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 #124 Fegmaniax Digest Volume 5 Number 124 Monday June 9 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: Diaries of blah blah blah (Apology) Re: sacramento and two other things... Re: Diaries of blah blah blah (Apology) The Final Apology and Explanation Re: The Final Apology and Explanation Re: The Final Apology and Explanation Re: The Final Apology and Explanation Re: The Final Apology and Explanation Portland show Trades for Ray Davies solo anyone? Re: Portland show Re: SF setlist what goes well with Robyn? wish me luck! Re: Portland show Re: Portland show Re: Happy Halloween! Re: Portland Show attention Seattle fegs robyn in rio Re: sacramento and two other things... Re: Happy Halloween! Re: sacramento and two other things... ------------------------------ Subject: Re: Diaries of blah blah blah (Apology) Date: Sat, 7 Jun 97 01:50:00 -0000 From: The Great Quail LJ Lindhurst writes: >This is obviously some sort of cliquish private joke. You know, you two >COULD flirt in private and spare the rest of us our breakfasts. Hm. OK, Fegs, I'm sorry for the long and unwelcome post. It was not meant as any sort of cliquish private joke at all, just me blowing off some steam in the middle of end of the school year hell week. I just thought some folks might appreciate it, but I do suppose that this is a high volume list and people subscribe to it to read about Robyn and such stuff, and not to be bombarded by my nonsense. Again, I apologize. And if I gave the impression that I was flirting with anyone, existent or nonexistent, I am sorry - unless of course she is cute and welcomes such advances. >What is this, high school? I suppose you mean sort of in the vein of sophomoric pranks and/or self-serving and overly clever little excercises in intellectual masterbation? Point taken. That was not my intention. Again, I am sorry, and in the future I will refrain from making such long winded and non-RH content postings. I tend to stray a bit from List guidelines and such things at times -- reading Borges and Lovecraft tends to do that -- but I am not egomanaical enough not to know when I need to be reeled back in. I am sure I am already in more than one kill-file! I will refrain from this sort of thing in the future. Take care, 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 ------------------------------ From: SydneyC33@aol.com Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 02:35:01 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: sacramento and two other things... In a message dated 97-06-05 00:39:44 EDT, chris@unr.edu (Wet Toast Tweezers) writes: <> any sac-feg > > I wish you'd keep this sort of filth off of feg. This here's a >family-friendly list, you know. i know, but sacramento does exists and it is not fair to exclude it because of its reputation. besides these kids are going to grow up and find out about even if we don't tell them in a civilized way. also, the present place of residence of moi is far worse that sacramento and i shall not even mention it, for the mind turn to awful thoughts.>> Just curious to know what the Sacramento discussion was all about. I'm always slaggin' the place, but blood is thicker than water, after all! Syd ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 03:25:31 -0500 (CDT) From: John Littlejohn Subject: Re: Diaries of blah blah blah (Apology) On Sat, 7 Jun 1997, The Great Quail wrote: > > I suppose you mean sort of in the vein of sophomoric pranks and/or > self-serving and overly clever little excercises in intellectual > masterbation? Yes, after too much intellectual masturbation, it's the spelling that goes furst. -* "Si vous m'obstaclerez, je vous liquiderai" - Churchill -* ------------------------------ Subject: The Final Apology and Explanation Date: Sat, 7 Jun 97 17:03:08 -0000 From: The Great Quail Fegs and Feg-type friends, This is one more post to offer an apology and an explanation; then I swear I will be done. I am not writing this out of a sense of indignation or wounded pride, nor is this a "I'm taking my toys and going home" post. First of all, I recieved a host of private emails from various Fegs all expressing something more or less along the lines of annoyance at my "Diaries of Debbie Flosshilde" post. Please, let me say this in way of an explanation and a final apology: 1. There is no Debbie Flosshilde. Some people thought I was "lampooning" her, or in general being mean to her. I made her up - back in a post where Sydney asked if I was the chairperson to the Welcoming Committee. I made her up, and immediately consigned her to a fate worse than death on the poor Island of Guam. 2. I am *not* "using the list to flirt with Susan." I assure you that she and I do that quite nicely all by ourselves via private email ;) 3. The reason the "letters" were addressed to Susan was simple: she posted earlier that she had "contact" with said Debbie. This caused me to go, "Hm. What if . . . " And then as a joke, I concocted a false diary. It was to chronicle her adventures on Guam, as she became increasingly more involved in a cult there. The overall intention was to eventually work in many past threads, a few in-jokes, some spurious interpretations of Robynalia, and some gentle "making fun" of other list members, myself included. I was aiming for a Lovecraft meets Robyn sort of feel. 4. As to someone's accusation that I am "trying to dominate the list with postings that have nothing to do with the creation of the list," I am sorry. Please understand that I say this with NO sarcasm: I really am sorry. I know that the purpose of Fegmaniax is to discuss Robyn and his music, and I realized I may have abused the list. I'm used to doing that sort of thing (making up weird stories and such) in my correspondences with my friends, I guess I failed to make a distinction between "everyone knows each other" private list and a firmly established fan-based "we all have X in common" list. Believe me, as webmaster to a dozen sites, I get a lot of mail each day, and of all people I should understand that not everyone has time for this sort of thing. I was, however, alarmed at some of the nasty sniping that's been going on for the last few eeks, so I thought the best response was to inject some levity. Or I could just blame it on Skippy and the severed head of Andre Breton. Either way, I see that it was not a good idea. Please feel free to send me a case of New Coke as a punishment. 5. To address the comment that "the volume of little private exchanges was starting to get ridiculous," I again offer my apologies: but here I confess I do feel a bit unfairly pegged. My post was very long, true - but to be fair I only post a few times each week. 6. My spelling: it was pointed out by several people that I made a few spelling errors, particularly with the word "masturbation." I will now refrain from offering an explanation as to why I spelled *that* particular word wrong, heh. "I do not like that other world." Finally, I would like to say - in my defense - that I was *not* trying to "impress the list," nor was I trying to do a "Robyn story knockoff." I just have a hard time really keeping up on posts like "who's the best drummer" and "Who is Brian Wilson's therapist this week" and such and such. I do enjoy reading them, but I don't have the time to answer them all - nor do I like saying anything when I really have nothing original to add to the thread. I lurked on this list for quite a while before I began posting more - to be honest, this is the only list that I have not abandoned in despair. There are some wonderfully creative people here, and a truly diverse and excellent bunch of folks post regularly. I was not trying to make anybody say, "gee the Quail thinks he's so clever;" as a matter of fact, my favorite threads are when we all sort of make up weird stuff and go along for the ride. To me, that is the distinction between a unique and thriving creative community and a simple fanboy wanker list. So there is my explanation; I just want to be sure you all know that I meant no harm, that I was not just flirting, and that I was not just wanking my ego. (Hey - I like this word "wank." I could get used to it. It seems that I can spell it better, too.) Take care, for I am off to see U2 soon. If Bono covers "Star of Hairs," I'll let you know. I plan to shout out for more toast songs anyway. 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: Re: The Final Apology and Explanation From: guambat@juno.com (Metabolic Toad) Date: Sat, 07 Jun 1997 17:49:06 EDT On Sat, 7 Jun 97 17:03:08 -0000 The Great Quail writes: >I made her up, and immediately consigned her to a fate worse than death >on the poor Island of Guam. Hey now! I can handle all the posts about wanking and things of that nature, but disparaging the innocent and misunderstood paradise island of Guam is stepping over the line! :) I expect a full apology for this, too! :) The Guambat ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 18:00:28 -0500 (CDT) From: Mississippi Malcolm McDowell Subject: Re: The Final Apology and Explanation Allright, take this as you will. I know some of you are of the opinion that the Quail and I are part of a little clique, flirting with each other all the time and generally wreaking evil and havoc upon the land. So I suppose you can therefore cheerfully ignore this, as it is meant to be a considered defense of his actions. I think the problem is, again, misunderstanding about the nature of what a mailing list is supposed to be. Some think it should be entirely related to Robyn Hitchcock, and that nothing should be posted but things like "radio interviews at 8 pm on Saturday, could someone tape it for me?" or "I do/don't like Robyn's stage banter". Some treat it as a community of friends. The two camps are often in conflict round these parts. I suppose it's never going to be resolved. You may blame Quail for writing too much, but can't you see why it is that he might be just a little confused as to what's appropriate? We as a list are not of one mind as to what's appropriate. Some get flowers for writing those types of posts (anyone remember the Robyn/Ferengi scenario?) and some get nails. Some people are irritated and some people are entertained. That's just how it goes. I personally would get very bored if all we ever talked about was Robyn Hitchcock, because (believe it or not :)) he is not my entire universe, and I think there are a lot of creative, entertaining people around here with things to say about other subjects that might be of interest. If you think this stuff is irritating try subscribing to the Paul Weller list- all it ever is is "where can I get the Jam boxed set?" and "my favorite picture of Paul is the one from Smash Hits in '82" or whatever- now THAT'S a waste of time and bandwidth. I know there are others who feel the same way, and perhaps in the current hostile climate do not wish to come forward and say so, but I will. I've been flamed before and I'm willing to risk it again. Finally, I would like to add that the Quail's little story was chock full of Robynalia and had a lot more to do with Robyn Hitchcock than it did, say, Brian Wilson. Love on ya, Susan ******************************************************************************* "The worship of the beautiful always ends in an orgy"- Benjamin Disraeli, "Lothair", lxxvii ******************************************************************************* ------------------------------ Subject: Re: The Final Apology and Explanation Date: Sat, 7 Jun 97 16:51:41 -0700 From: Tom Clark "Fegmaniax!" On 6/7/97 10:03 AM, The Great Quail muttered: > as >a matter of fact, my favorite threads are when we all sort of make up >weird stuff and go along for the ride. To me, that is the distinction >between a unique and thriving creative community and a simple fanboy >wanker list. No shit people! The beauty of this little community is the breadth of creative and insightful input. Not to mention the fact that nearly every posting is chock full of sarcasm - a fact which seems to be lost on many of late. El Quail Mejor has my vote. -tc p.s. oh no, I used a curse word! Perhaps this will turn some young person into a raving serial killer! ------------------------------ Subject: Re: The Final Apology and Explanation From: guambat@juno.com (Metabolic Toad) Date: Sat, 07 Jun 1997 20:12:28 EDT On Sat, 7 Jun 97 16:51:41 -0700 Tom Clark writes: >No shit people! I concur! We should have no people made of excrement on this list!!! The Guambat ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 07 Jun 1997 18:29:53 -0700 From: Debora Subject: Portland show Howdy, Time to delurk again to tell y'all about the Portland show. I wasn't fortunate enough to run into any other Fegs, though I know some of you were there. I did, however, meet some people who seemed genuinely interested in the list; maybe they'll show up. Before the show started I grabbed one of the five cones that were out; some people later got really angry that they didn't get a cone and demanded that they be put on a waiting list. I heard that Robyn was frantically drawing more before the show, but I didn't see any of them surface. Also got a copy of the Homer single and I'm VERY happy I did. Robyn introduced him as "Englishman Tim", but didn't stick around to watch his set (too busy drawing?). Robyn's set list: ACOUSTIC Dont talk to me about Gene Hackman ("Time is speeding up - it's only the second song and I'm switching to the Hail Mary pick already. This song is about narcissism ... people basically want to fall in love with themselves as a teenager; that's what Hollywood is all about. You're all lucky you're not that rich ... I pressed the button that said 'cult figure' and I'm sticking with it. It's no better, I just get to have different vices.") Chinese Bones (He picked up the harmonica - "It's always good to play the harmonica in Portland. In Colorado you need oxygen tanks - They should have a warning for musicians over 40 to play only one note at a time. This is a song with a beard, the last one had a perm.") Serpent at the Gates of Wisdom (he made a point of singing "God above and all *her* angels...") Clean Steve (during which he sang "You could've knocked me down with a cone - if you'd bought one") W/Tim, still acoustic Madonna of the Wasps Elizabeth Jade Jewels for Sophia (He handed Tim the banana, saying "If you trade with people then you don't kill them") Dark Princess exit Tim Beautiful Girl ELECTRIC She Doesn't Exist ("This is a song I never normally play, but I think someone from here requested it") So You Think You're in Love ("This is an old Reagan era song - when Reagan was our president") The President (when he sang "I reach for my shotgun", he added "just like Kurt...") Kingdom of Love exit Robyn, reenter w/ white shirt, black polka dots, reenter Tim (Robyn dedicated this to "all the people without aisle seats, because it's hard to get to the bathroom". He then proceeded to point out all the exits, "in case of a water landing") Queen of Eyes (now, I wasn't around at the start of this thread, but all I can say is he distinctly said "Bucky".) Queen Elvis Beautiful Queen exit both, reenter both ACOUSTIC I Dream of Antwoman (Tim w/ banana again) exit Tim, ELECTRIC ("For Michika") I Often Dream of Trains He seemed to be having a good time, especially when Tim was on stage with him. I don't think this was the best show I've seen, but it was very good. It seemed odd seeing him in front of a seated audience - though I know everyone was having a good time, and there were a few people shouting out songs or references to songs (whom Robyn ignored, and Tim referred to as "juveniles"), but the energy level of the audience was low. Robyn did a great job keeping it going simply with his confidence and his comfort level up there. Hope that was interesting to those of you who like reading about other shows - now I'm home and it's almost time to split for the Seattle gig. Later, Debora ------------------------------ From: "Fallon" Subject: Trades for Ray Davies solo anyone? Date: Sun, 8 Jun 1997 16:55:52 -0400 Hi folks, Since RD has been mentioned a bit lately as an influence of Robyn, I wanted to ask if any fans had tapes for trade of Ray's recent solo tour of the last year or so. I have one RD show, a rather shabby AUD from 10/19/95 that I could trade or Dylan. I met Robyn way back when he was touring behind 'Element of Light' and got a lp signed. peace, Mike Fallon 36 Rosanne Circle Irwin, PA 15642 "I started out on burgundy, but soon hit the harder stuff..." B Dylan ------------------------------ Subject: Re: Portland show Date: Sun, 8 Jun 97 16:39:48 -0700 From: Tom Clark On 6/7/97 6:29 PM, Debora muttered: >Robyn's set list: > > >Chinese Bones >(He picked up the harmonica - "It's always good to play the harmonica in >Portland. In Colorado you need oxygen tanks - They should have a >warning for musicians over 40 to play only one note at a time. This is >a song with a beard, the last one had a perm.") Geez! Still bitching about Boulder! >("This is a song I never normally play, but I think someone from here >requested it") >So You Think You're in Love Ha! During the SF show, when he came back on stage for the encore, amongst the shouts came one from the balcony. A woman yelled "So You Think You're In Love, Robyn!". To which he replied "You said you were going to request that in Portland!" >("This is an old Reagan era song - when Reagan was our president") >The President (when he sang "I reach for my shotgun", he added "just >like Kurt...") OUCH! >Queen of Eyes (now, I wasn't around at the start of this thread, but all >I can say is he distinctly said "Bucky".) Blasphemer! OK, I know there are only a few more gigs left, but someone must confront him on this. He's stated in the past that the lyric is "Mucky", so why change it? I think he's purposely toying with us. -tc "keeping the ship afloat with seven-day work weeks" ******************************************* Tom Clark Apple Computer, Inc. tclark@apple.com http://www.netgate.net/~tclark "Cheez Whiz is not something you eat... It's something you see a urologist for." - Dennis Miller ------------------------------ From: SydneyC33@aol.com Date: Sun, 8 Jun 1997 20:30:25 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: SF setlist Russ Reynolds Recently Revealed: << A song request from Sydney (the listmember, not the city) sparked one of the funnier comments of the evening from Robyn. I'll let her tell the story... >> At the previous night's show in Sacramento, Robyn looked down at the set list, then over to Tim and asked over and over again, "AB or EJ? AB or EJ?" Robyn said he'd resorted to "using these silly codes for songs". When Tim simply shrugged, Robyn said "AB then." and launched into Acid Bird. I was mildly disappointed when he did *not* play Elizabeth Jade, and hoped to hear it at the SF show. The next night, the crowd was pretty rambunctious at one point, shouting out their requests. Now it's not like me to *shout* out requests...honest; I generally consider it rude, but hey, it felt right and I was *right* in front of the stage. :) "EJ!" I shouted, and everyone looked at me like I was growing horns. Robyn took it and ran... It went something like this... "EJ? Oh, San Francisco will never hear the likes of EJ...no... I'll *never* again play EJ! Go back to where you're from and pen some more ditties! I *ESCHEW* EJ!!" Of course this went on much longer and was *very* funny. But this is simply all my pea brain (with help, at that!) could muster. As one Bay Feg suggested, his omission of Elizabeth Jade could simply have been something personal against me (thanks, Russ! :P), or San Francisco. If the former, I'm sure he was just ticked at me for lying to him the night before about being a Hedblade, and he made all of us pay for it. The NERVE! He should have simply asked me to leave the Hall, played EJ, and invited me back in. ;) Ciao, Sydney ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 16:04:52 +1300 From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: what goes well with Robyn? 'Twas my radio show today, and (as is my wont) decided to segue a couple of songs together thgat I thought might go well. Any of you who like Peter Jefferies, try playing Robyn's "Heliotrope" followed directly by "On an unknown beach" - it's a lovely combination. 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, 9 Jun 1997 16:07:41 +1300 From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: wish me luck! Well, if you think that your southernmost listmember is a bit quieter than normal for the next few days, it's because I'll be going into hospital on Wednesday for minor surgery. As long as the colour pink doesn't do more damage than I think, I should be out of action for only a day or two, but I doubt I'll feel much like emailing for a while after that. So take care y'all, and hopefully I'll be annoying you again soon! James PS - I won't unsub, so don't write too much while I'm away! 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: Sun, 08 Jun 1997 21:16:40 -0700 From: Debora Subject: Re: Portland show Tom Clark wrote: > > >Queen of Eyes (now, I wasn't around at the start of this thread, but all > >I can say is he distinctly said "Bucky".) > > Blasphemer! OK, I know there are only a few more gigs left, but someone > must confront him on this. He's stated in the past that the lyric is > "Mucky", so why change it? I think he's purposely toying with us. > I must add here that at the Seattle show he went back to "Mucky" - I wonder if "toying with us" is one of the ways he's keeping himself entertained while playing the same songs over and over? As for repeating himself, he did carry over some of the banter that I've read in posts about the CA shows, but there was little overlap between the two nights I saw him. I can appreciate that he's trying to vary it for people who see him a few nights in a row. I met several (mostly lurking) fegs last night - all very cool, and I believe Simone will be either posting the set list or sending it to woj. Some of the songs he did here but not in Portland are: Freeze, Airscape, Glass Hotel, I Am Not Me, and Viva La Sea-Tac. Personally I was transfixed by his spidery fingers during Freeze; normally I only like that song, but it was *beautiful* last night. I'm also thrilled that the four people I dragged along to the show became either big fans or bigger fans! Cult or not, it feels wonderful recruiting new people!). Hoping to meet more of you at the Viva La Sea-Tac gig next Friday, Debora ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 08 Jun 1997 23:29:50 -0500 From: Outdoor Miner Subject: Re: Portland show At 04:39 PM 6/8/97 -0700, Tom Clark wrote: >>Queen of Eyes (now, I wasn't around at the start of this thread, but all >>I can say is he distinctly said "Bucky".) > >Blasphemer! OK, I know there are only a few more gigs left, but someone >must confront him on this. He's stated in the past that the lyric is >"Mucky", so why change it? I think he's purposely toying with us. He does change lyrics around live -- in the Nashville performance of "Chinese Bones," he distinctly said "I met an interesting SORT," but a few days later in Georgia (forget which show), he's back to the album-version "interesting DWARF." I need not mention the 800 versions of "Ghost Ship"... later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 08 Jun 1997 23:24:37 -0700 From: "Mark \"the Pablo Picasso of PC Design\" Gloster" CC: "Bonde M'Teko" Subject: Re: Happy Halloween! Nick Winkworth wrote lots of stuff I'm slow to respond to: > > > 1- Public thanks to Mark for driving the bus, and for introducing me to > San Francisco's exotic gourmet ethnic cuisine. > Wait 'till ya come to Santa Cruz. I'll show you the finest in Central Coast Cuisine. I hope the bus trip wasn't too scary. You'll come for the ride, but have to stay for the parking. > 2- Many thanks to all the Fegs who showed up. I can't imagine a nicer > group of people. As well as Mark and myself, Tom/Coleen and Russ/Anita > it was great to meet Stephen (Steven?) who had been to both the Mill > Valley and Sacramento shows, Carrie who has promised to rejoin the list > and the effervescent Sydney. It was also great to meet some familiar > faces from the last show; John who traded cones *at least* twice (but it > was worth it - he ended up with the easily the best one I've seen) and > Chad/Lesley for whom 20 tanks are barely sufficient. We also discovered > that the Carrie's friends (I'm *really* sorry - I forgot your names > already) also read the list. Hope you enjoy the Gormengast books! > Yea. You guys are cool. Heh heh heh heh. > 3- What a great show! Easily one of the best of (my) recent memory. He > was clearly enjoying himself, on fine vocal form and ready to attempt > some guitar work that was "risky". > Downgraded from "audacious?" > 4- The advertised support act didn't show, which just added to the > spontaneity of the evening. Tim "young robyn" Keegan did a fine job of > filling the slot. Robyn introduced him personally and then watched from > the side. > Tim did well. He'll have to try to be weird, though. This, I presume, came naturally to RH. > 5- By all rights "Ted" the sound guy should be looking for a new job > this morning. The evening was peppered with requests to tweak the sound. > This was a monitor thing. The sound guy doesn't get to hear the monitors, and has to fight feedbags (feedback) when he turns up the volume for the deafening stars. That's a tough job. > 6- Blinking rate was less than usual. (maybe he was feeling more > confident on "home" territory) > Yea. About 10-20 bpm. Down from ~60 at the usual rate. > 7- I could swear he's been reading the list. > - He is clearly *not* fed up with playing! amen > - Not much between song banter :( waah > - What banter there was certainly sounded very spontaneous no wallet stories > - He deliberately and clearly sang "Bucky the pig" (Mark and I > looked at each other and nearly fell off our chairs--Afterwards > Russ denied this ever happened. I think he must have been in the > restroom or something...) Tom denied it. Russ must have been running around with his pants at half mast, looking for toilet paper in the GAMH men's room. I didn't go in 'cause I thought it said MENSA, and I figured they'd throw me out. > > 7a- A very varied and adventurous set. I'm sure someone will post it. > Nice mix of brand new, recent, covers and oldies. Loved the new songs: > "Gene Hackman", "Jewels for Sophia" and "Dark Princess" (were there > others?). Lots of highlights from the catalog. ("Raymond Chandler > Evening" has changed key, according to Mark. "Must be that low E"). > "Arnold Layne" was way cool. "Acid Bird" was a nice surprise but *two* > Hendrix covers? "Wind Cries Mary", OK -- but "Are You Experienced"?! > Hmm. > No Mark Gloster and Big Rubber Shark covers. Owell. > 8- Feg T-shirts? I'm on the digest so I missed Tom's post on the topic. > However those who met pre-show saw my DIY version. > I'm still waiting for my next digest, I even stayed up for it, but wojwhoneversleeps must be doing something really important. > By the magic of digital technology I have changed the "fegMANIA!" logo > (scanned fresh, not the lo-rez web version) into "fegMANIAX" and printed > it onto iron-on transfer paper (my little Cannon color printer does this > automagically, reversing the image etc.) I then applied this to a plain > white T-shirt (the logo is about four inches long, on the front left). > Much to my surprise it works really well. > Yes, but due to some freak iron-on transfer accident, I have been disfigured hideously. The t-shirt, the iron, and my face were hit by a distortion of the middle american reality field. My forhead now reads "fegma," into my hairline. This sounds like one of those conditions which are uncommon in the states for reasons which Nick once alluded to, but refused to continue his tirade. I hope I circumlocute well. > If anyone else wants to do this I'd be happy to send you the graphic. If > you lack a suitable printer I can even print a transfer for you (as long > as I don't end up in a mass production job!) > Please check your reality field. Yes, I'm still handsome, but be careful. > The nice thing about this technology is that you can then add your > favorite Robyn quote/lyric on the back of the shirt (mine happens to say > "Please don't call me Reg--it's not my name"). Pictures are equally > easy. Every one can be unique. It doesn't have to be a T-shirt either - > you could apply it to whatever article of clothing you feel deserves the > "treatment". I wanted to staple a poster to my head and put the fegmaniax thing on my shirt, but I applied the fegmaniax logo to my head and stapled my hands together. The good news is that this didn't significantly harm my guitar playing. I'm learning a new 9-fingered approach to the fretboard. Twinkle Twinkle Little Star never sounded so good. > > I suppose I'd better go catch up on some of the work I missed yesterday. > I hope to read some more reports of this (and the other Bay Area shows) > when the digests finally catch up. > They'll always be behind you, Nick. Unfortunately you'll never completely catch up with work. I something you all, but some more than others, -Mark Gloster the guy who talks even more than he types. Non-California types were blissfully untouched by the ravages of my babbling last Wednesday. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Jun 97 08:52:00 -0800 From: Russ Reynolds Subject: Re: Portland Show >>("This is a song I never normally play, but I think someone from here >>requested it") >>So You Think You're in Love >Ha! During the SF show, when he came back on stage for the encore, >amongst the shouts came one from the balcony. A woman yelled "So You >Think You're In Love, Robyn!". To which he replied "You said you were >going to request that in Portland!" so, not only is he repeating stories, he's travelling with audience plants! ;) -russ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Jun 97 09:09:00 -0800 From: Russ Reynolds Subject: attention Seattle fegs If anyone gets a chance to talk to Mr. H in Seattle and is looking for a good conversation prolonger, hopw 'bout asking him to about the body he supposedly found on a beach a couple of years back? I still have a hard time believing this one, and I would think that such an incident happening to a songwriter would inspire a song. I guess I'd like to know: 1. did it really happen? 2. did this experience inspire any specific song or lyric? -russ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 13:23:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard Subject: robyn in rio > > 1. did it really happen? > 2. did this experience inspire any specific song or lyric? RH confirmed this both in a 2-page article he wrote for the radio station, and also in his answers to a pile of questions from this list. I would have gone on the trip if I hadn't already had a vacation planned that overlapped it. i got the impression from the article that the only people that went besides the radio people were spoiled college kids who didn't care about robyn at all. i think the whole corpse on the beach thing was so similar to what he'd been writing about all along, it wasn't particularly inspiring. but it might be neat to ask him, still. the article was typed in sometime back and someone could probably post it if you like. re. the bucky/mucky thing... he's forever changing lyrics, it could have nothing to do with us. re. shirts: I think you're supposed to take it all the way off before you iron on the transfer, mark. =b ------------------------------ From: Hedblade@aol.com Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 15:14:21 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: sacramento and two other things... Sydney wrote: << Just curious to know what the Sacramento discussion was all about. I'm always slaggin' the place, but blood is thicker than water, after all! >> She *does* slag Sacramento a lot- I've heard it. Poor girl... perhaps some of us could offer up alternative dwelling for her as she relocates. Susan, Michael... could we accept her in the Chicago Feg group? We must save her from the strip clubs in Rancho Cordova! Sincerely, Jay ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 09 Jun 1997 12:40:18 -0700 From: Nick Winkworth CC: "Bonde M'Teko" Subject: Re: Happy Halloween! Mark "the Pablo Picasso of PC Design" Gloster wrote: > Yes, but due to some freak iron-on transfer accident, I have been > disfigured hideously. The t-shirt, the iron, and my face were hit by a > distortion of the middle american reality field. My forhead now reads > "fegma," into my hairline. You must have used the "Chernobyl" setting on your iron. Next time try "stun". To avoid the "distortion of the middle american reality field" simply crawl into the Jeffries Tube and modulate the flux capacitors to match the tachyon pulse frequency with the Jimi Hendrix guitar solo of your choice. Then simply align the gravimetric pulse array with radio station KEZE, Springfield, OK. and hit the ON button. Alternatively you could just ask your mom to do it. > Yes, I'm still handsome, but be careful. If you're hansome, we'll be careful. > The good news is that this didn't significantly harm my guitar > playing. I'm learning a new 9-fingered approach to the fretboard. > Twinkle Twinkle Little Star never sounded so good. You mean, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star never sounded so "original" > -Mark Gloster > the guy who talks even more than he types. Non-California types were > blissfully untouched by the ravages of my babbling last Wednesday. Not so. Those of us who met Mark last week can confirm that he is a charming fellow, almost likelike in fact, with very little extraneous babbleage. That seems to be reserved for the Fegmaniax list! ;) Cheers! ~N ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 13:16:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Wet Toast Tweezers Subject: Re: sacramento and two other things... On Mon, 9 Jun 1997 Hedblade@aol.com wrote: > Sydney wrote: > > << Just curious to know what the Sacramento discussion was all about. I'm > always slaggin' the place, but blood is thicker than water, after all! >> > > She *does* slag Sacramento a lot- I've heard it. Poor girl... perhaps some > of us could offer up alternative dwelling for her as she relocates. or we could send here somewhere that she will *really* enjoy sacramento and all of its glory (honestly) and accept its short-comings. i have a few places in mind and one will take on 41 minutes before she is left gurgling on the floor to leave and swearing that it will never happen again--these outbursts. .chris ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The End of this Fegmaniax Digest. *sob* .