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 52 Today's Topics: ------- ------ Title for tape April 8th (#2) setlist Blinky and Anagrams Brenda's Iron Sledge lyric Jill Sobule Jody Grind Lollapalooza '93 Minneapolis Tickets More on trains... Socializing and videos Sound Clips from Boston Shows? Thought on Molly Title for tape chicago show jody grind spampology stuff [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Thu, 13 Apr 95 15:38 GMT+0200 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu From: hardaker@iaccess.za (Mike Hardaker) Subject: Thought on Molly This may be completely wrong, but somewhere in the grey, dusty back-rooms of my memory I seem to recall that one of Vera Lynn's hit songs of the 30s or 40s was about a girl called Molly. This may be relevant to The Yip Song, as the Raymond Hitchcock 'character' in the song may be remembering the war years. Of course, I may just be getting confused with 'Sally, the pride of the alley', which she certainly *did* sing, but something somewhere says there was a Molly too... Dunno. Mike [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 10:13:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Samuel Silverstein Subject: spampology To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu while checking in at this former account this morning, inorder to save/delete the last and most interesting list messages, I found a message from woj indicating that mike had replied to them. Please accept our apologies, everyone. While I'm at it, sorry for this one. Sam & Friends jeez, this sam guy has a lot of personalities, eh? [][][][][][][][][][] From: sprano@cvax.ipfw.indiana.edu Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 10:53:32 EST To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: jody grind On July 28, 1990 a group of friends and I saw RH on the EYE tour in a small, small club in Chicago called the Lounge Ax...it was the second of two shows and tix were a mere ten bucks! Even though at the time we didn't know about an opening act, it turns out that the Jody Grind were going to play. Inside the venue, it was hot as HELL! Sold out, and HOT! Sardine-city.Hot. We were ordering drinks just so we could melt the left-over ice into our foreheads! After a long delay, the opening act started setting up...Everyone was kinda miserable because of the heat and all, and, I'm sorry to confess now that we started yelling for "ROBYN!" and "fuck the opening act". We were just squashed in that place and sweating to death...we wanted Robyn...not a set by whoever. When the people on stage flipped us off for yelling, we yelled louder. Much to our embarrasment/amazement, when the band started playing, it turned out that these 'roadies' were actually THE BAND themselves! Well, it was the Jody Grind and they blew us away...a great surprise, and we were yelling for encores by the time they were finished...Kelly did an excellent revved-up version of "The Amazing Spider-Man Theme" from the old Saturday morning cartoon series! We went home, bought their CD, which wasn't near as good as the live show, but OK...and then later heard about the car crash. Drag. Glad we saw them...sorry we heckled like assholes... but we applauded like fans at the end. The Jody Grind! By the way, at that same show, Robyn was truly amazing...he came out and hung-out with the audience before and after the show, just chatting at the bar...During the show, myself and one of my aforementioned obnoxious friends were actually doing the 2nd 'Cynthia Mask' vocal (because RH was solo this show) and at the bar later I said, obyn, that was us singing with you on CM" and he said "Oh, that sounded good, keep it up!" I then asked him if he would draw me a cartoon ...he grabbed a pen and started drawing and then the pen ran out of ink before he was finished. He said "well, that was going to be a face...but now it's a fly in a dish!" (it does indeed look like a fly in a dish). I'm going back to Chicago this weekend for the Park West show...does anyone know if Robyn will be in the WXRT studios that afternoon? (April 15) [][][][][][][][][][] From: Raymond Glass Subject: April 8th (#2) setlist To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 12:00:07 -0400 (EDT) I got the setlist Robyn had on stage for the 2nd show @ TT's and, although almost true to a T, I would have liked to have heard "Ride". Anyway, here's the list although it's pretty much already been listed. BTW it was great to have been able to put some faces to the names on the members of this group. You guys were CRAZY!!!! (The list was written with a peculiar capital-letter style - the E's were all written backwards, like a certain letter in the Russian alphabet. In seeing samples of other things Robyn has written it doesn't seem to be his handwriting, although I suppose it could have been. Some of you guys got to see it so you know what I mean). Queen of Eyes Shuffling Over (open star) Q. Elvis E.O.H.S. Wands De Chirico St (with an arrow down to...) E. Cream Statue W.A. Walkman Devil's Coachman Dead Wife Direct to Cheese (filthy bird)(arrow down to...) Ride / I Something You Yip! --------------------------------------------------- Not Me B. Queen 52 Stns O.T. Stones Bleeding Heliotrope A little bit different - I gather he didn't do "Dead Wife" either since he did it in the Newbury Comics gig. Anyway, I loved the show but I thought that, had that crappy opening group Mineral not played, The Man could have done a couple of those good songs and not had been so rushed to get off the stage at 1AM. Just some thoughts.....Nora Glass from Boston Mass. rglass@lynx.dac.neu.edu Thanks for sharing the water with me and my friend in front of the mike.... [][][][][][][][][][] From: sprano@cvax.ipfw.indiana.edu Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 11:07:50 EST To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Lollapalooza '93 Here's another memory...At Lollapalooza '93...remember the "spoken-word" tent that they had set up with an open-mike? Well, my friends and I stumbled in there after having one-too-many "smart drinks" and witnessed a bunch of whiny alternateens spewing their personal venom at the (yawning) multitudes. We listened for awhile until we, too, were YAWNING!! So, Dave & I (hi dave) took the mic, jumped up on stage and said... "everyone seems so angry and agitated here in this tent...How 'bout a little song?" Sensing something possibly different here, the crowd half-heartedly encouraged us. So I went on! "This is a song by Robyn Hitchcock," I proudly yelled! "It sums up this whole fucking event!" And then we did a two-part harmony rendition (not too badly, I must say) of "uncorrected Personality Traits"! The crowd cheered wildly at the end and maybe we turned on some people to RH. It was the thrill of the show! (Primus and Fishbone were pretty good, also!) "The spoiled baby grows into...the escapist teenager who's...the adult alcoholic who's...the middle-age suicide! Oi!" [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Thu, 13 Apr 95 09:43:12 PDT From: lroberts@aristotle.bellahs.com (Laurence Roberts RD) To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Jody Grind I believe that some former members of the Jody Grind are now in Smoke. Smoke are from Georgia, and is fronted by a guy named Benjamin who has a Tom Waits-ish voice and sometimes dresses in drag. His old band was called the Opal Foxx Quintet, and one of the people who appears on that record is Deacon Lunchbox, who died in the same traffic accident as the members of the Jody Grind. I'm kind of vaguely remembering this stuff from a record company press release about Smoke. The Smoke and Opal Foxx Quintet records are on Long Play records -- they're kind of hard to find, but they are available from cdconnection.com. Part of the Opal Foxx record was produced by Michael Stipe, and Benjamin was supposed to have been influential on Stipe's coming out. Larry-bob lroberts@bellahs.com [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 10:36:53 -0700 From: camus@netcom.com (Julian Stewart) To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Jill Sobule > i don't think i'd call mca records a "very small independant label." No no. She has at least one pre-MCA record that was only distributed locally, so I'm told by the "cognescenti." -julian- re: Jody Grind-- I'd heard the entire band was killed in subsequent car accidents. Of course, I'm probably wrong. [][][][][][][][][][] From: daramsey@vaxsar.vassar.edu Date: Fri, 14 Apr 1995 13:44:23 -0300 Subject: More on trains... To: Fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Continuing the thread about trains, don't forget the quote from Robyn in the liner notes to the Ryko Soft Boys 2CD set: "What I'm about is long and inevitable- and I haven't finished yet. But it's a very long train, and you can't see the beginning or the end of it. It's just sort of endlessly pulling through the station. One day, it'll stop, and somebody'll get out and explain everything." 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: swfcooke@warren.med.harvard.edu Date: Thu, 13 Apr 95 13:44:11 EST To: Raymond Glass , fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Re: April 8th (#2) setlist Hi Nora Good to see you're a fan of very good music--I'm a big fan of RH too! Saw the Friday, early Saturday and Newbury Comics shows. Speaking of set lists, one of my prized possessions is the set list Robyn gave me after a Soft Boys gig back in 1977. I made some xeroxes of it, wangled my way backstage between sets on Saturday, and presented it to him (a copy, not the original!). He was a little shocked, to say the least, and promised to show it to Andy (Robyn and Andy had signed it for me at the Soft Boys gig). Take care, Stefan (your branch in the Neil Young ABD Vol.1 tree) _______________________________________________________________________________ Subject: April 8th (#2) setlist From: Raymond Glass at HMS-Internet Date: 4/13/95 12:58 PM I got the setlist Robyn had on stage for the 2nd show @ TT's and, although almost true to a T, I would have liked to have heard "Ride". Anyway, here's the list although it's pretty much already been listed. BTW it was great to have been able to put some faces to the names on the members of this group. You guys were CRAZY!!!! (The list was written with a peculiar capital-letter style - the E's were all written backwards, like a certain letter in the Russian alphabet. In seeing samples of other things Robyn has written it doesn't seem to be his handwriting, although I suppose it could have been. Some of you guys got to see it so you know what I mean). Queen of Eyes Shuffling Over (open star) Q. Elvis E.O.H.S. Wands De Chirico St (with an arrow down to...) E. Cream Statue W.A. Walkman Devil's Coachman Dead Wife Direct to Cheese (filthy bird)(arrow down to...) Ride / I Something You Yip! --------------------------------------------------- Not Me B. Queen 52 Stns O.T. Stones Bleeding Heliotrope A little bit different - I gather he didn't do "Dead Wife" either since he did it in the Newbury Comics gig. Anyway, I loved the show but I thought that, had that crappy opening group Mineral not played, The Man could have done a couple of those good songs and not had been so rushed to get off the stage at 1AM. Just some thoughts.....Nora Glass from Boston Mass. rglass@lynx.dac.neu.edu Thanks for sharing the water with me and my friend in front of the mike.... [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Fri, 14 Apr 1995 02:09:20 -0400 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu From: wire@trystero.iii.net (Trystero...) Subject: Socializing and videos dmayowel@access.digex.net signs off as: >doug > >(not the other (boston?) doug who seems not to care for the shift key, but >the wash dc doug who doesn't care for the shift key) I actually live in Wormtown (aka Worcester) MA, but Boston is close enough. Nice to know there are other dougs out there. Suzanne "New to the List" Wertheim writes: > Thanks to Doug for being a genial concert neighbor and telling me > about this list. You're very welcome; I'm glad to see you here. Gosh...two mentions in one digest. I just don't know if I can stand the fame. John B. Jones (jojones@mailbox.syr.edu) writes: >I personally think Surfer Ghost is a great name for the fegmaniax >compilation tape of recent new tunes, as I've heard that the real Surfer >Ghost was scrapped (title and all). > >But if you insist on alternates---given Robyn's affinity for anagrams, how >about an anagram for Surfer Ghost??? > >Forrest Guh (Forrest Hug????) How about "RH Tours Fegs"? It's the best I could come up with... ObHitchcock: Does anyone know just how many videos RH has done? I know about (but haven't seen) _Gotta Let This Hen Out!_. I've got a copy of _Brenda Of The Lightbulb Eyes_ (which contains "One Long Pair Of Eyes," "Madonna Of The Wasps," "Balloon Man," "Raymond Chandler Evening," the _Hen_ "Brenda's Iron Sledge," "I Often Dream Of Trains," and "The Man With The Lightbulb Head") and a promo tape I picked up for $2 with a video for "Beautiful Girl." MTV showed "So You Think You're In Love" and "Driving Aloud (Radio Storm)" at least once each. Anything else? doug (wormtowner) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Douglas .S. Bailey wire@trystero.iii.net 217 Park Avenue #111 or wire@iii.net Worcester MA 01609-2243 http://www.iii.net/users/wire.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------- it's just for now; it's just for now; even if it makes you happy... [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 13:37:20 -0500 (CDT) From: "Dolph Chaney, vox/gtr, PORT RADIUM" Subject: Re: Title for tape To: jojones@mailbox.syr.edu Cc: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Candygram for Mongo... er, sorry, I mean anagrams for Surfer Ghost Reg Hosts: Ruf! (pronounced "ROOOOOOF!" a la "Sometimes I Wish I Was A Pretty Girl") R. G. Short Fuse (or, Short Fuse: Gr!) Feg Short Rush South Feg RSHR Sorgh-Surf E.T. Fuss Thorger Ross Fer Thug! Set For Gush'r (or Set For Shrug or Set For Gursh or Set For Shug'r) OK, that's all I can handle right now; I'll try more later. (All done in my head; now my brain hurts! "No, no, my brain in my HEAD.") Dolph [][][][][][][][][][] Date: 13 Apr 95 15:53:49 EDT From: "N. Rob Leas" <74511.775@compuserve.com> To: Fegmaniax Subject: stuff I second the notion the "Brenda's Iron Sledge" is about Thatcher. I remember Robyn once explaining something about how the part "The ones on top are comfortable. They're sitting on a human chain." and the following lines were demonstrating that the occupants of the sled were an allegory of society in general. That is, the comfortable ones are thus at the expense of those underneath them. And Brenda, of course, "shovels on the worst." (or is it wurst?) Here's some more useless stuff: thugs rofers (refors? sorref?) gross thufer forrest hugs further sogs rugs for the s N. Rob Leas leasnr@btco.com <*** Music is the best. - FZ ***> [][][][][][][][][][] From: Andy Ruppenstein Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 13:08:03 -0700 To: owner-fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Re: Title for tape >But if you insist on alternates---given Robyn's affinity for anagrams, how >about an anagram for Surfer Ghost??? Here's my suggestions, in order of preference: Frets or Hugs The Gross Fur Thus for Reg's Thus Forgers Hers for Guts Rush Forgets Rust Go Fresh She Rust Frog For Reg's Huts Shut for Reg's --AR [][][][][][][][][][] From: Bpaige@aol.com Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 18:50:58 -0400 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: chicago show yeah i know i should have posted this a long time ago, but time ain't on my side . . . I will be at the show saturday night/park west if anyone wants to find me, just ask Mary who will be seating people from the entrance to the club (and likely wearing all black); shoulder length brown hair. she will probably know right where i am. Bill Paige [][][][][][][][][][] From: sprano@cvax.ipfw.indiana.edu Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 20:15:40 EST To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Brenda's Iron Sledge lyric Re: "worst" or "wurst" It's most definitely "wurst". If you look on the original 12" single, there is a beutiful Robyn cartoon of the words to the song. At the line "Brenda shovels on the wurst", he shows Brenda shoveling sausage-like items into the iron sledge (like a sled). All aboard! The first t-shirt I ever bought at a concert was another panel from the same cartoon sequence- A skeletal figure in a top hat smoking a cig thru a very chic cig-holder winks at the viewer and very matter-of-factly states,"please don't call me Reg..." The original cartoon was black and white...the t-shirt was in colour. Speaking of the sequential-art (comix) side of Robyn...I got the print from Rhino today in the mail...you know the 'limited edition lithograph offer' included with the re-issue series? It's two panels representing a part of the new short story "The Professor". It depicts Mrs. Bedde blowing into the chicken and turning it into an armchair. While blowing she thinks, "Simple..." and upon sitting in the new armchair in the second panel, she exclaims "...but EFFECTIVE!" Great cartoons featuring the stalactites and stalagmites in the tunnel and a little standing ash-tray globe-man reacting to the scene with an "!" Has anyone else gotten this yet? I'm wondering if there are other prints in a series or if this is the only design. He really seems to have done a lot of cartooning for this story, I wonder if a book is on the way. I think he should showcase his drawings and paintings more. Maybe a book, a comic, or a gallery showing of his stuff. I'd pay a concert price to see a retrospective in a gallery. Orgasmic! Does anybody know of a way to inquire about purchasing some original RH artwork (other than Mrs. Wafflehead, I've tried that)? Loosen your spine and bury your television! HAL Thanks in advance for any reponses. [][][][][][][][][][] From: sull0020@gold.tc.umn.edu Subject: Minneapolis Tickets To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 20:58:48 -0500 (CDT) I have 2 tickets to the RH show in Minneapolis on this coming Tuesday 4/18 that I'm not going to be able to use. If anyone would like to go and doesn't already have tickets, please e-mail me and we can make ar- rangements (probably I'd express mail the tickets). I'm asking face value, and I'll pay postage. --Ira Rosenblatt (sull0020@gold.tc.umn.edu) [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Fri, 14 Apr 1995 15:42:09 +1200 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James) Subject: Blinky and Anagrams >anyone know what's up with the Man's blinking? as someone else said: >"Its good to see so many of you wearing glasses" -Robyn, Seattle, May 1, 93 Just a thought, but does he wears contacts? They make me blinky, especially in situations where I sweat a lot (like under lights on stage...) --- >But if you insist on alternates---given Robyn's affinity for anagrams, how >about an anagram for Surfer Ghost??? > >Time only allows me to this one that I thought of tonight: > >Forrest Guh (Forrest Hug????) G! Our RH Fest!!! J. Joyeux Paques everyone... 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: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 23:51:23 -0400 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu From: jojones@mailbox.syr.edu (John B. Jones) Subject: Sound Clips from Boston Shows? Someone had suggested it, so I posted some in the .wav format, and the only note I got was from someone saying I needed to post them in a less arcane format, namely .au Well, I now have the program to tape them as .au files, but is there any interest???? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 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 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [][][][][][][][] 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...