Fegmaniax Digest Volume 2 Number 14 [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Thu, 3 Mar 94 11:33:25 EST From: woj@remus.rutgers.edu (the king of spain) To: fegmaniax@gnu.ai.mit.edu Subject: new fegmaniax archive site with the increasing space problems on the music archive at cs.uwp.edu, i'd been thinking about looking for another place to store the archives from fegmaniax as well as other stuff related to robyn. through the graciousness of long-time listmember bryan o'conner, we now have a new site for the archive: fegmania.wustl.edu in the /fegmaniax directory. right now, it's a mirror of what is in the music archive. eventually, once i finish tidying up the new site and uploading the stuff that i have not been able to add to the music archive, the new site will become the prime archive for fegmaniax with the music archive serving as a backup/mirror. there's a limit of five users on at a time, but that should not pose a problem considering the relatively low number of people on the list (i think it's about 150 at last count...and we're a remarkable quiet bunch for that many people too, i might add). enjoy! +woj [][][][][][][][][][] Resent-Date: Thu, 03 Mar 94 11:40:11 EST Resent-From: "Richard E. Poole" Resent-To: fegmaniax@gnu.ai.mit.edu Date: Wed, 2 Mar 1994 13:39:50 -0600 To: "Richard E. Poole" From: gene@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu (Gene Hopstetter) Subject: Re: New live record? and other goodies Hi, this message went to me personally, but should have gone to the list. -ed. ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- >Hello there, quick question: I heard a while back that there was going to be >a live record from the semi-acoustic Egyptians tour of 1992-93. Is this true? Well, as for new albums, Robyn said that he and the Egyptians are planning to do an album called _Oscar_, which will consist only of covers. He said this at the end of a radio show he did at a college station in Washington, D.C., WHFS, shortly after the release of _Respect_. It's hard to tell if Robyn was being facetious or not, so don't take it as fact. Yep, I do have a very good quality tape of it, courtesy of Scott Carter, at A&M. The tape consists of Robyn playing his favorite songs and talking about them, as if he were a college radio DJ. It's a hoot, and you'd be surprised what Robyn likes. Don't fret, I'll soon post the songs he played on the radio show. I also have that tape of unreleased solo acoustic covers I mentioned months ago, and it's *unbelievable*, to say the least. I doubt there are more than, oh, 20 copies of it on the planet. I'll post those songs, too, and discuss what I'm gonna do to make them available to you Fegmaniax (I'll probably do a tape tree thing). I would like to trade these tapes for videotape of Robyn, though. Unauthorized solo stuff, the "Queen Elvis" or "Gotta Let This Hen Out" videos, American TV appearances, anything. Any takers? BTW, I'm a firm believer in trading and acquiring unauthorized tapes. I horde any and all Robyn-related paraphenalia. I'm a yodelling hoover -- I sing while I suck up Robynstuff. "They call me Dr. Sticky, 'cause I stick to things." =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Gene Hopstetter, Jr. + gene@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu Writer/Layout/WWW Guy + Tulane Computing Services =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ "Give me some more terminology!" -- Slovenly [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Thu, 3 Mar 94 10:03:46 PST From: ruppen@qal.berkeley.edu (Andy Ruppenstein) To: fegmaniax@gnu.ai.mit.edu Subject: vanished into the ether?... Not sure anyone would appreciate this tidbit or not, but since the local University of San Francisco station KUSF got on-line recently I decided I would inquire whether it would be possible to obtain a copy of the radio play Robyn and Linda Ryan did there at the station a few years ago. Just received the reply that such a request is impossible, because the tape of it doesn't exist, and that when Robyn was last in town and asked for a copy of it, they had to disappoint him, too. Oh well. Andy / ruppen@qal.berkeley.edu [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Thu, 3 Mar 1994 13:34:42 -0600 To: fegmaniax@gnu.ai.mit.edu From: gene@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu (Gene Hopstetter) Subject: Details on those amazing tapes! Here are the details on those two amazing tapes I recently acquired. The oh-so-rare solo acoustic tape. This is utterly amazing -- the most amazing unauthorized recording of Robyn I've ever heard. Well, it's sorta unauthorized -- Scott Carter, of A&M records (the guy responsible for producing the _Spectre_ CD), asked Robyn to lay down a few covers in case they needed b-sides or something. So Robyn sat down with someone (I don't know who or where) with what seems like a DAT recorder and played covers. I don't know if A&M intends to do anything with it, but I doubt they do. This is Robyn at his most raw, personal, uninhibited, and frank. Utterly beautiful. Just Robyn and a tape deck (and occasional banter with the engineer and sips of tea) -- made me feel the same way I did the first time I heard _I Often Dream of Trains_. I don't know the original performers of each song. Side A The Wind Cries Mary -- Hendrix Polly -- anybody know? Everyday is Like Sunday -- Morrissey Take a Chance with Me -- anybody know? (not the Abba song, too bad...) Senor, Senor -- Bob Dylan Yer Blues -- Lennon Side B You and I and Dominoes -- a certain Mr. Barrett Everything You Do -- anybody know? You and I and Dominoes -- a certain Mr. Barrett Arms Around the Rainbow -- anybody know? The Wind Cries Mary -- Hendrix brought to us by: Scott Carter, c/o A&M Records Post-Production Audio Department, (213) 469-2411 1416 N. LaBrea Avenue, Hollywood, CA 90028 ***************** The radio show: This is Robyn Hitchcock on WHFS, Washington, D.C., acting as announcer and playing his favorite songs. He does an air break every five or so songs. This occurred soon after the release of Respect. Robyn is in typical rare form, but his announcements offer a rare personal insight into his feeling about music and other things. Side A Clear Spot -- Capt. Beefheart and the Magic Band Lucifer Sam -- The Pink Floyd The Ghost in You -- Psychedelic Furs All Things are Quite Silent -- Steeleye Span Roam -- The B-52s More Than This -- Roxy Music Good Vibrations -- The Beach Boys Side B Charlotte Anne -- Julian Cope The Daily Planet -- Love Night Swimmng (I think) -- R.E.M. Everyday is Like Sunday -- Morrissey title unknown -- Bob Dylan Instrumental guitar music heard in the background is the cut "One Red Rose" from Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band's album _Lick My Decals Off, Baby_. I can't afford to send a copy of these tapes to everyone, so anyone wanna volunteer to be the first in a tape tree? And, of course, I welcome any other bootlegs, if you feel so inclined to send me one after you get the tapes. Glad I can share these tapes with others who'll appreciate them as much as I do. "Put your faith in death, because it's free. If you believe in nothing, honey, it believes in you..." =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Gene Hopstetter, Jr. + gene@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu Writer/Layout/WWW Guy + Tulane Computing Services =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ "Give me some more terminology!" -- Slovenly [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Thu, 3 Mar 1994 13:37:01 -0600 To: fegmaniax@gnu.ai.mit.edu From: gene@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu (Gene Hopstetter) Subject: My "Flavour of Night" essay I posted this awhile back, but I suspect it went to somebody, instead of Fegmaniax. If I may repost it, here goes. (Gawd, aren't I talkative lately?) I feel compelled to ramble on in a pseudo-literary fashion for a while. Please feel free to contribute to my dissertation on the song "Flavour of Night." > 5] WHAT IS MEANT BY ICE CREAM HANDS?!?!?! Think of ice cream: creamy, smooth, inviting, yet cold. Luxurious. Extravagant. Sweet and delicious. (I've always visualized it as white, vanilla ice cream for some reason.) Could give you a head freeze, but dandy on the tongue. Now think of creamy, smooth, inviting, yet cold, hands. Could give you a head (or a heart) freeze, but dandy on the tongue, or skin. Or the hands playing the piano in that lovely song. "A different disease, another translation -- but you don't understand the familiar sensation. but who needs to talk when you're caught in the flavour of night? And you, yeah you, with your ice cream hands. You, yeah you, are my friend." Robyn is portraying this love, or attraction, as a startlingly new and very stimulating thing. We all know Robyn would not hesitate to call love a disease, but the narrator is so in love he can't recognize it -- he calls it a *different* disease, and tries to explain, or rationalize it another way (another translation), but still, it's so unusual he doesn't recognize that it's love. So he turns to his sense of sight and touch, maybe the only senses he can trust -- "you, with your ice cream hands" -- he associates her hands with something pleasant -- ice cream. He regards the love, or person physically instead of emotionally. This is down-to-earth, more real, more corporal. Once he feels and recognizes the love through a sense he can trust, it becomes real, he believes and accepts it, and recognized that she is, in fact, his friend. Gives me shivers just humming it to myself. I've always visualized the song being played in a big, dark, empty, paneled room in a Victorian castle or such, with long thin windows. The windows are open, the moon is full, and the feathery curtains are flitting about in the moist, cool night breeze. And all that from the first two bars. A friend of mine and I argued for years whether that was a violin or saxophone which accompanies the piano (we had the album, which doesn't list the credits, and a rather poor stereo, so it was hard to hear the timbre of the instrument well. Not till I got the CD and played it on a superior stereo did I believe it to be a saxophone.) Such a sweet saxophone accompaniment, it seems to just hover above the piano, like a leaf drifting from its mother tree in the dead of winter. "The leaves have never looked so good, as now, they're going to die." -- Don't even get me started on *that* song. Oh the pathetic fallacy of it all. BTW, pardon the lyrics mistakes if I made any. Now back to our regularly scheduled programming. =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Gene Hopstetter, Jr. + gene@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu Writer/Layout/WWW Guy + Tulane Computing Services =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ "Give me some more terminology!" -- Slovenly [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Thu, 3 Mar 94 14:41 EDT From: EMIRMAN@hamp.hampshire.edu Subject: Lita Ford... To: fegmaniax@gnu.ai.mit.edu Hi there. Does anyone live in the Amherst/Northampton MA area and want to trade Robyn bootlegs or limbs? Does anyone have any idea what Robyn is saying in the GLTHO version of Brenda's Iron Sledge when he makes those odd sounds? -Eugene _______________________________________________________________ |"A pox upon the media and everything you read | | they tell you your oppinions and they're very good in deed."| | | |Your earth customs are out moded! Join us! - a neat thing to | |say to strangers. | --------------------------------------------------------------- [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Thu, 3 Mar 94 15:48:15 -0500 From: pearceja%pomis.dnet@wl.wpafb.af.mil To: "fegmaniax@gnu.ai.mit.edu"%wln15.dnet@wl.wpafb.af.mil Subject: Re: Those Amazing Tapes I N T E R O F F I C E M E M O R A N D U M Date: 03-Mar-1994 03:41pm EST From: Lt Jeffrey A. Pearce PEARCEJA Dept: POSF Tel No: 54171 TO: _MAILER! ( _DDN[FEGMANIAX@GNU.AI.MIT.EDU] ) Subject: Re: Those Amazing Tapes Wow, sounds like Gene has hit the jackpot. I don't know how you work this tape tree thing (is is like Amway?), but I'm interested for sure. Let me know what branch in the tree to play and I'll play it. By the way, the track "Take A Chance With Me" that you didn't have an artist for is more than likely a Roxy Music song. I've seen him perform this live before. Once again, let me know how I can go about getting a copy of this and helping others get copies. Jeff Pearce pearceja@wl.wpafb.af.mil [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Thu, 3 Mar 94 19:33:55 CST From: gokhman@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Dmitry Gokhman) To: fegmaniax@gnu.ai.mit.edu Subject: Polly (was Re: Details on those amazing tapes!) Could this be the Kinks? "Polly didn't listen to her mother etc." - D Dmitry Gokhman -> gokhman@ringer.cs.utsa.edu, gumbyltd@math.mit.edu Brahms Gang/Math/UT San Antonio - fiat bux - [][][][][][][][][][] Date: 3 Mar 1994 18:19:09 -0800 From: "Mark Gloster" Subject: Re: Lucifer in Frognal To: "fegmaniax" Reply to: RE>Lucifer in Frognal >Seven + a few others might like to know: I have now learned from >a reliable source (who was there at the time) that the line really *is* >Lucifer in Frognal. The Frognal referred to is the street - "A short cut >from the West End to Highgate". Sting used to live in Frognal, if it's at all >important... Pat Robertson once, in a foaming tirade, called Sting "Lucifer". That could well be the reference. I didn't get it before... Say, isn't it Robyn's birthday today? "I'm the Pablo Picasso of Printed Circuit Design I want to be the Salvador Dali of song." -Mark Gloster F. Zappa, R. Fripp, R. Hitchcock, D. Elfman, L. Anderson, S. Ridgeway- my deities, in no particular order, if I have such a thing. (first, but not last posting) [][][][][][][][] End of this Fegmaniax Digest. Archives can be found on fegmania.wustl.edu:/fegmaniax and ftp.uwp.edu:/pub/music/lists/fegmaniax. For administrative questions, subscription requests, and all that boring crud, send mail to fegmaniax-request@gnu.ai.mit.edu. Slipping you the midnight fish...