Fegmaniax Digest Volume 4 Number 42 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: ------- ------- Clive Pig? (no RH) the video and apologies Monday Musings wey wey hep uh jerry Re: Clive Pig? (no RH) Robyn and the Dead lyricky stuff Parties Bright Fresh Flower Re: lyricky stuffsky Re: lyricky stuffsky Re: Bright Fresh Flower ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 09:07:39 -0500 (EST) From: ! Subject: Clive Pig? (no RH) feliciations, fellow fegs, woke up this morning from uneasy dreams with the name and a melody or two of Clive Pig swirling through my neurons, and wondered if any of ya'll knew of him... i haven't actually heard any of the man's music since my college dj days, but if memory serves, he was sort of folky, with quirky catchy songs with lyrics which veered between the absurd and the emotionally acute. (sound like anyone we know?) i especially remember one number called "the seaside is the place i want to die" and one about a roofless domicle. so i guess i'm sort of recommending him, as well as wondering if anyone knows if he's still making music, has a label, cd's out, etc. toodles, doug __/-\__/-\__/-\__/-\__/-\__/-\__/-\__/-\__/-\__/-\__/-\__/-\__/-\__/-\___ = The Communications Decency Act (S.652 (Sec 502)) amending = = 47 USC 223(d)(1)(B) is offensive to _my_ community standards. = = INET:dmayowel@access.digex.net AOL:DougMhyphW Compu$erve:102432,355 = = SEE! the SOMEWHAT NEW pathetic caverns! http://www.mwmw.com/pathetic/ = ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 15:54:30 -0600 From: mbrage@surgery.bsd.uchicago.edu (Michael Brage) Subject: the video and apologies Fegs, including inspissate fegs and helminthophobic fegs, I've been gone (to Atlanta). But... the second video is done. I have made a subpar cover because I lost my previous source who made it for free last time. I appreciate those who offered help to construct a better one. Yet, it would add to the costs and I have an urgency now to finish this. Work is not slowing down lately (I thought it would) and I need to get on with this. I will begin dubbing and send the first dubs to the previous branches by the end of this week. If you were not on the tree for last one, email me for placement. Lastly, I enjoyed making this tape very much. I have enjoyed this mailing list tremendously and hope to actually meet all of you someday. Michael ------------------------------ Subject: Monday Musings Date: Mon, 26 Feb 96 15:41:30 -0800 From: Tom Clark Since I never have much to say about about one subject, I thought I'd put a bunch of small thoughts into one message. RE: Balloon Man I think I heard Robyn explain once that the song was about Wall Street or businessmen in general. Something about how they're gluttons and such. He also said once that he wrote it for the Bangles to record. I believed it then, but as time passes I'm beginning to see the humour. RE: Grateful Dead I was just listening to the Soft Boys '76-'81 CD and I noticed something weird about the first version of "Wey Wey Hep Uh Hole": the instrumentation has that distinct Dead sound. Especially during the guitar solos - the bass sounds just like Phil Lesh plucking through "Sugar Magnolia". I think you'll agree. RE: Paul Roland Definitely NOT Kevin Roland! A Robyn/Dexy collaboration would be amusing though.- "C'mon Ugly Eileen!" I threw on the Syd tribute to hear Mr. Roland doing "Matilda Mother" last night - it has a real "Abandoned Brain" feel to it. RE: Feg Drinking Parties Kay - can I hang out with you & the gals? Will we be partying somewhere in the French coutryside? Seriously - maybe this summer I'll throw a BBQ for all the Bay Area fegs, and anyone else who wishes to fly in. RE: Censorshit All I want to say on the subject is PRAWNS! BwaHaHaHa! Wow, a letter that's actually longer than my .sig! Happy weekend, -tc ************************************* * Tom Clark * Apple Computer, Inc. "Do you really serve the Devil * tclark@apple.com If it's all God's plan? * tclark@netgate.net Good and evil need each other * tclark@eworld.com Honey I'm your man" * http://www.netgate.net/~tclark -Robyn Hitchcock ************************************* Stop the hegemony! Join "EvangeList," Guy Kawasaki's (un)official Apple listserver of good news about Apple, Macintosh, and third-party developers. To subscribe to EvangeList, send an email to: listproc@solutions.apple.com> and include in the body of the message the text: Subscribe Macway ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Feb 96 17:29:00 -0800 From: Russ Reynolds Subject: wey wey hep uh jerry > RE: Grateful Dead > I was just listening to the Soft Boys '76-'81 CD and I noticed something > weird about the first version of "Wey Wey Hep Uh Hole": the > instrumentation has that distinct Dead sound. Especially during the > guitar solos - the bass sounds just like Phil Lesh plucking through > "Sugar Magnolia". I think you'll agree. I sure do. Sounds more like "Not Fade Away", with that Bo Diddly beat. I like that version a lot. -russ ------------------------------ From: mrd@world.std.com (Mitchell R Dickerman) Subject: Re: Clive Pig? (no RH) Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 21:12:31 -0500 (EST) > woke up this morning from uneasy dreams with the name and a melody or > two of Clive Pig swirling through my neurons, and wondered if any of > ya'll knew of him... > > i haven't actually heard any of the man's music since my college dj days, > but if memory serves, he was sort of folky, with quirky catchy songs > with lyrics which veered between the absurd and the emotionally acute. > (sound like anyone we know?) i especially remember one number called > "the seaside is the place i want to die" and one about a roofless > domicle. Wow - another person who's heard of Clive Pig! A friend of mine used to play him on his radio show in the mid-80's, and I thought he was charming. A number of years ago I ran into his two albums in a used bin: LP Pig, Clive And The Hopeful Chinamen Clive Pig And The Hopeful Chinamen LP Pig, Clive A Sense Of The Size Of The World The song you mentioned is on the latter LP. I have no idea whatever became of him, or if he has anything beyond these two albums, though I'm quite sure none of this has been issued on CD. Bummer. Mitch ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 21:29:47 -0400 (EDT) From: daramsey@vassar.edu (david's ramsey) Subject: Robyn and the Dead Speaking of Robyn and the Grateful Dead, first off there's that atrocious Suzanne Vega/Grateful Dead version of Chinese Bones floating around on some bootleg somewhere...and in The Golden Prince Rides Again, there is a GREAT photo of Robyn with Bob Weir and Jerry Garcia backstage at an REM concert on the Green Tour. daveR. ---there's only one way of life, and that's your own--- Levellers. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 15:32:37 +1300 From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: lyricky stuff someone says something marginal... someone replies even more marginally... and lawks-a-lawdy the list explodes. Can we all calm down a bit and go back to talking about hedgehogs and Ruskies and chins? Talking of which... > Found an (TWO SYLLABLES HERE) mustache -- one of the Ruskies had it. I think it's just "found an old moustache..." >>Now can anyone decipher the talking in Have A Heart, Betty? >Flamed of our jungle conquests I make that "Flamed with our gentle conquests" James PS: Personally, I find the word 'Robyn' mildly offensive, and would rather we all refrained from using it ;) 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) ------------------------------ From: LORDK@FLP.LIB.PA.US Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 9:53:53 -0500 (EST) CC: LORDK@FLP.LIB.PA.US Subject: Parties Tom, you'd be more than welcome to sample my cellar, but-- youre all the way out there on the West Coast. Sometimes I give a Spring Fling Thing in late May, I am comptimpalating doing one this year. Are their any fegs in the area whod be interested in a terribly wild librarian party in Philly? Or am I a lone feg in this part of the world? Maybe we should all agree to get drunk some night and party online== but--I dont know if my messages would be readable at all-- they-re pretty bad me me stone cold sober Kay, the seriously partying Cap ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Feb 96 09:02:00 -0800 From: Russ Reynolds Subject: Bright Fresh Flower Can someone tell me where the track "Bright Fresh Flower" comes from? I've got it on a tape one of you made for me--I forget who [:(]--and I seem to have misplaced the notes that came with the tape. I'd like to know the catalog number, producer, release date, track listing and song times for that particular recording if anyone has it handy. Thanks--Russ. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 17:57:53 +0100 From: seven@cs.utwente.nl (Susan Even) Subject: Re: lyricky stuffsky >Talking of which... > >> Found an (TWO SYLLABLES HERE) mustache -- one of the Ruskies had it. > >I think it's just "found an old moustache..." I've always heard "found a leather moustache. . ." 7 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 18:29:23 GMT From: Kevin.Welton@armltd.co.uk (Kevin Welton) Subject: Re: lyricky stuffsky At some time, Susan Even wrote: > >Talking of which... > > > >> Found an (TWO SYLLABLES HERE) mustache -- one of the Ruskies had it. > > > >I think it's just "found an old moustache..." > > I've always heard "found a leather moustache. . ." > > 7 Seeing as how I have a copy of Queen Elvis at work with me today, this mini-debate has prompted me to try and write down the speaking parts from Autumn Sea, so here is *my* interpretation of what is said: .oOo. "Hunting: no, I think it's a perfectly beastly sport." quipped Frobisher, as they leaned on the mantlepiece over the crisp autumn fire. Featherstonehaugh felt his calves warming, pleasantly, as the brandy seeped below his waist, knotting slightly over the abdomen, some of it passing back up through the spine, causing a small trickle of the, otherwise pleasing brown fluid, to shoot from the fontanelle on top of his head, which landed on top of the other guy's head - I've forgotten his name now - oh, anyway, he got covered in it. "Hah, what's this?" "Ah, some kind of fluid." said Featherstonehaugh. "Fluid? Oh, that's the tops!" [More Singing] "No, they use them for clothes pegs, you know." continued Featherstonehaugh, somewhat more drolly. "Really?" said Butterworth, who was feeling rather left out of the conversation. "Oh yes that's right, you know. They pick them up in Siberia, and bring them over." "Siberia!" interjected the fellow, who's name I still can't remember "Topping place: went there once, found another[1] moustache - one of the Ruskies had it, ! Took it home, dontcha know, showed the little lady, she put it on, left me for another woman, hmmm. Rum things lefts. And women." He was left alone, there was no-one there, not even a woman, just a fireplace, and his ever swelling chins. As the brandy began to take lethal effect, Featherstonehaugh, or was it Butterworth, or was it the other who's name I can't remember, found himself slowly turning into some kind of helpless, diseased houseplant, as he watched his future and his past gradually become interchangeable, like a highway [2] surrounding a drunken man that begins to spin. He looked up above him, even the angels were asleep. It was one of those nights. Aaaahhhh. October. .oOo. [1] This could just be leather, at a stretch, but I don't think so. [2] There seems to be an extra syllable in here: it could be the word "of", or it could be just Robyn stumbling very briefly. I vote for the latter. K. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 10:44:38 -0800 (PST) From: Glen Uber Subject: Re: Bright Fresh Flower On Tue, 27 Feb 1996, Russ Reynolds wrote: > Can someone tell me where the track "Bright Fresh Flower" comes from? > > I'd like to know the catalog number, producer, release date, track listing > and song times for that particular recording if anyone has it handy. It is track #3 on the 3-song "The Yip Song" CD single. The CD I have is the US release on A&M...catalog #31458 8134 2 Producer and Engineer: John Leckie release date: 1993 Song Time: 202 seconds. I hope this helps. --g <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> < Language is the road to God, but > < words are the tools of the Devil. > <----------------------------------------> < Glen E. Uber > < Department of Linguistics > < University of Washington > < hirsute@u.washington.edu > < http://weber.u.washington.edu/~hirsute > <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The End of this Fegmaniax Digest.