On 01-02-97 DAVID MARHEINE wrote to KENNETH NEWMAN... 
 
 DM> _Best Of Gong_ from the early stuff through _You_ or _Shamal_, also 
 DM> _Live Etc._ from Gong, and _Soft Machine Live In France_.  Bargains! 
 
        Is that softs from '69? How is it? 
 
 ke> I was just listening to Cale's _Honi Soit_ album last night. 
 
 DM> On 8 track? 
 
        No, I confess it was pristine vinyl. The only Cale cart I 
        have is _Slow Dazzle_ with the wonderful "Ski Patrol" 
        (Here comes the ski patrol, it comes but once a year....) 
        and a version of "Heartbreak Hotel" which is better than 
        the one on _June 1, 1974_. And then there's this tune 
        with a strange story about a man's head that turns into a 
        vagina while he's sitting in a bar. 
 
 DM> I've always loved "Dead Or Alive".  That "Penny Lane" 
 DM> trumpet on top of the crunch of the rest of the track 
 
        Yes, that is nice. "Fighter Pilot" is also a cool tune, 
        with the chorus out of synch with the music.
 
 ke> Could be worse, they could have gotten you Ebola, and no, 
 ke> that's not a device to make your guitar sound like a cat. 
 
 DM> That's the bug that makes your face look like a Peter Gabriel 
 DM> album cover, right? 
 
        No, it does that to your brain and makes your eyes go all 
        wild, like Tori Amos. 
 
 DM> Or izzit the one that makes you sing like Adrian Belew? 
 
        What, bellow like Belew?  Nah, more like Pavlov's Dog. 
 
 DM> IAE, mixing it with mashed potatoes smooths it out 
 DM> considerable. 
 
        And if you keep it down your trousers, no one need ever 
        know your little "secret." 
 DM> You got something against Mannheim Steamshovel? 
 
        I would rather rip out my own liver and eat it raw than 
        listen to MS, but aside from that I have nbo objections. 
 
 DM> So when's the Canadian New Year? 
 
        With the first snows, back in August. 
 
 DM> NP: Fleetwood Mac _BBC_: "Man Of The World" 
 
        What, Meat Would Flak? Huh? Speak up, Sonny. 
 
                                Cheers, 
                                Kenneth 
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