On 07-16-97 DAVID MARHEINE wrote to KENNETH NEWMAN... 
 
 KN> I can't vouch for 25 year old 
 KN> scratchy Record Club of America copies. 
 
 DM> Yikes, you're good.  "Manufactured under license from Atlantic 
 DM> Records by Record Club Of America Inc.  (p)1972." 
 
        Hey, being psychic isn't always so great. For example, I 
        didn't really want to know about your secret crush on Pat 
        Benatar but it was riding the same brainwave with the 
        scratchy RCOA _Close to the Edge_. You ought to be 
        ashamed of yourself. 
 
 DM> The Rolling Stone Record (CD-whatever) Guide calls _Relayer_ 
 DM> dabbling in jazz-fusion.  Must be true, man. 
 
        I love how whenever they come out with a new edition they 
        change their mind about some reviews, often downgrading 
        or upgrading according to whatever is politically 
        expedient at the moment. I knew a guy in college who 
        became a Rolling Stone critic. I would say something more 
        insulting about him, but can't think of anything more 
        insulting than that. 
 
 Re Howe playing steel guitar 
 
 DM> Isn't his slide playing embarrassingly awful, though?  Get that 
 DM> thing away from him!  Or is he managing to make those horrid 
 DM> sounds with just a volume pedal and an echoplex? 
 
        It's a pedal steel guitar, actually. Blew me away live 
        when he played it. You're right about the echoplex, 
        though, man those were great machines. 
 
 DM> I assume most of Anderson's lyrics are translated from the Italian 
 DM> by a dyslexic Swede. 
 
        I can never resist chanting out "E.T. phone home! E.T. 
        phone home!" when he gets to that part about "And you and 
        I reach out for reasons to.....call home." I live in fear 
        that line will show up in a long-distance telephone ad 
        some day (At Sprint we know you're tired of AT&T giving 
        you that "long distance runaround" and now we're giving 
        you and I more reasons than ever to .....call home)
 
 
 DM>  KN> As if the music has been refracted through a pyramid and 
 DM>  KN> then shattered into translucent musical particles to 
 DM>  KN> dance about your brain? 
 DM> 
 DM> I haven't tried that with _Relayer_ yet... 
 
        Good thing, too, since I mangled the instructions a bit. 
        You're supposed to refract it through a prism. 
 
        Pyramid, hmmmppph. What a ludicrous notion. 
 
 DM> I think "Lady Elenore" is a very cool song 
 
        OK I admit to a certain guilty pleasure in that one but 
        their entire oeuvre taken together is sorta lame-o, IMO. 
 
 DM> But why not Alberto Los Trios Paranoias?  (I expect Pedro to chime in 
 DM> on this one!)  They're not serious enough? 
 
        Their ABBA parody "Juan Lopez, the Lonely Goatherd" was 
        too close for comfort. If you just closed your eyes you 
        could almost imagine they were ABBA. 
 DM> "Comedy music..."  "Jeff, your soul!" 
 
        Get rid of someo of that inner tension. BTW, did you know 
        I have all of "Dental Hygiene Dilemma" memorized? Did you 
        ever see the cartoon that Cal Shenkel, who did the dental 
        hygiene movie, did concerning the entire history of the 
        world for the Playboy produced film version of the Naked 
        Ape (the non-cartoon portions of which featured Victoria 
        Principal's youthful protruberances)? It's worth checking 
        out if you can ever find it. 
 
 DM> And what is a "Suavecito", anyway?  A dog named Boo? 
 
        You and me and a dog named Boo made love in my Chevy van 
        (that's alright with me) and now you're having my baby, 
        so soon we'll be watching a little scotty grow. Arf, she 
        said. 
 
 DM> Is Jack Nietzsche on topic? 
 
        You may discuss his work for the film "Performance" but 
        not his arrangements for Neil Young, even though he did a 
        better job on the stuff for NY. And you have no 
        ombudsman. 
 
 DM> It took me half a week to get that "Londonderry Air" reference 
 DM> in the previous message.  Had to sit and think about it for a while. 
 
        Apparently, according to an interview I read in Zig Zag 
        about 25 years ago, Robert Fripp always gets his best 
        musical ideas while sitting on the toilet. 
 
                                Cheers, 
                                Kenneth 
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