From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V4 #331 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, December 10 2004 Volume 04 : Number 331 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] you'll never need to think up a band name again... [Chris] [loud-fans] Rittenhouse Square ["Aaron Milenski" ] RE: [loud-fans] Rittenhouse Square ["Larry Tucker" ] [loud-fans] [Fwd: five dead in nightclub shooting, including Dimebag Darrell] [Jenny Grover Subject: Re: [loud-fans] you'll never need to think up a band name again... Placenta Boathouse! That will definitely be the name of my next band. CP On Dec 8, 2004, at 7:43 PM, 2fs wrote: > > > -- > ++Jeff++ > The Architectural Dance Society > http://spanghew.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 09:13:44 -0500 From: "Aaron Milenski" Subject: [loud-fans] Rittenhouse Square Does anyone here have any information about this early 70s band with Peter Holsapple and Mitch Easter? Apparently only a few copies of their album were pressed, in plain white covers, and a European rare record dealer has just found one. He claims it's the first copy ever for sale by a rare record dealer and he has it up for "bid," which in those catalogues always means a minimum price of $1000. Some collector friends of mine have been talking about it, though none of them have heard it. If anyone here is interested in collectables from that time and era, I recommend you check into Don Dixon's band Arrogance. They put out two self-released albums in the early 70s before getting signed to a number of bigger labels, and also helped out on an excellent album by "Greer." The Greer album is rare and expensive, but the Arrogance albums are not as hard to find (and have been reissued on CD.) The album called PROLEPSIS is one of the best laid-back albums of the era, in my opinion. Blows away the Eagles... Another obscurity I highly recommend if you can find the reissue, is a band called Silent Partner, who may have been the very first Athens, GA band to record. Their 1975 album HUNG BY A THREAD is another huge favorite of mine, an amazing blend of pop, folk and progressive rock, completely memorable, tuneful and creatively ambitious. I'd be very surprised to find out REM didn't grow up worshipping this band. Anyone have any knowledge of any of these? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 10:14:41 -0500 From: "Larry Tucker" Subject: RE: [loud-fans] Rittenhouse Square > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-loud-fans@smoe.org [mailto:owner-loud-fans@smoe.org] On Behalf > Of Aaron Milenski > Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 9:14 AM > To: loud-fans@smoe.org > Subject: [loud-fans] Rittenhouse Square > > Does anyone here have any information about this early > 70s band with Peter Holsapple and Mitch Easter? Apparently > only a few copies of their album were pressed, in plain white > covers, and a European rare record dealer has just found one. > He claims it's the first copy ever for sale by a rare record dealer > and he has it up for "bid," which in those catalogues always means > a minimum price of $1000. Some collector friends of mine have > been talking about it, though none of them have heard it. > Rittenhouse Square was Mitch Easter, Chris Stamey, Peter Holsapple and Robert Locke. This band dates back to the member's high school days in 1972. Here's a link to pics of the EP http://www.mitchworldusa.net/ephemera.html I've never actually seen a copy, but I have gotten a CDR transfer from a friend. Here's another Mitch Easter band from that time. A year before I think, called Sacred Irony. You can hear a couple of tracks here from their EP. Their claim to fame was opening for Bobby Sherman when he played in Winston-Salem in 1971. http://mp3.relishnow.com/showband.asp?id=145 The final lost band from that period would be the H-Bombs which included Mitch, Peter, Chris Chamis and Robert Keely, which were around in 1978. This would have been post-Sneakers. Lots more info here on all this stuff here: http://www.furious.com/perfect/nc-punk.html Larry ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 13:47:01 -0500 From: "Stewart Mason" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Rittenhouse Square - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron Milenski" > Another obscurity I highly recommend if you can find > the reissue, is a band called Silent Partner, who may have > been the very first Athens, GA band to record. Their 1975 > album HUNG BY A THREAD is another huge favorite of mine, > an amazing blend of pop, folk and progressive rock, completely > memorable, tuneful and creatively ambitious. I'd be very > surprised to find out REM didn't grow up worshipping this > band. I dunno, was anybody in R.E.M. actually *from* Athens? I was always under the impression that they all showed up there for college sometime in the late '70s. S ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 13:28:01 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Rittenhouse Square On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 13:47:01 -0500, Stewart Mason wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Aaron Milenski" > > Another obscurity I highly recommend if you can find > > the reissue, is a band called Silent Partner, who may have > > been the very first Athens, GA band to record. Their 1975 > > album HUNG BY A THREAD is another huge favorite of mine, > > an amazing blend of pop, folk and progressive rock, completely > > memorable, tuneful and creatively ambitious. I'd be very > > surprised to find out REM didn't grow up worshipping this > > band. > > I dunno, was anybody in R.E.M. actually *from* Athens? I was always > under the impression that they all showed up there for college > sometime in the late '70s. I'm not at home where I can consult that old R.E.M. bio I have, but by memory, Stipe was an army brat (right?), and I can't recall where Mills or Buck were from. Berry, though, actually lived in Milwaukee for a time...and worked at an ice-cream stand less than a mile from my house, and the odds are actually pretty high that I bought an ice-cream cone from him. I have no traumatic childhood memories of a monobrowed teenaged ice-cream seller playing "drums" with ice cream cones, however. - -- ++Jeff++ The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 14:46:25 -0500 From: Jenny Grover Subject: [loud-fans] [Fwd: five dead in nightclub shooting, including Dimebag Darrell] - -------- Original Message -------- Subject: five dead in nightclub shooting, including Dimebag Darrell Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 09:11:46 -0500 From: Larry Grover To: Jenny Grover Maybe you heard this already, maybe not. Shot onstage during performance in Columbus, Ohio nightclub: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=314575 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 14:48:58 -0500 From: Jenny Grover Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Rittenhouse Square Aaron Milenski wrote: > Does anyone here have any information about this early > 70s band with Peter Holsapple and Mitch Easter? There is a Rittenhouse Square mailing list on Yahoo Groups, and the songs have been available for download there, though I don't know if they still are up or not. Their are photos and such there, too, and I'm sure you can get some, if not all, of your questions answered there. Jen ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 02:27:27 EST From: LkDylaninthmvies@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Rittenhouse Square In a message dated 12/9/04 2:28:34 PM Eastern Standard Time, jeffreyw2fs@gmail.com writes: > Stipe was an army brat (right?), and I can't recall where > Mills or Buck were from. I think Mills and Berry are from another part of Georgia, or they were in a band together in another part of Georgia before coming to Athens. I have an old bio from the eighties (Michael is of course the cover star and he's covering one of his eyes with a hand...in other words he's being the '80s Michael for the photographer). I think at least one of the guys is from the state...maybe it's Mills? I used to know this stuff, but, alas I read the thing over 15 years ago. At least none of them were like Kate Pierson (though I love her) and faked a Southern accent, even though she's from Jersey. Maybe she just picked that up, and isn't faking. My older brother went to General Motors Institute in Flint, Michigan (Michael Moore is actually too kind in his portrayal of the place, IMO) for only one semester and came home all nasally and saying "pop" instead of "Coke," and my parents about had a stroke. - -Mark ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V4 #331 *******************************