JPJ, INXS, BBC

["MENDE JOVESKI" <9605705J@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nice to see some talk about the great JPJ here. It would be really 
good if Jimmy & Robert get a chance of reading that transcription of 
the chat session. They might realise that they're not flying too high 
and mighty compared to John Paul. If he tours, he should go and play 
Tangerine or Bron-Yr-Aur to get back even more and turn them into 
"keyboard"songs. That would make him even more of a legend.

I've seen a few things about Michael Hutchence here. There's been A 
LOT of talk on the news bulletins about here in Australia (well, 
Melbourne anyway). He apparently was found hanging in a hotel room 
shortly after midday on Saturday. There was also a bunch of 
prescription pills nearby. It should be known by tomorrow exactly 
what happened. It was the last thing anyone expected to hear. INXS 
were getting ready for the 20th anniversary tour, and most people 
think that he did it because the band isn't as popular as it once 
was. They were the best Australian group apart from Crowded House, 
but they're no more as well. A sad way to bring their CD's back in 
the charts again. I'd love to have seen the news stories when Bonham 
died, but since I was only 3 then, I didn't really care about sitting 
down and watching them.

With the BBC releases, I was wondering if there was much advertising 
about them in other parts of the world. Not a word has been said about 
them here although there are still commercials advertising Remasters for 
the very special price of $32.95 for a short time only (meaning that it'll 
be back down to $24.95 soon). The BBC tape slipped out in the shops as a 
slightly "new look to the LZ CD's in the shops (i.e an extra one that 
people aren't familiar with). If I didn't hear about the BBC tapes here, 
I wouldn't have even known they existed. And now the focus of the music 
world is on Michael's death more than anything else.

BTW, Hot Dog is a great song, ITTOD is a great album

Mende