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| From | "mtn-high" <mtn-high@comcast.net> |
| Subject | Re: New Car Crash-Rundgren and Powell |
| Date | Mon, 10 Apr 2006 06:42:54 -0600 |
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"Doug is really looking for a payday with the pop stuff and I never ever
would do that or even consider it"....
He opined a similar "excuse" on the rear cover of DP's "Ballad of the Tin
Man" promo disc.
Yeah Todd...we know...you can do it in yer sleep...
Too bad about the 30+ years of insomnia you've had to endure.....ya poor
guy.
----- Original Message -----
From: <TwangBoy@aol.com>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 3:52 PM
Subject: Re: New Car Crash-Rundgren and Powell
> In a message dated 4/9/2006 2:57:24 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Jason Damas
> <jason.damas@gmail.com> writes:
>
> That's, I guess, what bothers me the most--some have said things along the
> lines of "well, if the music's good, who cares?" But the thing is... it
> isn't. It's embarassingly terrible.
>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
> here's a semi-on topic thing I was thinking of....kinda convoluted, so
> stay with me!
>
> around 1998 or 99, i was working in Boston, in the design dept of a big
> investemt company, in a really cool 2 tower building, right sorta next to
> the Boston waterfront....it had a huge areaa between the towers that had
> fountains, and places to eat and sit and watch people, and just
> relax......
>
> anyway, a local AOR radio station had started to run lunchtime shows
> there, oddly enough...saw Graham Parker, Pushkings (remember them? )there
> and some others too...seemed kinda weird, but hey, it was fun!
>
> anyway, word was the Todd was going to do a little acoustic/electric,
> no-band show there, and, besides the fact that few of the people I worked
> with even knew who he was, i figured this could be fun......I was working
> with Bruce at Not Lame on a ton of stuff, I was doing something or other
> for Doug Powell, and had been talking with him, and mentioned I was going
> to see him and wanted to meet hime and say hi.....since Doug had been
> working with Todd I figured I'd name drop him, as probably few would've
> known anyway!!
>
> Doug told me I should watch it, as Todd can be notoriosuly hair-trigger
> sometimes, so I rose to the challenge!
>
> He did a decent, if predictible show, considering the semi-yuppie environs
> he was playing to, so I waited afterwards to have him sign something and
> drop the Doug comment....well, I did, and while Todd was initiallly 'hey;
> cool, Dougs a cool guy', he then flipped into a "Doug is really looking
> for a payday with the pop stuff and I never ever would do that or even
> consider it"....so, after saying, oh, ok, thanks Todd and moving along, I
> remember thinking, man, he does stick by his sort of principles....
>
> hmmmmmm
>
> jim h.
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