special goodness
MIKEYRIV
does anyone know if the special goodness have any records which are available ?
i have a damn good reason to ask this here.
mike.
Steve Carman
special goodness has no available records at the moment. they were signed to
geffen, but it sat on the shelf for 2 years. they are now signed to rock records
based out of japan I believe. it may be released this year, but in japan only. if
not, it will wait till after weezer is done recording/touring etc.....
Steve
=rwa=
Pjfsk8s
coming?
-pat finn
DANROCK
pat?
dan
=rwa=
Steve Carman
OK, here's what I got from the horses mouth. actually it was from pat's
fingers typing. he said that the deal had been done with rock records
based out of japan... he has no word on when it will be released, but
as soon as he knows, he will tell us. weither that be to someone via
e-mail, or on his glorious webpage. as for pat and the royalties. I
dunno about that dude. check with pat. he might be holding out to get a
new pair of speedo's or something...
Steve
=rwa=
Pjfsk8s
the sg got signed. if i did i must have been drunk and i need to have my
computer privileges revoked.
the special goodness is in pretty deep hibernation because we all realize the
sort of time frame that the new weezer album is going to dictate. if they spend
a year in l.a. making it there is a good chance a couple more years will be
spent promoting it.
though i am sure pat wilson will unleash his personal musical vision upon the
world at some point, and i will help him as he deems me fit, none of us are
even thinking about it right now. but it is nice that people are interested,
maybe if somebody has even heard it........
the lonely bassist
FooAlien15
I still love it though. all they want is a cash cow.
FooAlien
DANROCK
>down.
>I still love it though. all they want is a cash cow.
just for arguments sake....whats does special g. being cut have to do with
pinkerton? rivers wrote pinkerton...pat wrote special g. (which none of us have
heard)...what if special g. was like a country band? would it be logical for
geffen to cut it because it didn't sound like the sweater song & was
depressing?
dan
Steve C. Stadtfeld
DANROCK <dan...@aol.com> wrote:
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>just for arguments sake....whats does special g. being cut have to do with
>pinkerton? rivers wrote pinkerton...pat wrote special g. (which none of us
I dont claim to be an expert on the decisions of the music industry, but I
think that it may be that DGC wanted to not put much money into promoting
SG and thought that if they released it on the piggyback of a largely
successful PInkerton, they coulda maximized some money there.
Pinkerton was not as much a big selling record, and subsequently took the
air out of the plan for marketing SG. To think that Geffen looked at The
Special Goodness as some sort of totally independent entity would be
naiive, I think. They were hoping it would be a sort of spinoff, you dig?
I think that in some ways that may be why the Rentals have been moved
around, with Maverick hoping to coincide with a successful weezer record
if the Rentals is ever to be relased.
In TV they make spinoffs of shows like "Happy Days," and not "Hello
Larry." Unfortunately for SG, Pinkerton was less of a hype generator than
the blue album.
DOnt get me wrong, I dont think this was a decision that went on in the
minds of anyone other than record company wonks, not in any artist's
minds. And for the record, I really loved "Hello Larry." It took place,
after all, in Portland.
Steve Stadtfeld, =w=#6000
DANROCK
Pjfsk8s
played a show and had no following or interest it only makes sense that a label
in the midst of downsizing cut an act they really hadn't invested too much into
and didn't really seem to be doing anything at the time. it's all survival of
the fittest kind of stuff. anybody out there looking to break into the music
business must learn to never give up, fight tooth and nail, because the fantasy
of getting signed and life suddenly becoming easy doesn't exsist-patrock