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 #93 Fegmaniax Digest Volume 5 Number 93 Wednesday May 7 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: ------- ------- wafflehead Re: more Six Degrees Where is everybody? Where Robyns Shirts Come From What's a feg to do in London? House of Blues tickets CONTEST WINNER! Jimi to Robyn Re: The grate Ray Re: Where Robyns Shirts Come From Re: House of Blues tickets Re: In Praise of Cardboard CD Sleeves The grate Ray six degrees - to me! Hairy bum? Give the man a carrot! (a.k.a. the Eno pivot) Bob Nylon Re: What's a feg to do in London? Looking for Robyn & Deni doing Egyptian Cream Re: more Six Degrees Re: more Six Degrees Again w/ the 6 degrees.. Re: Seattle '94 shows new date (michigan) Generic Post Hitchcock/Cope Connection Mr. Zimmerman Katrina etc. again Re: Hitchcock/Cope Connection Re: Syd, John, Lou, & Bob to Robyn A RH Reading Primer (Was: Musician Magazine '88) This may be vile. . . . but it *is* RH related! House of Blues ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 08:28:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Griffith Davies Subject: wafflehead Had a very strange weekend. Went to San Diego (just like the one in "Surfer Ghost"). On the way there, we drove throught "Oceanside". While cruising around, looking for a freakin' place to park (note: never go to San Diego near Cinco De Mayo), I saw a billboard that was truly a message from Robyn. The billboard was an advertisement for a restaurant that served "the best waffles and more". It featured a portrait of a very attractive young lady with a round eggo-like waffle for a hat - this was truly Mrs. Wafflehead. Unfortunately, I did NOT have my camera with me at the time :( I'm going to try to contact my friends there to send me a picture of it. griffith ______________________________________________________________ Griffith Davies hbrtv219@email.csun.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 May 97 16:57:39 EST From: kenster@MIT.EDU (Ken Ostrander) Subject: Re: more Six Degrees >Okay, so i figured the Six Degrees... idea had been done before I >came onto the, the clever people that you are. And the Fred Schnieder >one was easy. But here's one I figured out last night. It's a >slightly indirect connection but it does work solidly. Can anyone >connect Living Colour to our man Robyn? i found a nifty connection via films: COREY GLOVER was in 'platoon' with CHARLIE SHEEN CHARLIE SHEEN was in 'backtrack' with JODIE FOSTER JODIE FOSTER was in 'silence of the lambs', directed by JONATHAN DEMME JONATHAN DEMME recently filmed a documentary called STOREFRONT HITCHCOCK. ************************************* Ken Ostrander Educational Services Sloan School of Management Massachusetts Institute of Technology 50 Memorial Drive, E52-101 Cambridge, MA 02142-1347 Phone: (617)258-8016 Fax: (617)258-9181 E-mail: kenster@mit.edu ************************************* ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 11:19:25 -0500 From: Lobsterman Subject: Where is everybody? Is the list down, or is it me? -jbj /-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-//-/-/-/-/-/-/- John B. Jones e-mail:jojones@mailbox.syr.edu web: http://web.syr.edu/~jojones "Driving Aloud" was originally called "Driving to Portland." -Robyn Hitchcock \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 May 1997 19:08:29 -0400 From: WISNIEWSKI Subject: Where Robyns Shirts Come From -- Kay Lord Wisniewski Wis@Worldnet.Att.Net Hear hear for the Gumbats recommendation of Austin Powers. Besides being good infantile humor, it spoofs(shot for shot in some cases) 60s classics like the Bond movies, the Beatles movies, Blow Up and a host more. If you want to see what Robyn was exposed to at an impressionable age, its an education. If your Robyns age, its a romp thru images from childhood. Fun, innocent, and optimistic. Remember? Perhaps an explanation of why I fancy guys in boots and hiphuggers, K ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 05 May 1997 00:52:38 -0400 From: Timothy Reed Subject: What's a feg to do in London? So I'm going to be in Swingin' London for a couple of days. Any recommendations on where to get lost when I'm there? I'll be there at the end of May. Where are the Robyn-only record stores, cone shops, and bright-patterned-shirt stores? The only other time that I've been to the UK was a 2 day trip, where during my free time I scoped out all the places that the Clash sung about. In my jetlagged brain, that was just Hammersmith Palais. Not an exciting trip. I don't think that I'll have the time to take the Isle of Wight tour, though if I ever hear about that happening again, I'm back on the plane. Thanks! Tim ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 12:33:53 -0600 From: mbrage@surgery.bsd.uchicago.edu (Michael Brage) Subject: House of Blues tickets Fegs, I got my tickets last week to Robyn's show at the House of Blues for May 21. Now, I don't know how ticketmaster works (and the venue is general admission) but my tickets are numbered 1 and 2. Does this mean I have the first two tickets sold for show? I can't imagine that to be possible. Any thoughts? Michael ------------------------------ From: Hedblade@aol.com Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 05:10:26 -0400 (EDT) Subject: CONTEST WINNER! Yes, folks, we have a winner! Put your hands together, pull them apart, and put them back together in rapid succession for... v v v v v v v v v v v v Ms. Tracy "Toast" Copeland! with the answer: <<"Mucky", the gig, is out on a limb. I mean tree! Tree!>> The tape tree of Robyn playing at the Mucky Duck in Houston would most certainly be called "Mucky The Gig Is Out On A Limb." Honorable mention goes to Gary Parker for his contribution: <> (just because it gave me a chuckle) Thanks to everyone who played! Tracy receives a copy of "Mossy Demos." Blinking On And Off, Jay ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 May 97 09:34:00 -0800 From: Russ Reynolds Subject: Jimi to Robyn >Jimi Hendrix to Steve Winwood (organ on _Electric Ladyland_) >Winwood to McDonald/Giles (ex-King Crimson members; Winwood played on >MG's only album together) >McDonald/Giles to Fripp >Fripp to Mastelotto >Mastelotto to RH > >There has to be a shorter link, but I can't find one. Jimi-Dave Mason (rythm on watchtower) Mason-Harrison (All Things Must Pass ) Harrison-McCartney McCartney-McManus McManus-Tilbrook Tilbrook-Hitchcock. (using metcalfe adds an extra link, by the way) I relaze this is six steps also, but I suspect one of you will be able to use the Mason link to find a shorter rout. -russ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 17:08:34 -0500 (CDT) From: Mississippi Malcolm McDowell Subject: Re: The grate Ray On Sun, 4 May 1997, Nick Winkworth wrote: > Now, I suppose, even Ray has to be considered "mainstream". Not on your life! > (Susan's going to ask me what song it was. I was so shocked I can't > remember. Sorry. It was an early Kinks hit, anyway) That would make sense for a couple different reasons: Uno: The Kinks, like most young bands of the era, got into some pretty icky arrangements as regards rights (cf. "The Moneygoround" for Mr. Davies' feelings on the subject), and the early stuff nets them little if any royalties, as I recall. I don't think they have much control over it, which is one reason it's popping up in commercials I suspect (Shel Talmy et al must be out of money). Due: The Kinks were not originally a cult band. They -became- one. What would you use a song like "Phenomenal Cat" in a commercial for, I ask you? Who would know it? The general public is familiar with these earlier tunes, "Lola", and "Come Dancing". There's a wealth of material, years and years of it, that only the Kultists really know and love (and that use of the letter K to start words that normally begin with C is one way you can tell that you're dealing with one :)). > For cults > you have to come to Fegmaniax! ;-) Now I'm not after denying -this- :). Love on ya, Susan ******************************************************************************* "The worship of the beautiful always ends in an orgy"- Benjamin Disraeli, "Lothair", lxxvii ******************************************************************************* ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 22:23:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Gary Assassin Subject: Re: Where Robyns Shirts Come From > Hear hear for the Gumbats recommendation of Austin Powers. Besides > being good infantile humor, it spoofs(shot for shot in some cases) > 60s classics like the Bond movies, the Beatles movies, Blow Up and a > host more. If you want to see what Robyn was exposed to at an > impressionable age, its an education. If your Robyns age, its > a romp thru images from childhood. Fun, innocent, and optimistic. > Remember? > Is Austin Powers a clothing store? I was told he buys his clothes at Paul Smith. I am looking for some amphibian shirts myself. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 22:25:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Gary Assassin Subject: Re: House of Blues tickets > I got my tickets last week to Robyn's show at the House of Blues for May > 21. Now, I don't know how ticketmaster works (and the venue is general > admission) but my tickets are numbered 1 and 2. Does this mean I have the > first two tickets sold for show? I can't imagine that to be possible. Any > thoughts? > You do not have ticket 1 and 2. My friend bought tickets last week. I didn't ask him the ticket numbers. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 20:40:52 -0500 (CDT) From: Mississippi Malcolm McDowell Subject: Re: In Praise of Cardboard CD Sleeves On Thu, 1 May 1997 RIELWJ@sbu.edu wrote: > priced as a $3.99 single. The fools! Of course I had to buy > it...another punch in the gut of the greedy CD making overpricing > swine. I'm convinced that this is not a coincidence because i got > Sebadoh's BAKESALE the same way at Camelot a few years back. Anyone > else experience this? Yup, I have a couple stories like this. I got a copy of the Rhino American Power Pop I comp. for 4 bucks at a large icky chain store at Gurnee Mills. For those of you not familiar- Gurnee Mills is a horrible, horrible place. A gigantic mega-mall with lots of discount and outlet stores. The place was still full of hideous Christmas decor too, which made it all doubly ghoulish to me. Crying babies with hungry sticky mouths, large fat suburban ladies out looking for bargains on scented fruit-and-cheese-baskets and gruesome porcelain Emmet Kelly clowns, cruising teenagers with too much blue eyeshadow and the reek of Virginia Slims menthol cigs stolen from Mom and their male counterparts standing around in their stoopid pants (never was a garment more aptly named) talking imitation gangsta slang, all present and accounted for. Have I accurately conveyed the situation? You might ask, if I am such a hot little number, what was I doing there? Well, a friend of mine was looking to get some new jeans and dress pants cheaply and wanted to cruise the outlet stores, and insisted that I come along to give my opinion, though I think really he just didn't want to face the place alone. Anyway, so while combing the cutout bins I found "Come Out and Play- American Power Pop Vol. 1" for 4 bucks. It almost redeemed the day. > proves that. There is such slavish devotion to her here. I recal a > couple of my friends telling me that they were backstage after a > concert at the college some years back and they drank the remainder > of her tea from a paper cup and took the cup as a memento... And people call -me- a crazed fangirl! I'd never drink Robyn's leftover tea. Erm, well, scratch that, I might, but only if I was POSITIVE he didn't have a cold :). > partly because he's still going. Susan says to not forget Johnny Marr > and she's right but I don't think he's done anything really > distinguished since they split, asside from some good work with > Billy. What about his work on the Talking Heads' "Naked" a few years back? I do believe he also played on Brayn Ferry's "Bete Noire". I wouldn't call the latter especially distinctive work, but I mention it as fodder for this 6 degrees game (another ace up Susan's sleeve- Maceo Parker played on the last Bryan Ferry solo album, but I haven't found a way to use that yet). > misinterpreted bands ever. There is some real dour feeling there but > you have to be blind to not Morrissey having a huge, classic laugh at > the expense of everyone, including himself. Oh of course. The little fanlets in black tend to completely miss it, I think. But really, did they think he was completely serious when he talked about Joan of Arc's walkman melting? :) > phrase, probably. However, my ex-hippie future father-in-law owns > many of them on vinyl, Eh, Dylan's no hippie. Wasn't he the one who said Woodstock was nothing but a market for tie-dyed t-shirts? ;) May I suggest 'umbly that Blonde on Blonde be your first listen? > And now I'm going to go and find out when my philosophy final is > because I've lost my info...please help if you know. Well, I don't. But I wish you good luck anyway. Love on ya, Susan ******************************************************************************* "The worship of the beautiful always ends in an orgy"- Benjamin Disraeli, "Lothair", lxxvii ******************************************************************************* ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 May 1997 23:10:44 -0700 From: Nick Winkworth CC: sdodge@midway.uchicago.edu Subject: The grate Ray Hardly has the thread on music in commercials died down when, while watching TV this evening, I was assaulted by an ad for some awful candy ("Jolly Rancher"?) backed by a tune from Susan's own Mr. Davies! Now, I suppose, even Ray has to be considered "mainstream". For cults you have to come to Fegmaniax! ;-) ~N (Susan's going to ask me what song it was. I was so shocked I can't remember. Sorry. It was an early Kinks hit, anyway) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 15:16:41 +1200 (NZST) From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) >How about Lou to Bowie to Eno to Ferry to David Gilmour (played on "Boys >and Girls") to Nick Mason to the Captain to Robyn? I know, it's 7 >steps. Someone wanna shorten it? Lou and Brian E. played together on Laurie Anderson's "Bright Red" 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") ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 15:19:39 +1200 (NZST) From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: six degrees - to me! >perhaps efforts should be turned to connecting the glass flesh peoples >to our man. of course this would be via people actually playing down >the separations, not just covers. thus, it makes things quite a >challenge to connect up the NZ cohorts on the list. not to mention most >of the others.... :) heh. Don't bank on it: James Dignan-Jan Hellriegel-Martin Phillipps-Justin Harwood-Peter Buck-Robyn Hitchcock! 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") ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 16:23:38 +1200 From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: Hairy bum? >>>Flamed of our jungle conquests >>an arrow there >>>Now Cupid's vision single bow >>>No longer doth our heart intrude >>>But many make for like deceives >>but many make light? deceives >I thought I heard "made for light deceives"? I'm not sure. Anyway, I still >think this sounds like a quotation or reference of some kind. < >>>Well >>>My hourly bout >>my hungry (hairy?) bum >WHOA! Hmm....that's crude even for Robyn in smutty mode. I'd tend to go >with the first one.< >>>My ancient squalor >>my aching (aging?) bladder >ROTFL! That's quite a difference, kids!< Sounds to me like: ?Flamed with my gentle conquests, an arid air Now Cupid's bent and scented bow no longer doth our heart intrude, But many maids the light deceives My weary Puck, my easy bladder, ghostly butler long forsaken..." ...which starts to sound vaguely (though not exactly) like some of Midsummer Night's Dream - although there weren't many mentiones of easy bladders or ghostly butlers in that. 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") ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 16:27:13 +1200 From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: Give the man a carrot! (a.k.a. the Eno pivot) >>actually, since this has reared it's ugly head again, does anyone >>remember what we/someone came up with for syd barrett, john lennon, bob >>dylan. and lou reed (assuming there was a shorter one for lou than just >>tacking him onto the john cale one)?<< >I'm not sure we came up with something that connected -all- these people >into one group, though I know we managed to connect them all to Robyn >pretty easily. Actually, now that I think of it, I can't figure out how to >connect Lou without adding Cale somewhere into the mix. Somebody probably >did. It's all in the archives, and I don't feel like working it out >again.< Lou-Brian Eno (Laurie Anderson's song "In our sleep") Bob Dylan-Daniel Lanois-Brian Eno John Lennon-David Bowie-Brian Eno Syd Barrett-David Gilmour-Kate Bush-Peter Gabriel-Brian Eno (there's bound to be a simpler link!) then Eno-Harold Budd-Andy Partridge-Matthew Seligman-Robyn then there's the old Robyn-Matthew-Andy-Harold-Brian Eno-Tim Finn-Rikki Fataar link to the Rutles! or: RH-MS-AP-HB-BE-Bowie-Ariel Bender-Gerry Rafferty-Billy Connolly! or... Three Dog Night-Van Dyke Parks-Martin Phillipps-Dave Mattacks-Andy Partridge-Matthew Seligman-Robyn Hitchcock! 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") ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 17:39:06 +1200 From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: Bob Nylon Mississippi Malcolm McDowell (well if you can get Mississippi John Hurt, why not?) sez: >Other possibilities that occurred to me include Ray Davies why doesn't this surprise me? >How do you get to be an official Dylan fan? Do I have to go and buy a >leopard-skin pillbox hat? Hand out nickels and dimes and ask people with a >grin if they're having a good time?< Have you ever been stuck inside of Mobile? Ever dreamed you saw St. Augustine? Ever felt you were living the blues in an eternal circle of mixed up confusion? If you answered "Yes" to any of the above, you are well on your way. If you answered "Most of the time", pick up your copy of "The Basement Tapes" and advance to Go. If you answered "Absiolutely, sweet Marie", deduct 5 points for being silly. 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: Tue, 06 May 1997 23:44:15 -0400 Subject: Re: What's a feg to do in London? Well, you have to take the train to Winchester...!!! Marcy ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 00:03:43 -0500 (CDT) From: Matthew Valenta Subject: Looking for Robyn & Deni doing Egyptian Cream Hello all, I'm making a tape for a friend and I want to put Egyptian Cream on it. However, because I took this friend to see Robyn & Deni twice, I want to put the version that they do on the tape. Is there somebody out there who has a good recording of a concert where they perform this and who would be willing to trade tapes with someone (i.e. me) who has a meager Robyn collection and a large number of REM, U2, Cure, Tori, and other boots. Thanks for helping out, Matt ------------------------------ From: TchdnJesus@aol.com Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 02:41:19 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: more Six Degrees normal@grove.ufl.edu (Terrence M Marks) writes: > 1) For a moment I thought that was "Can you connect In Living Color to > Robyn" (a challenge) damon wayans was briefly a cast member of saturday night live. t-bone wolk was the bassist in the snl band at that time wolk played of the little hands of concrete's (that's the emotional toothpaste to you) "brilliant mistake" napolean dynamite had glenn tilbrook sing on "from a whisper to a scream" mr. tilbrook sang on "beatle denis" > 2) Can anyone connect The Favourite Colour to Robyn? (a mildly more > difficult challenge) especially if you don't know who The Favourite Colour are/were/is/was/etc..... has anyone figured out Kevin Bacon btw........and, no what makes you think i need to get a life ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 22:38:19 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: more Six Degrees Is anyone else dead sick of the Kevin Bacon game? Eb ------------------------------ From: RIELWJ@sbu.edu Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 14:07:04 EDT Subject: Again w/ the 6 degrees.. TchnDJesus (sp?) figured the Living Colour one out in a way I never would have gotten. I had it this way: Living Colour=Vernon Reid=Ramones("Cabbies on Crack") =Tommy Erdelyi (Tommy Ramone)=Replacements(produced "Tim") ="Sleeping Knights..."cover.... ...but, hey. That's just me.... The Lord of the Dance, recently named one of PEOPLE magazines 50 Most Beautiful People, one of SPIN magazines 40 most influential artists, one of ROLLING STONES best 200 lps ever, and one ROD & REELS best pole for bass fishing 1997. ------------------------------ Subject: Re: Seattle '94 shows Date: Wed, 07 May 1997 08:28:57 -0400 From: Thomas Narten >I'm doing some trades, and am hoping someone out there can help me >distinguish between the following two shows: > >10/2/94 Crocodile Cafe, Seattle (secret gig) >10/4/94 Seattle (Viva Seatac! gig) These were two separate shows in seattle, though I don't know that they were both "secret". Also, your date is wrong, according to the info I have on the shows. Here is the info I have: (The Backstage, Seattle, WA 10/1/94) (TCD-D7 w/Sonic Studios DSM6P) (Running Time: 1:17:03) (De Cherico Street) (Madonna of the Wasps) (Balloon Man) (Each of Her Silver Wands) (Devil's Coachman) (Glass Hotel) (Allright, Yeah) (I'm Only You) (I Something You) (Beautiful Girl) (Airscape) (Yip Song) (I Am Not Me) (She Doesn't Exist) (Nubian Slaves (?)) (52 Stations) (Only the Stones Remain) (I Got A Message For You) (Listening to the Higsons) (Robyn Hitchcock 10-4-94) (Crocodile Cafe Seattle, WA) (Viva Seatak Benefit Show) (with Fine Fresh Fellows) (Running Time: 92 min including soundcheck) (DeChirico Street) (Balloon Man) (Chinese Bones) (Allright, Yeah) (Devil's Coachman) (Wreck Of The Arthur Lee) (I Something You) (Cynthia Mask) (Queen Elvis) (Yip Song) (I Am Not Me) (Autumn is Your Last Chance) (Odds & Ends) (Queen Of Eyes) (Give It To The Soft Boys) (Cold Turkey) Thomas ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 09:50:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard Subject: new date (michigan) According to Robyn's management, there's a new date that's just been added. Here's the details: May 22nd (8pm) at the "Magic Stick" which is described as being a small room above the Majestic Club (where he played with Billy Bragg) in Detroit, MI. The Majestic is a *very* small place. It holds (at most) 150 people. So, I can only imagine that the Magic Stick is big enough for 30-40 people. They're all flying off to LA this Friday to begin the tour. ------------------------------ From: RIELWJ@sbu.edu Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 10:53:10 EDT Subject: Generic Post >From the esteemed Mississipi Malcolm McDowell (wondering if you hang out with Dirty Harry Dean Stanton)...I was instructed to begin my Bob Dylan experience with B.O.B, and you're not the first to tell me that, so therefore it must be true...I work with this cat who's been to quite a few Dylan shows and he said the same thing. He also said Bob did 4 encores last monday night, which was odd because he normally isn't one for encores. I guess I wasn't aware that Marr played on "Naked." I just see him as capable as so much more than being a session artist, although one can surely make a good living that way. Perhaps those so-called "lost" tapes he did w/ Ian McCulloch will surface. Some of the songs appeared on the surprisingly excellent Electrafixion lp last year. I hope for some good work from that band in the future. Ian and Will rank with Mozz and Marr any day, or at least did at one point. See "Seven Seas" for proof. I, as I often do, had a thought the other day. If, as I read on the list, 21,000 copioes of Moss Elixir were shipped, and say that roughly 50-60% were sold (anyone with accurate figures feel free to correct me--not that I have to ask you to!!), and if the artist recieves about $1 per sold disc...that would put Robyn in roughly the same income bracket as...Me!! Granted, he earns from other sources whereas most people will not pay to see me in concert (although you're missing a hell of show) or wear Lord of the Dance themed hats and cones etc. But it just kind of made me feel...dignified!! Yours, the $6.50 an hour Angee's Italian Restaurant cooking Lord of the Gnocchi...er...Dance ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 May 1997 12:50:20 -0700 From: mrrunion@tng.net (Runion, Michael R.) Subject: Hitchcock/Cope Connection Hi all, Just sitting here pondering, with *You & Oblivion* in the CD player and Julian Cope's *20 Mothers* lying nearby... Anyone know much about the Hitchcock/Cope connection? We know they are at the very least acquaintances, based on past statements (such as the one on *Spectre*), and Robyn has covered Julian's *Charlotte Anne* on occasion. It strikes me as well that here are two artists from roughly the same generation, each in arguably influential bands of the late '70's (The Soft Boys and Teardrop Explodes, respectively). Each flirted with some sort of mainstream mid-80's alternative success with albums (*Globe Of Frogs* and *St. Julian*, respectively) that, in hindsight, may not exactly represent the pinnacle of their artistic endeavors. Each has of late, in my opinion, put out some tremendously good albums which have next-to-flopped commercially in the US. (While Robyn's '90's releases have perhaps been a tad patchy and inconsistent, Julian's '90's work has been consistently mind-blowing, at least for me.) Each artist also seems to be quite happy and comfortable with their current level of "success", and each has stretched into other creative media (painting, writing, etc). Just curious about other's opinions on this, and whether anyone knows anything more substantial regarding their personal relationship. (And, if anyone out there has any good live recording of Mr. Cope, I'd love to hear from them). ------------------------------ From: Hedblade@aol.com Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 14:42:50 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Mr. Zimmerman << Eh, Dylan's no hippie. Wasn't he the one who said Woodstock was nothing but a market for tie-dyed t-shirts? ;) >> That, however, doesn't explain his appearance at Woodstock 94. :) Jay ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 May 1997 20:31:58 GMT From: Rob@nimbus.demon.co.uk (Rob Collingwood) Subject: Katrina etc. again My apologies if you get this twice, but I'm not sure it went the first time. I don't think that this has been mentioned yet, but Katrina & the Waves won a landslide victory in the British general election. Well, not really, but they did win the Eurovision with a margin of about 70 points. I won't explain the voting system, but they'd won with six countries' votes still to be counted and looked very jolly in the hospitality tent. Unfortunately for the BBC, this means they have to host next year's Eurovision. I think this is why they usually select pretty dire material as the British entry, in the hope they won't win and thus have to fork out a million pounds for the next year's competition. I watched some of the show for the first time in years, and it is amusingly bad. The Icelandic entry was remarkable, if only for the four blonde, PVC clad women cavorting around the singer as he sat on a sofa. Not very likely to get the feminists' vote, that one. -- Rob Collingwood Warrington, Cheshire, England rob@nimbus.demon.co.uk ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 13:09:15 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Hitchcock/Cope Connection >Just sitting here pondering, with *You & Oblivion* in the CD player and >Julian Cope's *20 Mothers* lying nearby... > >Just curious about other's opinions on this, and whether anyone knows >anything more substantial regarding their personal relationship. (And, >if anyone out there has any good live recording of Mr. Cope, I'd love to >hear from them). Maybe I'm in the minority, but I've never heard anything by Cope that interested me. Eb ------------------------------ Subject: Re: Syd, John, Lou, & Bob to Robyn Date: Wed, 7 May 97 16:43:18 -0000 From: The Great Quail Seven: >How about Lou to Bowie to Eno to Ferry to David Gilmour (played on "Boys >and Girls") to Nick Mason to the Captain to Robyn? I know, it's 7 >steps. Someone wanna shorten it? Five: >Lou to Bowie to Adrian Belew (or Robert Fripp) to Pat Mastelotto >(drummer for King Crimson/percussion on PI) to RH. Four: Lou to Bowie to Seligman to Robyn Pweet. The Quail, who is thrilled to find out that PM played percussion on PI! All this time, a one step RH/KC connection. I can now die in peace. ---------------------------------+-------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------ Subject: A RH Reading Primer (Was: Musician Magazine '88) Date: Wed, 7 May 97 16:43:35 -0000 From: The Great Quail >Several years ago I located an article about the Great Man in Musician >Magazine. It was in 1988, I believe, roughly issue No#103 or so. In it, >he tells a nice little story about his birth and the events leading up to >it. At the time, I tried to order a back copy of the issue (I found it in >a library in 1992 or so), but it was sold out. I'd like to think this was >because of the efforts of the Great Quail with his students . . . Damn! I have been found out. I had my whole school order thousands of copies to use as Reading Primers in the Elementary school. If I recall, it went something like this: See Dick. See Jane. See Dick run. See Jane run. See Dick and Jane's dog, Mr. Slugbelch. See Mr. Slugbelch? See the radar antenna strapped to his back? Talk, Mr. Slugbelch, talk. See the dog talk? Dog says, "Yeah." See Dick run up a hill. See Jane follow. See Dick and Jane fondle a squid. See Dick and Jane cup the furry bees. See Dick laugh! See Jane smile! Laugh, Dick, Laugh! Smile Jane, Smile! See Dick and Jane suddenly transmogrify into a vasty mass of squirming, pulpy flesh covered with tiny feathery vents and oozing tentacles and a vaguely horrible erotic, um, appendage that sort of *whirls,* twitches in the air as if to say, "Mr. Slugbelch! Mr. Slugbelch! The Lions are on fire again!" ******* The experiment was a resounding success, and the literacy rate of Harrisburg PA went, if not exactly through the roof, at least in entirely new levels. And they all blame it on Three Mile Island. . . . The 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 ------------------------------ Subject: This may be vile. . . . but it *is* RH related! Date: Wed, 7 May 97 16:41:38 -0000 From: The Great Quail In Feg conversation recently: Riel: >> There is such slavish devotion to her here. I recal a >> couple of my friends telling me that they were backstage after a >> concert at the college some years back and they drank the remainder >> of her tea from a paper cup and took the cup as a memento... Susan: >And people call -me- a crazed fangirl! I'd never drink Robyn's leftover >tea. Erm, well, scratch that, I might, but only if I was POSITIVE he >didn't have a cold :). Quail: Well . . . . at one Robyn show in a Boston bar, he was playing last, after Deni's band and the delightful Jill Sobule. So I go to the bathroom in between Deni/Jill sets, and I am standing there, you know, doing my thing in the, um, urinal, and I look to my left at the guy standing there, you know, doing *his* thing in the urinal,too, as guys are wont to do; and lo and behold, tis our Man Robyn. So being a bit . . . drunk, not to mention rather stunned at the surreality of the moment, I utter a completely spontaneous, surprised, "Wow. It's, um, you." (Yes, I know this was a completely awkward, moronic, stupid, inane thing to say, and I am STILL pissed at my intestines for not leaping up and strangling me - ala Douglas Adams - before I could get it out. . .) So needless to say, Robyn says something astonishingly noncommittal, zips his fly, and makes haste out the door - I am sure that I made his "call of nature" answering experience rather awkward. I felt crushed, idiotic, like Homer with a profound sense of "Doh!" So I walk out and shamefully tell my story to my friend, who is quite the Robyn Fan. She doesn't even blink: "So . . . did you take the urinal sani-cake?" **** Fortunately for me, I recently met Robyn after a gig, during which time I behaved in a somewhat less moronic fashion. I am also pretty sure that he did not remember me, which laid to rest that particular secret fear I've been allowing to brood for several years in the back of my paranoid brain. . . . Oh, yes - speaking of less obsessive fan momentos, I *did* snag his setlist after the fisrt time I saw him. I remember upon first seeing it thinking: "Gosh, his writing really does look all loopy like that!" I have it framed on my wall, sort of a fanboy thing to do, but heh heh, you know, you're talking to a guy who scrounged one of Frank Zappa's discarded cigarette butts.(Since I don't smoke, I kept this in my car ashtray, so I could tell folks: "I swear to *God,* that's Frank Zappa's" . . . . hoping, of course, they would think he smoked it in my car with me, undoubtedly while drinking some beer and discussing a future rock opera about quails.) Thanks for your patience. The Quail. PS - No! I did not return for the urinal cake! Sheesh. ---------------------------------+-------------------------------- 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: Wed, 7 May 1997 17:40:21 -0500 (EST) From: Tracy Aileen Copeland Subject: House of Blues Is anyone from the Indianapolis area going to this show? If so, and if you're willing to carpool, write me privately; I'd be happy to split gas costs, driving time, or whatever. I'll even spare you the sad and true story of the demise of the Toastmobile. Tracy "international house of toast" Copeland ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The End of this Fegmaniax Digest. *sob* .