From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-moderated-digest) To: seven-seas-moderated-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-moderated-digest V2 #6 Reply-To: seven-seas@smoe.org Sender: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Precedence: bulk seven-seas-moderated-digest Saturday, January 4 2003 Volume 02 : Number 006 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 17:34:13 -0500 From: "David Whiting" Subject: seven-seas-moderated Joe Strummer RIP Well, when I woke up and read the news, I went fucking numb. I know that a musician should not necessarily be considered a "quasi-center of the universe", but there is no denying the ways in which a favorite artist can emotionally impact and enrich our daily living experiences (kind of like our own personal soundtracks) and thus a sense of loss. I loved the Clash and Joe Strummer & Co. were my earliest punk heroes. Another tributary to my musical soul just disintegrated from the planet. Sure, I'll go on with my life, but it's still too fucking sad for words... ====================================== The Official Seven-Seas Web Page. www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 17:54:45 -0500 From: Red Subject: seven-seas-moderated RE: Re: seven-seas Joe Strummer Dead At 03:56 PM 12/23/02 -0000, you wrote: >someone getting overly upset over a singer dying, for example my wife >told me her dad cried the day Elvis died, that just seems like odd >behaviour to me. I cried when Pete De Freitas died........ :-( Red ====================================== The Official Seven-Seas Web Page. www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 00:39:50 -0000 From: "K.P. Jacques" Subject: seven-seas-moderated Joe Strummer Just thought I'd add my (worthless) lot to the pile. I was 17 in 1977, actually I was also 16 for 5/12's of the year. Anyroads punk came along and saved (imho) rock 'n' roll and me and me mates. One of the greatest saviours was Joe himself, a bloke with a speech impediment fronting one of the all time greatest bands. Without these bands we would have drowned in the inane pap of the 'slap-clap' disco crap. With the advent of punk it wasn't just the music that was important it was the 'whole' awareness that was awakened in the youth and led to massif changes in creative, political and social culture. The Clash may have been a band with slightly muddled ideals but at least they had ideals - ( I bet Joe wouldn't have worn a 'Loyalist' dog tag). So why is Joe's death so poignant to me...I'll tell ya.....I'm now 42 the same age as Elvis was when he died in 1977. I carry the same 'heavy' build that Joe did and am ranked in all the Men's Health self assessments as the man most likely to have a heart attack, although I have widened the odds by giving up the Marlboros quite some time ago. So, here's the score from a guy who has had a lifetime of people correcting his pronunciations who is carrying excess poundage and is now older than the King was when Joe sang 'No more Elvis, Beatles or the Rolling Stones in ..........' I'm gonna celebrate Xmas, I'm gonna drink a fucking big toast to Joe. Then I'm gonna lose 2.5 stone, get fit - very fit, and then maybe I'm gonna be looking for ............................ Happy Xmas Joe Happy Xmas Brian ====================================== The Official Seven-Seas Web Page. www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 13:51:40 -0500 From: "Chris Adams" Subject: seven-seas-moderated Merry Xmas Hey 7-Seas Kidz-- Happy holidaze to all of ya. Thanks for all the support RE: "Turquoise Days." Raise a glass in memory of Joe, without whom...etc. - --Chris Adams ====================================== The Official Seven-Seas Web Page. www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 12:54:26 -0500 From: Red Subject: seven-seas-moderated Re: seven-seas Bunnymen/Interpol At 09:10 AM 12/24/02 -0800, you wrote: > >See the whole article at > >http://www.salon.com/ent/music/feature/2002/12/24/joey/index.html Actually....the whole article isn't there unless you subscribe... :-( or else I'm blind! Red ====================================== The Official Seven-Seas Web Page. www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 12:48:04 -0500 From: Red Subject: seven-seas-moderated Re: seven-seas Bunnymen/Interpol At 09:10 AM 12/24/02 -0800, you wrote: >Hey - what do you all think of this quote: > >"and Interpol made a record so hilariously indebted to >Joy Division and Echo and the Bunnymen that you just >had to smile." Sounds pretty much on the money! When I saw them live they were opening for Clinic and I had never heard of them, but as they played, they reminded me of Joy Division. There's definitely some Bunnymen influences too... Happy Holidays everybunny! Red ====================================== The Official Seven-Seas Web Page. www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 10:49:36 EST From: Iangeannapeter@aol.com Subject: seven-seas-moderated Happy Holidays. Folks, Have a good one wherever you are and whatever you're doing. Best wishes for a fab 2003. The Reverend Ian Presley ====================================== The Official Seven-Seas Web Page. www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 10:47:56 EST From: Iangeannapeter@aol.com Subject: seven-seas-moderated Re: seven-seas Joe Strummer Kp, Heartfelt and a similar story with the Clash.. I'm a couple of years younger but similar experience. A sad loss. R.I.P. Joe. The Reverend Ian Presley ====================================== The Official Seven-Seas Web Page. www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 23:11:42 -0600 (CST) From: amyr@jump.net (Amy Moseley Rupp) Subject: seven-seas-moderated Re: seven-seas Joe Strummer > well, i've never been a big clash fan... i like them and always meant > to buy > an album or so and see if i couldn't "get it". i just wanted to let you guys > know that i too am really sad to see this happen before i took the time. And I'd *just* taken the time, for some reason.... though I hadn't gotten very far. But as a teen who played "Should I Stay Or Should I Go" both in a band and in the car stereo until the tape wore through, I certainly was familiar with the band. "Rock the Casbah" of course made it, and every once in a while "London Calling." When Big Audio Dynamite released "The Bottom Line" it was a smash dance hit and is on the same dance compilation tape as "Bring On The Dancing Horses" -- the one what brung me -- though I know that's Mick Jones' gig, I knew then he'd been in The Clash.... I went out to eat tonight and asked the 20-something waitress if she knew of The Clash. She said "the 80s band?" I said yeah, that their lead singer had died and I was bummed out over it. (Don't know how to put "gutted" into American English.) She went on to say did I know of Stereolab (I nodded) and the death of Mary Hansen (I nodded again) "who was *way* younger than 50" (as if that made Strummer positively ancient) -- Mary was 36, a year older than I am. She said "lots of people dying out there, be careful...." made me feel like a Merry Christmas. Sometimes I feel like holding everyone near and dear to me, and I imagine them holding their loved ones, and hoping that the whole world would end up in one big global group hug because life is too short and we don't know when it will end for any one given person. - --Amy ====================================== The Official Seven-Seas Web Page. www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ End of seven-seas-moderated-digest V2 #6 ****************************************