From: fegmaniax@ecto.org To: fegmaniax-digest@ecto.org Reply-To: fegmaniax@ecto.org Subject: Feg Digest V4 #109 Fegmaniax Digest Volume 4 Number 109 Send posts to fegmaniax@ecto.org Send subscribe/unsubscribe commands to majordomo@ecto.org Send comments, etc. to the listowner at owner-fegmaniax@ecto.org FegMANIAX! Web Page: http://remus.rutgers.edu/~woj/fegmaniax/ Archives are available at http://archive.uwp.edu/pub/music/lists/fegmaniax/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Today's Topics: ------- ------- Theremin Re: Now Robyn Track Listing Vinyl for Sale? current retro bands Re: Vinyl for Sale? Odd coincidence Re: Vinyl for Sale? Re: current retro bands feg list Almost cut my Head! misty mountain wot? Robyn on the 'net Re: Crosby, Gallagher and Theremin Re: misty mountain wot? Re: feg list Wild Mountain Thyme 45rpm Bidding theremins and Uncle Bob feg infestation Warners press sheet Robyn Hitchcock's The Meaning of Life OASIS/BLUR/SOFTBOYS bragg and rh Pet Moss ------------------------------ From: RxBroome@aol.com Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 22:32:00 -0400 Subject: Theremin Ooops, my Theremin post seems forever lost. In any case, the Theremin- favoring band mentioned was almost definitely Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, who incorporate a vintage Theremin into their live show unforgettably. Bear in mind that Jon feels no need of a bass guitar, but always has his Theremin in tow. Good stuff. Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 22:50:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Terrence Marks Subject: Re: Now Robyn Track Listing > To whomever posted that track listing....any idea if the "This is how it > feels" is a cover of the Golden Palominos song??? Umm..No. This is how it feels is a Robyn song, also known as Woman in You Terrence "THe Human Melltron" Marks ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 22:33:28 -0500 From: Jay Brownlee Subject: Vinyl for Sale? Ummm, I have just had this crazy notion. I have an unmarked (no label, same song A and B sides) test pressing of the "Misty Mountain Thyme" (by Nigel & The Crosses) 45rpm that I am told is only one of 500 like it in the world. I think I would like to consider bids on it if any of you might be interested. It is in mint condition- and I'll guarantee satisfaction. Thank You; Drive on Through... Jay ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 16:10:50 +0400 From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: current retro bands >Robyn on Oasis vs: Blur: I must confess, with only marginal embarassment, >that I agree with Uncle Bobby on this issue. I feel more in tune with Blur's >songwriting angle, but Oasis's records BURY Blur's. at the risk of opening this feud right up, if you want to listen to good retro 60's soundalike music from 90s Britain, forget both Oasis and Blur, and get yourself Ocean Colour Scene's album "Moseley Shoals". A beauty, with a vaguely non-orchestral-Moody-Blues-ish sound. Great stuff. >I'd have to say, by the way, that Robyn's versions of "Kung Fu Fighting" and >"Almost Cut My Hair" were probably the two most improbable covers in the >history of music. I dunno, having just listened to Ash's version of the Cantina Band song from Star Wars, and owning as I do the most impressive Sex Pistols version of the Monkees classic "Stepping Stone", I'd have to disagree. Let's face it, with Robyn, the improbable is quite likely. James (yes, THAT James) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 00:26:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Terrence Marks Subject: Re: Vinyl for Sale? I don't know what sort of price you're looking for... I'll start at $20, though Terrence "The Human Mellotron" Marks ------------------------------ Date: 14 Jun 96 02:45:41 EDT From: Positive Vibrations <101356.2516@CompuServe.COM> Subject: Odd coincidence The support act at Kimberley Rew's show on 8/5/96 was a godawful Irish folk singer called Martin Okusizwe, promoting his new album, _Invisible History_. Coincidences can be weird sometimes... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 03:42:06 -0500 From: jojones@mailbox.syr.edu (John, Jacci, & Madison) Subject: Re: Vinyl for Sale? >I have an unmarked (no label, same song A and B sides) test pressing of the >"Misty Mountain Thyme" (by Nigel & The Crosses) COOL! Someone add this to their rarities tape. Please. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ MY RANKING OF THE SUMMER BLOCKBUSTERS: 1. Twister 2. Mission Impossible (sorry, I've only seen 2 movies)...... John B. Jones **e-mail: jojones@syr.edu +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 11:02:45 +0100 (BST) From: M R Godwin Subject: Re: current retro bands On Fri, 14 Jun 1996, James Dignan wrote: > I feel more in tune with Blur's songwriting angle, but Oasis's records > BURY Blur's. At the risk of seeming really fogeyish ("My learned friend is perhaps unaware that Wayne County and the Electric Chairs are a popular vocal group whose lead singer has recently changed sides") I must confess that I just can't get excited about this. All I know about Oasis is that they appeared on the Glastonbury telecast last year, and played one chord for about 25 minutes; everyone said it was wonderful ...* ?!*? As for Blur, I saw them on the Jools prog and they appeared to be a pilled-up version of the Boomtown Rats... >if you want to listen to good retro 60's soundalike music from 90s >Britain, get yourself Ocean Colour Scene's album "Moseley Shoals". A >beauty, with a vaguely non-orchestral-Moody-Blues-ish sound. Great >stuff. I'll give it a whirl, although the Moody Blues comparison seems a bit ominous... > > Robyn's versions of "Kung Fu Fighting" and "Almost Cut My Hair" were > > probably the two most improbable covers in the history of music. > I dunno, having just listened to Ash's version of the Cantina Band ng > from Star Wars, and owning as I do the most impressive Sex Pistols > version of the Monkees classic "Stepping Stone", I'd have to disagree. John Peel once broadcast a session by Eric Burdon and the New Animals (i.e. the psychedelic Animals featuring John Weider on fiddle) playing "Chim Chiminey Chim Chiminey Chim Chim Chiree" which was seriously odd. That was about the same time as The Flies GREAT version of "Stepping Stone" (late 67?). It wouldn't surprise me if the Sex Pistols were covering that version rather than the American one - it is very slow and churning, a bit like what Tim Rose did to "Hey Joe". - Mike Godwin (no not that Mike, the other one) PS How about a cover of "New York Mining Disaster 1941" by Meatloaf and Bonnie Tyler? ------------------------------ Subject: feg list Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 08:25:07 -0300 From: "Thomas Narten" > I agree with John Stevenson (Jun 5) that this is consistently one of the > most interesting lists around. One thing that surprises me about this list is how little analysis is done in individual songs (compared to some other lists). Perhaps being one of the denser folks on this list, I must confess that many (most?) of robyn's songs make little sense to me at a distance. Most have wonderfully clever little lyrical snippets ('and it rained like a slow divorce'), of course, but overall I feel pretty clueless about the bigger meaning/image of his songs. Anyone care to take a stab at what songs like Cynthia Mask, One Long Pair of Eyes, Tropical Flesh Mandala, Chinese Bones, Birdshead, or Leppo and the Jooves are *really* about? Thomas ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 10:42:31 -0400 From: Stephen Foskett Subject: Almost cut my Head! fegmaniax@ecto.org wrote: > From: RxBroome@aol.com > ">Almost Cut My Hair (Toad's Place, CT, 4/94) > > is this a random robyn emission or a cover?" This is perhaps a cover. Since I have not heard the original, I am at a loss... BUT he was making fun of David Crosby and then he (and this was with the Egyptians) spontaneously burst into "Almost Cut My Hair". It goeth: Almost cut my hair/happened just the other day/it was gettin kinda long/but I didn't and I don't know why/... So, yes, it is a cover in all probability. It's just a minute or so long, though... But rare! And also at that show he did a long, whimsical, "talk over the Egyptians music" about some dead soldiers celebrating Christmas. Does THIS count as a song? Stephen -- Stephen Foskett sfoskett@mass-usr.com U.S. Robotics, Massachusetts R&D Lab ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 10:41:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard Subject: misty mountain wot? > >I have an unmarked (no label, same song A and B sides) test pressing of the > >"Misty Mountain Thyme" (by Nigel & The Crosses) Wouldn't this be "wild mt thyme"? Perhaps you're thinking of led zeppelin's "misty mt hop" (there's a good one to cover.._ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jun 96 08:38:00 -0800 From: Russ Reynolds Subject: Robyn on the 'net Susan recently wrote many words, some of which were these: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Also, I have to say that my feelings are somewhat mixed. Yes, I'd be excited to know that Robyn might be reading this very message himself, but wouldn't this also lead to a bit of self-censorship? I mean, I might be a bit embarassed if I knew the man himself were reading that whole silly French chateau thread, for example, or the Great Mucky Debate. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- a couple of comments: 1. Frenchy and Mucky are important social issues. Anyone who doesn't believe that is not spending enough time microanalyzing Robyn Hitchcock. 2. I seriously doubt Robyn would have the time or the desire to read all these posts on a daily basis. I'd venture to say there are even a good number of people on this list who don't have the time to read all these posts on a daily basis. 3. I personally don't care if he's reading this. I'm not even embarrassed to type the word "knickers". He doesn't know who I am, and even if he does, he doesn't know for sure that I'm really me. Some days *I* don't even know if I'm really me. I'd be more emabrassed to meet the man in person and then find out later I had pink lipstick on the whole time. (this actually happened last October--one of those deadly fresh lipstick kisses from the wife right before the meeting with RH). 4. knickers. -russ :) ------------------------------ From: TchdnJesus@aol.com Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 11:29:24 -0400 Subject: Re: Crosby, Gallagher and Theremin In a message dated 96-06-13 00:53:02 EDT, RxBroome@aol.com writes: >Robyn on Oasis vs: Blur: I must confess, with only marginal embarassment, >that I agree with Uncle Bobby on this issue. I feel more in tune with Blur's >songwriting angle, but Oasis's records BURY Blur's. Listen without prejudice >(I gag on my own bile to have written those words) to either of Oasis's >albums, think of the Only Ones or the Plimsouls or some such, and encounter, >with the possible exception of early Ride, the only "great" "band" of the >'90's. Derivative? Duh. Immortal? Unquestionably. nah. i think simon gallup (bassist of the cure) got it right when he asked "aren't oasis too much like the rutles for liking?" [except the rutles had better songs] while oasis's records "sound" good, the lyrics are so godawful, and the songs are beyond derivative. it's velveeta, or cheez whiz, for the ears. or, as someone once said about something else, there's no there there. ride were great for two albums and three eps though. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 10:33:25 -0500 From: Jay Brownlee Subject: Re: misty mountain wot? At 10:41 AM 6/14/96 -0400, you wrote: >Wouldn't this be "wild mt thyme"? Perhaps you're thinking of led >zeppelin's "misty mt hop" (there's a good one to cover.._ Oh, hell, you're probably right. I mean, I COULD look at the single, but like I said, it's not marked, and I have that Byrds tribute cd it apopears on, but it's either IN San Antonio (a seven hour drive) or in transit to Lubbock (where I sit and SHOULD be cleaning) with my grrrrrrliefriend, so I can't look it up that way either. I'm ALWAYS screwing up titles of songs, lyrics, etc. Pardon me for being an idiot IF I'm an idiot (and I probably AM) and such, but what I said otherwise about the single stands and - dammitt, it's HARD being a moron. :) Sideswiping the issue, Jay ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 12:14:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Terrence Marks Subject: Re: feg list > the bigger meaning/image of his songs. Anyone care to take a stab at > what songs like Cynthia Mask, One Long Pair of Eyes, Tropical > Flesh Mandala, Chinese Bones, Birdshead, or Leppo and the Jooves are > *really* about? I think that Leppo is about being ignored by show business... Terrence "The Human Mellotron" Marks ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 11:33:16 -0500 From: Jay Brownlee Subject: Wild Mountain Thyme 45rpm Bidding For those of you interested, Terry Marks is the only person thus far to make a bid on the record. His bid was $20. I will post regular updates as necessary. And I'll keep a record of the bidding til the end of the month (June). I'm moving in about 10 days so I'll need to wait til after the move to select a "winner." I'll be more than happy to accomodate any concerns you might have about the possible transaction. And as a side note, this IS the Byrds cover that RH did along with Peter Buck for the "Time In Between" Byrds tribute record several years back and recorded under the psuedonym, Nigel & The Crosses. God, I hope I got that right... Shamefully yours, Jay ------------------------------ From: SPIFFINGNY@aol.com Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 12:55:24 -0400 Subject: theremins and Uncle Bob I'd like to add that that whole Warners email reaked of the talenst of a slick writer. "Uncle Bob" wouldn't write such dribble, and if he indeed did, then I'm a tad worried for one... On another note, came across this ad the other day, posted for you thereminic pleasure...." THEREMINS, the sound of sci-fi movies. Pitch increases as hand nears unit. Futuristic enclosure provided. $139.95 414-327-4141" Sounds a bit expensive with the added "futuristic enclosure" but that's what all the mod, hip kids gotta have... humbly, Carl ------------------------------ From: LORDK@library.phila.gov Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 16:06:56 -0400 (EDT) CC: LORDK@library.phila.gov Subject: feg infestation To Fig Newton--dig it, man. To the rest of ya'll--a stroke of stuff has befallen meself, in that a tape of Robyn's new, ssomewhat discordent album(due out aug--thats right, 23rd--)has slipped into me greedy little hands(well, actually a tape of what will be the CD, plus full press kit, its convenient having ones best friends hubby on all the labels'mailing list) Anywho, for those of you who showup fri night, it will be playing. Id make copies, but alsa, Im a techno idiot whose sound system cant copy tape to tape. So if you want to hear the new stuff *now* Kay's place, 40 E. Abington ave Phila Pa 19118 Fri night, June 21st, 7-10 pm. Long Island Ice tea served. actually, Martina hasnt actually given me the tape yet, the transfer will, however take place over the weekend. so I cant crow about how great it is to the rest of you yet. But, I will. I will. Oh, I will. And now that we know robyns true identity(all hail Eris), due to the release date--I will feel free to tie in his lyrics to every major conspiracy during the last 3, 000 years. Its going to be a fun summer. (let me guess, the whole rest of the list already has the damn tape and Im just making a perfect fool(what else is new) of myself Cap.) Lordk@library.phila.gov ------------------------------ From: SPIFFINGNY@aol.com Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 16:50:16 -0400 Subject: Warners press sheet This came off the fax machine, apologies if you've already read and knew all contents, but I thought it might be interesting. From Warner Brothers, as follows... ROBYN HITCHCOCK Moss Elixir Mossy Elixir: Outtakes and Prototypes personnel: R.H. guitars, harmonica, keyboards, bass, vocals Deni Bonet violins, viola, percussion Ntshuks Bonga saxaphone Morris Windsor vocals, tambourine Tim Keegan guitar, vocals Patch Hannan drums, tambourine James Fletcher saxaphones Moris Tepper acoustic guitar, slide guitar Pete Dowdall double bass producers R.H. with Grant Showbiz, Calvin Johnson, Pat Collier featured tracks "Alright, Yeah" "The Devil's Radio" "Beautiful Queen" format college/alternative/AAA -ROBYN HITCHCOCK makes his Warner Bros. debut with not one but two new releases. Why not sit down and have a frosty beverage while we explain this one to you? It's a little complicated... -Hitchcock, as you may well know, is among the greatest songwriters of both the age and the edge, known for his flights of BARRETTesque whimsy and LENNONesque lyricism; his extensive back catalog as both a solo artist and a prime mover of the (late) Soft Boys, his status as a college-radio deity for nigh a decade; and his life-altering live performances. -SO: two releases, then. The main album proper is MOSS ELIXIR, which comes out on CD and cassette on August 13. It's got 12 new songs that find HITCHCOCK in a largely acoustic-based, often solo mode. And it's pretty damned good (if we do say so ourselves). -Then there's MOSSY ELIXIR, which will be released only on vinyl on July 23. As the subtitle suggests, it's something of a companion piece to MOSS ELIXIR. It features six songs not available on MOSS ELIXIR, along with alternate versions of several MOSS ELIXIR tracks. It includes an inner sleeve with photos and complete lyrics. -MOSSY ELIXIR is strictly limited to 2,500 copies. Act now and get 'em while they last; we don't want to hear your tragic hard-luck story about how you waited until they were all gone and then had to pay an exorbitant collector-scum price to some cynical dealer who brutally exploited your love of R.H. for his own crass purposes. -As anyone who has ever sat up until the middle of the night humming along with "I Want To Be An Angelpoise Lamp", "My Wife And My Dead Wife" "Give Me A Spanner, Ralph" or several dozen others will tell you, Robyn Hitchcock is a genius. Expect heavy college radio play, lots of press and quite a bit of touring to support the albums. CD $15.98 lp/cass $10/98 that's the skinny... humbly, Carl of SpiFFinG (who's back on the Electrafixion tour) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jun 96 16:45:27 CDT From: Truman Peyote Subject: Robyn Hitchcock's The Meaning of Life Thomas Narten wonders about the dearth of individual song analyses on the list. I never really thought about it before, but of course he is right. Count me among those too involved with microanalysis (and non-Robyn matters) to notice this. I think Robyn's lyrics lend themselves to this kind of analysis more readily- in my opinion, many of them tackle such a huge amount of ground in 3 minutes or so that it's impossible to find one unifying concept. Take "Cynthia Mask", for example. After thinking about this for a bit, I decided that it's a song about human coldness and cruelty, starting with those whose decisions affect millions (Napoleon, Chamberlain) and trickling down to the level of the everyday individual ("the people that pass/they think that they know you/they're too busy thinking/to see who you are"), and then the song reverses itself with a verse addressed to a lover ("I'll reach your lungs/like smoke in the Autumn") which suggests that the antidote to this human callousness has to begin at the individual level and then trickle upwards. Whew, what an amazing run-on I've just written! But I digress..... This analysis, while taking in a lot, ignores some of the other issues important in the song, such as the nature of forgetting, the evils of political compromise (although it sort of covers that), the fragility of romance and sexual cynicism ("gnarly babes, for pleasure and profit", etc.) and all that rubbish. Even the best analysis (and I'm not saying mine is it) is going to let a few things slip through. I guess that shouldn't stop any of us incredibly bright folks from takng a stab at it. Maybe if we're lucky Mr. Deadly might look over some of these and tell us where we screwed up :). More likely he'd just snicker to himself and wonder why we couldn't figure out something that's very simple in his eyes ("they must be incredibly dense if they can't figure out it's actually all about my fascination with the Albigensian heresy", he must be thinking). Susan yes, I be uh Ahnglish mayjer! How'dja guess? P.S. Sorry for running off at the mouth a bit the past couple days! I promise to slow down a bit in the near future. ------------------------------ From: firstcat@D Date: Fri, 14 Jun 96 14:05:24 Subject: OASIS/BLUR/SOFTBOYS --- On Fri, 14 Jun 1996 11:29:24 -0400 TchdnJesus@aol.com wrote: >In a message dated 96-06-13 00:53:02 EDT, RxBroome@aol.com writes: > >>Robyn on Oasis vs: Blur: I must confess, with only marginal embarassment, >>that I agree with Uncle Bobby on this issue. I feel more in tune with >Blur's >>songwriting angle, but Oasis's records BURY Blur's. Listen without >prejudice >>(I gag on my own bile to have written those words) to either of Oasis's >>albums, think of the Only Ones or the Plimsouls or some such, and encounter, >>with the possible exception of early Ride, the only "great" "band" of the >>'90's. Derivative? Duh. Immortal? Unquestionably. > >nah. i think simon gallup (bassist of the cure) got it right when he asked >"aren't oasis too much like the rutles for liking?" [except the rutles had >better songs] while oasis's records "sound" good, the lyrics are so godawful, >and the songs are beyond derivative. it's velveeta, or cheez whiz, for the >ears. or, as someone once said about something else, there's no there there. I think OASIS and BLUR suffer from the Lenny Kravitz syndrome: technically proficient lifting other peoples styles, but depleted of individual expression, leaving the listener going, "well, I kinda like it, but I like the guys they're trying to copy better." What I find interesting is the understated influence of the Softboys on the English school of contemporary alternative music...harmony with the frantic guitar, and a tight bass line...didn't Stone Roses say they spent days in the studio getting high and playing their favorite cd's over and over in the studio, one of which was Underwater Moonlight? On the same line of thought I'd say that the American school is much more influenced by the Replacements....re: Pavement, Cracker, and Flaming Lips.... just thoughts.... Jay (sub 1) ------------------------------------- Jay Lyall Channel Sales Director Livermore Software Laboratories, Intl. 2825 Wilcrest, Suite 160 Houston, Texas 77042-3358 1-713-974-3274 jay@lsli.com Date: 6/14/96 ------------------------------------- ------------------------------ From: shmh@netcom.com (Marge Holland) Subject: bragg and rh Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 06:01:09 -0700 (PDT) Don't think anyone mentioned this yet, but Billy Bragg and Robyn did play together at one fanciful gig in London at the Borderline in 1989. This was a Nigel & The Crosses show which I was fortunate enough to attend. It also featured Mike Mills, Peter Buck, Glenn Tillbrook (Squeeze), Morris, Andy and Dave Woodhead (trumpet). Billy hopped on stage toward the end of the set, which was all covers and a few RH classics, to sing lead vocals on Route 66. I have a terrible recording of this show, which has been passed around the list, but it indeed does have BB and RH acting like old pals. I am very excited about the RH/BB tour. I'm so sick of horrible opening bands for RH, I've just never liked any of them, since 1989!! OK -- maybe one or two but he're a thought, who is the headliner? Marge ------------------------------ From: LORDK@library.phila.gov Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 10:21:53 -0400 (EDT) CC: LORDK@library.phila.gov Subject: Pet Moss When I was living in London many decades ago, I had a pet moss, fungus, growing up the side of my room. It was caused by a leak in the wonderful bit of grand 18th century splendor I was hiding out in. And it dripped--an elixer. I think, I was 1/2 mad at the time at the time, and therefore not a reliable witness, but I do believe it emitted an elixer whose very fragrence was the tincture of longing, desire, and grace. But then, that might have been the raw opuim a friend had brought back from afganistan. I cant quite remember. as for Unca Bob. either its some idiot at the record company, someone *hip* enough to think he has the right to do this, or someone has talked Unca Bob into doing what he really dosnt want to do, and its shown up in his prose. Either way it sounded like a parody of Hitchcocks *hip* american voice. Which means its either not the man, or the man embarressing himself, and knowing it--which rather cramps one's style(let alone what it does to one's handwriting). I think the most polite thing to do from now on is ignore it. It seems to me that the very worse thing about being a musician must be the indignities one must go thru in order to make a living from doing what youre born to do. Ok--think for a moment that you are hitchcock. Now read that publicity bubble from warners. Now cringe. Now try to think of an alternative, realize there isnt one, and steel yourself against the part of you which is crinding, on behalf of the part of you which lives in this world and does(genuis or not) need to eat. I think part of the reason intelligent rock people have a certain, shall we say, asparity, to their manner, is that its just so bloody embarressing. Did I really read--Lennonesque, and Barret-like? Shovel out the cliches with a trowell. tOnce I did micro interpert part of balloon man . it took me 2 pages to explicate 4 lines. the man packs the stuff in, and I felt like half a fool(sometimes being a fan is embarressing too) taking so long to convey a tad of what he managed to convey so pithaly. Also robyns stuff is very open eneded--what the song means to me may not be what the song means to you--and thats part of why its so good. Interactive rock n roll, almost as dependent on the listeners imagination as on the singers. i hate stuff that only works one way, it gets boring very fast. For me balloon man is about a gay man cruising the red light district of new York and having to limit himself to hand and blow jobs, and all with condoms,and the whole horrible reality of aids. For me its the best song so far written about aids. But maybe thats because Ive lost people to the plauge and have turned that song into my own way of morning for the dead , and the dieing. Maybe I need a song about all that, and have created it out of a hitchcock song written about other stuff entirely. And it works, and it helps, and Im grateful for it, but---who says it works that way for anyone else. We get what we need. Hitchcocks stuff is so full of feeling and intelligence it almost ruins it to microanylize it. Especially to talk about "right" interpertations and "wrong" interpertations. I like that we dont beat his stuff to death. Its a polyvalent universe out there, and in there. and thank God it is. As for the tape of the new album... Woz has suggested that someone bring a "dubbing machine" to make copies for him and others. Sounds likea good idea to me--any volunteers? Kay the-no bosses around on Sat, boy I get longwinded, cap ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The End of this Fegmaniax Digest. .