The Avalyn Digest Sat Feb 17, 1996 Volume 1 : Issue 02 There are 23 messages totalling 659 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. blah 2. talk talk 3. sad stuff (4) 4. slowdive/mojave tablature (4) 5. thoughts on MJ3 6. "there's nothing here for me now..." 7. slowdivers of the world, unite and take over 8. Seven Seas 9. pygmalion (2) 10. shoegazers 11. Mojave 3 News / Rachel on the list! 12. questio re:music in films...as a filmmaker 13. pygmalion/souvlaki/mojave 3 on lp??? 14. Slowdive History? 15. Store in Toronto 16. videos/other stuff --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [ Ed -> Please Note that I have made the Digest 50% smaller than before ] [ due to requests from subscribers. Please let me know if you think ] [ this is a bad idea (by e-mailing me: chief@lysator.liu.se). If ] [ you like it to stay this way, great! //Erik ] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 8 Feb 96 09:33:45 EST From: Sabrina_Frank@MAIL.FA.ORG (Sabrina Frank) Subject: Re: blah hello ben, thanks for writing..i too love slowdive/mojave 3...their music is really beautiful....it just does something that completely mystifies me....right now my friend is in russia (as an exchange student) so i have all his slowdive imports and singles...they are so good..each slowdive cd sounds different from the next....their music never ceases to amaze me...i know very few groups that can play so many different styles..and so well....well anyway....nice to hear from someone...a good slowdive song is shine..... -i am also a fan of the verve...i also have all of my friends verve singles...i would have them myself..but my friend beat me to the local record store (tower) that actually had singles not on the top 100....well talk to you soon... -sabrina- ------------------------- Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 15:01:27 -0500 (EST) From: fiddlepoke Subject: talk talk well, I'm always happy to get any list going a bit:) Well, do any of you people on the list know of anywhere that I can get a complete history of slowdive. If you look at a band like the cure, for instance, you'll find numerous detailed resources because there are so many people obsessive with the cure. Now, I guess that I'm kinda like that with Slowdive. But I really don't have that many resources. I'm pretty much stuck in a midwestern city (indianapolis) that is large, but it has no underground scene. Everything is classic rock, alternative, or country, and even the cool indie record store can't get the Slowdive stuff for me. Are there any books on slowdive? Is there any way I can get a hold of their videos? Any photographs? I've been to the few web pages that I could find, but I guess that I just want more!! oh well, has anyone been in any bands that have covered slowdive. until... -------------------------- Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 18:00:15 -0500 (EST) From: photon boy Subject: sad stuff its sad to say, but all of slowdive's stuff on SBK is out of print. they are selling JFAD for $25 and Souvlaki for $31 in my town, and these are domestic prices. Its really a shame that such an amazing band will not be heard by those not already listening to them (unless they reissue, and I doubt EMI will do that). joey ----------------------- Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1996 14:41:51 -0600 (CST) From: Jason Marc Morehead <00161068@bigred.unl.edu> Subject: slowdive/mojave tablature hello all... i was wondering if anyone has any tab for slowdive or mojave 3 songs. i have the tab for "visions of la" but would like to get some more, especially "dagger." thanks a million in advance. jason ------------------------ Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1996 18:16:12 -0500 From: banderson@DEMIAN.CCTC.EMERSON.EDU (Aubrey Anderson) Subject: thoughts on MJ3 I had much the same reaction as Jo when I heard Mojave for the first few times. I almost didn't buy it cause I was worried when I heard the description from a friend. But I too came around. I wish it were not quite So "western" sounding. But all in all I think it is a big step forward for 'em. There is a new level of complexity there and they are STRONGER songs. I think it would have been nice for then to get hooked up with someone other than 4AD, I think IVO etc. have been the kiss of death for many a good band. Feel free to argue with me here..... Aubrey (new to the list) ------------------------- Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 16:25:07 -0800 (PST) From: PATRICIA MARIE MORENO Subject: "there's nothing here for me now..." greetings, salutations, and all that other lovely stuff... i'm patricia...i am eternally grateful that such a forum exists for the discussion of slowdive & its new incarnate (i've not yet been able to find "ask me tomorrow" on anything but vinyl)...goddess knows it's long overdue :{. living in san francisco, one would think that their music would be easy to find... well...my love of slowdive tends to lie primarily with the earlier recordings--the eps and JFAD. [BTW: photon boy--JFAD & souvlaki are still available at regular domestic prices here in california--which is probably little consolation.] souvlaki is also dearly loved, but it seems to have an entirely different (rougher?) quality to it...pygmalion is (and please don't virtually kill me for this) still difficult for me to swallow--the swirl & distortion that i had loved so much was abandoned. it has taken me quite some time to come to like the songs i do like on that recording (miranda, cello, visions of la, blue skied an' clear). as for prosaic bits: i'm 21, a junior psychology major/human sexuality studies minor at san francisco state university (and have great trouble staying awake in class). other bands i love: cranes, electrafixion, echo & the bunnymen (i'm a very infrequent poster to the seven seas email list), tori amos, dead can dance/lisa gerrard, chimera, blind mr. jones, (early) cocteau twins...and more i cannot think of at the moment. this was intended as a introduction of sorts but i digressed...anyhow... "it matters where you are............." patricia bgoddess@sfsu.edu ps: erik--i did get your message from last month & i will get back to you shortly...when one moves, things tend to get lost very easily--that included that guy's email address i promised you months ago! :{ -------------------- Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 20:24:13 -0500 (EST) From: fiddlepoke Subject: Re: sad stuff That reminds me, I got JFAD on 12" vinyl tonight. Haven't lisented to it yet, though. I got it for $9 and it's from england. It's creation, not american wheee. -------------------------- Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 18:40:57 -0800 (PST) From: Micah Newman Subject: Re: slowdive/mojave tablature On Thu, 8 Feb 1996, Jason Marc Morehead wrote: > hello all... > > i was wondering if anyone has any tab for slowdive or mojave 3 > songs. i have the tab for "visions of la" but would like to get some > more, especially "dagger." thanks a million in advance. > > jason I know how to play "dagger", but I don't have time to write out all the chords right now. Probably within a week or so, I'll post it to the whole list in case anyone else is interested. --------------------- Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 23:25:11 -0500 From: Srilank@aol.com Subject: Re: sad stuff In a message dated 96-02-08 18:16:27 EST, you write: >its sad to say, but all of slowdive's stuff on SBK is out of print. they >are selling JFAD for $25 and Souvlaki for $31 in my town, and these are >domestic prices. Its really a shame that such an amazing band will not be >heard by those not already listening to them (unless they reissue, and I >doubt EMI will do that). Since no one in this state (which one?-you ask) of Ohio seems to recognize Slowdive there are many copies of the above two floating around. So, if for any reason someone on this list does not have the above two and wants them (and furthermore cannot find) I would be willing to pick them up a copy. Jason srilank@aol.com ---------------------- Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 23:44:32 -0500 From: "tOM." Subject: Re: sad stuff On Feb 8, 11:25pm, Srilank@aol.com wrote: > Subject: Re: sad stuff > In a message dated 96-02-08 18:16:27 EST, you write: > > >its sad to say, but all of slowdive's stuff on SBK is out of print. they > >are selling JFAD for $25 and Souvlaki for $31 in my town, and these are > >domestic prices. Its really a shame that such an amazing band will not be > >heard by those not already listening to them (unless they reissue, and I > >doubt EMI will do that). > > Since no one in this state (which one?-you ask) of Ohio seems to recognize > Slowdive there are many copies of the above two floating around. So, if for > any reason someone on this list does not have the above two and wants them > (and furthermore cannot find) I would be willing to pick them up a copy. yea, I picked up mine at the local "Media Play" superstore type place the other week actually for only 12.99 each. I had noticed them there for a while before I picked them up. they only had one of each (now they have none). I would certainly tend to agree about people, in my part of Ohio anyway, not knowing much about who they are. I don't recall ever hearing a single song on any radio station here (oh yea, I'm refering to that consertive bastion of Cincinnati). Whoever is selling them for that high a price is really making a killing on profit. ----------------------- Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 12:22:47 +0000 From: "Jon Kvebaek" Subject: Re: slowdive/mojave tablature On Feb 8, 2:41pm, Jason Marc Morehead wrote: > Subject: slowdive/mojave tablature > hello all... > > i was wondering if anyone has any tab for slowdive or mojave 3 > songs. i have the tab for "visions of la" but would like to get some > more, especially "dagger." thanks a million in advance. > > jason >-- End of excerpt from Jason Marc Morehead I seem to recall someone posting tabs to the 4AD list a few weeks ago. I'll try and dig something up during the day. BTW - I'm trying to gather a bit of info on slowdive...for a web page. So...pass what you have over to me. Maybe they could get a decent home on the web... ----------------------- Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 8:35:57 EST From: "Ricq Pattay" Subject: Re: slowdive/mojave tablature >> i was wondering if anyone has any tab for slowdive or mojave 3 >> songs. i have the tab for "visions of la" but would like to get some >> more, especially "dagger." thanks a million in advance. >> >> jason > > I know how to play "dagger", but I don't have time to write out >all the chords right now. Probably within a week or so, I'll post it to >the whole list in case anyone else is interested. i'm working on "allison" - i've got about half of it now. i'll post it whenever i finish (assuming i *can* finish it). i think next on my wish list will be "avalyn." anyone with chords/tab, please post them! (even though it's better ear-practice to work them out myself, i'm a lazy bum) flanger on "standby," Ricq (pattayr@fagan.uncg.edu) ------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 11:05:56 -0500 (EST) From: photon boy Subject: slowdivers of the world, unite and take over Just a little idea i had today. since we're all friends here, wouldn't this be a good place to exchange/help each other find slowdive things without milking us for $30 for a bloody EP. Some of the more geographically challenged of us, have a real hard time finding anything from slowdive, so if somebody say stumbled across a copy of holding our breath in a used bin and they already had it, they could post it here, or at least let people know about it. Another thing, don't let anybody leach you for the morningrise EP. I just got mine for $9.99 CDN, and saw 3 copies in HMV in toronto. YOu can still order them, and they are NOT out of print. And Slumberland records has the take me down/beach song flexi for $2.50. I got taken for $15 from a certain guy, so don't fall prey to these vultures on stuff like this. In addition, a store in Toronto has slowdive t-shirts. e-mail me if you want the address/phone number, they do mail order and they are not that costly. ciao joey ----------------------- Date: 9 Feb 96 11:09:08 EDT From: Christopher A Michaels/Instnl/VGI Subject: Seven Seas Sorry this is not listy! Patricia, I was unaware of the seven seas email list! I am also a E&TB fan (as well as slowdive). Would you mind email'n me (privately) the listserv address so I could join in? Thanks Chris christopher_a_michaels@vanguard.com >other bands i love: cranes, electrafixion, >echo & the bunnymen (i'm a very infrequent poster to the seven seas email >list), tori amos, dead can dance/lisa gerrard, chimera, blind mr. jones, >(early) cocteau twins...and more i cannot think of at the moment. ------------------------- Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 14:10:01 -0600 (CST) From: Katherine D Sauer Subject: pygmalion Hiya! I have had trouble finding a copy of Pygmalion, believe it or not. I looked here in U-C, in Seattle, and in Santa Cruz (the last two trips I've made out west). Can't find it! I know I could break down and order it from a local record store, but I am lazy. I am not familiar enough with the details of Slowdive's last album on (what was it, Creation?) that label. I hear it didn't sell well, so I was fearing it might be generally difficult to come by. My apologies if I am ignorant of such important knowledge. :) thanks!! Trina -- Katherine (Trina) Sauer Graduate Student and Goddess of Funkosity Environmental Engineering and Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign k-sauer@uiuc.edu ------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 19:09:04 -0800 (PST) From: Micah Newman Subject: Re: pygmalion "Pygmalion" is available on import through CDNow (http://cdnow.com). ----------------------- Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 15:38:27 -0800 From: "Kryshna R. Avi=?iso-8859-1?Q?=F1a" ?= Subject: shoegazers Hello, fellow shoegazers....it's the first time I've writen to one of these, so please bear with me...I have been an avid fan since the first time I heard "Waves" broadcast over some college station in Santa Cruz when I stayed there in '91....in any case, I hope that the supposed tour that I've been hearing and reading about wityh Mojave and Lush together will actually be happening. I also wanted to know if any of you have any stuff by The Charlottes, Bleach, or Moose...I've been trying to find some stuff by them, but to no avail...I know these aren't Slowdive or Mojave...but... they are great just the same. I've all of the Slowdive albums, but I've yet to acquire the coveted Blue Day collection, and the early EP's. On another note...me and my friends formed a shoegazing outfit called Mesmerized about three years ago, and if anyone is interested in getting a tape off of us, e-mail me at avina@uclink4.berkeley.edu and I'll see what I can do about getting you a tape. Well, I'm off.... "...like soaring birds I watch my sorrows play..." -Kryshna Avina "where's she fallen?....I hope it's not love..." (from Sistersong, by mesmerized=99) --------------------------- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 16:48:54 +0100 (MET) From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Mojave 3 News / Rachel on the list! Good news! I finally got a reply from Rachel (who is now tuned in to the list, in digest format), and the information she supplied tells me it must be her, or at least, someone close to her, behind the e-mail address (following the discussion we had before about that). Here's what she wrote: > Date: 10 Feb 96 21:13:13 EST > From: Rachel Goswell <101502.2725@compuserve.com> > To: Erik > Subject: Mojave 3 > > Hi Erik, > > I've read through a couple of your pages now, and just a few corrections/ > additions for you! > > Christopher Andrews played piano on the album, but is not a member of the > band. He is a close friend and was the only person we knew who could play > piano. Please note a real piano was used, so change the old K word.!! No > offence!! Okay, the other two band members are: Simon Rowe - slide/ > electric guitar (formerly in Chapterhouse); Poppy Gonzalez - PIANO - she's > entirely new to the scene. These two are added to the live set up, and > future recordings.. > > My burst ear drum has infact been a huge problem to me, and I have been > suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, which led to the cancellation > of gigs in Europe at the end of January. I have done nothing since our last > London show (Dec. 16th). I will be flying to the states, as my ear is nearly > mended (ie a new ear drum, has nearly grown back in the dead ones place!). > > Our first performance as a full band was infact in Paris on Nov. 17th. This > was at a radio station. It was broadcast live throughout France, and is > called "The Black Session",; and was done infront of an audience of roughly > 100 people. This was very nervewracking!! Poppy had a grand piano. Our first > live accoustic set which was me Neil & Simon was opening for Tarnation at > The Tabernacle (London), on 9th Nov., we did 5 songs, which included a > cover of Neil Young's "Through my sails". It was 2 guitars, and vocals. > > Current news: we are near completion of a new version of "Mercy" which > includes a 21 piece string section. This will be released worldwide as > a single probably in June. It will be put to radio in America in March > (to support the up & coming tour). > > I think this is all there is to tell... > > Kind Regards, > Rachel //Erik Soderstrom (chief@lysator.liu.se) ------------------------- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 14:17:51 -0500 (EST) From: NWND@grove.iup.edu Subject: questio re:music in films...as a filmmaker hey... im sending this post to several lists hopinf for a response... i am an ameteur filmmaker. I make mostly silent films, with what i'd like to consider an influence of rouben mamallion (early film interpretation of jeykll and hyde), wim wenders and william wyler, among others...my question is...im really wanting to put a music score to the films...does anyone know the prcedure for getting permission to use copywritten music in the score...i noticed that the most recent greg arraki (sp) film featured every band i've ever loved, and i wondered how exactly one would assemble such a cast...any suggestions, ideas advice is welcomed... peace adnarim nwnd@grove.iup.edu ------------------------- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 14:33:34 -0500 (EST) From: NWND@grove.iup.edu Subject: pygmalion/souvlaki/mojave 3 on lp??? anyone know if the two latest slowdive records and or the mojave 3 lp is available on vinyl...just curious....just got a copy of l cohen's songs of love and hate in reallly good condition and im once again in love with records....thanks in advance... bryan (adnarim) ---------------------- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 05:57:13 +0100 (MET) From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: Slowdive History? On Thu, 8 Feb 1996, fiddlepoke wrote: > Well, do any of you people on the list know of anywhere that I can get a > complete history of slowdive. The history-section of the Slowdive Discography (v1.9) (in case you haven't seen it) looks like this: Long-term school-friends Neil Halstead & Rachel Goswell formed Slowdive in October 1989, the name, Slowdive, coming from a dream Niel Halstead once had. According to an interview in Alternative Press, he dreamt of two words, Slowdive and Slowburn. At first they were a highly derivative My Bloody Valentine/Sonic Youth clone, but even their first demo reveals a better understanding of controlled noise than most of their contemporaries. In their defence the 'demo' was really just them recording for fun, and it wasn't until early in 1990 that the band became Slowdive proper with their own ideas. The major change was the addition of third guitarist, Christian Savill, previously of local act Eternal. "We advertised for a female guitarist, but only Christian replied. He writes a sweet letter though, he said he'd wear a dress if neccesary". The songs on the second demo show a leap forward, while previously they headed towards a climax of noise, 'Avalyn' was a gentle steady flow of nearly white noise. It's this demo, passed on by another Reading act, Swervedriver, that brought Slowdive onto Creation records and became the first single, as attempts to recreate the atmosphere in a more expensive studio failed. Problamaticaly between recording the demo and signing to Creation their drummer left for University, and they were forced to draft in a replacement. He didn't share the same aims and tastes as the group, and they didn't really get on with him, making time on the road a little uncomfortable. More importantly "He had a shaggy perm, he looked like Jon Bon Jovi" so he was replaced by the bowl-cutted Simon Scott, of the sadly deceased Charlottes. Simon later left Slowdive on good terms in February-March 1994 to continue his career in jazzy circles and was replaced by "the immensely handsome and talented" Ian MacCutcheon before they went on their 1994 north american tour, which they paid for themselves since SBK Records, their U.S. distributor, who had promised them an extensive tour, went out of business. My Bloody Valentine have been directly relevant to their use of guitar sound. The Cocteau Twins and The Byrds were big influences too. They worry about the build them up/knock them down syndrome, complaining that the British press expect revelations with the first record, while bands like the Cocteau's & MBV have taken years to achieve the respect they have. The problem has probably been caused by the string of excellent debuts by Pale Saints, Ride, Bleach and Slowdive themselves creating an expectation that the best music will come from previously unknown bands. Slowdive have been perhaps particularly lucky with Melody Maker giving them single of the week for all their releases during 1991, and a reviewer at NME giving them the same accolade as he felt the review printed the previous week was unfair. Slowdive was the first band featured by Creation on IRC on february 2nd 1995. In one of Slowdive's newsletters, they wrote about a planned cover of Galaxie 500's "Fourth of July" for a tribute album, that was going to be released by Elefant Records in Spain. To my knowledge, the album was unfortunately never released, and probably never will be, at least not including Slowdive, beacuse the band was dropped by Creation shortly after the release of Pygmalion, April 1995. This affected the release of Pygmalion in the U.S. and the band started to look for a new label. Rumors said that Rachel and Neil sent a demo to 4AD, which got a positive reaction from the label. And that happened to be the truth. Rachel, Ian and Neil formed the band Mojave 3 and were signed to 4AD in the summer of 1995 (for that story, please check the Mojave 3 Discography). Rachel Goswell said: "After that ("Pygmalion"), Slowdive didn't so much split as take a shift in direction, one that a couple of the other members weren't comfortable with. It didn't seem right to carry on with the same name, we needed to get a fresh start and all the pieces fell into place for us to get one.". //Erik (chief@lysator.liu.se) --------------------- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 05:57:35 +0100 (MET) From: chief@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: Store in Toronto On Fri, 9 Feb 1996, photon boy wrote: > In addition, a store in Toronto has slowdive t-shirts. e-mail me if you > want the address/phone number, they do mail order and they are not that > costly. Hi Joey, please post their address/phone number to the list, as I think a lot of people would want to contact that store on this list. :-) If you have prices/what t-shirts they have, please post that information as well, if you can. Thanks! //Erik (chief@lysator.liu.se) --------------------------- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 00:01:18 -0500 (EST) From: photon boy Subject: videos/other stuff Hi, I am severely geographically challenged, and because of this, I don't get cable where I live. We do have indoor plumbing and electricity but that's about it. That means I ne'er get to see videos, which is generally a good thing. Although, I would love to see any videos from Mojave and Slowdive. Does anybody have any of these on tape or anything? I would love to have them, as well as my bloody valentine videos. If somebody could tape them for lil' ole me, I could give them monetary compensation and my undying love. also, is anybody planning on buying the new ride album? has anybody heard it yet. i usually don't give bands another chance once they put out a bad album, and i'd be as likely to buy a new album from ride as i would another "coming" of those pesky stone roses. i'm actually curious to hear what they have done in their times of turmoil, and fanbase backlash to carnival of light. yet another thing, sometimes i go for weeks on end listening to nothing but slowdive and my bloody valentine. anybody else have these episodes? sorry for rambling, joey PS: Oh yeah, i've decided to boycott all creation records products, that is as soon as i get everything from swervedriver and slowdive. ------------------------ End of The Avalyn Digest #1.02 ****************************** * To subscribe/unsubscribe to the Digest version of the list, send your request (including the word "DIGEST") to: avalyn-request@lysator.liu.se * To subscribe/unsubscribe to the Live version of the list, send your request to: avalyn-request@lysator.liu.se * The maintainer of both mailing lists is chief@lysator.liu.se, and can also be reached at owner-avalyn@lysator.liu.se * All messages to the Live mailing list should be sent to: avalyn@lysator.liu.se * The digests can also be found in in ASCII format at ftp.lysator.liu.se /pub/texts/uxu/avalyn and in HTML format at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~chief/avalyn.html.