From mrosen@nyx.cs.du.edu Sat Nov 13 03:09:38 1993 Received: from mordor.cs.du.edu by geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (5.65/4.0) with SMTP id ; Sat, 13 Nov 93 03:09:38 -0500 Received: from nyx.cs.du.edu by mordor.cs.du.edu with SMTP id AA16251 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for ); Sat, 13 Nov 1993 01:09:02 -0700 Received: by nyx.cs.du.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA02065; Sat, 13 Nov 93 01:10:39 MST From: mrosen@nyx.cs.du.edu (Michael Rosen) Message-Id: <9311130810.AA02065@nyx.cs.du.edu> X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University of Denver. The University has neither control over nor responsibility for the opinions or correct identity of users. Subject: Soft Boys box set? To: Fegmaniax@gnu.ai.mit.edu (fegmaniax) Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1993 01:10:38 -0700 (MST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 421 I went into the store today and asked for the Soft Boys box set. Am I mistaken, or is it not really a box set and merely a double CD? That's all they had, a double CD covering (I think) 1976-1981. Mike -- Michael Rosen "If there's two things worse mrosen@nyx.cs.du.edu than country music, one of George Washington University Alumni (Fall '92) them's punk." Tau Epsilon Phi, Tau Theta 381 -Robyn Hitchcock From seven@dbis.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de Sat Nov 13 07:13:15 1993 Received: from milano.dbis.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de by geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (5.65/4.0) with SMTP id ; Sat, 13 Nov 93 07:13:15 -0500 Received: by dbis.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de (Smail3.1.28.1 #9) id m0oyJqh-000CKVC; Sat, 13 Nov 93 13:13 MET Message-Id: From: seven@dbis.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de (Susan Johanna Even) Subject: Re: Soft Boys box set? To: mrosen@nyx.cs.du.edu Date: Sat, 13 Nov 93 13:13:02 MET Cc: Fegmaniax@gnu.ai.mit.edu In-Reply-To: <9311130810.AA02065@nyx.cs.du.edu>; from "Michael Rosen" at Nov 13, 93 1:10 am Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85] >From: mrosen@nyx.cs.du.edu (Michael Rosen) >X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University > of Denver. The University has neither control over nor > responsibility for the opinions or correct identity of users. >Subject: Soft Boys box set? >To: Fegmaniax@gnu.ai.mit.edu (fegmaniax) >Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1993 01:10:38 -0700 (MST) >X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Content-Length: 421 > >I went into the store today and asked for the Soft Boys box set. Am I >mistaken, or is it not really a box set and merely a double CD? That's all >they had, a double CD covering (I think) 1976-1981. > >Mike > Hi, Gerald. It's only the double CD; but we can all keep hoping... Cheers, Eric From DARAMSEY@vaxsar.vassar.edu Sat Nov 13 12:34:25 1993 Received: from vaxsar.vassar.edu by geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (5.65/4.0) with SMTP id ; Sat, 13 Nov 93 12:34:25 -0500 Received: from vassar.edu by vassar.edu (PMDF #2752 ) id <01H59MDQ30MO005PCD@vassar.edu>; Sat, 13 Nov 1993 12:33:58 EDT Date: 13 Nov 1993 12:33:58 -0400 (EDT) From: DARAMSEY@vaxsar.vassar.edu Subject: Soft Boys concert reviews... To: fegmaniax@gnu.ai.mit.edu Message-Id: <01H59MDQ30MQ005PCD@vassar.edu> X-Envelope-To: fegmaniax@gnu.ai.mit.edu X-Vms-To: IN%"fegmaniax@gnu.ai.mit.edu" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Hi. I was wondering if anyone out there has either any personal experiences of seeing the Soft Boys in concert, or any press clippings or reviews of the band live. I'd love to know what they were like in concert. daveR. From librik@cory.EECS.Berkeley.EDU Sat Nov 13 15:57:51 1993 Received: from cory-138.EECS.Berkeley.EDU by geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (5.65/4.0) with SMTP id ; Sat, 13 Nov 93 15:57:51 -0500 Received: from localhost (librik@localhost) by cory.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.5/8.5) id MAA09176; Sat, 13 Nov 1993 12:57:50 -0800 Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1993 12:57:50 -0800 From: David Librik Message-Id: <199311132057.MAA09176@cory.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> To: fegmaniax@gnu.ai.mit.edu Subject: Re: Soft Boys concert reviews... Here's an early Soft Boys review, from "Sounds" (Jan. 21, 1978) THE SOFT BOYS Red Cow AAAH, SOFT Boys. `Soft Machine' and `Wild Boys'? Maybe. Specialize in surreal shaggy dog stories/parodies laid over a solid rock base. Recently out from Cambridge, new group in a position to profit from context of change offered by punk... Are at the same time very funny and very danceable. Lead singer, rangey, talks to/works at winning an audience -- spontaneity incorporated to reflect the reaction. Tonight people willing to listen, appreciative -- group unfazed by occasional shouts of `psychedelic'... Often, they are. Rhythm base is usually R&B, punk (often with tricky time signatures -- remember them?) with frequent Haight St. flashes, and stoned lateral-think humour. Short and sharp. Song titles: `I Wanna Be Your Anglepoise' (dedicated to Joey Ramone?) `Trying To Talk To You Is Like Trying To Talk To A Gramophone', `Severed Sally', `Wading Through A Ventilator' (the 45), `The Face Of Death' ... another (title lost) is `a protest song about people who are always right'. Each song discreet, a world of its own, intense. Still at the small club stage. An agreeable informality. Occasional harpist joins. Fine versions of `Cold Turkey', `Heartbreak Hotel', `Clear Spot' ... the last hints at more serious undertones often obscured by looning (as in `Idiosyncratic World View'): for sure, as Iggy an all- pervasive influence in 1977, so Beefheart to be (one) in 1978 (Devo, Pere Ubu for two. Illustrate...) Give it to the Soft Boys, then: it being time, tolerance, open ears ... JON SAVAGE - David Librik librik@cs.Berkeley.edu p.s. I should probably add that `Talking To You...' is really `Look Into Your Mirror', and the harmonica (mouth harp) is being referred to in that last paragraph.