From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V1 #230 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Thursday, September 13 2001 Volume 01 : Number 230 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] Lucksmiths, Crash Into June [Dennis_McGreevy@praxair.com] Re: [loud-fans] if you can ["Andrew Hamlin" ] [loud-fans] Bombed by platitudes [JRT456@aol.com] [loud-fans] NYC Loud fans ["Joseph M. Mallon" ] Re: [loud-fans] NYC Loud fans [DOUDIE@aol.com] Re: [loud-fans] NYC Loud fans [Miles Goosens <><><><><><><><><> They're from Memphis, a four piece, 2 guitars, bass, drums. The name is indeed a Game Theory reference. I saw 'em a couple times when I lived down there; a guy I know named Chip Gooch was at one point their second guitarist, but I don't think he is anymore. Their sound is your basic middle ground between jangle and power pop. My take on them, which I believe I've articulated here previously, is that their songs fall short of the mark, tending to go something like "these three chords four times, then these other three chords four times, then back to the first part again, etc.", without ever doing anything to vary that sort of stock structure. Which could in itself be fine, I merely hope for more innovation from an act who'd reference a Scott title so prominently. Using that name seems, to my mind, to posit a higher standard of craft, and the apparent absence of this leaves me wondering whether they actually get it. Others in here have voiced positive stuff about them in the past, and I'm not saying the suck or any such; their melodies, harmonies, and playing are perfectly adequate, but when I can second guess the next move on the first listen, personally, I get bored pretty quick. Were I to see a shrink, there'd probably be a diagnosis for this condition, and some medication available today that would get me over it, but until that eventuality, that's my take on what I've heard by them so far. - --DCM My deepest sympathies to any who had friends or family in yesterday's disaster. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 09:22:06 -0700 From: "Andrew Hamlin" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] if you can >You've probably heard it many times now, but please give blood if you can, >especially if your type is rare. > >There's so much evil in the world. I don't mean to sound cheesy or dramatic, >but, with all respect to everyone, please pray if you believe in a supreme >being. After today's events, I can understand if you don't. While it surely won't make the physical difference of blood donations (or financial donations), I've been passing out the free "I Am Loved" buttons available, yes, for free, through the Helzberg Diamonds chain. I was inspired to do this by the recent death of a friend, actually; but I found, perhaps not surprisingly, many takers along University Avenue yesterday amid the dull blare of televised explosions. For information, visit www.iamloved.org . The buttons come in nine different languages, and by dialing 1.800.562.2835 you'll be put in contact with your nearest Helzberg Diamonds store. The stores dispense the buttons up to 100 at a time, though they may be limited, number- and/or language-wise, to stock on hand. The web site also features an address to write to if you'd like more than 100 buttons at a time. So long as I'm waxing philanthropic, I'll re-encourage people to visit these charity sites, where you may make donations to the hungry, poor, etc. at no cost to yourself except a little time: www.thehungersite.com (recently reopened!) www.freedonation.com www.aidforteens.com (temporarily shut down to commemorate victims of the terrorist attacks, but should be back up shortly) www.givingpool.org (shut down for the moment, but check back periodically, especially for the Fruitcake of Doom) But do like the man says and donate blood if at all possible, Andy Wealth Create upon my flesh Create approach upon my breath Bring me salvation if I fear Take my freedom Create upon my breath Create reflection on my flesh The wealth of love Bear me a witness to the years Take my freedom Create upon my flesh Create a home within my head Take my freedom for giving me a sacred love - --lyrics by Mark Hollis, music by Mark Hollis and Tim Friese-Greene; from Talk Talk's recently-reissued SPIRIT OF EDEN ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 15:04:41 EDT From: JRT456@aol.com Subject: [loud-fans] Bombed by platitudes Thanks for worrying about us, folks, but everybody's just fine here. Thanks to NYC's army of Misplaced Next Big Things, the city is perfectly under control. Just check out this paragraph from a mass e-mail sent out on Tuesday by none other than Lach himself: "Tonight's show at the club was canceled, not enough of a staff to operate things. But we plan to reopen tomorrow night. Times like these need the artists, poets and clowns of the world. People are looking for meaning, clues, anything. How will we travel in the future? What is happening in our lives? What will the new Dylan album reveal?" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 21:42:52 -0700 (PDT) From: "Joseph M. Mallon" Subject: [loud-fans] NYC Loud fans Any word from our NYC contingent? Dan? We've heard from JRT. Paula & Dave are okay. Joe ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 00:59:19 EDT From: DOUDIE@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] NYC Loud fans Tris, and Hilary and I are fine although I happen to fly in from Istanbul on Monday with enormous jetlag so I decided to go jogging before work on Tuesday because I couldn't sleep at, you guessed it, the piers leading up to the WTC. I arrived about 4 blocks north of the WTC right when the first plane flew into it. That is not something I will ever process having experienced fully. These last two days are horrible. My friend Mary's father and brother are firefighters missing since Tuesday.. she is trying to get home from Nigeria to comfort her mother. We have a view of the WTC from our house in union city and the smoke has now spread uptown over all of manhattan. The fire is still raging now and 6000 bodybags were just ordered. Unfathomably, Steve Matrick ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 00:19:51 -0500 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: [loud-fans] NYC Loud fans At 09:42 PM 09/12/2001 -0700, Joseph M. Mallon wrote: >Any word from our NYC contingent? Dan? We've heard from JRT. Paula & >Dave are okay. Dan is safe and sound in Toronto at the film festival... later, Miles ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V1 #230 *******************************