From: Automatic digest processor To: Recipients of SOMMS digests Subject: SOMMS Digest - 25 Jan 1999 to 26 Jan 1999 Date: Tuesday, January 26, 1999 1:58 AM There are 15 messages totalling 406 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. THAYIL (2) 2. CC on VH1 3. [DownUndershoe] local 121 4. I4m ashamed 5. Chris and Heart... 6. A-Sides (3) 7. Set your videos for Saturday 8. Lighten up! 9. i'll eat hay. watch me. (2) 10. bootlegs, bootlegs, bootlegs 11. Fresh Deadly Rarities and Stolen Prayers To UNSUBSCRIBE from SOMMS, send email to LISTSERV@MITVMA.MIT.EDU with the following in the body of your message: SIGNOFF SOMMS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 00:08:39 PST From: Devil King of Children Subject: THAYIL No you don't understand. Kim Thayil is the best guitarist in the history of anyone. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 05:30:26 EST From: Niki Freer Subject: Re: THAYIL boot_camp666@HOTMAIL.COM writes: > No you don't understand. > > Kim Thayil is the best guitarist in the history of anyone. no YOU don't understand. this thread is f...ing annoying and inane. you think kim's the best? ok... back it UP with something at least if you're going to clog my box with the same post 2 or more times. god people...i mean, i really hate to sound like the List Bitch anymore, but it's just to that point, i suppose. my apologies to those i care about on here. mindriot ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 07:53:18 -0500 From: Anna Mincieli Subject: CC on VH1 Hi Y'all, I just saw a few CC clips (commenting on that "VH1"s" "Behind the Music" special on "HEART", which brought back some old memories of that night that I got to meet CC in this small club in NYC in late '87. I had no clue as to who SG were at the time, It seemed, by the crowd, that I was the only one who had no idea who SG was yet. I watched their stage show and was hooked from that day on and on...,.> I had a conversation with CC, but I made it clear that I had never heard of him before. He was even telling me that their song was playing on the radio, (which I guess was "Nothing to say"). but I still had never heard of them. CC told me that he was from Seattle, and the only band that I loved from Seattle was "Heart". He had told me that he had met them . I responded on how Ann's vocals had perfected my vocal range and she was the only musician out there, who I'd love to meet, and just shake her hand, and let her know how much she's taught me vocally. Keepin' in mind, that this went down pre-SG. I was just in "awe" when CC said that he had met "Ann Wilson", CC did tell me that he was on tour, I couldn't understand how I could have never heard of them , when everybody else knew who they were. Well. the moral of the post was to tell you that you can catch a few glimpses of Chris on TV by watching this show. I'm sure VH1 will be repeating it. ~~keepin' your GOOG EYE opened!!! I was even more excited about CC's solo record after that "RS" interview. I'm happy that Chris is finally getting to do what he wants, with his vocals. It sounds to be a very diversified album, and I'm all for that. I've heard CC dabble with some R&B in songs such as "Seasons", and a few on "TOTD". He only said that he had recorded just one R&B song, just so he can sing like that. CC is versatile, and I think this will reflect on his solo record. I always felt like CC's vocals were always used as an insrument, and he's finally getting the opportunity to expand in all that. P&L Anna ---------<>---------<>---------<>--------<>---------'Innocence can't see in a darkened world that surrounds you' ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 08:30:48 -0500 From: Geoff Kleemola Subject: Re: [DownUndershoe] local 121 That news is more than two years old. Check out the url, it's from october of 96. I don't know if that ever went through. Anyone in Seattle been to 121? Geoff ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 06:17:51 PST From: Kenny Bungss Subject: I4m ashamed Does anyone know wether it was S.G or A&M, who wanted to release the "a-sides" ???? I mean...what kinda shit isn4t it to release that record ?? Did anybody ( The real fans) even want it ?? Or was it Kim who wanted it ?? Wouldn4t it have been cooler to release the great songs from Fopp and other cool tracks ?? That4s to me,,,a real record......not the most super-famous songs from every ordinary record..that we already have !! Well call me stupid but I4m kinda ashamed about it..... thought it was below Soundgarden to do such things............ Anyway........Does anyone know where you can find some cool live-videos with the gods ?? And I don4t mean "Badmotorvision" "Louder than Live" Please tell me if you know.......... I4M LOOKING CALIFORNIA, AND FEELING MINNESOTA ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 09:21:32 -0800 From: "Barbara L. Strong" Subject: Chris and Heart... I get the digests, so forgive me if this has been posted already... Last night around 11:45 PST, I was watching a "Behind the Music" documentary on Heart and the Wilson sisters and low and behold our beloved Chris pops up on my tv. I was so stunned, I barely heard what he said - something about the sisters going from Heart to The Love Mongers and still being honest musicians. Anyway, VH1, like MTV have a tendency to run the same show 106 times, so check your local listings if you are interested... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 14:29:48 -0500 From: Kim Subject: Re: A-Sides I was really puzzled over A-Sides as well. I mean, this was a band that didn't cater to the media and enjoyed being inconspicuous. I remember Kim once saying that he wished people would just give them the money and not have to bother with promoting and interviewing and all that media bullshit. It was a sketchy move on their part. Maybe they had contract obligations with A&M? Like "You guys have to release so many albums in so many years, etc., etc.." -Elliott http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Studio/7915 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:17:54 -0000 From: Deborah Baker Subject: Set your videos for Saturday According to the VH1 programme schedule, the Behind The Music documentary on Heart will be repeated on Saturday morning at 8am. It may be on earlier in the week too (it was on at lunchtime today). Hope it makes to VH1 in the UK sometime soon! Deb ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 16:19:49 -0500 From: Anson Watkins Subject: Re: Lighten up! On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Sarah C Traeger wrote: > Who cares WHY they-(the increasing clueless MTV) picked the Black Hole Sun > video, fer cryin' out loud!? It was a rare treat to be surfing the channels, > planning to zip right by MTV as usual, and actually see a MUSIC VIDEO playing > (!!!!) and a Soundgarden video at that!!!! It is certainly better than most, and > anything is better than the endless versions of Road Rules/Real Life !!!!!!! Sarah > A very good point my friend. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 19:56:28 EST From: Kathleen Burrows Subject: i'll eat hay. watch me. <<"Don't be supprised if the next few years are run by independent labels, not the Major ones." That would be nice don't you think.>> stupid-pointless-question-o-the-day: what if zeh boys from SG all started their own labels?? what kinda artists would they sign?? Kim's label: ILoveBeerandPizza Records LOL... ; )~ jk... ANYwhoski... hear hear!! the horse IS the best geetarist!!! (psst!! kim is... heeheehee) ... give it up kiddies. x )~ peace, love, hope, faith, soup and s o u n d g a r d e n always groovy, kathleen : )) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:16:58 EST From: Charlie Mccutcheon Subject: Re: i'll eat hay. watch me. In a message dated 99-01-25 19:59:09 EST, you write: << stupid-pointless-question-o-the-day: what if zeh boys from SG all started their own labels?? what kinda artists would they sign?? >> i think that's the most intelligent thread suggestion i've heard in a bit. i think matt and ben's would be the obvious: stoner rock, retro 60's garage, probably a few electro endowed groups, trippy jazz type stuff. kim would have all the great art punk bands. but y'know what would be cool? if jack endino and kim did something together. anyway! last and not least, chris's: probably more pre-punk/stoner bands. maybe even some post-punk pop poop, probably (how's that for alliteration?). i'd definately expect plenty of experimental bands from all of them, since none of sg were really "lookin' for the hooks", as ms. love so put it. i'd expect good stuff all around. hear that fella's?!? thanks charlie ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 23:21:03 -0500 From: Anna Mincieli Subject: Re: A-Sides --WebTV-Mail-427623079-125 Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit I remember reading an article stating that the band still owed A&M 3 more records. The band could have just plopped together any number of songs, without even being involved with what material they wanted on A-sides. It also seems that Kim is being very selective about what material he's going to put on the next two records. The band has no choice but to put out these records until they finish out their contract agreement.> P&L Anna ---------<>---------<>---------<>--------<>---------'Innocence can't see in a darkened world that surrounds you' --WebTV-Mail-427623079-125 Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Message/RFC822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Received: from mailsorter-101.iap.bryant.webtv.net (209.240.198.91) by postoffice-101.iap.bryant.webtv.net; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 11:31:36 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: Received: from LIME.EASE.LSOFT.COM (lime.ease.lsoft.com [209.119.1.41]) by mailsorter-101.iap.bryant.webtv.net (8.8.8/ms.graham.14Aug97) with ESMTP id LAA29778; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 11:31:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from PEAR.EASE.LSOFT.COM (209.119.0.19) by LIME.EASE.LSOFT.COM (LSMTP for Digital Unix v1.1b) with SMTP id <13.000ED624@LIME.EASE.LSOFT.COM>; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 14:29:53 -0500 Received: from MITVMA.MIT.EDU by MITVMA.MIT.EDU (LISTSERV release 1.8c) with NJE id 0506 for SOMMS@MITVMA.MIT.EDU; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 14:31:44 -0500 Received: from MITVMA (NJE origin SMTP@MITVMA) by MITVMA.MIT.EDU (LMail V1.2b/1.8b) with BSMTP id 0837; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 14:30:06 -0500 Received: from acs5.bu.edu [128.197.154.50] by mitvma.mit.edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R4a) via TCP with SMTP ; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 14:30:04 EST X-Comment: mitvma.mit.edu: Mail was sent by acs5.bu.edu Received: from localhost (ekim@localhost) by acs5.bu.edu ((8.8.8.buoit.b5.ACS)/) with SMTP id OAA191772; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 14:29:48 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 14:29:48 -0500 Reply-To: Kim From: Kim Subject: Re: A-Sides To: SOMMS@MITVMA.MIT.EDU In-Reply-To: <19990125141752.18140.qmail@hotmail.com> I was really puzzled over A-Sides as well. I mean, this was a band that didn't cater to the media and enjoyed being inconspicuous. I remember Kim once saying that he wished people would just give them the money and not have to bother with promoting and interviewing and all that media bullshit. It was a sketchy move on their part. Maybe they had contract obligations with A&M? Like "You guys have to release so many albums in so many years, etc., etc.." -Elliott http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Studio/7915 --WebTV-Mail-427623079-125-- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 23:26:22 EST From: Igor Nepomnyashchiy Subject: Re: A-Sides Since the band owes the record company records anyway... if u ask me A-Sides is a good idea because its like a readio-play record... if someone buys it because they like BHS or Pretty Noose and want to have it on CD and then like the other songs and wind up buying more SG albums... than thats great... but wait... A-Sides, B-sides, what will the be third one??? C-Sides? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 23:45:52 -0500 From: Kendrick Kay Subject: bootlegs, bootlegs, bootlegs By any chance, does _anyone_ have any of these bootlegs: Violently Happy Noise is the Perfect World Come Together 1990 (various tracks from Lo-Fi Records) If so, please please let me know. You'd regret it if you didn't. :) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 21:06:24 -0800 From: Dave Brener Subject: Fresh Deadly Rarities and Stolen Prayers Hi Everyone at SOMMS, I was wondering if anyone has any interest in allowing me to purchase copies of either Fresh Deadly Rarities, Stolen Prayers, or both. I am seeking Cd copies but will accept taped copies is the quality is good. I am a huge SG fan, and am looking to increase my collection. If anyone can help me out I am willing to pay for the copies. I really am serious about this, so if anyone of you fellow SOMMSters can be of help to me, I will be grateful. By the way, might anyone know if Kim is still residing in Washington State? Thanks again. Dave Brener davebrener@yahoo.com _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ End of SOMMS Digest - 25 Jan 1999 to 26 Jan 1999 ************************************************