Fegmaniax Digest Volume 4 Number 57 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: ------- ------- The Alligator Lounge re-issues Lounge scene... Sex Beatles SXSW(No RH content,sorry) Re: The Alligator Lounge Homer A pedant strikes, and the Tall Dwarf! ------------------------------ From: BLATZMAN@aol.com Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 00:04:10 -0500 Subject: The Alligator Lounge Robyn was on fire as usual. I think he was better this time around than a few months back at McCabes. I personally had a lot more fun, and Robyn seemed to be enjoying himself. At one point, I took a huge sip of my beer just as he was explaining Trilobyte. He made me laugh so hard, I spit all the beer out on the guy in front of me. Warning to all: Never drink liquids while Robyn is talking... I'll let Rex post the setlist. He's got a better memory than me... Although he kept spilling beer glasses all eve... ;-) Dave ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 02:55:34 -0500 From: Ken W Subject: re-issues I noticed in a message that someone posted that Robyn said about the re-issues something to the effect of "tape them". Is this really true? Did he dispprove of them? Ken __________________________________________________________________________ hazmat@shore.net | Shore.Net PC Tech Guy http://www.shore.net/~hazmat | http://www.shore.net/ ______________________________________________________________________ "Till there was rock you only had god" __________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ From: RxBroome@aol.com Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 03:02:43 -0500 Subject: Lounge scene... Haven't seen any LA show reviews, so here's mine: Very good as always, but few surprises. Nothing completely new arrived, and in fact the new material has thinned out considerably since the last McCabe's show (in quantity, not quality). A nice, commanding cover of Hendrix's "Wind Cries Mary" surprised me by not being in the least incongruous. Songs performed, vaguely in order: DeCherico Street Lysander Wind Cries Mary Madonna of the Wasps Trilobite Beautiful Girl Queen of Eyes Man with a Woman's Shadow Heliotrope You & Oblivion Kingdom of Love The Lizard Heaven I Got a Message for You I Am Not Me Probably missing a few... those who were there can fill in the blanks. Doesn't seem like this was as rushed as the SXSW show, but it was a very economical version of Robyn-- to great effect, I thought. His trippy excursions, both vocally and on guitar, were more concise than usual and especially moreso than at McCabe's last show, where he appeared at times as if he was about to become positively unhinged. I think the fact that this was a standing, drinking crowd contributed to this effect. My fiancee was seeing Robyn for the first time, and I thought it might be interesting to note that she found Robyn to be, yes, very sexy; not at all how she'd expected him to look or carry himself as a performer. She lists as her favorites from the show "DeCherico", "Heaven", "Kingdom of Love", "Lysander" (she's familiar with it) and "Trilobite"-- just thought it would be interesting to note the tunes that clicked with a non-feg whose first full dose of Robyn was the live solo thing. Note one very old and two very new songs make her list. Personally, I was surprised as all hell to hear "The Lizard" in a very cool vibrato-ized rendition. "Heaven" was played with a different rhythmic figure-- this one, along with "Beautiful Girl", made the set surprisingly heavy on straightforward love- and relationship songs. The new material is holding up quite well, and provided many highlights; Robyn specifically stated that "Woman's Shadow" would not be on the album. News of the backing band on the record is very interesting (Andy Metcalfe? Really? If so, good news)... it'll be interesting to see which tracks include the band and which ones don't. Robyn's never really done a record evenly split between solo and band recordings, and that could be just what the doctor (Messerschmidts) ordered. Other observations? Rex ------------------------------ From: SPIFFINGNY@aol.com Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 08:20:09 -0500 Subject: Sex Beatles We checked up on the Sex Beatles single. It was said to have been Hitchcock by everyone in London and New York but when it was brought to The Man in October of last year, he denied all knowledge of it and said e'd never seen or heard of it before. It's a fair single anyway, and the A side does sound a bit on the Hitchcock-ish side, but alas, it is not he. Carl, SpiFFinG ------------------------------ From: msandonato@kpmg.com Date: Thu, 21 Mar 96 11:48:55 EST Subject: SXSW(No RH content,sorry) Hi Fegs I'm sorry to post this to the list, but I was wondering if any of the list members who were at SXSW happened to catch a Boston group called The Upper Crust. If you did I think you'd remember(powdered wigs and AC/DC style guitar rock) Please email me privately. Thank you. Matt (MSandonato@KPMG.com) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 10:47:48 -0800 (PST) From: prometheus Subject: Re: The Alligator Lounge i have to agree this was a far better show than the mc cabe's show a bit back, and it seemed a bit longer as well. i was glad he played for over an hour. but it seems to me that the setlist was similar to the mc cabe's show, and even his between song monologues seemed similar. i also made a mental note to watch his stage presence, noting his hair flipping, which my friend leaned over and described as paul mccartney-esque, and his elvis style swaying and thrusting, and damnit he is one sexy fella. he said something that made me laugh :" the thing with humans is that we are rarely ever naked. " to which some young lady replied,"we don't have to be." anyway it was a great show, i even stayed to hear the first two and a half songs of the next band. epicuriously yours jake prometheus "diminished never is the drizzle that broke no calm." kerouac ------------------------------ Date: 21 Mar 96 19:22:33 EST From: Positive Vibrations <101356.2516@compuserve.com> Subject: Homer > >is homer not the new band of andy metcalf? or did i just imagine reading > >that somewhere? > > The answer is no. Homer features members and ex-members of Ringo, > The Sundays, The Blue Aeroplanes and The Lazy House. Yes... but Ringo, the Sundays and Lazy House all featured Andy Metcalfe, as does Homer - although he doesn't always gig with them as much as he used to. Anyone who went to Robyn's gig at the Jazz Cafe about a year ago would have seen Homer, featuring Andy, as the backing band; they also (as Ringo, which was only one member different from the current Homer line-up and had mostly the same songs) supported Robyn on the London date of the _Respect_ tour. Andy's also their manager, and produced (but didn't play on) their first single, 'Lucky Thirteen'. Which, in its original pressing is already trading at 15 times its sale price. If you're going to be a smartarse, at least do it right... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 15:09:15 +1200 (NZST) From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: A pedant strikes, and the Tall Dwarf! >Regarding "The Prince of Psychadelic Pop"... I mis-quoted. it should read >"The Prince of Psychadelic Folk Rock." Pop or Folk Rock, I don't think Robyn would be Psychadelic. Psychedelic, maybe... oh, and >From: shmac@ix.netcom.com (Scott Hunter McCleary) Subject: fegpuppies >Special note to James in NZ -- Chris Knox makes Renfield go berserk. He >runs around the house barking (Renfield, that is, not Chris Knox, who as >far as I know has never even been in our house, let alone barked there). >The only other time I've seen Renfield do this is at the beginning of Been >Caught Stealin' -- he can't figure out where that dog is. I wouldn't put it past NZ's low-fi guru to come round to your house just to bark. And I still recommend his music to all fegmaniax out there, both his solo work and that with the Tall Dwarfs (try the TD album "Fork Songs" as a starter...). Been caught stealin'? Oh, these inexplicable American cultural references... James ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The End of this Fegmaniax Digest.