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From: paul@everest.tandem.com (Paul Duffy)
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers
Subject: Re: Insuring home studio equipment?
Date: 22 Jul 92 19:43:02 GMT
Organization: Tandem Computers Inc., Cupertino CA

In article <6930.2a6c0f7f@dcatla.uucp> duslt@dcatla.uucp writes:
>I have over the past several months built up a pretty good home studio setup,
>and heve several thousand dollars invested in equipment.  I decided that I 
>really needed to have this covered by insurance, so I called my friendly
>homeowners' agent to add some additional coverage to cover this equipment.
>
>They are giving me no end of grief about covering my studio gear.  First I
>have to unequivocally swear that I never do anything there for which I charge
>anywone, then they still act like they don't really want to cover it because
>electronic equipment is considered "high risk", and the underwriters don't
>want to cover you when two thirds of the content value of your home is in
>electronic stuff.  Apparently professional musicians have the same problem in
>covering their gear.  If you are a musician, the insurance companies think you
>are a bad risk and don't want to cover you.
>
>Anyway, I am looking for ideas as to how I might get this stuff covered, 
>preferably without having to restrict myself from ever doing a session for
>someone for money.  Does anyone know of an insurance company that specializes
>is coverage for musor would be willing to write a policy to cover my home studio equipment?
>
>Lee Taylor
>Atlanta, GA
>duslt@dcatla.uucp

Two months ago I took out a renters policy with State Farm.
I itemized all my electronic equipment, it came to over $12,000.
About $9000 of this was guitar gear.  The total policy is for $25,000.
Plus my gear is covered by this policy when it is in my car or at another
location, such as friends house or practice studio.
The cost of this policy, which basically covers everything I own,
is only $15 a month.  The deductible is like $150 or so.
I had them call the underwriter to check all this out, since other
insurers had not offered this kind of deal.  They called back a couple
of days later and said it was all for real.
The main constraint on the policy is that I'm not allowed to make any money
with the musical gear.  So the gear sure isn't covered if it's ripped
off on a stage.  But since I'm not making any $$ at it that's ok for
now.  
To me this seems like a great deal unless you're in a semi-pro situation.
At that point it's much more expensive to cover your gear.
From: dvanslyk@RDXSUN78.AUD.ALCATEL.COM (Don VanSlyke)
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers
Subject: I need more music jokes.
Date: 27 Jul 92 18:42:28 GMT

I need some more material. Here are some of the music jokes that I
can remember:

Q. What do you get when you drop a grand piano down a mine shaft? 
A. A FLAT MINOR!

Q. What is the difference between a conductor and a sack of fertilizer? 
A. The sack.

Q. How do you know when a drummer is at the door? 
A. The knocking speeds up.

Q. How do you know when a rock singer is at the door? 
A. They can't find the key and don't know when to come in.

Q. What is the difference between an onion and an accordion? 
A. No one cries when you cut an accordion.

Q. What is the difference between a banjo and a lawn mower? 
A. You can tune a lawn mower.

Q. What do you call a guy who hangs around with musicians and thinks he can   
   read music? 
A. A drummer.


I have heard some other good ones in this group but I can't remember them.
Please feel free to refresh my memory!

Don
From: defrain@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Paul D. DeFrain -- aka master guru)
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers
Subject: Re: I need more music jokes.
Date: 29 Jul 92 17:38:55 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

In article <1992Jul29.142600.5681@b24a.ingr.com> mjo@b24a.ingr.com (M.Jesus.O at Beat) writes:
>
>Q: what do you call a musician without a girlfriend?
>
>A: Homeless.

Ooooooo.  That hurt.

Paul D.
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers,comp.music,misc.forsale
From: felix@crowfix.com (Felix Finch)
Subject: Re: BAD NEWS UPDATE FROM THE SOURCE
Organization: Scarecrow Repair, Dutch Flat.
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 15:48:06 GMT

The very idea of the military sponsoring Dr. Demento is so demented
that I thoroughly enjoy their ads, those very same ads which I find so
obnoxious on other programs.
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From: CADS_COLE@GALLUA.BITNET (Kevin Cole; Washington DC)
Subject: Re: shel silverstein
Organization: Gallaudet Research Institute
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 22:00:35 GMT

For a tase of some more Uncle Shelby:

"Some folks like pork chops,
 And some folks like ham hocks,
 And some folks like vegetable soup.
 Roland the Roadie,
 Loves Gertrude the Groupie,
 But Gertrude the Groupie likes groups."

By the way, did he do a children's poem which starts out:

"Nothing to do, nothing to do..."

And then procedes to offer some rather outlandish suggestions like covering 
your sister with glue, etc.  If so, where can I find it?
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From: hinz@bonfire (David Hinz Mfg 4-6987)
Subject: Re: Sound Files for Mac
Organization: GE Medical Systems, Magnetic Resonance
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 10:45:08 GMT

swells@triton.unm.edu (Ed Gruberman) writes:
: i have done bites from Time Warp, Boot To The Head, Dead Puppies,
: Fish Heads, and many others.  i can sample in some more if there
: are enough requests.
: 
: the sounds are very good quality - all sampled at 22MHz, and directly
: from CD to mac, not corrupted via microphone.
: 

Wow!  Sampled at 22MHz!  That gives a frequency response of 11MHz or so.  Not
quite up to the quality of my speakers, but I guess it's close.

Please take this pseudo-flame in the spirit it is intended.

(22 MHz, in-DEED!)

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Pherrets are Phun!! 
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From: thompson@gumby.mgi.com
Newsgroups: rec.music.dementia
Subject: Beatles novelties / bad covers
Date: 27 Jul 92 02:46:22 GMT
Organization: Management Graphics, Inc.


I'm trying to compile a list of novelty songs about (or at least mention-
ing) the Beatles. I'm also interested in covers of Beatles songs that are
worse than the usual MUZAK-type stuff, that is anything that's so bad as
to be funny.

Any information you can give me would be greatly appreciated, the more
detailed (artist, label, year released, availability, etc.) the better.

Please e-mail me, and I will summarize to the group. 

And yes, I have already posted this to rec.music.beatles some time ago and
only got one response. Im sure you dementos can do better than that!

Thanks in advance,
MOKO

"You think you know me, but you haven't got a clue."
                                      -- John Lennon
                                       _Hey Bulldog_ 
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From: euaneg@eua.ericsson.se (Nils-Erik.Gustafsson)
Subject: Doodle Weaver
Organization: Ellemtel Telecom Systems Labs, Stockholm, Sweden
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 10:26:36 GMT

gasarch@cs.umd.edu (William Ian Gasarch) writes:

>7) Doodles Weaver did `Eleanor Rigby' as if he was drunk.
>I've heard his name linked to Spike Jones, but I do
>not know that the connection is.

Doodles was a member of Spike Jones' City Slickers band
for many years in the '40s & early '50's, and did such
feats of fast talking as The William (sic) Tell Overture
(A day at the races), Dance of the Hours (Minneapolis
500) and The Man on the Flying Trapeze. Eleanor Rigby
was done in very much the same style as the latter,
i.e. interchanging words, getting lost, etc. I don't
know if he did any other recordings on his own and
would be happy to hear more if anyone knows. If memory
serves me right, Doodles died in the mid 80's.

>8) The Rutles did an album that was a Pastiche of Beatles
>songs- NOT the same tunes, but the same style.
>(They also had a movie `All you need is Cash' which
>was before the album).
>I think the album, with several additional cuts,
>is on CD available from RHINO.

There's even a cover collection of the Rutles songs
on RHINO CD, with contemporary bands doing a song each.

Nils-Erik Gustafsson
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From: sonic@artgate.cray.com (Curtis Swanson)
Subject: 99 Dead Baboons"
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 29 Jul 92 15:09:44 CDT


It was done by Tim (Tom?) Cavenaugh....

He's done some other great stuff as well....
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From: roddy@piprpit.UUCP (Keith M. Skar)
Newsgroups: rec.music.dementia
Subject: Weird Al & Victoria Jackson???
Date: 25 Jul 92 18:47:00 GMT
Reply-To: roddy@piprpit.uucp
Organization: Piper's Pit

I was looking at the credits of Al's Off the Deep End cd and
noticed a special thanks going to Victoria Jackson.  Im wondering
if this is the same Victoria Jackson from Saturday Night Live or
somebody else.  If its the same person...why is she being credited.

Thanks for any help

                         Keith M. Skar
roddy@piprpit.uucp             | All I ask for is a chance
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From: rszczerb@verdi.helios.nd.edu (Robert Szczerba)
Newsgroups: rec.music.dementia
Subject: The good Doctor
Date: 24 Jul 92 16:59:01 GMT
Organization: University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame

Does anyone know the time and station to hear
Dr. Demento in South Bend, IN ... or at least 
the closest possible station.

Let me know,

rszczerb@bach.helios.nd.edu
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From: gmd@socrates.umd.edu (Gina Mai Denn)
Subject: Re: Wierd Al('s first song)
Organization: University of Maryland University College
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 00:00:37 GMT

kendall@flammulated.rice.edu (kendall) writes:

>Wierd Al's first album (titled Wierd Al) is now availiable on CD!!  I now
>own all of his albumbs on CD... if only they would start releasing Muppet
>albums now.

whadda ya mean "now" ?
i've had it for at least a year, dear.

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gmd@socrates.umd.edu                          The Mad Maidenn
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From: danw@mitchell.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Dan White)
Newsgroups: rec.music.dementia
Subject: Cue Sheet #92-31
Date: 23 Jul 92 13:17:27 GMT
Organization: Society for the Prevention of Paronomastic Defenestration

C'MON FOLKS !! WHERE's ALL THAT FAN MAIL TO KEEP THE DOCTOR GOING ?

Doctor Demento
Show #92-31 for broadcast the week of July 27 - Aug 2, 1992

Segment 1 - 14:25

Show Open / Program Tease
Spam / Monty Python
Spam / "Weird Al" Yankovic
Road Kill / Milo Trembly
Dead Skunk / Loudon Wainwright III

Commercials & Local Break : 2:30

Segment 2 - 12:11

Flight Attendant / Meryn Cadell
I Lost My Heart On A 747 / Tom Paxton
Bumble Bee / Meryn Cadell
Big Cock-Roach / Kip Addotta

Commercials & Local Break : 2:30

Segment 3 - 13:25

T'aint No Sin (To Take Off Your Skin & Dance Around In Your Bones) / Miss Lee Morse
The Streak / Ray Stevens
Battered Plants / George Carlin
Never Set Your Cat On Fire / Frank Hayes

Commercials & Local Break : 2:30

Segment 4 - 14:03

Little Bit Late / Lewie Wickham
I'm Late / Mary Martin
Frazzled / Dale Gonyea
Uncle Jack Sez Relax / Charles Webb & Tom Bolton
Shaddup You Face / Joe Dolce

Commercials & Local Break : 2:30

Segment 5 - 14:18

Beam Me Up, Scotty / Dr. Gonzo
The Trouble With Klingons / Dennis Williams
Another Day On The Enterprise / Swashbuckler Boots
Star Drek / Bobby Pickett & Peter Ferrara

Commercials & Local Break : 2:30

Segment 6 - 13:22

Spock Rap / Neural Paralisers
Bar Trek / Thomas Gauthier
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds / William Shatner
Highly Illogical / Loenard Nimoy

Commercials & Local Break : 2:30

Segment 7 - 15:40

F.A.P. (Feline American Princess) / Leslie Fish
THE FUNNY FIVE
#5 - Beer Gut / Da Yoopers
EXTRA - Kicked My Baby In The Butt / Raphael DiGiorgio
#4 - You Don't Love Me Anymore / "Weird Al" Yankovic

Commercials & Local Break : 2:30

Segment 8 - 11:50

#3 - Hey, Batman '92 / Whimsical Will
#2 - The Sweater / Meryn Cadell
#1 - Star Trekkin' / The Firm

Commercials & Local Break : 2:30

Segment 9 -1:00

Show Close / Closing Credits

---------------------------------------------------------------------

Demento Society
P.O.Box 884
Culver City, California 90232

Tapes and letters can be sent to this address

Hotline: 1-900-773-7333
$1.25 for the first minute, $.75 per minute thereafter
Kids, get your parent's permission.


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From: darrin@shopsun.engin.umich.edu (Darrin P Cardani)
Subject: Re: Sound Files for Mac
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 10:15:32 EDT
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
Originator: darrin@shopsun.engin.umich.edu


Could you post one or two of the sounds. (Presumably stuffed or compacted and
Bin-Hexed) or put them up for anon ftp somewhere?
							Darrin Cardani
darrin@engin.umich.edu
Newsgroups: rec.music.dementia
From: tsmaster@media.mit.edu (David LeCompte)
Subject: Re: BOOT TO THE HEAD !!
Organization: MIT Media Laboratory
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 20:17:22 GMT

So, uh, who wants Trident?
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From: gmd@socrates.umd.edu (Gina Mai Denn)
Subject: Re: Looking for Star Trek spoof -- played on Dr. D!
Organization: University of Maryland University College
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 02:29:24 GMT


>khill@vax1.umkc.edu writes:
>>	I am looking for a song that is often played on Dr. Demento, but I do
>>not know the name of the song.  The song is a spoof on Star Trek.  Is there
>>a place where a can get a copy of the song -- cassette, album, or a sound file
>>(ie .AU, .VOC, .WAV, .RAW, etc.).  If there is a sampled copy of it floating
>>around out in NETter-NETter-LAND somewhere could somebody send me an FTP
>>sight where it is archived.

for some reason i think you may be referring to "STAR DREK"
by bobby borris picket and ?
look on the cue sheet on the dr dee show dedicated to star trek.
it is also on dr demento's second album (the name escapes me right 
now but it has an orange cover).
it should also be on the unofficial star trek album.
good luck finding it.-- 
gmd@socrates.umd.edu                          The Mad Maidenn
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From: kendall@flammulated.rice.edu (kendall)
Subject: Re: Wierd Al('s first song)
Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 21:03:15 GMT

Wierd Al's first album (titled Wierd Al) is now availiable on CD!!  I now
own all of his albumbs on CD... if only they would start releasing Muppet
albums now.

--
---> Kendall Gelner (kendall@rice.edu)
"The first computers were big clumsy machines that used vacuum tubes.  By
today's standards, they were extremely primitive.  For example, they believed
the sun was carried across the sky on the back of a giant turtle." -- D. Barry
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Subject: Looking for Star Trek spoof -- played on Dr. D!
From: khill@vax1.umkc.edu
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 00:03:45 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City


	I am looking for a song that is often played on Dr. Demento, but I do
not know the name of the song.  The song is a spoof on Star Trek.  Is there
a place where a can get a copy of the song -- cassette, album, or a sound file
(ie .AU, .VOC, .WAV, .RAW, etc.).  If there is a sampled copy of it floating
around out in NETter-NETter-LAND somewhere could somebody send me an FTP
sight where it is archived.


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From: jtinkle@sparc1.sparc1.csubak.edu (j. tinkle )
Newsgroups: rec.music.dementia
Subject: Re: BOOT TO THE HEAD !!
Date: 23 Jul 92 05:57:18 GMT
Followup-To: So, uh, who wants Trident?
Organization: California State University, Bakersfield

Sssssssssssssssssss!!!!

Jennifer
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Elmyra: "I just *LOVE* their Happy Baby Puppy Face Meals."

The Adventures of FIDO and MEWMEW....
Max: "Aaaaaaaaiiigh!!  Make it stop!"

Elmyra: "But I'm lonesome over here all by myself.  Let's snuggle."
Max: "I got seltzer!  Stay Baaaaaaack!!"

Max: "I think I'm in love."
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From: dwilson@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (dwilson)
Newsgroups: rec.music.dementia
Subject: Johnny and the Mutations
Date: 30 Jul 92 00:15:27 GMT
Reply-To: dwilson@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (dwilson)
Distribution: usa
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
Originator: dwilson@sneezy.cc.utexas.edu


Does anyone remember a song by a group that styled
itself Johnny and the Mutations?  Its theme is the
popular end-of-the-world-through-nuclear-disaster
and it featured a memorable line about how in the 
wake of the catastrophe "country music will never be
the same." 
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From: tsmaster@media.mit.edu (David LeCompte)
Subject: Re: Bad covers
Organization: MIT Media Laboratory
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 20:15:47 GMT

In article <21JUL199217352303@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov> colorado@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov (VMS) writes:
>For the last few weeks, Dr. Demento has been playing quite a few songs
>which are really just ordinary rock songs.  In particular, all these 
>bad covers of Beatles songs.  Does anybody think they're funny?  

Well, I think that the Bill Cosby Sgt. Pepper, as well as the Eleanor
Rigby cover (parody) that I heard last week were funny. I guess that
if I hadn't played the Beatles Disc to death, and if I didn't love the
songs, I wouldn't find the covers entertaining.

Funny? Um, yeah. At least with the two ones that I mentioned. I think
that they were. Granted that the Eleanor Rigby one (I'd like to know
who did it, just to be able to refer to it easier) was not JUST a
cover. But Bill Cosby did a good job of adding humor simply in the
inflection. Or *I* found that hearing the voice that I identify with
"The Dentist" and "Noah" presenting the Sgt. Pepper lyrics was a neat
contraposition.

But I am only one person. Feel free to find other things funny.

				-Dave


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From: mike_p@cheshire.oxy.edu (Michael John Petterson)
Subject: Re: Weird Al & Victoria Jackson???
Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041 USA.
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 23:03:24 GMT

In article <XX0000007a@piprpit.UUCP> roddy@piprpit.uucp writes:
>I was looking at the credits of Al's Off the Deep End cd and
>noticed a special thanks going to Victoria Jackson.  Im wondering
>if this is the same Victoria Jackson from Saturday Night Live or
>somebody else.  If its the same person...why is she being credited.

Yes it is the same person, and that is probably because she played "Teri",
Al's girlfriend in UHF.  


Michael J. Petterson     |"Listen, a sower went out to sow..."
mike_p@cheshire.oxy.edu  |                 -Jesus   

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From: lgold@callahans.Cadence.COM (Lynn Gold)
Subject: Re: Christmas Parodies
Organization: /mnt4/lgold/.organization
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1992 09:28:11 GMT

I've got one called "Nuclear Winter Wonderland", too!

Hello kids, are you listening?
In Kiev, things are glistening
A beautiful sight
We're happy tonight
In our Nuclear Winter Wonderland

It begain in Chernobyl
But the cloud's goin' global
We'll all feel just fine
We'll sip iodine
In our Nuclear Winter Wonderland

Near the meltdown we can build a snowman
And we'll name him Andrei or Mikhail
Then we'll sit around and watch him glow, man
Until we duck the phosphorescent hail

Lots of folks will expire
As they sit by the fire
The stacks will look neat
Encased in concrete
In our Nuclear Winter Wonderland

La la la, la de da da
La la la, la de da da
La dee da da da
La dee da da da
In our Nuclear Winter Wonderland

Oh, we can all go have bone marrow transplants
Maybe somehow we will all survive
We'll have lots of fun in chemother'py
When we sport growths in 2025!

Gone away is the sun here
Here to stay is the nuclear
We'll play in the snow
We'll laugh and we'll glow
In our Nuclear Winter Wonderland
In our Nuclear Winter Wonderland!

(c) 1988 Lynn Gold
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