Fegmaniax Digest Volume 4 Number 46 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: ------- ------- Illuminati Let's not talk about it, Fegs. robyn hitchcock day Arthur Lee Re: Arthur Lee birthdays! Uncle Bobby's b-day on ATN Apologies Re: Arthur Lee CRD/Tab requests Re: Arthur Lee ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 3 Mar 1996 22:36:02 -0500 (EST) From: Terry Marks Subject: Illuminati Have any of you ever heard of the trading card game "Illuminati: New World Order"? I hadn't thought so, and it takes too long to explain. Anyways, the new expansion set, "Assassins" has a card called "The Big Prawn". Not only is it really feggy, it's also powerful. E-mail me if you've heard of the game or if you'd like to know what the card does. Thanks Terry "The Human Mellotron" Marks a013645t@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us ------------------------------ From: RxBroome@aol.com Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 00:46:38 -0500 Subject: Let's not talk about it, Fegs. If anyone thought that the "obscenities" thread took us too far off track, all I can say is a hearty "Danger, Will Robinson!" to the tread about affairs and the appropriate reactions to them. I realize that Kay's post was intended as a personal aside, but I musty admit that my initial reaction was a bit like Doug's, although I was gonna keep quiet about it. The comment "Men are herd animals" particularly stings. My personal take on this whole scenario has always been that women are generally so greatly more advanced than men (and I DO mean that) that they should be above sinking to the average male level in order to exact revenge on them... just as there are males among us who ARE able to transcend the Pleistocene models of male behavior that seem to be accepted if not celebrated by the world at large. Dare I suggest that we treat each other simply as human beings? Our screen names are, after all, totally abitrary . For all most of you know, I'm actually Roxanne Broome, so be careful before engaging me in any clever locker-room-style banter. I'd also guess that most Feg males are a little...er, unorthodox, in one way or another... But SHUT UP, Rex, SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP! My point is that this topic is too big for us, so let's kill it. If you wanna agree without contributing to the thread, sign off with a hearty "Yip yip to Rx". My real reason for appearing today is that I'm missing Digest Vol. 4 Num 43, which I suspect to contain a few replies relevant to me. Anyone wanna forward it? Another question-- is this Texas gig a one-off deal, or associated with a tour of some kind? If not-- and no offense, I have many friends there-- why Texas? -Rex(?) ------------------------------ From: savinien@ea.oac.uci.edu Subject: robyn hitchcock day Date: Sun, 03 Mar 1996 22:11:12 -0800 did everyone remember to say happy birthday to the man? wonder what he did today (to celebrate or otherwise)... *grin* ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 11:22:57 +0000 (GMT) From: M R Godwin Subject: Arthur Lee For those who find Forever Changes a wee bit gloomy - ('They're locking them up today, they're throwing away the key, I wonder who it'll be tomorrow you or me?') - the preceding album Da Capo has some even better songs on it, such as Stephanie Knows Who and the definitive all-time best Arthur Lee song anywhere, The Castle. Unfortunately it is marred by one of those 19-minute aimless jam tracks on the B-side, but you don't have to play that one. - Mike Godwin 'Black is the colour of night when there's nobody there, you just sit in your chair getting drunk on despair' (Kevin Ayers) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 04:08:18 -0800 From: librik@netcom.com (David Librik) Subject: Re: Arthur Lee Since we are talking about Robyn influences like Arthur Lee, I'll ask everyone here this question which has intrigued me for years -- which Arthur Lee and Love song did Syd Barrett nick "Interstellar Overdrive" from? He said that's where he got it, but he never said what song. - David Librik librik@cs.Berkeley.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Mar 96 10:57:53 CST From: Truman Peyote Subject: birthdays! Happy Birthday to my all-time favorite fish! (or is that dish ?:)) I can't believe he's 43 already. oh my! What DID he do to celebrate, I wonder? And here's a thought for a new thread: what kind of party would YOU organize for a Robyn birthday celebration? Ideally I would have liked to throw a huge bash and bring everyone on the list as my guest :). Susan who's awfully magnanimous with money and time she doesn't actually have :) ------------------------------ From: gene@cadmus.com Date: Mon, 4 Mar 96 12:17:38 PST Subject: Uncle Bobby's b-day on ATN >From the Web music mag Addicted to Noise, which features a birthday section every day, a nice nod to Uncle Bobby. Reprinted without permission, blah blah blah. See it yourself at http://www.addict.com/ATN/Music_News_Of_The_World/96-03-03.html#Hitch Say It's Your Birthday: Robyn Hitchcock When Robyn Hitchcock, born in London on this day in 1953, formed a group called the Soft Boys in 1977, he was so out of touch by what was happening around him that it seemed almost willful. Viewed from a distance this willful weirdness now seems like the perfect punk act. English punk has succeeded in clearing out a lot of rock's boring old fart dead wood, but then immediately began replacing it with what can only be called boring new fart dead wood--lunkheads like Sham 69 who were suspicious of anything the Sex Pistols hadn't thought of first. What could possibly be more obnoxious--and therefore more punk--than taunting these Neanderthals with Byrds' chords and Syd Barrett's whimsy. Needless to say, it didn't make the Soft Boys many friends at the time. Those who got it, however, got it permanently, forming the backbone of the cult that would support Hitchcock thorough fifteen solo albums beginning in 1981. Most of these have been re-issued by Rhino over the last eighteen months, but in the nostalgic mood we're in we'll direct you instead to the Rykodisk reissues of the Soft Boys catalogue. The 1980 album Underwater Moonlight is an excellent place to begin. -30- There they go, calling us a cult again. ;-> +++++++++++++++++++++++ Internet Publishing Specialist Gene Hopstetter, Jr. + Cadmus Digital Solutions +++++++++++++++++++++++ http://www.cadmus.com ------------------------------ From: LORDK@FLP.LIB.PA.US Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 13:53:23 -0500 (EST) Subject: Apologies From: FLPSYS::LORDK 4-MAR-1996 13:16:08.98 To: SMTP%"dmayowel@access.digex.net" CC: LORDK Subj: RE: Kay's Affair Remedy (warning: 0% Robyn) Im afraid Id better clarify. As for my "remedy", I did not mean toying. I did not mean treating another human as an object. I dont do that--you can ask my friends--special or not. I was perhaps writing in too impersonal a manner. In many ways I am a very private person (thou I play the public personna for all its worth)and when talking about something meaningful easily lapse into caractiture as a way to deal with my own ambiguities( which are legion). Obviously, that dosnt work well on the net, where we can only judge people by their words, not their actions. I apoligize to anyone I might have offended. Kay, the not as superficial as sh'd like to pretend she is Cap. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 15:26:00 +0000 (GMT) From: M R Godwin Subject: Re: Arthur Lee Hi David! I would have said Stephanie Knows Who, but if I am right, it's not exactly nicked, but there are some similarities between ISOD and the descending pattern in the second line of SWO ('for love and poetry that you bring your eyes your mind your everything YEAH!' oo ba ba ba BA BA! BA BA! etc). Any other suggestions? - Mike Godwin PS Did I see that Arthur Lee has been working with a group called Baby Lemonade? If so, there seems to be two-way borrowing in progress, as this is the title of a song on the Barrett solo album by Syd - MG PPS I tried to send this via pine 'Reply' function earlier, but got it returned unsent. I am trying your full e-mail address this time. Apologies if it comes through twice - MG On Mon, 4 Mar 1996, David Librik wrote: > Since we are talking about Robyn influences like Arthur Lee, I'll ask > everyone here this question which has intrigued me for years -- which > Arthur Lee and Love song did Syd Barrett nick "Interstellar Overdrive" > from? He said that's where he got it, but he never said what song. > > - David Librik > librik@cs.Berkeley.edu ------------------------------ Date: 4 Mar 1996 15:53:36 -0500 From: "Wayne Grgurich" Subject: CRD/Tab requests Fellow Fegs, Would any of you who have figured out th' following tune(s) be kind enough to post the CRD or Tab ? Mucho appreciation will be heaped upon ye who supply th' requested data ! Thanks, man . . . 1.) I Often Dream of Trains 2.) Queen of Eyes 3.) Winter Love Also, if anyone gives a rat's ass (Oops ! Sorry, Terry !), I'd be more'n happy to supply my CRD version of such cool songs as Strange, Vegetable Man, Raymond Chandler Evening, Agony of Pleasure, and Queen Elvis. - Wayne ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 17:19:55 -0500 (EST) From: Terry Marks Subject: Re: Arthur Lee It was from someone (Peter Jenner, I think) humming "My Little Red Book" Terry "The Human Mellotron" Marks a013645t@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us On Mon, 4 Mar 1996, David Librik wrote: > > Since we are talking about Robyn influences like Arthur Lee, I'll ask > everyone here this question which has intrigued me for years -- which > Arthur Lee and Love song did Syd Barrett nick "Interstellar Overdrive" > from? He said that's where he got it, but he never said what song. > > - David Librik > librik@cs.Berkeley.edu > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 17:42:23 -0600 From: Ariel Hardy Hi... I am completely in love with Robyn Hitchcock... I found some guitar tabs and was wondering, if by any chance, you might have the TABs, or lyrics from "The Invisible Hitchcock" album... Please please please tell me if you do, or if you know where i can find them!!!!!!! Thank you for your time... Proud to be an honorary guitar freak... Ariel "LSDiamond" Hardy ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The End of this Fegmaniax Digest.