Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!rutgers!mit-eddie!GAFFA.MIT.EDU!Love-Hounds-request From: Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa Subject: ktjt Message-ID: <8908310353.AA16494@m.cs.uiuc.edu> Date: 31 Aug 89 03:52:29 GMT Reply-To: Love-Hounds@GAFFA.MIT.EDU Organization: Love-Hounds Anonymous Lines: 36 Approved: nessus@eddie.mit.edu Really-From: Michael Mendelson Tim Bessie writes: I have noticed that most of the people I know in the: SCA/Renn Faire/Computers/Technical/Folkie... etc. genre seem to like both Kate Bush and Jethro Tull. I would like to know why people out there think this is... Most of the people I know in the computer/technical "genre" have never even heard of Kate Bush, and if they have, they know her as "the one who did that stuff for Peter Gabriel" (i.e. backing vocals). I myself (I admit it) was a member of the latter group until about a year and a half ago when I bought The Whole Story (mostly because I liked the poster so much :-). (Needless to say my life changed forever that day.) Of the people I know who *have* heard "real" KT music, most of them are either ambivalent about it, or downright hate it. One guy even told me he once won a Kate Bush record from a local radio station, listened to it once, and then (gasp!) "used it as a frisbee." Personally, I wouldn't do this with any disk (even if I loathed it), but to do it with a KT disk is surely a felony. The unfortunate point is that, unlike you, I know *VERY* few people (in any discipline) who know of and like Kate Bush. KT is a lonely habit around here (TGFLH*!). On a sweeter note, I attended a record collectors convention in town this past weekend, and they had *tons* of Kate stuff. I picked up the Big Sky Meteorological Mix 12" and a couple of new posters. It was indeed most comforting to see so much Kate stuff and so many people (mostly the collectors) who knew who she was! Wow! ___________________________ *Thank God for Love-Hounds . /\/\ / /\/\ / / /_/ / / /