From: Automatic digest processor To: Recipients of SOMMS digests Subject: SOMMS Digest - 19 Jul 1999 to 20 Jul 1999 Date: Tuesday, July 20, 1999 2:01 AM There are 8 messages totalling 213 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Weird funky shit 2. Chris and holidays, matt md 3. Badmotorfinger 4. Ernst Long 5. single video theory (3) 6. Soundgarden mp3s??? To UNSUBSCRIBE from SOMMS, send email to LISTSERV@MITVMA.MIT.EDU with the following in the body of your message: SIGNOFF SOMMS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 03:45:33 -0400 From: jenny grover Subject: Re: Weird funky shit > and I was like "where's Matt?" and then he teleported in. He didn't > stay very long and Ben was busy or something. Yeah, Ben was busy being in my dreams. As for what Matt's doing, he *could* be involved in those Hater-esque rehearsals John McBain mentioned, although John has yet to disclose just who is on board right now. Jen ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 09:15:22 -0700 From: Mark Miller Subject: Chris and holidays, matt md I only get the digest so I dont read a few posts. I just wanted to make sure everyone read the article with Matt on the modern drummer pare (www.moderndrummer.com). I thought it was pretty amazing to read that he would have to work again after the success of soundgarden. Matt even wrote some of the songs, and that should give him additional royalties. It is hard to believe management screwed them over for obvious reasons. I cant imagine that they only got the typically 10% of the album sales. I wonder, why they are so broke? What is up w/ Chris and holidays? Off the top of my head I can recall him singing about Xmas eve, halloween, and the 4th of July. Mark ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 23:37:31 +0200 From: Jon Waltersson Subject: Re: Badmotorfinger Sam Nethery skrev: > Thanks for the info. > According to your e-mail address you live in New Zealand. I live in Aus= tralia so it could just be a location-of-print thing. Hmm....this is pretty interesting. I live in Sweden and have a 'gold' cop= y, whilst my friend has a yellow one. Both of us have bought them in the same area in Sweden (and it was only six mo= nths in between, I bought mine early =B495, and he got his copy late =B495.) Yeah, look - I got to tell ya I b= ought mine before him, pretty neat, uh? ;) Anyhows, looks like there is more to it than just 'a location-of-print th= ing'. But what that could be beats me... ciao Jon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 10:42:33 +1200 From: Adrian Humphrey Subject: Ernst Long Does anyone have any background info on Ernst Long (Saxophonist on BMF). He kicks ass. Adrian. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 20:59:48 EDT From: Niki Freer Subject: single video theory hey sommsters. just got another bout of curiousity while eyeballing the chriscornell.com domain today. what, normally, is the ratio of days from the release of Proposed Hit Single to release of Proposed Hit Single's Video for Mtv and VH1? i've never really kept my eyes on these types of things before. it seems, if my memory likes me today, that the actual song comes out a few weeks before a video? And i know this is an inane one, but anyone have any idea of Cornell will actually release singles IN the united states, or are we going to have to shell out for imports still? I haven't seen any mention of US single release dates other than to radio, however. I'm thoroughly amused at the fact that the intro page was changed from Def Leppard to Chris Cornell. oh, and those looking for a piece of the Vikki and Chris dinner story, there's an image up on UKDeb's site. mindriot ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 22:10:49 -0500 From: Jon-Paul Andolina Subject: Re: single video theory ----- Original Message ----- From: Niki Freer To: Sent: Monday, July 19, 1999 7:59 PM Subject: single video theory > hey sommsters. > > just got another bout of curiousity while eyeballing the chriscornell.com > domain today. what, normally, is the ratio of days from the release of > Proposed Hit Single to release of Proposed Hit Single's Video for Mtv and > VH1? i've never really kept my eyes on these types of things before. it > seems, if my memory likes me today, that the actual song comes out a few > weeks before a video? > In the few examples ive seen the song needs to be "gaining momentum" for the record company (or whoever) shells out the cash for the video. The only example of this I can think of is Weezer's song Pink Triangle....They said if it didnt get alot of airplay there would be no video made (and it didnt... hence no video). I dont know if it works this way for all singles and bands but thats the way ive seen it btw im not a "newbie" just a very secluded lurker jpa ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 20:24:46 PDT From: Dave George-Cosh Subject: Re: single video theory > > hey sommsters. > > > > just got another bout of curiousity while eyeballing the >chriscornell.com > > domain today. what, normally, is the ratio of days from the release of > > Proposed Hit Single to release of Proposed Hit Single's Video for Mtv >and > > VH1? i've never really kept my eyes on these types of things before. it > > seems, if my memory likes me today, that the actual song comes out a few > > weeks before a video? > > Record companies test out the waters, so to speak, of the song before wondering if they should spend over $100k to make a video that might not even get rotation in MTV/Much/VH1/MuchMoreMusic. There are plenty of songs that haven't been in heavy rotation that have been released to radio the week before. I can't name any now, but I'm sure they're out there. Usually the week or two before the vid is scheduled to come out, the single is released to radio. I think that since Chris is a part of one of the 90's greatest bands, his solo LP is really, really awaited and he's a beautiful lyricist/singer, that the vid will be in heavy airplay. I mean, look at Pretty Noose. Though, the next singles/vids might not get a lot of airtime, they're nice to buy and listen to the B-sides. Speaking of which, I can't wait for Can't Change Me's B-Side. If the track record serves well, Soundgarden's B-sides rivaled the single itself, so I really can't wait for hidden treasures Chris has hidden from us. Dave ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 20:53:49 PDT From: Sassy * Subject: Soundgarden mp3s??? *breaks in amongst the banter* Hi Sommsters.. I was just wondering if anyone knew of any Soundgarden mp3 sites or sites that have SG mp3s? A friend of mine is looking for 'The girl you want' but can't find anything. I seem to remember someone posting that they had a site like this, unless I'm confusing you with another list?.. I've had a bit of a scour of the net but couldn't find a thing... any ideas??? Sassy ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ End of SOMMS Digest - 19 Jul 1999 to 20 Jul 1999 ************************************************