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Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 15:49:36 -0400
From: nytab@pipeline.com
Subject: (exotica) MOFO on IC/IM
Otis Fodder
Wednesday, May 9th, Noon - 3:00pm
on Irwin's show http://wfmu.org
One-half of WFMU heavy-spinners the Bran Flakes, Mr. Fodder skies in from Seattle to guest on Irwin's program. He brings a grab-bag of audio goodies from his free-form collection of vinyl and MP3 files, including kitschy spoken word, shimmering vocal choruses, incorrigible singing children, and Bran Flakes remixchief.
Otis Fodder
Wednesday, May 9th, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
on Incorrect Music with Irwin and Michelle BoulΘ
Otis continues his dominance of the WFMU airwaves by taking over Incorrect Music, leaving Michelle and Irwin largely in the passenger seats. Michelle and Otis will premiere their collaborative cover of the IM classic, "Mr. Snuggles," and perform a live rendition of the Girls With Attitude song "Don't Judge Me."
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My hopes were quickly dashed when I realized that I did not have a strong
enough computer or deep enough pockets to get started.
So I went running back to my free 365MB of broadcasting space at Live365.
:(
If I'm wrong about this or there is another way, please share the info!
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Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 20:08:28 -0700
From: "Brian Linds" <woodlind@island.net>
Subject: (exotica) Dylan's Strange Covers
Hi! Since Mr Zimmerman's 60th Birthday is fast approaching, I was wondering
about your fave rave Dylan covers. Or....odd recordings of Bob himself. I
love The Four Season's version of "Don't Think Twice It's Alright". That
Micky Mouse singing cracks me up!
Brian Linds
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Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 01:48:56 -0400
From: alan zweig <azed@pathcom.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Dylan's Strange Covers
At 08:08 PM 5/2/01 -0700, Brian Linds wrote:
>
>Hi! Since Mr Zimmerman's 60th Birthday is fast approaching, I was wondering
>about your fave rave Dylan covers. Or....odd recordings of Bob himself. I
>love The Four Season's version of "Don't Think Twice It's Alright". That
>Micky Mouse singing cracks me up!
Living Voices "Like A Rolling Stone". Hands down. Even better than Buddy
Greco's version.
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Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 21:30:27 +1000
From: Philip Jackson <pdj@mpx.com.au>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Dylan's Strange Covers
on 5/3/01 3:48 PM, alan zweig at azed@pathcom.com wrote:
> Living Voices "Like A Rolling Stone". Hands down. Even better than Buddy
> Greco's version.
I was gonna say the Buddy Greco so I'd love to hear the Living Voices
version.
The Lee Hazlewood produced "Duane Does Dylan" by Duane Eddy has some big
twangy takes on classic Dylan.
Philip
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Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 10:21:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bruce Lenkei <lenkei@echonyc.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Dylan's Strange Covers
Ferrante and Teicher have a cover of "Lay Lady Lay" on their "Gettin'
Together" album. I always liked it. Sort of a fun, up-tempo thing. Not
totally out there, but still one of the highlights of the album.
- - bruce
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On Thu, 3 May 2001, alan zweig wrote:
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> Living Voices "Like A Rolling Stone". Hands down. Even better than Buddy
> Greco's version.
>
>
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Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 10:34:53 -0400
From: nytab@pipeline.com
Subject: (exotica) tag sales in Pittsburgh
Garage Sales Generate Traffic
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 9:41 a.m. ET
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Shoppers crowd the streets and cut across lawns, creating traffic congestion in quiet suburban neighborhoods. They knock on doors in the wee hours to get first crack at everything from lawnmowers to heirlooms.
Garage sales are creating headaches in towns across Pennsylvania, prompting one community to pass a law that limits the longtime rite of spring to four per year at any address.
``It was getting so people were having them every weekend, and that can test people's patience,'' said William Harris, a supervisor in Richland Township, where the law went into effect last week.
Township zoning officer Mark Walker said so much money was changing hands at some sales that they could be classified as businesses. Shoppers fanned through the township last weekend for sales advertising items such as carpet remnants, perfume bottles, workout machines and bathing suits.
``It got so bad that it got hard to get through with my car,'' said Shirley Leventry, a retired secretary. ``It made me late for an appointment one day.''
In the northwestern Pennsylvania town of Saegertown, the community had the same problems with traffic five years ago but dealt with the situation by scheduling one day each summer for a town-wide garage sale.
Three-fourths of the households in town participate. At one recent sale, ``Trump: The Game'' -- as in real estate magnate Donald Trump -- was on the block for $1. This year's sale is July 21, and even the library pitches in by selling old books.
Mayor Fred Smith said the sale is even starting to rival the two things that helped put Saegertown on the map.
``We've got Sharon Stone, we've got Saegertown Ginger Ale and now we've got the garage sale,'' said Smith, referring to the famous native and the soda once made in the town of 1,000.
In the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Bloomfield, the garage sale season starts on Saturdays in May. Even if a homeowner advertises that a sale starts at 8 a.m., shoppers knock on doors at 6:30 a.m. trying to get first dibs on the best old stuff.
``It gets vicious,'' said Rick Schwartz, president of the Bloomfield-Garfield Corp., an economic development group in Pittsburgh. ``They're out there looking for the best furniture, lamps, even lawnmowers.''
Dan Edwards, mayor of the Scranton suburb of Moscow, said the only garage sale trouble he remembers was when one man had a sale every weekend one summer, earning him a visit from the zoning officer. The town now has two annual garage sales.
``I don't know why they're so popular. I guess we just have a lot of trash,'' Edwards said.
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Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 13:18:04 -0400
From: alan zweig <azed@pathcom.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Dylan's Strange Covers
At 09:30 PM 5/3/01 +1000, Philip Jackson wrote:
>
>> Living Voices "Like A Rolling Stone". Hands down. Even better than Buddy
>> Greco's version.
>
>I was gonna say the Buddy Greco so I'd love to hear the Living Voices
>version.
>
>The Lee Hazlewood produced "Duane Does Dylan" by Duane Eddy has some big
>twangy takes on classic Dylan.
I was a bit hasty when I wrote that. Thought I'd take advantage of the
rare occasion when I had a short answer to something.
But I do think the Living Voices version is "stranger" than Buddy's. I
guess it's a toss up. Buddy inflects in unusual places whereas the Voices
don't inflect at all. Actually if I had to vote, I'd have to give a tie
between their version of Like a Rolling Stone and their version of
Positively 4th Street on the same record.
I also have that Duane does Dylan record. And the String record with that
great version of Subterranean Homesick Blues. And the Montenegro record
which has to be the flattest record he ever made.
But around the time I first went crazy on Now Sound and various "cover"
versions, I ended up making at least a dozen tapes for friends who just
basically wanted to hear that Living Voices Like A Rolling Stone. The
first ten times I heard it, I was still laughing at the way they sang
"Didn't you?" but at some point, some horrible magical transformation
happened and suddenly that became my official version of the tune. And
when I finally heard Dylan do it again, it seemed so strange and ugly. And
I was thinking "What is all this passion and emotion? That doesn't belong
in music, does it?????"
That's why I can't change my vote.
AZ
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INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) -- Legendary jazz drummer Billy Higgins died Thursday at age 64.
Higgins was one of the most recorded figures in the history of jazz, performing with John Coltrane, Dexter Gordon, Herbie Hancock, Milt Jackson, Charles Lloyd, Pat Metheny, Lee Morgan, Art Pepper and Joshua Redman, among others.
He played with pianist Cedar Walton and was involved with the first edition of bassist Charlie Haden's innovative Quartet West.
Higgins came to prominence in the 1950s with saxophonist Ornette Coleman's free jazz group, which included Haden and trumpeter Don Cherry. Higgins' drumming laid the foundation for the group's free jazz flights of fancy.
That group sparked a decade of innovation in jazz that was carried on by the Coleman Quartet, Coltrane, George Russell, Charles Mingus and Albert Ayler, among others.
Higgins' ability to adapt his sense of swing to any genre made him one of the most in-demand drummers of the past four decades.
Higgins helped found World Stage, a storefront performance space and teaching venue in Los Angeles' Leimert Park. He was also on the jazz faculty at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Higgins was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master's Fellowship in 1997.
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