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Today's Topics:
 

                             Re: Mona Bone Jakon
                                  Re: Stuff
                                Re: Sassy man
                                official site
                           atlanta y outshined...
                                  Re: Why?
                      Re: SG Moments into a question...
                               Mona Bone Jakon
                                   On tour
                              Detroit motorcity
                              Chris & baseball
                               our dear chris
                                   sadness

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From: Chris Mackenzie <cmackenz@spots.ab.ca>
Subject: Re: Mona Bone Jakon

Yeah, Mona Bone Jakon was written by Cat Stevens I believe...
- -- 

 Chris Mackenzie
 - cmackenz@spots.ab.ca   
 - The Unofficial Wellwater Conspiracy Homepage
 - http://www.spots.ab.ca/~cmackenz/
 - "Wellwater tastes better than tap water any day!" - SWRJr.

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From: Deborah Baker <deborah@rustycage.u-net.com>
Subject: Re: Stuff

1987 Whoops!  I was probably subconsciously trying to knock ten years off
*my* age!

Or I've been eating too many strained peas.

But I bet if there *had* been an SG calender in 87, June would still have
been hot!

The 'Other' Deb


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From: psyche <sknauf@HK.Super.NET>
Subject: Re: Sassy man

At 03:19 10/05/1996 EDT,  Moonsta693@aol.com wrote:

>My friend just sent me this pic of Chris that was in Sassy!  He was one of
>the sexiest frontmen in the mag poll.  It's a good pic too.
>

Hey! Wasn't that the magazine that (wrongfully) called SG the
ugliest rock band!? my, my,.........how minds can change.

My cousin sends me every pic she can find of SG, and I've noticed,
that most of them have come from womens'/teen magazines that
wouldn't have bothered to mention SG in the past.
But then, somewhere along the way (across a successful album,
a Grammy award and a CC haircut) they realized their mistake, and
are now referring to SG as being the "foxiest band", and "cute as 
buttons" (no, I'm not making this up........BUTTONS! for godsakes....
and CUTE!......oh what the hell, the entire quote is miserable),
Chris as being a "babe" since he cut his "'70s do",
and their music as being "music you can work-out to in the gym",
yes, great description of SG's music.

ok, I'd better leave now, before I get really sarcastic.......

sabrina
(the sarcastic sommster)
                          


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From: rea47935@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu (hasswipee)
Subject: official site

does anybody have any idea when this "new soundgarden website" that the
official page has been announcing forever will be up, and what it will have
in it? (<-- awesome sentence structure)
ive emailed them many times, but to no avail. if anybody has any idea on
either question, then post, or email me. 
thanks

                        Raul, Hasswipee, Whatever
                   http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~rea49625/
                     CD's im obsessed with this week: 
  R.E.M. - New Adventures in Hi-Fi, Rage Against The Machine - Evil Empire


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From: Luck's Last Match <toybox@email.unc.edu>
Subject: atlanta y outshined...

  IMPORTANT QUESION: So who all's going to Atlanta?

Alright, now that i got that out of my system time for something a little
different.  I was listening to (more like screaming along with) DISC I
yesterday, and during Outshined, i had a thought.  Doesn't happen much,
but sometimes.  Anyway, the song reminded me of the part in Hamlet where
his cousin comes through killing all those people to get a piece of land
and Hamlet can't even kill his uncle as a vengeance for the murder of his
father...I got the idea of the same feeling from both works....Does this
make sense to any natives of this planet?   And if so, any other SG songs
remind you of other works of art?   -j

"Stand up and everyone will see your holiness"  -Soundgarden.


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From: Lauren Simonis <gsalhs@noctrl.edu>
Subject: Re: Why?

Well, if you want to know if men and women like SG for the same reasons, 
my question to you is: What is your reason for liking SG? For me, I love 
the way the music speaks to me. CC has got a voice like no other. SG's 
music fits no labels or limits, and that's what makes SG so awesome. 
However, most of us females also find Chris rather tasty, as well. I 
don't know about you males . . . 
	--Lauren

On Fri, 4 Oct 1996, Taylor Holmes wrote:

> I was just pondering a thought...  I can see why I like SG in many
> ways... but then my girlfriend complains when I play it constantly...
> she's likes SG sometimes, but is really into the sarah mclachlan/Sundays
> genre...  although I like the Sunday's, I know it's really not like
> me...  What I am wondering is as follows: Do men and women like SG for
> the same reasons?, I would originally give an opinion of "NO" to this
> question...but I know only a fraction of the intricate complexities of
> the female... and dare I say i will ever understand them?   AAARGHHH!!
> Damn Pretty Nooses (or Neece? :)) Comments?
> 

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Subject: Re: SG Moments into a question...
From: jsimpson@mail03.mitre.org (Jamesetta Simpson)

>AHHHHH!!!!  I just finished listening to Screaming Life... minus the
>Fopp remix... and I came to wonder... having Listened to 'Nothing to
>Say'... Right from the start... from the 3 prevailing "OOOHHs!" to the
>A couple of other "SG Moments"...

I guess I must have said this a few thousand times out here, but I love the
part in Loud Love when Chris sort of breaths the word "Damn".  It really
does things to my mind..  

>That is what SG is to me... those moments when you can stand up and
>scream... those moments probably share the same amount of adrenaline as
>it takes to charge a bunker in Vietnam... thank god, my generation has
>yet to experience a real ground war... but if I was on the battle
>lines... I'd have a walkman playing Birth Ritual...
>Later, taylor

I pray your generation never knows a real ground war or any type of war. 
My generation did and it's not a very good time watching your friends,
class mates, and family members come home missing body parts or not coming
home at all.  The worst I wish on any member of this list is a bit of
shoving in a mosh pit in front of Soundgarden..

Jamie
(Village Idiot who still has an MIA bracelet)


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From: majoc@indigo.ie
Subject: Mona Bone Jakon

Lo y'all,
           Just popping outta lurkerdom for a second... with a 
question.... 
            Is "Mona Bone Jakon" a cover song? 
My pal listened to the Hater album and he says it's a seventies song 
or something.... oh well...

Ew yeah, that 3rd picture (on Seth's page) of Chris in Barcelona rules! I nearly bust 
a lung laughing at him! 

Mo.
<<"Sleep tight for me, I'm gone...">>
  -Chris Cornell, Tighter & Tighter

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From: Michael Groark <gerk99@bu.edu>
Subject: On tour

	Well, I just got back from being on tour with Pearl Jam.  And I 
have to say it was one of the best times of my life.  I hit five shows 
all over the northeast.  I met the greatest people in the world.  I met 
fans that sold me tickets at face value, one guy even gave me a ticket 
because he said, "you can't sell what is going to go on in there 
tonight."  People gave me a place to stay in Buffalo.  I was fed by the 
greatest bunch of guys and girls in Maine.  Well, the point is that the 
sense of community was amazing.  I am getting ready to hit about 4 SG 
shows,  and I hope the fans are just as cool.
						Mike

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From: Gonzo <jgg@pilot.msu.edu>
Subject: Detroit motorcity 

Hey yeah,hows it going Sommsters
        Dan,I am going to the Detroit show.I ordered 2 tickets for myself.
I do not know where I will be sitting or standing.Actually my father,Ordered 
them for me.Since tickets went on sale at 5:00pm friday and I was swamped 
with work at 5pm and could not get away to order them myself.It took him 2 hours
to get through to TM.Anyways my tickets are for something like #134 row10
seats 10&11.hey,whatever that means.Dan let me know if you can get me floor
tickets if it turns out my tickets are for somewhere in the last row or all
the way
to the side.I will then just sell mine for beer money or something.And,if you
do that for me I will play you a soundgarden song on my electric guitarra and 
even sing the words.
        The palace,why couldn't they have played the state theater or even
better,
St Andrews hall.Hey,Matt would Soundgarden like to come to Michigan state U
and play at the Breslin student events center.          
         Last time I saw soundgarden was at Lolla 96 in Indiana and Ohio.At Deer
Creek Ind. The front near the stage was reserved for people who got to the show 
early and received special red tickets to gain entry to the pavilion.I arrived
late around 4pm because I left home late and drove about 6 hours.
        In Ohio,I was getting ready to make my way up to the front when I
remembered That my new $125 sunglasses would probably get crushed in the 
mosh pit.Yeah,so I found a spot near the mixing board and watched from there.
So that wasn't bad.
Does anyone know of any ticket agencys where I might possibly find a Ticket
for the Toronto show.E-mail me at jgg@pilot.msu.edu. 
        Gonzo-Sommsfest '96 chicago and Detroit.
        
   
   


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From: Cynthia Siragusa <cynsir@village.ios.com>
Subject: Chris & baseball

Anyone else notice that Ken Caminiti resembles Chris?  God, I watch 
too much sports.  Cyn

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From: spierce@mpls.k12.mn.us (Sandy Pierce)
Subject: our dear chris

i was looking at the awesome pictures that vikki took in barcelona, and i
got this really sick sad feeling.  i haven't really taken peoples comments
about him looking bad seriously.  but he looks so sick.  skinny.  he
doesn't look like the chris i always see in my head.  tears came to my
eyes.  why are my emotions so effected by someone i don't even know?  i am
disturbed by his appearance, even if i have no reason to be.  i have to say
that that one picture where he is smiling really big is the sweetest thing
i've seen in a long time.  what a gorgeous man.  he's absolutely brilliant,
i just wish he was as healthy looking as he used to be.
sad and disturbed and wishing chris well (even if he is not sick) - amanda
p.s.  i did not win homecoming princess :(  it's o.k. really, i'm o.k...
i'm a nice girl, i'm a good person, i'm o.k.... just boosting my self
esteem....



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From: Neuromute@aol.com
Subject: sadness

Hey list,  long time no talk . . .  been busy, you know how it is, trying to
bring Grote along in the shyster business . . .

Well. I met Shroom tonight, and rest assured  . . .she is as cool as everyone
wants to think she is . . . too bad she didn't feel the same for me.   I
don't know where she was mislead, didn't I make it clear that I was a 29 year
old married lawyer?  I'm pretty sure she knew that, but she was so
dumbfounded that I wasn't pierced and radical looking that she just did not
know what to say . . . really wasn't conducive to conversation . . .
  anyway, I did the natural thing . . . I left.

So I guess the point is, I really feel shitty.  I thought the point of this
list was to bring together different people who had a common interest, no
matter who they were or how they dressed.  Mistake, I guess.  

Trust me, I did the scene when I was younger . . . all these wanna be
alterna-rock bands are nothing but the new version of Debbie Gibson.  I don't
mean to get off on a rant here, but when my friends and I were into Jane's
Addiction in 1987, it wasn't because they were radio darlings.  But now that
this shit is the shit, everyone wants to feel as if they are in on something
new and cool.  Ain't the case.  Of course no one wants to listen to us
dinosaurs, who did all the drugs and blazed all these tired old paths in the
80's . . . this alternarock thing is new and exciting!!!!!! 

The point is, who gives a shit how I dress now . . . I make money in the real
world, and still know what's up in the so called alternative world . . .
therefore. I should be judgmental of you pierced, wierd fucking outcasts . .
.but I'm not.  I guess I just didn't expect such bullshit from someone I
thought knew better.  My mistake.

The list is overrun with teenage ignorant newbies  (flame away, juniors)
 Seth, youv'e got your work cut out for you.  Anyway, Caryn, Grote and all
the rest, take care and be cool.....I still wish I could be friends with
Shroom, but maybe I'm just way off . . . I thought Nothingman was cool, so
what do I know?

Sadly ......Brian

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