...old updates...
24mar07. after nearly a decade online and 5 or 6 different URLs, SDW finally
has its own domain: somediverswhistle.com. Nice. Also a new look. Do you
hate it as much as me? Please check out the store
for some new DVDs I'm offering to help support the site. Oh, and the mp3s
got deleted, but I'm slowly adding them + more as I can. Also working on
broken links. So have patience while I get settled here.
24July2006: It's SDW's 9 year anniversary today. Nothing special today..
but next year I think I'll make a big deal about the decade mark. That'll give
me ample time to finish up some things I've had sitting in limbo for a while. So
I'll see you back here 7/24/07. Mark your calendar!
30DEC2005: a couple little updates to the JA concert chronology. minor
updates to "pre-jane's / early days" page (including more info on
Yellow Dog Contract.. a band Eric was in briefly before Jane's).
12NOV2005: check out the store section, where I'm
offering a lot of my collection and trying to make a
couple bucks for the site. Also, stay tuned for a big surprise download
(hopefully) coming to SDW around the new year.. something very old that's never
been made available anywhere.
Christmastime2004: happy holidays, everybody. here's a little mp3 gift from
me to you: Porno For Pyros - Pete's Dad ('95 mix)
2DEC2004: Hey, an old friend of Gavin Murphy is trying to find him. Mr.
Murphy has helped out here in the past (his
reviews of several old school Jane's shows).. If you, or someone you know,
are him, please let me know. thanks! defgav [at] yahoo
[dot] com
24July2004: no substancial update to mention, but hey, today's SDW's 7
year anniversary. yippee!
15May2004: little update to pre-Jane's page that finally clears up a
little mystery surrounding the Mephisto Demos (in particular, the origin of the
song "all white people look alike"). BTW, thanks to Chase for the link at
www.one-percent.com after my last
whiney update. :)
wintertime (early) 2004: The Annual SDW Greeting: hello and welcome to
Some Divers Whistle. Back in the late '90s, this place was jumping. But now
we've faded into the background. Not updated much anymore. In fact, below you
can see that there were really only a couple updates all of 2003. And don't
expect much better in 2004! haha.
I've noticed that SDW is not even linked anymore at xiola.org or one-percent.com
(recently revived by Chase of notfornothing.net), a couple of today's more
popular Jane's fan sites, so I imagine our traffic is quite minimal these days.
But I don't mean to whine. I'm glad you've found your way here and hope you
enjoy the site.
So what updates were done this time? Let's see... nothing big.. mostly just
attempts at "catching up" and getting some sections "current". Added some Psi
Com info, tweeked the links page a bit, made note of the recently cancelled
Jane's shows in the concert chronology, and mentioned a couple things
about Strays in the recording history. What about the Song Index? Nope.
the Jane's Song Index is pretty much done/frozen/archived.. I don't plan to add
the songs from Strays to it anytime soon. But who knows, I might be bored
one afternoon and decide to do it. Well anyways, thanks again and enjoy! --Gavin
summertime 2003: little updates to recording history and concert chronology.
2Feb2003: Minor updates to chronologies (a couple
Aussie 91 dates; 10/24/96 review).
14Nov2002: Added some nice '96 show reviews to the P4P Concert Chronology
(6/19, 10/21).
3Nov2002: Added some nice '92 show reviews to the P4P Concert Chronology.
20Oct2002: The Song Index is finally back up! Thanks go to Chase for
buggin me to get around to it. And thanks also to Jamie and Kentaro who sent
me encouraging emails after my last whiney update. ...Did a few minor updates
to other sections while I was at it.
14Sept2002: So one-percent.com is really going away for real this time?
That's too bad. Erik should at least just let his site sit dormant, like me.
:) Well, I seem to sneak in a minor update (very minor) ever month or two. Hey,
with 1% gone, I believe that makes SDW the longest running active Jane's site
(if you can call this active). Anyway.. Still haven't gotten around to getting
the 'song index' back up.. as I expect it to be a lot of work and nobody will
care about it anyway. But I'm not bitter!
By the way, has anybody read the "pre-janes/early days" section?
I bust my ass on that a couple years ago and never got a single ounce of feedback
or acknowledgment. See, if I got shown some love from time to time maybe I'd
bother to work on this site more. :) Actually, no, probably not. But it'd be
nice anyway.
5APR2002: The Jane's Addiction Concert Chronology is back up. right on.
also PBR show mp3s.
2MAR2002: The Porno For Pyros concert chronology (aka 'live show list')
is back up (with a few minor additions). Now I just have the 2 biggies to worry
about: the Jane's song index and show list.
1MAR2002: OK, the old URLs have officially died. So it might be hard
for fans to find this site now. Consider yourself lucky, i guess. :) I've sent
the new address to 3 friendly Jane's sites (xiola,
1%, suffer
some), but since I'm not very active in the JA Comminity these days (i'm
not on any mailing lists and i don't frequent any message boards), it's hard
for me to get the word out. So if anyone is feeling nice enough to give the
new URL ( http://members.cox.net/g12241/ ) a shoutout somewhere and let fans
know, that'd be real cool.
26FEB2002: Welcome to the new SDW. We've been around since July '97.
But unfortunately we've been thru many different URLs over the years.
You are at the latest one! Congrats! Enjoy the site. In addition to our usual
highly appreciated and respected information and insight, [what? why are you
laughing?], the mp3s are back up [thanks Jon!], including some new ones.
[this is as far back as i've been saving updates], but as mentioned, the
site has been functioning since '97.. In fact, it coincidentally was born just a
few weeks before the Relapse tour was announced, and since this was the only
Jane's site that featured an updated "news" section at the time, we were quite
popular and got heavy traffic, with hundreds of people checking in daily looking
for info on upcoming shows and tickets, as well as reviews of recent shows and
other various info on the band and related bands. As the 90s came to a close,
with other fansites such as xiola.org and one-percent.com picking up the slack,
SDW got updated less and less. But I'm proud of all the info I've been able to
compile over my years working on the site, so I never considered taking it down.
Now (with the exception of the Polar Bear section, which still gets periodic
news updates) it's more of a museum than an active site. But still, there's some
good stuff here, so enjoy!
--Gavin