From Benjamin.M.Brainard@Dartmouth.EDU Sun May 23 10:46:36 1993 Received: from dartvax.dartmouth.edu by wookumz.gnu.ai.mit.edu (5.65/4.0) with SMTP id ; Sun, 23 May 93 10:46:36 -0400 Received: from donner.dartmouth.edu by dartvax.dartmouth.edu (5.65+D5/4.5HUB) id AA00748; Sun, 23 May 93 10:46:35 -0400 Message-Id: <5435080@donner.Dartmouth.EDU> Date: 23 May 93 10:46:31 EDT From: Benjamin.M.Brainard@Dartmouth.EDU (Benjamin M. Brainard) Subject: The Man with the lightbulb head To: fegmaniax@gnu.ai.mit.edu On the inside of the fegmania album, it says something about the photo on the cover being from a film done by called _The Man With the Lightbulb Head_ Has anyone out there seen this film? It sounds like it would be immensly interesting to watch. I tried to find it and was relatively unsuccessful, although I did have a good time calling up some stores and asking if they had it.... .....b From @mitvma.mit.edu:REWOICC@ERENJ.BITNET Sun May 23 13:41:40 1993 Received: from MITVMA.MIT.EDU by wookumz.gnu.ai.mit.edu (5.65/4.0) with SMTP id ; Sun, 23 May 93 13:41:40 -0400 Message-Id: <9305231741.AA05662@wookumz.gnu.ai.mit.edu> Received: from MITVMA.MIT.EDU by mitvma.mit.edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 2085; Sun, 23 May 93 13:41:46 EDT Received: from ERENJ.BITNET by MITVMA.MIT.EDU (Mailer R2.10 ptf000) with BSMTP id 2930; Sun, 23 May 93 13:41:46 EDT Received: from ERENJ (REWOICC) by ERENJ.BITNET (Mailer R2.05) with BSMTP id 1088; Sun, 23 May 93 13:41:14 EDT Date: Sun, 23 May 93 13:02:28 EDT From: goya! Subject: various stuffs To: fegmaniax@gnu.ai.mit.edu hey all...finally, some free time. first some belated replies: - someone asked about red tour shirts: not anywheres i've seen, though i thought i saw someone wearing a red shirt with the respect cartoon on it in new york. i could be wrong. they were sold out of the purple one by the time they got out to here, so all that was for sale were the ash cartoon shirt and the album cover one with the (probably incorrect now) tour dates. - lena asked about _groovy decoy_ and its merits. well, honestly, i don't find myself going back to that one (or decay) all that often anymore, though i did a lot when i first found that album. it has a few real gems like "52 stations" and "the cars she used to drive" and "the rain," but i don't find t as engaging as other albums. still, i'd say it's worth putting time into. - the second song at new haven was, indeed, "railway shoes." and now the gig reviews: the new york show was fairly decent. as rich mentioned, the sound was incred- ible. however, the crowd miffed me off quite a bit (just as the set started, a couple barged in and proceeded to spend the majority of the show practically having sex right in front of me), but that was just my problem. the setlist was the same as most other nights, substituting "when i was dead" (i think) for the song right after "oceanside" (i think this is the only real difference between the setlists for the first set). robyn's two solos were "glass" on acoustic and "city of shame" on electric. the final four were as with other shows. the highlights for me were the full version of "queen elvis," an in- credibly haunting "airscape," "glass," and the jam on "egyptian cream." i also walked away with a new appreciation for the songs on _respect_ which, for the most part, never really hit me until i heard them rendered live. hmmm. i'll probably prefer them that way too. thursday night was new haven and, in a nutshell, this show was incredible. i wasn't taping this show, so i didn't have to worry about that, and toad's place is just a better venue for small-scale gigs: a lower stage, a more intimate atmosphere (the ritz in new york is a converted theatre, yes, but it's still an annoying dance club as well), no strobe lights. granted, the music the club played before the show was a little overbearing (classic rock and pop videos from the late 80s| bon jovi| ack|), but it is still a much nicer venue to see a show. i was in a particularly good mood as well. the band seemed to be in one too. whereas, in new york, robyn seemed kind of detached from the audience, he seemed to be having a rather good time (i'd like to attribute that to the difference in crowds: new york was a 16+ show and new haven was 21+, but that just may be my prejudice). the set list was already posted, so i'll just say that i was particularly surprised by "listening to the higsons" and that "vegetation and dimes" was probably the best i've ever heard them play it. high point of the show: when andy's roland refused to work at the beginning of "the wreck of the arthur lee." i grabbed one of the setlists on the way out. i didn't get a chance to talk to robyn at either show (new york, i was just pooped and i had to drive back from new haven to new jersey), but i did see carolyn and trudi in new york. i'm not at all surprised that they know about this list - i explained it all to carolyn once and i'm sure that she told robyn about it sometime. i guess a letter to le wafflehead is in order, hm? as for murray attaway.... well, i cut my teeth on that whole southeastern america jangle rock thang - let's active, the connells, guadacanal diary and so on. of course, as i was doing so, i was stranded in a small town in upstate new york (way way upstate) so i never got a chacne to see any of these guys when they were operative. guadacanal diary was one, in particular, that i missed so it was really nice to see murray perform even if only solo. they played two guad songs ("life goes on" and "watusi rodeo") in new york and only the later one in new haven, but i was also quite impressed with his new material as well. a few extraneous guitar solos here and there and a certain amount of polish that never surfaced with guadacanal diary, but i think i'll be buying _in thrall_ (or is it _enthrall_?) sometime soon. whee| +woj