--- Sez Kenneth Newman to Steven Van Impe ---
 SV> Can you please explain what cheese rock is? 
Every now and then they say "da Brie is on the highway" on the
local radio traffic reports...
 KN> The closest term to it is the German word, kitsch. It 
 KN> means something that is in poor taste, perhaps 
 KN> deliberatly so, though it's more heart-rendering when 
 KN> people produce chesse when they aim to produce a 
 KN> masterpiece (cf. Refugee, Trace, Triumvirate, it's a 
 KN> great risk with pomp and bombastic prog). 
The rendering plants are nearby the ramps where the cheese trucks
keep tipping over, too.
Geez, I know you don't like Lee Jackson's voice, but I think
_Refugee_ is the best thing Pat Moraz ever recorded.  The first
_Trace_ and _Illusions On A Double Dimple_ (white mice - cheese!)
are long time favorites too.  Cheesy definitely has other connotations
to me.  Anything produced by Rupert Holmes, for example.  Bands
that draw their own album covers with felt tip pens...  Oh well.
I know I SHOULD be an expert on this high lactose subgenre,
but I'm not even a kraut rock connoisseur.  I wonder where
Zep Shulman acquired the taste for dairy air?
DMM
... I didn't do it... Nobody saw me do it... You can't prove anything...
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