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 #225 Fegmaniax Digest Volume 4 Number 225 Thursday November 7 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: ------- ------- Another Dream About Robyn Re: Another Dream About Robyn Heliotrope Tuning Re: Heliotrope Tuning Re: Another Dream About Robyn computers Linctus House Re: Another Dream About Robyn Cindy Of A Thousand Fegs (Mostly Bragg, some Robyn) Re: Another Dream About Robyn Re: Another Dream About Robyn concert taping LA Ticket available! Pre-Gig Fegstival on the 13th in DC Re: B-sides & Hairy Palms 11-6 show in seattle missing song ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 22:44:39 -0400 From: lj lindhurst Subject: Another Dream About Robyn Yes another dream about Robyn: I dreamed that I went to the record store to buy Mossy Liquor on LP (which I still haven't stumbled across), and that you got a different version depending on your waist size. In the dream, I had a waist size of 22", and everyone else was very round in the center (like a 45" waist), and all of their records were much bigger than mine! oh what does it mean????? lj ------------------------------ From: Terrence M Marks Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 02:48:00 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: Another Dream About Robyn Don't worry...one day you could have a 50 inch waist... Terry "The Human Mellotron" Marks Second Student in the Tendo Kasumi School of Philosophy -Seeking enlightenment through normalcy. normal@grove.ufl.edu On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, lj lindhurst wrote: > Yes another dream about Robyn: > > I dreamed that I went to the record store to buy Mossy Liquor on LP (which > I still haven't stumbled across), and that you got a different version > depending on your waist size. In the dream, I had a waist size of 22", and > everyone else was very round in the center (like a 45" waist), and all of > their records were much bigger than mine! > > oh what does it mean????? > > lj > > > ------------------------------ From: KCasey@aol.com Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 03:46:00 -0500 Subject: Heliotrope Tuning In the current issue of BAM there is a short article about Robyn which concentrates on his guitar playing facility and his choice of instruments. In the article Robyn states that the tuning for Heliotrope is as follows: F-G-C-F-G-E Hope this helps solve the mystery. Good luck, guitarists, Kevin Casey ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 10:48:33 +0000 (GMT) From: M R Godwin Subject: Re: Heliotrope Tuning On Wed, 6 Nov 1996 KCasey@aol.com wrote: > In the current issue of BAM there is a short article about Robyn which > concentrates on his guitar playing facility and his choice of instruments. > In the article Robyn states that the tuning for Heliotrope is as follows: > F-G-C-F-G-E > Hope this helps solve the mystery. > Good luck, guitarists, Thanks, Kevin. If it really is a short article, would it be asking too much for you to post the whole thing? Cheers - Mike Godwin ------------------------------ From: bryanm@doc.state.ok.us (Bryan Moore) "lj lindhurst" Subject: Re: Another Dream About Robyn Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 08:34:30 -0600 > I dreamed that I went to the record store to buy Mossy Liquor on LP (which > I still haven't stumbled across), and that you got a different version > depending on your waist size. In the dream, I had a waist size of 22", and > everyone else was very round in the center (like a 45" waist), and all of > their records were much bigger than mine! I don't know where you are geographically but I read a message at the Warner Bros. Hitchcock site that the Virgin Records Superstore in New York had about 10 copies of Mossy liquor for about $12 each. You should give them a call, I don't think they will discriminate against your waist size... Great dream story! Bryan ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 10:06:10 -0500 From: WISNIEWSKI Subject: computers -- Kay Lord Wisniewski Wis@Worldnet.Att.Net Bayard, Id love to help you out, but our new computer is the first one we've ever spent our own money on. So there is no old computer, even for a worthy worthy cause. Unless I steal one from work,which is a tempting , but unwise idea. Good luck K ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 10:25:58 -0500 From: mlang@inch.com (Steven Matrick) Subject: Linctus House >One more question: has anyone ever heard Robyn play "Linctus House" live? Yes, Robyn played this at my friend Brad's request at Maxwell's on the Eye Tour. It was one of the best things I have ever seen him do. Steve Matrick ______________________________________________________________________________ >From the September 24, 1996 issue of the Village Voice: THE FAVORITE COLOR "Delicate, exuberant rock swirling with fantasy and a current of psychedelia. Their new "Color Out of Space" is laced with teeth-grinding irony, but that never diminishes the sweet daffodil buzz." ---Natasha Stovall ------------------------------ From: "jeffery j vaska" Subject: Re: Another Dream About Robyn Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 07:37:17 -0800 lind-hearst writes... > > I dreamed that I went to the record store to buy Mossy Liquor on LP > (which > > I still haven't stumbled across), and that you got a different version > > depending on your waist size. In the dream, I had a waist size of 22", > and > > everyone else was very round in the center (like a 45" waist), and all of > > their records were much bigger than mine! dreams are really only the bodies organs talking to each other, which ultimately ends up as a bunch of lights flickering/synaptic triggerings in the brain - regenerating themselves for another day (or so i have heard). perhaps your spinach lasagne was duking it out with the coffee flavored ice cream you had for desert? yesterday, for dinner, i had soup. last night i dreamt that i was stuck in one of coleridges poems. i was surrounded by faceless, formless people who kept whispering and hissing at me (sort of like an ex-girlfriend of mine who spoke the serpent's language - aka swedish). no discernable message could be constructed. i woke up at 3am and had to take a leak. robyn content (for those who need this prerequisite): go robyn! respectfully yours...jv ____________________________________________________________ ethnic/world music director, kzuu 90.7 fm @ washington state university u.s. correspondent, brasil 2000 103.7 fm - sao paolo, brasil vaska, jeffery | jvaska@mail.wsu.edu http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~kzuu/ ------------------------------ From: jlaw@qucis.queensu.ca (Jeffrey Lawrence) Date: Wed, 6 Nov 96 13:26:20 EST Subject: Cindy Of A Thousand Fegs (Mostly Bragg, some Robyn) **From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) **>>This track would be "Cindy Of of 1,000 Lives" from the DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME [SNIP] **>Oops!!! You're right Jay - my mistake - never knew that was **>the opening (I thought it was something like "I live forever" or **>something). But I'd have to say that is my least favourite song **>of all the ones he's ever done - so I didn't share your feelings ** **On the DTTAH tour here in Dunedin he did an amazing swirling psychedelic **version of it. Massive and magical. Gah - I can't believe you don't like **this, Billy's greatest ever song! Hey, most people I know don't love World Turned Upside Down so... In Toronto, it certainly was NOT swirling (it's hard to swirl when you're the only one on stage ;-)) **Next you'll be saying you don't like Brian Wilson! ;))) Woah, that's flirting with fire - don't go there! ;-)))))) (or as Nick W. thought of :-7 ) **From: KeN SaBaTiNi [SNIP] **This song is the most un-Billy Bragg that comes to my mind. People seem **to love it or dislike it. I didn't know what to make of it on first listen **but it has grown to be one of my favorites of his. Now my wife, who is also **a Billy fan, doesn't care for it. I think this was mentioned by James Dignan **as being his fav Bragg tune, if memory serves. I agree - everyone I know who likes BB either dislikes it or loves it (the guy I was standing beside for the BB concert disliked it too even tho he knew all the words to it :-)) **What I am wondering if whether someone would provide details on Billy's backing **band, if there is one. There ain't (unless he's changed it) - it just Billy and his Ten Amazing Fingers (and what fingers they are ;-)) **What the heck do songs like Billy's "Goalhanger" and "Upfield" sound like **on just a solo guitar (or standard bass, guitar, and drum setup sans brass **section)? Bizzare - GoalHanger works OK (he plays sort of a reggae type offbeat thing for the chorus if I remember correctly) - but Upfield I thought lost its energy (which comes from the horn section IMHO) - it was still very good but not nearly as good as on the album BTW, I don't think anyone has said whether BB and RH were doing a final encore together - has it happened yet? When I met them I told them they should something together (like "When I'm Gone" by P. Ochs - it's got Robyn morbidness and Billy's anger in one song! ;-)) and they said something like that's a good idea (which it is) - has it happened? I hope so... -- 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? ------------------------------ Subject: Re: Another Dream About Robyn Date: Wed, 6 Nov 96 10:21:51 -0000 From: Tom Clark >Yes another dream about Robyn: > >I dreamed that I went to the record store to buy Mossy Liquor on LP (which >I still haven't stumbled across), and that you got a different version >depending on your waist size. In the dream, I had a waist size of 22", and >everyone else was very round in the center (like a 45" waist), and all of >their records were much bigger than mine! > >oh what does it mean????? > >lj "Someday I could have a 50 inch waist It's all free For my favourite buildings, and me." -tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 14:58:35 -0600 (CST) From: Truman Peyote Subject: Re: Another Dream About Robyn On Wed, 6 Nov 1996, jeffery j vaska wrote: > lind-hearst writes... > > > > I dreamed that I went to the record store to buy Mossy Liquor on LP > > (which > > > I still haven't stumbled across), and that you got a different version > > > depending on your waist size. In the dream, I had a waist size of 22", > > and > > > everyone else was very round in the center (like a 45" waist), and all > of > > > their records were much bigger than mine! > > dreams are really only the bodies organs talking to each other, which > ultimately ends up as a bunch of lights flickering/synaptic triggerings in > the brain - regenerating themselves for another day (or so i have heard). > perhaps your spinach lasagne was duking it out with the coffee flavored ice > cream you had for desert? > > yesterday, for dinner, i had soup. last night i dreamt that i was stuck in > one of coleridges poems. i was surrounded by faceless, formless people who > kept whispering and hissing at me (sort of like an ex-girlfriend of mine > who spoke the serpent's language - aka swedish). no discernable message > could be constructed. i woke up at 3am and had to take a leak. > Please tell me what it was that I ate that had me in bed with Ray Davies and had Groucho Marks perched on the windowsill making comments (not to mention that the hotel room was full of gear on account of there was a huge balcony outside from which MTV Europe was having some type of awards ceremony/performance thing). Thank you very much, Susan the prodigal returned.......... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 20:29:12 -0500 From: MichaelHooker Subject: concert taping hi all, i have 4th row seats at the beacon theater , nyc, nov. 15. i am considering trying to tape the show. i have never taped a show before and could use any advice or experience out there. is the beacon a good venue for taping, what kind of tape machine, technique, etc???? Mike Hooker ------------------------------ From: RxBroome@aol.com Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 22:12:47 -0500 Subject: LA Ticket available! Hey there-- I suddenly find myself in possession of an extra ticket the the Robyn and Billy show this Sunday in LA. My price is reasonable (that is to say, less than I paid for it). Any takers? While I'm at it, is anyone local going to the Robert Forster/Jonathan Richman show on Friday? That's a helluva bill, too, but I can't get anyone else interested, so it looks like I'll be going alone. Thanks, Rexy Stardust ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 00:25:02 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: Pre-Gig Fegstival on the 13th in DC state of the union is on U St, NW about 20 yards east of 14th Street. We will convene at 7:30 in the pm. The establishment features very nice burgers both veggie and regular, ginger vodka; and newcastle brown ale by the pint. it is also pleasantly dark, though this may make it harder to find us if you don't know us on sight (just walk right up to the biggest group and say, "pardon me, is that my fish you're holding?") or tell them at the bar you're looking for 'the feg party'. (if only we had our own political party!) Look forward to seeing you again woj, doug, rich; and hope to see you mary, rob, and others i have not yet met. bc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 00:42:21 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: Re: B-sides & Hairy Palms > >>28. It All Adds Up KROQ "LoveLines" 9/8/91 > >>This was provided on the spot to a young listener who feared he was > >>masturbating > >>excessively. > > > >Anyone want to post the lyrics for this? :) If you think that's interesting, just wait 'til you find out what got injured in "Send Him Some Dentures"! > And can anyone define "excessive" for me ? when it starts to interfere with your career, maybe? or your driving? ------------------------------ From: "Livia" Subject: 11-6 show in seattle Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 01:43:23 -0800 at the moore theatre, which is about five times as big as the place he usually plays in seattle. many rows of seats instead of tables and a little floor, which meant that i couldn't get very close (we had row v seats), but also meant that there wasn't a horrible miasma of smoke and beer-fumes at eight, a tall figure carrying a guitar came on at one side of the stage and walked off the other, then reappeared a moment later. when the spotlight hit, i could see that he was wearing the usual black jeans and a black and white shirt, probably checked, and that was about all i could tell from row v. oh, and that it was an acoustic guitar i actually scribbled a little set list on the proverbial old envelope, so here goes: 1: devil's radio 2: chinese bones 3: the same jimi hendrix cover he did last time. he asked whether jimi was buried here and someone shouted out "renton" (a nasty little place in south king county), which robyn heard as "rental", and so a monologue on how you could be buried, cremated, or rented ensued, with some stuff about how his father was hard of hearing so they thought he wanted to be rented, not buried. ie, you pretty much hd to be there 4: a new one called (i assume) "feels like 1974". i really liked it. after that, deni bonet trotted onstage in a kind of empire-waist velvet minidress, rather silly-looking, and played with him on the next three songs 5: de chirico street 6: arms of love 7: another new one, "let's go thundering" and then deni left, which was fine by me. her playing was ok, but she wouldn't hold even remotely still, and i found her constant hip-wiggles and occasional strange semi-kicks rather distracting. (but my male companion didn't mind) 8: is a squiggle that i simply cannot decipher, and i don't remember what it was. maybe someone else will 9: i something you 10: devil's coachman. after which he switched to electric guitar 11: i am not me 12: one that i know but whose title and exact album placement escape me, and i'm feeling too lazy to track it down. the one with "but you're not there and, i don't care and, you're not there". which he introduced by explaining that it was written as the "shadow of a heartbreak" was beginning to recede, and before he went and found another one 13: freeze exit, clapping, a quick return wearing a multicolored untucked shirt 14: i don't know what the proper title is, but it's about cheese. lots of laughs from the audience 15: sinister but happy. after this, someone at the side of the stage apparently tried to hurry him up. joke about how he and billy were really the same person, and that's why you'd never see them on stage together 16: beautiful queen and then an hour or so of billy ------------------------------ From: "Livia" Subject: missing song Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 01:56:02 -0800 some brainstorm just made me see that what looks like "4/m " is of course actually glass hotel silly me ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The End of this Fegmaniax Digest. *sob* .