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 142 Today's Topics: ------- ------ Re: If time is round and space is curved RH on-air promo Hitchcock folks... Bucketfull of Brains McCabes Setlist Chelsea Re: If time is round and space is curved Re: Mercury Lounge, OCt 6th Re: If time is round and space is curved Re: McCabes Setlist LYRICS: Trilobyte McCabes Setlists LYRICS: Devils Radio That Other Percussionist Re: Chelsea anyone taping the new shows? CRD: Ghost in You CRD: Hanging Out With Dad Those Shows that Robyn is doing currently (like McCabes) Attn: Portland Fegs ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 17:27:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Brooks Martin To: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz Cc: The veins of Her Majesty the Queen Subject: Re: If time is round and space is curved James said: (snip, snip) The only other heterosexual songwriter I know of who deals with this subject as frequently (or as well) as Robyn is New Zealander Chris Knox ("The Woman Inside of Me", for example). Hell, I know I plug NZ music a lot, but if you can stand budget recording quality ($1.50 with a tailwind) then try some of his music. His live performances, too, are amazing. But I digress. (snip!) I couldn't recommend Chris Knox's music more. He is a genius! Check out the records of his old band, The Tall Dwarves also; they're marvelous. I got to see and meet Chris for the first time recently when he came and played in Olympia. I was blown away and I was actually thinking at the time that I hadn't been so impressed with a show since the first time I saw Robyn!!! He has a similar demeanor, though he's a bit more snide and even more consciously a clown than Robyn. Check him out live if you have a chance; the smaller the venue the better the croud participation. Brooks Martin...................... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 21:52:00 -0500 (CDT) From: "Jeffrey with 2 f's Jeffrey" To: "Us...we wanna be some anglepoise lamps yeh!" Subject: RH on-air promo I found this on another list I'm sub'd to and thought we'd be interested in it here. The original poster wishes to emphasize, however, that he doesn't want to make tons of copies.... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 00:41:01 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Hitchcock folks... I was just listening to a Led Zep comp tape I recorded when I was at my college radio station, and right between Fool In The Rain and All My Love (I had to cue up All My Love) is a station ID from Robyn Hitchcock! It's typically bizarre: Near the place where I was born is a city called Reading, famous for its now-defunct overhead electric railway system. Those of you listening are probably too young to remember it, and if you're not, you shouldn't be listening to this type of music. Instead, you should be reading the collected speeches of the president or, alternately, fondling your toes and wondering which ones will be missing in the morning. In any case, that doesn't matter, because you're listening to WXAC-FM Reading (Pa.). ======================================= --Jeff Jeffrey Norman --christened "the orb of knowledge" University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee by Brian Hughes Dept. of English & Comp. Lit. of Glasgow, Scotland! e-mail: jenor@csd.uwm.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 16:32:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Ken Frankel Subject: Bucketfull of Brains To: Fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu A few years ago I saw a few issues of this magazine in a record store that no longer exists. In addition to articles about Robyn and the Soft Boys, they had things about Arthur Lee, the dB's, and other fun stuff. Anyhow my question is, is it still being published and if so, how do I subscribe? Thanks, Ken Frankel ------------------------------ From: KCasey@aol.com Date: Sat, 23 Sep 1995 05:40:43 -0400 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: McCabes Setlist Robyn and Tiddas at McCabes 9/22/95 (Acoustic) DeChirico Street Lysander Devils Radio I'm Only You Statue With A Walkman Cool Bug Rumble Chinese Bones Trilobyte Serpent At The Gates Of Wisdom (Electric) You And Oblivion Man With A Womans Shadow I Often Dream Of Trains Kingdom Of Love (Encore) Heliotrope I Am Not Me Only The Stones Remain A good show. Robyn was much more animated and relaxed than at the Belly-Up and played longer. It was a similar set but he made my night by adding "Heliotrope". Mock Alert: During the "Statue With A Walkman" monologue he made a remark about people on the internet lacking the skills necessary to interact in person. Ouch. Before the show started, I was chatting with the person next to me and it turned out that he is a DJ at KCRW. His name is Gary Calamar and said that Robyn is going to be the guest DJ on his show tomorrow night following the last McCabes show. His show airs from midnight- 3 A.M. but he wasn't sure how long Robyn would stay. He said that he had invited Robyn to play, but didn't know if he would. The opening act, Tiddas, was relatively lame. Three stout women sporting many earrings from their various pierced places who complained alot about conditions in Australia. While some of the music was interesting, the lyrics were preachy and whiny. They were sort of like the Roches. Only angry. Shirt Report: The same two shirts as the night before, only in reverse order. Robyn is traveling light this trip. Until tomorrow, Kevin ------------------------------ From: Mike Hardaker To: "'Fegmaniax!'" Subject: Chelsea Date: Sat, 23 Sep 1995 09:21:49 +-200 mikeb said: "I always thought that Elvis Costello's reluctance was in going to Chelsea, MA. Boston-area fegs know what I mean." I'd bet my bottom Rand that it's Chelsea in London, bearing in mind the date, Elvis's country of residence at the time, and the nature of that Chelsea. ------------------------------ From: Mike Hardaker To: "'Fegmaniax!'" Subject: Re: If time is round and space is curved Date: Sat, 23 Sep 1995 09:41:07 +-200 I've been reading this debate with some interest and increasing bemusement. I have to say that I find the POV that RH's writing about homosexuality is only legitimate if he is gay, bisexual or a 'don't know' extremely disturbing. You might as well say that Shakespeare should never have written about Kings because he never ruled a nation, or never have written parts for female characters because he had a Y chromosome. Although it's a rather hoary old truism that good artists write about what they know, it's fairly standard for them to project that knowledge into some new form. Indeed, it's that projection, that extrapolation and distillation of ideas which moves autobiography into art. I haven't seen anyone suggesting that Hitchcock shouldn't have written When I Was Dead on the grounds that he never has been, or gone on about seeing the sleeping Knights of Jesus when he almost certainly hasn't. But today's rather worrying PC movement wants to make certain categories of people 'special' and untouchable, especially if the artist writing about them has the genetic misfortune to be a white, middle-class and (probably) hetrosexual male. As this cuts across the tenet of egalitarianism which is at the root of the democracies which most of us on this list inhabit (yes, even me, in the New South Africa) it gets me extremely nervous. While I'd hate to accuse anyone of displaying fascist tendencies (the word being just a tad emotive) think how it would look if you swapped your sentences around and suggested that homosexuals should never discuss heterosexuality because they're 'special', or whatever. It's not too great a step from there to sewing pink triangles on people's clothes and asking them to step into this here shower-room... ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Sep 1995 08:14:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Gary Assa To: "John B. Jones" cc: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Re: Mercury Lounge, OCt 6th > Will any of you other fegs be there? I should like to meet you! Gary, > Bayard, Bueller Bueller anyone anyone? I chose to go to the Maxwell's show. In my opinion, the best place in thew world to see a show. It is the back room of a bar which hold 100-150 people. VERY intimate. > > Are tickets for the Oct 7th show REALLY $25.00????!!!! Is Robyn going to > have special effects or something (laser light show, satellite linkup , The reason it is 25, I think, is because this place is a very upscale venue. Many people have "season passes" here. I am sure you are going to get plenty of "older" people who have no idea who Robyn Hitchcock is, who go to every show there. It could be interesting. If anyone know, Huntington is a very rich area. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Sep 1995 13:35:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Livia To: your mom Subject: Re: If time is round and space is curved On Sat, 23 Sep 1995, Mike Hardaker wrote: >I've been reading this debate with some interest and increasing >bemusement. > >I have to say that I find the POV that RH's writing about homosexuality >is only legitimate if he is gay, bisexual or a 'don't know' extremely >disturbing. You might as well say that Shakespeare should never have >written about Kings because he never ruled a nation, or never have >written parts for female characters because he had a Y chromosome. > >Although it's a rather hoary old truism that good artists write about >what they know, it's fairly standard for them to project that knowledge >into some new form. Indeed, it's that projection, that extrapolation >and distillation of ideas which moves autobiography into art. > >I haven't seen anyone suggesting that Hitchcock shouldn't have written >When I I haven't seen anyone suggesting that Hitchcock shouldn't have >written When I Was Dead on the grounds that he never has been, or gone >on about seeing the sleeping Knights of Jesus when he almost certainly >hasn't. > >But today's rather worrying PC movement wants to make certain categories >of people 'special' and untouchable, especially if the artist writing >about them has the genetic misfortune to be a white, middle-class and >(probably) hetrosexual male. As this cuts across the tenet of >egalitarianism which is at the root of the democracies which most of us >on this list inhabit (yes, even me, in the New South Africa) it gets me >extremely nervous. > >While I'd hate to accuse anyone of displaying fascist tendencies (the >word being just a tad emotive) think how it would look if you swapped >your sentences around and suggested that homosexuals should never >discuss heterosexuality because they're 'special', or whatever. It's >not too great a step from there to sewing pink triangles on people's >clothes and asking them to step into this here shower-room... sheesh i guess i'm still not making my point very well i NEVER meant to imply that robyn (or anyone else) should avoid writing about homosexuality (or any other subject). and i fully agree with you about both imaginative projection and pc censorship all i intended to say was that i didn't personally like the WAY in which he wrote about this subject in this particular song. for me, it doesn't work, and i attempted to explain why i don't think this is any different than all the people who say they don't like wafflehead because of the way it talks about sex. they're not saying that robyn shouldn't write songs about sex; they're saying that they don't like the way he handled the subject in that particular song and nobody else seemed to have a problem with that. i almost feel that what's happened with queen elvis is another facet of the "special and untouchable" categorization mentioned above -- because it is about this particular subject, one is not allowed to criticize it ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Sep 1995 17:52:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard To: KCasey@aol.com cc: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Re: McCabes Setlist > > Mock Alert: During the "Statue With A Walkman" monologue he made a remark > about people on the internet lacking the skills necessary to interact in > person. hmmmm... must've got wind of the 'worst songs' thread... ;) ------------------------------ From: KCasey@aol.com Date: Sun, 24 Sep 1995 05:48:56 -0400 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: LYRICS: Trilobyte TRILOBYTE Trilobyte ripe, Dwights in the light bite Trilobyte ripe in the light bite Dwight (repeat) Basking on the shores of time The little stone creature ain't dead to the world, they call him... (chorus) Clicking away for a second of fame A billion years later they give it a name, they call him.... (chorus) When I'm too wasted these rocks to clamber, then lean me on the cliff and encase me in amber and a creature from the future in way out when can (?) my fossil and name me Sven, thats a nice name. Built for a world where nothing needs shaving look at them stone and (?) waving (chorus) Lets hold a clicking championship The trilobyte wins and everybody else loses (chorus) Trilobyte. Trilobyte. ------------------------------ From: KCasey@aol.com Date: Sun, 24 Sep 1995 05:53:05 -0400 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: McCabes Setlists Robyn at McCabes 9/23/95-Early Show (Acoustic) DeChirico Street Lysander Devils Radio The Wind Cries Mary Cool Bug Rumble I'm Only You Trilobyte Glass Hotel (Electric) You And Oblivion Raymond Chandler Evening Woman In You Kingdom of Love (Encore) Heliotrope Listening To The Higsons I've Got A Message For You Queen of Eyes The Late Show (Acoustic) Queen Of Eyes Surgery Wide Open Star Visions Of Johanna Trilobyte Chinese Bones Devils Radio Shadowcat (Electric) I Am Not Me Silver Wands Birdshead Kingdom Of Love (Encore) Shuffling Over The Flagstones Heliotrope Beautiful Queen Only The Stones Remain Random Notes: - Robyn credited "Visions Of Johanna" as being the song that got him started writing songs. - "Shadowcat" is a song in progress. He inferred that he was in the process of recording it now with "lots of overdubs" and that he played it tonight as a "test drive" just in case he was stopped by the police and asked to play the song without any overdubs. He seemed like he was making up the arrangement as he went along. - During "Beautiful Queen" Robyns guitar suddenly ceased producing sounds and he had to stop the song. He fiddled with his cords and effects pedals but to no avail and the sound man came out to help. The best they could guess was that his amplifier had died so he grabbed his acoustic, retuned it and finished the song. He finished the set on the acoustic which made for quite a nice rendition of "Only The Stones Remain." - There was one t-shirt for sale with artwork by Robyn. It is black and the front says "The Afterleaf". Underneath that is an outline of the fegman with a leaf on his head. Under that it says Robyn Hitchcock. On the back it says "Spring Into Autumn" over a picture of a snake winding around a plant. ( It looks like the symbol you see at doctors offices) Under that it says "Suspicious Fruit". Go figure. Shirt Report: In addition to the previous two shirts, tonight Robyn added a sort of baggy khaki green t-shirt, changed into the white shirt and finally the print shirt. No lizards all weekend. As I type this, I am listening to Robyn on KCRW and he just said that he thought that the first show went well, but that the second show was just the scraps leftover from the first. Personally, I liked them both. Thus ends my weekend of Robyn and I relinquish my secretarial duties to those of you further north. Kevin ------------------------------ From: KCasey@aol.com Date: Sun, 24 Sep 1995 05:53:17 -0400 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: LYRICS: Devils Radio DEVILS RADIO Darlin' you don't have to call me Stalin or even Mao-Tse-Tung cause I'm far too young My rising sign is capricorn is that surprising you know that I was born so very soft and easy going I make no trouble at all I was listening Yeah I was listening to the Devils Radio (repeat) And it went nah nah nah nah nah nah I'm the Devils Radio Evil its tentacles are bland its like a weevil it burrows through the land and everybody smiles everybody smiles Micheal don't you know someday a spike'll grow right through the woodwork and come out through your pants We was listening Yeah we was listening to the Devils Radio (repeat) And it went nah nah nah nah nah nah I'm the Devils Radio Sun sets on the Devil Sun sets on the West He's listening to the FM talk show Its what he loves the best Limbaugh He was talking through a bimbo but don't touch that dial or that hateful smile Kate said the flowers of intolerance and hatred blooming kind of early this year someones been watering them We was listening Yeah we was listening to the Devils Radio (repeat) And it went nah nah nah nah nah nah I'm not the Devils Radio It just went nah nah nah nah nah nah I'm the Devils Radio ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Sep 1995 21:47:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Terry Marks Subject: That Other Percussionist To: Pretty Girls and Anglepoise lamps Jim Melton... You all can point out every note that Kimberly played, more or less. Does anyone have any idea what sort of noises Jim made? [Or what he's doing now? Didn't he become a lawyer? Something like.."All the Soft Boys were either working with me or laywers, except for Kimberly", or something like that that Robyn said..] Oh...and tab request list: The Yip Song(corrections wanted), Do Policemen Sing?, The Moon Inside, Look Into Your Mirror, Wading through a Ventilator, Cars she Used to Drive, Sometimes I Wish I Was a Pretty Girl, Lady Waters and the Hooded One, Dr. Sticky, Globe of Frogs, Freeze, Mr. ROck'N'Roll, THe Rat's Prayer, You&Me, and Woman in You. The Big Untabbed List (131 songs) may be printed this month if more songs aren't tabbed out..[I've got a standing threat to post it to the group once a month if at least 7 songs aren't printed. I beleive that you've got 2 going (Devil's Coachman and Wax Doll), but I may have forgotten a few) Terry "The Human Mellotron" Marks a013645t@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Sep 1995 12:44:28 -0400 From: mikeb@usa1.com (Mike Breen) To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Re: Chelsea >mikeb said: "I always thought that Elvis Costello's reluctance was in = >going to Chelsea, MA. Boston-area fegs know what I mean." > >I'd bet my bottom Rand that it's Chelsea in London, bearing in mind the = >date, Elvis's country of residence at the time, and the nature of that = >Chelsea. Sorry I forgot to put the smily in there. But still... _I_ don't wanna go to Chelsea, MA. ---Mike (Nickname o' the month - "Grumpy Ol' Alterna-Guy") Check out the Other Days home page at http://www1.usa1.com/~mikeb/odays.html mikeb@usa1.com mikester@bix.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Sep 1995 13:09:29 -0400 (EDT) From: the magus To: fegmaniax Subject: anyone taping the new shows? is anyone out there taping the latest robin shows? if so, woudld you please let me know? thanks, cory "when you misdirect me momma you're misdirecting a person you wouldn't want to misdirect..." http://www.duke.edu/~car3 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Sep 1995 15:12:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Terry Marks Subject: CRD: Ghost in You To: Pretty Girls and Anglepoise lamps Here's a song that he covered. A D Man in my shoes runs a light and all the papers lie tonight A D E and falling over you is the news of the day D A angels fall like rain D A and love love love, you can't give it away D Inside you the time flows and it moves on the ghost in you she don't fade the race is on i'm on your side and hearing you my engines died I'm in the mood for you and for running away stars come out in you and love love love will only get in the way Inside you the time moves and it goes on the ghost in you she don't fade D Inside you the tiem flows and it moves on Don't you go it makes no sense when all you're talking supermen just take away the time and get in the way D A ain't it just like rain D A love love love is only heaven away D Inside you the time rules and it goes on the ghost in you she don't fade Terry "The Human Mellotron" Marks a013645t@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Sep 1995 15:11:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Terry Marks Subject: CRD: Hanging Out With Dad To: Pretty Girls and Anglepoise lamps Well, it was on my request list, so.. @Hanging Out With Dad [Note: G is played as | | ||| D G D | || D G ] G What's the matter now little boy, you look bewildered and sad "I tell you officer", he replied, "I have mislaid my own dad I left him down by the swimming pool it was an average day he had an oxygen cylender, and how could he ???" D I'm hanging out with dad in the middle of the night Hanging out with dad and I feel allright the officer in question was John Keats with an inquisitive mind he found a trail of leaves and twigs the boy just followd behind they found him out in a velvet grove, his stuff was under a chair he was in bed with an animal who had a frog in her hair, yeah she was hanging out with dad in the middle of the night Hanging out with dad and she feel allright [instrumental break of D] It's time for you to be positive about your slimy old man cause if your gonna turn into him, you better start making plans it would be nice to be physical, but since that isnt' the case you had too much of your mother's milk, but not your father's embrace You're Hanging out with dad in the middle of the night You're Hanging out with dad and you feel allright You're hanging out with dad in the middle of the night you're hanging out with dad and you feel allright D just gimme some oxygen just gimme some oxygen just gimme some oxygen just gimme some oxygen D [babbling] Terry "The Human Mellotron" Marks a013645t@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Sep 1995 12:40:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Terry Marks Subject: Those Shows that Robyn is doing currently (like McCabes) To: Pretty Girls and Anglepoise lamps Is anyone getting tapes of these? (those shows that Robyn is doing now, or in the near future) If so, you've got at least one person here who wants them. Terry "The Human Mellotron" Marks a013645t@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Sep 1995 20:44:31 -0700 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu From: sherrett@teleport.com (Jason Sherrett) Subject: Attn: Portland Fegs There will be a gathering of Portland Fegs (and any others making the trip for the show) this Wednesday night around 8:00 pm at Capt. Ankeny's (right around the corner from Berbati's). Show starts at 9:30, but since Berbati's has no formal door time or seating on the floor, there shouldn't be any need to line up real early or anything. If you want to meet the group carry a lemon, or a prawn, or wear your glasses. Or just keep an eye out for the folks keeping an eye out for you. If you're really bold you could walk in and start yelling "Hey Fegs!" (Karen's idea) See you there, Jason [][][][][][][][] 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...