Re: Len Bullard's comments about Gaffaweb

[chrisw@wwa.com (Chris Williams)]

> I really didn't care that it wasn't
> on Gaffaweb.  I just noted that so 
> I wouldn't get a lot of pointers 
> to look there first.  OTH, if Don't
> Give Up is there, so should be the
> common ground piece.  Gaffaweb is an 
> incredible resource.  It's a bit 
> overdone with the personalities, IMO, 
> but its for fun I'm told, not 
> scholarship.

   I really don't understand this bit. Gaffaweb not for
scholarship? That is it's main purpose! A quick glance
at the table of contents will confirm that. 

Introduction 
     Written by Emmy May Lombaerts 

The Kate Bush FAQ 
     Frequently Asked Questions about Kate Bush, the Love-Hounds mailing 
     list, and rec.music.gaffa.
     Compiled by Ulrich Grepel 

PHOENIX: The Early Kate Bush 
     The early years and unreleased recordings of Kate Bush. 
     Written by Love-Hounds, compiled by Wieland Willker 

DREAMING: The Best of Love-Hounds 1985-1995 
     Selections from the vast archives of Love-Hounds. 
     Written by Love-Hounds, compiled by Wieland Willker 

MOMENTS: The Red Shoes Collection 
     All about The Red Shoes, The Line The Cross And The Curve, Fruitopia, 
     and more.
     Written by Love-Hounds, compiled by Wieland Willker 

THE GARDEN: A Compendium of Information 1978-1990 
     An annotated chronology, the unpublished writings of Kate Bush, 
     contributions to the Kate Bush Club Newsletter by Kate, John Carder 
     Bush, Paddy Bush, and Del Palmer, a guide to collectables, and more.
     Compiled and edited by Andrew Marvick 

PASSING THROUGH AIR: The Videography 
     A year-by-year visual document of all television appearances, 
     performances, interviews, specials, and music videos.
     Compiled by Peter David Fitzgerald-Morris and Andrew Marvick 

REACHING OUT: The Interviews, Articles and Reviews 
     Comments and opinions in the mass media.
     Compiled by Andrew Marvick, Ron Hill, Wieland Willker, Vickie Mapes 
     and Love-Hounds 

THEM HEAVY PEOPLE: The Gaffaweb Dictionary 
     A lexicon of heavy people, places, and things associated with Kate 
     Bush.
     Compiled and written by Richard Bensam 

THE SENSUAL WORLD: The Lyrics  
     Soon to be the most complete and accurate Kate Bush lyrics pages 
     available, including unreleased demo recordings and alternate 
     versions of songs.
     Compiled and presented by Andrew Marvick, Wieland Willker, Chris 
     Williams, and Vickie Mapes 

THIS WOMAN'S WORK: The Kate Bush Discography 
     An ongoing effort to create the most complete and accurate 
     discography of Kate Bush available anywhere.
     Compiled by Ulrich Grepel and Ellen Van Neck 

WOW: The Gallery of Images 
     Many pictures. Many, many pictures.
     Compiled by Vickie Mapes 

Credits 
     Who we are. 

   From the first, when it became the new home to The Garden, it
was intended as a haven for serious KateBushological study. The addition
of Richard Bensam's dictionary, Weiland's carefully edited and annotated
collections of LoveHounds posts and Uli's discography (very much a
work in progress, and when finished will probably be the most complete
discography ever assembled.)

   Vickie mistakenly apologized for Gaffaweb not being finished. It
will never be "finished" as long as LoveHounds exists. 

   Right NOW Gaffaweb contains several megabytes of *text*, in addition
to the hundreds of images. It would take a long time just to read it all.
The "Reaching Out" section grows daily, as Vickie keeps putting up
more interviews and reviews. Her ultimate goal is to include *every*
magazine and newspaper article ever printed about Kate.

   I've been involved in this quite a bit (I did the majority of the HTML
for "The Sensual World" and "Passing Through Air") and I assure you,
it's been a *huge* amount of work.

   As far as "being overdone with the personalities", Gaffaweb is not
simply about Kate...it's the Love-Hounds/rec.music.gaffa site. It
is intended to reflect the personalities of the people who make up
Love-Hounds...if you want an impersonal view of Kate, visit the 
lovely Sony site.

   Once again people, it's http://www.gryphon.com/gaffa/

   Open to all, viewable on all browsers.