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 #33 Fegmaniax Digest Volume 5 Number 33 Monday February 17 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: PhoNograph's don't sPell [Fwd: realtime on feb 15, 97 [via LSMTP - see www.lsoft.com]] Robyn in Georgia RH CD Catalog Sampler track list Lists, Airscape, Martin, XTC and a giant squid feg.... Re: PhoNograph's don't sPell Re: Uglies For You Re: PhoNograph's don't sPell Boston Show... Re: PhoNograph's don't sPell Registration Numbers (call them License Plates if you will) Airscape Re: Observation (ALL Robyn content) Re: Boston Show... errata Re: Boston Show... Re: Boston Show... Re: [no Robyn] Another origin of "faggot" Re: Boston Show... Re: Lists, Airscape, Martin, XTC and a giant squid RH soundalikes Kudos to Bayard Has anybody here seen Hank This may be dumb, but... general stuff Robyn in "Acoustic Guitar" Magazine Taping shows Re: Robyn in "Acoustic Guitar" Magazine Re: Taping shows RE: What is feg? AND Airscape Re: Observation (ALL nonsense content) Re: Robyn in "Acoustic Guitar" Magazine crd request: Ye Sleeping Knights Robyn Rewrites Re: What is feg? AND Airscape ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 19:54:59 -0600 From: Outdoor Miner Subject: Re: PhoNograph's don't sPell At 05:41 PM 2/13/97 +0000, HAMISH_SIMPSON@HP-UnitedKingdom-om4.om.hp.com wrote: >Item Subject: cc:Mail Text > Okay, okay, okay, > > I was JOKING. (Sorry for yelling.) > > The line is "Feel like making love to a photograph", as was mentioned > on another e-mail. I was trying to be funny (Don't give up the day > job H). Phew! See, I was about to post about how the holes in those records are mighty small (unless Robyn was hankerin' for a 45), and that could have led to a thread about Robyn's, ahem, size -- which would indeed be on topic, as the topic would be All Robyn... 8-) later, Miles ====================================================================== np: R.E.M., _New Adventures in Hi-Fi_ Miles Goosens goosenmk@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu ====================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 20:57:08 -0500 From: nms-ces Subject: [Fwd: realtime on feb 15, 97 [via LSMTP - see www.lsoft.com]] >Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 20:50:44 -0800 >To: realtime@cbcstereo.com >From: RealTime >Subject: realtime on feb 15, 97 [via LSMTP - see www.lsoft.com] > > > >one is the loneliest number? > > loneliness remembers what happiness forgets? > > > love hurts? > > >eccccch. > >no, this is not an attempt to drown you in sappy sentiments from pop songs >from the 60's and 70s, but rather a call to arms to those forgotten at this >love-centric time of year...the ones without a "special someone" to buy a >box of black magic or a bag of hershey's kisses for. i'm talking about the >single masses. I know you're out there...so this week realtime wants to know: > > what's good about being single? > >tell us all about the fringe benefits of being able to wear the same socks >for six days or being able to wear hot rollers to bed . call day of show >at: 1-800-563-2328 or e-mail us now at: realtime@cbcstereo.com > >and celebrating his 300+ days of single-dom (and lord knows how many days >wearing the same hosiery) with realtime this week a guy named ryan. he >publishes his own zine called "single guy" and he's throwing a launch party >for the latest edition of it this Saturday night at the mighty niagara in >downtown vancouver. > >also on this week's show: australian director craig rosenberg. his >directorial debut is a movie called hotel de love (url: >http://thehamptons.com/film/festival96/hotel_de_love.html) and it opens >february 21st in calgary, winnipeg, and toronto, february 28th in vancouver, >montreal, and ottawa, and march 7th in most other canadian cities. listen >for craig just after 7 pm PST/10 pm EST on this week's show. > >plus there's not one (1) but two (2) listening booth features on this week's >show (maybe it's some kind of post valentine's guilt...gotta have two, gotta >have two). you can check out selections from the brand new blur (url: >www.parlophone.co.uk/blur) album (simply entitled blur) in the traditional >realtime listening booth slot of: 7:30 pm ctrl/8:30 est/9:30 atl/10 >nfld/10:30 pst/11:30 mtn. > >and in the bonus realtime listening booth check out songs from the new album >bedazzler from toronto's made. hear that at: 7:30 pm est/8:30 atl/9:00 >nfld/9:30 pst/10:30 mtn/11:30 ctrl > >and recorded live in concert at vancouver's vintage vogue theatre, the >wonderfully whimsical robyn hitchcock. (url: >http://aquarius.as.arizona.edu/~christou/lynx_mus_rhi.html) hear an hour >with robyn on this week's show at the following times: 7 pm mtn/8 ctrl/9 >est/10 atl/10:30 nfld/11 pst. > >never leaving you alone on a Saturday night. realtime. >live every Saturday night on cbc stereo. > >realtime@cbcstereo.com >http://realtime.cbcstereo.com > >oh and just a reminder: > >on next week's show (ie feb 22nd) tune in just after 7 pm pst/10 pm est to >hear and/or talk to eugene levy (url: >http://us.imdb.com/M/person-exact?+Levy,+Eugene) co-writer and co-star of >the new movie waiting for guffman. (url: http://movieweb.com/movie/guffman/) > >also on next week's show...the canadian premiere of the new superfriendz >album "slide show" and your chance to win personalized autographed poster >and copies of the vinyl album. > >-leora >RealTime Crew > >realtime@cbcstereo.com >http://realtime.cbcstereo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 21:21:11 -0500 From: mrrunion@tng.net (Runion, Michael R.) Subject: Robyn in Georgia Hello everyone... I'm planning on driving up to Georgia (guess what state I'm in?) for the 40 Watt show and the two Point shows. Anyone one here going? I'll be leaving the wife and kids home and striking out on my own Robyn pilgrimage, and wouldn't mind meeting up with a list member or two (just to see what you all look like!). Also, I've tried calling the 40 Watt, but only get a recording. Any suggestions on how I can get a ticket long distance? (I've already got my Point tix.) Thanks in advance. See you at the shows. __________________________________________________________ Mike Runion Cocoa, Florida email: mrrunion@tng.net (home) email: Michael.Runion-1@kmail.ksc.nasa.gov WWW: http://www.spacecoast.net/users/mrrunion/default.htm "A perfect circle of acquaintances and friends, Drink another, coin a phrase..." -REM __________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: 13 Feb 1997 18:10:12 -0700 From: "David Kwan" Subject: RH CD Catalog Sampler track list [From Terry_Linnig@hccompare.com on Thu, 13 Feb 97:] >I need help, can anyone tell me what the track list is for >'HITCHCOCK, ROBYN CD Catalog Sampler promo-only 20-track' Track list: 1. Acid Bird 2. City of Shame 3. America 4. 52 Stations 5. Uncorrected Personality Traits 6. I Used to Say I Love You 7. Autumn is Your Last Chance 8. Nocturne (Demise) 9. Another Bubble 10. Heaven 11. My Wife & My Dead Wife 12. If Your Were a Priest 13. Airscape 14. The Crawling 15. All I Wanna Do is Fall in Love 16. Eaten By Her Own Dinner 17. Queen of Eyes 18. Beautiful Girl 19. Glass Hotel 20. Goodnight I Say c + p 1994 rhino ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 15:22:37 +1300 (NZDT) From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: Lists, Airscape, Martin, XTC and a giant squid >Date: Tue, 11 Feb 97 18:01:38 EST >From: kenster@MIT.EDU (Ken Ostrander) >Subject: other lists OFF TOPIC > ><< what other lists are we on???? >> > >TOM WAITS >BOB DYLAN >U2 >MARIA MCKEE >SIMPLE MINDS >PJ HARVEY >LIZ PHAIR >SUBBACULCHA (THROWING MUSES & PIXIES SPLINTER GROUPS) >POLICE >PETER GABRIEL >LOU REED >BILLY BRAGG >TALKING HEADS >SUZANNE VEGA >SMITHS do you have time to sleep? me, I'm on the following lists: XTC KING CRIMSON BRIAN ENO NZ INDIE MUSIC THE CHURCH and of course, the Fegster itself. I used to be on the Tangerine Dream, Julian Cope, Billy Bragg, Jethro Tull and Ambient music lists too, but enough is enough. Oh, and I'm also on lists for Flags of the World and the independent micronation of Port Colice, but neither is music related. >knowledge or truth), summer (symbolizing youth?), darkness (despair), or >laughter (joy) there is a positive slant. and we all know what the quick explosion and the slow release of heat refers to, don't we? :) >P.S. Anyone else hear the BBC World Service report on the search for "the >elusive Giant Squid" yesterday? well, no, but the search is on about 400 miles north of here, at Kaikoura. Hell, we gotta try to get Robyn down to New Zealand *somehow*! Re Martin Newell: > His solo "The Greatest Living English Man" is beautiful >as well. Fans of XTC will eat this stuff up!!! quite probably - especially since Andy Partridge is on (or involved with) the album! James James Dignan___________________________________ You talk to me Deptmt of Psychology, Otago University As if from a distance ya zhivu v' 50 Norfolk Street And I reply. . . . . . . . . . Dunedin, New Zealand with impressions chosen from another time steam megaphone (03) 455-7807 (Brian Eno - "By this River") ------------------------------ From: tanter@econs.umass.edu Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 21:58:03 -0500 Subject: feg.... Sometimes in life we just have to accept that something exists and not question. It's what John Keats called "negative capability." Fegmania doesn't mean anything specific, it just _is_. Anyone know Barry Dibnell? Marcy ------------------------------ From: "Glen E. Uber" Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 19:52:56 -0800 Subject: Re: PhoNograph's don't sPell Outdoor Miner said: > Phew! See, I was about to post about how the holes in those records > are mighty small (unless Robyn was hankerin' for a 45), and that > could have led to a thread about Robyn's, ahem, size -- which would > indeed be on topic, as the topic would be All Robyn... Didn't Kay and a few others wax poetic about Robyn's "virtues" a few months back? --g "Never lend money to a man with a sense of humour." --Peter Tork, "Head" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Glen E. Uber glen@metro.net http://metro.net/glen/ ------------------------------ From: headfx@ix.netcom.com Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 21:23:29 -0500 Subject: Re: Uglies For You Brett Cooper wrote: > > Eb reared her or his ugly keyboard and wrote: > >Or let's see...maybe with the hopes of meeting other Robyn Hitchcock fans, > >to discuss whatever their little hearts desire (within reason)? And hey, > >could it be that Robyn Hitchcock fans have more diverse musical interests > >than Alice Cooper fans? Perhaps? D'ya think? > > Totally irrelevant to the issue at hand. > > >If you're so upset about extra messages in your mailbox, just subscribe to > >the digest form, where you can just scroll past those unforgiveable > >non-Robyn messages. > > Why should I have to change what I do because a few people want to skew the > focus of the list? > > >I found the above post really obnoxious. > > Oh really? And how do you think the rest of us feel who get messages that > are totally unrelated to the focus of the list? Go rethink your logic. > > >PS I have more Zappa CDs (21) than of any other artist, for whatever > >that's worth. That's partly because I got them extremely cheap, however. I > >have 31 Dylan albums, but most of my Bawb stuff is on vinyl. > > Totally irrelevant. > > _______________________________________________________________ > "Even after you lose your life, > there's one more thing you can lose: > your reputation." > -Ashleigh Brilliant Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Foolheardy buffoons! ------------------------------ From: upstart@mindlink.bc.ca (Renee Lynn) Subject: Re: PhoNograph's don't sPell Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 23:37:22 -0800 >Didn't Kay and a few others wax poetic about Robyn's "virtues" a few >months back? Yes, and if we start discussing that again, my sister will probably rejoin the list! BCingu Renee Lynn ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 02:49:41 -0500 (EST) From: Eugene Subject: Boston Show... Is anyone going to the Boston show? I went and got my tickets today. They said there were three opening bands. Last time he played here (not with Billy) there were lots of opening acts and it was extremely tedious. Also, it's annoying that after I move from the valley he comes to the Iron Horse. I'd almost go, but he's playing here two nights, and I doubt he'd be playing that much different stuff. You should all get your tickets before he becomes a huge pop star. -Eugene ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tipper Gore said to Lou Reed, "Lou Reed, how can we communicate better with our children?" Lou Reed responded, "We would probably have to sit down and talk about it over a bottle of scotch, and maybe, some crack." It's back! My lovely Humor Home page: http://hamp.hampshire.edu/~ebmF92 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 03:20:33 -0600 (CST) From: Truman Peyote Subject: Re: PhoNograph's don't sPell On Thu, 13 Feb 1997, Renee Lynn wrote: > > >Didn't Kay and a few others wax poetic about Robyn's "virtues" a few > >months back? > > Yes, and if we start discussing that again, my sister will probably rejoin > the list! WAHOO! Let's then! I'm all for discussing Robyn's, ahem, gear (a telecaster, isn't it? :)) Love on ya, Susan ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 11:32:38 +0000 From: Stretch Armstrong Subject: Registration Numbers (call them License Plates if you will) Tracy Aileen Copeland wrote: > > As I recall, about two years or so ago someone on the list >claimed that license plates in the UK use a three-letter code for >geographical areas and that the code for Cambridge is or used to be FEG >... suggesting that the "fegmobile" above started the whole thing and >then the prefix sloshed out of the container and got all over the >floor. > But then, I don't believe everything I read here. Do you? Dunno why I didn't think of that before. I spent MY formative years in Cambridgeshire, and at the risk of repeating what someone has already said, I can confirm that the character part of vehicle registrations in the county end in the following series of 2 letters, AV, EW, FL and yes...EG. Indeed, I once owned a car whose registration started with FEG! Perhaps the term fegmobile stems from 'the car he used to drive'? :) Off topic - I'm escaping London and I'm going to be in L.A. from the 22nd of Feb to the 2nd of March.... can anyone recommend (off list) any gigs worth seeing during that time as I can't find any that interest me yet! - Ta! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Feb 97 8:30:48 EST From: Jeff Rosedale Subject: Airscape Let me join the swelling pulsating ranks of those who have declared themselves in love with this song... to those whom the drum treatment bothers, let me suggest (if you haven't already partaken) the minimalist but vibrating treatment presented on the Kershaw Sessions CD, replete with harmonies but with just a guitar (or two?) and simple tambourine for timekeeping and emphasis. Or you'll probably love to *tears* the version that will hopefully appear in the Demme film and/or soundtrack, just Robyn electrified and electrifying. In one of the shows last fall he talked about the blue/multicolored mud slipping away into the sea a little bit every year, and the cliffs perpetually receding. The melody and presence of the song make a breathtaking combination. I also like "Almost Blue", especially the Ryko version with all the extra tracks... uh-oh... --Jeff rosedale@columbia.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 13:25:03 +0000 (GMT) From: M R Godwin Subject: Re: Observation (ALL Robyn content) On Wed, 12 Feb 1997 Hedblade@aol.com wrote: > Hi Feggers, > An observation: > Isn't "Sleeping With Your Devil Mask" just a musical remake of "I Watch The > Cars?" I can see it now. The curtain rises on a village (somewhere in Africa, maybe?). A gallows is set up stage left. Birdies are singing in the trees. Enter JOYCE JOYCE: What a lovely day. It's such a beautiful morning! Enter CHORUS OF GHOULS JOYCE and GHOULS do 'Oh what a beautiful morning' number. Enter a Cellist. CELLIST: Hi Joyce! Hi fellas! GHOUL 1: That's him, boys - scrag him! The GHOULS attempt to hang the Cellist, but while they are so occupied, their heads fall off one by one and scurry across the floor, singing the Munchkin chorus from 'Wizard of Oz'. JOYCE: That trout hasn't been round in some time... JOYCE goes into a wistful solo, probably "Gone fishin' "... Enter Judd, Yum-Yum, Harry the Horse, a chorus of pickpockets from Oliver! and Howard Keel. They begin a rousing comedy version of 'Balloon Man', with some business from Harry the Horse on THAT line... etc. etc. I tell you, it could be big, Big BIG! - Mike Godwin ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 08:56:06 -0500 (EST) From: Gary Assassin Subject: Re: Boston Show... > Is anyone going to the Boston show? I went and got my tickets > today. They said there were three opening bands. Last time he played here > (not with Billy) there were lots of opening acts and it was extremely > tedious. > Also, it's annoying that after I move from the valley he comes to > the Iron Horse. I'd almost go, but he's playing here two nights, and I > doubt he'd be playing that much different stuff. You should all get your > tickets before he becomes a huge pop star. > I plan on going, but things could change. As for the same set 2 days in a row ... In NY when he played 2 sets in one day, the shows were completetly different save for one song. Now, that's 2 shows in one day as opposed to 2 different days. I have seen Robyn play 2 days in a row in NY, and the sets were similar, albeit a different order, but then again, Massachusetts may have a whole different gravity and aura about it. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Feb 97 8:57:24 EST From: Jeff Rosedale Subject: errata OK, I should never send email before 9 AM or a cup of peppermint tea... The version of Airscape I referred to was on the Rhino reissue of Element of Light. Mea maxima culpa. --Jeff ------------------------------ From: mrd@world.std.com (Mitchell R Dickerman) Subject: Re: Boston Show... Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 09:23:35 -0500 (EST) > Is anyone going to the Boston show? I went and got my tickets > today. They said there were three opening bands. Last time he played here > (not with Billy) there were lots of opening acts and it was extremely > tedious. Cool, I didn't know tickets were available yet. As for last time - ARE YOU KIDDING?! We got to see the Cake Kitchen (cool band from NZ), Deni Bonet, and Jill Sobule (just before she 'broke'). It was a TERRIFIC lineup! Besides, it gave a bunch of us Fegs a chance to hang and chat between bands. A good time had by all, join us at the front of the stage this time. Mitch ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 09:47:37 -0500 From: lobsterman Subject: Re: Boston Show... >I plan on going, but things could change. As for the same set 2 days in a >row ... In NY when he played 2 sets in one day, the shows were completetly >different save for one song. Now, that's 2 shows in one day as opposed to >2 different days. I have seen Robyn play 2 days in a row in NY, and the >sets were similar, albeit a different order, but then again, Massachusetts >may have a whole different gravity and aura about it. I think he always plays odd stuff on purpose in Mass. There's a gig he did at TT the Bears in April of 1995 (the first night, Fri) that didn't stick to his usual format (close acoustic set with Yip Song, open electric set with I Am Not Me). He played totally different stuff like Insect Mother, I Got The Hots, and more. jbj /-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-//-/-/-/-/-/-/- John B. Jones e-mail:jojones@mailbox.syr.edu web: http://web.syr.edu/~jojones "condemned to hell for every sin but littering" -soul coughing \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 10:13:06 -0500 Subject: Re: [no Robyn] Another origin of "faggot" From: The Great Quail >Shouldn't that be "fag" by now? (grin) >>You forgot the (ahem) noble public school tradition of "fagging", where >>the senior boys get a younger, newer boy to run errands and be their >>general slavey (I suspect that this is where the derogatory term for >>homosexual had its origins). Just for the sake of adding my Mr. Know-it-all (a great Primus song, by the way) 2 cents: Another meaning of the word faggot dates back to the middle ages. During military campaigns in the day before "standing armies," one "conscription" technique was to scoop up all able bodied young men on the way and press them into service. These (largely unskilled, oft unwilling) men were known as "faggot" troops. Now, whether that was because of the term also meaning a bundle of kindling - which puts a bit of grim spin of black humor on the term, I suppose putting it into a relationship with the modern term "cannon fodder" - or whether the term for wood had a different evolution, I cannot say. I have also heard that perjorative slang for gays came from the practice of burning town homosexuals along with witches; but this defintiely has the ring of apocrypha. Indeed, most witches were not even burned. . . . I cannot say the same for ducks and very small stones, though. 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: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 12:35:58 -0500 (EST) From: Eugene Subject: Re: Boston Show... On Fri, 14 Feb 1997, Gary Assassin wrote: > I plan on going, but things could change. As for the same set 2 days in a > row ... In NY when he played 2 sets in one day, the shows were completetly > different save for one song. Now, that's 2 shows in one day as opposed to > 2 different days. I have seen Robyn play 2 days in a row in NY, and the > sets were similar, albeit a different order, but then again, Massachusetts > may have a whole different gravity and aura about it. > > I figure that he will play some number of different songs while in Boston. Probably like four or so. My real point was that seeing him in more than one place isn't as effective as one would hope, because whatever he does in Boston on two nights he is probably going to do mostly the same stuff (from both Boston shows) in Amherst. He's also just been playing a lot of the same songs in concert for the past three years. The movie filming was kind of nice because he played some stuff I hadn't heard live or in a while. But I'm not sure if I want to hear Egyptian Cream live again. I hope so much he doesn't play it. -Eugene ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tipper Gore said to Lou Reed, "Lou Reed, how can we communicate better with our children?" Lou Reed responded, "We would probably have to sit down and talk about it over a bottle of scotch, and maybe, some crack." It's back! My lovely Humor Home page: http://hamp.hampshire.edu/~ebmF92 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Feb 97 13:26:03 EST From: kenster@MIT.EDU (Ken Ostrander) Subject: Re: Lists, Airscape, Martin, XTC and a giant squid >do you have time to sleep? not really. i actually transfer ALL of my fifty to two hundred messages a day directly to the trash and then pick through looking for the ones i want based on subject and whoever sent it. >>knowledge or truth), summer (symbolizing youth?), darkness (despair), or >>laughter (joy) there is a positive slant. > >and we all know what the quick explosion and the slow release of heat >refers to, don't we? :) happy valentines day! >>P.S. Anyone else hear the BBC World Service report on the search for "the >>elusive Giant Squid" yesterday? here's some info on the MIT homepage: Giant Squid Search. MIT researchers are going giant squid hunting in the depths of Kaikoura Canyon off the coast of New Zealand. MIT Sea Grant's Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV) Laboratory's robot submarine, Odyssey II, will set out in February for a month-long expedition armed with a video camera designed for capturing deep-sea animals on film. The mission is one of a planned series in the quest to see the giant squid Architeuthis in its natural habitat. However, the Kaikoura Canyon bottom is virtually unknown, and thus any footage the AUV gathers will be new to science. The MIT team is led by James Bellingham, and includes Robert Grieve, Research Specialist, and Bradley Moran, Research Engineer. Clyde Roper, a squid expert at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, is leading the overall expedition, and the MIT crew will be accompanied by National Geographic Television. AUV laboratory participation is supported by the Office of Naval Research. Keep up with the mission as it progresses by joining "In Search of Giant Squid." more on: ------------------------------ From: HAMISH_SIMPSON@HP-UnitedKingdom-om4.om.hp.com Date: Fri, 14 Feb 97 18:53:37 +0000 Subject: RH soundalikes Item Subject: cc:Mail Text I listened to/watched some of the RH video comp (thanks muchly mb) last night and heard "I Something You" for the first time. It sounded a little like Syd Barrett (ducks and folds arms over head) but a lot like that VU song with Mo on vocals that isn't "Sticking With You" and I can't remember the title but I'm sure I'll get at least five e-mails reminding me so thanks in advance. It's only a pity the 2hip4tv clips are so wobbly sound-wise cause AM's fretless sounds lovely. (Aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh) () - (Considering digging out his frets) ------------------------------ From: firstcat@lsli.com Date: Fri, 14 Feb 97 14:35:40 Subject: Kudos to Bayard This Glass Flesh CD is great....nice packaging and great sound....Good work all! If you haven't bought a copy yet ya better.... Cheers Jay ------------------------------------- Jay Lyall Channel Sales Director Livermore Software Laboratories, Intl. 2825 Wilcrest, Suite 160 Houston, Texas 77042-3358 1-713-974-3274 jay@lsli.com Date: 2/14/97 Spectacle is not reality ------------------------------------- ------------------------------ From: HAMISH_SIMPSON@HP-UnitedKingdom-om4.om.hp.com Date: Fri, 14 Feb 97 18:43:35 +0000 Subject: Has anybody here seen Hank Item Subject: cc:Mail Text >>Perhaps it's my closet country affection or just the desire to hear >>it with some wit for a change. BTW, is Almost Blue this good of a >>take on the genre? If you're in the mood, try Steve Earle, Joe Ely, >>or Lyle Lovett. >Or (he says again) Jason and the Scorchers or BR5-49. Or Hank Wangford. In relation to the feg/fag debate, fag is also UK speak for a cigarette. Hey, maybe by the time we've done fig, fog and fug we'll have some RH news to discuss :-) (Oh no, I did a smiley, I did a smiley, pteh, pteh, pteh. Retires to rinse out brain.) () "There are no strangers, only friends we haven't met" - Hank Wangford ------------------------------ From: Fidgetor@aol.com Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 18:41:13 -0500 (EST) Subject: This may be dumb, but... ... I've always been uncertain as to whether the "Feg" in "Fegmania" was pronounced to rhyme with "leg" or "ledge" (since, you know, well, there's "Reg" and all...). Anyone know for certain? Thanks, Jude ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 16:11:16 -0800 (PST) From: Griffith Davies Subject: general stuff After reading Jay Hedblade's post about a Robyn Hitchcock performance on a compilation CD, I decided to track it down. Well, I finally found it. The magazine is called *Pop Culture Press*. Issue #40 sports a cover with Robyn strumming an acoustic guitar. Inside is a nice article with a few pictures from what appears to be the UK bus gig. The free CD sampler that comes with the magazine is great! It features Robyn's performance of "Caroline Says" from his CBC-FM apperance. Believe all you have read posted in this news group about *The Loud Family* the track they have on the disc is superb. As Jay had previously posted, the website and email address for Pop Culture Press are: http://monsterbit.com/pcp/pcp pcp@monsterbit.com BTW, the enclosed insert features information on how to get more information the bands featured on the cd. Of course, the excellent page by woj is listed above the WB site. Good work woj!! One last thing....(I feel like Columbo). Who were the other guests on Late Night with Conan O'Brian when Robyn was on? I'm trying to keep an on the repeats. thanks griffith ______________________________________________________________ Griffith Davies hbrtv219@email.csun.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 20:26:44 -0500 From: mrrunion@tng.net (Runion, Michael R.) Subject: Robyn in "Acoustic Guitar" Magazine Just to let everyone know... The March 1997 (No. 51) edition of "Acoustic Guitar" magazine has a feature article on Robyn entitled "Stop Making Sense". Aside from a few minor historical errors and one apparently misquoted lyric ("I wish I was a pretty girl so I could look at myself in the shower"), it's not too bad. The accompanying photos are the same as on the Warner Web site. It also includes the tablature to "Devil's Radio". Nice to see Robyn's name on the cover of a magazine for a change. __________________________________________________________ Mike Runion Cocoa, Florida email: mrrunion@tng.net (home) email: Michael.Runion-1@kmail.ksc.nasa.gov WWW: http://www.spacecoast.net/users/mrrunion/default.htm "A perfect circle of acquaintances and friends, Drink another, coin a phrase..." -REM __________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 20:36:25 -0500 From: mrrunion@tng.net (Runion, Michael R.) Subject: Taping shows I'm hitting all three of the Georgia shows, and would love to get tapes of them afterwards. I have no equipment myself to record the shows, so... I'm wondering: 1) Anyone out there going and planning on taping them? 2) What would be the easiest, most inexpensive way for me to tape the shows myself? Just a few naive questions to while away a night on the wires. __________________________________________________________ Mike Runion Cocoa, Florida email: mrrunion@tng.net (home) email: Michael.Runion-1@kmail.ksc.nasa.gov WWW: http://www.spacecoast.net/users/mrrunion/default.htm "A perfect circle of acquaintances and friends, Drink another, coin a phrase..." -REM __________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 18:00:36 -0800 (PST) From: "Dot, the Disposessed" Subject: Re: Robyn in "Acoustic Guitar" Magazine On Fri, 14 Feb 1997, Runion, Michael R. wrote: > The March 1997 (No. 51) edition of "Acoustic Guitar" magazine has a feature > article on Robyn entitled "Stop Making Sense". It also > includes the tablature to "Devil's Radio". does any faithful volunteer care to transcribe this for the person, comme moi, that are stuck in ice-station zebra and have *no* access to this magazine (yes this is true, BION). and that tab as well? but, since i am grovelling, i'll take what i can get. love always, .chris ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 21:29:19 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: Re: Taping shows > > 1) Anyone out there going and planning on taping them? i'm not going to GA, but i may go to NYC. He better not play the same show seven times. c'mon, let's hear some rare ones! > 2) What would be the easiest, most inexpensive way for me to tape the shows > myself? well, the easiest way would probably be to borrow a minicassette recorder and keep it in the pocket of your coat the whole time. But I assume you mean the easiest most inexpensive way that's still worth it soundqualitywise. In that case I would recommend buying a used sony d6 recorder. It makes great sounding analog tapes and you can get it used for around $200, i believe. I don't think they make it anymore. You'll need a little microphone too-- sony makes good, cheap little clip-on mics. Basically you can keep the mic clipped to your shirt or hat and the recorder in your pocket, coat or belt and noone will be the wiser. Besides, Robyn is pretty relaxed about people taping him, so logically the venue should be too (but this is not always the case, as at the vic. grr.) I'll be glad to talk about this more offlist so email me. =b ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 21:35:21 -0800 From: Ferris Subject: RE: What is feg? AND Airscape I thought that a feg was some sort of English widget. I could swear it was a shim of sorts that was used to hold scenery together. If I remember right, a guy in Chicester pointed at this thing once and said, "hand me that feg, mate," while putting up a set. Could be wrong, though. I have to admit, "Airscape" is one of my faves, but "Birdshead" has to have it beat for all-time tear jerkers. I don’t know exactly why. There’s just something about it. Anyone know the lyrics? I think they go something like this (but please don’t chastise me if they don’t): Birdshead grow on my shoulder And when I'm older. whither and die. Birdshead on the horizon I've got my eyes on some other sky. Birdshead under volcanoes. What does the day know? Why does it try? Birdshead with your own black shiny eyes. Birdshead, what do you know about the sky? Birdshead. Tiny white fingers. Archeology lingers under my eyes. Birdshead with your own black shiny eyes. Birdshead silhouetted on the sky. Birdshead grow on my shoulder And when I'm older wither and die. Peace, tanks, and firetrucks. -ferris. -- "Tell me, Master, does anyone ever come from the first ledge, whose only punishment is hope cut off, into this dreary bottom?" -Dante IX:XV ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 20:44:22 -0600 (CST) From: Truman Peyote Subject: Re: Observation (ALL nonsense content) Though I much admire Mr. Godwin's dramatic work, I felt that some revision was necessary. Many apologies to Tom Stoppard :). On Fri, 14 Feb 1997, M R Godwin wrote: > I can see it now. The curtain rises on a village (somewhere in Africa, > maybe?). A gallows is set up stage left. Birdies are singing in the trees. Actually, I see a bohemian cafe/bar on the Left Bank. No doubt it was Hugo Ball's idea of a good prank to set up a gallows :). He was always a morbid sort. > Enter JOYCE Instantly recognizable because of his spectacles :). > JOYCE: What a lovely day. It's such a beautiful morning! > > Enter CHORUS OF GHOULS Also known as Einstein and Tzara ;). > JOYCE and GHOULS do 'Oh what a beautiful morning' number. And just as Joyce is explaining how he got to be Earnest in town and Jack in the country..... > Enter a Cellist. > > CELLIST: Hi Joyce! Hi fellas! > > GHOUL 1: That's him, boys - scrag him! CELLIST: I protest! I was not born in a handbag! A scuffle ensues. JOYCE (laughing evilly): That'll teach you to ask me what I did in the war! I WROTE ULYSSES, what did YOU do? > The GHOULS attempt to hang the Cellist, but while they are so occupied, > their heads fall off one by one and scurry across the floor, singing the > Munchkin chorus from 'Wizard of Oz'. CELLIST: Ack! These silly art students! What will they think of next? TZARA'S HEAD (as it rolls away): Must have been the exploding temperance beverages. > JOYCE: That trout hasn't been round in some time... > > JOYCE goes into a wistful solo, probably "Gone fishin' "... > > Enter Judd Which one? Naomi? > Yum-Yum Please no! Leave Chris Holmes out of this! He'll only jabber incessantly about Hawkwind! > Harry the Horse, a chorus of pickpockets from Oliver! > and Howard Keel. > They begin a rousing comedy version of 'Balloon Man', > with some business from Harry the Horse on THAT line... and then Stubby Kaye shows up to sing "Sit Down You're Rockin' the Boat", at which point Harry remarks "If it ever gets around that I was at a prayer meeting, no decent person will talk to me", and everyone looks quite grave, realizing that that is what this has become. They all then run for cover. FADEOUT. > I tell you, it could be big, Big BIG! OH hell yeah! Love on ya, Susan ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 01:52:18 -0500 From: lobsterman Subject: Re: Robyn in "Acoustic Guitar" Magazine Mike Runion wrote: >Nice to see Robyn's name on the cover of a magazine for a change. and its annoying when his name ISN'T on the cover. I am referring to the latest issue of Alternative Press. I thumbed through it at my local bookstore, lured in by the promise on the cover of an in-depth article on Soul Coughing. but inside, there was a two-page article on Robyn. it was old, the info made me guess that the interview took place last Aug or Sep, and that they just had it lying around, waiting for some empty space to show up so they could throw it in. but no mention of robyn or the article was made on the cover. urgh. its the issue with Tool on the cover. jbj /-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-//-/-/-/-/-/-/- John B. Jones e-mail:jojones@mailbox.syr.edu web: http://web.syr.edu/~jojones "condemned to hell for every sin but littering" -soul coughing \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- ------------------------------ From: Terrence M Marks Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 02:08:57 -0500 (EST) Subject: crd request: Ye Sleeping Knights If anyone here knows the chords for Ye Sleepign Knights of Jesus, please post. Terrence Marks Second Student in the Tendo Kasumi School of Philosophy -Seeking enlightenment through normalcy. normal@grove.ufl.edu ------------------------------ From: RxBroome@aol.com Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 02:23:35 -0500 (EST) Subject: Robyn Rewrites I think that the resemblance between "Acid Bird" and "Vibrating" has been way overstated. I think what we're hearing instead are Robyn's pet chord voicings and arpeggios (discussed at excruciating length in the past by myself and others) coming around again in a different form. The rhythmic signatures of the two songs are totally different-- "Acid Bird" is a kind of fake disco, while "Vibrating" has that Stones snare thing going on-- and that open string arpeggio thing is so common to folk-based rock that I don't even notice it anymore-- I think it's probably featured in 60% of the guitar lines Pete Buck has ever written. f'rinstance. Also, the melodies aren't very similar, and in fact they're mostly in different places in Robyn's register. "I Watch the Cars" and "Devil Mask" are a little more similar; both of 'em also remind me of "Old Pervert". But I think again that Robyn's just drawing on his favorite sources more than ripping himself off. They're just kind of oddball folk-blues variants, and the bass runs in the guitar come out of that tradition. "Cars" and "Pervert" also share the technique of repeated lines in the verses of the lyrics ("I watch the cars go back and forth /I watch the cars go back and forth" etc...) and that derives from the same influence, IMHO... The pet chord thing comes across really clearly in the Robyn's acoustic sets. Ever heard an intro that you think is one song, but it turns out to be another? There's nothing like a rhythm section to put a spin on very similarly written songs and make them into seemingly unrelated beasties. Godsend or crutch? I guess Robyn's decided the latter, and luckily his songwriting has grown a little from walking on his own. Rex ------------------------------ Subject: Re: What is feg? AND Airscape From: guambat@juno.com (The Guambat) Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 11:45:14 EST >Birdshead with your own black shiny eyes. I think it's "round" instead of "own" I'm one of the Mucky Party members, so I do have a winning record when it comes to lyrics :) The Guambat has Spoken! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The End of this Fegmaniax Digest. *sob* .