From: owner-the-landing-digest@smoe.org (the-landing-digest) To: the-landing-digest@smoe.org Subject: the-landing-digest V2 #48 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 Thursday, March 11 1999 Volume 02 : Number 048 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Re: More Immortal! ["SHAUN SMAKAL" ] Re: TV and Permanent Records ["SHAUN SMAKAL" ] sleuth [Jessica Brandt ] Re: sleuth [DannyManco@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 11:49:58 +0000 From: "SHAUN SMAKAL" Subject: Re: Re: More Immortal! Yes, I noticed the Tom resemblance. Maybe the Zippers get killed by large group of vampires after Danny Diamond? Also, I thought the that the guy on the left of the crew photo (next to the post) looks a great deal like a young, sill alive Chris Farley. Smakal ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 12:03:21 +0000 From: "SHAUN SMAKAL" Subject: Re: TV and Permanent Records Watched the PBS Zipper show and I have to agree with Rob--very dissappionting. The whole thing is concert footage. The songs don't run in order of which the Zippers did them either (watch the ground). Plus, the program is not nearly 1 hour long--mine was interupted several times by those damn pledgers. Really gay pledgers too. They pretended to know who the Zippers are and just thuroughly trashed the band in my oppinion. I was going to tape it tonight but not any more. This doesn't do the Zippers any justice. The way I saw it--it was the tape you could get for free at Bestbuy that they were giving away, but I may be wrong. Jess has the address right and if ya missed it, here's the web site again: http://members.aol.com/permarec/mopermanentrecords.html Smakal P.S. Exscuse the excessive verbal diarhea lately, it dosen't happen often. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 09:18:49 PST From: "Ryan Sargent" Subject: NEW ANDREW SONGS. I was looking around the Rykodisc site and found two unreleased andrew songs. They are there for you to download, and are both great songs. Both "Etchasketch Drag" and "A Glass of Water" were recorded live...and "A Glass of Water" sounds like a Django Rhienhardt & Stephan Grappelli song. HERE THEY ARE: http://www.rykodisc.com/rykoindex/rykointernal/features/342/give_away4.htm Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 19:21:23 -0500 From: Jessica Brandt Subject: sleuth You know, I wish I could turn in my Landing postings to my Newswriting teacher. I could get some credit for breaking stories or something... Anyway, here's the track listing for Katherine's album (sources say it's AWESOME (do you expect anything but??) and NO I haven't heard it so don't ask!): "Deed I Do" "No Greater Love" "Sugar" "Yesterdays" "Just You Just Me" "Now or Never" "My Old Flame" "That Old Feeling" "Badisma" "All My Life" "After You've Gone" "Baby Just Cares" MAY 25th, and all the Zippers make cameos on the album. Also, the new Dirty Dozen album is done and it's just as amazing. 9 songs that'll blow you away. KATHERINE WHALEN'S JAZZ SQUAD AND THE DIRTY DOZEN ARE TOURING THE MAJOR MARKETS TOGETHER THIS JUNE. TO ANSWER ALL RYAN's PPROBING QUESTIONS: Andrew Bird's album is being mastered now. Look for a tour in June. Tom starts recording on the 19th. look for the album late summer. Jim told me personally way back in Sept. that the new Knockdown Society will be a double CD but who knows what's up with it now. The Knockdowns go into the studio after Tom. This counts as Jim's solo project. The "Stephen Foster" video airing has been pushed back to April, do to "issues." My guess is general record label/MTV silliness. So, I hope this answers any q's...why isn't anyone coming to my party? :( it's the glasses, isn't it? I TOLD my mom I didn't want glasses... Jess *********************************************************** * --+-READ THE SHRUBBERY-+-- * http://www.theshrubbery.prohosting.com --New Every Month- -Humor, Music, News and More-- *********************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 22:27:36 EST From: DannyManco@aol.com Subject: Re: sleuth Wow. I'm really looking forward to hearing Katharine's solo project. The track listing looks pretty fabulous. "'Deed I Do" is a favorite song of mine, especially as performed by Blossom Dearie on her eponymous 1956 Verve album, where the track, perhaps not coincidentally, also fills the first slot. (Dearie might well have been Katharine's direct inspiration, since somewhere or other -- I can't remember quite where I read it -- Katharine's voice described as a cross between Billie Holiday's and Blossom Dearie's.) Speaking of vocal similarities, I'm slightly concerned that some of the songs on Katharine's album appear to be songs which Billie Holiday herself famously recorded and which are closely associated with her -- songs like "My Old Flame" and "Yesterdays." I don't suppose there's anything wrong with wearing your influences on your sleeve, especially if your influences are as fantastic as Billie Holiday, but Katharine has been criticized before for sounding too much like Billie Holiday (for instance, in SPIN magazine's review of "Perennial Favorites," as I recall). I do think it's easy to overstate Katharine's indebtedness to Billie Holiday, but nevertheless, Katharine's probably not doing anything to dispel such criticisms by recording songs linked so strongly to Billie Holiday. I'm also excited to think that the Knock-Down Society will be releasing new material in the foreseeable future, and I was pleased that someone in a recent post had kind words to say about "Songs for Rosetta." In my humble opinion, that album is as good as, or better than, anything that the Squirrel Nut Zippers proper have released, and I think that perhaps this side project of Jimbo's is underappreciated. There seems to be a lot of Andrew Bird idolatry on this list, but I've never been especially keen on Andrew, and I often wonder why he's spotlighted so much while the Knock-Down Society gets only sporadic mention. Daniel ------------------------------ End of the-landing-digest V2 #48 ********************************