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 72 Today's Topics: ------- ------ A talk with 'Tanya Donnely' (no relation) Naff Ptolemaic Terrascope pt. 7 RE:a message from Robyn Robyn at mid-life a message from robyn fegmaniax tape tree [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Sat, 6 May 1995 15:52:54 -0400 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu From: tmitchell@lanl.gov (Travis Mitchell) Subject: fegmaniax tape tree Woj, Hi, I'd like to be in the tape tree. I have dubbing capability, though one of the decks is quite old. Travis Mitchell tmitchell@lanl.gov Thanks for setting this up. Cheers, Travis [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Sat, 6 May 1995 13:25:20 -0700 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu From: avarice@primenet.com (Christopher Donnell) Subject: A talk with 'Tanya Donnely' (no relation) Hey... I forgot to mention this (I kinda got caught up in something, I guess) but last week Belly performed here in Phoenix. My friend (who works at a college radio station up in Flagstaff) and I interviewed her after the sound check and it was the average interview (well, I'd say it went well) - and after the interview we were talking... she was interested in some of the Frank Black shows I'd seen and she eventually noticed that I was wearing a Robyn Hitchcock shirt and we talked a little bit about him. She mentioned that they had recently become pretty good friends and that she was intrigued by 'his idea for his next album' which turned out to be that he is thinking of recording small groups of songs in different cities (I think all in the US) and that she might play on one or two of his songs. Nothing terribly exciting... but at least we know that he does plan to make another album.. :) Take it e-z.. _ Christopher 'The Man With The Lightbulb Head' Donnell / \ avarice@primenet.com \w/ www - http://www.primenet.com/~avarice _V_ [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Sat, 6 May 1995 14:12:27 -0700 From: librik@netcom.com (David Librik) To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Re: a message from robyn woj forwards this message from Robyn: >Message follows: > >"Do they know what I'm doing next?" Why, yes, Robyn -- you're recording _I Am Not Me_ with the Soft Boys. Always glad to help. - David Librik librik@cs.Berkeley.edu [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Sun, 7 May 1995 16:45:56 +1200 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James) Subject: Re: Naff Cc: seanbe@microsoft.com >Subject: naff? >RH: Well, it's got harmonica on it-- all you've got to do is play a bit of >naff harmonica and you immediately sound like Bob Dylan. > > >>naff? wot? a great sounding word, but can anyone define it for me? >i may need to use it soon as i am spending 3 weeks in England (missing >all of RH's gigs, dagnaggit but i hope to locate pl;aces such as East >Grinstead and a chalk horse). Naff = dangerously uncool and liable to damage your street cred. Definitely dodgy in a taste conscious sense. As to the white horse, try the one at Uffington in the Vale of the White Horse, Gloucestershire (the one on XTC's English Settlement album cover) 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) [][][][][][][][][][] From: bc80233@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu Date: Sun, 7 May 1995 09:25:16 -0400 (EDT) To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Re: Naff On Sun, 7 May 1995, someone (???) wrote: > >naff? wot? a great sounding word, but can anyone define it for me? > >i may need to use it soon as i am spending 3 weeks in England (missing > >all of RH's gigs, dagnaggit but i hope to locate pl;aces such as East > >Grinstead and a chalk horse). > I believe the word is dagnabit. Not sure on the spelling, but it's definitely a "nab" and not a "nag" sound. To further expand your "old prospector" vocabulary, consarnit also is commonly used in mining town watering holes. Just thought I'd mention it. You wouldn't want to go someplace and use words incorrectly. Because then everyone would know that you were just using the word in a failed attempt to fit in and be cool. And consarnit, that would just be....well....um.....that would be naff. Wouldn't it? Ben McTernan bc80233@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu [][][][][][][][][][] From: OLDSCHREC@aol.com Date: Sun, 7 May 1995 11:44:06 -0400 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Ptolemaic Terrascope pt. 7 PT: You recently did the Soft Boys reunion tour, giving you the chance to rake over the old material. How much of it held water with you? RH: I felt like an old actor squeezing himself into a corset to play Hamlet. My feelings have changed enormously since the Soft Boys. All those songs I wrote back then feel like work in a very narrow emotional spectrum. On the other hand the music is very "up"; there's a very high testosterone level. They're not songs I'd choose to do regularly-- it was like exhuming something really. Like restoring an old vehicle and driving around in it. You couldn't drive very far, but at least you could get it going before it conked out again for another ten years. I thought a few of the songs were quite good, "The Pigworker" was fine. But you see me live now and I'm drawing on nearly 20 years worth of songs. The Soft Boys songs stop in 1980, that's only 6 years worth of stuff. My songwriting has changed since then, and so have my feelings. I think The Soft Boys was kind of one and a half trick pony; I do think they were good, and it was nice playing to a pretty well packed Astoria when in their day, I don't think the band ever played to more than 300 people. [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Sun, 7 May 1995 12:43:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Carl Abraham Zimring To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Robyn at mid-life Ok...I would feel this inquiry was overly nosey and uncalled for if I hadn't just raided the fegmaniax! interview archives where for a couple of years Robyn's singing his praises of "my great girlfriend/fiancee/Cynthia" as helping him out of his late 80's funk. Then nothing until the last year, where Robyn is now with Michelle and referring to 92-93 as when he was in a mid-life crisis "feeling constipated.... I nearly got married" and indicating that he was feeling much better about himself now. (This last bit from the Sound Opinions interview - thanks Pete!). This finds its way into his songs, to wit: "At least I haven't got a wife" from "I Something You." So... Robyn alludes constantly to his relationships in both his interviews and his songs...given this apparent openness, I do not feel entirely unjustified in wondering what happened somewhere around 1993-1994 that so markedly changed his personal life. If anyone wishes to shed light on this mystery, I'd be curious to know. If everyone thinks this is a breach of RH's privacy, we can let this thread die. In any event, I am glad to hear Robyn's recording again in a stripped down setting and am anxiously awaiting the passing of the next several months so I can hear the results. Cheers, Carl [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Sun, 7 May 1995 20:07:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Gary Assa To: wombat toga party cc: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Re: a message from robyn > the following message arrived in the mailbox earlier today. for reasons > i can not divulge, i am sure of its authenticity. do with it what you > will. > > >a message has suffused through from Mr Hitchcock,he would like you to > >pass it on to the Fegs List.Please respect the usual confidentiality of > >this connection or I will not be allowed to use it again! > >Message follows: > > > >"Do they know what I'm doing next?" > This kinda sounds like something out of 2010: "...somthing wonderful..." [][][][][][][][][][] From: daramsey@vaxsar.vassar.edu Date: Mon, 08 May 1995 20:34:59 -0300 Subject: RE:a message from Robyn To: Fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu What on earth could this message mean? 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*** [][][][][][][][] 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...