From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V7 #94 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, April 17 2007 Volume 07 : Number 094 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] Death of another legend [Scout82667@aol.com] Re: [loud-fans] Death of another legend [zoom@muppetlabs.com] [loud-fans] Jeff Heiskell [Scout82667@aol.com] Re: [loud-fans] Jeff Heiskell [zoom@muppetlabs.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 06:10:31 EDT From: Scout82667@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Death of another legend In a message dated 4/15/2007 4:23:19 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, zoom@muppetlabs.com writes: "You just told me you didn't have tuberculosis." "Well, I believe in the power of positive thinking." - --overheard at work recently Where in the hell do you work? Lysergic Products Incorporated? And I was thinking your addy submmission would be about Kurt Vonnegut.... Sesame Street on Ice-9, - --Mark ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:36:24 -0700 (PDT) From: zoom@muppetlabs.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Death of another legend > Where in the hell do you work? Lysergic Products Incorporated? LPI...not a bad name for a company. > And I was thinking your addy submmission would be about Kurt Vonnegut.... > > Sesame Street on Ice-9, Oh it gets better. Now we can see and here the Great Man singing "Shock The Monkey." See below, Andy CEVIN SOLING'S MUSICAL AND LOVING MEMORIES OF DON HO (Former Ho producer/friend's fond memories of a musical National Treasure) Cevin Soling was devastated to find out he lost a friend and music acquaintance with a true legendary singer, Don Ho. The singer, who is synonymous with the exotic yet relaxed aura of America's 50th State, Hawaii--is spotlighted on Cevin's 2002 anthology album, WHEN PIGS FLY: SONGS YOU NEVER THOUGHT YOU'D HEAR. "Don recorded Peter Gabriel's 'Shock the Monkey' for this compilation. My band backed him. He was a very sweet man and really loved by everyone around him." When Cevin promoted WHEN PIGS FLY, Don Ho received the most interest from the media, "Most of the journalists wanted to interview him," even though the album features other incredible stars: Jackie Chan, Ani DiFranco, Devo, Roy Clark, the late Billy Preston, The Box Tops featuring Alex Chilton, and Lesley Gore. "Originally I asked Don to sing 'Firestarter' by Prodigy, and as he studied the lyrics, he said, 'No, I can't sing "I'm the bitch you hated--filth infatuated." It would upset my fans.'" So they selected Peter Gabriel's "Shock the Monkey," and created an animated video to go with the song. Cevin flew to Hawaii to record Don's vocals, and he also took in the local scenery courtesy of Don and the rest of the Ho family. They showed him around a number of the island, and gave Cevin a primo seat at a table "practically on stage" at the Waikiki Beachcomber Hotel, in Honolulu, for a Don Ho concert. "Afterwards, he autographed a ukulele for me. It was obvious all the extra effort he and his family made to make me feel very welcome." "Of all the musicians on the record, I wanted most to work with him again and we were talking about doing a rock covers album with songs like 'Whole Lotta Love' for my label (Xemu Records)." The video for "Shock the Monkey" can be seen on www.youtube.com. And the music is available for downloads at i-tunes. Cevin's band, then, was called Neanderthal Spongecake. Now his group is the love kills theory, and their new album, HAPPY SUICIDE JIM is being worked at commercial triple AAA radio. Cevin's an author and a filmmaker, and his latest, THE WAR ON THE WAR ON DRUGS is now on DVD with Disinformation Ltd. In production is THE WAR ON KIDS and JOHN FRUM: HE WILL COME about his experiences as a cargo cult Messiah for the people on the island of Tanna in the South Pacific. In all, he has made half a dozen films, including executive producing the independent feature, RELAX, IT'S JUST SEX, starring Jennifer Tilly, Lori Petty and Cynda Williams, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was seen on HBO and Showtime. [--from a press release I got recently] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:57:59 EDT From: Scout82667@aol.com Subject: [loud-fans] Jeff Heiskell Grooving on SOUNDTRACK FOR AN ANEURISM, the new solo release from former Judybats frontman, JH. This is great, and I'm not saying that just 'cause he's on my AOL buddy list. This is truly a great record, as good or better than any Judybats record. It took balls back in th' day to write and sing songs with gay lyrics, especially in the South, and he was one of the first to step out of the ambiguous and into the specific, and for that, I respect him highly. Definitely top 5 for '07, if not 1 from me. If you don't believe me, I'll burn it for you, provided if you like it you promise to buy a copy from him. - --Mark me: "You're pretty happy. Why?" cashier: "Cause I'm in South Carolina." me: "Okay." (in a '"whatever" way) cashier: "Well, I just moved from Jersey. Does that answer your question?" me: "Well, a lot of people up there think we're stupid." cashier: "I know--my friends warned me. They said you were ignorant. And that you had bad teeth." me: "Well, I was born and raised here, and I have a college degree, and all my teeth." cashier: me: "Well, welcome." (talking to the 40-something woman cashier this afternoon at the Walgreens check-out) ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 17:50:05 -0700 (PDT) From: zoom@muppetlabs.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Jeff Heiskell > Definitely top 5 for '07, if not 1 from me. If you don't believe me, > I'll > burn it for you, provided if you like it you promise to buy a copy from > him. > --Mark I'll bite, buddy. Send me over one! Haven't found something to equal Low, Fountains of Wayne, and the Stooges. Charlotte Gainsbourg sounds intriguing from the Amazon samples, though. Too bad the biggest Air fan I know doesn't dig it, Andy "They should put the picture that was on fire, on the bus." - --overheard at work recently ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V7 #94 ******************************