Fegmaniax Digest Volume 4 Number 36 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: ------- ------- more beards Girlfriends, boyfriends, Rover etc... "Drugs" Coulda Been a Contender Re: That Hot Pink Beard list adminstrivia ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 17:47:31 -0800 From: jmisaa00@ix.netcom.com (James Isaacs ) Subject: more beards I was at a show and a fellow in the audience yelled "Where's your piano?!" Robyn's quick reply: "What he meant to say was, 'Where's my beard'". I shaved it off in 1977. He then played Lobster Man. Hope that hurts James (the other one) ------------------------------ From: RxBroome@aol.com Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 02:39:04 -0500 Subject: Girlfriends, boyfriends, Rover etc... I don't see the importance of one's "significant other" (or whatever the term may be) sharing one's musical tastes... it is indeed a thrill to meet someone with similar taste in art, music, and the like, but it ain't the main thing here. Robyn is a tough sell, though, and I suspect it may well be the voice combined with the more impenetrable, biologically-oriented lyrical passages (seething mincemeat and all that). The combination is deadly. Bob Dylan is the subject of near-constant ridicule; people will say, "I love it when other people sing his songs, but his VOICE..." But I've never heard anyone do a Dylan cover and sing it RIGHT, like Bob does. (Including Robyn, although he's closer in spirit than most.) My fiancee reacts this way to both Bob and Robyn (and numerous others), but she's not as musically adventurous as me-- something I knew about her when we got involved. Personally, I very much like being a different person from my lover. Musical "conversion" very rarely works (although I myself am very susceptible to it). Even more vexing is trying to introduce something to someone and having them ignore it, only to come back to you years later, raving as if they'd dicovered it. I don't try anymore, unless I clearly grasp someone's musical tastes and can make a recommendation on that basis. Also, Brett & Renee: I don't quite believe that Balloon Man is a "Rover"; he seems a little too autonomous. Plus, he's filled with chunky goodness, whilst the Rovers were empty inside so as to suck people inside of them when necessary. However, the parallel is interesting, and, Brett, if you talk to the man, let us know if it holds any water (seems like it could). -Rex ------------------------------ From: DougMash@aol.com Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 11:22:09 -0500 Subject: "Drugs" Coulda Been a Contender >what songs would have been hits, had a producer/record company been >brave enough? Like my "other" favorite recording artist, XTC ("Dear God"), Robyn's best shot at an eyebrow-raising, airplay/press getting single may have been a B-Side. I got "Tell Me About Your Drugs" some airplay here on Long Island back in '86, and it did cause a pretty good stir. I was interning at WLIR-FM (now the much safer/more boring shadow WDRE) when "EOL" came out. Back then, there was a popular imports/rarities show "Off the Boat" that was a staple of Sunday nights for WLIR. (Kind've a locally produced "Rock Over London"). I saw the DJ, Larry "the Duck" Dunn (no relation to Booker T's bass player!) going into the production studio with an armful of discs, and quickly grabbed "EOL," chased him down and explained about the wild "bonus track/B Side" "Drugs." Sure enough, at the end of "Off the Boat," Larry laughingly threw in "Drugs" as the most interesting track of the week, and the phone lines lit up that whole next week. Lots of "pro" and "con" calls, and when it came time to vote for the "Screamer of the Week," (best new song call-in vote) "Drugs" actually placed second two weeks in a row, in what usually was close 6-8 song voting. Unfortunately, Depeche Mode's "Black Celebration" came out that month & ruined "Drug's" chances, and 'DRE is way too tame to ever bring it back. But around here, Robyn is remembered as "that guy who did "Balloon Man"...and that "Drugs" song" by casual listeners. Really wish it would've caught on in a bigger way...oh well. Cheers! Doug ------------------------------ From: "Winkworth, Nick SJ" Subject: Re: That Hot Pink Beard Date: Sat, 17 Feb 96 22:10:00 PST On Thursday 15 Feb 96 Russ Reynolds Remarked: >>...but isn't it possible he grew some facial hair between performances?.. Errm ...well, you see ...I was responding from work, without the offending vinyl in sight ...and from memory, extemporaneously, off the top of my head. ...and clearly out of my head also! You see when I finally got the thing out to look at it again this evening I found myself looking at BOTH Alan Davies AND Robyn sporting beards!!! Now that I look again, they DO look rather similar. I can see why Jim might think there are two Robyns. However, Alan IS the one with the stencil-lettered T-shirt. FYI, On the black vinyl version I have ("Wading through a Ventillator") there are two pictures on the front. Maybe I can make up for my faux-pas by giving you a brief description: First: In a low-rent bedroom with coconut-matting on the floor RH (with beard) stands in front of a Hoover with one foot on an old record player. He is holding an album sleeve (can't see what). Looking over the top of the door is Morris. Andy stands in front of the door (one foot behind a child's potty on the floor). Alan stands to the right. His left leg is hidden by the right leg of the lower half of a store display mannequin which is lashed to the end of a white-painted metal bedstead. Second: Exterior--a front garden. Grass to the left, a wide concrete path to the right and a road in the background. Alan (with T-shirt) is lying on the grass, flat on his back, head to the camera. His right foot rests on the rubbish bin on which Morris is standing holding a large round mysterious object (a soft drum-case??) Andy sits on the concrete path to the right. Robyn is skulking behind Morris. I don't know if any of these were used on the Pic Disk - If so the above may help. Maybe his dissatisfaction with his beard accounts for his reluctance to appear (at least, prominently) before the camera. (and maybe even my mis-rememberence!?) --Remember, he had his entire face obliterated on the 7" sleeve! Nick "mush-for-brains" Winkworth __________________________________________________ "Nice planet." -Worf (STNG) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 22:53:20 -0500 From: spaced heater Subject: list adminstrivia fegfolk, as some of you may or may not have noticed, fegmaniax has moved yet again. note the use of the past tense. this time, there was not an interregnum! when greg bossert kindly gave feg a home at rutgers last year about this time, he and most of the rest of our friends at rutgers were still employed there. since then, nearly all of them have moved to california to less-stressful (and higher-paying) jobs. since he did not want to leave feg and the other music-related mailing lists at rutgers vulnerable to the capricious nature of said university's whims (not to mention the flaky network services group), he has gotten himself a personal domain and machine for this tuff to live on. thus, fegmaniax now lives at ecto.org. wheeee! the new address for posting is fegmaniax@ecto.org the addresses for subscribe/unsubscribe commands are fegmaniax-request@ecto.org for the regular list and fegmaniax-digest-request@ecto.org for the digest. majordomo@ecto.org will also function for the time being, though that may change in the near to distant future. the old addresses @nsmx.rutgers.edu will continue to work (at least until some network services drone turns them off), but they will not be as fast (by computer standards) as the new ones. i'd suggest changing any and all aliases you have to the new addresses above. the archives will continue to be kept on archive.uwp.edu, but that site will eventually become a seconday archive. i hope to eventually automate the archiving, probably in a hypertext format of some sort, at ecto.org. also, for the time being, i will continue to use woj@remus.rutgers.edu for my e-mail, though i may migrate to ecto.org at some point or another eventually. the remus account will stay active though, should i move. if you have any questions about this move, please ask me. woj ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The End of this Fegmaniax Digest.