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From: snorthc@relay.nswc.navy.mil (Stephen Northcutt - K31)
Newsgroups: rec.music.christian
Subject: Twas a night of the week before Christmas
Date: 15 Dec 92 14:32:39 GMT
Reply-To: snorthc@relay.nswc.navy.mil
Organization: Naval Surface Warfare Center


	Twas a night of the week before Christmas
 
	And we were scarfing down our supper,
	thirty minutes till time to leave,
	I said, as I got up from the table.

	The family knows the drill,
		guitars,
			music stands,
		hot tea with lemon in a thermos,
			toys for Hunter,
	all piled by the door.

	Brrrrring, the phone (phones certainly can be annoying)
         	One of the singers: "I need a ride"
   
                  We have to leave NOW I bark.

	          Tis the season to be hurried.

	Zoom, buzzing down the highway in a 3 cylinder Geo Metro
	         every cubic inch filled with
	         the makings of merry music.

        Catching,
                 every,
		       single,
			      stoplight.

	I fret about the Christmas cards I'll never get written.
	 The strain on Kathy's face by the glow of brakelights,
                         touches my heart.

	We haven't had a night to spend at home for a long time,
                             and won't
                       till after Christmas.

	The hectic pace is everywhere... trying to witness,
            explain there is reason in this season,
                            sorry
           I just don't have any time right now, he explains,
           have to run get a tennis bracelet for my fiancee
           Too bad Jesus picked such a busy time to be born

	            Almost there, and on time even!
         This is the last nursing home, two more performances after this.

	      We set up, pray, sing, we just aren't on tonight,
	everytime I look up to smile, I miss a chord or sing the wrong verse.

	          They are so quiet, are we that bad?
			Last song.... any requests?


		Way in the back, in a wheelchair, one leg missing,
		              Could you sing
		             Jesus Loves Me?

				We sing,
			    faces light up,
			   wheelchairs rock,
		           finally I relax.

			   Thank You Jesus
			   Thank You Lord	


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From: krueger@galileo.physics.arizona.edu (Ted Krueger)
Newsgroups: rec.music.christian
Subject: Re: what is Christian Music?
Date: 11 Dec 92 16:41:24 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson AZ

In article <101110@netnews.upenn.edu> crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford) writes:

>If you're talking about demonic oppression, I'm a firm believer in that. 
>It's interesting to note, though, in the book of Job that Satan had to
>have permission from God to torment Job.  The few times I've felt I was
>experiencing direct oppression, I also knew that for some reason God was
>ultimately behind it, turning it eventually to good.  

You should be aware that there is another interpretation to the story of 
Job.  God never said "Satan, I give you power to torment Job."  What He 
did say was, "He is in your hands."  Which does not imply that God had 
anything to do with putting Job in Satan's hands, but more likely implies 
that Job himself did something to put himself in Satan's hands.

Not wanting to start a war, merely share information.

Ted
 
-- 
So the Maples formed a union, and demanded equal rights, "The Oaks are just 
too greedy.  We will make them give us light!"  Now there's no more Oak 
oppression, for they passed a noble law.  And the trees are all kept equal, 
by hatchet, axe and saw.     -  Rush, The Trees
From: vapspwi@prism.gatech.EDU (Jerry B. Ray, Jr.)
Newsgroups: rec.music.christian
Subject: Re: Returning to secular music
Date: 11 Dec 92 20:43:33 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

In article <1ga30vINNctv@lily.csv.warwick.ac.uk> phucy@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr G J Cafolla) writes:
>So is Sitting around reading God's word the right thing to do or maybe we 
>should be LIVING it ?  (i.e worshiping).
>

Yeah, that's what i said.  NOT!  Gimme a break.  That's not at all what i 
said, and you know it.  Sure we should worship God.  Often.  We should pray.
Continually.  We should serve others and lead them to Christ.  All the
time.  We should read the Bible.  Lots.  I wasn't taking anything away from
the importance of all the other stuff.  I was just dispelling the fallacy
that was presented in whichever recent heretical post that i was responding
to that music is as good as the Bible (or that the Bible is in our hearts, 
so that we already know it all, or whatever was said.  I forgot.)

Address any and all flames and responses to the address below.  i want to
know what comes of this, and i'll be away from the net until January.

JRjr
-- 
'What did you say, what did you do, when they asked ya, who are you?
 Did you tell 'em who you know?  Did you hear that rooster crow?  How will
 you answer?  Where will you go?  Have you heard that rooster crow?' - REZ
#####  vapspwi@prism.gatech.EDU  ########  Jerry B. Ray, Jr.  ################
From: cthomas@npal.rn.com
Newsgroups: rec.music.christian
Subject: Heavy Metal Praise
Date: 11 Dec 92 17:35:45 EDT
Organization: PalNet -- Indianapolis, Indiana

Has anyone ever heard the album heavy-metal praise?  I was wondering if it
was like the rock power praise albums (which I did not like)  I'm not
interested
in hymns with a rock beat but hymns with the same rythm and speed jus
HEAVY

				CHUCKBILL
Newsgroups: rec.music.christian
From: "william mercer" <william.mercer@canrem.com>
Subject: pray naked
Reply-To: "william mercer" <william.mercer@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: rec
Date: 15 Dec 92 18:37:06 EST

Does anyone know why the Seventy Sevens new CD had its title changed
from "Pray Naked" to "The Seventy Sevens"?  Would anyone have been
offended if it was called "Pray Naked".  I've had it for a few weeks -
it's a great rock 'n roll CD.  Anyone who likes the 77s will like this
record.
--
Canada Remote Systems  - Toronto, Ontario
World's Largest PCBOARD System - 416-629-7000/629-7044
Newsgroups: rec.music.christian
From: prich@monk (Paul Richardson)
Newsgroups: rec.music.funky
Subject: Re: choose me
Date: 18 Dec 92 22:44:03 GMT

In article <1992Dec9.231906.20943@newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de>  
zahn@ifwm11.ifw.uni-hannover.de (Guido Zahn) writes:
> Hi there !
> A few weeks ago there was a film on German television called "choose me".
> During the film they often played parts of the title song. It was a really
> soft...soul...funky...song called "choose me, you're my choice tonight".
> I would be very happy if anyone outhere could give me a tip about the name
> of the performer(s) of this song.
The song is called "Choose Me" by Teddy Pendergrass

By the way, that is a great movie
--

/pgr

She's got Jungle Fevah... - Stevie
email: Paul_Richardson@next.com
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From: gds@york.cs.ucla.edu (Greg Skinner)
Newsgroups: rec.music.funky,rec.music.makers,rec.music.synth,alt.rap,alt.rave
Subject: Re: Tha Bizness.
Date: 14 Dec 92 20:18:10 GMT
Reply-To: gds@cs.ucla.edu (Greg Skinner)
Organization: in your face!
Originator: gds@york.cs.ucla.edu

In article <0105009A.l1ojqo@david.roth-music.com> david@roth-music.com (David A. Roth) writes:
>This is true but in the quiet evenings while all is asleep you will
>be the one who sits and thinks of what could have been.

Equally, you may be a struggling musician, thinking on the quiet
evenings about your friends in other professions, who are making
decent incomes.  I have a friend who is an aspiring actor who is going
through this.  He is thinking about going back to law school.

>If you want something bad enough you will find a way to do it within
>your own means. [...]
>If you let thoughts like, "What if I don't make it...", then you never
>will.  This applies to anything.  Starting your own business, opening
>up a store front, becoming a doctor, teaching children, joining the
>miltary, etc.

Yes, I agree that this applies to anything.  However, for several
reasons, breaking into the music business is much more difficult and
there is very little security, unlike becoming a doctor, opening a
store, etc.  This is not to say that no one should try, but that they
should have a clear plan of action (and also an understanding that
they may not make it, and that they'll need to fall back on something
else if they don't).

This points out a difference between entering the music business and
some other business (like medicine).  You don't hear very many people
in medical school thinking about what they might do if they are unable
to get a job once they graduate.  There are almost as many reasonably
paying medical jobs as there are people who want those jobs.

--gregbo
Newsgroups: rec.music.funky
From: haupt@cs.columbia.edu (Marcus E. Haupt)
Subject: Re: 80's Funk - The Hip-Hop Connection
Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 19:36:55 GMT


Lets face it, 80's Funk is now a mainstream influence in Hip-Hop. If you want to
hear some of the classics, turn on your local Fri/Sat nite rap show and listen,
listen, listen....it was Afrika Bambatta and the Soulsonic Force who first broke
Funk into Hip-Hop/Rap with "Planet Rock", probably the greatest Funk song of the
80's (if you haven't heard this one at a party, you weren't goinh out). That song
brought Funk into the hearts and minds of a generation of other (Rap/Hip-Hop)
musicians who subsequently stopped trying to define their music against other
styles and began to incorporate them into an intensely thick blend of styles...

Here are some examples...

"Before I let go"           - sampled on K-Solo's "Your Mom's in my business"
Mary Jane Grils             - sampled on LL Cool J's "Round the way girl"
Gap Band - "Irresitable"    - sampled on Ice Cube's "True to the Game"


plus everything from the 70's....(lakeside, Funkadelic, Parliment, Kool and The Gang,
				Jackson 5, JAmes Brown,...)


now some people think that this is musical plagarism, but it has brought a lot
of flavor to Hip-Hop, some acts are moving towards live bands backing them,
Brand New Heavies, A Tribe Called Quest, Schooly-D,...


-- 
Marcus Haupt                            
Dept. of Comp. Sci.				
Columbia University
haupt@cs.columbia.edu
Newsgroups: rec.music.funky,rec.music.makers,rec.music.synth,alt.rap,alt.rave
From: smith@comm.mot.com (Jeff Smith)
Subject: Re: Tha Bizness.
Organization: Gagging Sloth Records
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 14:39:11 GMT

In article <1992Dec17.213235.28835@cs.ucla.edu>, gds@york.cs.ucla.edu (Greg Skinner) writes:

|> One of the points I have been trying to make in this thread is that
|> for doctors, lawyers, etc., this is often not a consideration.  Your
|> average doctor, lawyer, etc. does not have to starve for a while
|> practicing for little or no pay,

You don't know many doctors or med students, do you?

jds
Newsgroups: rec.music.funky,rec.music.makers,rec.music.synth,alt.rap,alt.rave
From: gds@york.cs.ucla.edu (Greg Skinner)
Subject: Re: Tha Bizness.
Originator: gds@york.cs.ucla.edu
Reply-To: gds@cs.ucla.edu (Greg Skinner)
Organization: in your face!
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 21:07:46 GMT

In article <0105009A.ldt6t0@david.roth-music.com> david@roth-music.com (David A. Roth) writes:
>I think you should get your head out of your income.

I think you should get your head out of (wherever it happens to be
right now) and reread what I posted, some time back:

     This is not to say that no one should try, but that they
     should have a clear plan of action (and also an understanding
     that they may not make it, and that they'll need to fall back on
     something else if they don't).

>If you are happy with what you are doing with your life, that's fine.
>Telling people not to do something because you don't think you could
>hack it is foolish.

Name me once, in this thread, where I have said or implied that *I*
don't think someone should not do something because *I* don't think
they can hack it.  From what I can tell, I have stated what I believe
are the practical concerns for musicians, and others attempting to
start businesses in what is a very tight economy.

For the record, I spoke to my actor friend, and he said he is going to
stick with the acting for a while.  I am happy for him, because he's
doing what he wants.

>Are you making millions of dollars in software?  Since Bill Gates
>is and he is successful than you must be a failure.  Of course, you
>are not but if someone goes into entertainment and is not making
>millions of dollars doesn't make them a failure either.  [etc.]

You have completely misunderstood me.

>This comes back to your lack of understanding of exactly what types
>of work is out there in the entertainment field.

You don't know what I know about what types of work there are in the
entertainment field.

When your knee stops jerking, maybe we can have a rational discussion.


Newsgroups: rec.music.funky,rec.music.makers,rec.music.synth,alt.rap,alt.rave
From: david@roth-music.com (David A. Roth)
Newsgroups: rec.music.funky
Subject: ENCLOSED: Siedah Garrett *SOLO* album Kiss of Life info!
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 12:21:32 EST
Organization: DAVID A. ROTH MUSIC
Reply-To: david@roth-music.com (David A. Roth)
Distribution: world
Keywords: Siedah Garrett
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.5v4


History:

Several years ago I was at an outdoor concert here in Columbus, Ohio
and a new local FM radio station was passing out free CDs.  I asked
the guy what do you have.  The other artists I didn't know much about
but he handed me a CD of Siedah Garrett and said she sings with Michael
Jackson.  At the time, I have to admit I didn't even own a CD player
but since Jerry Hey was listed in the horn section and that it was
a Quincy Jones project I decide to purchase the cassette.  I love
the album.  I don't know why it didn't sell and I never heard anything
about it on the radio or attention about it in record stores.  I remember
at the time I picked it up at the record store I went to the area
where people were buying funky music and held Siedah's album up and
asked the kids in the area if they knew anything about her.  None
of them did.  All I can say, is that over all for some reason no real
promotion was done on this album and it is a damn shame!

	Artist: 		Siedah Garrett
	Title:   		 KISS OF LIFE
	Label:  		 QWEST/REPRISE
	Catalog Number:	 9 25689-2   (Note: on CD)
	Catalog Number:	 9 25689-4   (Note: on Cassette)
	Bar code:		7599-256849-2 (CD)
			7599-256849-4 (Cassette)

	Produced by Rod Temperton and Dick Rudolph
	Executive Producer: Quincy Jones
	(c)(p) 1988 Qwest Records

Songs listed on CD & Cassette:

	K.I.S.S.I.N.G.
	REFUSE TO BE LOOSE
	INNOCENT SIDE
	NIGHT OF NO RETURN
	KISS OF LIFE
	GROOVE OF MIDNIGHT
	THE LEGEND OF RUBY DIAMOND
	BABY'S GOT IT BAD
	NOBODY DOES ME
--------------------------------------

On the cover there are several pictures of her wearing a long black
dress.  Inside there is a picture of her wearing a T-shirt that says,
"Black by Popular Demand".

All I can say is these are great tracks and I was waiting...waiting...waiting
for her to start getting attention for this album.  Perhaps she got
involved in other projects and didn't want to support the album since
it means touring, etc.  I am guessing.  I don't know, but I was angry
that it wasn't getting airplay and the attention it needed.

Hey...check it out!

David
david@roth-music.com

Newsgroups: rec.music.funky
From: pjebsen@well.sf.ca.us (Peter Jebsen)
Subject: Re: True Son of The P
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 07:13:04 GMT


Trey Lewd (= Tracy Lewis) is indeed a "true son of the P." - Dr. Funkenstein
is his real-life father...

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From: wwc56110@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Digital Overdose)
Subject: The Underground Crew
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 08:46:27 GMT

Does anyone have information about the Underground Crew?  I think
their house stuff are under the Clubhouse label.  I'm especially
interested in "Feel the Melody."  Thanks.


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Newsgroups: rec.music.funky
From: jhopkins@cbacc.cba.uga.edu (John Hopkins)
Subject: Seventies Pop lyrics quiz
Organization: Terry College of Business, University of Georgia
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 21:48:07 GMT


A few months ago, a gentleman named John Hiatt came up with a nifty idea: post a lyrics quiz that is easy enough that an average radio listener can do well at it.  His quiz was based on music of the eighties.  In that vein, this is a relatively easy quiz A few months ago, a gentleman named John Hiatt came up with a nifty idea: post a lyrics quiz that is easy enough that an average radio listener can do well at it.  His quiz was based on music of the eighties.  In that vein, this is a relatively easy quiz b

ased on the music of the seventies.  If you listened to the radio, saw "Saturday Night Fever," and liked K.C. and the Sunshine Band, you should do well.

Please do not post your answers.  You may mail them to me at jhopkins@cbacc.cba.uga.edu.  Answers are due in my mailbox by 0700 GMT on Tuesday, December 22.  I will post the results the following day.

I'm sorry that I can't offer a prize to the winner.  Hopefully the fun of playing is incentive enough.

Good luck, and above all, have fun!!

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1.	Well I didn't want to bring her
	and I know it will make her worse.

2.	And they whirl and they twirl and they tango.

3.	So here I am with pockets full of good intentions,
	but none of them will comfort me tonight.

4.	One chromosome too many.

5.	We haven't had that spirit here since 1969.

6.	There's an open road that leads to nowhere,
	so just make some miles between here and there.

7.	Know that the Lord is well and inside of you.

8.	It'll take you a couple of vodka and tonics
	to set you on your feet again.

9.	She's mighty mighty, just lettin' it all hang out.

10.	A woman that I know just came from Majorca, Spain.

11.	Don't play B-17, it was our song, it was his song.

12.	I was on the dance floor acting strange.

13.	Writing something nasty on the wall.

14.	We were at the beach;
	everybody had matching towels.

15.	Have you ever had to push push push push?

16.	You may feel a little sick.

17.	Ain't no beauty queens in this locality, I'll tell you.

18.	Well your big brown eyes are all filled with tears
	from the bitterness of those lonely years.

19.	I'm the one you're using, please dont push me aside.

20.	In a silk dress, running like a watercolor in the rain.

21.	I think I had met my match.
	He was singing.

22.	I got the world calling me up here tonight on the phone.

23.	This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.

24.	You can get yourself clean,
	you can have a good meal,
	you can do whatever you feel.

25.	In these old familiar rooms, children would play.
From: david@roth-music.com (David A. Roth)
Newsgroups: rec.music.funky
Subject: Re: Hip Hop Mix Tapes!
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 13:15:16 EST
Organization: DAVID A. ROTH MUSIC
Reply-To: david@roth-music.com (David A. Roth)
Distribution: world
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.5v4


In article <1992Dec7.222940.772@ualr.edu> (rec.music.funky), JABUSSEY@delta.ualr.edu (JAQUE BUSSEY) writes:
> 
> 
>  	I know alot of you are going to school in remote areas. Areas where
>  the only thing on the radio is some local hick giving the morning farm report
>  and then puts on some Hank Williams (Sr. OR Jr. doesn't matter, they both
>  irritate me on those commercials). I am selling mix tapes to anyone here that
>  wants to buy one.  The tapes will be 60mins filled with mostly MAD Hip Hop 
>  mixes. I will make a new mix every two months or as new jams come out. 
>  
>  If anyone is interested, just fill out the order form and send it in with 
>  check or money order. The price is $4/tape... And feel free to dub it, I'd 
>  love to hear one of my mixes BUMPING at a stop light.
>  
>  Peace
>  
>  Jacque

That sounds like a nice service but have you obtained permission from
the copyright holders to sell their derivative or compilation works
in this manner?

I ask because I would be upset if someone remixed or packaged my works
and published them without proper permissions and would be on the phone to
my attorney about it quickly.

Just thought I would make some people aware of what "seems" harmless
to many.

David
david@roth-music.com
Newsgroups: rec.music.funky,rec.travel,alt.music.alternative,soc.college
From: holtm@robin.rtp.dg.com (Mark Holt)
Subject: Jacksonville recommendations
Date: 15 Dec 92 18:43:00
Distribution: usa
Organization: Data General Corp.


Since I'm Gator Bowl bound this coming 12/30...

Anybody out there have any recommendations for fun stuff to do,
good places to stay, places to stay away from?

I'm mostly looking for live music (rock, jazz, folk, blues,
alternative), brew-pubs, music stores, that type of thing.

Thanks,
- Mark

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From: brode@icpsr.umich.edu (Jon Brode)
Newsgroups: rec.music.funky
Subject: Re: Where is Prince in these postings?
Date: 11 Dec 1992 19:26:27 GMT
Organization: Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: tdis.icpsr.umich.edu
Summary: try again
Keywords: Prince mailing list

In article <1g9op9INN1iq@iraul1.ira.uka.de> kiess@ira.uka.de writes:
>The address of the Prince mailing list seems to be faulty.

It should work,  I get messages at that address all the time.
Try it again.

Jon
Newsgroups: rec.music.funky,rec.music.makers,rec.music.synth,alt.rap,alt.rave