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 97 Today's Topics: ------- ------ Kim's Video in NYC Ptolemaic Terrascope Questions. RE: more chords! RobynBase: input needed coupla questions more chords! tape tree & questions things you can't say in email [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 09:54:03 -0500 (CDT) From: JAY LYALL Subject: Re: more chords! To: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz Cc: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu > >Quite a while since I sent y'all any music, so here goes. Here's another of >my favourites. H indicates the note is hammered. All corrections welcomed. > >Never Stop Bleeding >----- ---- -------- ...and did you write this particular song down as New Zealand handed England a bone crushing defeat in the rugby tourney? jay %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Jay Lyall "Capy Toad Blast" "Who needs a life anyway?" hist1a@jetson.uh.edu --Elastica "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 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% [][][][][][][][][][] From: mikester@bix.com Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 11:59:31 -0400 (EDT) Subject: RE: more chords! To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Only problem with that, James, is that I noticed at the shows this past spring that Robyn tunes the A down to a G. So the first notes are the G on the third fret of the E string and the open G on the tuned down A. ---Mike (Nickname o' the month - "Strat Abuse Boy") [][][][][][][][][][] Date: 19 Jun 95 16:31:13 EDT From: "Patrick D'Antonio" <76263.760@compuserve.com> To: FEGS Subject: Kim's Video in NYC To NYC Fegs: I found both Ptolemaic Terrascope magazine with new unreleased tracks on 7" and the KRecords 7" single at Kims Video on Bleeker btwn Sullivan/Thompson in NYC. (Not to be confused, there's more than one Kims). They had several copies of both. The magazine single is great ($5.99 I think) but the KRecords single ($3.99) sounds just like the recent live tapes, it's really nothing unusual if you have live tapes from the recent tour and the Zipper version from Mrs. Wafflehead. Does anyone have old tapes from an AnnArbor show at the Blind Pig, from 1990 I think? I had this and lost it...any help, please email me privately, NOT at this address, but at: shmh@netcom.com There were 2 sets at this show, and the highlight was Sleeping Knights of Jesus. That's all for now, Marge [][][][][][][][][][] From: seanbe@microsoft.com To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Date: Mon, 19 Jun 95 16:49:23 PDT Date: Sat, 17 Jun 1995 15:26:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Elisabeth Perrin || here in seattle, we say "going to tukwila". seriously. ('we went to || tukwila five times yesterday...' 'i haven't been to tukwila in nearly a || month') of course this loses most of its meaning for those who have never been there. it's a sort of non-town (at least for those who don't live there) in a hollow near the airport, most famous for a truckstop, and no one in their right mind would go there, ever. oddly (?), I've lived in Seattle for over 40 years (gasp) and never once used this euphemism. I like it tho. It's along the same lines as "getting off at Edge Hill" I reckon (only Liverpudlians will get it). Frankly I think this world could do with a lot more regional euphemisms in these dark days. cheers sean (next time round i'll be a trout) [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 16:44:20 +1200 To: JAY LYALL From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James) Subject: Re: more chords! Cc: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu >> >>Quite a while since I sent y'all any music, so here goes. Here's another of >>my favourites. H indicates the note is hammered. All corrections welcomed. >> >>Never Stop Bleeding >>----- ---- -------- > >...and did you write this particular song down as New Zealand handed England a >bone crushing defeat in the rugby tourney? :) no... otherwise I'd have written "H means anyone standing between Jonah Lomu and the goal line is hammered..." 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: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 16:44:43 +1200 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James) Subject: Re: things you can't say in email >> Perhaps, in fact, we can simply use the word "fish" in this context: "My >> wife and I were fishing the other morning..." [titters of laughter >> interrupt]. > >here in seattle, we say "going to tukwila". seriously. ('we went to >tukwila five times yesterday...' 'i haven't been to tukwila in nearly a >month') Other euphemisms? Well, I've heard an orgy described as a party with lots of festive bunting... 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: ADavidW@eworld.com Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 23:34:11 -0700 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: tape tree & questions Just a couple of questions, for anybody kind enough to respond... I only have had email access sporadically, and the last time I was here on fegmaniax, there was talk of a tape tree for the recent live shows. Did this ever happen? If so, how can I get involved? Also, how can I get a hold of the new My Wife CD single with the new tracks? Is it available domestically? Does anyone have the catalog number or any other ordering information? Anyway, thanks in advance for the help! -David [][][][][][][][][][] From: simon roberts Subject: Ptolemaic Terrascope To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 09:52:28 +0100 (BST) If you're searching for the Ptolemaic Terrascope fanzine issue #18 with the Robyn 7" then try Fisheye Distribution, it sounds like they've got quite a few. Their address is: Fisheye Distribution, P.O. Box 110, Farnborough, Hampshire GU14 6YT England, UK It costs (inclusive of p+p) - prices in pound sterling: 3.25 - UK 3.85 - Europe inc. Eire (airmail) 4.85 - USA, Canada, Honk Kong, Singapore (airmail) 5.25 - New Zealand, Australia, Japan (airmail) 3.50 - surface mail Cheques/POs in pounds only, payable to P.Wild, or cash in pounds or US$s. The 7" (33rpm) has 2 RH songs: "Creatures of Light" - sounds live in his garden shed. Raw acoustic guitaring with tinny vocals. Similar quality to the "I Often Dream of Trains" demos. Quite long. "As Lemons Chop" - an electric affair including bass. High quality. Beautiful vocal melody. Backing vocals. Quite short. and 2 songs by Tiny Tim. Hope this helps somebody. Simon [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 15:10:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard To: glass frogs Subject: RobynBase: input needed hello again all, while waiting for the various cables, electronic boxes and dat cassettes that will allow me to stick my two DATs together and create the master _Glass Flesh_ tribute to arrive (nice sentence, eh?) I have once again taken up work on the project known as Robynbase. This will hopefully end up as an online, webified system linked to woj's feg page and the fegmania ftp site at wustl, as well as possible other home pages. It purports to be a database containing all collective knowledge regarding robyn-- an exhaustive history, song database, tour dates from day one, the existence/nonexistance of tapes from these gigs and who to contact to get copies of them, online resources (pointers and snailmail), who's who, etc, etc, etc. Of course, all this is impossible. Especially without your help. Feg.list.personality Jay Lyall has generously offered to help with the task of putting it on the web, and I'd like everyone's input on what they'd like to see in a complete robyn archive, and how you'd like it to look and function. I can't guarantee to please everyone, but at least everyone can be heard. It goes without saying that I need all the information I can get. Send anything that's not on the ftp site: tape lists, mentions of rare songs, tour dates etc. I hope to design a stand-alone, offline version as well, complete with ascii/paper listing capability and j card and address label printer. Probably wil only be available for IBM to start, but I'd work with anyone who wanted to port a Mac version. And of course I will not publish information on anyone who does not wish to be published, and do my best to respect the privacy of the Man. Here's what I'm thinking of including so far. GIG DATABASE: a subset of my own music data table, the robyn music file includes performances both taped and unavailable. Fields as follows for bootlegs, radio appearances, audience and soundboard tapes: -composite sorting key based on separate date fields for month, day and year, as well as show number that day (1=earliest show, etc) -title -venue name -venue city/st/country -#appearance at venue (1st, 2nd etc) -rarity of tape (1-5; 1=is not known to exist, 5=almost everyone has it) -sound quality (1-5; 3 is middle of the road; 5 is perfect; this allows decimals for the truly anal/precise; works better than letters, i think) -performance quality (same as above) -personal possesion field (in the standalone program, users can mark boots they have collected) -generation -time in minutes -original source (fm,aud,sb) -original equipment (d6, d7, other formats) -media+gen (cd,dat,cs) -kHz/digital mode history (dat) -taped by (best person to contact, ie willing and able to dub)(linked) -comments -flaws -personnel (solo, soft boys, egyptians, bhj, worst fears, symptoms, maureen) -setlists (linked to song database and lyrics files, not sure how) -alpha sort key This table will be linked to the song file, discography and person file, for easy access to other online resources. The program will be free. Let me know if you can help or have any comments, criticisms etc. The actual work will have to take a back seat until this tribute tape tree is done (and I get my band info to Mike. Oops.) Thanks in advance! bayard [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 20:45:37 -0500 (CDT) From: JAY LYALL Subject: coupla questions To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu So the local record store has the compo cd with "Statue with a Walkman"...is the song worth 11 bucks and some change? Is there anything else, some weird mix, anything with the other songs to help me rationalize buying it? And on the productions side does anyone know what else Paul Fox has done other than produce Perspex and XTC's Oranges and lemons? jay %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Jay Lyall "Capy Toad Blast" "Who needs a life anyway?" hist1a@jetson.uh.edu --Elastica "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, 20 Jun 1995 23:27:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Terry Marks Subject: Questions. To: Pretty Girls and Anglepoise lamps Wondering...what, other than the Egyptians, Soft Boys and Solo, has RObyn done work in? Thanks. Terry Marks a013645t@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Wed, 21 Jun 1995 00:07:25 -0400 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu From: jojones@mailbox.syr.edu (John B. Jones) Subject: Re: coupla questions >So the local record store has the compo cd with "Statue with a Walkman"...is >the song worth 11 bucks and some change? Is there anything else, some weird >mix, anything with the other songs to help me rationalize buying it? > >And on the productions side does anyone know what else Paul Fox has done other >than produce Perspex and XTC's Oranges and lemons? 10,000 Maniacs- Our Time in Eden They Might Be Giants- John Henry -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- John B. Jones e-mail: jojones@mailbox.syr.edu "I was thinking about Lou Reed the other day, and I was wondering if he ever sings the theme to "The Monkees" in the bathtub." -Robyn Hitchcock "Well, you know what they say: The pen is mightier than the pencil." -Andy Metcalfe -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Wed, 21 Jun 1995 06:58:48 -0400 From: woj To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Re: coupla questions JAY LYALL sez: >So the local record store has the compo cd with "Statue with a Walkman"...is >the song worth 11 bucks and some change? Is there anything else, some weird >mix, anything with the other songs to help me rationalize buying it? how deep is your devotion? deeper than your pockets? ;) seriously though, all the other songs on the virgin sampler are straight off the albums they originated from - no changes. "statue with a walkman" is as he has been performing it live, with the geezer-voice monolouge, and is pretty nifty...but is it worth $11? i dunno. i'd buy it for that price. a better suggestion: ask a uk feg to pick you up a copy, since it'll cost them 3 pounds, and trade it for some tapes (thanks, jonathan). woj [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Wed, 21 Jun 1995 07:06:45 -0400 From: woj To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Re: Questions. Terry Marks sez: >Wondering...what, other than the Egyptians, Soft Boys and Solo, has RObyn >done work in? robyn's guested on a number of other's albums including, but probably not exhaustively, knox's "gigolo aunt" 7" and _plutomiun express_ lp, kimberley rew's "stomping all over the world" 7" (the same tracks as on _the bible of bop_ lp), captain sensible's _women and captains first_ and _the power of love_ lps, paul roland's _blades of battenburg_ and _house of dark shadows_ lp, thomas dolby's _the flat earth_ (starring as the voice of keith) and a 12" by john hegley and the popticians called "i saw my dinner on the tv". one of these days, if i (or anyone) ever writes a proper discography, this info will be available on the ftp site and on the web page. (anyone interested? bueller?) woj [][][][][][][][] End of this Fegmaniax Digest. 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