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From: "ROSSI J.A." <rossi@nusc.ARPA>
Date: 11 Feb 87 16:07:00 PST
Subject: Getting the facts straight
Reply-To: "ROSSI J.A." <rossi@nusc.ARPA>
I must indeed apologize for having better things to do with my time than memorize all the musicians and their instruments on any given album I listen to. Now, I realize that there are those of us on this list that must include Kate into every aspect of their lives. I really don't care that it wasn't Kate who played the Fairlight on Never for Ever, I guess that the old axiom about assuming making an ass out of u and me holds here. However, even though Kate may not have been playing the Fairlight, and I will even go so far as to say that the sounds which I consider Tomita-like might have even been made using a CS-80 (afterall Tomita didn't use sampling synths, either), I still maintain that many of the electronically produced paterns are dead ripoffs from Snowflakes are Dancing. This is in itself not bad, in that I consider some of the sounds to be very intricate and subtle variations on standard instrument sounds, however, what I was trying to say was that much of it, for which Kate must surely be given credit (this isn't an Alan Parson's album we are discussing here) has been done before, and furthermore, done better by Tomita. MYGOD!! I said better. Did I mean better? No, I guess I meant more asthetically pleasing (a very strange description, indeed) to me as a disembodied metaphor existing somewhere in ARPANET. To Doug Trainor : Do you ever read your mail or answer it? I have been trying to send mail to an address which will work for you. I am of the opinion that IED should continue to receive the stuff that you've been sending out lately. It should almost make up for the enormous time his almost meaningless fanatical ramblings take up in Love-Hounds. Please construct for me a mailing address for you that I can access without the domain names. Does LOCUS.ARPA work? To Wicinski : Have you gotten my mail I sent to CSS yet, shoult I try CST or can you be reached a la Hofpersonn at COM? About Diamanda Galas : Will someone purchase The Divine Punishment for me? I will gladly pre-pay by check if you can send me an address and reserve a copy whever you can find it. To Bill Hsu : Your Coitus tape will be on the way shortly, I hope you haven't moved since you last sent your address. Squids who spew on squids are the luckiest squids in the universe... John ------