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Hey all new to the forums here but I am a real Donnie Iris fan!
hehe King Kool lives!

If anyone is interested you can find his "un official" website here (tried to find the official one but I have not found it yet)
http://www.parallel-time.com/

Some of his air time songs were:
Ah Leah
Agnes
Love is like a rock
Do you compute?
 and my favorite:
I've been injured in the name of love..

Can anyone think of any others that got some air time?
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Big DI fan here, too, Arcfire. In fact, I've been a regular at Glenn's unofficial DI site (which you gave the link to) since he launched it in December of '97. I think it's one the best "unofficial" music sites out there. I've contributed lots of info to his site, and even swapped some DI items w/ him in the past. He's a cool guy, and updates his site fairly regularly. :) BTW, do you go by another name on his message board?

DI does have an official site as well, but unfortunately, it's been down a few times lately. They keep saying it'll be back, but no one is really sure what the problem has been. However, I can tell you this: There's no comparison between it and Glenn's site, so you're not missing much... :)

I was very pleased when Universal finally put out that Millennium Collection on him late last Summer - I bought it the day it came out! My personal faves include "Do You Compute?", "Ah! Leah!", and "She's So European" - and also "Samantha (What You Gonna Do?)" by Cellarful of Noise (which he sang lead vocals on). :) Never seen him live, though, but would very much like to - unfortunately, I don't live near Pittsburgh... :(

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If you still have said 8-track of King Cool, I'd be very interested. Please let me know if you're willing to part w/ it... :-)

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80smusicfreak:
Hey there fellow DI fan! Actually Parrallel I just discovered, so I am not yet a member of the forums there yet but I will be soon (I also have to sign up here too). Glenn's site is really packed with DI songs, and the vids totally suprised me! Some of those I have not seen since MTV was well...MTV! I stopped watching it during the late 80s when everyone had attitudes and then the gameshows took over. I used to like the old closet vid and underground series that they had. On closet video is where I first saw Ah! Leah! End Quote

That was pretty much the same time I started to lose interest in MTV, too. They began to lose their way, and at the same time (late '80s), the music itself was starting to go downhill, IMO... :-(

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Glenn is pretty good w/ details, and is always looking to put anything & everything he finds on DI on his site somewhere. Rather than simply filling his site w/ concert pictures, etc., he keeps the collector in mind, too. His "discography" section is excellent, IMO, and he's always trying to track down newspaper/magazine articles (both past and present), and put them up on his site, too. And he's in touch w/ the actual band members, so every now and then, he gets the inside scoop... :-)

Quoting:I did pick up the Millennium Collection but was a bit dissapointed that they did not have "I've been injured in the name of love" on it. Samantha is a good song also which did not get much airplay-except for the AOR stations which would play the whole album. As do I, not live anywhere near Pittsburg  :-Millennium Collection because DI's 1985 No Muss...No Fuss album was on the HME label, through CBS (now Sony). His four previous albums were all on MCA (currently owned by Universal), and Universal is the distributor of the Millennium Collection series. In other words, MCA/Universal would've had to license that track for the compilation, and because it's a midline series, that wouldn't have been cost-effective, so it includes MCA cuts only. For that reason, I wasn't expecting it to be on there anyway. Pretty cool that they included the live version of "The Rapper", though, which had only previously been available commercially on a vinyl 45... :-)

Quoting:Dang I wish another music channel would start up and play older videos (VH-1 is too little and far between for my tastes)
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Check out "VH-1 Classic"... ;-)