name at the moment, but it's out of Boston). hugz Keef. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 08:35:33 -0500 From: "Mack" Subject: Re: Shaggs > what other bands cold you compare them to? the analogy i like is that the Shaggs are/do to Rock and Roll what a grade school orchestra is/does to Beethoven I mean that in the nicest way possible, but comparisons to other deliberate acts belie the true beauty of their music the only other comparison i might draw is to denaredo coleman's drumming on ornette's 'the empty foxhole' ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 12:38:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew N Westmeyer Subject: Re: Shaggs Excerpts from mail: 21-Sep-99 Re: Shaggs by aargh@erols.com > > > I think there is one CD re-issue on Arf Arf. CDNow.com has 2 Shaggs albums - "Philosophy of the world" and "Shaggs' own thing". The former is on the PGD/Rounder label (1969) and has 25 tracks that clock in at 31 minutes total! I suspect that CDNow screwed up the addition, because they also list a reissue (?) by BMG/RCA with only 12 tracks. (A)ndrew Westmeyer qwerty@cmu.edu www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~qwerty "Why must I be surrounded by frickin' idiots?" -Dr. Evil ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 12:06:49 -0500 From: "Mack" Subject: Re: Shaggs WOT (way-off-topic) my memory is not perfect, but my recolection is that the shaggs' own thing was a more polished followup - possibly with real musicians - and consequently actually just mediochre the rounder CD has the original philosophy of the world + own thing and clocks considerably longer than 31 minutes http://www.shaggs.com/ provides all the answers to these deep and mysterious questions as to CDNOW's quality of ingormation, their Album Advisor tells me that I will also like recordings by Whitesnake, Future Loop Foundation, jason and the Scortchers and Eat Static 'nuff said > CDNow.com has 2 Shaggs albums - "Philosophy of the world" and "Shaggs' > own thing". The former is on the PGD/Rounder label (1969) and has 25 > tracks that clock in at 31 minutes total! I suspect that CDNow screwed > up the addition, because they also list a reissue (?) by BMG/RCA with > only 12 tracks. ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V2 #179 *******************************