From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-digest) To: seven-seas-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-digest V4 #47 Reply-To: seven-seas@smoe.org Sender: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Precedence: bulk seven-seas-digest Wednesday, February 23 2005 Volume 04 : Number 047 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 20:00:03 -0500 From: "Scott Simpson" Subject: seven-seas Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for Echo I remember an interview with Kim Gordon about voting for the Grammies and everyone is sent a form and the whole thing is a total joke. No one has heard all of the entries for any one category and if you care to vote at all, you vote on name recognition or sentiment if someone just died. Look for John Raitt to be the big winner next year. For the record, way back in college I voted absentee ballot for Texas senator/fascist Phil Gramm. Gram, get it? My only point is that for years I refused to even consider visiting Mr. Pei's building in Cleveland so long as the Velvets were not there. Now that they're there, frankly who gives a shit? Cleveland doesn't have the vetting process that say, Cooperstown does. So, by definition, two tickets to paradise will get you in. Now I can't wait for Terry Jacks' induction. We had joy, we had fun. Scott, NYC ===================================================================== Bunnymen Online Presence: http://www.bunnymenlist.com * http://www.bunnymen.info * http://www.bunnymen.com * http://www.fotolog.net/sgtfuzz/ * http://bunnymen.nexuswebs.net/ * http://www.angelfire.com/wy2/discog/ * ====================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 18:19:34 -0800 From: Charles Pham Subject: seven-seas Blog? (was 'Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for Echo') Hey Chris A- ever thought about starting up a blog? I'm sure i speak for others on the 7seas list when i say you're postings are great to read...on so many levels. if you had a blog, I'm sure I'd visit daily. On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 15:05:53 -0800 (PST), chris adams wrote: > I thank Eddie Money and his ilk every day, for without them, punk rock would never have had anything to react against. "Two Tickets To Paradise" produced "Two Fingers To Flatulence." That said, I'm still agog that Ronnie Spector sang on one of his records. Phil must've been late with the alimony that month. > > I do think The Bunnymen deserve a much wider audience, and it kinda suprises me that they're still on the fringes, still a culty kinda thing. They coulda been huge in the early to mid-80's, but that's not gonna happen when, a week after you break the top 20, yr on the Outer Hebrides following ley lines, or trynna trace the "bunnygod" image across half the globe, or what have you. Which was great, of course, but doesn't translate into sales. But these days, with everyone from Coldplay to Courtney dropping their name, and the Donnie Darko thing, you'd think more people would bother checking them out. I think it's possibly got a lot to do with, in this IPod-happy ADD culture (and I think ADD is a lot more of a reactive social phenomenon than an internal illness), the idea of an "album" or even "band" is becoming archaic or antiquated. Music is becoming viewed as increasingly disposable ear candy, a "lifestyle accessory," and if it ain't "chirpy chirpy cheep cheap" (sic) th! > en it's > not gonna sell on a mass scale. So much of what's marketed as "alternative" is just Hanson with hair gel. I mean, "Jimmy Eat World"? Right. More like "Jimmy Suck Shit." (OK, not really that bad, but the Gang of 4 they're not . . .). > > Nothing new, really, I guess. I'm sure there are far more people who pepper their store-bought pret-a-porter "opinions" with "Velvet Underground" than people who have regularly experienced the sheer depth, breadth, and arguably girth (heh) of the Velvets' brilliance. To which I respond with a shrugged "Fuk 'em." Their loss. > > Chris A. ===================================================================== Bunnymen Online Presence: http://www.bunnymenlist.com * http://www.bunnymen.info * http://www.bunnymen.com * http://www.fotolog.net/sgtfuzz/ * http://bunnymen.nexuswebs.net/ * http://www.angelfire.com/wy2/discog/ * ====================================================================== ------------------------------ End of seven-seas-digest V4 #47 *******************************