From: owner-support-system-digest@smoe.org (support-system-digest) To: support-system-digest@smoe.org Subject: support-system-digest V4 #75 Reply-To: support-system@smoe.org Sender: owner-support-system-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-support-system-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk support-system-digest Sunday, March 18 2001 Volume 04 : Number 075 Today's Subjects: ----------------- coming out of Lurk Ness [NappyZoe@aol.com] Re: support-system-digest V4 #74 [JJewelbaby@aol.com] apple commercial [robert joyner ] Re: blakes ? ["overpavement" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 09:13:14 EST From: NappyZoe@aol.com Subject: coming out of Lurk Ness In a message dated 03/17/2001 1:54:17 AM Eastern Standard Time, owner-support-system-digest@smoe.org writes: > 6) A thought: When Liz retires from music, what do you > think she'll do for a living, if anything. Will she be > a full-time mom, a record producer, contribute songs > to other singers. My guess is that she will be a > teacher of some sort. What do you guys think? > Liz could make a living out of just sitting around and being beautiful. She's gorgeous. Thought I'd poke my head out of my shell for a moment. Okay, back to the swamp ... zoe ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 15:47:56 EST From: JJewelbaby@aol.com Subject: Re: support-system-digest V4 #74 Hey all, I still haven't seen the Liz commercial on tv! I don't watch that many shows, so it will probably be hard for me to catch it. So, can someone please post the web address for me to download it? I went to the Apple site, and was looking at some of the television photos. Isn't Liz in the background of the George Clinton photo? It looks exactly like her, although it is a bit distorted. That's it, Julie :) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 20:57:01 -0800 (PST) From: robert joyner Subject: apple commercial I checked out the ad for apple at their website. I thought it was kind of odd to see Aimee Mann and Michael Penn doing a commercial for a cd burner when they have been such big opponents of musical piracy in the past. They are both listed as artists that oppose music piracy at www.artistsagainstpiracy.com. I know that some will say that cd burning and piracy like napster-ing are two unrelated subjects but from my viewpoint the two are inextricably linked. CD burners facilitate the transfer of the music from the computer to a cd that can be played anywhere. I don't think napster would be in half as much trouble as they are if downloaders weren't able to burn cds of files thay have downloaded. (For the record, I'm on napster's side on this one.) Just thought it was odd that they would be in the commercial for such a product considering their past views. Any opinions? later Robert ===== As Charles Barkley told a reporter, "You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black." Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 00:14:08 -0500 From: "overpavement" Subject: Re: blakes ? jason wrote: > I haven't heard anything by the Blake Babies before, but since I've come to > really enjoy Juliana's solo stuff, I can't help but be curious. Is their > work very similar to Juliana's own albums and how in line would the new > album be with someone whose tastes lean more towards _Beautiful Creature_, > _Bed_ and _Only Everything_ of all of Juliana's solo work? to me, there's *some* comparison in tone and musical style between juliana's and the blake babies' albums, but qualitatively there's no comparison. i just don't think you could compile all of juliana's best solo stuff onto one cd and have it match the impact of the blake babies 'sunburn' or even 'rosy jack world' -- and that only has 5 songs on it. it's hard to explain the importance of the other two members of the blake babies in setting the tone for those albums. john strohm is an excellent songwriter and a brutal guitarist, and many of the best blake songs were at least co-written by him. when he does sing, as on 'girl in a box' or 'runaway train', his voice provides a great counterpoint to juliana's. this is *not* a back-up band for juliana hatfield. i may be a minority of one, but i think she's done her best work with the blakes, not as a solo performer. the new 'god bless the blake babies' sounds better every time i listen to it. there's just not a bad song on it. 'civil war', 'on', 'disappear', 'nothing ever happens', 'picture perfect'... they're brilliant. read strohm's tour diary at: http://www.blakebabies.com/html/diary.html it's worth reading if only to read about how they feel about mammoth records, where they were signed in the late '80's and which always seemed like a cool label, like matador used to. now mammoth is owned by disney and strohm's description of their tour stop in mammoth's home town of carrboro (chapel hill), nc, is fun and a little depressing to read. i think of the blake babies as a big, important, very influential band. so john's descriptions of their 2 a.m. bus rides from show to show and meeting up with other bands in the parking lots of 7-11's, where they stopped to hit the bathroom and eat crappy food, are sort of surprising. they're like reading letters from an old friend that you really miss. and see a thorough discography at http://idiot-dog.com/music/blake.babies/ o ps: someone else mentioned that tuscadero had split into (at least) two other bands. i noticed that melissa farris was listed as a nominee for a WAMMIE (washington-area music awards) on the ballots that went out in january. not sure if she's nominated as part of her band or if she's doing solo stuff now. but, goddam, that last tuscadero disc knocks me out. ------------------------------ End of support-system-digest V4 #75 ***********************************