From: owner-the-landing-digest@smoe.org (the-landing-digest) To: the-landing-digest@smoe.org Subject: the-landing-digest V2 #23 Reply-To: the-landing@smoe.org Sender: owner-the-landing-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-the-landing-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk the-landing-digest Saturday, February 13 1999 Volume 02 : Number 023 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Trou Macaq (sp?) [Dishon Gerald Robert ] [none] [Aaron Morris ] Re: Trou Macaq (sp?) [ProfPlum97@aol.com] Trou Macacq ["Ryan Sargent" ] Re: [CHAMICLOV@aol.com] Windplayer ["Ryan Sargent" ] Preferences ["Ryan Sargent" ] Re: Trou Macaq (sp?) [Andy Harman ] Re: Trou Macacq [Andy Harman ] Re: Preferences [Andy Harman ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 10:10:44 -0500 From: Dishon Gerald Robert Subject: Re: Trou Macaq (sp?) Does anyone know which band members go with which lines at the end of the song? Chris P is obvious, and Charming Enchantress would be Kat, but how about the rest? Gerald ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 12:40:44 -0800 (PST) From: Aaron Morris Subject: [none] Regarding the old "Put a Lid on it" video: >>Why was the old One (Which I Own)Bannned From Mtv? It was banned because at the end of the video Kathrine pours gasoline all over the old house and lights a match (which never gets thrown onto the gas, yet still offended the censors). So I guess, they didn't want kids to go pour gas all over their houses and light them aflame like the did when they saw Beavis and Butthead light a mattress on fire and blame it on the network. Go figure. Its the freakin' 90's. YOu can't do anything without a permit anymore. Aaron == Mediocrity: It takes a lot less time and most people won't notice the difference until it's too late. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 15:46:33 EST From: ProfPlum97@aol.com Subject: Re: Trou Macaq (sp?) TheBroadcaster is pretty obvious too... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 13:13:40 PST From: "Ryan Sargent" Subject: Trou Macacq Chris P. rides on a serious plan, he's going to finish as fast as he can . The Esculator (I think Don Raleigh) takes it personally and does not drive professionally. Katharine and Jimbo can run even when the windshield wipers are on. I, Tom Maxwell, avoid police but the bat (don't know) was lead into custody.... ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 18:26:58 EST From: CHAMICLOV@aol.com Subject: Re: WHAT???!!!?! that is the most ridiculous thing i've ever heard about. mtv plays MUCH MORE WORSE things then setting a house on fire. uh, hheellloo? i just don't get it. it sounds more like a politics thing than anything else. i mean, come on. ~brown eyed girl~ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 20:31:00 PST From: "Ryan Sargent" Subject: Windplayer I decided to post part of an interview with the SNZ horn section from Windplayer mag. Keep in mind this was from the HOT album days: Decked out in vintage duds, the Zippers even pay homage to their esteemed influences (Louis Armstrong, Louis Jordon, Fats Waller, Eddie Condon) in their recording methods. Their yet-to-be-released third CD (delayed due to Hot's infernal rise up the charts almost a year after the recording came out) was put down in mosher's home using just six microphones. "We love bringing the room in and capturing the spirit of a live performance by sharing mikes," says Mosher, a former recording engineer who had to unlearn any state-of-the-art techniques for the sake of the band's sound. "On this last album, we were really trying to maximize mike bleed and things that, when I was recording rock'n'roll, would have driven me insane! On some of the songs, we couldn't even record drums in the same room. During one track Tom is actually standing on a chair in the middle of the room, playing an archtop Gibson acoustic guitar right into the mike and trying not to blow it out, since everyone else in the band is singing into the mike at the same time." "We'll record straight to tape with a single mike," boasts Mathus in his smooth Southern-dandy drawl, sounding half impressed with his own gumption. "We originally did a project with one RCA-44 microphone straight to tape through an Altech amp, and that's the best sound we've ever gotten!" "With this last album, we rented some Neeves compressors from the BBC and some Cole mikes, Norman mikes, tube mikes and tube compressors, and ran straight to a Scully two-inch tape machine. If you don't go through the board, there's no mixing, so it puts a lot of pressure on the band to play the shit right! We just do three takes, pick the best one and go on from there." The group's horn parts are arranged by committee, as each band member writes material. The Zippers' motto when it comes to composing and recording is simply, "The best idea wins." ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 20:59:36 PST From: "Ryan Sargent" Subject: Preferences This is just one more thing said in the Winplayer mag...I thought it was interesting: "Actually, tonight, I'm running over to Chinatown to get Tom and the guys some kind of horn. I don't know exactly what it's called." It's late in Manhatten, but the Squirrel nut Zippers' publicist, Jennifer plantz, is dutifully executing the wishes of her top 50 act. "It's actually a Chinese or Moroccan horn which always intrigued me," admits Maxwell. "It's kind of an odd affair. It's got a straight body with holes cut in it. Sort of like a recorder with a kind of a brown fell, reminiscent of a clarinet. And then it's got a double reed like an oboe. And it's loud as hell! It's a unique instrument and I'd love to give that thing a shot...It can't be harder than the clarinet!" "The instruments that we tour with and are on the album are student models," laments Maxwell, who began playing at age 11 and temporarily gave the sax for rock drums after marching a year in college to get out of math class. "There are grave intonation problems on these instruments. The alto and tenor saxophones we have are both Bundy student model horns. And the baritone is a Buesher student horn. We can afford nothing else. It has been indefinitley loaned to us by our drummer's brother." This was from Windplayer mag. With a feature interview on Jim, Tom, Ken, and Je. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 01:31:32 -0500 From: Andy Harman Subject: Re: Trou Macaq (sp?) At 10:10 AM 2/12/99 -0500, you wrote: >Does anyone know which band members go with which lines at the end of >the song? Chris P is obvious, and Charming Enchantress would be Kat, >but how about the rest? Bones = Jimbo Escalator = Ken I the Broadcaster = Tom The Bat = ??? Stu perhaps? Not sure if Je is mentioned indirectly, nor do I know what the "windshield wipers" bit is about, but I've heard the scoop about "escalator" from the source. Andy ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 01:34:36 -0500 From: Andy Harman Subject: Re: Trou Macacq At 01:13 PM 2/12/99 PST, you wrote: >. The Esculator (I think Don Raleigh) takes it personally and does not >drive professionally. The Escalator is Ken. He is notorious for his driving apparently; "escalator" not as in the thing that takes you up and down floors, but as in "one who escalates" (a conflict? road rage?). Maybe Don Raleigh was the Bat. Andy ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 01:45:07 -0500 From: Andy Harman Subject: Re: Preferences At 08:59 PM 2/12/99 PST, you wrote: >of math class. "There are grave intonation problems on these >instruments. The alto and tenor saxophones we have are both Bundy >student model horns. And the baritone is a Buesher student horn. We can >afford nothing else. It has been indefinitley loaned to us by our >drummer's brother." This is definately not the case any more! As of late '97, Ken was still playing the borrowed Buescher bari, shortly after he picked up a 70's Conn bari. He got a Selmer MkVII alto (definately not as desirable as the MkVI but a lot cheaper) and Tom picked up an awesome Selmer '51 Super Balanced Action tenor sax - I've played one of these horns and it's a killer. In early '98 the band got a full endorsement from Selmer. When they were here in Cincy back in September, they had brand new Selmer Super Action 80 Serie II alto and bari, and a Serie III tenor. I was so impressed with the sound of Tom on that tenor I bought one for myself, although he's not parting with his '51 SBA (I asked!!). I think he's still using it in the studio, and that's probably cool with his Selmer endorsement even though it's a vintage model. The III tenor is a monster horn though. I have a Yanagisawa baritone that has a much fatter sound than any of the new Selmers... I love it. BTW, I think Ken's Conn bari is still up for sale. I don't think he used it on any of the albums; all three of them would have been the Buescher and "Christmas Caravan" was probably recorded with the new Selmer. But he did use it on tour in '97 and part of '98 including the Europe tour. I'd buy it myself but I can't afford a souveneer that pricey... and my Yanagisawa is a better horn. But would make an interesting aquisition for a diehard SNZ fan with a spare $1750 in his pocket. Andy ------------------------------ End of the-landing-digest V2 #23 ********************************