Newsgroups: bit.listserv.allmusic
Date:         Tue, 17 Nov 1992 10:08:17 EST
From:         "Michael H. Bloom" <MHB@MITVMA.BITNET>
Subject:      More posts about guitars and food

From:         jcs <GE777009@BROWNVM.BITNET>
Subject:      lookin' fer a git-box for ma man

> i'm lookin' to buy a telecaster for the Marine
> so if anyone is my area is selling one, send me some
> email. my area being Providence, boston, Worcester,
> Connecticut.

Zillions of guitar shops in Boston. People come to Berklee to make their
fortunes, then they don't get that crucial phone call from Chick Corea, and
they succumb to despair and have to pawn their axes to support their habits.
We are particularly well stocked with Telecasters. One place I like to hang
out and drool over the instruments is Cambridge Music (I think it's called),
right in Porter Square, across Mass. Ave. from the subway station: dozens of
Teles from $250 or so... And while you're in the neighborhood, head a little
further up Mass. Ave. and visit Central Sales, although their selection is
less amazing than it used to be.

> Also, i ran into a Fender Jaguar at a pawn shop
> and the guy wanted $990. for it. It looks like
> its in good shape...anyone know what the chances
> are in getting this guy down to about 600. instead?
> (Fred, the pawnmaster, knows guitars, so he knows
> that this is a good box)

I might pay that much for a good Jazzmaster, but not a Jaguar. What have you
got to lose by trying to talk him down?

> Also, i saw an ad for a Fender La Brea, black,
> and it said it was an accoustic/electric...
> Is it anything like a Kramer hollowbody?
> Cuz the marine already has one of those, and it
> can't hold a tune, so he wants something else.

Fairly recently Fender went through this phase of naming guitars after
California beaches. I got a Redondo, a dreadnaught acoustic. It has the
same problem holding tune, and I'm not certain the intonation is all it
should be either. This is part of where I get my attitude about Fenders,
BTW. I didn't purchase this guitar, I won it in a drawing. It's worth
exactly what I paid for it.

> SO, there are all my questions. I know you all know
> this stuff, so lets here it. Make sure, please, if
> you don't mail it to me directly, that you put
> something recognizable in the header so i don't
> wizz past it when slogging through the drivel.

If you think my posts are drivel, O steele one, you deserve to miss this
information.

From:         crispen <crispen@EFFTOO.BOEING.COM>
Subject:      Three of a Perfect Pair

> Figured this would get Michael Bloom "the well known Boston music critic"'s
> attention.

Say what?

> What I meant in a previous post about Crimson was that I had heard that
> the King Crimson "Three of a Perfect Pair"/"Discipline" era LPs were to
> be remastered some time, and possibly collected into a boxed set.
>
> Has this happened?  If not, do you know when it might happen?

No, I don't believe this has happened. The story as I understand it is that
the original CD remasterings sucked, and this is one of the things Fripp is
pissed at EG about, that they had the transfers done so wretchedly, and then
deducted the expenses from Fripp's royalties. In 1989, Fripp remastered all
the records over again, and EG released them as "The Definitive Edition," so
if you see a copy that doesn't have that text on it, it may be the inferior
pressing. The stuff in the _Frame By Frame_ box was re-re-re-mastered to an
even greater nicety, and there was some statement of intent to do that good
a job to the whole catalog, when time and money permit.

From:         LAURAL@MIDD.BITNET
Subject:      Husker Du

> I've got all the Husker Du albums except one, (I think!) and The two I like
> the most are `Warehouse:Songs and Stories'(1987) and `Candy Apple Gray'(1986).

I vaguely recall being told that real Huskers fans aren't supposed to like
_Warehouse_, that being one of the few Huskers albums I have, and I like it
fine, especially "Visionary" and "Ice Cold Ice." IMHO the best Huskers album
is _Everything Falls Apart_, and you can't get it: they released it on their
own indie label and, after they ran out, they wouldn't let SST reprint it.

I seldom enjoy Grant Hart's tunes. I'm not sure how heretical that is.

From:         Mike Masuda <MASUDA@SJSUVM1.BITNET>
Subject:      Mary Hopkin

> The album overall takes one back to the 1968 sound.

Yeah, I'll buy that. I always considered the song a nostalgia trip, but I
must admit there was a lot of that in the original psychedelic imperative.
I remember I really wanted to wear an Edwardian cape greatcoat, like Basil
Rathbone in the Sherlock Holmes movies...

> The Pepper sound gave way to
> bubblegum sound for Paul, in 1968.  John went in the other direction and
> rediscovered rock and blues.  Of course, there are crossovers
> ("Julia" and "Helter Skelter"),

Hey, wait a minute! "Julia" is a much better song than you think, it was
John's first attempt to come to grips with the void in his life caused
by his mother's untimely death. Just because it uses an acoustic guitar
doesn't make it bubblegum. Listen to the quality of the voice-- it sounds
like he stayed up all night thinking morose thoughts, and only now with
the dawn does he begin to sense even a glimmer of hope. That ain't no
bubblegum.

> What became of her, anyways?  Are her other albums any better?

I don't know if she ever had another album.

You might also be interested in the debut (and so far only) album by a
group called Shopping Trolley. They're kinda ironic Broadway songsters,
with lite rock instrumentation, but I think they're interesting-- and
they do one song which definitely is intended as a nostalgia trip, called
"Bring Back Those Mary Hopkin Days." You ought to be able to find it cheap;
my fave used record store had the CD marked down to $1.99.

From:         Thumper <watson@HG.ULETH.CA>
Subject:      Re: do bee do bee do help...

> And to think that Fripp called Bloomie clueless and slightly slack!  Pah!  ;*)
> Clueless?!  Shit, this man barfs out facts about King Crimson (and maybe
> Sinatra) like they were yesterday's greasy breakfast!  Pah!  And slack?!  NOT!
> I've got a first-hand counter-example of that! I found Michael to be nothing
> short of erect.   :*)

Poor Libby, who had to clean up all those half-digested facts after I barfed
them up. I should have ordered the Roast Dick of Lamb...

> Now my poet friend and I can get on with co-authoring our own version of
> "Strangers in the Night", aptly entitled, "Strangers in the Net"...  I wonder
> if I could find a bodhran part in the tune somewhere? Mahhhhhhhh ha ha!

You can start with "Strangers in the net, exchanging packets,
                    TCP/IP, I'd love to hack it..."

Yeah, I guess that was weak...

From:         Little Inquisitor <U33963@UICVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: do bee do bee do help...

> What's this?  Oh dear, we wouldn't want to besmirch his reputation, would we?

Oh go ahead. After being so cruelly used by Robert Fripp, I'm used to it :-)

> Pray, do tell all; our ears are fully upright at the attention position. Net.
> insinuations are somewhat tame, lame and a shame!

There really wasn't all that much to tell... unless you consider bodhrans
especially kinky :-)

From:         Russ Gelinas <R_GELINAS@UNHH.UNH.EDU>
Subject:      Sonic Youth, loose bedsprings

>                                                   ...  I guess SY is
> on tour, and they talked up their opening acts.  One is called Boredom,

It's The Boredoms. They get talked about a lot on the other list I subscribe
to. I haven't heard any of their stuff-- it doesn't strike me as interesting
from the nature of the commentary-- but I don't like Sonic Youth either.

From:         "Leonard Watkins" <ISTS024@UABDPO.BITNET>
Subject:      I hate Da Blues

> leaving i forgot what he said. The place was packed and half the crowd was
> there to exercise their hormonial desires...I really wish these people would
> stay home and jerk off instead of taking up much-needed space..Know what i
> mean................L.W.

Unfortunately these people make it possible for the club to stay in business.
Most people could give a rat's ass about music; when they consume it, they do
so for reasons that have nothing to do with the music's intrinsic value: they
hope it will get them laid, or they hope it will affirm something about their
personal identity, or they hope that if they jump around to it like a crazed
orangoutang that they might shed excess calories and be a hard body...

The Harvard Coop is one of the world leaders in selling Windham Hill records.
Apparently the Harvard students buy them as study aids-- a genre of music so
tedious it makes homework seem great fun by comparison...
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