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Dec 28, 2002
| - Updated my list on Amazon.com (which the link
takes you to on the Links page)
to reflect the new "L.A. Explosion" CD. Also a few
very minor changes to Links page. |
Dec 24, 2002
| - Added TEMPORARY Xmas gift to Home
Page. (See Santa) |
Dec 1, 2002
Nov 23, 2002
| - Updated the Gigs
page. Forgot to change the info in a timely manner. I was a busy
boy... |
Nov 1, 2002
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-Updated the Video Page.
- Updated News column on the Home
Page.
-A couple of updates to the Links
page (new Sparks URL, and changes to a few descriptions).
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Oct 27, 2002
| - Updated the Gigs
page with info from Mike. |
Oct 14, 2002
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- Updated the Gigs page.
-Updated (finally) the Video
Page (which also has a new look). After a brief absence, we bring
back the Quicktime option for those who can't or don't want to
view the Real Video file.
-Updated the Mystery Song Contest on the Home
Page to reflect a change in the grand prize.
-A couple of updates to the Links
page, including the inclusion of David Gray's web site!
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Oct 2, 2002
| - Updated the Gigs
page. Still working on the video, sorry... |
Sept 10, 2002
Sept 8, 2002
| - Updated the sound file for the Mystery Song
Contest on the Home Page by adding
the entire song via a Real Audio file... |
Sept 1, 2002
| - Updated Video
page. Couldn't access my space on Apple's server, and, since
it will be taken from me at the end of the month anyway, I deleted
the option to see the clip in Quicktime format. So the videos
are now exclusively in Real Video format. Go ahead and download
their player - it's free... Thanks to JasonAll for the use of
his web space - due to the large size of this month's DSL version
of the video clip, the smaller version is over on Jason's space... |
Aug 25, 2002
Aug 8, 2002
| - Silly Joe gave me the wrong dates for an upcoming
gig with 20/20 - so that was fixed in the News column
on the Home Page. It wasn't really
his fault - there was a miscommunication with Mike, I believe... |
Aug 4, 2002
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- Created new Video page to
include the option to view the monthly video clip in Real Video
as well as Quicktime.
- Rotated the video clip for August. Check out the Video page to see the band perform
2 new songs: "I Know" and "Go Away Sunday"
from their recent show at the Café Club Fais Do Do in
L.A.
- Updated News column on the Home
Page.
- Updated the Gigs page to
include an upcoming show that Joe is doing.
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July 23, 2002
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- Updated the Gigs page to
include an upcoming acoustic show that Joe is doing.
- Updated News column on the Home
Page.
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July 21, 2002
July 18, 2002
| -Updated the links for the sound files in the
Discography section (and elsewhere),
which have been moved to another server to make room for the
Real Video versions of the monthly video clip. I will be losing
the Apple web space that holds the Quicktime version of the video
clip at the end of September, so this Real Video version might
soon be the only version from then on... I should have the Real
Video version up in a few days... I haven't checked every single
audio file out yet, so if you have any errors with the clips,
let me know and I'll fix it. |
July 14, 2002
June 30, 2002
| - Rotated the video clip for June. Check out
the Video page to see the band
perform "I Don't Wanna Be in Love" and "A Fool
Like You" at the Starwood in 1979. Video shot by Danny Winters
and friends. |
June 14, 2002
| - Added the first of many lyrics to the Discography section (thanks to JasonAll
and Ashley). Others will be slowly added in the future as time
allows... Lyrics added this time are for all the songs in LA
Explosion, and some from Look Again and Confession. |
June 9, 2002
June 6, 2002
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-Updated News column on the Home
Page.
-Added Mike's "notes behind the songs" to the Discography section (bottom of main
page, LA Explosion, Confession, Awakening, Gin & Innuendoes).
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June 1, 2002
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- Rotated the video clip for June. Check out the Video
page to see the band perform "L.A. Explosion," "Obsession"
and "Snake in the Grass" at the Starwood in 1980 (thanks
to Don Williams).
This video clip is encoded by Quicktime 5 - so on earlier versions
of Quicktime, you won't hear the sound track. For those of you
without Quicktime 5 or later, we will be putting up a Real Video
version of the same clip in a week or so. From then on out, we
will offer both Quicktime and Real Video versions of each monthly
video (thanks to Josh (Last drummer) and his donated web space).
-This page was getting too big, so I split it into sections.
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May 2, 2002
| - Added 34 new (short) sound clips to the Discography section - all in Real Audio
format. Whenever I make big changes like this, there's bound
to be many mistakes. I think I caught all the mistakes I made.
If you see any mistakes that I missed, let me know. |
May 1, 2002
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- Rotated the video clip for May. Check out the Video
page to see the band perform "Lies" and "Walk
Like Me" at the Starwood in 1979 (thanks to Danny Winters,
who filmed the show with his friends).
-Updated News column on the Home
Page.
-Added a link to Half.com
on the Links page. They have
a few hard-to-find used Last items for sale.
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April 22, 2002
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- Knitting Factory show is over, so updated Gigs
page.
-Updated News column on the Home
Page.
-Updated links to Joe's email address.
-Rearranged link to the Forum to avoid a server which is currently
down.
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April 19, 2002
| - Updated both the Gigs
page and History section (2002)
with link to pictures from the recent Stockage show. Joe has
promised he'll write something for the site about the event soon. |
April 18, 2002
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-The short-lived 1979 Review page is back up, thanks to Nancy
Foreman, who sent me a couple of items from Slash magazine. One
is a review (albeit a negative one) from 1980, and the other
is a 1979 interview with people living in the church in Hermosa
Beach (including Joe). Both items have been added to the Reviews section. The Reviews section
contains reviews on records, concerts and also has interviews.
The label "Reviews" seems wrong, but it is nice and
short and to the point. I was thinking of changing it to "Press,"
but if you saw "Press" as one of the buttons, you may
think it was something else. It's not as clear as "Reviews."
I thought about "Media," but that sounds like it may
have video media or audio media... Probably not a big point,
huh? If anyone has a better idea, tell me.
-Also changed a few of the larger images on the site from
GIFs to JPEGs to save downloading time when visiting certain
pages.
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April 15, 2002
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- Stockage is over and Knitting Factory is next, so changes
made on the Gigs page.
-Updated News column on the Home
Page.
-Added a link to the band Trolley
and a link to CD Universe
(who apparently still have a couple of Last CDs available for
purchase (thanks for the tip, Nancy!)) to the Links
page.
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April 8, 2002
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- Okay, forget about the new 1979 Review page - it's gone.
I found out the interview actually happened in 1978, so it has
been relocated to that page in the Reviews
section.
-So we take one year off the Reviews
section and add another - the new addition being 1981, and (thanks
so much to Gwynne Garfinkle) a 1981 interview with Joe and Mike,
backstage at the Whisky, in between sets. Check it out.
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April 7, 2002
| - Added a page to the Reviews
section (1979), which so far only consists of a 13-minute segment
of a radio interview (Real Audio) done by the band on a college
radio station in Riverside, CA. |
April 5, 2002
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- Added instructions for those who
wish to save the monthly video clips.
-There was some dirty java programming language that I cleaned
up. It was causing problems for people trying to access certain
links on AOL's web browser for version 7. Only one person told
me about this, but it must have affected others. Again, please
tell me if you come across problems with the site - I promise
you won't be bugging me...
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April 2, 2002
April 1, 2002
| - Rotated the video clip for April. Check out
the Video page to see the band
perform "Be Bop a Lula" and "She Don't Know Why
I'm Here" at the Whisky in 1981 (thanks to Don Williams,
who filmed the show). |
March 23, 2002
| - Added 12 MP3 clips to the Discography
section, which replaces the ones that Amazon.com dropped when
the CDs went out of print. Actually, this is a lot more clips
than before... Enjoy... (Note: these are just CLIPS, and not
entire songs (as on the MP3.com
page)) Also note that these new MP3s are on AOL's server, which
isn't as reliable as it should be. If you get an error message,
just hit your browser's BACK button and try again - the AOL server
was probably busy... |
March 20, 2002
| - Added the Song Contest to the Home
Page. I had this contest here back when this site began,
then took it off for various reasons. Well, now it's back - so
visit the home page (where you just were) and try to win some
Disney tickets! Disneyland just upped their ticket prices to
$45 for adults! |
March 16, 2002
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- Updated News column on the Home
Page. Also added a News
Archive page for old News columns.
-Updated Gigs page for Stockage
- then again as the day was announced.
-Lots of small upgrades for many pages - but just minor, stupid
stuff that you won't notice... (except maybe the tribute page
for Jeffrey Lee Pierce)
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March 10, 2002 - Just a few
minor things. First, added another review of the recent Brennan's
gig (including a link to a photo page from the show) to the Reviews
section.
Added one of those pictures
from John's
Local Band Pix to the History
section (2002).
Added the color corrected comments
from the Painting Smiles album to its info page in the Discography section.
March 6, 2002 - Amazon.com
has deleted all the song clips except for "She Don't Know
Why...," so I had to fix a bunch of pages in the Discography section to reflect this.
I will replace these sound clips with clips of my own sometime
soon.
March 5, 2002 - Added the sign-up
notice for The Last Mailing List. For info, either write me,
or read the blurb. It's on the Home Page.
March 4, 2002 - Added a News
column to the Home Page. As I
was editing it, word came in that the Last would most likely
perform at Stockage in Colorado next month. It's still not definite,
but stay tuned...
The MP3s for the 1997 demo
have been taken off the MP3.com
page, and will be replaced by clips from these songs soon.
March 1, 2002 - Rotated the
video clip on the Video page.
This starts a monthly rotation of videos on the site - a new
clip every month! This month's clip comes from a 1981 performance
at LA's Whisky-A-Go-Go, and was filmed by Don Williams, the guy
behind the Wednesday
Week Web Site.
Finally discovered how to fix
the opening sound on the Home Page.
Now it doesn't skip and pause.
Feb 26, 2002 - Added 20 reviews
(all from 1978) to the Reviews
section. Created a few links to those reviews from the History section.
Feb 25, 2002 - To the Reviews section I added a picture
from the Brennan's gig the other night, sent in by former Last
/ Earwigs / Winkees / Hector & the Clockwatchers stud Tom
Underhill. Joe sent me a bunch of reviews from the '70s. I'll
post them very soon, but today I was playing with the digitized
version of a 1978 Last concert that needs major restoration work.
Still not quite sure how to tackle it - there are a few different
ways.
Oh, why am I rambling on?...
Feb 24, 2002 - minor changes
to Gigs page and History
section (2002) to reflect the band's return, as well as lots
of posts to the Message Board (which I normally don't
list here).
Feb 23, 2002 - Added my own
review of last night's show to the Reviews
section.
Added a couple of years to
the History section (it's really
not that much - pretty sparse).
Like CDnow, Amazon
is now listing "Confession," "Awakening,"
& the Rhino compilation "We're Desperate" as "out
of print." However, their link is still there, since they
also offer used copies of these CDs for sale. So right now, the
only CD still in print is the last one, "Gin and Innuendoes,"
available directly from SST
Records. Also, there are still vinyl releases in print: "L.A.
Explosion" from Bomp
Records; and the 7" single "Up in the Air"
& compilation LP "Warfrat Tales," both from Happy
Squid Records.
Feb 16, 2002 - Song notes for
"Awakening" added to the Discography
page.
Gigs page updated a bit, but better info
will be added in a few days...
Feb 13, 2002 - Song notes for
"Gin and Innuendoes" added to the Discography
page. Joe writes that it is the final installment of the song
notes, but I haven't received the notes for "Awakening"
yet.
Still not sure what time the
concert will be on 2/22 or who else will be on the bill. I'll
update the Gigs page when I find
out myself...
Jan 31, 2002 - For some reason,
CDnow
no longer sells "Confession," "Awakening,"
or the Rhino compilation "We're Desperate," so I've
switched their links to Amazon.com.
The Amazon link takes you to a list of Last stuff, as well as
some other cool stuff I think you'll like. I think the only CDnow
link I left up is for the compilation "Listen
and Learn With Vibro-Phonic," which, strangely, Amazon.com
doesn't carry.
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