TAPE OP!

... is the only audio/music production magazine worth reading these days. yes, there's the high-end-y MIX, Pro Sound News, etc...but Tape Op is for the rest us who just want to make better recordings with the stuff we have in our home/semi-pro studios. there's a nice interview by pal Greg DiGesu of your's truly, plus i was just told that pal Richard Lloyd is in the new issue, too.

if you are interested in this stuff, a subscription is free, or wait a minute for them to post it on their website: http://www.tapeop.com/

PODCAST NEWS:

thank you all for the positive reception and huge number of hits i've received for my story about getting back BEBE BLEUE - the guitar i played on The Waitresses' "Christmas Wrapping" song...or how i think i got the same guitar back. a nice was to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the song's recording & release.

if you haven't had a chance to listen:

CLICK HERE FOR THE PODCAST (v1.0) & TO SEE SOME PIX

- or -

CLICK HERE FOR JUST THE PODCAST (v2.0) ONLY

If you like this podcast,
please tell your friends & pass it on.












MORE CB YAPPING: PART 2 of "The History of Akron Rock" @ Dusty Wright's Culture Catch podcast site:

http://www.culturecatch.com/shows/cbutler2.mp3

and let me make one thing PERFECTLY CLEAR - Michael Zilkha deserves 1000000% props for taking a chance on The Waitresses. and recording a Christmas song was entirely his idea, for which i am forever grateful.

here's his comment/corrections/clarifications re: the podcast:

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Dear Chris,

I may not have been much good at getting distribution but it was most definitely Ze and not Island who signed you. I was also quite involved in the album, restraining some of your free jazz tendencies and requesting that you use my favourite Beckett line "I can't go on, I'll go on" in one of your songs. You were definitely A & R'd, which accounts for some of the difference between the first and second albums. I had to do the same thing with August and when he left me his records became more impenetrable. On the other hand I had forgotten how much trouble I had coming up with distribution and I apologize for that. Don and David Was were just as mid-western as you were. And so was James Chance, an outsider with his face glued to the window looking in. That's what I was growing up as a foreigner in England, and the records I put out were about alienation and not belonging and trying to function and putting a brave face on it. So we were actually an ideal match and The Waitresses fit in perfectly with the rest of the acts on Ze. I may have been Euro-trash but my heroes were Bob Dylan, Neil Young, the Velvet Underground, Miles Davis and James Brown.

So sad about Karin Berg.

Warmly,

Michael>

ALL TRUE.

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THE 2007 WRAPPIE AWARD NEWS:

i've already been tipped off to two plays that in any other year would 'qualify' as wins, but they seem to be starting Xmas too friggin' early every year...so can we at least wait until Thanksgiving has passed before we start this???

details to follow...







PEEVE DE JOUR: catching the flu...from Ruthless @ the 1300 show last weekend? unbelievable...is EVERYTHING to do with R. B. W. toxic???

JOIE DE JOUR: over a hundred hits before noon on the Bebe Bleue site!

cb...where are you?






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