[kj] music wanker poll

[Brendan Quinn]

Was he mean mean, funny mean, or PEOPLE AREN'T SUPPOSED TO TOUCH ME!!!!
mean? Actually that last one isn't technically mean, more 'doesn't interact
well with the other kids'... 

 

I really like that song Breathe. Reminds me of the 70s, when you could turn
on the telly and chances were much higher than today that you'd tune in to a
Real MusicianR, singing Real MusicR. The Simon Cowells of the world had the
decency to stay in their money vaults. And it didn't really matter if you
looked like, well, David Thomas (or Meatloaf, Streisand, early Freddy
Mercury...) 

 

I was turned on to Pere Ubu by Kim Thayil  from Soundgarden. Kim is a
bona-fide musical encyclopaedia, and has an eye for the obscure and esoteric
(card-carrying member of the Church of the Subgenius of course). For
example, Soundgarden's wedding song-at least to fans-is called Slaves and
Bulldozers <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqeMtV7yFEw>  (ooh see what I did
there?). At school one of Kim's classmates was a 6-year old American Indian
kid who 'didn't interact well with other kids' - he created his own game
called 'Slaves & Bulldozers' and played it on his own. 

 

I may have fucked up most of that story. Also, experience has taught me that
it buzzes me out a lot more than it does anyone else. But I kinda love weird
shit like that, and I always find those kind of people fascinating. (Until
they sick up on your back).

 

-----Original Message-----
From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On
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Sent: Sunday, 17 November 2013 4:49 a.m.
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Subject: Re: [kj] music wanker poll

 

I tried to say hi to DT once and he was kind of mean .

Two other stories about him ( I went to school in Cleveland where he's
from): he stormed out of a live radio interview bc he didn't like the
questions; and I went to a solo show of his a d his (big fat) parents were
in the audience,

 

Sent from my iPhone

 

On Nov 16, 2013, at 6:10 AM, "Jim Harper" <
<mailto:jimharper666 at yahoo.co.uk> jimharper666 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

 


> Vocalist David Thomas is also a long-time friend and associate of

folk-rock legend Richard Thompson, a name I never thought I'd get to mention
on this list.


> 



> Jim.



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> On Sat, 16/11/13, Tracey Higgins < <mailto:traceymh at icloud.com>

traceymh at icloud.com> wrote:


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> Subject: Re: [kj] music wanker poll



> To: " <mailto:gathering at misera.net> gathering at misera.net" <

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> Date: Saturday, 16 November, 2013, 10:14



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> Hi Gatherers.



> Oh my god! Is that Pere Ubu for real? I couldn't stop laughing. Kind 



> of like Billy Mackenzie(who by the way had an amazing voice) fighting 



> with his inner demons. What was even scarier was the fact that I 



> actually ended up enjoying his voice and then ventured to watch a 



> further YouTube vid of him with Debra Harry doing backup vocals. And 



> he's had umpteen albums,went on the David Letterman show and had to 



> pay their own way. Unreal yet educational in a warped kind of way 



> Cheers  Tracey



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