Old
News,
But Still Good News Consumer warning: some of this news is
old, but some of it is also no longer true (i.e. Bill's mailing
address, John's old email address, etc.) We just archive it
here as it becomes old news and/or obsolete, so please contact
a member of the mailing list for updates if you need any specific
information, and don't rely on it per se.
- 03-18-98 Bands, Covers, Rarities, Studio, and Live pages up
Five recent new pages have been added to the web site:
- 03-17-98 Happy and Snappy, New in the Gallery
Thanks to Jim Rosencutter (and a belated thanks to Stephen Buonopane, who sent photocopies of the covers several years ago), the celebrated cover art for the Embarrassment EP is now in the gallery.
Click on the appropriate link for
Snappy Side: small, medium-sized, or practically life-sized.
Happy Side: small, medium-sized, or practically life-sized.
Don't Choose the Wrong Size!
- 03-13-98 Supplemental Embarrassment Sites
In addition to the amazing Lawrence scene site maintained by Mike Blur, with its own Embarrassment page, Jim Rosencutter, the "Fifth Embo", has a nice little supplemental web site that features some way-cool scans -- click on over to find out why the Embarrassment were The Band that didn't Stop Making Sense, among other treats.
- 03-01-98 More Covers of Embarrassment Songs
We recently heard from the bands VTOL and Snuff the Ficus, who cover several Embarrassment songs. There's even a song sample for "Man with the Extra Special Eyes" on the VTOL site. Check out these bands who've displayed their good taste already, or see the whole list of bands who like us like the Embarrassment and thus we like.
- 02-13-98 Embarrassment Songs on the web in Real Audio
The Embarrassment's two albums in print, God Help Us and Heyday: 1979-1983 (both available from Bar/None records) are available in RealAudio format in their entirety from Interjuke (and for purchase from CDNow) Click here for details.
- 01-20-98 Woody Giessman Group releases LP
Elissa Schwartz wrote in to report:
FYI - Woody Giessmann has been playing with the Laurie Geltman Band
for the past few years. The band was recently signed to Eastern Front Records,
and their first CD is being released nationally on 1/20.
The official link for the band is at: Eastern Front.
- 01-19-98 Big Dipper Site on the Web
At long last, courtesy of fan Dwight Douglas, a Big Dipper page is on the web! Click here to see it.
- 01-01-98 Embarrassment Mailing List Established
Somewhat experimentally, I've set up an Embarrassment mailing list to allow the more dedicated among the fanbase to have an ongoing exchange of news, links, and messages.
To subscribe, send mail to
embos-l-request@cyrusoft.com
with the word subscribe in the body of the message.
Instructions about using the list will be sent back via a return message.
- 12-31-97 New in the Embo Scrapbook
- 12-24-97 More News on Freedy Johnston Embos Tracks
Scott Born of Lawrence (and the band Killcreek) reports that Freedy's laid down a few tracks, and records some Embos tunes on the road, but has no specific release plans. He's tracking down further details.
- 3/18/97 Giessmann a Groom
I'm happy to add the following clip, sent to me by the self-same
Elissa Schwartz from the Boston Globe "Names and Faces"
column, 10/16/96:
Drummed Out of Bachelorhood
When Woody Giessmann, former drummer of the now defunct Del Fuegos, got
married to Elissa Schwartz on Sunday, he should have known he was in
for a rocking wedding. After all, he invited former bandmates Dan
Zanes, Warren Zanes, and Tom Lloyd, who implored Giessmann to sit in
on drums as they played three songs. Also there was Laurie Geltman
(whose band Giessman is now in), who belted out a couple of songs at
the gala at the VFW Hall in Cambridge. For the record, Lovedogs was
the actual wedding band.
- 3/1/97 Online Zine Features the
Embarrassment
Perfect Sound Forever, a web-based music zine, recently ran an article on The Embarrassment.
- 2/25/97John Nichols on
Email!
In keeping with the trend of net-cruising Embo alumni, we were happy
to hear from John Nichols and his wife Julia recently. John's agreed
to have his email address jayhawksfans@msn.com listed
here.
I did a quick Tiger-Beat-style interview with John over email, and he
reports the following:
John's not up to anything in particular musically these days, but has
"lots of good ideas".
He wasn't sure about any particular recent bands he liked, but gave us
a list of the most recent CDs he bought: The Stooges - Funhouse, The Beatles Anthology II, The Cure Remix. The last show he saw was in Florida last summer - The Cure.
"Everything is fine here. We love living in Florida. Lots to do here
and the weather is great, of course."
- 12/25/96 From the Bill Goffrier Oeuvre
Bassplayer, Bill Goffrier, Watercolor,
1995.
From the collection of the Webmaster.
(Click on the frame to see
a larger version.)
- 12/18/96 www.embarrassment.org Reserved
We've reserved the domain www.embarrassment.org for future
use as the home of these pages, when a reliable web server comes free
I can ethically and legally use. We hope to have the pages on a
separate server later in 1997.
If you'd like to help contribute
toward the cost of maintaining the domain (50 samoleans a year to the
Internic), please contact me (wall@cmu.edu).
- 10/29/96 Embos Tribute Album? Sources tell The Embarrassment Home Page that various artist(s) have
been recording Embos covers for Bar/None for an as-yet-unannounced
project. We've been able to confirm at least one artist. Is an Embos
tribute LP in the works?!? Write to Bar/None if you're interested!
(see address below.) Way cool!
- 9/23/96 Pass on
by...Wellsville... from Embo fan Lin Wilson, this nice retouch
of an interstate exit near Wichita.
- 9/96 Bill Goffrier Art Show now in
Wichita
The Embarrassment Years, an exhibition of drawings and
paintings following the artistic and musical paths of Bill Goffrier,
was showed at the EVO Gallery in Wichita, September and October,
1996. Yep, you can actually buy Bill's art through the gallery.
Information on the show and buying some real Embo art can be had by
giving them a call at 316-264-4622, or via Z. Jacobs at
imimike@southwind.net. (We are working on getting some additional scans of
reproductions of Bill's art available via this page.)
- 6/7/96 EMBOS TRIBUTE CONCERT NYC
6/25/96!
The Don Juans played a tribute concert as a fundraiser in New
York City on June 25. I hope to get further details posted at some point.
- 5/29/96 A Page of
Embos Links
Click here for a semi-random list of Embos-related links, provided
mostly by you, the diehard Embos fans of the world..
- 5/28/96 Bill Goffrier's Address Restored! (Sort of...)
Bill got back on the net with a friend's account to drop me some news.
First off, here's his postal address (no email right now, alas):
Embarrassment Songs
c/o Bill Goffrier
PO Box 1205
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
Bill encourages anyone to "write or inquire about rare merchandise or
even original Embo art."
Additional news courtesy of Bill: there is am upcoming art exhibit in
Wichita of Bill's original paintings "that is supposed to include a
lot of Embo art." Wow! (No dates at this writing.) Bill and his wife
Joanne are also expecting a baby this summer.
- 5/18/96 Embos Alumni News
Jim Rosencutter, the Embos' sound man for their last few years, wrote
me with an update/correction on the "where are they now"
information:
Jon Nichols is living in Orlando and is a manager for America West
Airlines.
Ron Klaus is living in Phoenix.
(Jim is a student now at Friends University; I have added his email
address to the 'where are they now' section in the "Brief History"
page, linked below.)
Bill Cornell sent me a clipping last fall that I only just now
resurrected about Woody/Brent -- from the Boston Globe 9/22/95 (no
page number):
Woody Giessmann, former drummer for the Del Fuegos and the
Embarrassment, is now a counselor with the Massachusetts Drug and
Alcohol Hotline, and he's organizing a benefit for the group Oct. 1 at
Mama Kin. 'We're in need,' says Giessman, explaining state funding has
ebbed. As to his own involvement: 'I lost a brother to a gunshot,
drugs and alcohol. Later on, it beacme an issue in my life. This is me
paying back.'
(3/18/97 -- copy of text above)
I'm happy to add the following clip, sent to me by the self-same
Elissa Schwartz from the Boston Globe "Names and Faces"
column, 10/16/96:
Drummed Out of Bachelorhood
When Woody Giessmann, former drummer of the now defunct Del Fuegos, got
married to Elissa Schwartz on Sunday, he should have known he was in
for a rocking wedding. After all, he invited former bandmates Dan
Zanes, Warren Zanes, and Tom Lloyd, who implored Giessmann to sit in
on drums as they played three songs. Also there was Laurie Geltman
(whose band Giessman is now in), who belted out a couple of songs at
the gala at the VFW Hall in Cambridge. For the record, Lovedogs was
the actual wedding band.
- 3/28/96 We've moved just a little! The New URL is:
http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/user/wall/embos/embos.html
If you can't see graphics, it's because you're looking at
this page via a symbolic link. Use the URL above. (I have ambitions to
get a separate server for these pages sometime, but this is it for
now.)
- 3/17/96 Web Page Updated
This page is new and vastly
improved! Thanks to many contributions from many people (hopefully
many acknowledged below), this page has been expanded from a simple
discography to more kind of a fan-oriented page. In order not to spam
your web browsers with many graphics, it's been broken up into
separate sections. While many new things (pictures, etc.) have been
added, there are a few things that will still be under construction
for a while. Please hang in there, and make a contribution (see below)
if you can!
- 3/6/96 Bar/None on the Web
Bar/None is now on the web
and is cross-linked here. Check out their pages at: http://www.bar-none.com/
- 1/6/96 Big Dipper Songs that started as Embarrassment Songs
Thanks
to Bill Goffrier, I've been able to finally clear up which Big Dipper
songs started out as Embos songs. Check out the last section of the
discography for a discussion of these songs.
- WANTED: Information about web sites for Big Dipper and the Del Fuegos to link here. Please mail to me at the address
below if you know of any!
- 10/95 Heyday! released by Bar-None!
Possibly
the most exciting thing that could have happened for Embos fans since
the Reunion tour or maybe the Retrospective cassette, Bar/None's
long-promised double CD of virtually every Embos tune previously
available not on God Help Us and many that are flat-out
never-before available is out! Check out the track listing and comments.
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