From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V10 #141 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 Wednesday, May 1 2013 Volume 10 : Number 141 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] RIP [Bob Lloyd ] Re: [loud-fans] RIP [Dennis Sacks ] Re: [loud-fans] RIP [Tom Galczynski ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:18:39 -0700 From: Bob Lloyd Subject: Re: [loud-fans] RIP Dennis et al, Thanks for posting the link to the piece by Chris. I'm not a really a Facebook person, but I'd been looking at some of the Facebook posts last night, and just before lunch today I wrote out something I was trying to work up the courage to post there, just to add to the sharing of appreciation of Scott. After reading Chris's stuff, so much of which was also familiar to me--not just the thoughtful response to a fan letter, but the Star Trek lines, even a drawing of me he once did that is probably my favorite thing I've seen of myself--I realized the Loudfans list is more the place I ought to post it: Like most of us, I loved Scott9s music first, but I was also lucky enough to encounter him later as a brilliant writer via a fairly extensive email correspondence back in the days when email was an excitingly convenient new form of letter writing and/or phoning. For a long while, that was our main way of communicating. When Scott and Kristine got married, Scott told me his best man would be Joe Becker, but he wondered if I would consider being his 3very good man.2 The wedding took place at Kristine and Scott9s house, and this allowed me, as part of my duties, the opportunity of greeting Aimee Mann and Michael Penn as they emerged from their taxi, and to show them the proper path to the backyard. Later, sitting at one of the tables, I had a chance to talk to Scott9s dad, and I was telling him how enjoyable it was to get longish email notes from Scott because of his sheer intelligence, but also because of his wit and his knack for a memorable phrase. Scott9s dad agreed and told me about a trip they9d taken as a family to Paris when Scott was younger, and some amazingly clever pun Scott had made that his dad still fondly remembered after all this time. (Too bad I have such a poor memory, or I9d certainly pass that along now.) But I do remember one Scott came up with that still tickles me to this day. I had been telling Scott about a book I was reading, called In Trouble Again, by Redmond O9Hanlon, a natural history scholar and writer from Oxford, about his adventures in remote jungles in the vicinity of the Amazon. At one point, a young native had killed a large tapir, and O9Hanlon described the process of hauling it out of the river, butchering it, and so on, even down to a description of the 3large, dull green ticks all over its belly,2 etc. But it was the following passage, narrated by O9Hanlon, that I typed out and sent to Scott (Note: probably not for kids or the squeamish): 3Early next morning, in the dark, I crept out behind our hut to the yucca plantation for a shit; flicking on my torch, I did my usual cursory erogenous zone-check - and then I looked again. In the cold dawn, the secret nightmare had finally clasped me: the Great Fear had come to stay. My penis had turned green. To the touch it felt like a hanging cluster of grapes. Swollen tapir ticks, as big as the top of a thumb, were feeding all down its stem. Keep calm,9 I repeated out loud; and then I scrabbled at them, pulling them out, dropping them on the ground, popping them under my boot, yelping with pain. They were all over my crutch and the tops of my thighs; I ran with dribbles of blood. I covered myself with half a tube of Savlon from my belt-pouch, and as I walked back to the hut, all sphincters jammed tight with shock, I squelched slightly in my pants.2 Scott9s immediate reply to this: 3Sounds like they honored him with a tapir tick parade!2 Bob (another fan originally from Missouri) On 4/30/13 1:27 PM, "Dennis Sacks" wrote: >A really nice remembrance of Scott: > >http://popnarcotic.com/2013/04/25/scott-miller-1960-2013/ > > >On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 7:25 PM, Jer Fairall >wrote: > >> I hate to be the one to post this here, but Sue just posted to the Loud >> Family site. >> >> I honestly don't even know what to say about this at this point. I am, >>as >> I am sure many of us will be, shocked and devastated. >> >> *Scott Warren Miller >> 1960-2013* >> >> I wish it weren't true, but as much as it pains me to write these words, >> Scott passed away on April 15, 2013. He was a wonderful, loyal friend as >> well as a brilliant musician, and I will miss him for the rest of my >>life. >> >> Scott had been planning to start recording a new Game Theory album, * >> Supercalifragile*, this summer, and was looking forward to getting back >> into the studio and reuniting with some of his former collaborators. >> >> If listening to Scott's own music is too painful for you right now, as >>it >> is for me, I can tell you that he absolutely loved David Bowie's new >>album, >> *The Next Day*. He found Bowie's late-career resurgence to be hugely >> inspirational. I'm sure that if there had been a 2013 chapter of *Music: >> What Happened?*, one of the songs from that album would have been right >>at >> the top. >> >> (Photo at right by Robert Toren) >> >> Download Game Theory Albums >> >> I have made *Distortion of Glory*, *Real Nighttime*, *The Big Shot >> Chronicles*, ***Lolita Nation*, *2 Steps From the Middle Ages* and >>*Tinker >> to Evers to Chance* available for FREE download at >> Dropbox.com. >> If you have any problems downloading them, please contact me at info125 >> (at) 125records.com. >> >> I've upgraded our account, but if the traffic gets too heavy, the files >>may >> be temporarily inaccessible. My main goal is to prevent people from >>trying >> to capitalize by selling these long out of print albums for lots of >>money. >> I want everybody who would like to hear these albums to be able to do so >> without paying outrageous prices. >> >> Most of the Loud Family catalog can be streamed free of charge on >>Spotify >> and other streaming music services. >> >> Sue Trowbridge, LoudFamily.com webmaster, 1995-present [demime 0.97c-p1 removed an attachment of type application/xml which had a name of default.xml] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:27:33 -0700 From: Dennis Sacks Subject: Re: [loud-fans] RIP A really nice remembrance of Scott: http://popnarcotic.com/2013/04/25/scott-miller-1960-2013/ On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 7:25 PM, Jer Fairall wrote: > I hate to be the one to post this here, but Sue just posted to the Loud > Family site. > > I honestly don't even know what to say about this at this point. I am, as > I am sure many of us will be, shocked and devastated. > > *Scott Warren Miller > 1960-2013* > > I wish it weren't true, but as much as it pains me to write these words, > Scott passed away on April 15, 2013. He was a wonderful, loyal friend as > well as a brilliant musician, and I will miss him for the rest of my life. > > Scott had been planning to start recording a new Game Theory album, * > Supercalifragile*, this summer, and was looking forward to getting back > into the studio and reuniting with some of his former collaborators. > > If listening to Scott's own music is too painful for you right now, as it > is for me, I can tell you that he absolutely loved David Bowie's new album, > *The Next Day*. He found Bowie's late-career resurgence to be hugely > inspirational. I'm sure that if there had been a 2013 chapter of *Music: > What Happened?*, one of the songs from that album would have been right at > the top. > > (Photo at right by Robert Toren) > > Download Game Theory Albums > > I have made *Distortion of Glory*, *Real Nighttime*, *The Big Shot > Chronicles*, ***Lolita Nation*, *2 Steps From the Middle Ages* and *Tinker > to Evers to Chance* available for FREE download at > Dropbox.com. > If you have any problems downloading them, please contact me at info125 > (at) 125records.com. > > I've upgraded our account, but if the traffic gets too heavy, the files may > be temporarily inaccessible. My main goal is to prevent people from trying > to capitalize by selling these long out of print albums for lots of money. > I want everybody who would like to hear these albums to be able to do so > without paying outrageous prices. > > Most of the Loud Family catalog can be streamed free of charge on Spotify > and other streaming music services. > > Sue Trowbridge, LoudFamily.com webmaster, 1995-present ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 23:59:18 -0500 From: Tom Galczynski Subject: Re: [loud-fans] RIP Thanks for deciding on the loud-fans list, Bob! Gave me a much needed laugh. Tom Galczynski tgalczynski@comcast.net - --------------------------------------- No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up. -- Lily Tomlin On 4/30/2013 5:18 PM, Bob Lloyd wrote: > Dennis et al, > > Thanks for posting the link to the piece by Chris. I'm not a really a > Facebook person, but I'd been looking at some of the Facebook posts last > night, and just before lunch today I wrote out something I was trying to > work up the courage to post there, just to add to the sharing of > appreciation of Scott. > > After reading Chris's stuff, so much of which was also familiar to me--not > just the thoughtful response to a fan letter, but the Star Trek lines, > even a drawing of me he once did that is probably my favorite thing I've > seen of myself--I realized the Loudfans list is more the place I ought to > post it: > > > Like most of us, I loved Scott9s music first, but I was also > lucky enough to encounter him later as a brilliant writer via a fairly > extensive email correspondence back in the days when email was an > excitingly > convenient new form of letter writing and/or phoning. For a long while, > that was > our main way of communicating. > > > When Scott and Kristine got married, Scott told me his > best man would be Joe Becker, but he wondered if I would consider being his > 3very good man.2 The wedding took place at Kristine and Scott9s house, and > this > allowed me, as part of my duties, the opportunity of greeting Aimee Mann > and Michael Penn as they emerged from their taxi, and to show them the > proper > path to the backyard. > > > Later, sitting at one of the tables, I had a chance to talk > to Scott9s dad, and I was telling him how enjoyable it was to get longish > email > notes from Scott because of his sheer intelligence, but also because of > his wit and his knack for a memorable phrase. Scott9s > dad agreed and told me about a trip they9d taken as a family to Paris when > Scott was younger, and some > amazingly clever pun Scott had made that his dad still fondly remembered > after > all this time. (Too bad I have such a poor memory, or I9d certainly pass > that along now.) > > > But I do remember one Scott came up with that still tickles > me to this day. I had been telling Scott about a book I was reading, > called In Trouble Again, by Redmond O9Hanlon, a > natural history scholar and writer from Oxford, about his adventures in > remote > jungles in the vicinity of the Amazon. At one point, a young native had > killed > a large tapir, and O9Hanlon described the process of hauling it out of the > river, butchering it, and so on, even down to a description of the 3large, > dull > green ticks all over its belly,2 etc. But it was the following passage, > narrated by O9Hanlon, that I typed out and sent to Scott (Note: probably > not > for kids or the squeamish): > > > 3Early next morning, in the dark, I crept out behind our hut > to the yucca plantation for a shit; flicking on my torch, I did my usual > cursory erogenous zone-check - and then I looked again. In the cold dawn, > the > secret nightmare had finally clasped me: the Great Fear had come to stay. > My > penis had turned green. To the touch it felt like a hanging cluster of > grapes. > Swollen tapir ticks, as big as the top of a thumb, were feeding all down > its > stem. Keep calm,9 I repeated out loud; and then I scrabbled at them, > pulling > them out, dropping them on the ground, popping them under my boot, yelping > with > pain. They were all over my crutch and the tops of my thighs; I ran with > dribbles of blood. I covered myself with half a tube of Savlon from my > belt-pouch, and as I walked back to the hut, all sphincters jammed tight > with > shock, I squelched slightly in my pants.2 > > > Scott9s immediate reply to this: 3Sounds like they honored him with > a tapir tick parade!2 > > > Bob (another fan originally from Missouri) > > > > On 4/30/13 1:27 PM, "Dennis Sacks" wrote: > >> A really nice remembrance of Scott: >> >> http://popnarcotic.com/2013/04/25/scott-miller-1960-2013/ >> >> >> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 7:25 PM, Jer Fairall >> wrote: >> >>> I hate to be the one to post this here, but Sue just posted to the Loud >>> Family site. >>> >>> I honestly don't even know what to say about this at this point. I am, >>> as >>> I am sure many of us will be, shocked and devastated. >>> >>> *Scott Warren Miller >>> 1960-2013* >>> >>> I wish it weren't true, but as much as it pains me to write these words, >>> Scott passed away on April 15, 2013. He was a wonderful, loyal friend as >>> well as a brilliant musician, and I will miss him for the rest of my >>> life. >>> >>> Scott had been planning to start recording a new Game Theory album, * >>> Supercalifragile*, this summer, and was looking forward to getting back >>> into the studio and reuniting with some of his former collaborators. >>> >>> If listening to Scott's own music is too painful for you right now, as >>> it >>> is for me, I can tell you that he absolutely loved David Bowie's new >>> album, >>> *The Next Day*. He found Bowie's late-career resurgence to be hugely >>> inspirational. I'm sure that if there had been a 2013 chapter of *Music: >>> What Happened?*, one of the songs from that album would have been right >>> at >>> the top. >>> >>> (Photo at right by Robert Toren) >>> >>> Download Game Theory Albums >>> >>> I have made *Distortion of Glory*, *Real Nighttime*, *The Big Shot >>> Chronicles*, ***Lolita Nation*, *2 Steps From the Middle Ages* and >>> *Tinker >>> to Evers to Chance* available for FREE download at >>> Dropbox.com. >>> If you have any problems downloading them, please contact me at info125 >>> (at) 125records.com. >>> >>> I've upgraded our account, but if the traffic gets too heavy, the files >>> may >>> be temporarily inaccessible. My main goal is to prevent people from >>> trying >>> to capitalize by selling these long out of print albums for lots of >>> money. >>> I want everybody who would like to hear these albums to be able to do so >>> without paying outrageous prices. >>> >>> Most of the Loud Family catalog can be streamed free of charge on >>> Spotify >>> and other streaming music services. >>> >>> Sue Trowbridge, LoudFamily.com webmaster, 1995-present > [demime 0.97c-p1 removed an attachment of type application/xml which had a name of default.xml] ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V10 #141 ********************************