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 65 Today's Topics: ------- ------ HITS (longish) interview Intro. + comment "Paisly Underground" "Paisly Underground" "Paisly Underground" (Quercio) ARK II Before I start... Fast Forward!! For those of you who don't read Dutch... Glass Flesh redux Miscellaneous news ... RE: trades with S.Friedman REM - Robyn Yip Song lets kick this around lotsabits my blank mail new album? tapes, GLASS FLESH tribute album [][][][][][][][][][] From: HOPEMS@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 19:46:36 -0600 (CST) Subject: Re: Fast Forward!! To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu About that 2 cd sampler: I saw the Hitsville House Band listed. I believe that's Wreckless Eric. Anyonehave info on this? (WE had a minor hit way back in '77 called "Whole Wide World"). --Mike [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 21:22:30 -0600 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu From: adavidw@infonaut.com (honeysuck enterprises) Subject: Re: Yip Song At 04:47 PM 4/25/95 -0400, KEN W wrote: >Speaking of the Yip Song (is that the actual name?), when Robyn did >it in Amherst, he introduced it as: "This song is about dying from >cancer." Then he went into it. I thought it was pretty amusing. > > >Ken >kw1247@cnsvax.albany.edu > I've always thought that the Yip Song is one of the saddest songs I've ever heard. I've cried a couple of times hearing it, just thinking of the truthful inspiration behind it. -david [][][][][][][][][][] From: "Rich Swartzwelder" To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 00:58:53 +1100 Subject: HITS (longish) A friend gave me this article today. It's in the April 24th issue of HITS magazine. Enjoy. TIME FOR A TEXAS-STYLED HOEDOWN WITH ROBYN HITCHCOCK by Jason Cohen & Michael Krugman Erstwhile Soft Boy, bizarre and brilliant solo artist, writer, painter, all-around renaissance man - Robyn Hitchcock hardly needs an introduction. Currently touring America as a solo performer and preparing to move into a new house in London, Robyn has 10 records out at the moment - a 7" single on Calvin Johnson's K Records, and, from the scrupulous folks at Rhino, a collection of previously unreleased material (_You And Oblivion_), along with eight heavily bonus-tracked reissues of classic non-A&M albums like _I Often Dream of Trains_, _Gotta Let This Hen Out_ and _Eye_. A new record -and a new record deal- are on the horizon. HITS met up with Hitchcock, looking dapper as usual in a sharp white suit, on the shores of Austin's Town Lake, smack in the middle of SXSW festivities, where he was forced to suffer questions by starstruck fan Jason Cohen [who was once what Robyn would call a "Glauberite"], with occasional interlocution from Michael Krugman [who has always thought of himself as a Trotskyite]. Get out your thesauri, kids! HITS: So why are you here at SXSW? Robyn: All the people that I've met in the business in the last ten years are here. I haven't seen them all, but I know they're here. It's beautiful, this whole crowd... it's sort of the Glauber Generation. I know Karen hand-picked everybody in L.A. and put them where they are today. Karen loves to be talked about - Hi, Karen! Our paths may diverge, because I think she's staying alternative, and I'm going triple A. I was one of the first alternative artists, but "alternative" was always a meaningless term; it's not like you could sit on the porch and play a country song, or a blues song, or a folk song, but y'know, what's an alternative song? [adapts Southern accent] "Hey grandpa, play us some alternative!" I'm basically a song writer - another of those hind-legged creatures. So now I'm like William Shatner in the latest "Star Trek"; I'm handing my bit of the baton over before I move on. H: Then we'll have to kill you. RH: Well, I'm going to die of something, I might just as well be killed by people in the music business. I think it's one of the highest forms of flattery. H: Now, I haven't heard the K single yet... RH: Well, nobody's heard the K single. It came out, but you can't find it anywhere. There's three new songs - one's called _I Something You_. One of them is called _Zipper In My Spine_ and there's another one called _Man With A Woman's Shadow_. I recorded them very fast at Calvin Johnson's - we started upstairs, and then they wanted to make supper, so we moved down into the basement and they were making soup. H: Your father was a thriller novelist? RH: He had various stories out, but his best things were never published. He had one where Stonehenge was made invisible by the MI5, and everyone who witnesses this act is put into a mental institution, and then Merlin reappears, and he's a new age hippie traveler - Morgan LaFey is his hippie chick - and they wouldn't publish it! I don't know why. He wrote another one where there's a new God in power who decided to put everyone's sex organs under their armpits instead of their crotch. And there's another one where a woman gives birth to a rubber tire. I think it was a sa-tire. H: So this is a genetic thing. RH: Well, I'm certainly descended from my father. I'm probably a pretty different personality than him, but he definitely had ideas, and unfortunately, his ideas weren't marketed. Because unlike me, he didn't go out and schmooze. I really like schmoozing; that's why I'm here. He'd have loved the audience but he didn't get that opportunity. Maybe he got more done. H: Are the Egyptians on the new material? RH: We had a sort of three-legged race for ten years, and I think we just got tired. We still see each other, but in terms of producing a record... maybe we'd do another one at some point in the future, but it just got stale. It's very important to actually arrange stuff myself. It's a matter of empowerment. Ten years ago, the material wasn't strong enough for me to go out on my own; I think now it is. Also, I don't see myself as a rock performer, specifically - I'm an entertainer, I know my marketplace is intellectuals and hippies. So be it - I see myself as entertaining those types of people for the rest of my life, with songs, stories, books and paintings. Having said that, we'll presumably get a deal with a record label and there will things saying "eccentric English rocker," but I'm not, really. I've really got no more to do with rock music than Laurie Anderson does. H: Tell us about the Rhino reissues... RH: I think you're mad if you listen to them all the way through. But there's some quite good stuff. I did some post-cosmetic archeology - I overdubbed some of them. H: Which are your favorite albums? RH: My favorite Egyptians album is _Fegmania_ because it was a really good vibe playing together after a long break, and it's the most consistant set of songs. _Trains_ and _Fegmania_ are probably the peaks on the Rhino set. I think the first sort of quasi-grown-up record was _Element of Light_, then I had a big relapse with _Globe of Frogs_, which was all kinds of rent-a-Hitchcock, fish insects and crawling things. _Queen Elvis_ is my other favorite Egyptians album, which I think was brilliant and because it was on a major label I think it was a bit underrated - the community of the hip didn't take it that seriously. That's it! Rich swartzwelder@wvusa.u92.wvu.edu [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 16:12:31 +1200 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James) Subject: lotsabits There is a point to all this top 10 list business... say I like Robyn, Billy Bragg, The Church and XTC, and I see someone else list "RH, BB, XTC, The Church and The Urglesplats". "Hmmm," I'd say to myself, "I've never heard from them, but if someone with obvious musical taste like that likes them...", I find some new music, and the Urglesplats find a new fan. These ubiquitous fave-fests help us find out other groups that we might not otherwise discover. --- As a fan of the lush full-band sound, may I just say Egyptians, RIP. I'll miss ya. The bassplaying in particular will be missed (again, as I've said before, listen to something like knife...) --- Yay, Glass flesh is coming! Good work Bayard! May 13th... ah well, there goes my chance to do a last minute Steeleye Span influenced Lady Waters... --- Insanely Jealous contains possibly my all time favourite RH line (the simile about the crocodile) --- Other Eno & Robyn fans out there... could Clean Steve be Blank Frank's brother? :) Just my little shiny copper coin showing a kowhai flower and picture of the queen... James Oh, and PS: Darrell, get either Fegmania or Globe of Frogs :) 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, 27 Apr 1995 16:13:39 +1200 To: billy-bragg@fish.com From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James) Subject: Before I start... Cc: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu, chalkhills@presto.ig.com Before I start I'd like to apologise for this, and I'll make the message brief. I'm going to get into trouble for this, because I'm crossposting it, and I apologise to those of you who see this more than once... Several of the mailing lists I'm on have been talking about "Englishness" of their favoured artist: Robyn Hitchcock, Billy Bragg, XTC... and all frequently mention other artists liked (the Hichcock list's just gone through a big "who else do you like" session). Two artists have ben conspicuous by their absence on these lists though - Richard Thompson and Roy Harper. Are there any fans of either of these distinctly English artists who are also members of this list? James [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Wed, 26 Apr 95 15:12:00 EDT From: KeN SaBaTiNi Subject: Intro. + comment To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu hello all, I recently subscribed to the digest version of this list--thanks for getting me straightened out Woj!!! Super brief: I first bought a Robyn album in ... I think it was 1986, in a small record shop in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, owned by a guy who was a huge fan of Robyn's. I think I started with Fegmania, followed by the CD with Robyn and the hot peppers on the cover-- oh, what was it? It was an album of then-unreleased tracks. I just had a pain in the *** exam in Multiple Regression, that's my only explanation for my amnesia about the title. Wow, I am getting boring pretty quick. Anyway, Robyn's been one of my most listened to artists since then. I've seen him many times acoustic and a few times with the band, and while I agree that his acoustic shows tend to be less crowded, more intimat e, and showcase his talent more directly, there is definitely a give and take between him solo and with Morris and Andy. What is missing (when they are at their best) is the increased energy of the show, the freedom for Robyn to move about more and be less reliant on (constrained by) his guitar, the harmonies, bass work, percussion, synthesizer, etc. The thing about the full band show is that Robyn can get a little feisty and do some rockin', followed by playing a mini-set of acoustic songs. Thus, he can even more display his virtuousity. The cost is apparent in the intimacy department--seeing him solo is quite an experience, its like your in his living room with him. To conclude: When I saw Robyn with Andy and Morris on the REspect tour, it was an incredibly fun show. They all seemed to be truly having a great time on stage, and the full sound the three of them put out was impressive. So long! Ken ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ Ken Sabatini ~ ~ University of Georgia ~ ~ Athens, GA ~ [][][][][][][][][][] From: BRUCE%TOYVAX@Arizona.EDU Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 02:52:59 -0700 (MST) Subject: ARK II To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Listened to the second show of the ARK concert..... Acoustic 1. Queen Of Eyes 2. Madonna Of The Wasps 3. Chineese Bones 4. I Used To Say I Love You 5. Egyptian Cream 6. Keriko Street 7. Statue With A Walkman 8. Glass Hotel 9. Balloon Man 10. I Something You 11. Queen Elvis 12. Yip Song Electric 1. I'm Not Me 2. She Doesn't Exist Anymore 3. Bleeding 4. Driving Aloud 5. Only The Stones Remain 6. Listening To The Higsons I think I forgot Beautiful Queen because I remeber hearing it again tonight. I havee to say that I was glad he did Onl;y The Stones Remain but it seemed to wander a bit .... its a song that REALLY deserves a backbeat..... And on Listening to the Higsons.... It would have sounded way better if the audience had clapped to the beat. Songs Like Bleeding , Queen Elvis and She Doesn't Exist are perfect and sound great they way the are presented but on the others there is just too much missing for me..... On Driving aloud Deni keeps the beat well and really brings out the energy of the song. If she had played on Higsons and Stones I guess that would have made a freak like me happy :) I was not as enthusiatic as I hoped about his new stuff. I mean I'm Not Me and Beautiful Queen are GEMS and would be awsome with Egytianistic acompanyment.... but the others seemed like re-hashes to me. bh [][][][][][][][][][] From: mikester@bix.com Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 07:59:14 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: tapes, GLASS FLESH tribute album To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu >Glass Flesh contributors: your deadline is upon you! That also means I need the info from the rest of you too. ---Mike (Nickname o' the month - "Rickenbacker Boy") [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Thu, 27 Apr 95 07:46:34 EDT From: woj at work Subject: Re: ARK II To: the pleasure of the aching void bruce says: >I was not as enthusiatic as I hoped about his new >stuff. I mean I'm Not Me and Beautiful Queen are GEMS and would be awsome with >Egytianistic acompanyment.... but the others seemed like re-hashes to me. hmmmm. i've become exceptionally fond of "sinister but happy," which i think is wonderful with deni bonet's violin - there's a certain bounciness (a reverse arpeggio? i'm not musically trained, as you can tell) that twists a few chords in the ol'soul there. "statue with a walkman" hasn't really sunk in yet. "dechirico street" (which i probably spelled wrong yet *again*) is fun and goes good with the violin. so...i guess i'd say that the new material seems promising and that i'm looking forward to a studio collaboraion between robyn and deni (fingers crossed). woj (i'm writing this from work since i was having some problems with my local connection last night and this morning. before anyone complains about james' mutiple empty messages, i've noticed them and will try and figure out what's going on as soon as i get a chance.) [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 14:05:44 +0200 From: packwood@cs.utwente.nl (Lynn E. Packwood) To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: For those of you who don't read Dutch... Cc: packwood@cs.utwente.nl ...here's a quick translation of the gen from the Fast Forward Festival brochure. Lynn ---------------------------------------------------------- ROBYN HITCHCOCK "The Soft Boys broke up and their career began" is what Robyn Hitchcock, somewhat cynically, says about his first band. The Soft Boys was a brilliant band from London that concocted sheer magic with the help of equal measures of Beatles, Barrett, Beach Boys and Beefheart and Hitchcock was a songwriter who, at the end of the seventies, could not be equalled. After the Soft Boys he started his solo career and made records both with and without his accompanists the Egyptians. Recognition followed - especially in America - which resulted in, amongst others things, playing and touring with REM. In the eighties he made a great number of records - all of which are very worthwhile. Especially the ones recorded with only guitar and piano such as `I Often Dream of Trains' are simply masterly. His songs can vary from light-hearted and full of humour to bitter love stories and leave no-one who is exposed to them unmoved. Besides making music Hitchcock paints - exhibiting his work on the West Coast of America - and has plans to make more spoken- word CDs of short stories. Robyn Hitchcock will appear solo at Fast Forward solo and play acoustic guitar and piano. We are glad to be able to welcome this living legend on a Dutch stage again for the first time in years. ----------------------------------------------------------- [][][][][][][][][][] From: jturner@rpms.ac.uk (Jonathan Turner) Subject: Miscellaneous news ... To: owner-fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Date: Thu, 27 Apr 95 13:41:06 BST [knock knock!] This week's Melody Maker has The Soft Boys featured in their regular weekly 'whatever happened to' spot. Includes the 'news' that 'Robyn has just completed recording his 13th album' and 'The Soft Boys will be touring the US next year'. Well, it would be nice if they did... (Issue dated 29th April; photo of Soft Boys, Robyn with scissors but no beard) [who's there?]] More gossip from Positive VibrAidan that I didn't get around to typing in yesterday (my comments in brackets): [stat!] Mrs Wafflehead claims the new album will be released on February 6th (seems odd, since I'm not aware of Robyn having a label yet) [stat who?] There are two new t-shirts (I don't know what the designs are. Buy them at the shows, since Mrs W takes forever to deliver) ['stat you with a walkman?] 'Statue With A Walkman' will be appearing on a Virgin-only compilation CD. (I don't know if it's a compilation of all otherwise-available Robyn stuff, or a various artists compilation. I don't know if it is the same take as the fast forward CD. Jonathan (with a dead walkman) [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 00:31:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Glass Flesh redux Mark, your "kickmail" system is booting all my messages back to me. As the cover art is going to be scanned anyway, I was thinking of doing that myself and sending it to you electronically-- what format is best for you? Please email me at my new address, walden@universe.digex.net. To those contributors who have not yet provided tapes, I can accept blanks, live tapes, or checks. I won't charge for additional costs such as postage or DAT copying facilities but generosity is, of course, appreciated. Anyone with a DAT player: please contact me about being a top level member of the tape tree, if interested. Everyone else: please wait until I'm at my new email home before inquiring about the tree. As to Bruce's idea about clapping along with Robyn-- I've seen audiences start to do this a couple of times; he usually comments, stil strumming away, "It's no use clapping along with me, my timing's terrible." (not to make this a racial issue or anything, but we'd probably do more harm than good, most of us.) to quote the man: "We're not funk-ass dudes or anything." [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 09:57:13 -0500 (CDT) From: JAY LYALL Subject: REM - Robyn To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu There is some sort of influence there...its hard to believe that Robyn writes his songs in a vaccum isolated from friends and events around him, look at the way his fathers death manifested itself on the Respect album. I think that it is slightly more than a coincidence that Robyn works with Buck and Stipe on PI an album with a great deal of production polish at the same time REM's albums are also taking on greater levels of production work. I find it hard to believe that Stipe and Buck just walked in played their roles then left for a burger and a coke without commenting on what they heard and making a few suggestions. Finally I think it is also telling that after Robyn finishes a stadium tour with REM he turns his sights to Eye, an album with low production value and without a band. Remember Robyn did mention that he was considering moving to Seattle because his buddy Peter Buck was doing alot of work up there. To say that there is no REM influence on Robyn is a stretch jay %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Jay Lyall "Capy Toad Blast" "Why isn't phonetics spelled the way it sounds?" hist1a@jetson.uh.edu -Steven Wright --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: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 12:16:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Terry Franklin To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: new album? So when is the new album coming out??!? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Terry L. Franklin Subject: Re: Before I start... To: James cc: billy-bragg@fish.com, fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu, chalkhills@presto.ig.com As a matter of fact, I am a huge fan of both Harper and Thompson. I am a new "Feg" so I have not yet posted my lists yet. Check back in a few days. On Thu, 27 Apr 1995, James wrote: > Before I start I'd like to apologise for this, and I'll make the message > brief. I'm going to get into trouble for this, because I'm crossposting it, > and I apologise to those of you who see this more than once... > > Several of the mailing lists I'm on have been talking about "Englishness" > of their favoured artist: Robyn Hitchcock, Billy Bragg, XTC... and all > frequently mention other artists liked (the Hichcock list's just gone > through a big "who else do you like" session). Two artists have ben > conspicuous by their absence on these lists though - Richard Thompson and > Roy Harper. Are there any fans of either of these distinctly English > artists who are also members of this list? > > James > > > [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1995 09:13:46 +1000 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James) Subject: re: my blank mail Apologies to everyone who has received blank mail from me in the last few hours. Seems that the system I'm on had a glitch in it, caused by some idiot on another list sending 1.2 MB of material... Since then, blank messages have been automatically generated. I'm onto it, and hopefully it should have stopped by now (I would have caught it sooner, but it started at about midnight, and I was having an early night...). Again, sincerely sorry to everyone inconvnienced. 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: Thu, 27 Apr 95 14:19:17 From: Russ Reynolds To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: "Paisly Underground" Robyn has often been mentioned as being the Father of the Paisley Undergound, in so many words. (I think the liner notes to one of the reissues mentions his influence on this early eighties movement). I'm wondering if anyone has any old interviews with some of the bands associated with the Paisley Underground, where Robyn is mentioned, maybe cited specifically as an influence. and while we're on the subject, does anyone know whatever happened to The Three O'Clock? No one had a better psychedelic sound than those guys in their heyday. Russ rreynolds@ksjo.com [][][][][][][][][][] From: Andy Ruppenstein Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 14:54:18 -0700 To: owner-fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Re: "Paisly Underground" Russ Reynolds writes: >...and while we're on the subject, does anyone know whatever happened to The >Three O'Clock? No one had a better psychedelic sound than those guys in >their heyday. Last I read, the last Three O'Clock material to come out was a reissue on one cd by Frontier of 16 Tambourines and Baroque Hoedown, ca. 1991. I haven't heard it, so can't comment. Michael Quercio's (ex- Game Theory and Three O'Clock) most recent project that I know of is called Permanent Green Light. Had two albums out on Rockville/Dutch East India: Permanent Green Light (1992), and Against Nature (1993). I have the latter, and it's OK, but not great. I've read a couple things on the 'net which would lead one to believe that Permanent Light did/didn't break up. Can't say that anything I've heard by Permanent Green Light reminds me of Hitchcock. Andy / ruppen@demog.berkeley.edu [][][][][][][][][][] Date: 27 Apr 95 18:11:23 EDT From: Benjamin.M.Brainard@dartmouth.edu (Benjamin M. Brainard) Subject: Re: "Paisly Underground" To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu --- Russ Reynolds wrote: I'm wondering if anyone has any old interviews with some of the bands associated with the Paisley Underground, where Robyn is mentioned, maybe cited specifically as an influence. --- end of quoted material --- no, but funny enough, I did read an interview with Dan Baird, of Georgia Sattelites fame (if one can call it that) who cited robyn as a big influence on his songwriting. This of course means that somehow "Queen of Eyes" has been translated into "Keep Your Hands to Yourself" oh yeah, baby. no huggy, no kissy 'til i get a wedding ring... [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1995 10:48:22 +1000 To: chalkhills@presto.ig.com, billy-bragg@fish.com, fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu, seance@thechurch.EBay.Sun.COM, ambient-digest@hyperreal.com, toby@cs.man.ac.uk, Nerve_Net@NOC.Pue.Udlap.Mx, chalkhills@presto.ig.com From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James) sorry about this folks but.. some wazzock sent over 1MB to a list I'm on, and my disk got jammed. If anyone sent me mail between 5pm Wednesday and 5pm Thursday NZ time (late Tuesday night to late Wednesday night US time), then I may not have received it. Re-sending any messages would be much appreciated. James [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 22:02:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Doug Mayo-Wells To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Re: "Paisly Underground" (Quercio) On Thu, 27 Apr 1995, Russ Reynolds wrote: > > and while we're on the subject, does anyone know whatever happened to The > Three O'Clock? No one had a better psychedelic sound than those guys in > their heyday. > > Russ rreynolds@ksjo.com > Michael Quercio, who pretty much *was* the three o'clock, was briefly with the very last incarnation of game theory, and then in a band called permanent green light, who put out a cd, but i think they've broken up now... i *really* wish someone would re-release "arrive without travelling" on cd...that was a good 'un...at least i've got my 16 tambourines... [][][][][][][][][][] From: OLDSCHREC@aol.com Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1995 00:05:02 -0400 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: RE: trades with S.Friedman Dear Stacy?? Just got your vid dub and two tapes. One for the sound opinions show but I can't remember what the other one is for. My old e-mail was gone so I have to contact you via fegmaniax. Sorry.... Pete [][][][][][][][][][] From: mikester@bix.com Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1995 00:32:09 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: lets kick this around To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu >This would make sense, except that the songs he actually does with Buck and >Stipe, "Dark Green Energy," "Birdshead," and "Flesh Number One," are some >of the best songs from that period. Not to mention "Chinese Bones" and "Madonna Of The Wasps." > I think you'll have to lay the blame for the LA-Rock-Mediocrity at someone >else's door. I'd put my money on A&M (aka "Home of the Carpenters") than on any influence that REM may have had on him. Money's a powerful thing, and when the record label is waving $$$ under your nose for the _specific_ purpose of recording, I think that the artist, no matter _who_ it is would tend to spend it. They wanted albums with big production values, and they were willing to pay for it. ---Mike (Nickname o' the month - "Rickenbacker Boy") [][][][][][][][][][] From: "Eden Aurora Machell" To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1995 02:30:07 +1100 Subject: interview I'm planning to interview Robyn in London sometime in May and would love any contributions (this means you Andy, since you mentioned it earlier). Any questions you are burning to ask send along and I'll do my best. I'd like to study up for this interview so if any of you have any old interviews that haven't been posted in the last month, I would be unbelieveably grateful if you could e-mail me or send a photocopy to me at: E.A.Machell 228 Riverview Ct., #1 Morgantown, WV 26505-5961 I realize this is a big favor, but I really want to do my homework and have a great interview. I'm hoping to get some pix since I'm also photographer, so maybe we could trade... I'm leaving May 11, so I need questions, etc. by then. 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...