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paul messis

paul messis

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Hey Guys'

I have recently set up a Facebook page for my sounds??

I was wondering if any of you cats have pages for blogs, bands, garage fanzines, podcasts or any kinda page for anything relative to 60s garage or music in general???

I am pretty new to Facebook and the idea of it is still very novel to me, I have had it now for 3 weeks and still don't ultimately know or understand the point of it??

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paul messis said:
Hey Guys'

I have recently set up a Facebook page for my sounds??

I was wondering if any of you cats have pages for blogs, bands, garage fanzines, podcasts or any kinda page for anything relative to 60s garage or music in general???

I am pretty new to Facebook and the idea of it is still very novel to me, I have had it now for 3 weeks and still don't ultimately know or understand the point of it??

P
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POINTLESS...They're starting to call it FADEBOOK!!!!;)
 
When I had a personal facebook page... I managed to track down The Bachs, cos I wanted to tell them how important their album was to me.

I also found The Plagues and sent them my cover of 'i've Been Through It Before' which they all really dug... they were more amazed that a twenty something from England knew who they were more than anything else.


I am still unable to use Facebook, I have made a band/musician page and have still NO idea how to add my music to it for folks to hear, I have JUST figured out how to upload pictures. Hypocritically though, I hate Facebook, it can make you loose an hour of your life in a matter of seconds.... I need it as a promotional tool for my sounds, however ultimately can't understand why the phenomena is so huge... it is a part of modern social living now and is more commonly referred to society than people's actual names.

I didn't have a facebook page for a long while and when you meet a chick or some cat out they always ask you "Do you have a Facebook?" and when you say NO... the look on their face is akin to if you have just raped someone.

It kinda sucks that in order to fit into my peer group I need a facebook page???.... so I started up the band one and that way I don't have to be haunted by the past or view anyone's laundry in public.


Paul
 
Even my aged relatives seem to all have facebook pages now. The first time I saw the amount of info you have to give to them just to look at somebodys photos they invited you to look at I decided facebook wasn't worth it to me, but I can understand it is an essential to modern business and booking these days. Sometimes I think of all the invites I haven't responded to and worry I'm offending the senders... but then some have said they didn't remember sending invites so maybe a lot of that is really phishing spam, hoo nose, I just keep away from that whole thing; even myspace is still a bit too busy with the self-executing add-ons for me to enjoy much.
 
paul messis said:
I also found The Plagues and sent them my cover of 'i've Been Through It Before' which they all really dug... they were more amazed that a twenty something from England knew who they were more than anything else.
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This reminds me of something I forgot about...in about 1988 we recorded a version of The Music Machine's "Some Other Drum". I sent it to Sean Bonniwell in the early 90'sand he LOVED it ! He sent me back a very nice letter complimenting me and my bandmates(we were only 18 at the time) on how well we had captured that "60's" sound.

I should post it on youtube so y'all can hear it:D
 
Several bands around the world have made a recording of "Little Boy Blue" and sent it to me for my thoughts on their production of our tune. First off, to me it's an honor that they think enough of our music to even want to play the song. And, although the other versions I've heard aren't like the way we plaed it (and shouldn't) if they make the song their own. But, who am I to tell another musician that their take on the song is wrong or bad. The other versions are recognizable as LBB, just performed in a different musicians "feel" for the tune. In that sense, they are all great. In fact, a band out of Torino, Italy who recorded LBB on their cd dedicated the whole cd to "Tonto and the Renegades". That was another honor greatly appreciated. The Italian group is called "Acid Lemon". And, my good friend, Erik-4A (Howling Houndog of Seatle, recorded that song on his latest cd.
 
In London myself and a friend recently went 'busking' Tom and we played the song on the London Underground (the tube) and we also played around Covent Garden... we played 'little boy blue' and I felt we did it pretty well.... during the day however some teenage kids threw some chips (fries) at us, this has happened to me twice in my life now.

Paul
 
What are you saying, Paul, that if someone plays our song the audience will throw food at them? That's just great. I'd like some fries with my LBB please.
 
Ha... it was more a case that the kids were pricks more than anything.

It happens regardless of song, I remember 4 years ago, me and said friend played Rolling Stones and Beatles tracks and the exact same thing happened.

This time though... LBB freaked the teenagers out and they couldn't hack our un-godly presence and well.... the rest is history.


Paul
 
But, why would LBB freak the teens out? Not sure what you mean. Other than throwing food, was it a good or bad freakout? I don't get the throwing food crap. Panties, maybe, but potatos?
 
Tom... it wasn't because of the song... it was because we were wearing 60s styled clothes and are pretty young ourselves and were maybe deemed a threat to these types of hip hop and rap influenced teenagers?... they, the teenagers didn't like us and were attacking us... I doubt fully the song provoked them (but who knows??)

it wasn't a show, it was just myself and a friend busking around London during the day trying to earn some extra cash that people may like to throw into my hat... we did it for about 2 hours before we called it quits.




Paul
 
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