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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 09:37:20 CST
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- From: Dave <USTS060@RUST1.DPO.UAB.EDU>
- Subject: Xmas gifts
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- Happy Hedonistic Holidays to all of you still at work. May your
- nights flow with good wine and good cheer and your mornings be
- hangover free.
- Hope everyone's holiday loot was as expansive and obscene as mine
- (that's obscene in terms of quantity not content). This year friends
- and family were kind enough to fill my musical requests with gift
- certificates, thereby avoiding the unneccesary repeat or just a
- really bad pick. So here's what I helped my family fill my stocking
- with this year:
-
- Peter Gabriel _Revisited_
- I had bought _Shaking the Tree_ for my brother this year.
- Unfortunately I couldn't resist the temptation and gave it a few good
- listens before handing it over to him. That's one good point about
- CD's over vinyl. You can break into a friends gift and play the hell
- out of it without depreciating sound quality. While shopping for
- myself I considered STT but decided for _Revisisted_ instead. I
- figured I had heard the other and this would be something
- completely new to me.
- _Revisited_ has, aside from "Solsbury Hill" (which is by far my
- favorite PG song), music I had never heard before. This is I assume
- early Peter Gabriel and is nothing like what I associate him with. I
- dunno. I think of Peter and I think of "Shock the Monkey" (my first
- Peter Gabriel song) or _Passion_ or his last two albums. _Revisited_
- was a whole new look on him. I believe that I'm quite pleased.
-
- Sonny Sharrock _Ask the Ages_
- Believe it or not I found this in a used CD bin. You guys have
- been goin on and on about SOnny for so long that I figured that I'd
- have to at least give him a listen. Wow. I was absolutely blown
- away. This is a really hot album. Sonny has become an overnight
- favorite. I can't believe I've never heard of him before.
-
- Praxis _Transmutation (Mutatis Mutandis)_
- I don't usualy listen to a lot of funk. But this is really
- infectious. I now understand what all the talk is about Buckethead.
- I'll be turning as many of my friends on to this stuff as I can. I'm
- also interested in the poet terrorism thing. That's not something I
- know a whole lot about coming from Birmingham. The arts here tend to
- be real placid. Christ we got three oldies/classic rock stations and
- no college radio. Praxis seems very exciting. I'd love to learn
- more.
-
- King Crimson _Abreviated_
- In all fairness I only got to give this one listen. I also
- realize that this was meant as sort of a joke, a promo piece to send
- to radio stations who wouldn't give them airplay anyway. Therefore
- my opinion is not as informed as it should be. However, at the risk
- of many flames from the more venerable and respected memebers of the
- list, I'm gonna have to disagree with the prevailing opinion about
- KC. They seemed awful glam-rock to me. I'm just not into that kinda
- thing. Not being a musician I make no claims about the virtuosity
- of their musicianship. I just wasn't as amazed by this as I was by
- the others.
-
- On a slightly different thread:
- I got a guitar for Christmas. I 'd been fiddling with a borrowed
- one for a few months but had to give it back. Getting one of my
- own was a real treat. But as is the current trend with my life,
- something had to go awry. (I lost my car in auto accident the Monday
- before Xmas and since then things have just gone down hill. The only
- good thing was that the wreck was not my fault.) I was tuning the
- guitar last night when I noticed the neck pulling away from the body.
- A most unhappy sight. Then I realized someone (the place of
- purchase) had put steel strings on an acoustic guitar with no signs
- of a truss rod. I hoping my current karma will change and I can
- get it replaced with out much hassle. Somehow I don't think it will
- go so well.
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- Rev. Dave Hall | "It's not the voting that's
- usts060@rust1.dpo.uab.edu | democracy, it's the counting.
- | -- Tom Stoppard
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