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exotica-digest          Friday, July 10 1998          Volume 02 : Number 149



In This Digest:

(exotica) Inside LPS
(exotica) Sound Burgers
Re: (exotica) Inside LPS
Re: (exotica) I'm leaving!
(exotica) Who's kidding who's kidding who!!!
(exotica) Sound Burgers -Reply
Re: (exotica) Who's kidding who?
(exotica) Porta-disc
Re: (exotica) Sound Burgers -Reply
(exotica) Trends and our "disposable" culture
(exotica) Added Attractions
Re: (exotica) The who's kidding who project
Re: (exotica) The who's kidding who project
(exotica) Sarah Vaughan: "Songs Of The Beatles"
Re: (exotica) You Kids Have It Easy
(exotica) New today:  The Donnas/ Trackstar/ Bastille Day fun!
(exotica) Re: Thrift Wars
Re: (exotica) Pesonal relief
Re: (exotica) The who's kidding who project
(exotica) Re: Thrift Wars -Reply
(exotica) Enoch Lives! 1998 (We want YOU!)
Re: (exotica) You Robots Have It EZ
Re: (exotica) Re: Thrift Wars -Reply
Re: (exotica) Added Attractions
Re: (exotica) You Robots Have It EZ
Re: (exotica) Sound Burgers -Reply
(exotica) swapping success
Re: (exotica) Added Attractions
Re: (exotica) WELK: FW: Lite Bulbs
Re: (exotica) Deejay Simpletons
(exotica) Sun Arise Plus

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Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 08:11:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Inside LPS

>What are some of the "added attractions" thtucked inside your record jackets...
I had a odd two-fer recentely. Thrifted a mid-60s George Jones record. Inside,
was a signed color 8 x 10 of Big Rig Singer, Dave "Six Days on the Road" Dudley.
I should add, it was a fairly recent shot of Dave Dudley, he looked grey and
real worn out.

Al


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Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 13:34:20 +0100
From: "Charles Moseley" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Sound Burgers

Charles Moseley@MCKINSEY-EXTERNAL
07/09/98 08:34 AM


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Subject:  Sound Burgers


Although I could never find a Sound Burger itself, I did recently find a
mid-60s orange plastic portable battery powered record player. I would
stick headphones in it and head off to record fairs, market stalls, Bargain
bin record shops and charity shops (thrift stores), yanking out vinyl left
right and centre and going through anything that took my fancy. This
soundtrack looks interesting, is it any good? Lets have a listen.

Anyway, equipped with one of these gems or with a Sound Burger if you can
ever find one allows you to prevent yourself from buying racks and racks of
absolute crap and for a small daily charge (batteries) allows the
discerning record shopper to avoid the dross.

I would recommend it to those of you who are silly enough to buy records
that look interesting (almost always finding out when you get home that
they're rubbish).

Charlie





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Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 13:39:02 +0100
From: "Charles Moseley" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Inside LPS

Charles Moseley@MCKINSEY-EXTERNAL
07/09/98 08:39 AM


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I recently picked up an LP totally created on The Super Nintendo using a
cartridge called MarioPaint - a rough sequencer package with strange
beeping sounds. Why anyone would want to create a whole LP on this I don't
know but somebody has. Inside, to my surprise and good fortune was a glossy
8x10 photgraph of the originator with his signature - surely a costly
mistake on his part as if he was ever recognised in the street, I'm sure he
could encounter predatory behaviour from those who had chanced upon his
creation and may even incur a nasty injury on account of his pushing at the
borders of acceptable taste.



Charlie





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Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 09:01:35 EDT
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) I'm leaving!

In a message dated 98-07-09 01:33:42 EDT, you write:

<< Apparently some people on the list don't know when someone is joking
around.
 I was only making a joke about the recent flames coming my way due to some of
 my "controversal" posts.   >>

i thought this michele girl said she was leaving?  isn't that the title of her
post?  shees!!!!

robert


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Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 11:21:34 EDT
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Who's kidding who's kidding who!!!

>>stuff like the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, the Foreigner album, etc.
>>MAINSTREAM TASTES mostly in the records bin.  I do not on average or have I
>>EVER run across an Esquivel album or a Dick Hyman album.

>I think you were treated a bit harshly here, but I have found Dick's
>"Fabulous" in LA while I was there and my friend found "Latin-esque" in
>Compton while I was there. Both in good shape. Both for a dollar. And like I
>said, once a week we thrifted - if we were lucky, hitting about 5-7 shops...>
>>Okay, I admit I've only looked through about 20 thrift stores on one=
> weekend -
>>and this is when I happened to be 90 miles away from Los Angeles at a
>>conference and thought I might get lucky.  No such luck.  All I saw was the
>>usual Olivia Newton John etc. shit.  And mostly all of it was was cracked,
>>ruined vinyl, record jackets without records, etc.  I suppse to score like=
> you
>>guys I gotta be out there all the time.  But what do you really think my
>>chances are here in metropolitan Los Angeles???  I'm already competing with
>>scenesters over clothing here... I can't imagine that the vinyl situation=
> will

Of course i agree with all of you!!  You are brilliant!  Nothing like a good
pissing contest to start the day!
Now, here's a bit of my perspective as we've already heard from London, L.A.,
and a couple more "real" cities.......
I live in the DEEP South and when I go to my local thrift store I find the
following mix:  40% Xmas records (Goodyear, Firestone, compilations, etc.),
40% obscure singing gospel families with photos of assorted relatives in
polyester irridescent suits, big hair, evidence of weaknesses in the gene
pool, 15% private label preachers, choirs, religious pageants, 4% Olivia N-J,
101 Strings, Kenny Rogers, trashed Alabama/Lnryd Skyrnrd/Molly Hatchet and 1%
"other".
Part of the reason I need to get pack to the West Coast !!!!
CHuck


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Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 08:49:30 -0400
From: "Nathan Miner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Sound Burgers -Reply

In response to Charlie's recommendation of a portable record player.  =
There's a company in Japan that makes portable players for around $100 =
(and available in U.S.).

Saw this covered in a back issue of Giant Robot magazine.

Don't have any specifics....

- - Nate


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Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 10:50:31 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Mimi Mayer)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Who's kidding who?

>Jill wrote:  Sometimes I can't be bothered with the
>records, but I find I have a sixth sense with searching. I can usually tell
>if it'll be good or crap. I dunno. Different strokes for different folks as
>they say.

Yeah, Jill, I operate the same way. I usually hit the thrifts when
intuition tells me, Go! And I almost always find something, even if it's
something I never thought I'd like. Unexpected treasures are sometimes the
best.

Mimi





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Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 11:53:28 -0400
From: "Rajnai, Charles, NPG  NNAD" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Porta-disc

Sound burgers?

Thankx to the list for reminding me about the similar one I have that I
scored in an Odd-Lot 15 years ago.  Made by Audio Technica and it has a
decent magnetic stylus, runs on AA batteries and has headphone and LINE
level outputs.  Has a faux-suede case, fits in a shoebox.  Runs at about 35
RPM, but so what?!?

I'm almost ashamed to say I only paid $20 for it.  And I only used it for
one semester at school.

(Geez, I hope this doesn't count as a "score" posting.  )


surfing the chaos,
Charlieman



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Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 09:34:40 -0700 (PDT)
From: Mark Turner <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Sound Burgers -Reply

>
>
> In response to Charlie's recommendation of a portable record player.  There's a company in Japan that makes portable players for around $100 (and available in U.S.).
>
> Saw this covered in a back issue of Giant Robot magazine.
>
> Don't have any specifics....

This is probably the same one Dusty Groove is currently selling.
From their website (http://dustygroove.com):

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VP96 -- Portable Phonograph (Orange Version) . . . Misc . . . $134.99
Vacuum (Japan), 1997 Condition: New Copy | View Cart ]
Cool beans! By now, you've probably heard the rumors that
a Japanese company is making portable record players again.
Well, the rumors are true, and Dusty Groove's got these
cool little players for sale in the U.S. of A.! They're
even better than
they used to be, too, because these neat little players
come with added new features like pitch control, a jack
for an external
speaker (not included), and an AC adaptor (included with
the player!) The players are in a case, run at 45 or 33 rpm,
and run
on 6 "C" batteries (not included). Audio Technica made them,
so the quality is top-notch, and they come in 2 colors -- orange
or blue (please specify). Very very neat, and great when
you're out vinyl hunting for those odd little records!

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Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 12:44:10 EST
From: "Brian Karasick" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Trends and our "disposable" culture

Nat writes:

> See, you're saying the kids have it easy because they can get away
> with being "different" without having to pay a price for it. I guess
> that's one point of view. But I'd say - if that's true - they have
> it harder.  It's harder to be different when every underground idea
> or trend becomes a Nike ad next week.... So I feel sorry
> for the kids today.  What if they need to rebel? I'm sorry that my
> generation and the one behind me, grew up, took over the ad agencies
> and found a way to make virtually anything cool. Even the crappy
> records our parents tortured us with.
I think the real problem here isn't the state of things as much as
each individual state of mind.  The mass-media hype that seems to be
aimed at making our choices for us only works if we let it. I don't want to
belabour the point but things are no more or less hard for this generation
than any other. Change requires commitment and no one will do this for
you.  What fuelled the new wave movement in music during the late 70's
was precisely a large group of people who didn't like what they heard
and did something about it.  It fuelled the biggest independent music
distribution movement I've ever encountered and some of the best
music I've ever known too (hey now my age is showing...).

> I think we're coming to an interesting point here. Obviously it was
> important for many Exotica-listers and record-collectors that their
> "hobby" (and it's much more really!) expressed being different. It was
> considered a value of its own. I can say that about most of my own
> life as well, just beginning to understand what happened and why I
> couldn't just grow up as a "normal" adjusted member of "the" society.
Mortitz's point is well taken here.  Some of us simply don't want to
accept what's thrown at us and that in itself is a good thing.  The
globalization of the corporate culture is doing a major number on our
identities and it's really up to us all as individuals to express our
own desires and  try to keep one step ahead of the gimmicks and
trends.  To me it comes down to the question of quality and more
precisely, the loss of appreciation for it, which pervades just about every
segment of our collective society. Europeans may find this statement a
bit strange but thankfully, you  have a long way to go to catch up with the
disposable society we've created over here on the other side of the
pond!  It's not a question of elitism but simply of basic human pride.

OK, I'll stop rating for a while.

Brian Karasick
Physical Planner
McGill University
Montreal, Canada


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Date: Thu, 09 Jul 98 13:13:06 Pacific Daylight Time
From: darren hutton <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Added Attractions

Hello!

I've had a few "added attractions" in records I've bought, but the most memorable was an American 10 dollar
bill inside of an Perez Prado "Spin-o-Rama" record.

Also, I bought a two disc set of "The World Of Boots Randolph," and inside was a third record, called "Boots
Midnight Party." So that was nice.

But here's something interesting: I once bought a record that had my name on it. Turns out that somebody with
the same name as me (and same musical tastes, presumably) liked to write his name on his records. The feeling
was somewhat similar to the time I saw my name on a gravestone.

Darren!


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Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 13:06:38 -0400
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The who's kidding who project

At 11:21 AM 09/07/98 EDT, [e-mail] wrote:
.......
>I live in the DEEP South and when I go to my local thrift store I find the
>following mix:
>40% obscure singing gospel families with photos of assorted relatives in
>polyester irridescent suits, big hair, evidence of weaknesses in the gene
>pool,

I only have about seven of them so far but I collect that stuff.  I guess I
probably wouldn't collect it, if I saw it that much more often.  I never
listen to them but I always fantasize that if I did, I would find some of
that genuinely moving kind of gospel hidden in there somewhere.
That kind of gospel where you don't have to care about the exact message.
But if I believed in the fantasy a little more, I suppose I would listen to
them.

I love this thread so I don't mind that we're back here for the second time
in the six months I've been on this list.
Someday I hope somebody - maybe even somebody on this list - does a
scientific survey to determine more exact percentages of Olivia Newton
John, Juice Newton and Billy Joel records.

OR here's an idea.  I don't think that exotica list convention is about to
happen any time this decade.  But what about one of those "A day in the
life" kind of things?  You know those things they do with photographers
where they choose one photographer in each of several cities and they each
take one picture on the same day.. and then it's a TV special or a book or
something.

I must be going crazy.  It must be the humidity...

BUT WHAT IF we all choose a day and on that day every one of us goes to one
thrift store wherever we are, not to buy records and report our finds but
to count the number of records in each of a certain preset number of
categories, to be determined beforehand.
Then we all report our findings to the list and someone does the tally and
then we can say that on September 15 1998, fully 5 percent of the records
you could find in thrift stores around the world at that moment were
recorded by Roger Whittaker.

It'll only work if we all do it.

Nat



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Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 10:31:40 -0700
From: jasmine j jopling <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The who's kidding who project

>At 11:21 AM 09/07/98 EDT, [e-mail] wrote:
>.......
>>I live in the DEEP South and when I go to my local thrift store I find the
>>following mix:
>>40% obscure singing gospel families with photos of assorted relatives in
>>polyester irridescent suits, big hair, evidence of weaknesses in the gene
>>pool,

for the most part, i would say that thrifting in the south is way, way, way
better than on the west coast.  i'm from austin, but now live in SF...   In
texas, there are more shit town within a given radius of the a city.  Drive
for an hour: you're in the boonies!!  Sure, you have to dig through
mountains of loggins and streisands, but it just seems soooo much easier to
find great, *cheap* stuff.  On the west coast, it's like everybody is in on
the secret.  I drove an hour outside of SF, found some church-affiliated
thrift store, and voila!  All the 50s and 60s dresses, purses and hats were
in a special section marked "vintage."  Bah!

jasmine

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Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 19:04:38 +0200
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Sarah Vaughan: "Songs Of The Beatles"

Sarah Vaughan: "Songs Of The Beatles" was listed in my latest XRO update,
but that was by accident. don't buy that one, it sucks, it doesn't sound
like Sarah Vaughan at all, it's awfull 1981 disco, not jazz.

        Johan


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Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 14:05:44 -0400
From: Ross Orr <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) You Kids Have It Easy

>There's a bunch of list people twho are over-30 ex-punk rockers who just won't
>even believe that it was still "underground" 5 to 7 years ago.  I guess if we
>look at Nirvanna being some sort of year that punk broke or something....

You know one of the great pleasures I get out of rootling around in old
vinyl is discovering sounds that seem startlingly ahead of their time...
whatever that time was.

Maybe I get floored to discover that Kraftwerk's "Autobahn" was from all
the way back in1972 (think about what was on the top 40 at that point). Or
that Patti Smith got started in '75 or something--when even Michele was a
wee tot ;-).

Or there's the Ray Scott tune "A Street Corner in Paris," which breaks into
pure Frank Zappa, despite having been written in 1937.

Basically the whole experience that hooked me on HiFi and Exotica was
finding out how wild and adventurous all those records could be--albums
that the Rock generation had completely dismissed as "Easy Listening." So
I've gradually come to mistrust any attitude that "we were here first and
no one before us knew anything... "

I've just been going through a giant heap of late-60's rock LPs
(non-exotic) and it's kind of eye-opening to see how many of these bands
were into neo-victorian clothes, and how many of them did songs inspired by
the "do-dee-oh-do" sounds of early 78's (not even to mention _Sargent
Pepper's_). So even the somewhat ahistorical kinds of revivals we're seeing
with "Swing" today are nothing new. . . .

yours in Peace, Love and Understanding,


 --Ross

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Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 11:08:37 -0700
From: jasmine j jopling <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) New today:  The Donnas/ Trackstar/ Bastille Day fun!

Hi everyone,

It's that time of the week again... Thursday!  SF Gate's weekly column
dedicated to all things indiepop, exotica or just plain odd is live and
kicking with great live show pics.  Special this week is a rundown of all
the great stuff to do in honor of Bastille Day.  So get out your favorite
red wine, pull up a chair and cuddle up with your monitor... then, get away
from that damn computer and have some fun!

        http://www.sfgate.com/eguide/music/poptart

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Also, don't hesitate to write in with story ideas.  Especially if you know
about a Bay Area (or beyond) band that never gets any press...

'til next week!!

    *jasmine

p.s. you received this email because a) you're on a mailing list that I'm
on or b) you expressed some interest in indiepop, exotica and other
less-talked about music type things.  If you want me to stop bugging you,
just let me know, and I'll take you right off!


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Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 14:03:24 -0400
From: Ross Orr <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Thrift Wars

>  It is true that I don't like the
>thrift score posts, but hey, I just use the delete key when it gets boring.

I will confess that I have to wade through immense quantities of dreck--If
I ever see another copy of _South Pacific_ I think I'll scream. Or those
Firestone Christmas albums. . .

But didn't we all agree about this months ago? That it all depends how much
time you've got, and where you live--specifically the ratio of young
hipsters to retirees.

In Seattle you are hosed, but in shrinking industrial cities you can still
find things. You figure, there were all those guys who made a decent
middle-class wage, and who snapped up all the suburbanite
luxuries--including a HiFi, and all those records of middlebrow taste which
we prize so much today. . .

yours in HiFi,

 --Ross

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Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 11:36:52 +0000
From: Ron Grandia <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Pesonal relief

[e-mail] wrote:
>
> In a message dated 98-07-08 16:28:52 EDT, you write:
>
> << ust like I hate it when someone meets me at a party and immediately after
>   the handshake asks "What do YOU do?"
>   But I think I've even done that too.  >>
>

I tell people I'm a pornographer.


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Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 14:36:01 EDT
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The who's kidding who project

In a message dated 98-07-09 13:33:56 EDT, you write:

<< Sure, you have to dig through
 mountains of loggins and streisands, but it just seems soooo much easier to
 find great, *cheap* stuff.  >>

some of the thrifts here in the south are real "junk" stores but the prices
are amazingly cheap.  i have been looking for some vintage stereo equipment.
i usually get this stuff for $ 20.00 (i have 3 maganvox consoles that i got
for about that price).  what i need now is a Marantz to finish of the 70's
era.  you remember how expensive those things were in their day?  i passed on
a neat reciever about 6 months ago because the bulbs were burnt out.  i could
kill myself now.

robert


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Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 14:26:58 -0400
From: "Nathan Miner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Thrift Wars -Reply

Ohhh, I just can't help imagining the basement of a thrift shop where =
100's of records are stored - everybody from "Exotica" is there, throwing =
the records at each other in a total "Thrift War," while once in a while =
someone screams "Don't throw THAT one - I wanna BUY THAT!"

- - Nate


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Date: Thu, 9 Jul 98 15:16:15 -0000
From: Michael D. Toth <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Enoch Lives! 1998 (We want YOU!)

As some of you may know, for the past couple years, I've thrown these
Enoch Light memorial birthday parties around his birthdate of August 18.
The first year it was in his birthplace of nearby Canton, Ohio, with an
emphasis on his mod 60s Discotheque stuff. It was pretty wild, with
Light's grandson flying in from Minneapolis, and a local nephew and
visiting neice of Light's turning out for the festivities. Last year,
like Enoch himself, leaving Canton to invade the rest of the world, it
became a NATIONAL deal, with a handful of promoters doing their own
Enoch/Command-related events from Cambridge to San Francisco and points
in between. One thing that was rather nifty was the events had different
personalities based on the promoters/DJs, i.e. my thing in Cleveland was
another mod go-go party, and King Kini's in Minneapolis was more
lounge-oriented (and yeah, Lem, the grandson, stayed in Minneapolis last
year).

Despite all better judgment, yup, I've committed to doing a *third* Enoch
Light memorial birthday event here in northeast Ohio, and hopefully some
of you folks are also game to get things hopping in your neck of the
woods too. The more the merrier!

I've confirmed with The Avenue, a great venue in Kent, that the
1998 Enoch Light Memorial Counterespionage Go-Go Happening is set for
Friday August 14th (the Friday before Light's birthday, Tuesday the
18th). We're expanding the surrounding fashion of the event to include
the whole spy thing and other discotheque/spy tunes by Enoch's
contemporaries as well. Among other things scheduled: Witch Hazel, a band
from Kent (but internationally distributed; Real Audio samples from their
first album LANDLOCKED available at CD-NOW) will be performing Free
Design songs live. The goal was an entire live set of Free Design, but
the
band doesn't think they'll have time to learn a full set, so they'll
probably mix in some originals and FD-esque covers they already know.

So far, Mark from Evolution Control Committee has indicated that his
other band The Weird Love Makers (which incorporates a bunch of Enoch
samples, among other things) may be game for something in Columbus, and
Robbie Baldock and Jill Mingo-go are in the initial stages of trying to
get something to work in Scotland.

Let me know if you think you'd be into doing a local live event, or even
just an Enoch/Command radio special, somewhere around August 18th to
contribute to the Light Gestalt. Like last year, we'll have a central Web
site listing cities, etc. with e-mail/Web links to local promoters, etc.
as well as "official" flyers you can use, or choose not to :-).  (Last
year's flyers seemed to go over pretty well)

Also, I've got *two* 80-slide carousels worth of Command/Project 3/Grand
Award etc. album covers, sheet music, reel-to-reels, etc. professionally
shot on a photo copy stand (yeah, I DO own that many Enoch-related LPs).
Let me know ASAP if you're interested in a copy of the 160-slide set to
create the perfect ambience for your event, and/or your space age
bachelor/ette pad. I think I've got around four people so far interested
in dupes of the set and duplication prices per set go down the more sets
I have done at once -- be warned though, it could still be in the range
of $115 or so.

Please forward this to anyone you know who may not be on the Exotica
list, but may have a radio show/do live DJ gigs and you think might be
into joining in on the Enoch Light synergy. Overseas people particularly
encouraged (it looks cool enough to have multiple cities listed on the
Web site/flyer, but it's cooler yet to have it *worldwide*).

If you can't throw a party yourself, hopefully you'll be able to attend
one in your vicinity!

E-mail me directly at [e-mail] if you have any questions and/or
would like to contribute.

Michael David Toth
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Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 15:41:01 -0400
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) You Robots Have It EZ

> Maybe I get floored to discover that Kraftwerk's "Autobahn" was from all
> the way back in1972 (think about what was on the top 40 at that point).

Stranger still, "Autobahn" was a hit itself! I'm not sure exactly how it
charted, but there was a single version and/or radio edit that actually got a
good bit of airplay on the Led Zeppelin dominated AOR stations. Maybe even some
Top 40 station rotation.

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Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 16:19:56 EDT
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Thrift Wars -Reply

In a message dated 98-07-09 15:10:56 EDT, you write:

<< Ohhh, I just can't help imagining the basement of a thrift shop where 100's
of records are stored - everybody from "Exotica" is there, throwing the
records at each other in a total "Thrift War," while once in a while someone
screams "Don't throw THAT one - I wanna BUY THAT!"
  >>

What do you mean "once in a while"???

Jessica alone would bring in a dump truck to haul all the 25 cents finds she
bought -- and (I hope your listening Michele) wait till you see that "Recent
Finds" post.

Robert


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Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 17:25:36 -0400
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Added Attractions

At 01:13 PM 09/07/98 Time, darren hutton wrote:
> I once bought a record that had my name on it. Turns out that somebody with
>the same name as me (and same musical tastes, presumably) liked to write
his name on his records.

I saw that one.  The Twilight Zone right?  Then you find out that it WAS
you and you just couldn't remember that you sold that record a year or so
ago?  So you kept searching for this man with the same name and the same
taste as you, only to find that it was you all along.
But a smarter version of you since he sold the record and you just bought it.

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Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 22:28:19 +0100
From: Hugh Petfield <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) You Robots Have It EZ

M. Ace wrote:
>Stranger still, "Autobahn" was a hit itself! I'm not sure exactly how it
>charted, but there was a single version and/or radio edit that actually got a
>good bit of airplay on the Led Zeppelin dominated AOR stations. Maybe even
some
>Top 40 station rotation.
It got to #25 in the US charts in April, 1975 and #11 in the UK chart a
month later.
I still have my copy of the single!

Bad translation time:
Again, probably apocryphal, but legend has it that a Hong Kong bootleg printer
produced a counterfeit of Steinbeck's "Grapes of wrath" called "Angry
raisins".

I miss Jessica too - where did she go?

Hugh.


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Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 15:50:02 +0000
From: Ron Grandia <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Sound Burgers -Reply

Previewing vinyl is not a bad idea at all. One advantage
to thrifiting is the fact that there is ALWAYS a phonograph
handy.


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Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 17:03:56 -0700
From: Clark Scheffy <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) swapping success

Hi folks:

I haven't posted much in the past year, but I always read (as much as I
can, anyway). Anyway, I had a Pasadena score last Sunday that I had to
share: The Passions for 10 bucks. Booklet is in immaculate shape, vinyl is
in great shape (VG +? -- little or no surface noise and visually very
clean, about as good as 10-inches from the time can be expected to be these
days), and a decent if not perfect box (a bit of rubbing, but all intact).
Swaps are fun, eh?

Also picked up Al Caiola's "... Spies and Private Eyes" record, another
winner, as well as some British Now-soundy stuff.

Thanks for reading.

(West coast) Clark



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Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 18:17:14 -0700
From: Steve Sando <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Added Attractions

>> I once bought a record that had my name on it. Turns out that somebody
with
>>the same name as me (and same musical tastes, presumably) liked to write
>his name on his records.

A friend about an hour out of town once called and said her neighbor was
going to sell her a box of Lps for $5 and did I want it after she got all
the sould and funk. I said sure and as I was going through my new stash i
found a copy of Kenny Rankin's Silver Morning with "Steve Sando-1975"
written on it and it was my adolecent handwriting!
It turns out my father had borrowed it from me and he lent it to someone at
his work and this is why I never lend out Lps and CDS, even to family members.

MisterLUCKY, published by Coconut Grove Media
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PO Box 78146, San Francisco, CA 94107
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Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 23:01:08 -0600
From: Lazlo Nibble <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) WELK: FW: Lite Bulbs

On Sat, Jun 20, 1998 at 09:25:36PM -0400, [e-mail] wrote:

> << Q:  How many Internet mail list subscribers does it take to change a
>  >light bulb? >>
>
> OK, so how may people are there on the mailing list????
>
> Lazlo, are you listening???

Yes, but on tape delay!

Between the regular list and the digest there are currently 329 souls on board.

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Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 23:17:17 -0600
From: Lazlo Nibble <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Deejay Simpletons

> But there really is nothing quite like watching 3
> generations of family dance to a song sung by gay stereotypes about a place
> they can go for anonymous sex!>>

Every single game, the music person for the local AAA ball club (the
Albuquerque Dukes, one step down from the Dodgers) plays "YMCA" *and* The
Ramones' "Blitzkrieg Bop" between innings.  Everybody does the hand stuff for
"YMCA".

If you had told me in 1978 that they'd be playing the Ramones and the Village
People at ballgames I would have laughed until I puked.  It couldn't be any
stranger without them playing "Beat On The Brat" after the batter gets hit
by a pitch.

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Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 23:28:18 -0700
From: "Les Belikian" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Sun Arise Plus

There've been a couple of posts about the Rolf Harris
song "Sun Arise," which it says right here is "a chant
Rolf heard at a corroboree ('sing-dance') in the
outback" -- and who am I to quibble if the songwriting
credits go to Harris-Butler?  But what's even more
noteworthy from my perspective is that Alice Cooper
turned that very same song into a garage opus on the
album _Love It To Death_.  It segues right out of that
other gem, "The Ballad of Dwight Fry."

And on that note (no pun intended), speaking of
segues (as it happens), there's an Alice Cooper
tribute outfit called Billion Dollar Babies who are
going to be making an appearance at Club
Forbidden (who knew?) in my own hometown of
Pasadena, California, on Saturday, July 11.  Not
that I work for CF (or for BDB or for AC or for RH),
but the contact phone number's [phone],
if anyone's interested.

Les




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