At Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 01:03:27 Stewart wrote:

>At 08:49 PM 8/3/2004 -0700, Barry S. wrote:
> >Gee Jaimie, you have such great things to say . . . usually.  These
> >however make no sense to me at all.
> >
> >> 1) It was Pink Floyd's "Dark Side Of The Moon" that was sent up in the
> >> Voyager explorer to the other side of the galaxy....NOT the Beatles.
> >It's
> >> all about frame of reference.
> >
> >So, a couple of dude at NASA liked the irony of that selection, or maybe
> >they actually liked the record.  That says zero about history.
>
>Historical Accuracy Dept: It's "Johnny B. Goode" that was on the Voyager,
>along with bits of Mozart's "The Magic Flute," a bunch of native folk
>musics, natural sounds and, most interestingly for me, Blind Willie
>Johnson's "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground."  No Beatles, no Floyd.

Mia faux pas. But I did correct myself on the Chuck Berry entry.

> >I am no more a seer than you are, so you could be right.  Richard and
> >Howe were hardly cultural touchstones (at least in the US), so Gretzky's
> >catapulting over them in hockey's recordbooks is not a good analogy.
>
>I still consider Tim Horton to be hockey's premier cultural touchstone.
>Screw the Leafs, gimme an apple fritter and a large coffee to go.

What, no Stan Mikita's?!? :-)


Jaimie Vernon,
President, Bullseye Records
http://www.bullseyecanada.com
Author, Canadian Pop Music Encyclopedia
http://www.canoe.ca/JamMusicPopEncycloPages