From: owner-bomp-digest@ (bomp-digest) To: bomp-digest@Bolis.com Subject: bomp-digest V1 #27 Reply-To: bomp Sender: owner-bomp-digest@ Errors-To: owner-bomp-digest@ Precedence: bulk bomp-digest Sunday, February 2 1997 Volume 01 : Number 027 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 03:16:01 -0500 (EST) From: dcoyle@mail.bright.net (David J. Coyle) Subject: Pickett/Twang/CDs vs. Vinyl Re: Kenny Pickett >Has anyone else heard that Kenny Pickett, the singer/songwriter for The >Creation, died back on Jan 10. What were the circumstances? No I didn't hear about it! Did he have any involvement with the fairly recent Creation reunion that resulted in the album "Power Surge"? I just recently bought the Edsel CD "How Does It Feel To Feel," and was exposed to the "red with purple flashes" Modrock of the Creation, and to find out that one of the artistic forces behind the group has passed on is sad news indeed. Re: Twang! >damn!-that twang! cd is awful with hank's tune bein one of the worst songs on >the whole thing! todd Wow and to think I almost bought that CD without never having heard more than one Shadows tune. What's so bad about it? Are the new arrangements simply given too much artistic license? I'd really hate to hear someone butcher something like "F.B.I." or "Spring Is Nearly Here"... Re: Vinyl vs. CD >Personally, if the music's not worthy of vinyl, I don't want it. One reason >CDs are heralded by "the industry" is that they are WAY cheaper to produce, >ship, store, etc. Now that they've gotten you conditioned to paying more for >em, do you really think they're gonna lower the price?? And slotting allows >smaller labels to follow suit. I simply prefer CDs because of the convenience of it all. I am as careful with them as I can be to avoid scratching them or anything like that. Now if I see a record of some collectible value that I can afford, or if I find records by a group that simply aren't on CD (like my two Every Mother's Son's LPs), I buy it. I've also attained a weakness for 45s. Even the old ones can be cheap and you can find some gems in the most unlikely places. I have two LPs by the Scottish neo-Merseybeat band the Kaisers. One has been reissued on CD, but I figure what's the point? Part of the appeal to me of the Kaisers records is that they seem so authentic. So I don't really go into the upsides and downsides of CD vs. vinyl. I just go with whatever I can find, but I just prefer CDs for some reason... || David J. Coyle // E-Mail: dcoyle@bright.net || || Chillicothe, OH // Another minimum-wage college graduate || ====================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 01 Feb 1997 15:14:44 -0800 From: kris verreth Subject: records vs cd's while the last two years or so the singlesmarket has definitely collapsed (for whatever reason),the vinyl lp is still very strong. on any full length title on demolition derby i sell an average of 60 % vinyl,40 % cd,in several cases the percent of vinyl is even bigger. while you need the cd version in order to reach certain bigger distri- butors who only (or at least mainly) deal in cd's,for garage/surf/ punkrock etc the mailorders,small specialised stores etc are still an important part of the market & those almost exclusively order vinyl. i run a mailorder too & for me it's the same,cd sales are maybe 2 or 3 % of my sales,then fanzines about the same & all the rest is vinyl, the people who come to me to get their stuff are not interested in cd's they come cos they want to get it on vinyl. kris ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 12:02:22 -0500 (EST) From: Mark Robinson Subject: Re: How to unsubscribe I suspect the think-tank let out early for our friend ;) M At 12:57 PM 1/31/97 -0500, you wrote: > >Hey, wow, look! You're a poet and you don't know! If you had whiskers you'd >be a goat! > >Let me guess: Rhodes scholar? Harvard? > >Andrea > > > http://www.tiac.net/users/mrobin ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 17:04:36 -0600 From: tj@ice.net (T.J. O'Brien) Subject: GONN I'm new to the list, so sue me if I'm telling you all something that you already knew... but I heard in the newspaper and on the local news that Gonn is getting back together to do a European tour! Yep, bassist Craig Moore lives here in Peoria where he runs a record store, and drummer Dave Johnson lives in nearby Pekin. I drove all the way to Keokuk, Iowa to see their last reunion show in 1990, and it was genius! Anybody that gets a chance to check these guys out should definitely do so, and please post a review of the show. I wish I could make it myself... but Europe's too far of a drive! Anyhoo, the tour is to happen in the month of February, so as soon as they get back, and I work up the nerve, I'm goin' down to the Peoria Record Company to ask Craig if he'd like to record "Doin' Me In" with my band 13 Frightened Girls. Why not? We're recording "Blackout Of Gretely" next week... Also, someone told me about a possible Gonn/Lyres gig. Cool idea, but I think they were full of shit... Until next time, shake it easy... T.J. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 01 Feb 1997 22:03:25 -0500 From: Paige Conner Totaro Subject: BAN THE ASSWIPE I'm sure you've gotten many requests already, but please remove our friend the asswipe ( rht@HK.Super.NET) from this list. He/she is not nice and not playing by the rules. ------------------------------ End of bomp-digest V1 #27 *************************