OFF: sappy prog

[Jon Jarrett]

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Chuck Rosenberg wrote:

> In a message dated 10/18/04 4:16:50 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> jjarrett at CHIARK.GREENEND.ORG.UK writes:
>
> > Caravan got everything I don't like about the whole jam-band thing
> >  going. Nice bunch of people, apparently, but I won't complain if I never
> >  see them play again. I've certainly never dared try their albums, even
> >  though the two biggest fans I know are into much of the same stuff as me
> >  (one of them's a death metaller who used to run Rise Above Records
> >  website, for heaven's sakes--what?!).
>
> Lee Dorian, wot?? ah, haven't listened to some old Napalm Death or Cathedral
> in a while... (hey, chris??) see ya in a few months, jon? chuck, whose
> appearances are becoming even more seldon than thou...and who's currently on the
> brink of sleep-deprivation delerium, while having to go to work in a few
> hours...withdrawals from alcohol sure are a bitch...if that's what it is... nevermind,
> and this ain't sappy prog - n. death.  celebrating my 10-year boc-l
> anniversary, remembering when i was just a wee lad, charles the grinning boy only
> still...who where or what would i be now if i hadn't joined?? c

        <snip>

        I now feel I have to point out that my mail turnround is currently
down to less than ten days :-) Watch out... But no, I don't know Mr Dorian
himself, just his erstwhile webmaster.

        I recently read Stuart Maconie (British music journo)'s
autobiography, which I thoroughly recommend to everyone and not just on
the grounds that it's called _Cider With Roadies_. He has a short but vry
pointed chapter about Napalam Death, with whom he once went on tour. It
doesn't seem to have been a happy experience for anyone concerned, though
Lee doesn't actually feature very much from what I remember. I shan't see
them in the same light again, in any case :-) Yours,
                                                     Jon

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                Jonathan Jarrett, Birkbeck College, London
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       So too does the intelligence of the fool after good advice."
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