Fegmaniax Digest Volume 4 Number 54 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: ------- ------- Re: Feg Digest Vol 4 Num 51 I need a date dis and dat... tabbing CRD: Don't You [completed] Re: dis and dat... Re: The Aquarium 1986 and all that Kershaw... Kershaw Aquarium dis & dat to A&W Rooney only looking for Aidan Re: Kershaw Re: Kershaw Re: Kershaw ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 18:08:08 (+0000) From: Tony Bullock Subject: Re: Feg Digest Vol 4 Num 51 > Subject: Re: President > > In a missive, Bradley writes: > > In the liner notes to the Rhino EoL it says that the President is from a live > > BBC recording--are theere any other recordings from this session available? > > This track stands out for me as being one of the most raucous and powerful > > tracks the Egyptians recorded. > > > > Bradley > > > I think this may have been the show that was recorded for the Old Grey Whistle > Test on June 10th 1986 at the Town and Country Club. It was broadcast > simultaneously on Radio 1 and BBC2, IIRC. My video copy seems to have vanished, > but I found the audio copy just a couple of weeks ago. > > Songs in the broadcast were : > The Cars She Used To Drive > Acid Bird > The Man With The Lightbulb Head > If You Were A Priest > Uncorrected Personality Traits > The President > Kingdom Of Love > > No Lady Waters And The Hooded One tho', so if this is the right show it must > have been an unbroadcast encore perhaps ? > > -- > Rob Collingwood O- > Warrington, Cheshire, England > You could add "Brenda's Iron Sledge" to that list. It was broadcast only a few weeks ago on BBC2's "Sounds of the 80s" - cut from a 1986 Old Grey Whistle Test. The first time I have EVER seen Robyn on TV here! Yay! Tony Bullock Lower Halstow Kent, England tony@tonyb.demon.co.uk - Home tonybullock@swalebor.demon.co.uk - Work ------------------------------ From: SPIFFINGNY@aol.com Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 17:43:07 -0500 Subject: I need a date Just begging for a bit of help here. To finish off THE GOLDEN PRINCE volume 3, can all with a listing of Hitchcock/Egytians and especially Soft Boys dates email them? We're in need of in-stores, radio session, stage dates. We have a sizeable list already, but are looking to fill in all the gaps our source disappeared with. Thanks for the time, your trouble will not be forgotten. Carl, SpiFFinG ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 14:00:43 -0800 (PST) From: the ancient art of self-detection Subject: dis and dat... hello-- two questions here... 1--on the cover of the 12" promo single 'dark green energy' there are two men wrestling, sort of. is this cover selected by robyn, or does is just come from the 'promo dept.' and a healthy clip art selection? what gives? 2--listening to IODT after ages of avoiding it. i was reading in the liner notes and there is 'special thanks: paul bradshaw/ mod lang' anyone care to comment on any connections here? floating in space, .chris ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 17:42:48 -0500 (EST) From: Roseann Cappella Subject: tabbing I have questions and lost your name...think it was Brett Bob Weidner ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 18:15:03 -0500 (EST) From: Terry Marks Subject: CRD: Don't You [completed] Don't You (2:14) --------- E F F# G [tacet] F The frogs are mating on the table CaddG(X32013) But you just pick your nose and squint Don't you Am7 Don't you G E F F# G Don't you understand The bees are swarming 'round the coffin But you just blink your eyes and sneeze Don't you Don't you Don't you understand The fish are spawning in the basin But you just tweak your hairs and yawn Don't you Don't you Don't you understand Am7 Don't you understand CaddG I'm down there on my knees F Listen to me please Am7 G With my head in a bucket of sand The worms are crawling through your body But you just smirk and pose for snaps Don't you Don't you Don't you understand Terry "The Human Mellotron" Marks a013645t@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 18:56:01 -0500 (EST) From: Stephen C Ellis Subject: Re: dis and dat... Here is what I know of this: > 2--listening to IODT after ages of avoiding it. i was reading in the > liner notes and there is 'special thanks: paul bradshaw/ mod lang' > anyone care to comment on any connections here? I believe Paul Bradshaw is the man that owns the Mod Lang record store in Berkeley, CA. Mod Land use to be a mail order business and then they opened up a store in 1991 (or about). If you're in the Bay Area, make sure you stop by because they sell some of the coolest stuff in the whole wide world. -Steve ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 00:24:06 -0600 (CST) From: goosenmk@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu (Miles Goosens) Subject: Re: The Aquarium At 10:34 AM 3/11/96 -0800, Russ Reynolds wrote: >Visited the Monterey Bay Aquarium yesterday. When I got home I whipped out >my EYE CD and played "The Aquarium" to see if I'd like it any better >immediatly after a visit to the source of inspiration. I didn't. > >The second part--"she says she's gonna saw her head off"--is pretty good >(Robyn's middles are almost always great), but otherwise there's no real >melody and Robyn's singing is next to awful. I have to disagree STRONGLY on this one -- the melody in the beginning and end is almost as good as such stunners as "Autumn Is Your Last Chance." I hadn't really appreciated this song until I heard Robyn play it live solo/acoustic in a show here in Nashville in May 1990. Since then, I'm totally won over. >Some very cool jellyfishes in the aquarium, though. I happened to be in Chicago the same day as Mr. Hitchcock one day in 1989, and while my mother, wife, and I were at the Shedd Aquarium I kept expecting to see Robyn... no luck, though. Later, Miles ===================================================================== Things that are better than they have any right to be: 1) The first Wayne's World movie 2) The Presidents of the United States of America (the group, duh) 3) Tang 4) _The Drew Carey Show_ 5) Absorbine Jr. Miles Goosens goosenmk@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu ===================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 07:50:06 GMT From: Rob Collingwood Subject: 1986 and all that In message <9603151808.AA0033n@tonyb.demon.co.uk> Tony Bullock writes: > > Subject: Re: President >[bits deleted] > > I think this may have been the show that was recorded for the Old Grey Whistle > > Test on June 10th 1986 at the Town and Country Club. It was broadcast > > simultaneously on Radio 1 and BBC2, IIRC. My video copy seems to have vanished, > > but I found the audio copy just a couple of weeks ago. > > >[more bits deleted] > > You could add "Brenda's Iron Sledge" to that list. It was broadcast only a > few weeks ago on BBC2's "Sounds of the 80s" - cut from a 1986 Old Grey Whistle > Test. > The first time I have EVER seen Robyn on TV here! Yay! > > > Tony Bullock > 1986 was a vintage year for Robyn on the OGWT. The Brenda's Iron Sledge performance was from a different show to the one I refered to. I found a few remnants of the T&C show on a video yesterday, clothes fetishists may be interested to know that Robyn was wearing a plain black suit with a white shirt. There was a banana shaped badge on the lapel of the suit. For the studio performance (the Brenda one) he wore the polka dot shirt as on the cover of the Virgin sampler under a black and white checked suit. I dont know the date of the studio performance, but IIRC he said 'happy birthday' to Mark Ellen, which narrows it down. -- Rob Collingwood O- Warrington, Cheshire, England ------------------------------ From: all139@email.psu.edu Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 08:13:41 -0500 Subject: Kershaw... Hi- thanks to everyone who responded so helpfully to my request for Kershaw Sessions information! (I'd say something cleverer but I'm suffering with the flu at the moment...) Anyway, please accept my gratitude! Alisa "cleanse us with your healing grin" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Mar 96 09:42:00 -0600 From: Jim Moore Subject: Kershaw Alisa: I definitely think "Kerhaw" is worth buying. It opens and closes with live versions of "Brenda's Iron Sledge" and "Heaven", respectively, that sound VERY familiar. But the rest of the CD is quite good and most of these "alternate" versions are excellent. There is a group of acoustic songs (Andy on the "plunker" and Morris with the brushes) that in my estimation rival their "electric" counterparts. I love the acoustic "SYTYIL", and the "Arms of Love" is exquisite. There's also a cool version of "Birds in Perspex" and "Oceanside" -- and the Dylan cover "Open the Door...", which is quite funny and has a line about "flashing hedges" in it. Then there are some other cool versions of songs done "electric". There's a "Tropical Flesh Mandala" that is far superior to the GoF version, and there's a "Madonna of the Wasps" with that extra intro bit (you know, the "she's riding you like a camel--oh" thing) that isn't on the album. There's a cool "Higsons" and a good cut of "If You Were a Priest", too. I know I'm missing some other good tunes, too. All that to say, I like "Kershaw" and I think it is an excellent addition for the true RH fan. Sincerely, Girn "CRANBERRY SAUCE!!!" - John Lennon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Mar 96 08:59:00 -0800 From: Russ Reynolds Subject: Aquarium >>I hadn't really appreciated this song until I heard Robyn play it live solo/acoustic in a show here in Nashville in May 1990. Since then, I'm totally won over.<< Funny. I saw him here in San Jose on the same tour, and it was his performance of "Aquarium" (specifically his straining to find the notes) which made me think I should make Hitchcock shows less of a priority in my life. I think his singing has improved greatly since EYE, and my priorities have returned to normal. -russ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Mar 96 09:35:00 -0800 From: Russ Reynolds Subject: dis & dat >> 2--listening to IODT after ages of avoiding it. i was reading in the >> liner notes and there is 'special thanks: paul bradshaw/ mod lang' >> anyone care to comment on any connections here?? > >I believe Paul Bradshaw is the man that owns the Mod Lang record store in >Berkeley, CA. Mod Land use to be a mail order business and then they >opened up a store in 1991 (or about). If you're in the Bay Area, make >sure you stop by because they sell some of the coolest stuff in the whole >wide world. I got most lot of my old soft boys singles from Mod Lang at record swaps, though I've never actually been to their store. Interesting that he gets mentioned on IODOT, in that as far as I know Robyn's first trip to San Francisco was several months to a year AFTER that album came out. -russ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Mar 96 09:45:00 -0800 From: Russ Reynolds Subject: to A&W Rooney only To A&W Rooney, sorry to post this to the list, but my mail to you keeps coming back undeliverable. Thanks for the tape. Very enjoyable, though I'm wondering--based on your comments last week--if maybe I didn't get a bad dub. The sound quality of the 2hip4tv segment is very warbly, so much so that it is virtually unlistenable. And the in-store stuff (Octopus, etc.) has a distorded section accross the top of the screen which obliterates Robyn's face. Do these problems exist on the master? You had mentioned that the quality was better on this tape than the other, which makes me think I may just have a bad dub. Thanks regardless. And thanks for the snacks! :) -RUSS ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Mar 96 10:06:00 -0800 From: Russ Reynolds Subject: looking for Aidan can anyone (perhaps Aidan himself?) provide me with Aidan's e-mail address? Thanks in advance. -russ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 19:09:16 -0600 (CST) From: goosenmk@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu (Miles Goosens) Subject: Re: Kershaw My very small tuppence on the Kershaw Sessions: Uniformly excellent, EXCEPT for "52 Stations." Mind you, "52 Stations" is my favorite Robyn song ever, and I was really looking forward to hearing what the Egyptians would do with it. What they did with it was burden it with a synthesizer they must have bought from Matthew Seligman during the Thompson Twins Fire Sale. Here's wishing Robyn and Deni Bonet would play "St. Petersburg" (didn't Robyn originally envision a violin on it anyway?), Miles ===================================================================== Things that are better than they have any right to be: 1) The first Wayne's World movie 2) The Presidents of the United States of America (the group, duh) 3) Tang 4) _The Drew Carey Show_ 5) Absorbine Jr. Miles Goosens goosenmk@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu ===================================================================== ------------------------------ From: ZeroSummer@aol.com Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 21:26:21 -0500 Subject: Re: Kershaw <<>> Total agreement here. *Great* song, quite handily ruined. Nice to have that cool single intro on "Madonna," though. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 23:25:08 -0500 From: greybeard loon Subject: Re: Kershaw Also sprach goosenmk@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu (Miles Goosens): >Uniformly excellent, EXCEPT for "52 Stations." au contrare. i had a static-laden tape of the kershaw session with that "52 stations" for a while before the disc came out and think that track is alone worth the price of admission: robyn's voice is at its best and forlorn; the synth adds a new twist to the song (although i agree that it would have been better without the echo); the rhythm of song is beatifully rendered. heck, i bought the kershaw disc almost primarily for this track. heathen. ;) woj ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The End of this Fegmaniax Digest.