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 75 Today's Topics: ------- ------ Exploding in Silence My Pink Half of the Drainpipe New to the group Ptolemaic Terrascope Ptolemaic Terrascope interview pt. 9 Ptolemaic terrascope interview pt. 10 Rout Of The Clones... Tape tree guy on vacation Useless fact number 37 in a seemingly endless series... bonzos!! cdnow url [][][][][][][][][][] From: Fred_M_Hamilton@cup.portal.com To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Tape tree guy on vacation Date: Wed, 10 May 95 08:32:50 PDT If you're one of the leafs on my tree, I just wanted to let you know that I'm going on vacation for about 10 days, so I won't be responding to email for a week and a half. After that I'll start duplicating right away (assuming the tapes are here). -Fred [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 12:13:27 -0500 (CDT) From: JAY LYALL Subject: cdnow url To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu for those who asked, the CDNow URL is http://www.cdnow.com. Good luck, we're all counting on you. 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: Wed, 10 May 1995 14:21:00 -0700 From: lroberts@bellahs.com (Laurence Roberts RD) To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Ptolemaic Terrascope I went to Tower Records in North Beach, San Francisco and got a copy of Ptolemaic Terrascope last night (May 9). There were still a couple of copies of it there. Under no circumstances do I want to do mail-order anyone from out of town, though -- just thought people in the area would want to know. There weren't any copies at the Corte Madera Tower (in Marin), though. I haven't checked at the one on Market. Larry-bob lroberts@bellahs.com [][][][][][][][][][] From: seanbe@microsoft.com To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Date: Wed, 10 May 95 16:59:20 PDT Subject: bonzos!! re: Carl Abraham Zimring To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: My Pink Half of the Drainpipe Yes, I definitely recognized the Stanshall influence in "Autumn Sea," with that gloriously weird narrative burbling along below the music. Shades of the "Rawlinson End" recordings! The same dippy sense of humor, the delving into British archetypes (what-ho, pip pip...TWO WEEKS?? BLIMEY!!). And some (not all!) of Robyn's guitar solos sound suspiciously (though probably unintentionally) like Neil Innes' in "In the Canyons of Your Mind." i've tried to listen to the Bonzo Dog Band at least once a month since, oh, about 1972. it's made me the man i am today (frying pan, frying pan). cheers Sean (just the name of the shop) [][][][][][][][][][] From: OLDSCHREC@aol.com Date: Thu, 11 May 1995 16:21:38 -0400 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Ptolemaic Terrascope interview pt. 9 PT: I never had a problem with the 3 piece band, I always found the sound intricate but with an edge to it. In fact I prefer it to when you had the keyboard player back in 1985, I thought he was irrelevant to be honest. RH: Well, that's how we felt in the end. That graft didn't stick, Roger Jackson fell off. He was good to start with, he threw in a lot of good ideas, but he became too twiddly. We got Sean in last year as a second guitarist, just so I could wave my arms about a bit more, and so you could thicken up the guitar riffs, otherwise it all tended to get a bit bass-heavy to be honest. The Soft Boys was very guitar-heavy, and so if I had a guitar riff there'd be two people playing it and you'd really know it, or if the other guitarist was competing with me you'd get that clash and you could really notice it. In a way I play harder when there's someone else to play with or play against. PT: How do you feel about live albums? I think that most bands underestimate how many live lps they should put out. The only live lp you've made (Gotta let ....) is a superb item, great sounds and great playing. I'm disappointed though that you haven't done two or three more after that capturing the different periods of your output. RH: I think 'Hen Out' is really good. The Egyptians hadn't been going for long at that stage, and we decided to tape it and it actually worked. The manager we had said "Why don't we make a live album? There's a tape studio above the MARQUEE," and we did it. There's no guitar or drum overdubs, a couple bits of bass dropped in and I repaired a couple of vocal parts towards the end because my voice was starting to go, but nearly all of it is live. I think the album's really good and whatever you may think of Roger the keyboard player, the early Egyptians was the mot exciting one to be in. The tapes I've heard after Roger left sound a bit sparse, there's not enough consistently happening on the guitar. We were also excited to be playing together again after such a long interval, it was a novelty. So probably the Egyptians was the most fun in 1985, '86 really. [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Thu, 11 May 1995 19:38:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Eugene B Mirman Subject: Rout Of The Clones... To: Robyn I just purchased a Soft Boys CD with various live recordings from 1978 called "Rout Of The Clones." Has anyone heard of this CD before? It might just be stuff from the two live soft boys albums, with a few other things, I don't know. Either way, it's a CD! All the songs on it are on something already, but the versions might be different, except for the last song which isn't on any album (I forget the title) I think. I could list the songs if anyone wants. I've only listened to a little of the CD, so far, but the quality is great. By the way, on the CD there was a silver sticker that said, "Import Pressing." Don't know exactly what that means, maybe soon it will be available for everyone...? Gonna go and listen to it now... -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/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [][][][][][][][][][] From: bskaught@nwrain.com Date: Thu, 11 May 95 18:09 PDT To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: New to the group Hello, My name is Bradley Skaught (pronounced 'Scott'.) I'm eighteen years old, a senior at Stadium High School in Tacoma, Washington, and have been a Hitchcock fan since fourth grade. Having never met another Hitchcock fan, i'm a tad nervous about signing on to a mailing list, but i'm also excited to learn, and hopefully share, some info about one of my favorite artists. My favorite album is, probably, Respect, and my favorite song this week is "Man With a Woman's Shadow." I've never seen him live, so any information on, or recordings of, live performances would be graciously accepted! Are there many musicians on this mailing list? I play guitar, drums, and a bunch of other stuff, too. I'm also a songwriter, though certainly not of Hitchcock's caliber. I hope to be a professional someday, but for now, i'm afraid, my cat is the only one who hears much of my work! Sorry to have eaten so much e-space up with this message, but I thought an introduction would be nice. Please feel free to email me personally, i'm very excited to meet you all. I something you, Bradley Skaught bskaught@nwrain.com <---- End Included Message ----> [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Thu, 11 May 1995 20:42:14 -0500 (EST) From: tracy aileen copeland To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Re: Exploding in Silence On Tue, 9 May 1995, Bayard wrote: > > > > All the extra tracks turned up on the CD releases of _GLTHO!_. > > _Exploding in Silence_ is a picture disc; it has Thoth's head on > > one side and Hitchcock on the other. It's one of the shots from the > > session with the radishes and appears on the booklet for the Rhino > > re-release. > > > which booklet-- I mean, why would _EIS_ be pictured if it's not going to > be released (that wouldn't nake any sense) > > or am I just tired? ;) I was kind of tired too ... I meant the _Invisible Hitchcock_ booklet. Tracy "This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs. Any questions?" "Can I get toast with that?" [][][][][][][][][][] From: OLDSCHREC@aol.com Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 00:09:01 -0400 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Ptolemaic terrascope interview pt. 10 PT: Can we talk about Captain Sensible... RH: I haven't seen him for a while. How is he? PT: He had a new album out a while back. RH: Oh yes, I've got that, "Geoffrey Brown". Has he played any live gigs? PT: He did a tour following the album. It was a bit disappointing though because while there were lots of people there to hear his own music, the Captain mainly pandered to the punks at the front who wanted to hear early Damned stuf and spent the whole time pogoing and flobbing at him. RH: That's been a problem which has really held him back for so long. It was the novelty of a punk doing "Happy Talk" from "South Pacific" that really appealed to people and got his career going, and then what he should have done is...he recorded "Springtime For Hitler", the thing from the Mel Brooks film "The Producers", and he should have released that because it would have been like a sudden shock going the other way, this horrible song. What's the punk who's gone pleasant suddenly doing this song for? But instead he got sort of cuddly, and became very taken for granted. He had this alcoholic manager who just gave him any work he could, and Sensible would just go out and do it, this sort of affable, cuddly, ex-punk, and the novelty wore off and that was that. He's never been able to establish himself as what he is now, which is a serious musician. [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 16:39:12 +1200 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James) Subject: Useless fact number 37 in a seemingly endless series... >2. "Prawns" as in where are the prawns. They use the word in the mOvie >Muriel's Wedding. I saw it two months ago but keep forgeting to post it. >Nothing too impressive, just for your info. Yeah, but that's an Australian movie. What they mean by prawns there are NOT what the rest of the world means by prawns. They're an Aussie delicacy, being a bit like baby lobsters/crayfish. The rest of the world calls a different, smaller, related species the prawn. The Aussie ones make the rest look like, um, shrimps, by comparison. 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) [][][][][][][][] End of this Fegmaniax Digest. 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