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 146 Today's Topics: ------- ------ Re: Trilobite Gotta Get a Trilobite Tonight, Ellen net Tour '95!! Re: divers alarums, but precious little RH Re: Portland show. Re: Trilobitten Re:toast robyn-speak Re: Tour '95!! stuff Seattle-ites, where are you? Re:toast MORE TOAST!!! Re: Seattle-ites, where are you? Re:toast Re: Re:toast Interview with Robyn steves Re: Interview with Robyn ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Sep 95 20:37:24 WST From: baker_d@ee.uwa.edu.au (david baker) To: jonross@jeffnet.org Subject: Re: Trilobite Cc: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu To Jon-Ross, I would first like to say that I enjoyed your review of the concert, as I have e3njoyed all of the reviews given of his shows far. I tell you I am very jealous down here in Australia which Robyn (understandably) doesn't frequent much. Although I do get the impression that I would probably be more envious of someone who'd seen a show around 1985/1986 with the egyptians than the mainly acoustic shows he's giving now. Still, you cannot tell unless you are there and that does not look likely at this juncture. Anyway, to Jon-Ross's question: > And in my mind, the color green > Is oh so lonely and obscene tonight > When the time is right >Would somebody tell me the title please? It's great. The song is Surgery, which is probably my favourite track off the You & Oblivion CD. It is also featured on the Gotta Let This Hen Out Video. That CD also includes what I perceived to be the title song, You & I, which I thought you were referring to when you talk about the song You & Oblivion. Are they different tracks and if not, where did you here your version from. I would never describe the song as 'searing' as you describe the live performance. Dave Baker PS Am I the only Australian Feg? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 14:55:48 +0100 (BST) From: M R Godwin To: The Can Opener Subject: Gotta Get a Trilobite Tonight, Ellen TONIGHT is one of the many great songs on UNDERWATER MOONLIGHT by the Soft Boys, along with INSANELY JEALOUS and the title track. TRILOBITES are much older than 65 million years, which is the end of the Mesozoic era. They go right back to the Devonian, I think, which is more like 140 million years. Why didn't he perform this song at Yarmouth? MARK ELLEN further info: I was reading a new book about the fantabulous Peter Green (by Martin Celmins, silly name) and it quoted extensively from a 1994 article by Mark Ellen in MOJO magazine - so I guess he has moved on from Q... - Mike (Color Out Of Space) Godwin "I want to die in the same place I was born, Miles from Nowhere..." ------------------------------ From: bing@student.umass.edu Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 11:06:13 -0400 Subject: net To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Hello, Unfortunately my internet access is limited to email only, so i'm not able to access the web page or ftp sites. Is there a ctalog of merchandise that someone could send to me, or that I could send for? Let me know. Thanks a lot, my best to you all-- Bradley "Time wounds all heels" N. Lowe ------------------------------ From: bing@student.umass.edu Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 11:12:08 -0400 Subject: Tour '95!! To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Okay, so Jim (our navigator) lost both the map and our itinerary, so if you want us to come to your place next just say so. We've been on this rotary now for a good two or three hours. Andy has dismantled the stereo, but somehow the Johnny Mathis will not stop. We are running low on Pez, but high on VW van fumes. Yet, like a blinding light of hope and love to fegs everywhere we travel on! I think Roger just fell out again... from the road, Bradley Boy and the Soft Egyptians! Tour '95! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 09:45:08 -0700 Subject: Re: divers alarums, but precious little RH From: Tom Clark To: , "fegManiax" James spewed: >New Zealous. Hey, I like it. If I spoke Newzild you'd be really perplexed. >That's what they speak in Oklun, Wulinktun and even here in Dneedn, eh! >Lots of us speak it, pakeha and tangatawhenua alike - everyone from >scarfies to freezing workers to round-table ROC members. Ockers can >understand some Newzild, but a Canadian? Be warned, if you go north of the >Bombays or to a bach up Central, or if you come to the house of pain to see >the blues against the mooloomen - even if you got a fair suck of the sav >you'd only have a half-pai idea what was going on, and you'd feel like a >right bogan. You'd probably get so crook about it you'd feel like you'd >been in a rolling maul, and you'd be taken to a CHE, praying that you've >got Southern Cross so that Jenny doesn't get all your Edmunds. A grouse >tongue - just what you'd expect from the land of she'll be right and the >number 8 wire spirit. Somebody's gotta learn youse people howta talk normal! -tc ************************************* * Tom Clark * Apple Computer, Inc. "Knowledge Is Good" * tclark@apple.com -Emil Faber * tclark@netgate.net * tclark@eworld.com * http://www.netgate.net/~tclark ************************************* ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 13:00:45 -0400 From: mikeb@usa1.com (Mike Breen) To: a013645t@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us Cc: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu.psu00020@odin.cc.pdx.edu Subject: Re: Portland show. >> -for the terry-marks-types among us, robyn played his black telecaster, >> which i believe is of late-seventies vintage, through a twin-reverb. I >> could not tell what the things he stepped on were. >Hey! >that's Mike Breen, not me. >I never could tell guitars apart. Are you innsinuating that I'm a gear geek, Terry? Oh... wait... I _am_ a gear geek. Nevermind. ---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: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 10:13:35 -0700 From: Jon-Ross Habina Subject: Re: Trilobitten To: Edward of Sim cc: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu I don't know where that 'studio recording' bit came from. I'd never heard it all, and I certainly have been made aware of it now =->. My only defense is that I was quite weary, I guess, and haven't heard a good joke in a while... J-R **************************** jonross@jeffnet.org "Saying that Windows 95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and believing you've witnessed the second coming." --- Guy Kawasaki ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 00:21:58 +0100 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu From: Jim Subject: Re:toast On the subject of toast, when I saw Robyn in sheffield on his solo uk tour he changed the last lines of "the devils coachman" to (something like): "yesterday I saw the devil in our bed I want to kill him but I'm English so I went to the kitchen and I made him toast" It sounds great when you're bread. JIM BOWER waffle from my head ------------------------------ From: bing@student.umass.edu Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 20:21:38 -0400 Subject: robyn-speak To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Does anyone have a tape collecting Robyn's between song banter, or any interview segments? If so, let me know-- i'd love to get some Robyn-speak on tape! still no word on a nick lowe miling list :( Bradley ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 21:23:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Terry Marks Subject: Re: Tour '95!! To: bing@student.umass.edu Cc: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu On Fri, 29 Sep 1995 bing@student.umass.edu wrote: > Okay, so Jim (our navigator) lost both the map and our itinerary, so if you > want us to come to your place next just say so. We've been on this rotary now > for a good two or three hours. Andy has dismantled the stereo, but somehow the > Johnny Mathis will not stop. We are running low on Pez, but high on VW van > fumes. Yet, like a blinding light of hope and love to fegs everywhere we > travel on! I think Roger just fell out again... Bradley? Help! Look at "Alan Davies". Notice how he looks about 20 years younger... It's not as if he's got some sort of magical youth cream, you see... You Left Me Behind! That was Terry who you took along. I'd've thought that you'd notice, or somehting. Could you *please* come back and pick me up? Alan "THe Human Wang Bo" Davies ------------------------------ From: bing@student.umass.edu Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 00:55:08 -0400 Subject: stuff To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Hello-- I don't have access to webs or ftps or anything, so I was wondering if someone could tell me where to get a hold of a Hitchcock poster or two. Preferrably Respect or You and Oblivion. I need something to help liven up my tiny, cell like dorm room. My best to you all, Bradley ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 01:23:18 -0400 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu From: jojones@mailbox.syr.edu (John B. Jones) Subject: Seattle-ites, where are you? I was hoping to read some reviews and setlist. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- John B. Jones e-mail: jojones@mailbox.syr.edu SURFING THE DICTIONARY: "'Zinky' and 'Linty' exist- they're actual words- but we don't know what they are. They might be two kids who've run away to follow the Grateful Dead." -Robyn Hitchcock, Seattle, Wa. 1 May 93 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 21:25:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Terry Marks Subject: Re:toast To: Jim Cc: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu > he changed the last lines of "the devils coachman" to (something like): > "yesterday I saw the devil in our bed > I want to kill him but I'm English so > I went to the kitchen and I made him toast" Has someone notifyed the Toast Goddess of this? Terry "back at home, despite his brief stint as a Soft Boys guitarist" Marks ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 02:36:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Glen Uber To: Underwater Moon-list Subject: MORE TOAST!!! "Gonna rock on to the Toastedside" "When I Was Bread" "Jams of Old London" "Captain Rye" "She Reached For Some White" "Only The Crumbs Remain" "Egyptian Crumb" "Ultra Unbelievable Loaf" "Falling Loaves" "Heartfull of Loaves" "Rout of the Scones" "Queen of Ryes" I'm not really as bored as you might think :^}. Beers to You, Glen xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx x Quotation of the week: x x "Beer is better than most people. After all, beer x x is 92% water. People are only 78%." x xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 04:38:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Livia To: your mom Subject: Re: Seattle-ites, where are you? here i had my lemon and everything. where were the rest of you? i'm terrible at setlists. i know it started with de chirico street and ended with kingdom of love. somewhere in between were: i'm only you, i something you, i've got a message for you (hmm, an interesting pattern here), trilobite (well, so much for the pattern), glass hotel, birdshead, you and oblivion, and a few others. also a jimi hendrix song and something called 'caroline', which had some way intense guitar. (who wrote it? i would certainly be curious to hear the original) yellow shirt with red lattice and blue lozenges, then the collarless white shirt, untucked. hair even shaggier and grayer than last year. (he said something like, 'i got a haircut before i left england, but the plane trip took about three weeks') quite a bit of patter and silliness a decent show, but i miss morris and andy. he's good alone, but there are a lot of great songs that can't be played without a band. (there were a lot of repeat songs from last year's solo tour, now that i think of it) and having TWO opening acts (with at least 45 minutes between them) was a bit much. i'm sure the backstage sold a lot of beer, but i don't drink beer, so it was wasted on me tiddas was ok. morris tepper was amazingly awful. long dull songs sung in an incredibly loud and scratchy voice. (he must have the world's toughest throat.) a few lame attempts at between-song cuteness. man, i was starting to wish that my lemon was a rotten tomato :) in an appropriate bit of weirdness, my friend and i were sitting next to a woman who'd just moved here from michigan, and saw her obsessive ex-boyfriend sitting a few feet away. we helped her try to think of a fake name in case he approached her. oddly enough, she didn't think much of vyrna, vera, maureen or cynthia ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 11:26:08 -0400 (EDT) From: dwillem1@IC3.ITHACA.EDU Subject: Re:toast To: Terry Marks Cc: Jim , fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu He sang the same thing when I saw him. He introduced the song as a track that didn't make it onto Frank Sinatra's Duets albums. On Fri, 29 Sep 1995, Terry Marks wrote: > > he changed the last lines of "the devils coachman" to (something like): > > "yesterday I saw the devil in our bed > > I want to kill him but I'm English so > > I went to the kitchen and I made him toast" > Has someone notifyed the Toast Goddess of this? > > Terry "back at home, despite his brief stint as a Soft Boys guitarist" Marks > ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 15:49:56 -0400 From: mikeb@usa1.com (Mike Breen) To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Re: Re:toast >On the subject of toast, when I saw Robyn in sheffield on his solo uk tour >he changed the last lines of "the devils coachman" Yeah, he did the same line when he was in Boston earlier this year. ---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: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 15:21:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Miss Western Teen USA To: dennis Subject: Interview with Robyn this is a brief interview that appeared in a weekly news/advertising paper in portland callled willamette week. i shall omit the banter at the start of the interview. it is just the usual introduction to someones work and all that. the only informative/rumor tidbit is that of a mention of robyn recording in seattle soon, using to some degree morris tepper. the rest of the article is the six questions below. ww: have you had a chance to listen to the rhino reissues yet? R: i listened to bits of it while it was being assembled...i'm glad it's there. a novelist likes to have all their books in print, and i feel the same about my records. ww: though your general themes--namely, sex and death--have stayed the same, your approach seems different... R: the rage in my songs has diminished over the years. the level of paranoia has probably remained the same, but the actual level of anger has dropped. and sex and death...you can't have one without the other. we have sex because we have death. if we didn't die we wouldn't need to replace ourselves. they're both testaments to the power of time. ww: what's most strange about america compared with great britain? R: america is essentially europe's child. they [the europeans] killed everyone who was here and set themselves up. but there's no past here, especially on the west coast. that's the thing i sense most. ww: your work with the soft boys was a touchstone for bands such as r.e.m., who've achieved considerable commercial success, while you seem fated to remain a cult figure. R: that's what i plan to be. i never wanted to be on 'top of the pops' or something. i think there's nothing wrong with selling a few more records, but i was never interested in busting into the top 10 or replacing 'dark side of the moon' as the classic coffee-table album. i'm more concerned with what i do than the status it achieves. ww: so you don't feel unfulfilled if you don't sell as many records as michael stipe? R: christ no! i wouldn't want that kind of pressure. you know, what's a reward for your work? is it just reward to [be] creating, is it to starve like van gogh, or is it to make $50 million like bob dylan but still feel miserable? i'm generally happy with what i've done; some of the songs are better than others, there are peaks i haven't achieved--emotional peaks. i've never produced anything as powerful as the 'plastic ono band' album; or as saturated in mood as 'astral weeks' or the second syd barrett record.... you can never enjoy your own songs as much as you can enjoy other people's. ww: one more question: who do you think you were in your previous life? R: i'm sure whoever i was, i'm glad i never met them. .chris ------------------------------ From: savinien@ea.oac.uci.edu To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: steves Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 17:20:35 -0700 What is the source of Robyn's seeming dislike of guys named, or at least the name, Steve? About every time he mentions that name in a song or onstage banter, it's in a negative context. (e.g. In the recent McCabe's performance, he mentioned "Steve" as a possible rename someone could get after their fossil's dug up.) ------------------------------ From: mad5c@server.cs.virginia.edu Subject: Re: Interview with Robyn To: psu00020@odin.cc.pdx.edu Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 23:22:56 -2800 (EDT) Cc: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Thanks, Chris, for typing this in. Sometimes it's nice to have the whole text of an interview for archival reasons, and sometimes it's nice to cut straight to the chase. This is one of those latter instances, I think. Miss Western Teen USA writes: >> {..} >> better than others, there are peaks i haven't achieved--emotional peaks. >> i've never produced anything as powerful as the 'plastic ono band' album; >> or as saturated in mood as 'astral weeks' or the second syd barrett >> record What's the name of this "second syd barrett album"? This isn't Madcap Laughs, and it isnt Opel, is it? I've got a copy of Madcap Laughs, and it's too ragged for my taste, so I was kind of turned off to Syd Barrett, but now I'm starting to get sucked into his legend again. Can anyone set me straight on the above? Mike. NP: Mazzy Star's "So Tonight That I Might See" [][][][][][][][] 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...