From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V3 #292 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 Tuesday, October 7 2003 Volume 03 : Number 292 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: [loud-fans] John Bartlett's swap-mix CD ["Larry Tucker" ] Re: [loud-fans] John Bartlett's swap-mix CD [Miles Goosens Subject: RE: [loud-fans] John Bartlett's swap-mix CD > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-loud-fans@smoe.org > [mailto:owner-loud-fans@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Joseph M. Mallon > Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 8:08 PM > Cc: LFList > Subject: Re: [loud-fans] John Bartlett's swap-mix CD > > > On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Miles Goosens wrote: > > And for what it's worth, Robert Plant is as sincere > follower of cool > > new music as you'll find among rock's dinosaur generation, and > > probably knows more about the acts on this week's CMJ charts than I > > do. Really. > > When asked in '86 what his favorite band was, he replied, > "Let's Active". Spot on, that Percy. I heard a story from Mitch a while back about being in in England (Wales maybe) for the recording of EVERY DOG with John Leckie and the band was doing some sightseeing during some studio downtime. They were out taking some pictures and some big black limo pulls up. Mitch feared maybe they were taking pictures of something they shouldn't and were about to be reprimanded when the window rolls down and it's Plant who invites then out to a pub for a few brews. > > But then again, I like PRESENCE a lot too, so you may want to equip > > yourself with a good supply of Morton's Iodized while reading all > > this. > > "Achilles Last Stand" is a great song, no doubt. Ahhh, for me, "Nobody's Fault". I just love the drumming on that one. Larry Larry ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 09:02:50 -0500 From: steve Subject: Re: [loud-fans] King For a Day > John wrote: >> Just announced for sale on Chalkhills is King For A Day, which >> collects all the tracks on the 3 XTC trib tapes, plus something like >> 80 more More details here >> http://www.geocities.com/king4aday_xtc/TrackListing.html >> and here http://www.geocities.com/king4aday_xtc/Ordering.html On Sunday, October 5, 2003, at 11:27 AM, Steve Holtebeck wrote: > I've seen this advertised before.. What's the quality like? 130 songs > for $6 seems like a bargain, but a lot of "fan tributes" (except the > loud-fans tribute of course!) seem to have a high chaff to wheat ratio. A lot of it has more enthusiasm than skill, but it's worth having for $5.80, even if only 10 percent is "good". > And why didn't they cover more Colin songs? Fewer to choose from? - - Steve - ---------- Americans sometimes wonder why so many non-Americans view the United States as a bully. Are they jealous, resentful, irrationally afraid? Perhaps. But there's a simpler explanation for the widespread perception that the United States is vindictive, arrogant, and petty. Under this administration, it's true. - Peter Beinart ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 10:48:04 -0500 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: [loud-fans] John Bartlett's swap-mix CD At 03:20 PM 10/5/2003 -0700, G. Andrew Hamlin wrote: >Not sure if a man who never graded the band below a "C+" (and below a "B" >if you throw out THE SONG REMAINS THE SAME) could be called a >"Zep-basher." Maybe I'm remembering Christgau's tone rather than the letter grades. His writing about Zep, and references to them in other reviews, always struck me as faint praise affairs at best. And yes, do throw out THE SONG REMAINS THE SAME, especially since the recent official Zep live stuff eliminates any need to keep it around. >A nice man in person, though. Well, that's always something. I do admit I've had a harder time with Greil Marcus since his fairly jerkish behavior the one time I met him (and he wasn't behaving in that way just toward me, but to most people at the event). Then again, his writing since LIPSTICK TRACES has been a near-incoherent mishmash, so I haven't exactly been presented with a "acted like a jerk/wrote a great piece" dilemma in a while. :-) However, Peter Guralnick was a prince at that same event. >We had to laugh when, every >time they launched into a CLARKSDALE song, the crowd immediately sat down >and got real quiet with a touch of impatience. Then back to the Zep >catalog, and everyone back on their feet... See every show by every popular band with a recording history of 15+ years touring with a new album, regardless of the quality of that current album. Not that I'm vouching for CLARKSDALE specifically, but I believe that if CLARKSDALE had been as good as PHYSICAL GRAFFITI, the audience reaction to CLARKSDALE songs would have been exactly the same. later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 13:28:17 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: [loud-fans] Weird... disturbing... eerie. Andy: >>Whoops, right you are! Hey Rex, were you a Freddie, Charlie, or >>Henrietta man? Dude... have you ever seen the New Zoo Revue bloopers reel? Holy shit. Makes South Park look tame. Lord almighty. I can paraphrase the Freddie/Charlie oral sex encounter if you'd like. Oddball chain reaction of the week: Post the Top 20 Singles on Fegmaniax, get the Loud-Fans talking about Zepplin. Couldn't have asked for stranger results if I'd tried. - -Rex, goin' back to West Virginia for a bit... not sure if they have the internet there yet... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 15:24:24 -0700 (PDT) From: "G. Andrew Hamlin" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Weird... disturbing... eerie. > Dude... have you ever seen the New Zoo Revue bloopers reel? Holy shit. > Makes South Park look tame. Lord almighty. I can paraphrase the > Freddie/Charlie oral sex encounter if you'd like. You *are* making this up, yes? But even if not, fine, let's have some Freddie/Charlie oral sex paraphrasing. I could use some cheering up. > Oddball chain reaction of the week: Post the Top 20 Singles on > Fegmaniax, get the Loud-Fans talking about Zepplin. Couldn't have asked > for stranger results if I'd tried. The things you get when you don't try... > -Rex, goin' back to West Virginia for a bit... not sure if they have the > internet there yet... Maggie and Terre sung a beautiful song about the place. But that's about all I know. Morrissey must live in Seattle ("every day is silent and grey"), Andy Man wants to question parrot in court Oct. 6, 2003 | ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- A man claims a woman wrongly adopted his lost parrot -- and he can prove it if given a chance to question the bird in court. Loulou, an 11-year-old African gray parrot, flew out of David DeGroff's apartment on April 12 after a guest who wasn't wearing her glasses accidentally walked into the screen door leading to the balcony. On May 11, Nina Weaver, of Newburg, Pa., adopted an African gray from the D.C. Animal Shelter. DeGroff, convinced the bird is Loulou, filed a lawsuit seeking an opportunity to depose the parrot. He is seeking $15,000 for pain and suffering if the bird turns out to be Loulou. According to DeGroff, Loulou's vocal repertoire includes whistling the theme song to "The Andy Griffith Show" and saying the phrase "Daddy's gotta go to work." Immediately after Loulou left, DeGroff said, he started calling every animal agency in the area, including the D.C. Animal Shelter. DeGroff said he again called the shelter in mid-May. A receptionist told him that an African gray had recently been adopted. DeGroff used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain the adoption records. DeGroff said he drove to Weaver's home, but no one answered when he knocked on the front door. He said he saw a bird through the window and felt a connection. "She seemed like she tried to communicate with me," DeGroff said. DeGroff was unable to determine if it could whistle the "Andy Griffith" tune. Frustrated, he returned home. Weaver declined to speak with a Washington Post reporter who visited her house. "We have no comment," she said. "We're not going to fight this in the paper." ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 17:38:54 -0500 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Weird... disturbing... eerie. Quoting "Rex.Broome" : > Andy: > >>Whoops, right you are! Hey Rex, were you a Freddie, > Charlie, or > >>Henrietta man? I always confuse NZR with "Zoom." One or the other of them I hated intensely (warning: rant approacheth): In the interests of...well, not having people come to my house and forcibly remove the computer from the premises - I'll just keep it short: insufferably elitist kids indulging in blatant peer-group based exclusionary tactics. Annoying as all hell. > Dude... have you ever seen the New Zoo Revue bloopers reel? > Holy shit. > Makes South Park look tame. Lord almighty. I can paraphrase > the > Freddie/Charlie oral sex encounter if you'd like. And where might one see such a thing? I don't think WGBH (or whoever it was) and PBS are likely to have included it in the special NZR DVD (unless they have a peculiar, yet probably accurate, notion of their target audience)... > > Oddball chain reaction of the week: Post the Top 20 Singles > on Fegmaniax, > get the Loud-Fans talking about Zepplin. Couldn't have asked > for stranger > results if I'd tried. And therefore, more expected results. > -Rex, goin' back to West Virginia for a bit... not sure if > they have the > internet there yet... If John Denver didn't sing about it, it doesn't exist. Right? Jeff Ceci n'est pas une .sig ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 16:00:04 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: [loud-fans] Don't say I didn't warn you... >>But even if not, fine, let's have some Freddie/Charlie oral sex >>paraphrasing. I could use some cheering up. Me, too. So here goes. First of all, I'm *not* making it up. Saw it on some kind of bloopers comp back in the early '90's. It was really shocking because I probably hadn't seen the New Zoo Revue in any form since like 1978, so it was weird to see it at all, much less in this form. It was also pretty offensive, so I'll bowlderize it just a tad. Charlie & Freddie on the set. Important to the setup is to recall Freddie's unique T-shirt with the big "F" on it, which had a sort of conical frame to it and was quite open at the bottom; no pants were involved. Charlie: Well, Freddie, I must say having worked with you all year has been a real pleasure. Freddie: Ahhhh, fuck you! If you ask me you're nothing but a big [pejorative term for homosexual] owl! Charlie: What, just because you caught me and my cousin Oswald in the closet that one time? (Charlie and Freddie start smacking each other around and cussing up a storm, colliding with props, until Charlie has Freddie pinned against the wall.) Charlie (affecting super-queeny voice): Well, now that we have all that out in the open, why don't we just have a ball? Freddie: How about TWO? (hikes up shirt) Might have some of that wrong, but apparently you can see for yourself (my low-tech work computer won't run it, but scroll to the bottom of the page and see what happens.) http://humor.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tvparty. com%2Fembloutake.html Definitely the clip I recall... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 18:51:54 EDT From: JRT456@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Don't say I didn't warn you... In a message dated 10/6/03 2:45:27 PM, Rex.Broome@preferredmedia.com writes: << Definitely the clip I recall... >> The most common copy of the New Zoo Revue action is found on the "Blushing Bloopers" VHS, which tends to mainly show up in $1 stores. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 16:07:51 -0700 (PDT) From: "Joseph M. Mallon" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Don't say I didn't warn you... On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Rex.Broome wrote: > Me, too. So here goes. First of all, I'm *not* making it up. Saw it on > some kind of bloopers comp back in the early '90's. It was really shocking > because I probably hadn't seen the New Zoo Revue in any form since like > 1978, so it was weird to see it at all, much less in this form. It was also > pretty offensive, so I'll bowlderize it just a tad. For those intersted, http://www.tvparty.com/g2d/newzoo01.ram Jeff, you're talking aobut ZOOM. NEW ZOO REVUE involved a human sized owl, hippo, and frog. Joe Mallon jmmallon@joescafe.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 18:11:19 -0500 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Weird... disturbing... eerie. Quoting "G. Andrew Hamlin" : > > Oct. 6, 2003 | ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- A man claims a woman > wrongly > adopted his lost parrot -- and he can prove it if given a > chance to > question the bird in court. "Laura?" Blam! ..Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com/ :: This album is dedicated to anyone who started out as an animal and :: winds up as a processing unit. :: --Soft Boys, note, _Can of Bees_ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 17:02:51 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: [loud-fans] More disturbing yet... ... the last entry on the first page of Google results for "New Zoo Revue Outtakes" is a February 1997 page from the Fegmaniax archives. The phrase "New Zoo Revue" appears in a post by someone with the address "rxbroome@aol.com". (The word "outtake" is from a discussion of the Beatles Anthology 3.) Damn. - -Rex ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V3 #292 *******************************