From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V7 #117 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, May 17 2007 Volume 07 : Number 117 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] Where it all started ["Douglas Stanley" ] Re: [loud-fans] Where it all started ["=?UTF-8?B?V2VzdCBBbnRob255?=" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 12:06:13 -0700 From: "Douglas Stanley" Subject: [loud-fans] Where it all started For a lot of us (myself included), this was the first time we heard Game Theory. The year was 1988... http://digivinyltal.blogspot.com/2007/05/enigma-compilation-1988.html ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 19:30:33 EDT From: Scout82667@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Where it all started In a message dated 5/16/2007 3:16:50 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, dstanley@broadcom.com writes: For a lot of us (myself included), this was the first time we heard Game Theory. The year was 1988... They have the track listed as "Erica's World." Inserting "world" in the song instead of "word" sounds corny. Sounds like a show on The Disney Channel. "Lindsay Lohan started out on the series 'Erica's World,' as the lovable rambunctious Megan, Erica's scheming best friend--then came the booze and pills (insert black & white negative image of Lohan child pic, a la "VH-1 Behind The Music, " and pour on the creepy keyboards). I remember another one called THE ENIGMA VARIATIONS, but I think that one came out years earlier. I discovered GT in February of '87, when my friend Ronnie at the record shop said, "You need a copy of this" and made me buy it--he was my music mentor, older and way cooler and way more sophisticated than me and his word was final. I think at the time I wanted a Cure 12" (how '80s is that?) and he was like, "Nope. You're getting this." First, I bought the cassette, and then it promptly went kaput--the pad came out after about 5 minutes--literally, in the dashboard deck of my VW Rabbit--and then I bought the vinyl, returning the tape in exchange. Ronnie frowned on my tape purchases, and gave me a "serves you right" expression, better than any vinyl purist, but I had a Blaupunkt in the Rabbit and liked to listen to albums on it--my home stereo didn't have a good tape deck to record on. Shortly thereafter, I had one of those "it changed my life" listening experiences on the grey carpet of my bedroom floor one snowed-in winter day (we get one about once a year), playing BIG SHOT CHRONICLES over and over on my newly acquired Realistic Lab 290 turntable. "Regenisraen" gave me, and can still to this day, give me chills. It has been my favorite album ever since. - --Mark, remembering playing PSYCHOCANDY on my stereo in 1986 (the Panasonic teenage-a-tronic self-contained one I had for years before graduating up to the Realistic turntable and stereo components) and playing it backwards with my index finger, thinking it sounded the same backwards as forwards Blanco y Negro orgen y ocnalb.... ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 17:33:02 -0700 From: dennis Subject: [loud-fans] Dennis McGreevy? Does someone have a working address for Dennis M? His hotmail just started bouncing. ~~~ Conversation the other night: Heather - Betty Page girl was walking her dogs alone. She said her boyfriend Chris was on tour and couldn't help. Dennis - Oh, who is he touring with? Heather - Thats what I asked - she said he is the bass player for the Meat Puppets Dennis - Goofy Cris is Cris Kirkwood of the Meat Puppets?! Heather - Guess so. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 05:39:22 +0000 From: "=?UTF-8?B?V2VzdCBBbnRob255?=" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Where it all started >I remember another one called THE >ENIGMA VARIATIONS, but I think >that one came out years earlier. That's the one I got; still do, in fact. I still don't have the means to digitize vinyl, though. In the interest of full disclosure, however, I should mention that I bought the album primarily for John Trubee's "Blind Man's Penis", which, like Cheech & Chong's "Sister Mary Elephant", will never stop being funny for me. Class... Claaaass..., West. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 23:06:26 -0400 From: Jenny Grover Subject: [loud-fans] SF bound We're going to be in San Francisco from Friday of this week till Friday of next week. If anyone would like to try to meet up with us, and/or knows of any good shows happening then, please contact me offlist. Jen ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V7 #117 *******************************