Morning Final #12 Out

[John A Swartz]

Sorry 'bout that - our corporate system crashed while I was generating
my message, and apparently the fragment got sent out.  Here's what I was
trying to say:

Whoa!  Got home to find MF12 in my mailbox.  Cool picture of the "Soft
White Underbelly" on the cover (Les Braunstein in center, Albert and
Buck on opposite sides - and 2 other guys (I assume Andy Winters and Jeff
Latham or maybe Jeff Richards - one of those guys wouldn't be Allen,
would it?).  Anyways, the reason for this cover photo is that there's an
article (part 1 anyway) of stories from Les Braunstein (some of which
Jean Lansford had previously posted here from AOL).  Some of the new info
on the band (new bass player, acoustic numbers, Sony release) that
we've discussed here was in there -- and BOC-L was listed in there as
a 'net location to find BOC stuff (although they made a slight mistake on
the address, listing boc-request at spcvxa.spc.edu as boc-request&spcvxa.spc.
edu, but hopefully that won't throw too many folks off).  Kudos to BOC-L
memeber Bryan Irby for providing info on the Buck Dharma trading card -
his name was mentioned in MF.  There's a great review on *Trepanation*,
and then I turn the page and . . . what's this?  Recent concert review
of The Brain Surgeons and BOC by yours truly!  I was floored!  I mean,
Melne asked if she could use the reviews I posted here in some form for
MF, but I didn't know she was going to use almost the whole thing, not
to mention putting my "name in lights".  I was very flattered, and only
hope I did the bands justice in my review (my audience was BOC-L, and
not MF readers).  Anyway, there's a few other goodies in there, including
discussion of some of the meanings of songs on *Secret Treaties* - now
I've got to make a few more updates to the FAQ . . .

Unfortunately, MF#12 made no mention about the planned compilation of
MF's 1-10, which Bolle and Melne have said will happen.  I'm gonna have
to ask them about that, as I don't have any of those, and definitely
need them in my BOC "library".

John