FANSOL letter to Chad Taylor, our thoughts and the mail compilation Options

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OK, guys, Ray has a great idea which I totally support.

Why not email chad T about the songs that never surfaced. We sure hav got nothing to lose and we may even be able to receive a reply!

So I suggest discussing it here, after which I will compile the thoughts into a letter and send it to Chad T with signatures of all the board members who participate along with the countries named. We may be lucky. Remember, even Pat was speaking he still had SS demo album!

Why not give it a try?


Fire the thoughts away!

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Updated:



Dear Chad

On behalf of the worldwide community of your fans I am writing to you to reveal our greatfullness for the years of tremendous music you offered to us and for many years to come with TGF.

All through the years of dedication to what you do, we did our best to follow you, be it seeing you on stage, buying the records of yours or simply enjoying bootlegs from the shows all over the world. We think that we proudly possess nearly all the recordings that you took part in. However, since around 2003 we all heard about several songs that are either legends or they do exsist and we never heard them. This is why we decided to write to you with a request. If they do exsist, we sure are dying to hear them. And, while not the very best way to do that, we still take this chance to ask you for those recordings or at least learn something about the little known tracks. Maybe you could tell us something interesting about New City and Pop Vortex etc. That would be pretty cool too. We'd love to get those recordings from you in some form if we can, but would also just love to know more information about them

Both the members of FANSOFLIVE and WhereFreaksTalk message boards (which both are the fansites since 2001) made a list of what we have been dying to hear for years. It includes

New City (we know that there is one version circulating, but none of us ever got a chance to hear it)
Wash the Blood Away (does it even exsist)
Change (studio or demo version)
Pop Vortex (once again, we hardly know if it exsists)
Pat's SS demo CD, which was mentioned in the FOL newsletter when he graciously decided to offer the recordings of Mallrat and Photograph with all of us.

We would be incredibly happy to receive at least a couple from this list.

I hope it does not sound too brassily, as you seem to be the only person in the entire world who can help us with this.


Thank you very much beforehand. Good luck with TGF. We can not wait for the record in September.

Please, greet the rest of the band.

Faithfully yours,

Merica (UK)
thefunkyredcaboose (USA)
donno (USA)
Deku (UK)
deepenoughtodive (USA)
Bremang (USA)
TheBEacon (USA)
OutToDry (USA)
Plive (Sweden)
Nobody Knows (Netherlands)
possum (USA)
swami (Canada)
SecretInsomnia (Netherlands)
stuker (USA)
Infrequent Poster (USA)
drewgood (USA)
dangum (Australia)
ItchyTriggerFinger (USA)
brandedwendy (Netherlands)
Wildman (Netherlands)
Lakini (Romania)
+Ed+ (Russia)