From: owner-bomp-digest@xnet2.com (bomp-digest) To: bomp-digest@xnet2.com Subject: bomp-digest V98 #1078 Reply-To: bomp Sender: owner-bomp-digest@xnet2.com Errors-To: owner-bomp-digest@xnet2.com Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send e-mail to majordomo@xnet2.com with "unsubscribe bomp-digest" in the body X-Bomp-web-site: http://www.bomp.com/bomp/Index.html X-BompList-Administrator: efd@interport.net bomp-digest Saturday, March 7 1998 Volume 98 : Number 1078 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 10:01:50 +0100 From: Soundflat@t-online.de (Lutz Raeuber) Subject: Re: Gun Club Arimatti Jutila schrieb: > > > I heard there is a new double cd by the great late Gun Club. Any body > heard it ? What's in it ? > > Jude > The double CD set came out on SFTRI some months ago & contains studio material april 1981, live stuff NY 1982, plus homerecordings 1980-81! The set is called "early warning" & is available as a normal two-CD set or as a special leather-bound book edition! Check out my pages or mail me privately if interested, Lutz Soundflat@t-online.de visit the Soundflat Mailorder webpages: http://home.t-online.de/home/Soundflat ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Mar 1998 07:19:49 -0500 From: JJ and Jen Rassler Subject: Re: bomp-digest V98 #1077 I'm going to have to check out that article. Haven't had the pleasure of seeing that one. The Noise is one of the local rags I actually like checking out from time to time -- I get a kick out of the reviews. Got to agree with the radio issue, although we've all had the discussion of what & who else is killing the scene. Although we have our good moments -- the Ventures are playing next week and there have been some other great shows lately. I don't mind Boston so much, but I've been here way too long. I gotta say that I wouldn't mind moving someplace else for a while. JJ lived in Austin for a while & loved it, and I'll be there for my second time March 18 for SXSW. So the verdict is still out as to whether I'd move there permanently, but I think that it would be our first choice. Although I'll be "wicked" (authentic Boston lingo for you foreigners) bummed out if you move, Andrea -- being one of the coolest people here! I'd also miss certain areas of Boston, like I've been visiting the Albany St./Children's Hospital area lately, which is right near Thayer Street -- where I used to party with my friends at the Dogmatics loft. But you can't live on memories alone. Jen Rassler > > > Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 13:53:39 +0000 > From: "Alex Piandes" > Subject: Boston's Such A Lonely Town (was:Where I'm From) > > Any Boston-area BOMP!ers read the letter to the editor in this > month's Noise in response to the article on how radio is killing the > Boston scene? It sums up most everything except the fact if the > lion's share of the current bands took risks (read:played basic rock > 'n' roll)instead of trying to sound like everyone else on commercial > alternative (I hate that fuckin' word...)radio, believe me, the scene, such > as it is, would thrive. > Speaking of the "scene", I just read a post from the Rockabilly list > which pretty much sums up my opinion. The scene to me is a look, > music is an attitude. You can dress like like your dad (I do)and live > in some jerkwater (like Boston...) still be a rock 'n' roller at > heart and the coolest cat or kitten in the room. > > Alex Piandes > Coffee 'n' Smokes > Born 8/57, City Hospital, Cambridge, Ma. > Lived in Cambridge, Lived in Cambridge, Lived in Cambridge, 'til > 1968 Mom gets spooked by student riot in Hahvid Squeah, so she nags > 'n' nags 'n' nags 'n' nags, 'til 1969 we move to Arlington (a.k.a. Cambridge > With Trees) 1980 move on my own back to Cambridge. 1990 Get married, > in-laws nag 'n' nag 'n' nag 'n' nag for us to move to a nice suburban > (read:white) neighborhood. 1992 moved to Peabody, Ma. Interracial > couple next door, Black family across street, 2 strip joints (Golden > Banana, Cabaret)and a Porno supermarket(Amazing Adult Videos and > Books-was Video EXXXpress) within a half-mile radius. Touche. (I ain't > goin' anywhere...) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 10:51:23 -0500 (EST) From: Lelia Ellen Raley Subject: SxSW On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, JJ and Jen Rassler wrote: lived in Austin for a while & loved it, and I'll be there > for my second time March 18 for SXSW. Are you performing? Or doing the conference only? My husband George Bedard is going to be appearing as part of SxSW at the Bucket o' Suds or someplace on the 18th, and will be playing with Bill Kirchen on the following Sunday - probably engaging in some swing/rockabilly guitar dueling. He's not a garage act but he IS fantastic and if anyone in the area wants to hear him I will obtain more detail. I'd like to know where the Rasslers are performing - and if you have any advice for a first-time particiapnt, what's most worth your time, etc. Tanx - Lola ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 09:45:12 -0600 From: grinderman@juno.com (Hess Jeffery) Subject: Re: Where I'm From You know Groomerx? The man was a genius on the >snardlinger. What power! Groomerx was very big on Neptune and IMHO, the greatest snardlinger player that ever lived. He would sit in w/Sun Ra every time he came through on one of his many trans-galactic tours. They'd get real gone.....I mean REALLY GONE! _____________________________________________________________________ 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] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 11:53:42 -0500 From: Don Smith Subject: stereo equipment >In its day, Garrard was the creme de la creme.... Probably in very fine working order for >the most part, too. When people first began buying component pieces - a >strange concept initially - Garrard was THE table to get. > My advice to you young man is to buy a vintage turntable. I'm running both a > Technics and a Garard currently and the Garard is the workhorse. The company > went out of business in like 1968 or something, but their turntables were > magnificent. ... One > place to look for vintage as well as great new hi-fi equipment is Stereo > Exchange on Broadway just north of Houston Street in Manhattan. I don't know > if they have a mailorder catalogue, but you can always call 'em. my mother's 1962 Garrard works like a dream, but she needs something replaced every 5 years or so- of course the stereo cabinet is longer than my car. in the Washington, DC area there is a chain called High Tech Audio-video which when they first openened would sell stunning 60s/70s Carver, Garrard, Polk equipment. Your audiophile $2000 tube receivers and amplifiers sold used for $200. Currently their selection is nowhere near as cool, but there are still bargains to be had. a friend got an amazing turntable in which 4 curved "fingers" hold the record up instead of a mat, Stereolab eat your heart out. Don ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Mar 98 09:34:11 -0700 From: Efram Subject: Re: Great Scott! >In a message dated 98-03-05 22:49:03 EST, you write: > ><< << GREAT SCOTS "Arrive!" (rare+unreleased stuff...) >> > > Yeah anybody with info on this let me know please!! > > Freddy >> > >Ditto, who put this one out???? Epic stuff?? Tony This is on the Sundazed's BeatRocket (vinyl-only) label and their Web site says: Here's the recording industry's version of walking into that little record shop in South Dakota and finding everything just like it was in 1966. Halifax, Nova Scotia's Great Scots as renowned today for wearing kilts on stage as for their knockout British Invasion-style debut disc on Sundazed cut another album's worth of Hollies-meet-Stones-meet-Searchers fueled stunners in 1965. Here, at last, is the other Great Scots packagea 10 track rampage through material so woolly that only Eric Burdon & Co. or Mick, Brian & Keith, Inc. would dare to followand featuring liner notes by legendary Caribou, Maine deejay Wally Berk, who never, ever stopped believing himself to be "the sixth Great Scot." Tracks:  Don't Want Your Love My Baby's Name Any Other Boy Give Me Lovin' That's My Girl That Wasn't No Girl I Want To Know Tell Her Please Lucille Lost In Conversation ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Mar 1998 19:04:51 +0100 From: Massimo Subject: Sixties Downunder Is there anybody who knows the track listing of the aussie comp "Sixties Downunder" by Raven Records?Is the purchase worth? Thanks for any info Massimo. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 13:06:26 EST From: F Fortune Subject: Re: Great Scott! Efram, Thanks for the scoop. I wrote Sundazed a while back, after Tony Sanchez had mentioned they were going to put this stuff out. They wrote back and said they had no plans to release this stuff. Guess they went for it. I gotta get this one for shure, I really dig those guys!!! Thanks again! Freddy ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 14:05:44 -0500 (EST) From: Wes Freeman Subject: Re: Where I'm From Hey when it's Groomerx and Sun-Ra what can you expect? I mean GONE is just the launching pad for those guys. (Is this going to be a new thread?) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 14:30:01 -0500 (EST) From: Lelia Ellen Raley Subject: Re: Where I'm From On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Wes Freeman wrote: > > Hey when it's Groomerx and Sun-Ra what can you expect? I mean GONE is > just the launching pad for those guys. > (Is this going to be a new thread?) I doubt it. (Okay, OKAY, SORRR-EEE!) Lola > > > ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 14:47:24 -0500 From: "ART" Subject: Vanessa Paradis Anybody out there know about French singer, Vanessa Paradis? I think she dated Lenny Kravitz. I have her first(?) American release on Polydor and I quite dig it. It's totally Lenny and totally "Motown-esque" Any more releases? Has she performed in the US? Thanks, Art ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 16:19:53 -0500 From: mary robinson crews Subject: SCOTS tour dates for March, April and May new SCOTS tour dates: SOUTHERN CULTURE ON THE SKIDS - SPRING 1998 DATE CITY VENUE STATUS THU 3/5 BOULDER, CO Fox Theatre confirmed THU 3/6 BOULDER, CO Fox Theatre confirmed WED 3/18 TOKYO (J) Club Quattro confirmed THU 3/19 OSAKA (J) Club Quattro confirmed MON 4/6 AUCKLAND (NZ) Powerstation confirmed TUE 4/7 travel day WED 4/8 SYDNEY (AUS) The Globe confirmed THU 4/9 BYRON BAY (AUS) East Coast Blues Fest. confirmed FRI 4/10 MELBOURNE (AUS) Prince of Wales confirmed SAT 4/11 MELBOURNE (AUS) Corner Hotel confirmed SUN 4/12 SYDNEY (AUS) Cat and Fiddle confirmed WED 5/6 RICHMOND, VA TBA THU 5/7 BALTIMORE, MD Bohager's tentative FRI 5/8 WASHINGTON, DC 9:30 Club tentative SAT 5/9 NEW YORK, NY Delancey St. Theatre tentative SUN 5/10 CAMBRIDGE, MA TBA MON 5/11 day off TUE 5/12 PORTLAND, ME Granny Killam's tentative WED 5/13 BURLINGTON, VT Club Toast tentative THU 5/14 ROCHESTER, NY Milestones tentative FRI 5/15 BUFFALO, NY TBA SAT 5/16 PITTSBURGH, PA TBA SUN 5/17 COLUMBUS, OH Little Brother's tentative MON 5/18 day off TUE 5/19 DETROIT, MI TBA WED 5/20 TBA THU 5/21 INDIANAPOLIS, IN TBA FRI 5/22 CHICAGO, IL Lounge Ax tentative SAT 5/23 CHICAGO, IL Double Door tentative we'll keep the latest on the SCOTS web site, so stop by when you can... - -mary. +=-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-=+ southern culture on the skids http://www.scots.com/ rumors@scots.com (not the mary in the band) --------------------------------------------------------------- chapel hill club schedules http://www.chapel-hill.nc.us/clubs +=-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-=+ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 22:37:51 +0100 From: Sylvain Subject: Re: Vanessa Paradis >Anybody out there know about French singer, Vanessa Paradis? I think she >dated Lenny Kravitz. I have her first(?) American release on Polydor and I >quite dig it. It's totally Lenny and totally "Motown-esque" Any more >releases? Has she performed in the US? Vanessa Paradis was one of the most famous singer here in France... she began at the age of 16 in 1987 with an enormous hit called "Jo le Taxi" that stayed at the first place of the national charts during more than 6 months.... her first lp was full of that kind of popy muzac that please kids at the age of 15, and she kept on making the top 5 during months and months with various singles ("Manolo", "Marylin & John", etc...) she finally won a "Victoire de la Musique" one or two years later, and she had the chance to be helped by Serge Gainsbourg a few months before he died...he wrote a complete album for her (lyrics only), and I must admit that this lp must be the best she has ever done (...mostly because of the lyrics, one more time...)...I remember that the promotion of the album at that time was done with a sentence of gainsbourg, which hit the minds : "Paradis, c'est l'enfer..." ("Paradis, it's hell.."), and because of the sulfurous reputation of Gainsbourg that has always been known as being a mix of sexual addicted and play boy (remember his dates with Brigitte Bardot in the 60s, Jane Birkin in the 70s, Bambou - a french top model- in the 80s....),and because he was around 60 years old at that time, and Paradis barely 20...Anyway ! after Gainsbourg died (in 1990), she began to appear dressed like a hippie, and it was the time that Kravitz began to hit the charts here... of course , all that lauuched a new fashion here , based on a Woodstock-revival look, and all the shit that come with that... Lennon and Hendrix were the two new heroes of that wave, of course because of Kravitz ' sound... and a few weeks later, Paradis came back in the charts with an album and a few singles written by Kravitz, completly Motown influenced, but also with a cover of "Take a ride..." of Lou Reed... She toured at that time in Europe, and it was an enormous success.... she was also on the screens, beginning an actress career...after having hit the charts for years, she stopped completly her singer career,and devoted her time to movies...you can see her in various french films, but fortunatly , she has quit the radio airwaves since 2 or 3 years.... You will probably wonder how I am so aware of the career of this lolita whose music has really nothing to do with garage or whatever (even if her last lp was indeed 60s-Kravitz oriented....but Kravitz for me is what I'd call "another aspect of the 60s", if I wanna stay polite)...but I was 14 when she was 15 and I could do nothing else than following her career, her face, her sound being at that time EVERYWHERE on the radios, the streets, the papers, television, etc... even the national radios were doing special shows when she was about to issue an album....impossible to escape from Paradis at that time, except if living like an ermit.... but I must admit too that she was the cause of many of my first hard-ons (after my Kim Wild time) when I was a kid... that must explain this... sylvain (who never suspected he could have one day the opportunity to talk about the early days of his sexual life on the Bomp list) SWITZERLAND ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:55:08 EST From: SWarm007 Subject: Guitar Preacher track listing Jude wrote: >I like Link's 70's country/gospel albums a lot. Not what you would expect >from the Rumble Man, tho. I have three LPs from that era, but I haven't >seen the Guitar Preacher cd. There must be heavy overlapping. Could >somebody send the tracklisting of the cd, so I could see whether it is >worth seeking. Thanks. Here ya go: Guitar Preacher, The Polydor Years (p)&© 1995 Polygram Records, Inc. POLYDOR 31452 7717-2 Two CD set with extensive liner notes by Colin Escott (probably 1995), and one page of notes by Pete Townshend dated Mar 20, 1974. Jewel box slides into cardboard case which has same artwork and text/graphics as the CD itself. DISC ONE taken from the album LINK WRAY, released May 1971: 1.La De Da 2.Take Me Home Jesus 3.Juke Box Mama 4.Rise And Fall Of Jimmy Stokes 5.Fallin' Rain 6.Fire And Brimstone 7.Ice People 8.God Out West 9.Crowbar 10.Black River Swamp 11.Tail Dragger taken from the album BEANS AND FATBACK, previously unreleased in US: 12.Hobo Man 13.I'm So Glad, I'm So Proud 14.Georgia Pines 15.Water Boy 16.Alabama Electric Circus 17.Take My Hand (Precious Lord) DISC TWO taken from the album MORDICAI JONES, released 1971: 1.Walkin' In The Arizona Sun 2.Scorpio Woman 3.All Because Of A Woman 4.On The Run 5.Days Before Custer taken from the album BE WHAT YOU WANT TO, released 1973: (07, 08, 09 & 11 feature Jerry Garcia on pedal steel guitar.) 6.Be What You Want To 7.All Cried Out 8.Tucson, Arizona 9.River Bend 10.You Walked By 11.Walk Easy, Walk Slow 12.Morning taken from the album THE LINK WRAY RUMBLE, released 1974: 13.It Was A Bad Scene 14.Good Time Joe 15.Walkin' Bulldog 16.I Got To Ramble 17.Backwoods Preacher Man* 18.She's That Kind Of Woman 19.Super 88 20.Rumble I found this info on an online Link Wray discography compiled by a fella named Jeffrey Hall. Scott Wamuth ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 18:31:16 -0500 From: "Max" Subject: where from... Grog wrote: >>... >>.New Orleans, LA -- 1992 (for two months, anyway!) (band: The Minstrels) >>... Mmmm..you've played with the minstrels???? I'm from Quebec city Canada myself, and I've got a friend who used to live here who played with the minstrels a few years ago while on the west coast, he's called Nic Jodoin, have you met him? And think he played after you though... Anyway, Quebec city is quite a nice place, touristy and all, nice antique feeling, except sometimes the rock'n'roll scene is a litlle well...slow, especially in winter, people stay home and shows are deserted! Max - -- belmax@sympatico.ca -- - ---Rock'n'Roll Is Life--- ------------------------------ Date: 6 Mar 98 18:40:24 -0500 From: "Blair" Subject: Re: Sylvain Sylvain >On Monday March 23rd Sylvain Sylvain (formerly of the NY Dolls) will be >playing at the Hi-Pointe here in St. Louis. Anyone know if this is a >show worth seeing? What kinda stuff does he do and has anyone caught a >recent show? Last time I remember seeing Sylvain play was when he was doing a weekly thing in NYC around '91. The band then (Sylvain Sylvain and the Ugly Americans) included Graham May (ex-bassist for The Vipers) and Jerry Nolan. Pretty good... basically old Dolls stuff with a new tune here or there. Oh yeah, plus some of Syl's later stuff ("Kids are Back" I think was a regular one.) But alot can happen in 7 years. On the other hand, I can't see him changing all that much. I enjoyed it. Of course, it was always free... Blair - ------------------------------------------------------------- (The Teen Scene)............. ftp://ftp.etext.org/pub/Zines/TeenScene (NY Concert Calendar)... http://shell.idt.net/~blairb1/nygarage.html (Garage Tours).................. http://shell.idt.net/~blairb1/tours.html (Garage Fests).................. http://shell.idt.net/~blairb1/fests.html (60 Second Swinger)..... http://shell.idt.net/~blairb1/60second.html - ------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 18:34:35 -0500 From: "Max" Subject: french... And ho yeah, we speak french here too in Quebec, but I'm not a frenchie...Even if my mother tongue is french...People seem to have a problem with french around here...oh well this is not a political mailing list, so I won't start...We have pretty good french speaking bands around here, but they can't really make it out of Quebec...Any fan of french rock on this list? (French not meaning from France but In French....) Max - -- belmax@sympatico.ca -- - ---Rock'n'Roll Is Life--- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Mar 1998 17:03:03 +0000 From: Menachem Turchick Subject: Re: Sixties Downunder Massimo wrote: > > Is there anybody who knows the track listing of the aussie comp "Sixties > Downunder" by Raven Records?Is the purchase worth? It's worth it if you don't already have too many of the following, especially "I Want, Need, Love You" by the Black Diamonds, and "Buried & Dead" by the Masters' Apprentices. I can send the tracks for the second volume (which isn't quite as good) off-list if you want. Mike Furber & The Bowery Boys You Stole My Love Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs Poison Ivy Black Diamonds I Want, Need, Love You Bobby & Laurie I Belong With You Easybeats Sorry Easybeats Woman Groove Soothe Me Groop Woman You're Breaking Me Librettos Kicks Loved Ones Everlovin' Man Lynne Randell Ciao Baby Masters' Apprentices Buried And Dead Bee Gees Spicks And Specks Max Merritt & The Meteors Fannie Mae Wild Cherries That's Life Normie Rowe It's Not Easy Normie Rowe & The Playboys It Ain't Necessarily So Pink Finks Louie Louie Purple Hearts Of Hopes And Dreams And Tombstones Ray Brown & The Whispers Pride Somebody's Image Hush Steve & The Board Giggle Eyed Goo Tony Worsley & The Blue Jays Just A Little Bit Town Criers Everlasting Love Twilights 9.50 Twilights Needle In A Haystack Masters' Apprentices Living In A Child's Dream Menachem ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Mar 1998 17:04:22 -0700 From: Timothy Gassen Subject: new "Garage" columns Hey Bompsters! The new Magnet magazine is out; this time I devote the entire "Garage" column to the fab Zombies box set. I'll add it to my "Garage Nation" website in the next week or so. Also, the new Cosmik Debris webzine should be online in the next couple days, and my latest "Psychedelicatessen" column covers Big Boy Pete, The Hefners, new Get Hip 45s, and the 20th anniversary CD from The C*nts, among other tasty bits. There's no archive available of past "Psychedelicatessen" columns at the Cosmik Debris site, so I'll add them all to "Garage Nation" as time permits. Send along any garage/psych web-links for me to add to "Garage Nation," or drop a line just to say "Hey!" Timothy Gassen http://www.azstarnet.com/~tgassen/ http://www.cosmik.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Mar 1998 00:51:36 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Fish Subject: Re:Turntables I've seen a lot of nice turntable equipment around lately.Some of it is extremely expensive even before you buy the (sold separately) cartridge and needle.But that doesnt bother so much as the fact that almost none of the receivers being sold nowadays come equipped with a phono input. I have a handful of turntables,and I have been looking into a backup stereo for my basement/"rumpus room".There are multitudes of surprisingly compact units out there.They have cool flashing lights and "ambience" reverb settings,CD changers and all kinds of useless controls.But I am unable to find any with Phono inputs.The guy at the stereo store says they are available on certain JVC models but none of the models he sells has them. Keeping in mind I have my "real hi-fi" equipment up in the living room and just want something decent to play my records thru,Can anybody suggest a decent compact unit with phono capabilities? I dont need a cassette deck,dont need a CD changer but a single CD player would be good,and an at least workable FM section is mandatory,and a functional equalizer would be nice.Could spend maybe 4-500$.Another possibilty is if anybody knows of a good preamp to run the turnatable thru.Outside of that I could always just stick with this cheap-ass Panasonic unit that has served me well for near 20 years,maybe buy some nice speakers for it.Advice is appreciated. ________________________________________________________ billfish@clark.net "It is time for you to stop all of your sobbing" -Ray Davies ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 22:15:46 -0800 (PST) From: Greg Shaw Subject: Gravedigger V Ted Friedman, who helped us with the recent Morlocks CD we did, can be reached by email at: "Leslie Friedman" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 22:22:39 -0800 (PST) From: Greg Shaw Subject: Chat >I just went to the chat room, and I couldn't figure out how to send the >messages. There was someone there trying to communicate, but I felt like >John Travolta in "Boy in the Plastic Bubble". I'm kinda new to chat >rooms. > >hess It's confusing to me too. At least, having set it up, I'm registered and have a nickname so all I had to do was press the "enter" button and I was in there. A rectangular box at the bottom of the screen is where you type and when you hit return it appears on the main screen. I think you have to establish a nickname and log in for the first time, but it shouldn't be that hard, they seem to have hundreds of chat rooms operating. Good luck. Greg ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 22:32:38 -0800 (PST) From: Greg Shaw Subject: band lists Following up on a recent thread, if anyone does do the legwork of compiling a fairly comprehensive list of URLs or email addresses for current garage bands, fanzines, or labels, I will be happy to create a special area on the Bomp website where it can be posted. Thus far I've stayed away from current stuff on our Links page, but only because I didn't have the info handy. By the way, the new Website is up and seems to be running smoothly. It didn't turn out to be possible to keep the non-frames version active, however, but since there's probably less than 5% of net surfers whose browsers don't support frames, I hope that won't be a problem for anyone. Greg ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 22:37:40 -0800 (PST) From: Greg Shaw Subject: ROIR >Does anyone know what's become of ROIR records. I've been trying to replace >an old copy of their "Garage Sale" tape (they were cassette only for years >before expanding to CD's) I suspect they've gone under but with such a >catalogue as they had it would be a shame if nothing was re-released. They haven't gone under, but they are in serious financial trouble due to the domino-series of east coast distributor failures over the past few months, which has come close to wiping out quite a few indie labels, including ours! But we'll survive,and I think ROIR will too. They at least have their deal with Danceteria in France to help keep 'em afloat. As for "Garage Sale", I've never understood why it went out of print, and why no one's done it on CD. Maybe those rights weren't granted to Goldmine by the bands at the time? Jeff Tamarkin would know; he's not at GM anymore, but I can ask him. I'll keep you guys informed if I hear anything. Greg ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Mar 1998 01:47:55 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Fish Subject: Re:Where I'm From:Peabody I lived in Peabody for damn near 20 years,and I would have to say that civic-wise,its agreat place to live.Dont expect much in the way of entertainment (although I have to admit the Cabaret is a fun place for that genre of nightlife) but of all the places I have lived,there was a unique sense of community pride,especially when one considers the rapidly failing infrastructure of the New England quasi-coast.I remember the Mayor,Peter Torigian,from when he used to tend bar at his brother Charlie's cafe,when off-duty from his job as a letter carrier.He has been Mayor for a good 18 years now,hasnt run for Congress or senate. I lived in downtown Peabody.The outlying West Peabody seems to be an area unto itself,doesnt care to get involved with municipal issues.When i left 10 years ago the town was starting to become much more ethnically eclectic,but it seemed to work well.I was there for a visit last summer,and despite exponetially increased traffic,if my family was willing,i would move back in a minute. ________________________________________________________ billfish@clark.net ------------------------------ End of bomp-digest V98 #1078 **************************** ===================================================================== You've been reading bomp-digest, the digest version of the Bomp list. To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe bomp-digest" to majordomo@xnet2.com