the-landing-digest      Sunday, January 31 1999      Volume 02 : Number 010



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  SNZ on ebay                             [Jessica Brandt ]

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Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 17:51:16 -0500
From: Jessica Brandt 
Subject: SNZ on ebay

Hey folks, Emily brought it to my attention that there's TONS of SNZ stuff
on Ebay right now. I see our man Andy Harman has a foothold on all the good
stuff already...he must have a job :P

anyway, soneone is auctioning off ANDREW BIRD'S THRILLS CD and it is only
$2 right now!!!

so if you don't have it i highly suggest you scoot right on over to

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=61606518

and if you cant get it that way, go to www.ebay.com, search for "Squirrel
Nut Zippers" and the Bird CD is on the list of returns.

GET THAT CD, FOLKS!!!

Jess
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the-landing-digest      Monday, February 1 1999      Volume 02 : Number 011



                               Today's Subjects:
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  hi                                                      [ElinaMalk@aol.com]
  Re: SNZ on Ebay                                        [Emaline555@aol.com]
  SNZ                                   ["Ryan Sargent" ]
  Re: SNZ                                                [ProfPlum97@aol.com]
  Re: hi                                                 [Abednego83@aol.com]
  Re: hi                            [bob pigeon ]
  Re: hi                                                 [Dragoon716@aol.com]
  Re: Newport Jazz                      ["Ryan Sargent" ]
  Speak up, ye!                           [Jessica Brandt ]
  TV FOR FEB 1-7                          [Jessica Brandt ]
  Zippers Concert - 9/17/98 Bogart's/Cincinnati  [Andy Harman 
Subject: SNZ

I'm guess still nobody knows anything about the KAT, JIM, TOM, or ANDREW 
albums comming out soon???? 

"this is a story 'bout minnie the moocher" -(curtis).

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Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 17:28:02 EST
From: ProfPlum97@aol.com
Subject: Re: SNZ

Check the official SNZ page for alleged info on solo work.

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Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 19:04:17 EST
From: Abednego83@aol.com
Subject: Re: hi

Jason's here!!! 

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Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 22:06:55 -0500
From: bob pigeon 
Subject: Re: hi

At 02:04 PM 1/31/99 EST, you wrote:
>just wondering who's on this list.

ya mom
ohhhhhhh

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Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 00:05:04 EST
From: Dragoon716@aol.com
Subject: Re: hi

Jose's here

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Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 21:18:27 PST
From: "Ryan Sargent" 
Subject: Re: Newport Jazz

>  showing the audience and the area around Newport (maine? mass.? new 
england...) <


It was Newport, RI, site of the America's Cup Trials and the Jazz 
Festival in 1958 - the place was hoppin' that summer!

WAY cool was Anita O'Day doing Sweet Georgia Brown and some other song.  
She is GREAT - she can really scat.

BTW - if you like hats, you GOTTA see this film.




............and Louis Armstrong ROCKED the joint!  



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Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 00:31:18 -0500
From: Jessica Brandt 
Subject: Speak up, ye!

Hey t seems as tho tons of people from the old SNZ list are signing up onto
this list, but no one seems to be talking. I wanted to dazzle my friend
Aaron with the amount of good info we pass around, but alas, there is none.

*tumbleweed rolls by*

here's some stuff for ya:

My 6 year old cousin absolutely digs SNZ. Imagine us dancing around my room
with me in a big sombrero and him in a Zorro mask and sword. 

I procured some SNZ single promo from ebay. I forget what it is. it cost me
more for S&H than it did for the CD. go fig.

Still haven't gotten my 2 SNZ postcards from that girl on ebay...waiting
waiting waiting...

I think i might be getting the copy of THRILLS off ebay, for a measley $2.
And then watch out, people, i will be selling it for millions, as I already
have a copy.

Someday in the next eon, i'll have some SNZ updates for you, as long as
SOME ONE gets back to me within the next decade.
 
I got the "Garden place: songs for our friends" CD from amazon. The SNZ
single is super (great live version of "Found a new baby") and it was taped
in Munich, and i MUST track down a copy of the complete show!!! Other good
songs: Whiskeytown's song, HOBEX (remember, SNZ bought horns for them??)
and Darren Jessee's solo song. If my damn car stereo worked right, i'd be
albe to listen to it over and over again on my endless treks to school.

Didja see BBVD at the halftime show? didja? i didn't. Don't tell me swing
isn't a fad, folks.

Oh! the new tv listings are up. Lookout for a posting!!!

NOW you all have stuff to discuss....so send any replies to 
the-landing@smoe.org
and let's turn this into a DISCUSSION list :)

Jess

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Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 00:53:38 -0500
From: Jessica Brandt 
Subject: TV FOR FEB 1-7

This week's list was brought to you by THE LANDING mailing list! hail hail
all those who have come to join us. pity the fool who will not be recieving
updates any longer :( This is the first official TV listing on the landing,
may there be many more.

*cmashes champagne on hull of the boat*

Gosh, there's a lot of crap on tv this week, unless you have one of those
ultra-hip stations like IFC, SUND or BRAVO. 

Remember, ***** is "pick to click," all times eastern, check your tv guide
if you're not sure, and if you have a question go to www.rockontv.com.


MONDAY FEB 1
nothing Zipperiffic on today. Read a book. Or, watch this:
10 pm on VH1 (let the good times roll) concert movie with lots of 50's and
60s stars.

TUESDAY FEB 2
6 am on BRAVO (profiles) Wynton marsalis
3:10 am on HBO (movie) The Josephime Baker story (20's and 30's cabaret
singer)

WEDNESDAY FEB 3
6 am on BRAVO (profiles) The life and times of Thelonius Monk *****
6 pm on IFC (ind. Film Channel) Life and Times of Quincy Jones FEAT. miles
davis, Dizzy GIllespie, Herbie Hancock, frank sinatra, ella fitzgerald, and
more *****

THURSDAY FEB 4
2 pm on IFC Quincy Jones, same as weds

FRIDAY FEB 5
8:30 am on SUND (the sundance channel) The movie SWINGERS that started this
whole mess, featuring BBVD *****
5:05 pm on SUND same as above

SATURDAY FEB 6
12 am on VH1 (hard rock live) Earth Wind and Fire *****

SUNDAY FEB 7
1 pm on VH1 (legends) johnny cash (not zipperiffic, but hard rockin')

COMING UP:
Lionel hampton and ruth brown on Austin City Limits (2/20)
Grammy awards, giving lifetime awards to Otis Reding, Johnny Cash, Mel
torme, Sam Cooke, and Smokey Robinson (2/24)
SQUIRREL NUT ZIPPERS on hard rock live (3/06)
BSO and BBVD on hard rock live (4/17)


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Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 01:56:22 -0500
From: Andy Harman 
Subject: Zippers Concert - 9/17/98 Bogart's/Cincinnati

This is old news obviously, just trying to get something started on the
list besides one-liners.  This was my second Zippers gig and was a great
time, I wrote this immediately after I got home from the concert.

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Originally written on 9/17/98:

Well tonight I got to see my favorite band, and then some.  An interesting
concept, going to see my favorite band live and standing in a big barn with
no seats shoulder to shoulder with people who want to do the jitterbug.
Very interesting, because a year and a half ago, I didn't have a "favorite
band", at least not one with any members still living.  That all changed
thanks to the Sheryl Crow Experience, which led me to listen to current pop
music regularly for the first time in 20 years, which led to the Squirrel
Nut Zippers and their surprise hit "HELL" from last summer.

Well tonight was a bit different.  Three friends and myself went to the
Bogarts venue but this time the Suits Picked Up The Bill - got 4 guest
passes courtesy of Zippers sax player Ken Mosher, which included (for me
anyway, since I got there early): inside and backstage before the gig,
watching them set up sound, ON stage and getting the show n' tell on all
their brand new saxophones from the Selmer endorsement, and when they did
sound testing I thought they blew a few notes.  Wrong!  From my vantage
point directly behind the sound board, I got to see the band run through
*4* tunes all the way, "Pallin' With Al", "Put a Lid On It", "Fat Cat Keeps
Getting Fatter", and "Trou Macacq" - the latter being an excellent run
since it's my favorite song from the new album, and they have been
scratching it from their concert set for most of this tour (I'll tell you
why a bit later, read on).  This was with nobody but me, a few sound and
stage guys, and a couple of house personell in the whole place.  I told Ken
after that, I could go home happy .  The deal also included reserved
seats, and if you've ever been in Bogarts, the whole concept of seats is
pretty much lost on them, much less "reserved".  But since we had to vacate
the venue for a couple hours and go come in the front door with the rest of
the mob as showtime approached, having the 4 chairs in the balcony reserved
did a lot to ease the fatigue.

First opening band was Gut-Bucket, a 3-piece combo who also was a part of
the Knockdown Society CD.  Zippers lead guitarist Jimbo Mathus once again
sat in with them: a guitarist, a washboard player, and a tub-bass player.
Very cool combo.  Jimbo had to have been dog-eared after fronting for two
bands on the same night... and probably every night of the tour!  They
played a slap-happy blues and kazoos kind of sound, the Knockdown Society
album "Songs for Rosetta" is available on CD, look under the Squirrel Nut
Zipper section.

Second opening band was a real treat - the Dirty Dozen Brass Band... these
guys have been around a long time - I have one of their vinyl albums from
way back in 1985 or so, "My Feet Can't Fail Me Now".  The Dirty Dozen are
actually a baker's half dozen, a 7-piece band consisting of two trumpets, a
tenor sax, a bari sax (who also played flute), a drummer, an electric
keyboard, and a sousaphone (who also played electric bass).  I haven't seen
a sousaphone in a stage band for quite some time!  The DD played 45 minutes
without ever stopping their New Orleans "street cadence"... seemed like the
drummer just led them into the next song.  Funky jumpy stuff, excellent
playing from all of them especially the saxes.  I had no idea the Dozen
were touring with the Zippers, and there's another treat to follow.

About 10 after 10 pm, the Zippers themselved took the stage.  During the
break, I was peeling the excess tape off the chairs, and the sign that had
proclaimed our seat reservations had something on the back - Ken had
grabbed it off the sound board.  What should it be, but a complete set list
for the entire gig!  So I had a "program" and even knew what to expect in
the encore.  Trou Macacq was scratched off the list :(   This song is an
absolute riot... also known as "The Monkey Track".  Tom Maxwell, who wrote
this song and also the hit "Hell" from the previous album, felt that doing
the song too much was starting to peg SNZ as a "calypso band".  While most
of us know better, airplay is a strange phenom, and when Hell took off that
was all most people ever heard from the band.  If the Monkey song (which is
reminiscent of Hell in some ways) was similarly picked up and played
heavily, that would make two in a row "calypso" style, the most visible
songs out of a band that has a repetoiure of more like 50-60 tunes and
growing all the time.  So Hell and Macacq don't go on the same program
together anymore... and Hell was their big hit, and so far they aren't
cocky enough to NOT play it .  But I did get to see them do it in the
"private show" earlier in the day, so I can't complain!

The Squirrel Nut Zippers:

James "Jimbo" Mathus - accoustic guitar, electric guitar, trombone, lead
vocal, percussion, songwriter.  The FORCE.  I shook hands with a very
worn-out Jimbo after the show, and the energy was still there.  This
multi-talented musician's passion for everything he does comes out in every
note of every performance.  I had a feeling that this handshake would be
something to tell my great grandchildren about someday, and that they would
know if this man and his work 40 years from now.  I already told my
granddaughter, who for some reason calls them "The Grownup Zippers".

Tom Maxwell - accoustic guitar, electric guitar, tenor sax, baritone sax,
clarinet, percussion, lead vocal, songwriter.  Tom represents the Dark Side
of the Force, with his minor-key, often "evil" sounding compositions and
threatening, yelling vocals.  He is truly in league with Roger Daltrey in
that department!  Also has written some more traditional swing songs.  

Ken Mosher - alto sax, baritone sax, electric guitar, vocals, songwriter,
and originally was the drummer for the band!  Ken at times is the "least
visible" member of the band although he was front and center on David
Letterman the other night.  He says he tips the cameras to keep away from
him on TV gigs. I "met" Ken on-line via the SNZ website which he
administers and posts to, and it turns out he is a major Sheryl Crow fan as
well!  We have exchanged emails here and there between his tour runs about
saxophones, music in general, and life and this was my first opportunity to
meet him in person.  Really the red carpet treatment, for sure!  Ken has
written and co-written some of the songs and works out the horn
arrangements.  His blistering alto sax solo on "Hell" is a classic, and
I've been working on learning it ever since I figured out what horn to play
it on .  You see, I assumed for the longest time that the solo in
question was Tom Maxwell on the *tenor* sax, because it has a really fat
sound.  But to play it on tenor requires an altissimo G - for non-sax
literate folks, that means it's a note over the top of the horn's range.
You won't find it in your high school fingering chart!  So how do you play
it?  Overtones and crazy, false fingerings.  Here I was trying to nail that
high G on a very uncooperative Yamaha tenor sax, when playing it on the
right horn would have been so much easier.  It's actually well within the
*normal* range of an alto...  so we had a good laugh over that one!  The
clue is there in the recording of HELL too... Tom's vocal intro "ooohhh
Beauty! Talent! Fame! Money!" overlaps the last note of the sax solo, and
he's good but singing and blowing a sax at the same time... now that's a
very special talent.  And the Zippers don't do anything in the studio they
won't do on stage - no overdubs, they play the whole thing flat out in one
take.  

Katharine Whalen - Banjo, tambourine, lead vocals.  Katharine has a vocal
style that one writer called "part Billie Holiday, part Betty Boop".  She
has a mesmerizing stage presence - not in a commanding or intimidating sort
of way as the great Bessie Smith had, but in an innocent, come-hither sort
of way.  When the band first arrived I almost didn't recognize her in her
T-shirt and jeans; on stage she typically wears a long red strapless dress
that is very "20's" looking, and has hair and make-up to match.  She looks
like she just walked out of a Marx Brothers movie.  Her singing is so
utterly unlike anything else you will hear, even from other swing bands,
that she is in a class by herself.  Her performances on the newest album
"Perennial Favorites" are if anything even better than her past work.

Je Widenhouse - trumpet/cornet.  Je joined the band for the third album and
has toured with them for at least a year and a half I'd say.  His playing
is very ballsy and is reminiscent of the early Harry James sound from his
Benny Goodman days.  I wasn't able to really hear him play until the new
album came out; last year the Bogart's sound did not favor the horns at
all, and the TV gigs have been fairly flat sounding too.  While they were
setting up, Ken mentioned something about Je not really needing a
microphone... I understood once he opened up right from the get go.  This
guy is living proof that you don't have to be an ear-piercing "screech"
trumpet player to be a "power" trumpet player.  His best work is on
Perennial Favorites, particularly the blasting opening to "Soon", and "That
Fascinating Thing" and of course "Fat Cat".

Stu Cole - string bass.  Stu had played with the band off and on since
almost the beginning, but joined up full time when bassist Don Raleigh left
midway through the making of the third album.  He puts on quite a show,
dancing with the bass on stage and slapping the strings on numbers like
"Pallin' with Al".  Again, like everyone this year, they had the sound
"dialed in" on Stu so it was easy to hear him and not just have to watch
and use your imagination .

Chris Phillips - drums & trap kit.  What do you get when you cross a punk
rock drummer with a string n' swing n' horn band?  You get the Zippers of
course!  Chris's drumming was one of the first things to catch my attention
in this band, the aforementioned line in "HELL" when Tom yells "Beauty!
Talent! Fame! Money!  Refinement top skill and braaaaaaaaaiiiiin!" is a
great drum and vocal interplay, reminiscent of the early Who (my
G-G-Generation).  The addition of cowbells and other noisemakers (I swear
there's a trash can lid somewhere in the beginning of "The Kraken") give
Chris a Spike Jones-like set of tools to work with, and he knows how to use
them.

So in the immortal words of Elwood Blues, "Lets get to the gig".  The nice
thing about having that piece of paper with the set list is it makes a
review like this a piece of cake.  From the top:

Memphis Exorcism - the band opened with this instrumental swinger from the
album HOT, very true to form with a few ad-libs and extended solos.  The
thing with most "Neo-swing" bands is they go for a huge horn section, a la
Brian Setzer ("Jump Jive & Wail") Orchestra.  But the Zippers pack a lot of
punch with a maximum of 4 horns going at one time (trumpet, trombone, and 2
saxes) although Ken switches between alto and bari so fast that he might
count as two players.  With the horns not jammed in huge sections, you can
hear the individual voices and everyone is a soloist - as opposed to
Setzer's big band.  
It was obvious also in the first number that the Zippers had taken over
Bogarts' sound board and really tuned things up.  Last year's concert the
sound was very bad, with the trumpet sounding very fuzzy and flat, and the
saxes hard to hear, and the drums not miked properly.  Not so this time!

Club Limbo - from the first album, and an early classic.  Some of the tunes
are so familiar from endless listening that they start to blend together in
my head, and I forget the names of them.  When I saw this on the set list I
said, "huh?" and then when I heard it, it was "smack! duh!".   I
immediately remedied this little lapse by picking up another cassette copy
of The Inevitable, so I can get these things straight while driving around
town (gave away my last car tape of it many months ago!)

Pallin' With Al - great swing guitar tune, officially debuted on "Sold
Out".  In trying to describe this song, like so many of the Zippers' works,
it just defies definition.  Comparing it to anything else always seems to
be doing it an injustice.  So I'll say, Pallin' with Al has kind of a
bright, almost county guitar sound, and Tom's vocals.  It reminds me of
some old Merle Travis, but as I said, most of you will probably say "huh?"
to that... its just a small piece of the puzzle.

Fat Cat Keeps Getting Fatter - great horn arrangement, a legacy to Cab
Calloway and 20's swing.  The live version featured a fair amount of
ad-libbing.  My granddaughter (4) just loves this song... keeps asking me
if I'm a fat cat and I keep telling her yes (and stuffing more pillows
under my shirt) but I'm not sure if she believes me.

Ghost of Stephen Foster - They are doing an *animated* video of this!!
They read my mind... of course I want the Monkey Track animated too.  Just
a great, fun song.  Jimbo's "dark side" song.  And in case you didn't know,
de Camptown ladies NEVER sang, oh de doo dah dey....

The Suits are Picking Up The Bill - This year's theme song?  Anything that
starts out with a solo bari sax has got to be good.  Reminds me of my old
boss, who always picked up the bill.  Dixie horn arrangement, great long
intro.

Bad Businessman - My "apple pie and coffee" bari-playing (or as Jack, their
stage manager said, I'm a "barely sax" player) number.  I can play this,
really!  I only boff it up 98% of the time!  Tom plays the bari on this
one, and Ken takes up the guitar with Jimbo on the lead vocal.  The
"Chinese Fire Drill" between numbers continues, with the band members
switching positions (most often it's Ken and Tom trading places) and Jack
swapping out instruments right and left.  At one point, I forget which song
it was, Jack ran out and swapped out Jimbo's guitar for another one in the
middle of the song.  It's worth seeing the concert just to see the physics
of how they pull all of it off, with 7 people playing something close to 20
instruments.

Danny Diamond - Neat ballad from the first album, with a funky bass line
and Katharine's vocals... written by Ken.

Soon - Another one of Tom's legacy yelling songs, I love it!  He introduced
the song by saying, "Is something going to happen soon?   NOOOOOO!!"
Great, hair-raising trumpeting by Je.  I love this line: "If you draw a bow
draw the STRONGEST... and if you UUUUse an arrow use the LOOONGEST!!!"

The Kraken - Spike Jones reborn, also improvised a bit but no string of
firecrackers for the intro (local fire code, you know).  This is a totally
crazy song too, but it's in keeping with the Zippers' tradition of being
full of surprises.  After about 2.5 minutes of intro, Katharine sings a
dreamy verse that is indescribable.  The genre leaps sometimes occur within
a measure, so it's a bit of an understatement to say the Zippers are a bit
hard to pin down in that department.  Ken said he thought the new album
might be too far "out there", but that impression, for me anyway, didn't
last more than the first 15 seconds of any one song.  The other neo-swing
bands will succeed, I'm sure, but you don't need to buy more than one of
their albums because they all tend to sound the same .  The Zippers, I
can't wait to see what they'll do next... and a Christmas album is in the
works!

It Ain't You - great Katharine vocals, minor key horns, and that funky
descending bass line that holds it all together.

Put a Lid on It - IMO this is SNZ's signature tune.  It got some very small
airplay after "Hell" but almost everything the band is about is
encapsulated in this song, the vocal duo of Tom and Katharine with most
everybody else backing vocal.  Je on the whah-whah trumpet, Ken on alto and
bari, and the hardest swing beat since, well at least since "Lugubrious
Whing Whang" which I have yet to hear live.  The CD version of this song
(on HOT) was recorded on minimal miking and actually mixed off a backup
running DAT.  The fact that the song came off so well without studio tricks
to balance the act is a testimony to how well this band plays together.
And live, it's even better.

Hell - It's always fun to see how they intro this song... almost always
with Tom telling a story, then the house lights go black in response to the
opening guitar, and are kicked back on by Chris.  I can't "not" do this
anymore myself, my house is full of fist-prints on drywall and the center
console of my truck has taken a beating.  I simply *must* hit that opening
kick.  

Flight of the Passing Fancy - Everybody kind of turned loose on this one
for a solo, expanding the song out to about 6 minutes or so.  Tom outdid
himself on the tenor sax solo, really the best I've heard from him live,
even Chris got to bang the bangers by himself for a few.

Encore----

Got My Own Thing Now - This is *my* signature tune.  Absolutely love this
song. There was that moment, when I bought HOT for the first time (I've
probably purchased and given away 2 dozen copies of this album to family
and friends, but Perennial Favorites is catching up) when I wondered... is
this band a one hit wonder?  Is "Hell" their only good song?  Is the rest
of their stuff metal grunt n' grind or gratuitous nostalgia?  Hell no!
First song off the top on Hot confirmed that.  Just an incredible, upbeat
song of the highest caliber.  Jimbo's enthusiasm rings in this one and
those punchy horns at the end... awesome.

Minor Swing - a new song!  I can't remember too much about it but it
sounded great.  

La Grippe - La Flu Bugge, which I hope hasn't bitten Ken... he said he was
pretty rundown by the end of the gig.  The party song.

I Found a New Baby - Old Dixie classic, one of the few songs you'll hear
the Zippers do that wasn't written by a band member.  The entire entourage
of the Dirty Dozen joined them on stage for extended solos, at one point
with Je and the two DD trumpeters trading off in a three-way duel.  And
that sousaphone solo... awesome!  And Ken squared off with the tenor and
bari player from DD for the battle of the saxes, Chris got in his licks,
and of course Tom and Jimbo although I can't remember if Jimbo played
guitar or trombone on this one.

That finale closed out the roughly 90-minute gig, which was virtually
non-stop except for maybe 5 minutes before the encore.  The only
dissapointment was the scratching of Trou Macacq (although understandably
so), and I really miss "Lover's Lane" being on the program... Tom and Jimbo
always put on a show with that one and I only got to see it once.

The Zippers are on break for a few weeks but pick up 10/17 at Radio City
Music Hall in New York and work their way down the east coast - that's as
far out as the schedule goes for the moment.

Thanks to Ken for the tickets, the inside look around, and all the great
songs and sax arangements!  I told Jimbo after the show that it was Ken's
fault I took up the saxophone in my middle age, and that it was his
(Jimbo's) fault I got my trombone out again and dusted it off... he just
said, "ohhhhh no, don't blame ME!  noooo way!"

Hope to catch 'em again if they cross back over the midwest yet this year...

Andy

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the-landing-digest      Tuesday, February 2 1999      Volume 02 : Number 012



                               Today's Subjects:
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  presently present                       [Dawn Carr ]
  Re: SNZ                               ["Ryan Sargent" ]
  some info                               [Jessica Brandt ]
  Re: some info                                          [Abednego83@aol.com]
  concerts.                             ["Ryan Sargent" ]
  re: thanks to me?                       [Jessica Brandt ]

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Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 09:17:30 -0500 
From: Dawn Carr 
Subject: presently present

Dawn in Virginia checking in to the Landing ~

Found myself at a super bowl party last night ---something has gone terribly
wrong in my life---and while I saw BBVD's half-time appearance, I couldn't
hear it for all of the chatter.  The room did quiet down for Stevie Wonder.
Gotta love this guy.

In other non-news, there are 2 albums that I have never played with others
around without getting "what IS this?" and sometime later "let's hear it
again".  The magic two: Thrills and an obscure little pop album, from
Moonpools and Caterpillars, Lucky Dumpling.  Just came back from a road trip
and it worked again (doomed now, no doubt).  

Hey Andy,
Help me out here, brother:    what?

 ~D.

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Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 12:39:19 PST
From: "Ryan Sargent" 
Subject: Re: SNZ

>Check the official SNZ page for alleged info on solo work.

I did, and there is nothing.

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Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 21:59:07 -0500
From: Jessica Brandt 
Subject: some info

Okay here's a few tidbits to whet your appetite:

Kat's CD is not ready for dist. yet. It's not even ready for pre-sale free
copies! 

Andrew and Mike "Nappy" are still in New Orleans, obviously trying to wrap
up the new album. Make yourself happy and buy his old album (before
thrills) at the address you can find on this page:
http://members.xoom.com/ZipperJJ/bird/bird.html
Jim is most likely going to make an appearance on the album.

Je is takin' it easy at home. Sorry Aaron, he's married...;)

My BFF people tell me that the album is done, and Ben is back and forth
from NY mixing it. Why wasn't it done in their house this time? Because
"corporate magazines still suck" (wait a minute...that was irrelevant)
Anyhow, soon soon soon....okay, in late spring at least....my two worlds
will once again collide when horns of SNZ appear on the BFF album.

So that's all for now. As SOON as there is any info on the new albums, you
will undoubtedly hear it here FIRST. i SWEAR.

boy, get that stockin' out of your mouth!

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Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 22:07:15 EST
From: Abednego83@aol.com
Subject: Re: some info

Jess-

I have to commend you on your helping out of  getting the news of everything
here... THANX for the new list... I feel like me and everyone on this list and
the old list should give you something - besides our undying attention and
love... You truly are the biggest Zipper fan in all the land! I come in like
9999999th place next to you... you rock!!!

Thanks Jess For rocking Hard,
=Je son= (going back to the old name)

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Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 20:02:38 PST
From: "Ryan Sargent" 
Subject: concerts.

Since I was reading that long post about the SNZ show, it made me think 
of my SNZ shows. My first show was on halloween at the 9:30 club in D.C. 
SNZ was paying with Andrew Bird and a Blues musicain. I loved SNZ but 
had never heard of Andrew, so I didnt know any of his songs.(now i'm a 
huge fan) The show was great, but we had to go as soon as the show was 
over.(so no autographs) About a month later my parents gave me an early 
x-mas gift...an SNZ road trip!!!! I had managed to get some photo passes 
for the first show. First we drove from Maryland to Asheville NC to see 
SNZ with Cigar store indians. When we got there we ran into a young 
college couple who had after passes, it turned out that the guy was 
freinds with je and came down because this is je's hometown. After 
getting in we found out that our seats were not that good. I had 
exchanged emails with Ken and Beth mosher earlier...long story, and ken 
knew us by name. Right before the show ken was running back and forth 
between backstage and the middle of the auditorium (tech stuff)...but 
nobody noticed him!!!! Me and my dad walked over and talked to him, and 
I thought my night was made. As soon SNZ started we ran down to the very 
front to take pictures. The security guard thought that we were 
important and made sure that nobody went in front or near us the whole 
show (we were about a foot from the stage). Katharine and Jim were even 
posing for the camera!! When the show was over we waited around with 
other fans for autographs...but nobody ever came out. All the other fans 
had left, and the only people left were us and the clean-up. We were 
about to go back to the hotel when my dad said he had an idea. He told 
me to follow him, so I did. We were about to go right in through the 
backstage door, when the security guy stoped us. after seeing a pass on 
us he let us in. (he must of thought our backstage passes were after 
passes.) When we got in there was a sign saying "Squirrel Nut Zippers 
VIP Party" so we went in. All of a sudden there was Katharine opening 
gifts from her family. (they were having a small vip/family + friends 
party) I was just standing around in there when Katharine reaches around 
me to get a drink!! I then talked to her and got her autograph (very 
happy she put a heart over it). Then me and my dad got into a big 
conversation with Stu, he seemed to love my shirt. That night I talked 
to Chris about his drum stick juggling, Ken about the show, Tom about 
the show, and Je about trumpet tips. I had gotten all thier autographs 
except Jim's. (he seemed to be staying in the dressing room the whole 
time). The next night we went to Myrtle beach SC to see SNZ with Hobex. 
The show was great, and when it was over I went outside around back for 
jims autograph. It was late and cold, and we were not allowed to go over 
to the van (we had to have a band member call us over) finnally Jim and 
Chris came out and yelled "What are you doing all the way over there!!" 
and walked over. I talked to jim and chris and got their 
autographs.(chris's twice.) I also mentioned to jim that I was heading 
down to Chapel hill the next day, and he said "Good deal. I'll be 
'headin down there soon myself." The next day we went to Chapel Hill / 
Carrabro NC, and I love it there!!!! I went to a GREAT (Record) store 
and picked up the vinyl for Inevitable, Hot, and Perennial Favorites. I 
went to a VERY GOOD taco joint called "Wicked Burrito". And went to 
mammoth for some posters (being very nice, she gave me two free SNZ 
posters. One which is not sold anywhere!!) And well...that was my trip. 
And my step-dad said that we might do it next year too!!!!

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Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 01:26:40 -0500
From: Jessica Brandt 
Subject: re: thanks to me?

In response to Je-Son's post about me giving up all the info...

I don't think I've done anything above what Matt Mitchell started out...i
mean, he owns the greatest domain name in the world! Until recently, all of
my SNZ news came from his site.

I dunno what happened to matt...i'm assuming he has a life now ;) (Didja
check out his "mattyshack" web sites? He's got talent!) And I'm glad to
take over and do some dirty work for him. 

As for giving me something....All I want is Zippers bootlegs Zippers
bootlegs Zippers bootlegs....and it seems I have already crnered the market
on those hehe....but even tho y'all appreciate this, and I hear the Zippers
themselves do too....I will never be as cool as Andy or Ryan cuz the
Zippers can't remember my name. Or my face. :P

Thanks dude!

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the-landing-digest     Thursday, February 4 1999     Volume 02 : Number 014



                               Today's Subjects:
                               -----------------
  Re: Show. Tonight. Word.              ["Ryan Sargent" ]
  je, ken, & tom.                       ["Ryan Sargent" ]
  a lil' story                            [Jessica Brandt ]
  Re: Zippers Concert - 9/17/98 Bogart's/Cincinnati  [Peter Destructo ]

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Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 11:53:51 PST
From: "Ryan Sargent" 
Subject: Re: Show. Tonight. Word.

>i take requests through email or in the studio at 213.740.1483

What kind of music????


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Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 14:43:36 PST
From: "Ryan Sargent" 
Subject: je, ken, & tom.

On the SNZ official page it said that je and ken (or tom) did horns for 
hobex and sugarsmack. Has anyone heard these albums?? if so, does je do 
any solo stuff????

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Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 18:09:16 -0500
From: Jessica Brandt 
Subject: a lil' story

This is something that happened to me today, which is kind of cute...and
something that would probably happen to Emily (or at least something she
would notice):

I was driving down the highway after school in an absolute daze. Had to go
to the music store in Akron. Anyway, in my stupor, I had totally gone the
wrong way. I didn't notice, as I was merrily whistling along to an SNZ tape
and secretly brooding about school.

Anyway, The song "Lover's Lane" came on and i was really digging it, when
suddenly i looked up and saw an exit marked "Lover's Lane/Cole Ave." and
was really taken aback by the coincidence...even tho the track I was
listening to was Don Raleigh on bass and not Stu Cole....but anyway, I took
it as a sign from God (or Tom..one can never be too sure) and realized how
completely out of the way I was, and got off on Lover's Lane and
backtracked to my destination.

So, that's a stupid little story but it sort of brightened my otherwise
crappy day.

And Ryan: Courtney plays some really geat stuff, like old old swing and
jazz, new swing and jazz, and cool stuff like Ben Folds Five and Beck :)

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Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 22:06:10 -0500
From: Peter Destructo 
Subject: Re: Zippers Concert - 9/17/98 Bogart's/Cincinnati

Andy Harman wrote:
> Ghost of Stephen Foster - They are doing an *animated* video of this!!
> They read my mind...

Yeah, I saw that in my mind when I first bought PF too. I see it as either
stop-motion animation (claymation) or a smooth computerized video, with
subdued, Polish/Russian ghetto color tones. I don't think it is
(claymation, that is) though.

> The Zippers are on break for a few weeks but pick up 10/17 at Radio City
> Music Hall in New York...

Evil! Evil evil! Evil Cablevision! Evil!

....I'm much better now.

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Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 00:32:50 -0500
From: Andy Harman 
Subject: Re: a lil' story

At 06:09 PM 2/3/99 -0500, you wrote:

>Anyway, The song "Lover's Lane" came on and i was really digging it, when
>suddenly i looked up and saw an exit marked "Lover's Lane/Cole Ave." and
>was really taken aback by the coincidence...

While visiting L.A. last spring - which I get to do about once a year, I
was listening to a local station that seemed to be playing a decent mix of
old and new stuff.  They played CSN's "Ventura Highway" as I was southbound
on the 405, and I looked up and there was the sign for "Ventura Freeway".
About 45 minutes later, I was cruising down Santa Monica Blvd. toward
Beverly Hills and what should they play but Sheryl Crow's "All I Wanna Do"
which of course contains the line, "... till the sun comes up over Santa
Monica Boulevard"

But this pales in comparison to something that happened to me about 18
years ago.  I was on my way to work in morning rush hour, with my styrofoam
coffee and the radio off.  While cruising down the interstate in stop n' go
traffic, the thought kept coming into my head "Mister Mojo Risin'..." kept
singing that line over and over, couldn't get it out of my head...finally
got sick of it and punched the radio button on... yep, you guessed it...
L.A. Woman, in that *exact* spot in the song!

BTW I listened to about the first hour of Courtney's show on RealAudio last
night... sound was pretty good over my 64K line, only an occasional
drop-out.  Very cool stuff... she played "Club Limbo" and then later on,
this really bizzare thing "Very Stylish Girl" -- man, that thing has been
running around in my head all day.  I need to find the CD.

Andy

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the-landing-digest      Friday, February 5 1999      Volume 02 : Number 015



                               Today's Subjects:
                               -----------------
  Old SNZ interview                       [Jessica Brandt ]
  Une Very Stylish Fille                    [Blue Green Olga ]
  Re: Une Very Stylish Fille              [Andy Harman ]
  ID this song?                        [Peter Destructo ]
  Bands                                 ["Ryan Sargent" ]
  Re: Bands                         [bob pigeon ]
  Re: ID this song?                                      [ProfPlum97@aol.com]

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Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 04:33:55 -0500
From: Jessica Brandt 
Subject: Old SNZ interview

Ech...i was travelling around the 'Net and I ran into this interview at the
Sessions @ W. 54th site:

http://www.sessionsatwest54th.com/oct18/INSESS/artinv/art2intv.html

The interview is really long, but you can tell that the interviewer was
totally clueless. There's enough misspellings in there to make me puke
("Jay Wadenhaus" "Jim Matthis" Label mate "Paula Voe" (polvo), "Katherine
Waylan" "Stu Coe") ... Misspelling proper names is like the biggest no-no
in journalism. If i left out even one letter in my Newswriting class,
that's an immediate F :( But enough of me...

Everyone go read it. And if you can't get it, mail me and i'll put it
somewhere else.

Did you know Jim was a "Latin student" in college? He says so..but then
again, I can imagine that they had a good time pulling that interviewer's
leg...

Jess
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Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 09:58:29 -0800
From: Blue Green Olga 
Subject: Une Very Stylish Fille

> BTW I listened to about the first hour of Courtney's show on RealAudio
> last
> night... sound was pretty good over my 64K line, only an occasional
> drop-out.  Very cool stuff... she played "Club Limbo" and then later
> on,
> this really bizzare thing "Very Stylish Girl" -- man, that thing has
> been
> running around in my head all day.  I need to find the CD.

That song is called "Une Very Stylish Fille" and it's by Dimitri From
Paris and can be found on the album "Sacrebleu!"  A lot of cool spacey
pop/trip/techno. I enjoy it, but then I'm a sucker for just about
anything in french.

Also, I've had the "All I wanna Do"/Santa Monica Blvd. driving
experience. In fact it was just last week, so um.. yeah. But I can
control my CD changer with my mind, so how's that for special?

~Courtney
The Sultraness of Swing
"I've designed a meditation room that could move the Dalai Lama to bitch
slap Richard Gere."


>
>
> Andy
>
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Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 14:03:31 -0500
From: Andy Harman 
Subject: Re: Une Very Stylish Fille

At 09:58 AM 2/4/99 -0800, you wrote:

>That song is called "Une Very Stylish Fille" and it's by Dimitri From
>Paris and can be found on the album "Sacrebleu!"  A lot of cool spacey
>pop/trip/techno. I enjoy it, but then I'm a sucker for just about
>anything in french.

Consider it purchased... will try to score it tonight at Borders... they
ought to have it.

>Also, I've had the "All I wanna Do"/Santa Monica Blvd. driving
>experience. In fact it was just last week, so um.. yeah. But I can
>control my CD changer with my mind, so how's that for special?

Yeah plus you probably drive that way twice a day :-?  This was on my once
or twice a year trip to L.A. and my first time every to cruise the blvd.

>"I've designed a meditation room that could move the Dalai Lama to bitch
>slap Richard Gere."

Or bitch slap Brad Pitt with that phoney German accent?  :-)

Andy

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Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 15:10:27 -0500
From: Peter Destructo 
Subject: ID this song?

The following song was used in a really cool new Cartoon Network
commercial. They rotoscoped a few old clips of Tom (as in, Tom and Jerry)
Cat playing the double-bass and singing, on a white background (Gap spoor)
and lip-synched in the coolest way possible the following lines:

	Is you or is you ain't my baby
	Baby baby found somebody new...
	(skat)
	Baby baby lost somebody too.

Does anybody know the title and band?

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Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 13:47:10 PST
From: "Ryan Sargent" 
Subject: Bands

I was just wondering...does anybody on this list belong to a band? Whats 
it like? and what instrument do you play?

P.S: I was bidding for a really nice cornet on ebay, and lost it within 
seconds for a 50 cent bid because my computer was being VERY slow!!!! I 
am very sad :(   
Oh yeah...do we have any trumpet players on the list????

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Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 22:01:27 -0500
From: bob pigeon 
Subject: Re: Bands

>I was just wondering...does anybody on this list belong to a band? Whats 
>it like? and what instrument do you play?

i'm in a band, but it's not a jazz band or nothing, i play rhythm guitar and
i am very expendable because i don't sing for them or write songs...i just
kind of stand in the back and collect money

http://59donuts.cjb.net

normally i wouldn't respond but i figure there's no such thing as bad
publicity...oscar wilde said SOMETHING like that

>Oh yeah...do we have any trumpet players on the list????

i just started taking brass in school...right now we're learning to read
music which i learned a while ago, but eventually hopefully they'll stick a
trumpet in my hand

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Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 03:25:30 EST
From: ProfPlum97@aol.com
Subject: Re: ID this song?

In a message dated 2/4/99 12:19:20 PM Pacific Standard Time,
kobyc@softhome.net writes:

<< Cat playing the double-bass and singing, on a white background (Gap spoor)
 and lip-synched in the coolest way possible the following lines:>> 
Did you  mean GAP spooF?  Gap spoor is something completely different... (but
available in pastel colors!)

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the-landing-digest     Saturday, February 6 1999     Volume 02 : Number 016



                               Today's Subjects:
                               -----------------
  Santa Monica Blvd./ID this song           [Blue Green Olga ]
  new TV                                  [Jessica Brandt ]
  Re: Bands              [Dishon Gerald Robert ]
  Intro/Suits question                            [hfse ]
  Re: Intro/Suits question                               [ProfPlum97@aol.com]
  RE: Intro/Suits question                [Dawn Carr ]
  Re: Intro/Suits question                               [ProfPlum97@aol.com]
  goodies                                 [Jessica Brandt ]

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Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 02:41:27 -0800
From: Blue Green Olga 
Subject: Santa Monica Blvd./ID this song

okay, first of all, forgve my typing beceause i know it's shite. i've
had a long day that has ended un some drunken revelry, so bear with me
:)


> >Also, I've had the "All I wanna Do"/Santa Monica Blvd. driving
> >experience. In fact it was just last week, so um.. yeah. But I can
> >control my CD changer with my mind, so how's that for special?
>
> Yeah plus you probably drive that way twice a day :-?

Well considering I'mt he ONLY perosn in L.A. who doesnt' have a car, no.
but i do get odwn to WeHo a lot. especially on our way to century City.
and that was the only time i've ever consciously made not of that song
on the radio in the 3 years i've lives in Los Angeles.


> The following song was used in a really cool new Cartoon Network
> commercial. They rotoscoped a few old clips of Tom (as in, Tom and
> Jerry)
> Cat playing the double-bass and singing, on a white background (Gap
> spoor)
> and lip-synched in the coolest way possible the following lines:
>
>         Is you or is you ain't my baby
>         Baby baby found somebody new...
>         (skat)
>         Baby baby lost somebody too.
>
> Does anybody know the title and band?

The title of the song is "Is you is or is you ain't my baby?" and while
i don't know who does the version in the cartoon netowrk ad, i know
there is a fabulous version with Dinah Washington on the Wild Cool &
Swingin' Too CD. it's fabulous. i love Dinah. The entire CD is great as
well. a definite must-own!


~Courtney
The Sultraness of Swing
"Yeah, lipstick and a daughter. Must be a big day for you."

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Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 11:54:33 -0500
From: Jessica Brandt 
Subject: new TV

this just in:

FRIDAY FEB 5 
9 pm on CBS (miss USA pageant) the Atomic Firealls perform


but i know you all will be watching anyway.

Jess

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Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 12:41:19 -0500 
From: Dishon Gerald Robert 
Subject: Re: Bands

Yeah, I'm in several groups.  The Jazz band at my college (piano, and
since right now we're gearing up for an Ellington-only concert, this
involves me playing about two chords per song, and listening the rest of
the time); a jazz band at home (also piano) (home is in the midwest, not
the southeast like my college); and a now mostly defunct a cappella
quintet (also at home; not exactly doo-wop, but we did a little of
that).

I play tuba, not trumpet, but we valved brass players stick together....

Gerald

Only 104 days to Star Wars Episode 1...

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Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 09:45:23 -0800 (PST)
From: hfse 
Subject: Intro/Suits question

Greetings all. New to the list and all that.
Seen the Zippers 4 times now, every time they get to San Diego.
I was wondering if anyone (besides me) thinks that the version of
"Suits are picking up the Bill" which plays at the end of the Hot
CDROM is superior to the version on Perennial Favorites. Is there
perhaps an early live recording of this version somewhere? I think it
sounds much fresher and jazzy than the album version, though I've only
heard about 20 seconds of it.
That's all for now.
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Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 14:48:16 EST
From: ProfPlum97@aol.com
Subject: Re: Intro/Suits question

The "Suits" on HOT is different from the PF and I too would love to hear this
version whole.  I was not exactly pleased with their performance on Leno,  but
that's just my opinion. Maybe Leno had something to do with it. But I enjoy
the dustbrothers remix, and before PF came out, I would listen to the 20 sec
clip of "Suits" on HOT incessantly.
- -Gatsby

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Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 15:06:50 -0500 
From: Dawn Carr 
Subject: RE: Intro/Suits question

I agree that the Leno appearance was disappointing.  Didn't someone tell
Jimbo not to look directly into the camera?  Oh dear. 

I may be insane and about to embarrass myself, but I don't think there's a
20 second version of Suits on my Hot.  Hmm.  Mine is a promo copy (with the
band photo on the cover), so maybe that's why.  It also doesn't seem to have
interactive stuff.

Curses.
- -D.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	ProfPlum97@aol.com [SMTP:ProfPlum97@aol.com]
> Sent:	Friday, February 05, 1999 2:48 PM
> To:	the-landing@smoe.org
> Subject:	Re: Intro/Suits question
> 
> The "Suits" on HOT is different from the PF and I too would love to hear
> this
> version whole.  I was not exactly pleased with their performance on Leno,
> but
> that's just my opinion. Maybe Leno had something to do with it. But I
> enjoy
> the dustbrothers remix, and before PF came out, I would listen to the 20
> sec
> clip of "Suits" on HOT incessantly.
> -Gatsby

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Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 15:10:53 EST
From: ProfPlum97@aol.com
Subject: Re: Intro/Suits question

The "Suits" on HOT is played at the end of the interactive.  So go get
yourself a real copy.. ;)
- -Gats

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Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 03:53:16 -0500
From: Jessica Brandt 
Subject: goodies

First off, I've updated "Passed out on the Landing" by adding the NEW Metal
Flake Mother (jimb's first band) page, fixing Wash Jones' Books, and making
an ARCHIVE of all the landing digests thus far!

Go here for the main page:
http://members.xoom.com/ZipperJJ

and then follow the apropriate links.

Hopefully SOON I will have a Louis Armstrong page (many many thanks to
Ryan!!!!) and then Chicken Wire Gang(je) and What Peggy Wants(Tom) pages.

Also, a couple of tiny notes:
Kat's album is done. sitting on the shelves. If we calculate the record
company correctly, they'll wait ti put it out until after they release
"Stephen Foster" as the new single, which means a wait of possibly two
months before we get to hear it! Gotta make the dough.

Andrew Bird is working on his new album right now. My copy of "Thrills" has
a huge gash in it. Hope i win that new copy off eBay...doesn't matter
anyhow, my CD player is broke.

As for other Zipper solo projects, Knockdown Society will follow Andrew,
then whatever ol' Tom is doing. HOWEVER, they are popping around the
country, sitting in with every band that'll have them. I'll keep you
updated on albums that come out on which they make guest appearances.

HOBEX....all i know is that the Zipper horn section appeared on this funk
band's indie album "Back in the 90's"...which has ben re-released on an
actual label....and i think it might be re-re-released on another, larger
label. Check out their website:
http://home.earthlink.net/~hobex/

I am desperately awaiting any updates on www.snzippers.com, but I think Ken
has his mind set on other things at the moment. Not everyone can be like me
and spend 24 hours a day online. Guess he has a house and a wife or
something...blah blah BLAH...

if you can think of any questions, please don't be afraid to ask. That's
what we're all here for!

Jess
 

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