Fegmaniax Digest <==----------==> (Send posts to the list to fegmaniax@nsmx.rutgers.edu) (Send adminstrative commands to majordomo@nsmx.rutgers.edu) (Send comments, etc to the listowner at owner-fegmaniax@nsmx.rutgers.edu) <==----------==> Volume 3 Number 123 Today's Topics: ------- ------ Robyn at McCabe's Now accepting contributions for the next Flesh Feg Digest Vol. 3 Num. 122 Feg Digest Vol. 3 Num. 122 Bells of Rhymney Robyn at McCabe's McCabes. bells of rhymney RE: Things (chords) Railway Shoes (another correction) It sounds great when you're dead 52 Stations, Pretty Girl It sounds great when you're dead CRD: Long Red Bottle of Wine Pretty Lamps and Anglepoise Girls CRD: My Fave Buildings CRD: Mr. Deadly Things CRD: Give it to the Soft Boys CRD: A bit more pigworking Things Things FS: Robyn, Soft Boys, other vinyl!! [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Mon, 14 Aug 95 16:52:09 PST From: "Martin A. HOYT" To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Robyn at McCabe's I just got the digest, and someone (Alex, if my memory is correct) posted about Robyn's show at McCabes. I have the newspaper clipping, so here are all the gory details. The show is on Sat., Sept. 23, and as Alex said, tickets go on sale on Fri., Sept. 8th. They usually have 2 shows at McCabes (at 8 and 10 pm), and the phone # for anybody interested or planning to be in the geographic vicinity is (310) 828-4497 or 828-4403. This is a great place to see a show, very intimate, plus they sell tea and cookies! I have seen Robyn twice here, and both were great experiences. Martin Hoyt mahoyt@uci.edu P.S. Could some kind soul explain to me what "Spectre" is (other than an anagram of "Respect"), also what b-sides from Respect are available? [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 22:40:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard To: Jon-Ross Habina cc: glass frogs Subject: Now accepting contributions for the next Flesh On Sat, 12 Aug 1995, Jon-Ross Habina wrote: > I'm interested in possibly (hopefully) contributing to a compilation tape > of covers. Would someone kindly send info? Would love to have you join us. you probably saw the listing of tracks for the first two tapes, just finished. It is preferred to not duplicate songs already done, but ANYTHING GOES. here are the guidelines: DAT is preferred. I will definitely see your DAT gets back to you. It's better because it saves 2 generations of copying (I do direct digital transfer to the master, and master to clone.) Send me a paragraph or so of information to go into the j-card. Send it in e-mail with subject 'j card stuff'. J card stuff can be credits, who played what, brief robyn testimonial, why you picked a certain song, what was going through your mind as you plunked away, etc. I'll probably be printing the cards myself for volume 3, unless my co-conspirators see fit to accompany me for another outing. If you feel you must use noise reduction, let me know that you did. It's preferred that you cover a Robyn original and not a cover, but it you feel you can do something interesting as a 2nd generation cover of a cover, go for it. Don't send me blank tapes, as the number and length of tapes to be used for the tribute is uncertain (for glass flesh 1 and 2 we went from not being able to fill one side of a 60 minute tape for several months, to having enough to fill 2 90's. If you have any rare/live robyn stuff though, I do want to know about it and this will get you onto my branch if you have stuph I need ;) Many thanks to James, Mark and Caroline for helping with postage. You went above and beyond the call of duty. Mark and Donne also have put in a lot of work on j cards, including artwork (Art is needed for future tribute tape covers.) Send all the songs you record, specifying which ones you do NOT want used in the public release. Hearing your outtakes is a special treat for me. I will use at least one song from everyone who submits. I will use all songs submitted if possible. Finally, I will strive to get analog cassettes back to their original owners, but cannot promise this (I'm just -not- -that- -organized-. ;( There were at least half a dozen people who wanted to participate last time round but could not, for various reasons. You had a lot of good ideas. I hope y'all will join up, and hope for some repeat offenders as well. ;) I have some groovie ideas for a cover of 'The Rain' and others... 6 newcomers + 6 veterans, that's side 1 right there! Hope no one found this post offensively long and self interested. bayard "As fuzzy as i wanna be" ps. are you dedicated tabbers uploading to the fegsite? I looked in the "guitar-tab" dir on friday and it seemed empty. BTW, version 2.3 of my Robyn songlist is in the uploads dir. Email me if you need instructions on getting to the ftp site or if you'd like me to just email it to you. Now includes y&o, waterloo session with mills and a song Robyn has played only in one of Terry's dreams. (430 songs total, send me additions and corrections.) [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 14:47:59 +1100 To: The veins of Her Majesty the Queen From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James) Subject: Re: Feg Digest Vol. 3 Num. 122 >From: the woj-ly one >BELLS OF RHYMNEY > >Cry the grim bells of Blaina That's Blaenau >Say the loud bells of Neathe Neath all are places in Wales. It is,. I believe, about that most Welsh of industries, coalmining, and the change from being a thriving industry with lowly paid workers and rich bosses in the 40s and 50s to being a small and nearly bankrupt industry since,. with lowly paid workers and rich QUANGOs. Robyn's version is based on the Byrds wonderful 12-string-a-jangle version from the mid-60s. Another song on a similar theme, and a reasonably good one too, is Did They Understand?, which I believe was sung by of all people a dubious Welsh comedian called Max Boyce. --- >From: Terry Marks > >2) I'm making a list of Chords that Robyn Uses.... Many thanks for all the chords, but sometimes, Terry, I worry whether you've got a real life... ;) James "nitpicker pursuivant" Dignan 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: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 23:48:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Terry Marks Subject: Re: Feg Digest Vol. 3 Num. 122 To: James Cc: The veins of Her Majesty the Queen > >2) I'm making a list of Chords that Robyn Uses.... > > Many thanks for all the chords, but sometimes, Terry, I worry whether > you've got a real life... ;) > Not during the summer, I don't.. So I interfere and hang around. And I figure out how to play Robyn's songs. That list had 2 purposes 1) Making it easier to tab out Robyn's songs 2) I couldn't get to sleep until I did it for some reason.. Terry "The HUman Mellotron" Marks [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 21:16:41 -0700 From: librik@netcom.com (David Librik) To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Re: Bells of Rhymney James writes: >>From: the woj-ly one > >>BELLS OF RHYMNEY >> >>Cry the grim bells of Blaina > >That's Blaenau > >>Say the loud bells of Neathe > >Neath > >all are places in Wales. It is,. I believe, about that most Welsh of >industries, coalmining, and the change from being a thriving industry with >lowly paid workers and rich bosses in the 40s and 50s to being a small and >nearly bankrupt industry since,. with lowly paid workers and rich QUANGOs. >Robyn's version is based on the Byrds wonderful 12-string-a-jangle version >from the mid-60s. The history of the Bells of Rhymney is interesting. Idris Davies wrote the poem "Bells of Rhymney" in the 1930s. It's in his poetry cycle _Gwalia Deserta_, which is all about the Great Strike in which the coal miners, oppressed and mistreated for years, rose up in a mass work stoppage to demand decent wages and better conditions, and how the strike ground on for over a year, the people growing hungrier, the owners refusing to budge. Finally the union leaders caved in and the Strike was defeated. "Bells of Rhymney" is one of the few really lyrical poems in _Gwalia Deserta_, mostly because it was a take-off on the old London song "Oranges and Lemons, Say the Bells of St. Clement's." Underneath the nursery-rhyme setting is the unbelievable misery and death in the South Wales coal mines of the 20s and 30s; the town names are references. Pete Seeger found the poem "Bells of Rhymney" and set it to music. His music is essentially "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" -- you don't realize it until you see the score, though. He performed it as an acoustic folk song; Seeger is the dean of American protest singers, and this fit in well with his repertoire. The Byrds took Seeger's song and did their own arrangement, dropping the middle verse with its references to plunder and God. This is the version that Robyn, the Soft Boys, and many other bands have covered in later years. The Oyster Band, on their album _Deserters_, go back and rework the Seeger version, playing it with all its original political force. - David Librik librik@cs.Berkeley.edu "o what is man that coal should be so unmindful of him? and what is coal that it should have so much blood on it?" (Gwalia Deserta) [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 01:19:51 -0400 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu From: jojones@mailbox.syr.edu (John B. Jones) Subject: Re: Robyn at McCabe's >I just got the digest, and someone (Alex, if my memory is correct) posted >about >Robyn's show at McCabes. I have the newspaper clipping, so here are all the >gory details. The show is on Sat., Sept. 23, and as Alex said, tickets go on >sale on Fri., Sept. 8th. They usually have 2 shows at McCabes (at 8 and 10 >pm), Please, somebody go to this show, and take your tape recorder! I don't know why, but it seems that the more recent Mc Cabe's shows are hard to find. God knows I've tried. I am hoping that the new songs Robyn played (see Netsurfer Ghost tape) on this recent tour was just a sampling of his new material, and that the upcoming concert at McCabe's will be an opportunity for him to preview EVEN MORE new songs. In the same vein, I am hoping that the new album (whenever it comes out) will have lots of songs I haven't heard before. The drawback to being such a Robyn Hitchcock fanatic is that when the studio releases come out, you've heard all of the songs already either from attending shows, and/or obtaining tapes of the shows. Finally, welcome back, those that have been gone! I figure you are all back in your places with fingers on the home row of your keyboard, since my e-mail inbox tonight is double what it usually is! School is back in session! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- John B. Jones e-mail: jojones@mailbox.syr.edu "What's your mother for/not a lauchpad for your father" -Robyn Hitchcock -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [][][][][][][][][][] From: BLATZMAN@aol.com Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 02:29:34 -0400 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: McCabes. I'm sure this is public by now, but Robyn is playing McCabes on Sept 23rd. I'd love to hear from the LA Fegs who are planning on going. Also: VERY IMPORTANT: My writing partner of 8 years just quit my band. Any LA Fegs who play guitar, please email me. We're auditioning people over the next few weeks. Dave BLATZMAN@AOL.COM [][][][][][][][][][] Date: 15 Aug 95 04:20:12 EDT From: Richard Thomasson <100634.1312@compuserve.com> To: fegmaniax Subject: bells of rhymney is anyone clear on the lineage of the bells of rhymney? i vaguely remember being told that it's a cover of a byrds' version of a folk song. if it's true, i wouldn't be surprised if someone's tweeked the lyrics along the line because "put the vandals in court" doesn't sound like a folk original. also the inclusion of "wye" is a bit unusual - it's a charming english town whereas the others are welsh and post-industrial. joshua (who grew up in abergavenny halfway between wye and merthyr) ps any more news on what to expected at the abandoned rail on the 26th? [][][][][][][][][][] From: Mike Hardaker To: "'Fegmaniax!'" Subject: RE: Things (chords) Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 11:51:17 +-200 Terry, Your list of chords is perhaps a tad sparse, mostly because I suspect = you tend to assume that RH uses the simplest version of a chord when = putting together your tabs, while he often uses modified chords. For = example, take something as apparently straightforward as So You Think = You're In Love: The simple version goes: Intro: E E C#m B A So you think you're in love E Well you probably are But I think it's actually: Intro: E Esus4 E E C#m7 Bsus4 Asus9 So you think you're in love E Esus4 E Well you probably are and so on... He uses lots of folky open chords, so the shapes here would be: C#m7 046600 Bsus4 024400 Asus9 002200 E 022100 Esus4 022200 And it's further complicated by the acoustic often playing these shapes = while the electric jangles over the top on the more conventional = major/minor/seventh chords. Cheers, Mike [][][][][][][][][][] From: Mike Hardaker To: "'Fegmaniax!'" Subject: Railway Shoes (another correction) Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 11:27:59 +-200 What I marked as a C#m7 should really, I think, be an EMaj7: thus: 021100 Which means Asus9(2) should probably be played as the 1st position Asus9 to make the change easier. Cheers, Mike [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 14:45:46 +0100 (BST) From: M R Godwin To: Terry Marks cc: Pretty Girls and Anglepoise lamps Subject: Re: It sounds great when you're dead Try this for IT SOUNDS GREAT WHEN YOU'RE DEAD: Ascending guitar riff (single notes), also used throughout all verses: A D Eb E D G Ab A over and over Chorus: Abm E Abm A E A B A Ba - by it might sound dodgy now but it sounds great when you're dead E A It sounds great when you're... (back to riff and second verse) Special last chorus Abm E Abm A Abm E B Gb Ba - by it might sound dodgy now but ba - by let me assure you A E Gb it sounds great when you're dead At times a piano comes in during the verses, playing (approximate notes) A G - D E low-A STRUCTURE Riff * 4 Verse Riff * 1 Chorus Verse, "yeah" Chorus Piano break on E chord Riff Verse "mmm" Special last chorus I hope this makes sense. I once saw the Egyptians play it at the Western Star Domino Club in Bristol. The band version had a lot more punch than the solo record. Mike (Color Out of Space) Godwin [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 15:07:56 +0100 (BST) From: M R Godwin To: Terry Marks cc: Pretty Girls and Anglepoise lamps Subject: Re: 52 Stations, Pretty Girl Here is my attempt at 52 STATIONS (words only from memory): I am not too sure what happens on the INTRO, but it is something like: Two bars of Bm (bass B) followed by two bars of Bm (bass C) followed by two bars of Bm (bass G) VERSE line 1: Bm There's 52 stations on the Northern Line line 2: Bm G None of them is yours one of them is mine line 3: G D Bm Most days you'll find her in a heat haze baby in the sweet maze C+9 that she calls her mind CHORUS A G Oo-oo-oo in sorrow not in anger A G Oo-oo-oo you forget the past A G Oo-oo-oo you remember how she was looking then Then repeat INTRO followed by SECOND VERSE After second verse, there is a 2-bar break on Bm followed by: SPECIAL THIRD VERSE Bm D There's no use pretending we're apart Bm G (Something something) in my heart G D Bm C+9 (forgotten the words here) G D Bm C+9 (but this chord sequence goes round TWICE in the last verse) CHORUS TILL FADE A G A G etc to end ("like a mirror on a wall") The chord given as C+9 is a second position barre C (i.e. barre on the 3rd fret and A-chord shape) but with a D, not an E, on the 2nd string (so you are only fretting 2 strings apart from the barre). This chord sounds fine and modal to me (GCGCDE) but may not be 100% correct. P.S. On SOMETIMES I WISH I WAS A PRETTY GIRL, I have been listening to the live version from "Gotta Let This Hen Out" - it occurs to me that you could be transcribing from another recording, and there is no guarantee that the words will be the same... Keep up the good work Mike (Color Out of Space) Godwin [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 20:00:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Terry Marks Subject: Re: It sounds great when you're dead To: M R Godwin Cc: Pretty Girls and Anglepoise lamps A million thanks for figuring out my requests But could someoen send me the words? Terry "The Human Mellotron" Marks a013645t@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 20:04:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Terry Marks Subject: CRD: Long Red Bottle of Wine To: Pretty Girls and Anglepoise lamps Yep...Corrections. It sounded a bit dodgy.. D Am And in the evening when you G Em Fade away The same thing happens every Single day 'Cause when your dreams come true they G Cmaj7 Pretty soon D Decay There's nothing you can do to Change your mind You're disappearing or you're Going blind And when you're gone there won't be Anything Behind D Am Cmaj7 D Except a skull, a suitcase, and a long red bottle of wine D Am Cmaj7C D A skull, a suitcase, and a long red bottle of wine You're disappearing in a Purple fog It's a machine and you're its Faithful cog You love your woman but you just Don't love Her dog Which means you get a skull, a suitcase, and a long red bottle of wine A skull, a suitcase, and a long red bottle of wine D G There you go, putting up A D No resistance, you just D C Wander all through the town D A Lock yourself out and drown But when you're gone, does it make Any difference if there's Nobody else around The only way up is down The giant sun sets red be- Hind the hay Like a baloon that has just Lost its way You never dreamed that stuff would get You in Its sway Gimme a skull, a suitcase, and a long red bottle of wine A skull, a suitcase, and a long red bottle of wine Gimme a skull, a suitcase, and a long red bottle of wine Gimme a skull, a suitcase, and a long red bottle of wine Red bottle of wine Red bottle of wine (repeat until fade) Cmaj7 is just 032000 I'm still a bit unsure about the Am Terry "The Human Mellotron" Marks a013645t@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Tue, 15 Aug 95 22:01:04 EDT From: Daniel Ginsberg Subject: Pretty Lamps and Anglepoise Girls To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Terry's project (Gloss Fish? Gless Flash?) to encourage us to write original tunes in the spirit of Unca Bobby kinda kicked me in the butt. So I picked a style (ran _EYE_ through my head a couple 9 times), spent several nights dreaming about my eyelids, and cooked up a song. Now I need some help from my fellow feg-lings. First off, I gots no recording stuff and even less money. Any suggestions fer getting my stuff on tape?? I mean, I tuned my Guitar and everything! Second, I noticed long ago that lyrics change from Demo to finished product. Apparently Unca Bobby just figgers out by hisself how to edit his lyrics; or mebbe he just fergits em and makes up close approximations in the studio. Either way, I ain't got that kinda Genius at my disposal. So if any of ya would like to help me tweak my lyrics (of if the lyrics in places seem less than suitably Unca bobby-esque) lemme know. Anyway, here is the alpha of my first effort of this sort: Then We're Mud --deg 8/15/95 storrs,ct Feeling surrounds us, pressing in hard It hardens and shatters us, and grinds up the shards Mixes the poweder, in with the blood Ooh, oh, then we're mud Then we're mud Darling my colloid, don't think me dense Or hate me for leaving, I can't bear the suspence I'm so unsettled, awash in your flood Ooh, oh baby I'm mud Baby I'm mud (bridge) Your hand on my stomach Makes me feel fine hairs bend against my skin Your love is viscous Your love is slime And it's decomposing Darling be mine. Don't think me crazy, don't think me mad Don't serve me au gratin, and say i taste bad Cast out of the garden, And we'll never bud Oooh, oh, baby we're mud Baby we're mud. bahahahahaha :) Dan dginsber@uconnvm.uconn.edu [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 09:28:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Terry Marks Subject: CRD: My Fave Buildings To: Pretty Girls and Anglepoise lamps My Favorite Buildings (3:11) --------------------- A B My favorite buildings E D7 Are all falling down Seems like I dwell in a Different town But why the hell bother with Painting them brown When they'll all Be pulled down D In the end My favorite buildings Stretch upwards for miles Remind me somehow of your Favorite smiles Like oak leaves in Autumn cas- Cading on styles In the rain Nobody seems to know how long All of these buildings belong 'Til they become a part of you People get down on your knees Buildings are like a disease B You could wind up in a zoo And most people do My favorite buildings Are all laid to waste You might as well sculpt a statue >From toothpaste And one day I could have a fifty-inch waist It's all free For my favorite buildings And me Yeah Yeah Terry "The Human Mellotron" Marks a013645t@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 09:30:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Terry Marks Subject: CRD: Mr. Deadly To: Pretty Girls and Anglepoise lamps Mr. Deadly (4:13) ---------- verse- D C C G [notes] Randomly the radio It wanders through the stations like a train Flickers on the dashboard as The melody dissolves into his brain Hovering orchestral over checkered fields Suspended in the air Settles on a movement and Swoops down to find this time There's nothing there D C And all who hear him say G D He must be further gone than they D G And all who hear him say A He must be mad D To be himself A Around today All my final children will be Sticky little mushrooms in a field Harvesting the future just by Sitting there whatever will it yield And all who hear him say He must be further gone than they And all who hear him say He must be mad To be himself Around today Around today Around today Around today Around today Terry "The Human Mellotron" Marks a013645t@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 09:39:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Terry Marks Subject: Things To: Pretty Girls and Anglepoise lamps 1) Who is Dr. Messeschmidt from "Give it to the Soft Boys". Is he just one of Robyn's figments, or is he from one of those books. Ife he is...what is 109-ing. 2) Could someone with a better ear for bass help me figure out the bassline to "Leppo and the Jooves". It's very simple [one three note riff, and one one note riff] I've just got no ear for electric bass.. [trying to tab out that album and just needing a bit of help...] 3)What vegetable is that on "Invisible hitchcock"? Terry "The Human Mellotron" Marks a013645t@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 09:47:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Terry Marks Subject: CRD: Give it to the Soft Boys To: Pretty Girls and Anglepoise lamps Here's the first of my tabbing on this album. No...wait. It's the second. @SONG: Give It To The Soft Boys Riff 1(bass) D:----------0----------------- A:------0-2---2-0------------- E:-0--3------------3--0------- Riff 2(raucous Kimberly Rew sort of guitar) e:--7-5-0-2-3---0-2------- B:------------3-----0----- Riff 3: (bass again) A:-------3--------- E:-0-3-0----------- (riff 1) Feel like asking a tree for an autograph (riffs 1 and 2) And I feel like making love to a photograph C(3) C#(4) D(5) E(7) Photographs don't smell (riff 3) (riff 3) Yeah - Give it to the Soft Boys Soft Boys Well I told you baby I was the only one Then I left myself and now you're the lonely one Machines don't jerk Yeah - Give it to the Soft Boys Soft Boys Well hard boys groove and white boys mausterbate But then soft boys wind up that a Doctor Meseschmict He just a one-o-nines 'em Yeah - Give it to the Soft Boys Soft Boys Terry "The Human Mellotron" Marks a013645t@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 10:32:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Terry Marks Subject: CRD: A bit more pigworking To: Pretty Girls and Anglepoise lamps Riff 3 B:-2-3-5-3-5-3-5-3-0--- That riff fits in there somewhere. I think it's at the end of the verses, but sometimes it isn't. I think. Oh, and only 134 songs left! Terry "The Human Mellotron" Marks a013645t@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 11:24:24 -0500 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu From: gene@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu (Gene Hopstetter) Subject: re: Things >From: Terry Marks >1) Who is Dr. Messeschmidt from "Give it to the Soft Boys". Is he just >one of Robyn's figments, or is he from one of those books. >Ife he is...what is 109-ing. Robyn is referring to Dr. (Willie) Messerschmitt, the designer of the ME-109, a German Luftwaffe fighter plane used extensively in WWII. Hence the line, "But Soft Boys wind up with-a, Dr. Messerschmitt -- justa 109s 'em..." Heh, that line has always killed me. >3)What vegetable is that on "Invisible hitchcock"? Radishes? =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Gene Hopstetter, Jr. + gene@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu Writer/Layout/WWW Guy + Tulane Computing Services http://yodelling-hoover.tcs.tulane.edu/ [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 14:23:00 -0600 (MDT) From: David Scales a/k/a Captain Oblivion To: Terry Marks cc: Pretty Girls and Anglepoise lamps Subject: Re: Things On Wed, 16 Aug 1995, Terry Marks wrote: > 1) Who is Dr. Messeschmidt from "Give it to the Soft Boys". Is he just > one of Robyn's figments, or is he from one of those books. > Ife he is...what is 109-ing. Dr. messerSchmidt is the man who created Lufwaffe Messerschmidt, the successor to the German Fokker warplane dynasty in the late 1920s. His plant built the entire first two waves (of five models) of German fighter planes for Adolph Hitler after his rise to power in 1933. All of these planes, as well as a few made by Ernst Porsche (yes, he of hot red sports car and VW Beetle fame) and the few remains of the Fokker airplane factories, with a bunch of new ones, composed the Luftwaffe, Hitler's rather formidible air force that served him very well for ten years before the Allies started Bosche-bashing in 1943. His most successful plane was the Messerschmidt ME-109 (hence: "just 109's 'em" meaning, presumably, to shoot something down, literally or figuratively). > 3)What vegetable is that on "Invisible hitchcock"? The song or the cover? The song is "Vegetable Friend", and the cover is a big ol' handfull of radishes (I think). Dave Scales / Cap'n Oblivion ...so loosen your spine, bury your television and welcome to a Globe of Frogs... --R.H. [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 16:52:59 -0400 (EDT) From: "Clinton W. Golden" To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: FS: Robyn, Soft Boys, other vinyl!! Hi I'm getting rid of some of my stuff. here's the list: 7"s - all $8 obo unless noted Devo "Working in a Coal Mine" b/w "Planet Earth" from the HEAVY METAL sountrack w/Heavy Metal picture sleeve - nifty on Full Moon/Asylum label $5 Robyn Hitchcock "52 Stations" flexi 1982 Albion "The Man Who Invented Himself" his 1st solo 7" "Live 1986" 4 tracks on green vinyl-boot Morrissey "Suedehead" b/w "I Know Very Well How I Got My Name" UK 7" Pink Floyd "Not Now John" b/w "Hero's Return Pt. II" 1983 w/picture sleeve - pretty rare "When the Tigers Broke Free" double a-sided white label promo R.E.M. "Dark Globe" came with old Sassy mag $6 "Femme Fatale" came with BOB mag. #27 "It's the End of the World" 1985 double a-side white label promo - $10 "The One I Love" 1987 double a-side white label promo Siouxie & the Banshees "Israel" b/w "Red Over White" 1980 PVC 1001 no ps $6 Soft Boys "Tin of Crabs" bootleg, 4 deleted tracks from original "Can of Bees" $10 "1980 Rehearsals" bootleg, 2 live/2 studio all unreleased on blue vinyl $10 Sugarcubes "Birthday" b/w "Coldsweat" UK on One Little Indian $5 Various "Sound Waves 3" Sugarcubes, 2 rare Pixies tracks, live Pogues & Wedding Present 12" singles - all $12 unless noted Robyn Hitchcock "Eaten By Her Own Dinner" EP on Midnight - nice! R.E.M. "South Central Rain" b/w "Voices of Harold/Pale Blue Eyes" import 12" "Fall on Me" double a-side white label promo "Near Wild Heaven" b/w "Pop Song 89/Half a World Away" (live acoustic versions) $8 Siouxie & the Banshees "Wheels on Fire" (7"version/LP version) PROMO PRO-A-2648 (b&w picture sleeve) (Geffen) $10 LPs - priced as marked Jane's Addiction "The Mephisto Demos" double LP bootleg - rare $25 "That Ain't Country" double LP bootleg - rare $25 R.E.M. "Reckoning" original IRS pressing on semi-transparent vinyl $12 "Chronic Town" original IRS pressing (NOT w/Gargoyle) on TRANSPARENT BROWN vinyl - pretty durned rare - $25 obo Siouxie & the Banshess "the Scream" white label promo - kinda beat $10 Talking Heads "Speaking in Tongues" special edition designed by Robert Rauschenberg - SEALED $25 This Mortal Coil "Filigree & Shadow" 4ad Double LP import $16 Tones On Tail "Tones on Tail" on Situation Two (Beggars Banquet) $10 Other: Residents "God in 3 Persons" calendar from 198? $(offers) If you've replied with interest to this stuff before, and haven't heard from me, e-mail me again, as I lost many of my old messages!! [][][][][][][][] End of this Fegmaniax Digest. Archives can be found at ftp://fegmania.wustl.edu/fegmaniax/archives/ For administrative questions, send mail to owner-fegmaniax@nsmx.rutgers.edu For subscription requests, send mail to majordomo@nsmx.rutgers.edu. Slipping you the midnight fish...