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Monday, January 26, 2004 |
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| Topics for Monday, January 26, 2004 1. Re: Gary Husband Force Majeure On Tour soon! - Nick Lauro 2. they're building a casket! - Tom Foolery 3. Metropolis - =?iso-8859-1?q?Andrew=20Goodwin?= |
| 1. Re: Gary Husband Force Majeure On Tour soon! |
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| From: | Nick Lauro <thedrumdoctor @ nlauro.f9.co.uk> |
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| Date: | Sun, 25 Jan 2004 14:37:03 -0000 |
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| Well that's just great..... First Rhythm Magazine print that Gary is doing the Unity Theatre in Liverpool on 4 March but it's really a Morecambe venue instead, and now we see the Tower of Power only doing a London date in the UK. So much for Liverpool being the "capital city of culture" (my arse as Jim Royal would say). A grumpy old drumdoctor >;-( | ||
| 2. they're building a casket! |
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| From: | Tom Foolery <grooveyardtom @ yahoo.com> |
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| Date: | Sun, 25 Jan 2004 09:00:05 -0800 (PST) |
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| Eric, It seems that this digest thing is a-gonna die unless it comes to us on a daily basis, even if it's sometimes nothing more than the Web Digest summary. People need the pump to be primed with a little bit of something in order to respond, it seems . . . I am on a few other music lists, one is the Blue Nile's list, and through various twists and turns, Level 42 came up (OK I brought them up) and the consensus among those people was - there is no consensus. Some liked, some thought L42 pretty poppy. But there was a definite consensus there about the Isle of Wight - people who had grown up there and couldn't wait to get out, some comparing it to the American movie "Deliverance" (you know, backwoods and inbreds and banjos and such) . . . which took me by surprise. I've never been to England, sadly, but I was wondering if these comparisons were valid, or subjective, more likely . . . OK, pump primed then. cheers, -Tom <<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>> makes a good road trip better: "http://www.emeraldsoul.com" __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ | ||
| 3. Metropolis |
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| From: | =?iso-8859-1?q?Andrew=20Goodwin?= <thenightfly83 @ yahoo.co.uk> |
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| Date: | Sun, 25 Jan 2004 22:54:45 +0000 (GMT) |
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| > 1. items on ebay > From: Stephen.Whyte @ lpc.tv < > Stephen.Whyte @ lpc.tv> > > I remember finding my copy of this boxset, (for a > fiver!), nearly a decade > ago at a record fair - do you remember them folks? A > time not so very long > ago, (gasp - before the internet and eBay!!), when > you could walk around > musty town halls, spending hours getting your > fingers dirty as you walked > from one stand to the next, flipping through box > after box of 12" singles > in the vague hope of finding a rarity or a > bargain... I'm only 28, but > even now the record fair is an event of a bygone age There's a record fair every first Saturday of the month at Oxford Town Hall, if anybody's really that anxious to spend a couple of sweaty hours being jostled by fat men and hearing five stereos fighting for supremacy. > - and although the > nostalgia remains strong, the excitement I used to > feel when I woke up on a > Saturday morning before a record fair will never > quite be matched by typing > "Level 42" into eBay. I used to love record fairs, but that was way back when it was mostly records, before the sonically superior but sensuously soulless CD had slithered into supremacy. Moreover, the last one I went to seemed to be an entirely different beast from the record fairs I went to as a kid. Lots of stands had row upon row of chart CDs at prices barely cheaper than you'd get at HMV - what's the point? And those stands which did have an interesting stock were hopelessly overpriced. If eBay has done nothing else it's made it apparent how incorrect many book prices are, and more than once I felt like saying to stallholders "That may be what Record Collector's Price Guide says is its value, now do you want me to tell you what it's really worth?" As a result, I disagree about the relative excitement of record fairs and internet auctions. I'll concede that at a record fair you might stumble across something you hadn't seen before, or happen whilst browsing upon items you hadn't realised you wanted; but compared with the thrill of finding at auction a CD I'd been looking for for so long I'd started wondering whether it even existed - one which was never released in the UK and which would never, ever turn up at a record fair - I know which I'd choose. > The girlfriend would kill me 'cos > we're trying to save > for a deposit for a flat, and every little helps. So > if anyone has a spare > 30k lying around, would they mind if I had it for my > deposit? Yes yes yes, four kids and two season tickets to support, prioritise please prospective donors. > We live in London I don't know whether to laugh or cry. AG ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html |
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