Fegmaniax Digest Volume 4 Number 65 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: ------- ------- haircut rambling and low/no rh content: is it possible to get struck Re: haircuts Re: haircut rambling and low/no rh content: is it possible to g Re: haircuts Pardon my temporal drift... Re: Pardon my temporal drift... Queen Elvis Re: Queen Elvis ISB (Minimal RH) Re: ISB (Minimal RH) Otis Fagg? ------------------------------ From: Anna Wilson Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 00:23:53 +0100 Subject: haircut rambling and low/no rh content: is it possible to get struck off this list? Hey; but haircuts are the scariest things in the universe (far worse than dentists and swamp monsters - I mean, the phrase "Been anywhere nice on your holidays then?" just gains new meaning when she's holding a pair of scissors close to your neck-line). I suppose there's no such thing as a good hair-cut (other than a dead hair-cut). What exactly would you count as a good cut? The very concept of styling gel or volumising lotion just doesn't (wow, terrible pun coming on) gel, somehow, so ... no hair-style is a good hair-style. And surely a good haircut in 1979 (? got to admit that 1979 was pre-Robyn, Wombles- album buying for me, so I can hardly comment on the stylishness or otherwise of 1979) is better than most of us managed? Oh no I'm not bitter and twisted (yep, I succumbed to the blade myself) Anna ------------------------------ From: cchenowe@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu Subject: Re: haircuts Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 18:04:58 -0600 (CST) > Robyn really hasn't had a good haircut since 1979. Hate to be all scientific about it, but, well 1) "good" is a relative term. 2) "good haircut" is an opinion. Since there seems little else to discuss, perhaps we should define a strict and rigid definition of "good" and then attack the meatier problem of "good haircut". We'll probably reach a consensus on about July 23, 1998. Then we can go into the famous "sock" issue. Of course it will hinder discussion that good photographs of Kimberly's socks and RH's socks will probably not be in the same photo. Not that fact should get in the way of Important Issues. whew!!! I thought all the Important Issues had been discussed and this dry spell of non-chatter would run on into May. What a relief to find there are controversial topics left to cover. > He looks good on Invisible Hits, but after that... Right. That's what he needs, a fashion consultant and a cosmetologist. Out with individual expression. Pour money into plastic surgery and makeup......wait a minute, it's been done already. Some Jackson guy. > Any comments? no...obviously none here..... :) (sorry...I'm bored silly today and very tired.) -the Empty Girl, looking for pleasantries and slime. ------------------------------ Subject: Re: haircut rambling and low/no rh content: is it possible to g Date: Fri, 5 Apr 96 16:05:06 -0800 From: Tom Clark "The Lobster Gang" I think the best haircut I've seen on our beloved leader was the 'do he was sporting the last time he was in San Francisco (October?). It was kinda long, not too out of control, a little grey - gee, kinda like mine! (I need to update the pic on my web page - no more facial hair, longer up top). First runner up goes to the photo on the inside of Invisible Hitchcock. You know, he's sitting in a coffee shop, writing, with the marquee out the window showing Patti Smith, Jethro Tull, and The Damned. (where is that, btw?). The cut is very 1977. Have a nice weekend everyone. -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: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 19:39:35 -0500 (EST) From: Terry Marks Subject: Re: haircuts > > He looks good on Invisible Hits, but after that... > > Right. That's what he needs, a fashion consultant and a cosmetologist. > Out with individual expression. Pour money into plastic surgery and > makeup......wait a minute, it's been done already. Some Jackson guy. I'm not saying that he's a bad singer or songwriter...he's great. I'm not saying that he *needs* a good haircut, only that except for the covers of IHits and GDeco, he doesn't have one Terry ------------------------------ From: RxBroome@aol.com Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 22:38:45 -0500 Subject: Pardon my temporal drift... Wow! James somehow managed to reply to my "Lysander" post one digest before the post itself appeared! For those of you on the digest who were a little confused by this... so was I. ("Normal" listers can of course ignore this...) Where Robyn's (August?) hair is concerned-- it always looks terrible, but I've gotta side with Russ; having had a "bad hair life" myself, I like that Robyn's haircut is lousy (perhaps his reason for covering "Vegetable Man"-- "Oh, oh, my haircut looks so bad!"-- or the line in "You've Got" about "You've got a hairstyle that looks good")... The topic reminds me of an English term that I'd love to popularize in America. In the liner notes to Rhino's reissue of "Hen", Robyn describes his haircut during the live show as being "particularly 'naf', even for me". What a great word! "Naf"... whatever could the derivation be? It only reminds me of "Naf-Naf", which is a French line of mid-price pseudo-fashion mostly for teenagers, roughly equivalent to Express or maybe the Gap in the States. I sincerely doubt that there's a connection. Robyn can do that aforementioned cool "flip" thing with his hair while playing guitar... although I don't notice it really getting in his face to begin with. All the videotapes I have of myself in bands feature a really embarassing unconscious tic: everytime my hands leave my fretboard, I immediately and without fail push my hair out of my face. So perhaps Robyn's funky layered look is sort of a Darwinian survival adaptation to facilitate live gigs, especially acoustice shows where there's no rhythm section to cover for you while you fix your hair. Just a thought. Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 22:55:22 -0500 From: greybeard loon Subject: Re: Pardon my temporal drift... Also sprach RxBroome@aol.com: >Wow! James somehow managed to reply to my "Lysander" post one digest before >the post itself appeared! For those of you on the digest who were a little >confused by this... so was I. ("Normal" listers can of course ignore >this...) it was a side-effect of the manual way that i create the digest. two posts, including rex's, were misplaced for a while in a dusty corner of my workspace. i found them a couple days after they were first posted and just stuck them in the current digest. mea culpa. woj ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 14:30:05 -0500 (EST) From: Terry Marks Subject: Queen Elvis Found a cassette of Queen Elvis in a local store.. is anyone still hunting for this album? Terry "The Human Mellotron" Marks a013645t@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us ------------------------------ From: bing@student.umass.edu Date: Sat, 06 Apr 1996 16:09:53 -0500 Subject: Re: Queen Elvis I found a used copy on CD--email me if you're interested. Bradley bing@student.umass.edu ------------------------------ From: RxBroome@aol.com Date: Sun, 7 Apr 1996 04:43:17 -0400 Subject: ISB (Minimal RH) First off, yes, yes, I know, it's "You've got a hairstyle that SUITS YOU"... perhaps I had a hard time remembering it because I DON'T... (have one, that is)... Secondly, I remember several posts a few months back about the Incredible String Band, and I discovered used Ryko/Hannibal CD reissues of two of their records on a shopping spree today. I opted for the cheaper of the two, 1970's "I Looked Up", and have, on one cursory listen (very loud, so as to keep it in my ear whilst doing the ol' Sping Cleaning) found it quite charming. The other available disc was... erm.. the 1969 one. Neither included any titles I remembered from the Robyn cover list. Anyone care to refresh my memory, or provide any details of the essential albums? Also found several dirt-cheap used / cut-out copies of one of 1995's overlooked gems, worth mentioning to anyone whose attraction to Robyn is based on a general proclivity for the truly weird. The record is "Woman's Gotta Have It" by the Cornershop. I would love to recommend it to all Fegs, but honestly, stay away from it unless the following sounds good to you: Pavement, its rhythm section replaced by Massive Attack or some comparable trip-hop combo, and fronted by an Indian-Chinese-English(-American?) incarnation of Mark E. Smith, featuring plenty of sitar and Hong Kong cinema references. In case you haven't figured me out yet, here's a clue: this is the kind of record that I consider to truly kick ass in previously unimaginable ways. And yes, I know... that probably doesn't help in the least. Rex ------------------------------ From: ZeroSummer@aol.com Date: Sun, 7 Apr 1996 08:17:15 -0400 Subject: Re: ISB (Minimal RH) I've been wanting to buy some Incredible String Band for some time just for the hell of it. Next purchase, I'm sure. After all, I only recently started buying Love! I do understand that ISB's quintessential release is The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter. I also know that Jackson Browne did a lovely cover of something called "First Girl I Loved" in 1990 for the Rubaiyat tribute for Elektra. And that's all I know. Happy Easter. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Apr 1996 13:18:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Terry Marks Subject: Otis Fagg? In the "Big Encycopedia of Rock that is Totally Complete" or whatever (the one Rolling Stone puts out), it listed for the drummer of the Soft Boys Otis Fagg (b. Morris Windsor) Could someone explain this PS. It also listed Kimberly Rew (b. Eng) and I spent a good 5 minutes wondering if he was born Eng Rew or Kimberly Eng before realizing that they meant that he was born in England.. PPS Maybe Morris was born in a town called Otis Fagg? [or vice versa?] Terry "The Human Mellotron" Marks a013645t@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The End of this Fegmaniax Digest.