--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 182 60'S 70'S ROCK Ref: DEL00003Date: 10/15/96 From: DAVID MARHEINE Time: 12:57pm \/To: JIM DORSCH (Read 2 times) Subj: Thing-Fish --- Sez Jim Dorsch to David Marheine --- JD> Is there a Thing Fish ... ? What's the other? A 3 LP/2 CD Frank Zappa Broadway musical send-up. It recycles a number of songs from other albums and grafts them onto a story about a yuppie couple attending a Broadway show starring a number of mutant ex-cons turned into "Mammy Nuns" by something the CIA put in their mashed potatoes at Sam Quentim... Some amazing dialect and dialogue in there between Ike Willis and the Bozzios. If you're sensitive about homeosectional extrusions and lady executives doing it with their briefcases, stay well away from this one. DM ... Good lawyer: Can plea bargain sodomy down to following too closely. --- * Origin: *YOPS ]I[* 3.1 GIG * RA/FD/FE RADist * Milwaukee, WI (1:154/750) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 182 60'S 70'S ROCK Ref: DEL00004Date: 10/15/96 From: DAVID MARHEINE Time: 01:48pm \/To: SCOTT RHODES (Read 2 times) Subj: Re: 12 Fishies --- Sez Scott Rhodes to David Marheine --- SR> But let's end this thread before poor Mike's blood pressure gets any SR> higher than it already is. Right. Thanks for the info! High blood pressure? Too much melted butter on all that seafood, huh? Or too much aggressive Prog and not enough chill-out space music? Well, to get back to a more acceptably non-topical topic, another old phart at work brought in _The Album Cover Album_, and I made note of the following fishies: Freddie Hubbard: Liquid Love (CBS '75) Beaver & Krause: All Good Men (WB '72) Batteau Bros: Batteaux (CBS '75) [underwater photo - might be dolphins] Miles Davis: Agharta (CBS '75) [back cover] Pink Floyd: A Nice Pair (Harvest '73) [back cover?] David Vorhaus: White Noise 2 (Virgin '75) Typically Tropical: Barbados Sky (Gull '75) Jefferson Airplane: Bark (Grunt '71) Also, there were a number of Proggy things with different album covers than the familiar (to me) US versions: Gentle Giant: Octopus [very nice alternate illustration] Yes: Time And A Word [b & w nude - shoulda been used for the CD reissue!] Roy Wood: Mustard [much better illustration than the US release!] Pink Floyd: Relics [nice drawing, but I prefer the bottle openers...] Okay, I guess that's all I have to say about that... Dave ... I tried to drown my sorrows, but they can swim! --- * Origin: *YOPS ]I[* 3.1 GIG * RA/FD/FE RADist * Milwaukee, WI (1:154/750) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 182 60'S 70'S ROCK Ref: DEL00005Date: 10/13/96 From: CHRIS ROBBINS Time: 07:07pm \/To: BILL HARRIS (Read 2 times) Subj: NATIONAL HEALTH *** Quoting Bill Harris to Doug Farrow dated 10-07-96 *** > DF> BH> Nice did a couple, but beyond that and the tune you mentioned > that's > DF> BH> all I know of. > DF> > DF> Jimi Hendrix of course did "All Along the Watchtower". > > Hendrix also did "Like a Rolling Stone", BUt I'm talking about"HIgh" > Prog. > Regards, > BIll [------------------------- End of Quote --------------------------] Oh yeah, like say if King Crimson did Rainy Day Women? Imagine THAT.... --- T.A.G. 2.7c Standard * Origin: The Chessplayer's Forum (1:2410/278) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 182 60'S 70'S ROCK Ref: DEL00006Date: 10/13/96 From: CHRIS ROBBINS Time: 07:13pm \/To: MIKE TAYLOR (Read 2 times) Subj: _Working Man_ *** Quoting Mike Taylor to Chris Smith dated 10-09-96 *** > Thus quoth the Raven ... > > CS> Does anyone have this Rush tribute album yet? I'm kinda anxious > CS> to hear some reviews before I get it. > > REVIEW > ====== > It's Rush. Does anything more need to be said? > > > Mike > > ps: The beauty of this review is that it can be interpreted many ways, > depending on whether you already like Rush or not. =8) > [------------------------- End of Quote --------------------------] Hey, that about sums it up there! Now, I personally have not been able to find that Rush tribute ANYWHERE... --- T.A.G. 2.7c Standard * Origin: The Chessplayer's Forum (1:2410/278) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 182 60'S 70'S ROCK Ref: DEL00007Date: 10/13/96 From: CHRIS ROBBINS Time: 07:15pm \/To: MIKE TAYLOR (Read 2 times) Subj: Silly Question...? *** Quoting Mike Taylor to Clark Ray dated 10-09-96 *** > Thus quoth the Raven ... > > SD> I just had to break in here to say that NEC (the computer company) > is > SD> now running a commercial featuring "Hocus Pocus" by Focus, with a > SD> snippet of that legendary yodel! > > CR> Yep, I've been seeing that. There's yet another commercial > CR> that's using "Hocus Pocus" too. It's that new Might Ducks movie. > CR> Weird, eh? > > And to further the revival, "Great googly moogly" is being used in > another commercial. > > > Mike > > ps: brush up on your Zappa. > > *!* Obolus 1.0.2 [------------------------- End of Quote --------------------------] So that wasn't just a Gary Hoey song? Actually his version should also be credited to Ted Nugent for ripping off the Stranglehold riff.... --- T.A.G. 2.7c Standard * Origin: The Chessplayer's Forum (1:2410/278) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 182 60'S 70'S ROCK Ref: DEL00008Date: 10/14/96 From: KENNETH NEWMAN Time: 10:44am \/To: PEDRO SENA (Read 2 times) Subj: GONG !! On 10-12-96 PEDRO SENA wrote to KENNETH NEWMAN... PS> ZU, if I remember correctly, played at that LA show in the small theatre with Chronicle, Y. Saeffer, and New York Gong, way back when. It was, I understand, the first time that Daevid Allen toured america "Tour" yes, though the year before he had come over to New York and done a few gigs, including the notorious ZU Manifestival. PS> though he was disappointed that there was no Gong per se. Well, anytime you go see Ging you never know what you're going to get. PS> NY Gong, though, PS> did not do a real good job playing gomg at all, in my book. If I PS> remeber it right, basically they were musicians that liked Gong, that PS> decided to join Allen for the west coast play around. Perhaps they could if they could have become a band but it was basically a pick-up group, as is common in blues and other types of music. For example, typically when Dr. John would go about on tour he wouldn't take a band or even any equipment. He would make the promoter have a piano ready and some local backing musicians who could read charts. He might show up 10 minutes before the gig and just play. This kind of thing is certainly less typical in prog, where they prefer like Kit'n'Coco when they were doing duet gigs, or Richard Sinclair's solo performances, to use taped accompaniment. To be perfectly honest, I actually prefer the live musicians and the sense of risk, that this might not work. That's the price you pay. PS> David is on record saying that, at the time he was not very happy, PS> and he didn't feel the music was that good. Daevd is also, like most other musicians, completely incapable of judging his own work, which is one of the reasons, for example, that producers are so important. That he was unhappy at the time is undeniable. He had recently split with Gilli yet on tour with her and Harry. The entourage was basically broke and scrounging money to fix the funky old school bus they had (and this was no Partidge Family thing but a beat up old piece of crap that kept falling apart). He had also recently quit smoking dope and was berating his audiences for continuing to do so, which was one of the last things his loyal public wanted to hear from him. There was this whole anger thing he had, similar I believe to a lot of musicians who play for a long time and don't gain wide public acceptance or become rich and famous. They become mad at the people who don't like them for not liking them but the only people they can take their anger out on is the peple who do like them. Think, for example of the last three Gentle Giant albums, or Genesis complaints that as a prog band all the attracted were pimply adolescent boys. Similarly, Daevid had come to despise the people who loved him most, despised them for not being who they couldn't help not being. It's easy enough to fall into this kind of trap (it's also analagous to many marital breakups, I believe) and though it's understandable it is in no way a recipe for happiness. So yeah, Daevid was definitely not a happy camper. Yet I caught many of the shows on that tour and have to admit he played some fine guitar solos then. There was a sharpness and an edge, giving the hippy-dippy stuff he was saddled with (he had to do material that could be worked up quickly) in his material a real sense of irony. In a very real sense we were witnessing the death of prog. I remember after that tour I gave away all my Gong albums and didn't listen to any Gong for more than ten years afterward. But I can listen to them now just fine. Cheers, Kenneth --- * OFFLINE 1.58 * Heredity: If your parents had no kids, you won't. --- FidoPCB v1.4 [ff238/x] * Origin: OnLine Now Thunder Bay ON, Canada (807)-345-1531 (1:229/510) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 182 60'S 70'S ROCK Ref: DEL00009Date: 10/15/96 From: LINDSAY CRAWFORD Time: 12:13am \/To: GARY SMITH (Read 2 times) Subj: finally caught it! Gary Smith wrote: GS>then you played that pretty Airplane song "Today" from Surrealistic GS>Pillow, which I, too, still have. A VERY fine album. "3/5 of a GS>Mile" was always my favorite song on that LP. "She Has Funny Cars." Not to mention "White Rabbit" and "Someone to Love." I like the guitar melody used in "Today" as well. Agree it's a fine album. I like "3/5ths" on _Pillow_ and live on _Bless It's Pointed Little Head." GS> Pretty good radio voice, too, I must say. But can you imagine the GS>reviews when I get there? heh heh heh What's the frequency? I'm not from around here. GS> Now playing: GS>"Caemembert Electrique" by....well, do I need to say by whom? Only if you want to enlighten those unfamiliar with early Gong. In that case, just say GONG. GS>--- Maximus 3.01 GS> * Origin: Orion's Sword-Bush,LA-(504)867-9701-V.* (1:3828/1) Bush, as in a town called Bush, LA, as in Louisiana? 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