Post by franklima on Aug 7, 2007 14:06:38 GMT -5
Thanks to franzi..it occured to me that not all the Kinks fans on Ray's pages, Dave's page, or The Official KinKs forum page subscribe to the KinKs internet mailing digest that has been around for 11 or 12 years now at least maybe longer and is put out by Neil Ottenstein and he does a GREAT job I might add. No Kinks fan should go without being on this list to receive the Kinks digest whch almost always comes out every day with only a few lapses every so often for one reason or another like when Neil is on vacation, ect... anyway here is a sample of todays's kps digest...and remember it's free there are no obligations and you never have to post on it like me 
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Kinks mailing list Digest, Number 2927
Tuesday, 7 August 2007
Topics:
News and Rumors [Neil Ottenstein <neil@kinks.it.rit.edu>]
Dave Davies - Rock Bottom [JerzykB@aol.com]
Two For the Road [Jim Smart <jimsmart1@mac.com>]
Fractured Mindz [SSwanwick@aol.com]
Misc [David Jenkins]
observations [chrisbotelho@comcast.net]
My Phobia Two Cents ["Bud Stafford" <bstaff56@comcast.net>]
from UNCUT mag (again) [HwyCDRrev@aol.com]
...heard at night club [benbolton@verizon.net]
Stop the Music well ain't Ray Human? [Krankiekat@aol.com]
the robbery [ROBERT NAPLES <rfnaples@hotmail.com>]
Administrivia:
To post messages and for all administrative issues, such as change of address,
withdrawal from the list, etc., send a message to the following address:
neil@kinks.it.rit.edu
The views expressed herein are those of the individual authors.
Kinks is compiled with Digest 3.
(John Relph <relph@tmbg.org>).
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 09:27:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: Neil Ottenstein <neil@kinks.it.rit.edu>
Subject: News and Rumors
There are quite a few items on the News and Rumors page at
kinks.it.rit.edu/news-rumors.php
that I don't think have been mentioned here
Songwriter Jim Bruno wrote a song called "Ray Took a Slug in the Leg",
which is on his latest album. You can listen to it on his web site, (click
on the Songs tab). www.jimbrunomusic.com/
In part 3 of a BBC Radio 2 documentary on Noel Coward, they played "Sunny
Afternoon" and talked about Ray's songwriting. You can listen to it online
for the next week.
www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/musicclub/doc_noelcoward.shtml
A new book by Dan LeRoy called The Greatest Music Never Sold has a chapter
on Ray Davies' score from 80 Days. Dan interviewed director Des McAnuff,
playwright Snoo Wilson and arranger Robby Merkin.
www.amazon.com/Greatest-Music-Never-Sold-Legendary/dp/0879309059
Roxy Music's Andy Mackay has recorded a cover of "Waterloo Sunset" for an
upcoming solo project.
www.vivaroxymusic.com/news_20070719a.shtml
According to this article on JoshSpear.com, the men's fashion label Saint
Augustine Academy is launching a new line of clothing called "Norman and
the Starmaker".
www.joshspear.com/item/speartalk-saint-augustine-academy/
He explains the title of the clothing line in the article
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 13:14:58 EDT
From: JerzykB@aol.com
Subject: Dave Davies - Rock Bottom
It may be out of print, but Amazon has it new for prices as low as $5:
www.amazon.com/Rock-Bottom-Live-Line/dp/B00004TJ95/ref=pd_bbs_6/103-0241793-5547048?ie=UTF8&s=m
usic&qid=1186506700&sr=8-6
tinyurl.com/38pkwe
Jerry
[Amazon lists it as not out of print, so it may indeed not be. Their
listing says usually ships within 1 to 3 weeks for a new copy directly
from Amazon for $11.98, while there are marketplace merchants listing it
"new" and "used" from $4.95 to $22.72 (+ $2.98 shipping).-Neil]
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 19:19:20 -1000
From: Jim Smart <jimsmart1@mac.com>
Subject: Two For the Road
I'd like to second the wise-as-usual words of my friend Geoff Lewis
about Rob and Lloyd's movie. I haven't seen the whole thing, but the
bits I've watched are excellent. I share a California perspective
with them, and I can get as misty-eyed about being up front for the
Kinks at 1982's "Us Festival" as FranK does about that Central Park
show from a decade earlier.
What a band, to cross the decades with so much dash and vigor.
If more people in the world made pilgrimage's like Rob and Lloyd's,
rather than the religious kind, this world would be a better place.
Art and creativity and positive energy's parade of history is worth
the attention.
And I should know, I'm an art lover, dammit!
Jim
> I was lucky enough to receive an advance copy of this DVD, as Rob
> and Lloyd had used the Big Black Smoke site
> (http://homepage.mac.com/jimsmart1/BigBlackSmoke/) to aid their
> research into Kinks locations.
>
> What an excellent piece of work - very professionally made, by two
> genuine fans, and a lot of fun.
>
> Not only does it include visits to the major London Kinks
> locations, it also
> tells the story of Rob and Lloyd becoming such huge fans, and shows their
> own very amusing early videos "performing" Kinks tracks. In
> addition there
> is a very nice Hollywood Boulevard video for Celluloid Heroes.
>
> I recommend it wholeheartedly - www.rosierooke.com
>
> - Geoff
aloha,
Jim
www.familysmart.blogspot.com/
myspace.com/jimsmartsongs
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 13:09:52 EDT
From: SSwanwick@aol.com
Subject: Fractured Mindz
Fractured Mindz, 2nd edition, newly released, is a really enjoyable Dave
Davies CD with several songs that could easily have been on a Kinks release.
There is a good review of at:
www.vaildaily.com/article/20070806/AE/108060070
Unfortunately, finding Fractured Mindz in the shops is not easy. I eventually
found a copy at Best Buy. The CD is not even listed on the Koch records web
site.
Simon
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:18:12 -0400
From: David Jenkins
Subject: Misc
Dear fellow digest readers,
I thought I'd offer up a few comments on today's posts...
The Coney Island High show was pretty cool and the thing with lights was
certainly timely.. I remember they had the lighting board up above us and
the lady doing sound had to scoot up and down the ladder a few times.
There was also a serious street fight outside the entrance (no fans were
hurt, just local street punks).
Nick Lowe's new record is cool and he is on a US tour for the first time
in years and please go and see him. Some dates are with Ron Sexsmith who
is also well worth catching.
The Cowsills are amazing to see today and they are doing dates at various
venues throughout the year. The Crescenta Valley connection is because of
where one of the brothers was living and his kid(s) went to CVS. Bob
Cowsill plays a regular gig at the Fox and Hounds in Studio City doing
covers and Jim LaSpesa sits in on drums now and then.
There are 3 Kinks songs featured heavily in the new Wes Anderson film "The
Darjeeling Limited" and Wes Anderson also used our boys in "Rushmore" to
great effect as you may recall.
See you all later!
david jenkins
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 13:01:21 +0000
From: chrisbotelho@comcast.net
Subject: observations
Good morning everyone. I have a couple of observations to make while
waiting for my final day of vacation to fade away...
I've been a Kinks fan - the biggest, most annoying Kinks fan I've ever
known (sorry Frank, don't know 'ya, never met 'ya, didn't know you existed
until stumbling across this digest) since 1964. I take a back seat to no
one when it comes to my love of the band, all incarnations, and their
music....BUT....Ray is wrong on so many levels for not making an
appearance for this trial. A horrible, terrible, lazy and stupid decision
on his part. Short of not knowing about it, he has no excuse (I don't buy
the "he wasn't notified in time" theory). And you folks making excuses for
him are shameless rumpswabs for doing so.
One of my favorite late era Kinks songs is "Still Searching." It's a great
tune and I like everything about it. But on the whole "Phobia" does suck
very much. Sorry, but it's too cluttered up with crap. And many of the
arrangements are wandering disasters or, as is mostly the case, the songs
simply aren't up to Kinks standards.
One of the hard things about growing older was acknowledging the fact that
my musical heroes of years past are, culturally speaking, irrelevant
now.It took a while getting accustomed to a world where the Kinks don't
matter. Though I will give Dave and Ray credit for trying, outside of a
dedicated few this is sadly the case. Why is it that of all the "arts"
music seems to suffer from this age discrimination more than any other
discipline? Also, it would have been nice to see a Kinks reunion but I am
of a mind that it will never take place. For whatever their reasons it
just isn't going to happen. Even as old geezers it would have been cool to
see them together again but I'm afraid we'll never see the day. "All
things must pass." So, hold onto your memories, play their stuff all you
can.
GSTK
Chris Botelho
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 11:23:43 -0700
From: "Bud Stafford" <bstaff56@comcast.net>
Subject: My Phobia Two Cents
I've held off, but I'd like to now throw in my two cents worth on the Phobia
thread.
I remember being very excited to see Phobia in the stores when it came out.
As with previous Kinks' releases over the years, I hurriedly struggled to
open the CD factory shrink wrap, and later that night when I finally did so,
I put it in and listened to it repeatedly. That's how I used to, and still
do, listen to new albums - one listen isn't enough to get to know it.
Perhaps not coincidentally, this was the first Kinks release that I bought
first in the CD format. I went kicking and screaming away from vinyl and
all previous Kinks releases I had bought in beautiful black vinyl. Upon
repeated listenings, I had the same sense that I got from other CD's that I
was then buying - that artists had added more filler, just because they
could. CD's hold so much more music than a single disc vinyl record did,
and it seemed that artists felt obliged to fill up that space.
I do like Phobia. But while I thought there were shoulda-been Kinks
classics like Scattered (in my mind, a timeless song that should be a widely
acknowledged classic), Still Searching, Only A Dream and Hatred, I also
thought there was, for the Kinks, an inordinate amount of filler, such as
Somebody Stole My Car, that would have ended up on the editing room floor if
the album were being produced for vinyl only.
Video killed the radio star, and I think to a large degree, CD killed the
album. Sure, there have been some very good albums in the CD era, but for
the most part albums these days contain about a vinyl's worth of memorable
tracks (good albums, anyway) and the rest is forgettable. I would rather
see artists practice a little restraint - don't feel obligated to fill every
bit of a CD with sound - give me what you truly think are the best tracks,
and save the leftovers for the inevitable rarities compilations, bonus track
reissues or box set retrospectives.
My two cents worth.
Bud
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 13:34:24 EDT
From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com
Subject: from UNCUT mag (again)
The second DVD Chris was working on featured live footage from the 1972
Bickershaw Festival, which in rain-lashed circumstances hosted The Grateful
Dead, Captain Beefheart, Donovan, The Kinks, The Incredible String Band and New
Riders Of The Purple Sage.
It was talking to Chris that reminded me of the brilliant Bickershaw pictures
by Robert Ellis that appear in the Snapshot section of the new Uncut, with
eye-witness commentary from journalist Mick Middles, who attended the festival
as a wide-eyed 15 year old.
Last week in this space, I asked for anyone else who survived that muddy
weekend to share their memories with us and so far weave had some memorable
recollections.
Thanks especially to Andrew Beck, who as a student at Kent University, made an
epic trip to Lancashire with two friends, hitching through appalling conditions
to the festival, and also to Eric Wright, who amusingly recalls growing a beard
at the festival that he still hasnat shaved off.
Steven Taylor, meanwhile, wanted to thank us for reminding him that head been
at Bickershaw. He remembers dropping acid and smoking dope laced with an opiate
and had spent the last 35 years trying to remember at what festival head spent
the weekend of May 5-7, 1972.
You'll be able to read about these adventures and more in a forthcoming
Uncut in the meantime, if you were there, please let us know.
Send your memories to me at:
allan_jones@ipcmedia.com
Wead love to see any pictures you might have, too.
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 12:02:50 -0700 (PDT)
From: benbolton@verizon.net
Subject: ...heard at night club
To Yoshi and fellow Kinksters,
Let's not forget that The Romantics did a very nice cover of She's Got
Everything on their debut album.
Ben
A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity. -Dr. Samuel Johnson
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 14:14:52 EDT
From: Krankiekat@aol.com
Subject: Stop the Music well ain't Ray Human?
I mentioned in an earlier post that Ray told me face to face at our hotel
in Scotland the first week in May why he wasn't going back to New Orleans
in June for the court hearing. It was primarily becausee that he was so
eager and excited about wanting to finish up the final mixing and
engineering session of his new album and already had the time booked and
set at Konk for the entire month of June with his band, and
producer/enginneer the other Ray from Nashville TN. ( his last name
escapes me right now ) and he looked me straight in the eye with a gleam
and smile and said that was much more important to him than going back to
New Orleans. Agree with him or not, and I for one for sure would want
nothing more than the guy who shot Ray put in prison when I saw how
important the music was to Ray and how upsetting it was to him to even
think about giving that up or postponing it to go back to New Orleans even
I have to say he did the right thing for him. Maybe not for you or me, or
for justice system but for him and what is in his heart...and the glimmer
in his eyes and the smile on face told me he did the right thing for Ray
Davies the man and the man with a mission to boot and sometimes you just
gotta do what you gotta do for yourself no matter how it looks to others.
And who was it who said " No sacrafice is to great for art"
You long
time fans will surely remember!
and the Fact of it is, Ray is Human.
and You can't stop the Music.
FranK
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 16:53:55 -0400
From: ROBERT NAPLES <rfnaples@hotmail.com>
Subject: the robbery
Eddie J. Jordan, Jr.District Attorney of New Orleans ~ State of Louisiana
Gaynell WilliamsExecutive First Assistant District Attorney619 South White
StreetNEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA 70119(504)822-2414
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 27, 2007
Witnesses Refuse to Tesify in Armed Robbery and Aggravated Battery Case
New Orleans, LA Jerome Barra was charged with armed robbery and
aggravated battery. In late May 2007, the case was set for trial on July
26, 2007 to accommodate Mr. Davies' schedule.
There were two civilian witnesses to the crime. One witness signed an
affidavit stating she would not testify. The remaining witness, Mr.
Davies, through a representative, stated as late as July 20, 2007 that he
would travel to New Orleans and testify. Further, Mr. Davies indicated
that he would make transportation arrangements and expected to be
reimbursed.
Subsequently, on July 25, 2007 Mr. Davies indicated that he did not
believe his testimony against Mr. Barra was necessary because he was the
driver of the getaway vehicle. Also, he stated he would not travel to New
Orleans for the trial. The shooter was never apprehended.
Without the cooperation of either witness the State was forced to dismiss
the case.
Gaynell WilliamsFirst Assistant District Attorney of New Orleans
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Kinks mailing list Digest, Number 2927
Tuesday, 7 August 2007
Topics:
News and Rumors [Neil Ottenstein <neil@kinks.it.rit.edu>]
Dave Davies - Rock Bottom [JerzykB@aol.com]
Two For the Road [Jim Smart <jimsmart1@mac.com>]
Fractured Mindz [SSwanwick@aol.com]
Misc [David Jenkins]
observations [chrisbotelho@comcast.net]
My Phobia Two Cents ["Bud Stafford" <bstaff56@comcast.net>]
from UNCUT mag (again) [HwyCDRrev@aol.com]
...heard at night club [benbolton@verizon.net]
Stop the Music well ain't Ray Human? [Krankiekat@aol.com]
the robbery [ROBERT NAPLES <rfnaples@hotmail.com>]
Administrivia:
To post messages and for all administrative issues, such as change of address,
withdrawal from the list, etc., send a message to the following address:
neil@kinks.it.rit.edu
The views expressed herein are those of the individual authors.
Kinks is compiled with Digest 3.
(John Relph <relph@tmbg.org>).----------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 09:27:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: Neil Ottenstein <neil@kinks.it.rit.edu>
Subject: News and Rumors
There are quite a few items on the News and Rumors page at
kinks.it.rit.edu/news-rumors.php
that I don't think have been mentioned here
Songwriter Jim Bruno wrote a song called "Ray Took a Slug in the Leg",
which is on his latest album. You can listen to it on his web site, (click
on the Songs tab). www.jimbrunomusic.com/
In part 3 of a BBC Radio 2 documentary on Noel Coward, they played "Sunny
Afternoon" and talked about Ray's songwriting. You can listen to it online
for the next week.
www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/musicclub/doc_noelcoward.shtml
A new book by Dan LeRoy called The Greatest Music Never Sold has a chapter
on Ray Davies' score from 80 Days. Dan interviewed director Des McAnuff,
playwright Snoo Wilson and arranger Robby Merkin.
www.amazon.com/Greatest-Music-Never-Sold-Legendary/dp/0879309059
Roxy Music's Andy Mackay has recorded a cover of "Waterloo Sunset" for an
upcoming solo project.
www.vivaroxymusic.com/news_20070719a.shtml
According to this article on JoshSpear.com, the men's fashion label Saint
Augustine Academy is launching a new line of clothing called "Norman and
the Starmaker".
www.joshspear.com/item/speartalk-saint-augustine-academy/
He explains the title of the clothing line in the article
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 13:14:58 EDT
From: JerzykB@aol.com
Subject: Dave Davies - Rock Bottom
It may be out of print, but Amazon has it new for prices as low as $5:
www.amazon.com/Rock-Bottom-Live-Line/dp/B00004TJ95/ref=pd_bbs_6/103-0241793-5547048?ie=UTF8&s=m
usic&qid=1186506700&sr=8-6
tinyurl.com/38pkwe
Jerry
[Amazon lists it as not out of print, so it may indeed not be. Their
listing says usually ships within 1 to 3 weeks for a new copy directly
from Amazon for $11.98, while there are marketplace merchants listing it
"new" and "used" from $4.95 to $22.72 (+ $2.98 shipping).-Neil]
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 19:19:20 -1000
From: Jim Smart <jimsmart1@mac.com>
Subject: Two For the Road
I'd like to second the wise-as-usual words of my friend Geoff Lewis
about Rob and Lloyd's movie. I haven't seen the whole thing, but the
bits I've watched are excellent. I share a California perspective
with them, and I can get as misty-eyed about being up front for the
Kinks at 1982's "Us Festival" as FranK does about that Central Park
show from a decade earlier.
What a band, to cross the decades with so much dash and vigor.
If more people in the world made pilgrimage's like Rob and Lloyd's,
rather than the religious kind, this world would be a better place.
Art and creativity and positive energy's parade of history is worth
the attention.
And I should know, I'm an art lover, dammit!
Jim
> I was lucky enough to receive an advance copy of this DVD, as Rob
> and Lloyd had used the Big Black Smoke site
> (http://homepage.mac.com/jimsmart1/BigBlackSmoke/) to aid their
> research into Kinks locations.
>
> What an excellent piece of work - very professionally made, by two
> genuine fans, and a lot of fun.
>
> Not only does it include visits to the major London Kinks
> locations, it also
> tells the story of Rob and Lloyd becoming such huge fans, and shows their
> own very amusing early videos "performing" Kinks tracks. In
> addition there
> is a very nice Hollywood Boulevard video for Celluloid Heroes.
>
> I recommend it wholeheartedly - www.rosierooke.com
>
> - Geoff
aloha,
Jim
www.familysmart.blogspot.com/
myspace.com/jimsmartsongs
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 13:09:52 EDT
From: SSwanwick@aol.com
Subject: Fractured Mindz
Fractured Mindz, 2nd edition, newly released, is a really enjoyable Dave
Davies CD with several songs that could easily have been on a Kinks release.
There is a good review of at:
www.vaildaily.com/article/20070806/AE/108060070
Unfortunately, finding Fractured Mindz in the shops is not easy. I eventually
found a copy at Best Buy. The CD is not even listed on the Koch records web
site.
Simon
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:18:12 -0400
From: David Jenkins
Subject: Misc
Dear fellow digest readers,
I thought I'd offer up a few comments on today's posts...
The Coney Island High show was pretty cool and the thing with lights was
certainly timely.. I remember they had the lighting board up above us and
the lady doing sound had to scoot up and down the ladder a few times.
There was also a serious street fight outside the entrance (no fans were
hurt, just local street punks).
Nick Lowe's new record is cool and he is on a US tour for the first time
in years and please go and see him. Some dates are with Ron Sexsmith who
is also well worth catching.
The Cowsills are amazing to see today and they are doing dates at various
venues throughout the year. The Crescenta Valley connection is because of
where one of the brothers was living and his kid(s) went to CVS. Bob
Cowsill plays a regular gig at the Fox and Hounds in Studio City doing
covers and Jim LaSpesa sits in on drums now and then.
There are 3 Kinks songs featured heavily in the new Wes Anderson film "The
Darjeeling Limited" and Wes Anderson also used our boys in "Rushmore" to
great effect as you may recall.
See you all later!
david jenkins
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 13:01:21 +0000
From: chrisbotelho@comcast.net
Subject: observations
Good morning everyone. I have a couple of observations to make while
waiting for my final day of vacation to fade away...
I've been a Kinks fan - the biggest, most annoying Kinks fan I've ever
known (sorry Frank, don't know 'ya, never met 'ya, didn't know you existed
until stumbling across this digest) since 1964. I take a back seat to no
one when it comes to my love of the band, all incarnations, and their
music....BUT....Ray is wrong on so many levels for not making an
appearance for this trial. A horrible, terrible, lazy and stupid decision
on his part. Short of not knowing about it, he has no excuse (I don't buy
the "he wasn't notified in time" theory). And you folks making excuses for
him are shameless rumpswabs for doing so.
One of my favorite late era Kinks songs is "Still Searching." It's a great
tune and I like everything about it. But on the whole "Phobia" does suck
very much. Sorry, but it's too cluttered up with crap. And many of the
arrangements are wandering disasters or, as is mostly the case, the songs
simply aren't up to Kinks standards.
One of the hard things about growing older was acknowledging the fact that
my musical heroes of years past are, culturally speaking, irrelevant
now.It took a while getting accustomed to a world where the Kinks don't
matter. Though I will give Dave and Ray credit for trying, outside of a
dedicated few this is sadly the case. Why is it that of all the "arts"
music seems to suffer from this age discrimination more than any other
discipline? Also, it would have been nice to see a Kinks reunion but I am
of a mind that it will never take place. For whatever their reasons it
just isn't going to happen. Even as old geezers it would have been cool to
see them together again but I'm afraid we'll never see the day. "All
things must pass." So, hold onto your memories, play their stuff all you
can.
GSTK
Chris Botelho
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 11:23:43 -0700
From: "Bud Stafford" <bstaff56@comcast.net>
Subject: My Phobia Two Cents
I've held off, but I'd like to now throw in my two cents worth on the Phobia
thread.
I remember being very excited to see Phobia in the stores when it came out.
As with previous Kinks' releases over the years, I hurriedly struggled to
open the CD factory shrink wrap, and later that night when I finally did so,
I put it in and listened to it repeatedly. That's how I used to, and still
do, listen to new albums - one listen isn't enough to get to know it.
Perhaps not coincidentally, this was the first Kinks release that I bought
first in the CD format. I went kicking and screaming away from vinyl and
all previous Kinks releases I had bought in beautiful black vinyl. Upon
repeated listenings, I had the same sense that I got from other CD's that I
was then buying - that artists had added more filler, just because they
could. CD's hold so much more music than a single disc vinyl record did,
and it seemed that artists felt obliged to fill up that space.
I do like Phobia. But while I thought there were shoulda-been Kinks
classics like Scattered (in my mind, a timeless song that should be a widely
acknowledged classic), Still Searching, Only A Dream and Hatred, I also
thought there was, for the Kinks, an inordinate amount of filler, such as
Somebody Stole My Car, that would have ended up on the editing room floor if
the album were being produced for vinyl only.
Video killed the radio star, and I think to a large degree, CD killed the
album. Sure, there have been some very good albums in the CD era, but for
the most part albums these days contain about a vinyl's worth of memorable
tracks (good albums, anyway) and the rest is forgettable. I would rather
see artists practice a little restraint - don't feel obligated to fill every
bit of a CD with sound - give me what you truly think are the best tracks,
and save the leftovers for the inevitable rarities compilations, bonus track
reissues or box set retrospectives.
My two cents worth.
Bud
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 13:34:24 EDT
From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com
Subject: from UNCUT mag (again)
The second DVD Chris was working on featured live footage from the 1972
Bickershaw Festival, which in rain-lashed circumstances hosted The Grateful
Dead, Captain Beefheart, Donovan, The Kinks, The Incredible String Band and New
Riders Of The Purple Sage.
It was talking to Chris that reminded me of the brilliant Bickershaw pictures
by Robert Ellis that appear in the Snapshot section of the new Uncut, with
eye-witness commentary from journalist Mick Middles, who attended the festival
as a wide-eyed 15 year old.
Last week in this space, I asked for anyone else who survived that muddy
weekend to share their memories with us and so far weave had some memorable
recollections.
Thanks especially to Andrew Beck, who as a student at Kent University, made an
epic trip to Lancashire with two friends, hitching through appalling conditions
to the festival, and also to Eric Wright, who amusingly recalls growing a beard
at the festival that he still hasnat shaved off.
Steven Taylor, meanwhile, wanted to thank us for reminding him that head been
at Bickershaw. He remembers dropping acid and smoking dope laced with an opiate
and had spent the last 35 years trying to remember at what festival head spent
the weekend of May 5-7, 1972.
You'll be able to read about these adventures and more in a forthcoming
Uncut in the meantime, if you were there, please let us know.
Send your memories to me at:
allan_jones@ipcmedia.com
Wead love to see any pictures you might have, too.
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Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 12:02:50 -0700 (PDT)
From: benbolton@verizon.net
Subject: ...heard at night club
To Yoshi and fellow Kinksters,
Let's not forget that The Romantics did a very nice cover of She's Got
Everything on their debut album.
Ben
A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity. -Dr. Samuel Johnson
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Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 14:14:52 EDT
From: Krankiekat@aol.com
Subject: Stop the Music well ain't Ray Human?
I mentioned in an earlier post that Ray told me face to face at our hotel
in Scotland the first week in May why he wasn't going back to New Orleans
in June for the court hearing. It was primarily becausee that he was so
eager and excited about wanting to finish up the final mixing and
engineering session of his new album and already had the time booked and
set at Konk for the entire month of June with his band, and
producer/enginneer the other Ray from Nashville TN. ( his last name
escapes me right now ) and he looked me straight in the eye with a gleam
and smile and said that was much more important to him than going back to
New Orleans. Agree with him or not, and I for one for sure would want
nothing more than the guy who shot Ray put in prison when I saw how
important the music was to Ray and how upsetting it was to him to even
think about giving that up or postponing it to go back to New Orleans even
I have to say he did the right thing for him. Maybe not for you or me, or
for justice system but for him and what is in his heart...and the glimmer
in his eyes and the smile on face told me he did the right thing for Ray
Davies the man and the man with a mission to boot and sometimes you just
gotta do what you gotta do for yourself no matter how it looks to others.
And who was it who said " No sacrafice is to great for art"
You longtime fans will surely remember!
and the Fact of it is, Ray is Human.
and You can't stop the Music.
FranK
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Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 16:53:55 -0400
From: ROBERT NAPLES <rfnaples@hotmail.com>
Subject: the robbery
Eddie J. Jordan, Jr.District Attorney of New Orleans ~ State of Louisiana
Gaynell WilliamsExecutive First Assistant District Attorney619 South White
StreetNEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA 70119(504)822-2414
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 27, 2007
Witnesses Refuse to Tesify in Armed Robbery and Aggravated Battery Case
New Orleans, LA Jerome Barra was charged with armed robbery and
aggravated battery. In late May 2007, the case was set for trial on July
26, 2007 to accommodate Mr. Davies' schedule.
There were two civilian witnesses to the crime. One witness signed an
affidavit stating she would not testify. The remaining witness, Mr.
Davies, through a representative, stated as late as July 20, 2007 that he
would travel to New Orleans and testify. Further, Mr. Davies indicated
that he would make transportation arrangements and expected to be
reimbursed.
Subsequently, on July 25, 2007 Mr. Davies indicated that he did not
believe his testimony against Mr. Barra was necessary because he was the
driver of the getaway vehicle. Also, he stated he would not travel to New
Orleans for the trial. The shooter was never apprehended.
Without the cooperation of either witness the State was forced to dismiss
the case.
Gaynell WilliamsFirst Assistant District Attorney of New Orleans
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