Fegmaniax Digest Volume 4 Number 17 Send posts to fegmaniax@nsmx.rutgers.edu Send subscribe/unsubscribe commands to majordomo@nsmx.rutgers.edu Send comments, etc. to the listowner at owner-fegmaniax@nsmx.rutgers.edu FegMANIAX! Web Page: http://remus.rutgers.edu/~woj/fegmaniax/ Archives are available at http://archive.uwp.edu/pub/music/lists/fegmaniax/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Today's Topics: ------- ------- Tapirs! dejeuner avec le Robyn/a muriel to paint Re: KungFu Fighting (fwd) this and that Queen Elvis Re: Duels (CRD) Airscape revisited ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 16:49:38 +1200 From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: Tapirs! >>I like cats. Are cats like tapirs? >sure, assuming you're cat is closely related and somewhat resembling a >small rhinocerous with a large snout and no horns. Hey! You must've met my cat! Personally I'm a fan of capybaras. They look cute and have a great name, but I don't think anyone's ever written a song about them. Except possibly: "I am half way across the Sahara, on the back of a capybara, 'Cause I can't afford a camel, or to pay for some enamel, Or other oil-based paint, that wouldn't make me faint, To replace the worn wallpaper, which covers Terry's tapir." (Robyn Hitchcock, "Paint your perissodactyl", The Sherkaw sessions) James ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 16:50:20 +1200 From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: dejeuner avec le Robyn/a muriel to paint I'd take Robyn to 1908, a cafe I know in Portobello, a small seaside town just outside Dunedin. Good food, views of the harbour, seals, penguins, and just around the corner from the aquarium! as for the mural (I sympathise - I'm in the middle of doing a mural myself...), you just gotta have some bass in there (the fish, that is), a black crow (which knows, y'see), and hidden away somewhere where they won't be noticed, some prawns. James ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 19:49:01 -0800 (PST) From: Glen Uber Subject: Re: KungFu Fighting (fwd) On Tue, 23 Jan 1996, Jennifer Cynthia Waits wrote: > I also saw Robyn perform Kung Fu Fighting once in san francisco. His > daughter was at the show and he dedicated the song to her, making some > 70s/hippie comment I believe. Does anyone remember the details of this > exchange...it's been a few years and my memory is failing me. Suffice it > to say that it was a beautiful father/daughter moment!!! I saw Robyn perform "KFF" during an in-store performance at Rough Trade Records in San Francisco on April 29, 1992. At this time he said something to the effect of: "I'm now able to bring my daughter to the in-store performances without having to worry that she'll pilfer Sex Pistols albums" The hippie comment was prompted by a noisy panhandler outside the store. Robyn said (paraphrased): "When I was a teenager, I wanted to move to San Francisco, take acid and drop-out. Fortunately, my parents had the good sense to stop me and I had the good sense to listen to them" Then he said that it could have been him making all that noise outside the store and then said emphatically, "God, this city has gone to Hell." He said a few other things about it being a beautiful city and how the citizens of SF should really care more about what goes on inside its boundaries. This drew very loud applause. Hope this helps. "[L]anguage is a great way for two tribes to get the wrong idea about each other. You just think the other guy is stupid." --Robyn Hitchcock =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Glen E. Uber Department of Linguistics hirsute@u.washington.edu University of Washington 206.547.8936 Seattle, Washington, USA ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 06:02:54 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: this and that a few things: 1. can someone PLEASE explain what it is with RH and German wine? He's made reference to it every time I've seen him and more. There must be a joke associated with this, and I want in on it. This has gone on longer than the Evil One. 2. as long as everyone is throwing personal opinions about, I'd just like to say that I really liked DeChirico Street when I first heard it, but he's played it so many times now that I don't care if I ever hear it again. Of course, it's my own fault for going to so many concerts and collecting so many tapes. (note: RH is not the first to write a song about this artist. "Poor De Chirico" appeared on the 1983 10k Maniacs LP _Secrets of the I Ching_, now available on _Hope Chest_. Note two: ten years later, during a particularly slurpy bit of a live version of "Wafflehead" in Glenside, PA, Robyn commented "I'd like to see Natalie Merchant do this. I wouldn't like her to see me." Coincidence? Probably.) 3. I believe someone recently posted the chords for 'you've got'. I'd check the archives but as there is no search engine yet, can someone please email them to me? 4. I'm "this" close to subscribing to _Positive Vibrations_ while I still have the chance. Could people who've read it (an actual issue, not just the bits on the web) please email/post their thoughts on this publication? 5. If there is anyone on this list who trades DAT who I have not yet met, please introduce yourself to me. 6. hi Caroline! bayard ------------------------------ From: jlg@198.4.75.52 Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 10:35:37 -0500 Subject: Queen Elvis Freckle Baby...I see that you are in the New York City Area (columbia Univ). Have you tried the record stores downtown in the villiage? I'm sure you could find QE at either Rebel Rebel (Bleeker st), Second Coming (Thompson St), Generation (Sullivain St), or perhaps my store might have a copy on vinyl, maybe cd. We do carry a good deal of Soft Boys and RH stuff. I work at Subterranian Records on Cornelia St between 6 & 7 ave., Between Bleeker and 4th st. I will be there on Sunday if you plan on coming in. If not, good luck in your hunt, it really shouldn't be that hard to find the album in one of those stores. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 10:34:14 -0800 (PST) From: Brooks Martin Subject: Re: Duels I'm with you, Susan! Susan said :"My problem isn't with pop, it's with overproduction and belabored whimsey." Robyns best moments are when he plays live and puts out simple stripped down recordings like the K single. I think Man with A Woman's Shadow is his best released song since things on Eye like Satelite, Raining Twilight Coast and Queen Elvis. I'm not counting You and Oblivion when I say this because the recordings were old. I also think the live version of When I was Dead on the Live Death CD is superior to the studio version. Just my two cents, Brooks Martin, Your lo-fi nightmare. ------------------------------ From: Mike Hardaker Subject: (CRD) Airscape revisited Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 00:46:28 +-200 This one seems to have had us all stumped for a while, so I thought I'd go back to first principles. And the answer (as far as I can tell is): Most of the song is just a repeated 3-chord pattern of E A B A E (roughly), however, the voicings are pretty weird. Here's what they are, IMHO: Tuning: Standard (EADGBE) Chord: E (actually E5) Fingering: 013400 Frets: 079900 Chord: A (actually A5(add9) Fingering: x01400 Frets: x07900 Chord: B (ish...) Fingering: 123400 Frets: 799900 Sometimes the B is Chord: B Fingering: 013400 Frets: 024400 with the first finger (still bent, so not a full barre) occasionally dabbing on to the 2nd fret of the high E-string. And maybe the odd A is played: Chord: A Fingering: 003400 Frets: 002200 It prabably varies from performance to performance, anyway... The bridge bit is basically D(add9) There's the odd frilly bit, but this is the gist. Cheers, Mike ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The End of this Fegmaniax Digest.