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 172 Today's Topics: ------- ------ AN Idea CRD: Airscape, TW&J, demographics, etc. Recording details, Respect album (fwd) Recording details, Respect album Narrow vs Wide Parties - referendum results fegmaniax demographic? Yet another 'Robyn meets Peter Buck' story ano feg weighs in REM, Airscape, stats WARNING! NOT A BIOGRAPHY! ACTUAL ROBYN RELATED POST HERE! Not a Soft Boy Anymore Re: WARNING! NOT A BIOGRAPHY! ACTUAL ROBYN RELATED POST HERE! Re: Not a Soft Boy Anymore messylaneous replies Re: AN Idea RE: Positive Vibrations magazine Robyn's Interchangeable Body Parts ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 00:46:01 -0500 (EST) From: Terry Marks Subject: AN Idea To: Pretty Girls and Anglepoise lamps Someone posted a while back about not being able to spot Fegs at RH concerts. Anyone want to try, perhaps, making big red "FEG" buttons? and.. For the Big Song Tally...please do not post eras or albums for artists. I can't calculate them in. Terry "The Human Mellotron" Marks a013645t@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us ------------------------------ From: Mike Hardaker To: "'Fegmaniax!'" Subject: CRD: Airscape, TW&J, demographics, etc. Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 09:01:15 +-200 A while ago, someone asked for the chords to Airscape, and I promptly forgot to post 'em. Sorry. It's not hard - just play this, again and again: E B A B Where the chords are played thus: E: 022100 B: 024400 A: 002200 And, while we're on the subject of chords, I think the Ted, Woody and Junior chords posted are a bit dodgy (well, they sound dodgy now, but they might sound great when you're dead...:-) I think the opening is simply: CFC Dm C F C Ted, Woody, and Junior While the middle eights goes: Fmaj7 Eb7 It's a wonderful world with a lot of strange men and then as posted. Oh, and didn't someone want Raymond Chandler Evening too? That's a bit tougher... Here's (roughly) how it goes in standard tuning, although I suspect the original may be in an open tuning: Chords: Bb6: x13031 (do this by playin Bb7 and then 'lifting' the barre) C: x32013 F: 133211 Dm: x00231 G: 320003 Bb: 11333x Intro: Bb6 C Bb6 C etc. Verse: Bb6 C It's a Raymond Chandler evening Bb6 C At the end of someone's day Bb6 C And I'm standing in my pocket Bb6 F And I'm slowly turning grey Bridge: (F) Dm Bb C There's a body on the railings Dm Bb C That I can't identify G Bb And I'd like to reassure you F C But I'm not that kind of guy And while I'm at it, the demographic gubbins may as well be tapped in: Name: Mike Hardaker Work: Magazine editor, Singer/Guitarist (about an 80/20 split at the moment. The wrong way) Born: UK Live: Cape Town, South Africa Eyes: Contacts First: Soft Boys, c.1978 Cheers, Mike ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 10:23:13 +0000 (GMT) From: M R Godwin To: The feisty barbel and the gruesome tench Subject: Recording details, Respect album (fwd) I just thought I would forward this correspondence concerning the Respect recording sessions. - Mike ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 10:16:04 +0000 (GMT) From: M R Godwin To: Aidan Merritt <101356.2516@compuserve.com> Subject: Recording details, Respect album Thanks for the info. I was checking the label last night, which credits: Original recording - Yarmouth IoW, BBC Mobile Overdubs: Livingstone Studios, London Mixing and fine tuning: Real World Studios, Bath Have you any idea which bits were done at the Livingstone Studio? - Mike Godwin On 30 Oct 1995, Aidan Merritt wrote: > _Respect_ was recorded in the kitchen of Robyn's house at Yarmouth IOW (hence > the odd bits of improvisation with kitchen utensils) using a rented BBC outside > broadcast unit. The string quartet was recorded seperately, and mixed on at Real > World, but all Robyn & co's contributions were recorded in Robyn's kitchen, as > were all the extra bits that were added to make _Spectre_. > > Aidan M. > ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 10:48:57 +0000 (GMT) From: M R Godwin To: The looming mullet and the wily bream Subject: Narrow vs Wide Parties - referendum results WIDES SQUEAK HOME IN LAST-MINUTE TRIUMPH In a neck and neck finish, the Wide (or Bigendian) Party, campaigning on the slogan "Anything goes, including poems which might have influenced Robyn in a previous incarnation" just beat the Narrow (or Smallendian) Party, whose chosen theme "We know what shirts he wears, but which buttons does he leave undone?" was felt by the media to be lacking in appeal to the floating, aimless, middle-witted voter. _Results_ Wides 50.3%, (including two "no balls") Narrows 49.1% 0.6% spoiled papers (from electors replying "Of course I support the Narrow Party, but my own last 17 postings have been totally irrelevant"). Now that this has been decisively settled, I hope that we can look forward to renewed harmony between the two communities. Jean Marie d'Artagnan Acting Returning Officer ------------------------------ From: tluk6@central.sussex.ac.uk (Marcus Slade) Subject: fegmaniax demographic? To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 10:40:04 +0000 (GMT) Heres my addition AGE 20 OCCUPATION Student GLASSES Not most of the time even though i am half blind in one eye. FAVE RH ALBUM (of the ones i own) Fegmania FAVE RH SONG Uncorrected Personality Traits FAVE MUSIC R.E.M., 10,000 Maniacs, Neil Young, Stone Roses, Oasis, Smashing Pumpkins, Robyn (of cource), Crowded House, James, Velvet Underground, Tindersticks, plus others too numerous to mention. FAVE AUTHOR Terry Pratchet FIRST RH GIG At the Concord Bar here in Brighton on his solo tour earlier this year, one of the best gigs i've been to. INTRODUCTION I have been a big R.E.M. fan for quite a few years TO RH now and was always reading about Robyn. I then found Perspex Island in a local record shop about 3 years ago and decided to investigate, i was then hooked. Thats all i have to declare now so bye bye Marcus Slade University Of Sussex Brighton England ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 21:59:13 -0500 (EST) From: Nitnit To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Yet another 'Robyn meets Peter Buck' story I dug up a newspaper article from RH's 1992 tour. It featured a photo of a very young looking Robyn standing with arms crossed a la dead Egyptian, wearing a dark shirt with flags all over it. Enjoy. Wanda --------- Here's what RH said about meeting Peter Buck: ... But listen to how the 39-year-old folk rocker describes his first meeting with R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck, and ask yourself if the old Robyn is not dead, but merely sleeping: "I met Peter in an embalming class in north London," Buck (sic) says on the line from R.E.M.'s mission control, Athens, Ga. "It was sort of an amateur embalming class, for tourists and students. It's a novelty thing; they teach you how to do this stuff, but not on people, really so much." You don't say? And what exactly were you and Peter embalming together? "We were embalming a cat," Hitchcock continues, without skipping a beat. "I live near Highgate Cemetary, and I was just inclined to do those things. "And Peter was just being a visitor because he wanted to do something exotic on his days off. "That's how we met, and I kind of met the rest of R.E.M. from there." Yeah, that's the ticket. This momentous meeting over a dead Felix allegedly occurred while Buck and company were in London making _Fables of the Reconstruction_, the 1985 album that R.E.M. members themselves say is among the band's worst work. Could it have been bad enough to drive Buck to get into upholstering tabbies? With anything Hitchcock says, you can never know for sure. ... --------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 21:13:37 -0500 (EST) From: SH MCCLEARY Subject: ano feg weighs in To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Name: Scott Hunter McCleary Born: 12/29/59, North Charleroi, Pennsylvania, USA. Physical: Halfway between Elton John and Henry Rollins. Home: Arlington, Virginia (deep in the heart of wildest Pentagonia). Humans in the house: wife Lyn (Klingon crunchy granola attorney musclewoman and vicarious Feg). Livestock: 2yro English Springer Spaniel "Astro"; 17wko Gordon Setter "Renfield" (send newspaper!!!); 5ft green iguana "Iggy". Dosh in: Doing clever things with ones and zeros (writing, designing, editing publications, audio and video projects for large trade association). Dosh out: Computer and music stuff, Lyn's fall wardrobe. Avocations: creating music, poetry, fiction, photography. Musical taste: RH, Stranglers, Poi Dog Pondering, Jah Wobble, and Psychedelic Furs top a very long list. Favorite Beatle: Reg. Glasses: Several pairs (though not all at once). Main axes: PowerBook 165c, Kurzweil K2000, Ibanez RS-520. Robynical epiphany: Heard Chinese Bones while sitting in Montrose Park (Georgetown), summer 1989. Realized that was the guy who played the part of Keith on The Flat Earth. Knew right then that I had experienced something great. Favorite RH albums: Probably EOL or Eye, though none is far from the CD player at any given time. Notable geographic event: Well, I went to Chestnut Hill, PA for a wedding once, and I saw a corpse on the beach there. Closest brush with musical greatness: I dated a girl in college who had kissed one of the Bay City Rollers. S-A-TUR... oh, sorry. Personal failing: not getting those disks with the digitized "Glass Flesh" cuts for the Web page to w ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 16:10:00 +0700 To: The veins of Her Majesty the Queen From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: REM, Airscape, stats Terry ("prisoner of conscious, erm, conscience") Marks waxed merrily: >Just wondering about "Man on the Moon". >'Andy are you goofing on Elvis'... >Just wondering if this could be the Andy I think it is.. Andy Kaufman, apparently. Bradley wrote: >Could someone post the chords to "airscape" and "Raymond Chandler >Evening"? I've pretty much given up on "Ted,Woody, and junior", i'm >afraid. Anyone had any luck with this one? Now I *know* I sent Airscape to the list (I think Raymond Chandler Evening's been posted before, too) - isn't there some place these things are being stored? woj??? still, Bradley asked, so here is... Airscape! E A Bsus4 A And in the element of light E A Bsus4 A The sun reflects from the waves, inshore it spangles E A Bsus4 A E The child of air is borne upon the winds that blow across the sea A Bsus4 A E A Bsus4 A And in the element of summer E A Bsus4 A The cliffs suspended in the heat, the air in columns E A Bsus4 A E The tiny figures of the world are walking underneath your feet A Bsus4 And underneath your hair A Bsus4 A Bsus4 Where angels wander, I'll wander too A Bsus4 E Where angels wander, over you etc etc etc! Bsus4, BTW, is played (xx4440). That's all there is to it! Well, not quite. There is a short instrumental break, and a coda, both of which consist simply of one chord... D+2 (x00230) Enjoy! --- Mike (Color Out Of Space) Godwin enthused: >PS Do I detect that as the votes come in, IODOT is drawing into the lead? >I look forward to the published tables - perhaps we can have some >crosstabs complete with chi-squared significance levels? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Anyone for an Analysis of Variance??? Statistically challenged in the South Pacific, 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, 31 Oct 1995 09:29:08 -0600 (CST) From: JAY LYALL Subject: WARNING! NOT A BIOGRAPHY! ACTUAL ROBYN RELATED POST HERE! To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu For those who must have everything...there is a RH cut on Volume 2 of the Mountain Stage series...I don't remember which song it is now that the phone just rang and killed my train of thought.... jay %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Jay Lyall "Capy Toad Blast" "If you could free my inner child hist1a@jetson.uh.edu Then I could free your inhabitions." University of Houston --Lloyd Cole "I was born to cheese you." "If absence makes the heart grow fonder --Robyn Hitchcock Then I don't want to see you any more." --Replacements %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ------------------------------ Subject: Not a Soft Boy Anymore To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 11:43:37 -0500 (EST) From: "Anna Rooney" Back around '87 there was an import (not US) album at Wax Trax records in Chicago called "Not a Softboy Anymore." It was priced at $42, so I passed on it and bought Eaten by Her Own Dinner instead. Unfortunately, I haven't seen it since, nor heard you fellow fegs mention it in passing. Anyone know what it was and how hard I should be kicking myself?!? thanks ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 10:11:07 -0800 (PST) From: Brooks Martin To: JAY LYALL Cc: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: Re: WARNING! NOT A BIOGRAPHY! ACTUAL ROBYN RELATED POST HERE! It is a live acoustic version of Arms of Love. This CD came out well before RESPECT so the overproduced version on that album was a double bummer to me. On Tue, 31 Oct 1995, JAY LYALL wrote: > For those who must have everything...there is a RH cut on Volume 2 of the > Mountain Stage series...I don't remember which song it is now that the phone > just rang and killed my train of thought.... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 14:46:00 -0500 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu From: jojones@mailbox.syr.edu (John B. Jones) Subject: Re: Not a Soft Boy Anymore >Back around '87 there was an import (not US) album at Wax Trax records in >Chicago called "Not a Softboy Anymore." It was priced at $42, so I passed >on it and bought Eaten by Her Own Dinner instead. Unfortunately, I haven't >seen it since, nor heard you fellow fegs mention it in passing. Anyone >know what it was and how hard I should be kicking myself?!? > >thanks Anna- Unless I am mistaken, this is a vinyl only boot called "A Soft Boy No More". It is about 55min long, and the sleeve states it was recorded in Athens, GA in 1985. The boot is taken from an audience recording, and the quality is not that hot. Better than "The Hooded One" boot tho. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- John B. Jones e-mail: jojones@mailbox.syr.edu "You know Bootleg Sal used to live crosstown, The law went there and they closed him down, Now you can't get that stuff no more." -Tampa Red & Georgia Tom, 1932 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 16:59:50 -0500 From: deluxe transitive vampire To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: messylaneous replies SH MCCLEARY sez: >Personal failing: not getting those disks with the digitized "Glass >Flesh" cuts for the Web page to w[oj.] that's okay - i have not had time to complete the page anyways. soon, bayard, soon! james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) sez: >Now I *know* I sent Airscape to the list (I think Raymond Chandler >Evening's been posted before, too) - isn't there some place these things >are being stored? woj??? well, i am saving all posts made to the list so that when the archives go back online, nothing will be missing from the record of what has been posted (aside from some nasty unsub requests sent to the list). however, i have not been saving individual messages separately, so the tab are buried in with the rest of the posts. there is a guitar ta archives at ftp.nevada.edu where tab can be uploaded for safe keeping. once the archives go back online (i'm awaiting some hardware purchases - stay tuned for further details!), i will store the tab there as well. but for now, there is no place set aside where these are stored. jojones@mailbox.syr.edu (John B. Jones) sez: >Unless I am mistaken, this is a vinyl only boot called "A Soft Boy No >More". It is about 55min long, and the sleeve states it was recorded in >Athens, GA in 1985. The boot is taken from an audience recording, and the >quality is not that hot. Better than "The Hooded One" boot tho. hmmm. my recollection is that _the hooded one_ sounded better than _a soft boy no more_. of course, it's been a while since i dusted off either of these slabs o'vinyl, so don't trust me that much. ;) in any event, both are audience recordings and sound accordingly. woj ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 17:43:37 -0500 (EST) From: roLLerCOasTEr boy To: Terry Marks cc: Fegmaniax List Subject: Re: AN Idea On Tue, 31 Oct 1995, Terry Marks wrote: > and.. > For the Big Song Tally...please do not post eras or albums for artists. > I can't calculate them in. are you looking for a top three list? top ten list? top hundred? is it weighted in some intriguing fashion? should we restrict ourselves to folk/rock/pop? inquiring minds crave knowledge!! doug all time #1 piece of suicidal-impulse-staving-off/sanity-restoring music: Mozart's _Requiem_ (ironic, huh?) ------------------------------ From: jimm@dbu.edu Date: Fri, 27 Oct 95 15:54:01 -0500 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: RE: Positive Vibrations magazine > Any comments on whether you'd like >to see it at all, what you'd like to see in it or what you think of it >(or of >the bits that are on the www already, for all you non-subscribers) are >very >welcome. I liked some of the bits which I accessed on the Feg Web page, but I was disappointed with others. I liked the interviews from the Chicago radio station and the alphabetical song lists... What bothered me was that I wasn't expecting a consistent slam-session on Robyn's recent music. It was puzzling to me why somebody (actually, sombodies - being you and Barb) would bother to put out a fanzine about an artist which they obviously think is putting out sub-par work. My estimate was that 75% of yours and Barb's comments were negative--if not downright nasty. I'd like to see the magazine in its entirety--though, because interspersed (sp?) between the put-downs was some really good writing and lots of interesting tidbits. >Love you all already (except the ones who keep sending me hate mail) It's too bad you're getting hate mail--but you really should be nicer to Robyn... ps: I really liked your Robyn/Kimberley quotes.. Jim Moore jimm@dbu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 17:26:07 -0600 To: fegmaniax@ns2.rutgers.edu From: jh3@ns.cencom.net (JH3, Inc.) Subject: Robyn's Interchangeable Body Parts >Woj recently wrote: > >fave robyn (heart) = fegmania! >fave robyn (head) = element of light >fave robyn song = i have no fucking clue Perhaps more interesting than the reference to the famed "lost" Robyn track, "I Have No Fucking Clue" (recently commented on by David Librik), is Woj's interesting, though somewhat elliptical, reference to Robyn's interchangeable body parts--each named after one of his albums. One of the reasons for Robyn's ability to survive in the intensely competitive music business, despite his inexplicable failure to produce massive smash hit singles, is his ability to simply replace various parts of his body whenever it suits him, an ability hinted at in "The Cars She Used to Drive"... I glue my arms and legs back on so I survive Keep changing oil and changing gear... ...Not to mention tunes such as "The Abandoned Brain" and (When You Gonna Change Your) "Strawberry Mind," which both suggest that Robyn's interchangeable brains, at least, are almost like a "flavor of the month" at Baskin Robbins or some similar establishment. This might also explain why he tends to alternate between solo acoustic records and tours one year, and Egyptians records and tours the next. --- THREAD SWITCH --- By the way, for all of you who were speculating about Andy Partridge producing Robyn, forget it! The conversation referred to in the liner notes for "The Kershaw Sessions" took place years and years ago, and besides, Andy Partridge probably asks just about every musician he meets if he can produce them, because he's, well, SKINT. He's in a band that doesn't tour, won't do soundtrack work, and has a record company that won't release their records because they "can't hear any hit singles." (Sound familiar?) Also, XTC's first manager ripped the band off so badly that they've hardly seen a cent from their first eight or nine years of existence, and they've only released 3 albums since then with no live work whatsoever. So Andy's only source of revenue, other than meager royalties, is producing and playing on other people's records. Hell, Dave Gregory has to drive a delivery truck just to make ends meet (though I think he's also working on Martin "The Chills" Phillips' new solo LP). And Colin Moulding has to do things like co-produce singles by Sam Phillips with T-Bone Burnett. All this while the band is trying desperately to detach themselves from their Virgin/EMI contract. Still, Andy producing Robyn is a nice idea... I imagine if you like "The Devil's Coachman," you'd probably like such a collaboration. Y'all might also want to seek out "The Greatest Living Englishman" by Martin Newell--which is often found in the XTC bin at record stores that sell lots of imports. If you like both Robyn and XTC, you'd probably like this record. At least I do. John H. Hedges JH3 Unlimited, Ltd. [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] The End of this Fegmaniax Digest. Archives can *not* be found at ftp://fegmania.wustl.edu/fegmaniax/archives/ The Archives are temporarily unavailable. 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...