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hats-digest          Thursday, July 23 1998          Volume 02 : Number 078




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Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 15:55:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: Daniele Rossi <[e-mail]>
Subject: (hats) bootleg for sale (not MWH nor Ivan)

Hello,

I apologize for the off-topic post, but I'm selling (or trading) a George
Michael CD bootleg live in Paris (I think) 1992.  If you are interested, let
me know by private e-mail.

And now back to our regularly shceduled program :)
Daniele


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Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 18:05:57 -0400
From: Brad Hull <[e-mail]>
Subject: (hats) A Former Hatter Speaks!

Bruce Murphy recently sent this post to a dental e-mail list in response to
someone's question regarding life as a pop star.  Bruce said it would be OK
to share it with the hats list.

Bruce also asked which bootleg CD's are still avilable.  If anyone has some
left, could you let me know and I'll get the info to Bruce (a brief
description of each CD would be helpful also as I don't have them all).

Thanks!
Brad

>Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 12:39:00 -0400
>From: Bruce Murphy <[e-mail]>
>X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01-C-MACOS8 (Macintosh; I; PPC)
>To: Ont-Dent <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Re: Our very own Bruce Murphy
>
>Peter Neilson wrote:
>>
>> There was a very nice full colour two page expose on our own illustrious
>> Bruce Murphy in the CDA Communique (not the Journal).  Seems he was once a
>> guitarist and keyboardist for the musical group, "Men Without Hats".  And
>> you chucked it all for the glamour and sizzle of a dental practice!!
>>
>> Gee ... the autograph seekers, girls, and roadies can't hold a candle to
>> broken appointments, 80% overheads, drug seekers, and crap in your dental
>> chair.  What was I thinking???? 8-)
>>
>> Peter Neilson
>
>The career of an average rock star makes dentistry look pretty good.
>They feed you champagne and caviar, then stick you on a smelly tour bus
>for 26 hours at a stretch where you get a variation of cabin fever
>called bus fever. You show up for a gig in Tulsa at 4am, check into a
>fleabag motel, sleep until 4pm, get a taxi to the soundcheck where they
>inform you that your gear hasn't arrived, so you look for something to
>eat, but it's Sunday and all the restaraunts are closed, each proudly
>displaying a sticker saying "Tulsa Chamber of Commerce says Eat Out More
>Often". So you take the tour bus down to MacDonalds and eat in the bus
>so the locals won't kill you for having orange hair and watch Ferris
>Bueller's day off for the 43rd time. Later you go back for sound check
>and the local crew has dropped a huge light on your keyboards and a
>techie has it ripped apart on the floor and says "you can soundcheck
>without it, can't you?" Soundcheck runs late, maybe 7pm, and the show is
>at 10pm and your hotel is too far, so you sit around in a vacant bar
>watching the local news (Man Saves Duck) from a card table chair and
>drink 2 gallons of Coca cola because they won't give you booze for free.
>By 9pm, the doors are open, and you have to hide in a broom closet that
>has generously become a "dressing room" so you won't be mobbed by kids
>asking you thigs like "where did the band name come from" for the 8
>millionth time. By 9:30 you have to put on your menacing black leather
>stage clothes which have been put away in a wardrobe case covered with
>sweat every night for the last 6 months and smell like Satan's bottom,
>and spray 3 or 4 cans of Clairol Final Net (aka Final Helmet) into your
>hair so you can sweat and not look like a drowned rat. Later you go on
>stage and say something really stupid like "All right Cleveland!"
>because you have no idea where you are, and spend an hour having the
>time of your life playing music and having teenaged girls try to tear
>you off the stage. After the show you want to go meet the absolutely
>stunning girl you made eye contact with, but the road manager tells you
>that we have to be on a plane in 2 hours to go to Hollywood and do the
>late show, so you go to the airport where you while away the time by
>wearing the plaster of paris Bon Homme head that we carry around for the
>show and ride around on the 25 cent kiddie rides until the security
>guards put their rifles against your head and tell you to "take off the
>head and lie face down on the floor", and then spend an hour threatening
>to deport you, and Ivan has to get on the plane by himself and lie in
>the threshold pretending to have a heart attack to delay the plane until
>the security guards develop a sense of humour. You hate the plane
>because you can't sleep sitting up, and Ivan gets a horrific toothache
>due to the cabin pressure and eats every ice cube on the plane so you
>have to drink warm beer and you realize that you have to get back to New
>York city immediately after the late show to do another show and you
>stare out the window and dream of the girl at the club you didn't
>meet...
>
>Bruce
>
>--
>Dr. R. Bruce Murphy
>Ottawa, Canada
>
>
>P.S. It was tough when I was 28. I can't imagine doing it now. Wouldn't
>have missed it for the world.
>
Brad Hull
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Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 21:57:27 EDT
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (hats) Treblinka

of course, any lyrics on any site for this song are the best guesses of
someone else too!

how about
                                hold me in america

                                 join me in america

?


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Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 22:41:45 EDT
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: (hats) Another Treblinka Thought

As we recently discussed, the name "Treblinka" refers to a WWII death camp.
One interesting bit of history that I don't recall anyone mentioning is that
the Treblinka death camp was destroyed after about a year and a half when the
captives rose up and rebelled against the Germans using weapons they had
smuggled from the camp's armory.

I wonder if Ivan had any of that in mind when he was working on the song?


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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 01:14:39 EDT
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: (hats) a question

    In Walk on Water, is MWH singing about themselves. At the end, where Ivan
sings, "We never walked on water," he's talking about the group, right?

    And if so, what is the hundred and two songs they did...or was that just for
the rhyme?

    Why is this list so slow? Doesn't anybody have any questions or like to hear
other people's insight on certain songs? Come on guys. I know most of you
don't have the best personalities...but at least they're personalities.

Collin from Verona


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