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 #8-26 tmbg-list Digest, Volume 8, Number 26 Sunday, 26 July 1998 Today's Topics: Re: TMBG: radio stations Re: TMBG: Put on KRock! Re: TMBG: Flans vote and TMBG kids' show Re: TMBG: radio stations Re: TMBG: Listen to the Johns talk about K.C. TMBG: Flans Voting Re: TMBG: Flans Voting Re: TMBG: Listen to the Johns talk about K.C. Re: TMBG: what jamie had to say Re: TMBG: what jamie had to say Re: TMBG: radio stations - T-95!!! WITCHITA!!! YAY! TMBG: Jason's ticked off Re: TMBG: Listen to the Johns talk about K.C. Re: TMBG: radio stations Re: TMBG: The Animated Series! Re: TMBG: Jason's ticked off Re: TMBG: Jason's ticked off TMBG: Disturbing News From TMBG.COM Re: TMBG: Jason's ticked off Re: TMBG: Disturbing News From TMBG.COM Re: NON TMBG: German words TMBG: Philosophy rant on Hate and Johns Re: Non-TMBG: The State of the List Address TMBG: Flansburgh's Position Re: Non-TMBG: The State of the List Address TMBG: sending this baby to #1 Re: NON TMBG: Moxy Fruvous Re: TMBG: here we go again Re: NON TMBG: Moxy Fruvous Re: Definitely not TMBG: Hanson Re: TMBG: here we go again--whatever happened to zappa???? oh, yeah, he's de TMBG: The Whitlams read their list Re: TMBG: Are they watching us??? TMBG: bands on lists.... Re: Non-TMBG: The State of the List Address Re: TMBG: Edison Museum Performance Re: TMBG: Edison Museum Performance Re: TMBG: bands on lists.... TMBG: Re: TMBG (no it isn't, not really): The Whitlams read their list Re: TMBG: Are they watching us??? Re: TMBG: Re: TMBG (no it isn't, not really): The Whitlams TMBG: pollstar dates NON-TMBG: masochism, or just plain good taste? NON TMBG: TMBG and Fruvous shows TMBG: Dial-A-Song Re: TMBG: tmbgish: pogo & monopuff Re: TMBG: Edison Museum Performance Re: NON TMBG: Moxy Fruvous Re: TMBG: Are they watching us??? Re: TMBG: Seeking support? Administrivia: If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing send mail to tmbg-digest-request@tmbg.org for instructions on how to be automatically removed. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The views expressed herein are those of the individual authors. --------------------------------------------------------------------- tmbg-list is digested with Digest 3.5b (John Relph ). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-Id: Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 14:08:59 -0500 From: The Pope Subject: Re: TMBG: radio stations >As crazy as it may seem I have email, but no Internet access. I speak not >just for myself but for all net-deprived listies (come to think of it >that may be just myself) in begging people to send things like the list >of Dr. Worm stations to the list, instead of taunting me cruelly with >addresses I'm to lazy to go to the library to visit. The following I got from a friend. * ------------------------------------------------------------------- I leeched this off alt.fan.tmbg Here's the updated list of radio stations playing Dr. Worm... WHTG 106.3 FM Asbury Park, NJ 732-493-2002 WKQK 101.1 FM Chicago, IL 312-245-1214 WENZ 107.9 FM Cleveland, OH 216-578-1079 WEDG 103.3 FM Buffalo, NY 716-644-9334 KLZR 105 FM Lawrence, KS 785-842-1059 *KZNZ 105.1 FM Minneapolis, MN 612-989-9105* <-- zone105 call them and request and request!!! :) I have the studio version as a mp3, It kicks ass. XHRM 92.5 FM San Diego, CA 619-570-1925 WWCD 101.1 FM Columbus, OH 614-221-1011 ------------------------------ From: DrWormX@aol.com Message-ID: <972237f0.35b8dd97@aol.com> Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 15:16:37 EDT Subject: Re: TMBG: Put on KRock! I just called up K-Rock (92.3 in NYC) and here's how the conversatiuon went K-Rock Guy: K-Rock Me: Will you play They Might Be Giants, Dr Worm? K-Rock Guy: That's a good song! Me: Yeah, so you'll play it? K-Rock Guy: sure Me: All right, seeya K-Rock Guy: Hangs up Me: YES! You: tuning to 92.3 now ------------------------------ Message-ID: <19980724192133.24727.qmail@hotmail.com> From: "Josh Buckland" Subject: Re: TMBG: Flans vote and TMBG kids' show Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 12:21:32 PDT I don't care if it's Them meets Barney, I'm watchin' it!!! Josh Buckland dilbert_2000@hotmail.com "He wants to knock your house down... And he can't, because you're lying in the way of his bulldozer... I think we can come to some arrangement." --Ford Prefect, "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Message-ID: <007401bdb739$ad0bea20$c8061ecf@default> From: "Green Jello" Subject: Re: TMBG: radio stations Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 15:31:36 -0400 I'm working on: WSHE 100.3 FM Orlando, FL 407-916-1003 (SHE 100.3, modern rock) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <19980724193342.1151.qmail@hotmail.com> From: "Josh Buckland" Subject: Re: TMBG: Listen to the Johns talk about K.C. Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 12:33:42 PDT Any TMBG fan with have a brain knows about Grahm and Flans directing. Hell, I could do the same thing! Josh Buckland dilbert_2000@hotmail.com "He wants to knock your house down... And he can't, because you're lying in the way of his bulldozer... I think we can come to some arrangement." --Ford Prefect, "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ From: DrWormX@aol.com Message-ID: Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 15:37:05 EDT Subject: TMBG: Flans Voting Sorry for being forgetful, but what is the address for the People of the Century Poll? Matt--blame it on pez addiction DrWormX@tmbg.org I'm not as messed up as I'd like to be- Hearing Aid ------------------------------ Message-Id: Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 14:40:39 -0500 From: The Pope Subject: Re: TMBG: Flans Voting http://www.pathfinder.com/time/time100/poc/century.html there ya go again ------------------------------ Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19980724162155.006a7720@130.127.28.14> Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 16:21:55 -0400 From: Adam Tyner Subject: Re: TMBG: Listen to the Johns talk about K.C. At 12:33 PM 7/24/98 PDT, Josh Buckland wrote: >Any TMBG fan with have a brain knows about Grahm and Flans directing. >Hell, I could do the same thing! Josh is right...too many fans are suckered in by phonies with the least little bit of TMBG knowledge. I think the original poster was just kidding though... -Adam -- /=---------------- http://www.he-man.org/ctyner/ ----------------=\ http://www.awod.com/gallery/rwav/ctyner/ The home of He-Man, "Weird Al", Yoo-hoo, Killer Tomatoes, and more! Demented music list admin O- MiSTie #67,326 ------------------------------ Message-Id: <199807242025.QAA02940@ussenterprise.ufp.org> Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 15:25:06 -0500 From: Mitchell Harding Subject: Re: TMBG: what jamie had to say > Please take a look at this list of stations >throughout > the US, find your local station and place a call. Where can one find this list, may I ask? Harf, Mitch "There are two ways to slice easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking." Support the Harf Project: All your questions answered, all your problems solved: ------------------------------ Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19980724162842.006a1844@130.127.28.14> Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 16:28:42 -0400 From: Adam Tyner Subject: Re: TMBG: what jamie had to say At 03:25 PM 7/24/98 -0500, Mitchell Harding wrote: > >Where can one find this list, may I ask? It's in Jamie's letter at tmbg.com. -Adam -- /=---------------- http://www.he-man.org/ctyner/ ----------------=\ http://www.awod.com/gallery/rwav/ctyner/ The home of He-Man, "Weird Al", Yoo-hoo, Killer Tomatoes, and more! Demented music list admin O- MiSTie #67,326 ------------------------------ Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19980724210353.00832790@cybnetonline.com> Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 16:03:53 -0500 From: "The Li'l Depressed Boy" Subject: Re: TMBG: radio stations - T-95!!! WITCHITA!!! YAY! > Wichita, KS KICT 95.1 FM (316) 436-1095 Yay, a reason to start listening to T95 (www.t95.com see their cheesy webpage) again! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, I'm going to go call up 'em up and tell 'em I know they have it and they better play it fer me! YAY! Any of youse stuck near witchita should call too, so that they play it lots. :) LDB -- (this site cuts the amount of URL's I put in my Sig) My Web Page Index: http://www.cybnetonline.com/users/njack/ TMBG | D.U.M.B. NEWS | Mr. Gone Font -- Contemporary Cartoon Militia is (C) & TM 1998 S. Steven Struble and Kris W. M. Struble. The Li'l Depressed Boy, Phreeck, Spyder Hunt, and all related characters (C) & TM 1998 S. Steven Struble ------------------------------ Message-ID: <19980724224002.5623.qmail@hotmail.com> From: "Jason F." Subject: TMBG: Jason's ticked off Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 15:40:02 PDT From the list of radio stations at tmbg.com: Pittsburgh, PA WXDX 105.9 FM (412) 333-9939 Conversation: The X: The X. Me: Hey do you have the new They Might Be Giants song? The X: What song's that? Me: Dr. Worm. The X: Nope. Me: Oh. They lied to me! No one lies to me and gets away with it! --Jason-- "Hot Cha, where are you? Everybody's eyes are closed." -They Might Be Giants ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ From: tmbgirl@juno.com Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 15:19:16 -0600 Subject: Re: TMBG: Listen to the Johns talk about K.C. Message-ID: <19980724.170157.14782.2.TMBgirl@juno.com> >Any TMBG fan with have a brain knows about Grahm and Flans directing. >Hell, I could do the same thing! okay and i thought the original post was funny... thanks for brightening my day guys! :) take it easy, JOrdaN http://www2.netcom.com/~arnot/joda/bootlegs.html NEW SITE: http://members.tripod.com/~tmbgirl/index.html _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ From: tmbgirl@juno.com Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 17:01:39 -0600 Subject: Re: TMBG: radio stations Message-ID: <19980724.170157.14782.3.TMBgirl@juno.com> hEy hEy kids... > Ft. Collins, CO KTCL 93.3 FM (303) 631-2933 well i just had an idea... what if we focus all of our energy and get it played at a select few radio stations throughout the country. i would have to suggest KTCL just because they have a toll free number: 1-800-378-2933 where you can make requests. and each DJ has their own e-mail address (check out www.ktcl.com/). And to top all of that off... everyday from 3-7pm it's "presto requesto" where you can call caroline and make a request (or e-mail her at caroline@ktcl.com) and she'll play it. Oh yeah... and alf (alf@ktcl.com) tends to play TMBG a lot... every sunday night he'll play a TMBG track for the "all request retro show" i dunno... i'm sure there are a bunch of stations throughout the country where we can do this... anyone think it'd work better that way than if we just randomly called our own radio stations every blue moon? take it easy, JOrdaN http://www2.netcom.com/~arnot/joda/bootlegs.html NEW SITE: http://members.tripod.com/~tmbgirl/index.html _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ From: HallOfEyes@aol.com Message-ID: Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 19:10:25 EDT Subject: Re: TMBG: The Animated Series! In a message dated 98-07-24 07:20:58 EDT, ggr@pacificnet.net writes: << I'm a little surprised that none of you are speculating what the TMBG animated series will be like >> The article never said anything about an ANIMATED series...just a series. It says--- They Might Be Giants is also continuing its attempt to develop a children's program, and has reviewed several proposals, none of which the band has particularly cared for. "We want the show to have the real spirit of the band," Flansburgh said, "instead of just renting it from us." Nothing specific about it being animated... Jordan ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 20:04:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Jish Subject: Re: TMBG: Jason's ticked off Message-ID: The X sucks bigtime. I have not listened to them in a while. I did notice them on the list and it intruiged me. I wonder if WYEP has it...they would gladly play it I am sure...they have played TMBG for me. Josh On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Jason F. wrote: > From the list of radio stations at tmbg.com: > > Pittsburgh, PA WXDX 105.9 FM (412) 333-9939 > > Conversation: > > The X: The X. > Me: Hey do you have the new They Might Be Giants song? > The X: What song's that? > Me: Dr. Worm. > The X: Nope. > Me: Oh. > > They lied to me! No one lies to me and gets away with it! > > > > --Jason-- > > "Hot Cha, where are you? Everybody's eyes are closed." > -They Might Be Giants > > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > ------------------------------ Message-ID: <19980725002906.14168.qmail@hotmail.com> From: "Jason F." Subject: Re: TMBG: Jason's ticked off Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 17:29:06 PDT >I wonder if WYEP has it...they would >gladly play it I am sure...they have played TMBG for me. Can I get that station north of Pittsburgh in Beaver County? What station is it? --Jason-- "Hot Cha, where are you? Everybody's eyes are closed." -They Might Be Giants ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ From: Happyfroot@aol.com Message-ID: <632e280.35b92944@aol.com> Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 20:39:27 EDT Subject: TMBG: Disturbing News From TMBG.COM Anyone else read that thing at TMBG.COM about "What Makes a Song a Hit?" And how payola is still alive & well in the radio industry...it sickens me, it really does.... jason "damn corperate america" glastetter http://www.poingly.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 20:56:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Jish Subject: Re: TMBG: Jason's ticked off Message-ID: Welll...for all you pittsburgh people. WYEP is 91.3...and it rules. I don't listen to the radio but WYEP brings Moxy Fruvous to Pittsburgh and played TMBG for me everytime I asked. They played Statue for me and anything else I ask for... Josh On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Jason F. wrote: > > > >I wonder if WYEP has it...they would > >gladly play it I am sure...they have played TMBG for me. > > Can I get that station north of Pittsburgh in Beaver County? What > station is it? > > > > --Jason-- > > "Hot Cha, where are you? Everybody's eyes are closed." > -They Might Be Giants > > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > ------------------------------ Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19980724210222.006a0998@130.127.28.14> Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 21:02:22 -0400 From: Adam Tyner Subject: Re: TMBG: Disturbing News From TMBG.COM At 08:39 PM 7/24/98 EDT, Happyfroot@aol.com wrote: >Anyone else read that thing at TMBG.COM about "What Makes a Song a Hit?" And >how payola is still alive & well in the radio industry...it sickens me, it >really does.... Yup, I think I remember hearing about a station in Texas being paid to play Limp Bizkit songs... That's understandable, 'cause you'd have to pay me to get me to listen to that [insert expletive of your choice here]. I think Dr. Worm will do pretty well on its own, but it's worth mentioning that if we do start requesting it, DON'T just do it a couple of times in one week and then stop. Keep doing it for 4, 5, 6 weeks...that'll show the stations that this is actual interest, not some "underground movement". Of course, it is an underground movement, but those types of things tend to taper off pretty quickly... The following was more or less paraphrased from a Jump, Little Children letter telling us how to request their new single. :-) -Adam -- /=---------------- http://www.he-man.org/ctyner/ ----------------=\ http://www.awod.com/gallery/rwav/ctyner/ The home of He-Man, "Weird Al", Yoo-hoo, Killer Tomatoes, and more! Demented music list admin O- MiSTie #67,326 ------------------------------ Message-ID: <001201bdb768$b1866a60$0dc708d1@idiotnot.visi.net> From: "S. Bergeron" Subject: Re: NON TMBG: German words Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 21:08:08 -0400 > boot- boat > nein- no > ja- yes > shnell- hurry (got that one from Ren & stimpy) Schnell--means, "fast", actually. Ich habe einem schnell auto. > heimat- home heim-home > weltshmerz- world weariness Literally translated, it's "world-ache". Example: Headache is Kopfschmerz Jack Bergeron, idiotnot@visi.net bluedawg@tmbg.org "Someday, somebody else besides me will call me by my stage name."--Doctor Worm http://www.tmbg.org/~bluedawg/ ------------------------------ Message-Id: <199807250122.VAA15603@earth.colstate.edu> From: "Drunken Bird" Organization: Columbus State Univ.,Columbus, Ga. Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 21:13:28 EST Subject: TMBG: Philosophy rant on Hate and Johns > Of course it would. Do you think some aliens came down to earth and gave it > to humans? Where do you think it came from? Humans naturally hate. I would not say it like that. Hate and Love are on the same pole. Just as you can't have Light without Dark. Okay, okay.. I will give some of my fellow philosophers that you CAN have both, but the other might as well be non-existent because it is unrecognizable. Getting back to my present rant, humans have the natural drive to stay alive. As humans, as such we have recognized that we should also protect our mate, so we can make more little us's. Moreover, we can not do that alone, it is important we keep that person safe. This could of very well been the very earliest development of love. Naturally not only our mate and our children are important to our developed minds. We "like" other things. Just a note on the word "like." The reason we like things, is because they are parts of us. "Like" us if you will. And as we like them more and more, then they become a bigger part of us, and our lives. All of this can be true for things we "dislike" or that are not like us. Closer to the truth, things that threaten the things we like. Some People on this list dislike Off-Topic subjects, because it threatens what they feel should be a 100% They list. Of coarse, some of the newbies first feel that way, then later realize they are also like other Theyers. Taking all of this a step further and getting back on subject at hand, if people were more alike, there would be less hate. So, in theory if people went to the same place to buy their cloths, do things in a similar way from going to the doctor, to making the same amount of money no matter what you do, you would be more "alike." Naturally, I said in theory. The reason none of this works, is because also as humans, many of us take pride in being different. Some for ill and others to practice our freedom and fight for the ability TOO be different. I am one of those people that is different for different sakes. Although I'm not one that dies his hair green, or has every body part pierced, but I am one that purposely does not try to conform. If I have an idea, then I'm doing it god damn it. I care nothing about "style" what is "in" or if nobody else likes it. All of these things attracted me to THEM, and I'm sure They feel the same way. If they didn't, then why do they insist on pleasuring us with Intellectual, and yes.. "quarky" music? It always brings a smile to my face when horrific and depressing things are being said to a beat that you can jump around your bedroom to. - JT "I don't have low Self-Esteen, I have low Esteen for others" Daria.. LaLaLa,LaLa ------------------------------ Message-ID: <001901bdb76a$f9ccb200$0dc708d1@idiotnot.visi.net> From: "S. Bergeron" Subject: Re: Non-TMBG: The State of the List Address Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 21:24:28 -0400 :Hello again everyone. :I don't post often, but I do dilligently read the digest, and what I have seen :in the past few days has utterly disgusted me. I've seen a productive, :friendly, community-style list degenerate into a sickly fragment of its former :glory. Rather relative terms, in my opinion. I remember when the list was member to member, manually. If you take a look, I've bee a subscriber since digest 2. For awhile there, it *was* really sickly. :The people on this list have gone from jovial and supportive to :agitated and belligerant. Never in my wildest dreams would I have imagened :the They Might Be Giants audience, which I have seen to be one of the most :intelligent audiences around, resort to cancelling someone's email account :because they didn't like him, personally attack people because they are new, :flaming for such atrocities as spelling errors, or filling digests up with :NON-TMBG complaints about other NON-TMBG posts. You haven't been around most of us too long, obviously. This list is, has been, and always will be a flame war. I could mention many topics that have aroused great ire, but it would be a waste of bandwidth. I'm not sure I disagree with flaming someone who blasts in with a post like "I LOUVE WEBTV!!!!!! FLOOD ROKS!!!!." That said, it's not as annoying as a snotty-nose message from some punk kid who has proclaimed himself an elder statesman of the list. :And then there are the great :conservatives- the people who would usually do something about this type of :nonsense, who have been content to sit back and recall the "good old days" :with Mike Leffel. Yes, I was here for Leffel, and yes, I was the person last :year to ask about Raymond Scott's "Powerhouse," and yes, the list probably :would be better of if Leffel were still around, but the main reason that the :list is so horrific right now is because- excuse my language- everyone on the :list right now (well most people) are just jerks, plain and simple. Maybe :that's not how they are in real life, I don't know... maybe they just had a :bad day at work before sitting down at their computer to post, or just some :bad coffee, but please, people... before you post just take 10 seconds and a :deep breath. ***THINK*** about what you're saying before you post it. Some of us do think....you obviously haven't thought this message through too much. If I'm a jerk, so be it. If I piss you off, that's your problem; don't read my posts. Put me in your killfile. Whatever. Part of the mailing list mentality is that immediate first-reaction response. It's not restrained, nor is it politically correct. What it is: It's genuine. People that speak their minds without a lot of restraint tend to make waves. Example: Howard Stern. :The :people that read this list are real people with real feelings. Some may have :forgotten that looking at their computer monitors. Awww....poor baby. You just touched a nerve. I couldn't care less about your feelings. Since when did hurting someone's feelings become a crime? (god, I feel like Dr. Laura here) Say what you mean. Mean what you say. Don't intentionally hurt people's feelings, but don't let your true reaction or the truth get lost in order to preserve the fragile sanctity of someone's feelings. :I'm going to watch this :list for a few more days, and if it doesn't clean up its act (With STD coming :out in three weeks, we should have plenty of TMBG content to talk about), then :you can count yourself one listie short. If I wanted to see a bunch of people :bickering and arguing about stupid things, I could take a walk through my town :hall. Perhaps that's a good idea. The exercise wouldn't hurt, and we wouldn't have to read your whining complaints. The list won't end because you're not here....... Jack Bergeron, idiotnot@visi.net bluedawg@tmbg.org "Someday, somebody else besides me will call me by my stage name."--Doctor Worm http://www.tmbg.org/~bluedawg/ ------------------------------ Subject: TMBG: Flansburgh's Position Message-ID: <19980724.225419.8991.0.captainmarvel2@juno.com> From: captainmarvel2@juno.com (Derek A Klein) Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 22:55:32 EDT Since some of us can't check it out for ourselves, does anybody want to tell us what Flansburgh's current position on the pole is? Thanks. Derek "Egad, a base tone denotes a bad age" _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ From: Spoonerism@aol.com Message-ID: <62de5543.35b94c48@aol.com> Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 23:08:55 EDT Subject: Re: Non-TMBG: The State of the List Address the response from Jack Bergeron is exactly the type of aggresive, sarcastic, and altogether caustic post that I was talking about. I'm not a "snot nosed kid," I'm 18 and consider myself to be very mature. I don't care if you don't care about my post, but don't try to probe me into a flame war with personal jabs. Joan Rivers isn't funny, and neither are you -CAsey ------------------------------ From: TerryTMBG@aol.com Message-ID: Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 23:15:40 EDT Subject: TMBG: sending this baby to #1 okay everyone, we have our mission. I *know* we can do this. If we pester each radio station a bunch of times, we'll be able to do it. Don't forget that modern-rock radio is so bad that as soon as we get a bunch of stations to play it, the other ones will follow so as to not fall behind. So well basically, everyone get cracking! Now I know there are a lot of listies in the Providence area, and even if you're not, you can still help! WBRU (95.5) has a toll-free number besides the one listed at tmbg.com, which is 1800-659-9550. So come on! Call a bunch of times! Get your friends to call too! Or just change your voice! Not only that, but their web site (www.wbru.com) has a form on it where you can say, basically, whatever, and it has a category where you can vote for "12 Cuts Above The Rest," their weekly most-requested show. I bet we could get TMBG on there easily! Especially since they don't limit you to one vote. :) Sorry to make this a rather pointless yet still rambling post, but seriously, the Johns need us! Let's stop our other discussions and get to work! -Terry- ------------------------------ From: OverpassX@aol.com Message-ID: <1f77c4e0.35b95575@aol.com> Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 23:48:04 EDT Subject: Re: NON TMBG: Moxy Fruvous << MF had a couple of hit songs here that were played to death on MuchMusic circa 1993. Then they fell off the edge of the world, like all Canadian folkies-with-a-sense-of-humour-and-big-liberal-hearts. Forgive me, Melissa, but I must advise the readers that, in my opinion (who else's would it be?), Moxy Fruvous are trash. Anyone who buys a Moxy Fruvous record in the hopes of getting even 1% of TMBG's technique, songwriting skill, or humour had better get used to disappointment. M. M'T. >> Oh my God.... welcome to earth.. do you know that tons of people on this list know Moxy Fruvous and love them? I think they are better than TMBG.... they have more passion... its like they have a mission for their music to accomplish... they are funny, talented, great guys... much much better in concert .....my favorite over TMBG any day..... this list has discussed them long long ago... many of us have been introduced to them through it.... don't think you in your "had a few hits in 1993" knowledge is going to impress us or something.... Oh.. and Moxy's newgroup is MUCH better than this mailing list (hi to all of you out there on both....) NoraChica ------------------------------ From: OverpassX@aol.com Message-ID: <9addb09.35b95933@aol.com> Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 00:04:02 EDT Subject: Re: TMBG: here we go again << In other news, Hanson does not have any talent. *snicker* Neither does most anyone else in popular music today, though, so I shan't speak any more. *sigh* I guess I'm stuck with an elitist mentality, but whoever said that was a bad thing? >> What the hell is this shit???? Ok, so you are saying people in popular music today have talent??? They obviously have to, to get to the point where they are now.... Where were you when you were the ages of the members of Hanson?? Trying to clear up your acne or pass that hard math class with long division? Or are you still their age? I think they are pretty damn talented for being so young...... So.... Dave Matthew's Band, Rusted Root, Oasis, Foo Fighters, Puff Daddy, The Beatles, [insert popular band or your choice here] , and even TMBG have no talent??? Because like it or not, they are part of "popular music" today.... they are pretty much mainstream right now..... no matter how unique and "elitist" you think you are, you are no different than people at every high school and college in the US that are big TMBG fans.... and what basis do you have to judge talent? Your personal likes??.... making such a broad statement is unjustified and quite idiotic in my eyes.. ------------------------------ Message-ID: <19980725041347.12522.rocketmail@send1c.yahoomail.com> Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 21:13:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Malcolm MacTavish Subject: Re: NON TMBG: Moxy Fruvous OverpassX@aol.com wrote: >> Oh my God.... welcome to earth.. do you know that tons of people on this list > know Moxy Fruvous and love them? It wouldn't have changed a word I wrote. And thanks for the welcome to the planet! I find there's little wrong with it that killing a few folk groups wouldn't fix. > I think they are better than TMBG.... they > have more passion... its like they have a mission for their music to > accomplish... they are funny, talented, great guys... much much better in > concert .....my favorite over TMBG any day..... this list has discussed them > long long ago... Hmmmm. Seems like songwriting craft and musicianship is taking a back seat to "passion" and personality here. > many of us have been introduced to them through it.... don't > think you in your "had a few hits in 1993" knowledge is going to impress us or > something.... I wasn't trying to impress anybody, I was answering a question. Believe me, thanks to the Canadian-content regulations under which our broadcasters operate, I and my countrymen have had a *lot* more exposure to Moxy Fruvous than you are intimating here. I'm sure it's a lot easier to like MF when you can discover them as a little-known treasure, instead of having them shoved down your throat by the government. It's also a lot easier to like them when you haven't seen a lot of bands much like them come and go (if I met MF on the street I'm not sure I wouldn't identify them as Corky and the Juice Pigs): the Canadian music scene is remarkably uniform, and in my experience, when you try to own and operate a critical sensibility in the midst of it, you are soon disabused of the notion that there is anything special about groups like Moxy Fruvous. TMBG's music is still going to be listened to in fifty years; MF is already just about forgotten in their native land. M. M'T. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Message-ID: <19980725042024.9793.rocketmail@send1a.yahoomail.com> Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 21:20:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Malcolm MacTavish Subject: Re: Definitely not TMBG: Hanson OverpassX@aol.com wrote: > Where were you when you were the ages of the members of Hanson?? > Trying to clear up your acne or pass that hard math class with long division? There's a nice summary of the state of our civilization: playing pop music is considered more worthwhile than learning mathematics. Wasn't it Heraclitus who said "Let youths strive with every bone and sinew to appear in 'Teen Tiger' magazine"? Perhaps I'm confusing him with Epictetus.... Please don't let it be thought, in any event, that I don't respect the talents of Hanson. The two young ones seem to have a devil of a time singing and playing their instruments simultaneously, but "Mmmmbop" really is an outstanding accomplishment. How much credit the Dust Brothers should get for said accomplishment is something each man has to work out for himself. M. M'T. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Message-ID: <35B9AA39.59DD@fuse.net> Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 02:49:45 -0700 From: jays your one-paged dictionary Organization: dial-a-song! 718-387-6962, narrrrrrrrr! Subject: Re: TMBG: here we go again--whatever happened to zappa???? oh, yeah, he's dead. OverpassX@aol.com wrote: > What the hell is this shit???? Ok, so you are saying people in popular music > today have talent??? They obviously have to, to get to the point where they > are now.... Where were you when you were the ages of the members of Hanson?? > Trying to clear up your acne or pass that hard math class with long division? > Or are you still their age? I think they are pretty damn talented for being > so young...... > So.... Dave Matthew's Band, Rusted Root, Oasis, Foo Fighters, Puff Daddy, The > Beatles, [insert popular band or your choice here] , and even TMBG have no > talent??? Because like it or not, they are part of "popular music" today.... > they are pretty much mainstream right now..... no matter how unique and > "elitist" you think you are, you are no different than people at every high > school and college in the US that are big TMBG fans.... and what basis do you > have to judge talent? Your personal likes??.... making such a broad statement > is unjustified and quite idiotic in my eyes.. *big, evil grin* So you want some, huh? Did I hear right? You want a little? My statement was a refined one, not so broad as you made it out to be in your pitiful little mini-flame. I must quote myself directly--"most anyone else in popular music today (has no talent)." Shall I explain myself further? Yes? Good. Music is as much a science as an art; in the very very simplest terms available, it is the manipulation of noise to achieve a pleasing blend of tones. Like any science, even the most ignorant scholar will eventually discover something, if left to blindly stab in the dark long enough. That is the basis of the vast majority of pop music today. Go to a keyboard right now, and hit some notes at random; within five minutes, I'm more than certain you can come up with a simple, non-offensive melody. Anyone can, despite a lack of skill or talent. Go ahead. Try it. Hell, maybe you can pick up a book or two with some keyboard chords in it for ten, twenty bucks. Give yourself a few hours, and without any previous knowledge of theoretical concepts you'll eventually stumble upon a progression that sounds tres cool. Maybe you can sing some crappy, pseudo-poetic lyrics to it. You amaze your friends. Whoopee. You're a keyboardist. Many musicians today--everyone from the Foo Fighters to Hanson--are doing just this, learning the bare minimum of this science of beauty and attempting to create a musical whole. I say they have no talent because they are doing nothing extraordinary. They are far from masters of their respective instruments (and age is NOT a defense. As a pianist I could play circles around the middle Hanson at his age, and as a guitarist slightly younger than the oldest Hanson, I laugh in his face. I played the former for several years, and the latter for about eleven months now). They are far from great theoreticians, and what they create is, thus, rehashed and simple by default (simple in itself is not bad! simple 'cause it's all you can muster sucks). They create what seems to be pleasing music. But "pleasing" is individual--the vast majority of what you hear on the radio today could be created/performed by anyone with a half a mind, some cash, and a bit of time on his/her hands. Talent is not a necessary prerequisite. Dedication is, usually, but it and talent are completely different animals. Yes, TMBG are mainstream. I will be the first to say that they are not virtuosos... but as poets, I respect them to all hell. Some notes on the bands you mentioned: 1) Dave Matthews has several battle-weary jazz musicians on his side. That alienates him right there from everything I just said. 2) Puff Daddy? Rap is rhythm. Not music. 3) The Beatles are not today's pop music. 4) Yeah, like it or not, they're pop music today .. but does that give 'em talent? Hendrix was considered a crappy guitarist by the serious community in his time--because he was considered crappy, was he crappy? peace, love, and good happiness stuff, jayhc. -- jayhc--always accurate, constant, and intense. e-mail: sirjamez@fuse.net, phonebook@tmbg.org aol im: SaturnChrd, PhoneBookJ irc: PhoneBook "Between the silence of the mountains And the crashing of the sea, There lies a land I once lived in, And she's waiting there for me." --moody blues "I met Frank Zappa once--he was a prick. I promised myself I'd never be like that." --john flansburgh, before promptly ignoring me -- ------------------------------ Message-Id: <199807250658.QAA28090@sydney.healey.com.au> Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 16:58:07 +1000 From: Easy Friend Subject: TMBG: The Whitlams read their list >If you know of an intelligent musician who makes a point of reading >Internet mailing lists or newsgroups about himself, please do name >him. I admit I could be wrong about this issue. Yeah, I've been reading this thread with a great deal of interest and I have some stuff to say. One of my fave bands is an Aussie band called The WHitlams. They recently got big and a massive mailing list started up. Anyway, because the band aren't computer literate, they get their management to print of the interesting messages or funny ones so they can get a little bit of feedback. Their sound guy actually runs the list, so he most certainly communicates the mood of the fan base back to the band... It's simple. Bands like to get feed back and this is a perfect opportunity. I just think that they have better things to do than read the list day in day out. I rarely do... Perhaps those funny lyrics that people write would be seen by the band... BYE!!! Ad. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& & See me, my life, my friends & & http://www.healey.com.au/~ad/ & &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& ------------------------------ Message-Id: <199807250754.IAA26079@boober.lineone.net> From: "Paul Turner" Subject: Re: TMBG: Are they watching us??? Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 08:55:35 +0100 > If you know of an intelligent musician who makes a point of reading > Internet mailing lists or newsgroups about himself, please do name > him. I admit I could be wrong about this issue. Suzanne Vega does too. look at www.vega.net/newcorr.htm My favourite one is right at the end where she patiently corrects someone who has misunderstood "the Queen and the Soldier" - bizarrely they seem to have thought the Queen strangled the soldier! (I say "bizarrely" since of all her songs this is one of the most story like and hardest to misunderstand. I would imagine that much of that kind of correction would become very depressing. Paul p_turner@lineone.net "It's always difficult to know with the Senior Fellows. They are perpetually playing games and pretending to be complete fools and never to do any work and then you find they regard you as an idiot because they've taken you in. But all Cambridge is a bit like that. I call it a "Put-You-Down Town". Everyone is so bloody competitive." - Tom Sharpe, Grantchester Grind ------------------------------ Message-Id: <199807250459.XAA04612@cs.utexas.edu> Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 00:01:18 -0500 From: ska-ti-da Subject: TMBG: bands on lists.... fruitbat, one of the 2 main guys in carter the unstoppable sex machine was on the short lived carter mailing list, and also runs the bands web page. he also answers any email sent to him usually within a day or less, and maintains a list of people that he mails info to about the now defunct band and what they are doing now. aside from the fact that they're from britain and i'm in america, he is just about the easiest to get in touch with and talk to musician i know of... that aside from being in another insanely clever duo who are in very close running for being my favorite band with tmbg.... Carter USM was a super good band, and everyone should listen to them. rabidchild paul swan ------------------------------ From: Monotreme3@aol.com Message-ID: <66efb4f7.35b9db50@aol.com> Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 09:19:11 EDT Subject: Re: Non-TMBG: The State of the List Address In a message dated 7/24/98 12:36:32 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Spoonerism@aol.com writes: << maybe they just had a bad day at work before sitting down at their computer to post, or just some bad coffee, but please, people... before you post just take 10 seconds and a deep breath. ***THINK*** about what you're saying before you post it. >> "Well maybe you don't like your job... maybe you didn't get enough sleep... Well nobody likes their job... nobody got enough sleep... Maybe you just had the worst day of your life... well you know there's no reason, and there's no excuse... so just suck up... just suck up and be nice." -Not-So-Me... ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 09:40:46 +0000 From: Chris Combs Subject: Re: TMBG: Edison Museum Performance Message-id: <3.0.5.16.19980725094046.129f84e4@entropy.muc.muohio.edu> >>I read an article about how TMBG recorded "I Can Hear You" and few other >>songs on non-electric edison sound equipment. It was kind of a mini >>concert in which they performed into this huge horn like microphone and >>then listened to the wax recordings. I was wondering if there was >>recording made of the performance (either of them playing the small >>concert or the wax recording, or better yet, both of them together) and >>if it is obtainable in bootleg format. They recorded three songs (I Can Hear You, James K. Polk, and The Edison Museum). You can find the first on Factory Showroom, the last is on www.tmbg.com in streaming QuickTime, and Polk is... not. They wanted to put out a special EP with just those three, but record labels have this thing about making money. /---------------------------------------------------------------\ | Chris Combs aka Piglet Goat Boy | | http://muc.muohio.edu/~goatboy/ | | "If I have any real purpose in life I guess it would be to | | slam a stapler against the forehead of American pop culture." | | -"Weird Al" Yankovic | \---------------------------------------------------------------/ ------------------------------ Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19980725100723.006a457c@130.127.28.14> Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 10:07:23 -0400 From: Adam Tyner Subject: Re: TMBG: Edison Museum Performance I thought the version on tmbg.com was from the Edisongs LP? I haven't listened to the streaming Quicktime files, but I did snag the 18 meg WAV file in that directory, and it sounds way too hi-fi to be part of the Edison Sessions. I did see that there were 2 .MOV files in the /sound/ directory...was one from Edisongs and the other part of the Edison Sessions? Also, although the Edison page only mentions those 3 songs, I thought they also recorded Maybe I Know and...something else. http://academic.uofs.edu/student/ck8/ mentions Maybe I Know... Re: making money off of something like the Edison EP: I said this in my last post, but I like to belabor points. ;-) We're all pretty die-hard fans, right? If TMBG released an Edison Sessions EP through the Info Club, most of us would buy it...so why don't they do it? Seriously, even though Hello fell through, TMBG could release all sorts of stuff...maybe on a quarterly EP... I mean, Dial-A-Songs, demos, the Edison Sessions, studio outtakes, leftovers...all stuff we'd love to have, would be willing to pay for, and have already been recorded, so there wouldn't be too much overhead. I've tried to suggest this to the Johns whenever they're chattin' on-line, but the moderators for those chats tend to pick questions about pro-wrestling and 'who's your favorite Spice Girl?'... ::sighs:: -Adam At 09:40 AM 7/25/98 +0000, Chris Combs wrote: > > They recorded three songs (I Can Hear You, James K. Polk, and The Edison >Museum). You can find the first on Factory Showroom, the last is on >www.tmbg.com in streaming QuickTime, and Polk is... not. They wanted to >put out a special EP with just those three, but record labels have this >thing about making money. -- /=---------------- http://www.he-man.org/ctyner/ ----------------=\ http://www.awod.com/gallery/rwav/ctyner/ The home of He-Man, "Weird Al", Yoo-hoo, Killer Tomatoes, and more! Demented music list admin O- MiSTie #67,326 ------------------------------ Message-Id: <3.0.2.32.19980725145756.007daa20@mail-in.keme.net> Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 14:57:56 +0100 From: the famous Uncle Squid Subject: Re: TMBG: bands on lists.... At 00:01 25/07/98 -0500, you wrote: >fruitbat, one of the 2 main guys in carter the unstoppable sex machine was >on the short lived carter mailing list, and also runs the bands web page. >he also answers any email sent to him usually within a day or less, and >maintains a list of people that he mails info to about the now defunct band >and what they are doing now. aside from the fact that they're from britain >and i'm in america, he is just about the easiest to get in touch with and >talk to musician i know of... that aside from being in another insanely >clever duo who are in very close running for being my favorite band with >tmbg.... Carter USM was a super good band, and everyone should listen to >them. > >rabidchild >paul >swan > It's your lucky day dear boy! Well, mine as well I guess... two USM/TMBG fans on the same mail list... what are the odds eh!? Allow me to introduce myself, I am Uncle Squid, one half of USM-RIP: The unofficial carter usm fanzine. You are very right in thinking that Fruity is "da man". Nina (the fanzine's other half) and I went to visit Mr Bat and he lived up to his reputation of being a geezer. He helps out all the time with the fanzine and even under charged me for some merch! What a guy! The carter mail list should be reserrected! How about it Paul? Fancy sorting it out? I've been thinking of doing something like this tmbg list for carter for some time but never got 'round to finging out how to do it? Any clues? Although, yes, everyone SHOULD listen to carter, it is sad to say that most in the US have never got the oppotunity due to the lack of WorryBomb or other various LPs here and there. Which brings another point, if anyone needs any UK releases (carter usm or other)... nudge nudge wink wink say no more etc. Check out the fanzine's site: www.keme.co.uk/~thelimes/USM-RIP.htm Any other carter fans on the list get in touch! --USQ: keeping carter the unstoppable sex machine (a)live. ~ USM-RIP ~ http://keme.co.uk/~thelimes/USM-RIP.htm <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> The official carter usm website http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~fruity/ Sam & Kelly's carter page: http://www.bath.ac.uk/~en6sc/ <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> ------------------------------ Message-ID: <19980725160941.25776.rocketmail@send1d.yahoomail.com> Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 09:09:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Malcolm MacTavish Subject: TMBG: Re: TMBG (no it isn't, not really): The Whitlams read their list > Anyway, because the band aren't computer literate, they get their > management to print of the interesting messages or funny ones so they can > get a little bit of feedback. It doesn't count if someone is filtering out the stuff that would make the group not want to bother. This is beside the point we were addressing. > It's simple. Bands like to get feed back It's *not* that simple. For every musician who wants to have some kind of relationship with the fans, there's another who, more sensibly, makes music to please himself and is not at all interested in having his perceptions distorted, or his day ruined, by fan opinion. This is not to say that all musicians who go "I don't really care what other people think" avoid fan communications, but a lot do, and I'd say it's the policy that is friendliest to mental health. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Message-ID: <19980725161802.29960.rocketmail@send1d.yahoomail.com> Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 09:18:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Malcolm MacTavish Subject: Re: TMBG: Are they watching us??? Paul Turner wrote: > Suzanne Vega does too. Interesting example...now that I think about it, Courtney Love had a famous habit of posting occasionally to alt.fan.courtney-love. There's an archive of her USENET oeuvre somewhere--it's not to be missed. Suzanne Vega always did strike me as one of these closet masochist women--you know the kind; they're the ones who are always giving out sublimated expressions of self-hatred like dating frat boys and putting way too much wasabi on their sushi. (Her biggest hit was about child abuse--coincidence?) So reading the mailing list about herself fits right in with that. Or are there still some of you who think reading a group like this would be a positive pleasure for an artist? M. M'T. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19980725122653.006a4e8c@130.127.28.14> Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 12:26:53 -0400 From: Adam Tyner Subject: Re: TMBG: Re: TMBG (no it isn't, not really): The Whitlams At 09:09 AM 7/25/98 -0700, Malcolm MacTavish wrote: > >This is not to say that all musicians who go "I don't really care what other >people think" avoid fan communications, but a lot do, and I'd say it's >the policy that is friendliest to mental health. I've gotta agree with you. I mean, do you think Gillian Anderson sits at home, reading alt.tv.x-files, sifting through all the people who fight over whether or not she's fat? :-) I don't think I'd say that the Johns don't care what we think...but I think this list would probably be a little "much" for them. Besides, would some of you really *want* the Johns on the list? I think that would seriously stunt the list. Half the posts would be stupid questions directed at the Johns, and the rest would be suck-ups. I'd fall into both categories, probably. ;-) -Adam -- /=---------------- http://www.he-man.org/ctyner/ ----------------=\ http://www.awod.com/gallery/rwav/ctyner/ The home of He-Man, "Weird Al", Yoo-hoo, Killer Tomatoes, and more! Demented music list admin O- MiSTie #67,326 ------------------------------ From: mjames@khserver.loyola.edu (Matthew James) Message-Id: <9807251702.AA25908@khserver.loyola.edu> Subject: TMBG: pollstar dates Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 13:02:25 -0400 (EDT) Hi, I'm a little confused. I assume this is some kind of mistake but on pollstar.com they have Monopuff playing at the Acme Underground every night from August 12 through August 26. That would be one hell of a run of shows if they did! Anyone perhaps in New York know when they are playing there? Thanks, Matt -- Matt James mjames@greed.loyola.edu Loyola College in Baltimore, MD Bruce Campbell Gazette: www.bcgazette.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 11:13:46 -0600 (MDT) From: J Kuemmerle Subject: NON-TMBG: masochism, or just plain good taste? Message-ID: On Sat, 25 Jul 1998, Malcolm MacTavish wrote: > ...they're the ones who are always giving out sublimated expressions of > self-hatred like dating frat boys and putting way too much wasabi on > their sushi. is there *really* such a thing as too much wasabi? --jim kuemmerle, who puts too many green chiles in everything. those of you who are transplanted new mexicans can sympathize, i'm sure... j.kuemmerle@m.cc.utah.edu http://www.geocities.com/soho/gallery/4668/ ------------------------------ Message-ID: <35BA2C10.C6D82E47@softhome.net> Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 14:03:45 -0500 From: melissa Subject: NON TMBG: TMBG and Fruvous shows Im sure everyone knows about the free TMBG show on the hatch show this coming friday [7/30]....if anyone here is going *PLEASE* email me so maybe we ca meet and go together or something. ive been to 4 TMBG shows, and ive had to go alone to every one of them becasue noone i know likes TMBG. anyway, i wont let it happen again! ive already got 3 people i met on IRC to go with me, one of which ive met in person before, so im not some kid-raping wierdo, just so you know....and my picture is up on superbooga at http://www.superbooga.com/team_s_z.htm so anyway, if anyone would like to meet me for the show, write me. oh yeah, theres also a MOXY FRUVOUS concert the very next day [7/31]!!!!! its in quincy market, at the sam goody and that ones FREE too! so all you people whove never heard fruvous, heres your chance! eh, ill shut up now. melissa ------------------------------ Subject: TMBG: Dial-A-Song Message-ID: <19980725.153114.2279.0.captainmarvel2@juno.com> From: captainmarvel2@juno.com (Derek A Klein) Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 15:32:19 EDT I just wanted to let everyone know that Dial-A-Song is no longer busy : ) I have gotten through several times today. I am currently making an attempt at recording a good quality bootleg of DAS. I already have a few songs, and they came out well. Unfortunately, I have run out of time on my Phone-Card, so I can't continue this until I get a new one. But fear not, as soon as a get a new one, I will resume my recordings. Derek "Egad, a base tone denotes a bad age" _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ Message-ID: <19980725203945.5271.qmail@hotmail.com> From: "VoVat Quetzalcoatlus" Subject: Re: TMBG: tmbgish: pogo & monopuff Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 13:39:44 PDT >Reply-To: beknowles@vaxsar.vassar.edu (Ben Knowles) >i'd like to contend that the "pogo" (or whatever you want to call it) is >_the only_ truly appropriate dance for birdhouse in your soul. Really? What about riding bicycles around in circles, while wearing plaid shirts and William Allen White eyes? Nathan, replying to old messages, since he hasn't been online in a few days DinnerBell@tmbg.org http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Corridor/5447/ ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Message-ID: <19980725204523.25381.qmail@hotmail.com> From: "VoVat Quetzalcoatlus" Subject: Re: TMBG: Edison Museum Performance Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 13:45:21 PDT >Reply-To: Adam Tyner > >On the Kit Kat Acoustic Break interview, Flansie said that a bunch of songs >were recorded and that they were planning on releasing an Edison Sessions >EP, but Pat Dillett talked them out of it. :-( I've been wondering recently how much say Pat Dillett has on what goes into TMBG's albums. From what I've heard, it was his (or is Pat Dillett a woman?) decision to leave "On The Drag" off "Severe Tire Damage," and he might have had something to do with the low number of songs on "Factory Showroom." Nathan DinnerBell@tmbg.org http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Corridor/5447/ ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Message-ID: Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 16:46:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Lawrence P Solomon Subject: Re: NON TMBG: Moxy Fruvous Excerpts from internet.music.tmbg: 24-Jul-98 Re: NON TMBG: Moxy Fruvous by Malcolm MacTavish@yahoo. > Hmmmm. Seems like songwriting craft and musicianship is taking a back > seat to "passion" and personality here. what?!? are you implying that Moxy Fruvous can't craft songs and aren't good musicians? sorry, but both Dave and Mike are *far* better guitarists than Flansburgh ever will be, and Murray's ability to sing and play bass at the same time is not one that a lot of bassists posess. Dave can actually play the accordion properly, and they are all amazing singers, harmonizers, and songwriters. Lawrence Solomon http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~lps/ lps@andrew.cmu.edu "Everything sticks until it goes away, * This space inadvertently And the truth is we don't know anything." -TMBG * left blank. ------------------------------ Message-ID: <19980725205445.21368.qmail@hotmail.com> From: "VoVat Quetzalcoatlus" Subject: Re: TMBG: Are they watching us??? Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 13:54:44 PDT >Reply-To: Strawbos69@aol.com > > >Don't know about the list, but in an interview lastyear John Flansburgh had >this to say about the New Group: I'm assuming you meant "newsgroup." >"Yeah, I guess so. I think, I wish there was more real information on it. Well, despite their name, newsgroups rarely seem to be the best source of news. Sure, I do get some news from there, but the amount of posts with actual information are in the minority. I don't entirely mind this, though. If we had to wait for actual TMBG news, the list and the newsgroup would be fairly boring. >We're working with a guy at Electra who's like actually putting articles and >things we've written for our information club and other things that have like >just like actual things to think about. Well, obviously Elektra wouldn't be contributing very much to a TMBG discussion forum at this point. Anyway, though, there is some news that I might rather get from a reliable source (such as release dates of albums), but I'd generally trust a fan's review of an album more than one written by the record label. >Because alot of it's very fan based, >rather than, like it's not like a library or someplace where you actually get >information. It's sort of more like, yah know, it's just like, it just seems >like blabbing to me. Hey, some of us LIKE to blab! Nathan DinnerBell@tmbg.org http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Corridor/5447/ ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Message-ID: <19980725205804.6635.qmail@hotmail.com> From: "VoVat Quetzalcoatlus" Subject: Re: TMBG: Seeking support? Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 13:58:04 PDT >Reply-To: echuss@notes.cc.bellcore.com > I like the Tin Man. The one who lives in Oz? Nathan DinnerBell@tmbg.org http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Corridor/5447/ ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ End of tmbg-list Digest #8-26 *****************************