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peawinkel 
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From Gene's dad:
Hi Everybody !
Yahoo ! ! Hooray ! ! Yipee ! ! Whoopee-Doo ! ! Yipee-ky-yo-ky-yea ! ! (an
old Gene-not-so-Hotry saying) Good News! - - Finally !! got the Gene
Eugene Cd's Done ! !
OK - - here's the scoop - - The Cd is called "Remembering Gene Eugene" -- -
it has 3 songs on it - - 2 of them are Leonard Cohen songs, and the 3rd is
by Lucinda Williams.
The CD is $7.50, plus 8 1/2 % Calif. sales tax, plus $1.00 S&H - -
total price $9.25 (rounded).
So if anyone wants one, please send a check or Money order to Chenka-Chenka
Music, at 370 W. 58th St., San Bernardino, Calif. 92407. Please allow 2 - 3
weeks for delivery - -
If you have any questions - - contact me - -
Thanks everybody for your patience ! !
Gene.
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larryl
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has anyone heard these? mike? audioris?
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.evangeline.
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anybody?
i listened to Hopeless, etc driving back from Promise Keepers on Saturday. My friend, Bobby, thought Gene sounded like Michael Stipe?
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larryl
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Originally posted by .evangeline.
anybody?
i listened to Hopeless, etc driving back from Promise Keepers on Saturday. My friend, Bobby, thought Gene sounded like Michael Stipe? |
i have heard that com parison quite a bit.....and comparison of AA to REMwhich i never got, except for the slight vocal similarities.
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jeffrey k.
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I'm interested in jeffery k.'s thoughts on this news............. |
Yeah....I dunno what to say really. I haven't heard it so I can't really comment on it. I guess we'll see won't we.......
jeffrey k.
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rob 3.0
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Originally posted by larryl
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Originally posted by .evangeline.
anybody?
i listened to Hopeless, etc driving back from Promise Keepers on Saturday. My friend, Bobby, thought Gene sounded like Michael Stipe? |
i have heard that com parison quite a bit.....and comparison of AA to REMwhich i never got, except for the slight vocal similarities. |
I totally see the comparison, especially the vocal similarities. Everyone I've played AA for always say it sounds like the guy from REM.
I'm excited by the prospect of new gene songs but $3 a song? I'm gonna have to wait til I have more expendable cash laying around for this one.
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Joey T.
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Originally posted by .evangeline.
anybody?
i listened to Hopeless, etc driving back from Promise Keepers on Saturday. My friend, Bobby, thought Gene sounded like Michael Stipe? |
you sir, will not blaspheme on this here board! 
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snowblind
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I wonder why he wouldn't offer this as a download. At 99¢ per song. That way he could make the money with little sunk costs in CDs, duplication, etc. As much as I like Gene and AA, there are very few artists I would spend $3/song for.
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peawinkel
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I wonder why he wouldn't offer this as a download. At 99¢ per song. That way he could make the money with little sunk costs in CDs, duplication, etc. As much as I like Gene and AA, there are very few artists I would spend $3/song for. |
I think we've all been wondering about who has been advising him on this.
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Kit
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Everybody for whom I've played Adam Again says Gene sounds like Stipe. I think Gene has way more soul than Stipe though.
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Joey T.
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jeffrey k.
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i am sure gene is turning over in his grave....being compared to that silly little girly man....... 
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Speaking of uh....REM: (ripped from the PT)
Tollbooth: The first record has such a special cover. How did you get Mr. Finster to do the cover for that record?
Michele: We were big Talking Heads fans and had a few singles and record covers that Howard Finster had painted for them. We loved them. They were all different styles. Sometimes with just one thing in the picture, they weren't always filled with imagery like some of the more seen album covers... so Gene found out that Howard Finster lived somewhere near Atlanta, Georgia and called information to get his phone number. And they talked like they were old friends, he even put his wife on the phone with Gene... while they were talking Mr. Finster said, [Riki does her impression of a southern drawl here] "I've got the R-E-Ms in my back yard right now shooting some movies... I think I'm gonna put 'em up in the chapel tonight, but there sure is a lot of 'em." We thought that was so rad, he had REM in his back yard.
So then he painted the cover for us and gave us a great deal on it. At first we were a little disappointed that it looked so much like the cover he did for Talking Heads, but not for long; and not too disappointed... we loved the painting, which is huge. About 3 feet by 3 feet...
Tollbooth: Where is the painting now?
Michele: Greg (Lawless) has it right now... we've all traded it around a little bit. So I may get it back at some point for a while...years later we visited Mr. Finster's house and he had our cover hanging in his hall right between the covers he had done for Talking Heads and REM. We thought that was very cool!
Anyway......I dunno Joey....I've heard the Stipe/Eugene comparison for years.....and on the first record a David Byrne/Eugene compairison.....plus I read in a couple places years ago that Gene was a fan of REM and got the comparison himself....but who knows really...
jeffrey k.
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Joey T.
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ok... if i had never seen pictures of michael stipe i probably wouldn't hate him so deeply....
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Sorry, I've always thought Gene's voice sounded "familar", but esp. with "Dig", which is how I usually share AA, I and those listening always make the Stipe comparison.
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Alex
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Everybody for whom I've played Adam Again says Gene sounds like Stipe. I think Gene has way more soul than Stipe though. |
That's the way I see and hear it, too. I really do like Stipe's voice and REM's music, especially "Automatic" and "Monster". Gene and AA were similar, but even better. It's no shame being compared to the best and actually win.
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Michael Stipe has a restaurant in Athens GA called The Grit. It's good. All veggie, but it's actually good food. I try not to think of him in drag while eating there.
And, yes, my world does revolve around food.
I too have heard the Stipe comparisons. It's just unfortunate that Adam Again never got more exposure, because they could have rocked REM off the stage, IMO...
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jeffrey k.
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So I got my CD today...and in terms of the music, hearing new songs with Gene singing them is beautiful and heartbreaking all at the same time... They are complete songs, but not finished, if that makes sense. You could tell he had more in mind for them. In terms of the CD presentation, it's basically a CDR with a sticker label. No art or anything...and it came with a note from his mom and dad sort of explaining their take on releasing the songs.... So there you go...
jeffrey k.
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It's here!
