Fegmaniax Digest Volume 2 Number 42 Today's Topics: ------- ------ -----> Closed mouths gather no feet... FEGMANIA liner notes Fegmania Found!!!! Fegmania mystery snippet Fegmania revisited Fegmania!!! Hen Maybe I'm Fegnorant, but ... Maybe I'm ignorant, but ... Yet even more Fegmania!!! Yet more Fegmania!!! feckless feg-art groovy yes, feg-art!!! [][][][][][][][][][] From: seven@cs.utwente.nl (Susan Even) Subject: Re: Hen To: HIST1A@jetson.uh.edu Date: Fri, 8 Jul 94 13:00:10 BST Cc: fegmaniax@gnu.ai.mit.edu (pleasure of the aching void) > Ok, so, I got it and it is a damn good cd, but it just doensn't fill > that aching void like a tr really live preformance. > > Anychance if we wihined to Mrs Wafflehead that she'd off "Live Death" or > whatever its called? > > Jay Hi, Jay. I doubt Mrs. Wafflehead keeps copies of it. (Unless it was a personal copy.) Personally, I somehow suspect A&M actually might manage to sell these things under the table and illegally to some suspicious record shops. (There is one in SF that (as reported by Andy R some years ago) somehow managed to obtain a load of new/sealed copies of the Live Death disc several months after it had really been released.) (It came out right before their summer '92 acoustic tour.) Parentheses aside... But it's very surprising indeed that APR radio chooses to play _A Day In The Life_ from it now (meaning at this time)... (or was the imagination of the person who reported this just last week lagging behind by a few years?) Susan p.s. everybody: go out and get yourselves a copy of the kershaw sessions immediately! the listner's ear is exactly where it wants: live music, no production. and Robyn's voice is way up in the recording so you can make out many lyrics you couldn't catch on the albums. p.p.s. now, the obvious first choice as an introductory album... p.p.p.s. perhaps other unreleased stuff with turn up on the new Strange Roots label...? such as Live Death. (suggest this to Mrs. Wafflehead, Jay...) p.p.s.s. so the penguins have returned from montana, eh? (any snow?) [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Fri, 08 Jul 1994 07:47:08 -0400 (EDT) From: mikester@bix.com Subject: Re: groovy To: fegmaniax@gnu.ai.mit.edu Actually, there's no Hitchcock album I actively dislike. The ones I like the least (that I have) are "Can Of Bees" and "Groovy Decoy." I taped an edited version of "Eye" 'cause of the four or five songs I didn't like. I love "Queen Elvis" "Perspex" and "Respect." "Globe of Frogs" has some good songs, but dosen't strike me as a complete album. "Element of Light" is another one I love. Did I miss anything? Besides "Fegmania?" 8) ---Mike [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Fri, 08 Jul 1994 07:47:00 -0400 (EDT) From: mikester@bix.com Subject: Re: Fegmania!!! To: fegmaniax@gnu.ai.mit.edu >And where'd you think this list got its name from? >From the fan club info in the liner notes of "Element of Light." 8) ---Mike [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Fri, 08 Jul 1994 07:47:04 -0400 (EDT) From: mikester@bix.com Subject: Re: Fegmania!!! To: fegmaniax@gnu.ai.mit.edu Thanks, everyone for the info regarding Fegmania! Does anyone know just when the Robyn CD's will be out? So far there's only "Groovy Decoy" and "Hen," but these could be ultra-cheep imports. 'Sides, my turntable's broke, and I can't listen to "Black Snake Diamond Role." 8( ---Mike [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Fri, 08 Jul 1994 07:58:38 -0500 (CDT) From: GOOSENMK@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu Subject: Fegmania revisited To: fegmaniax@gnu.ai.mit.edu And CARLOS spoke thusly: MG> And where'd you think this list got its name from? > C> The discography I saw had _Element of Light_ released C> before _Fegmania_. I looked at my vinyl copy of EoL, C> and there's no date anywhere on the liner or cover. C> (Darn! Should have checked the vinyl!). I can assure you, having lived through these times and bought each album as it came out, that _Fegmania!!!_ hit the shelves in 1985, while _Element of Light_ came out in the fall of 1986, with _Gotta Let This Hen Out!!!!_ in between somewhere... if the discog says otherwise, it's wrong. c> Anyway, the liner notes has the fan club as "Fegmaniax!" But of course--a fegmaniac, I assume, would be a lover of fegs, and more than one fegmainiac would be "fegmaniaX." And how many of us would even know what a feg was if it wasn't for Mr. Hitchcock? Later, Miles ...and the luminous rose glows [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Fri, 8 Jul 1994 10:12:07 -0400 From: oshaug@saturn3.cns.ohiou.edu (Robert F O'Shaughnessy) To: owner-fegmaniax@gnu.ai.mit.edu Subject: Re: Hen >But it's very surprising indeed that APR radio chooses to play _A Day In >The Life_ from it now (meaning at this time)... (or was the imagination of >the person who reported this just last week lagging behind by a few years?) > >Susan I did hear it a few years ago. I was reminded of it by pulling out the tape I had made of the broadcast. Elvis loves ya' Bob -- <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<"Bite me! It's Fun!>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Bob O'Shaughnessy, ( ) | "The one thing that the oshaug@saturn3.cns.ohiou.edu (mail) From: seven@cs.utwente.nl (Susan Even) >Personally, I somehow suspect A&M actually might >manage to sell these things under the table and illegally to some suspicious >record shops. (There is one in SF that (as reported by Andy R some years ago) >somehow managed to obtain a load of new/sealed copies of the Live Death disc >several months after it had really been released.) Well, I know this much: the A&M guys I know, Scott Carter and Jeff Suhy, are both friends of Robyn. Knowing Jeff, he knows everybody who has anything to do with records in San Francisco (let alone the world), and Scott has been more than willing to dole out promos when I've talked to him (in the capacity of College Radio Guy). I really wouldn't be surprised if there are boxes of promos sitting in Scott's office. With that many left over (after servicing the radio stations) I wouldn't be surprised if he just gave some away to record stores to get them in circulation, and to satisfy us drooling Fegmaniax... So I'm sure San Fran is a dandy place to buy Robyn records. This is all speculation of course -- don't go running to anyone at A&M for promos. They probably wouldn't give them away, and they probably wouldn't be amused. After five odd years in college radio, I can safely say that radio promotion is a weird game, lemme tell you. "Got a penthouse full of dwarfs..." =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Gene Hopstetter, Jr. + gene@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu Writer/Layout/WWW Guy + Tulane Computing Services =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ "Give me some more terminology!" -- Slovenly [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Fri, 08 Jul 1994 09:51:13 -0500 (CDT) From: GOOSENMK@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu Subject: Yet more Fegmania!!! To: fegmaniax@gnu.ai.mit.edu and Mike spoke thusly to me... MG>And where'd you think this list got its name from? M>From the fan club info in the liner notes of "Element of Light." 8) Come now, you don't think Robyn or his fans would have spontaneously lit upon "FEGmaniax" if there wasn't an album titled _Fegmania!!!_ or if Robyn didn't have feg-on-the-brain circa 1985-6? ;-> Later, Miles ...gotta let this hen out!!! [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Fri, 8 Jul 1994 12:11:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas Conway Madigan Subject: Maybe I'm ignorant, but ... To: fegmaniax@gnu.ai.mit.edu Cc: Thomas Conway Madigan Hey all, I'm very new to Robyn (the only record I have is Perspex Island, but I've heard some of his other stuff and I'm hooked), so I have a question: What exactly is a feg? Or what is Feg? (NEWBIE ALERT :-) Thanx, Tom Madigan tmadigan@wam.umd.edu [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Fri, 08 Jul 94 13:33:39 EDT From: ST1D000 To: Subject: -----> YOU are a feg, so get used to it. [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Fri, 8 Jul 1994 12:56:47 -0500 To: fegmaniax@gnu.ai.mit.edu From: gene@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu (Gene Hopstetter) Subject: Maybe I'm Fegnorant, but ... >What exactly is a feg? Or what is Feg? (NEWBIE ALERT :-) What is fegness, or fegnosity, or fegnitude? Fegnism? I think it's one of Robyn's clever neologisms (like the adjective "feckless" he uses in the "12" Comix" poem on the _IODOT_ liner notes, I've yet to figure that one out). Anyway, the following is from the liner notes from the _Fegmania!_ album, I think (I just have a tape of it). It was posted here a while ago, and I just saved it. What is Fegmania? It has come for your sister. Also for your husband, that kindly man with something poking out of his head. It has come for your arms, and it will change your concept of hygiene. It may be the sound of a plane crash-landing in a ploughed field, or salad cream being tipped out of an attic window. There are stars, minds and judges - people in scarlet rags that pull frogs out of each others' mouths. FEGMANIA RISES! Light pulsing from a bruised sun that eats into tired rugs. Light coursing from a swarming moon that careens in frozen ectasy across the sky - naked people oozing on warm mud with the radio tuned to Venus. Here is music to implode by. Here is FEGMANIA! A turnip in a silver box. A dromedary lurching through the House of Commons. A bank manager shooting himself in the navel with a water-pistol. A Royal baby with permanent amnesia. A vampire at the Cenotaph. Respectable people with uncontrollable urges, freed only by the disconnection of their hands. A nun writing her name in marmalade on a soldier's leg. One word. =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Gene Hopstetter, Jr. + gene@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu Writer/Layout/WWW Guy + Tulane Computing Services =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ "Give me some more terminology!" -- Slovenly [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Fri, 8 Jul 1994 14:03:11 -0300 (EDT) From: Bayard Catron Subject: Re: Maybe I'm ignorant, but ... To: Thomas Conway Madigan Cc: fegmaniax@gnu.ai.mit.edu, Thomas Conway Madigan On Fri, 8 Jul 1994, Thomas Conway Madigan wrote: > What exactly is a feg? Or what is Feg? What is Fegmania? It has come for your sister. Also for your husband, that kindly man with something poking out of his head. It has come for your arms, and it will change your concept of hygiene. It may be the sound of a plane crash-landing in a ploughed field, or salad cream being tipped out of an attic window. There are stars, minds and judges - people in scarlet rags that pull frogs out of each others' mouths. FEGMANIA RISES! Light pulsing from a bruised sun that eats into tired rugs. Light coursing from a swarming moon that careens in frozen ecstasy accross the sky - naked people oozing on warm mud with the radio turned to Venus. Here is music to implode by. Here is FEGMANIA! A turnip in a silver box. A dromedary lurching through the House of Commons. A bank manager shooting himself in the navel with a water pistol. A Royal baby with permanent amnesia. A vampire at the Cenotaph. Respectable people with uncontrollable urges, freed only be the disconnection of their hands. A nun writing her name in marmalade on a soldier's leg. One word. (liner from 'FEGMANIA!') [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Fri, 8 Jul 1994 14:40:52 -0400 From: Hilda Marshall To: fegmaniax@gnu.ai.mit.edu Subject: feckless 1: Weak, ineffective. 2: Worthless, irresponsible. (Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary) [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Fri, 08 Jul 1994 15:28:01 -0500 (EST) From: VHAWKINS@oise.on.ca Subject: FEGMANIA liner notes To: fegmaniax@gnu.ai.mit.edu I love it! It sounds like the plot for a surrealist movie. Robyn has a powerful visual quality in his lyrics/essays/poems that are amazing. --VAH. [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Fri, 8 Jul 1994 14:40:38 -0500 To: fegmaniax@gnu.ai.mit.edu From: gene@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu (Gene Hopstetter) Subject: Closed mouths gather no feet... Okay, feckless *is* a word, and I didn't check my dictionary. So far, Hilda and Thomas have been kind enough to point that out to me. Sorry. As Hilda told me, it means: 1: Weak, ineffective. 2: Worthless, irresponsible. (Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary) 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: Fri, 08 Jul 1994 15:59:03 -0500 (CDT) From: HIST1A@jetson.uh.edu Subject: feg-art To: fegmaniax@gnu.ai.mit.edu Does Robyn sell his paintings. I'd never be able to afford anything but a cheap ripoff poster of one, but I was wonderin'. I know when he played in Houston last he pointed out that some guy up front had a counterfiteit T-shirt 'cause he didn't like the artsloppy art work on it. Of course that treally has nothing to do with my question, but neither do eggbeaters. Jay [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Fri, 8 Jul 94 16:47:51 CDT From: cheri@geoserv.isgs.uiuc.edu (Cat in Chains) To: fegmaniax@gnu.ai.mit.edu Subject: yes, feg-art!!! I've been wondering about that, too!! Did the plans for the traveling art exhibit fall through?? Does RH plan to print a book of his paintings, would he if we begged?? Are there posters of his paintings, especially the ones used for the covers of GLTHO and the alternate cover of Underwater Moonlight? Any news of the availability of any RH art would be wondrous!!! Does anyone have an album for sale w/ that alternate cover? (just want the cover, not the album) [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Fri, 8 Jul 1994 20:31:51 -0400 From: Hilda Marshall To: fegmaniax@gnu.ai.mit.edu Subject: feg-art I'd like a book, prints, T-shirts, whatever. Robyn's vision is really intriguing and simultaneously home-to-heart. Aww, hell the guy is good. [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Fri, 08 Jul 1994 23:16:24 -0400 (EDT) From: mikester@bix.com Subject: Fegmania Found!!!! To: fegmaniax@gnu.ai.mit.edu This must be some kind of record for finding rare albums. I officially started looking for Fegmania! at 1:05 this afternoon. I had it in my hand and all paid for at 1:08!! Usually it takes at _least_ a couple of token weeks to track something down! It was casette, used, $2.99, awesome, and will last me 'till it's re-issued on CD. Which leaves me with another question. . . What about "Listening To the Higsons?"[sic] Where can a studio version of _that_ beast be obtained? ---Mike [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Fri, 08 Jul 1994 23:16:29 -0400 (EDT) From: mikester@bix.com Subject: Re: Yet more Fegmania!!! To: fegmaniax@gnu.ai.mit.edu >Come now, you don't think Robyn or his fans would have spontaneously >lit upon "FEGmaniax" if there wasn't an album titled _Fegmania!!!_ or if >Robyn didn't have feg-on-the-brain circa 1985-6? ;-> Well. . . he _is_ known for stuff like that. 8) Actually, I _knew_ there was an album I was missing, as per the question that started this whole "I don't have Fegmania" thread. My only unknown was wheather or not it was a Hitchcock solo album released after "Groovy Decay/Decoy" or an Egyptians album released before "Element Of Light." BTW, I've been listening to "Fegmania!" non-stop since I got it at 1:08 today. 8) ---Mike The damage that they do is just so powerfuly strong they call it love [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Fri, 08 Jul 1994 23:16:33 -0400 (EDT) From: mikester@bix.com Subject: Re: Maybe I'm ignorant, but ... To: fegmaniax@gnu.ai.mit.edu Well, since others have so elequently answered that one, I'll keep me mouth shut about that. BUT, you _do_ need to check out the Soft Boys, Robyn's pre-Egyptians ultra influential band. Their three studio albums are "A Can Of Bees," "Invisable Hits" and "Underwater Moonlight" They feature Morris Windsor (Egyptians Drummer) on all three albums, and Andy Metcalf (Egyptians bassist, and the best in alternative rock, IMO. FAR superior to any incect) on the first two. I HIGHLY recommend "Underwater Moonlight." ---Mike [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Fri, 08 Jul 1994 23:16:41 -0400 (EDT) From: mikester@bix.com Subject: Re: feg-art To: fegmaniax@gnu.ai.mit.edu >Does Robyn sell his paintings. I'd never be able to afford anything >but a cheap ripoff poster of one, but I was wonderin'. I was wonderin' too. I've got a poster of the "Respect" cover art of the "lemonheads" 8) Robyn does paint some wonderful stuff, and you can really sink your tentacles into them. ---Mike [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Sat, 9 Jul 1994 01:18:29 -0400 From: am497@freenet.buffalo.edu (Michael J. Swedene) To: fegmaniax@gnu.ai.mit.edu Subject: Re: Fegmania Found!!!! Reply-To: am497@freenet.buffalo.edu The Mikester@Bix.com asked where he could find a copy of "Higson's" studio wise, May I recomend the new KERSHAW SESSIONS CD :). It is excellent and the recordings are very well done. The liner notes were done by Andy and Morris. Sorry about the repetition but I too like the KERSHAW SESSIONS and I think it is a good collection. IMHO - For those of you who do not own the SOFT BOYS records at all, please do yourself a favor and pick up "UNDERWATER MOONLIGHT" It is an excellent album. There is my $.02, How many quid is that? -HERBIE -- am 497@freenet.buffalo.edu Swedenem@wehle.canisius.edu [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Sat, 09 Jul 1994 08:31:55 -0500 (CDT) From: GOOSENMK@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu Subject: Yet even more Fegmania!!! To: fegmaniax@gnu.ai.mit.edu And MIKE spoke thusly to us all... > >Actually, I _knew_ there was an album I was missing, as per the question >that started this whole "I don't have Fegmania" thread. My only unknown >was wheather or not it was a Hitchcock solo album released after "Groovy >Decay/Decoy" or an Egyptians album released before "Element Of Light." And now you know... Bell Biv DeVoe (oops, slipped into 1990 for a moment) >BTW, I've been listening to "Fegmania!" non-stop since I got it at 1:08 >today. 8) Once I got it on CD last year, I noticed for the first time what a GROOVE- oriented album _Fegmania!!!_ is--Robyn's guitar seems more rhythmic than it has before or since. That doesn't make the album any more or less special than any other Robyn album for me, just something different that I noticed. Later, Miles ...here comes the fly, I don't know why, here he comes [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Sat, 09 Jul 94 22:47:23 EST From: swfcooke@warren.med.harvard.edu To: fegmaniax@gnu.ai.mit.edu Subject: Fegmania mystery snippet All this talk about my favorite Egyptians' album--Fegmania--caused me to dust off my turntable and give it a spin after a number of years. After bellowing along to "Heaven" (side 2, last track), I waited for the tone arm to lift... but instead I was startled to hear a mystery snippet before said lifting... after a minute-or-so of chaotic drums and guitar wanking and such I inspected the vinyl and found 1/4 inch of additional grooves close to the label. I realized I hadn't played Fegmania since I bought my current turntable, and my previous one was fully automatic; it used to pick up before it ever reached the mystery snippet and hence its presence eluded me for nine years. So now I have a few q's... (a) is this mystery snippet on the U.S. release, too? (_was_ there a U.S. release?) (My copy is British--1st ed. 1985 pressing on Midnight.) (b) is mystery snippet on any CD release? (c) what is Robyn yelling at the end of mystery snippet??? It reminds me of Lennon ad libbing on Helter Skelter ("I've got blisters on me fingers"), except it's three words, and I can't make out any of 'em, and I've listened to it x times now. Any info much appreciated. Stefan [][][][][][][][] 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...