Hello all,
Jamie here. Who the heck am I? I'm the guy who made the "Fan Page",
and created this email group many years ago now.

I started the page in the summer of 1998, after I finished college and
had no grad school or job prospects. I was living in Nashville trying
to figure out what to do, and out of boredom I taught myself some
HTML, and decided to piece together all the errant bits of info about
Lambchop scattered over the net, figuring that someone else would
probably want to read it too. At the time, there was no lambchop
webpage at all--other than a paragraph on the merge website--and
myspace hadn't even been thought of (and I wish it never had been).
Idle hands are the devil's playthings, or at least the things that
lead one to personally transcribe almost all of the lyrics you see on
the webpage, and scan most of the imagery. The tour posters/playbills
were the ones I took off the wall at Lucy's back in "the day."

Oh yeah, and then I got into med school. I kept up with it as best as
I could for the next few years. Dennis Cronin of lambchop started the
first band page, and as far as I know the band & Mary still run the
band webpage. They were as always very generous to me and even gave me
the free webspace where it is still housed after my string of free
websites began drying up (while internet bust happened).

So then life got busy, and at least at the time hotmail deleted email
accounts with 30 days of inactivity. (I had
listentothebeat@...). So then I lost all correspondence
related to the page, including the login and password to the webserver
that the band had donated. Could I have found it again? Sure. But it
was the nail in the coffin for me.

I still thoroughly enjoy the band and try to catch them anytime they
run through NYC now, but as many of you probably know, life gets busy
in many ways. So I'm pleased to see people still use and read this
email list (even if it is rare). I make no apologies about letting the
site go delinquent; I'm glad that it did and continues to serve its
purpose: a repository of info about a great band (a local one for me)
that I thought deserved a larger following. I doubt the fan page had
anything to do with their rise to greater success and notoreity, but
at least it provided a bibliography for those meeting a dead end online.

Keep listening!
Jamie

Quoting Carsten Baumann <oecourt@...>:

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>> Oh wow, this list is still alive!
>
> ***yes, that's pretty amazing, it must be two years or so since the
> last message.
> Somehow the band and the 'net do not seem to get together, the
> band's own homepage is, err, not very revealing
> and the 'Fan Page' has not been updated in 6 1/2 years (!!!). I
> don't know why that is, a little more exposure
> would be fine ... But somehow it also feels that (and I may be
> completely wrong with that) the 'chop-community still
> works like ancient fan-networks, mouth-by-mouth, snail mail trades, etc.
> That said, everyone with shows to trade (and interest to do so) is
> encouraged to contact me off-list. I am afraid, no time for b+p
> though ...
> Howdy from Germany, Carsten
>
> PS - I saw the band last week in Luxembourg, what a really fine show
> (and venue !). I liked this much better than the Damaged-Tour and
> if you have not decided if it's worth the trip - get your shoes and
> socks out people, it's just around the corner, and GO GO GO !!!
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