Fw: Group X

[Mark Von Bargen]

And of course, the original All Saints jam band name was Group X

Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Siegerman" <erics at TELEPRES.COM>
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Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 6:50 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: Group X


> On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 01:20:18AM +0100, Richard Lockwood wrote:
> > Something Andy Gilham sent me...
> > > Our Liberty lost but an addition of a simple X did nothing to
> > > cease the momentum and the newly re-christened Liberty X
> > > headed back into the charts and they did it in style...... "
> > >
> > > So it would seem that the "addition of a simple X" to a band
> > > name really is sufficient to clearly distinguish it. ;)
>
> On the other hand -- and rather closer to home -- is "X[?] in
> Search of Space".  I'd had it for years, and thought of it all
> that time as "In Search...", before discussion here convinced me
> to look at the cover more closely.  Truth to tell, I'd never even
> *noticed* the "X" before then.
>
> I'm not alone, either.  I just did a Google search on "in search
> of space".  Here's what I got on the first three pages of
> results:
>   X In Search   4
>   In Search     15
>   Irrelevent    6       (not references to the album)
>   Duplicates    5       (multiple pages of the same site; I
>                         only counted each site once)
>
> Geez, even UA/Liberty (yet another "Liberty", :-) couldn't make
> up their minds.  The early disc labels all say "In Search"!
>         http://www.adawson.clara.net/albums/labels/uag29202.html
>
> So whether or not some judge thinks an "X" is enough to prevent
> confusion, empirically it isn't!
>
> --
>
> |  | /\
> |-_|/  >   Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont.        erics at telepres.com
> |  |  /
> Anyone who swims with the current will reach the big music steamship;
> whoever swims against the current will perhaps reach the source.
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>