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Well, now you know why I'm going out of business-
Yes, the Woodies CD is still available from poprecords.com/mart and after the
Mart closes you can get it from zptduda.com
ferenc wrote:
> Hey, is this CD still available???
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ferenc Dobronyi [mailto:]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 10:09 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [SurfGuitar101] Woodies CD (was End of the POP Mart)
>
>
> Oh, and Phil Dirt- it definitely wouldn't have happened without Phil. He
> always
> encouraged the Woodies when they were working and never stopped playing them
> on
> his show after they had broken up. He wrote brilliant and complete liner
> notes,
> and encouraged the project from beginining to end.
>
> Ferenc
>
>
> wrote:
>
>>OK, here is what happened...
>>
>>I was and am a huge Woodies fan, I saw them play in clubs, and eventually
>
> Pollo
>
>>Del Mar played a few shows with them. Rick was giving away a cassette
>
> version of
>
>>their recordings, always with an unspecified release date. I was at the
>
> last
>
>>Woodies show (with the infamous "acrimonious onstage breakup") on
>
> September 15,
>
>>1996. It was a weird show, any band might have broken up that day- Here is
>
> the
>
>>Pollo account of the day:
>>
>
> <>
>
>>In 1984 I started POP Records when I was in college. We put out 10 albums
>
> before
>
>>we lost all our money. 1996 I reactivated POP to handle the Pollo Del Mar
>
> stuff.
>
>>So, on New Years Day 1998, I was sitting in my hot tub listening to the
>
> Woodies
>
>>tape and saying, damn this is great, this is, in fact, a lost treasure,
>
> why
>
>>doesn't someone put this out. Hey, I could put it out... so I called Rick,
>
> and
>
>>he said "OK", and I thought we could put it out pretty quickly as the CD
>
> was
>
>>finished, but no, it took 10 months. Rick's friend Mark Fassett did an
>>unbelievably good job with the mastering.
>>
>>Rick did an interview with New Gandy Dancer that covers the history of the
>
> band:
>
>>
>
> <>
>
>>Ferenc
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Oh Yeah! One of the first 90's surf CD's I bought was The Woodies and I
>>>bought it from Ferenc. I was later disappointed to find out that not all
>>>90's surf bands are as good as The Woodies ;-)
>>>
>>>So Rick and Ferenc, how did The Woodies CD come about? I understand the
>>
> band
>
>>>had broken up when it was released. The liner notes mention "an
>>
> acrimonious
>
>>>on-stage break up" too...
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>BN
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: Rick Escobar [mailto:]
>>>>Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 12:05 PM
>>>>To:
>>>>Subject: [SurfGuitar101] Re: End of the road for the POP MART
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>A Huge thanks to Ferenc,
>>>>
>>>>Dude if it wasn't for you The Woodies CD would never have happened.
>>>>I'm setting my reverb at half volume today.
>>>>
>>>>Rick
