Music from 2007 will steal most of its ideas from 1910

When was the last time I actually read an email from a PR company? (I mean no great disrespect to PR writers, but I do get about ten of these damn things a day.)

Bubblegum Legends 1910 Fruitgum Co. dispel myths in blog

For immediate release
December 20, 2006

LOS ANGELES- For nearly forty years, the soul of bubblegum music has been schizophrenically split. On one side, the producers, songwriters and studio cats who pulled the strings and made most of the money. On the other, the teenage garage rock players who went out on the road bearing the name of a hit band, even if they didn't always know "their" latest tune. They got the glory, but didn't get to write the history.

Now one of those garage-turned-bubblegum bands has crawled out of the pink mists of time to tell their own story. Floyd Marcus, original drummer of the 1910 Fruitgum Company ("Simon Says," "1-2-3 Red Light") is now blogging at the Bubblegum University website in hopes of setting the record straight. In his first post, Floyd describes a triumphant fill-in gig for the Vanilla Fudge, when the initially angry crowd was won over by the raw rock power of the "bubblegum" combo. Future entries will explore the band's formation, studio and road tales and answers to fans' questions.

Floyd Marcus says, "I didn't realize how much wrong information was out there about the band. I'm back, involved again and I can't wait to finally tell the real story. We were a real band, played great, and had crazy experiences on and off the road. We're grateful to Bubblegum University for the soapbox and want our fans to know if they ask the questions, we will answer them!"

The 1910 Fruitgum Company has reformed with original members, and performs frequently in the Eastern U.S. For more about the 1910 Fruitgum Company, visit their website

http://www.1910fruitgumcompany.com/

Bubblegum University (your sticky pink think tank) is a website run by Kim Cooper, co-editor of the bubblegum bible "Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth" and writer of liner notes for "The Best of the 1910 Fruitgum Co."

http://www.bubblegum-music.com

Haven't checked this out yet (just got home and opened my email) but sounds interesting. There's at least one Kim Cooper link on the sidebar already.

EDIT: The 1910 blog post is here. Not as exciting as I'd hoped, but a good excuse to plug the site again.