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 #106 Fegmaniax Digest Volume 5 Number 106 Thursday May 22 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: ------- ------- Chicago. Tonight? Fegphotos! Unhatched Crablings--need playlists for both drummers, beatles & c (long boring diatribe) Man Who Invented Himself Re: Man Who Invented Himself Captain Beefheart connection Re: Man Who Invented Himself Man Who Invented Himself Re: Captain Beefheart connection Re: Captain Beefheart connection Re: Captain Beefheart connection more info Re: Captain Beefheart connection Re: Captain Beefheart connection Re: Captain Beefheart connection Queen Elvis tracked down! Re: Captain Beefheart connection Re: Unhatched Crablings--need playlists for both Re: Yet another case solved! Sin City? Yet another case solved! Re: Sin City? Re: Sin City? Come see the Beautiful Queen CD! Chicago show i don't mean to be a pane in the glass, but... WXRT/loop the loop/dark princess Re: Chicago show Press release Re: Captain Beefheart connection Re: Man Who Invented Himself Re: Man Who Invented Himself Re: Chicago show Re: Captain Beefheart connection ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 18:45:37 -0700 From: Nick Winkworth Subject: Chicago. Tonight? Fegphotos! I know, I know. It's too late to remind you now--but in the unlikely event that one of the massed Chicago fegpersons remembered to bring a camera (and use it!), please let me know. For the unititiated I'm in the process of building a "Fegphotos" page for the Fegmaniax site, which will hopefully document some of these little gatherings. Ta muchly. ~N ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 20:40:59 -0500 From: LSDiamond Subject: Unhatched Crablings--need playlists for both The subject says it all! :) I need the playlists for UC & UCII.. :) Thanks! LSDiamond, keeper of the sacred pencil shaving ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Last updated 17 May 1997 http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/1542 Please sign my guestbook again! I only have 9 visitors.. :( ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 13:58:30 +1200 (NZST) From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: drummers, beatles & c (long boring diatribe) >And...There were mass cultural revolts against the Monkees and The Bee >Gees. They had been quite popular and within a month, people decide that >they weren't "Real" enough, so they shouldn't get radio play/positive >press. Any other bands that this happened to? Any ideas on why this >hapened? (apart from jealousy) Huge numbers. Abba springs to mind. The point is that - as I'm sure anyone interested in an artist like Robyn realises, "the charts" aren't necessarily an indication of worth. The bands that become the most popular tend to be "tainted" by the fact that they have been popular (the tall poppy syndrome, I suppose). Only those that are truly excellent survive. Those that are less than excellent soon get bypassed when the fashions change as being passe - especially if their style is fairly saccharine. Occasionally, years later, someone will say "hey, they weren't so bad after all". But by then its usually too late. It took a long time for people to realise that some of the Monkees hits stood up remarkably well against very tough competition in the mid-60s ("Last Train to Clarksville" is not much inferior to many of the Beatles best hits, and "Pleasant Valley Sunday" [here I don my asbestos suit] is as near to the Kinks as an American band ever came). We've had a largely un-noticed Abba revival, and I will stick my neck out and say that yes, they too are better than people give them credit for. Their best songs ("The name of the game", "So Long", "Waterloo") stand up well, looking back, and some of their little known songs are weird but wonderful gems ("The visitors (cracking up)", "Watch out", "The king has lost his crown"). As to the credit that the Beatles get, I think I've said this before, but the best comment I've read on the true worth of the Beatles is that in the 1992 Rolling Stone Album Guide (hey, they like Robyn, they can't be all bad ;), written by Paul Evans. I apologise if I've written this here before (I may have), but I feel it needs to be said again. It's a little stronger than I'd have worded it, but I think the points are valid: "The importance of the Beatles cannot be overstated. Transforming rock & roll from a rebel yell and a lover's whisper into the most comprehensive music of the century, they blazed through a breathtaking succession of creative periods whose ultimate end was the severing of the line between high art and popular entertainment. As the world's best loved band, they determined, too, that the sensibility of their period would mirror their own - and indeed, the rock & roll of the '60s was predominately Beatles-spirited: celebratory, omnivorous in its appetite for diverse influence, politically expansive and spiritually open. The interchange of personalities created the perfect band - John (rebel genius), Paul (perfectionist craftsman), George (mystic) and Ringo (clown). Finally, the Beatles were arguably the last band that everyone from Leonard Bernstein to school children embraced. Theirs is the final, great consensus in popular music - not liking the Beatles is as perverse as not liking the sun." >The auteur theory rears its ugly head again! John and Paul had a >-partnership-. Generally the one who sang a particular tune was the one >who was -mostly- responsible for writing it, but they fed off of each >other and gave each other ideas. yes and no. In the early days, up to about Help, this was certainly the case. But from about 1965 on they were writing almost totally separately, and only using the "Lennon & McCartney" byline out of habit, respect for each other, and for various royalties related reasons. But John never had anything to do with the writing of Yesterday, or of many of Paul's songs after that time, just as Paul had nothing to do with "Norwegian Wood" and John's songs after that. In fact, the times when they did work together, they wrote different parts of the songs - most noticeably the two parts of "I've got a feeling" and "A day in the life", but this was true from as early as "And I love her" (mostly Paul, but with a middle eight by John). However, it is true in general that the Bealtes were that rarest of things, a rock gestalt: one where the sum of the group was greater than the individual parts. The same is true with many of the top bands (The Who is another such that comes to mind). >1. the number of chords a song has is not grounds for attack. AGREED! After all, whenever there's a poll here, three-chord Airscape does pretty damn well! >>Remember-Jesus is your friend. >I think the Doobie Brothers said it best! wasn't it the Byrds? "Jesus is just alright"? >Well...I bet if Paul was dead, people would say he's the leader also... you forget that for a while people thought that Paul *was* dead - and John was still perceived as the leader of the Beatles. >It was not, as you misconstrued, an attack on Lennon's songwriting >ability. I was just denying your claim that Lennon's songs had more >"emotional depth" than McCartney's. I just used four songs that came off >the top of my head - four of my favorites in fact - to illustrate the >point. Hmm. Well, "Sexy Sadie" is pretty strong stuff emotionally, it's just that the emotions are on a slightly different level to the tug of "Yesterday". And the most emotionally heartrending song the Beatles ever did may well just be "Julia". >In most every band except The Monkees, the drummer has been expendable hmmm. is Terry looking for another flamewar? The Who without Keith Moon simply was not the Who. Just about any Who song from "My Generation" through to "Who Are You" and you'll see just what the Who were while Keith was there. As for Phil Collins, don't judge hiom just by his recent pap. There was a time when he was the best session drummer in Britain - listen to early John Cale or Brian Eno and you'll spot some great work. And as someone else pointed out, Bill Bruford's work in King Crimson (and anyone who thinks Crimso is a hippy band obviously haven't heard much of it. Heavier than Deep Purple in the early 70s, more funky than Talking Heads in the mid 80s, and now like a bastard hybrid of Abbey Road-era Beatles and Nine Inch Nails (after they'd been listening to some Bela Bartok)! Yup, pretty hippy... I've just realised... all this pro vs anti Beatles stuff, we're dissing people's religion again! ;) 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, 21 May 1997 22:55:16 -0400 From: wpb9826@is2.nyu.edu (Pete Bilderback) Subject: Man Who Invented Himself Ken writes: >i don't think the original version [of "Man Who Invented Himself"] can be found >anywhere else but on the original import version of the album. am i wrong? Well, it's on the import CD, plus it was released as a single b/w "Dancing on God's Thumb" back in 1981 (good luck finding it!). Oh, and wasn't there an import (semi-bootleg) compilation called The Man Who Invented Himself a few years back? I assume you could find it there too. I don't know why the BSDR version wasn't included with the Rhino CD. Pete ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 00:04:50 -0500 From: John Subject: Re: Man Who Invented Himself >Ken writes: > >>i don't think the original version [of "Man Who Invented Himself"] can be >found >anywhere else but on the original import version of the album. am i >wrong? > >Well, it's on the import CD, plus it was released as a single b/w "Dancing >on God's Thumb" back in 1981 (good luck finding it!). Last time I was at Music Machine in Owings Mills, MD, they had a copy of this 7" autographed for $50. FYI. John -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 \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- ------------------------------ Subject: Captain Beefheart connection Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 21:04:04 -0700 (PDT) From: "Daniel Saunders" Ok, here's what I've got so far: 1 Robyn covered Big-Eyed Beans From Venus. 2 Robyn sometimes sings like Captain Beefheart (Black Snake Diamond Rock, Statue With A Walkman talking bit) 3 I bought Trout Mask Replica, thinking RH had written some of the songs on it (I was mixed up with Captain Sensible) Can anyone add to this? As for Trout Mask Replica, all I can say is HOLY SHIT!! After about 30 listenings it's finally starting to sound like music of some sort! These are noises to scrape out the inside of your skull with. Daniel Saunders Life is heaven and hell. All else is silence. - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 21:21:50 -0700 From: librik@netcom.com (David Librik) Subject: Re: Man Who Invented Himself > Oh, and wasn't there >an import (semi-bootleg) compilation called The Man Who Invented Himself a >few years back? I assume you could find it there too. Oddly enough, _The Man Who Invented Himself_ doesn't contain its title song. (Like this is a big surprise for a Robyn Hitchcock album.) - David Librik librik@cs.Berkeley.edu p.s. That was my first Robyn album -- "Brenda's Iron Sledge" took me by storm. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 22:21:22 -0500 (CDT) From: John Littlejohn Subject: Man Who Invented Himself Somebody asked about The Man Who Invented Himself. I deleted that message and went on my merry way so I don't know whom to send this to. I know the other mix (the one which has horns instead of the grating, tinkly piano) is on my CD of BSDR. It's an import dated 1987. I see an import from Yodelin' Pig in Goldmine magazine which has the same number of tracks as my copy so it's probably the same - not a bad price either ($11.00 before shipping). JL -* "Si vous m'obstaclerez, je vous liquiderai" - Churchill -* ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 09:12:39 +0100 (BST) From: dench Subject: Re: Captain Beefheart connection 'Trout Mask Replica' has an interesting background. It was produced by Zappa, the Captain's old school friend, and Zappa and his engineer, whose name temporarily eludes me, recorded the music without letting the Magic Band members hear each other. Zappa then got Beefheart to record his vocals without letting him hear the recorded backing track. As a result when he finally heard the album he went ballistic and began the process of suing the engineer! However, when he saw the reviews of the album that mostly seemed to think it was some higher form of art, he dropped the suit and began to accept the praise. It is worth noting that his next album, 'Lick My Decals Off, Baby' is in exactly the same style. So much for art.... Martin > As for Trout Mask Replica, all I can say is HOLY SHIT!! After about 30 > listenings it's finally starting to sound like music of some sort! These > are noises to scrape out the inside of your skull with. > > Daniel Saunders ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 03:43:42 -0500 (CDT) From: John Littlejohn Subject: Re: Captain Beefheart connection On Wed, 21 May 1997, Daniel Saunders wrote: > As for Trout Mask Replica, all I can say is HOLY SHIT!! After about 30 > listenings it's finally starting to sound like music of some sort! These > are noises to scrape out the inside of your skull with. According to some reports, Beefheart wrote the whole album in eleven hours. Some people would say "he wrote that whole thing in eleven hours!" Other people would probably say "you call that writing?" JL -* "Si vous m'obstaclerez, je vous liquiderai" - Churchill -* ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 01:59:40 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Captain Beefheart connection >According to some reports, Beefheart wrote the whole album in eleven >hours. >Some people would say "he wrote that whole thing in eleven hours!" >Other people would probably say "you call that writing?" I think I heard 8.5 hours!! Eb, amazed that Matthew Sweet is the guest on Later tonight ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 04:52:13 -0500 (CDT) From: John Littlejohn Subject: more info Thanks for the help on Stand Back Dennis. Do you guys know anything (dates, tracks, release info) about Invisible History and/or the "Beautiful Queen, US Warners 12 track promo CD inc 11 live tracks recorded at the Borderline London, in card sleeve" JL, who's come across a lot of neat stuff this week -* "Si vous m'obstaclerez, je vous liquiderai" - Churchill -* ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 04:50:42 -0500 (CDT) From: Mississippi Malcolm McDowell Subject: Re: Captain Beefheart connection On Thu, 22 May 1997, Eb wrote: > >According to some reports, Beefheart wrote the whole album in eleven > >hours. > >Some people would say "he wrote that whole thing in eleven hours!" So he worked eleven hours? Did he buy the girl some flowers? > >Other people would probably say "you call that writing?" As Truman Capote said of Jack Kerouac, it's typing, not writing! > I think I heard 8.5 hours!! I think I heard that Mick Jagger stole Robyn's wallet and gave it to Keef as a birthday present. > Eb, amazed that Matthew Sweet is the guest on Later tonight I'm amazed that I'm still up. Exhausted and giddy is a bad combination. So is shopping and depressants. Or was that anti-depressants? Oh my word, the feelers was everywhere! Love on ya, Susan ******************************************************************************* "The worship of the beautiful always ends in an orgy"- Benjamin Disraeli, "Lothair", lxxvii ******************************************************************************* ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 13:00:14 +0100 (BST) From: dench fegmaniax@ecto.org Subject: Re: Captain Beefheart connection I don't wish to appear pedantic, but whatever the hyperbole that has grown up around the record, I think if you dredge beneath the surface you will find that this is true. I remember it all as if it was yesterday.... On Thu, 22 May 1997, M R Godwin wrote: > > On Thu, 22 May 1997, dench wrote: > > > 'Trout Mask Replica' has an interesting background. It was produced by > > Zappa, the Captain's old school friend, and Zappa and his engineer, whose > > name temporarily eludes me, recorded the music without letting the Magic > > Band members hear each other. Zappa then got Beefheart to record his > > vocals without letting him hear the recorded backing track. > > My understanding is that almost none of this is true. I have certainly > seen Don perform 'My Human Gets Me Blues' and other TMR tracks live on > several occasions, exactly like the record, which I would have thought > would be pretty difficult if the procedure had been as weird as reported > here. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 12:52:43 +0100 (BST) From: M R Godwin Subject: Re: Captain Beefheart connection On Thu, 22 May 1997, dench wrote: > 'Trout Mask Replica' has an interesting background. It was produced by > Zappa, the Captain's old school friend, and Zappa and his engineer, whose > name temporarily eludes me, recorded the music without letting the Magic > Band members hear each other. Zappa then got Beefheart to record his > vocals without letting him hear the recorded backing track. My understanding is that almost none of this is true. I have certainly seen Don perform 'My Human Gets Me Blues' and other TMR tracks live on several occasions, exactly like the record, which I would have thought would be pretty difficult if the procedure had been as weird as reported here. I do think it was likely that Don was in a separate vocal booth where it was difficult to hear the other musicians, because his voice was so forceful. As to the length of time it took to compose, what I think happened was that Don thumped out the basics on the piano in a few hours, using pre-written lyrics. John French (who is not even CREDITED on the original LP, I don't know whether he is on more recent issues) took notes and wrote them up into full band arrangements. This process must have taken weeks or even months. Is anyone in touch with John French? He has had a few albums out with Henry Kaiser and (usually) Richard Thompson. He is the man who knows the truth of all this. - Mike Godwin ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 14:05:26 +0100 (BST) From: dench Subject: Queen Elvis tracked down! Hi everyone, Thanks to everyone who helped in my quest for a CD copy of Queen Elvis. A copy is winging its way to me now. So, if you're still looking, please stop!!! Thanks again, Martin ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 14:14:59 +0100 (BST) From: M R Godwin Subject: Re: Captain Beefheart connection On Wed, 21 May 1997, Daniel Saunders wrote: > Ok, here's what I've got so far: > > 1 Robyn covered Big-Eyed Beans From Venus. > 2 Robyn sometimes sings like Captain Beefheart (Black Snake Diamond > Rock, Statue With A Walkman talking bit) > 3 I bought Trout Mask Replica, thinking RH had written some of the songs > on it (I was mixed up with Captain Sensible) That '109 zone' tune still sounds a hell of a lot like 'The Spotlight Kid' to me. > As for Trout Mask Replica, all I can say is HOLY SHIT!! After about 30 > listenings it's finally starting to sound like music of some sort! These > are noises to scrape out the inside of your skull with. It's great, isn't it? 'Ella Guru', 'Steal softly thru sunshine steal softly through snow' and 'Sugar'n'spikes' are especially good. And of course the fabulous unaccompanied songs... Justin Sherrill's Home Page Replica is well worth a visit at http://www.rit.edu/~jcs1589/hpr/ Hi Ella Hi Yeller Hi Blue She blew - Mike Godwin ------------------------------ From: Terry_Linnig@hccompare.com Date: Thu, 22 May 97 10:59:57 cst Subject: Re: Unhatched Crablings--need playlists for both Enjoy, VOLUME I * mr. rock and roll * the angel upstairs * rabbit train * the vomiting cross * a most peculiar voice * cherry-red daughter * messages of dark * weasel turned his back * dark globe * every day is like sunday * draft morning * it takes a lot to laugh * the crystal ship * rain * satellite of love * wild mountain thyme * odds and ends * bog down in the valley VOLUME II * chain mary to the bed * you're so repulsive * the feelers was everwhere * brain death * shadowcat * surfer ghost * snow strike * i thought i saw julian cope * consider me gone * it all adds up * retinal damage * moussaka song * meat home * demons and fiends * ten fingers * (sadly not) my dead relations * the fortunate son * waterloo sunset * send him some dentures * queers for jesus * sin city ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 13:12:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard Subject: Re: Yet another case solved! On Thu, 22 May 1997, LSDiamond wrote: > Thanks to all for helping me with the UC I & II albums! :) also, JH3 made some gorgeous j-cards for these. they're on his web page, whose URL I have forgotten for the moment. JH? if anyone has suggestions for songs to go on a third crablings tape, let me know! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 13:29:13 +0500 From: Ken Frankel Subject: Sin City? I noticed on the track list for Unhatched Crablings Vol. 2 there is a song entitled Sin City. Since I don't have the tape, I'm hoping that someone who does can tell me if this the Flying Burrito Brothers song or a Robyn original. (I'm assuming it's not the AC/DC song!) Thanks, Ken ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 11:20:01 -0500 From: LSDiamond Subject: Yet another case solved! Thanks to all for helping me with the UC I & II albums! :) LSDiamond, elf-friend ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Last updated 17 May 1997 http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/1542 Please sign my guestbook again! I only have 9 visitors.. :( ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 13:39:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard Subject: Re: Sin City? It's the Burrito Bros one, and features Andy M. on (standup??) bass and he and RH trade off on the vocals. Nice. Makes me wish every show could be a classic mccabe's show. ------------------------------ Subject: Re: Sin City? Date: Thu, 22 May 97 10:41:24 -0700 From: Tom Clark "The Lobster Gang" On 5/22/97 1:29 AM, Ken Frankel muttered: >I noticed on the track list for Unhatched Crablings >Vol. 2 there is a song entitled Sin City. Since I >don't have the tape, I'm hoping that someone who >does can tell me if this the Flying Burrito Brothers >song or a Robyn original. (I'm assuming it's not the >AC/DC song!) It's a cover of the Burrito Brothers song. >Thanks, You're welcome. >Ken ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 15:55:51 -0500 From: "Gene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: Come see the Beautiful Queen CD! Hey all, In a fit of Internet Madness, I scanned the cover of the new Beautiful Queen Warner Bros. promo CD and made a web page out of it. I put all of the info there, too -- song names, credits, etc. Point your browser at and there it is. Oh, I got my copy from a friend who works at a college radio station. Musically, it's no different than the tapes and CDs of the Borderline show currently making the rounds, but it's a nice collector's piece nonetheless. __________________________________________________ Gene Hopstetter, Jr. +++ Internet Publishing Specialist E-DOC +++ http://www.edoc.com/ Voice: (410) 691-6265 +++ Fax: (410) 691-6235 ------------------------------ From: Hedblade@aol.com Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 16:52:15 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Chicago show Hey Fegs, I have a short report now because no one else has said anything. The show was great (how predictable)! Really, though, it was one of the better Robyn shows I've seen. His voice was in FINE form last night- hit all the high notes with near perfection. Gene Hackman and Jewels For Sophia were pulled out, as well as 1974. David Witzany will post the whole set list soon (right Dave?). The sound at The House Of Blues was beyond words. It was really warm and intimate for a place that is so over the top in presentation. I guess I should say that the sound was great if you were one of the folks on the main floor (as were all the Fegs)- when you got up into the balcony or toward the back of the venue, the music was overtaken by the loud talking of folks who weren't there to see Robyn. This was my second venture to the House Of Blues, and the same thing happened at the last show. I'm amazed that folks would plop down $18.50 on a Wednesday night for an artist they hadn't heard of or weren't a dedicated fan of. Is it just me, or is that strange? I guess that part of town (downtown) caters to the sort that have A LOT of expendible income. As for my interview with Robyn, it was fab. Thanks to all of you who posted questions- many of them were asked. I'll be posting some answers later today or tomorrow. It was a GAS meeting all of the Fegs and putting faces to the names (or screen names as it may be)! You folks really made the night extra special! Here's the Feg Fashion Show: Susan was fetching in her school-girl a go-go get up, David Witzany showed his incredible taste by wearing his Rugburns Rock (Rolling Rock beer parody) t-shirt, Hal and buddy Dave Bell sported their cones... and me? Well, I was doing my best David Lynch by keeping the top button on my white shirt tight to my neck. Other highlights: 1) The guy who yelled "nice shirt" to Robyn almost the second he hit the stage. Sent me into fits of laughter as Uncle Bobby had an a very generic white shirt! 'Twas a good one, as they say. 2) "Kingdom Of Love" 3) Tim freakin' Keegan! Great opening set and a wonderful sidekick to Robyn. Had Denni been there on "Beautiful Queen" to add the violin bit, the combination of Robyn, Tim's harmonies and guitar, and violin would have been transcendental. As it was, it was simply brilliant. My personal motto for the evening: "MORE TIM!!!!" That's it for now. More later. Blinking On And Off, Jay P.S. At one point I asked Susan if we should shout out, "More songs about toast," but thankfully she made me think better of the idea. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 17:07:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard Subject: i don't mean to be a pane in the glass, but... id like to compile some of the comments on the _glass flesh_ cd and maybe put them on the web page as testimonials-- i've gotten tons of feedback both public and private, i won't use the private comments unless you tell me it's ok. i will use the public comments that were posted to the list unless you don't want me to do so, just let me know. i've gotten comments from: terrence maks terry linnig del field mark ponder adrian jones _thrust quarterly_ wet toast tweezers debora[h] kent dolph chaney bryan poole ferris gene h. jeff lawrence jim neill john partridge lorrie lsdiamond s.h. mccleary the guambat tracy copeland jay lyall no comment from robyn, which doesn't surprise me. go ahead and send me comments/reviews if you want to, too-- positive or negative, so we can make the next one even better. the next one will actually have the bonus track on it, for instance, and it won't be salmon colored. :) And get those robyn cover songs in for the next tape and disc! bayard ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 May 97 16:48:30 -500 From: spine@iastate.edu (James Francis) Subject: WXRT/loop the loop/dark princess Because you're all so good natured and generous: I'm looking for anyone willing to set up a trade for the WXRT interview/songs from the other night, and/or (if anyone out there has it) a copy of the songs Robyn played on some Florida radio program earlier in the spring--I think they were "Loop the Loop," "Dark Princess," and "Daisy Bomb" (had a trade set up for this but the person has apparently left the list). If any of you would be willing to trade for one or both of these please let me know. Thank you thank you thank you thank you. --"Jim" Francis ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 17:03:20 -0500 (CDT) From: Mississippi Malcolm McDowell Subject: Re: Chicago show On Thu, 22 May 1997 Hedblade@aol.com wrote: > Hey Fegs, > > I have a short report now because no one else has said anything. > > The show was great (how predictable)! Really, though, it was one of the > better Robyn shows I've seen. His voice was in FINE form last night- hit all > the high notes with near perfection. Gene Hackman and Jewels For Sophia were > pulled out, as well as 1974. David Witzany will post the whole set list soon > (right Dave?). I thought it was absolutely brilliant! I would agree with Jay that his voice sounded great. Especially the high parts in "Cynthia Mask"- I haven't heard him do those without straining before :). One minor correction- it was Hal that was keeping the set list, as he was the only one of us who had a writing implement. > The sound at The House Of Blues was beyond words. It was really warm and > intimate for a place that is so over the top in presentation. I guess I > should say that the sound was great if you were one of the folks on the main > floor (as were all the Fegs)- when you got up into the balcony or toward the > back of the venue, the music was overtaken by the loud talking of folks who > weren't there to see Robyn. That's really a shame. Did you get to hear that very funny story about Mick and Keith and Robyn's wallet? > Other highlights: > 1) The guy who yelled "nice shirt" to Robyn almost the second he hit the > stage. Sent me into fits of laughter as Uncle Bobby had an a very generic > white shirt! 'Twas a good one, as they say. Another good one (I'm wondering if it might have been the same person)- at one point Robyn asked for a show of hands as to who wanted to be cremated, and commented that "the rest of you must want to be buried", at which point someone yelled "Why?", and Robyn commented something along the lines of "Well, I guess you haven't thought of it, or maybe your body is going to keep going". > 2) "Kingdom Of Love" Was amazing. Also a lovely "Glass Hotel" and "I Often Dream of Trains", and surprisingly (not being a QE fan), I also really dug "Freeze". > Blinking On And Off, > > Jay > > P.S. At one point I asked Susan if we should shout out, "More songs about > toast," but thankfully she made me think better of the idea. It might not have been such a bad idea, now that I think of it. A lot less annoying than the guy who kept yelling "Vegetable Man". Love on ya, Susan P.S. Highlight of the evening has yet to be mentioned :) ******************************************************************************* "The worship of the beautiful always ends in an orgy"- Benjamin Disraeli, "Lothair", lxxvii ******************************************************************************* ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 9:09:36 -0400 From: LORDK@library.phila.gov Subject: Press release --------------------- Forwarded message: From: john_hagelston@rhino.com (John Hagelston) To: Rhino_Media@rhino.com Date: 97-05-22 00:03:00 EDT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: John Hagelston WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1997 (310) 474-4778 http://www.rhino.com/media john_hagelston@rhino.com Uncorrected Personality Traits From The Man With The Lightbulb Head Comprehensive Robyn Hitchcock Collection Due In Stores August 5 LOS ANGELES - The ever-eclectic Rhino Records is pleased to announce the August 5 release of Uncorrected Personality Traits: The Robyn Hitchcock Collection, the first-ever compilation of the singer/songwriter/musician extraordinaire's post-Soft Boys/pre-A&M recordings. The single CD is a comprehensive overview of the 10 critically-acclaimed Hitchcock albums Rhino reissued in 1995. Drawn from Robyn's 1980-1987 output, the 20 tracks on Uncorrected Personality Traits feature some of the best work the Englishman has ever recorded. Such college/alternative rock staples as "The Man With The Lightbulb Head," "Queen Elvis II," and "If You Were A Priest" can be heard on the near-70-minute collection. The CD will be available at retail for a suggested list price of $15.98 and also through RhinoDirect at 1-800-432-0020. Robyn was actively involved in compiling Uncorrected Personality Traits and also supplied the package's eccentric track-by-track notes. The booklet also includes a baker's-dozen of testimonials (or "fanecdotes") on Hitchcock and his ouevre from fans around the world. In early 1998 Robyn becomes a motion picture with Storefront Hitchcock, Jonathan Demme's film of the singer performing for shoppers last December in a Manhattan store window. The Oscar=AE-winning director (Silence Of The Lambs) similarly immortalized the Talking Heads in 1984's Stop Making Sense. Robyn Hitchcock won early recognition as the leader of seminal post-psychedelic rockers The Soft Boys; since their breakup in 1980, Hitchcock has performed as both a solo artist and with his group The Egyptians. His singular style reflects such influences as The Beatles, early Pink Floyd, and Bob Dylan (Robyn recently commemorated Dylan's legendary 1966 Manchester concert by recording a song-by-song recreation of it). For further information about Uncorrected Personality Traits, review copies, photos, or interviews, please contact John Hagelston at Rhino Media Relations. If you no longer wish to be on Rhino's E-mail press release list, reply to this message and put DON'T SEND at the top. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 17:18:10 -0500 (CDT) From: Mississippi Malcolm McDowell Subject: Re: Captain Beefheart connection On Thu, 22 May 1997, M R Godwin wrote: > > Ok, here's what I've got so far: > > > > 1 Robyn covered Big-Eyed Beans From Venus. Robyn also did a version of "Clear Spot" at the last San Francisco gig. > That '109 zone' tune still sounds a hell of a lot like 'The Spotlight Kid' > to me. 109 zone. 109's 'em. Hmmm...... Could this be one of those "Judy in Disguise" moments? (for reference: an old song by, well, I'm senile, I don't remember the name, John something and the Playboys (?) is called "Judy in Disguise" and contains the lyric "Judy in disguise/with glasses", which apparently is how the lead singer originally misheard "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"). > Hi Ella Hi Yeller Hi Blue She blew Is that maybe "high yeller"? Or am I showing my southern origins by asking that? Love on ya, Susan ******************************************************************************* "The worship of the beautiful always ends in an orgy"- Benjamin Disraeli, "Lothair", lxxvii ******************************************************************************* ------------------------------ From: Hedblade@aol.com Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 18:21:55 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Man Who Invented Himself Is this true? Is the Rhino CD version of the song different then the Glass Fish CD version of the song? Hmmmmmmmmmmm.... Jay >Ken writes: > >>i don't think the original version [of "Man Who Invented Himself"] can be >found >anywhere else but on the original import version of the album. am i >wrong? > >Well, it's on the import CD, plus it was released as a single b/w "Dancing >on God's Thumb" back in 1981 (good luck finding it!). >> ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 17:36:19 -0500 (CDT) From: Mississippi Malcolm McDowell Subject: Re: Man Who Invented Himself On Thu, 22 May 1997 Hedblade@aol.com wrote: > Is this true? Is the Rhino CD version of the song different then the Glass > Fish CD version of the song? Hmmmmmmmmmmm.... > > Jay Just how many versions of it -are- there? The album, I mean. I've never seen the Glass Fish one anywhere. Mine is Aftermath, a company I've never heard of before or since. I'll assume, though, that they are somehow affiliated with Glass Fish? Possibly? I'm sure somebody here knows. Love on ya, Susan ******************************************************************************* "The worship of the beautiful always ends in an orgy"- Benjamin Disraeli, "Lothair", lxxvii ******************************************************************************* ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 17:41:24 -0500 (CDT) From: donald andrew snyder Subject: Re: Chicago show On Thu, 22 May 1997 Hedblade@aol.com wrote: > Other highlights: > 2) "Kingdom Of Love" I was surprised that he pulled off the lead parts rather flawlessly on this and Madonna of the Wasps--both of which I suspected were not played by him originally. > the evening: "MORE TIM!!!!" I got the impression that Tim was supposed to be singing more than he was/did. I don't know if he was a little hesistant (who wouldn't be!) or if there was some confusion on when to come in. Robyn was looking over at him quite a bit in fatherly fashion either to make sure he was doing okay or to encourage him. Still, the harmonies were right on--just not frequent enough or in odd places. Overall, I was glad to hear less Moss Elixir stuff, which dominated last year's show. Also, I heard Airscape, I Often Dream of Trains, and Queen of Eyes--my three faves--for the first time live! I feel more complete now. It was great to meet some of the fegs. Did you guys ever make it to the "hostility room?" Andy, proud of his 8AM class attendance ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 15:51:50 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Captain Beefheart connection I'd just like to say that I have a good friend who never fails to break into laughter if you say to him, "Me and a girl named Bimbo...limbo...spam." :) Eb, who has never took off his pants and felt free...wind blowin' up...me... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The End of this Fegmaniax Digest. *sob* .