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 #254 Fegmaniax Digest Volume 4 Number 254 Wednesday December 18 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: ------- ------- e-town Re: Live Death Live Death last words Stuff named after Robyn, etc. Re: my green pajama party, under the covers and lack of toast in , general, but it is no material issue. Y Y Y Delilah Re: Live Death Re: Live Death free posters ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 19:09:30 -0500 From: sister ernestine Subject: e-town fegs, as far as i know, e-town has not been broadcast yet. i found this broadcast schedule for kuni (iowa) and wdcb (illinois), but do not know if e-town broadcasts the same week on every station that carries it. as always, check you local listings (the etown web page -- www.etown.org -- is no use as they only list a schedule of tapings, not broadcasts). >Information from the KUNI (Iowa) web page and WDCB (Illinois) newsletter. > These shows are broadcast on different days on different stations. > > E-Town > >Hosted by Grammy-nominated bluegrass artist Nick Forster, the show is taped >before a live audience in Boulder, Colorado. For more info on the series, go >to the E-TOWN home page. > >1/10--Robyn Hitchcock, Billy Bragg, Graham Hill > >This week in E-Town we welcome a pair of outspoken english poets! Long time >post-modern pop hero Robyn Hitchcock paints his evocative emotional >landscapes in this season opener and Billy Bragg demonstrates that he's >earned the label "Post-Punksongwriter" by continuing his career with a more >enduring and heartfelt message delivered with equal enthusiasm. Graham Hill >chats with Nick about his electric car and the E-Tones help ring in the new >year. woj ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 18:02:02 -0700 From: gondola@deltanet.com (E.B.) Subject: Re: Live Death >From: "David Kwan" >Subject: covers > >>Also: I'm looking to get a copy of the disc of a promo release from '92 >>(I think) that A&M put out called "Living Death" It's got a number of >>live tracks on it including Robyn slipping through a good version of = >>"Day In the Life" > >Does anyone know if this set is from the exclusively covers sessions at >A&M? If so, can somebody possibly post a song list? I got that CD when it was brand-new, and no, you can't buy it. ;) The tracks are: 1. Clean Steve 7:29 2. Glass Hotel 3:15 3. My Wife & My Dead Wife 5:41 (love this version!) 4. Arms Of Love 4:34 5. When I Was Dead 2:54 6. Withered And Died 3:15 7. A Day In The Life 4:17 The songs are recorded live in Minneapolis (1-3), New York (4-5) and Santa Monica (6-7). Eric B. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 21:17:35 -0800 From: Ferris Subject: Live Death Hullo. I know for sure it had "Day In the Life" and "My Wife and My Dead Wife." It was around seven tracks, all with Death motifs. I don't remember much else, though. The only reason I've heard about it is a local college station has a copy of it and I stumbled upon it when I was visiting a DJ. Thanks to everyone who responded to my post. Happy Holidays. -ferris. -- _________________________________________________ And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp. -Ross. IIiv. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 16:57:35 +1200 From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: last words >Records I would recommend to a friend from 1976 (no order): A Trick Of The >Tail, Wind & Wuthering, Station To Station, 801 Live, Radio Ethiopia, Songs >In The Key Of Life, Small Change, Ramones, Let's Stick Together, Heat >Treatment, Howlin Wind and Fingerprince. (You fill in the artists...nyaah.) A >pretty weak list, IMO. You can see how punk grew out of this year -- >SOMETHING needed to be done! :) add in Warren Zevon, Hejira and Year of the Cat. Some good records - still not a vintage year tho. >My question is this: How many of you on the list have pets or children named >for Robyn or one of his many charcters? my car is called Nora, if that's any help... >We have always liked "Bass" as a boy's middle name. Pronounce it like the >fish or the instrument -- we do. Oddly enough, it (when pronounced like the >song, ale or fish) was my mother-in-law's maiden name and also (with the >long a) my father-in-law's instrument. > >We hope to get to use it (or a suitably feminine analog) sometime this year. Basselda? Basselina? Bassa? Bassella? Bassovna? Bassette? Basstriana? Bassey? There's an (I think) Polish name, Basia, made unpopular by an entertainer in Australia a few years back... James (see ya in the new year!) 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: RxBroome@aol.com Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 00:22:28 -0500 Subject: Stuff named after Robyn, etc. ONE: Sort of oddly, my band the Carolinas have a song called "The Third Rail" which contains the repeated phrase "Hats off to Robyn", but it's one of the the few songs in our repertoire that I DIDN'T write, and the woman who wrote that lyric wasn't thinking of Robyn Hitchcock; it's also one of our least Robyn-esque songs. My car, however, is named Reg, and although the name was lifted from a song by Robyn, I guess it is by definition the opposite of what we're looking for, since Reg is emphatically not Robyn's name. Jasper is the leading candidate as a name for any male progeny of mine, owing something to Robyn's "Jasper, this one's evil" but also Pavement's "Jasper's skinny arms" and the name of a Dutch friend of mine. (I also have a cat named Etienne, owing something to a song by St. Etienne entitled "Calico", but I don't do this kind of thing a lot, really.) TWO: "Sorry, can't remember all the Live Death tracks off the top of my head, but it definitely has a long and rollicking "Clean Steve" ("Brucie baby, why'd you steal my food? 'Cause Robyn you suck") and "A Day In The Life"." Aha, I remember this version... "He said the man next door's best friend is making videos with Clean Steve. And I said does that mean that the man next door is using Clean Steve as some kind of visual recording device? ...etc." A big highlight of the accoustic segment on the Perspex tour, and yeah, it ended with "Robyn, you suck". Cheers y'all, Rex PS- Terry, I may well wish to change the Carolinas track on the Feg band comp, as the lineup has changed quite a bit. Then again, I think my former, no-longer-extant band There Goes Bill is on there too, so I guess it doesn't matter that much. Please post a deadline when you have one-- both Dave Santos and I are working on some new studio stuff in January. Thanks. ------------------------------ Date: 18 Dec 96 00:56:28 -0400 Subject: Re: From: "Aidan Cully" Dot, the Itchy God wrote: >hello-- > >for my millionth post this week (i should go hide soon, lest i be >found out), i will post the address for one of the few places to get >tabs on the next. and the address bob... > > http://capella.ae.poznan.pl/ftp/music/ > >i have looked quickly at this and it seems to have a fair amount of >stuff. so, have a go before your laywer gets there first. > >.chris Wow! Just like http://www.olga.net/, but in Polish! I think http://www.olga.net/ is the OFFICIAL unofficial repository for guitar/bass tabs/crds. (apparently, you can submit to OLGA again.. I had given up a while ago.. check out the submission FAQ) I think I'll go lurk 'till I get "Raining Twilight Coast" figured out or see RH live again.. have a nice toast (is toast seafood? if we count it as seafood, I think it much more likely that RH will write songs about it..) --aidan Kungf who? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 23:30:48 -0800 (PST) From: "Dot, the Itchy God." Subject: my green pajama party, under the covers and lack of toast in , general, but it is no material issue. **ONE On 17 Dec 1996, David Kwan wrote: > and CD. I guess it's time to scrounge those dollar bins for returned promos.... unless you're woj, these promos will probably never come round your way for a dollar. esp. the wasps and oceanside singles, others are much cheaper, but a dollar is so laughable it makes me cry (only cos i paid prime kollector skum prices). **TWO thanks every one for the memory jog of the green pajamas. a fine band indeed as i recall. the matierial issue songs many mentioned is the cover. i must say i have no fondness of material issue, just did not tweek my knob. also, their cover has that "fuzzy alterna-bass" with no tone sound--very bad in the eye of chris. but, the original is worth drinking a pint of jim jones kool-aid to get (almost). **THR i am surprised that susan was number eight on the list to respond. she usaully is right in time with my post, that is two minutes later, very odd that but most infomrative in almost every repect. this of course blows my theory that susan is a collective of people monitoring various lists. all of whom function around a programable [sp?] "automated list-serve response generator" device, which has a computer program and write responses to fegmaniax. alas this is not true, she is real and only one person. indeed, doubt in my mind was raised when i got to thinking why a bunch of computer geeks would write a program that would actually claim to like john cale. that is just too much of a human trait. :) **FOU someone sez... "have a nice toast (is toast seafood?" for your edification...toast is illegal in this here western state. this makes for one of the most difficult circumstances to deal with in the migration process. needless to say if tracie were here, we would be both crying toast size tears. lack of regular toast+and unbearable situation, which indeed it is here. send loaves, not fishes, .chris ------------------------------ From: HAMISH_SIMPSON@HP-UnitedKingdom-om4.om.hp.com Date: Wed, 18 Dec 96 14:18:29 +0000 Subject: Y Y Y Delilah Item Subject: cc:Mail Text Hey dudes (sorry, just practising), My son Robyn is 5 and, although I had a few albums I wasn't "into" RH in the way I am now. My wife liked "Robin" but I thought the Y looked better. The name dictionary we had at the time listed Robin and Robyn as masculine, with the feminine being Robinne and Robynne. The problem is that it seems girls can be called anything, so some names and spellings seem to have migrated. I guess the Y version is old English or summat. (anyone?) So yes he was named after RH (since that's where the idea came from), but it certainly wasn't in homage. I did have a hamster named Chuck Wagon after the late Guitarist/Keyboard player from the Dickies. (Did I mention I liked the Dickies?) Hamish (getting blowjobs from the press) P.S. Has RH ever commented on the trials of having a "girls" name? ------------------------------ From: Gordon Shumway Subject: Re: Live Death Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 09:54:31 -0800 At 18:02 17.12.96 -0700, E.B. wrote: >6. Withered And Died 3:15 Could this song possibly have become "Bright Fresh Flower"? I know that BFF has the same phrase in its lyrics. --g *********************** Glen E. Uber glen@metro.net http://metro.net/glen/ *********************** "Oh many a peer of England brews Livelier liquor than the muse, And malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man." ************************ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 13:23:06 -0500 From: Dolph Chaney Subject: Re: Live Death Gordon Shumway wrote: > > At 18:02 17.12.96 -0700, E.B. wrote: > > >6. Withered And Died 3:15 > > Could this song possibly have become "Bright Fresh Flower"? I know that BFF > has the same phrase in its lyrics. um, no. "Withered and Died" is a Richard Thompson song, from Richard & Linda's I WANT TO SEE THE BRIGHT LIGHTS TONIGHT. Elvis Costello also does an ace cover of it, which is included on the Ryko reissue of GOODBYE CRUEL WORLD (the bonus tracks of which are marvelous, for those of you that are aware of what a bad EC record that is). Dolph ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Dec 96 13:48:33 EST From: kenster@MIT.EDU (Ken Ostrander) Subject: free posters i just got the five rhino posters in the mail. five of the same poster. a picture from the groovy gravy sessions. i have four extra if anyone's interested. how about a trade for say...greasy quiff on gravy colored scratch 'n' sniff vinal? just in time for the holidays. ken >At 18:02 17.12.96 -0700, E.B. wrote: > >>6. Withered And Died 3:15 > >Could this song possibly have become "Bright Fresh Flower"? I know that BFF >has the same phrase in its lyrics. how about birdshead? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The End of this Fegmaniax Digest. *sob* .