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 #133 Fegmaniax Digest Volume 5 Number 133 Tuesday June 17 1997 To post, send mail to fegmaniax@ecto.org To unsubscribe, send mail to majordomo@ecto.org with the words "unsubscribe fegmaniax-digest" in the message body. Send comments, etc. to the listowner at owner-fegmaniax@ecto.org FegMANIAX! Web Page: http://remus.rutgers.edu/~woj/fegmaniax/index.html Archives are available at ftp://www.ecto.org/pub/lists/fegmaniax/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Today's Topics: ------- ------- Fegsharkiax! Shirt color. Re: Actual pithy phrase Re: Shirt color. Re: Shirt color. Re: Actual pithy ketchup all down the front... Re: Viva Sea Tac II--and tape request!! Re: Opening a Can of Bees a Runion, an "x", and a long red bottle of something fiendish oh yeah! Almost forgot.. Re: fegbrania... Re: Pop-ularity Re: Viva Sea Tac II--and tape request!! Green: Oh so lovely and obscene Re: Votes, &c. Re: Kinks (RH-Related, but 0% RH content) Robyn's Sigs and Pix Re: Robyn's Sigs and Pix Re: twirling one's finger in a can of baked beans It cramps your handwriting... Re: It cramps your handwriting... Re: twirling one's finger in a can of baked beans another long Kinks post Re: T-Shirts, etc. Re: fegbrania... Re: Portland Arms Re: Fiends! Re: another long Kinks post Re: another long Kinks post Beautiful Queen promo? Re: T-Shirts, etc. T-Shirt Quote ------------------------------ Subject: Fegsharkiax! Date: Mon, 16 Jun 97 21:17:11 -0000 From: The Great Quail Mark writes: >fegsharkiax: where some clown (Markg) >treats a whole maillist as a vehicle for his own stand-up act, but >people think he's serious sometimes, and he treats the think like the >home shopping channel for the Robyn Hitchcock tribute CD, _Glass >Flesh!_, by people on this list, and his own _Monday's Lunch_, by Mark >Gloster and Big Rubber Shark; I would like to add that recently - at a barbecue held by none other than our very own Bayard - I acquired a copy of said CD, "Monday's Lunch." (Thanks, Bayard! The cookies were delightful, but I was a little turned off ny your choice of quailburgers. You know, beef works just as well, and is more complimentary with ketchup.) Oh, yes, the point: let me say that "Monday's Lunch" is a fabulous CD, and everybody on the list should do there best to get one. I understand that Mark has a network of rubber sharks already in place to act as a distribution system; or at least I assume that's why Bayard was forced to fit in that awkward costume in order to pass me the actual CD. By the way, my vote is for Fegsharkiax - anything that sounds like a cross between an Aztec God and a bad guy in a Star Blazers episode is ok by me. 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: Shirt color. Date: Mon, 16 Jun 97 21:18:08 -0000 From: The Great Quail To Herr Uberteeshirtenfuhrer: I think Green, if possible, should be the shirt color. Black is so negative, which would make LJ confuse it with all her old Warrant T-shirts, and white would just provoke Terry to tie dye it or something, but Green is a good solid Robyn color. The trees are green, and Robyn often sings about trees. And frogs, too, well except for those cute little poison arrow frogs, which have never actually been mentioned by Robyn so we can assume that his frogs are green, yes, and some of his album covers have been green, and moss elixirs would be green, and the Fegmaniax feathery winged things (like the one tattooed on Debbie's bum) are hovering over the textual explanation of "Fegmania" which is, you guessed it, green; and Peter Buck, a friend of Robyn, played on an album called "Green," which had a yellow cover, though - weird, huh, but that's REM for you; and then there's that inscrutable song about the furry green atom bowl, and of course - my biggest reason - green is the color of that sexy Orion slave girl who had a thing with Captain Kirk. Quail PS: I like the "x." I love xes, and everthing with an x, from Xenon to Xochipilli. Say "yes" to the x. LOve the x. Worship the x, and the x will make your life happy and content. . . . PPS: Happy Bloomsday, to those of you who care. . . . ---------------------------------+-------------------------------- 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: Actual pithy phrase Date: Mon, 16 Jun 97 21:18:39 -0000 From: The Great Quail >.jay H, the guambat Quail who is considering adding "Love On Ya" to his sig, >and then signing it ~N. > >What do ya think? =b ---------------------------------+-------------------------------- 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: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 20:24:15 -0500 From: Hal Brandt CC: "Fegmaniax!" Subject: Re: Shirt color. The Great Quail wrote: > I think Green, if possible, should be the shirt color. Many reasons followed, culminating with: > of course - my biggest reason - green is the color of that > sexy Orion slave girl who had a thing with Captain Kirk. ...and, of course, the inescapable reason... "SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!" hal ------------------------------ Subject: Re: Shirt color. Date: Mon, 16 Jun 97 18:32:51 -0700 From: Tom Clark "The Great Quail" On 6/16/97 6:24 PM, Hal Brandt stated emphatically: >"SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!" Oh Man!! You gave away the ending! What next - The Planet Of The Apes is really Earth some 3000 years in the future? I was thinking green mine own self. Or (depending on expenses) perhaps different colors based on album motifs. e.g., Green for M.E., red and yellow for Respect, that bluish color that was G.o.F., etc... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 20:31:38 -0500 From: LSDiamond Subject: Re: Actual pithy ketchup all down the front... I concur with idea #1, also, but I, like our dear woj, am proud of being a geek, and think we should have the URL on it. I must have missed a staff meeting somewhere, because I don't know anything about this new 'fegmaniax.org' dealie.. Somebody 'splain, please?? :) I don't mind about a long URL... the font has to be slightly smaller if it's longer, but no problem there... :) But, i do think it should be on the back, perhaps 4 inches below the collar with the graphic underneath....? just ideas... :) LSDiamond, goin' back to Houtson, doin' the hot dog dance... >My votes: > >1) Large Robyn-penned (source: cone or Robyn himself) graphic on back, small >pocket graphic/logo on front. > >2) New URL: fegmaniax.org > >3) If the new, shorter URL comes to pass, it should be placed unobtrusively >on the back. The current URL is too long to go on there I think. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "A friend is someone who will help you move. A GOOD friend is someone who will help you move a body." -Unknown Come visit me at http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/1542 Last updated 7 June 1997 I'm on the LinkExchange!! Be on the lookout for my specially-made banner! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 20:38:59 -0500 From: LSDiamond Subject: Re: Viva Sea Tac II--and tape request!! Put me down for a copy of this show, (Sea-Tac at the Crocodile?) too, if anyone has it!!! it sounds too good to miss!!! (Sorry, no cookies, but i'm sure I have a tape to trade around here somewhere.. if not, cash is also available.. :) Thanks!! LSDiamond ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "A friend is someone who will help you move. A GOOD friend is someone who will help you move a body." -Unknown Come visit me at http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/1542 Last updated 7 June 1997 I'm on the LinkExchange!! Be on the lookout for my specially-made banner! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 21:25:49 GMT From: Rob Collingwood Subject: Re: Opening a Can of Bees Bayard wrote: > > > On Mon, 16 Jun 1997 Hedblade@aol.com wrote: > > > Is $20 (us) a fair price to pay for Live At The Portland Arms? > > > > I "found" a copy this week, but I didn't pick it up (no $$$). Good reason to > > believe it isn't going anywhere soon. > > > > Having not heard it, I'm curious if this is something I NEED to add to my > > collection, or is it just something I WANT to add for the sake of being > > complete? > > i have a very nice tape of this show, if you want it -- (not a tape of the > record, a tape of the show-- it sounds surprisingly good! there's > nothing on it that isn't on the record though.) > > Does your tape have 'Postman's Knock' on it? I know it's not on the LP. (The only LP I ever bought in Grimsby, BTW). According to the sleeve of Invisible History it was recorded at the show but left off the LP, along with Wey Wey Hep Uh Hole. PS IMHO It's definitely worth having, Jay. -- Rob Collingwood Warrington, Cheshire, England rob@nimbus.demon.co.uk ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 13:59:38 +1200 (NZST) From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: a Runion, an "x", and a long red bottle of something fiendish >Mike (who must come up with some sort of new moniker since his name is one >of the funnier ones on this list) Runion ;) >I vote for Mike "Long Train" Runion. With apologies (however insincere) to >the Doobie Brothers. >-russ >(this only works if "Runion" rhymes with "onion", of course) hey now! There's no need for this! Runion is an ancient and noble name! I did a quick scan on Not-scape to see what I could find: 1) Sven Snorri Runionssen in 1733 opened the world's first Icelandic takeaway restaurant. It was unfortunately unsuccessful - no-one wanted to take any Icelanders away. 2) The Runion Symphony was written in 1887 by Boris Glevunov. This controversial work used fish as musical instruments. 3) The runion is a variety of finch, a small bird that lays an egg 10% larger than the bird itself. Then it dies. Wouldn't you? 4) Baron Norbert von Runion rocked the scientific world with his 1936 discovery that Atlantic salmon always return to the same polling booth in which they first voted. The reason for this phenomenon remains unknown. 5) "The Runion Declaration" guaranteed that the native population of Sarawak, Malaysia, would be given 137 toenail clippers annually by the British Government. 6) The Tuareg people of the Sahara desert have 167 different words for snow. All of these words sound like "Runion". 7) The small Dorset village of Runion Greatquail is the site of the annual All-Britain squid-hurling championships. The national record is 177 feet, 4 and 1/4 inches. Hmmm. "They might be fiends!" is a good one, although it is a little too much like "They Might Be Giants" for my tastes. Oh, and as a Robyn & the Byrds fan (as opposed to an Alfred and "The Birds" fan), I say "Le 'x', Oui!". Or, to put it another way... >But don't ya see... if we leave the x in, it will be pronounced "fegmania >k'zorg." doesn't sound nearly as nice as [...] ..."fegmaney yerrorg"? 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, 16 Jun 1997 21:01:00 -0500 From: LSDiamond Subject: oh yeah! Almost forgot.. Definitely MUST have Robyn art on it.... I think Kelly Green would be a nice colour for the shirt with maybe cream coloured ink? (Hey! Egyptian Cream-coloured ink! ;) i like fegmaniax.org, also.. Umm.. I'll probably add to this as the night goes on.. I'm going through the last 400 or so emails I haven't read yet.. *grin* (a good 9/10 of those being Feglist!!! ;) LSDiamond, who will need a 3-week chocolate fix starting tomorrow... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "A friend is someone who will help you move. A GOOD friend is someone who will help you move a body." -Unknown Come visit me at http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/1542 Last updated 7 June 1997 I'm on the LinkExchange!! Be on the lookout for my specially-made banner! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 21:14:53 -0500 From: LSDiamond Subject: Re: fegbrania... At 10:10 PM 6/15/97 -0700, you wrote: >My vote is for fegmaniax.org > >Fegmania is an album. >I am not an album. >You are not an album. >We are all not an album. I am not an album! I am a free man!!! *grin* or, my personal fave, I am not a number! I am an email address!! later.. LSDiamond ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "A friend is someone who will help you move. A GOOD friend is someone who will help you move a body." -Unknown Come visit me at http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/1542 Last updated 7 June 1997 I'm on the LinkExchange!! Be on the lookout for my specially-made banner! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 21:17:14 -0500 From: LSDiamond Subject: Re: Pop-ularity >In a message dated 6/15/97 23:45:21, Terence M Marks >wrote: > ><Who are they and why are they famous?>> > >Jesus Christ: who is he and why is HE famous?? He was the guy who the Beatles were bigger than... LSDiamond, not caring about poor grammar tonight, and not trying to be sacreligious, either..... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "A friend is someone who will help you move. A GOOD friend is someone who will help you move a body." -Unknown Come visit me at http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/1542 Last updated 7 June 1997 I'm on the LinkExchange!! Be on the lookout for my specially-made banner! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 21:25:35 -0500 (EST) From: Tracy Aileen Copeland Subject: Re: Viva Sea Tac II--and tape request!! On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, LSDiamond wrote: > [...] i'm sure I have a tape to trade around here somewhere.. if > not, cash is also available.. :) > Yes, I see the smiley face, but I'd prefer *never* to see tapes being sold on feg. Hitchcock's past management has been quite lenient about tape trading, but if money starts changing hands I suspect that'll stop tout de suite. Tracy "pas du toast, NTBCF pas de toast, which is bad" Copeland P.S. If you end up with more quoted text than original text in your message, it's probably wisest to trim some of the irrelevant parts of what you're quoting. -- How is it that you fail to perceive that I did not speak about bread? - Matthew 16:11 ------------------------------ Subject: Green: Oh so lovely and obscene Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 19:28:09 -0700 (PDT) From: "Daniel Saunders" I'd like to put my vote in here for green, that's fern green, a la Moss Elixir, IODOT, Eye, etc. Black would be nice too, or even Fegmaniax gray, but that particular shade of green seems very much associated with Robyn Hitchcock. Daniel Saunders Life is heaven and hell. All else is silence. - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 21:32:28 -0500 From: LSDiamond Subject: Re: Votes, &c. >>fiends@fegmania.org? > >Yeah, that's good. Or mucky@fegmania.org, perhaps. I like either of these!! LSDiamond, slowly but surely trying to beat out Susan for posts.................. ;) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "A friend is someone who will help you move. A GOOD friend is someone who will help you move a body." -Unknown Come visit me at http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/1542 Last updated 7 June 1997 I'm on the LinkExchange!! Be on the lookout for my specially-made banner! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 22:02:48 -0500 From: Outdoor Miner Subject: Re: Kinks (RH-Related, but 0% RH content) At 12:15 PM 6/16/97 -0500, John Littlejohn wrote: >I can only think of two Kinks songs with sitar in there: "See My Friends" >and "Fancy". And "Fancy" was released (about six months?) after Rubber >Soul and "Norwegian Wood", which was the first big Beatles sitar song. So >that doesn't really hold water. Yeah, but it's just an album piece, and a small (though tasty) one at that, and "See My Friends" predates any Beatles sitar song... >They weren't ones to drop a successful (for them OR others) sound easily. >They hit with "You Really Got Me" and then mined that for all it was wroth >during the next two years, even though at least one group had a hit >deriving from their style (The Who's "I Can't Explain"). Key phrase: "next two years." By KONTROVERSY, you can hear a new, more mature Kinks sound beginning, one that would emerge full-fledged on FACE TO FACE. Not that Ray totally gave up on rewriting "You Really Got Me" ("She's Got Everything"), or maybe that should read "rewriting 'Louie, Louie'", but >You may even want to fault them for following the money. They were still >selling records during their period of change - "Sunny Afternoon" was even >a hit over here - and they continued to sell for a couple of years in >England. When the hits stopped coming, they switched styles again so we >got Arthur and Lola. If anything these guys were slow to change. For my money, ARTHUR has a lot more in common with its three predecessors than with LOLA. And MUSWELL HILLBILLIES, which one would expect to be LOLA VS. POWERMAN AND THE MONEYGOROUND PT. 2 if they were "following the money," was a complete curveball. And SOMETHING ELSE and VGPS sold well in the U.K.? News to me. Aside from the aforementioned early years, it seems Ray has spent more time coming out with something completely different than simply rehashing any hitmaking formula. later, Miles obRobyn: played through UNHATCHED CRABLINGS for the first time this weekend; parts are really enjoyable, but most of it was best left on the cutting room floor (though I'm mightily glad to have this stuff!). And "I Thought I Saw Julian Cope"'s title had piqued my interest; unfortunately, it's just a slight variation on "Chain Mary To the Bed," a.k.a. "I Thought I Saw Somebody Else." ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 22:22:35 -0500 From: LSDiamond Subject: Robyn's Sigs and Pix Anyone scanned their various Robyn autographs and pictures and posted them anywhere? I finally did that tonight with the one I got from the Bluebird back in Feb... Anyone care to see? LSDiamond ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "A friend is someone who will help you move. A GOOD friend is someone who will help you move a body." -Unknown Come visit me at http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/1542 Last updated 7 June 1997 I'm on the LinkExchange!! Be on the lookout for my specially-made banner! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 22:52:11 -0500 From: LSDiamond Subject: Re: Robyn's Sigs and Pix oh, it's already up at my site.. http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/1542/robynsig.jpg :) enjoy.. LSDiamond >sure. go ahead and send it to me. if you'd like, i could put it up on the >web as well... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "A friend is someone who will help you move. A GOOD friend is someone who will help you move a body." -Unknown Come visit me at http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/1542 Last updated 7 June 1997 I'm on the LinkExchange!! Be on the lookout for my specially-made banner! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 23:12:08 -0500 From: Outdoor Miner Subject: Re: twirling one's finger in a can of baked beans >At 03:24 PM 7/2/97 -0700, Eddie Tews wrote: Look! It's a message from THE FUTURE! Only appropriate that it would happen on Fegmaniax! Anyway, some info I can actually provide about a show for which I was not present: >Boeing Spacearium: scott vocals. i guess this is the title. it's a >very good song. is it young fresh fellows? i guess i'd better come >clean right now, and admit that the extent of my fellows knowledge comes >from that they might be giants song: "she doesn't have to have her young >fresh fellows tape back now, but there's not a lot of things that she'll >take back." so, i know that they have tapes. but i don't know anything >else about them, i'm afraid. This isn't from a YFF album, but from the latest release from the McCaughey/Buck project, the Minus Five(s): THE LONESOME DEATH OF BUCK McCOY, which is not only one of the best album titles of 1997, but one of the best albums. This was one of the highlights of the Magnificent Seven show that doug mayo-wells and I caught in Atlanta May 31. As great as the song is on album, the Mag7 version was about five times as all-out spacey, weird, and wunderbar -- it's my happening, baby, and it freaks me out! Do I need to add my name to the queue for a tape of the show? Some things should be self-evident... ;-) later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 00:44:16 -0400 From: biggles CC: fegmaniax-digest@ecto.org Subject: It cramps your handwriting... Hi all, While I don't think I've been here long enough, or contributed enough to be heaving around opinions about domain names or t-shirts, I did just have an idea to contribute about the quote/handwriting issue. If Robyn can't be caught/persuaded/bothered to write out a quote for us,there is another way. We could use the diabolical box of chips before us to forge it using samples of our man's handwriting from a multitude of sources. Of course,this is exactly the sort of electronic reality tweaking that gets The National Geographic's editors' briefs bunched and makes the Weekly World News so much fun in the checkout aisle. I'm not even sure I like the idea, but it could be done. In fact it might be fun to use a font creation utility to enable your computer to print out, say, a shopping list or a dissertation in Hitchcock Casual. Or it could be bad karma,an affront to the man we admire,and a lengthy encounter with the briefcase-wielding suit-clad bearers of the law. What do you folks think? Cheers, Biggles p.s. While I'm here on this side of the veil of Lurkdom, I must add my support for the creative writings of the Great Quail. Guffaws aside,they were worth the read just for the vocabulary. Of course I'm still trying to slip "exsanguinated" into a conversation. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 23:52:34 -0500 From: LSDiamond Subject: Re: It cramps your handwriting... Hey! I know of a site that will make a font out of handwriting... Hitchcock Casual is a feasible idea... Now, is is ethical??? LSDiamond, pondering ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "A friend is someone who will help you move. A GOOD friend is someone who will help you move a body." -Unknown Come visit me at http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/1542 Last updated 7 June 1997 I'm on the LinkExchange!! Be on the lookout for my specially-made banner! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 00:19:11 -0500 From: Outdoor Miner Subject: Re: twirling one's finger in a can of baked beans At 12:22 AM 6/17/97 -0400, Ross Overbury wrote: >Miles wrote: >> >> Look! It's a message from THE FUTURE! Only appropriate that it would >> happen on Fegmaniax! >> > >James Dignan lives in the future. This is literally true, at least for those of us on the nether side of the IDL. Anyone on the list actually ahead of James? Where would you be living? Fiji? New Caledonia? Hey, James, I picked up the Triffids' CALENTURE at a used store last month, my first-ever triffids purchase. How's it compare to the rest of their output? later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 00:26:00 -0500 (CDT) From: John Littlejohn Subject: another long Kinks post On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Outdoor Miner wrote: > Yeah, but it's [Norwegian Wood] just an album piece, and a small (though tasty) one at that, > and "See My Friends" predates any Beatles sitar song... Norwegian Wood was a popular and important Beatles album track - plus you have to remember that these were the * Beatles* and musicians were waiting for new Beatles albums with the same fervor as shots of penicillin. And given that SMF predated any Beatles sitar song (or any other mainstream pop song I can think of) the fact that they were still using by Fancy (i.e. after NW) shows that they weren't jumping off the bandwagon when it everyone else was coming aboard. > >They weren't ones to drop a successful (for them OR others) sound easily. > >They hit with "You Really Got Me" and then mined that for all it was wroth > >during the next two years, even though at least one group had a hit > >deriving from their style (The Who's "I Can't Explain"). > > Key phrase: "next two years." By KONTROVERSY, you can hear a new, more > mature Kinks sound beginning, one that would emerge full-fledged on FACE TO > FACE. Not that Ray totally gave up on rewriting "You Really Got Me" > ("She's Got Everything") I said something very similar to that in my first post. Your entire paragraph would seem to prove my point that this wasn't Davies being willfully obscure and going 180 degree from everybody else > And SOMETHING ELSE and VGPS sold well in the > U.K.? News to me. I believe both "Death of a Clown" and "Waterloo Sunset" did awfully well. > Aside from the aforementioned early years, it seems Ray > has spent more time coming out with something completely different than > simply rehashing any hitmaking formula. He recreated Lola/Powerman in Soap Opera and especially Preservation. When that ran out, he started his late 70s generic rock period State of Confusion and Low Budget. I admittedly know little about this, except that he was still re-writing You Really Got Me ("Destroyer") JL -* "Si vous m'obstaclerez, je vous liquiderai" - Churchill -* ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 00:31:17 -0500 (CDT) From: John Littlejohn Subject: Re: T-Shirts, etc. On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Bayard wrote: > other thoughts: > > 'the distance between reality and pain' > 'the web of souls' > 'all else is silence' > 'lake of frozen storms' These sound like old Star Trek episodes Thus saith the Quail: > PS: I like the "x." I love xes Looks like someone's dyslexic :) JL -* "Si vous m'obstaclerez, je vous liquiderai" - Churchill -* ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 00:47:25 -0900 From: BC-Radio@corecom.net (Buttafuoco) Subject: Re: fegbrania... >I am not an album! I am a free man!!! > >*grin* or, my personal fave, > >I am not a number! I am an email address!! Patrick McGoohan would be proud. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 11:10:23 +0100 (BST) From: M R Godwin Subject: Re: Portland Arms [This is a re-post. The last time I sent it, the enquirer hadn't found Portland Arms at all, but a different record] Portland Arms is brilliant, sensational, acoustic, but if you are a serious jazz saxophonist you might find it a trifle LOOSE. Worth buying for the mean old lean old in between old half unclean old Duke of Squeeze alone. Oh and Horns Large Horns... - Mike Godwin "Love and hate are horns on the same goat" (Witch in "The Vikings") ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 12:29:58 +0100 (BST) From: M R Godwin Subject: Re: Fiends! On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, mr bean jeans wrote: > "circling madly, in honiton clyst"? "Next time round I'll be a trout?" - hssmrg ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 12:43:25 +0100 (BST) From: M R Godwin Superthunderstingcar Subject: Re: another long Kinks post On Tue, 17 Jun 1997, John Littlejohn wrote: > > And SOMETHING ELSE and VGPS sold well in the > > U.K.? News to me. > > I believe both "Death of a Clown" and "Waterloo Sunset" did awfully well. In the UK, the Kinks never made the transition from being a singles band to an album band - certainly not in the 60s, probably never. Something Else would have sold reasonably following the success of the two singles, but that horrible stereo with the vocals on the left and the band on the right makes it very difficult to listen to. I have never knowingly met anyone with a copy of Village Green Preservation Society (I have come across people with Hapshash and the Coloured Coat, Ramses, and Ken Nordine's 'Colors'). - hssmrg PS Is it really a sitar on See My Friend, or a soundalike? Interesting article by Steve Howe recently in Mojo on the electric guitar/sitar as used by the Lemon Pipers - could it be one of those? ------------------------------ From: Ross Overbury Date: Tue, 17 Jun 97 9:36:00 EDT Subject: Re: another long Kinks post M Godwin wrote: > PS Is it really a sitar on See My Friend, or a soundalike? Interesting > article by Steve Howe recently in Mojo on the electric guitar/sitar as > used by the Lemon Pipers - could it be one of those? > That pseudo-sitar thing is a Coral Sitar, if it sounds like a sitar with the secondary strings removed. My searches on "Coral sitar" using Lycos and Excite didn't produce much. That's all I know about the instrument itself, although I'd love to know more. Anybody? -- Ross Overbury - potatoes have more eyes, and longer ones, too! Montreal, Quebec, Canada email: rosso@cn.ca ------------------------------ From: Clint Golden Subject: Beautiful Queen promo? Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 10:41:23 -0400 Hi folks I was sent on a mission from a local record store owner to find him a copy of this gem. Anyone see any extras laying around? He'll even give a good bit of cash for it! thanks! clint ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 10:47:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard Subject: Re: T-Shirts, etc. On Tue, 17 Jun 1997, John Littlejohn wrote: > > On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Bayard wrote: > > > other thoughts: > > > > 'the distance between reality and pain' > > 'the web of souls' > > 'all else is silence' > > 'lake of frozen storms' > > These sound like old Star Trek episodes "I am Star Trek." -RH, Dierdre O'Donoghue interview, 1989 ------------------------------ Subject: T-Shirt Quote Date: Tue, 17 Jun 97 10:55:17 -0000 From: The Great Quail I know this is long, and may not fit on the shirt as currently conceived, but I still thought it would be appropriate: "We are best seen as conductors, through which solids, air and liquids flow constantly, matched by a whorl of loosely related thoughts." --RH, "Globe of Frogs Manifesto" Well, I thought that sums us up, at least in a metaphysical sense . . . and I know it is long, but I personally am all for having the whole "What is Fegmania?" manifesto printed on the back, so trust nothing I say. 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The End of this Fegmaniax Digest. *sob* .