From: cwe34361@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (cE!)
Subject: Re: gWs/DPP/SLAVA/Dietiphobia/Whats UP?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:40:10 GMT

clopton5107@iscsvax.uni.edu writes:

|         Basically, what's up with Brent Stackhouse, and what's up with Wally
| Shaw?  I figured that things would be cool, after the split
| but when I realized that they seemed to be living parallel lives with
| production companies that seem to be in competition, I began to worry 
| that things were not all happy in Blonde Vynil Techno Land. Wally got the name
| "Dietiphobia," Brent got the name "Digital Priests."  It looks like a bad
| divorce to me. 
|         I don't want to facilitate the spreading of gossip, or backstabbing. 
| If you can inform us without slandering our brothers, please do. 

I'll try.
You see, actually, we (gWs) have been kept sort of on the outside.  Most people
have been.  But I will tell you the (true) events that I know of, and avoid
airing my speculations (I hope):

07/92	1.  Cornerstone'92--things seem to be OK with DEITIPHOBIA (DEIT).
	    SLAVA Music (SM)--very much both Wally and Brent--offer
	    globalWAVEsystem (gWs) and The Prodigal Sons (PSons) record
	    contracts.
	2.  Wally is engaged to Sheri Swabeck (sp?) (Hip Dream).
08/92	1.  gWs arrange to record in Houston.  Wally and Brent will produce.
	2.  gWs arrive in Austin at Brent & Heather Stackhouse's.  Brent tells
	    us there has been a problem (UNSPECIFIED), and that he's apparently
	    been fired from SM, but without his knowledge.  Brent checks at
	    some official office, and discovers that SM has been re-filed under
	    Wally's name alone.  "I guess I've been fired."  DEIT is obviously
	    in limbo, but Brent isn't sure where it will go.  Wally holds all
	    the SM money, which means Brent & Heather have no money at all.
	    Wally is not returning phone calls, but meets with someone at their
	    church.
	3.  gWs are informed that either Brent or Wally will produce our album.
	    Wally will produce it for SM, Brent will produce it for Blonde
	    Vinyl (BV) directly.  The decision is left up to us, so we talk
	    extensively with Brent, Wally (and Sheri), BV, and God, and decide
	    to go with Brent.  We went to great extents to explain our decision
	    to Wally, and to stay on good terms with him.
09/92	1.  Wally and Brent (finally) split up the SM & DEIT finances and
	    equipment.  Wally begins going to another church.
	2.  Luke Mazzeri (Exegesis) wants to hear the gWs album, to see if he
	    wants to go with Brent or Wally.  I send him a tape and never hear
	    back from him.
10/92	Apparently Wally has retained the DEIT name for himself.  He travels
	to the Chicago area to work with somebody (later we find out it's Luke)
	on new DEIT material and/or shows.
11/92	1.  DEIT does at least one show.  [Did anybody see it?]
	2.  Brent says he hasn't heard from Luke or the PSons, and is worried
	    that Wally might be trying to undermine him.
	3.  Brent takes the name Digital Priest Productions (DPP) for his
	    branch of the business, which upsets Wally.  Brent and Byron Payne
	    (another SM fellow) begin working with a couple of bands in Austin
	    and Houston.
	4.  Brent records and produces the XPropagation (XProp) album.
12/92	I finally have a decent talk with Wally, who is in the Chicago area
	working on the new DEIT album.  He says he wants to make it more "post-
	industrial sounding" and is planning to have a lot of people work on
	it, including Michael Knott and Chris Colbert.  He says he needs a
	drum machine, and I offer to let him use my drum module (if he can pick
	it up).  He tells me he'll call the next Saturday night.  He never
	calls (of course--this is true--Wally almost _never_ returns calls).
	When asked about SM bands, Wally vaguely says there are a bunch.  Who
	they are, I don't know.
01/93	1.  gWs hears from the PSons that they are recording for Metro One /
	    The Mixing Factory at Scott Blackwell's house.  Their album will
	    be out in March.
	2.  gWs does not hear from Wally.
	3.  gWs hears from Brent that BV wants DPP to put out at least five
	    more projects (besides gWs and XProp) this year.  One will be a new
	    Wigtop album.
	4.  gWs sends letters & posters saying the album _life equals death_
	    will be out in January.
	5.  gWs finds out the album is pushed back to February.


That's about all I know.  Some of the dates (especially Sept-Dec) may be off.


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