Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!dont-send-mail-to-path-lines From: abm4@cunixa.cc.columbia.EDU (Andrew B Marvick) Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa Subject: pologIE Da ied--mi struggo da rimorso! mi struggo da rimorso! Message-ID: Date: 24 Apr 91 21:07:34 GMT Sender: Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 52 Approved: love-hounds@eddie.mit.edu As Pinkerton confessed to Sharpless, so IED does to the "AATHP" et al. Sorry for being unreasonable about this PMRC business. IED admits that personal insults about deficiencies in humor were uncalled for. Sua culpa. He remains baffled, nonetheless, at the apparent fact that some people were unable to perceive that Chris's piece was a joke. On the larger issue of the AATHP itself--IED confesses to having been --again unreasonably--reluctant to welcome this new entity into the ranks, for several unrelated and admittedly less than fully rational reasons. First, it seems, frankly, a little like overkill to this Kate Bush fan, to see yet another group coming out with still another Kate Bush fanzine. Just to mention KT mags in the U.S. alone, there's Love-Hounds; Watching Storms (which is run by the so-called "American Kate Bush Society"); The Big Sky Forum; Reaching Out; Kevin Hendryx's new Lone Star Lionhearts; Gillian Gaar's For the Love of Kate; After the Party; and the list goes on...IED admits that he doesn't think it's particularly constructive to continue this splintering of Kate Bush fan groups throughout the country, when (in his opinion) so much more might be done by consolidating forces into one organized entity. Second, by whose criteria is Scott Shepard (sp.?) a "world famous Kate Bush authority"--as the AATHP's flyer advertised--and not simply a Kate Bush fan like the rest of us, albeit one who likes to do a lot of dealing? Third, IED admits taking offense at this bizarre resentment of _Homeground_--which, incidentally, has been _more_ than open in its criticism of British censorship for years and years (note, as only the latest example, their frankly critical description of the BBC's recent policy of "suggesting" that certain songs not be played during the Gulf war). Far from U.S.-bashers, the _Homeground_ crew have been, in IED's view, extraordinarily willing to welcome Americans into its enclave. They routinely report on the U.S. Kate scene, publish a large number of letters, articles, even artwork from U.S. fans, and keep on very friendly terms with a number of American fans beyond the domain of _Homeground_ itself. Finally, perhaps IED _should_ be slower to anger when hearing about fans bothering Kate for endorsements. Nevertheless, it does seem at least a little bit tacky of this group of Ohio fans to go about systematically heckling Kate Bush over the phone--by one Love-Hound's own account _many_ times, right up till the last moment--just to extract from her what could only have been (and by early reports was) a forced, unenthusiastic, rote endorsement of their activities? So, these were the feelings which produced IED's initial, overheated, even unwarranted remarks about the AATHP. IED would love to start from scratch, shake figurative hands and continue in peaceful coexistence from here on out. Perhaps some kind of coordination of Katemas activities could even be arranged. Which reminds IED--the location of the California Katemas party has _not_ been decided yet. See announcements here as soon as possible. -- Andrew Marvick ...Sharpless, v'aspetto per via!