From: owner-the-landing-digest@smoe.org (the-landing-digest) To: the-landing-digest@smoe.org Subject: the-landing-digest V4 #17 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 Sunday, March 25 2001 Volume 04 : Number 017 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Sad news [Jessica Brandt ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 15:25:19 -0500 From: Jessica Brandt Subject: Re: Sad news Yeah this is quite sad to hear, thanks for posting Mike. Good luck with YOUR album, however and please do let us all know when it comes to be. Although the "swing" thing worked for the Zippers, we have seen it really die down. There are still swing things going on, but not as ecclectic or specialized as Samsara. Remember, though, that all of the Zippers atarted with Rock 'n Roll roots -- Jim with Metal Flake Mother, Tom with What Peggy Wants, Ken now with the b-sides, Chris P. has done a lot of rock too. As a group, they were all able to have this common new discovery of hot music, and they inspired each other. They found some styles they liked and were able to make a good go of it. Separately, it sort of fell apart for them. No one was able to re-create that love of hot jazz that the band found together. I'm pretty sure there's no more communication between the split group anymore, and from what I've heard, Ken and Tom are both so into their own projects and families that they hardly have time to make music together anymore. You can't make money in music where there is no market for it. There is no market for what Tom was doing and there hardly is room for SNZ anymore. These guys have families and houses to take care of now. If they're not making money doing what was fun, yet they want to stay musicians, they have to change their styles to fit into the market or become something else. Luckilly for us, I think both Tom and Ken are still interested in being musicians. SNZ is still about making music. But as you can even see from the non-activity on this list and the scant number of users, the market for what WE like to hear from them has all but vanished. So let's remember to enjoy what we have -- three great SNZ albums with the members we loved, one klunker that still had it's own musical merits, Tom's Samsara which might be the fourth great SNZ album, the Bowl of Fire records we got into because of SNZ, and a scorcher of a blues album called "songs for rosetta." An odd phenomenon has begun to occur, something I never thought would come up in my lifetime, yet it's ineviatable in everyone's life. The bands we love are going away. Remember, Led Zepplin broke up. The Beatles called it quits. Except for the Rolling Stones, most bands have gone to pieces already. It's something weird to think about but it was bound to happen. Now that SNZ has pretty much called it quits (as we knew them and loved them) and BFF is dust, two of my favorite bands, bands I have spent so much time and money on, are only remembered by plastic disks in my stereo. Anyway, I'm glad we all have some answers at least about where Tom has been. Thanks again, Mike. Let's hear from some others about what they think. Jess ------------------------------ End of the-landing-digest V4 #17 ********************************