From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V4 #97 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Monday, March 29 1999 Volume 04 : Number 097 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Alloy: My list ! [TBlagg@aol.com] Re: Alloy: The guys down at the pub. [Chris Cracknell ] Alloy: Sometimes being a musician can be a drag [Chris Cracknell > Thanks for letting us be nosey Rob, This is a pretty conclusive list, almost a discography if I may say so. The items that interest me most are your 3 tapes of concert recordings. How did you get hold of these....dare I ask? The other one that intrigues me is the vinyl copy of that BBC concert from 84 I presume. I think I have a copy of this on tape, but I'm not fully sure. I met a Dolby fan at a record fair some years ago who copied a copy of a copy for me. Nice chap he was too!!! I've always wanted to buy this rarity. I found it once in a mail order advert. The only problem was that it cost £70.00 (Over 100 dollars). I'd be interested to hear how much you paid for this Rob? My next project coincidentally enough is to attempt to master this awfully recorded copy to CD. Regards Trev.. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 23:39:46 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Cracknell Subject: Re: Alloy: The guys down at the pub. In article <365902a4.36fd5fd8@aol.com>, you wrote: >In a message dated 3/25/99 10:06:14 PM Eastern Standard Time, crackers writes: > ><< I'll leave the pic up for about a week. If anyone wants to archive it > somewhere be my guest. > > > http://www.hwcn.org/~ad329/pub1.jpg >> > >I really want to have this on my Alloy FAQ, if everyone in the photo approve. >May I? ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~ A-okay by me. CRACKERS (Royally FAQed from hell!!!!!) - -- Collector of Atari 2600 carts - Accordionist - Bira Bira Devotee - Anime fan * http://www.hwcn.org/~ad329/crab.html | Crackers' Arts Base * * http://www.angelfire.com/ma/hozervideo/index.html | Hozer Video Games * Nihongo ga dekimasu - 2600 programmer - Father of 2 great kids - Canadian eh ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 23:39:50 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Cracknell Subject: Alloy: Sometimes being a musician can be a drag Well I had two big shows last night with "I Love My Shih'Tzu". The first show was a benefit for "Hamilton Artist's Inc." It was their annual "Class & Trash" show where the dress code is as the name. For my touch of class I wore my tuxedo jacket with a mandarin collared shirt. For my touch of trash I wore a feather boa, short black mini-skirt trimmed with saftey-pins, and black nylons. I guess I kind of looked like James Bond at a "Pride Day" parade. I got the skirt at the goodwill, it was the only one the looked like it would fit me. Unfortunately it was a below the knees skirt so I had to hem it myself. Naturally I hemmed my skirt the way a man would hem his skirt... I used a glue gun. Of course being new to skirt hemming I made a slight miscalculation. I wanted it to be short so I made measurements and cut and hemmed. What I failed to realize is that the skirt doen't hang as low when you wear it as it is lying flat. So I had unintentionally made myself more trashy than I intended. My second lesson of the night came at the gig when I was carrying a speaker cabinet over my head up a steep flight of stairs. When you life both arms above your head while wearing a short skirt, the skirt comes up too. A couple of girls going up the stairs behind me couldn't help but comment on this fact. My third lesson of the night was: Pantyhose are uncomfortable. Wearing them is an odd sensation, you sweat, yet your legs are cold. And if you're wearing shoes your feet sweat like crazy! I was definetly the belle of the ball at this show, everyone with a camera wanted a picture of me and some of the women really liked my skirt (trimmed with paperclips and safety pins). Video cameras were everywhere to catch our performance and now I know if Shih'Tzu ever does become big every documentary on our pre-fame days will feature some amature video footage of me in a skirt. Our second show of the night was at a bar called "The Corktown". Naturally I got changed before this show since I wanted to come back home tonight with all my teeth (the Corktown is no place for a guy in a skirt). Were are second gig at LaLuna or some bar in Hess Village I might have stayed in my costume for a laugh but not at the Corktown (where a musician was stabbed to death between sets a few years ago by a customer who was less than appreciative of his performance). But they love Shih'Tzu at the Corktown and that show went off without a hitch (except that we had no monitors and I couldn't hear my own accordion). I'm going to make a modification to my amp before our next show so I can throw a switch to allow the main speaker to sound even with something plugged in the headphone jack. Then I'll just use a wee earpiece to monitor myself. (the sound at the "Class & Trash" was really good). So I guess now Thomas isn't the only musician here to have done a show in drag (or at least half drag). I will, no doubt, be receiving photos of my costume in my E-mail any day now (and if not Beena took some pics of me before I left the house). So I'll post them on my webpage for your amusement. So Thomas, if I share my pictures of me performing in drag with you will you send me your pictures of you playing in drag with the Lost Toy People? ;) CRACKERS (Just a sweet transvestite from hell!!!!!!) - -- Collector of Atari 2600 carts - Accordionist - Bira Bira Devotee - Anime fan * http://www.hwcn.org/~ad329/crab.html | Crackers' Arts Base * * http://www.angelfire.com/ma/hozervideo/index.html | Hozer Video Games * Nihongo ga dekimasu - 2600 programmer - Father of 2 great kids - Canadian eh ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 22:11:37 -0700 From: "Keith Stansell" Subject: Re: Alloy: Sometimes being a musician can be a drag Crackers, I've heard you mention Thomas in drag, but I don't know the history there. Could you enlighten us on the history of this. - -Keith (not in drag) Stansell Denver - ----- Original Message ----- From: Chris Cracknell To: Sent: Sunday, March 28, 1999 9:39 PM Subject: Alloy: Sometimes being a musician can be a drag > > > Well I had two big shows last night with "I Love My Shih'Tzu". The first > show was a benefit for "Hamilton Artist's Inc." It was their annual > "Class & Trash" show where the dress code is as the name. > > For my touch of class I wore my tuxedo jacket with a mandarin collared > shirt. For my touch of trash I wore a feather boa, short black mini-skirt > trimmed with saftey-pins, and black nylons. I guess I kind of looked like > James Bond at a "Pride Day" parade. I got the skirt at the goodwill, it was > the only one the looked like it would fit me. Unfortunately it was a below > the knees skirt so I had to hem it myself. Naturally I hemmed my skirt the > way a man would hem his skirt... I used a glue gun. Of course being new to > skirt hemming I made a slight miscalculation. I wanted it to be short so I > made measurements and cut and hemmed. What I failed to realize is that the > skirt doen't hang as low when you wear it as it is lying flat. So I had > unintentionally made myself more trashy than I intended. My second lesson > of the night came at the gig when I was carrying a speaker cabinet over > my head up a steep flight of stairs. When you life both arms above your > head while wearing a short skirt, the skirt comes up too. A couple of > girls going up the stairs behind me couldn't help but comment on this > fact. My third lesson of the night was: Pantyhose are uncomfortable. > Wearing them is an odd sensation, you sweat, yet your legs are cold. > And if you're wearing shoes your feet sweat like crazy! > > I was definetly the belle of the ball at this show, everyone with a camera > wanted a picture of me and some of the women really liked my skirt (trimmed > with paperclips and safety pins). Video cameras were everywhere to catch our > performance and now I know if Shih'Tzu ever does become big every documentary > on our pre-fame days will feature some amature video footage of me in a skirt. > > Our second show of the night was at a bar called "The Corktown". Naturally > I got changed before this show since I wanted to come back home tonight > with all my teeth (the Corktown is no place for a guy in a skirt). Were > are second gig at LaLuna or some bar in Hess Village I might have stayed > in my costume for a laugh but not at the Corktown (where a musician was > stabbed to death between sets a few years ago by a customer who was less > than appreciative of his performance). But they love Shih'Tzu at the > Corktown and that show went off without a hitch (except that we had no > monitors and I couldn't hear my own accordion). I'm going to make a > modification to my amp before our next show so I can throw a switch > to allow the main speaker to sound even with something plugged in the > headphone jack. Then I'll just use a wee earpiece to monitor myself. > (the sound at the "Class & Trash" was really good). > > So I guess now Thomas isn't the only musician here to have done a show > in drag (or at least half drag). I will, no doubt, be receiving photos > of my costume in my E-mail any day now (and if not Beena took some pics > of me before I left the house). So I'll post them on my webpage for your > amusement. > > So Thomas, if I share my pictures of me performing in drag with you will > you send me your pictures of you playing in drag with the Lost Toy People? ;) > > CRACKERS > (Just a sweet transvestite from hell!!!!!!) > > -- > > Collector of Atari 2600 carts - Accordionist - Bira Bira Devotee - Anime fan > * http://www.hwcn.org/~ad329/crab.html | Crackers' Arts Base * > * http://www.angelfire.com/ma/hozervideo/index.html | Hozer Video Games * > Nihongo ga dekimasu - 2600 programmer - Father of 2 great kids - Canadian eh > > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 15:15:11 +-1000 From: John Schofield Subject: Alloy: Sometimes being a musician can be a drag - part 2 Crackers confessed: >...the knees skirt so I had to hem it myself. Naturally I hemmed my skirt the >way a man would hem his skirt... I used a glue gun. Which reminded me of an incident at a New Years Eve party I went to this year. The party had a 'Rocky Horror Picture Show' theme so of course I went as everbodys favourite sweet transvestite. In preparation of which I obtained a wig which was unfortunately the wrong colour - light auburn. Anyway because it was synthetic I couldn't put a hair colour in it so I coloured it 'the way a man would' colour his hair - with black engine paint. The positive side of this was that my hair was safe to a temperature of about 200 c. The down side was that it smelt awful and didn't want to dry properly so remained sticky most of the night. Oh and the musician side of it well .. er... I did a lot of singing as the morning progressed... John (john.over@the.frankenstein.place.com) ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V4 #97 **************************