From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V9 #134 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Saturday, May 20 2006 Volume 09 : Number 134 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [idealcopy] Happy 60th to Bruce Clifford Gilbert- Blue Eyes ["John Goddar] RE: [idealcopy] Happy 60th to Bruce Clifford Gilbert- Blue Eyes ["Clement] Re: [idealcopy] Boxsets arriving! ["First Last" ] [idealcopy] Okay - me too! ["Paul Pietromonaco" ] [idealcopy] Rather a nice artefact ["Uri Baran" ] RE: [idealcopy] Happy 60th to Bruce Clifford Gilbert- Blue Eyes ["Keith K] [idealcopy] Box! ["Cambra, Robert" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 01:39:45 +0100 From: "John Goddard" Subject: [idealcopy] Happy 60th to Bruce Clifford Gilbert- Blue Eyes Items to celebrate BCG's Birthday from a personal Perspective...... One, the Starcaster Guitar of Champs will live with me forever. (Germ Ships too!) Two BCG's refusal to listen to any music whatsoever Three Drinking Water from a trolley at Jeanetta Cochrane November 1979 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 10:21:17 +0100 From: "Clements, Bruno - BUP" Subject: RE: [idealcopy] Happy 60th to Bruce Clifford Gilbert- Blue Eyes >>>>John wrote of 'BCG's refusal to listen to any music whatsoever'<<<< If this is indeed true it would explain some of that originality... belated happy birthday to the great man and may he feel like getting back on stage/in a studio with our favourite band at some point. ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.clearswift.com ********************************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 20:49:42 +0800 From: "First Last" Subject: Re: [idealcopy] Boxsets arriving! "I salute the new day" The Box has arrived! That's about the quickest arrival time on record, 3 days from the UK. Yes, it's a shame that the PC material can't be mastered from the original tapes, although i recall some of the 12"s were mastered quite cleanly 'The Great Divide' springs to mind. Tim Np Bitches Brew & The Lurkers 'Fulham Fallout' (Not some 'Mash Up' mix just one then the other....;) On 5/19/06, Doug Wittner wrote: > yeah, Portion Control date is now around May 29th, not sure what the > hold up is, but i guess it's the same ol' song with pressing delays, > etc. really looking forward to that one, though not sure about the > 'remastered from vinyl' angle. we shall see. > > happy to receive my Wire box from posteverything today - it's a nice > set overall, the remastered 'Chairs Missing' sounds great (the only > one i've listened to so far), and the CBGB show is quite > interesting...better quality than i expected, but as the liner notes > indicate, was recorded for radio broadcast at the time, so... > > i'm a little disappointed in the packaging of the individual CD's, > seems a little flimsy, but this is a minor gripe. the box looks and > sounds great, i'm spending the evening checking it all out. bravo. > > > On 5/18/06, First Last wrote: > > "the ever-delayed This Heat and Portion Control sets are impending as well..." > > Yes, i ordered This Heat in November! & the Portion Control is yet to > > be released? > > Anyway still awaiting my Box set....could be a while i reckon getting to Oz! > > > > Tim > > > > NP Joy Division 17 yr (Would you believe it!?) memorial frenzy. > > PIL - Well, Lydon really DVD, worth it for the earlier promos (I guess > > the first x2/3) & monitor mixes > > > > On 5/17/06, Doug Wittner wrote: > > > nice! hopefully the shipping across the ocean will be relatively > > > quick as well, i'm impatiently awaiting mine...have been holding off > > > purchasing the individual remasters, though i gaze longingly at them > > > every time i go into the local record sto. > > > > > > this is turning out to be a banner f*cking year for boxsets, the > > > ever-delayed This Heat and Portion Control sets are impending as > > > well... > > > > > > anyone else received their Wire box yet? > > > > > > On 5/16/06, Andrew Walkingshaw wrote: > > > > My boxset just turned up. Very, very nice packaging indeed. > > > > > > > > (As for the music, I'm about half way through the first Roxy set; it's > > > > never less than interesting, but I can hear why Mary Is A Dyke never made > > > > it onto the studio albums...) > > > > > > > > Andrew > > > > > > > > -- > > > > http://www.lexical.org.uk/ | http://covertmusic.com/ | work: adw27@cam.ac.uk > > > > "don't believe a word I say - not that you would anyway, > > > > 'cause I may be insincere, but it's all downhill from here..." ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 16:44:34 +0300 From: giluz Subject: [idealcopy] {OT} Faust IV remastered Well, as my Wire box is probably being delayed by those mean blokes at the customs office, the remastered Faust IV is certainly a more than adequate consolation. The mastering soes sound better than the previous CD release and the bonus CD contains a previously unreleased Peel Session + different mixes and outtakes for some tracks and one tracks that wasn't on the album - delicious. giluz - -- Now playing: http://www.last.fm/user/giluz/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 10:09:31 -0700 From: "Paul Pietromonaco" Subject: [idealcopy] Okay - me too! I figure I should chime in here as well....so.... Happy belated birthday, Bruce! Here's to many, many more! Maybe we should buy him this guitar? http://www.fenderhellokitty.com/ I kinda want one... ^_^ Poke around on the site, and you'll find the matching bass guitar. Could you imagine Graham with that? ^_^ Cheers, Paul (In my defense, I did start a new job this week - things have been *very* crazy for me! I lost my last job in April after only working there for 3 months - they ran out of funding and laid off 50% of their workers. Turns out that's not long enough to be eligible for Washington State unemployment insurance - especially since I was unemployed all last year. So - I'm *very* thankful to get this job now. Take a wild guess where I'm working now? I'll give you a hint - it's a *very* famous Northwest company. ^_^) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 20:19:12 +0100 From: "Uri Baran" Subject: [idealcopy] Rather a nice artefact It's strange after all these years to see a lovingly produced Wire box set. The booklet is excellent, it's well written (apart from the typos), informative, even funny, it almost makes sense of Wire. There's a lovely anecdote about the performance at CBGB's where they played 2 sets and apparently a heckler who had watched the first started shouting for his favourite song during the second. He wanted them to play 'Send in more joints'. That really made me laugh. Talk about separated by a common language. The pictures are great too. It's so in touch that it begs the question who wrote it? No one is credited. I have my suspicions however. ;) I've had reasonable quality bootlegs of the CBGB's gig for decades and always thought it sounded slightly faster than real time. This one does too! Maybe they just played fast but it does sound very good. The Roxy sets are music history and legend. I didn't know the Roxy LP reached the top 20 in the UK. How things have changed. One thing that really comes across is how unstable Wire were after Chairs Missing and I guess pretty well ever since then. I've always believed that really good art comes from some combination of discomfort, instability, conflict and general dissatisfaction and if that's right, I guess we've been quite lucky to have seen Wire at all ever since those days. U. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 20:37:47 +0100 From: "Keith Knight" Subject: RE: [idealcopy] Happy 60th to Bruce Clifford Gilbert- Blue Eyes Well, I've bumped into him at enough gigs over the years to suggest that this may not be entirely accurate! Another the Keith - -----Original Message----- From: owner-idealcopy@smoe.org [mailto:owner-idealcopy@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Clements, Bruno - BUP Sent: 19 May 2006 10:21 To: idealcopy@smoe.org Subject: RE: [idealcopy] Happy 60th to Bruce Clifford Gilbert- Blue Eyes >>>>John wrote of 'BCG's refusal to listen to any music whatsoever'<<<< If this is indeed true it would explain some of that originality... belated happy birthday to the great man and may he feel like getting back on stage/in a studio with our favourite band at some point. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 13:40:52 -0700 From: "Cambra, Robert" Subject: [idealcopy] Box! Not bad (again). Ordered the box Monday and just got it today in San Francisco. Very exciting . . . will start with the live material. Too bad a disk with the b-sides wasn't possible but I'm not complaining; will just have to make my own. Unlike most record sleeve type packaging which is usually a tight fit these are quite spacious. Also, since I was already placing an order with Posteverything, I went and got the most recent handmade book with CD-R from Ted Milton. These are always fun and wonderfully weird little items. Cheers, Robert (another) ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V9 #134 *******************************