What Can't You Find On The Internet?

"Some of Dias's original material was recorded on a 1999 CD called Matter of Time, with Lisa Jason (Vocals) and Andy Bergsten (Bass) as the core of the band."

Allmusic is able to confirm that this is an actual record, that Denny Dias did not play on? but wrote some of the material, however I cannot find anyplace online to listen to any of it

Wow that is a tough one. Maybe this is a lead? https://m.facebook.com/events/261366957388486

Cut and Thrust

oh, thank you. so after SS had started, but in the same slot.

glad to see the bbc catering for the working classes

thanks matttkkkk for spurring me along to one more deeper dive into the lost music of Denny Dias

have found that the bass player mentioned has a YouTube channel containing three Dias originals performed live, one in particular is a highlight though it doesn't appear on the record I guess, unless they renamed it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ajTUKO5Tps

kind of remarkable I think, sounds very much all of a piece with the last two steely dan records, plus something extra, the dennyness perhaps

glad to see the bbc catering for the working classes

How very patronising of you to assume that fencing cannot be enjoyed by the working classes. There's actually a great tradition of working-class fencing etc etc [tails off into the void]

can't find any further info on an mp3 release by "Rene" called "Starship" apparently from 2009, from what i can tell i only have about a third of the tracks - it is great fun. silly plunderphonic vignettes. likely culprits goodiepal, wobbly, gobby, shitcluster, matt brinkmann. it could of course just be some guy called "Rene". most googleable track titles are "cloak medley" & "bleary championship" only turn up the "Sonichits" website where the links only link to random youtube vids.
any ideas?
thx :-)

That's a Gobby alias but I don't see that release on his discogs:

https://www.discogs.com/artist/2840069-Gobby

Rene Netherlands - Starship

Gabby Sugrue is a good friend of ours, and though normally people assume that you have a positive bias towards your friends material, everything about this sleepy, stubborn, un-reachable joker is points off. And he’s still the best. When we were stuck on drones and walls of noise Gabby was releasing party jams. Both in terms of recorded material as well as live performance, Gabby/Rene/Guatemala City/Playboy Stunna Productions is constantly setting a bar for the rest of us to meet. Starship was the first release that had live drums on it and in all honesty, we had been anticipating it for years. To say that this album “genre-hops” is inaccurate. It puts everything in a big sandwich that gets jammed in a photocopier and comes out as polyrhythmic booty-shaking thrash. Few bands have tracks that shift as quickly or develop ideas as uniquely as this guy. No amount of cigarettes that this kid owes us can trump the fact that he is the best drummer ever. And he has very soft hands.

https://www.imposemagazine.com/features/eric-farber-of-truman-peyote

thank you!

When I started at university in 1998 I was involved in the student record label, and my gang of friends, a rock band, recorded a track in their studio, which was included on a compilation CD they put out in early 1999. The CD was available in shops, was reviewed middlingly in one of the music papers, and definitely had online publicity.

now in 2023, I can find no evidence that the record label existed (the wikipedia page for the university only mentions the student radio station), let alone that they released this CD. It isn't on discogs, there are no reviews, of course it isn't available for sale anywhere. literally the only thing I can find is this amazon placeholder page, which is almost entirely incorrect, but at least has the CD cover

https://www.amazon.in/stroll-wrap-up/dp/B002289O0K

The university was called Southampton Institute at the time, it's now called Solent University. The record label was called 1st Degree Records. The CD was called, and this is not a great name, "Wrap Up: Stroll On"

Can anyone find anything else?

A review in a fanzine

Various, Wrap Up; Stroll On (First Degree) CD

Organised by the Southampton Institute, "Wrap Up; Stroll On" aims to promote both student and local bands on the Institute's First Degree label. As you'd expect from a compilation with this kind of background, there's a broad spectrum of musical styles on display and, as you'd also suspect, some of it is a whole lot better than the rest. On the right side of the fence, Reeve; McDade; Foot ply an admirably wild brand of weird jazz on their "No Reported Incidents"; Mainliner's "Better Breathe" develops from overlaid shuffles into a groove and treated guitar wah halfway to Loop and Ace Whole's 50-second speed metal and drum solo rush "Bill.. This One's For You" is just about perfect. The usual compilation result, in fact, but nicely done all the same. 1✧✧.deg✧✧✧@sol✧✧✧.a✧.u✧

Thanks Alba, think I remember seeing that before, and searches for the free jazz trio named have brought up some things.
If a single one of the acts had gone on to any level of success then it would be a collector's item, or at least be listed on discogs.

toe robotron 2084 wikipedia page says:

"In the summer of 2012, Eugene Jarvis wrote a comprehensive evaluation of the Robotron Enemy Dynamics"

but there's no reference link and nothing i've thought to search for brings back anything. oh, perhaps the keywords quark, electrode, enforcer, spheroid, grunt, prog might help

(actually that did bring up useful things, not least that my remake gets the names wrong)

The wiki page links to an archived video page that itself cites Robotron2084GuideBook.com

That site is currently in "check back later" mode but there are several archive.org snapshots of when it was up, eg:

https://web.archive.org/web/20130607195419/http://www.robotron2084guidebook.com/

This seems to be the specific page you want:

https://web.archive.org/web/20130615073848/http://www.robotron2084guidebook.com/gameplay/startingjourney/enemydynamics/

oh, have see that site before, via the wayback machine, but not that part of it.

"Spark balls are shot toward the player with a random spread about the players coordinate, and a certain percentage of sparks are shot where the player is predicted to be when the spark hits, not where the player currently is. This is accomplished by adding the current player’s velocity to the spark’s velocity upon firing. Additionally, a random acceleration is computed upon firing, and then is added to the sparks velocity each video frame."

this is gold. thank you Alba.

I literally just listened to a recent two part interview with Eugene Jarvis a couple of days ago. He talks about the creation of Defender, Robotron, etc. and the gameplay dynamics.

What I can't find: clip from the episode of COPS where an inebriated Jack Nitzsche exclaims that he has an academy award.

some guy on reddit says it's S7E1 but idk if that's right

i've always wanted to see it, even if that makes me a bad person

COPS
May 14, 1994
Season 7, Episode 1
Los Angeles, CA #14

COPS (Parental discretion) Los Angeles officers pursue a van suspected of being stolen; arrest of an Academy Award-winning composer. 83530

a video from the late '00s/early '10s in which the boingboing.net crew visits the workshop of a man who has rigged a 3D printer to make music while it prints. one of the boingboing boys (Mark Frauenfelder?) raves, "THAT IS MADE OF AWESOME! THAT IS MADE OF FUCKING AWESOMESAUCE!!!" (with dramatic pauses: "FUCKING 👏 AWESOME 👏 SAUCE 👏")

this is of extremely low importance, and I don't want anybody to spend more than three minutes searching for it. I may have misremembered the content of the video (it could be some other stupid novelty gadget), but I'm pretty sure the techbro's words have been burned into my brain verbatim

Viral video about 2012/2013. A cartoon bunny crops up repeatedly and tells people to put their 3d glasses on in an increasingly sinister/wacky way. GLASSES ON!!!!

the surviving films made by prokino, as formerly hosted here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20110720093759/https://www.cjspubs.lsa.umich.edu/electronic/facultyseries/list/series/prewar/films.php

GLASSES ON!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODz2rUXpKWw

yes... YES!!
thank you so much. I was googling Sarah Chalke and everything but because I misremembered Frazzles as a rabbit not a squirrel I couldn't find it.

wonder what else I've half-forgotten from 2006.

this is the kind of thing i watched when i was in high school. i'm glad this guy's videos are still online.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C5EZmyJ9ik

started the eugene jarvis interview on saturday. he's very listenable but an hour and 10 minutes in and he's only just talking about stargate.

the Prokino stuff looks right up my alley. i can only suggest googling some of the individual film names, in japanese. there's a list at the bottom here

https://loscamaradas.org/2021/10/21/prokino-1929-1934-cine-militante-en-japon/

this looks like 6 of them as a dvd image: https://archive.org/details/purokinosakuhinshu_2013

thanks koogs! you're awesome!

a video from the late '00s/early '10s in which the boingboing.net crew visits the workshop of a man who has rigged a 3D printer to make music while it prints. one of the boingboing boys (Mark Frauenfelder?) raves, "THAT IS MADE OF AWESOME! THAT IS MADE OF FUCKING AWESOMESAUCE!!!" (with dramatic pauses: "FUCKING 👏 AWESOME 👏 SAUCE 👏")

this is of extremely low importance, and I don't want anybody to spend more than three minutes searching for it. I may have misremembered the content of the video (it could be some other stupid novelty gadget), but I'm pretty sure the techbro's words have been burned into my brain verbatim

Declaring defeat on this (after somewhat more than three minutes). However, in the course of looking I did find this pretty great search engine, https://filmot.com – which lets you search subtitles of YouTube videos. I found from this that there are an awful lot of people on YouTube saying "that is made of awesome", and only one saying ilxor, in a video about some Simpsons mystery that somehow spends 1m20s scrolling through Oh boy, ILX! That's where I'm a viking!..?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99qXaVFZkQE

Sorry, I should say there are lots of people saying "made of awesome", rather than "that is made of awesome"

https://filmot.com/search/%22made%20of%20awesome%22/1?channelID=&gridView=1

Ilx, that's where I'm a Visigoth

I've looked for a few music interviews that do not appear to be online anywhere:

Sometime between 1989 and 1993, one of the major guitar magazines (either Guitar for the Practicing Musician, Guitar School, or Guitar World - nice variety in titles, guys) had a lengthy interview where Dave Mustaine, Scott Ian, and Kerry King talked to each other about the state of Metal at the time, with the occasional shot at a then-rising band they just call "M" (guess). I've had no luck in my efforts to find it.

There's also a hilarious interview on a likely-defunct music mag website from between 2002 and 2006 where Neko Case and (I think) Carolyn Mark essentially ignore the interviewer and make jokes back and forth at each other. Guessing that one's gone forever.

Something very obscure indeed: I'm looking for information on the music journalist Gina Gangi who seemed to be writing around at around 1970 and 1971, and visited England in 1970 for the Isle of Wight Festival and was connected with the English underground magazine Friends/Frendz. So she was writing for Frendz at around the same time as Nick Kent or just before.

A few tantalising traces only on the internet:

An article in Jazz & Pop Magazine December 1970 on the Isle of Wight Festival

A reference to her contributing to a list of forthcoming musical events of interest (alongside others including Albert Goldman) to New York Magazine 13 Sep 1971

I found another trace:

The following text appears in this 1971 issue of Cash Box, according to the Google results snippet. However, I can't see it in the facsimile of the magazine that studynet has put up, perhaps because some pages are hidden.

Like Chris Hodenfield, then with Go Magazine and now with Stone's London office, and his girl to be, Gina Gangi, who had this really groovy job with a big publicity firm.

"Stone" there means Rolling Stone, for whom Hodenfield is still an occasional contributor. He doesn't have a social media presence, but perhaps you could get in touch with him via his publisher to ask about his former "girl to be"?

StudyLib, rather

https://studylib.net/doc/18720073/apr-10---american-radio-history

OK I realise now from the StudyLib find in page function that it appears on page 35. It shows up as white on white text but you can copy-paste it (requires some cleaning up cause of all the line breaks). Here's the wider context, not that it tells you anything more about Gangi:

MY FRIEND SOOZIN

My friend Soozin never really wanted to be in the music business. It's just that she needed money and didn't want to work, so the music business seemed the only logical choice. After all, her very best friend in the whole world was in the music business and he didn't seem to be working, what with running around to the scene (which has now become portable and is travelling with Johnny Winter), the Bitter End and Ungano's all the time, and going to press parties and meeting all these ... These famous musicians . .. These pop stars .. . And not having to go to work in a suit and tie and ... And ... Well, lots of other things. Soozin had met some of the people who helped make the music she was always listening to. People like Shadow Mann, whose record was being played over WMCA all the time and had even gotten to #25 on the fabulous Good Guys survey. Like Kenny Schaeffer, the weirdo publicist who seldom left his house. Like Chris Hodenfield, then with Go magazine and now with Stone's London office, and his girl to be, Gina Gangi, who had this really groovy job with a big publicity firm. Like Bobby Columby, who was with this really great group that just had to make it even though their singer/leader/songwriter and songfinder, Al Kooper, had just left. And they were all ... Fun. Unlike a lot of chicks who try like hell to get into the business and wind up in the Garment District, or who wind up as secretaries in the accounting department, Soozin got an honest -to-goodness job right in the midst of all the fabulous things that were going on. She became assistant to publicist/brainchild/disc jockey/pop writer/producer-to-be Richard Robinson at Buddah Records. Buddah Records, at that time, was just making the conversion from bubble-gum singles label to contemporary album label. It wasn't any easy change. Rock intellectuals don't easily forgive such transgressions as Yummy, Yummy, Yummy and One Two, Three Red Light. After all, they reasoned, what kind of artists can a man who dug the Ohio Express really appreciate? Neil bogart is probably the hero of this piece, even though it's taken him so long to make his entrance. I never had anything against Yummy, Yummy, Yummy, but i really didn't believe that a label could make such a drastic change of artistic direction in such a short time.

Another trace:

https://satireknight.fandom.com/wiki/Patricia_Kennealy-Morrison_-_FAQ_22

Pamela obviously had at least some of her things shipped up to her from L.A., because my friend Gina Gangi told me she spent time with Pam and Diane in Sausalito, and there had seen Jim's big purple Victorian-style chair that he used when writing

I think they are meant to be the words of Patricia Kennealy-Morrison, writer and wife of Jim Morrison. She died a couple of years ago so won't be able to help, alas.

Or, partner, rather than wife - I don't think it the ceremony was ever made legal.

Gosh - thanks Alba. You should pro shamus.

I

* turn pro shamus

I think there's a good chance Soozin is Soozin Kazik. Her name features on this rather wonderful resource:

https://www.1970smusicindustrymemories.com/do-you-remember-these-people-page-21.html

posted this on wrong thread:

anybody have any scans of Zavtone magazine (gorgeous 90s cyberdelic rave magazine from sf / japan)?

Declaring defeat on this (after somewhat more than three minutes). However, in the course of looking I did find this pretty great search engine, https://filmot.com – which lets you search subtitles of YouTube videos. I found from this that there are an awful lot of people on YouTube saying "that is made of awesome", and only one saying ilxor, in a video about some Simpsons mystery that somehow spends 1m20s scrolling through Oh boy, ILX! That's where I'm a viking!..?)

ha, I'm not sure whether I should thank you for searching for that horror or thank you for failing to dig it up. that's a very interesting tool though! I haven't played around with it much, but I was a little shocked to find that google had mis-transcribed things people said ("and I drag it" and the like) as "Ned Raggett" over 100 times

https://i.imgur.com/gmmVXY7.png

fwiw Ned's Captain Kangaroo appearance also pops up in the results, so it isn't all noise

I have a bunch of issues of the Spanish magazine Mundo Joven, from the late ‘60s/early ‘70s, which covered pop music and youth culture. Interesting among other reasons in that it was basically documenting the last years of the Franco era in Spain. I see that issues of Mundo Joven pop up on eBay but I have a LOT of them.

since i share my deadname with a celebrity, i am cursed never to know if anybody has ever talked about me on the internet.

(i don't share my name with a celebrity, because there are no famous women, but since nobody knows my name i just assume that any matches for my name in youtube are typos or refer to some other non-famous woman with my name.)