Chalkhills Digest Volume 4, Issue 7
Date: Wednesday, 15 October 1997
Chalkhills Digest, Volume 4, Number 7
Wednesday, 15 October 1997
Today's Topics:
Let's Make a Den
A note from the prime potentate
re: violent opposition to "Books are Burning" guitar solos
guitar tab, south pork, space moose
Ah, so this isn't going to be completely off topic
CTD
Promo appearances: what/where/when?
shopping shopping goes the shopping man
Yep! No real XTC content whatsoever!
Thar she blows!!!!
We three things of subject are.........
I Palindrome I
Somebody's baking brownies......
Melt the Guns/Phish
Haydn Bendall
Be my guest, Cheryl
Andrew Partridge Ultrastar Und Ultraklebestoff
Phish melted the guns
song meaning
Andy Was A Guitar Hero Too
Does anyone else like CTD rah,rah,rah!!!!
Haydn Bendall and Lumiere
And So......?
Haydn Bendall
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---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <34421BAD.283D@ibm.net> Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 13:01:34 +0000 From: Carrie Brand Ross <cross56@ibm.net> Organization: Blackbird Recording Co. Subject: Let's Make a Den Just wanted to let everyone know that I finally heard Let's Build A Den (thanks to Peter M and other Chalkhill friends) after hearing it once over 10 years ago - and it was GREAT! I'm even getting another version sent to me soon :) Thanks! And, yes, Southpark rules! Carrie
------------------------------ Message-ID: <344260E4.DFAE2582@ket.org> Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 13:56:53 -0400 From: james isaacs <jisaacs@ket.org> Subject: A note from the prime potentate Welcome, Marshall Armintor, to the "Go 2 Appreciation Society", with membership now up into the teens, no doubt. I have lost track. Literally. Still taking applications for thise who wish to spit in the faces of those philistines who just don't get it- Go 2 is better than Brad Roberts with writer's block. In other news, in that XTC fantasy someone had about Polly Harvey and the lads, as wells as Mr. Cope- they can all leave, Polly and myself would have a very lovely evening, listening to XTC, perhapos Captin Beefheart-alone. Thank you and goodnight, Lurking mode off. James
------------------------------ Message-Id: <v03007804b067f141e0a6@[38.227.118.4]> From: david@connors.com (David Friel) Subject: re: violent opposition to "Books are Burning" guitar solos Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 18:46:14 -0400 In reference to the previously written statement: Anyway, you Chalkoids who wonder why some people are violently opposed to the guitar solos in "Books Are Burning" have got to understand: There are some of us who have deeply distressing memories of the Seventies, who consider the extended guitar jam to be the emblem and incarnation of lazy, time-filling, clock-punching, beer-sucking, fog-brained Seventies POOP. It just makes us nervous when we hear a great band, a band that stuck more than one bayonet into the bleeding corpse of that weed-sodden southern-fried aesthetic, a short, sharp, shocking band that in its youthful, nightclubbing incarnation would rather have chewed their own fingers off than do a guitar solo of more than eight bars, suddenly in its studio maturity sounding for a brief, unguarded minute like they might be gearing up for a Big Concept Album where Side Two is all one song that condemns war or something controversial like that. Don't you geeks have anything better to do than microanalyze a 20-something second guitar solo? I wasn't sure if you were talking about the solos in "Books are Burning" or "Freebird" from your melodramatic diatribe. Is it against some sort of pop songwriting convention to have a solo, god forbid played by more than one person, that lasts longer than, say, 5 seconds??? Perhaps it's time to liberate yourself from the parameters of "the perfect 3-minute pop song." - The Kid
------------------------------ Message-Id: <3442B2D8.315BC418@appsig.com> Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 16:46:33 -0700 From: Peter Jeong <peter_jeong@appsig.com> Subject: guitar tab, south pork, space moose > Peter Jeong was looking for guitar tab for JC Superstar, a nearly > impossible task. A great resource for guitar tabs is OLGA > (http://olga.net/) which can hook you up with almost any song > (excepting > JCS), all submitted by struggling musicians. They only have 9 XTC > songs > listed, but perhaps this group could submit a few more to enrich the > world. yes, i was a bit disappointed with the selection of xtc music on olga. they've got a dozen submissions for tab on green day's new song about teen angst and beastiality, but it's very sparse on some of the more quality stuff. a mirror site of olga which is more to the point for nitty gritty guitar tab: http://www.harmony-central.com/Guitar/tab.html > Re:Amanda and "South Park"-I forced a group of friends to watch this, > > and got in return the embarassed silence and throat clearing, while I if south park is your cup of tea check out space moose:http://www.bme.med.ualberta.ca/~adam/ and look under the "archives" section. if you're easily offended, please don't bother. some of the cartoons are pretty raunchy even by my standards, but they're as funny as all heck. another GREAT guitar site: http://www.dreamscape.com/esmith/dansm/guitar.htm (and it must be "great" since i used capital letters to qualify it!) regards, pete
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From: "Matt Keeley" <mrme@eskimo.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 17:10:59 +0000
Subject: Ah, so this isn't going to be completely off topic
Hello again...
> From: CCooli9575@aol.com
> >I have a Phish-head that works for me that has informed me that Phish
> >covered "Melt The Guns" in April 1987. He is working on procuring a
> >copy of the tapes.
> Phish-heads, phish-heads, roly poly phish-heads; phish-heads, phish-heads,
> eat them up, yum!
I've just been wondering if there's sort of a quarrel between Phish
and Barnes and Barnes fans for the right to the name "Fish/Phish
Heads".... I personally vote for letting the Phish fans have it,
while taking a better name for ourselves...8) "Honourary Residents
of Lumania" maybe? (I guess, though, only B&B can grant that
status...)... I don't know...
> From: gregory <mattone@bhip.infi.net>
> Dave, you forgot the smell that wafts up from a new CD right after it's
> opened! It's not like a new car, but it evokes the same feeling in me!
Hmm... that's why I'm addicted to recordings! Oh yeah, and the music
does help a bit too...8)
> From: becki digregorio <ziglain@cruzio.com>
> "this used to be some xtc records. it is now a collection of tracks that
> have been electronically processed/shattered and layered with other sounds
> or lyrical pieces."
> "if you liked go+ then this record weighs approximately the same amount."
> "all initial sound by xtc. additional sound/lyrics by andy partridge. put
> and take by john leckie and andy partridge on 10.10.79. alan jakoby was
> the tapir."
> "destructed/constructed at regents park recordings company, 27a queens
> terrace, st. johns wood, london nw8 6dv."
Cool! Thanks for the info on the TA/TLOS... It's cool to see the
liners... but I'd still love to see a scan of the cover and back
cover... one of these days, when I get it, I'll scan it, if someone
else doesn't... but that'll be some time in the not-so-near future,
probably... Unless I can find one in a local record shop here... that
would be cool. In which case, of course, I will snap it up like a
fish in the pond.
> From: fisher@easynet.co.uk (Mark Fisher)
> A headline in The Herald (Glasgow) at the weekend above an article about
> cookery writer Nigel Slater ... all together now ... "Making Flans for
> Nigel".
One of these days, I'll have to write that parody I've been thinking
of... "Making Flansburgh Nigel"... of course, I probably, note
PROBABLY, won't subject you all to that torture. "We're only making
Flansburgh Nigel/We only want what's best for him..."
> From: AMANDA CARYL OWENS <ACOEA@jazz.ucc.uno.edu>
> And now onto incomprehension-I muddled my way through "Heatwave" many a time
> beofre I figured out what the HELL Colin was saying.
hehe... I must confess that I did the same thing, until I cheated.
Then I STILL couldn't figure out what the HELL he was saying... After
asking, I found out that a MKII Deluxe was either a gun (probably) or
a car.
Anyway...
Ah well, that's this world over...
Matt
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Yeah.
------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 19:30:51 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199710140030.TAA25150@mail.utexas.edu> From: Mitchell Harding <mitcharf@mail.utexas.edu> Subject: CTD >hey, guess what? there are over 1,000 people on Chalkhills. and every >SINGLE time Amanda gets mad that someone took issue with her constant >rah-rah posts that CTD are the best band in the world, quite a few of them >remark that they don't think that this is the place to discuss whether or >not the Dummies actually suck, but that for the record, they do (suck, that >is). one or two people say something to the effect that they think CTD are >okay but again, this is not a CTD list. the rest of them merely ignore the >topic, which indicates to _me_ that they don't particularly care. I disagree with your assessment of the talent of CTD. I think they are a fine band, better than average. I respect the fact that you dislike them, but it's no crime to like them, and they are somewhat related to XTC. Discussion about CTD is far more relevant to the list than this pointless flame war that you seem to be perpetuating. Mitch
------------------------------ Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19971014104251.00813100@pop3.unsw.edu.au> Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 10:42:51 +1000 From: Jeff Cotter <j.cotter@unsw.edu.au> Subject: Promo appearances: what/where/when? Chalkoholics Anonymous: Two quick questions: Does (will) XTC publish a list of upcoming promotional appearances, i.e. record-release signings etc.? Where (is the list published)? TIA, Jeff Cotter ps. pls respond via e-mail to address below * ----------------------------------------- Jeff Cotter j.cotter@unsw.edu.au Photovoltaics Special Research Centre University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia 2034 Most of all...
------------------------------ Message-ID: <3442C437.D5E51F62@earthlink.net> Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 18:00:42 -0700 From: Wesley Hanks <whanks@earthlink.net> Subject: shopping shopping goes the shopping man Howdy from the land of 90 degree October, As a resident of Las Vegas, it's a part of our city charter that residents are to eschew the strip and all tourist attractions. However, during a recent child-less Saturday, my tag-team partner suggested we check out the new Forum Shop addition to Caesar's Palace. Not wishing to cause marital ickyness and at the same time my brain not coming up with a snappy alternative, I said - "uh...ok". If you enjoy trying to navigate through 9.5 miles of a mouth agape, tourist clogged mall to check out the friggin' FAO Schwartz store, "you know for Christmas present ideas, dear" - why it's for you. After an hour of this lovelyness I found myself in the new Virgin MegaStore. I finally find a copy of "Through the Hill" - priced inexplicably low. Purchasing it was a balm. " Oh, you want to check out the MuseumSavetheRainForestNatureSharperImage store, sure dear we can do that, whatever you say, whatever you want. I can stand it because I have this marvelous cd in my possession and nothing, especially a crowded mall will spoil this moment of bliss." Married for over 15 years, Wes
------------------------------ Message-ID: <3442DCD5.49AF@bhip.infi.net> Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 22:46:06 -0400 From: gregory <mattone@bhip.infi.net> Organization: InfiNet Subject: Yep! No real XTC content whatsoever! Tschalkgerz! (Take two aspirin, e-mail me in the morning...) Re: Amanda bashing: Ooooohhhhh! YEOW! Gettin' back to the ol' Chalkhills knock-down drag-out - YEEEEEEHAW!!!! Bash away, bash away, bash away all! I'm game!! YEAH!! WOO-HOO!! Uh, but seriously... so, Amanda likes CTD, and some of the 1,000 people on this list don't... So? I read all posts here (or at the very least glaze over them thick enough to get the gist), and I don't get the impression of rampant overemphasizing of the virtues of CTD by Amanda... does she mention them a lot? Yeah, maybe... So? they did a cover of an XTC tune - they are now fair game for any discussion and associated loose thread that comes up in this list. And I don't think they SUCK, per se... I don't own anything by them, but they're interesting at times... beats the hell out of, like, oh, hell, what's playing now on the radio that I don't care for - shit, I don't know, I don't listen to the damned radio, that's why I listen to XTC! I ain't necessarily telling anybody to cease and desist anything here, 'cause I'm just as guilty of saying stuff here as anybody (right, Becki?)... just have some compassion. I don't know how old (er - young) Amanda is, but if she's as young as I get the impression of, good for her that she's even bothered to come to enjoy XTC like the rest of us. I can't people probably twice her age to give a shit. And if anyone here had half a clue, you'd know how wrapped around what interests they have gals this age are - there isn't anything wrong with it. So, lighten up. Even though the calendar says it's fall, it still feels like summer a bit here. Ya gotta have something to talk about during the droughts, and we are all individuals with our own interests and things to say, and this is a public forum. What? You have your rights to say what you want? Yes, you do, by gumption... but do ya gotta flame so badly? Oh, and I DO agree with Amanda about spelling, punctuation, capitalization and the like when communicating by written language... and even those who do try to live by these rules make mistakes, sometimes... but we do try. Some don't even bother, and it makes their messages hard to read and hard to understand, something following the rules tends to eliminate. 'South Park' kicks ass. "Oh my God - they've killed Kenny! YOU BASTARDS!!" -Brian Eating future and shitting past...
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From: "McDonald, Roger" <McDonaRF@prose.dpi.qld.gov.au>
Subject: Thar she blows!!!!
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 13:53:00 +1000
Dear Trainspotters,
It's Roger here - not to be confused with that lovely chap Robert
McDonald. I'm an altogether much nastier kettle of fish. Well, there I
was lying under the bridge like a good little troll happily listening to
Captain Sensible's Meathead CD and browsing through Chalkhills and then
I saw the smoke starting to rise.
Cor Blimey! Bring the petrol, Amanda's done it again! Didn't take long.
And we were having such a nice civilised time while she was on holidays
too. Still, you just can't buy entertainment like this. It's all so
familiar and comforting! The people whom she upsets (who are legion!),
the bleeding heart liberals who'll come to her defence ("Stop picking on
Amanda!") and of course bringing up the vanguard the most obnoxious of
all, the "use the pagedown button!" brigade.
As usual she's played up a treat by dribbling, spilling her food and
knocking over people's drinks at the Testimonial Dinner then, when she
gets a smack for it she cries even louder and starts throwing food at
the patrons! Dear oh dear oh dear....
Personally I don't give a monkey's about CTD, STD, LSD, BVD or IUD's one
way or the other. I mean I will defend to the death your right to have
your say, Amanda but for chrissakes have some fucking manners, stop
picking your nose and remember you're in the company of adults, so
behave yourself!
Anyway, people, as I always say, "It's not important what you're
fighting about - just remember to get in there and fight, fight,
FIGHT!!!!!!! Now that's entertainment!
RogerFromOz
(the masturbator agitator)
P.S. Hey Sherwood Harrison, right on, right on, right on! Tell it like
it is, BABY!
------------------------------ Message-Id: <199710140521.BAA11620@ultra1.dreamscape.com> From: "Chris Ellerd" <cellerd@dreamscape.com> Subject: We three things of subject are......... Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 01:07:07 -0400 Umm, Happy Christmas Chalkheads. I know, it's only October, but the early bird......... Three things: 1- My, but people are getting excessively emotional on this mailing list lately, aren't they? I realize opinions bear a similarity to keesters (i.e. everybody's got one), which brings me to the second thing I'm here to yak about. 2- The only song that sucks is the unfinished one. 3- Interesting that the definition of skylarking is what it is, I guess that makes the track "Dying" an anomaly. Pretty serious subject matter, that. Being the monarch of Misery (albeit newly crowned) isn't real humorous either. Bah Chris Ellerd cellerd@dreamscape.com
------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 8:26:33 -0400 From: J_ARTECONA@RCMACA.UPR.CLU.EDU Message-Id: <971014082633.2120b878@RCMACA.UPR.CLU.EDU> Subject: I Palindrome I Couldn't help but to notice that there was a palindrome on the header of Steve K's letter to the hills. I love palindromes so if anyone out there knows any other than "a man a plan a canal panama" or "able was I ere I saw Elba" or "Dabale arroz a la zorra el abad" (spanish palindrome) please do share (privately) ROTOR PANCHOPRXTCFAN NAFCTXRPOHCNAP
------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 09:09:43 -0600 (CST) From: AMANDA CARYL OWENS <ACOEA@jazz.ucc.uno.edu> Subject: Somebody's baking brownies...... Message-id: <01IOSHNTPRW68XUVBM@jazz.ucc.uno.edu> A word to my good, bestest of the best friend Brookes-Get off your soapbox. I get preached to enough at church. But it's still all good, nothing but love for ya. In other words........ DROP IT ALREADY! End of story, I have nothing further to say/write/type to you. Buh-bye now. Mark-I'm (sniff) touched (sniff sniff) by your words. Tony-Honestly, I've only heard three songs from JCS, but getting Brad to sing one would be incredible. (Oops, I mentioned the forbidden name. We wouldn't want to upset all those closet CTD fans, now would we?) James-Raspberry in your direction, babe. :p (jokingly of course, tongue planted firmly in cheek.) Now wait a minute.....I'm not done with you yet, Brookes. I could care less about REM, Martin Newell, and 3/4 of the bands that get mentioned on Chalkhills besides XTC, yet I don't fall off my rocker when theyle are mentioned. Why? Because you can like who you want to like. BUT BUT BUT... I was not taking you to task for what yo said about CTD. You can put them down all you want. You've seen me do it myself! I was more aggravated about the fact that you took it upon yourself to speak for everyone. Unless you personally email everyone on this list and come to concensus (spelling????), and get elected to write the Official Chalkhills Opinion, you can speak for only one person-yourself. If you would've used the word "I" instead of "we", I probably would've kept my mouth shut. (well, probably not, but I wouldn't have pitched a fit, I just would've stated my opinion.) Now that we've cleared that up, let's all be friends....everyone sing with me "I love you, you love me......I worship Dave Gre-go-ry......" (In all seriousness, can we just drop this?) South Park-BEEFCAKE!!!!!!!!! Colin's diction-I just recalled another in a long, LONG line of mishearings. On my first listening of Heatwave, my twisted mind heard "He drowns himself and his semen's hardboiled." Query-After watching the version of Peter Pumpkinhead shown in Australia and the one shown in the US, do you think MTV would still show the censored versin today, or go all out and show that toothpick of a woman's backside? (Not that it's ever been a great pleasure to see a woman's read end.) Ciao for now, peace and love, oranges and lemons, Daddy's Girl Daemon est deus inversus XTC song of the day-Books Are Burning non XTC-Maxwell's Silver Hammer-Beatles
------------------------------ From: fstolzenbach@hns.com Message-ID: <85256530.0050CFBD.00@ngw2.hns.com> Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 10:44:54 -0400 Subject: Melt the Guns/Phish All: Someone wanted to know when Phish performed "Melt the Guns." A Phish Phanatic of my acquaintance tells me "they played it on April 29, 1987." Don't know where. Hope this is helpful. -- FS
------------------------------ Message-Id: <3.0.32.19971014110923.0092f910@smtpgw.ametsoc.org> Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 11:09:23 -0400 From: David Gershman <dgershmn@ametsoc.org> Subject: Haydn Bendall Hi Chalkers, After the big news from John Wedemeyer about a producer being chosen, I did a little research on this "Haydn Bendall" (that's the way it's spelled, by the way) in the All-Music Guide. Here's what he's been involved in, as "Engineer" for almost all (except "Producer" for Camel, Sky, and Shelleyan Orphan): Bill Nelson, Roy Harper, Camel, Sky [UK], Naked Eyes (oh joy), Everything But the Girl, Shelleyan Orphan, Let's Active (!I'm excited by this one!), Pat Metheny, Gary Moore, Roger Waters, Kate Bush, Kiri Te Kanawa, Gary Moore, and Greg Lake. I don't really know what to make of this. It seems that he at least has substantial engineering experience with a wide variety of primarily English acts, but it also seems like he could effectively end up just being an engineer for XTC's new album, letting them call the shots. I have what you might call a "non-opinion" on this (except that it's GREAT that they're about to start recording)...we'll just have to wait and see, obviously. Dave Gershman
------------------------------ Message-ID: <c=US%a=_%p=SELECT_Software_%l=SELECT_OX_MAIL-971014142518Z-564@select_UK_mail.select.com> From: Catherine Sweeney <CatherineS@selectst.com> Subject: Be my guest, Cheryl Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 15:25:18 +0100 Ok, Cheryl, it's a deal. You take Andy to the offy, I get to stay in with Dave and the Kettle Crisps.
------------------------------ From: "Stafford, Dave" <dstaffor@tradesvc.com> Subject: Andrew Partridge Ultrastar Und Ultraklebestoff Date: Tue, 14 Oct 97 11:15:00 PDT Message-ID: <3443B780@dilbert> >>> From: "Stafford, Dave" <dstaffor@tradesvc.com> >>> Subject: Andy Partridge Uberstar >>Sorry, I've never heard/seen JCS, but I just wanted to say that this >>is one of the coolest Subject lines I've seen in a long time. Why thank you! > >>Matt >> -=>Matt Keeley mrme@eskimo.com<=- I'm afraid that this is a direct result of Saturday Night Live. They did a skit about "Uberman" sort of a German Superman. The next day at work, I told my German-speaking boss that I was going to use some "Uberglue" (superglue) to glue something that was broken. He corrected me, explaining that "uber" wasn't good German in this context, and that the correct word for superglue is "ultraklebestoff". So based on this bizarre exchange, I should have probably said "Ultrastar". But it just didn't seem the same... Of course this was many, many years ago when I was a lot sillier than I am now :-) dave at studio seventeen, newly crowned king of the "most bitchin" subject line
------------------------------ Message-ID: <c=US%a=_%p=State_Theatre%l=STATE-971014183239Z-3157@state.orpheum.com> From: Jess Ford <Jess@orpheum.com> Subject: Phish melted the guns Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 13:32:39 -0500 In response to: >I have a Phish-head that works for me that has informed me that Phish >covered "Melt The Guns" in April 1987. He is working on procuring a >copy of the tapes. I have been subscribing to Chalkhills for a year now, just observing, looking for the news on next release, but alas, I am compelled to contribute and answer to a question that I have some actual connection to. I was the operations manager of the Paradise Rock club in Boston during the Mid to late 80's. A somewhat legendary showcase club for acts on their way up or way down, (XTC performed there a few years before my time.) During 1986 and 87 Phish was a little known band from Vermont who came down to Boston about every 4-6 months to play at the Paradise. At one point (must have been April of 1987) during their set up in the afternoon I had a look at their promotional list of songs(covers) that they were prepared to play at any time, even though they had progressed to mostly originals by then. Amidst many Grateful Dead and Traffic type songs which I suspected they probably played, I immediately spotted "Melt the Guns" on the list. So in a mild state of disbelief, I challenged them to play it that evening, thinking that they probably couldn't or wouldn't. They seemed to be reluctant, whining about not having played it in a while, they only want to do originals, blah, blah, blah. But I felt it was my duty to attempt to expose the Phish head audience (any audience really) to XTC. So, of course I alluded to the fact that I might not pay them if they didn't play it. (a blatant lie, but worth it, if it indeed worked) Hours go by, I'm busy, I never get to watch much of the shows because I'm working. Afterwards a couple guys in the band (the guitar guy and the drummer guy I think) excitedly ask me if I heard them play "Melt the Guns". Sadly I had missed it, but I obtained numerous confirmations from those in attendance that they did actually play it. Good luck on finding the tape. Anxiously awaiting new material......... Peace.
------------------------------ Message-ID: <3443E58E.19FF@flash.net> Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 16:35:10 -0500 From: "Joseph E. Short" <jshort@flash.net> Organization: home Subject: song meaning Can anyone clue me into the meaning of "The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead" I have a friend who believes it is about JFK, I personally do not think so, any help would be appreciated. thanks
------------------------------ From: MARKROCKS@aol.com Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 21:06:03 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <971014164633_-192816545@emout17.mail.aol.com> Subject: Andy Was A Guitar Hero Too Harrison _Sugarhippie_ Sherwood wrote: << It just makes us nervous when we hear a great band, a band that stuck << more than one bayonet into the bleeding corpse of that weed-sodden << southern-fried aesthetic, a short, sharp, shocking band that in its << youthful, nightclubbing incarnation would rather have chewed their own << fingers off than do a guitar solo of more than eight bars . . . Harrison, I could not agree more with your analysis of Why Punk Happened. Well said, as usual. However, having recently heard the Helium Kidz for the first time (Thanks Amanda!), I must admit that they sounded very old school rock and roll in the beginning. Andy almost sounds like he was goofin on Elvis (do you think that was what Micheal Stipe meant?) and the tracks I heard contain some rather lengthy guitar solos. It almost appears to me that their sound changed drastically with the addition of Barry Andrews to the band. Only then do they take on the sharp, short, punky sound of XTC. Any thoughts out there? Mark Brown
------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 21:16:58 +0100 Subject: Does anyone else like CTD rah,rah,rah!!!! Message-ID: <19971014.202153.9046.1.adamette@juno.com> From: adamette@juno.com (Patrick M Adamek) >hey, guess what? there are over 1,000 people on Chalkhills. and every SINGLE >time Amanda gets mad that someone took issue with her constant rah-rah posts >that CTD are the best band in the world, quite a few of them remark that >they don't think that this is the place to discuss whether or not the >Dummies actually suck, > > we have discussed both of the Dummies XTC covers at great length, i would >even venture to say exhaustively, and the consensus seems to be that they >are pretty underwhelming. even Amanda admits that "Peter Pumpkinhead" is an >inferior effort, and someone pointed out that the Dummies made money off of >it that could have been going to XTC. the above was in the last Chalkhills (#4-6), and is a fair description of what has gone on with CTD in Chalkhills, as I have been reading Chalkhills on and off since August of 1996. Unfortunately, the remainder of what Brooke has written went way too far. Filled with mean-spirited opinion and misrepresentations of Chalkhillians, it was innapropriate and unneccesary. but that for the record, they do (suck, that is). one or two people say something to the effect that they think CTD are okay but again, this is not a CTD list. the rest of them merely ignore the topic, which indicates to _me_ that they don't particularly care. you and Amanda may come to the conclusion that they are all "closet Dummies fans," but that seems like a rather illogical one to me. again, read the archives if you think that i'm making this up. the only reason anyone is forced to read anything else about the Dummies is that AMANDA has a temper tantrum every time they're cast in a less than flattering light. this is why i suggested that she should just give it up. the only time CTD should come up on this mailing list is in reference to their covers, and it's already been dealt with. obviously if some new person joined and felt like saying, "hey, does anyone else like the Dummies, rah rah rah" etc., etc., it would be one thing, as non XTC groups are discussed all the time, but for one person to conduct what basically amounts to a crusade to get us all to like them is not only well-nigh insane, but _extremely_ annoying to those of us who are here to talk about XTC. i really don't think it's necessary for me to conduct a fucking *poll* in order to determine exactly how everyone on the list feels about CTD - not only is it patently obvious to anyone who's been paying attention, but that would be giving them more time and effort than they deserve on an XTC list. Yes, I am a CTD fan but I'm a bigger XTC fan. This IS a possibility!!!!! Let's discuss XTC and "Live and Let Live"when it comes to other people bringing up their fav group. To illustrate my earlier point Re: less writing in Chalkhills, it took from 7AM on 10-10-97 to ~4PM on 10-13-97 to generate an issue of Chalkhills I appreciated Harrison's descriptions of 70's music. We are much better off now. P
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Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 10:44:07 +0100
Message-Id: <00099AA3.3111@paribas.com>
From: "Patrick_BOURCIER"@paribas.com (Patrick BOURCIER)
Subject: Haydn Bendall and Lumiere
Hi Chalkers,
Something about Haydn Bendall :
My sources could be imprecise and need to be confirmed. Haydn
Bendall appears on credits in one album of Chi Coltrane in 1986 as a
percussion player, in 3 albums of Camel between 81 and 84 as a
synthetizer-programmer, in one album of Royal Harper (1980) in the
same type of work, and in 7 (!) albums of Sky One (79-87).
Now, the quest is starting ...
Who are interested in the NEW newsletter issued by Lumiere (all in
french) ? It's the number zero (!) and it's a summary of some news we
get these months about XTC.
E-mail me privately at : pbourcier@hol.fr
Be seeing you
----------------- Patrick Bourcier - Lumiere ------------
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From: Matt_Kaden/CAM/Lotus@lotus.com
Message-Id: <85256531.00507DFD.00@mta2.lotus.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 11:02:14 -0400
Subject: And So......?
Brookes observed, Dave Gershman is cool and Amanda is the opposite. I
happen to think they're both cool and I am a valid human. You see? That
didn't take up too much space, did it?
Patrick, I love Go2 just as much as you, the 'current' record when I joined
'em was 25 O'clock... I still feel like I was there for the seventies.
I don't know what else to comment on, as usual. Maybe I should start
reviewing all the records The Lads have made over the years.
Collectively,
- Kaden
------------------------------ Message-ID: <c=US%a=_%p=Fidelity%l=NORTHEAST1/IMC001/00235D01@msgmro100nts.fmr.com> From: "Sawyer, Keith" <Keith.Sawyer@fmr.com> Subject: Haydn Bendall Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 14:13:00 -0400 John Wedemeyer stupendously blurted: >The producer will be Haydon Bendall, an ex-Abbey Road engineer/producer >who has worked with Kate Bush, Magazine and many others. (Anyone else >out there have more info on him?) Haydn Bendall has engineered albums by Kate Bush, Roger Waters, Naked Eyes, Everything But the Girl, Let's Active, Bill Nelson, and a small gaggle of others. His production credits seem limited to Camel and Sky, two bands I'm not familiar with. However, he also produced Shelleyan Orphan's Helleborne album, which in my mind immediately establishes his credibility. It's their finest album, very crisp yet ethereal at the same time. He makes the simple sound ornate and the more uptempo songs shimmer with a pleasant energy. The strings sound particularly fantastic on this release, and the vocals and overdubs are done spectacularly as well (or at least in contrast to Shelleyan Orphan's other albums). I'd expect the dazzling sunny day-ness of Skylarking to come through, with less of the rigid structure that drowns out the feel of spontaneity on that release. He should do a very fine job, especially on the more sparse, upbeat songs such as You and the Clouds or I'd Like That. I'm very interested in the treatment that Easter Theatre or the chorus in Wonder Annual will receive... keith "You've got all those pretty girls, And I was born to change the station" -East River Pipe, 'Superstar in France'
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