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ARSC list members, For those of you at the conference who took an interest in my talk, there is a surprising postscript to it in that this email was waiting for me when I got back home. It reproduces a recent article from CityBeat Cincinnati in which Darren Blase provides info about the Artpunk records he's re-releasing, including mine. It is past my signature. I really appreciated the warm welcome, fellowship and fun at this year's joint ARSC/SAM conference. David N. Lewis Assistant Classical Editor All Media Guide 1168 Oak Valley Drive Ann Arbor, MI 48108 U.S.A [log in to unmask] 734 887 8145 One of Blase's most intriguing local projects is a proposed multiple disc reissue of David Lewis' Hospital Records output (including some cable access video footage) from the late '70s to the mid-'80s, including such long-forgotten art-damaged entities like BPA, Dementia Precox, 11,000 Switches and Teddy and the Frat Girls. Although the original pressings from these bands were extremely limited and not hugely popular at the time, interest has built to a fever pitch over the mere suggestion that this material will see the light of day again in the digital age. "There are those early QIZZ singles produced by Bob Mothersbaugh from Devo that are so good, they're amazing, but they only made 200 copies of them and you can't get them anywhere," Blase says. "It was all recorded at Group Effort (in Crescent Springs) and they still had all the tapes. They never threw them away. It ended up they had some unreleased stuff and they had six songs from Auto Glamour that never came out. That's when it started going from doing this one CD thing to 'You know what, let's create this complete document and just do it.' (Distributors) Triage and Forced Exposure are just going apesh*t over it." With Blase, the "apesh*t" factor seems to be of primary importance. He estimates that the label ultimately will lose money on the Hospital release, but for him the loss is secondary to the fact that the material will be simultaneously introduced to a new audience and restored to its original audience. <http://www.citybeat.com/current/cover4.shtml> http://www.citybeat.com/current/cover4.shtml