Fegmaniax Digest Volume 4 Number 45 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: ------- ------- Wreck of the Arthur Lee Re: Arthur Lee; RE:Queen Elvis Houston show BAYARD...oh Bayard Texas Spring Thing Re: Texas Parties SXSW Robyn news from WB... Re: SXSW Directions to Houston show Kay's Affair Remedy (warning: 0% Robyn) Re: Chins, bearded and otherwise... Re: hi! ------------------------------ From: RxBroome@aol.com Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1996 01:53:28 -0500 Subject: Wreck of the Arthur Lee Ironic that someone should bring up Arthur Lee... One of our fellow Feg-listers was actually with me this weekend when I purchased "Forever Changes" as a used CD. I'm a little too young to have all the classics on vinyl, and I've only had this record on a wretched cassette dub for years now... nice to hear it with a little bit of clarity. On the "Spectre" CD (essentially "Respect" with some between-song patter by Robyn), he describes the genesis of "Wreck". The idea was that he hadn't been writing enough sprawling, modular-type tunes, and he was inspired to give it another go by revisiting early Love material. I love the results, but I gather that others don't agree. Arthur Lee has been active on the LA music scene for a while now. He was, for a time, associated with the local band Baby Lemonade, but I gather that the collaboration ended in some degree of acrimony. All in all, he (Arthur) is a lot more "with it" than fellow burnouts like Syd and Roky... for what that's worth. Still, Arthur warrants a mention on the latest record by LA scensester, former Bongwater member, and fellow West Virginian Ann Magnuson, in a song called "Sex with the Devil"... SATAN: We have many things for your pleasure... fortune tellers, tarot cards, a Ouija board... ANN: Oooh, a Ouija board! I love a Ouija Board! SATAN: And that guy from Love is doing a special midnight acoustic set... ANN: Oh, is he still alive? SATAN: Yeah... Does this help? ----Rex ------------------------------ From: "Brian Huddell" Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1996 10:35:46 +0000 Subject: Re: Arthur Lee; RE:Queen Elvis > I was wondering if it was common knowledge that Arthur Lee was the frontman > of the band Love (hence: "believe in love, believe in love.") And also that > one of the members of the band went on to become a minister (hence: "Jesus > is Lord they cried.") Not only that, but the song makes some quite overt musical references to Lee, particularly the strings and horns finale with those surprising chord changes: this is very much in the style of _Forever Changes_-era Love. Some fegs might enjoy _FC_. Appealing goofiness mixed with some downright heartbreaking melodies. Dated, but in a good way. --brian ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1996 11:52:14 -0600 (CST) From: VERMIN-IN-TRAINING Subject: Houston show Here's what I know about the Houston show...it is at Rockefellers in the Heights...it used to be a bank and it holds only a coupla hundred people...its got tables, no standing except in the back... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1996 14:29:25 -0600 (CST) From: VERMIN-IN-TRAINING Subject: BAYARD...oh Bayard Sorry for the spam everyone, but I lost Bayards address..... ....how many cd's do you need...it effects the price.... jay ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Mar 96 14:15:00 -0600 From: Jim Moore Subject: Texas I am a Texas feg! I live in Arlington, work in Dallas and take classes in Fort Worth. Although I did see Robyn at Reunion as an (can) opener for REM in '89--I am a true fan and not just a Buckhead (I have "Groovy Decoy" -- only a true fan would own that!). So, Robyn's coming to Houston, eh... What about Dallas? Any word? Also, I am a Vedder fan (check out his recent work with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan on the soundtrack to the brilliant film, "Dead Man Walking") and I didn't see Letterman the other night. Would one of you beautiful people mind giving me a play-by-play of the entire scene? You can just send it to my personal email at {jimm@dbu.edu} in order to spare those on the list for whom all grunge is grungy. Also, Terry, I am an English student, about to enter a Ph.D. program in literature. All that to say that if your classes are that crappy it is most likely a reflection on the professor and not on the subject itself. Also, regarding Love, there's an interview Robyn did that is on the Feg! home page where he talks about the reference in "Wreck..." being about the band "Love" and not about the warm fuzzy. So, you're on the right track there... Also, regarding Death... well... his leather jacket's quite like mine... Most Definitely, Jim Moore jimm@dbu.edu "We are all indeed good fellows; except the bad ones, of course" - Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky ------------------------------ From: LORDK@FLP.LIB.PA.US Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1996 11:59:12 -0500 (EST) CC: LORDK@FLP.LIB.PA.US Subject: Spring Thing Looks like Ill be throwing aparty sometime late May. I thought I might get one or two responses, thanks everyone who answered. Will keep y'all posted with the details. So start making those party tapes. Susan, I dont have youre personal address on file (bad Kay)-- so here's my standard drool on your situation. Guys are guys. If you hang around guys, part of the problem is, sonner or later, they will act like guys. Or , as my husband, said, if you didnt want to marry a man you shouldnt have married a man. And men tend, in our culture , to be more polygamous than females. If, and when this gets to you--get a "friend", a special "friend ". or several if you have the stamina for it. I know this sounds cold-hearted, but its practical. theres nothing for the ego like a new admirerer who is still working with the perception that youre perfect. You dont even have to sleep with him ( well, unless , you know, you really want to), just the proximity of a neat, attractive guy who thinks youre ice-cream, sets all the right chemicals going in youre brain (and elsewhere). Before you know it, youre a guy magnet, youre boyfriend notices a new light in youre eyes( and wonders where its comming from),finds his mistress getting old-hat, and... I know that sounds flippent in the face of pain, but take it from an old broad--it works. And you might then want to keep one of these admireres around, you know--just in case, and let youre boyfriend know youre doing so. Men are herd animals. If they know other guys want you--they cease to notice all other females on the planet. Also--just because men and the world insist on being assholes, dosnt mean you have to notce. Distract yourself. As T>H>White put it, one of the best anicdoted to feeling blue is learning something new. And different. That you can throw yourself into and tell the world to fuck itself. Sorry to bore all you guys with such naked girl-talk, but Susan, I feel for you, and this is my way of getting thru. If you dont hate me for being so non-romantic, E-mail me back and let me know how youre doing. Cay the synical Kap ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1996 18:54:33 -0600 From: Jay Brownlee Subject: Re: Texas Parties At 04:33 AM 3/1/96 -0800, you wrote: At 03:39 PM 2/29/96 CST, you wrote: >>All the talk about parties in Illinois and California makes me wonder if >>there are any TX fegs interested in having a party. I know of only one >>fellow TX feg on the list (I'm sure we're a rare breed), but if there are >>any others I'd like to know. I'd really like to meet some serious RH >>fans, instead of the people who I've met who know only one or two of his >>songs or saw him with the Egyptians when they opened for REM (not that >>there's anything wrong with these people, but I haven't found any real >>fans among them). I'd be interested in organizing a party if only I knew >>a cool place to have it. Please get it contact with me if you're >>interested. Yow! Well, we'll be a party of three, then, I guess. It will be easier to get a table at a cool bar/eatery/etc. And cheaper, too. And cheap is good. Anyhow, I am in Texas- Lubbock (where the wind blows the lovely smell of cows all day- yes, it's Bovine Hell). And I AM going to be going to SXSW. So, that's a good meeting place, I would expect. But- hey, this is your idea- what's the plan? And the last time I was at SXSW, Robyn was there- not playing, but doing open-mike poetry. I accidentally missed it. Remember to kill your friends before they have you skulking off to see things like Skanking Pickle (double-plus ungood) instead of Mr. Hitchcock. Jay jb@hub.ofthe.net ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Mar 1996 09:12:40 -0800 (PST) From: Holden Caulfield Subject: SXSW hello all-- just looked at the SXSW page and there is no mention of bobby playing at all. it does look like the list is fairly up to date, too. also, here is the url for the site.. http://monsterbit.com/sxsw/directory.html floating in space, .chris ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Mar 1996 13:14:14 -0500 From: jojones@mailbox.syr.edu (John, Jacci, and Madison) Subject: Robyn news from WB... >Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1996 20:43:20 +0000 >From: "Warner Bros. Records" >MIME-Version: 1.0 >To: jojones@syr.edu >Subject: Re: Robyn Hitchcock ? > >John B. Jones wrote: >> >> Hello to whom it may concern: >> >> A few months ago Robyn Hitchcock stated during an interview that he >> had been signed to Warner Bros., and that his next album would be >> released some time in May of this year. >> I found no information on Robyn Hitchcock on your web page, thus >> this e-mail message. >> >> Any information you could give me would be very helpful. >> John B. Jones > >yes its true. no info on the new album. Check back in a month or so. > >-WB I am guessing from this reply that the new album won't be out in may. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% john b. jones e-mail: jojones@mailbox.syr.edu http://web.syr.edu/~jojones QUOTE OF THE MONTH: When explaining themselves, most people take you from point A to B. Tori's method is to stand on point B, waving her arms, saying, "Hey! Can you guess how I got here?" -Gavin Edwards, on Tori Amos. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 02 Mar 1996 18:04:03 -0600 (CST) From: VERMIN-IN-TRAINING Subject: Re: SXSW >just looked at the SXSW page and there is no mention of bobby playing at >all. it does look like the list is fairly up to date, too. > Robyn is playing SXSW on Friday night...stage time around 11pm at Maggie Maes on 6th street...I should be there as is Stacy, I think... jay %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Jay Lyall "All my friends do the model girl thing hist1a@jetson.uh.edu So I found me one University of Houston Now she wears my nose ring" --Lloyd Cole "Yip Yip Yip Yip Yip Yip" "There's liquor on my breath --Robyn Hitchcock And you on my mind" --Replacements %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 02 Mar 1996 18:12:25 -0600 (CST) From: VERMIN-IN-TRAINING Subject: Directions to Houston show Rather than typing this three times, or twice with the cc: thingee, I think its in the best interest of all fegs to know how to get to Rockefellers in Houston... If you're heading east.... Take I-10 into Houston ( once you hit the sprawl you still have 15 minutes of driving on the freeway )...take the Studemont/Heights Blvd. exit...turn right on Studemont and go to Washington....turn right...Rockefellers is on the right side of the street after Leo's Mexican Resturant (where ZZ Top hang out...which should make for a great guest appearance)...you will have to park in the street or try the lot behind the club....there are two bars right next to each other with live music...don't go into the Satellite Lounge...Rockefellers is the very next door.... if you have questions call me at work before 5 and I'll try to make the directions alittle clearer...800-240-5754 jay %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Jay Lyall "All my friends do the model girl thing hist1a@jetson.uh.edu So I found me one University of Houston Now she wears my nose ring" --Lloyd Cole "Yip Yip Yip Yip Yip Yip" "There's liquor on my breath --Robyn Hitchcock And you on my mind" --Replacements %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 3 Mar 1996 11:39:15 -0500 (EST) From: ! Subject: Kay's Affair Remedy (warning: 0% Robyn) ...i was gonna keep my big gob shut about this, but the more i thunk, the more it niggled, so this is me venting a bit...feel free to hit 'd' now...but... I'd like to point out that this approach can be more or less devastating for the "special friend" who might not deserve it in all cases. I have a sudden sick sinking sensation that I may have *been* a "special friend" in at least one, maybe two cases. Previously, I had thought that I had been imagining "mixed signals" where they might not really have existed -- the human capacity for self-delusion never fails to amaze me -- but the thought that somebody might have been trifling with my emotions *on purpose* is not one that fills me with great joy. And I don't think recommending it as a strategy for dealing with a damaged relationship is terribly socially responsible -- I think it goes in the "two wrongs don't make a right" category. Then again, maybe I'm just pissed because I seem to be fundamentally more (albiet serially) monogamous than any of the women I have ever been involved with. grr. doug Feel free to rant back, if you like, tho maybe it should be taken to e-mail... __/-\__/-\__/-\__/-\__/-\__/-\__/-\__/-\__/-\__/-\__/-\__/-\__/-\__/-\___ = 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: Sun, 3 Mar 1996 11:04:49 -0600 (CST) From: songbird@airmail.net (Stefanie A. Newton) Subject: Re: Chins, bearded and otherwise... >Although it seems like a lot of effort has gone into the "Autumn Sea" >transcriptions, I wonder... am I alone in having always heard "ever-swelling >SHINS" instead of "chins"? Actually, I have always thought it was "ever-swelling LIMBS" ---===] Songbird [===--- aka Stefanie A. Newton Songbird@airmail.com "It cramps your handwriting And dulls what little style you have ...." - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 3 Mar 1996 11:04:46 -0600 (CST) From: songbird@airmail.net (Stefanie A. Newton) Subject: Re: hi! >Hi all, I'm Ken. Hi Ken, I'm Songbird. I don't write much here, but I'm always in the background! > I've had the pleasure of seeing Robyn twice, >once with the Egyptians at The Ritz in NYC in May of 1993, >At the Ritz, they closed with a >hillareous cover of Everybody's Kung Fu Fighting. Good show! I was in about the second row of people, slightly to Robyn's right side (the audiences left). ---===] Songbird [===--- aka Stefanie A. Newton Songbird@airmail.com "It cramps your handwriting And dulls what little style you have ...." - Robyn Hitchcock ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The End of this Fegmaniax Digest.