EMUSIC-L Digest Volume 55, Issue 02 This issue's topics: d'ya 'member... (4 messages) Your EMUSIC-L Digest moderator is Joe McMahon . You may subscribe to EMUSIC-L by sending mail to listserv@american.edu with the line "SUB EMUSIC-L your name" as the text. The EMUSIC-L archive is a service of SunSite (sunsite.unc.edu) at the University of North Carolina. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1993 10:21:29 EDT From: ronin Subject: d'ya 'member... this is only of marginal relevance to the purview of this group, but i don't hang out anywhere else... i think that many of us interested in emusic and its pop forms fondly remember FM, the canadian group that often opened for Rush in the early days, headed by cameron hawkins, and featuring nash the slash, who played electric mandolin and violin while bandaged up like the invisible man. nash, you will remember, went solo, and was replaced by ben mink. the group put out a couple of more albums, hung on a little touring with rush (the last time saw them was on the 'moving pictures' tour... fm, i mean.), and then vanished, as far as i could tell. ben mink just popped up. the news is a little late, but i don't listen to country n western, so i never got an earlier kd lang album called 'torchin and twangin'... i was exposed to it at a friend's house the other night. and ben mink was the guitarist, string player, and principle producer. ho ho. how things do change. -----------< Cognitive Dissonance is a 20th Century Art Form >----------- Eric Harnden (Ronin) or The American University Physics Dept. 4400 Mass. Ave. NW, Washington, DC, 20016-8058 (202) 885-2748 (with Voice Mail) ---------------------< Join the Cognitive Dissidents >------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1993 09:12:19 PDT From: metlay Subject: Re: d'ya 'member... >this is only of marginal relevance to the purview of this group, >but i don't hang out anywhere else... Oh, I dunno. FM were a very good electric/electronic band in their day. >i think that many of us interested in emusic and its pop forms fondly >remember FM, the canadian group that often opened for Rush in the early days, >headed by cameron hawkins, and featuring nash the slash, who played electric >mandolin and violin while bandaged up like the invisible man. nash, you >will remember, went solo, and was replaced by ben mink. the group put out >a couple of more albums, hung on a little touring with rush (the last time >saw them was on the 'moving pictures' tour... fm, i mean.), and then >vanished, as far as i could tell. After Ben left to work with kd lang (see how the mighty etc), Nash actually came back for two more albums, making him equal in number of releases with FM to Ben Mink (Black Noise, ConTest, and Tonight vs. Surveillance, Head Room, and City of Fear). Nash is now doing live shows in Toronto with my good friend Brett Maraldo, playing live accompaniment to silent horror films from the 1920s. Good stuff. If anyone's wondering, due to legal and financial hassles, the Nash/FM discography is never going to get onto CD. Alas. -- mike metlay * atomic city * box 81175 pgh pa 15217-0675 * metlay@netcom.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Wow, now my hand's all sticky! Yum." (metlay's wife) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1993 22:02:18 GMT From: mathias thallmayer Subject: Re: d'ya 'member... metlay (metlay@NETCOM.COM) wrote: : After Ben left to work with kd lang (see how the mighty etc), Nash actually : came back for two more albums, making him equal in number of releases with : FM to Ben Mink (Black Noise, ConTest, and Tonight vs. Surveillance, Head : Room, and City of Fear). Nash is now doing live shows in Toronto with my : good friend Brett Maraldo, playing live accompaniment to silent horror : films from the 1920s. Good stuff. If anyone's wondering, due to legal and : financial hassles, the Nash/FM discography is never going to get onto CD. : Alas. __________________ As a matter of fact, I was wondering. This is a shame. So, what is the bird's-eye low-down on this caper? And aren't Nash and Ben the same person? -- Mathias ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 11:38:20 PDT From: metlay Subject: File: "EMUSIC-L LOG9308C" >metlay (metlay@NETCOM.COM) wrote: > >: After Ben left to work with kd lang (see how the mighty etc), Nash actually >: came back for two more albums, making him equal in number of releases with >: FM to Ben Mink (Black Noise, ConTest, and Tonight vs. Surveillance, Head >: Room, and City of Fear). Nash is now doing live shows in Toronto with my >: good friend Brett Maraldo, playing live accompaniment to silent horror >: films from the 1920s. Good stuff. If anyone's wondering, due to legal and >: financial hassles, the Nash/FM discography is never going to get onto CD. >: Alas. >__________________ > >As a matter of fact, I was wondering. This is a shame. So, what is the >bird's-eye low-down on this caper? And aren't Nash and Ben the same person? Oh heavens no! Nash's real name is a closely guarded secret, but I assure you it's not B. Mink. Ben is off happily touring with kd lang, as her band's musical director, and Nash is ensconced in Toronto doing his own thang. Cam is out of the music business entirely (house renovations? painter? shrug-- don't remember) and Marty is (I think) a session drummer now. The record label that owned the rights to the albums dinked the guys but good, and it is unlikely that anyone will have the $$ to straighten things out again. I'm afraid I don't have more details, and I don't plan to ask Brett or Nash, as it upsets their digestion. However, there is one Nash CD available that I know of: the soundtrack album to "Highway 61," the best movie in the (admittedly small) history of Canadian filmmaking. -- mike metlay * atomic city * box 81175 pgh pa 15217-0675 * metlay@netcom.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Wow, now my hand's all sticky! Yum." (metlay's wife) ------------------------------ End of the EMUSIC-L Digest ******************************