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 #220 Fegmaniax Digest Volume 4 Number 220 Friday November 1 1996 To post, send mail to fegmaniax@ecto.org To unsubscribe, send mail to majordomo@ecto.org with the words "unsubscribe fegmaniax-digest" in the message body. Send comments, etc. to the listowner at owner-fegmaniax@ecto.org FegMANIAX! Web Page: http://remus.rutgers.edu/~woj/fegmaniax/index.html Archives are available at ftp://www.ecto.org/pub/lists/fegmaniax/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Today's Topics: ------- ------- Re: Devo DAT Madison, WI 10-31 Re: in the spiritual kingdom of love DC fegathering Re: Chicago Show Summary 9:30 Club show robyn on "e-town", 11/3 I feel happy, oh so happy Re: Chicago Show Summary Bootlegs Re: Bootlegs Tapers at the Chicago RH show, 10-30 Re: Bootlegs Robyn in CMJ rescheduled Re: Bootlegs ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 18:26:08 -0700 From: gondola@deltanet.com (E.B.) Subject: Re: Devo >From: Terrence M Marks > >Hmm...would anyone like to try to get from DEVO to Robyn? Well, that's easy. Just add DEVO-Brian Eno in front of the recent John Cale-Patti Smith-Peter Buck-Robyn chain. (That was a nice one, by the way!) EB ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 08:33:23 -0600 (CST) From: John Stevenson Subject: DAT Madison, WI 10-31 I have a DAT of last night's show. Unfortunately, I do not have two DAT machines. However, if anyone is interested in getting a copy let me know. Also--if there are any Madison area fes with two DAT's, that would be fabulous--please contact me as well. john ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ John Stevenson (608) 265-4065 UW-Survey Center stevenson@ssc.wisc.edu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 09:59:09 -0400 From: lj lindhurst Subject: Re: in the spiritual kingdom of love >He introduced his last song saying, "Oh, I haven't played >this one together before," and ripped into a tasty, if tentative, "the face >of death." encores with deni, "sinister" and "BQ," both satisfying. He played "The Face of Death"-- wow. Now there's one I never thought I'd hear him play, muchless alone. I would very much like to hear that- hope he does it in NYC (or maybe I can score a tape, hint hint nudge nudge). What's "BQ"? lj [on the TV now: Regis and Kathie Lee][thought you'd like that] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 10:19:05 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: DC fegathering So I guess we're meeting at State of the Union for food and pints of ale before the show a week from wednesday... email me for details as they develop. Also, looks like the _glass flesh_ CD release party will take place the weekend before or after thanksgiving (either the 22, 23, 29 or 30 of this month). If you'd like to attend, let me know what day is best for you. bayard ------------------------------ From: jlaw@qucis.queensu.ca (Jeffrey Lawrence) Date: Fri, 1 Nov 96 10:35:05 EST Subject: Re: Chicago Show Summary **From: David Witzany **Subject: Chicago show summary I thought I would just correct some of David's song list to give the correct names (in case any people are wondering what songs David is refering to) **For the Billy Bragg fans out there, here's a list of what I think his **songs were called: ** **1649 The World Turned Upside Down (from "Back To Basics") **She's Got a New Spell **St. Swithin's Day **From Red to Blue **Accident Waiting to Happen **Blue Velvet America Are you sure you don't mean "Help Save The Youth Of America"??? If it was, then lucky you! I love that song and was disapointed he didn't play it in Toronto... **Goal Hanger **When the World Falls Apart Levi Stubb's Tears (from "Talking With The Taxman About Poetry") **Now that the Space Race is Over Just called "The Space Race Is Over" (from "William Bloke") **Shirley Greetings To The New Brunette (from "Talking With The Taxman About Poetry") **The Saturday Boy I am surprised he played this - this is a VERY obscure old song - lucky you getting to hear it! **Socialism of the Heart Upfield (from "William Bloke") **Sexuality **Sugar Daddy **Waiting for the Great [something] Forward Waiting For The Great Leap Forward (from "Worker's Playtime") **Looking for Another Girl A New England (from "Back To Basics") Thanks for sending the set lists and reviews Dave, and glad you at least tolerated BB (yeah sometimes he can be a bit over the top ) -- Slainte! " (1) Jesus was a carpenter. Elvis' favorite high school class was wood shop. (2) Jesus wore a crown of thorns. Elvis wore Royal Crown hair stylers." - from "Why Elvis Is God" by annonymous ** JEFF LAWRENCE (jlaw@qucis.queensu.ca) ** Systems Specialist, Robotics and Perception Labs, Dept. of Computing and Information Sciences, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, CANADA, K7L 3N6 Ph:(613)545-6656 FAX: (613)545-6513 URL : http://www.qucis.queensu.ca/home/jlaw Canadian Job Source:http://www.irus.rri.uwo.ca/~jlaw/canjob.html ** ALBUMS OF THE WEEK (Oct. 30 edition) **: 1)Billy Bragg - William Bloke 2)Robyn Hitchcock - Moss Elixir 3)Richard Thompson - You? Me? Us? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 01 Nov 1996 11:38:59 -0500 From: "Daniel J. Troy" Subject: 9:30 Club show DC-area fegs, I wonder if anyone has inquired about RH's starting time on wednesday the 13th at the 9:30 Club. I have class until 9:30, so I probably won't get there until about 10pm. I don't want to pay $22.50 to see 25 minutes of Robyn (I like Billy Bragg, but not enough to cover the ticket cost). Also, does anyone know if Robyn has plans to stop by again after the Billy Bragg tour? If so, I'd probably wait for that. But, I'm still hoping to make it on the 13th. Any info would be appreciated. Thanks, Dan ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 12:19:43 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: robyn on "e-town", 11/3 Robyn Hitchcock will reportedly be broadcast on the "e-town" radio program (denver, co) on sunday. If anyone tapes this on DAT, I've got lots of good stuff to trade for it. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 01 Nov 1996 09:38:14 -0800 From: Chris Foley Subject: I feel happy, oh so happy YAHOO! Went downtown yesterday at lunch to get the new TMBG CD and walked into the store. Headed to the back where the LPs were. I could stop here and everyone could recite the rest of the story, but then I'd have to resume eating my rice and stop typing. Bad idea. Scanned through the LPs and found -- yep, Mossy Liquor. Shink-wrapped still. $13.99 Canadian. Ecstacy. The pic of Robyn on the front of Mossy L. and on the back of Moss E. looks great big. I'll frame it. And he's here next Tuesday, frabjous day. I remember back in (1990?) when he played at the Tom Lee Music Hall. About 100 people all sitting on folding chairs. Robyn came out from behind the curtains at the start of the show and noted that there were TWO sets of curtains behind each other. He said he could quite legally walk between the two curtains for an hour and a half and fulfill his contractual obligations, and we'd all leave happy, convinced we'd seen a stunning piece of art. He also told a story about "Nazi Chefs" which instantly transformed my wife-to-be into a Fegmaniac. She walked out singing "My Wife and My Dead Wife". I'll always regret not buying that t-shirt that said "He'd never make love to a loaf of bread, unless of course he found one in his bed." See you on Tuesday, Robyn! -- Chris Foley (chrisf@iceonline.com) ------------------------------ From: Hedblade@aol.com Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 15:55:11 -0500 Subject: Re: Chicago Show Summary In a message dated 96-11-01 10:36:20 EST, you write: **Blue Velvet America Are you sure you don't mean "Help Save The Youth Of America"??? If it was, then lucky you! I love that song and was disapointed he didn't play it in Toronto... >> This track would be "Cindy Of of 1,000 Lives" from the DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME release. It's one of all time FAVORITES that I never expected him to do in this setting, as it is a very moody, lush production on the album (with the lovely Kirsty McColl on background vocals and Johnny Marr on the ax). I didn't get to hear him do it the other night, because I was doing the meet and greet thing with Robyn at the time. I guess you'd call it a trade off, eh???!!! Cheers, Jay ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 12:04:03 -0900 Subject: Bootlegs From: Brett Cooper Just out of curiosity, is there a heavy bootleg market for Robyn's music and live shows? I know this sounds elementary... Brett ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 16:25:13 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: Re: Bootlegs On Fri, 1 Nov 1996, Brett Cooper wrote: > Just out of curiosity, is there a heavy bootleg market for Robyn's music > and live shows? I know this sounds elementary... You mean, have there been a lot of them, or have they sold well? I think the answer is pretty much no and no. Which is surprising, since his fan base seem to be the most diehard completeists. Almost to the point of mania. I know of a bunch of robyn bootlegs, and can provide a list if desired. most of them sound pretty bad, much worse than the traded tapes. and invisible history has been rendered even less interesting by _greatest hits_. bayard i'm not going to buy _ih_ OR _gh_ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 17:14:41 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: Tapers at the Chicago RH show, 10-30 did ANYONE succeed in taping Robyn at the Vic? I hear security was especially goony that night. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 17:37:37 -0500 From: sister ernestine Subject: Re: Bootlegs also sprach Brett Cooper : >Just out of curiosity, is there a heavy bootleg market for Robyn's music >and live shows? I know this sounds elementary... in terms of tape trading, there is a brisk, but not heavy, market. in terms of cd bootlegs, it's extremely light. which reminds me: this is public notice that i am interested in tapes of any and all shows from this current tour. if you record a show, please let me know and we can arrange a trade. woj ------------------------------ From: SVagrant@aol.com Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 17:52:30 -0500 Subject: Robyn in CMJ I saw this in the CMJ and thought some of you fegs might be interested. Robyn Hitchcock -- Elixir. Vitae by Tom Lanham (from the CMJ) November 1996 If you want to discuss the wonderfully oddball Moss Elixir album with its creator -- the instantly likeable British yarnspinner Robyn Hitchcock -- you'd better buy some popcorn and pick out a comfy seat. This guy has more surreal, and incredibly long-winded tales than Grandpa Simpson. For example, sandwiched between charming Moss curiosities like "Heliotrope" and "I Am Not Me" sits a dreamy little acoustic piece called "Filthy Bird," which posits, while chorus strings scree like seagull, that "a happy bird is a filthy bird." Filthy birds, he explains from his poolside chair at a posh Hollywood hotel, Have waddled into his life "twice in central London recently. We'd just been to see Philadelphia, the Jonathan Demme film, and we saw a duck right in the middle of Charing Cross Road, just walking across the road. And it was a filthy duck, it had some oil on it and it didn't look like it had the energy to take off. And people noticed this duck. Pretty soon, two policemen turned up and they weren't very tall -- they were the kind of guys who wouldn't have been policemen 15 years ago, but they lowered the height limit because they were so desperate for cops. "So these two short policemen chased the duck into an alley and we all watched them pick it up. We all watched because they were the police. Then a van arrived, and they took the duck away to the river, to drop it in the Thames. And then about a year later, we were almost in the same place, and a very sad bird was lying on the ground, a dirty pigeon that the others had rejected. My girlfriend and I were standing there, and only one other person had notice this bird, and he came up and wrapped it in newspaper and took it away, saying 'I'll look after this.'" A worried look suddenly creases the singer's boyish features. "I hope he wasn't pervert of a sadist..." So "Filthy Bird" is urging us to be kind to our fine-feathered friends? Hitchcock shakes his head no. "The song has more to do with the fact that you can only really be happy in this world if you enjoy evil, if you can accept a lot of brutality. Basically, you have to be sick to be satisfied with society as it is now, or even to be satisfied with the way the human being operates. What we have here is disease shot through with beauty. There are billions of little intricate things to celebrate in life, but I feel the main carcass of humanity is beginning to stink us off the planet, and it's only a matter of time before we go. I just hope we don't take everything with us. Um, that's what the song is about." That's Hitchcock's secret -- letting his thoughts, however strange, tumble out in pure streams of consciousness. So many thoughts that he had to add a vinyl-only postscript to the Warner Brothers release schedule: Mossy Liquor (Outtakes And Prototypes). A greatest-hits collection on A&M is also hitting stores this fall, chronicling a zany, brainy career that began two decades ago with the Soft Boys. Over the years, one thing has become clear: If it's a subject no other artist would dare attempt -- ghosts, mollusks, half-human hybrids, what have you -- Hitchcock will find a way to sculpt a song around it. Mention that his lilting, sing-song ditty "DeCherico Street" feels like surrealism meeting The Phantom Tollbooth, and the composer is off again, tangent hoping. The children's-lit reference makes sense, he smiles, "because I write for adults as children, basically. I don't write as a man of the world. Even Raymond Chandler might've posed as being world-weary, but in a way, his world was almost like a child's world, because it was exotic and exciting. And surrealism is a 20th-century expression, but what it really is, is dreaming, and I suppose people like Bosch had it years ago. I think the surrealists deliberately juxtaposed things that were going to be jarring, but with my way of working, things glide through one after the other like they do in a dream and you don't have any power to control that." And since his work is an extension to the dream-state, Hitchcock cheerfully draws a logical conclusion: "My mental health is practically guaranteed by producing this stuff!" The article also includes a discography, which I include so y'all can debate its merit. With the Soft Boys Wading Through A Ventilator EP (UK Raw) 1978 A Can Of Bees (UK Two Crabs) 1979 (Rykodisc) 1994 Underwater Moonlight (UK Armageddon) 1980 (Rykodisc) 1994 Two Halves For the Price Of One (UK Armageddon) 1981 Invisible Hits (UK Midnight Music) 1983 (Rykodisc) 1994 Live At The Portland Arms (UK Midnight Music) 1983 The Soft Boys 1976-81 (Rykodisc) 1994 Robyn Hitchcock And The Egyptians Fegmania! (Slash) 1985 (Rhino) 1995 Gotta Let This Hen Out! (Relativity) 1985 (Rhino) 1995 Element Of Light (Glass Fish -- Relativity) 1986 (Rhino) 1995 Globe Of Frogs (A&M) 1988 Queen Elvis (A&M) 1989 Perspex Island (A&M) 1991 Respect (A&M) 1993 The Kershaw Sessions (UK Strange Fruit) 1994 Greatest Hits (A&M) 1996 Robyn Hitchcock solo Black Snake Diamond Role (UK Armageddon) 1981 (Rhino) 1995 Groovy Decay (UK Albion) 1982 I Often Dream Of Trains (UK Midnight Music) 1984 (Rhino) 1995 Groovy Decoy (Glass Fish -- Relativity) 1986 Invisible Hitchcock (Glass Fish -- Relativity) 1986 (Rhino) 1995 Eye (Twin/Tone) 1990 Gravy Deco Rhino (Rhino) 1995 You & Oblivion (Rhino) 1995 Moss Elixir (Warner Bros.) 1996 Mossy Liquor: Outtakes and Prototypes (Warner Bros.) 1996 There is also a split page ad for RH and Squeeze from A&M about the newly released greatest hits package of each. CMJ also puts a sampler CD in each issue of their magazine. Robyn's on it, "Balloon Man" (big deal), from the Greatest Hits disc. The disc's track listing has a little blurb about the record: Greatest Hits (A&M) is how a label anthology should be done: it abstracts the Egyptians' best A&M albums nicely, salvages the good songs from the lesser records, and fills out the rest of the disc with some fabulous rarities (like an acoustic "Eight Miles High" that's a reminder of where the Y in Robyn's name came from). and, yes, it's got all the hits, including "Balloon Man," a bouncy little tune with a very curious subtext. There's a small picture of the man wearing a dark shirt with white polka dots, and looking like a young Dave Kendall (that guy from eMpTyV's 120 Minutes program). There’s no advertising from Warner Brothers in the magazine at all. I bet that that’s the reason why “Balloon Man” is on the disc instead of some from Moss Elixir. Music industry 101 $$$ + mo’$$$ = press. Finally, the CMJ Top 75 Chart lists Robyn at #22 for Moss Elixir. I hope some of you find this very lengthy post enjoyable. I had a very boring temp. gig today so I enjoyed the diversion. Cheerio, Matt ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 18:05:23 -0500 From: sister ernestine Subject: rescheduled fegs, the maxwell's gigs that were cancelled in october have been rescheduled for december 6th. i just confirmed this with maxwell's. two shows. advance tickets are available from tunes in hoboken, adult crash in manhattan and ticketmaster. i have heard, but not confirmed, that the iron horse gig has been rescheduled for december 4th. tickets for that show are available from 1-800-THE-TICK. anybody interested in maxwell's tickets, feel free to contact me. i'll probably drive down to hoboken early next week. woj ------------------------------ From: Terrence M Marks Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 18:12:42 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: Bootlegs Not really a "market", per se. You won't find Robyn bootlegs at any store. However, a good portion of this list trades tapes. If you're looking for live shows or studio outtakes, you can find them here, probably. Terry "The Human Mellotron" Marks Second Student in the Tendo Kasumi School of Philosophy -Seeking enlightenment through normalcy. normal@grove.ufl.edu On Fri, 1 Nov 1996, Brett Cooper wrote: > Just out of curiosity, is there a heavy bootleg market for Robyn's music > and live shows? I know this sounds elementary... > > Brett > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The End of this Fegmaniax Digest. *sob* .