Comments on: “A new sonic playground” :: Works Progress Administration interview (Glen Phillips) http://www.fuelfriendsblog.com/2010/01/12/a-new-sonic-playground-works-progress-administration-interview-glen-phillips/ spark a new musical discovery Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:20:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Bethany http://www.fuelfriendsblog.com/2010/01/12/a-new-sonic-playground-works-progress-administration-interview-glen-phillips/comment-page-1/#comment-14584 Bethany Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:38:55 +0000 http://www.fuelfriendsblog.com/?p=7498#comment-14584 I buddha bow to the greatness of your writing. "fortified more parts of me than I can count." Schmoly, woman. How do you do it. I buddha bow to the greatness of your writing. “fortified more parts of me than I can count.” Schmoly, woman. How do you do it.

]]> By: browneheather http://www.fuelfriendsblog.com/2010/01/12/a-new-sonic-playground-works-progress-administration-interview-glen-phillips/comment-page-1/#comment-14573 browneheather Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:57:39 +0000 http://www.fuelfriendsblog.com/?p=7498#comment-14573 man, that is priceless stuff. the early days of my internet music-nerdicy! man, that is priceless stuff. the early days of my internet music-nerdicy!

]]> By: Jeremy http://www.fuelfriendsblog.com/2010/01/12/a-new-sonic-playground-works-progress-administration-interview-glen-phillips/comment-page-1/#comment-14572 Jeremy Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:46:10 +0000 http://www.fuelfriendsblog.com/?p=7498#comment-14572 Jackpot! I love the wayback machine. It appears it had no name. There's no mention of list archives anywhere. http://web.archive.org/web/19990202232344/www.prairienet.org/toad/mailinglist.html http://web.archive.org/web/19991001073911/www.prairienet.org/toad/listwelcome.html http://web.archive.org/web/19980115153137/http://www.prairienet.org/toad/ Jackpot! I love the wayback machine. It appears it had no name. There’s no mention of list archives anywhere.

http://web.archive.org/web/19990202232344/www.prairienet.org/toad/mailinglist.html

http://web.archive.org/web/19991001073911/www.prairienet.org/toad/listwelcome.html

http://web.archive.org/web/19980115153137/http://www.prairienet.org/toad/

]]> By: browneheather http://www.fuelfriendsblog.com/2010/01/12/a-new-sonic-playground-works-progress-administration-interview-glen-phillips/comment-page-1/#comment-14571 browneheather Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:33:37 +0000 http://www.fuelfriendsblog.com/?p=7498#comment-14571 yes. that's it. good detective work! yes. that’s it. good detective work!

]]> By: Jeremy http://www.fuelfriendsblog.com/2010/01/12/a-new-sonic-playground-works-progress-administration-interview-glen-phillips/comment-page-1/#comment-14568 Jeremy Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:16:41 +0000 http://www.fuelfriendsblog.com/?p=7498#comment-14568 If only I could find the green hat I bought at that concert. It had a red oval in the middle with "toad" on it. I must have wore it everyday for two years and I don't throw anything out, but alas, I have never been able to find it. I'm on the case of this listserv. I did some googling and came up with a dead toad link with "prairienet" in the address. Does that sound familiar to you too?. It turns out that it's a community information network for Champaign-Urbana housed at the University of Illinois. They don't host listservs anymore, but they were founded in 1993. I wonder if they did that sort of thing back then. If only I could find the green hat I bought at that concert. It had a red oval in the middle with “toad” on it. I must have wore it everyday for two years and I don’t throw anything out, but alas, I have never been able to find it.

I’m on the case of this listserv. I did some googling and came up with a dead toad link with “prairienet” in the address. Does that sound familiar to you too?. It turns out that it’s a community information network for Champaign-Urbana housed at the University of Illinois. They don’t host listservs anymore, but they were founded in 1993. I wonder if they did that sort of thing back then.

]]> By: browneheather http://www.fuelfriendsblog.com/2010/01/12/a-new-sonic-playground-works-progress-administration-interview-glen-phillips/comment-page-1/#comment-14567 browneheather Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:30:24 +0000 http://www.fuelfriendsblog.com/?p=7498#comment-14567 yup yup! i remember that, it sounds like the same list. I don't think I ever got the tshirt, but I have been sleeping in my green dulcinea shirt lately :) i still have cassette tapes from that era, right here under my stereo, actually. I should bust one out. i wish i could remember what that list was called..... thanks for the wonderful comment, jeremy. yup yup! i remember that, it sounds like the same list. I don’t think I ever got the tshirt, but I have been sleeping in my green dulcinea shirt lately :)
i still have cassette tapes from that era, right here under my stereo, actually. I should bust one out. i wish i could remember what that list was called…..

thanks for the wonderful comment, jeremy.

]]> By: Jeremy http://www.fuelfriendsblog.com/2010/01/12/a-new-sonic-playground-works-progress-administration-interview-glen-phillips/comment-page-1/#comment-14566 Jeremy Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:58:03 +0000 http://www.fuelfriendsblog.com/?p=7498#comment-14566 Great interview, Heather. If only all music journalists cared as much and knew as much about the subject of the interview. I think I was on the same Toad list my freshman year of college! There was the tape compilation of live songs. There was a CD of an entire show at some outdoor festival. That was a big deal then, as everyone was trading tapes in 1996--not swapping CDs or mp3s. And then I recall a t-shirt too...maybe it was white with a black drawing of the flowers from the cover of Dulcinea. I could be confusing it with a poster I had. Are we talking about the same list? I don't know what happened to the shirt, but I know I still have the CD and tape stashed away in the closet. When I discovered that Toad listserv soon after arriving to college in the Fall of 1995, I was in heaven. Reading all these people interpret the meaning of Toad songs really deepened my appreciation of their music and helped me look deeper into the music of others as well. I think I saved and printed some of the best e-mails before I left college, but I went looking for other college e-mails a couple years ago and could find them nowhere. It all culminated in one of my top 5 nights, when my roommate, my girlfriend, and I drove from Syracuse to see Toad play at Marist College in April 1997. My girlfriend and I first said "I love you" to each other that night. Nine years of marriage and two kids later, it's worked out pretty well. My heart literally sank when I heard they broke up. A decade later, I've continued to follow Glen. Three years ago I got his "Mr. Lemons" CD and kept it in the rotation as I stayed up all night with my newborn son. I'll always associate "Everything But You" with that time. More recently I saw Luke play with Lyle and I really love WPA. Sorry for the lengthy comment, but thanks for a great post! Great interview, Heather. If only all music journalists cared as much and knew as much about the subject of the interview.

I think I was on the same Toad list my freshman year of college! There was the tape compilation of live songs. There was a CD of an entire show at some outdoor festival. That was a big deal then, as everyone was trading tapes in 1996–not swapping CDs or mp3s. And then I recall a t-shirt too…maybe it was white with a black drawing of the flowers from the cover of Dulcinea. I could be confusing it with a poster I had. Are we talking about the same list? I don’t know what happened to the shirt, but I know I still have the CD and tape stashed away in the closet.

When I discovered that Toad listserv soon after arriving to college in the Fall of 1995, I was in heaven. Reading all these people interpret the meaning of Toad songs really deepened my appreciation of their music and helped me look deeper into the music of others as well. I think I saved and printed some of the best e-mails before I left college, but I went looking for other college e-mails a couple years ago and could find them nowhere.

It all culminated in one of my top 5 nights, when my roommate, my girlfriend, and I drove from Syracuse to see Toad play at Marist College in April 1997. My girlfriend and I first said “I love you” to each other that night. Nine years of marriage and two kids later, it’s worked out pretty well.

My heart literally sank when I heard they broke up. A decade later, I’ve continued to follow Glen. Three years ago I got his “Mr. Lemons” CD and kept it in the rotation as I stayed up all night with my newborn son. I’ll always associate “Everything But You” with that time. More recently I saw Luke play with Lyle and I really love WPA.

Sorry for the lengthy comment, but thanks for a great post!

]]> By: Faith http://www.fuelfriendsblog.com/2010/01/12/a-new-sonic-playground-works-progress-administration-interview-glen-phillips/comment-page-1/#comment-14558 Faith Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:13:44 +0000 http://www.fuelfriendsblog.com/?p=7498#comment-14558 great interview! i'm even more interested in the album now. (= thanks! great interview! i’m even more interested in the album now. (= thanks!

]]> By: Bandcamp, and Other Shy Shortcodes « Changing Way http://www.fuelfriendsblog.com/2010/01/12/a-new-sonic-playground-works-progress-administration-interview-glen-phillips/comment-page-1/#comment-14557 Bandcamp, and Other Shy Shortcodes « Changing Way Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:38:44 +0000 http://www.fuelfriendsblog.com/?p=7498#comment-14557 [...] January 13, 2010 Glen Philips was/is the frontman of Toad the Wet Sprocket. One of his subsequent projects is the “expandable collective” Works Progress Administration (WPA). I found out about WPA via the wonderful Heather Browne. [...] [...] January 13, 2010 Glen Philips was/is the frontman of Toad the Wet Sprocket. One of his subsequent projects is the “expandable collective” Works Progress Administration (WPA). I found out about WPA via the wonderful Heather Browne. [...]

]]> By: Claire http://www.fuelfriendsblog.com/2010/01/12/a-new-sonic-playground-works-progress-administration-interview-glen-phillips/comment-page-1/#comment-14555 Claire Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:57:30 +0000 http://www.fuelfriendsblog.com/?p=7498#comment-14555 What a great interview. I saw them play in my town a couple of months ago and loved it. I heard about them via you and World Cafe, so thanks. What a great interview. I saw them play in my town a couple of months ago and loved it. I heard about them via you and World Cafe, so thanks.

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