From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V4 #99 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, April 8 2004 Volume 04 : Number 099 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] eh? ["Fortissimo" ] [loud-fans] Frank Zappa Fan Thinks You Just Haven't Heard The Right Album ["Kunkel, Mark" Subject: [loud-fans] eh? From an article on declining CD sales, at : "I think the long-term secular decline has just about come to a conclusion. Is it over? I don't know the answer to that yet," said IFPI Chairman Jay Berman. He predicted 2004 music sales in unit terms would decline "by about four percent." "Secular"? What - does he mean to exclude sales of the Pope's "Vatican Rocks" series? - ------------------------------- ...Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com/ :: Solipsism is its own reward :: :: --Crow T. Robot ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 09:22:20 -0500 From: "Kunkel, Mark" Subject: [loud-fans] Frank Zappa Fan Thinks You Just Haven't Heard The Right Album Regarding the recent discussion of Zappa on this list, see this week's Onion: NEDERLAND, CO-In spite of your insistence that you are not into Frank Zappa, avid fan Roger Von Lee believes that you would change your mind if you heard the right album. "You're prejudiced, because the only Zappa you know is 'Valley Girl' and 'Don't Eat The Yellow Snow,'" Von Lee told you Tuesday. "Seriously, you need to check out Hot Rats or Absolutely Free. Zappa and the Mothers were at their peak, and Zappa's jazz-rock fusion experiments predate Bitches Brew. That'll totally convince you that Zappa's the shit." Von Lee added that if those two don't get under your skin, he can recommend another 15 to 20 albums that will for sure. http://theonion.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 09:30:21 -0500 From: "Fortissimo" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Frank Zappa Fan Thinks You Just Haven't Heard The Right Album On Wed, 7 Apr 2004 09:22:20 -0500 , "Kunkel, Mark" said: > Regarding the recent discussion of Zappa on this list, see this week's > Onion: > > NEDERLAND, CO-In spite of your insistence that you are not into Frank > Zappa, > avid fan Roger Von Lee believes that you would change your mind if you > heard > the right album. "You're prejudiced, because the only Zappa you know is > 'Valley Girl' and 'Don't Eat The Yellow Snow,'" Von Lee told you Tuesday. > "Seriously, you need to check out Hot Rats or Absolutely Free. Zappa and > the > Mothers were at their peak, and Zappa's jazz-rock fusion experiments > predate > Bitches Brew. That'll totally convince you that Zappa's the shit." Von > Lee > added that if those two don't get under your skin, he can recommend > another > 15 to 20 albums that will for sure. Yeah, but _Hot Rats_ doesn't predate _Bitches Brew_, and _Absolutely Free_ isn't fusion. Oh. What's weird is that this is the fifth or sixth time some topic here has shown up a month or two later at _The Onion_. I smell a mole. (Even though I know Josh Modell, former _Milk_ editor and now one of their music guys, it's not me.) Also, sneaking in another nominally on-topic post: This from the latest mailing from Anton Barbeau: > and a couple people have written asking more about the ant/scott/mcgregor > scene. not wanting to jinx nothin', i won't say much, but i will tell that > scott's "(kind of) in love with you" is destined to become a classic among > household names. what a tune! So, we all know Scott's singing and guitar-playing - it'll be interesting to hear the results of his trying his hand at the songwriting thing. - ------------------------------- ...Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com/ :: crumple zones:: :: harmful or fatal if swallowed :: :: small-craft warning :: ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 11:31:21 -0400 From: "Larry Tucker" Subject: [loud-fans] and it looks like Stamey in the home stretch The long delayed new Chris Stamey release will see the light of day, finally... and ahead of the long rumored and delayed Scott/Aimee album. From the live stuff I've heard over the past 2 years this should be a good one. LT From Billboard.com: http://tinylink.com/?fp2LM5QlOY Modern pop/rock godfather Chris Stamey has slated a June 15 release for his first solo album in more than a dozen years. "Travels in the South," which will be released by Yep Roc, features contributions from Ben Folds, Whiskeytown alums Ryan Adams and Caitlin Cary and producer/musician Don Dixon, as well as Stamey's former dB's bandmate Peter Holsapple. Also joining Stamey to record the 12-track set in his Chapel Hill, N.C., Modern Recording studio were singer/songwriters Tift Merritt and Thad Cockrell. His backing band consisted of Superchunk drummer Jon Wurster, former Jayhawks keyboardist Jen Gunderman and multi- instrumentalist Greg Readling from Merritt's band, the Carbines. "The way I see it, my past records have been primarily in the tradition of the confessional autobiographical songwriter," Stamey says. "On this record, I think I've been drawn more to the big picture -- time, death, religion -- and not as interested in the trials and tribulations of romantic relationships. I'm less interested in the daily-news and 'dear diary' side of writing than I am in striving to create something that will last across generations." Stamey's last solo album was "Fireworks," rejected in 1988 as his sophomore set for A&M and finally issued in 1991 by Rhino. Since that time he has mainly concentrated on producing or playing on releases by such artists as Whiskeytown, Cary, Alejandro Escovedo, Alex Chilton and Yo La Tengo, and has worked in various capacities on releases by Le Tigre and Folds, among others. Adams, who contributes vocals and guitar to two songs, is credited as a driving force in Stamey's decision to make the album. "If it wasn't for his encouragement and relentless enthusiasm for the project, I might never have gotten the ball rolling," the artist says. "I'd been on the other side of the glass a bit too long, and I was forgetting how hard it is to walk up to a mic and declare your intentions." - -- Barry A. Jeckell, N.Y. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 20:46:43 -0700 From: Steve Holtebeck Subject: Re: [loud-fans] and it looks like Stamey in the home stretch Larry Tucker wrote: > The long delayed new Chris Stamey release will see the light of day, > finally... and ahead of the long rumored and delayed Scott/Aimee album. > From the live stuff I've heard over the past 2 years this should be a > good one. There's an mp3 of one new Chris Stamey track ("14 Shades of Green") on his Yep Roc artist page. http://www.yeproc.com/artist_info.php?artistId=340&page=music This is the same track that was on the Alaska EP back in 1995, but I think the new recording sounds a little better. Looking forward to the album, which hopefully really will come out this time! - -Steve ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V4 #99 ******************************