A repository of older Jazz Butcher website features

The Jazz Butcher website first appeared online in February, 1994 - making it among the first 1,000 websites in the world. Over the years, an enormous amount of information has accummulated here.

But some material - no matter how lovely - has a shelf-life. Links to this historical and ephemeral information will be preserved here.

The genesis of this Jazz Butcher website was the mailing list that David Whittemore maintained. During the 15 years it was active, several hundred technically-inclined JBC fans kept in touch and posted thousands of email messages.

Website Auction - 1997

The Butcher had some memorabilia sitting around his home which he was sick of tripping over. So, we decided to have an auction.

Eider's ABC's of Drugs - 1998

Max Eider, as a writer for Channel 4, produced a series on mind-altering drugs, which - due to its absolute brilliance - was mirrored here before it left the Channel 4 website.

How MAD Are You? - 1998

Pat was in posession of a ridiculous photo of a fan doing a ridiculous thing - while wearing a JBC t-shirt. He mused that others in compomising attair might compete to be top loon, if the call were put out on the JBC mailing list. So that's what happened.

Fan Tribute Project - 2000

Some brainiac on the old JBC mailing list decided that it would be fun to have the many JBC musician fans take a whack at doing a cover tune tribute album. The outcome is surprisingly not as cringe-worthy as it could have been.

Trivia - 2002

A multiple-choice JBC trivial test. Take the challenge: is Emil still pig?

Pat's Recommended Links - 2003

Net-side bands and whatnot that Pat wanted to highlight.

The Western Family DAT - 2005

Western Family , the 1992 live album released on Creation Records, is not the record it could have been..