Re: names names names - was "how to announce performances"

["Shane Whitbread" <shanewhitbread@sympatico.ca>]

Shoegaze:

late 80's-early 90's UK mostly.  Bands like slowdive and My Bloody
Valentine.

Many of us got our looping introduction(who are around my age,  because I
got it from there) from their use of the Digitech PDS8000.

look it up on allmusic.com.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Goodman" <spgoodman@earthlight.net>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 4:55 AM
Subject: Re: names names names - was "how to announce performances"


>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Kirkdorffer" <vze2ncsr@verizon.net>
> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
> Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 8:14 AM
> Subject: names names names - was "how to announce performances"
>
>
> > Matthias -
> >
> > I sympathize with your desire to consolidate.  But then it's easy to
> > understand why people want new labels for their music, right?
> >
> > I mean: Rock Music = Rock Music, Heavy Metal, Grunge, Shoegazer,
BritPop,
> > PowerPop, New Metal, Glam Rock, Classic Rock, etc, etc...
> > Sure, it's all "rock music" and then so is Ska, Reggae, and (arguably)
> Disco
> > too.
>
> ..."Shoegazer"?  Is this something that's popped up in the 'States
recently?
>
> I'm not sure BritPop is music though.  It USES music, but it's more of an
> employment medium than anything else.
>
> Steve Goodman
> * EarthLight Productions
> * http://www.earthlight.net
>