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Web Page: http://remus.rutgers.edu/~woj/fegmaniax/index.html Archives are available at ftp://www.ecto.org/pub/lists/fegmaniax/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Today's Topics: ------- ------- Trades in progress... the longer the road to an ephiphany...the better it will be Re: Reminder: RH wants to know Re: coming round slowly or backwards as the case may be Re: Epiphanies & other consolidated tales Superkeen single shaving cream Portland Arms HITCHCOCK EXPERIENCES Re: Hitchcock/Cope connection Re: Robyn buzzes random notes (less than 2% of the RDA-Robyn Daily Allowance) Uncorrected Personality Traits could someone please clarify? Frippoholics Anonymous Re: Laurie Re: Frippoholics Anonymous Re: could someone please clarify? FegMap/Fegographix lou reed (no robyn) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 01:25:18 -0500 From: LSDiamond Subject: Trades in progress... Hi all! I need to know who's expecting stuff from me. Biggles, I am formulating a list of shows/albums for your review, unless you just want me to send you my choice of shows.. Lemme know! Debora, I'm sure the tape will get here eventually. I'm just glad you got yours!! (Mail has been so bad to Canada lately, for me.) Someone in Oz is trading copies of SDRE albums with me... Ahhh....... who and where, since I know what... :) Nick Winkworth, what am I supposed to send you in exchange for the Wombles vid? (It is you, isn't it? :) Anyone else expecting anything from me? I just picked up some new tapes to do all this. LSDiamond, feeling a little bewildered............ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Have you been exceptionally bad lately? Come serve your penance at http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/1542/penance1.html You'll never commit THAT sin again! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 02:58:52 -0400 From: twofangs/randi spiegel Subject: the longer the road to an ephiphany...the better it will be Eb so eloquently wondered: > Why is it that whenever someone tells the story of discovering an >artist, he/she was "instantly hooked?" It's always a thunderbolt, an >epiphany... I've always liked the foreplay that comes before the epiphany ;) Here is my tale...wildly interesting it's not...immensely satisfying it is. A friend of mine who worked in a record store put "Kingdom Of Love" on a tape he made for me. I loved (really dug) the line - "you've been laying eggs under my skin...now they're hatching out under my chin" - so I promptly asked for another tape, (I'm terribly demanding) this time I requested a Robyn/Soft Boys mix. That's my unbelievably exciting introduction to Robyn :) As for 'a life-changing experience', I'm still 'best friends' with the guy who made me those tapes. Anyway, what really got me *hooked* on Robyn was this "RH mixed tape" *** I remember Robyn's words and music mixing into a heady blend of sound and colour that gently stroked my thoughts and slowly caressed my aura before violently and ever so beautifully assaulting my psyche *** Yeah right...the truth is I hated this damned tape. I just couldn't get into the music, but I _truly_ was enchanted by the lyrics...so I listened to the songs every day for a week...put the tape away for a month...and when I finally played it again...I fell *truly, madly, deeply* in love. Since then a bizarre pattern has taken hold...*this* is how I introduce myself to new music. First I read all the lyrics and album credits...then I play the first 20 seconds of each song...then I listen to the album once while reading along with the lyrics. (assuming the lyrics are reproduced of course) I listen to the album every day for a week, then I put it away, either until I find myself humming a song from the album, or until I've forgotten what the songs sound like. It may be strange, and very possibly obsessive, but it's the way I got into Robyn, Soft Boys (who I just hated at first) R.E.M., Let's Active, Big Star, Split Enz/Tim Finn/Crowded House/Finn Brothers, That Petrol Emotion, Squeeze, XTC, Dave Matthews Band, Lyle Lovett, Michael Penn, Julian Cope, and Chills. I like to "aquire a taste" for the music before I get drunk on its beauty. I would like to close by giving thanks for the thoughts of: Gary, Jason, Livia, Scary Mary, Scott, The Quail, Misplaced Joan, Tom, Noah, Dave, James, Biggles, Zelda, Charles, Sydney, Karen, Miles, and Shane. It is going to look so cool to send a package with over *50* responses to Robyn...hopefully this will further engage his goodwill in terms of the t-shirt... keep 'em coming please...I'd love to send 100 :) fading back into yesterday, Randi *what scares you most will set you free* - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ From: HAMISH_SIMPSON@HP-UnitedKingdom-om4.om.hp.com Date: Fri, 11 Jul 97 08:50:08 +0100 Subject: Re: Reminder: RH wants to know Hmmmmmm, I "discovered" RH in a kind of back door manner. I started as a punk, worked back through Iggy to the Stooges and psychedelia(ish), Pink Floyd (early) and Syd Barrett. I kind of took RH as the next step in my progression. I know the comparison is unpopular, but if it hadn't been there for me I night have missed RH. He doesn't exactly get lots of airplay after all. 1. The first Robyn album you purchased... "Portland Arms" I believe when it was issued on vinyl in 1987. An excellent album which I loved instantaneously. I always like humour in music. It is a bad album to start with though since it doesn't provide a representative insight into RH or the Soft Boys. (BTW when I heard "normal" SB material I was blown away by the technical competence and just how good the material was.) PA did not prompt me to go and buy stacks of RH material. Although I loved it I was a very slow RH developer. 2. The first Robyn show you saw... Hah! Twice now I've missed US shows by less than a week. He doesn't come to Scotland much so I'll let you know. 3. How you found out about/discovered Robyn's music - As above. I saw "Heaven" and the other one on "Old Grey Whistle Test" (UKTV) and liked it, then immediately forgot about them. (Someone can remind me when this was broadcast.) I heard some of GoF on Andy Kershaws radio show and HAD to have the album. I think that was my second one, but I still didn't rush out to buy the back catalogue at a great rate. 4. Steve would also like to know where you live... If he finds out he can let me know. I haven't made it home for ages now!!!! In terms of the general instantaneous, "eyes across a crowded room" besottment(???) with artists I find both ways work. I also find that it ends up having little to do with long term appreciation of the artist. I was blown away first time I heard Barenaked Ladies and I still think they are one of the best bands around at the moment. RH has been very gradual but he is part of the historical sequence that make up my favourite artists. (Dickies 78-80, Stranglers 80-81, Iggy 81-85, nobody 85-90, XTC 90-94, RH 94-now) So even though I heard RH in 86/87 he didn't really become "up there" until pretty recently. (Also proof that I didn't DELIBERATELY name my son after him since he is 5.) Enough (Hamish) - This morning toast would have been momentous. I have to wait another hour now before I get my morning doughnut. NP - Nirvana "In Utero" (You see, I'm still a punk at heart!) "A different kind of tinsel decorates my tree." ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 09:28:14 -0400 From: Scott Hunter McCleary Subject: Re: coming round slowly or backwards as the case may be Eb wanted to know: >Why is it that whenever someone tells the story of discovering an artist >(certainly not just in the case of Robyn Hitchcock), he/she was "instantly >hooked?" It's always a thunderbolt, an epiphany, a man on a flaming pie.... Somebody put that pie out for chrissakes. I seem to come to things backwards. A couple people mentioned Robyn's spoken part on one of my favorite albums. Well, I knew Robyn ONLY through that for about six years. I off-listed my response to the first Robyn, first album, first concert thing, but I instantly recognized his voice in Chinese Bones as "Keith." Then, of course, I was instantly hooked. *smirk* I've had similar experiences with others -- I knew of Michael Penn through a 30-second .mov file I got off the Brothers Quay web site and decided to pick up his second album used. Found I really liked it. I discovered His Name is Alive the same way. In Work and Trust, Scott ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 14:39:21 +0100 (BST) From: M R Godwin Subject: Re: Epiphanies & other consolidated tales On Thu, 10 Jul 1997, Eb wrote: > Who the heck are "Blossom Toes," Mike? Just the two albums in the late 60s on Giorgio Gomelsky's Marmalade label ("We are ever so clean" and "If only for a moment" which is the good one). As far as I know they were the first band to do twin lead guitar (yes, before Wishbone Ash...). Guitarist Jim Cregan later joined Stud, Family, Cockney Rebel and was last seen in the Rod Stewart band. Guitarist Brian Godding went into jazz rock with Keith Tippett and that crowd. Bass player Brian Belshaw subsequently joined the Cockerel Chorus who had a hit with "Nice one Cyril". Drummer Barry Reeves moved to Germany. Their single of "I'll be your baby tonight" is my favourite version. If anyone has a copy of their Scandinavia-only double live album, I'll pay twenty-five quid... > Singing "1-2-3 Red Light" under my breath, All together now: "Every time I try to prove I love you 1 2 3 Red Light you stop me Baby it ain't right to stop me 1 2 3 Red Light..." Better than politics, anyway... - Mike ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 11:03:51 -0700 From: mrrunion@tng.net (Runion, Michael R.) Subject: Superkeen single Homer: Finally obtained a copy of Homer's "Superkeen" single. Not bad, but way more BritPop sounding than I was expecting. I'd only heard Tim & Homer on tape backing up Robyn at the Dylan show and the recent west coast leg of the tour. The acoustic radio performance of Superkeen by Tim & Robyn on the 5/28/97 KCRW show didn't prepare me for the full-on onslaught of studio single. (By the way, does anyone out there have a good crisp version of this show? The one I have is rather hissy-sounding.) Feg Map: Someone out there mentioned having a map of where all the various fegs live. I think this would be great, actually. I volunteer to make this if anyone is interested (and host it from the VCM site). I envision just a plain map of the US (and UK and New Zealand!) with little red dots showing generally where each of us lives. No addresses or anything (unless you just want it). You could click on the dot of your choice and get the name and email address of the feg. Might help us all grasp the overall feg-distribution. Who knows, there might even be a hidden pattern deep with dark and existential meaning (like an upside-down duck or something). Email me your name, city/state, and email address if interested. That's all for now. Mike Map-Maker Runion ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 11:28:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard Subject: shaving cream My first RH concert was at the 9:30 club in 6/91.. I've seen him there a few times since. It was enjoyable but I was not familiar with the songs-- it was mostly remarkable for the way he interacted verbally with the audience. He played "Watch your intelligence", "airscape" and "I used to Say I Love you". A video was played beforehand which featured someone who looked sort of like robyn (the opening act referred to the tape and said it was him) spreading shaving cream on his chest and telling a story, illustrating the story by drawing in the shaving cream. was this RH? does anyone remember? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Jul 97 07:54:00 -0800 From: Russ Reynolds Subject: Portland Arms > "Portland Arms" I believe when it was issued on vinyl in 1987. An > excellent album which I loved instantaneously. I always like humour > in music. It is a bad album to start with though since it doesn't > provide a representative insight into RH or the Soft Boys. I can remember shooting baskets in the school behind my house while blaring the Portland Arms cassette (which I had just gotten from the order form in Invisible Hits), and this other guy shows up to shoot baskets at an adjacent hoop. After about 1/2 hour of shooting baskets without saying a word to each other he finally says "what's this you're listening to?" I told him, and then we went back to shooting baskets and not saying a word to each other. To this day I don't know if he asked because he enjoyed it or because he couldn't believe somebody would actually listen to something like that. -rr ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 11:51:25 -0400 From: kenster@MIT.EDU (Ken Ostrander) Subject: HITCHCOCK EXPERIENCES my first experience with robyn came from perusing used record stores in boston when i first started college. i remember stopping many times when i would come to a copy of ELEMENT OF LIGHT. the picture of him sitting on a rock with his guitar struck a responsive chord. i never bought that record, but not long after a friend mentioned hitchcock to me, "quirky bubblegum pop". this was when GLOBE OF FROGS had just come out. i hadn't even heard 'balloon man' yet; but i went out and finally got ELEMENT OF LIGHT on compact disk. it put me over the edge. i just remember playing it over and over. i didn't get to see robyn in concert until 1989 in northampton. this was the QUEEN ELVIS tour and he came out of a phonebooth. the show was spectacular and i remember being blown away by his spoken word extrapolations during 'autumn sea'. as my friend johnny and i were leaving we noticed a tourbus right out front. we stuck around and robyn eventually came out with a heineken in his hand. he was very approachable and we chatted a bit. i got him to sign my ELEMENT OF LIGHT insert. andy and morris came out too and signed it as well. morris was eating a little basketful of strawberries and got strawberry juice on the insert. slurp. ************************************* Ken Ostrander Educational Services Sloan School of Management Massachusetts Institute of Technology 50 Memorial Drive, E52-101 Cambridge, MA 02142-1347 Phone: (617)258-8016 Fax: (617)258-9181 E-mail: kenster@mit.edu ************************************* ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 13:20:15 -0700 From: mrrunion@tng.net (Runion, Michael R.) Subject: Re: Hitchcock/Cope connection I was finally able to ask someone in the know about Robyn's acquaintance with Julian Cope. I also suggested a mailing list for Julian similar to this one... JoAnne at Head Heritage (Julian Cope's version of Antwoman) wrote: > yes, julian and robyn are friends. perhaps julian should talk with him > about internet possibilities. thanks for the suggestion. I guess I should have mentioned that Robyn thinks we're fiends! Mike Making-The-Connections Runion ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 12:23:36 -0500 (CDT) From: Gregory Stuart Shell Subject: Re: Robyn buzzes On Fri, 11 Jul 1997, John Littlejohn wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Jul 1997, Pandora wrote: > > is there any notion of giving web space to the 'mythical' experiences > > as well as the non-mythical robyn-firsts? > > Run for you lives before the Quail gets to his computer. Save the > children. > > JL, wishing love and peace on (almost) everyone Speaking only for myself and "I am unanimous in this" as Ms. Sloakum(sp?) would say, I enjoy reading thoughts of the Great Quail. If you do not, simply delete them, but get off his back. I read things sent by some of the fegs that I think are worth less than the shit they usually appear to be made from. Maybe I have misinterpreted a few and if so then I apologize, but if not then please find something else, somewhere else to complain about. Also, regarding some of the recent heated topic discussion I have been a part of: If you do not want to hear other peoples opinions regarding non-Robyn related topics, especially politics, do not include any of your opinions on non-Robyn related topics in your notes. I know some of these notes come from me, but all the ones I have sent have simply been replies or replies to replies of notes that made it to the list containing "OFF ROBYN" comments. And since no mortal can truly judge any other mortals worthiness, integrity etc.. I say to all, live long, stay free, have great sex and prosper and do not call me Reg, because I have asked you not to call me Reg. Regardless, Gregory S. Shell ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 15:35:25 -0400 From: kenster@MIT.EDU (Ken Ostrander) Subject: random notes (less than 2% of the RDA-Robyn Daily Allowance) >Actually, it took me a very long time to embrace REM . . . I love them >now, but like the Talking Heads, Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed, The Grateful >Dead, and The Beastie Boys, my first reaction was something akin to >touching a dead thing. Funny old world, innit? damn silly. i had similar difficulties with R.E.M. i bought MURMUR a long time ago and, despite the "this isn't country at all" line found it very country and returned (actually, i did this with a lot of albums when i was working at one of those nasty corporate whoremonger record chains. i would bring a record in that i didn't much care for and exchange them for something completely different.) it. then i heard 'pretty persuasion' and thought it was very nice. go figure. the first time i went to see R.E.M. in concert i was thrilled because i'd heard that robyn was opening and i hadn't seen him yet. when i got there it was the indigo girls opening instead and i made a conscious decision NOT to like them. i've softened a little since then. i had a friend that was obsessive about talking heads so i got exposed to it regularly, but i didn't start buying them until later. i did get into the velvet underground all on my own though. i loved that ol' "doot de doot" deal and bought ROCK AND ROLL DIARY which had a bunch of solo lou stuff and some choice cuts from the velvets. i'll never forget when the needle went down and 'i heard her call my name' came on. that was an epiphany! >lots of space given over to underground bands (when did the word become >>"alternative" anyway?), and well-written articles and they aren't the same thing to me. alternative is just major label bullshit trying to appeal to "what's hot with the kids". underground will always be just that. perhaps major label vs. indie is more evocative? reptilian vs. amphibian? whole wheat vs. a loaf of wax? i must admit, though, that spin has sent me looking for some good stuff. >Why is it that whenever someone tells the story of discovering an artist >(certainly not just in the case of Robyn Hitchcock), he/she was "instantly >hooked?" It's always a thunderbolt, an epiphany, a man on a flaming pie.... just thought i'd mention that paulie's new album is not bad at all. KEN (who actually had toast for breakfast this morning with eggs) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 12:58:15 -0700 (PDT) From: griffith Subject: Uncorrected Personality Traits Just doing a little surfin'...CD Now has the upcoming "Uncorrected Personality Traits" cd on sale. They list it at $ 12.99 (US), being available after 5 August. Check out www.cdnow.com for further details. BTW, after searching for info about The Olivia Tremor Control (they are a band), one website stated that their latest CD has "Robyn Hitchcock-esque drawings" all over it. Have a good weekend..... griffith ______________________________________________________________ Griffith Davies hbrtv219@email.csun.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 16:13:09 -0400 (EDT) From: lj lindhurst Subject: could someone please clarify? ------------------------------ Subject: Frippoholics Anonymous Date: Fri, 11 Jul 97 16:32:11 -0000 From: The Great Quail James writes, >uh-oh... TGQ is another Frippophile! Frippophile? Frippohile! (I repeat >myself when under stress...). The more I look at it. . . . Oh, yes, I am most definitely a Frippomaniac. And a Belewophile, a Levinista, a Brufordite, and lately even a Mastolettori and a Gunner. King Crimson are my all time favorite band, in all their incarnations. It's a lot like Doctor Who, isn't it? And speaking of KC, my epiphany for them was somewhat more normal than with Robyn, but still odd. I never heard of them until I saw a concert on -- get this! - MTV, ferchrissakes, some Live in Japan thing in the early eighties. I was in high school at the time. It was the "Discipline" line up. I was blown away! So I run out to the store the next day and buy the coolest KC album I could find, which was the first one. . . .which, for those of you in the know, has a completely different line-up save Fripp, and is like buying a Moody Blues album when you were after the Talking Heads. (Of course, KC is far better than that comparison, but you get the picture.) I was shattered - I thought for sure I had acquired a different band! But I still loved it, in an entirely different way. So the next album I picked up was "Starless and Bible Black." It was at that point that I realized this band was going to drive me gleefully insane. By the way, I got into ELP in a rather embarrassing way. In tenth grade saw "Brain Salad Surgery" and I loved the album art. I bought it, and I wasn't at all disappointed. . . Well, I suppose that's not all that strange now that I think about it. I mean, other than the fact that once MTV would have played a whole King Crimson concert. . . . >And you couldn't have described my first >experience of Robyn better if you'd tried. Uncannily similar. Did we all >share the same experience? And what does it mean? Damn! So you saw the angel, too? So much for a personal God. 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 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 13:34:50 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Laurie >Heh. Well, you see, my friend insisted on playing ALL of United Staes >Live for me one day in a long car ride, right after I went through a >harrowing breakup. > >I was not amused. . . . Ha! :) Still, since Laurie writes so little about romance/love, I would think she might have been a great distraction. >PS - I now love Laurie, and feel quite jealous of Lou, but then again >that's something I wouldn't really want him to know. . . . In a way, I want them to break up. Lou's last album sucked, and if Laurie dumps him, just THINK how great his next album will be! ;) Eb, who has an autographed "O Superman" 12" on which Laurie drew a cartoon bubble next to her "talking hand" on the back cover saying "Hi [Eb]!" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 13:58:17 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Frippoholics Anonymous >And speaking of KC, my epiphany for them was somewhat more normal than >with Robyn, but still odd. I never heard of them until I saw a concert on >-- get this! - MTV, ferchrissakes, some Live in Japan thing in the early >eighties. I only had about 40-45 albums when I bought my first Crimson record (In the Court of the Crimson King). I bought it totally blindly (and because it was only $3.99), based on the fact that I had already gotten into Genesis, Yes, ELP and Jethro Tull and had surmised that KC was the OTHER big art-rock band I ought to discover. The weird thing was that Discipline came out almost IMMEDIATELY after that. I mean, within a few weeks! So suddenly I had two KC albums which I really loved, which sounded nothing alike. I bought/taped most of the other early albums within the next year. So in that case, I WOULD say I was fairly "instantly hooked." Eb ------------------------------ From: "Percy Thrillington" Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 13:55:34 -0800 Subject: Re: could someone please clarify? On 11 Jul 97 at 16:13, lj lindhurst said something to the effect of: > > Sorry, but I'm drawing a blank... --g ********************* Glen E. Uber glen@metro.net http://metro.net/glen ********************* ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 17:11:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard Subject: FegMap/Fegographix Hey, we could make the feg demographics part of the fegmap. Just click on a feg's dot and his or her vital stats flash up on the screen. (some will recall a year or two ago we had a very interesting thread in which everyone explained whether or not they wear glasses, their age, what they do every day to get money, what they'd rather be doing, etc.) another benefit would be, if we could set up an online database (i can help with this) it would ease bandwidth demands on this list (generally I don't mind personal fegstuff flooding my inbox, but i know some/many do.) we could even pin some of nick's photos up there. this will be very useful for me, i'll be on the road all over this wonderful, evil country this august and september! (: =b ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 17:18:16 -0400 From: kenster@MIT.EDU (Ken Ostrander) Subject: lou reed (no robyn) >>PS - I now love Laurie, and feel quite jealous of Lou, but then again >>that's something I wouldn't really want him to know. . . . > >In a way, I want them to break up. Lou's last album sucked, and if Laurie >dumps him, just THINK how great his next album will be! ;) no, it didn't suck. SET THE TWILIGHT REELING is an amazing album. every song is groovy. there are no stinkers at all. you've got the man of a thousand faces right here. what a refreshing feeling. i could't stop playing this disk over and over. 'egg cream' is like a guilty pleasure. there are diferent ways to read this one, but the real treat is the frothy guitar yummyness. "you scream, i steam." even 'hookywooky' keeps my toes a-tappin' though it sounds a lot like a rewrite of 'i wanna boogie with you' to me. 'sex with your parents' is great fun. i like the loose live feel. no one can groove like lou. 'nyc man' is the coolest lou in a long time. "i'm an m-a-n-n man." love that bass. the acoustic strumming on 'finish line' sounds almost like that 'wild side' song. it flows right into 'trade in' lyrically and thematically. as heartfelt as anything on MAGIC AND LOSS. just not as depressing. 'riptide' is a wondrous wash of feedback. has a very 'voodoo child' feel to it. the main riff in 'the adventurer' reminds me of 'the last shot'. i love that lick in 'the proposition'. laurie sounds great with lou's blues. my vote for best solo. the grand finale of the title track is awesome. the momentum builds until you think you can't take it anymore. better than 'the blue mask'. ken in boston ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The End of this Fegmaniax Digest. *sob* .