From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V6 #141 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, July 21 2006 Volume 06 : Number 141 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] Game Theory on Youtube [Gil Ray ] Re: [loud-fans] any opinions on new Graham Smith? ["don't mine me" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 00:02:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Gil Ray Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Game Theory on Youtube Michael Bowen wrote: Just out of curiosity, when they played the > New York City > area, which venues would they normally play at? I'm missing one of the tours...I think we skipped '87 and did 2 in '88 (?) Anyway: '84 - CBGB's (Real Nighttime line-up) '85 - Danceteria '86 - Cat Club '88 - China Club We played Maxwell's in Hoboken every tour (I'm pretty sure) - looking through my stuff, I did see that the 1st time I played there in '85 (w/Shelley and Suzi), we actually did not go over so well. Gil ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 10:09:40 -0400 From: "don't mine me" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] any opinions on new Graham Smith? > Oh-- if due to the incredibly bad promotion Final Battle got at the time, > that's the 'new' one, it's really solid; chilling and angry in a way that > Kleenex Girl Wonder never was. Yup, that's it. em thinks it was released at the end of May. You sold me a copy in those last 14 quoted words, thanks. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 12:16:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: [loud-fans] any opinions on new Graham Smith? > You sold me a copy in those last 14 quoted words, thanks. You'll have to let me know how it lives up to them in your ears. "Can You Do It Quickly Enough?" still gives me flashbacks to lying in a San Francisco hostel in June 2004, realizing just how screwed up I had been ten years earlier when I regularly felt the emotions portrayed. aa ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 13:24:20 -0400 From: "don't mine me" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] any opinions on new Graham Smith? > You'll have to let me know how it lives up to them in your ears. "Can You > Do It Quickly Enough?" still gives me flashbacks to lying in a San > Francisco hostel in June 2004, realizing just how screwed up I had been > ten years earlier when I regularly felt the emotions portrayed. First impression: Spot on. In several places it reminds me more than a bit of Neutral Milk Hotel (which is high praise from me) I do kinda wish he'd done a couple more takes and/or editing - the timing issues e.g., on "2 guitars" and vocal pitch issues e.g., on "let the eagle soar" get in the way of my enjoyment of the songs. But I'm far from sorry I downloaded it. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 15:38:01 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: Steve Holtebeck Subject: [loud-fans] slayed by giants The WIIW album and upcoming 8/2 SF Hotel Utah show gets a shout-out in today's Contra Costa Times. From http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/local/states/california/15080912.htm +++ THE ANACHRONISTIC, studio-obsessed, punk-inspired Loud Family, led by Scott Miller (the onetime Game Theory mastermind behind ambitious pieces of work such as "Lolita Nation"), and Anton Barbeau are names familiar to Bay Area music lovers who've remained awake for the past 20 years. But now, in what some might consider a dreamlike collaboration, the friends have fashioned an entire album of co-creations and three covers (a faithful "Rocks Off" by the Stones, a spooky take on the mystical "I Think I See the Light" by Cat Stevens, and a properly askew "Remember You" by the Zombies). In case you need any more convincing, Miller's resume includes endorsements from Aimee Mann and Stephin Merritt (Magnetic Fields), while Barbeau's sports a collaboration with another psychedelic songster, Nick Saloman (aka the Bevis Frond). So, you see? Giants are in your midst: Now go out and let them slay you. Details: The Loud Family and Barbeau appear Aug. 2 at Hotel Utah, Fourth and Bryant streets, S.F., in celebration of the release of "What If It Works?" as well as the fifth birthday of East Bay label 125 Records. Show is at 9 p.m. Tickets are $7. Contact 415-546-6300 or www.thehotelutahsaloon.com. ++ Noun-verbed, - -Steve H. ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V6 #141 *******************************