Hi Everybody, This is yr erstwhile Moderator -
First off, if you haven't friended Cobra Verde over on Myspace.com
then you really should cuz that's where all the band stuff goes down
for everybody these days.
Second off, I think they are placing a show in the Cleveland area
this week at an art gallery so if you live there and would like to
see them, go check out their pages or the local papers for whys,
wherefores, last minute plans changes and so forth. As Usual, I Wish
I Could Go, But I Have To Work.
Third off, yes the new album is really truly in the works and I'm
looking forward to it muchly.
Fourth off, I don't post here much anymore. It's not out of lack of
love for Cobra Verde, I feel pretty much the same way about the band
as always, the good and the bad. Still love John, Mark, Frank, as
well as Don whenever he pops in on something, and of course Derek
likewise, and extend all that out to CV's friends such as Watt and
J. Just saw Dino the other night down here, the night before they
got all their equipment stolen in New York :sad: J rocked azz like
I'm pretty sure he will continue to do until he's 90 years old at
this rate.
Nope basically it's just that I do less Internet forum posting
overall given that I work a lot the last 2 years compared to what I
used to do (translate: i finally got some employers who know what
they're doing so i actually have stuff to deal with on a daily basis
instead of sitting around wondering where the next assignment is
coming from).

Also, band chitchat in general has kinda moved off Yahoo lists in the
last couple of years - I know around 2003 Yahoo Groups were really
THE place to be for this stuff and I was probably in like 10 groups
but now it's more like, it's all on private PhPBB boards or else it's
on MySpace where the bands get to control a lot of what gets put up
without having to pay an HTML coder every time they need to add a
show to their website. It's really better that way having control in
the hands of the band cuz everybody fights about it less and frankly
the main reason I was doing this group in the first place is CV never
put up their tour dates so I never knew when anything was, and just
wanted to help get the word out as to that. Some of the stuff I
ended up getting involved in as a result of posting on here, I could
have really skipped over in my life, but I just filed it under Crazy
Internet List Shit and moved on. Anyway it was amusing, up to a
point.

I've considered deleting this group because many if not most of the
other Yahoo groups I used to post on are deleted by their mods at
this point, but I am not the group owner and can't make this place go
away, plus there's always the potential for it to be useful if the
band ever does another major tour and ppl want to meet up, etc.
There's also always the chance somebody other than me who has more
time on their hands will start another bored for this type of thing
and if they do, more power to 'em.

Anyways I just wanted to leave a note and say Thanks for all the
Swedish fish and explain why I didn't post here much so nobody would
think I didn't like the band anymore. John Petkovic's bands are and
have been and will always be a part of my life and that's just how it
is. and I'm glad they're in the hands of somebody like John cuz
while I might not always think he's right, he has decent judgment and
is one of the smarter people to come out of the last 25 years of
Cleveland rockdumb. i can always count on him to eventually do
something interesting! :)

Signing off for now
- S