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 #30 Fegmaniax Digest Volume 5 Number 30 Monday February 10 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: ------- ------- Re: Neo Pseudo music recommendation (No RH) Interview of Robyn Comment, Glass Flesh stuff A Can of Bees Fegmania What is FEGMANIA? Re: A Can of Bees Re: what is FEGMANIA? Bruce Dickenson content low! [Eddie content=0] notes Re: not very rh: publishing/copyrights... Two More Cents on Scott Miller Re: Still no RH Re: Interview of Robyn Comment, Glass Flesh stuff Iron Horse show Re: Still no RH Re: ASCAP, Triffids, and East Grinstead 1, McDonald's 0 what is FEGMANIA? [Fwd: Re: not very rh: publishing/copyrights...] Re: not very rh: publishing/copyrights... Re: Interview of Robyn Comment, Glass Flesh stuff what i meant to say... Re: not very rh: publishing/copyrights... IRON HORSE SHOW!!!!!!!!!!!! Supporting RH Re: Bruce Dickenson content low! [Eddie content=0] Robyn content? NONE! March 3 updated tour dates ------------------------------ Subject: Re: Neo Pseudo music recommendation (No RH) Date: Sun, 9 Feb 97 11:05:58 -0500 From: Terrence wrote: >NeoPseudo's "Laughing Symbols" (Includes listmember Kevin Slick. This is >just plain good. Soft rock with interesting arrangements and an >occasional woodwind section. Will be included on Gloss Fish. Vaguely >reminiscent of the Bonzo Dog Band at times..) Hmmm. . . . I would like to second this recommendation. Neo Psuedo was a band that had its origins in State College, where I tacked them as a fan from every incarnation from Space Goop through the Shaggy Dogs to Neo Pseudo. They then moved to Philly, and to the best of my knowledge eventually broke up. Their music is quite original, with very erratic rhythms, and every song tinted with a unique sense of humor. Live, they were a jammingly wonderful experience where you found youself laughing as much as dancing. (They made music in the same "world beat" polyrhythmic fashion as the Talking Heads and Rusted Root, though I must contend that they were far better and more creative than Rusted Root.) Occasionally I see the odd tape or CD floating around stores in the PA region. . . . On a personal note: Hi Terrence! I don't know you, but surprisingly we must have gone to the same college and bumped into each other at a few concerts. And Kevin? This is Allen - as in "Allen" of "Allen and Karen." I didn't know you were a List member. You may remember me as the curly wild-haired guy who danced a lot in a rather pychotic vein, and had more than a few Hitchcock/Zappa/Smith conversations with you. (Mike was usually too busy plotting strange points in the Mikeosphere by himself or engaged in lunar conversations with the Tribe of Dorks.) Well take care, all. The Great Quail ---------------------------------+-------------------------------- The Great Quail, K.S.C. | TheQuail@cthulhu.microserve.com | "Keeper of the Libyrinth" | Sarnath - The Quailspace Web Page: riverrun Discordian Society | http://www.microserve.net/~thequail 73 De Chirico Street | Arkham, Orbis Tertius 2112-42 | ** What is FEGMANIA? ** "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents." -- H.P. Lovecraft ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 09 Feb 1997 09:42:52 -0800 From: Mark Gloster Subject: Interview of Robyn Comment, Glass Flesh stuff >"I basically play for intellectuals, hippies, dissidents and >perverts," the English singer-songwriter says. This amazes me. I've never heard of any musician understanding his/her demographics this well (except maybe the Grateful Deaf, oh, sorry, Dead). He's got me on four counts, if I am allowed to call myself an intellectual. --- So I came back from skiing my legs into rubber, and find a giant steaming pile of CD's in my living room- Okay, there are multiple giant steaming piles of CD's in my living room, owing to the fact that I still have so many of those superb Mark Gloster and Big Rubber Shark CD's. (I've decided to decorate my house in the style: Early American CD Shipping Boxes, but I wander.) I opened the first box of Glass Flesh CD's. I popped one open and looked inside. Upon inspection of the graphics, with which I was now so familiar, I decided that I was incredibly happy with how the printing turned out. The CD itself was a bit of a shock, because the colors I had specified did not turn out to be the ones that were screened on them, but I guess that will make this CD a collectors item. I threw the disc on the player, and listened. It was great. Everyone should be forced to hear the Kevin Slick version of Brenda's Iron Sledge", the world would be a better place. Also, if I haven't said it before, the Meat Ruiner glassing of "Love" just does something incredible and wonderful to me. Other huge standouts for me (that I didn't play on ;-) ) were Vic Chesnutt's rendering of "She Doesn't Exist", Jeff Lawrence's comedic tangential sci-fi assault on "Balloon Man", Edward of Sim's Knacking of "Clean Steve" (which you probably haven't heard before), and Dolph Chaney's miraculous, brilliant, hyperbolically splendiferous instrumental fleshing of "Flavour of Night". Everything on the CD is really well done. Occasionally the recording equipment couldn't quite stand up to the talent (what could?), but if anybody likes Robyn and Robyn's songs, they really should support the effort. As Bayard shelled out great money and effort, you should buy from him. If perchance you wanted to buy both the GF CD and the Mark Gloster and Big Rubber Shark CD, you could do that from me, while they are both still on sale ($12 ea + $1 ea for shipping and handling). Thanks, -Markg rubrshrk@tigermonkey.com http://www.tigermonkey.com ------------------------------ From: amroth@zetnet.co.uk (Phil Edwards) Subject: A Can of Bees Date: Sun, 09 Feb 1997 23:04:53 GMT < A Can of Bees > Eb wrote: >I wouldn't call it "disposable," but yes, it's one of my least favorite >Hitchcock records also. Just too jagged and sloppy. Sloppy? Setting aside the live tracks, I'd class _ACoB_ as one of the most intricately-planned & tightly-executed things RH has ever been involved in. I mean, time signatures... Miles wrote: >_A Can of Bees_ has always struck me as >a profoundly adolescent album, with its wanking song, its leering at fat >girls, What wanking song? What 'leering at fat girls'? >its general show-offishness lyrically and musically. Not just too >many notes, but too many words, neither with much purpose, both too clever >by half. I discovered RH in 1985, so my Soft Boys experience was all ex >post facto, but if I had bought this album in 1978, I'd never have imagined >that the startlingly brilliant compositions and performances of _Underwater >Moonlight_ came from the same band. I'd say it's the material which went to make UM (lyrical & musical), in its raw form. UM has a lot of the sharp edges planed off (to change metaphors in midstream) making for some very successful pop songs (not a criticism) but not for the full-on wildness of ACoB at its best. Bill wrote: >If the Soft Boys' impetus was to >sort of turn everything upside down, this is the only album IMHO that >came close to doing so. Sandra; Rat's Prayer; Leppo; Pigworker; >Sacred Crab; Skool Dinner Blues; Fatman's Son: certainly not the >deepest lyrics ever written, but if this album doesn't drive you, >nothing will. Hmm... on the lyrical front this album does stand out, being largely composed of stream-of-acid-consciousness material. I remember an NME interview in which RH 'explained' The Pig Worker: there's these two guys working in a holiday camp for dismembered basketball players, and there's this girl made of shampoo, but they can't open her, so they use a pterodactyl - they look a bit like tin openers, don't they? The, er, uncompromising approach of the lyrics is largely matched by the music - unlike most of the material which wound up on _Invisible Hits_ - making ACoB a really unmissable work. It probably helps to have listened to _Trout Mask Replica_ more recently than _Fegmania!_. Phil Edwards amroth@zetnet.co.uk ------------------------------ From: amroth@zetnet.co.uk (Phil Edwards) Subject: Fegmania Date: Sun, 09 Feb 1997 23:04:58 GMT Bayard wrote: >Subject: what is FEGMANIA? > >a friend of mine asked me this question today. I told her there was a >long explanation in the liner notes, and she said "Just give me the short >version." So off the top of my head, I classed it as a kind of natural, >organic insanity. A benign insanity, as the LA Times writer put it (I >think that did get posted already. oops.) Any other thoughts? I >suppose it's basically either a way Robyn invented of looking at the >world; or a way of looking at the world that Robyn invented. Call me dull, but I thought it was a rather nice idea that RH came up with for an album title, and that it didn't really have any existence outside that context. Has RH referred to it since? Bayard wrote: >Subject: what is FEGMANIA? > >a friend of mine asked me this question today. I told her there was a >long explanation in the liner notes, and she said "Just give me the short >version." So off the top of my head, I classed it as a kind of natural, >organic insanity. A benign insanity, as the LA Times writer put it (I >think that did get posted already. oops.) Any other thoughts? I >suppose it's basically either a way Robyn invented of looking at the >world; or a way of looking at the world that Robyn invented. Call me dull, but I thought it was a rather nice idea that RH came up with for an album title, and that it didn't really have any meaning outside that context. Has RH referred to it since? Phil Edwards amroth@zetnet.co.uk ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 00:08:29 +0000 From: am@enterprise.net (Lord Aidan) Subject: What is FEGMANIA? > what is FEGMANIA? "An almost filmic, very atmospheeic type of music, with dark or unusual lyrics, with the aim of making you feel like you're experiencing a mini 3-minute film when you hear each track." ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 09 Feb 1997 22:43:16 -0600 From: Outdoor Miner Subject: Re: A Can of Bees At 11:04 PM 2/9/97 +0000, Phil Edwards wrote: >Miles wrote: > >>_A Can of Bees_ has always struck me as >>a profoundly adolescent album, with its wanking song, its leering at fat >>girls, > >What wanking song? What 'leering at fat girls'? "Give It To the Soft Boys" ("Feel like making love to a photograph / photograph's don't smell") and "Ugly Nora" respectively. Phil goes on to say: >The, er, uncompromising approach of the lyrics is largely matched by >the music - unlike most of the material which wound up on _Invisible >Hits_ - making ACoB a really unmissable work. It probably helps to >have listened to _Trout Mask Replica_ more recently than _Fegmania!_. Which takes us back to one of the reasons I don't pull out CoB that often -- how often are you in the mood for _Trout Mask Replica_? Some albums you can listen to just about any time, while others are so difficult and demanding that if you have them on, all you can do is listen to them, and it's not always a pleasant experience at that. _Trout Mask Replica_ is exponentially more important in the grand scheme of things than, say, ABC's _How To Be a Zillionaire_, but I'll bet I've listened to the latter three or four times more often than the former. Which is not to say that _Underwater Moonlight_ or Robyn's post-SB career has been a mere exercise in disposable pop confections (or for that matter, that CoB is as good as _Trout Mask Replica_!). One of Hitchcock's achievements since CoB is his successful fusion of wonderful, stick-to-your-cerebellum-forever melodies and hooks (a la Kinks, Byrds, Beach Boys, Beatles) with musical edge (Beefheart, for example) and lyrical richness and distinctiveness (Kinks again, Barrett, Dylan). To tie into another thread, maybe Fegmania! is induced by the mixture of these rich ingredients, which create a music of which neither your heart nor your head should be ashamed. Later, Miles ====================================================================== np: Alternate Learning, _Painted Windows_ Miles Goosens goosenmk@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu ====================================================================== ------------------------------ Subject: Re: what is FEGMANIA? Date: Sun, 9 Feb 1997 22:56:10 -0800 (PST) From: "Daniel Saunders" > a friend of mine asked me this question today. I told her there was a > long explanation in the liner notes, and she said "Just give me the short > version." The explanation in the liner notes never made any sense to me. What exactly does "feg" mean? It's a adjectival prefix, right? Is it some sort of British fad thingy (I'm Canadian, eh)? As an album title it's a little too close to a certain other three letter word with an "f" and a "g" in it for my taste. Daniel Saunders Life is heaven and hell. All else is silence. - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Feb 1997 23:39:56 -0800 (PST) From: "Dot, the Disposessed" Subject: Bruce Dickenson content low! [Eddie content=0] two things here-- one i miss the days when robyn would only tour the west coast. sigh. but, now we are still in that near side of the puddle phase. sheesh. those of us on the left coast will have to settle for man...or astroman?, which by means is merely settling [op. cited--ed.]. two, since he is coming around again, ther must be some compelling reason. it cannot be the weather, not a reaistic option. there seems to be no pressing warner promotional tasks at hand. is it just because he likes to do that thing he does? .chris ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 10:24:10 +0100 (CET) From: James Isaacs Subject: notes This is my last post for a while, as I am going on a whilrwind tour of Europe, including stops in London, Paris, and Amsterdam. I could listen to Trout Mask 24/7. I think that is why I could listen to CoB anytime, also. Love those dueling guitars. Oh well, that is all. James ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 10:08:30 +0000 (GMT) From: M R Godwin Subject: Re: not very rh: publishing/copyrights... Really interesting, Mark! Does anyone know if there is a similar procedure for UK copyrights? - Mike Godwin ------------------------------ From: RxBroome@aol.com Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 05:12:20 -0500 (EST) Subject: Two More Cents on Scott Miller Judging by this list, the intersection of Scott Miller and Robyn Hitchcock fans seems substantial... and although I figure Robyn has come closer to maisntream success, since I was a fan of Robyn's nine years before I ever heard of Miller, I guess they're both equally marginal cult figures in pop history by now... ... so I've been slowly, quietly checking out Miller's work over the past year. I've found it surprisingly LESS weird than I thought it would be, which was initially disappointing. The heavy, heavy Alex Chilton influence classes him as a pop archeaologist, and I love Chilton, but really, as eccentric as Chilton's career may have been, his songwriting isn't all that strange. Superb, yes, but not as immensely idiosyncratic as, oh, let's say, Robyn Hitchcock's. But I DO keep coming back to Miller's records, much to my surprise. And I think I know why. I'll just say it... like many of you, I'm a songwriter, and in Miller I see an unusually kindred spirit. The list's discussion of the pro's and con's of Miller's songwriting has sort of illuminated WHY for me. There's been some discussion of Miller's songs seeming too "clever" or self-conscious to be emotionally affecting. I can see that, but many people perceive Robyn the same way. But when I think of lazy "clever" songwriters (I know a few) I think of misguided Elvis Costello or XTC disciples who think a pun or play on words constitutes a legitimate, substantive scaffolding on which to hang a pop song. Such folk don't seem to know what Elvis clearly knows, and what Andy Partridge may or may not know: who the fuck cares? Rearranging words in a clever way isn't enough any more. All the truly great "universal" (how I hate that word) idioms of romance and love and loss etc etc etc have been worked to death in pop songs; all the generic "classics" have been written. It's over. What I require of a song to really internalize it is PERSONALIZATION, a brief glimpse into someone's very specific, personal viewpoint to insure me that my own situation, however bizarre and unique, is at least universal in terms of its uniqueness. I'm a wordy guy (am I overstating the obvious?) and I love language, so when I put pen to paper in search of lyrics, the tempation to just be "clever" is omnipresent. But I always reject it; it's too easy, and moreover, I know that if I heard the same lyric from someone else's band, I might aesthetically appreciate it but I would never internalize it... in fact, I might really resent it as the worst form of condescension. Instead I go for the obscure... not so much the willfully obscure as that which is obscure yet infinitely meaningful to me, myself and I. The idea is that maybe the oddball specifics of my emotional experiences, by the very virtue of their oddball-ness, might strike a chord with anyone for whom Whitney Houston or the Offspring seem a little too facile... I mean, I can't be that freakish in my freakishness, can I? The legacy of the overtly clever belongs IMHO to the guy who ended up writing "Silly Love Songs", and includes people who think that the line "Jesus and his lawyer are coming back" justifies four minutes of valuable tape space. Alternately, the legacy that includes Robyn and, to a probably lesser but equally real extent, Scott Miller, descends from a close associate of that same guy, also named after one of the Apostles... but decidedly NOT the one named Paul. I'm not saying that I deserve to be classed with any of the above as a songwriter. But I do draw inspriration, both as a writer and a human being, from those who put the specifics of their lives on the line in their art. In 1997, I don't know anyone whose life can be summarized without reference to certain pop-cultural milestones. Simply referring to such milestones is not the same degree of easy cleverness that leads to such pat "observations" as one might find in the "political" work of U2 or Rage Against the Machine (both of whom I despise), or the hipper-than-thou namedropping of the Beasties or Pavement (both of whom I reluctantly admit to liking quite a bit). The question is, does the writer just spout party-line rhetoric about the issue, or reveal something about him or herself in relation to it? Blah blah blah. I guess that my point is that, if it seems like someone is trying to express emotion in an un- mawkish, unconventional way, I'm interested. Robyn has, over many years, proven able to make good on this promise. I dunno whether Scott Miller will prove as important to me a decade hence, but he's caught my ear with the same kind of idiosyncracy, and that's a good sign. Kill me now, Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 11:56:25 +0000 (GMT) From: M R Godwin Subject: Re: Still no RH On Sun, 9 Feb 1997, Terrence M Marks wrote: > 3) On the same note, can anyone reccomend any good "Piper"-era Pink > Floyd/Marc Bolan/Donovan-style fairytale rock/folk bands? > Please? The Incredible String Band is the main one I can think of, especially the second album "The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion". Essentially two Scottish guys, Robin Willaimson and Mike Heron, they went on to make a lot of albums with a variety of other musicians. 'The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter' and 'Wee Tam and the Big Huge' are also reckoned to be good. Dr Strangely Strange are a bit of a rip-off of ISB. Another one that comes to mind is The Famous Jug Band. I haven't actually got much of this stuff, except for two Famous Jug Band albums ('Chameleon' is the better one). Their songs are folk / ragtime-based, usually written by Peter Berryman and sung by Jill Johnson. Great, but not so fairytale-oriented. They are an acoustic band and have a touch of Andy Partridge about the songs. There were also some studio-based bands working in similar territory, such as Nirvana (no, not that Nirvana, this was two guys and a psychedelic record cover) and Art, who made an album entitled "Supernatural Fairytale", and later became Spooky Tooth, I think. Cheers - Mike Godwin ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 07:59:52 -0500 From: Dolph Chaney CC: fegmaniax@ecto.org Subject: Re: Interview of Robyn Comment, Glass Flesh stuff Greetings, Fegs all. Mark Gloster, he of the large bouncy finned predator, did inscribe: > and Dolph Chaney's miraculous, brilliant, > hyperbolically splendiferous instrumental fleshing of "Flavour > of Night". This has to be the best misplaced compliment I've ever received. "Flavour of Night" as done on GLASS FLESH *is* brilliant; however, it is not my work. It is one of the wonderful contributions from Nismo S. Rebrot. *sigh* Oh, well... hope you like my silly little medley half as much as you like "Flavour..." ;-) Actually, it's an honor -- the Nismo tracks are among my fave pieces of GLASS FLESH-age, to the point that I wouldn't dare take credit for them. See ya! Dolph ------------------------------ From: "A. David Wright" Subject: Iron Horse show Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 07:23:45 -0700 I haven't seen anyone mention this yet, so I'll mention that according to PollStar, the Iron Horse show is on for the 19th of March -David ------------------------------ From: Terrence M Marks Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 09:34:06 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: Still no RH > > The Incredible String Band is the main one I can think of, especially the > second album "The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion". Essentially > two Scottish guys, Robin Willaimson and Mike Heron, they went on to make a > lot of albums with a variety of other musicians. 'The Hangman's Beautiful > Daughter' and 'Wee Tam and the Big Huge' are also reckoned to be good. The ISB is just too drugged-out for me to get into... I'm sure they're a good band, but they're just too far out of it....rather like Captain Beefheart. Terry ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 09:29:46 -0500 From: Paula_Carino@usccmail.lehman.com (Paula Carino) Subject: Re: ASCAP, Triffids, and East Grinstead 1, McDonald's 0 ASCAP and BMI are private publishing companies. Copyrights are given by the U.S. Gov't, via the Library of Congress. You can obtain Copyright forms by writing to the U.S. Register of Copyrights/Lib. of Congress/Wash, DC 20559 P. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Feb 97 10:32:02 EST From: kenster@MIT.EDU (Ken Ostrander) Subject: what is FEGMANIA? SOMEWHERE inside a glowing kernel of peace is an irritant- an inflamed seed that messes up the organism. we are best seen as conductors, through which solids, air, and liquids flow constantly, matched by a whorl of loosely related thoughts. if i am a prophet of chaos, then this is truly my age; but perhaps i am a prophet of order, recoiling in disgust from the uncontrollable force of life. inside and out. this albumdoes not deal with the conventional problems of so-called 'real' life: relationships, injustice, politics, and central heating systems, about which it's notoriously hard to talk because orthodox lines of cliche have been devised for and against everything. in the short span of a song- let alone a newspaper- it is easy to descend to slogans and dogma: thatcher is bad, vegetables are good, show business is indifferent. everybody who wants to know that knows it already. the dinosaurs graze in the last warm valley, avoiding the icy winds. to go into 'issues' at the length they merit requires the depth- and double-talk- of a politician. i'm concentrating instead on the organic. all of us exist in a swarming, pulsating world, driven mostly by an unconscious that we ignore and misunderstand. within the framework of 'civilization' we remain as savage as possible. against the dense traffic of midern life, we fortify our animal selves with video violence, imaginary sex, and music: screw you, mate- here i go! one side, mother____er! give it to me, baby, as often and as beautifully as possible- eat lead, infidel scum. mostly we contain ouselves. sexual crimes, and private murders are still news (legalized murders, though, such as executions, wars and the systematic deprivation of the helpless, seldom make the headlines). but our inflamed and disoriented psyches smoulder on beneath the wet leaves of habit. insanity is big business. and vice versa. religion isn't dead either. the antichrist will have access to computers, television, radio, and compact disk. if he walks among us already, the chances are that he has a walkman. i just hope it's not christ himself, disillusioned after two thousand years in a cosmic sitting room full of magazines and cheeseplants, turned malignant and rotting in despair at the way his message has been perverted. my contention is, however- and it's a bloody obvious one- that beneath our civilized glazing, we are all deviants, all alone, and all peculiar. this flies in the face of mass marketing, but i'm sticking with it. so loosen your spine, bury your television, and welcome to a globe of frogs... robyn hitchcock november 1987 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 08:20:14 -0800 From: Mark Gloster Subject: [Fwd: Re: not very rh: publishing/copyrights...] Message-ID: <32FF4A87.5B56@tigermonkey.com> Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 08:19:20 -0800 From: Mark Gloster Reply-To: rubrshrk@tigermonkey.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Macintosh; I; PPC) MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: not very rh: publishing/copyrights... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit For a couple of plane tickets and a place to stay, I'll be glad to come over and figure it all out and even take care of it for you. In all reality, though, I believe your system is very much like ours. I just don't know the organizations name. - I do know that the British performance rights organization is called PRS. I don't think they have any internal competition, as I believe they are part of government. - I don't mean be yankeecentric, hell, I like the mets better. There are organizations now worldwide that take care of this stuff, and I'm sure there is a great deal of info on the web. In fact, when I was researching this (c) and perf rights issue there were many entries throughout the world, as I recall (since I'm too lazy to do a good search but not too lazy to read every entry). Smiles, -Markg ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 08:36:40 -0800 From: Mark Gloster CC: fegmaniax@ecto.org Subject: Re: Interview of Robyn Comment, Glass Flesh stuff > > This has to be the best misplaced compliment I've ever received. > "Flavour of Night" as done on GLASS FLESH *is* brilliant; however, it is > not my work. It is one of the wonderful contributions from Nismo S. > Rebrot. > I have a brain the size of a pea. In my morning routine I quietly reflect upon my life and endeavor to live it with quiet contemplation, to move forward with clarity, and to consider my words wisely. To consider the facts. I also tell myself to go beyond the obnoxiousness that my DNA seems to be so hard-codedly predestined for. Today I went from memory, and the DNA won. You'd think after working with the graphics for thousands of years, I would have been able to get that right. Geeeez > *sigh* > > Oh, well... hope you like my silly little medley half as much as you > like "Flavour..." ;-) Actually, it's an honor -- the Nismo tracks are > among my fave pieces of GLASS FLESH-age, to the point that I wouldn't > dare take credit for them. > Sorry Dolph, and thank you for not inscribing your email with a pen of napalm. In reality, I love everything about what you presented and did not intend to embarrass either of us. DOH! I know nobody would believe me if I said I had done "Flavour..." A big rubber shark in a china shop is also a dangerous thing. -Markg ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 09:46:12 -0800 From: Mark Gloster Subject: what i meant to say... The singling out of some of my high points for Glass Flesh didn't really do the others justice. The whole thought on the matter is that this has been a real coming-of-age experience for me, nevermind that I'm nearly Robyn's age, and I picked a four-chord song. I can't describe what an honor (honour) it is to sit shoulder to shoulder on a real CD with the gigantic talents of every last person on the Glass Flesh effort, and feel that I belong with them. I'm going to pick a more difficult RH song next time and kick its butt. You all have great taste, talent, and toast. -Markg ver E late 4 work ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 10:05:08 -0800 (PST) From: "Dot, the Disposessed" Subject: Re: not very rh: publishing/copyrights... On Mon, 10 Feb 1997, M R Godwin wrote: > Really interesting, Mark! Does anyone know if there is a similar procedure > for UK copyrights? sorry, mike. it seems under a redundant law that prince william owns the right to any song you have written and that prince andrew owns any that you have yet to write. obviously the amount of royalties to andrew is astronomical by now. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 13:05:37 -0500 From: Alex Tanter Subject: IRON HORSE SHOW!!!!!!!!!!!! March 19, 1997. The Iron Horse has a contract not yet signed by RH but agreed to by his management. Iron Horse is pretty certain this will happen. Tickets will go on sale once contract is signed. Still holding my breath....this has happened twice before..... I think this is during spring break which means we'll all get decent seats! Marcy :) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 10:13:45 -0800 (PST) From: Griffith Davies Subject: Supporting RH I just had to share this with all fegs. The local public radio station that I listen to, KCRW, was having its annual subscription drive. During the past few years on KCRW, I have heard songs from several different Hitchcock albums (including some Soft Boys material). Robyn has performed live in the studio, and once he was a guest DJ for a few hours. I felt obliged to support the one Los Angeles radio station that has supported Robyn. I called in and gave them my pledge. They asked if they could use my name on the air. Sure. As a joke, I asked if they could squeeze in a Robyn Hitchcock tune. Much to my surprise, I heard the DJ say something like "Here is a Robyn Hitchcock tune for Griffith". Cool. The song that broke through the airwaves was "Madonna of The Wasps". I was really glad to hear Robyn's music on the air. griffith ______________________________________________________________ Griffith Davies hbrtv219@email.csun.edu ------------------------------ From: TchdnJesus@aol.com Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 13:49:55 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: Bruce Dickenson content low! [Eddie content=0] In a message dated 97-02-10 02:41:56 EST, chris@unr.edu writes: > one i miss the days when robyn would only tour the west coast. sigh. > but, now we are still in that near side of the puddle phase. sheesh. > those of us on the left coast will have to settle for man...or > astroman?, which by means is merely settling [op. cited--ed.]. > > two, since he is coming around again, ther must be some compelling > reason. it cannot be the weather, not a reaistic option. there seems to > be no pressing warner promotional tasks at hand. is it just because he > likes to do that thing he does? i would think it's most likely that those dates just aren't announced yet........... ------------------------------ From: Hedblade@aol.com Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 16:13:24 -0500 (EST) Subject: Robyn content? NONE! >From: Terrence M Marks & gondola@deltanet.com > >Does anyone have anything by the Cleaners from Venus? I remember >reading about them in an old post...I don't think that any of the local >music stores have them, but I'll check again... I have one import record, called Going To England (released in 1987). It's a fun listen with some catchy tunes, but it's one of those deja vu albums -- every lick you hear, you think you've heard somewhere before. I've tried to bring myself to get rid of it many times, but I've never quite convinced myself. :)>> For those of you unfamiliar with any of this stuff, it is the product of a chap by the name of Martin Newell. The Cleaners were is 80's band, then he had a short lived project called The Brotherhood Of Lizards, and currently he has a solo career. I've heard some Cleaners stuff that is good, but I'd also recommend tracking down The Brotherhood Of Lizards release "Lizardland." This was reissued in 1995 in the US on the Long Play label (P.O. Box 55233, Atlanta, GA 30308). His solo "The Greatest Living English Man" is beautiful as well. Fans of XTC will eat this stuff up!!! Sincerely, Jay ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 18:10:43 +0000 From: Bret Subject: March 3 Just wondering if anyone else is going to the Cat's Cradle show, and if so, could you pass on some more info about the venue to me, as I just moved to the area. thanx!! also, if there is anyone on the list, who will be attending this one, perhaps we should grab a bite to eat somewhere before hand, (I know no-one on this coast).......what ya think? -----Bret comdotdotat@atdot.com bret@atdot.com bret@nkn.net bbolton@tymnet.com bret.bolton@mci.com bbolton@mci.net bolton@mail.gld.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 20:46:52 -0500 From: mr bean jeans Subject: updated tour dates folks, received this list today from homer's management (they contacted me after robyn recommmended that they check out the fegMANIA web page). apparently, these dates are just the first leg of this tour, which will continue into april. tim keegan will be opening. Feb 22 Nashville, Tn Bluebird Cafe 23 Knoxville, Tn Flamingos 24 Athens, GA 40 Watt 25-26 Atlanta, GA The Point 28 Columbia, SC TBC Mar 1 Greenville, SC Gunter Center 3 Carrboro, NC, Cat's Cradle 4 Richmond, VA TBC 5 Baltimore, MD 8 by 10 7 Rochester, NY Milestone 8 Albany, NY Park West 11-15 NYC, NY Knitting Factory 18 Tivoli, NY Sante Fe 19 Northampton, MA Iron Horse 21-22 Boston, MA T T The Bears woj ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The End of this Fegmaniax Digest. *sob* .