From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V9 #64 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 Friday, July 16 2004 Volume 09 : Number 064 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: Alloy: Testing . . .? ["Robin Thurlow" ] Re: Alloy: Howard Jones [Peter Adams ] Re: Alloy: hojo mojo [bethmeyer@mindspring.com] Re: Alloy: hojo mojo ["Keith Stansell" ] Re: Alloy: hojo mojo ["Keith Stansell" ] Alloy: Howard Jones Photos ["Michael & Denise" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 09:03:59 -0400 From: "Robin Thurlow" Subject: RE: Alloy: Testing . . .? I'm still out here.. yes, it has been very quiet on the List these days. It's good to hear some voices again :) It would be very good to hear what everyone has been up to! I am frantically trying to hold my excuse for a life together. I'm finishing my undergraduate degree in fine arts & have been accepted into the graduate Theatre program. One more class to take, which I've just begun yesterday: "Plagues, Culture and History". It's *fabulous*. On our first day we watched a documentary on Victorian London's cholera epidemics. I didn't know anything about it & now I'm fascinated by the sewage systems there. The man who engineered them (and effectively saved the city) went on to design bridges and parks around London. Yes I am still a GEEK. I was scribbling madly in my notebook whilst watching in class. Meanwhile someone down the row from me fell asleep! I had to finish my undergrad degree in order to keep my job, which I'm technically filling only "temporarily". Once it's opened up officially to be filled at the end of the summer, they'll be looking for someone with a B.A. I had to drop my plans for a B.F.A. (sculpture concentration) and just get it done. Yet, this makes me work all the harder on artwork. Don't be upset, Thomas! but I have gone back to the thorns again. The robinia pseudoacacia around campus are yielding some gorgeous long ones. Also the mummy studies are in full swing. Remember, it isn't macabre. It's coool. There is a community on LiveJournal (LiveJournal.com) that someone has set up dedicated to Mr. Thomas Dolby. If you go to the website, you can look it up by typing "thomasdolby" into the username search box. I'm sure there must be more, but I've been up since 5am & my brain did not choose to accompany me, I'm afraid. There is too much stuff to cram into the petty 24 hours we are doled out each day. What are the rest of y'all up to?? xx love ~robin t (and oh yeah, my divorce has just finally become final, so I'll soon be changing my name, so look out!) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:15:13 +0100 From: Peter Adams Subject: Re: Alloy: Howard Jones On (14/07/04 15:18), Keith Stansell wrote concerning Re: Alloy: Howard Jones: > was sort of like his "one man show" performance accompanied by a female > backup singer (perhaps not much older than his first album) a guy playing > electric guitar and another guy handling much of the sequencers. Howard > was > surrounded by keyboards front and back, one with a small Sony Viao laptop > mounted in the rack. He was playing more of the prominent keyboard parts > and piano solos. Occasionally he would step away from the keyboards to > sing up front while the band played. He used a wireless head-mounted > mike. Sounds like the set i remember him doing on Top Of The Pops 2 a while ago. I had a look and they have some short crappy clips in their database. what with all their bragging about their online content you'd think they'd put the full songs online. Oh well... http://www.bbc.co.uk/totp/videoclips/artist/index_j.shtml It's badly sorted, but they are there. - -- Peter ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 06:38:47 -0700 From: esoul Subject: Alloy: hojo mojo Keith, thanks for the hojo story and pics they were great! I confess to wondering "who's that old guy with the receding spiky hair?!?" only to realize it's Howard Jones, I'm no longer in college, and it's no longer 1985. three shocks in a row, before my morning cup of joe, gad! Did Thomas Dolby and Hojo ever play on anything together? seems like they bark up the same tree somewhat. anyway, thanks again! - -Tom <<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>> like used CD's? Two for one? "http://www.emeraldsoul.com/241.html" ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 10:23:36 -0600 (GMT-06:00) From: bethmeyer@mindspring.com Subject: Re: Alloy: hojo mojo You've not heard the story of how, in the early '80s, Thomas Dolby was driving in the countryside, was pulled over by a police officer for some minor infraction, who then in mid-lecture showed a shock of recognition and then started insisting that he (Thomas) was Howard Jones? At least, that's how I remember the story -- do correct me if I'm wrong. - -Beth (Don't get me started on my life right now -- I have a job interview early tomorrow morning and just found out yesterday that I'm supposed to give a presentation!) - -----Original Message----- From: esoul Sent: Jul 15, 2004 7:38 AM To: alloy@smoe.org Subject: Alloy: hojo mojo Keith, thanks for the hojo story and pics they were great! I confess to wondering "who's that old guy with the receding spiky hair?!?" only to realize it's Howard Jones, I'm no longer in college, and it's no longer 1985. three shocks in a row, before my morning cup of joe, gad! Did Thomas Dolby and Hojo ever play on anything together? seems like they bark up the same tree somewhat. anyway, thanks again! - -Tom <<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>> like used CD's? Two for one? "http://www.emeraldsoul.com/241.html" ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 11:28:35 -0600 From: "Keith Stansell" Subject: Re: Alloy: hojo mojo ...and then he had to drive the old dirty Datsun into the Gulf of Mexico and make a contribution to the police's charity ball. But it was not Fred Scott, the sheriff back in my home "county" of Tensas Parish in Louisiana who happened to have a hair lip and a tendency to pull over cars with out-of-parish plates for speeding. Oh wait - I'm getting confused. Back to work form me. - -Keith - ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 10:23 AM Subject: Re: Alloy: hojo mojo > > You've not heard the story of how, in the early '80s, Thomas Dolby > was driving in the countryside, was pulled over by a police officer for > some minor infraction, who then in mid-lecture showed a shock of > recognition and then started insisting that he (Thomas) was Howard > Jones? At least, that's how I remember the story -- do correct me > if I'm wrong. > > -Beth > > (Don't get me started on my life right now -- I have a job interview > early tomorrow morning and just found out yesterday that I'm > supposed to give a presentation!) > > -----Original Message----- > From: esoul > Sent: Jul 15, 2004 7:38 AM > To: alloy@smoe.org > Subject: Alloy: hojo mojo > > > Keith, thanks for the hojo story and pics they were great! I confess to > wondering "who's that old guy with the receding spiky hair?!?" only to > realize it's Howard Jones, I'm no longer in college, and it's no longer > 1985. > > three shocks in a row, before my morning cup of joe, gad! > > Did Thomas Dolby and Hojo ever play on anything together? seems like they > bark up the same tree somewhat. > > anyway, thanks again! > -Tom > > <<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>> > like used CD's? Two for one? > "http://www.emeraldsoul.com/241.html" ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 08:11:06 -0600 From: "Keith Stansell" Subject: Re: Alloy: hojo mojo I found this thanks to Google. It is a HOJO biography: "Jones has gone from making midnight shift demos while doing odd jobs such as putting pens together and working in a cling-film factory to a number one debut album; playing Wembley Stadium during Live Aid and sharing the stage with Stevie Wonder, Thomas Dolby and Herbie Hancock at the Grammy's." So their paths did cross at one point, but I don't think they ever collaborated on any recordings. I sure would like to see the complete Live Aid concert on multiple DVDs. That would be a trip down memory lane wouldn't it? - -Keith - ----- Original Message ----- From: "esoul" To: Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 7:38 AM Subject: Alloy: hojo mojo > > Keith, thanks for the hojo story and pics they were great! I confess to > wondering "who's that old guy with the receding spiky hair?!?" only to > realize it's Howard Jones, I'm no longer in college, and it's no longer > 1985. > > three shocks in a row, before my morning cup of joe, gad! > > Did Thomas Dolby and Hojo ever play on anything together? seems like they > bark up the same tree somewhat. > > anyway, thanks again! > -Tom > > <<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>> > like used CD's? Two for one? > "http://www.emeraldsoul.com/241.html" ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 19:45:13 -0400 From: "Michael & Denise" Subject: Alloy: Howard Jones Photos Great photos Keith! I for one am certainly jealous and I do hope a future tour will come somewhere near Virginia. I still think Mr. Dolby's participation in an '80's tour alongside acts such as Howard Jones, The Fixx, or The Human League would be a fun idea although he would never agree! Oh well, things can only get better, Mike ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V9 #64 **************************