 
(Archive for pre June 1998)
Date: Sun, May 31, 1998
sorry about the multipost. but i meant to mention that d. lowery gave
me a pre release of the new. cracker record last week. it is great. normally
i would launch into hyperbole here and go on and on, but i realize i always do
that and maybe that becomes meaningless after awhile. all i will say is that
you should just go get it the day it comes out. that band is on a different
level.
they write songs i... well i just hope our record is as good. also got a
copy of the new grant lee buffalo awhile back and finally listened to it and i
love that too. it's called "jubilee". if you've never listened to glb, go
get "mighty joe moon" immediately. then get "jubilee" if it's out already or
whenever it comes out.
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ps the cracker record is titled "gentleman's blues" and it comes out near
the last week in august. i know that because that's when we lose senor
lowery.
Date: Sat, 30 May 1998
MATT POST
and here's what matt said about it:
<<<<<
left a message on the phone of our management about the delays on the
paraphanalia (sp?) - I think it's Geffen's fault, like it might be their web
page or something. BUT BOY NOW THAT REALLY PISSES ME OFF! I AM THE MIGHTY
GIMLATRON, SENT TO THIS SECTOR TO HELP THOSE IN NEED!
>>>>>
Date: Sat, May 30, 1998
not geffen's fault. more my fault. didn't realize they were waiting
for me to write my letter and sign the autographs. well, it's not all my
fault, but it is at least partially me, and definitely not geffen's. theb
other guys had all signed . i just didn't realize the pictures were for
the fan club. i thought they were just promo things for the label. my
bad.
still, they're all done now as far as i know. they should be out
soon. sorry. it's our 1st fanclub. we'll iron it out. we'll all
hopefully be around for a long time together.
still not a particularly good day today, but it is making for a
pretty good song..
merrily lining those clouds for all i'm
worth,
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MATT POST
Subject: Re: WILD
Date: Sun, May 17, 1998
...so...there I was, innocently replacing the fan belt on my truck, when
out of nowhere, a huge, flaming buttcrack comes running across the street
to tell me it had delivered mail to the wrong address and could I please
give it back it's post. Startled, I ran to the other side of the truck to
grab the big monkey wrench just incase it got violent. Asking the intruder
what it's real intentions were with a defensive tone, it stared at me
blankly for a minute, then started to cry. I oiled it up, gave it a
massage, and we both drove to the top of the hill to hold eachother and
watch the sunset, crying. Soon, covered in mucus and painted chrome, we
drove down into Hollywood to have sushi together, but the uptight owners of
the sushi joint said they will not tolerate a big stinky buttcrack sitting
in their restaurant offending the guests. The buttcrack and I broke down
in tears and
the waiter changed his mind, sitting us down to a free dinner at the best
table in the house. Happy, and with our tummys full of sea urchin, we both
went across the street to rent a video - Harold and Maude, and went to my
house to watch it on my big screen tv. That's when it popped the question.
I said yes, and with tears of joy, I climbed into it, and, engines
ignited, we ascended into the heavens to enjoy the view of this earth from
space, on
our way to Alpha Centauri, to meet it's aunt margaret.
Date: Sun, May 24, 1998
bull testosterone. uh. whoa.
what can you say? um.
where do you get that? can you get it at any supermarket or is that
strictly a whole foods kind of thing?
i loved "the whole wide world." i just finished reading "about a boy" by
nick hornby. loved it too.
saw charles fleischer at the laugh factory last night. died laughing
had fun at godzilla too. big lizards are cool. what's the problem. i
thought it was exciting. most fun i ever had with a big lizard. or any
lizard for that matter.
having dinner with a bunch of friends tonight. we're all going to drink
monkey urine together
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ps. cc rocks
Date: Tue, May 19, 1998
does anyone else hear think matt is out of his mind? all day he skips
around the studio humming to himself about his buttcrack and telling anyone
who'll listen how this time we should really think about styx and yes when
we make the record. this record is going to be called "BABY GRAND
ILLUSION" you heard it here first.
i'm at a girl's house. shhhhhhh. she'll hear. i think i'm
going to stay. yahooooooooooooooooooooo!!! shhhhh.
two more new songs today. not finished but cool ideas. going
to see godzilla tomorrow. did you see the billboard on sunset?
"HIS BUTTCRACK IS BIGGER THAN THIS SIGN"
are we done? she wants to know. she caught me. you were all
reading too loud. that is overly cute. i may puke. ate too much pizza
tonight at the movies. we saw "city of angels" and had personal pan
pizzas. i had two. that's too personal for me. i forgot my wallet and
she paid for everything. i forgot it because i split a huge hole in the
crotch of my jeans at rehearsal and i had to run home and change in a hurry
before the
movie. left all my $ in the other pants. big hole. big. lucky for me
it was nowhere near my...well, you
know........................................................................
............................................................................
...........................................
buttcrack
bye,
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Date: Sat, May 16, 1998
meices came up in sf at the same time as the himalayans. great band.
last album "dirty bird" was produced by gil norton right before he did
"recovering the satellites". this is a reat album. i love it
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Date: Sat, May 16, 1998
it was nice to hear someone talk about lori carson. she is an old
friend and one of my favorites. i had a swirl last week where i couldn't
stop listening to "where it goes" . dan and i decided we were going to
cover a song off this album. this is exquisite songwriting and
heartbreaking singing. if you ever have a chance to see her play alone in
a small club, go. NEVER MISS HER
PLAYING.
as for ed and i, the whole fighting thing never really comes up.
probably because we're friends. i do think you all have some kind of
misconception concerning "little" ed's size. i'm six feet tall, which is
not exactly small, and ed's at least a couple inches taller than me, maybe
more.
very creative week at the studio so far. new song already. maybe
called "come around"
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Date: Thu, May 14, 1998
today we started our new record. this could take awhile. saw ed
kowalczyk tonight. nicest guy. thursday is my sister's birthday. happy
birthday nicole, my oldest and best friend
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Date: Sun, May 10, 1998
not to lecture, cause it's really not my style. and not because i'm
in the band either, because it's not really our folder as much as it is
yours. it's really just because i've been on this folder longer than
almost anyone else still hanging out here that i say i really wish you
would all stop fucking arguing. i know a lot of people on this folder qand
i like almost all of them but i hate
the fighting. and don't start fighting over my statement that you should
stop fighting. as long as you respond to each other's shit, there will
always be another argument to be had and it will always be annoying to be
on this folder. and i love this folder so i don't want that. and i don't
want people i like to feel they need to go to another folder. the best
solution is to just ignore all the jerkoff posts. there must be better
things to
discuss than who is a jerk. ignore them. if no one responds, there is no
argument. we could all just hang out here.
that's all i have to say. we rock. i
met a cool girl tonight. have a big crush on her. yay for me.
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Date: Sun, Apr 19, 1998
tonight and tomorrow at the viper room. sunday is electric with
three new songs("sundays," "st robinson in his cadillac dream," "she don't
want nobody near"). monday is acoustic. maybe one new song. don't know.
there will be more gigs later in the summer
bye bye, ad
Date: Thu, Apr 16, 1998
been rehearsing with the band this week. more
titles:...tentatively(not a title,merely a disclaimer) "she don't want
nobody near," "complex kid, " "i don't believe in sundays," "there goes
everything,"
good to see everyone. "do you know what it means to miss new
orleans?"
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Date: Sun, Apr 12, 1998
i don't feel old. it just seems like some things i did
happened a long time ago. you should all see "wings of desire". it is
one of the truly great poetic films. here come the faves: "a man and a
woman," "small change," "alphaville,"(french), "ruggles of red gap,"
"hobson's choice," "great expectations" dir. by david lean, "oliver twist"
also dir. by david lean, "dr zhivago"
also also dir. by david lean, "lawrence of arabia" same guy,
"captain horatio hornblower," "the adventures of buckaroo banzai and the
hong kong cavaliers across the 8th dimension," "patty hearst," "mishima,"
"homicide" and "things change"(both dir. by david mamet), "signs of
life"(my best freind mary louise's 1st film and where we got the name
counting crows from.
more later
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Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998
pleather pants are cool, but they don't breathe and i sweat a
lot. especially in the tropics. it's not a dry heat. still, a very nice
gesture on your part. am now too tired to avoid being stupid. sleep well
all
1st song fully written for next album is "St. Robinson In His
Cadillac Dream"
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good luck sucked on the storytellers show. it's not gonna
be on the cd. it sucked. i played it. my fault. sorry.
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Date: Sat, 28 March 1998
listening to elliot smith right now. album is called
"either/or". really cool. cleaning house today, i found a photo
matclowney gave me a long time ago, and soulty's photos of her "august..."
paintings. really cool too. less than two weeks before matt comes home.
really really really really cooooooooooooooooool. like...well, you
know...
me, ben,and dan wrote and recorded about nine songs last week. not
all are finished. some are just pieces. also cool.
me and dan went to the viper room tonight and saw the stereophonics
play. they were great. we played with them on the jools holland show in
london last spring/summer before their album came out. i could listen to
"more life in a tramp's vest" or " local boy in a photograph" over and
over again. and i do. nice guys too.
met a nice girl last week. fixed up by a mutual friend. liked her.
had a date. liked that too. line as many small good things as you can
in as long a row as you can make it and maybe eventually circumstance
becomes habit and one day is suddenly and miraculously a little better than
the day before it. maybe.
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Date: Tue, Mar 17, 1998
been listening to the posies all day today. "amazing disgrace"
is a great album. very underappreciated. also my fave this year is the 2
cd compilation of lee dorsey songs called "great googa mooga". i listen to
it at least once every day. he was like the ray charles of new orleans in
the fifties and sixties. justturn off your computer and go to the record
store NOW .
no child should go without lee dorsey
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Date: Sun, Mar 15, 1998
hey y'all, what's up? we get our rehearsal/recording house
today. studio set-up starts next week, charlie arrives then too, as does
dave, matt comes home the week after that, and we're off. cool, huh?
the album will probably not be out until next year, but there will
be a two cd live record out in june or july. it's really cool. we love it.
we probably shouldn't put out a live album, but we love it and we want to, so
that's that.(goood to be the king and all that)
it's just two shows, one on each cd. one is the acoustic storytellers
show and the other is the electric hammerstein ballroom show. because they
were both on tv we had really good recordings and the shows were two of our
favorites(maybe because of the pressure, we got really gone) so there you are
bye,
me
Date: Sun, Mar 15, 1998
oh yeah. have almost finished the remy zero record and the gigolo aunts
record. both are awesome. two of the years best. will both be out end of
summer or fall
me
Date: Sun, April 12, 1998
hey y'all,
there's no huckleberry house gig in our near future, but matt
comes home tomorrow and rehearsals start monday. neat,huh? i'm goin' to
new orleans for the jazz and heritage festival in about a week and a half.
cannot wait. goin with all my pals. the grand marshal Henry "Red "
Griffin will be leading the parade in a southerly direction until we reach
the crescent city and then he will continue his julie mckoy meets james
brown
role as our cruise director/buckjumper/king o' new orleans. ya haven't
been 'til ya been with red. you can find me where frenchmen meets chartres
at cafe brazil or in the gospel tent . i'm the guy with one hand full of
ribs and one hand full of crawfish. have you checked out any albums by the
new orleans klezmer all stars. funky jewish brass band music.
went to the playboy mansion tonight for hugh hefner's birthday
party. turned out one of my friends grew up in the mansion and he invited
me. strangely intimate party. not small but not particularly big either.
met hef. he was really nice to me . he apparently asked my friend to
invite me. not really my scene , as you can guess, but it was definitely
worth seeing before it fades away. it was beautiful there he has peacocks
and
monkeys and pinball and defender and donkey kong and pac man and matisse
drawings and salvador dali paintings and gorgeous lawns and a really cool
pool and THE GROTTO. a lot of his friends were there. these older guys.
it was fun to imagine them all in 1960 living like james bond and telling
the world how you should drink martinis and listen to quadrophonic stereo
sound and read norman mailer and go see fellini movies and have sex and do
drugs
and think you're going to stay young forever. i'll bet they thought
they'd be young forever. don't you? i do. and i'm not. anyways,
they were all pretty nice to me. i hope they still feel young. it must
feel weird to know all that time is gone and you can't get it back. they
probably never expected that. i'll bet they go to that house and they
have some really wild memories and they can't believe it's gone. i had a
really wild
childhood and that's a long way back for me but i can't believe some of the
shit we did. and then to follow that up with all the stuff i'm living
now. if this keeps up i'll have a hell of a life. i had a long talk with
tony curtis. turns out he loves the band. how about that. he starts
talking about mr jones and long december and hollywood and how it made feel
and what it made him remember. i got a really weird life. tonight i
appreciated it . it wasn't really my scene and i don't mean to glorify it
too much because there's some stuff about it i don't really dig, but i
felt like i got to be in another time tonight. it was unreal and i'm glad
i got to do it. i'll probably never get that chance again and i'm glad i
didn't miss it. see what you can before it disappears. go camping. go
to a museum. visit the zoo. kiss a girl. do whatever. join a rock and
roll
band. and then don't forget. try not to ever forget.
goodnight,
ad
Date: Wed, Dec 26, 1997
we're back . guess that's a good thing. expected to not write for
months, but surprising last week of tour had me, dan, and matt siiting
down together and coming up with about six beginnings of pieces. dan, >
ben, and i are all in la and all excited about 4-tracking after new
years. so maybe all will proceed quicker this time.
storytellers is still up in the air, but looking up. if you
want to, you can e- mail geffen(i don't know where) maybe that will
help. either way, i am optimistic.
europe was hard, but rewarding . we played with abandon.
tired of hotels. glad to be home. life gets ruined on the road.
"...but what would you change if you could?" ....nothing, probably.
too bad. oh well, "...maybe this year will be..." you know the rest
keep warm, even though y"all are cool as
lemonade
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Date: Wed, Dec 24, 1997
we're back . guess that's a good thing. expected to not write for
months, but surprising last week of tour had me, dan, and matt siiting down
together and coming up with about six beginnings of pieces. dan, ben, and i
are all in la and all excited about 4-tracking after new years. so maybe all
will proceed quicker this time.
storytellers is still up in the air, but looking up. if you want
to, you can e- mail geffen(i don't know where) maybe that will help.
either way, i am optimistic.
europe was hard, but rewarding . we played with abandon.
tired of hotels. glad to be home. life gets ruined on the road.
"...but what would you change if you could?" ....nothing, probably. too
bad. oh well, "...maybe this year will be..." you know the rest
keep warm, even though y"all are cool as
lemonade
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Adam's Posts on AOL and the Emerald.Net Newsgroup
* from Chad's Page - http://www.monmouth.com/~jkochel/crows.html *
September 7th, 1997 (aol post)
one last thought tonight. i think the vh-1 storytellers will not be aired
until sometime in october although i am not sure. they think we will
just approve their edit and mix of the show and therfore it can be
released quickly. this seems unlikely to me.
we are very picky about our work. we will get it right and then we will
put it on tv and not before. we will try our best to do it quickly
though. but things take the time they take. sleep well' i read 345 posts
tonight.
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September 1st, 1997
{In Response to someone saying the song "A Mona Lisa" sucks: }
it does NOT SUCK!!!!
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September 1st, 1997
just a few brief words while i'm thinking about them. 1-we most
certainly have been to madison. played the barrymore theatre several
times. 2-i don't think about the different verses of "angels..." as
being about specific different things(e.g. god, girl, self). i think
all the verses are about all those things. the point is the faith
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August 28th 1997
hi,
i didn't mean to cause all these arguments honestly. if you really want
my opinion, i think you should all spend less time arguing about things
like this. it's not really a matter of whether or not i'm going to freak
out over all the welcomes. i don't really think you should worry about
it. it's your newsgroup, after all. we put it here for you. you should
write whatever you want(including telling me to shut up, i guess, if i
seem to be lecturing [though i'd rather you didn't, sensitive guy that i
am]). for the record, you all seem like nice people, and i sort of
expected a bit of an uproar. it is a cc website after all. it should
kind of cool if i post. i mean, if it wasn't, it would be,well, wildly
calm of all of you. so, in any case, what i'm trying to say is i'm ok if
you're ok. ok? ok.
next. as to whether or not i am actually me. assuming we are putting all
existential connotations aside, i am, as far as i know, me. always have
been for as long as i can remember. before that, ask my mom. she's very
nice. all joking aside, i have no idea how to convince you, nor do i
wish to spend a lot of time trying. this is like the situation i
experience a lot when people see me and ask if i am me. i say yes. they
say no way, really? isay yes. they say no way, really? i say yes. the
say no way really? i say no. they say yes you are. i say yes i am. they
say no way, really? you can see how it gets boring after a while. as for
carole's assertion that it would be unimaginable for Mick Jagger to post
on a newsgroup, i would remind her that i am quite a bit newer to this
than Mick is and it is all a bit fresher for me and,honestly, i've never
had a newsgoup or a fanclub or anything even slightly resembling this
before the last few years and i still think it's pretty cool. so, if you
can believe that it's me ...great, you'll have more fun with my being
here; if not, you'll eventually realize you're wrong and then you'll
feel like an idiot. actually, that reads a little harsher than i meant
it to. sorry. it just gets irritating being told i'm not me. you all get
to write in. why can't i?
i wanted to respond to some other posts as well. someone mentioned the
houston show the other night. i thought that was one of our best in
recent memory. i'm glad you liked it. we've been in kansas the last few
days. last night charlie and i went up to lawrence on our night off to
visit some friends of mine at kansas university. we went bar hopping in
a college town. it was just like old times. i miss the times when we
could easily do that. nice people in lawrence, and it's a really pretty
little town. i love college towns. they remind me of berkeley. give me
gigs in madison and columbia and amherst and burlington and athens and
fayetteville and oxford(england or mississippi) and charlottesville and
raleigh and durham and chapel hill and winston-salem and boulder et al.
so cool.
as for another record, we hope to start rehearsing early in 98 and
record in the spring or summer, butno promises. you can't make albums
without songs. i'm in no hurry to make anything mediocre. they come when
they come. still, i understand your impatience. we all do. we have high
hopes. i don't see us taking the same lengthy hiatus this time. we're
all sick of hotels, but we're still loving the gigs and no one is really
burnt out like we were at the end of the "august..." tours. optimism
reigns in cc land.
i'm tired. it's late.. if you really can't bring yourself to believe
it's me, go over to the cc folder at keyword:mmc on aol. many of the
folderites there know me personally from years of postings and years of
hanging out at concerts before it was impossible to believe that we
could be normal enough guys to own computers and geeky enough to sit up
all night typing posts on them. if you can't believe me, maybe you can
believe them. they'll tell you we are all easily geeky enough. this is
my very last defense of my existence.. ther have to be more interesting
things for us to talk about.
i'm glad there are so many of you. it's nice to be liked. you're all
cool as lemonade. stop fighting(at least over me). you all have
something in common. that's neat. i just said "neat" shoot me.
goodnight.
me
August 16th 1997
this will sound preposterous, but i'm adam. everyone at the gigs asked
me when i was going to write in to the newsgroup, so i got a new
computer. valonda can confirm the validity of this,
me
Adam's Posts on AOL
* from Zak's Page - http://www.primenet.com/~ztv/crows.html *
"we're mixing now. almost done. songs are as follows: "walkaways",
"children in bloom", "catapult", "goodnight elisabeth", "i'm not
sleeping", "chelsea", "another horsedreamer's blues", "angels of the
silences", "have you seen me lately", "daylight fading", "miller's
angels", "good luck", "recovering the satellites", "monkey", "mercury",
& "a long december."
i don't know whether they'll all make the record, but that's
the plan anyways. the release is aug. 20th, hopefully. maybe a week
or two difference either way. "
"anyway, after a few weeks where we got very little done, things are
sort of flying along now. as of yesterday, we had master takes on
twelve songs, with 3-5 left. so far we've gotten "Children in
Bloom", "Another Horsedreamer's Blues", "I'm Not Sleeping",
"Angels of the Silences", "Daylight Fading", "Catapult",
"Walkaways", "A Long December", "Monkey", "Have You Seen Me
Lately?", "Goodnight Elizabeth", and "Miller's Angels". these are
not finished tracks , but we have the takes and they are all a little
over half finished or more."
"as for the rest of you, we have nine master takes down. this is a
really cool record. but these things take time. patience.
charlie's birthday exploded into the funniest 3am dance party on
the planet. the videotape is priceless. we have too many songs.
so much recording left to do. you will love this record........
.............................................or hate it."
"anyway, i'm beat, but i wrote a new song yesterday and we recorded
it tonight
after dinner. that is the way to do this, quick,
loose and natural. i played piano
and charlie played accordion.
everyone else did what they always do. ben is so
great on this
song. it's called "A Long December". definite album cut. thought
you'd like to know."
"things are going pretty well in the studio. the pre production
tapes kinda blew us all away so we're feeling good right now. gil
is a great producer. this album is really different from "august..."
which is alright with me. hope ya like it."
"i happen to be marvelously insecure. many of my very best friends
are also insecure and i like them a lot. if any of you are also
insecure, i salute you...you all seem very nice. when did insecurity
become a badge of dishonor. i think we all know plenty of those people
who go around pointing out other people's insecurities. nasty boring
spuds.. who needs them. you can all feel free to listen to my
insecurities all day long. one whole album's worth...going on two"
"i like my dreads because they do make me feel cool. i like feeling
cool it was a nice change for me"
" i like my dreads, and that is why i have them. i look in the mirror
and my silly hair makes me smile. that's good enough reason for me. "
"do you suppose that once one becomes a "Rockstar"(whatever that is)
one becomes an entirely different person than the person one was before?
what a silly thought. once a dork, always a dork. i'm living proof.
ask anyone who knows me(and that does not include whomever gave info
to the glob, sorry Globe). people's lives change, but that doesn't
mean people change. "
" as for previous recordings, there are demo's, but they're just
that:demos. i look at them as our own private practice tapes, so i don't
really like them getting out. they're out there, but i don't really like it.
i think bootlegs are great though, because they're shows we played for the
public so i don't care if they make a million of them. it's not about $ or
anything, the demo's are just private to me. piontlessly, i might add, since
they're everywhere. like my underwear hanging on the telephone line in front
of my house. did that make any sense?"
" i was in the process of thinking of a name for the band and had
compiled at least 60 horrible ones while watching mary louise's
1st film "signs of life" our name turns up in the film."
"it's hard to say how i feel about talking to people on the street. i get
really intimidated by it a lot of the time although sometimes it's just fine.
a lot of it depends on my mood. i tend to feel i'm best left on the stereo
but i like that part of me best. beats me.
just understand that i'm not always all that comfortable in those sort of
situations and try not to expect too much. obviously it's different with
one of you than with just anyone off the street, but i'm more than a little
moody(as i'm sure you've guessed) and more than a little weird. tolerate
me."
"everybody's got their own life to live, me included, and we all just try
to feel good and get something done. iwrite songs because i have to.
i can't really stop. if i could i might have. but that doesn't matter.
it's who i am and it comes out of me like breathing."
" i try to stay out of the eye of the press because i'm just
not interested in that shit. they make it up because they don't care and
because they can. they have no souls and they have no hearts....i do."
" me and a couple friends started an indie label this spring, label is
called e pluribus unum. truly clunky name. not mychoice. but all else
i love about it.
1st band is called "enormous" ol friends from
berkeley. they moved to baltimore and they have been on tour with better
than ezra and now bush. they rockand write coolest songs."
" i heard talk of some people being accused of being bandwagon jumpers.
there is no such thing. anyways, my grandmother, selma(who rocks) knew
about the band long before any of you and was far more horrified when i
wore "those ugly shorts" on tv. you're all on the bandwagon compared to
her . if you ever meet her, tell her how cool her shoes are. they're
not, but it'll make her happy. she's really nice. you'd like her. "
" ben mize is our new drummer. love him as your own. he is now.
he used to be the monitor guy at the 40-watt club in athens, georgia
(the best little club in the best little town there is) , but now is
is your very own.......ben."
""Miller's Angel's" is a song wriiten to be the closing theme to
the movie "The Crossing Guard" the film was written and directed
by sean penn and stars jack nicholson, anjelica huston, david
morse, robbie robertson and john savage. it is as beautiful a piece
of film making as i can remember and, at a time when i had not written
a song in nearly six months, it inspired dan and I to write "Miller's
Angels". I feel it is the best record we've made. I played piano,
charlie played a mellotron, dan played electric guitar, dave played
acoustic, matt played bass, and david immergluck, who had been hanging
around ended up playing pedal steel and mandolin. unfortunately, there
was only time at the end of the movie for about 3 minutes of what is a
6 minute song so we decided to pull it and save it for our record. we
just loved it too much to cut it in half. no hardfeelings though.
sean's the greatest, and the movie is devastating. we're sad but there
was nothing anybody could do."
" SO WE'RE WORKING AGAIN AND THE SONGS ARE GOOD, ONLY A FEW MORE
BEFORE WE CAN BEGIN. I LIKE THESE SONGS. I WAS WORRIED I WOULDN'T BE
ABLE TO WRITE ABOUT HOW I FEEL NOW; THINGS HAVE CHANGED SO MUCH.
BUT THE NEW SONGS MAKE ME WANT TO MAKE RECORDS AGAIN.
" ANYWAYS, THANKS FOR ALL THE BIRTHDAY WISHES. IT'S BEEN A WEIRD
YEAR. I HAVE A LOT OF MIXED FEELINGS ABOUT IT. I SUPPOSE THAT'S TO BE
EXPECTED. THERE WAS A LOT THAT I WAS HORRIBLY UNPREPARED FOR. IT WAS
SO OVERWHELMING, ESPECIALLY LAST SUMMER. I'M GLAD WE TOOK SOME TIME OFF,
JUST TO GET OVER THE FEAR. IT'S STRANGE WHEN EVERYONE KNOWS WHO YOU ARE.
THERE'S NOWHERE TO HIDE, AND BELIEVE ME I'M A BIG FAN OF HIDING. "
"we wrote a new song called "catapult" last week"
" As for songs of mine being veiled drug references, you're trying
too hard. They're just songs about me and how I feel. No secret cryptic
messages. Just how I feel. Anyways, I quit doing drugs a long time ago.
Nothing against drugs, they're just not for me anymore."
"Sometimes It Snows In April" is an incredibly beautiful Prince song
on the incredibly wonderful album "Parade". Don't be dissin' Prince.
He rocks. We dig him mucho. It just popped into my head one night at
the end of "Perfect..." couldn't help it. "
"mtv sucks. they are not nice about tickets for me. mary-louise comes
through with ticket for me. we go to the show. i get to sit next to
dennis rodman. he knows who i am. i am stunned. very cool. he says
he likes counting crows. i say i like basketball. "
"we made a record and we toured for 16 months and then we stopped because
i couldn't take it anymore. too much screaming. too many fights with
record companies and tv show producers and people who wanted us to do
more and be more and sell more. so we stopped . and we took time to
try and get lives and now we're about to make another record. not for
any reason other than we are moved to make one. for us. for matt and
dan and charlie and dave and ben and me. that's all. same reasons as
before. my heart is mine to sell or not as i please. i keep it for
me. i keep it with mine."
Visit New Posts Section (After - June 1998)
Many thanks go out to everyone who forwards all the AOL posts to thelist,
allowing me to put together the first section and also to
Chad,Zak and Kurt for their sections used in this.
Barry
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