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0 #64 2011-01-04 21:20
Happy 2011 to you and your family, my friend Sarah and I loved going to the Last Resort in Wellington in the late 70's to see Toy Love (our favorite NZ band ever).
Wishing you good health and many blessings.

Cheers, Steph
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0 #63 2011-01-04 00:26
I meet Chris in 2009 when he came to Freyberg High School in Palmy Nrth to do the show on Karl Maughan as he painted our art block. Being the daughter of one of karl's best friends i managed to get myself in the middle of it all. B4 i cud meet Chris, my mum (being a huge fan) educated me on Chris so i didnt look like a dick :)
i spent three days with Chris and fwnd him to be sch a g8 guy. We shared stories of our familys, pcked on students 2getha haha and of course did a bit of work in between all the fun. i had such a great time with Chris and was so worried when i heard of his stroke.
The album was a great idea and we got a copy as soon as it was released.
thanks for keepin us up to date with his wellbeing :) and love to you all

Ailis Behrens Burleigh =)
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0 #62 2010-11-25 22:12
Howdy, good to hear you haven't lost your sense of humour. I too went to a show of yours, at the Dux De Lux in 1999, I'd never seen a performer outside Scared Scriptless goad the audience before, I was a little shocked at first, but found the banter quite amusing, it added a real edge to a great, raw, rock n'roll show, I'll never forget it until I'm senile. Hugely entertaining, and I love garagey guitar feedback. I've just bought "A Warm Gun" from a sale, my favourite of yours-well, that I've heard, is the Tall Dwarfs album Fifty Flavours of Glue, I am also a fan of the Beatles and surf music/Brian Wilson, and am an amateur poet. Keep on surviving.
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0 #61 Fergus Aitken 2010-09-20 17:18
Hey Chris... Sorry to hear you're still suffering dude. Wishing you better health, joy and peace. Just want you to know that there is much aroha spreading your direction, from so many adoring friends, acquaintances and fans. xx
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0 #60 Fergus Aitken 2010-09-20 17:16
Hey Chris... Sorry to hear you're still suffering dude. Wishing you better health, joy and peace. Just want you to know that there is much aroha spreading your direction, from so many adoring friends, acquaintances and fans. xx
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+3 #59 2010-08-25 10:13
Chris: I saw you play a show in Houston, Texas almost exactly ten years ago. I was sixteen years old and I didn't know what I was or what I wanted to be. Your and your show and your art and your life changed my life, and I want to say thank you.
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+1 #58 2010-08-20 13:40
Hi Roy
Look, I’d imagine Chris may well be aware of this site anyway, but if not, it’s pretty interesting. I can well remember seeing Toy Love doing they’re wonderful medley of ‘Yummy, Yummy, Yummy’ & ‘ Positively 4th Street’, several times. National Radio had the temerity of doing an ad implying ‘Yummy,etc’ as being perhaps the worst song ever written. Far from it, I believe, & then they rather blew their credibility, anyway, by saying it was by The 1910 Fruitgum Company, when we all (well, I bet Chris does) know it was by The Ohio Express. I hope Chris is as well as possible.
Cheers
Paddy Neville
http://www.buulegum-music.com/kasenetzkatz
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+1 #57 2010-08-19 06:50
@Aaron From the top of my head, but I think that version is on TD's "That's The Short & Long Of It".
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0 #56 2010-08-09 23:28
"In 1984, Knox suspended his solitary basement tinkering and re-recorded his classic song “Nothing’s Going to Happen” with a seventeen-piece ensemble of guitars, strings, and winds, paying homage to grandiose Motown and Phil Spector orchestrations"

http://www.therestisnoise.com/2008/04/nothings-going-to-happen-the-story-of-new-zealand-rock.html

Is this around anywhere? The 30 second bit on the page sounds FUCKING AMAZING.



Hope Chris contiunes to recover well
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+1 #55 2010-08-05 22:12
he he, my name is too long for the name field. I'm missing an 'or'

Hello Chris, Barbara, Leisha and John. It's Rachael here, I went to 'springs with Leisha, don't know if you remember me, but I'm in Melbourne now, and have just read a really lovely article about you Chris in the 3RRR magazine, The Trip. The title is 'Why Chris Knox Is Important: or, a very public recovery', written by Jonathan Alley. Its a great read and even greater that Melbourne is keeping abreast of your new album and influential career to date.

Much love to you and your family.

Rachael x
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0 #54 2010-07-27 16:10
Chris Knox is a bloody legand. Tall Dwarfs were the fist band i heard that really made me think of music as something deeper than gutiar solos and big hair, without Chris Knox i would never have gotten into the music i love today. Last week i got a copy of "cut" the dble Cd By Toy Love sounds as good today as when i first hrd it. My Father Also suffered a stroke so i know the ride Chris is on, all my best wishes long time fan Rob.
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+1 #53 2010-07-15 15:29
Hi Chris and family

Thinking of you and sending you get well vibes.

xxx
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+1 #52 2010-07-14 22:54
Hi Chris,
Just wanted to let you know that I am getting married in Aus in a couple of weeks. We chose your song 'not given lightly' to dance our first dance to. It's a Rumba! Will try and find a way to send you the footage.
all the best, Katherine and Brad.
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+2 #51 2010-04-17 08:44
Dear Chris, I was deeply moved to hear from your stroke only some weeks ago-much too late. But News don`t spread fast to Germany.Today I could listen for the first time to "A Warm Gun"(through the links of this Website)- this record just isn`t available in Germany. And again it`s a genious record and a collectors must have. Being a huge fan for more than 25 years I`m glad to see that you`re not beaten by this stroke, that you`re producing new pieces of Music and working on a new Tall Dwarfs Album. I`m wishing you all the best for your future and a lot of strength. Because your music and your comic arts gave strength to me. And I guess to thousands of other people. We believe in you.
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0 #50 2010-04-14 16:53
My Dad suffered a stroke 15 June 2008............this CD is a source of strength for me as I support and love Dad. It's a long journey for all after a stroke and I send all my love to Chris and his family, carers and friends. One day at a time.......
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+1 #49 2010-03-23 04:29
Sitting in a cold flat in Streatham, London listening to the Stroke album and remembering that amazing benefit gig in Auckland a few months ago when Chris took to the stage, grinning from ear to ear, and blew the roof off off the Kings Arms. Hope your strength is returning in full Chris. Your song Driftwood by The Verlaines summing up my mood exactly this arvo, as I wonder why I left the best summer for years in Matakana and came here to join the 2.5 million unemployed. "Scarred with indecision and regret about things that haven't even happened yet." Beautiful. Here's to staying suspended till we beach on some strange shore...
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0 #48 jonathan alley 2010-03-18 23:21
Roy
maybe have a watch of this and if think Chris would be into it show him too. Incredible story of a brain scientist who herself suffers a stroke and observed her own condition during her illness and recovery.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyyjU8fzEYU
cheers, Jonathan Alley, Melboune
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0 #47 2010-03-16 12:55
Hello Ward/Knox's's's'
Well ýou all seem to be travelling the Straight Old Line. Aus release of Stroke seems to be going well and a fair bit of exposure here in Brisvegas. Written up in Time Off and others and many stars all round. I have started to make up stories to people so I don't get too bored. At the moment Chris is a 7ft tall native of the Appalachians with the dubious ability of seeing into the present to work out what is going to happen in the past. There, he knew you had already said that. That's proof enough for me. I like the idea of Vinyl, but a DVD release with interviews, commentary and perhaps a few easter eggs would stimulate my Knox nerve more. Think of all the poor children who may never see "Nothings going to happen" in all its twisted glory.
Marks birthday today. The carbon dating came back and according to his growth rings he is 140 degrees old.
Well done all, keep up the good work; Chris, go paint something.
Trumpets
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0 #46 2010-03-15 20:16
Was just somehow watching Eddie Vettor and the Finns playing Not given lightly at the end of their Auckland concert on Youtube and thought how ironic seeing you slagged them both in your Listner column. Pearl Jam were "the most soul|||||-||l||e||s||s||| |"|| and Neil moved to Sydney and learned to swear - something like that anyway. Here here! I loved those columns and it was a real eye-opener to be turned onto such fantastic music as reviewed by yourself. Sounds cheesy to say life-changing, but there you go! Ever thought of publishing them? Or better still doing a new column?
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0 #45 2010-02-24 16:48
Good wishes and good health to you, Mr. Knox. Your music and art and unstoppable creative drive have meant a lot to me for a long time now. Getting to see you perform and having a beer with you, over a decade ago, well I still count it as one of the best moments of my life. Cheers.
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