From: Bomp-Digest-Sender To: bomp-digest@bolis.com Subject: Bomp V96 #92 Reply-To: Bomp@bolis.com Precedence: bulk Bomp Monday, 16 September 1996 Volume 96 : Number 092 In this issue: Re: Bomp V96 #91 Re: Alternative Graves Re: Bomp V96 #91 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: dothepop@ix.netcom.com (Lisa Lindstrom) Date: Sun, 15 Sep 1996 08:51:24 -0700 Subject: Re: Bomp V96 #91 The Cryptones came from France and issued one LP and some EPs and appeared on a bunch of comps....a very cool garage-psych band. ------------------------------ From: Mattdietr@aol.com Date: Sun, 15 Sep 1996 14:00:16 -0400 Subject: Re: Alternative Graves I've been troubled by the band name issue for three years now. My band, the Aquavelvets, released a blue vinyl EP in 1992. A year later, Heyday released an album by the Aqua Velvets, the surf band from San Francisco. We had never heard of them, but thought it was pretty funny that two bands would pick this name (with a slight spelling variation). So I wrote to them, their record company and their fan club, and sent a copy of our record (which had been sold through Bomp, Metro and a few other such places). I was really only trying to avoid trouble. But they ignored the letters and subsequent faxes. So we proceeded to make a couple more records and pretty much forgot about the name issue. Now the other Aqua Velvets are signed to Milan, which is distributed by BMG, which has lots of marketing muscle. So what do we do? So far, nothing. Who wants to mess with all this when you should be making music? I just wish those guys had written back three years ago and threatened legal action so we (being complete cowards) would have just changed our name before making two more records, playing lots of shows, printing T-shirts, etc. Blair says keep the name and forget it. And, hey, if Blair says so, that's all we need to hear! Matt ------------------------------ From: Timothy Gassen Date: Sun, 15 Sep 1996 17:52:59 -0100 Subject: Re: Bomp V96 #91 Bomp-Digest-Sender@bolis.com wrote: > > Bomp Saturday, 14 September 1996 Volume 96 : Number 091 > > > From: g.nicoll@genie.com > Date: Sat, 14 Sep 96 21:42:00 GMT > Subject: Alternative Graves > > Hey Laura & friends, > > Since there's already some bands using variations of "the Graverobberz," how > about "the Cryptones"? Anybody know of a band called that already? > - -- GREGORY NICOLL Dear Gregory, Yes, there was a fabulous garage band around from the late '80s into the early '90s from France called The Cryptones. They are on several compilations and have an LP on Germany's Music Maniac label. I was lucky enough to spend several weeks in France with them, since they were the opening band for The Marshmallow Overcoat. (The Cryptones had just changed their name to The Greedy Guts, who also have several cool discs out in a Ramones style). Yeah, it can get pretty rough coming up with a new band name. Believe it or not, there was actually a U.K. band from the late '80s who released one EP as "The Marshmallow Overcoat." Weird, huh!?! All the best, Sincerely, Timothy Gassen ------------------------------ End of Bomp V96 #92 ******************* You have been reading Bomp-digest. For subscription requests, send a message to majordomo@bolis.com containing "subscribe Bomp-digest" or "unsubscribe Bomp-digest"