From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V2 #161 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 Saturday, May 4 2002 Volume 02 : Number 161 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] Re: Lance Loud [rlewis@nethere.com (Russ Lewis)] Re: [loud-fans] Brendan Benson (don't kill the maraca player) [Cardinal00] [loud-fans] Songs go on within you and without you. ["Andrew Hamlin" This is probably old news, but I noticed in the "Never To Be Forgotten" > section of the latest edition of Psychotronic Video that Lance Loud died > at the age of 50. He died Dec. 22 of last year. I wonder if anybody else noticed that shortly afterward, _Saturday Night Live_ paid a small tribute to him. On the evening that John Black hosted the program, during Black's rock-out-with-his-acoustic-guitar segment at the beginning of the show, he and another musician (a real one, apparently) were side by side onstage, and on the wall behind them, between the two and facing the camera, was a concert poster for the Mumps. At first I mildly freaked to see a Mumps poster on network TV, but I quickly realized it was no accident. > Were the Mumps any good? Let me recommend the Mumps' _Fatal Charm_ compilation on Eggbert Records (1994) to any fan of late-'70s guitar-based new wave rock. And I would highly recommend to anyone the solo albums of ex-Mump Kristian Hoffman (also on Eggbert), especially 1993's _I Don't Love My Guru Anymore_ -- utterly gorgeous, winsome stuff along the lines of Richard X. Heyman. _________________________________________________________________________ +$;%+$;'+$;%+$;'+$;%+$;+$;%+$;'+$;%+$;'+$;%+$;'+$;%+$;+$;'+$;%+$;'+$;%+$; ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// We've all heard how 1,000,000 monkeys pounding on 1,000,000 typewriters will eventually reproduce Shakespeare's entire works. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know that's not true. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 14:37:43 EDT From: Cardinal007@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Brendan Benson (don't kill the maraca player) In a message dated 5/3/02 0:04:59, jsharple@bls.brooklaw.edu writes: >Ha. Not so fast, Card. Do you now deny contemplating to me, at the Mercury > >Lounge that night, making that Columbia chippee your, like, seventh wife, >or > >whatever? > > > >This.....is the problem with having your own little evil Great Kazoo on >the > >list, you see...... Mr. Sharples fears I'll tell all his stories. But, you see, they're all *my* stories as well .... I actually love maracas. Michael Reidy, lead singer of (the) Razz, used to shake the living hell out of them while reliving the killing spree of Charles Starkweather during the song "C. Redux." Well, off to pick up daughters and their friends at school, and take them to see "Spider Man." What, you're pissed off that this is so off-topic? I'm sorry; this now seems like alittle chat line for aging rock weenies. Like me. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 11:59:21 -0700 From: "Andrew Hamlin" Subject: [loud-fans] Songs go on within you and without you. Thought this was an interesting take on the creative process. http://slate.msn.com/?id=2064430 Very good album, by the way. Though the Duckling's sounding better than anything else I've heard this year, Andy Bee truck crash causes evacuation May 2, 2002 | MEXICO CITY (AP) -- A truck carrying 650 beehives crashed in northern Mexico, and the angry insects escaped, forcing officials to evacuate scores of nearby residents and set up road blocks to warn motorists. The truck overturned on a curve about 1:30 a.m. Tuesday in Santa Lucia, about 180 miles southeast of Presidio, Texas. Eighty residents of Santa Lucia were told to leave and police set up checkpoints to urge approaching drivers to close their windows and to drive slowly so as not to anger the bees futher, the newspaper Diario de Chihuahua reported Thursday. Twenty beekeepers, including students from a local agricultural school, were called to help rebuild hives and lure some of the bees back into captivity. Thousands of other bees -- including a swarm that gathered around a tow-truck crane -- were killed. The situation was declared under control by late Tuesday, but a large number of bees remained at large Wednesday night, the newspaper reported. City civil defense officials said some residents were stung, none seriously. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 15:09:19 -0400 From: "glenn mcdonald" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Songs go on within you and without you. I'd enjoy a story about Patty Griffin's songwriting inspiration more if there were more of it in evidence on her new album... ----- Original Message ----- From: Andrew Hamlin To: "One Of Someone's Hundreds" Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 2:59 pm Subject: [loud-fans] Songs go on within you and without you. Thought this was an interesting take on the creative process. http://slate.msn.com/?id=2064430 Very good album, by the way. Though the Duckling's sounding better than anything else I've heard this year, Andy Bee truck crash causes evacuation May 2, 2002 | MEXICO CITY (AP) -- A truck carrying 650 beehives crashed in northern Mexico, and the angry insects escaped, forcing officials to evacuate scores of nearby residents and set up road blocks to warn motorists. The truck overturned on a curve about 1:30 a.m. Tuesday in Santa Lucia, about 180 miles southeast of Presidio, Texas. Eighty residents of Santa Lucia were told to leave and police set up checkpoints to urge approaching drivers to close their windows and to drive slowly so as not to anger the bees futher, the newspaper Diario de Chihuahua reported Thursday. Twenty beekeepers, including students from a local agricultural school, were called to help rebuild hives and lure some of the bees back into captivity. Thousands of other bees -- including a swarm that gathered around a tow-truck crane -- were killed. The situation was declared under control by late Tuesday, but a large number of bees remained at large Wednesday night, the newspaper reported. City civil defense officials said some residents were stung, none seriously. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 15:20:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Re: FRTR track listing (terribly on topic) On Thu, 2 May 2002, Steve Holtebeck wrote: > Brendan Benson gets compared a lot to his buddy Jason Falkner, which > isn't that fair to him, because for one thing, he's just so damn much > better than Falkner (IMO). I agree. Never understood the appeal of Falkner. I'm also not as in love with Lapalco as I was with Benson's first album, but I'll give it another try. I now find that anything even sort of power-poppy tends to make me want another Jon Brion solo album. The man's an apotheosis, is what he is. a ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V2 #161 *******************************