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 V5 #12 Fegmaniax Digest Volume 5 Number 12 Thursday January 16 1997 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: ------- ------- Iron Horse show Re: Iron Horse show Gleep! Re: Which Donovan song? Re: Gleep! Born to Tape persinal to dave (loveline) Coolies (no RH) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 19:29:14 -0500 From: Alex Tanter Subject: Iron Horse show Well, as of right now, I'd say the chance there's going to be a show at the Iron Horse is almost as good as finding Buddy Holly, Elvis and John Lennon hanging out at a bordello in New Orleans. Marcy (still pissed off about the 2 cancelled shows...!) **note that I said "almost." They won't know for sure for a while yet. Like when the lights dim and RH walks out on stage. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 18:56:56 -0600 (CST) From: Truman Peyote Subject: Re: Iron Horse show On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Alex Tanter wrote: > Well, as of right now, I'd say the chance there's going to be a show at the > Iron Horse is almost as good as finding Buddy Holly, Elvis and John Lennon > hanging out at a bordello in New Orleans. Now THAT's a show I'd pay good money for! I will refrain from making the obligatory pun about package tours. Love on ya, Susan ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 16:56:00 +1300 (NZDT) From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: Gleep! Bayard warbled mellifluously: >it's not a lyric, but i remember seeing this .sig on the list and even in >newsgroups: >"Ever notice how almost all stereotypes are negative?" -J. Dignan gleeep! Fame! Where's the fortune that goes with it? PS - now that I know what that thread was about (the surreal silly/sensible songwriters), can I just say this: Why haven't many people mentioned John Lennon yet??? James ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 10:31:11 +0000 (GMT) From: M R Godwin Subject: Re: Which Donovan song? On Wed, 15 Jan 1997 hpunch@pipeline.com wrote: > What did you play? > Actually it was the 3 chord wonder Riki Tiki Tavi. I always had trouble with fitting in all of the line: "Now everybody who reads the Jungle Book knows that Rikki Tikki Tavi is a mongoose who kills snakes" Guess I better look inside of myself some more some more - Mike Godwin ------------------------------ From: Ross Overbury Date: Thu, 16 Jan 97 9:00:15 EST Subject: Re: Gleep! James Dignan said: > > PS - now that I know what that thread was about (the surreal silly/sensible > songwriters), can I just say this: Why haven't many people mentioned John > Lennon yet??? > Oooooooh, synchronicity! I was listening to the 3rd cd in the Beatles anthology series 15 minutes before reading this! John sings "I blow a roadhog" in "I Dig a Pony". That made me think about this thread. -- Ross Overbury, who is like the potato Montreal, Quebec, Canada email: rosso@cn.ca ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 11:29:37 -0600 (CST) From: JH3 Subject: Born to Tape Fegz: >"Everything is in the pawn-shop" is how I remember that last line. >Maybe it changes, though. Great record, anyway, almost as good as 'Born to >Lose' by Richard Hell and the Voidoids - Mike Godwin Wait a minute -- didn't the Heartbreakers do that one first too? Or was that a different song entirely? Richard Hell was in Television *and* the Heartbreakers (for a week or two) before starting the Voidoids... I think. It was all so long ago. Anyway, sorry to be off-topic, but punk-era trivia is my life. (Such as it is.) >Could someone please send me a track listing of the Unhatched Crablings >tapes. - Steve Matrick There's a big .GIF file with all that info at: http://www.netins.net/showcase.jh3/crabcard.gif Note: Don't try to print it from your web browser, save/download it first and then print it. >I'd really love to get hold of a copy, preferably on DAT if anyone has it. >I've written to a couple of people on the tape tree list, but they couldn't >help... - Gary Sedgwick Try writing to to me instead. (Not all of you at once) --John H. Hedges III, Inc. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 18:25:56 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: persinal to dave (loveline) Dave-- I've had your tape of RH on loveline done for some time, but have misplaced your address. please email it to me and I'll send off the tape. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 09:02:13 -0500 From: Bill Kopp Subject: Coolies (no RH) I read the posts about the CD reissue of "dig. . .?" and "Doug." I live in Atlanta (Where the Coolies were based) and thought my fellow listmembers might be interested in a bit more info on them/this (especially those who have not yet been compelled to GO GET THE CD). The first elpee (yeah, I'm a vinyl guy) is, as someone said, all covers. All are Simon/Garfunkel tunes, save Paul Anka's "Havin' My Baby." The tunes are done in sort of a parody of lite-metal hair-band style, with over the top (Saxon?) style vocals. No, it's not nearly as bad as that sounds. Quite, quite good in fact. The style exception is the opener, "Mrs Robinson." This is done as a surf instrumental, complete with whammy bar and reverb. If you don't LOL on first hearing, well, Jack, you're dead. Also amusing are the liner notes (paraphrasing) which say "people ask why don't we do original songs? We answer that we do. They're just written by Paul Simon." The second album has absolutely nothing in common with the first, save that it is the funniest, most brilliant rock/comedy concept I've ever happened upon (competitor: Spinal Tap. Consider that a reccommendation or a warning, as appropriate). All the songs are Coolies originals. Same band lineup. The "Rock Opera and Comic Book" tell "the story a skinhead who becomes a culinary giant." Other than the story line (which is linear, unlike, say, "Tommy"), the best thing about this elpee is that each song is a pastiche or parody of an artist that Coolies admire (no shooting-fish-in-a-barrel here). "Pussy Cook" is a dead-ringer for the Oo. "Coke Light Ice" sounds so much like the Replacements..."Poverty" is purest John Lennon. I can't identify the others offhand. Supposedly (?) to entice people to buy the 2nd elpee on the strength of the first, this clever slogan appears on the back of the "Doug" elpee. Read it oout looud and give it a second. Dug dig. . .? Dig Doug. During their Coolies era, Clay Harper and Rob Gal started a very successful chain of local pizza joints here in town (Fellini's) but I liked it better in the days when you could write on the walls (they gave you pens) and pay $1.00 to have them play your favorite elpee at maximum volume. I never had to pay, as every time I visited, they had "Oo's Next" going. Oh...I must say: they were produced by a then-local Wunderkind named Brendan O'Brien, who went on to produce Uncle Green (now called 3 lb. Thrill and no longer very good), Darryl Rhoades and the Mighty Mighty Men from Glad (local, but did "Rock and Roll Wasn't Made for Queers" with Tommy Lasorda!!! on backing vocals) and some band called Pearl Jam or something. Forgive my rambling, okay? Gotta go order that RH boot from Virginia. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------- " A great many people have come up to me and asked me how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated. My answer is, ' don't you wish you knew? ' " - Robert Benchley ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------- when in cyberspace visit http:www.mindspring.com/~fabfour ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The End of this Fegmaniax Digest. *sob* .