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--- Hello suzy, Mark here from twist records, just bought the book, its fantastic!! I dug out some old flyers when me and my old band the risk played the hollywood cavern for Greg in the 80s, thought you might be interested. I am so glad you have put this book out. Thanks - mark twist records --- Hi Suzy ! Got the CD'S through today - great music !! Thanks for a great, fast & personal service, you are the best for this in all the years i have been buying records & CD'S from overseas.!! I'm sure there will be a few more GTA CD'S to purchase in the near future. Cheers ! - Richard, York, England --- I just finished reading the Bomp! book and just wanted to share with you how much I enjoyed it, and how much it meant to me. After turning the last page, I found myself almost wanting to cry. The picture the book presents of Greg, you, the magazines, the label, all the bands, the music and zine businesses . . . it all came across so clearly that it made me feel like I was in the little world of Bomp! between the book's covers. I felt like I was leaving friends/comrades after closing the book. A lifelong music fanatic and passionate follower of 60s garage rock and Power Pop, I can relate to the passion you and Greg always shared about the music, and the frustrations of trying to make a lifestyle out of those passions when there are so many obstacles in the way of that. Anyway, I'm mostly just wanting to say that I loved the book and have always loved what you guys have done. What a great way to spend a life, and what a great job the book does of describing that life! Thanks and congratulations. - Brian Greene / Durham, North Carolina --- Suzy, and the gang at BOMP, --- Hey Suzy! i just want to say a big thankyou for getting the Bomp! book out to me in time for christmas! I was so happy when I opened it on christmas morning because I didnt expect it to get to France in the space of 7 days or whatever it was. The book is so cool, really awesome. It deserves to be very successful and i hope it gets what it deserves critically and financially! I have spent some nice time over the holiday period reading some great interviews and storys. I wish I was around in them days. sigh! It's gonna take some reading, but it's a good thing of course!! kind regards, hope all is well! - Neil --- Dear Suzy, --- Hey: Here's a buncha appreciative babble. Thanks tonz for the best service in ages. The Bomp book arrived on Dec 23. What a truly amazing read. There's so much to rave about and I'm sure you've heard it all by now but those stories about the flooding at Bomp are undeniably unforgettable myth right there to share and scare - and the unpublished final ish was a killer soooprize - especially all that stuff about the Minneapolis scene, 500 miles south of Winnipeg - the closest US large urban center to us. So thanks Suzy. A bunch of people were telling me about the CREEM book and yappin on about how neat it is. I thumbed through it at one of our local booksellers here called McNally Robinson - it's nothing special. I didn't buy it: A bunch of excerpts from the era that CREEM became after its much more vital period in the late 60s/70s. The Bomp book on the other hand is a perfect representation of what you guys - what Greg - was/were doing - perfectly undiluted and groundbreaking more than ever before. Proper exciting Powerpop arguably has STILL to hit mainstream enmasse, ACID PUNK the same. Maybe some day the average peon will be tastefully consumer oriented enuff in the post Wii, MyFace crapulated generation to figure out the future started long ago in Burbank no less by people who were just trying to live their lives and dig what they dug and write about it. Spot on job kids! I'm fucking proud of - and more importantly very entertained by you all. Well thanks and keep those stories on the index cards - Don Bailey --- Hey Suzy! i just want to say a big thankyou for getting the Bomp! book out to me in time for christmas! I was so happy when I opened it on christmas morning because I didnt expect it to get to France in the space of 7 days or whatever it was. The book is so cool, really awesome. It deserves to be very successful and i hope it gets what it deserves critically and financially! I have spent some nice time over the holiday period reading some great interviews and storys. I wish I was around in them days. sigh! It's gonna take some reading, but it's a good thing of course!! kind regards, hope all is well! Neil --- I received the book yesterday. It's wonderful and an obvious labor of love. I leafed through it for over an hour before I even got to the envelope with the shirt and CD. I first read your "pile" article and was immediately hooked. Great work on the book and a deep appreciation from all of us music nuts to you for taking on the project as well as all you've done for BOMP over the last 3 decades. Thanx, Kyle --- Suzy, Hi. It's Tim in Dayton. I just finished listening to the "He Put The Bomp" CD which came in the mail today, and I wanted to write and say thanks. I loved the CD. I think it sounds like all the great Bomp comp CD's, and I'm sure Greg would've loved it. It sounds like every band really put their heart and soul into it, and the highest praise I can give it is that it deserves to be on the label. It does the legacy - Greg's and the label's - proud. It's one of the best records I've heard this year. Thank you again for minding the business, and being the best. I'm very happy Bomp is still going strong. Hope you are well, and life is good. Tim in Dayton |