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Date:         Tue, 29 Dec 1992 09:37:20 CST
From:         Dave <USTS060@RUST1.DPO.UAB.EDU>
Subject:      Xmas gifts

    Happy Hedonistic Holidays to all of you still at work.  May your
nights flow with good wine and good cheer and your mornings be
hangover free.
    Hope everyone's holiday loot was as expansive and obscene as mine
(that's obscene in terms of quantity not content).  This year friends
and family were kind enough to fill my musical requests with gift
certificates, thereby avoiding the unneccesary repeat or just a
really bad pick.  So here's what I helped my family fill my stocking
with this year:

Peter Gabriel _Revisited_
    I had bought _Shaking the Tree_ for my brother this year.
Unfortunately I couldn't resist the temptation and gave it a few good
listens before handing it over to him.  That's one good point about
CD's over vinyl.  You can break into a friends gift and play the hell
out of it without depreciating sound quality.  While shopping for
myself I considered STT but decided for _Revisisted_ instead.  I
figured I had heard the other and this would be something
completely new to me.
    _Revisited_ has, aside from "Solsbury Hill" (which is by far my
favorite PG song), music I had never heard before.  This is I assume
early Peter Gabriel and is nothing like what I associate him with.  I
dunno.  I think of Peter and I think of "Shock the Monkey" (my first
Peter Gabriel song) or _Passion_ or his last two albums.  _Revisited_
was a whole new look on him.  I believe that I'm quite pleased.

Sonny Sharrock _Ask the Ages_
    Believe it or not I found this in a used CD bin.  You guys have
been goin on and on about SOnny for so long that I figured that I'd
have to at least give him a listen.  Wow.  I was absolutely blown
away.  This is a really hot album.  Sonny has become an overnight
favorite.  I can't believe I've never heard of him before.

Praxis _Transmutation (Mutatis Mutandis)_
    I don't usualy listen to a lot of funk.  But this is really
infectious.  I now understand what all the talk is about Buckethead.
I'll be turning as many of my friends on to this stuff as I can.  I'm
also interested in the poet terrorism thing.  That's not something I
know a whole lot about coming from Birmingham.  The arts here tend to
be real placid.  Christ we got three oldies/classic rock stations and
no college radio.  Praxis seems very exciting.  I'd love to learn
more.

King Crimson _Abreviated_
    In all fairness I only got to give this one listen.  I also
realize that this was meant as sort of a joke, a promo piece to send
to radio stations who wouldn't give them airplay anyway.  Therefore
my opinion is not as informed as it should be.  However, at the risk
of many flames from the more venerable and respected memebers of the
list, I'm gonna have to disagree with the prevailing opinion about
KC.  They seemed awful glam-rock to me.  I'm just not into that kinda
thing.  Not being a musician I make no claims about the virtuosity
of their musicianship.  I just wasn't as amazed by this as I was by
the others.

    On a slightly different thread:
    I got a guitar for Christmas.  I 'd been fiddling with a borrowed
one for a few months but had to give it back.  Getting one of my
own was a real treat.  But as is the current trend with my life,
something had to go awry.  (I lost my car in auto accident the Monday
before Xmas and since then things have just gone down hill.  The only
good thing was that the wreck was not my fault.)  I was tuning the
guitar last night when I noticed the neck pulling away from the body.
A most unhappy sight.  Then I realized someone (the place of
purchase) had put steel strings on an acoustic guitar with no signs
of a truss rod.  I hoping my current karma will change and I can
get it replaced with out much hassle.  Somehow I don't think it will
go so well.
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Rev. Dave Hall                |  "It's not the voting that's
usts060@rust1.dpo.uab.edu     |   democracy, it's the counting.
                              |     -- Tom Stoppard
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