Fegmaniax Digest <==----------==> (Send posts to the list to fegmaniax@nsmx.rutgers.edu) (Send adminstrative requests to majordomo@nsmx.rutgers.edu) (Send comments, etc to the listowner at owner-fegmaniax@nsmx.rutgers.edu) <==----------==> Volume 3 Number 50 Today's Topics: ------- ------ "The Ghost Ship" 2nd Rat's Prayer post: DISREGARD! Ann Arbor show meeting Bobby in Beantown Boston shows Death takes a snack break Don't complain 'bout t-shirts... I love you in a nervous light... Lyrics to "the Rat's Prayer" My BOSTON experience Names Names in RH songs Names in Robyn RE: Tanya Donelly RH at Amherst College 4/9/95 Re-issues for even less Robyn on the Net Sound files from recent shows. Surfer Ghost... Surfer Ghost: other title. Surfer Ghost: other title. (fwd) TT's Apr 8th setlist Tanya Donelly Top Ten Dead Line Weekend Madness _glass flesh_ tribute nearing completion another old interview... reissues for $12.39 title... we don't need no stinkin' subject what's in a name, or two? woj's lament/netsurfer ghost [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 18:30:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Minahan To: Robyn Hitchcock list Subject: reissues for $12.39 Noteworthy has the Robyn reissues for $12.39. Has anyone found them for less? (www.netmarket.com/noteworthy/bin/main) They also have Globe of Frogs, Perspex Island, and Respect for $9.59. Mike O ________ OO \ \_______ OOOOO))>>===| _ \ Mike Minahan O O OO | I===| |==================================|H=H] OO | I===|_|==================================|H=H] OOOOO))>>===| o o _______/ toad@u.washington.edu O O OO /_______/ http://weber.u.washington.edu/~toad O [][][][][][][][][][] From: sfoskett@mailhost.viewlogic.com (Stephen Foskett) Subject: Re: Boston shows To: mrd@world.std.com Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 21:37:58 -0400 (EDT) Cc: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu > - He did "Bleeding"! I've never heard this on a boot, let along seen it. I had never heard him play Bleeding either! But he did at Toad's and at Amherst, too! Wee-hah! I suppose sometimes he just digs up a great old song and says "hey, I like this one" and plays it a bit... Last year he was playing Leppo and the Jooves (!) > - The new stuff is universally great (De Chirco St., Beautiful Queen, > I Am Not Me, Wide Open Star, Happy Bird Filthy Bird, Statue with a Walkman, > Many Wands [I think this is called Heliotrope], Sinister But Happy, > and one or two others.) Gotta agree! > - After Robyn played a new one, I asked him when it was coming out. He said, > "It'll all come out eventually. You should just get a copy of a tape of the > show, it has more...life to it." I interpret this as a slagging of the > whole recording/producing process. But it was interesting to see him > advocate tape trading like that, even though I know he has no problem with > it. Perhaps we should grab the best of the New England shows and make our own Surfer Ghost! After all, Robyn told us to! I've got De Chirico, Bring Me the Cheese, Heliotrope, Beautiful Queen, Sinister, I Something You, and Man With... from the New Haven and Amherst shows. I'd love to hear the other new ones... Stephen [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 19:12:20 -0700 From: librik@netcom.com (David Librik) To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Robyn on the Net > Doug: Do you know about the Internet mailing list? > Robyn (says with resignation): I, I know. If I want to know what I've been > up to, I know where to look. > Mitch: We know what you do before you even do it. > (Robyn turns to finish talking to another guy, we all start to leave.) > Robyn: Happy internet surfing guys! Oh no. He _reads_ what I'm saying about him? I'm going to be really, really quiet from now on. Well, just one thing: Hi Robyn, thanks for "The Professor." - David Librik librik@cs.Berkeley.edu [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 22:52:29 -0400 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu From: jojones@mailbox.syr.edu (John B. Jones) Subject: Re: RH at Amherst College 4/9/95 >WONDERFUL show! Agreed!! >The place was small and new, like a recital hall. The audience was >very "into" the performers and were all rather mature about >everything. After the gig, I heard Deni mention the fact that the crowd was so subdued, that they were afraid they were gonna offend someone. She said "Alot different from the TT's shows!!". Too quiet, in other words. >Jull Sobule played a completely different set than New Haven, too, so >it was great. Just a few overlapping songs... And EVERYONE was in a >great mood! Thank goodness for the fan! There was a girl in the audience who knew songs off of Jill's first release (which I suppose is a very obscure thing). The girl started naming songs, Jill was flabbergasted and happy because of it, and ended up playing a song off that old release. >He wore the lizard shirt again. He must have 20 of 'em... Or does laundry every day. One of the two. >Some great witty banter, but no real stories. He did mention the link >between salamis and CDs, though, so he really is repeating himself a >bit, but everything else was spontaneous and odd. Whee! He did this weird robot sounding advertising voice for awhile that was hilarious! I sampled it with my computer and am going to try to upload it onto the feg site. It was sampled at 11khz and is a .wav file. Hope you can play it. It is simply called 9Apr95Amherst.wav, and leads into De Chirico Street. If it works, post a message. I'll do more. >The sound was GREAT too. Maybe 'cause I was in the front row, but the >accoustic parts were just superb. Mixed perfectly even though I >couldn't hear the main speakers! I was taping right in front of the left speaker, and it was really a good mix. I must agree. >Here's a take at the setlist: >Night This is actually Surgery. Other than that, the setlist is right on. Great show. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- John B. Jones, expectant father e-mail: jojones@mailbox.syr.edu LYRIC OF THE MONTH: "If life is a performance, and I am not an actor, am I supposed to lay down and die?" -Juliana Hatfield "Its good to see so many of you wearing glasses" -Robyn, Seattle, May 1, 93 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 23:17:48 -0400 (EDT) From: "Some assembly required." To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Ann Arbor show meeting I've been in touch with a couple of people about this but I'll throw out a general announcement to anyone who's going to either of the Ann Arbor shows who'd like to get together. There's a great ice cream place which I've not been to in at least six years located only a block from The Ark: The Washtenaw Dairy. To get to it from The Ark, take a right on Main from The Ark, go down Main to Madison (first light) and take a left. Go down Madison to Ashley (first cross street) and the Washtenaw Dairy is right there on the corner of Madison and Ashley. Can't miss it. It's only about a block so your best bet is probably to park at The Ark and walk over. I figure since the show starts at 7:30, we'll want to get to The Ark about 6:45 or so ... maybe earlier. My fiancee and I will be at the WD from about 6:00 on ... I'm going bald in the front and sport a mustache and glasses. I'll either be wearing a dark green leather jacket or black and blue lightweight jacket--depends on the weather. My fiancee, Leah, also wears glasses and has shoulder-length brown hair. We'll probably disappear after the 7:30 show is over since we'll have a bus to catch. Of course if some kind soul with a car is willing to give us a lift back to Ypsilanti (the suburbs of A^2 and Ypsi sort of merge together) we can hang around after the show for a while. Hope to see some of you there! -- Stewart [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 23:22:47 -0400 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu From: jojones@mailbox.syr.edu (John B. Jones) Subject: Sound files from recent shows. Cc: hgaylord@cc.weber.edu Someone mentioned this before, and I was very busy playing what Mitch calls "Human Mike Stand" this weekend :) so I thought I would try to record pieces of the shows as .wav files and upload them to the feg site. I've put two on there for starters, if it works, I will put a couple more. send an ftp command to fegmania.wustl.edu, log in as anonymous. They are in the incoming folder. One is entitled 8Apr95TTearly-Rush.wav and provides insight into Rush Limbaugh's neuroses. The other is entitled 9Apr95Amherst.wav and provides Robyn doing some weird advertising robot voice which leads into he and Deni playing "De Chirico Street". The Rush sample is sampled at 22khz, the other at 11khz. Let me know if this works! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- John B. Jones, expectant father e-mail: jojones@mailbox.syr.edu LYRIC OF THE MONTH: "If life is a performance, and I am not an actor, am I supposed to lay down and die?" -Juliana Hatfield "Its good to see so many of you wearing glasses" -Robyn, Seattle, May 1, 93 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 23:34:30 -0400 To: FARBER@HULAW1.HARVARD.EDU, fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu From: jojones@mailbox.syr.edu (John B. Jones) Subject: Re: TT's Apr 8th setlist Craig! >Does anyone have a setlist for the late April 8th show? Yes, and heeeeeere it is!: Queen of Eyes Shuffling Through the Flagstones (anyone with the Moose Mark spoken word recording will recognize this newer instrumental) Queen Elvis Each of her Silver Wands Egyptian Cream (w/Deni) De Chirico Street (w/Deni) Sinister But Happy (w/Deni) Devil's Coachman My Wife and My Dead Wife A Happy Bird is A Filthy Bird (very rare appearance!) I Something You Yip Song ELECTRIC ENCORE: I Am Not Me 52 Stations Never Stop Bleeding (w/Deni) Driving Aloud (w/Deni) Beautiful Queen (w/Deni) Listening to the Higsons ONE LAST ACOUSTIC SONG before the curfew (1am) Heliotrope (aka She Worships the Sun) >Did anyone else see Jill Sobule's video on eMpTV last night? It was >quite funny (I Kissed a Girl -- Fabio was, in fact, in the video) > >I was a bit disappointed in the t-shirt selection. Was I missing >something or were there only two shirts? My wife said the "portrait of Robyn shirt" looked like a "recent high school yearbook photo" Nice meeting you at the Newbury in-store, Craig. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- John B. Jones, expectant father e-mail: jojones@mailbox.syr.edu LYRIC OF THE MONTH: "If life is a performance, and I am not an actor, am I supposed to lay down and die?" -Juliana Hatfield "Its good to see so many of you wearing glasses" -Robyn, Seattle, May 1, 93 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [][][][][][][][][][] From: daramsey@vaxsar.vassar.edu Date: Wed, 12 Apr 1995 00:11:20 -0300 Subject: I love you in a nervous light... To: Fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu I'm looking for tapes of Robyn's Boston shows from this past weekend; particularly his in-store appearance at Newbury Comics and any of the three TT's gigs. I'd also like to obtain tapes from any other dates on this current tour. I have a bunch of boots of Robyn solo and with the Egyptians, if people would like to trade. On another note, I just want to chime in and say that Robyn's new songs are absolutely superb, and made the three gigs I saw over the past few days better than excellent. "Sinister But Happy" is brilliant, "Wide Open Star" is a beautiful love song, "De Chirico Street" simply rocks, and "She Worships the Sun" is, well, too good for me to describe with mere words. Along with "A Happy Bird is a Filthy Bird", "Each of Her Silver Wands", "Shuffling Over the Flagstones", I think Robyn has the makings of what could come really really close to being my favorite Robyn album since 'Element of Light'. P.S.- I second the idea that we should compile our own temporary live version of 'Surfer Ghost'. I know Eugene also is into the idea... -daveR. "And when there's no more tears to cry, there's nothing left to do but laugh..." -Robyn Hitchcock ***another 100% natural S.M.I.L.B.U. production*** [][][][][][][][][][] From: MARTINP@cgs.edu Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 21:21:12 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Names in RH songs To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Doug queried: >Also, since he's been admitting that "The Yip Song" is about his father and >death from cancer, and since his mother's name was Joyce, I was wondering if >Molly ("In his mind he lay with Molly") is a significant name from Robyn's >history or just another in the series of convenient rhymes. Odd, in that it seems most of the names Robyn uses are those of real people, but I always saw this as a reference to Molly Bloom from James Joyce's _Ulysses_. Pam M. [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 00:23:41 -0400 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu From: jojones@mailbox.syr.edu (John B. Jones) Subject: My BOSTON experience Cc: hgaylord@cc.weber.edu Everyone has mentioned theirs, and with good reason, they have all been fun to read. Here's mine. First of all, it was really nice to meet all the Feg mailing list people. Craig, Karen, Mitch, Ken, Doug, Eugene, and others. Nice meetin' y'all. I haven't seen Eugene post anything, but he is now immortalized on the tape I made at Newbury Comics for holding his microphone right up to the speaker. I actually learned alot about Robyn's feelings on taping through this weekend. Anyway, Robyn even dedicated a song to Eugene's arm, which was probably getting tired from holding the mike to the speaker (which were propped way up high) And Ken and Mitch got to sing with Jill Sobule. Cool! I, meanwhile, had heard that Robyn takes requests at in-store appearances (I've heard tapes of them where he asks the audience what they want to hear.) I decided to be prepared, and jotted down the songs I would most like to hear that he never plays (or hasn't played in awhile) on a scrap of paper. 1. EVIL GUY 2. SWIRLING 3. LOVE IN THE GARDEN OF LIGHTS 4. A HAPPY BIRD IS A FILTHY BIRD Well, he showed up late to the in-store, and didn't take requests. After the in-store was over, I saw him standing alone for a minute and gave him my scrap of paper. "I don't know if you're playing requests at all, but...." Robyn, mulling over the list and frowning...: "No not really" Robyn sees the last request and the frown fades: "Filthy Bird!" I said: Yeah but he was whisked away by Mishy (girlfriend) before I could say anything else. THEN, at TT the Bears in between the two shows, I talked to Deni for a minute about her violin playing, and mentioned that I had a tape of this certain gig that the two of them played in that was supposedly held in the crypt of a church! I just wanted to get some more info about it, but Deni starts jumping up and down, saying "YOu have a tape of that show??????" She pulls me into the backstage room where Robyn and everyone else are sitting and says "Robyn, this guy has a tape of the St. James crypt show!!!!!" Robyn: How does it sound??? Me: apart from the fly zapping machine and one of the amps blowing out (all true), good! What was that place like, was it really underground??? Robyn: Yeah...Oh---you're the FILTHY BIRD guy! Me: Yeah, that's where I heard the song...from that tape. Nothing much after that, except for them asking that a copy be sent to the management....it was the first gig they played together. And then he played A Happy Bird is a Filthy Bird, dedicating it to the Republican Party. The song has a great line in the same vein of Watch Your Intelligence: Look at the massacre on cable/ But you know it won't happen here We're all too busy watching massacres on cable/ Oh yeah After the show, he hung around to chat and sign autographs for a bit. I asked him to sign my K records 7", and while he signed it, he said "I hope you liked the song, I rarely play that one. I said "Yeah thanks it was great!!!" The next night at Amherst, my wife and I talked to Deni after the show for just a minute or two, mostly about tapes and taping. I taped all four shows that I went to. She said that he has been really lenient this tour about taping, more than ever before. She said he feels like the "tape trading underground" is another avenue of getting his music heard, and that he doesn't feel like it affecting (negatively) his sales of studio releases. He even said during that tapes of shows are better because the "songs have more life in them." Nuf said. Anyway, I got good copies of the shows. I would love to trade with people who have taped or will tape shows from this current tour, and radio show appearances too! That goes for Jill Sobule too! Anyone tape her??? I offered to tape the shows in exchange for blanks and postage for the people that were there (you know who you are, e-mail me). To the rest of you, I would much rather trade for stuff than do the "blanks thing", but if you can wait awhile for me to do some trading first, I will be glad to contribute. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- John B. Jones e-mail: jojones@mailbox.syr.edu LYRIC OF THE MONTH: "If life is a performance, and I am not an actor, am I supposed to lay down and die?" -Juliana Hatfield "Its good to see so many of you wearing glasses" -Robyn, Seattle, May 1, 93 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 17:06:50 +1200 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James) Subject: Re: Names >John Jones, Mitch Dickerman, Ken (lastname?) and I were chatting after the >TT's shows about the abundance of names in Robyn's work. He's got a real >penchant for the arbitrary name to fill a line, make a rhyme work or get a >smile; even discounting titular references like "Brenda's Iron Sledge," >"Give Me A Spanner, Ralph," "Ted, Woody and Junior" or "Cynthia Mask," there's: > "There's a justice in this world, and I know just what she's called - she's called Elaine..." James James Dignan, Department of Psychology, University of Otago. Ya zhivu v' 50 Norfolk St., St. Clair, Dunedin, New Zealand pixelphone james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz / steam megaphone NZ 03-455-7807 * You talk to me as if from a distance * and I reply with impressions chosen from another time, time, time, * from another time (Brian Eno) [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 23:31:37 -0700 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu, Robyn Hitchcock list From: avarice@primenet.com (Christopher Donnell) Subject: Re: reissues for $12.39 At 06:30 PM 4/10/95 -0700, Mike Minahan wrote: >Noteworthy has the Robyn reissues for $12.39. > >Has anyone found them for less? (www.netmarket.com/noteworthy/bin/main) > >They also have Globe of Frogs, Perspex Island, and Respect for $9.59. > I work at Best Buy and we have them for $11.99, but prices depend on the market - but they should all be around $11.99 or $10.99 (We have the Kershaw sessions for $13.99, that's pretty cool) [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 04:12:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Jonathan Naito To: Simon George Bone <70324.1340@compuserve.com> cc: Fegmaniax Subject: Re: "The Ghost Ship" On 10 Apr 1995, Simon George Bone wrote: > Fegs, > > I just got my copy of You and Oblivion today. But the first thing I noticed, > adding fuel to the problems-with-A&M-fire, is that the version of "The Ghost > Ship" here is not the same as (nor, in my opinion, nearly as good as) the one > that appeared on the "Balloon Man" single. I assume that Robyn is not able to > release that version, since it was under his A&M contract. > > It's nice having two versions, though, even the demo that the Y&O version seems > to be. "The Ghost Ship" is one of my favourite Robyn pieces, and it's > interesting to compare the slight lyrical changes. I don't really agree with you about the version on Y&O being worse than the one that appears on the single. I don't think the lyric changes were for the better, but Robyn seems much more into it this time and a lot more sure of where he wants the song to go. It's got a lot more energy this time around. Jon [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 08:04:31 -0400 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu From: bourbie@tiac.net (bourbie) Subject: Bobby in Beantown $0.02. 1. Boooooooooo!!!! No "Airscape" or "Birdshead" or "Surgery". 2. Yaaaaaaaaayyy!!! "I used to say I love You", "Never Stop Bleeding", "Queen Of Eyes" 3. Deni Bonet - great with Robyn. 4. Jill Sobule - her songs were like a Broadway production 5. T-Shirts for $15.00!!?!?!?!?!?!? Where's Ralph Nader when you need him? Josh Joshua Pickering 75A Dover Street Somerville, MA 02144 617/666-1459 bourbie@tiac.net [][][][][][][][][][] From: daramsey@vaxsar.vassar.edu Date: Wed, 12 Apr 1995 09:18:34 -0300 Subject: Re-issues for even less To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu When I was at Newbury Comics for the in-store over the weekend, I noticed that the re-issues were being sold for the fine, fine price of $10.88. daveR. "And when there's no more tears to cry, there's nothing left to do but laugh..." -Robyn Hitchcock ***another 100% natural S.M.I.L.B.U. production*** [][][][][][][][][][] From: mad5c@jade.cs.virginia.edu Subject: another old interview... To: Hitchcock Fan-List Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 09:23:46 -0400 (EDT) Here is an interview from a tiny little taxpayer-supported magazine at the University of Virginia. The interview was done in May of '92. I've tried to leave the article intact, which is a little difficult given the layout of the magazine. The name of the magazine is 3.7 or 3 Point 7, and occasionally three-point-seven, depending on where you look. This is from Volume 1, Number 1. Mike. 3.7 Seconds with... Robyn Hitchcock There's what you call "yourself" and what you call "someone else", and there's a razor sharp line dividing them off. You label the world that way because it's safe, but deep down you know that the line isn't so firm and we bleed into each other, mixing and reacting every which way. It's here, in our gray zones, that Robyn Hitchcock's music lives; cloaked in lush guitar melodies and a Beatlesque wail, he pins down the finer workings of human interaction with a halogen glare. And because he's honest, he plays to a full house. And that's how it should be. A CAUSASIAN BIPED AND HIS RAZOR~SHARP RETRO-GUITAR "My convention is however, and it is a bloody obvious one, that beneath our civilized glazing we are all deviants, all alone and all peculiar. This flies in the face of mass-marketing, but I'm sticking with it." -- Robyn Hitchcock, November '87 3.7: If deviance is the norm, where does that leave us as a species? RH: Well, I didn't come up with the term deviant you know. It was already there and I simply turned it. If you say "deviance is the norm", that nullifies the meaning of the word "deviant"... 3.7: And "norm..." RH: Yes, and "norm"... which I thought was good, really. I mean if you wanted to argue about it semantically - you know, the meaning of "to deviate" or the meaning of "to be normal" - you could go around it indefinitely. But, you know "reality" is the consensus of perception; and therefore, the consensus of action: we all agree to see things in a certain way, so we all drive on the righthand side of the road. A deviant is someone who... who doesn't quite fit in... at least that's what I like to think. 3.7: You've said before that "alternative music" is essentially a grouping of any kind of music that isn't overtly commercial. It didn't mean that your music was the same as Depeche Mode or Jane's Addiction, just because all of you were considered to be "alternative". Where does your music fit in? RH: Well, to ants there would be little difference between us [The Egyptians], Depeche Mode, and Jane's Addiction: we're all caucasian bipeds that are going to step on you, or whatever, it does not really matter. Although, I suppose stylistically our stuff is descended from the Beatles, Jane's Addiction's stuff is descended from... I don't know, Iggy Pop? And I'm not quite sure what Depeche Mode is descended from, they're originals I suppose. Those other bands are probably more original than us, I mean stylistically, we are very derivative of the stuff in the 60's. When we started, we were peculiar because of that, of course now there's been so much "retro" stuff in the last ten years. When the Soft Boys were going, we were one of the few groups to use harmonies and guitar solos at the time and people considered us unnecessarily backward... at least in England. Now, with there being so much "retrodelia" around, it doesn't matter. I suspect if our stuff is listened to in another fifty years or so, no one will care... if it's still around [he grins]... people will actually think we were contemporaries of the Kinks or something. 3.7: So where you fit in musically is different from what you're trying to do? RH: I'm just putting it in, if you like, general "music magazine" terms, because the music magazines are the people that "define" all of this [sarcasm dripping from every syllable]. 3.7: At what point should a musician let a political condition surrounding them seep into their work, you don't seem to let it enter yours... RH: Well, I don't think you should write about things you don't understand and don't know about. To me, politics and economics are so incredibly devious, I mean people are being starved to death and driven out of their homes, or for that matter, riding to luxury on the currency in English banks. Which is something we don't really understand, I mean it is human affairs but people talk about economics as if it's the weather. We don't apparently contro the weather... but we should be able to control the stock market, its a human organism. But we don't, the stock market seems like a virus with its owm will: it destroys people and makes them... if not at its own will, then at least in a way that's incomprehensible to us. I'm not interested in maths and I'm not interested in statistics. To deal with politics you have to manipulate all of these particular things. I can't write about that, it's just baffling. I'm a miniaturist, I'm more interested in the way light reflects on this glass... you know I can burble on about politics for hours, but I certainly can't put it into songs. If I did what would I come out with? "The verdict on Rodney King was wrong." Great! So Robyn Hitchcock tells you that. 3.7: Do some musicians make meaningful political commentary? RH: I've always admired Billy Bragg because he can articulate things basically. But very few people can... it's not a gift many songwriters have. 3.7: Two years ago you were here, and during your set you said that because you were British, part of you was always off somewhere "tidying and straightening up." Is being British always so tedious? RH: [laughs] No, I just use that as an excuse. You know, I can say that if I'm in the States, but I wouldn't say that if I were in Britain. I might say, "I've been in America a lot, so I've got to go and tidy up." It's like an anti-party chant, instead of saying "It's great to be in Charlottesville!" I say "It's great not to be in England." 3.7: Imagine you're in the middle of your set, can you give us a story? RH: A story? I haven't got any stories... there are increasingly fewer and fewer stories. I mean, I used to tell a lot of stories but it's been crowded out by the outside world. I don't know what relevance my stories have... sometimes it seems a bit escapist. I've been trying to make my stuff a bit more focussed, although I don't really know what the stuff is for... 3.7: But you do it? RH: Well I do it, but a bird builds a nest and it doesn't know why. Hopefully you have erections, but that doesn't necessarily mean you knwo why or what to do with them. It's just implanted in you... we are acting out things which we did not impant in ourselves. That's why I think if there was an election you should vote for the dead, because the dead are the people who put us here, but nobody anywhere says, "Vote for the dead!"... I mean the dead are the biggest influence on our lives. The dead caused the situation to happen. No really, I'm a realist now. 3.7: Now you are. RH: It's nice to tell a story if you feel like it, and I used to tell them at gigs and enjoy it. But the problem with stories is... people started saying, "Tell us a story Uncle Bob." And it became something like, "is he going to do something wacky tonight?" And I found that disturbing, because it became the norm. People expected me to open my head up and the plant came out. You know, the plant comes out when it wants to. [laughs] So these days I don't say too much... I just try to sing in tune. 3.7: So "singing in tune" is how you'd describe Robyn Hitchcock's new musical direction? RH: Well, no. [laughs] I'm working with Andy and Morris [of the Egyptians] trying to be musical... it's just harmonies. You know, it's incredibly normal stuff. It could have been written by some footballer. 3.7: You don't seem like the man who would sing, "I was walking up 5th AV, and balloon man came right up to me..." [From the album Globe of Frogs] RH: No, I wouldn't... I've sung that before. There's nothing like repetition to kill you off. I think it's really good to do everything once and move on. [end] Interview at Trax: Judah Chakoff and Stuart Gluck Photos: Marie Gantz and Tony Moon ed. note: there's also a little discography that lists up to "1991 - Perspex Island", and a little quote from the show that night: "it just goes to show love is the distance between reality and pain" --- Michael DeLong - UVa Department of Computer Science - mike@virginia.edu --- "You can't work it with your fingers so you try it with an axe" - R. Hitchcock [][][][][][][][][][] From: daramsey@vaxsar.vassar.edu Date: Wed, 12 Apr 1995 09:21:31 -0300 Subject: Don't complain 'bout t-shirts... To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Hey Josh...don't complain about t-shirt prices...compared to just about any other band I have ever seen (at least 30 or 40), Robyn's t-shirt prices were very very reasonable. Most bands are fond of charging at least $20 for their shirts. On the other hand, I wish the designs had been more pleasant. Oh well. daveR. "And when there's no more tears to cry, there's nothing left to do but laugh..." -Robyn Hitchcock ***another 100% natural S.M.I.L.B.U. production*** [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 09:45:47 -0400 (EDT) From: "Clinton W. Golden" To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Lyrics to "the Rat's Prayer" Hi Susan Mike DeLong went through and had a pretty good go at it. Here is the result (he just corrected and added on to what you and I had done). I thought I'd let you know and send you a copy. Thanks for your help! The Rat's Prayer (3:19) ---------------- I believe in all or nothing Sometimes in the early morning I believe in anything Hungry for the dusty war cries Hiding from a line of cat's eyes I believe in Natty Dread When the gods have shaved and spoken Soft their wells to spin unbroken Leaves to match the newly dead >From eye to eye the tumult gathers Victims work into a lather Take us with you when you go Up the trap door Down the sewer Off the slat shot shut they trossed Like a horn in ragged water And slitting up the slot spot cut >From wall to world the end is never Odd or strange or even clever Cleave it with an iron slice While Cook's below the frothing cinders Mend the skull of old Belinda Thudding on a bulb of ice Here is love and here is cancer Clean it velvet for the mince event To comes your aching teeth Rot the skin of past and future Tiny leads are bound to suture When they show through underneath Roar the waves so close and hollow A tide that must be satisfied Foam is fertilizing Rotting cleansing of the valiant rat ____________________________________ [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 09:49:29 -0400 (EDT) From: "Clinton W. Golden" To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: 2nd Rat's Prayer post: DISREGARD! I accidentally posted a message I was trying to send to Susan Even about the whole Rat's Prayer thing. Sorry about that! clint [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Tue, 11 Apr 95 09:54:56 EST From: "hollie satterfield" To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Tanya Donelly I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the last time I saw Robyn on an acoustic tour (1991 or so?), his opening act was a post-Throwing-Muses pre-Belly Tanya Donelly. [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 10:02:55 -0500 (CDT) From: JAY LYALL Subject: Top Ten Dead Line To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu I'm working under some sort of a curse right now, in the past three days I've totaled my car, screwed up my knees again, and have all my stuff in 50 unlabeled boxes in the middle of my living room and all of my clothes in a friends trunk across town...which I found out yesterday morning after a shower. SO submissions for the Robyn Top Ten are due by midnight on the 15th, after which you face substantial fines and penalties...wait, that for taxes...just have them in on the 15th... jay %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Jay Lyall "Capy Toad Blast" "You might remember me from other self-help hist1a@jetson.uh.edu videos like "Smoke Yourself Thin." --Simpsons "And others might be magicians, "We'll inherit the Earth, but he was special too, But we don't want it." he had antlers." --Replacements --Robyn Hitchcock %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 11:51:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Eugene B Mirman Subject: Surfer Ghost... To: Robyn We should definately create our own Surfer Ghost. I don't have the new songs yet, but soon, within a few weeks, I probably would...I would be willing to organize a tape tree. Unless someone else wanted to. I believe the Boston shows include most of the new songs, except "I Cheese You" or what ever that is exactly. But if people wanted to send me recent songs, I would gladly set up a tape tree so that everyone would have all the new and exciting songs! Well, anyone into this idea? The new songs I believe I will soon have: Sinister But Happy Statue With a Walkman I Am Not Me A Happy Bird Is A Filthy Bird Wide Open Star Beautiful Queen De Chirico Street Each Of Her Silver Wands She Worships the Sun Shuffling Over the Flagstones ------------------------------ The song I have never heard: I Cheese You (?) ------------------------------ Are there any other new songs being played this tour that I have missed? Would someone want to send me the I Cheese You song, or what ever the song is involving Cheese? If someone who already has all these songs wants to do this it's fine to, but I'm willing to put in all the time, so, if I get enough responces saying yes, and someone to supply all the new songs....we'll have our own Surfer Ghost! -Eugene ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I believe the whole concept of monotheism is a gift from the gods" -Emo Phillips Eugene's humor page: http://dawn.pc.cc.cmu.edu/~eugene/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [][][][][][][][][][] Date: 11 Apr 1995 10:45:25 U From: "King Chuck" Subject: RE: Tanya Donelly To: "fegmaniax" > I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the last > time I saw Robyn on an acoustic tour (1991 or so?), his opening act > was a post-Throwing-Muses pre-Belly Tanya Donelly. Was this about the time Eye was released? The Jody Grind opened for him here in Minneapolis. Chuck King King_Chuck@mn15-gw.mavd.honeywell.com Minneapolis MN P.S. Our turn is coming. Robyn plays Minneapolis one week from tonight. Any other Twin Cities fegs out there? [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 12:54:56 -0400 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu From: jojones@mailbox.syr.edu (John B. Jones) Subject: Re: Surfer Ghost... Eugene talks about Surfer Ghost tape: >Are there any other new songs being played this tour that I have missed? >Would someone want to send me the I Cheese You song, or what ever the >song is involving Cheese? There are two other songs that I know of--actually 3 (maybe): Surfer Ghost (he played this at KCRW-FM in Sep 94) Woman In You (he played this at Neurotic In-Store) Rabbit Train (Seattle, 1 May 93--this may be a tune he just made up, but during the show he mentioned that it is an "unfinished railway"--it only lasts about 2min or so and then he stops) There is also a version of Wide Open Star from Neurotic that has completely different lyrics than the one he played in Boston over the weekend. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- John B. Jones e-mail: jojones@mailbox.syr.edu LYRIC OF THE MONTH: "If life is a performance, and I am not an actor, am I supposed to lay down and die?" -Juliana Hatfield "Its good to see so many of you wearing glasses" -Robyn, Seattle, May 1, 93 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 12:55:49 EDT From: mikethompson aka Oliver Muxx-Wett To: FEGMANIAX@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: what's in a name, or two? _______________________________________________________________________________ "I've spent a lot of time on this to be be with you/ So please don't lock away your eyes" _______________________________________________________________________________ Dear ma'am/sir/non-specific humanoid (select one): Okay, here's where private obsession meets public speculation: on 4/10 Doug wonders at the juxtaposition of Joyce, Robyn's "mother's second name", and "in his mind he lay with Molly", from "the Yip Song", a song Robyn has linked explicitly to his father's death. Doug seems to be implying a possibly literal adultery; I propose a literary one, and a precedent and possible genetic basis for Robyn's vivid imagination. I'm unsure whether in British usage a second name denotes a middle name or a (maiden) surname (clarification, Brits?), but it doesn't impact my thesis (if I may use so grand a term) as family names are often used as middle names, either given at birth, or adopted upon marriage. If Hitchcock mater's people are of the Cork city Joyces, they who sent a son wandering exiled through both Europe and the farthest reaches of the human imagination, then the name Molly has resonances far beyond the personal and particular. For those who lack a certain patience with pretension I refer, of course, to Molly Bloom, of James Joyce's "Ulysses"; she with whom so many of us always lay, such an archetype she is, or has become. Given such a presumed family history it wouldn't strike me as strange that Hitchcock pater, lacking a certain lucidity in extremis, might imagine his wife as her quasi-fictional ancestral relation (Molly being the seed of Nora Barnacle fecundating the womb-imagination of Joyce). I suppose I should ask whether there's ever been any mention of Irish ancestry on Robyn's maternal side. And I must also hope, along with Thomas, that for his own sake Robyn doesn't read this list TOO often. mt/OM-W P.S. enjoyed both the in-store and the late show Saturday when he finally came on in each, even if the last show wasn't the pick of the litter to those who saw all three; but three opening acts! ^ /V\ / \ / \ /_______\ Go out upon the water And revise yourselves! [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 13:00:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Samuel Silverstein Subject: Re: Names in Robyn To: David Librik cc: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu On Mon, 10 Apr 1995, David Librik wrote: > "mamas like Joyce with a turned-up voice" is interesting 'cause Joyce IS > Robyn's mama, but who is Joanna with the modern-day manner? My money's on > "she's a name that scans and rhymes." I'm not sure, though... remember Joanna also turns up in "tropical flesh mandala"... 'somone told joanna what they're for'. I think "Susan" (Even??) is substituted in the Kershaw version. Or is it suzanna? In any case, it seems discussion along this lines is futile b/c there are as you say SO many instances of names... it would be like trying to catalog references to food or disease or animals. I do plan to include keywords in the robynbase lyrics link, after the songslist is converted and the concert tapes are catalogued (ie, quite a while from now most likely.) i do think it's an inteesting project, but you've got your work cut out for you Trystero.... "Sam" (last post in this guise) [][][][][][][][][][] From: mad5c@server.cs.virginia.edu Subject: Death takes a snack break To: Hitchcock Fan-List Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 13:46:04 -0400 (EDT) I just wanted to set the record straight on the naming of this picture: When I put the picture page together (http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~mad5c/fegmaniax/pictures.html) I needed something to name the paintings, so there would be something to click on, instead of just putting "click here" 8 times, so I came up with some captions. I even say on the page that these captions aren't official. They're just my descriptions of the pictures... Oh yeah - it occurred to me that I don't have the name of the fellow who made them available. Would whoever please drop me a line? I want to give credit where credit is due. Mike. --- Michael DeLong - UVa Department of Computer Science - mike@virginia.edu --- "You can't work it with your fingers so you try it with an axe" - R. Hitchcock URL du while: http://espnet.sportszone.com/ [][][][][][][][][][] From: mad5c@server.cs.Virginia.EDU Subject: Re: Robyn on the Net To: librik@netcom.com Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 13:52:37 -0400 (EDT) Cc: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Says David Librik: >> >> > Doug: Do you know about the Internet mailing list? >> > Robyn (says with resignation): I, I know. If I want to know what I've >> > been up to, I know where to look. >> > Mitch: We know what you do before you even do it. >> > (Robyn turns to finish talking to another guy, we all start to leave.) >> > Robyn: Happy internet surfing guys! >> >> Oh no. He _reads_ what I'm saying about him? I'm going to be really, really >> quiet from now on. I may be the only one, but I don't think this necessarily means that he has 'net access himself. I have a hard time picturing RRH sitting at a Mac doing the point-and-click thing. I wouldn't be surprised if 'sources close to' him have 'net access, though. Mike. --- Michael DeLong - UVa Department of Computer Science - mike@virginia.edu --- "You can't work it with your fingers so you try it with an axe" - R. Hitchcock URL du while: http://espnet.sportszone.com/ [][][][][][][][][][] From: BritPop@aol.com Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 14:02:33 -0400 To: Fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Weekend Madness Per Doug Wire: >I got to giggle hysterically as Ken and Mitch sang >backing vocals, triggered keyboards, >cha-cha'd and just generally did background-singer >things for Jill Sobule. Uh, hell--I thought the Chinese food and the 7:00 set was cool. DAMN! While Amy and I drank shakes at the rest stop heading home, the real fun was just starting! Anyway, this was the wildest show-going experience of my life. It was truly great to meet fellow music lovers. Glad I just hopped in my car for an impetuous 300 mile trip. (And thanks to Stephan Foskett, the coolest man on earth ;) for the tip.) And I agree with Horselover Phat about Belly. While we indulge our taste for the fairly obscure, we should try never let over-exposure kill the joy of any music for us. Hey, I like Robyn's "hits." And moving ever further off topic here, East Grinstead's other claim to fame comes from the trilogy plays, The Norman Chronicles. As the destination of some weekend tryts ;) Cheers All! Karen BritPop [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 14:31:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Eugene B Mirman Subject: Re: Surfer Ghost... To: "John B. Jones" Cc: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I believe the whole concept of monotheism is a gift from the gods" -Emo Phillips Eugene's humor page: http://dawn.pc.cc.cmu.edu/~eugene/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Tue, 11 Apr 1995, John B. Jones wrote: > Eugene talks about Surfer Ghost tape: > > >Are there any other new songs being played this tour that I have missed? > >Would someone want to send me the I Cheese You song, or what ever the > >song is involving Cheese? > > There are two other songs that I know of--actually 3 (maybe): > Surfer Ghost (he played this at KCRW-FM in Sep 94) > Woman In You (he played this at Neurotic In-Store) > Rabbit Train (Seattle, 1 May 93--this may be a tune he just made up, but > during the show he mentioned that it is an "unfinished railway"--it only > lasts about 2min or so and then he stops) > > There is also a version of Wide Open Star from Neurotic that has completely > different lyrics than the one he played in Boston over the weekend. Does anyone have these songs? Would they be interested in sending them to me for the Surfer Ghost compolation. Also, someone mentioned that there is the actual song "You & Oblivion" which doesn't appear on the album. Does anyone have that song? -Eugene [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 13:28:39 -0500 (CDT) From: JAY LYALL Subject: Re: Robyn on the Net To: mad5c@server.cs.Virginia.EDU Cc: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu >>> > Doug: Do you know about the Internet mailing list? >>> > Robyn (says with resignation): I, I know. If I want to know what I've >>> > been up to, I know where to look. >>> > Mitch: We know what you do before you even do it. >>> > (Robyn turns to finish talking to another guy, we all start to leave.) >>> > Robyn: Happy internet surfing guys! >>> >>> Oh no. He _reads_ what I'm saying about him? I'm going to be really, really >>> quiet from now on. > >I may be the only one, but I don't think this necessarily means that he has >'net access himself. I have a hard time picturing RRH sitting at a Mac >doing the point-and-click thing. > >I wouldn't be surprised if 'sources close to' him have 'net access, though. > >Mike. > Gotta agree with Mike on this one...and judging by Robyns comments on the GD sessions in the liner notes, one of the reasons he had problems with the producer was that the guy was always playing with his puter.... jay %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Jay Lyall "Capy Toad Blast" "You might remember me from other self-help hist1a@jetson.uh.edu videos like "Smoke Yourself Thin." --Simpsons "And others might be magicians, "We'll inherit the Earth, but he was special too, But we don't want it." he had antlers." --Replacements --Robyn Hitchcock %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 15:10:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Eugene B Mirman Subject: Surfer Ghost: other title. To: Robyn Many people have sugested that the "Surfer Ghost" album that will hopefully be compiled be called something else. Ok. We will not call it Surfer Ghost. Perhaps we should call it Phween! (pronounced you know how.) -Eugene ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I believe the whole concept of monotheism is a gift from the gods" -Emo Phillips Eugene's humor page: http://dawn.pc.cc.cmu.edu/~eugene/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [][][][][][][][][][] Date: 11 Apr 95 17:28:34 EDT From: Benjamin.M.Brainard@dartmouth.edu (Benjamin M. Brainard) To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu so, anyone going to the burlington show? will i be the only one there? i just called to reserve tix and the guy told me not to bother....anyone anyone? [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 17:46:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Bayard Subject: Re: Surfer Ghost: other title. To: Eugene B Mirman Cc: Robyn On Tue, 11 Apr 1995, Eugene B Mirman wrote: > > Many people have sugested that the "Surfer Ghost" album that will > hopefully be compiled be called something else. Ok. We will not call it > Surfer Ghost. Perhaps we should call it Phween! (pronounced you > know how.) If you do call it 'Phween!' I hope it's pronounced 'Surfer Ghost'.... ;) Probably it would be best to call it something not potentially reserved for an album (though it does seem unlikely either of those would be used).. what about 'Live Ghost'? ...too close to 'Live Death?' ---------------- Bayard's humor page: ERROR/FILE NOT FOUND [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 18:22:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Eugene B Mirman Subject: title... To: Robyn You & Invisible Phween...? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I believe the whole concept of monotheism is a gift from the gods" -Emo Phillips Eugene's humor page: http://dawn.pc.cc.cmu.edu/~eugene/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [][][][][][][][][][] From: mad5c@server.cs.virginia.edu Subject: Re: title... To: Hitchcock Fan-List Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 18:28:30 -0400 (EDT) I still like "Net-Surfer Ghost". RRH himself apparently made reference to 'internet surfing' when speaking to a fegster, so this seems excusable. Mike, taking a snack break. Says Eugene B Mirman: >> >> You & Invisible Phween...? --- Michael DeLong - UVa Department of Computer Science - mike@virginia.edu --- "You can't work it with your fingers so you try it with an axe" - R. Hitchcock URL du while: http://ucmp1.berkeley.edu/arthropoda/trilobita.html [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Tue, 11 Apr 95 18:47:04 EDT From: kenster@MIT.EDU (ostrander) To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: we don't need no stinkin' subject i saw robyn with the jody grind for EYE as well. i have enjoyed every single opening act he has had: poi dog pondering(these guys are great. their albums have gotten better and better.), toad the wet sprocket(who have achieved success, despite their name.), the jody grind(whatever happened to...?), jill sobule(by the way, i saw the video with fabio and i must admit that i thought he was the fat bald guy who sings "i'm too sexy" which is why i made that comment during her set saturday night.), deni bonet(the happiest band ever), the cake kitchen(one of the saddest), mineral(though i wish i had some earplugs. it's bad enough that i'm almost deaf.). >Boooooooooo!!!! No "Airscape" or "Birdshead" or "Surgery". surgery was the opener for the 7:00 show in cambridge >Are there any other new songs being played this tour that I have >missed? Would someone want to send me the I Cheese You song, or what >ever the song is involving Cheese? on the saturday setlist he gave me one of the songs listed is "direct to cheese". "a dirty bird is a filthy bird" was played at this point during the show. who knows? i too am quite pleased with the song he did play. >Many people have sugested that the "Surfer Ghost" album that will >hopefully be compiled be called something else. Ok. We will not call it >Surfer Ghost. Perhaps we should call it Phween! (pronounced you >know how.) i think that SURFER GHOST is a much better name for a pseudo-album compiled by folks on the net. a working title for a work in progress that may (but probably won't) surface officially. we have the blessing of our favorite pescophile to make such tapes anyway. his parting words to us: "keep surfing." ken "he's got no idea of love he wants to soil the virgin's glove sha la la" - evil guy [][][][][][][][][][] From: treefrog@netcom.com (Edward of Sim) Subject: Re: Surfer Ghost: other title. (fwd) To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 15:34:55 -0700 (PDT) > > Many people have sugested that the "Surfer Ghost" album that will > > hopefully be compiled be called something else. Ok. We will not call it > > Surfer Ghost. Perhaps we should call it Phween! (pronounced you > > know how.) > An alternative title for Surfer Ghost? How about "Nosliw Sinned"? peace -- Edward of Sim treefrog@netcom.com "SedaGIVE!?!?!?!?!?" [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 16:04:19 -0700 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu, Eugene B Mirman From: avarice@primenet.com (Christopher Donnell) Subject: Re: Surfer Ghost: other title. Cc: Robyn >> Many people have sugested that the "Surfer Ghost" album that will >> hopefully be compiled be called something else. Ok. We will not call it >> Surfer Ghost. Perhaps we should call it Phween! (pronounced you >> know how.) How about 'NetSurfer Ghost' (I'm just kidding!!!!!) _ Christopher 'The Man With The Lightbulb Head' Donnell / \ avarice@primenet.com \w/ www - http://www.primenet.com/~avarice _V_ [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 20:20:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Gary Assa To: Eugene B Mirman cc: Robyn Subject: Re: title... > You & Invisible Phween...? > what is this Phween? I saw in a records store as the upcoming releases from Robyn. Huh? [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 21:52:44 -0400 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu From: bourbie@tiac.net (bourbie) Subject: Re: Don't complain 'bout t-shirts... Actually for bands that play at TTs, that is a particularly high price (a la Worcester Centrum). Basically he's getting %200 profit - which is OK 'cause it's going to him and he'll hopefully take all that cash and make another record of his fucking brilliant music. I hate to say it, but when I saw Metallica in 1989, shirts were $15.00... Josh Joshua Pickering 75A Dover Street Somerville, MA 02144 617/666-1459 bourbie@tiac.net [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 22:18:19 -0400 From: wombat toga party To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: woj's lament/netsurfer ghost hey kids, i just flew back from halifax and boy do my arms hurt (ba-dump). bad attempts at humor aside, it was a fairly fruitful trip despite having played havoc with any chances of getting to see robyn this time around (first time since 1990 that's happened - bummerski). as those who were wondering might deduce from that last statement, i'm not going to make any of the ohio or michigan shows this week (alas). it would be nice, but with the spectre of paying for the vacation part of the haligonian excursion and the quickly-looming income taxes that need to be paid, i just can't afford either flying or driving out to catch the shows in cleveland, ann arbor or chicago. sigh. so, i shall continue to vicariously enjoy the concert reports and gnash my teeth silently. incidentially, if anyone needs a copy of the toad's place gig, i have a master made with my walkman-of-the-gods. my better half recorded it for me and it came out quite nicely. just a reminder: anyone who sends me a copy of a gig from this tour (either out of the kindness of their hearts or a trade) is automatically granted knight of thoth membership. yay. netsurfer ghost: david librik and i were planning a tape tree of this nature already. side one of the tape is the fabled neurotic records gig from last fall. side two will be new songs from all over. since i was already planning on working on this after getting back home, i don't mind taking it off the hands of whomever was planning on doing this...unless they really want to do it. up to them - whoever you are, please contact me and we'll work out the details. that's it for now. time for dinner (stir-fry - nyah nyah!) woj [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 22:33:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Bayard Subject: _glass flesh_ tribute nearing completion To: dark birds just a note about the tribute which is hopefully soon to be distributed... a couple of you expressed interest in contributing a while back, but had some time constraints-- if you have time to contribute in the next few weeks please email me and let me know what your timeframe is like. While I was gone I got some excellent songs from Mr Toad and Kevin Slick-- thanks. I still have the email addresses of those of you who have asked to be on the tape tree; that will be set up shortly and I'll be asking for additional addresses of interested people. Due to time considerations on the tapes (and the length of time it's taken for all of us to get together) this will really have to be the last call for songs (really really!) thanks. [][][][][][][][] 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@nsmx.rutgers.edu. Slipping you the midnight fish...