From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@ecto.org To: fegmaniax-digest@ecto.org Reply-To: fegmaniax@ecto.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@ecto.org Subject: Feg Digest V4 #187 Fegmaniax Digest Volume 4 Number 187 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/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- OOPS! Due to a stupid mistake on my part, I accidentially erased five messages from my digest file before sending it out. Alas, I could not recover these notes. Mea culpa. +woj ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Today's Topics: ------- ------- Regarding Robyn's BOB DYLAN covers gig..... Robyn Movie Maybe Suggestion for ESPN2: possibilities of cd? 12 bar tix?? Re: possibilities of cd? Robyn and Billy in Boston Unreleased Songs suggestion... GF musicians: september is your last chance. Re: Unreleased Songs suggestion... Music News Of The World SF show Tickets?? Misheard pussy thread from toast ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 12:56:38 -0500 From: jojones@mailbox.syr.edu (John, Jacci, & Madison) Subject: Regarding Robyn's BOB DYLAN covers gig..... Anyone that sent me e-mail about being an analog branch for the upcoming tree: Hal Brandt is now in charge of it. You will need to e-mail him with your trade lists etc. His e-mail address is : hbrandt@centralnet.net Thanks. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "Dole _IS_ '96! That would be the best campaign slogan"- Billy Bragg john b. jones jojones@syr.edu http://web.syr.edu/~jojones -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 13:01:52 -0500 From: jojones@mailbox.syr.edu (John, Jacci, & Madison) Subject: Robyn Movie Maybe >From today's Addicted to Noise music news: Robyn Hitchcock Movie, Maybe Peter Buck is a big fan of Mr. Hitchcock as well. Addicted To Noise staff writer Gil Kaufman reports: File this one under the "Stranger things could happen" category. Although it's not yet set in stone, our sources tell us that there might soon be a rockumentary about the very odd Robyn Hitchcock in the offing to be filmed by none other than Jonathan Demme ( Stop Making Sense , Silence of the Lambs ). Say wha? Apparently, the pair have been mulling the idea over for quite a few months now and the whole thing is in a holding pattern while Demme tries to clear his decks and make enough time to shoot the live footage later this year. How, you might ask, did these two odd birds get together? Good question. According to our source, Demme has been a big Hitchcock fan for a long time and he became close with the singer when Hitchcock was asked to contribute a song to the upcoming Fab Four Facsimile picture, "That Thing You Do," written and directed by Tom Hanks and produced by Demme. Hanks and Demme went to see Hitchcock live and fell in love with his style and, next thing you know, the word "rockumentary" was being bandied about. Our source suspected that the film would be a documentary of a live Hitchcock performance, something between Stop Making Sense and the Spalding Gray piece, Swimming to Cambodia and would be intended for a theatrical release. Assuming he can get the time to do it, all indications are that Demme would set up the cameras later this year in New York around the time Hitchcock winds up his tour in support of his first Warner Brothers album, Moss Elixir . ------------------------------ From: RxBroome@aol.com Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 14:38:12 -0400 Subject: Suggestion for ESPN2: This from the weird thread about imaginary sports: " When they invent a > sport in which grown men run up and down a hardwood court trying to stuff > bread into toasters, I'll watch *that*. >> > >I think I saw that on ESPN2, once... I saw it, too. It was on after the "International Synchronised Toast-Topping Competition"." Reminds me of talking to a spectaculary clueless TicketBastard operator recently. I was ordering tickets for Throwing Muses at Spaceland, and she asked me perplexedly if it was a concert. And I thought briefly of saying, "No, of course not, 'Throwing Muses at Spaceland' is an athletic event where one strives for the utmost accuracy in hurling caryatid-like statues at a model of a futuristic metropolis"... but I didn't think she'd get it. Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 12:17:31 -0700 (PDT) From: "Trixie, Bunny and Peaches" Subject: possibilities of cd? greetings-- o.k. i realize i am kicking down the door and wizzing on the alter here, perhaps. but, what about a limited run of cds with some of the material being bantered around, e.g. Robyn Bob & Albert Tree and terry's UC tape. the major problem i see is that bayard is the only one with such technologies and is imposing a huge amount on his time, what with the other cd in the works, still. beyond that there is the whole ethical thing that always arises here and consternations of legalities as adian [sp?] mentioned a few years back when this same topic was brought up for slaughter. cost is another issue as well; it takes more than a 3 dollar investment and a few hours. anyway just a thought, owing to my limited analog compatabilities and dislike of the cassette medium. does anyone think this is a good idea, bad move or should i just return to my hole? ?, .chris p.s. this whole post-modern thing has me thinking in a suspended mode. i don't think i have processed the term 'post-modern' in the way that is helpful. perhaps more discussion on this matter is desirable. i think i am stuck in the world of post-modern geography, which is a distance from any 'post-modern robyn'. 8) ------------------------------ From: billpannifer@easynet.co.uk Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 20:49:36 +0100 (BST) Subject: 12 bar tix?? help! Desperately need 2 tickets to Robyn's 12-bar show this coming Tuesday. They're sold out. Tapes, dats, filthy lucre, blandishments, etc etc. Bill ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 15:53:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard Subject: Re: possibilities of cd? Alas, chris, I do not possess CD burner technology, or I would be spinning it non-stop making cd's for the list. However, what I *can* do is transfer cassette recordings to DAT and give them to someone I know who will burn CD's very inexpensively. Due to the inflammatory nature of this topic I'll request that interested parties contact me directly and be patient (as I suspect there will be quite a lot of you.) Please note that I'm going to make quite sure that Robyn is not in any way ripped off if it's within my power to prevent it (bootleggers have been after some of the recordings i have for a while now and so far, they haven't gotten them.) This would be as close to an at-cost venture as possible. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 21:50:13 -0400 From: Alex Tanter Subject: Robyn and Billy in Boston Last week I called the Orpheum and they said they didn't know anything about a show with Robyn and Billy. Anybody have any inside info to counter this? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 10:38:00 -0400 (EDT) From: David Willems Subject: Unreleased Songs suggestion... Just a suggestion. I'd rather have the songs that have already been released before (i.e. Mr. Rock & Roll, Messages of Dark etc..) replaced by completely new stuff. Just my 2 sense. David ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 11:47:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard Subject: GF musicians: september is your last chance. If you have a song on the CD and want to submit notes for the insert, better hurry-- i'm also interested in knowing where everyone is from. I know Vic and Mr Brown are from athens, nismo is in Wales (what city?) James annd the Beaker People are in Dunedin (?) NZ, Mark is in Aptos (or should that be santa clara? or santa monica?) other days are in Boston, Xparencies are/were in ottawa, Dolph is in connersville IN, John H is all over the place and has trouble keeping an email address.... email me people! er, i mean email me, people. please? oh, and yammer-jooks in in charlottesville, i know that much. Tentative CD release party date: Saturday, October 12. Let me know if this is good/bad for y'all. All are invited. A potent mixed elixir will be served, along with sundry other consumables. (i'd love to try one of the microbrewed mosses too, if anyone's close enough. or are we going ahead with the bottle tree?) ------------------------------ From: Terrence M Marks Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 14:46:20 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Unreleased Songs suggestion... Well, it's Message of Dark -> Vibrating which is unique. And you can never have enough Mr. Rock'n'Roll Terry "The Human Mellotron" Marks normal@grove.ufl.edu On Sun, 22 Sep 1996, David Willems wrote: > > Just a suggestion. I'd rather have the songs that have already been > released before (i.e. Mr. Rock & Roll, Messages of Dark etc..) replaced > by completely new stuff. Just my 2 sense. > > David > ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 11:28:57 -0700 From: Rob Z Subject: Music News Of The World Robyn Hitchcock Movie, Maybe Peter Buck is a big fan of Mr. Hitchcock as well. Addicted To Noise staff writer Gil Kaufman reports: File this one under the "Stranger things could happen" category. Although it's not yet set in stone, our sources tell us that there might soon be a rockumentary about the very odd Robyn Hitchcock in the offing to be filmed by none other than Jonathan Demme ( Stop Making Sense , Silence of the Lambs ). Say wha? Apparently, the pair have been mulling the idea over for quite a few months now and the whole thing is in a holding pattern while Demme tries to clear his decks and make enough time to shoot the live footage later this year. How, you might ask, did these two odd birds get together? Good question. According to our source, Demme has been a big Hitchcock fan for a long time and he became close with the singer when Hitchcock was asked to contribute a song to the upcoming Fab Four Facsimile picture, "That Thing You Do," written and directed by Tom Hanks and produced by Demme. Hanks and Demme went to see Hitchcock live and fell in love with his style and, next thing you know, the word "rockumentary" was being bandied about. Our source suspected that the film would be a documentary of a live Hitchcock performance, something between Stop Making Sense and the Spalding Gray piece, Swimming to Cambodia and would be intended for a theatrical release. Assuming he can get the time to do it, all indications are that Demme would set up the cameras later this year in New York around the time Hitchcock winds up his tour in support of his first Warner Brothers album, Moss Elixir . -- Soul Asylum Site: http://www.netcom.com/~cagedrat/soulasylum-main.html ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 21:49:07 -0700 (PDT) From: "Trixie, Bunny and Peaches" Subject: SF show Tickets?? greetings-- i was lookin' through the ticketbastard web page in avoidance of a phone call. all i could find was a reference to bobby's & billy's shows in minnow-soda; rather far for me from the bay area or the great basin area, too. but tickets there are only 12.00 bucks. but, have any bay area fegs gotten info or tickets yet? .chris also, for information regarding the (ab)user friendly ticketbastard, please 'point your browser' towards http://www.ticketmaster.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 17:19:13 +1200 From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: Misheard pussy MORE MISHEARD ROBYN LYRICS: from "Ride"-- "Love me, love me, love me, love me love me/ that's what all the rapists say". Thought this line was a shocking heartbreaker and brilliant. Disappointed to find out that it was the setup for a backing-vocal joke about trees being turned into paper... "love me - I kill trees" is no joke. If you listen to the Glass Flesh tapes you'll find that, to my embarrassment now that I know the truth, I sing "siotting in a carriage in the pouring rain, and swimming in an Anorak", instead of "...in Swindon, in an Anorak" >Reminds me of when I bought Bongwater's "The Power of Pussy" and the >middle-aged guy behind the counter informed me that he's uncomfortable >selling that album to women because of the title. Chivalry? Sexism? Both >or neither? Y'all be the judge. most likely neither - much more likely embarrassment. Same sort of embarrassment as I used to feel (until I got used to them) when adverts apperared on TV for tampons. James James Dignan, Department of Psychology, University of Otago. Ya zhivu v' 50 Norfolk St., St. Clair, Dunedin, New Zealand pixelphone james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz / steam megaphone NZ 03-455-7807 * You talk to me as if from a distance * and I reply with impressions chosen from another time, time, time, * from another time (Brian Eno) ------------------------------ From: "James Isaacs" Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 08:54:48 CET-1CST Subject: thread from toast Just to round up the ESPN 2 thread, if indeed it qualifies. Once I watching this wonderful channel, and there was a show on about skate punks doing unusual thing on their boards, anything short of consummating their love for them. ANyway, they made a mock music video thingy of guys flying on them, set to alternative music. Usually they use music like Faith No More or Clawfinger, but they had "Radio Storm". Go figure. James ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The End of this Fegmaniax Digest. *sob* .