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 #247 Fegmaniax Digest Volume 4 Number 247 Tuesday December 10 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: ------- ------- last post... Re: last post... Re: Mountain Stage show Feg Bands Donovan (FA to do with Robyn really) one of these days I'll send a message about Robyn - I promise Re: Donovan (FA to do with Robyn really) Re: LA show, etc. Uncle "Bobby"?? Re: Uncle "Bobby"?? Re: one of these days I'll send a message about Robyn - I Re: Donovan (FA to do with Robyn really) Re: Vic Chesnutt Re: one of these days I'll send a message about Robyn - I promise Bubbly, bubbly, bubbly jonathan demme flick BIG DISAPPPOINTMENT Virus!! Re: Virus!! Re: last post... Re: Virus!! ------------------------------ From: "jeffery j vaska" Subject: last post... Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 23:36:35 -0800 i've seen the future and it includes mass distribution of robyn records to your local k-mart and sears record departments. jon demme and tom hanks, aka cia informants, aka hollywood intelligista, are working their connections to make robyn a regular household name. before long robyn will be starring in movies with sandra bullock and sly stallone. and if that's not enough, tom hanks, aka tom cruise, aka the cruise missle, will blow any and all new markets open for robyn. afterall, that's what these weapons are for - economic imperialism. here's to being destroyed by robyn... whatever... hey gang, it's been good being out here in the fegM newsgroup, but i'm checking out. i'm moving on to bigger and better things and will be without the email thing for about the next nine months. perhaps i will be able to come back again then. next time around i will be an east coast person having hatched from my coccoon and may very likely bump into somebody at future robyn shows. a note, those who are expecting a tape from me of stuff - keep expecting. sorry i have been a tad remiss on the task, but very soon i will get it taken care of... cheers to you all, ta-ra!...jeffery j vaska ------------------------------ From: Terrence M Marks Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 03:03:33 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: last post... > here's to being destroyed by robyn... I'd rather be destroyed by the Kinks, personally. > hey gang, it's been good being out here in the fegM newsgroup, but i'm > checking out. i'm moving on to bigger and better things and will be > without the email thing for about the next nine months. perhaps i will be > able to come back again then. next time around i will be an east coast > person having hatched from my coccoon and may very likely bump into > somebody at future robyn shows. Good luck. Sorry to see you go. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 11:12:08 +0000 (GMT) From: M R Godwin Subject: Re: Mountain Stage show Thanks Jill and Brad. Just a couple of Donovan points: On Fri, 6 Dec 1996, Jill Sunderlin wrote: > Anyway, Donovan was the first one on. He's pretty short and looked > very peppy, bouncy and spritely. Are you sure? When I spoke to him at the Alfred Beck Centre in Hayes about three years ago, I was surprised how big he was. Mind you, I'm only 5' 7". > His set was: Hurdy Gurdy Man, ?, a new song called Nirvana that > included a story about how a young fan said that it was a good song about > Kurt Cobain but about whom Donovan claimed not to have been thinking, First > there is a mountain. . . , a new one with Poe's words El Dorado, Be mine (a > new one), Sunshine Superman, Sleep (a new one) and he ended with > Barabajackel (spelling on this one? I've only got it on tape and I wrote > the label so it's probably misspelled!). "Barabajagal" - I think it's the name of a demon. The new songs are from his recent album 'Sutras'. I was a bit disappointed at the number of songs on the record where he has borrowed the words from someone else (such as the Poe lyric). But Danny Thompson's bass sounds great. Was Mr Leitch playing solo, or with a band? Thanks for all the info - Mike Godwin ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 18:04:36 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: Feg Bands On Sat, 7 Dec 1996, Terrence M Marks wrote: > It might just be me, but I don't think I've ever gone wrong with a feg > band.. > [I have material by There Goes Bill, Other Days, James Dignan, The > Moomins, Vic Chesnutt, The Transparencies, and one other band whose name > I've forgotten] The Favorite Color, Mark Gloster and Big Rubber Shark, and Lorenzo Music Philharmonic have all just released CD's I know you'll like too. Contact them at mlang@inch.com, rubrshrk@tigermonkey.com, and basslerp@musu2.slu.edu respectively. I just received "Color Out of Space" by TFC on Saturday-- VERY catchy, folks! These discs not only cost a bunch less than the ones in the big stores, but they're better-- and they're FEGS! =b ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 15:54:33 +1100 From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: Donovan (FA to do with Robyn really) someone that I unfortunately deleted the header of (hope it wasn't painful) spieled: >Barabajackel (?spelling) Barabajagal. One of the earliest uses of the riff that made Manchester great (or is that grate?) about 5 years back. Good to know that RH appears to be in awe the much maligned but mildly, marvellously magnificent, majestically mellow king of Scottish hippydom. Creator of the MOST HIPPY lyric every written! ("do be kind to your vegetable friends", from 'Operating manual for Spaceship Earth') Six Stewarts of Separation ago... >Wow! Does that mean that I'm eligible to play the links game, as my >bathroom flooring is being bought from Donovan's brother's store (Leitch's >Lino, St George's X, Glasgow). < Hmmm. Stewart - Donovan's bro - Donovan - Robyn - Thomas Dolby - Andy Partridge - Dave Mattacks - Martin Phillipps - Roy Colbert (local Dunedin musical bod) - me! Stewart, you and I are only 9 links apart! :) 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) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 15:56:20 +1100 From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: one of these days I'll send a message about Robyn - I promise >Banned by Borders >-- By Michael Moore as most of you may not realise, there is a lovely irony in this for New Zealand fegs... here in NZ, there is a prolific author called Mike Moore, who is better known as the former leader of the (ostensibly left-wing) Labour Party. Him mention unions? naaah! Susan got wind of this one: >proud owner of her very own bottle of "Sparkling Eno" powder supposedly it >provides "Fast Refreshing Relief From Stomach Upset" what I want to know >is......does he get any of the royalties? < possibly! IIRC the company was founded by his uncle! (it's also useful for people suffering from swollen appendices apparently :) Ross a dit: >There's a grand total of 4 canucks on the list. < yeah, but you're in Quebec - do you count? ;) 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) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 00:32:38 -0600 (CST) From: Truman Peyote Subject: Re: Donovan (FA to do with Robyn really) On Tue, 10 Dec 1996, James Dignan wrote: > someone that I unfortunately deleted the header of (hope it wasn't painful) > spieled: > > >Barabajackel (?spelling) > > Barabajagal. One of the earliest uses of the riff that made Manchester > great (or is that grate?) about 5 years back. Good to know that RH appears > to be in awe the much maligned but mildly, marvellously magnificent, > majestically mellow king of Scottish hippydom. Creator of the MOST HIPPY > lyric every written! ("do be kind to your vegetable friends", from > 'Operating manual for Spaceship Earth') Yes, you are correct that he is the author of the most hippy lyric ever written, but I would argue that it's a different one. "Elevator to the brain hotel" from "Epistle to Dippy", as you probably didn't need to be told (interesting, btw, that Robyn, Donovan, and Syd all use the phrase "vegetable friend" :)). And yes, that is a fantastic riff. Makes one wish he had done more work with the Jeff Beck group. I have the distinct feeling that Master Leitch (much as I love him) did not come up with that. As per Sparkling Eno: I don't know how widely available it is here in the States. I found it in an Indian market that specialized in Indian and British products, and just had to have it- I don't even know how effective it is for the ailments in question, as that is not really what I bought it for :). Is Brian Eno really related to someone at Smith-Kline-Beecham (that's who makes it, according to the label)? Inquiring minds want to know. Love on ya, Susan ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 23:05:20 -0700 From: gondola@deltanet.com (E.B.) Subject: Re: LA show, etc. >From: RxBroome@aol.com > >Around this time Robyn asks the audience if anyone was actually born in LA. > Someone yells that they were born right there in the El Rey Theatre. Robyn >adopts an American accent and exclaims "So was I, Friend!" and launches into >a story about how the spotlight was his mother and the second mic was his >father, and both were banished from the El Rey when it was a movie palace, >only to move to Orange County where they stood upon two oranges calling each >other brother and sister until they were arrested for such incestuous >perversion, only to be freed by a perverted judge who allowed them to live >together only in he could join them, and these three then begat Robyn. Yes, this story was possibly the highlight of the show -- a classic example of Robyn's lethal, off-the-cuff wit. :) >CURRENT FAVORITES > > 6 33 R.E.M. > 5 38 Beatles > 5 35 Elvis Costello > 4 32 Radiohead Radiohead???? Huh?? >From: "jeffery j vaska" > >1. tom ze - irreverent brazilian art/experimental rocker from the late >sixties, early seventies (he's still around too!). he's even done some >records in the bossa nova/samba vein as well. AMAZINGLY poetic and >lyrical. oftentimes he will experiment with the rhythmic and colloquial >tendencies found in concrete poetry. Woo-hoo, another Tom Ze disciple! I'm not much of a world-music fan, but I happened upon Ze a few years ago and was totally blown away. Whatta mad genius! If you like the tweaked, polyrhythmic stuff of Talking Heads and King Crimson, it's a pretty short jump to Tom Ze. Definitely check this guy out. :) Enjoying Susan's usual genuflecting before John Cale ;), EB PS Vic CHESNUTT, not "Chestnutt!" Once for all! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 14:48:45 -0500 From: Alex Tanter Subject: Uncle "Bobby"?? This isn't a big deal really, but.... as the mother of a son named Robyn, I take exception to Robyn being called "Bobby." Bobby is short for Robert, Robyns and Robins become Rob (usually). Is there a reason for "Bobby?" (I strongly dislike it, which is why I ask.) Again, it's no biggie but I'm wondering..... Marcy ------------------------------ From: Terrence M Marks Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 03:56:12 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: Uncle "Bobby"?? It's because he calls himself "Uncle Bobby" occasionally. Well, he pretty much stopped doing it in the late 70's, but we won't let him live it down. Check out Portland Arms if you like. I've got a nifty version of pigworker includign the phrase "Come on. Let Uncle Bobby work his pig on you." Terrence Marks Second Student in the Tendo Kasumi School of Philosophy -Seeking enlightenment through normalcy. normal@grove.ufl.edu On Mon, 9 Dec 1996, Alex Tanter wrote: > This isn't a big deal really, but.... as the mother of a son named Robyn, I > take exception to Robyn being called "Bobby." Bobby is short for Robert, > Robyns and Robins become Rob (usually). Is there a reason for "Bobby?" (I > strongly dislike it, which is why I ask.) ------------------------------ Mornington Crescent From: Jewish Wry Subject: Re: one of these days I'll send a message about Robyn - I promise Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 02:27:22 -0800 At 15:56 10.12.96 +1100, James Dignan wrote: >Ross a dit: >>There's a grand total of 4 canucks on the list. < > >yeah, but you're in Quebec - do you count? ;) This brings up an interesting question. If Quebec happens to secede, will the Montreal hockey team have to be renamed? Just curious, --g P.S. For those who may not know, the team is currently called the Montreal Canadiens ************************ Glen E. Uber "Never bite off more glen@metro.net than you can chew." http://metro.net/glen/ --Mama Cass ************************ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 10:31:23 +0000 (GMT) From: M R Godwin Subject: Re: Donovan (FA to do with Robyn really) On Tue, 10 Dec 1996, Truman Peyote wrote: > Yes, you are correct that he is the author of the most hippy lyric ever > written, but I would argue that it's a different one. "Elevator to the > brain hotel" from "Epistle to Dippy", as you probably didn't need to be > told My vote goes to "Standing by the Everyman, Digging the rigging in my sails" from 'Hampstead Incident' (The Everyman is, or was, an arty cinema in Hampstead). or even "The driver turned, he said 'welcome back', I smiled and he said 'Beep Beep" (from 'The Trip' - all pronouns conjectural). What goes on? I really want to know! - Mike Godwin ------------------------------ From: "Melissa Pettigrew" Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 10:57:07 EST5EDT Subject: Re: Vic Chesnutt > "About to Choke" rocks hard! > Got it the other day and I still can't stop listening to some of the > tracks ("Satisfaction", "Threads", and "Degenerate" in particular) Terrance, doesn't it though!! i just bought it myself, and saw him recently, (it's easy here in Athens, GA)......" "Degenerate" is soo good...i really like the rocky guitars...there is another one that is very pretty...can't remember the name. Vic is too unsung... > > It might just be me, but I don't think I've ever gone wrong with a feg > band.. > [I have material by There Goes Bill, Other Days, James Dignan, The > Moomins, Vic Chesnutt, The Transparencies, and one other band whose name > I've forgotten] > > Terrence Marks > Second Student in the Tendo Kasumi School of Philosophy > -Seeking enlightenment through normalcy. > normal@grove.ufl.edu > > ------------------------------ From: TchdnJesus@aol.com Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 14:48:44 -0500 Subject: Re: one of these days I'll send a message about Robyn - I promise james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz write: > Susan got wind of this one: > >proud owner of her very own bottle of "Sparkling Eno" powder supposedly it > >provides "Fast Refreshing Relief From Stomach Upset" what I want to know > >is......does he get any of the royalties? < > possibly! IIRC the company was founded by his uncle! (it's also useful for > people suffering from swollen appendices apparently :) how bad a shape does one have to be in to suffer from swollen appendices? i mean, i had my appendix out but............. ------------------------------ From: Ross Overbury Date: Tue, 10 Dec 96 15:13:48 EST Subject: Bubbly, bubbly, bubbly I've spent many a morning after with Eno (sparkling, not Brian) and can attest to its effectiveness. It's quite readily available here in Canada. The jingle's a classic: Eno is the one (female chorus sings "bubbly bubbly bubbly" Eno's the one to take (bubbly, bubbly bubbly) One hundred percent (bubbly, bubbly bubbly) For your stomach ache Good tasting Eno works one hundred percent Relieving stomach discontent Eno is the one Bubbly bubbly bubbly Eno. Robyn connection: Eno (sparkling, not Brian) is my fish-euthanising agent of choice! -- "The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like the potato - the only good thing belonging to him is underground." (Sir Thomas Overbury, 1613) Ross Overbury Montreal, Quebec, Canada email: rosso@cn.ca ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 15:43:09 -0500 From: Paula_Carino@usccmail.lehman.com (Paula Carino) Subject: jonathan demme flick hey fegs! i just got back from the set of the new robyn concert movie, directed by good ol' jonathan demme. it was a blast: GREAT show with deni bonet and tim keegan, filmed in a store-front on w 14th st in manhattan, with curious passersby peeking in, confused. he played almost all of Moss Elixir and Mossy Liquor, and a couple of oldies (e.g. glass hotel) as the stage set-up changed subtly after every couple of songs and the camera cranes swooped around gracefully, capturing every nuance of his performance. were any of you there at the 12/10 11:00 am filming? --paula ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 16:17:18 -0500 From: Alex Tanter Subject: BIG DISAPPPOINTMENT To make a long story short: we woke up at 4am, got to 25 W14th, were the first people there. 30-40 mins later, the producer tells us we can't stay with our kids. Eric had told me it was fine to bring them (they're 3 and 1), so I assumed it was. More the fool me! From what the producer told me, it was a very formalized staging so they couldn't risk the noise of children. I understand that, but I wish they had said that from the beginning--we assumed it was going to be like a regular concert, so the kids would dance. They've been to shows before and love live music so I didn't think this would be a big deal for them. We drove down all the way from Massachusetts for nothing. We did get to see Robyn through a window for about 5 minutes. We are bummed. Marcy ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 18:22:10 -0500 From: Paula_Carino@usccmail.lehman.com (Paula Carino) Subject: Virus!! amattina@milbank.com, brettwagnr@aol.com, brndakahn@aol.com, carnade@zip.sbi.com, charles.herold@tglbbs.com, cupsmo@aol.com, dbenjoya@aol.com, dfdresher@aol.com, dizozza@gramercy.ios.com, dmwf@hamp.hampshire.edu, dmwf@hampshire.edu, dsaffer@wwnorton.com, ellen.auriti@ucop.edu, fegmaniax@ecto.org, folkbro@aol.com, genemimi@usa.pipeline.com, gesso@student.umass.edu, humble700@aol.com, jarge@aol.com, jaxameth@lsc.org, jessica@mail.idt.net, jeveland@atlas.org, jonberger@aol.com, jpsoccer9@aol.com, ken@wfmu.org, leila@wfmu.org, m.j.carino@ac.com, magcar@aol.com, majordomo@ecto.org, munschdahan@aol.com, nb@well.sf.ca.us, pancakes1@aol.com, poteet@panix.com, psaraf@clinica.com, puddlerecs@aol.com, rhockey44@aol.com, ron.clare@ajn.org, tracey@rt66.com, VONNEGUTJR@aol.com, WENNER@INTERPORT.COM If anyone receives mail entitled: PENPAL GREETINGS! please delete it WITHOUT reading it. Below is a little explanation of the message, and what it would do to your PC if you were to read the message. If you have any questions or concerns please contact SAF-IA Info Office on 697-5059. This is a warning for all internet users - there is a dangerous virus propagating across the internet through an e-mail message entitled "PENPAL GREETINGS!". DO NOT DOWNLOAD ANY MESSAGE ENTITLED "PENPAL GREETINGS!" This message appears to be a friendly letter asking you if you are interested in a penpal, but by the time you read this letter, it is too late. The "trojan horse" virus will have already infected the boot sector of your hard drive, destroying all of the data present. It is a self-replicating virus, and once the message is read, it will AUTOMATICALLY forward itself to anyone who's e-mail address is present in YOUR mailbox! This virus will DESTROY your hard drive, and holds the potential to DESTROY the hard drive of anyone whose mail is in your inbox, and who's mail is in their inbox, and so on. If this virus remains unchecked, it has the potential to do a great deal of DAMAGE to computer networks worldwide!!!! Please, delete the message entitled "PENPAL GREETINGS!" as soon as you see it! And pass this message along to all of your friends and relatives, and the other readers of the newsgroups and mailing lists which you are on, so that they are not hurt by this dangerous virus!!!! ------------------------------ 105251.1350@CompuServe.COM, abgreen@aol.com, agnerave@aol.com, amattina@milbank.com, brettwagnr@aol.com, brndakahn@aol.com, carnade@zip.sbi.com, charles.herold@tglbbs.com, cupsmo@aol.com, dbenjoya@aol.com, dfdresher@aol.com, dizozza@gramercy.ios.com, dmwf@hamp.hampshire.edu, dmwf@hampshire.edu, dsaffer@wwnorton.com, ellen.auriti@ucop.edu, fegmaniax@ecto.org, folkbro@aol.com, genemimi@usa.pipeline.com, gesso@student.umass.edu, humble700@aol.com, jarge@aol.com, jaxameth@lsc.org, jessica@mail.idt.net, jeveland@atlas.org, jonberger@aol.com, jpsoccer9@aol.com, ken@wfmu.org, leila@wfmu.org, m.j.carino@ac.com, magcar@aol.com, majordomo@ecto.org, munschdahan@aol.com, nb@well.sf.ca.us, pancakes1@aol.com, poteet@panix.com, psaraf@clinica.com, puddlerecs@aol.com, rhockey44@aol.com, ron.clare@ajn.org, tracey@rt66.com, VONNEGUTJR@aol.com, WENNER@INTERPORT.COM From: Naha-Ru Subject: Re: Virus!! Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 17:22:07 -0800 How many more of these virus warnings do we have to endure? ENOUGH ALREADY!!! --g ************************ Glen E. Uber "Never bite off more glen@metro.net than you can chew." http://metro.net/glen/ --Mama Cass ************************ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 20:56:24 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: Re: last post... > connections to make robyn a regular household name. before long robyn will > be starring in movies with sandra bullock and sly stallone. i think you mean SCHWARTZENEGGAR.... and PFEIFFER....... and SCHWARTZENEGGAR AGAIN..... whoo, it's a real workout typing that name! that silent, invisible q.... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 20:16:37 -0600 (CST) From: Truman Peyote Subject: Re: Virus!! On Tue, 10 Dec 1996, Naha-Ru wrote: > How many more of these phony virus warnings do we have to endure? > > ENOUGH ALREADY!!! > > Sheesh, > --g We'll have to endure them until every single well-meaning net user figures out that IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO BE INFECTED WITH VIRUSES SIMPLY THROUGH READING EMAIL. It is NOT POSSIBLE. The email would have to contain a program that somehow the reader would have to be tricked into downloading onto their hard drive. THAT IS THE ONLY WAY IT WOULD HAPPEN. Come on, people! Oh well, at least this time it wasn't called "Good Times" :). All those capital letters made me feel better, though not as good as if I had shouted :). Love on ya, Susan P.S. To Eric- You should not be amused at my genuflecting before Mr. John Cale. If anything, we should all do so, for verily the man is a genius :) :). Persons who do not believe me should grab themselves a copy of "Fragments of a Rainy Season". ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The End of this Fegmaniax Digest. *sob* .