Issue 12--The Anniversary Issue

Dear Laid With Cool,
Cush is a sock-hat.
-Chad Johnston

[you're a little late there buddy...]
 
 

[I pulled this off the guestbook...]

Name: Senator Bob Dole (sexyseniorcitizen@hotmale.com)
 Website: Bob Dole in 1997! Dole DOle dole!
 Referred by: Yahoo!
 From: ...White house.
 Time: 1998-08-26 21:29:10
 Comments: Nothing upsets Bob Dole more than draft dodging, wife cheating, big nosed
 politicians! Bob Dole is a big fan of the Lassie Preservation. Bob Dole loves the music. Bob Dole  wants to marry Wayne Everhart. Bob Dole has a secret crush on Eric
Campnutello. Bob Dole  loves Frank-Lin. If Bob Dole wears a Lassies Foundations T-Shirt for next election (DOLE IN  2001!!), can Bob Dole expect the votes of all Foundational fans? BOb Dole is in touch with the  youth of today! Bob Dole is into the alternative Hanson/Hoochie and the Blow..fish/Walflour/The Perve scene. Bob Dole wants a date with Baby Spice. Hey Baby Spice, let Bob Dole show you who's daddy! Heh heh heh. Vote for DOLE!! DOLE!!!!

[hmmm...uh...]

It has been a full year since the Laid With Cool was started.  When the idea was first suggested to Eric last summer he said "I think starting a newsletter would be a good idea.  Now if only we had some news."  Now after a year, the newsletter has come together with several writers contributing and a lot of subscribers! Several interviews with members of the band have been past issues, and there will be more to come, including an interview with Eric in this months newsletter! The first issue of the Laid With Cool-- "Disco Dancing and the ‘Breakfast Club'" was sent out to only 40 people.  Now the newsletter is received by about 180 people monthly!  If you weren't subscribed to the list for the first several issues, all the issues can be found on the Lassie Foundation Webpage at  http://www.rollanet.org/~johnston

Several people have helped out with the newsletter from the start.  Thanks mostly of all to Eric Campuzano for all the help with the page and newsletter and for giving up your time to do interviews and answer my questions!  Thanks to Jon Kortebein for being a great writer and supplying me with ideas, for being patient with me, and for sticking with me from the start!   Thanks to Wayne Everett, Jeff Schroeder, Jason Pickersgill, and Frank Lenz for making great music and for the interviews!

Also thanks to: Chris Flinchbaugh, Ben Guyer, Chad Johnston, Andy Prickett, Richard Loyd, and Nathan Tolbert.

     -alyssa johnston

Interview With Eric Campuzano
by alyssa johnston

Between Eric Campuzano's crazy schedule and my busy one, I was in a major predicament trying to find a time when we both were available for the interview.  We finally connected after he returned from a trip to Nashville last week.  There he had been mixing Satellite Circle's newest project, which he also produced.  The interview is rather brief, but Eric has a way of covering wide topics with few words.

Alyssa Johnston: How's your search for the record label going so far?

Eric Campuzano: umm, it's going, things are happening...

AJ: So what about Pacifico?

Eric: The entity of what we recorded might never actually come out.  Out of the 10 songs we recorded, probably only 6 will be released, we'll be putting out a single later.

AJ: A single on top of the EP?

Eric: Yes.  We do want to release stuff, but we're kind of in a bit of a jam.

AJ: So Pacifico as a whole album might never be released?

Eric: Yes, it's just as frustrating for us you know? It's just like, we had a lot of plans but a couple doors opened up, and we pursued them, and other doors were closed in the process.  But it just took forever to record, like 6 months. It's frustrating.

AJ: What songs might not ever be released?

Eric: "I've Got the Rock and Roll" and "El Rey"

AJ: That's too bad, those are great songs!

Eric: Yeah.

AJ: Do you think you'll ever get around to touring or anything?

Eric: Yeah, we're hoping to.  We all want to, we just need to get a record out first.

AJ: So pretty soon after you get one out you'll tour?

Eric: I'd like to think so.

Foundation News

Newsflash
We've recently received word that Frank Lenz (Fold Zandura) has become a full-time member of The Lassie Foundation.  No other details are available at this time.  Stay tuned.

It won't be long before you can satisfy your appetite for new Lassie Foundation songs.  Eric informed Laid with Cool that all of the artwork for the EP has been turned in to Jeff Cloud, owner of Velvet Blue Music.  Eric expects the  5-song EP to be out in roughly one month.  The EP will include the studio versions of "Dive Bomber," "She's the Coming Sun," and "You are Infinity" from plus live cuts of "I can be her man" and "I'm stealin' to be her one in a million" from "California".

Lassie Sightings
At least one member of the Foundation has found time to work on other projects.  Wayne Everett, Foundation singer, worked with The Choir's Steve Hindalong on Hindalong's recent solo release, "Skinny".  Everett and Hindalong hooked up during the recording of The Prayer Chain's "Mercury", which Hindalong produced, and they must have hit it off.  Hindalong invited Wayne to help The Choir record their Dove Award-winning CD "Free Flying Soul" (that's Wayne's falsetto singing "Swine" in the song "Away with the Swine"), and once again Hindalong sought out Everett for help with "Skinny". One can only assume Wayne is flattered to have someone as well-respected as Hindalong seeking his talents.

-Jon Kortebein

Newsletter names
 Last year before the newsletter was started, I asked those who had already signed up for ideas for a name.  I received several good and some really off the wall titles.  Steve Webster sent in the idea  "Laid With Cool" and it was chosen to be the title of the Lassie Foundation Newsletter.  Other titles sent in included the Lassie Lowdown, The Lassie Foundation Funtime Fanletter, Not the Dog, LassEmail, Timmy Shot Lassie and Now Lassie is no Longer Alive-Actually he is Dead, Woof! A Day in the Life of a Band that
Sounds like it was Named After a Dog-But it Wasn't, The Betty Ford Clinic: Renamed After that Confound Dog and Turned Into a Foundation Instead of a Clinic.  Needless to say, Laid With Cool just fit the best.
 
    -alyssa johnston

Lassie Reveals

*what are your favorite kinds of PEZ dispensers? [sorry, weird question I know]
 -Melissa

ERIC-Interesting question, a friend of mine, Cristian, said that there are never any bad questions, so let me answer this in all frankness and candor, our favorite is any with any candy especially grape, cherry, and  always orange, since the great foundation is from Orange County, California.
 
eric- do you really use a flying V for all the songs?  what sort of amps?...pedals???
 -Dan

ERIC-Yes I use the flying V for recording purposes, but live I use the a fender/squire strat and a fender jazz master.  Amps, live I use  a roland jazz chorus head and cabinet hot roded by best friend the Doc.  Recording I use a peavey 20 and currently Laney combo that is similar to a Vox AC 30 which sounds pretty kick butt.  pedal wise I use a big muff, the tronix, the rat, dod super overdrive, alternado fuzz, dod anolog delay, boss digital delay/reverb, dr. q, and ibanez chorus, midiverb 3 and the quadraverb, not all at the same time of course.

Concert Date
there will be a Lassie Foundation show September 2nd at the Council in Pomona
the address is  200 W. 2nd Street for more info call 909.469.5801

Links

Havalina Rail Co. Website-    http://www.havalina.home.ml.org

the Official Lassie Foundation Website-   http://www.rollanet.org/~johnston

Nzine-   http://come.to/nzine

Sukafoi-   http://surf.to/sukafoi

The Redcrown Republic    http://327.com/redcrown

Three Twenty-Seven     http://www.327.com/

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Thanks to: Jon Kortebein, Chris Flinchbaugh, Chad Johnston and the Lassie
Foundation!