Chalkhills Digest Volume 12, Issue 33
Date: Sunday, 30 July 2006
Chalkhills Digest, Volume 12, Number 33
Sunday, 30 July 2006
Topics:
Dave Gregory Interview
A Million and One
Another band that hasn't toured since 1982
XTC for Kids
XTC 45's For Sale
Convert Alert!
Help Needed
Get Well Soon
Ra Ra for songs for kids
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---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 20:10:30 +0100 From: stevesomerset <stevesomerset@blueyonder.co.uk> Subject: Dave Gregory Interview Message-ID: <C0E593B6.396D%stevesomerset@blueyonder.co.uk> HI Folks, There's an interview with Dave Gregory on my Monthly radio show - Steve Somerset's Sonic Sixty. You can catch the show for the next three week every Tuesday at noon est on Pure Pop Live 365. Ironically the interview is about early Pink Floyd and was recorded a couple of days before Syd departed. It's an hour of bloody good music too (as is every show) so don't miss it! Ta Ta for now! Steve Somerset x
------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 20:58:34 -0700 From: John Thomson <j1thom@cfu.net> Subject: A Million and One Message-ID: <174441160bf3fafe2bb93d132d2432bc@cfu.net> ...and I was completely startled by "One of the Millions".... It's utter genius. And it makes me sad that even most XTC fans don't really like the song... NOT THIS GUITAR PLAYER!!! :) The entrance sounds like bells from a church and the melody, you're right, is utter genius. And really, it is a great comment on the current state of politics (and the general state of the populace) in the US. Truly a wonderful song. And yes, I LOVE BUNGALOW!!!!!!!! Love to all JT Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This, our [1787] Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us: Abraham Lincoln - Source: in an 1848 letter to William Herndon.
------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 22:30:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Ryan Anthony <hamsterranch@yahoo.com> Subject: Another band that hasn't toured since 1982 Message-ID: <20060721053053.48067.qmail@web51106.mail.yahoo.com> XTC-spotting update: Syndicated talk radio financial advisor Dave Ramsey (250 U.S. affiliates plus XM, Sirius, and the Internet) uses "Wake Up" in his intro theme on a rotating basis. This may not be new, but it's new to me, and I don't think I've seen it mentioned on the Hill. Good to see a couple more mentions of Syd Barrett here. In Digest No. 12-32, Jemiah Jefferson names the Crazy Diamond as one of the "pure musical experiences" she quested for which turned her "into a bitter, sharp-tongued, lonesome mystic who literally breaks down in tears when she finds someone else who gets as stupid about, say, the Beatles as I do." A bit of Beatleish trivia to make J.J. cry: Zak Starkey will thump the tubs when Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey take The Who on the road later this year for the first time in nearly a quarter of a century. Hmm, what other band we all admire hasn't toured since the early '80s? Zak was already hot stuff when I caught him drumming in Pop's All-Starr Band in 1992 behind such luminaries as Todd Rundgren -- another XTC connection! -- and Nils Lofgren and Joe Walsh. Further down in the same Digest, Richard discusses "Wyatting," or the playing of a song that empties a bar: "Now, with the advent of the internet jukebox, so many more oddball tracks can be downloaded. ... makes me want to go out and search for 'Hatred' by Tonio K. or 'Sexbomb' by Flipper! That'll educate a few folks!" I hadn't seen or heard a reference to Flipper in more than two decades, since my city's best independent-minded progressive deejay soured on the band, and stopped spinning its records, when he and it had a nasty falling-out over the terms of a contract under which he brought it to Tucson for a concert. "Sex Bomb Baby" was pretty good. I don't think that would empty out a bar full of forty-something children of the Eighties. Ryan Anthony An independent Internet content provider
------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 23:20:03 -0700 From: Steve <ste7phen@yahoo.com> Subject: XTC for Kids Message-ID: <44C07213.7030409@yahoo.com> Cheryl wrote: > > I've decided it's time to bring XTC into my classroom. I'm a > preschool teacher and am trying to figure out some good songs to put > together on a CD for my kids. I'm almost certain this has been > discussed before but hopefully not recently. If that's the case, > please don't feel obligated to respond. > > However, if anyone has suggestions for a CD of XTC songs for kids I > would love to hear them. when my kids were that age they responded to "Down In The Cockpit." ...a little older and it was "I'd Like That" and "Bike Ride To The Moon" "Scissorman" ...that'll keep em in line Another Steve
------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 15:35:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Versaci <michael_versaci@yahoo.com> Subject: XTC 45's For Sale Message-ID: <20060720223533.92076.qmail@web30910.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Folxtc, My friend, Rick Avard has a few XTC 45's he would like to sell. I have uploaded a word doc here describing what he has for sale: http://www.4shared.com/dir/608114/7278c5da/XTC45.html He is a good guy and a pleasure to deal with. Please email him here pakrbakr2k@cox.net if you are interested. Please don't email me... Michael Versaci
------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 01:45:22 +0200 From: "don device" <device@noos.fr> Subject: Convert Alert! Message-ID: <038e01c6ac56$97fd1b70$743e4251@computer> Salut All! Just wanted to inform you that not only is my new girlfriend lovely, intelligent (aerospace Engineer by enducation) and takented Opera Singer (by vocation), she is now an XTC FAN!!! I'll be 40 in September and in 2a years of trying she is MY FIRST CONVERT (and believe me I knocked myself out on every girlfriend I could get my, erm, hands on!) She also 25 and Russian, so let' shear it for a new generation of fans in the ex-USSR! I wonder if I can get a percentage of royalmites now? xo, d^2 (quite chuffed with himself!)
------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 21:06:38 +0100 (BST) From: Rory Wilsher <rory_wilsher@yahoo.co.uk> Subject: Help Needed Message-ID: <20060721200639.26729.qmail@web25310.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Hello Hillians Delurking for a while (I may not post often, but, trust me, i still read regularly)... I'm wondering whether anyone can help me? Some time ago, someone complained about the Wikipedia entry on XTC, and it containing factual inaccuracies. It appears now to have been updated (at least, I can't see anything wrong with it). Does anyone have the original Wiki entry cached or saved? The reason I ask is that I have written an entry on XTC for h2g2 ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A3100285 ). I hope this is factually accurate - if someone spots anything wrong, please let me know! This entry is referenced by Wiki. What I want to know is whether the updated, factually accurate Wiki entry relied purely on my h2g2 piece, but I can't do that without the original version of the Wiki article. Can anyone help? Rory Wilsher
------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 03:24:52 -0700 From: Steve <ste7phen@yahoo.com> Subject: Get Well Soon Message-ID: <44C5F174.9010003@yahoo.com> Accident during mixing. What an unfortunate event. When someone has tinnitus it is there around the clock when awake. Generally, people overtime get used to it as their brain learns to ignore it. For someone who loves sound it is a double change, at least temporarily. Let's hope the treatments work. Dear. Dear. Another Steve
------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 05:12:49 -0400 From: "David Pardue" <davidpardue@hotmail.com> Subject: Ra Ra for songs for kids Message-ID: <BAY114-F291003A091F736229C21C2A65B0@phx.gbl> Cheryl doth writ: > >However, if anyone has suggestions for a CD of XTC songs for kids I >would love to hear them. I would suggest "My Weapon". So totally kidding! Nice to see you back Cheryl, and I figured if you can unlurk, so can I. I also owe you an email. :-)
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