Is this the same Eric Sinclair who lived in Chicago a few years back?

[Stuart McHugh]

>Do I remember?  Heck yeah I remember.  The excitement of ripping open
>the padded envelope, listening to the tapes as they dubbed, making
>little notes of new music to buy, cursing the whims of fate when a
>track one loved would get missed in the flip....
>
>Seriously, it was a big opening to a bunch of music I hadn't heard on
>this side of the ocean, and a very cool way to get to know (if barely)
>some of our transfer-agents in the envelope swapping game.
>
these days we just curse when our recording of the audio stream 
crashes the computer...

Speaking of 'transfer agents' i was in touch with Bob Massey recently 
- he wasn't on the tape chain I don't believe but was on the egroup 
that kind of spawned it. Anyway, his band/project contributed a track 
to the magazine CD I put together - he/they are 
<http://www.theoutcircuit.com/grb/bob_body.jpg>http://www.theoutcircuit.com/
it's good stuff.
What's this magazine of which you speak, I hear you cry? See 
http://www.isthismusic.com/

(apologies for the outrageous levels of spam in this post, and indeed 
the off-topic meander down memory lane, but hey, it's my list so 
hopefully I can get away with it once in a while ;)

Stuart
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