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From: "Rich Fromm - 'I lost my mind just a couple of times...' 15-Apr-1992 1030" <fromm@tecrus.enet.dec.com>
Subject: Re: Digital/Analog Tape decks
Reply-To: fromm@tecrus.enet.dec.com
Organization: The Internet
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 14:29:48 GMT

LAR HALFF <LARRYH%EARLHAM.BITNET@uicvm.uic.edu> asks:

| Last year I heard that decks that
|could record digital and analog on regular tapes were going to be
| avaliable.

The format you are referring to is known as DCC, which stands for Digital 
Compact Cassette.  It probably ought to be out some time this year.  It's an 
upward compatible format, meaning that old analog tapes can be played on a DCC 
deck, but tapes recorded in DCC can not be played on a regular deck.  It has a 
serious limitation compared to DAT, however.  It compresses the signal the when 
storing it.  The manufacturer's claim is that the compression/decompression 
process does not affect the sound quality.  (Since these decks aren't yet 
available, I have no way of agreeing with or disproving that claim.)  However, 
the latest that I heard is that the decks will not allow you to do straight 
digital->digital copies.  In other words, to copy a DCC->DCC, you'll have to 
decompress the signal, and then recompress it, resulting in generational loss.  
The recording companies love this, because it will discourage people from making 
lots of digital copies of pre-recorded material.  But I think for serious 
taping, DAT will be a better solution.  A possible problem is if DCC gets 
heavily targeted at the average consumer, driving down the prices of decks and 
blank tapes, DAT could be relegated to a specialty pro-only product, meaning 
that prices on decks and blank tapes may never significantly come down in price.

- Rich
From: DLD116@psuvm.psu.edu
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
Subject: gamehendge tree corrections
Date: 7 Apr 92 00:19:31 GMT
Organization: Penn State University

hey all!
        ok, the tree i posted looks to be right on except for a phew branches..
i reposted the entire thing but i don't know if it worked (damn computers!)

the only changes effect those on two of the branches already posted, and
one more branch has been added...so check the corrections below and if
nothing applies to you then the previously posted tree is what you'll go by.

correction:

           1. alex jones (aljones@ptnext.claremont.edu)
              2. ben gertner (gertben@ocf.berkeley.edu)
              2. andy bensky (andy@corp.sun.com)
              2. john reed (jr@eng.sun.com)
              2. joel firehammer (joelfire@leland.stanford.edu)
              2. jeff youngstrom (jeffy@edu.teradyne.com)


correction:

           1. lee siverman (pandion@brown.edu)
              2. seth mankin (gu091shm@ithica.bitnet)
              2. bruce zenel (baz@mtuni.att.com)
              2. mike marick (marick@jhuvms.bitnet)
              2. dave carballo (dcarballo@colgateu.bitnet)


NEW BRANCH:

           1. robert johnson (johnsorn@bcvms.bc.edu)
              2. johannes smith (uunet!bytepb!ronin!jrs)
              2. ed ingraffia (ingraffia@tramp.colorado.edu)
              2. tony sirna (grateful@leland.stanford.edu)


ok, that's it for corrections/additions...like i said, i may have posted
the whole thing already, i hope to get it all squared away soon...sorry
for any confusion.
                  please contact me with any questions or problems

                                                smile!
                                                     -ryan
ph.s.  if you are a '1' i will contact you
          tomorrow
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
From: "David A. Craig" <trey@sbphy.physics.ucsb.edu>
Subject: Phish at the Anaconda
Reply-To: trey@sbphy.physics.ucsb.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 01:40:13 GMT


Thanks to all who mailed their interest in the SB show! In a fit of stupidity,
I del'ed all my messages.  OOOOOOPS.

So let's try this again.  Is there interest in gathering before the show?
How about we try . . . . well, the cheap beer is a chinese place whose only
decent seating is outside (the Anaconda is dry until the local police pull
that large pole out of their collective .... well, never mind); then there's
pizza or your friendly cafe Roma.   Preferences? Post em'!

COME TO THE SHOW!  To get to the Anaconda, less than two hours from LA mind
you, follow 101 to 13 miles N of Santa Barbara, through scenic Goleta, PAST
the "UCSB" exit, past the Fairview exit, to the next one: LOS CARNEROS.

From there, head AWAY from the mountains, TOWARD the ocean on Los Carneros.
Go a mile (~) 'til you are at a "T" with El Colegio road.  Turn left.
Go  a few hundred yards and turn right at the first right AFTER the first
light you'll come across.  (If you try to go further you'll end up on
the UCSB campus).  A couple of streets down, the Cafe Roma will be on your
left, the Ana conda about a hundred yards past that on the right.

The pit you are in now is called "ISLA VISTA" .  As you drive, watch carefyullully  
for bikers and pedestrians.  I'm fairly sure UCSB is a sort of experimental
institution; all of the Stepford Students manufactured to one day vote GOP
perhaps? wander about with no clear evidence that sensory input is processed
by a self-aware IGUS.  In particular, the fact that cars are LARGE bliocks
of motorized metal that will hurt when they run over you and whose drivers
can't really see you as you walk or ride in the middle of the street (or
swerve at random in front of you) with no lights or reflectors at night
does not seem to have been absorbed by these ostensibly sentient mobile units.

(I make no apology for the flames ... anyone who has driven in IV or TA'ed here
can confirm . . . .)


Anyway, enough bad Karma for one paragraph.  PURGE!  Come to the show! Let's
party!

Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
From: ALJONES@pitzer.claremont.edu
Subject: Lawn Boy Rerelease date
Reply-To: ALJONES@pitzer.claremont.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 01:35:59 GMT

	This is in regards to Carl's post on the rerelease date of
Lawn Boy. After flipping through the most recent issue of the college
music journal, I saw that the release date for Lawn Boy was but at
April 24! But we, the avid consumers, probably won't get access to iyt
until May 5th :-(

	Sufferin' from Petrified Phish Disease (and my cure is less
					than six days away!!),

				-Alex

aljones@ptnext.claremont.edu
aljones@pitzer.claremont.edu
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
From: "Greg J. Pryzby" <virtech!gjp@uunet.uu.net>
Subject: Lawn Boy (Noteworthy)
Reply-To: virtech!gjp@uunet.uu.net
Organization: The Internet
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 19:41:49 GMT

I just got my Noteworthy catalog and Lawn Boy's release date is 4/28...

-- 
Greg Pryzby                                               uunet!virtech!gjp
Virtual Technologies, Inc.                                
Sterling, Virginia
Herbivores ate well cause their food didn't never run. -- Jonathan Fishman
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
From: "Dan Shoop --- `The reason for time is so everything doesn't happen all at once'" <shoop@wocket.spcssi.sequor.com>
Subject: dbx
Reply-To: shoop@wocket.spcssi.sequor.com
Organization: The Internet
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 21:08:25 GMT


dbx [capitalization correct] is actually the name of a company the developed
"Type II similateous encode/decode noise reduction", or what is more commonly
refered to as dbx noise reduction.

Although few commerical decks now carry it (licensing costs for licensing both
Dolby B, C and dbx NR is prohibitive, and dbx NR is complex), dbx still sells
many noise reduction units as components, in fact they always have. dbx NR on a
chip is not as good as a real dbx NR unit.  It's like op amps compared to FETs.

-dhan

(Proud owner of a dbx unit in both home and car)


Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
From: joelfire@leland.stanford.edu
Subject: Drug testing
Reply-To: joelfire@leland.stanford.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 07:43:29 GMT

Since we're kind of on the subject, and since it might be of interest to
a good percenatge of you, here's a little something I learned in a 
probability class last fall.
When it comes to interpreting any kind of test that is not 100 percent 
accurate, you must use a formula base on Baye's Law of Probability, which
can sometime give startling results.  For example, if you went and took
a drug test that was 99% accurate, and, on the average, it is expected that
1 out of every 100 people have, say, marijuana in their bloodstream, and
you tested positive for mj, then the chances that you actually have the
drug in your body are 50%.  Of course, no test is that accurate, so 
the chances that a person testing positive has that drug in his system is
usually quite lower than 50%
The moral of the story?  If you ever test positive, DEMAND another test,
citing Baye's rule.  If you are not hired on the basis of a single test
showing some drug as positive, you could take that company to court.
I don't know if that's ever been done before, but I did read of one occasion
when a Mathematician convinced a University board not to implement drug
testing on their atheletes using Baye's rule.
-joel
Tboot! 


Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
From: kjohnso1@cc.swarthmore.edu
Subject: Phish Sightings
Reply-To: kjohnso1@cc.swarthmore.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 22:08:25 GMT

         So there I was with another tray full of mediocre food on another
college day, when Phish once again saved me. It is a tradition at
Swarthmore to carve various quotes, names, etc. into the trays. I happened
to look at mine that evening and it said "TRAY ANASTASIO" with a Phish logo
carved in. Maybe I'm just way too into this band, but it made my night.
        This afternoon I was at rugby practice getting ordered around the
field by Tobin Piker, our captain and resident fascist-- basically the last
person who would ever listen to Phish. Suddenly he screams out "Run!... Run
like an Antelope!" Life is good. -KJ
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Tuesday, 7 Apr 1992 21:29:10 EDT
From: <DLD116@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
Subject: personal to JOHANNES SMITH

hey, if at all possible, contact me soon...i need an alternate address
for your branch to reach you for the gamehendge tree! thanx...smile! -ryan
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
From: JOHNSORN@bcvax1.bc.edu
Subject: Mountain Stage Broadcast: Boston Area
Reply-To: johnsorn@bcvax1.bc.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1992 08:48:07 GMT

Remember: Why do today that which can be put off until the last minute.
I realize that I'm probably too late in posting this question, but can anyone
tell me what, if any, radio station in the Boston area will be broadcasting
Phish on Mountain Stage. I hope I haven't already missed it. Also, what time
will it be on if it is on in the Boston area. Thank you.

					So Long, and Thanks for All the Phish,
						Robert Johnson
						johnsorn@bcvms.bc.edu
From: brucew@hyperion.ee.cornell.edu (Bruce Willner)
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
Subject: Syracuse.  Blues Traveler, Spin Doctors, and more
Date: 10 Apr 92 15:52:33 GMT
Reply-To: brucew@hyperion.ee.cornell.edu
Organization: The Internet



Hi Y'all, I haven't written in a while.

I was wondering if anyone had the complete ticket info on the 
Show in Syracuse.  I'm in Ithaca and I'm going to go to the show,
but how do you get tickets?  Are they only available in Syracuse?


            Blues Traveler, the Spin Doctors and more

On the weekend of April 25 and 26 Ithaca is the place to be.
On Sunday night Blues Traveler is playing at Ithaca College, and on
Saturday night the Spin Doctors are going to be playing at an
Amnesty International benefit put on by some fraternity at Cornell.
I'm not sure of all the details on that one, but I'll post more
when I find out.  
There is also a Spin Docs show on Saturday afternoon at Wells
College, a women's college about 20 or 30 minutes away.  I don't know
if that is open to the public or not, but I'll find out.  That means
two Spin Doctors shows in one day!
Finally, Sunday is Earthday, and there is going to be a free concert
on the Arts Quad at Cornell by a local band called
Blindman's Holiday, and possibly others.  I've seen Blindman's
Holiday a few times and they're really hot.

So, a final recap:  Saturday - TWO Spin Doctors shows.
                    Sunday   - Earthday with Blindman's Holiday
                               Blues Traveler
   I'm sure something must be happening on Friday night too, but I
haven't bumped into it yet.


A final note:  The Cornell Concert Commission has put together
the most screwed up billing in its history.  It took a lot of
work but we managed to do it.
On Sunday, May 3 (the weekend after classes end)
The Cornell Concert Commission proudly presents:
                    The Violent Femmes
                         Fishbone
                     Blue Oyster Cult
                          Tribe

We are calling it the Cornell B.R.A.S.H. '92
               (Big Red Apocalyptic Springtime Hedonism)

Enjoy!                                        Bruce
From: shell@gandalf.Berkeley.EDU (Shelly Culbertson)
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
Subject: Re: Aquarium Rescue Unit
Date: 8 Apr 92 05:09:52 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Dept. of Statistics, U. C. Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: gandalf.berkeley.edu

John Freidman asked how many Aquarium Rescue Unit recordings had been
released.  I'm only aware of one being commercially available -- a cd
titled Col. Bruce Hampton & The Aquarium Rescue Unit on Capricorn, 
number 9 42000-2.  It's *hot*!  Find it!  Buy it! :-)  "Planet Earth"
is *too* cool...!

Shelly

ps. for Aquarium Rescue Unit booking info, call Vision International
at (301) 933-8181.
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
From: cbrewste@muselab.ac.runet.edu
Subject: One Killer ARU show!
Reply-To: cbrewste@muselab.ac.runet.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 17:10:36 GMT



    Howdy, Just got back from a crazy, crazy weekend... The Acquarium 
    Rescue Unit played in Blacksburg VA friday and Hampden-Sydney Greek
    Week party climaxed Saturday night...

    Important things first...  I taped ARU, first set is a good sounding
    aud. tape, the place is soo small, anywhere with anything would almost
    have to give you a good tape... BUT my second set tape is of kind, kind
    soundboard quality...  Soooooo...  
    What an incredible band... definately my favorite band making music next
    to PHISH, with WSP and Blues T. tied for a close third!
    A close friend that is deep in the music business told me Saturday night
    that the "Summer Thing" was now switched from July to August!!!!!
    As well... PHISH is only interested in doing the "Summer thing"
    in the North East ONLY!!!!!  ARRRRRGGGGGGG!!!!  Being in VA, this will
    certainly force me to travel this August, oh-well.

    So make note and if anyone has the chance, ie Shelly, ask Phish more
    about this summer thing and maybe why they think its best they only do
    it inclusively in the North East!  Why ask why???? Not.  

 "The horses eyes were glassy, he breathed the city in his lungs last night"
  -WSP  "I feel like shoeless Joe"-ARU

  Peace. Brew-ha.
From: NEIL.BERKMAN@mail.admin.wisc.edu
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
Subject: Phish in GUITAR
Date: 10 Apr 92 14:45:54 GMT
Article-I.D.: uvaarpa.1992Apr10.144554.14913
Reply-To: NEIL.BERKMAN@mail.admin.wisc.edu
Organization: The Internet

to: phish@fuggles.acc.virginia.edu

I'm on the digest so I hope this hasn't already been posted, but I got the
May issue of GUITAR For The Practicing Musician yesterday and there was a
little article on Phish!  Here it is:

SOMETHING PHISHY THIS WAY COMES
by Brian Miller

   Phish, the totally self-contained and eclectic Vermont-based rock/jazz band
that has been running silent and deep around the usual paths to rock stardom
(and breaking club and theater attendance records across the U.S. along the
way) since 1983, saw its Elektra debut, _A Picture of Nectar_, hit the racks in
February after the release of their first single, "Chalk Dust Torture."  With
influences ranging from Zappa, the Dead, Zeppelin and AC/DC to Dizzy Gillespie,
Joe Pass and B.B. King, Phish features complex contrapuntal arrangements and
constant key-shifts over tight rhythms, plus the band is one of the spearheads
(with Capricorn's Aquarium Rescue Unit) of the return to virtuosic jams in
high-energy contexts.  The band employs a "secret language" of riffs and
patterns to cue its hairpin turns and twists when it travels (literally)
uncharted waters.  Primary songwriter/guitarist/vocalist Trey Anastasio and
bassist/vocalist Mike Gordon make their unique musical madness with custom-made
guitars and basses by Paul Languedoc, their soundman.

Now I'm just waiting for them to transcribe some Phish tunes!

Neil
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
From: roek@frith.egr.msu.edu
Subject: Detroit Tix.
Reply-To: roek@frith.egr.msu.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 19:04:32 GMT

For all of you hitting the midwest portion of the tour...

Tickets for the May 6th show at St. Andrews Hall are on sale.
They cost $12.50 (+$2.50).  Ticketbastard is selling them
and their phone # (I think) is (313) 645-6666 (if that's wrong,
call information in (313) and they'll set you up).

Dan

Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
From: S9160239@deimos.ucc.umass.edu (Gus Trautweiler)
Subject: full explanation of Dolby
Organization: University of Massachusetts: Botany Department
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 14:20:32 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.20


	Dolby is worthless!


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From: maginnis@math.ksu.edu (John Maginnis)
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
Subject: Blues Traveller on May 9
Date: 14 Apr 1992 07:57:02 -0500
Organization: Dept. of Mathematics, Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: hilbert.math.ksu.edu
Summary: Blues Traveller on May 9
Keywords: Blues Traveller

1)  Is there a Blues Traveller hotline?

2)  Thanks for the post on the River Valley Music Festival on May 9.

3)  An earlier post of upcoming shows listed a BT concert on May 9
	in Lawrence at the Moolight Theater.  I've never heard of
	this place.  Does anybody have more info?


	Thanks!

	John Maginnis
	maginnis@math.ksu.edu

Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
From: Matt Laurence <mlaurenc@world.std.com>
Subject: More Mike's Mania...
Reply-To: mlaurenc@world.std.com
Organization: The Internet
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 01:42:39 GMT


Carl Anderson writes:

|Do the lyrics for Mike's Groove change? 

Geez, I'm pretty sure they lyrics for EVERY phish song change,
depending on their moods, the silliness factor for the night,
the crowd, previous responses to the song, etc. I don't
think I can think of a single Phish song that I haven't heard
alternate versions of, even if it's just a line or two... and
I THINK I've heard every one. 

Matt
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
From: LAR HALFF <LARRYH%EARLHAM.BITNET@uicvm.uic.edu>
Subject: Digital/Analog Tape decks
Reply-To: LARRYH%EARLHAM.BITNET@uicvm.uic.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 20:45:25 GMT

Hi Phish Tape Phiends -
  I don't wann add to the confusion, but does any one know if
digital/analog tape decks are avalibale. Last year I heard that decks that
could record digital and analog on regular tapes were going to be
avaliable. Is this true or was is my water source spiked with some sort of
psychadelic?

-- Lar

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______________________________________   Your hands and feet      \        /
My views do not represent those of   |   are mangos, but you're    \      /
Earlham college; but reflect current |   gonna be a genius anyway   \    /
patterns of discourse found in       |               -Phish          \  /
contemporary Western culture.        |                                \/
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From: NEIL.BERKMAN@mail.admin.wisc.edu
Subject: All Things Considered?
Reply-To: NEIL.BERKMAN@mail.admin.wisc.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 22:33:27 GMT

to: phish@fuggles.acc.virginia.edu

Anyone out there listen to All Things Considered regularly?  They were
supposedly going to play Phish's version of their theme song, and I was
wondering if that has happened yet.  Also, anyone out there read
Billboard?  I would be interested in knowing how PON is doing.

Neil




                                                                               



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From: Lee Silverman <ST101137@brownvm.brown.edu>
Subject: Dolby N/R Correction
Reply-To: ST101137@brownvm.brown.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 04:09:59 GMT

What I said about cutting your levels a little bit when using Dolby
was wrong.  Please ignore it.

My logic holds up until you realize that Dolby applies varying levels
of cut and boost depending on the level of the original signal.  The
place on your signal level meter marked with the dolby "Double D" is where
Dolby stops boosting the signal on record and cutting it on playback.
Since this is usually 0db, there is no chance that dolby will boost
the levels to a point that will saturate the tape.

My mistake.  I hope to post a full explanation of Dolby sometime soon.
Please email me with questions if you have them, and much thanks to the
folks who corrected me!


Set the Record Levels for the high gear of your soul!!
Pandion                                       Pandion@Brown.edu
(Lee Silverman)                               ST101137@BROWNVM
From: btdy@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
Subject: Re: Mike's song ..
Date: 14 Apr 92 12:15:05 EDT
Distribution: rec
Organization: Cornell University

In article <1992Apr14.045448.29631@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU>,
J_BAUMGARTNE@unhh.unh.edu (Jonathan Baumgartner) writes: 
> "Me no I'm no nice guy"??  This is news to me.  I've ALWAYS heard it as
> "We don't want no nice guys" which makes a lot more sense to me anyway.
> Of course, Phish lyrics are notorious for not making a whole lot of sense,
> but I digress .. 

I always thought it was "We don't want no nice guys"

> 
> Anyway, the woman who was standing next to my ear at the NYE show seemed
> pretty damn sure that it was "We don't want no nice guys" seeing as who
> she was screaming it at a volume MUCH louder than the band ..

Well, women are always right.  Didn't you know?  Especially the ones who
happen to be:
	1) Your mother
	2) Your girlfriend
	3) Her mother
	4) Your wife
	5) and her mother.

- Jeff

PS -- :-)
From: Mark Mitchell <mmitchell@igc.org>
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
Date: 16 Apr 92 09:28 PDT
Subject: Re: Phish does not equal Dead
Nf-ID: #R:1992Apr15.021926.10305@uvaarpa.v:-1380343697:cdp:1628700004:000:186
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!mmitchell    Apr 16 09:28:00 1992



 I think Dan's comments are valid, but the discussion has 
been held before, and I propose we don't have it again.
(Nothing personal, Dan!)
            _Brian G. Feller@um.cc.umich.edu

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