Jotnflatsbtnthere. I an writitgyouto ten you about a veryspecial offer to InfomationChJb members. Marjorie Galen and I are embarking on an exciting new venttre. It's the... MFrl.a nsburgh Hello Recording Club! • Each month Heno features a fifferent Ütist recordq sotWSe xchßively for our subscribers. By calling 1-800-HELLO -41 and using your credit card, or by usirg i the order fom on the back of Ulis letter, you will receive TEN CD'S THIS YEAR. These four song eps are not for sale any store. The price: $41. Hello subscribers will also receive the Hello Recoding Club newsletter, Hey. Helo is an exciting way to check out new top quarrtya nists as well as a safe haven for flakey side- projects of mine and other musicians. I guarantee you there is going to be some great music coming your way as a Hello Recoüg Clubs ubscnber. The premiere release for March is electric zither styfist Brian Dewan . You may remember Brian opened for us at a number of our US shows this fall. Mr. Dewan has also performed in the Blue Man Group band and Wiff DaBviydr ne. Black Francis Future releases include Pixies front-man under his new nom-de-rock Frank Black unsSeaeFnnr a ncTishcea nRse sidents, Flat Old Worldand an electronic music project produced by myself and Brooklyn art rock fellow Joshua Fried. They Might Be Giants 23 For an additional $5 you'll receive a premium of song-cassette. This document of TMBG's original recordings from 1985 features unreleased material and alternate versions of many songs off our first LP. It is only available throuÅ1t he Hello Recording Club. All proceeds from this cassette premium will be donated to the People AIDS Coalition. Our mascot. a bird Fun!Rdiketo tally Hello ! Ts tot* cob*Asm ofC ru •fbe Meat This is the tape that started it all! A true rarity and a fascinating document of TMBG's early years. Now available for the first time since its original release. A MUST FOR ALL HARDCORE GIANT-HEADS! For $5 over the initial subscription price to Hello Recording Club subscribers, we'll send you their 23 song cassette featuring hard to find recordings like I'm Def, Become A Robot and Hell Hotel plus embryonic versions of Don't Let's Stan, Hotel Detective, Which Describes How You're Feeling, Puppet Head, Everything Right Is WrongA gain and You'll Miss Me. THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS 1985 DEMO TAPE AVAILABLE IN RARE OFFER ONLY AVAILABLE TO HELLO RECORDING CLUB MEMBERS! Hello Recording Club will donate $5 dollars to the People With AIDS Coalition for every 23 song cassette sold HELLO RECORDING CLUB SUBSCRIPTION FORM i YES , I want to become a member of the Hello Recording Club, and receive ten CD eps on a bi-monthly basis for $41 O YES , I want to become a memberAND receive They Might Be Giants 23 song cassette for $46. Please donate the additional $5 to the People With AIDS Coalition. Name Address City State TIP I have enclosed my check or money order. a I would like you to bill my VISA, MASTERCARD or AMERICAN EXPRESS. (Please print clearly) Method of payment O ChecL4noneyo rder O AmericanE vpre.ssO VISA C) Mastercard Credit card account number Evpirationd ate Print name as it appears on credit card THE FINE PRINT: Join all 10 WhJch Cardholder'sS ignature Daytime Telephone # NEW ITEMS! Skull shirt & Baby Skull shirt Our most popular item this last tour, this shirt was designed by Meat Puppets guitarist Curt Kirkwood. XL and L. $16 Now we also have shirts in baby sizes too. The perfect gift for the sophisticatedb aby. #8B size 4T $10. They Might Be Dead shirt with entire 19 2 tour dates! YOU SAW ALL THE SHOWS- NOWB UY ALL THE SHIRTS. With its distinctive dead roach on the front and all the 1992 tour dates from around the globe listed on the back, this shirt is guaranteed to be a real collectors item. #9 XL ONLY. Long sleeve $18. 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Just $10/set I TMB PRODUCTIONS • Department PPFNP • PO Box 110535• Williamsburgh Station • Brooklyn, NY • 11211-00031 I HOW TO ORDER• . Read the fine print! Fill out this form (or a copy of it). Please print clearly and add correctly! Use the chart below to figure out the correct Shipping and Handling chaw. Onlers to be shipped to N)' or NJ addressesm ust also include sales tax. Payment may be made bv American Erpress. VISA or Mastercard or enclose a check or money orderfor the total amount due, in U.S. Funds only, payable to TMB Productions.DO NOT SEND CASH! Fill out onlyi fdifferentftom "OrderedB y" ORDERED BY: SHIP TO: Name: Name: 1 1 Address: Address: 1 City/State: City/State: Zip: Country: Zip: Country: 1 DESCRIPTION COLO/RF ORMATSI ZE QTY PRICE TOTAL Coo 1 1 1 1 SUBTOTAL (Cost of Goods) Shipping & Handling Charges .3 SHIPPING & HANDLING Cost of Goods U.S.A. 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Mon' on Public Rod;o's Charleston, live Movnto;nS logo A st on THE BEST Of MOUNTAIN STAGE Volume 5, 'o be released by Blue Note Music this o TMBGs ong hos ever been commercially onwm Olso o hock front Chon's' b0"isf Tony other bond, Pero Ubu. 0' well 05 0 bunch of other music, 90 check (Wt.. YOU LIVE IN THE NORTHEASTERN U.S. you'll to keep 0 spring IMBG one.j will be playing o small number of live o' colleges ond other locotions doting tho lost two of • THINGS THAT MAKE US FEEL 010. In Jonuory John ond John ona 20 or .90 0' their ond ossociotes celebrated the 10th anniversary They Be Giants o' o potluck dinner hosted by one o' Wdbomsburgh neighbors. really hord to believe 'hot IMBG l»en making music for o decode' • THEY MIGHT BE CYBERPUNKS? folks with occess to on Interneto le€tron;cm oil occount will no doubt wont to know thot +,ere is o TMBG Internet moiling list. con subscribed to by sending o•moil with tho line 'subscribe to •they-might-be- edu'. If Olso got Usonot NotNows occoss, bo sure to check out the newsgroup 'olt.rnusictmbö If you don't have Intemet occess, but do o computer ond o modem you might wont to chock out the TMBGm essoge topics to be found on the online services GEnio ond America Online. (If none Of this makes any sense to you consult the nearest computer expert). • ADMINISTRATRMA DEPARTMENT. The astute amongst you will hove already noticed that tho TMBG Post Office Box number hos chong«4 from 110553 to 1 10535. Please address all futurec orrespondencea ccordingly. (Why ask why? Just do it') As usual, please keep us up to dote on your oddress changes and keep those cards and lettersc oming... They Might Be Giants: The Weird and the Wired by Artrvr • drag it thin' A pet i. into •n •tom1 0 to 2 minute long CO have • "ng it denng gutf Wed it e•— up until • rhythm • •U bup Ar.n. —d a bent ¯tum even o,'t ife Apollo "tends •re .rur.npgt .o music. c—and w thiteh module0 1 as. 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They a loe alongm th. it' Jennitelfyu nt o around trom the two Albums. •bout bang stars toO tdet tioi'e there•s them. hJoahvne to teIm hpaevery ou' in-ist The Yea,h e• th is h more S:' was ua*vhcdhy.n. thatd o whateveyr ouW Mti ot yean and years w. vneenvneure t o anytohneerte o's h ear,« »anrnoethwerhh eurnedt rheed std' main thing is that the yuu get are the ones am I bough' in and I borrowed die b' I'm the you don't hear,y ou don't have tv up. •topFi m•a.ngr «otds.d me that they're terrible Oley Fob.bly 00 that IVs easy. It'. a butw e [ken't anyw oe'. the Weili,t in the the we'd be Myw•y. &m't wund have b. .u&bk-— Vay high.I 'veg o' a empty cupi n oi me go cwo right don't actually it ha. extrane on me. It my lile sure. • ban I'm Recordings available only from Hey Everybody. Having only dlroctod "Tho Guitar" There's a tot of activity hore video bofoto, am a bit norvous about around They Might Bo Giants' tree. applying my Ilmltod skills to COMING fort. While John and recover from somebody Olso•s proJoct, but Frank SOON the near-year long Apollo 18 touring, and I had a good timo cooking up tho plans are already afoot for futuro Idoas (Frank on hovor craft, fake >THE RESIDENTS projects. motal band lip-syncing tho song) so It *RANK BLACK sooms Ilko It's going to como out FRANK BLACK VIDEOS good. Wo•ros hooting them In Los (Black Francis In tho beginning of March, I will Angelos and on location at Salton have completed directing tho "Los Sea, California, which Is a of the Pixies) Angelos" video for Frank Black- also combination of salt flats and flooded >EUGENE known as Black Francis fromt he town. Be sure to call all those MTV Pixies. (He ss got a new album 900 numbers and request the videc» CHADBOURNE coming out on Elektra this spring. "Los Angeles" by Frank Black. There Llnnell and TMBG touring-band-mate is also a possibility that John and I (and from Japan) Kurt Hoffman play horns on the will be hosting that 120 Minutes >THE NELORIES album.) show soon, so stay tuned. PRESORTEO They Might Be Giants Information Club FIRST CLASS MAIL P.O Box 110535 US POSTAGE PAID Williamsburgh Station EDGEWATER, NJ Brooklyn, New York 11211 Permit No. 117 Address Correction Requested TMBGI NFO CLUB ID # T 2712 BENJAMIN COMBEE 30501G EORGIA TECH STATION ATLANTA GA 30332 NEW DIAL-A-SONG the course of a day. Every few HELLO OFFERINGS days I've been setting up the SET UP Work is nearly complete on the machine to play a different song Hello Studio facility here in As some of you have probably every hour. We are also beautiful Brooklyn, and a number already noticed, Dial-A-Song has considering making it of productions are in the works for changed from a humble phone "interactive" with a changing the Hello Recording Club. I'll be machine to a super-fancy high- menu of song choices. If you producinga lot of these sessions, tech computer-basedv oice mail haven't called recently, you should and although there is no way of deal. Besides the immediate check it out. It's clearer and has a knowing everything that is going chore of setting the thing up lot of new songs written since we to be coming up on Hello, I hope (leaving Smokin' Bo Orloff, Linnell got off the tour, as well as the old these projects will become a and me scratching our heads over "too ugly to get on the album" valued part of your music the new cyber-opportunities for a chestnuts. 25 Hoursa day, 6 days collection. day or so) it's running smoothly, a week Dial-A-Song beckons- Just Later- and now offers the Dial-A-Song a regular charge phonec all to John Flansburgh caller many different songs over Brooklyna t 718-387-6962. HEY Editor, HELLO Co-curator Guitarist, They Might Be Giants