Errors-To: owner-tmbg-digest@tmbg.org Reply-To: tmbg-digest@tmbg.org Sender: owner-tmbg-digest@tmbg.org Precedence: bulk From: owner-tmbg-digest@tmbg.org To: tmbg-digest@tmbg.org Subject: tmbg-list Digest #1-100 tmbg-list Digest, Volume 1, Number 100 Tuesday, 19 December 1995 Today's Topics: ok. this is [another] it!! Shows I know of momento of silenceo the cover album Re: the cover album sleeping in the poppies the cover album Re: Christmass Mailing List at Web Site (none) Happy Chanukkah band participation i've got an important question... Make MPEGs! Vote for TMBG Re: tmbg-list Digest #1-99 AKA Driver FW: Net highway (fwd) Re: AKA Driver Administrivia: For all administrative issues, such as change of address, withdrawal from the list, etc., send a message to the following address: tmbg-list-request@tmbg.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- The views expressed herein are those of the individual authors. --------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: rc@gcc.cc.md.us Date: 18 Dec 1995 12:33:52 EDT Subject: TM>ramblings, about 2 months later TMBG was on House of Blues with Victoria TM>Williams (who is also a pretty good musician and i highly recommend her) TM>TMBG played The Guitar and No one knows my plan (with a breath stopping TM>performance i might add). They also played Istanbul Not Constantinople. I really like that song now that I saw Them play it. Does anyone have a updated tour schedule, or aren't they touring now? I've been behind on this stuff since the accident. It wasn't my fault, that damn jar of pickles came outta no where. TM>my apologies to all....i have been re-informed that it was indeed an epis TM>of Tiny Toons (we're all allowed one mistake on this list right?) NO! No mistakes! I was so amazed when I heard They Might Be Giants on Tiny Toons. Istanbul and Particle Man. Unfortunately, when they did Particle Man, they kinda got it confused. Particle Man got the shaft the whole time. TM>well, to all the people who are into this band making crup, I can play a TM>pretty skroggin' wicked pan flute. Ok, maybe I can't , maybe I lied. I' TM>hypoglycemic. "Hypo" for make, "glycemic" for stuff up. ok, yes, I DID TM>steal that from someone else. (unoriginal bastard) At least you could try to be original and steal someone who we don't know's stuff. I can play the skin flute. When I start, I count off..."1, 2, 1, 2, 3, WANK!" You should hear me wank my skin flute to Don't Lets Start. It rocks! TM>anyhoo... excuse my ignorance masked as newness: I don't know what I'm TM>doing really, but I'm sure you are all smart enough to see that. Really? I didn't notice. I guess that's just my newcomer ignorance coming out. TM>guess I need to talk about the band to make this relevant, here goes: Me too... TM> TMBG are the shiznit. They're all that. And I bet they're TM>pretty good at checkers too. Shiznit indeed! I think They'd make better wankers. TM> *a misguided SON OF GOD* <---------A misguided everything. TM>the index for names and the name John Linnell caught my eye. It turns ou TM>that back in the 1800's there was an artist named John Linnell. TM>Interesting, huh? :) Yeppers, pretty interesting. Now you should find out if that's his grandfather. I think I remember something about John Linnell III, but I could be wrong (probably). Nothingman -You're free to come and go and talk like Kurtis Blow. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 20:43:28 -0500 Subject: ok. this is [another] it!! From: mrme@usa.pipeline.com (Rabbit Ears) alright, for all of you who are still confused about channel one.. it's nothing REALLY special.. it's just a nationwide news program, hosted by mostly 17 to 20 (i think) year old "kids".. i don't believe it can be watched by the average tv watching person, because it has to come to each school via a special satalite dish that all schools that recieve the program have.. it comes on EVERY day and usually runs for about 12 minutes.. very informative actually, and i find it to me more professionally done than most shows run by adults.. if possible, i'll get a date when they might run the song and maybe you could all drop by a school and watch it live.. (it is also a live show) but that's up to you.. i'm just me.......................................................................................................................................................... + 1 -- :Rabbit Ears: ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Dec 95 13:08:19 EST From: apf@caess1.cae.aro.allied.com (Adam P. Fistler) Subject: Shows I know of For the person that asked, heres a list of shows that I know of. Dec 30: 7 PM at the Trocadero in Philly, PA tickets are $16 + Ticketbastard charges Dec 31: 7 PM at Tramps in New York, NY tickets are $15 + ticketbastard charges 11 PM at Tramps in New York, NY (21+ show) tickets are $25 + charges Jan 17: ? at the 9:30 in DC, tickets are $20 + whatever Protix throws on. Anyone know of more shows? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 09:18:37 -0500 Subject: momento of silenceo From: mrme@usa.pipeline.com (Rabbit Ears) .....a short moment of silence for those out there that either don't have the resources to be on the list or have never even heard of tmbg.. i figure it's only respectful being the hollidays and such..... -- :Rabbit Ears: ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 13:09:51 -0600 (CST) From: The Guy Who Hit You in the Eye Subject: the cover album After all this talk of covering TMBG I came up with this list of bands and the They Songs they should cover. If for some reason you dislike one of the artists on the list please don't send me hate mail. the rentals-Rythm section Want Ad Primus- Your racist friend Cracker- Stand on your own head The Mighty Mighty Bosstones-The Gitar Rancid- Stomp Box Nine inch Nails- Where your eyes don't go Stone Temple Pilots- self called nowhere Weezer-Dead Porno for Pyros-Sleeping in the flowers Tom Waites-Turn around ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 14:12:58 -0500 (EST) From: Frosty the Supervisor Subject: Re: the cover album On Mon, 18 Dec 1995, The Guy Who Hit You in the Eye wrote: > After all this talk of covering TMBG I came up with this list of bands > and the They Songs they should cover. If for some reason you dislike one > of the artists on the list please don't send me hate mail. > > > the rentals-Rythm section Want Ad > > Primus- Your racist friend > > Cracker- Stand on your own head > > The Mighty Mighty Bosstones-The Gitar > > Rancid- Stomp Box > > Nine inch Nails- Where your eyes don't go > > Stone Temple Pilots- self called nowhere > > Weezer-Dead > > Porno for Pyros-Sleeping in the flowers > > Tom Waites-Turn around > I think Weird Al Yankovic should do the "Famous Polka". 'Nette `'*'`'*'`'*'`'*'`'*'`'*'`'*'`'*'`'*'`'*'`'*'`'*'`'*'`'*'`'*'` Jeanette Frost(y the Supervisor) frost@trenton.edu *------------------------------------------------------------- Q of the week: Is caffeine really your friend? *------------------------------------------------------------- "The porpoise is laughing; good-bye, good-bye." The Monkees `'*'`'*'`'*'`'*'`'*'`'*'`'*'`'*'`'*'`'*'`'*'`'*'`'*'`'*'`'*'` ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 15:10:05 -0500 From: SANDLER KAREN M Subject: sleeping in the poppies Is it schizoid paranoia? (i say ha! to this infamous jenny) i just bought tickets to the tramps new years show in nyc. has anyone else heard rumours that good old chuckie (a.k.a. frank black) will be there too? I had thought that David Lovering was dead! Anyway, I'm learning to play bass guitar and I was wondering were i could get some giant bass lines. finals finals ack. Karen in NYC (i think) i bought my copy of Lincoln for $.50, heh heh ------------------------------ From: Matthew James Subject: the cover album Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 15:26:21 -0500 (EST) > > After all this talk of covering TMBG I came up with this list of bands > and the They Songs they should cover. If for some reason you dislike one > of the artists on the list please don't send me hate mail. This ain't hate list, it's just a statement of disbelief. > > > the rentals-Rythm section Want Ad Ok, haven't really heard the Rentals so don't know how that'd sound. > > Primus- Your racist friend I don't know if I could see Primus do this song, doesn't seem their style if I thought about it, I might be able to see them do another song possibly. > > Cracker- Stand on your own head Don't think i could see Cracker doing any TMBG song. > > The Mighty Mighty Bosstones-The Gitar This would be interesting... > > Rancid- Stomp Box Yah, they'd probably do a good job of it, in their style, course I'm not much of a fan of Rancid > > Nine inch Nails- Where your eyes don't go This one blew me away a bit, I could never seem NIN doing this song in a million years. > > Stone Temple Pilots- self called nowhere Again, another one in total disbelief, again not a fan of STP though. > > Weezer-Dead Hmmm this'd be odd but might be interesting to see it done. > > Porno for Pyros-Sleeping in the flowers Don't know if Porno for Pyros is this happy or whatever this song emanates to do this, but I haven't heard a whole lot of their songs > > Tom Waites-Turn around This'd be really weird but I think Tom would do any song were he given the chance in his own weird way Rather odd choice but then again I don't know who I'd have playing these songs either. As far as fitting together I think the Rancid-Stomp Box connection is best made. Matt -- *------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Matt James mjames@love.loyola.edu,elrond@charm.net http://www.charm.net/~elrond "EIREANN GO BRATH!"| Eireannach siochan | Wedge Antilles | "I'm not the only dust my mother raised."--TMBG| "Hail to the king, baby"-Ash Anything Box|Erasure|Warsaw-Joy Division-NewOrder|Elastica|Blur|Suede|Pulp Smiths|Revenge|The Other Two|Rush|Morrissey|Moxy Fruvous|Lightning Seeds -------The poor remain poor. Someone has to work at Woolworths.---------------- ------------------------------ From: Leo Bicknell Subject: Re: Christmass Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 15:29:22 -0500 (EST) > aw man, that's awsome!! like was it home made or something? i told my Hallmark personalizes orinimants....probably a little late for this year though... -- Leo Bicknell - TMBG List Admin - tmbg-list-request@tmbg.org System Administrator / Network Technician bicknell@ufp.org - bicknell@vt.edu - bicknell@tmbg.org ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 15:38:13 -0600 From: jchaffer@tmbg.org (Jonathan Chaffer) Subject: Mailing List at Web Site I've been doing some HTML rewrites for the web site (www.tmbg.org) and I've put up a section on current threads on the mailing list. At the moment, it has only Mr. Klaw's Band List, but it should expand significantly in the near future. To get there from the main page, click on "What's here" and then on "TMBG Mailing list." See you there! --Jon Save MST3K! http://fermi.clas.virginia.edu/~jcp9j/canceled.html +------------------------------+-------------+----------------------+ | jonathan.chaffer@cmich.edu | JC(A+R) | jchaffer@tmbg.org | +------------------------------+----------+--+----------------------+ | http://www.tmbg.org/personal/jchaffer/ | sucks. | +-----------------------------------------+-------------------------+ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 14:44:56 -0600 (CST) From: Anne Swan > > aw man, that's awsome!! like was it home made or something? i told my > > Hallmark personalizes orinimants....probably a little > late for this year though... i have a tmbg christmas ornament that i made several years ago. i just took a normal booring old ball ornament and wrote tmbg stuff all over it. works great. paul, broadcasting live from his new Christmas break address... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 20:50:34 GMT From: joekeith@dircon.co.uk (Joe Keith) Subject: Happy Chanukkah To those celebrating over the next 8 days. Happy Chanukkah. -- * JoeKeith@dircon.co.uk ************************************************** * * "Look at my face, turn it around, I'm the invisible man, * I'm the expletive deleted" -- "Expletive Deleted" - Swingin' Utters ------------------------------ From: Matthew James Subject: band participation Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 16:33:12 -0500 (EST) I was just thinking about various bands the other day and proceeded to think about TMBG. I also remember a short thread on here once where people were talking about one of the Johns doing more of the work or one of them being the "ring-leader" of the group and the other was a side show act type deal. That got me to thinking just how much each John contributes to TMBG. Neither one really contributes more, they both sing, they both play the instruments (although I'd probably say Linnell plays more instruments), they both write the songs and they both are great up there on stage. When you think of a lot of other bands, they genrally have 1 or maybe 2 guys that are the great ones that everyone loves and then there are the other members that don't write songs or just play one instrument and never sing, etc. TMBG ain't like that, that's what makes em so great, they can play just about anything (heck Stump the Band is pretty impressive), they can both sing anything, and they both have wonderfully creative minds. Now, you might say, Matt, what about Tony Maimone and Brian Doherty? They only play their one instrument and don't seem to contribute as much. I'd explain this as they are pretty darn new to the group and had not started initially with the Giants. This is not to say they aren't part of the band but give it a little while. Tony plays the bass but he's also played the yuckalelee (sp?) I believe on Extra Savoir Faire, and Brian has played the Glockenspiel on the great tune, Shoehorn with Teeth, and I wouldn't be surprised if I saw them put a pretty good effort into writing the songs in the future (actually they may be already, I'm not sure who writes which songs, does anyone know?) This is probably the main reason why I like this band, they are capable of anything. You may be thinking, why the heck is Matt writing this? Well I'll tell you I'm trying to avoid writing these programs!! hehehe No, really, I just wanted to tell yas how much I think of the Johns. Glad they're touring again!!! Matt (who'll hit the decade mark for concerts in January) -- *------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Matt James mjames@love.loyola.edu,elrond@charm.net http://www.charm.net/~elrond "EIREANN GO BRATH!"| Eireannach siochan | Wedge Antilles | "I'm not the only dust my mother raised."--TMBG| "Hail to the king, baby"-Ash Anything Box|Erasure|Warsaw-Joy Division-NewOrder|Elastica|Blur|Suede|Pulp Smiths|Revenge|The Other Two|Rush|Morrissey|Moxy Fruvous|Lightning Seeds -------The poor remain poor. Someone has to work at Woolworths.---------------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 17:12:14 -0500 (EST) From: "DAVID A. MEYERSON" Subject: i've got an important question... how often does TMBG play in the Chicago area? cause... I JUST GOT IN TO THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! "The Force Will Be With You, Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi buh bye Daniel ------------------------------ From: joeyd@netcom.com (Mr. DJ) Subject: Make MPEGs! Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 14:44:29 -0800 (PST) PLEASE: Will someone please take the few minutes to make an MPEG of the House of Blues performance of NOKMP, or make some WAV or AUs of some weird bootleg stuff? AND tell me where to get it... thank you all for being geeks like me. (JD-DJ) *-------------------------------------------------------------- /----\/----\ /----\ /----\ /--\ | || | | <> | | /-\ \ | | | \/ | \----/ | | | | | | joeyd@netcom.com | | | | | \ | \_/ / ___/ | \___/ \___/ | \ <> \____/ \_____/oey Drago "Push the delete key while holding down Control and Alt for a secret surprise..." --Joke for the computer Illiterate *-------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 18:49:41 -0800 From: Rabbit Ears Organization: Linear Software Subject: Vote for TMBG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. -----------------------------2682124433935 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit hey everybody, check this out.. i did a search on cramer (for some ungoddly reason, and i found this!!) the address is http://www.geodyn.psu.edu/~cramer/they/ it's amazing what you can find on the net.. > Vote for TMBG > > Hi there TMBG fans! 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Return to Mike's Home Page -----------------------------2682124433935-- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 19:53:54 -0500 (EST) From: Paul Sebold Subject: Re: tmbg-list Digest #1-99 Well, this fine day I have two points to make. 1) for anyone using the word "PEZ" in a sentence, it is all capitals, never ever lowercase, unless, of course, you really don't give a howdy dooo about proper PEZ capitalization, in which case, pez is ok. 2) Nothingman was given the Tape of Life From the House of Blues from a friend ofours. I don't get TBS, so I was planning on borrowin gthe tape when he was through with it. When I got the tape, the sorry bastard had taped over it with some ignorant Star Trek crap. I mean, I believe that to be a crime against humanity. -Really Folks, it just ain't right. SON oF gOD ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 17:03:53 -0800 (PST) From: Rian Rutherford Subject: AKA Driver I was just wondering if they took out the lyrics of AKA Driver (Nyquil Driver?) because they had copyright material. And that would probably explain the name of AKA Driver instead of Nyquil driver too... *------------------------------------------------------------- |garthi@teleport.com | "These go up to 11" -Nigel Tuffnel| |----------------------| ------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Subject: FW: Net highway (fwd) Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 22:32:45 -0500 (EST) From: "Matt James" This is absolutely HILARIOUS. Check it out. Sorry to the TMBG list but this was too funny to pass up! Matt > Like George Carlin...I find Goofy Suff....And I share It With You! > > > >>There it is again. Some clueless FOOL talking about the "Information > >>Superhighway." They don't know JACK about the net. It's NOTHING > >>like a Superhighway. That's a BAD metaphor. > >> > >>Yeah, but suppose the metaphor ran in the OTHER direction. Suppose > >>the HIGHWAYS were like the NET. All right! Severe craziness. A > >>highway HUNDREDS of lanes wide. Most with potholes. Privately > >>operated bridges and overpasses. No highway patrol. A couple of > >>rent-a-cops on bicycles with broken whistles. 500 member VIGILANTE > >>POSSES with nuclear weapons. 237 ON RAMPS at every intersection. NO > >>SIGNS. Wanna get to Ensenada? Holler out the window at a passing > >>truck to ask directions. AD HOC traffic laws. Some lanes would VOTE > >>to make use by a single-occupant-vehicle a CAPITAL OFFENSE on Monday > >>through Friday between 7:00 and 9:00. Other lanes would just SHOOT > >>you without a trial for talking on a car phone. > >> > >>AOL would be a giant diesel-smoking BUS with hundreds of EBOLA victims > >>and a TOILET spewing out on the road behind it. Throwing DEAD WOMBATS > >>and rotten cabbage at the other cars most of which have been ASSEMBLED > >>AT HOME from kits. Some are 2.5 horsepower LAWNMOWER ENGINES with a > >>top speed of nine miles an hour. Others burn NITROGLYCERINE and IDLE > >>at 120. > >> > >>No license tags. World War II BOMBER NOSE ART instead. Terrifying > >>paintings of huge teeth or VAMPIRE EAGLES. Bumper mounted MACHINE > >>GUNS. Flip somebody the finger on this highway and get a WHITE > >>PHOSPHORUS GRENADE up your tailpipe. Flatbed trucks with > >>ANTI-AIRCRAFT MISSILE BATTERIES to shoot down the KRUD Traffic Watch > >>helicopter. A little kid on a tricycle with a squirtgun filled with > >>HYDROCHLORIC ACID. > >> > >>NO OFFRAMPS. > >> > >>Now THAT'S the way to run an Interstate Highway system. > >> > >> > > > ----- This message was sent 12/17/95 AT 10:8:52 AM By ---- > ,,, > Nicole- altera@charm.net (o o) http://www.charm.net/~altera > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-oOOo-(_)-oOOo-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > ****** > * ***** ++ STRONG ENOUGH FOR A MAN - > * * * - BUT MADE FOR A WOMAN ++ > * > There Are Too Many Webmasters - We Need More Webmistresses! > ------------------------------ From: joeyd@netcom.com (Mr. DJ) Subject: Re: AKA Driver Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 19:50:44 -0800 (PST) > > I was just wondering if they took out the lyrics of AKA Driver > (Nyquil Driver?) because they had copyright material. And that would > probably explain the name of AKA Driver instead of Nyquil driver too... > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > |garthi@teleport.com | "These go up to 11" -Nigel Tuffnel| > |----------------------| ------------------------------------ > > Yeah. The FAQ says that Linnell could understand why. He said that it wasn't like they were going to put NyQuil outta business or something. (JD-DJ) *-------------------------------------------------------------- /----\/----\ /----\ /----\ /--\ | || | | <> | | /-\ \ | | | \/ | \----/ | | | | | | joeyd@netcom.com | | | | | \ | \_/ / ___/ | \___/ \___/ | \ <> \____/ \_____/oey Drago "Push the delete key while holding down Control and Alt for a secret surprise..." --Joke for the computer Illiterate *-------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ End of tmbg-list Digest #1-100 ******************************