From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V2 #269 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 Friday, August 9 2002 Volume 02 : Number 269 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] guitarist poll [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey ] [loud-fans] Label Switching [Michael Mitton ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 09:56:35 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: [loud-fans] guitarist poll So some magazine named "Total Guitar" has released its poll of all-time best guitarists. No surprise at the very top - its readers named Hendrix, Page, and Clapton in that order - but what the hell? is my reaction for the next slots: Slash (?!?) and then Brian May. Of course, these fan-driven polls are always sort of dubious, and looking at some of the other entries, it seems clear that lots of people voted more for their favorite band than really evaluating the merit of the guitarist, but hey, more blab-fodder. Here's the story (not from the magazine itself): http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/08/06/entertainment/main517639.shtml (PS: Scott Miller placed 37,469. Not sure if it's OS or the Knoxville one...) - --Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html ::[clever or pithy quote]:: __[source of quote]__ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 16:41:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Michael Mitton Subject: [loud-fans] Label Switching Dana recently alluded to Belle & Sebastian leaving Matador. Another interesting switch: For their fourth album, HATE, The Delgados have left Chemikal Underground and are releasing it worldwide through Mantra Recordings--an interesting switch since the folks in The Delgados basically own and run Chemikal Underground. Hmm. - --Michael NP: my entire collection on shuffle ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2002 01:11:14 +0000 From: Carolyn Dorsey Subject: [loud-fans] Bruce In my area in the late 80s and early nineties all the stations around here used a classic rock format. Then early in the nineties they all seemed to switch formats and everyone was trying something different and you didn't hear classic rock ( stadium rock from the seventies) for the longest time. Now that one station here is using the classic rock format I find myself listening to it all the time. I thought I would never want to hear Dancing Days ever again but today it sounded so good.... I live near the Meadowlands in Jersey where Bruce Springsteen just had a big show last night. I've heard bits of his new record on the classic rock station and like it. I saw him on Letterman a few nights ago and he sounded good. Their onstage enthusiasm seems a little too stagey for me but I still liked hearing him. A few summers ago a friend of mine gave me tickets to see Bruce on his last tour. When I got there the parking lot was packed with tailgate parties in the backs of late model SUV after SUV. I'm from Michigan originally and Bruce was pretty popular there in the seventies but the Jersey fans idolize him. Carolyn ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V2 #269 *******************************