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    Posted: December 08 2004 at 23:02

I think they assumed the band would make something a bit more commercial. When they heard As the World, awesome as it is, they decided it was un-marketable. The refused to put it on shelves and would not support a tour.

Anyway, here's another source. Check it out.

http://www.echolynfan.com/progression-art(large).html



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 08 2004 at 14:45
Originally posted by danbo danbo wrote:

http://www.echolyn.com/ray-atwdiary.php

Here's Ray (bass, vocals) Weston's version of what happened with As the World.

 

Danbo, you mean the stuff in Postscripts I and II? But it basically just says that nothing happened. What I don't understand is, why? What was Sony's motivation for not doing anything to plug it? Did someone in Sony just think they had made a mistake signing the band, was there a personality clash, or... what?

 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 08 2004 at 13:14

Originally posted by Garion81 Garion81 wrote:

Interesting that that Crapity Crue wasn't the subject discussed but U2 was. 

I think Motley Crue is a joke and CAN'T be taken seriously. That's the main reason they weren't discussed. U2 Used 2 be something relevant and had a certain amount of credibility. Motley Crue have always been a freak show with nothing important to say, thus, easily discarded.

I wonder what kind of media attention a reunion of Peter Gabriel and Genesis might grab?

Imagine: Gabriel and Collins singing Motown hits or 50's standards. MwahahhaHahahahaha.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 08 2004 at 13:05

http://www.echolyn.com/ray-atwdiary.php

Here's Ray (bass, vocals) Weston's version of what happened with As the World.

 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 08 2004 at 12:29

Danbo wrote: "Oh yeah, U2. I'm pretty tired of the whole media blitz. I'm sure the record company poured a few million into the ad campaigns. Sony signed Echolyn some years ago and after they cut the album As the World, Sony refused to support them with a tour or advertising and then locked up there previous recodings and tried to keep them from being sold. Assholes, the lot."

Why *did* Sony do that? I mean, what were the company's motives?

 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 08 2004 at 12:28

 

Peter,

 

Your friend "Bung" is he always a little behind?

 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 08 2004 at 12:27

 

Interesting that that Crapity Crue wasn't the subject discussed but U2 was.  I would rather money be put behind U2 than any talentless hair band from the 80's who are now 45 year old fat idiots (as opposed to 25 year old fat idiots and even worse they have procreated and call themselves fathers  Think about it !!! We have a whole new generation of Tommy Lee jr. and Pam Anderson films to pass around) .  

They are having a WORLD TOUR, playing here in LA area the Forum, which seats 18,000 people.  Do they really have that much interest?  Kiss was bad enough. I had hoped to never hear from these guys again. 

Well, it can only be a short amount of time before we get the Men Without Hats, Cindy Laupner and Devo with  Brian Seltzer tour.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 08 2004 at 11:36
Originally posted by James Lee James Lee wrote:

Originally posted by Reed Lover Reed Lover wrote:

I am astonished about your apathy toward U2.

They are a talented rock band.They play interesting songs and they entertain.What other purpose do they need to have?

Are you sure you meant apathy? Wouldn't antipathy have been more appropriate?

Although apathy does come closer to expressing my feelings for them.

It's a beautiful day, so I wont ask a certain Canadian Flyboy to nuke your house....LOL




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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 08 2004 at 11:25

Puke?

A few years back I was running in every local race I could enter. We had one called the Can to Can race. It was only two miles, but you had to stop every half mile and drink a beer. You couldn't stand around and enjoy it or anything, it was a freekin' race, right? You had to slam the beer, hold the cup above your head to prove it was empty and then get back into the run. You could feel the beer sloshing around inside your belly as you hit your stride. By midway through the second mile the beer began to foam.

It's an amazing sight, actually Pythonesque, in the beauty of twenty people, men and women alike, projectile vomiting all over the finish line.

Proudly, I stood. One of only three others in a host of twenty five runners, who didn't puke. The poor sods who finished last, slipping and sliding before beginning their personal fountain impressions. Ha, those were the days.  

 

Oh yeah, U2. I'm pretty tired of the whole media blitz. I'm sure the record company poured a few million into the ad campaigns. Sony signed Echolyn some years ago and after they cut the album As the World, Sony refused to support them with a tour or advertising and then locked up there previous recodings and tried to keep them from being sold. Assholes, the lot.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 08 2004 at 11:22
Originally posted by Reed Lover Reed Lover wrote:

I am astonished about your apathy toward U2.

They are a talented rock band.They play interesting songs and they entertain.What other purpose do they need to have?

Are you sure you meant apathy? Wouldn't antipathy have been more appropriate?

Although apathy does come closer to expressing my feelings for them.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 08 2004 at 10:34
Originally posted by Peter Peter wrote:

[QUOTE=sigod][QUOTE=StarvingArtyst]

Now, maybe, if you're all good little boys and girls, Uncle Peter will tell you the one about my friend Bung, the baked beans, my mother's new couch, the nursing student, the "stuffed shirt," and the taxi, some day.... LOL

Quacky was there, too.Wink

Ooh, do tell...

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 08 2004 at 10:33

Originally posted by Proghead Proghead wrote:

I did a Rectroscopy 5 years ago , but I didnīt sh*t on anyone 

Good man  

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 08 2004 at 10:31

I am astonished about your apathy toward U2.

They are a talented rock band.They play interesting songs and they entertain.What other purpose do they need to have?

Could be a great new thread or poll though:

Who is the biggest w**ker:

Bono,Phil Collins

or Sting ?

Discuss.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 08 2004 at 09:48
I did a Rectroscopy 5 years ago , but I didnīt sh*t on anyone 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 08 2004 at 09:40
Originally posted by sigod sigod wrote:

Originally posted by StarvingArtyst StarvingArtyst wrote:

So, funny story about vomit:

This guy I know was the apartment of a friend of mine (and he was really, really, reall drunk) sitting on the arm of a couch, next to two other guys. He turns to the one of the other guys, who is sitting on the other side of the couch, and says, "Hey Kolby". But just as he opened his mouth and got the words out, he barfed all over the two guys, the couch and the floor.

Classy

I had to go to hospital last week and have a Gastroscopy (I wouldn't recommend it as a leisure activity). This involves having a pipe with a camera on it inserted down your thorat so that they might have a look about your stomach and intestines. Naturally, I was acting all brave and when given the choice of sedation of a anaesthetic throat spray, I chose the latter.

I chose...poorly

Within a few seconds of the pipe being inserted I was heaving everywhere. I'm not sure, but I believe I covered everyone in the room quite liberally and even garnered a remark from the senior consultant;

'Good god! Where's he getting all of it from?'

After five minutes I was wheeled out in silence with a streaming nose, bloodshot eyes and a rather stained shirt. The nurses outside looked at me in mild amusement as I had mouthing off not fifteen minutes beforehand that this would be 'a walk in the park'.

Pride goeth before a fall....

 

HA!LOL Good ones, guys! Clap

 Ermm Puke stories, eh? Well, one of my worst such memories involves a crowded ferry, no supper, way too much cheap, crappy beer, the alluring odor of diesel, and the incessant, ear-splitting shriek of live bagpipes not ten feet awayDead -- but I'm trying to repress that memory....Embarrassed

Now, maybe, if you're all good little boys and girls, Uncle Peter will tell you the one about my friend Bung, the baked beans, my mother's new couch, the nursing student, the "stuffed shirt," and the taxi, some day.... LOL

Quacky was there, too.Wink

"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 08 2004 at 07:39
Whatever happened to U2?

'Boy' and 'War' were two of the best early '80s albums by 'new' artists - 'Under a blood red sun' maybe less so, but still highly listenable.

At Live Aid in 1985, they blew Wembley Stadium away..... then got the taste for stadium rock!

Nowadays, I would rather have a wasp colonic than a U2 album.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 08 2004 at 07:32

Hey, I've always bitten my tongue re U2 with friends who think the band is the best thing since sliced bread. I also think they're overrated, so I'm glad to find that I'm not alone.

 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 08 2004 at 05:58
Originally posted by StarvingArtyst StarvingArtyst wrote:

So, funny story about vomit:

This guy I know was the apartment of a friend of mine (and he was really, really, reall drunk) sitting on the arm of a couch, next to two other guys. He turns to the one of the other guys, who is sitting on the other side of the couch, and says, "Hey Kolby". But just as he opened his mouth and got the words out, he barfed all over the two guys, the couch and the floor.

Classy

I had to go to hospital last week and have a Gastroscopy (I wouldn't recommend it as a leisure activity). This involves having a pipe with a camera on it inserted down your thorat so that they might have a look about your stomach and intestines. Naturally, I was acting all brave and when given the choice of sedation of a anaesthetic throat spray, I chose the latter.

I chose...poorly

Within a few seconds of the pipe being inserted I was heaving everywhere. I'm not sure, but I believe I covered everyone in the room quite liberally and even garnered a remark from the senior consultant;

'Good god! Where's he getting all of it from?'

After five minutes I was wheeled out in silence with a streaming nose, bloodshot eyes and a rather stained shirt. The nurses outside looked at me in mild amusement as I had mouthing off not fifteen minutes beforehand that this would be 'a walk in the park'.

Pride goeth before a fall....

 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 08 2004 at 05:32
Originally posted by Garion81 Garion81 wrote:

Then yesterday the big reunion announcement has now happened and it is Motley Crue?!? WTF?!!!

On the fircken’ evening news no less.  Someone again has put big bucks behind those a**holes. What is Next Loverboy?  Is there no end to this crap?

I feel better now.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 08 2004 at 03:28
U2 and Marillion?! That's like comparing Village People to Beethoven!
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