Gary Numan Digest Sun, 12 Jan 97 Volume 1 : Issue 296 Today's Topics: "I'm Stealing New Words 2" Berzerker Out takes? Extreme trivia time Hanoi Random Random URL Useful Info & Some Trivia ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: 09 Jan 97 05:08:51 EST From: Brian Moloney <100572.31@CompuServe.COM> Subject: "I'm Stealing New Words 2" To: "INTERNET:numan@cs.uwp.edu" Thanks for such a great response to my Interval/Red Heat search. I've seen the film, but it was some time ago, I'll have to get hold of the video... Now flushed with success, can anyone tell me where the following quotes from M&S originate- "You have just heard 8 seconds of silence..." "Every day I'm feeling a little more optimistic" Regards Brian ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 15:29:04 +0000 From: Phil Marsh Subject: Berzerker Out takes? To: numan@cs.uwp.edu Happy New Year all I was reminded the other day about Gary's appearance on the Leo Sayer show in the mid 80s where he sang On Broadway and a earlier version of This Is New Love. I remember reading when Berzerker was due out that the tracks had been finished, but GN then decided to go back and rework them before release (sounds familiar!:-)). Comparing the Leo Sayer Show version of This Is New Love to the album version shows the result of the "reworking" - the earlier one starts with a drone and overall sounds more "naturally playable" live than the final version. Also - on Tik & Tok's Intolerance album from around the same time, they cover A Child With The Ghost - and the backing track sounds like a less "polished" version of the one used on Berzerker; my guess would be Gary gave them the original backing tracks to use. Soooo....what happened to all these original versions? Prime "Babylon" material I would've thought - surely they can't all be scrapped/lost? I'd be interested to hear any other views on this, except "Berzerker is cack, so I don't care anyway"! :-). Perhaps if no-one knows the answer here, I'll send the same Q in for the next set of "Gary's Qs". Bye for now Phil (pmarsh@tpmde.ac.uk) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 09:45:36 +0000 From: "S.B.Davenport" Subject: Extreme trivia time To: numan@cs.uwp.edu I was searching through the sales section in a Virgin record store yesterday when I came across a recent Boy George 12" (in his new career as club DJ) the single, called Sad, had various remixes on it including the Scary Numan Mix. Well... it made me smile. Bruce ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 09 Jan 97 10:00:00 GMT From: Matthew Tamea Subject: Hanoi To: "'Numannews'" Bruce Davenport wrote: >Has anyone figured where the sample used in Hanoi comes from?? I'm pretty sure this is Gary himself with his voice messed about with. I've tried SO MANY TIMES to figure out all the words to this, even asked Gary but to no avail. Tried sampling it and messing about with it to get the clarity a little better - no luck. Even sampled Dark Mountain, reversed it and messed with that to try and get the words. Anyone else know the whole story? Matthew ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 08:28:36 -0500 From: tthoman@biostats.hmc.psu.edu (Terrence Thoman) Subject: Random To: numan@cs.uwp.edu >In Numan Digest #295, The Machman wrote: > >Does anyone recall the URL Tim is refering to for "Random" contributors? ----------- The URL is www.beggars.com/random/random.html If you can't access the page directly, go to www.beggars.com and go to the News, Cues, and Reviews section ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 22:05:35 +0000 From: Paul Denman Subject: Random URL To: numan@cs.uwp.edu Jeff Tolva wrote in the last Digest: >> I just got a couple of responses from Tim Collins of Beggars Banquet. >> The first is in regards to a question I had about the Beggars release >> (previous or otherwise) of "Living Ornaments". The second response >> is in regards to the rumour that the Gary Numan tribute album >> entitled "Random" (previously known as "Songs That Have Come In From >> The Cold") is being scrapped. Hi All, Sorry I've been very quiet recently; I've just got a new job as a Web Developer, and have had to concentrate my efforts in getting a large sporting information site online. Anyway, back to the important stuff ;-) The URL is: http://www.beggars.com/random/random.html Which strangely enough has the title of 'bauhausbio.html' - Mmm. seems as though BB could do with a little help in the Web Development area In case anyone hasn't noticed, I have had to halt updates to The Complex for a while. I have been securing my own URL, and changing providers, so it is due to be relocated very soon. Included on the new site are; a very thorough discography with UK chart details, and a Gary Numan screensaver! The new URL will be posted on the digest. Before I sign off, can I just wish all the best to Derek with his new job; it's nice when you can get a day-job which you enjoy isn't it? Happy Nu-Year to all the digest readers, Cheers...Paul Denman ZoneZero Publishing "No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive. The difficulty is to convince someone else he is really part of you" - William S.Burroughs Turnpike evaluation. For information, see http://www.turnpike.com/ ------------------------------ Date: 11 Jan 97 13:56:42 EST From: Sean Francis <100557.3713@CompuServe.COM> Subject: Useful Info & Some Trivia To: Digest Numan Happy New Year Fellow Fans ! A couple of things. Here in the UK there's a radio station called Talk Radio (ie. no music). On weekday afternoons the DJ (are they still called DJs if they don't play records ?) is a guy called Peter Deeley. On the hour for the 3 hours of his show he reads out the topics of discussion. The background music is ........ "Cars" ! I found another source of Numan material on the web. The site is called Hit The Deck and is run by a guy called Robin Davis. The web address is http://www.adept.co.uk/hit-the-deck/. Robin can be contacted via email at rdavis@fastnet.co.uk. The good thing about this place is that he'll send out lists via email too which kinda speeds things up. For those of you with additional interest in this and other sites, I found this information in a UK magazine called Record Collector. Cheers, Sean. ------------------------------ End of Gary Numan Digest ******************************