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THE FREDHEAD GAZETTE #8 Hello -- and let A Halo Called Fred officially
welcome you to 1996 -- year of the 4 eyed squid eating the 3
eyed drunken fisherman. The Halo is going to start the year by
doing what we don't like doing but have to to keep ourselves
going ---- Plugging our own Gigs and Merchandise -- -UPCOMMING
NYC GIG !!!!!!!! Fri. Jan 12th 9pm -- Cafe Sin-e -- St. Mark's
Place Also next month Sun Feb 11 -- John & Peter's -- New
Hope PA (215)862-5981 -Remenber All Halo Cassettes and Merchandise
for sale at: Quantum X music -- on Albany street in New Brunswick
(on the block between Pizza Hut and Old man Rafferty's next to
the comic book store) -you can also buy Halo stuff by mail: Chesters
Dozen cassette --$5.50 ppd Body Parts & Flying Things --
(record or cassette) -- $3.00 ppd Official Halo T-shirt -- $11.00
ppd write checks to B.C. Meyers and send 'em to A Halo Called
Fred Box 4262 Highland Park NJ,08904-4262 -We'd like to thank
all "Fred-Heads" for their support in 1995 -- we'd
like to try and keep you entertained with our music in '96. Any
questions -- comments -- address of friends who would like to
be on the list :) -- requests for removal from the list :( --
messages for the band or things in general -- please mail them
to us -- we appreciate it even if we can't respond quickly. until
next time, -JimBob -A Halo Called Fred ----- THE HALO GAZETTE #9 Hello all Fred-heads, fans and anyone else who gave us their Email address. Yes It's another installment of the AHCF mailing list. Now back on line after minor flooding in our computer headquarters. Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is officially released !!!!!!! Now even you can get your copy of the revoultionary new conceptual album by A Halo Called Fred. With over 15 newly recorded songs !!! Just stop by Quantum X music on Albany St. in New Brunswick (next to Comic Additudes, down the street from Pizza Hut). Put six dollars on the counter and tell the staff you want a copy of the best Rock & Roll Album ever recorded. They'll know what you're talking about ;) Or -- their is mail order for a special deal of $6 ppd, cash, money order or check (written to B.C. Meyers, P.O. Box 4262, Highland Pk. NJ, 08904-4262) -- and you will soon have a cassette copy mailed to you. Or -- Get your copy at an upcomming show --- This Sunday !!! Feb 11 John & Peters in New Hope PA With Catherine Moon (we love her) Show time around 9:30 Call (215)862-5981 for more details Fri. Apr 5 -- Red Room in NYC (Midtown manhattan) Fri Apr 19 -- the return to the Palmyra tea room !!!! Bound Brook, NJ please come to our shows ... please .. please .. we'll love you for it ... We're also trying to book a New Bunswick bar show for March -- and possibly an RU gig -- and also mini tour of Mass. Colleges in the spring -- so stay tuned ! So long for now -- A Halo Called Fred Keep giving us your friends Email address and keep circulating our music to anyone who will enjoy it (and that's everyone as far as the Halo is concerned !!) JimBob The Halo Gazette 2.14.96 ******** The Halo Gazette ********* Yes, I JimBob am a little cynic as I sit home alone doing doing Email on this romantic day. But then I think of the long line of pathetic looking guys i saw today at the flower shop outside New Brunswick train station and all is well. Anyway .. . . . . . . . Thanks to everyone who came out to see the show at John & Peter's last Sunday -- It was the best one yet -- we should be doing another one in a few months -- Upcomming New Brunswick Bar Gig !!!!!!!!!!! Fri Apr 5th Red Room in NYC New Halo Web Site !!!!!!! check it out !! -- the sight should have more stuff on it weekly -- As we learn more HTML and scan more stuff in !!! Any questions, comments, feedback, etc . . . .
mail us -- ahcf@brushwoodart.com Have You Gotten Your Copy of Sgt. Pepper Yet ????????
Thu, Apr 4, 1996 1:17 AM EDT Ok -- So I'm sending this to everyone at once so you get a million Email addresses in your header before you even get to this sentence. Please complain, I like disgruntaled Email. If anyone wants to help me figure out how to do a blind cc on America Online -- Please help me. Hello gigs !!! Fri. Apr 5th Fri. April 19 Sun May 5 Be there or not be there - see if we care - see if we'll come to your next birthday party that you hold at McDonalds - even if we do get free cheeseburgers and milkshakes and some guy in a Grimace costume will be there We love you All Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. $6 bucks checks to BC meyers. box 4262 highland park nj 08904-4262. Chester's dozen same price. T-shirts 12 bucks. Sex with Jim bob $20. Sex with chester $1000. Gerrymiah will pay for sex if the price is right. (We Still love you - Gerry) later Jim Bob Tue, Apr 30, 1996 3:51 PM
EST Hello Everyone. I'm just dubbing more copies of Sgt. Pepper, and
I'm hearing RalphQuest anyway -- this sunday the 5th - John & Peter's in New Hope, Pa. on the main drag, close to the canal rides. Catherine Moon and Alice B Talkless also playing. I don't think you could buy Sam's triple bock there. too bad. playing for an audience drunk on maple syrup would be a lot of fun. show starts in the 9pm time . they kick us out at midnight if people stop buying beer. Call them if you have any qestions. (215)862-5981 we love everyone. Especially people who want to give us money to release a CD. So if you know anyone . . . . . . . . . . . . . thanks to everyone whose ever seen us play. Including the drunk guy at the back corner of the bar who must have said "Your name is - A what called What ??? -- play some Ozzy " 5 times before we played Crazy Train then sent Chester out on an axe murdering frenzy on him. you know who you are. Ok bye. JimBob we have a few more shows in New Brunswick,and New York schedled for late May and early June. But I can't remember when or where. oops. Well you just will have to reply to this letter and make me tell you about the other shows. I think If you listen to RalphQuest at full volume backwards, nowhere does it say I like Yoko Ono's solo albums. Thank god.
Fri, Jun 14, 1996 7:24 PM
EDT Howdy Opera fans! Brushwood Thicket Farmer here doing the newsletter duties for A HALO CALLED FRED while our own Jim Bob recovers from moving four blocks and beginning full time work in NYC! Yes we're selling out to the daily grind. The Smashing Pumkins just will not take us touring with them. WE PLAY YOU WATCH YOU PAY WE GO YAY UNGA BUNGA!!!!!!! SATURDAY JUNE 15 Crossroads Theater, 7 Livingston Ave, New Brunswick. Cleanwater music festival benefit with piles of bands incl. All God's Children (final appearence?), the Urchins, the Mothersound and at least 6 others. 908-248-9051 $12 advance, $15 at the door. Starts at 7pm!! THURSDAY JUNE 20 La De Da Open Mic, 8 Park st, Montclair NJ. Play a song or read poetry! Starts at 8pm, we as the featured act go on later. Small donation at the door. 212-744-8021 All ages. FRIDAY JUNE 21 Butterfields Beanery, Albany st New Brunswick. 9pm. Coffee yum. A nice conservative coffee cafe where we can frighten small children. Just a joke. All ages!! SATURDAY JUNE 29 Middle East, Philidelphia, PA.
The Syberites erotic ball. We, a sex-rock band?? More on this soon... Okay, Bye! Wed, Jul 3, 1996 11:08 AM
EDT *********************************************** Chester the invisible friend may see Europe while
Geverend Dee and his Pay attention now: *THURSDAY JULY 11: HARVEST MOON 10pm 21 and over *SATURDAY JULY 13: INDIGO JONES 10 PM all ages *THURSDAY AUG 8: THE FALL CAFE 8PM all ages You must go online right now and visit Brunsfest
at http://www.brunsfest.com Goo Bye
Fri, Jul 26, 1996 3:06 PM EDT A HALO CALLED FRED in yer face again. Hello all. Happy Tisha B'av (that's what my Life
In Hell calander says it was yesterday) New Suprise Gig!!!! Tell
your friends! Taunt your enemies! Start a new religion and earn
BIG BUCKS!! NEXT FRIDAY AUGUST 2 == LOVESEXY 104 Hudson St (btw 1st & 2nd) Hoboken NJ w/ Maximum Jack (unless Jeremy changed the name again) It's a bar. Probably some addmission $$. THURSDAY AUGUST 8 == THE FALL CAFE W/John S Hall
(of King Missile) and Jonathan Segol (of himself) 307 Smith St.
Brooklyn NY [btw Union and President St--Carroll St station on
the F-train] Coffee! Free admission-all ages-starts at 7:00 PM!
We are preparing to spend way too much money on digital recording equipment including software. If anyone out there knows something about this stuff please write in because it's all guesswork to us! But when it's all bought we'll hole up with Mr. Wil The Sound Guy and record sounds that will truly bare our souls and reflect our new maturity. HIDE YOUR DAUGHTERS!! So has everybody bought an expensive state-of-the-art computer to view our new Web site? Of course you have. http://members.aol.com/AHCF/index.html And I must point out at this time that the nasty lie about shoe licking in my bio has not been true for many many years. And don't try to talk about me when my back is turned. I'm watching each and every one of you and don't think that I can't. Love always, Brushwood Thicket Farmer
A HALO CALLED FRED The Official Electronic Mail
Gazette. Edition Number Sixteen. Formatted for your private reading
pleasure for all text-based information systems and superior
alien technology. September the Second the Year Nineteen-Hundred
and Ninety-Six. All Rights Reserved. ANNOUNCEMENT OF LIVE PERFORMANCE TO FOLLOW. Greetings to all future close friends and bitter blood enemies. The past summer has been a period of change for the Halo, in the realms of personal lives, professional careers and the uncontrolable impulse to distort civilization through the use of "creative" and "musical" means. Does this mean we have learned our painful lessons and put aside our childlike "band" for the sake of Adult Pleasures and Sexual Innovation? Heavens no! There IS room for both. But now more than ever, we are aware of the ticking of the Great Clock, ever increasing in volume and speed, until it threatens to squash our pathetically overexerted brains into canine feces. Thus, until possibly the winter, we are forced to contsrain the amount of live performances we play to those very few which provide us with a certain respectable amount of wealth, prestige and contact with the vastly superior Celebrity Class, and put aside those which are merely "stepping stones" for notoriety to a laughable local youth culture who foolishly think we are "one of them". With our newly free itinerary, the Halo will concentrate on writing new material for a new recorded collection, as well as experiment recklessly with modern "digital" recording techniques. Rest assured you can expect new high qualities of songwriting and playing, excursions into the more remote regions of human consciousness, as well as the usual clever humourous jabs at the shortcomings of society and all of you who read this. Thank you all for your patience and continuing
devotion, Brushwood Thicket Farmer HALO LIVE HALO LIVE HALO LIVE HALO LIVE HALO LIVE FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 6 PALMYRA TEA ROOM---ALL AGES ADMITTED! Hamilton St Bound Brook NJ (908) 302-0515 10PM Possibly the last area appearance of the season. Please arrive early for the best seats and then enjoy food, beverage and the company of others "like you".
THE FREDHEAD GAZETTE 11/16/96 No gigs quite yet but new personal news to while away the chilly autumn evenings. Congratulations Mr. & Mrs. Geverend Dee! On Nov. 16 The one and only Geverend Dee of a Halo Called Fred will be married to A Halo Called Fred's very first groupie, Jeannine From Metuchen. Their first date was also the first Public Performance of the Halo. (May 1,1992 for all you trivia buffs and old fogies out there). Everybody: one, two, three--- Aaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.........!!!!!!! The rest of the Halo are enjoying their Sabbatical, especially Chester, who gets to freeload to Disney World on Geverend's honeymoon. Chester has promised to keep his immaterial eyes averted during the consummation and hopes to pound down a few with Goofy. Brushwood has been spending his time doing nothing real. He is lying back as everyone in the New York metropolitan area gets samples of his daily artwork thrown at their doorsteps. Gerrymiah is finding every way possible to keep playing his guitar, and in one weekend made it into the Guiness Book of World Records playing for the biggest band for the longest time, as well as jamming with the drummer for Green Day. JimBob tried to escape the pressures of being a rock musician by getting a day job on Wall Street. Coordinating banking transactions around the world with people who might be your mom. - so that's the Current Halo Update. * COMING IN '97 * New Halo Material on CD
and
Ralphquest the Broadway Musical starring Tommy
Tune and Sinbad! The Fredhead Gazette Greetings and Salutations to all FredHeads, Curiosity Seekers and People-Who-Signed-Our-List -To-Make-Us-Feel-Better- But-Really-Don't- Remember-Who-We-Are: First off we must wish each of you a Very Merry Christmas, Happy Belated Chanukah, A Prosperous Boxing Day, A Joyous Kwanzaa, An Excellent New Year and A Great Birthday and UNBirthday to all!! Onward! As we reconvene and consider where to play for live appearances, we only naturally must consider the possibility that you have all forgotten about us or written us off as broken-up Should've-Beens. Are there such things as yellow ribbons in Cyberville? Bearing this in mind, let us take the time out to thank everyone who has recently written praises to us personally and in the media, cornered us helplessly in public and gushed and of course those who you who have given us your hard-earned buckolas for our humbly recorded squawks and noises. And you have asked us many questions, Young Grasshoppers. "When Ya Playing Next?" "Any New Recordings?" "Old Recordings on CD?" "How ELSE can we hear HaloSongs?" "All Right Then, How About Side Projects?" WHO YOU SAY WE SOUND LIKE: All good company as far as we're concerned, by the way. Did we mention that Jim Bob believes we're actually a cross between the Monkees and King Crimson? WHO WE ADDITIONALLY WOULD LIKE TO SOUND LIKE: and many more, I'm sure. All right, that's it. See you next year!! Your Humble Servants, |
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2000-2006 A new millenium arrives. Most computers fail to explode. 2 songs are released with Tiny. Halo coasts on old glories, sits around watching TV and surfing the internet. Videos mysteriously appear, as the legend grows. 1999 The long awaited CD is released, and .00001% of the world rejoices!! Tiny brings his bass to the Halo, and tries to make it Y2K complient. Well, he tries... Grunge is like so over, but being played on Dr. Demento is cool. 1998 A long and torturous home recording process results in the year-end completion of our first actual CD. Along the way we become dissatisfied with our day jobs, but we still don't quit to go on a cross country tour. Except for Jim Bob who takes his bass to Salt Lake City, leaving Halo with totally different band arguments. 1997 Starbucks forces New Brunswick coffee houses into the bunker. Halo open several shows in NY with John S Hall / King Missile, and begin recording an album that doesn't see the light of day for over a year. 1996 Brushwood buys a computer and takes over the newsletter. The Halo web site makes its official debut. Sgt Pepper becomes the best selling tape yet. Some of Halo get real jobs. And even get married. (not to each other) 1995 The Gazette is started by Jim Bob on a tiny b/w Mac SE. Sgt. Pepper is recorded. Gerrymiah T. Bullfrog joins the Halo full-time. The manager is dumped, even as Halo makes a bit of money... or at least breaks even. The band is 3 years old. Goo. |