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Thursday, June 21, 2007
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Today is June 20th - Scott & Jay Couper's birthday (guitarist & drummer for Jo Jo Laine) Summer Solsticehttp://www.calendar-updates.com/info/holidays/us/summer.aspxVARULVEN NEWS Marty Balin is in town next week. We are beginning a brand new album on either June 25 or June 26th. He was supposed to open for Johnny Rivers this Saturday but has to appear with Jefferson Starship in New York so the LOVING SPOONFUL will be with Rivers Saturday night instead. The legendary David Maxwell (Freddy King's keyboard player) will be coming to the Marty sessions! John Till (Janis Joplin's guitarist) can't make it this time around. http://myspace.com/martybalinmiracles We have an international deal for Marty's new DVD. The "unplugged" version of the album will be available for FREE download to everyone who buys the DVD. We hope to see Bobby Hebb back in Boston singing and playing to promote his new album THAT'S ALL I WANNA KNOW. We're working closely with his record label in America, of course. Varulven Records will be adding LOTS of new CDs to EMusic.com in the coming months. Tontileo is busy working on the cover of our new Unnatural Axe download - Live At Mission Control August 14, 1988. This is a professionally recorded set of songs the boys recorded with us when I was managing the New Kids On The Block studio (and Jimmy Miller at the same time; you try doing both and surviving to tell about it!) We have four songs on the multitrack (24) recorded on an SSL Board. This is the live DAT - live to 2 track with all the instruments going through the SSL and perhaps New Kids engineer Hideki Sunada at the controls (unless it was Joe Cuneo, I have to check the tracklist and tapebox). I sent out rare photos of Unnatural Axe 1978 to Richie, Tommy, Tontileo, Gary Soprano, Liz Ireland, some of the people involved with our original UNNATURAL AXE session from 10 years before the Mission Control event. These photos were found during the recovery mission after the flood...they were among the last items found as we were cleaning out the old room...and it was a BIG old vault... Due to the enormous move of about 4-5 tons of material (8 miles from the old Woburn facility to our new space in Medford) I'm Waaay behind on my writing assignments - subsequently tons of mail and normal day-to-day record label work has not gotten done! But we are up to date on all our ebay sales and have just hit 650 Positives with a 100% rating (601 distinct sellers/buyers) as of this week. I got a vicious/wicked cold this past weekend, it knocked me out for about 36 hours - no work got done after I moved materials on Saturday till I came out of my coma on Sunday night. It was surreal - kind of like being in the movie THE SIXTH SENSE (which I was watching). My gardner said that the mold from the old facility probably made me ill...it is plausible. In any event, we have a beautiful new facility with tons of shelving (and we can always use more, so if you know companies that have shelving they want to get rid of, let us know - we have SO MUCH material accumulated, master tapes, cassette tapes, Billboard Magazines going back to 1970 - and today we found the very first Joe Vig published music reviews from Arlington High School's newspaper when Capitol Records sent us discs to yap about. This goes back to 1971... they are being xeroxed tomorrow!... maybe you'll find it in your mailbox born to write the right Reverend Joseph Count Vig I 10:57 PM June 19, 2007 and Visual Radio is still rolling on - I interviewed David Maxwell and Buzzy Linhart last Thursday at WCAT
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Saturday, May 19, 2007
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For Immediate Release
Varulven Records goes digital!
Marty Balin (Jefferson Airplane founder & vocalist) album to be recorded in Boston area this June! http://myspace.com/martybalinmiracles
First release is a Marty Balin interview DVD with rare performances.
Two versions of the audio album will be recorded. An "unplugged" that the DVD company will give FREE to people who purchase the DVD, and backing tracks on the unplugged to be released on multiple labels we are currently negotiating with.
David Maxwell has agreed to be on the new Balin sessions! on keyboards!
We have new releases which will be appearing on http://www.emusic.com
JOE VIGLIONE June 1, 2007 SECRET THINGS
UNNATURAL AXE -LIVE AT MISSION CONTROL 1988 Release date: June 15,
JOE VIGLIONE LIVE AT MISSION CONTROL Release Date: June 15, 2007
LADY CAROLYN Release Date: June 15, 2007
Lady Carolyn was the lead singer of Love & Flame along with Joe Viglione. The band existed 1979-1982
FUTURE RELEASES:
BOSTON ROCK & ROLL ANTHOLOGY VOL. 21 We're resurrecting the series and the first new edition will be music recorded or mixed at Newbury Media. http://myspace.com/bostonrranthology21
BFD - The Platinum Sound/Newbury Media Recordings Joe Viglione has produced BFD over a 15 year period. The Newbury Media tapes were the "Demos that got the deal" with the band and Rolling Stones producer Rob Fraboni.
BFD LIVE AT BUNRATTYS Joe Viglione recorded about 24 bands "Live at Bunrattys". Along with his own group there are performances from area artists including Macey's Parade, Tripwire, BFD, and many more.
Rather than issue a "Live At Bunrattys" compilation we are going to release the full-length performances and maybe after a four or five CD boxed set tribute to the nightclub.
JOE VIGLIONE live at Bunrattys featuring Jeff Locke on guitar, Mike Quinn on drums, Jimmy Brooks on Bass and John Morse of Reddy Teddy and Barb Kitson.
In the summer of 1988 former Atlantics guitarist Jeff Lock, Zulu's bassist Jimmy Brooks and Count drummer Mike Quinn were THE COUNT band. Our three lead singers included Joe Viglione, Barb Kitson of City Thrills and John Morse of Reddy Teddy. This was the final show and it sounds GREAT! I was also producing Barb Kitson that summer at Mission Control.
We also played THE PARADISE that summer and that music will be on DVD!
SECRET THINGS: External Identities and Melodic Demos! http://myspace.com/secret_things
1)The Violet Dawn (Viglione) 3:52 2)Secret Things (Viglione) 3:19 3)Love Reflection (Viglione) 3:17 4)Love That Feeling (Viglione) 3:07 5)Breaking Through (Viglione) 2:44 6)Can't Tell Them Who You (Viglione) 3:15 7)External Identities (Viglione) 2:56 8)Thought About You (Viglione) 2:52 9)Everything In Slow Motion (Viglione) 1:58 10)Stretch My Hand Across (Viglione) 3:57 11)Voices In The Night (Viglione) 3:55 12)Lost And Found (Viglione) 2:02 13)The Ballad Of Jo Jo Laine (Viglione) 3:50 14)Reflect Love (Viglione) 3:24 15)Transporter (Viglione) 4:44 16)I Want You Sexually/Synth (Viglione) 3:57 17)Secret Things (original) (Viglione) 3:29 18)Love That Feeling (demo) (Viglione) 3:07 19)Reflecting On You (Viglione) 1:35 20)I Come Alive At Night (Viglione) 9:24 21)Suky's Revenge (Viglione) 2:43 22)Can't Tell Them (Demo) (Viglione) 2:43 23)Violet Dawn (Demo) (Viglione) 3:23
Credits:
Jay Couper – Production, Engineering, Drums Scott Couper – Guitar, Keyboards, arranging Eric Brown – Guitar Manuel Smith – Keyboards Joe Viglione – vocals, guitar, piano, production
Ken Selcer – Editing, pre-mastering Graphic Design, Album Cover – John Visnaskas
http://myspace.com/secret_things
Coming soon!
A new Varulven Website! http://www.varulven.com http://myspace.com/varulven
Release dates for our product!
Varulven Digital P.O. box 2392 Woburn, MA 01888
Joe Viglione on EMusic https://www.emusic.com/artist/Joe-Viglione-MP3-Download/11590357.html
Varulven Records on EMusic.com https://www.emusic.com/label/Varulven-Records-MP3-Download/109237.html
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Sunday, May 06, 2007
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On April 17th we got a phone call that our Varulven facility was flooded by the N'orEaster. We've been frantically moving all the materials to another floor but have found lots of magazines and newspapers SOAKED along with some rare albums, a very rare Rolling Stones disc, some albums containing Bobby Hebb covers like the Red Johnny Mathis album with "Sunny", a Cher disc, lots of great stuff that has water damage. 25 Moe Tucker "I'm Sticking With You" 45 RPMS now have water damaged covers, and 8 big reels of tape containing the basic tracks to the second and third Count albums - LOVE & FLAME and THE INTUITION ELEMENT. It is going to cost $1200.00 to transfer them to DVD after they go into a convection oven so you know I sent the certified letter to their insurance company.
We'll be keeping everyone informed about the Varulven Records flood, we might have a few concerts in the future to celebrate our 31st year and get some information out.
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Sunday, May 06, 2007
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It is 11:36 PM on May 5, 2007. I have THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS on...was thinking of putting the DVD on when, lo and behold, HBO was running it. Hmmm...maybe The Oracle gave me some intuitive vision?
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Friday, November 25, 2005
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http://www.emusic.com/album/10860/10860456.html
LIFESWORK 2005 and COUNTING makes its debut on CD November 25 2005! It's been up on EMusic.com for most of the year!
http://www.emusic.com/album/10860/10860456.html
This is a collection of music that changed the face of Boston Rock & Roll
http://thecount.blog-city.com
http://nothinglikeahit.blogspot.com LIFESWORK by JOE VIGLIONE Liner notes by the artist http://www.emusic.com/artist/11590/11590357.html "Lifeswork: 2005 and Counting" is the first volume of material I put together for publishers. Liking the flow of the songs, we decided to release it commercially. Boston O'Donohue, son of my bandmate Jo Jo Laine, did the cover art from photos Jeannie Archibald took in the 1970s on Revere Beach in Massachusetts. "There's Nothing Like A Hit" actually hit #1 on The Boston Phoenix MP3 site in 2005, about fourteen years after it was recorded. "Transporter" is the theme to my TV show Visual Radio, which began broadcasting in 1995. These songs have been performed on college radio,in many a Boston area nightclub, to the huge Tweeter Center in Mansfield, Mass. which we played in 1994. Some of the songs were released in Paris on the New Rose label in the 1980s; we took "Love & The Flame", the title track of my second French album, right off the New Rose 4 CD Boxed set which was released in the new millennium. Lots of tunes, lots of memories, and this is just the first of many releases we are presenting on Emusic.com.
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Friday, November 25, 2005
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Category: Music
http://www.emusic.com/album/10860/10860456.html
LIFESWORK 2005 and COUNTING makes its debut on CD November 25 2005! It's been up on EMusic.com for most of the year!
http://www.emusic.com/album/10860/10860456.html
This is a collection of music that changed the face of Boston Rock & Roll
http://thecount.blog-city.com
http://nothinglikeahit.blogspot.com
"Lifeswork: 2005 and Counting" is the first volume of material I put together for publishers. Liking the flow of the songs, we decided to release it commercially. Boston O'Donohue, son of my bandmate Jo Jo Laine, did the cover art from photos Jeannie Archibald took in the 1970s on Revere Beach in Massachusetts."There's Nothing Like A Hit" actually hit #1 on The Boston Phoenix MP3 site in 2005, about fourteen years after it was recorded. "Transporter"is the theme to my TV show Visual Radio, which began broadcasting in 1995. These songs have been performed on college radio,in many a Boston area nightclub, to the huge Tweeter Center in Mansfield, Mass. which we played in 1994. Some of the songs were released in Paris on the New Rose label in the 1980s; we took "Love & The Flame", the title track of my second French album, right off the New Rose 4 CD Boxed set which was released in the new millennium. Lots of tunes, lots of memories, and this is just the first of many releases we are presenting on Emusic.com.
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Friday, November 25, 2005
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Hey - Varulven Records has released the official CD version of LIFESWORK - previously it was only available on Emusic.com
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