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- From: magnus@nexto.udac.uu.se (Magnus Ring)
- Subject: Re: XYZ: Classic Stuff or Glam Jam?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.073240.7134@solix.udac.uu.se>
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- Organization: UDAC, Uppsala, Sweden
- References: <lsloan.721771119@nova>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 07:32:40 GMT
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- In article <lsloan.721771119@nova> lsloan@nova.gmi.edu (Lance Sloan) writes:
- > A friend of mine told me about a rock group that only made one or two albums
- > and kind of faded away. It was the "supergroup" XYZ, made up of ex-Yes and
- > Led Zeppelin members. It sounded like a dream come true for me, and I
- > decided I would try to find some CDs or tapes of their music.
- >
- > Just a little while later, somebody else showed me thier Noteworthy Music
- > catalog of CDs. I thumbed through it and found two CDs by a group called
- > XYZ! My search was over! I found the great music I was looking for (or
- > so I thought) and the CDs were only $10.00 each. I handed over the cash to
- > my friend and he ordered them for me on his credit card. (I don't have
- > plastic of my own and don't want any really.)
- >
- > A few days later, he handed me my new, fantastic, XYZ CDs. But what's this?
- > None of those guys pictured on the longbox look like Yes or Zeppelin members!
- > There was nobody named Diglio in either of those groups. And who are they
- > produced by? Don Dokken? Something's wrong here.
- >
- > I haven't even taken the shrink wrap off these CDs, and my friend is going
- > to tell me wht I need to do to get an exchange/refund from Noteworthy. But
- > I'm still confused about what happened.
- >
- > I was assured that XYZ was a classic-rock supergroup, yet I got glam-jam
- > metalheads! (At least that's what it looks like, I haven't listened to
- them.)
- > Was the original group I'm looking for not named XYZ, or has this newer group
- > just picked the same name? Does anybody have any ideas? What was the name
- > of that Yes/Zeppelin group? Can I get their music on CD?
- >
- > Any help greatly appreciated. Especially via email! Thanks!
- > --
- > Lance Sloan lsloan@nova.gmi.edu
- > UNIX System Administrator GMI Engineering and Management Institute
- > Assistant Program Flint, Michigan, USA
-
- XYZ with Squire, White, Page and Plant never released any albums.
- There might be bootlegs but they are very rare and I've never seen one.
-
- /Magnus Ring
-