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| From | "Scott Shaw" <brynneandscott@cox.net> |
| Subject | Re: Jim Ellison's song on the IPO cd set |
| Date | Sat, 30 Jul 2005 02:29:35 -0400 |
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David,
Thanks for the quick response. I figured you'd be busy with IPO. A friend of
mine will be in LA and hopes to see some shows. I just talked him into
finally joining this list last week. Aaron AKA Pudman.
Scott S
> Here are some answers to Scott's questions, courtesy of Seth Swirsky.
> Feel free to forward this to the Material Issue list.
>
>>Just what is going on with this track?
>>Did Seth Swirsky and Scott Cutler know Jim?
>
> i was set up with jim in the spring of 1991 by jim's manager, jeff
> kwatinetz. i was also wriiting with scott cutler at the time. i suggested
> we 3 get together, and at scott's house in laurel canyon, we wrote this
> simple song.
>
>> And when did Rusty Anderson come into the picture?
>
> scott got a basic demo going and told me he was going to have his friend
> rusty anderson come over and play electric guitar on it. i remember rusty
> really brought a certain aggression to his playing--very cool. i've run
> into him a number of times over the years -- he remembers the session with
> jim.
>
>> Was this a Jim demo track that was beefed up by these guys ala the 2 Pete
>> Ham solo discs released on Ryko in which oversdubs were added to existing
>> demo tracks to "flesh out" the sound?
>
> no. it was a song that jim, scott and myself wrote, for a jim solo record.
> but, i'm not exactly sure about that. i don't think it was for Material
> Issue. i solely wrote for other artists at that time -- i think this was
> for a jim solo disc.
>
>> Also what is the "designee" word referring to?
>> Is it referring to Jim or Seth Swirsky?
>
> Though EMI did some research, they didn't know Jim's publishing
> information, thus the "designee". I'm published by EMI Music.
> --
> Pop Rules!!!!!
> Take Care,
> David
>
>
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