Fegmaniax Digest Volume 3 Number 6 Today's Topics: ------- ------ Feg demographics I often dream of Robyn... Kershaw Sessions RE: MORE ROBYN STUFF FOR SALE/TRADE!! The Bob vs. Bucketful of Brains, etc. Tim Kerr/K records Tribute tape questions, friendly reminder (the ultimate version) What I meant to say was... What I meant to say was... _Surfer Ghost_ material out??????? memories of RH probably the only chick [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 22:37:27 -0500 (EST) From: Doug Mayo-Wells To: "Uncle Bobby's Support Group" Subject: Kershaw Sessions Reply-To: Doug Mayo-Wells i know the re-issues are the hot topic and this is old hat, but i finally found a copy of the Kershaw Sessions after looking for *months*... and i'm wondering what you all think of it... my initial response is that it's a little disappointing...no proper monlogue, a nice hefty set list but only two not-previously recorded officially numbers...a neat new intro to "Madonna of the Wasps", but still no electric "Clean Steve"... comments? doug dmayowel@access.digex.net [][][][][][][][][][] From: daramsey@vaxsar.vassar.edu Date: 27 Jan 1995 21:47:25 -0300 Subject: What I meant to say was... To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Reply-To: daramsey@vaxsar.vassar.edu When I sent out a query 'bout the Robyn covers tape, I was referring to the tape assembled several months ago consisting of Robyn playing other people's songs...I think it featured him doing "Every Day is Like Sunday" among others. If anyone can help me out, that would be very kind. thanks, daveR. _______________________________________________________________________ | | | "I promised only that you would see some sign of Unicorns, and so | | you have...As for you and your heart and the things you | | said and didn't say, she will remember them all when | | men are fairy tales in books written by rabbits..." | | | | | | -The Last Unicorn | |______________________________________________________________________| *** Another 100% natural S.M.I.L.B.U. production *** [][][][][][][][][][] From: John Devitofranceschi Date: Fri, 27 Jan 95 10:12:30 +0100 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Re: memories of RH Reply-To: John Devitofranceschi I had the privilege of interviewing RH when he was in Pittburgh back in the mid-80's. I was on the staff of WRCT 88.3 at the time (Carnegie-Mellon's station). He was very terse. He seemed quite annoyed and uninterested in any of my questions about his music and the band (understandable, really, since he's probably been asked about those things a million times). I had exhausted all of my prepared question in what seemed like about 3 minutes. After an 'uncomfortable' silent pause, I said something to the effect of: "Right, what ELSE have you been up to lately?" That openned the floodgates. He started talking about his writing, his painting and all of his other interests which I had never heard of before. He talked and talked. It was wonderful. I wish I still had a copy of that interview. jd [][][][][][][][][][] To: daramsey@vaxsar.vassar.edu Cc: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Re: What I meant to say was... Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 07:30:45 -0500 From: Thomas Narten Reply-To: Thomas Narten > When I sent out a query 'bout the Robyn covers tape, I was >referring to the tape assembled several months ago consisting of Robyn >playing other people's songs...I think it featured him doing "Every Day is >Like Sunday" among others. I'm willing to make you a dub. Send me email. later, jturner@rpms.ac.uk (Jonathan Turner) writes: >(4) New bootleg CDs are on the way: ... a CD release of >an amended version of 'Oscar' (Visions Of Johanna/The Wind >Cries Mary/Polly On The Shore/Every Day Is Like Sunday/Take A >Chance/Senor/Yer Blues/Dominoes/Calvary Cross/Chinese White/I >Dreamed I Saw St Augustine/The Gallant Poacher/Pretty Woman); >and a great performance at McCabe's, Santa Monica, 27/4/89 >whose tracklisting I'm sure you all know are all on the cards. Is there a connection between the two? Many of the songs on the fegmaniax-circulated cover tape apear on "Oscar" (and in the same order), though "Oscar" has more stuff. Anyone have more details? Quality? Thomas [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Fri, 27 Jan 95 06:02:07 From: Russ Reynolds To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: I often dream of Robyn... Reply-To: Russ Reynolds ...not. Don't think I ever had a dream about Robyn Hitchcock, but once I dreamed I was listening to the radio and they were playing Bryan Ferry doing a slow, Ferryesque cover of the old Jerry Reed tune, "Amos Moses". As funny as that sounds it was even funnier to hear, and that's probably the only time I ever woke up from a dream laughing. Woj's anxiety dream reminded me of the first time I went to see Robyn, at the I-Beam in San Francisco. His first EVER show in San Francisco...when I got there I ran into some friends who informed me that Robyn had collapsed and wasn't going to play. I was thinking he was going to die and--like Lennon--I'd never get a chance to see him. Opening act was Alex Chilton, who played as scheduled, but I was too bummed to stick around for that. Turns out that was right after his surgery (anyone know what kind of surgery he had, BTW? I never did find out), and he was just weak from being on the road so soon. And here's my best "I Met Robyn" story: In store appearance during "Queen Elvis" tour (R.E.M. portion)...had him sign a copy of QE for my girlfriend...he wrote "Anita--Marry him"...and she did! side note: also had Robyn, Andy & Morris sign my CoB cover, and a few months later was able to slip it backstage after a Katrina & The Waves show for Kimberley to sign. I figure a pink-back (post break-up) Can Of Bees autographed by all four Soft Boys is probably a one-of-a-kind rarity. Russ. rreynolds@ksjo.com in the changer today: Pearl Jam/Vitalogy XTC/Radios In Motion-a history of XTC Nirvana/Unplugged In New York Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians/Perspex Island Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians/Respect [][][][][][][][][][] From: pearceja@wl.wpafb.af.mil Date: Fri, 27 Jan 95 11:16:59 -0500 To: "fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu"@wl.wpafb.af.mil Subject: RE: MORE ROBYN STUFF FOR SALE/TRADE!! Reply-To: pearceja@wl.wpafb.af.mil I N T E R O F F I C E M E M O R A N D U M Date: 27-Jan-1995 11:01am EST From: Lt Jeffrey A. Pearce PEARCEJA Dept: POPS Tel No: 52089 TO: Remote MILNET Mail ( _DDN[fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu] ) Subject: RE: MORE ROBYN STUFF FOR SALE/TRADE!! Clint, I'm interested in one of the items you listed: > 15. One Long Pair of Eyes CD single (promo A&M CD17812) $6/$10 If this is the CD that contains "One Long Pair of Eyes" with the spoken word intro I would like to buy it. If it's still available, I'll offer the $10 to buy it outright. Let me know. Jeff pearceja@wl.wpafb.af.mil p.s. My apologies to the list for the private mail, but my mail reader doesn't decipher the originator of a message, it only gives the bounce address. Sorry! [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 11:09:09 -0600 (CST) From: JAY LYALL Subject: Feg demographics To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Reply-To: JAY LYALL So judging by the recent slew of posts RH fans wear glasses, are thirty-ish, and are more female than originially suspected. We suffer from sleep disorders that manifest themselves in odd dreams about English musicians and occasionally act out his psychosis by sending odd-ball letters to people we've never really met confessing our obsessions. interesting Captain, interesting. jay %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Jay Lyall "Capy Toad Blast" "I'd never belong to a club that hist1a@jetson.uh.edu would have me as a member." --Groucho Marx "Some things come in, Some things come out, "We'll inherit the Earth, And next time round But we don't want it." I'll be a trout." --Replacements --Robyn Hitchcock %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 12:27:09 -0800 (PST) From: Rohith Sood To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Tim Kerr/K records Reply-To: Rohith Sood Just thought I'd clear up a little confusion. Tim Kerr records is a totally different label than K records. T/K is a local label in Portland which has released records by Portland bands like Poison Idea, and the occasional oddity like "The Priest They Called Him", a spoken word record by William S Burroughs that featured guitar feedback in the background courtesy of Kurt Cobain! K records is from Olympia. Rohith "The hills are alive with the sound of ... well.. of various things..." [][][][][][][][][][] From: Sharon Northern To: Fegmaniax Subject: Feg demographics Date: Fri, 27 Jan 95 14:04:00 PST Reply-To: Sharon Northern Jay sez, (in part) So judging by the recent slew of posts RH fans wear glasses, are thirty-ish, and are more female than originially suspected. We suffer from sleep disorders that manifest themselves in odd dreams about English musicians and occasionally act out his psychosis by sending odd-ball letters to people we've never really met confessing our obsessions. __________ Very well said! If I was an artist, I would have loved to paint some of my visualizations on what a "squeaky head on a pleasure box," was. Did anyone else try to form a mental picture of this? And while we're making odd-ball confessions to people we've never met, here's one: I'll thank Robyn 'till my dying day for summing up my mental capacity in one sentence, "I remember everything as if it happened years ago." -Sharon [][][][][][][][][][] Date: 27 Jan 1995 14:34:44 -0800 From: "Mark Gloster" Subject: Re: probably the only chick To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Reply-To: "Mark Gloster" Reply to: RE>>probably the only chickie on this mailing list... (chickies in the woodwork?) Donne, my sweetheart, became an instant fan of RH's when she listened to college (and even high school) radio stations in the Santa Cruz area, here in California. She thought that Fegmania was the greatest album ever made, bought the tape and played it until it was stretched and all of the oxide had left it. She always told me how clever this Robyn guy was, and how smart, weird (meaning great), and sexy he was. I had had little exposure to RH, so before we moved back in together I told her that there was a line from a song that just floored me, "It rained like...", she said that that was a Robyn Hitchcock song and that if I liked that I'd love everything else he'd ever done. She was pretty much right about that. I've found that many RH fans that I know seem to have a romantic relationship to him through his music- I don't suppose it's just a female thing. I've known Cure fans who felt the same way about Robert Smith, Smiths/Morrissey fans who felt the same way about Morrissey (but strangely, I've never met anyone who felt anything romantic about another one of my heroes- Stan Ridgeway). I used to think that Donne would have left me in a nanosecond to be with Robyn. She has since informed me that she thinks that Robyn is only the second most creative musician in the world (she thinks I'm number one). _THAT_ kind of flattery will get her anywhere, and it usually does. Thanks for your stories. Pamela, you deserve a prize for your post. I'll post more later. All the best to all of you... -Mark Gloster "The Pablo Picasso of Printed Circuit Design" [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Fri, 27 Jan 95 11:00:22 PST From: lroberts@bellahs.com (Laurence Roberts RD) To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: The Bob vs. Bucketful of Brains, etc. Reply-To: lroberts@bellahs.com (Laurence Roberts RD) Well, I just got a batch of digests (see, the digestifier was broken and woj just fixed it and I'm as glad as everyone else that the list's restarted. It looks like someone had a little confusion between "The Bob" and "Bucketful of Brains." These are two different publications, and both have been known to include flexi-disks, but I think only Bucketful has done Robyn flexis. (Unless I'm being one of those know-it-alls who's got it all wrong and these two actually are the same publication.) I mentioned last year when there was another "how I first heard Robyn" thread that my first listen was when the Maximum Rock'n'Roll radio show played "I Wanna Destroy You" sometime in '85 or '86 and blew my mind. My friend Beth had a tape of Underwater Moonlight, and I met a guy we called Rhino who had Fegmania. Larry-bob lroberts@bellahs.com [][][][][][][][][][] From: mikester@bix.com Date: Sat, 28 Jan 1995 00:13:45 -0500 (EST) Subject: Tribute tape questions, friendly reminder (the ultimate version) To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Reply-To: mikester@bix.com One last reminder to all of you who would like to contribute questions to the interviews section of the upcoming Robyn tribute tape, I'll be taking questions up until midnight tomorrow (today?). Ok, we'll say 12:00am, Sunday, January 29th. Th' list so far... 1) How has Robyn Hitchcock influenced your own band/songwriting/general musical style? 2) Why did you pick the songs you picked? 3) Why did you interpret them the way you did? 4) How did you first hear of Robyn? 5) Aside from Robyn Hitchcock, who are your musical and lyrical influences and why? 6) What are some of your favorite all-time lyric one-liners by any musical group/poet/writer? 7) How about your ten desert island disks? 8) What did you do on superbowl weekend? 9) Which is your favorite species of fish and why? We have enough questions now to fill up a good sized interview, but don't let that stop you from sending me your own questions, wheather they be serious musical/philosophical types, or general foolishness. One last thing, for all the tape contributors only. If you're not contributing a song to the tape, you can stop reading here and go directily to my sig line. 8) I'd like to get all your bios ASAP. I'll be working on this Sunday as upposed to watching either the Super Bowl or endless hours of OJ-tv. There's no deadline (yet) on this, but the early fish gets the plankton, you know. Also, I'll be mailing you the final list of questions on Sunday morning (say, 12:02). ---Mike ----------------------- "People ask me why I'm obsessed with fish, but it's not true. They're just there." ---Robyn Hitchcock, 3/25/88 ----------------------- [][][][][][][][][][] From: GOOSENMK@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 23:51:59 -0600 (CST) Subject: _Surfer Ghost_ material out??????? To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Reply-To: GOOSENMK@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu O.K., I may be behind the times, but in the excerpt from the Robyn fanzine about the new K single, did it not say that with this single, almost all the _Surfer Ghost_ material would be released? Without FEGMANIAX, Robyn news is scarce in these parts, so could somebody tell me in what form other _Surfer Ghost_ songs have been released and where I can nab them? Are they more K singles? Can you get 'em from Mrs. Wafflehead? Somebody help me, please? And while we're at it, why did the fanzine recommend that you NOT buy the Rhino reissues? I've already snagged the only two I've seen in Nashville, radio promos that were dumped at Phonoluxe of albums 2 and 3 (our sorry-ass Tower hasn't a copy--it took them six months to stock the Rykodisc Soft Boys reissues, so that's no surprise, but it's still annoying), so I'm hardly suspicious of 'em, but I'm just curious why this should be the fanzine's opinion. Good to see/hear so many Robyn fans again! Love to see the mailbox full of news/comments about the only man besides Richard Thompson that I could sit and listen to for hours and hours and hours... Later, Miles [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Sat, 28 Jan 1995 08:25:59 -0500 (EST) From: Gary Assa To: Laurence Roberts RD Cc: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Re: The Bob vs. Bucketful of Brains, etc. Reply-To: Gary Assa > It looks like someone had a little confusion between "The Bob" and > "Bucketful of Brains." These are two different publications, and > both have been known to include flexi-disks, but I think only Bucketful > has done Robyn flexis. (Unless I'm being one of those know-it-alls > who's got it all wrong and these two actually are the same publication.) (Game show noise) Wrong. The BOB had A Day In The Life on flexi. [][][][][][][][] 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-digest-request@nsmx.rutgers.edu. Slipping you the midnight fish...