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>Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 15:17:06 -0800
>From: beeman <beeman@istar.ca>
>To: audities@smoe.org
>Subject: Grapes of Wrath demos
>Message-ID: <3E765772.7050001@istar.ca>
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>The funny things you can find at the Salvation Army thrift store. Today
>I picked up a cdr titled THE GRAPES OF WRATH demos '98 (running time
>50:43). There are 13 songs and the first 10 are all from Field Trip. The
>last three, as far as I know (Ralph? Jaimie?) weren't released under the
>GOW moniker. They are: "try too hard" (medium glum) [looks like this is
>on Tom Hooper's Bullseye release] "twin freaks" (a real rawk out) and
>"no postcards" (a canadiana road vacation).
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>Anyhoo, as far as demos these songs are not bare bones at all, in fact
>as I haven't listened to Field Trip in ages these songs may be what
>landed on the cd. If anyone wants to trade a copy of this for something
>equally neat you have let me know.
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>regards, Judith
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>beeman@istar.ca
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Hey Judith!!

wacky! I will forward your posting to Kevin & Tom and see if i get an 
answer back.
Sounds like a CDR they probably sent out when they were trying to get 
a deal and
maybe some local industry honcho cleared out his box of cds/demos to 
the Sally Ann.

The label they did eventually sign to, Song Corp, went bankrupt and 
assets are now
owned by Unidisc, Montreal, which has been very quickly re-issuing stuff. All
the Song Corp publishing is now owned by Peermusic canada. Song Corp was built
on its purchase of Attic records, for whom I worked for 7 years back 
in the 80s, so I
was a little sad to see it all go poof! into thin air....

Upon Song Corps' collapse, the Grapes of Wrath dissolved again and 
Tom & Kevin went solo.
Chris Hooper, Tom's brother, was not part of Grapes Mk 2 and neither 
was Vince Jones, ex-keyboards.

Chris, of course, was drumming behind Dave Rave at IPO NYC for those 
of you there. I was the guy
in the stripped sweater go-go dancing next to Dave and Jaimie on the 
encore.... Chris is mostly
a director/film-maker these days and I work with him quite a bit.... 
he keeps his drum chops up with
local surf band The Metalunas.

Ralph