From: Lee=Jenkins%PCB=Sys=Int%Mfg=Hou@BANGATE.COMPAQ.COM
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.allmusic
Subject: you read it, you call it
Date: 7 Oct 92 15:55:32 GMT
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU

From:           "Michael Lehnertz (Drummer)" <TZJ101@URIACC.URI.EDU>
Date:           Wednesday, October 7, 1992 at 7:37:38 am CDT

>   I haven't bought squat for Zappa records/CD's lately. The only stuff
>   I have bought in the last few months are: Scatterbrain, the new Extreme
>   CD, new Satriani and the new Tower of Power. That's it.

how do you like extreme iii?  i've heard _rip_ (of course) and a friend
played the first 30 seconds or so of about half the other songs from the cd
for me last week but of course that didn't give me a very good feel for the
sound maybe he'll let me borrow it so i can give it a good listen because
i'd like to have a better idea of what i'm getting before i shell out $$ for
a copy then again i might get a good deal joining a mail-order club who
knows?

i had no idea that writing run-ons would make me feel so *powerful*. ;)

From:           crispen <crispen@EFFTOO.BOEING.COM>
Subject:        Re:  Progressive
Date:           Wednesday, October 7, 1992 at 6:14:57 am CDT
[...]
>You're really asking where the borders of my definition of "progressive
>rock" are, and they're bound to be different from yours.  I think I
>might also include Kansas (from a certain period) and maybe even
>Boston (!).

i picked up the first boston cd last week.  very, very good.  i mean, i
remember liking all those songs from hearing them on the radio, but it
nevertheless impressed immensely me to listen to it.  there was so much
schmaltzy stuff (tm) being released in the mid 70's, but this really
stands out like a jewel.

ilia, i'll add king's x to the list.  their 2nd cd, _gretchen goes to
nebraska_, is a good place to start, with the truly bizarre yet somehow
wonderful harmonies in the song _out of the silent planet_ (not to be
confused with their 1st cd with the same name).

so, what say you, bob?  does king's x fit within the borders of your
definition?


i forgot who originally posted this about sinead:

>than raise a few eyebrows.  As best as I could figure the entire song was
>a kind of listing of all the world's evils at once she finished with a line
>that ran something along the lines of:
>     "Fight the true enemy" and then held up a photo of the Pope and ripped
>it into little pieces.  Needless to say the audience was stunned.  Not
>even a single clap.  Just silence.  It was kinda neat, yet spooky at the
>same time.

wow.  i'm no fan of the pope, but it appears there's something wrong with
her logic.  i guess that, being irish (she is irish, isn't she?), has grown
up with catholicism and disapproves of the things it does or stands for.
but her position is so ethnocentristic it becomes ludicrous.  i can't think
of a single area in my life where the pope's existance, ideals, or policies
have any impact at all.  how could he then be my friend or my enemy?  it's
one thing for her to disagree with the man, which she certainly has a right
to do, but it's another for her to expect others to single him out as "the
true enemy".

looking at it from the other way around, does she really believe that if the
office of pope was eliminated today that the world would be free from its
source of evil?  if so, someone needs to take her aside and explain to her
some things about human nature and history.  if not, why call him the "true
enemy".  it's simply nonsense either way.

or was she using the pope as a symbol?  for what?  catholicism?
christianity?  religion?  idealism?  perhaps it would have been clearer if
i had seen her do this myself.

oh, well, i'm not trying to start some debate here.  i doubt anyone will
really want to take this up, but if you do we should take it off the list.



lee

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       "make love, not war" sounds so absurd to me
       we can't afford to say these words lightly
       or else our world will truly rest in peace
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