From: owner-sycophant-digest@smoe.org (sycophant-digest) To: sycophant-digest@smoe.org Subject: sycophant-digest V5 #10 Reply-To: sycophant@smoe.org Sender: owner-sycophant-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-sycophant-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk sycophant-digest Tuesday, January 25 2000 Volume 05 : Number 010 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: sycophant tribute cover - reid ["Christian Boyon" Subject: Re: sycophant tribute cover - reid Thank you very much, Have a nice day, Christian >From: Stian Sandberg >Reply-To: sycophant@smoe.org >To: sycophant@smoe.org >Subject: Re: sycophant tribute cover - reid >Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 15:31:29 +0100 > >The info-page for the first project (reid's) was >http://www.apocalypse.org/~friday/psz/germano/ >It has music and two scans I think. > > > > > >------- >The Ectophile's Guide to Good Music: http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide/ >------- >To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with the message: >unsubscribe sycophant > >If you gave an infinite number of monkeys an infinite number of computers, >they would all get AOL accounts and send unsub messages to the list >address. AOL users please read the instructions six lines up before >unsubbing. > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - ------- The Ectophile's Guide to Good Music: http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide/ - ------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with the message: unsubscribe sycophant If you gave an infinite number of monkeys an infinite number of computers, they would all get AOL accounts and send unsub messages to the list address. AOL users please read the instructions six lines up before unsubbing. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 13:24:02 -0800 From: "Kerry Haslop" Subject: Re: sycophant Oh no, not Lisa Gerrard!!! Just want to thank Christian for putting me on the road to Captain Beefheart. Thoroughly enjoy it. Kerry - -----Original Message----- From: Christian Boyon To: sycophant@smoe.org Date: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 3:10 AM Subject: re: sycophant Oh no, not Lisa Gerrard!!! >Hi, > >I don't get my own computer and it isn't always possible for me to write on >the net, so I hope you will excuse me for my irregular answers. > >I would like to say your answers on my mail are far above what I was >expecting. Even if I get only 5 or 6 answers for a sycophants list which is >containing more than one hundred members, none of them were offensive, on >the contrary. I can imagine some people on the list thought what pretentious >that Belgian is for talking about Hildegard Von Bingen (who is well >appreciated among yuppies-new agers too) and worst about Albert Ayler whom >noone knows about or if yes one find him completely unlistenable 'cause he >couldn't play the saxophone (things one said about Ornette Coleman too, but >Ayler he never swang -do you say that: to swing, swang, swung?) and quoted >too often bad music like The Marseillaise and other hymns. > >I'm very please to get that kind of message and it's absolutely true we have >to thank, in a way, artists like Lisa Gerrard or Led Zeppelin for taking us >further without becoming a purist's purist. Captain Beefheart played that >role for me. And Nick Cave before. From Nick Cave to Captain Beefheart. And >from Captain Beefheart to on this side Howlin' Wolf (more than through Tom >Waits), on the other side Ornette, Ayler, Eric Dolphy and John Zorn. I'm >still in jazz and I dig European improvised music since then : Derek Bailey, >Evan Parker, Misha Mengelberg, Mats Gustafsson,... and some Chicagoans like >Ken Vandermark, for example. > >But I'm not sure everybody on this list gonna follow me in this kind of >music, even if I read someone, I don't remember who, sorry, who digs >Diamanda Galas. From Lisa Germano to Diamanda, that's a step and that's >good. > >On the other way, I expected the Lisa Germano's fans were intelligent people >with an open mind, sensitive and reliable, a bit like Lisa is, I think, even >if I don't know her privately. She looks like that. > >So, the first text I wrote as an answer to your answers was far beter than >this one and more to the point (I lost it in a ridiculous way: the >connection to the net isn't that good here), but I hope I'm clear enough and >not too boring. > >bye >Christian >______________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > > > >------- >The Ectophile's Guide to Good Music: http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide/ >------- >To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with the message: >unsubscribe sycophant > >If you gave an infinite number of monkeys an infinite number of computers, >they would all get AOL accounts and send unsub messages to the list >address. AOL users please read the instructions six lines up before >unsubbing. - ------- The Ectophile's Guide to Good Music: http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide/ - ------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with the message: unsubscribe sycophant If you gave an infinite number of monkeys an infinite number of computers, they would all get AOL accounts and send unsub messages to the list address. AOL users please read the instructions six lines up before unsubbing. ------------------------------ End of sycophant-digest V5 #10 ****************************** ======================================================================== Please send any questions or comments about the list to sycophant-owner@smoe.org