From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-digest) To: seven-seas-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-digest V2 #129 Reply-To: seven-seas@smoe.org Sender: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Precedence: bulk seven-seas-digest Sunday, April 6 2003 Volume 02 : Number 129 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2003 19:47:38 +0100 From: "Barry Whiting" Subject: seven-seas UNCUT Magazine : A Record That Changed My Life A Record That Changed My Life Ian McCulloch The Bunnymen leader and solo artist on everybody's favourite miserable minstrel "If you'd asked me this years ago, I probably would've pretended me first introduction to Leonard Cohen was something like Songs Of Love And Hate, but it wasn't, it was Greatest Hits, also known as The Best Of. I'd seen a clip from his Bird On A Wire documentary on The Old Grey Whistle Test when I was about 15. In those days I could only afford one album every three months, but I decided to risk this best-of. The voice, the religious imagery, the lyrics, it blew me head off. "Soon after, I got a part-time 'bodyguard' job, shadowing this feller collecting money from the mean streets of Liverpool. The theory was that two blokes were less likely to get battered than one. There were a few dose scrapes, but I never got hurt and it meant I had money to buy Cohen's proper albums, the ones Greatest Hits was compiled from. So that's what funded me Cohen collection - protection money! Saying that, I still think Greatest Hits is the best. On those original albums there's one or two songs that aren't right, but Greatest Hits is flawless. I'll always love it cos it's the first Cohen LP I bought. "He was such a dude, too, the way he looked with the ciggie, his whole clobber. He went out with Nico as well didn't he? Mind you, all that lot in New York in the '60s were practically throwing their soddin' keys in the middle of the table. Lou dipped his wick. Then you had Joplin shagging everyone, Joni Mitchell at it, Nico doing Jim Morrison, and then Dylan. I think he was like The Don - when Dylan was in town, he'd be the one shagging Nico, heh, heh! But Leonard, I've met him a few times and he's such a gent. I think he's still my number one to be honest, because he's cool and suave. Whereas Lou Reed used to be cool, but now he's neither cool nor suave, just reptilian. In fact, Len's still the only bloke who I'll say that I've met him. All the others, even Bowie, I say that they met me." INTERVIEW BY SIMON GODDARD ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2003 19:47:55 +0100 From: "Barry Whiting" Subject: seven-seas UNCUT Magazine : Weird As Fish Review Will Sergeant WEIRD AS FISH OCHRE * * * Bunnymen guitarist's experimental 1978 demo Before he joined forces with Ian McCulloch and a drum machine called Echo, the young Will Sergeant was making his own two-track instrumental recordings at home. And here they are - rough around the edges, often evocative of Bowie's Low but pretty bloody ahead of their time for the late '70s (even today they sound like the radical calling cards of a guitar innovator aching to join a truly great band). As an extra we've also Sergeant's spooky, Doors-like soundtrack to the 1982 Bunnymen tour film Le Via Luonge. Visit www.ochre.co.uk for mail order. SIMON GODDARD ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2003 21:27:16 -0800 (PST) From: Andrew Ironside Subject: Re: seven-seas Be Afraid................... So who won in the NCAA? Did Syracuse play Texas today? What's the scoop Amy, you must get pissed when people ask you EVERYTHING that's Texas related. Do you have the Courtney Love book by Poppy Z Brite? Picked it up recently, I liked all the stuff about her time in Liverpool, with Cope and Pete Defreitas, sh exeperienced the Liverpool and the mid 80's Minnesota scene, it's not fair, anyone knows what she or Justine Frischmann are up to these days? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2003 23:35:21 -0600 (CST) From: amyr@jump.net (Amy Moseley Rupp) Subject: Re: seven-seas Be Afraid................... > So who won in the NCAA? Did Syracuse play Texas today? > What's the scoop Amy, you must get pissed when people > ask you EVERYTHING that's Texas related. You know, I didn't even know about the game. I just looked it up and we lost. I went to University there and it's in Austin, but that's how much attention I pay to sports! - --Amy ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2003 21:42:32 -0800 (PST) From: Andrew Ironside Subject: Re: seven-seas Be Afraid................... - --- Amy Moseley Rupp wrote: > > So who won in the NCAA? Did Syracuse play Texas > today? > > What's the scoop Amy, you must get pissed when > people > > ask you EVERYTHING that's Texas related. > > You know, I didn't even know about the game. I just > looked > it up and we lost. I went to University there and > it's > in Austin, but that's how much attention I pay to > sports! > > --Amy > > I know the feeling, sports used to be my life at one point, but I only passively follow it now, back in the good ole days, sportscards were a big hobby of mine, comics too, but as soon as everyone and their dog was releasing a different set, I couldn't even collect my own favourite player let alone the whole bloody set. So it's dad that I can't indulge in that anymore, but hey, searching for cheap vinyl suits me better, I saw the British version of Life at brian's today, with the different cover, never saw one before. Yahoo! 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