Gary Numan Digest Sun, 19 Jan 97 Volume 1 : Issue 298 Today's Topics: Calling Numan Experts CD Quality and stuff DITP (piano version) Down in the Park (piano version) Gary Numan Digest V1 #297 Gary Numan Digest V1 #297 -Reply Introductory message Premier tour bootlegs Retail cd's Sound Quality of CDs ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 21:12:19 -0500 From: Sean Francis <100557.3713@compuserve.com> Subject: Calling Numan Experts To: Digest Numan Digesters, You may be particularly unfascinated to know that I'm cataloging my music collection at the moment. As I enter my Numan items into the computer I've thought of a few questions that I've long since forgotten the answers to. Any one know the answers ? 1. Was the Cars (E Reg Model) issued as a double A side with AFE ? 2. Was the double vinyl album Ghost originally issued as a Fan Club only release ? Any video experts out there ? I'm moving from the UK to the US in a couple of weeks. As you know we have different video standards. PAL for the UK. NTSC for the US. I know my UK Numan videos won't play in a US VCR, but can I plug my UK VCR into a US TV and be able to watch my vids (assume that I have the proper power converter to run my UK VCR from a US wall socket) ? In the UK we can now buy VCRs which play both PAL and NTSC tapes. Can you buy similar equipment in the US ? Any helpful answers or suggestions which will allow me to continue to enjoy my GN vids will be gratefully received. Cheers, Sean. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 17:27:20 -0800 From: "Rudolph Ronay" Subject: CD Quality and stuff To: "Gary Numan" Hi: I have listen to the CD's and yes there is some fuzz, but it is still better than those bloody vinyl things of the past. At least you know that the fuzzyness will not increase with time and after all it is Gary. Hoping that I will be EXILED soon. Rudy ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 18:01:22 -0600 From: machman@interaccess.com (Jeff Tolva) Subject: DITP (piano version) To: numan@cs.uwp.edu Gary's piano version of "Down In The Park" is NOT, in fact, performed by Gary himself, but my ex-Dramatis member Dennis Haines. If I remember correctly, Gary was impressed with Dennis's performance of it on piano alone that he decided to put it on the b-side of the "I Die: You Die" single. The Machman ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 09:11:39 +0000 From: "dcoffey" <@lnxpop1.bloomberg.com> Subject: Down in the Park (piano version) To: numan@cs.uwp.edu Hi ....I responded personally to this inquiry, but i will also respond publicly to this... It was Dennis Haines who played the piano on this track, handpicked by Gary for his classical training... he toured -w/ Gary during the 79-80 tour and if memory serves me correctly, he also did some work w/ Dramatis w/ Cedric Sharpley, Chris Payne, and Rrussel Bell.... how great is that piano version..?!!!!!! almost as good as Gary's rendition of Trois Gymnopedies II..... peace. Dan ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 15:05:30 -0700 (MST) From: GUTIERREZ CHRISTOPHER XAVIER Subject: Gary Numan Digest V1 #297 To: numan@cs.uwp.edu TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Thank you for all your Numan Info. I have enjoyed it very much. However, I am asking that you please remove my name from the Gary Numan Digest. Thank you for your time. Christopher X3 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 13:58:07 -0600 From: CARY WILTZ Subject: Gary Numan Digest V1 #297 -Reply To: numan@cs.uwp.edu Hello, World. I am Cary Wiltz and I've been a Numanite since 1981 and love just about all of his recordings except the Prince( oops! the artist formally known as)remakes...can any one tell me why he did it? CWILTZ@OCHSNER.ORG ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 21:14:42 -0500 (EST) From: Numan007@aol.com Subject: Introductory message To: numan@cs.uwp.edu Hello, my name is Eric Stafford, I live in Forest Grove, Oregon, USA, and am a huge Gary Numan fanatic. I started listening to Gary in 1979 and since then my interest and enthusiasm has grown expodentially with each passing year. My search for records and singles has dropped off a bit since my marriage five years ago, but I still buy what I can find when I have time to look. I have two childeren Adrienne, 4 and Jacob, 2 1/2, and am employed as a meat cutter in Portland. My hobbies are playing french horn ( and a little keyboard ), Star Trek, surfing the net and old Plymouth cars. My musical tastes are varied, from Led Zeppelin and Metallica to Sade and Bing Crosby, but my greatest love and admiration is and always will be Gary Numan. Thank-you for adding me to your mailing list. Eric Stafford Numan007aol.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 15:15:37 -0600 From: machman@interaccess.com (Jeff Tolva) Subject: Premier tour bootlegs To: numan@cs.uwp.edu As a connoisseur of Gary Numan bootlegs, I am always looking for a trade or two :-) Does anyone have a bootleg from the 1996 Premier tour? I still haven't got a boot from that tour or anything from the V96 festivals. Know anyone who has boots from these tours/shows? If you'd like to strike up a trade of any boots for that matter, drop me a line! Jeff Tolva (The Machman) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 11:13:44 -0800 From: "Dave G." Subject: Retail cd's To: numan@cs.uwp.edu This posting goes out to Numan fans in northern California. I live in the Sacramento area , and I have found a couple of stores that carry Numan cd's . The stores I have found however have limeted selections (one or two cd's at a time). I would like to hear from anyone who knows of record stores in northern California that have decent selections of Numan recordings on a consistant basis . Any help at all will be greatly appreciated ! Fred Geer ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 08:30:05 -0800 From: av578@lafn.org (James Dawson) Subject: Sound Quality of CDs To: numan@cs.uwp.edu Does anyone have any idea if there will be another installment in the "Asylum" series that would include Gary's later albums (namely, those that were not included in the first three "Asylum" collections)? Maybe Beggars Banquet Japan could clean up the sound of those albums that were re-released recently, and the albums that sounded bad right from the start (such as "Machine and Soul"). The first three "Asylum" collections sounded absolutely perfect, and were worth every penny. With the state of technology today, there is no excuse for albums that were recorded in the 1980s to sound bad. --James Dawson av578@lafn.org ------------------------------ End of Gary Numan Digest ******************************