From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V8 #183 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, September 22 2009 Volume 08 : Number 183 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] book recommendation: our noise - the story of merge records [] [loud-fans] Re: Gui, Gil & Robert [robert toren ] Re: [loud-fans] Re: Gui, Gil & Robert [Andrew Hamlin Subject: [loud-fans] book recommendation: our noise - the story of merge records short version: hip hip hooray long version: http://www.needsmoredemonsornot.com/content/alphabetical-author/b-author/john-cook-mac-mccaughan-laura-ballance-our-noise-the-story-of-merge-records/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:52:08 -0700 (PDT) From: robert toren Subject: [loud-fans] Re: Gui, Gil & Robert > Glad Gui's doing well! > (Docking him a notch for that crack about Scott's voice, > though...) > Andy don't have it in front of me, but i think all Gui said was that Scott's great strength was his song writing, and if the vocal duties had been spread around more GT might had made it bigger - not too controversial a statement...? author Robert Lurie is the source of the 'unremarkable warble' line ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:09:52 -0700 From: Andrew Hamlin Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Re: Gui, Gil & Robert > don't have it in front of me, but i think all Gui said was that Scott's great strength was his song writing, and if the vocal duties had been spread around more GT might had made it bigger - > not too controversial a statement...? "Scott's great talent was as a songwriter. Had he given the vocal reins away, the music would have been much more accessible and the band might have really broken out." Not terribly controversial, and of course, impossible to prove. Still, anybody who thinks the Game Theory records could have been improved by Donnette singing every song (or even every third song), stick up a hand. Anyone...anyone...? Andy "If an opera cannot be played by an organ grinder, it's not going to achieve immortality." - --Sir Thomas Beecham ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:40:33 -0400 From: Chris Hornbostel Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Re: Gui, Gil & Robert Gah. Every once in a while someone thinks of something that might be bad and you think "that would be the worst thing ever." Thing is, Andy's come up with something that actually really might be the worst thing ever. Game Theory would've sounded almost (but not quite) as awful as a contemporary band of the time like Caterwaul. Yech. "anybody who thinks the Game Theory records could have been > improved by Donnette singing every song (or even every third song)," > stick up a hand. ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V8 #183 *******************************