From: owner-rockford-files-digest@smoe.org (The Rockford Files) To: rockford-files-digest@smoe.org Subject: The Rockford Files V1 #198 Reply-To: rockford-files@smoe.org Sender: owner-rockford-files-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-rockford-files-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk The Rockford Files Wednesday, July 29 1998 Volume 01 : Number 198 Today's Filings: ----------------- mmmmmm.... concert :9 re:Juile *anti-gavin* Swing dancing dentists Ben and Mr. Toad Sprocket to team up. Please open this up arrive without traveling ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 04:50:11 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jordan W." Subject: mmmmmm.... concert :9 WOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! we are now offically -1 days to the concert. i saw them yesterday! rock, rock, rockity, rock. and anyone else at the enmore would have to agree with me.okey. my brain is slighty screwed from imbiding copious amounts of beer so my set list is not here. look at another post for that. hmmmm....... oh yeah. the guys just went nuts :) the tickets that i got improved as the concert went on (from the foyer to the 2nd row of seating) and so that was cool. the crowd (excluding present company of course) was not really into it as much as i expected but that didn't stop us going nuts. there were some pretty cool people there though. amazing showmanship from the boys. met them after the show. coolness. ill post a full review later on but i need sleep now. okey, now for the plea. ANYONE who taped this show (27/7/98, enmore), PLEASE mail me! i need a copy because my tape got wiped from the freaking x-ray machine on the plane. i REALLY need a copy. please mail me if you got a bootleg of it :) turblence in a 8 seat plane in 100km/h winds sucks. copious amounts of codine are running through my system to try and get rid of the headache developed by headbutting the lid of this tin can, Grrrrr. anyhow, i gotta go and recover from 3 days of sleep deprevation. nighty night. Jordan "elvis was big and fat, was big and fat, so how 'bout that?" old man sam - spiderbait "a good man has been hung, because of my loose tongue" loose tongue - neil finn (this man rocks everything) _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 09:20:32 -0700 (PDT) From: ralph kyatsu Subject: re:Juile *anti-gavin* >Moving on..... >Remember Julie *anti_gavin*? How exciting, she is now >= *anti_gavin/RF* >Matthew, should we summon the troops and Eric R. from >the deep woods >for a possible assault? If you are anti-RF you are >anti-THE WAY OF >LIFE! I >summon Anne to the front for a beautifully >worded.....haiku. Ouch I never knew I was part of a sordid military regieme/cult..well acutally I did with the whole FL thing but not to this extent...I acutally have talked to Juile and she does have real reasons for shunning the people she did...MAYBE if you ACUTALLY asked her why she did the one line post you would find out too.... now I know why I stop reading the files and went back to the armchair *donning an asbestos suit* _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 16:18:16 EDT From: Jen116nyc@aol.com Subject: Swing dancing dentists hello everyone, Courtney: I hate dentists too and I also have bad teeth, NINE cavities the last time I went! I took my first swing dance lesson last night and it was so much fun. My teacher was named Alexander and he was twirling me around. (Wheeee!) I'm also looking for some advice (Markus?) I love a guy who has a girlfriend and we are different religions which doesn't bother me because I'm a lapsed Catholic, but it could cause problems down the road (his mother nags him to go to temple all the time). Thanks for listening, Jen ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 18:45:25 EDT From: Keyserdan1@aol.com Subject: Ben and Mr. Toad Sprocket to team up. FROM www.allstarmag.com TOAD THE WET SPROCKET MEMBERS FORGE AHEAD WITH NEW PROJECTS Singer To Possibly Team With Ben Folds One day after Toad the Wet Sprocket announced their retirement as a collective creative force, new light has been shed on the breakup and the future of the band's members. "[Guitarist] Todd [Nichols] and [bassist] Dean [Dinning] are working together as a duo," says Chris Blake of Malibu-based Blake and Bradford, the company handling Toad. "Most people don't know this, because [singer/guitarist] Glen [Phillips] was the frontman, but Todd wrote or co-wrote the music to most of their hits: "Walk On The Ocean," "Fall Down." He and Dean are doing some demo-ing so it's the end of one era and the beginning of another. How successful they will be remains to be seen, but there's no reason to think the creativity will just stop." As for Philips, whose burning vocals had become a modern rock radio staple in the '90s, will definitely be continuing on as a solo act and could possibly end up doing some recording with Ben Folds of Ben Folds Five in the near future. "Glen is going solo," states Blake emphatically. "He's only 27 years old and is obviously going on to make a lot more music. He and Ben Folds are quite good friends and they have been talking about doing some collaboration. There are also a lot of people in Santa Barbara he enjoys working with. He will be working very closely with Bruce Winter, who is a producer in Santa Barbara that Glen really enjoys. I expect Bruce will be as close to a constant [in Glen's solo work] as there will be." And the drummer? "Randy [Guss] is a world-class drummer looking for a gig," Blake adds. Reiterating the original statement on the breakup (allstar, July 27), the decision to end the Toad era was due to growing discontent with the creative process within the band. Blake likens the split to an amicable divorce. "There's two creative forces in the band -- Glen and Todd," explains Blake. "And when a songwriter brings a song into the band, it's filtered by the band. It's a democratic process, and ultimately the song changes. After a while, I think creative people just want to see their songs diluted less and less. We all come to a place in our lives where we say, "I don't want to live with a roommate anymore. I don't want to have somebody sharing my refrigerator.' Well, I think they got tired of sharing their creative refrigerators." Blake goes on to say that they were "psychologically" looking forward to a new album, but that the process wasn't as fun as they wished it to be. "So instead of staying together, bucking it up, and suffering with the process, it was like, "Okay, so we don't make the crowning, final statement,'" he continues. "They still like each other. I think it happens to people in their marriages too, so anybody that's ever been through a breakup can understand. It doesn't mean you hate the person, it just means that the annoying things become more annoying." - -Kevin Raub and John Bitzer ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 19:12:55 EDT From: BlueJellow@aol.com Subject: Please open this up Well everyone, I'm happy to report that my modem has been fixed!!!!! Yay! So I get to bother you again. I have this sinking feeling that none of you open my messages in loose mail....hmmmm... I'm anxiously awaiting the birth of the first BFF baby.....she'll have so much fun being dragged to concerts...... No one has emailed me about the BFF pictures. I made a stetch of Darren, and he looked hispanic. I'm going to stick to photo art. And um..Goodbye! !!!!! !! (how funny this is) (ô ô) +-----oOO----(_)----------------+ Love, Lucy | +------------------------oOO----+ |__| |__| || || ooO Ooo ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 00:39:31 -0400 (EDT) From: KDEMCAK@WELLESLEY.EDU Subject: arrive without traveling Hello all -- Happy Tuesday (or Wednesday or whatever). Thank god today is over. I spent the day reading advance press copies of books (to avoid: The Alanis Morisette Story--go spend your hard-earned moola on Lovin' Leo or something instead) and the evening selling popcorn to annoying people (I'll have a large Pepsi-no, Dr Pepper, no, wait, coffee). The only good news was that I found out I'm going to be an aunt, so hooray for that. Do you ever pick up a CD you haven't listened to in ages and start singing along with it and then suddenly realize that you've completely missed the words to one of the lines and you've been singing it wrong for years? Either that, or you suddenly realize what a song is about that you've never really *listened* to and then you feel really dumb for not getting it before? I did that this weekend in a ten-hour drive and felt really silly. cheers, Katy ------------------------------ End of The Rockford Files V1 #198 *********************************