From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V7 #142 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 Sunday, June 17 2007 Volume 07 : Number 142 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] our guy gets noticed [Gil Ray ] Re: [loud-fans] Nancy Drew tunes [zoom@muppetlabs.com] Re: [loud-fans] Nancy Drew tunes [Scout82667@aol.com] Re: [loud-fans] our guy gets noticed ["Stewart Mason" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] our guy gets noticed 2fs wrote: > Pretty basic stuff... Yeah, but I found this comment pretty exciting! >My old band, The Wishniaks, had the good fortune to >open up for Game Theory twice at J.C. Dobb's in the >Mid 1980's on the "Lolita Nation" and "Two Steps.." >tours. It was obvious that the band was fracturing >on the second show when the wholeband showed up for >sound check except Donette, who arrived later driven >down from NYC by Steve Kilbey of the Church. She and >Scott had been a couple and appearantly that had >ended the night before. Man did they glare at each >other on stage that night! That show must've made quite an impression! Gil ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:53:16 -0700 (PDT) From: zoom@muppetlabs.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Nancy Drew tunes > Plus, you have to love any teenage girl with a vintage blue Nash > Metropolitan (like *that's* gonna happen--I think Johnny Slash had the > very last one in > existence), that she calls her "roadster." Johnny Slash? No relation to *the* Slash, I'm assuming. Kevin Bacon drove a Nash Metro in THE BIG PICTURE. Also, although I didn't like the film much, Nagase Masatoshi drove one in THE MOST TERRIBLE TIME IN MY LIFE. Someone over on the east side of Seattle's Green Lake had one for awhile. They rigged up a huge wind-up key, aluminum foil over cardboard, and stuck it onto the trunk. Anybody seen glenn? (His website just died), Andy Rusty 1957 Plymouth unearthed in Okla. By JUSTIN JUOZAPAVICIUS, Associated Press Writer Sat Jun 16, 1:59 AM ET TULSA, Okla. - A concrete vault encasing a 1957 Plymouth Belvedere buried a half-century ago may have been built to withstand a nuclear attack but it couldn't beat back the natural onslaught of moisture. At a Friday ceremony complete with a couple of drum rolls, crews removed a multilayered protective wrapping caked with red mud, revealing a vintage vehicle that was covered in rust and wouldn't crank. There were a few bright spots, literally: shiny chrome was still visible around the doors and front fender, and workers were able to put air in the tires. But the unveiling in front of thousands of people at the Tulsa Convention Center confirmed fears that the past 50 years had not been the kindest to Miss Belvedere. "I'll tell you what, she's a mess. Look at her," said legendary hot rod builder Boyd Coddington, who was unable to start the thing up as planned. Event organizer Sharon King Davis, a fourth generation Tulsan whose grandfather helped bury the Plymouth, joked that the car needed a little Oil of Olay to help it out. In the trunk, workers meticulously pulled out some of the objects buried with the two-door hardtop to celebrate Oklahoma's 50 years of statehood  a 5-gallon can of leaded gasoline, which went for 24 cents a gallon in those days, and rusted cans of Schlitz beer. The contents of a "typical" woman's handbag, including 14 bobby pins, lipstick and a bottle of tranquilizers, were supposed to be in the glove box, but all that was found looked like a lump of rotted leather. Workers also searched for a spool of microfilm that recorded the entries of a contest to determine who would win the car: the person who guessed the closest of what Tulsa's population would be in 2007  382,457  would win. That person, or his or her heirs, will get the car within a week, along with a $100 savings account, worth about $1,200 today with interest. The elements could not penetrate a time capsule buried with the car. Its top was sawed off and organizers unfolded an American flag  still bright red, white and blue  sending a rousing cheer through the crowd. Other historical documents, aerial maps of the city and postcards, also were in good condition. Thousands of people had watched as the car was placed on a flatbed truck about noon CDT and driven to the Tulsa Convention Center for the evening event. Some had arrived downtown before 6 a.m. and endured torrential rain just to get a glimpse of the car. By the time of the ceremony, people were standing on rooftops and looking out office buildings as news helicopters buzzed overhead. "Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you Miss Belvedere," King Davis said before the crane delicately placed the car onto the flatbed. Only the car's trademark fins were exposed as it came out of the ground, and it was unclear if they were caked with rust or mud. The suspense was what Pittsburgh car enthusiast Dave Stragand came for. "It's our King Tut's tomb," Stragand said. "It's like a fairy tale." Like Stragand, folks who gathered at the site  many days earlier  didn't seem too concerned with how the car would look. "We don't care what condition it's in," said Denver retiree Bob Petri, a car nut who said he was "born with a wrench" in his hand. "It's just the whole idea somebody thought of it in 1957 and here we are living it." [--from http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070616/ap_on_re_us/buried_belvedere;_ylt=AvqRfXEhmNKX.MGdf9b.hxzMWM0F ; see also buriedcar.com ] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 21:30:44 EDT From: Scout82667@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Nancy Drew tunes In a message dated 6/16/2007 5:54:35 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, zoom@muppetlabs.com writes: Also, although I didn't like the film much, Nagase Masatoshi drove one in THE MOST TERRIBLE TIME IN MY LIFE. Well, I had an MG in high school, and I know the Nash Metropolitan and MG were brothers mechanically. Mine was brown--called it "the turd." And, overheating in downtown Atlanta traffic (sometimes it just wouldn't start if it just didn't feel like it) on a non-authorized by parental units Ferris Bueller-like day off with my best friend to go shopping at Rich's is definitely a most terrible time of life, indeed, especially if your dad believed in spanking teenagers. The Nash is cooler in concept than reality (like the ill-fated I-Zone camera), - --Mark "I'm totally tired. Totally." (Johnny Slash & Open 24 Hours) R.I.P. Merritt Butrick ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 01:56:04 -0400 From: "Stewart Mason" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] our guy gets noticed - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gil Ray" > Yeah, but I found this comment pretty exciting! > >>My old band, The Wishniaks, had the good fortune to >>open up for Game Theory twice at J.C. Dobb's in the >>Mid 1980's on the "Lolita Nation" and "Two Steps.." >>tours. It was obvious that the band was fracturing >>on the second show when the wholeband showed up for >>sound check except Donette, who arrived later driven >>down from NYC by Steve Kilbey of the Church. She and >>Scott had been a couple and appearantly that had >>ended the night before. Man did they glare at each >>other on stage that night! > > That show must've made quite an impression! Clearly the entire band thought so, because I've heard that exact same story from a different member of the Wishniaks! S ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V7 #142 *******************************