From: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org (jinglejangle-digest) To: jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Subject: jinglejangle-digest V2 #97 Reply-To: jinglejangle@smoe.org Sender: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jinglejangle-digest Monday, July 5 1999 Volume 02 : Number 097 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [MLL] some bad news [GoodyErin@aol.com] [MLL] Even worse news... [SeanJordan@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 02:16:52 EDT From: GoodyErin@aol.com Subject: [MLL] some bad news I apologise ahead of time for major cross-postage ********** july 4 1999 LA/Orange County   Hello all, this is Lee from Sonic Youth here, we have had a fucked up situation come down on us over this last night--a brand new Ryder truck parked at a Ramada Inn in Orange County with ALL OF OUR GEAR IN IT was STOLEN! All of our guitars, tools, amplifiers, drums, synth -- EVERYTHING. We are fucked, both for the show tonight at the "This Ain't No Picnic" here in Orange Co., and for shows upcoming this week in Austin and Santa Fe. Our guitars are all mostly older and either very modified and/or fucked up/beat up. They are unmistakably ours, as are some of the amps, including my own 60s Fender Concert with the red/blue/yellow "Jasper Johns-style" target on it. We are asking ANYONE with ANY INFORMATION about this to get in touch with us as soon as possible by calling our man Aaron Blitzstein in New York City at 212.343.2314, or via email to "Mascaras66@aol.com". Call collect if you want to. Please no pranks, all, this is really serious--all the gear we've used to write our last few LPs worth of stuff, instruments used for songs old and new which if truly lost will mean those songs will be lost forever. Help us out if you can, there will be a reward for any info, I'm sure. All our road cases, etc, are fully marked up with our name on them, the gtrs are so unusual that they won't really be too hard to mistake. ANY info at all will be appreciated. If the thieves themselves read this, I'm sure we'd rather buy the stuff back from you than lose it forever (you fukkerz). here are some descriptions of gear: drums: green satin flame 60s Gretch kit (w "paisley" glow in dark kik headFender ToneMaster head and 4x12 cabinet Fender blackface Concert (4x10) w "Target design" spraypainted on front Pex12 fender cab Fender precision Bass Gibson Les Paul Jr w snoopy sticker Fender Jazzmasters and Jaguars--lots of 'em, mostly modified to hell (orig electronix pulled, diff p/u's etc) and usually way beat up. Travis Beans--1 koa wood, one red beat to shit White roadcase/briefcase full of gtr tools we will post more equip info later... thanks in advance for any help... PLEASE PASS THIS LIST ON TO ANYONE WHO MIGHT BE OF HELP! - ---Lee/Sonic Youth ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 02:50:13 EDT From: SeanJordan@aol.com Subject: [MLL] Even worse news... Rock Group Morphine's Singer Dies ROME (AP) — The lead singer of the Boston rock band Morphine, Mark Sandman, has died of a heart attack at a concert outside Rome, police said. Sandman, 46, collapsed on stage in front of several thousand spectators at a music festival outside Rome on Saturday night just before midnight. ``We're devastated,'' band manager Deborah Klein said Sunday. ``We don't even know what to say. We're all in shock.'' A doctor tried to revive him but failed, and Sandman was pronounced dead in an ambulance en route to a nearby hospital. Sandman, known for his deep, murky baritone, played bass, and wrote all of Morphine's songs. ``His music was completely special and unique,'' Klein said in a telephone interview from Boston. ``People loved him.'' She said Sandman did not have a heart condition or any other major health problems. Morphine is a guitar-less trio which includes Dana Colley on saxophone and Billy Conway on drums. It started out playing loft parties and bars around Boston and Cambridge in the early 1990s and built a solid cult following. Morphine released five albums: ``Good,'' ``Cure for Pain,'' ``Yes,'' ``Like Swimming'' and ``B-Side.'' Morphine has gotten heavy airplay on college radio, and its songs have appeared on soundtracks for the films ``Get Shorty,'' ``Beautiful Girls'' and ``Postcards From America,'' as well as on the television series ``Homicide: Life on the Street.'' The movie version of ``Mod Squad'' also included a song Sandman recorded with a friend, Chris Ballew from the group Presidents of the United States. The band had recently finished a live album, due out in October, and had nearly completed work on another project, Klein said. Sandman died on the second day of a three-day music festival at the Giardini del Principe in Palestrina, 30 miles east of Rome. Festival promoter Flavio Maniri said Sunday's performances would be dedicated to Sandman. Klein said funeral arrangements for Sandman, who is survived by his parents, were pending. ------------------------------ End of jinglejangle-digest V2 #97 *********************************