... Hello, there. It is actually very quiet here. However, as what passes for a list owner in these parts, I can tell you there are members from all over the...
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john low
johncb@...
Jul 3, 2000 3:36 am
Thanks a lot, John, for the information about the Wyatt Tribute Concert broadcast. I’m really grateful. Just for the record, I only ‘discovered’ RW about...
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Ge
Holden.Caulfield@...
Aug 5, 2000 10:12 pm
Hi there, I've just discovered that the Japanese edition of Shleep has a bonus track. It's called "September in the rain" written by H.Warren/A.Dubin; it's a...
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twgs0@...
Aug 7, 2000 12:15 am
... bonus track. ... it's a 2.30 ... guitar. Yeah, a cover of I think an old 1940s tune. A wonderful performance....
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Dean
dekelstep@...
Aug 16, 2000 4:40 pm
Hello and thank you for providing this platform (comfy room?). My name is Dean and I live on the prairies of Canada, pretty much in the center of the...
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philT
pturnbul@...
Aug 16, 2000 8:46 pm
... I think that most people would agree that 'Rock Bottom' is the essential Wyatt album. Superbly effecting songs and drones, played with love and packed with...
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Peter Drubetskoy
pdrubetskoy@...
Aug 18, 2000 4:04 pm
... Hi, Dean. I'm a "newcomer"; too, but I started from much a different direction from you: I started from the rock bottom... "Rock Bottom". Actually, I'm not...
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Peter Drubetskoy
pdrubetskoy@...
Aug 27, 2000 2:35 pm
Hi, all. Does anyone of you have any idea as to the period when RW became a communist? Thanks, Peter. ...
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Meadowland
meadowland@...
Aug 27, 2000 3:56 pm
Hi Peter I recall reading somewhere that he joined the CP in the late 70s. But look at the sleeve of 'little red record' and figure out where Robert stood...
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Dean, Kelly, & Stephen
dekelstep@...
Aug 28, 2000 3:43 am
... From: Meadowland <meadowland@...> To: <dondestan@egroups.com> Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2000 10:56 AM Subject: Re: [dondestan] Robert Wyatt a...
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Peter Drubetskoy
pdrubetskoy@...
Aug 28, 2000 5:43 am
... Stalinism - what's that? I do not see any reason to believe RW has any affection to mass murdering and imprisonment. "Stalin wasn't Stalin'" is just a...
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Meadowland
meadowland@...
Aug 28, 2000 8:19 am
... marxism-leninism is often referd to as stalinism. It's a political ideology like any other. Whoever Stalin sent to prison or to death, that is certainly...
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john low
johncb@...
Aug 28, 2000 9:55 pm
... in an ... [Mongezi] ... towards a ... entry were ... History" ... "Wrong Movements: a Robert Wyatt History" by Michael King is a book not an article. It is...
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Peter Drubetskoy
pdrubetskoy@...
Aug 29, 2000 7:55 pm
... As do many people of the Third Reich. Or any tyranny. That’s not the point. By saying "RW's sympathy with "the Soviets" might come as an antithesis…"...
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Youknowmyname Lookupt...
gogmagog2@...
Aug 30, 2000 4:19 am
I have not the slightest interest in Mr Wyatt's political affiliations. His references to East Timor, Stalin and "Strange Fruit" have not steered me to the...
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Gary Davis
artshop@...
Aug 30, 2000 1:26 pm
Hi, folks: Last year I hosted an IRC chat with Robert Wyatt. It was a lot of fun. I had him on the phone and did the typing for him. All this talk about...
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twgs0@...
Sep 4, 2000 1:57 am
... should ... essential ... and ... Stranger ... contains ... I wouldn't! If I had to name an essential Wyatt album, it'd be "Shleep", with "Rock Bottom" as...
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twgs0@...
Sep 4, 2000 2:06 am
... "Team ... his later ... Which is great as long as you don't actually LISTEN TO THE SONG, which is about FOOTBALL. I haven't read "Wrong Movements", but I ...
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Peter Drubetskoy
pdrubetskoy@...
Sep 4, 2000 9:14 am
... Come on! You do not really believe it is, do you? Cheers, Peter. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your...
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John Peacock
johndrewp@...
Sep 5, 2000 12:06 pm
... I'm running through it in my head, and... Isn't it a *sexual* politics thing? (I know, I know, I probably ought to listen to the record) I thought it was...
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twgs0@...
Sep 5, 2000 3:29 pm
... If not, the Stalinist metaphor is uncharacteristically abstruse....
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Gary Davis
artshop@...
Sep 21, 2000 10:33 pm
Hi, folks: The latest Artist Shop newsletter is out and you'll find it in its entirety at <http://www.artist-shop.com/news.htm>. Meanwhile, here's a couple ...
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David Howard
goodoil@...
Oct 2, 2000 7:24 pm
As the first person to subscribe to this list, following John's decision to throw his education away, start it up, and thereby squander his remaining years in...
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Gary Davis
artshop@...
Oct 3, 2000 3:01 pm
Hi, folks: Here's part of an IRC Chat I hosted with Robert Wyatt. I didn't get to say much in the chat myself as I was actually handling the typing chores for...
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paul@...
Oct 5, 2000 7:15 am
... ago. Most ... I'm out here, but then I only signed up about 10 minutes ago. Paul...
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David Howard
goodoil@...
Oct 5, 2000 8:55 am
While Aristotle asserted that 'Man is a social animal' there's little evidence of it here. Days of silence make me feel like I'm in a Trappist monastery, and I...
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Paul Zimmer
paul@...
Oct 5, 2000 9:11 am
I'd be interested to hear what other Wyatt fans listen to - who else writes music as "otherworldly"? My offerings would be Tricky, Debussy, Spiritualized,...
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Bernard Tressol
bernard.tressol@...
Oct 5, 2000 10:40 am
Some questions Are there any female fans of RW ? If not, why ? (My ex-girlfriend couldn't even hear his voice....) Bernard bernard.tressol@... ... From:...
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Paul Zimmer
paul@...
Oct 5, 2000 11:05 am
I've never met a female Robert Wyatt fan, although my girlfriend did grudgingly enjoy the RW Tribute at the Festival Hall. The standard complaint from people...
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Box0@...
Oct 5, 2000 7:13 pm
... well RW's works do tend to have that s(ssh)leepy-time kind of feel about them, don't they? i would like to thank Gary for posting the exerts from the...
