From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V6 #193 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, October 6 2006 Volume 06 : Number 193 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] CD Rot - Not Just An Urban Legend ["Roger Winston" Subject: [loud-fans] CD Rot - Not Just An Urban Legend My (ex?)bandmate John, who has an enormous CD collection (over 4000, I believe), has recently started the huge task of digitizing the whole thing using Exact Audio Copy. He and his wife don't need to work, so he has lots of time for that sort of thing. In the process of doing this (he's done over 1000 so far), he's found that a number of discs are unreadable. It's a pretty low percentage, like 0.33%. John was the first person I knew who bought a CD player and he has a lot of really old CDs. Anyway, he's discovered that all but one of the unreadable discs was manufactured by the same pressing company. The disc hub on these proudly declares "Discovery Systems - An American Company". In the process of digitizing my own collection, I've noticed that the discs I have the most trouble with were made by the same company. Only one of them has been totally unreadable so far: my beloved copy of Uncle Green's YOU, which I luckily was able to replace. So it sounds like something in the manufacturing process used by this company causes discs to not stand the test of time too well. I see from doing a web search that other people have had problems with discs pressed by the same company. There are a number of companies out there called Discovery Systems (or variations thereof), but it appears that the disc pressing one doesn't exist any more, at least not that I can find. So anyway, you may want to go back up your really old CDs soon just in case, before they get even worse! Discovery Systems, An American Embarrassment. Latre. --Rog - -- FlasshePoint, yet another blog among millions: http://www.flasshe.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 11:45:41 -0700 (PDT) From: zoom@muppetlabs.com Subject: RE: [loud-fans] Wuxtry, wuxtry! > Dear Boy - Keith Moon's biography, can't remember who wrote it but it's fab This looks like MOON, by Tony Fletcher, reissued with a different title. > And a collection of writing by Charles Shaar Murray that I can't put my hands on at the moment... Would that be SHOTS FROM THE HIP? DANCING IN THE STREET? IN THEIR OWN WRITE? That's all the ideas Amazon gives me. > I'm reading Please Kill Me at the moment and it's terrific. Agreed, though I found Legs evasive about his original interview sources. At a local bookstore reading to promote his porno tome, he kept his shades on throughout, smoked at least three cigarettes inside a non-smoking facility, and went off at the end with a lady roughly one-third his age. Of course, if you want a bugsplat-devastating Legs portrait, consult Anne Thomas Soffee's NERD GIRL ROCKS PARADISE CITY, a book I recommend despite some idealogical differences with its author. > Lipstick Traces I thought was a terrible book. Once again, Gene, we disagree. Okay, *why* did you find it a terrible book? Anybody read SO YOU WANNA BE A ROCK AND ROLL STAR? Or Jen Trynin's autobiography? Just picked up RIP IT UP AND START AGAIN (though if I could read any rock and roll book, new to me, I'd make it Dave Thompson's TO MAJOR TOM), Andy "And what really ticks me off is that someone stole a beautiful hanging basket we had outside at the church..." "Yes, it looked wonderful on my front porch." - --Mom and Dad, divorced lo these many years, but still friends, when we all met up at a preview screening of THE DESCENT (Mom loved it, Dad walked out after the first third) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 15:22:12 EDT From: AWeiss4338@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Wuxtry, wuxtry! In a message dated 10/5/2006 3:11:01 PM Eastern Daylight Time, zoom@muppetlabs.com writes: Anybody read SO YOU WANNA BE A ROCK AND ROLL STAR? Or Jen Trynin's autobiography? That is a wonderful book, Jen Trynin's autobiography. It's a real eye opener about the biz in the 90s. The same goes for SO YOU WANNA BE A ROCK AND ROLL STAR, another good look at the 90s. And Got a Revolution, a very good Jefferson Airplane'Starship bio. Andrea ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V6 #193 *******************************