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response 200 of 231:
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Apr 20 04:19 UTC 1999 |
hi. i'm eric. i'm just approaching the end of a season of working as
an artist services coordinator and production manager for University
Musical Society, a major presenter of classical music, modern dance and
ethnotheatrical works, based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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response 201 of 231:
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Apr 20 04:21 UTC 1999 |
oh, and i have absolutely no native musical inclination, but i am
something of a sponge, and i like learning new things. my primary
interest is theatrical, but i'm about to venture into television
production. what the heck? i've made a living in the last four years
doing things i've never done before, why stop just when it's getting
really interesting?
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ryan
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response 202 of 231:
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Apr 20 20:10 UTC 1999 |
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scylla
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response 203 of 231:
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May 20 16:13 UTC 1999 |
I am interested in rock, and alternative, and philosophy and spirituality.
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orinoco
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response 204 of 231:
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May 21 13:29 UTC 1999 |
Welcome Scylla...
(you might also check out the synthesis or directions conferences...I don't
know if either is active anymore, but your philosophical/spiritual end would
enjoy them)
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gnat
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response 205 of 231:
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Jun 13 02:11 UTC 1999 |
Ola... I'm Natalie. I grew up listening to the Beatles, which gave me
a pop sweet tooth I was never able to shake. Currently my favorite
artists include Robyn Hitchcock, XTC, Elvis Costello, Brian Eno, Peter
Blegvad, Syd Barrett, Kristin Hersh/Throwing Muses, the Chills, Nick
Drake, and the Elephant 6 collective (a group of Athens, GA-based bands
that includes Neutral Milk Hotel, Olivia Tremor Control, the Apples in
Stereo, Beulah, and Elf Power). I'm starting to educate myself re.
non-Western music, jazz, and "bleepy music" (i.e. techno/electronica).
I'm also developing a taste for 20th-century avant garde/minimalist
composers like Michael Nyman and Steve Reich, and edging slowly in
the direction of prog via Robert Wyatt and some of Peter Blegvad's
earlier projects with folks from Henry Cow.
I have a little musical training and can carry a tune. I am also
learning to play guitar and recently bought a very lovely Martin DM
for that purpose.
All of the music mentioned above can be heard on my show on WCBN,
88.3 Ann Arbor, from 6 am to 9 am on Sundays.
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orinoco
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response 206 of 231:
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Jun 13 17:00 UTC 1999 |
Welcome Natalie! (yr show rocks, by the way...)
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oddie
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response 207 of 231:
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Jun 15 04:05 UTC 1999 |
I'm Jonathan and I come from New Zealand, but live in Boulder, CO now
(between the mountains and reality :). I like "classical" music (probably
because it was about all I heard until I was about six or seven), especially
Bach, Beethoven, and Rachmaninov. I also love listening to bebop jazz; my
favorite jazz musicians are probably Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell, Miles Davis
and John Coltrane. Lately I've been listening to the Kronos Quartet
_Short Stories_ CD a lot, which has some really weird and awesome music on it.
Ditto Steve Reich's _City Life_.
And I love Simon & Garfunkel.
I think that's about it for now... bye...
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lumen
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response 208 of 231:
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Jun 15 06:53 UTC 1999 |
ah, another Jonathan :)
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gnat
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response 209 of 231:
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Jun 15 23:06 UTC 1999 |
New Zealand, the land where all the best music comes from! (Well, a
lot of it, anyway. :)
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krj
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response 210 of 231:
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Jun 17 22:53 UTC 1999 |
I go away for a while and new people show up. I hope this isn't a
trend. :) I should dig up some of the New Zealand rock albums
I got back around 1990... anyway, hi to gnat and oddie...
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dbratman
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response 211 of 231:
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Jun 19 05:06 UTC 1999 |
Hello, my name is David Bratman. I'm one of the innumerable
(probably) friends of Ken Josenhans, who suggested
that I drop by here.
I'm trying this by telnet, and it's very
confusing, and I keep being interrupted by
messages reading "Message from
Talk_Daemon@grex.cyberspace.org", whatever
that may be.
I listen to about 60% classical music, 30%
folk and folk-rock, and 10% other. The
Other consists mostly of musical theatre and
the better forms of art-rock (favorite rock
groups: the Beatles and Renaissance);
the folk and folk-rock includes a lot of
English (of which my favorite is Steeleye
Span, Celtic of all sorts (I also like Enya,
but I hate everything Clannad has done since
they hit it big, though I love their first few
albums - don't ask me to explain it), and
a lot of what I call American Urban Folk -
especially quirky and amusing female singer
songwriters like Christine Lavin and the
Roches, and that subgenre that someone dubbed
"New Waif Muwsic", of whom the standard-bearer
is Suzanne Vega.
My classical tastes are in some respects pretty
broad, but I dislike opera and other "showy"
music like concertos, preferring serious
orchestral music. As a general rule, the more
symphonies a composer wrote, the better I
like him, except that I also like the
minimalists (who write few if any symphonies)
and I HATE Mahler.
I may not be in much, but if I can get comfortable
with this interface, I'll be around.
I'm a librarian, and live in Northern California, nearish to San Francisco.
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lumen
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response 212 of 231:
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Jun 19 13:22 UTC 1999 |
David, a talk daemon is a client that allows two parties to talk to each other
in real time. It's like a telephone conversation on a standard line. The
only problem is that replying back shuts everything out, and a talk request
interrupts anything else you might be doing, especially reading the bbs here.
What line you aren't reading is the actual request, which is the command you
type in to 'talk' with this person. The syntax would be something like this:
talk <user>@grex.cyberspace.org
Of course, you type in that command to send a request to talk, or to answer
such a request.
-NOW- I'll bet you aren't the slightest bit interested in talking to someone;
you came here to conference. Most Grexers use the telegram command (yes,
messages are sent like telegrams), party channels (familiar with chat? same
thing) or maybe the write command, since they are less restrictive than talk.
If you wish to cut all such requests off, so you can conference uninterrupted,
type in the following at an Ok: prompt (when not reading messages in a
conference)--
This will effectively block these talk requests you are receiving, and you
can conference in peace.
To turn messages back on, type
If you're at a C shell prompt, you can omit the !.
Anyway, it sounds like you have fairly well-rounded musical listening tastes.
Welcome!
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rcurl
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response 213 of 231:
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Jun 19 15:31 UTC 1999 |
Looks like you started the command lines with a ! (?)
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lumen
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response 214 of 231:
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Jun 20 04:52 UTC 1999 |
I did. I'm assuming he's at a conferencing prompt, not a C shell prompt.
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rcurl
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response 215 of 231:
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Jun 20 05:06 UTC 1999 |
But isn't that why the commands don't show up in your #212?
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pthomas
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response 216 of 231:
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Jul 22 23:26 UTC 1999 |
Hey. I'm Phil. I'm an M-Netter, referred here by Ken.
I enjoy all sorts of music. Alternative rock, a lot of 80's alternative
stuff, techno(especially of the ambient/old-school variety), and even some
hip-hop(Beastie Boys, and Die Fantastichen Vier, if you've ever heard
them.) But especially...REM. Wow. Don't mess with them.
I live in Saline. Mock me.
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gypsi
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response 217 of 231:
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Nov 5 12:16 UTC 1999 |
I refuse to mock you since you're cool enough to log in as "Ford Prefect".
You all know me. No intro needed. I've been here before, but probably as
birdlady. Ah well... =)
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sspan
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response 218 of 231:
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Nov 27 01:16 UTC 1999 |
Hello.. Ken finally lured me here from IRC... so here goes... I've been
listening to all kinds of music since before I can remember (they tell me I
liked the Mitch Miller show as a toddler) grew up with country and pop music
on the old AM radio.. went through a big Beatles phase, then Heavy Metal,
somewhere around 15 or 16 I started hearing Fairport Convention and Steeleye
Span on the radio and they're about the only things that have stuck with me.
Nowadays I listen to female vocalists almost exclusively, with styles from
pop, rock, country, celtic, folk.. oh.. just about anything..
my current favorites are:
Grey Eye Glances - great New Jersey band, I think they've played at the ARK
Caedmon's Call - a Christain folk/rock band
Jaci Velasquez - another Christian singer
Kasia Kowalska - a rock singer from Poland
and about a million others, Tori, 10,000 Maniacs, Happy Rhodes, etc...
and of course my old favs Steeleye and Fairport, Strawbs, Pentangle, etc..
Guess that's about it.. look forward to the discussion here.. cya's
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orinoco
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response 219 of 231:
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Nov 27 19:03 UTC 1999 |
Welcome, Dave. Ken sure has been reeling in the converts....
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krj
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response 220 of 231:
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Dec 1 05:50 UTC 1999 |
Hi Dave! I've been out of town for a week and it's going to take me
a while to catch up.
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dbratman
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response 221 of 231:
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Dec 2 22:36 UTC 1999 |
Welcome, Dave. I too have found my tastes in pop music to have steered
strongly in the direction of female vocalists, starting (pretty much as
you did) with Maddy Prior and Sandy Denny.
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jules
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response 222 of 231:
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Apr 9 04:18 UTC 2000 |
im julie. i sing. i play piano. i host karaokee sometimes.
i like almost all kinds of music. and i have yet to meet anyone who likes all
the same sorts of stuff i do. i dig bad dance music, 80's music, classic rock
(yes, genesis, led zep, david bowie, the stones, hendrix, styx, boston....)
i like lots of alternative...and harder stuff....i like techo..i like
classical music..and im a huge jazz fan (miles davis and john coletrain in
particular) i like tom waites and the steve miller band too. and the indigo
girls. some country is alright too. as long as it isnt like..garth brooks or
willie nelson. i admit it, i bought the new oasis album (i dont own the
others) cause i like the song i heard on vh1 behind the music.
i think i could beat anyone anywhere at rock and roll jepordy.
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tpryan
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response 223 of 231:
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Apr 9 15:25 UTC 2000 |
I would be your tough competitor.
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jules
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response 224 of 231:
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Apr 9 16:40 UTC 2000 |
oh you think so do you? maybe we need to have a roch and roll jepordy item
then. heh.
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