From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V5 #263 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 Tuesday, October 31 2000 Volume 05 : Number 263 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: welcome new members :) [Robin Thurlow ] Re: Alloy: welcome new members :) [Jon Drukman ] Alloy: And now for something completely different... ["Melissa R. Jordan"] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 07:39:13 -0800 (PST) From: Robin Thurlow Subject: Alloy: welcome new members :) I'm very happy to give another warm welcome to all new members - I hope you'll enjoy being here with us at Alloy. Please feel free to join in, tell us how you came to be here, where you first heard Mr Dolby's work, etc. We'd love to hear your stories. Since there are quite a few new people here as of today, I'm of course curious to know if any of you attended the PopTech convention in Camden!! :) which took place over the weekend, & if so, what your impressions were of the event. I've actually been hoping everyone got home from it okay... my father-in-law phoned us from Bangor (very near Camden) yesterday to tell us of all the *snow* they were suddenly getting that morning! Anyway please make yourselves at home here & if you have any questions or concerns, I'll be happy to help out with anything you might need. Coming soon... another Song Of The Week (our discussion of Thomas' work and the impressions it might have made on us) Robin T __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 10:32:38 -0800 From: Jon Drukman Subject: Re: Alloy: welcome new members :) At 07:39 AM 10/30/2000 -0800, Robin Thurlow wrote: >I'm very happy to give another warm welcome to all new >members - I hope you'll enjoy being here with us at >Alloy. Please feel free to join in, tell us how you >came to be here, where you first heard Mr Dolby's >work, etc. We'd love to hear your stories. Greetings folks. I discovered TD, like most American kids my age, when She Blinded Me With Science became a staple of MTV. Early memories include staying up late one weekend to watch Live Wireless (another MTV staple in the early days), plus listening to Golden Age of Wireless on my cheap Panasonic all-in-one stereo that I got for my 13th birthday. I think I listened to GAoW almost every night. That album has to be one of the best ever made. I still listen to it now and am amazed at the depth of, well, everything - songwriting, sound design, performance. I remember being banned from seeing Adam & The Ants and later The Police by my mom. When I heard that TD was going to play, I had to see it. Fortunately for me, it was not a school night, so my mom was amenable. This was the Flat Earth tour, and wow, what a great way to get introduced to concerts! I guess TD sort of disowns it now, but for a young lad of 14 or 15, it was pretty incredible. Definitely more of a stage show than a live music performance, but I loved every second of it. I got a Flat Earth t-shirt at this show that I wore constantly. Several years later, I got to see the Lost Toy People at the Ritz in NYC, and wow - what a contrast! The place was going off like a bomb had been dropped. The floor was literally pumping up and down from the weight of all the people shaking their butts! I guess to those who were expecting more introspective English music like GAoW and Flat Earth, Aliens Ate My Buick must have seemed like a big upraised middle finger, but I have always had really far-reaching taste, so I loved it. The live version really showed what the Lost Toy People were all about though. I wish there was a live album from that period. Years later, I found myself working at Opcode Systems in Palo Alto, CA. TD was a big supporter of Opcode's music software, and we had a giant poster of him gracing our hallways. I remember my friend who worked there answered the phones for the director of engineering and she forwarded me a saved voicemail from TD cos she knew I was a big fan. TD dropped by the offices from time to time but somehow I never managed to meet up with him. Today I run a record label, Pretension Records, and one of our future releases is a single I've done called Into The Golden Age. I didn't even make the TD connection while I was writing it, but when I gave it to my partner to remix and he sent back a mix subtitled "Wireless version", I realized that TD is always in my musical subconscious. http://pretension.com/ - website for my label http://pretension.com/jsd/ - stuff about me. "into the golden age" is available in mp3 format from this page - -jsd- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 21:38:53 -0500 From: "Melissa R. Jordan" Subject: Alloy: And now for something completely different... Utterly, utterly OT warning! I found this on the internet today - I'm totally taken by this project. I want to adopt a critter of my own: http://www.animalmummies.com/adopt.html I now return you to your regularly scheduled Dolby ContentTM. Cheers, Melissa - -- Melissa R. Jordan Director, Compass Rose Consulting International (http://www.askcrc.com) Owner/Artist, Compass Rose Studios (http://www.crstudios.com) ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V5 #263 ***************************