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 #164 Fegmaniax Digest Volume 5 Number 164 Monday July 14 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: ------- ------- more bumbershoot details Bandwagonner What, who, me, huh? Re: Dolby (no NR/B/C content) Robyn - on the left? Re: ...Robyn wants to know... Re: ...Robyn wants to know... Re: Robyn - on the left? Globe of Fegs Run! Re: Old Thread/Muzak "How come Jesus gets Industrial Disease?" Re: Reminder: RH wants to know Re: "How come Jesus gets Industrial Disease?" (NO RH CONTENT) me and RH Ron Sexsmith ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 22:09:54 -0400 From: the woj of noise Subject: more bumbershoot details the relevant sections from a news wire article about the festival: > SEATTLE, July 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Bumbershoot, The Seattle Arts Festival >announces the headliners for its twenty-seventh annual arts extravaganza at >the Seattle Center this Labor Day weekend, August 29 - September 1. > Featuring over twenty-five indoor and outdoor stages, exhibit halls and >performance sites, Bumbershoot hosts over 2,000 artists and performers from >the Northwest and around the world. Since 1971, Bumbershoot has grown in >breadth and depth to showcase the gems of music, literary arts, dance, visual >arts, theater, comedy, film, kids performances and Bumbershoot trademark >spectacles and rituals. > Bumbershoot remains strongly committed to presenting regional talent and >this year's Festival offers over 1000 artists and performers from the nooks >and crannies of the Northwest. As a forum for arts of all disciplines, the >Festival features a wide ranging line-up of national rising stars and living >legends as well as international artists, such as those from WOMAD (World Of >Music And Dance). > "We have art and artists from as far away as Madagascar, Barcelona, China >and outer space sharing stages with some of the greatest talents in our own >backyard. When these 2000 creative minds converge at Seattle Center over >Labor Day weekend, it will literally transform the city," said Festival >Producer Sheila Hughes. "This year Bumbershoot will be more like a cultural >and artistic vortex than a traditional festival." > > [...] > > United Airlines Opera House > On Friday: Bluegrass duo Jerry Douglas & Russ Barenberg open for >Northwest fiddle hero Mark O'Connor. On Saturday: Tuatara, featuring REM's >Peter Buck, open for storyteller/singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchcock; gospel >legends The Blind Boys of Alabama featuring Clarence Fountain; Pacific >Northwest Ballet performs stellar new works on Saturday and Sunday evenings. >On Sunday: Compadres James Keelaghan and Oscar Lopez open for Canadian >chanteuse Jane Siberry; renowned writer and author of The English Patient, >Michael Ondaatje. On Monday: Jazzy-groovin' Wayne Horvitz & The Four Plus >One Ensemble; African-American influenced jazz group Art Ensemble of Chicago; >comedy showcase with comedian and former talk show host Jon Stewart in >Laff-A-Million with Jon Stewart & Friends. > > [...] > > Also offered over the four days is the second annual 1 Reel Film Festival >featuring independent short films. There are 40 food and beverage booths at >Taste of Seattle, nearly 90 booths at the Art Market and International Bazaar >and over 60 small and independent presses at the Bumbershoot Bookfair which >celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. > Ticket Information: Admission for kids is FREE all weekend, courtesy of >AT&T (must be 12 and under, accompanied by an adult). Daily adult tickets are >$9 in advance and $10 at the gate; seniors are $1. Special discount weekend >passes are $16 for two days or $29 for 4 days (only at Western Washington >PayLess Drug Stores). Advance tickets are available beginning August 4 at >Western Washington PayLess Drug Stores, Ticketmaster Ticket Centers or by >calling 206-628-0888 (agency charges apply). > One daily ticket is good for entrance to all performances, exhibitions and >special projects on a first-come, first-served basis. Festival entry does not >guarantee concert seating and schedule is subject to change. The Space >Needle, Fun Forest and Pacific Science Center are not included with a >Bumbershoot ticket. The Children's Museum offers a discount with a >Bumbershoot ticket. > For Festival information, call the Hotline at 206-281-8111 or visit the >web site at www.bumbershoot.org. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 23:00:44 -0700 From: Ferris Subject: Bandwagonner Hey, all. I wasn't origninally going to post this thing to the list, but I saw so many of the others did, that I figured, what the Hell? (It's my post to Randi). ----- Randi, Robyn, and the worlds of Fegs: In the beginning there was the Element of Light. He looked on it and smiled for it was good... And I can't keep that up for the whole message. I bought the 12" for Element of Light back when it came out not really knowing much about it at all. I remember buying it in what's still my favorite record store in nearby Waterbury. At the time Robyn was getting (and still does from time to time) airplay on a college station out of Danbury. WXCI was a big 'ole part of my formative years back in the mid-to-late eighties and their setlists were liturgy. I saw EOL and said, 'Hey, I know this," and scarfed it up. "If You Were A Priest" was really the high point at the time. "Airscape" is one of my all-times, but it was really "Priest" that caught my attention back then. I got a CD player in, I think, 87, and didn't really touch any of my vinyl too much. Without the influx, I drifted away for a bit. On a technicality Dolby's The Flat Earth does beat out EOL--my best friend's been a Dolby addict for years--but until Miles told us Listees about it, I had never known... College struck a year later and after a while I ended up rooming with a friend of mine who was an amazing Hitchcock/Soft Boys fan. It was his doing that the lyrics to 'Rock and Roll Toilet' were scrawled in appropriate places on University property and there was many a night going through Can Of Bees and, most regularly I remember, Globe Of Frogs. Adam was responsible, probably moreso than that old 12" disc of plastic, for the infatuation with the music I've got. My first live experience was at Toad's Place in New Haven in the early 90's. I don't remember the date, but I know it was the night the final episode of Cheers was on. It was an Egyptians gig and highlights I remember are a rough playing of the Cheers theme (the easiest way to remember the night), and an acapella version of 'Kung Fu Fighting.' I know there's a tape of the show floating about southern Connecticut....I've been meaning to track that down. And I've still never managed to see that Cheers episode. Recently, though, my RH sitings have slipped into a higher gear. I managed to catch three gigs at The Knitting Factory in New York, as well as the Backstage show in Seattle. I managed to meet Robyn in Seattle. I was with my sister and we chatted really briefly about the NYC shows as he signed one of the Rhino posters. Talked to Tim Keegan for a second as well that night about the Homer releases. Anyhow, this is much longer winded than I had origninally intended. And I live in western Connecticut, about 85 miles NE of NYC. My fiancee's from the UK (Shrewsbury area), and, as of now, after the wedding in April we'll be staying here, though this may change. She's an RSW working in a children's home, and I work for a software development company as an artist. If I were to live in the UK I'd love to see Robyn do an(other) Isle of Wight gig someday... ----- Anyway, that's that. Thanks Miles (and everyone) for pointing out that obscurity in "Flat Earth." I hadn't listened to that disc in probably five years. I'm glad I never got sick of looking at it and sold it. The title track's an excellent song. Just saw Contact tonight. I haven't been captivated by something for two and a half hours since...since...a friday night back in March when I was at the Knitting Factory. I finally finished regrouping my list of shows, both Robyn and not. Anyone interested can mail me off list at and I can send it along. PEACE! -ferris. -- "Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgement." -Don Corleone ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 21:25:15 -0700 From: "Mark \"the Pablo Picasso of PC Design\" Gloster" CC: fegmaniax@ecto.org Subject: What, who, me, huh? > Just a reminder...you have until July 14th to tell Steve and Robyn, (and > me!) about your first RH experience, your first album purchase, your > first RH concert, and where you live. > My sweetheart told me about this guy that received some local airplay on college/high school radio who had a really clever song about his wife and his dead wife. This was years after the release of that tune. Suddenly, I heard the song "Balloon Man" on San Francisco radio. I had much too small a brain to connect the two, and when I told Donna, my sweety, about it, she said, "That's the guy I've been telling you about." I purchased Globe of Frogs, just nanoseconds later. I looked for Fegmania for ages, and found a used tape copy, from which Donne shoeshined the last oxide particles years ago. I saw Robyn for the first time with lots of Egyptians at the Santa Cruz Civic, around 1989, and have made it to see him somewhere in the bay area every tour since. Donna and I live in Aptos, a sleepy little town just south of Santa Cruz, California, with two cats and lots of Robyn Hitchcock albums. I hope this helps. -Mark Gloster ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 22:18:36 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Dolby (no NR/B/C content) I've never actually heard this Thomas Dolby track with Hitchcock vocals on it (not too interested in Dolby's music, myself). Can someone post what Hitchcock sings/says? And did Hitchcock write what he sang, or did Dolby? Eb ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 17:24:06 +0700 From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: Robyn - on the left? From: M R Godwin penned: >>I'm exactly the opposite. I like Robyn Hitchcock and I mostly enjoy Billy >>Bragg, but I'm nothing like their kind of Socialist and think it all >>comes from a ridiculous British class system that we've never really had >>in this country. >RH, a socialist? BB, yes, but I have always assumed that RH was an >anarcho-syndicalist-surrealist-dadaist sort of person .... well, "Brenda's Iron Sledge" is distinctly anti-Thatcher, at least. There is... I don't know, a feeling, I suppose... in several of Robyn's songs that makes me think that he is a little left of centre, although not as far left as Uncle Bill. There's also something about him that reminds me in a vague way of that great British traditional stereotypical eccentric, the atheist Anglican priest. Then again, perhaps I just need more sleep. 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, 14 Jul 1997 02:23:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: ...Robyn wants to know... On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, twofangs/randi spiegel wrote: > ...so I'd be forever > greatful to anyone who would like to e-mail me, > > and tell me about their first RH experience, their first album purchase, > their first RH concert, and where they live. > > So get you responses to me by July 14th...I don't know how many people > subscribe to the list but I bet it's a heck of a lot more than 13! OK, so I finally get a moment to respond. But since I am extremely (and often violently) ill right now, it will only be a moment. Hmmm... it seems like only yesterday (and almost was) when I first heard and was Instantly Hooked by Robyn Hitchcock. I've never been much of a radio listener (as I've said many times in the past, I'm maybe too egotistical or arrogant to have someone else picking out what I want to hear), but this is the one time it's paid off. Maybe seven or five years ago, I was listening to the local pop 40 station's weekly 'modern rock' hour (an hour a week. How modern.) hoping, if I recall, to pick up some concert tickets to something I surely couldn't afford to see. I tuned in just as one song faded out and the next faded in. Single guitar. That now familiar voice. Words I memorized as I heard that first time. "I thought I knew all about everything, but I'm in love with a beautiful girl." It's not rare for me to memorize a song on one listening and even more common for Robynsongs, but this one stuck with me. The sultry female deejay (trying very hard to sound rough and cutting edge) let me know that was a new track from Robyn Hitchcock sans Egyptians. I'd heard OF Robyn Hitchcock... seen his name in magazines and on Columbia House order forms... always intrigued by those album titles... but nothing more. Well, I sang that song to myself and whoever didn't tell me to shut up for the next week and a half. I didn't go out album hunting. I didn't have that kind of money. A few weeks later, I was at Fred Meyer (if you don't know what that is... well, it's like a cross between Sears and Safeway... it's weird.) and my then-girlfriend and her then-friend were grabbing some supplies for a camping trip. I started browsing the little 'Cassettes 3.99 and up' carrousel by the checkstand (you know, where the cases have little holes drilled in their spines). I saw Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians Queen Elvis for 3.99. A deal! And if it's anything like Beautiful Girl.... Wow... so I borrowed $3.99 from Jennifer and got the cassette. When we got to the car, Jennifer started harrassing me about spending money on music when I had so many more pressing purchases (like shoes, if I recall) and I started reading the lyrics aloud. By luck, I started with One Long Pair Of Eyes. She stopped speaking when I got to the end of the first two lines either out of politeness or to accentuate my rudeness. I finished out the song (and to this day, when describing the poetry of Robyn, you'll hear me say "On the black Felini sails/tattered rags that hangs on nails/reminds me") Emily's hand was still frozen on the key in the ignition. Jennifer said softly, "That's beautifull." And it was done. I know that album doesn't have too many ardent fans (here or elsewhere), but I love it from start to finish. I've listened to it probably at least twice monthly since that purchase. I think my next buy was Globe of Frogs from the same carrousel some time later. Then Perspex Island on CD. Globe of Frogs didn't really turn me on right away, but leapt up and bit me after I'd gotten heavily into other Robynstuff. While hardly my first CD purchase or even my first Robyn CD purchase, Queen Elvis was the first CD I bought to replace a cassette for home listening (sort of... I mean, it was the same trip in which I bought violent femmes first album, so it's a tie). I didn't get into the back catalogue until I started seeing shows around the Perspex Island tour (with the hideous Matthew Sweet who got a stellar review in the morning paper while Robyn was panned... also the night after Robyn was informed his father had passed away... remarkable show if you held any kind of reasonable mood after Mathew Sweet's almost interminable performance... OK, one more Matthew Sweet side note to this show: No one seemed to applaud at all before during or after any of Mr. Sweet's tunes, yet there was inspired, heavy applause as he left stage. I assumed this was because it meant he was done and Robyn was to come soon. Matthew Sweet assumed it was because we all wanted to hear more and he came out again for a little encore. After that encore, there were no applause. I still don't know whose assumption was correct). Well, the partnership between the girl of Fred Meyer and myself came a couple of years ago and I met another fabulous person who inspired me on a maybe higher level and she was deeply into Robyn as well (that was, in fact, slightly how we met). She got me into The Soft Boys and goaded me to give harder listens to the tracks I didn't really get or enjoy too much originally leading to a stronger appreciation of Robyn's work as a whole. (not that anyone cares, but that relationship was as short as it was significant and I'm absolutely sure that this means my next relationship will be Spectacular and Englightening and last about six days.) I think I covered all of the bases (and maybe did a bit of chasing around the outfield), so that, as They write, is that. Oh yeah, I'm in Portland, Oregon, USA. Happy me. J. ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 02:50:42 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: ...Robyn wants to know... >I didn't get into the back catalogue until I started seeing shows >around the Perspex Island tour (with the hideous Matthew Sweet who got a >stellar review in the morning paper while Robyn was panned... also the >night after Robyn was informed his father had passed away... remarkable >show if you held any kind of reasonable mood after Mathew Sweet's almost >interminable performance... OK, one more Matthew Sweet side note to this >show: No one seemed to applaud at all before during or after any of Mr. >Sweet's tunes, yet there was inspired, heavy applause as he left stage. I >assumed this was because it meant he was done and Robyn was to come soon. >Matthew Sweet assumed it was because we all wanted to hear more and he >came out again for a little encore. After that encore, there were no >applause. I still don't know whose assumption was correct). There's only a few Robyn albums I like better than Girlfriend. :P Eb ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 11:18:52 +0100 (BST) From: M R Godwin Subject: Re: Robyn - on the left? On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, James Dignan wrote: > well, "Brenda's Iron Sledge" is distinctly anti-Thatcher, at least. More anti-royal family, I would have thought (Brenda=QE2 in Private Eyespeak). "Point it at Gran" has a swipe at the royal family, too. > There > is... I don't know, a feeling, I suppose... in several of Robyn's songs > that makes me think that he is a little left of centre, although not as far > left as Uncle Bill. "Off-centre", I would have said, rather than "left of centre". RH is certainly not a pillar of the establishment - I'm sure he didn't vote Tory in May! > There's also something about him that reminds me in a > vague way of that great British traditional stereotypical eccentric, the > atheist Anglican priest. Then again, perhaps I just need more sleep. Interesting. I've always heard him as a lapsed Catholic who has got into Gnostic / Kabbalist / Yeatsian mysticism. Does anyone know his religious upbringing? Cheers - Mike Important PS: When Dick Dastardly and his dog Muttley left the Wacky Racers, what was the name of their solo show? This question led to a full-scale row at pub quiz last night. I said (boringly) that it was "Dastardly and Muttley" and the answer on the card was "Catch the Pigeon". "Dastardly and Muttley and their flying machine" was also suggested. Who is right? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 12:35:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Gary Sedgwick Subject: Globe of Fegs > > Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 13:22:47 -0400 > From: mrrunion@tng.net (Runion, Michael R.) > > .... No fancy programming or anything, just a > series of image maps. When you click on a dot, it'll link over to a page > with name, city, email address, web page, ... Surely we should have frogs instead of dots on this globe? Or (this might work on the T-shirt sleeve as well) a Feg logo / icon? Gary P.S. any UK fegs going to the 12 Bar / Boat Race gigs? ------------------------------ Subject: Run! Date: Mon, 14 Jul 97 11:07:15 -0000 From: The Great Quail JLJ wrote: >> Run for you lives before the Quail gets to his computer. Save the >> children. I totally agree with John on this one, so you guys can all stop defending me now. If you were really smart, you'd be gathering up the children and locking them indoors. . . . Quail PS: Where the heck is Susan? I've been checking my milk cartons lately, but I haven't seen her. . . . ---------------------------------+-------------------------------- 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: Old Thread/Muzak From: dede_davis@juno.com (Diana L Davis) Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 11:00:54 EDT >To add to an old thread, I had an amazing discovery in a Hardee's in >Centreville, AL. Isn't Centreville a great place to raise your kids? >I was in line and heard "The >Bells >of Rhymmney" over the speakers. >Anyone else had a recent experience with Robyn's Muzak? Yeah, I was in Krystals, a totally Southern fast food restaurant (founded in Knoxville, TN) akin to White Castle. The Krystals had only recently opened in our fair city, so it was still shiny and clean. I was sitting there, munching my grease-filled, meat-flavored Krystalburger (to know them is to love them), when, lo and behold! I heard "Balloon Man". I just sat unchewing with a look of pleasant bewilderment on my face. I believe I even said out loud "Robyn Hitchcock!?" Dede "Out of boredom/I decided/I'd get with it....."-MCC ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 11:34:49 -0500 From: "Gene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: "How come Jesus gets Industrial Disease?" Eddie Tews sed: >PERSPEX Tour: i remember attending the seattle stop of this revue, i >remember loving it, i still wear my "there are no jokes in the bible, >keith," t-shirt quite frequently. but recently listening to THOTH BOYS >again, and the new orleans stop at tripitina's, i've acquired a newfound >appreciation for this tour. Being the guy what brought that tape to the list (Tipitina's, 6/29/92), and the only Feg-lister who was at that show (erm, right? anybody else here from or in New Orleans, Louisiana?), I must concur. It was the first and only time I saw Robyn with Andy and Morris, and even though I had been chomping at the bit to see a loud, raw Soft Boys gig or even a traditional (old-stylee) RH & the Egyptians gig, I was completely flabbergasted at how good they were, even though Andy and Robyn played acoustic guitars and Morris stood up and fiddled with that electronic cluster of drum-like things. I grinned frome ear to ear in rapt satisfaction throughout the show. It was a joy to both see and hear, and I feel very fortunate to not only have been able to see Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians (I've seen Robyn solo four times) but to have seen them in such fine form. Oh, and I absolutely adore Perspex Island and Respect, so there. Phbbbsst. +++++++++++++++++ "Don't let Western Civilization + Gene Hopstetter, Jr. + make a dipshit out of you." +++++++++++++++++ -- Spot 1019 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 11:39:57 -0500 From: "Gene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: Re: Reminder: RH wants to know David Librik sed: >So I went bravely into the Underground Alternative Independent Hip >Record Store on campus, passed the Songs About Fucking and the Alien >Sex Fiend and the Death Disco and bought THE MAN WHO INVENTED HIMSELF. Heh! I stand duly pigeonholed. I bought second first Robyn Hitchcock album, Black Snake Diamond Röle, at the Underground Alternative Independent Hip Record Store on campus (erm, Deadly Records, which was owned by Woody Dumas, who ran the now-defunct C'est La Mort record label). I began my Robyn Hitchcock Phase after I had grown tired of Songs About Fucking (got the vinyl, the CD, the promo poster, and the t-shirt) and Alien Sex Fiend (I even own both versions of the vinyl for "Acid Bath" album). __________________________________________________ Gene Hopstetter, Jr. +++ Internet Publishing Specialist E-DOC +++ http://www.edoc.com/ Voice: (410) 691-6265 +++ Fax: (410) 691-6235 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 18:41:18 +0200 From: jlaw@mem.unibe.ch (Jeff Lawrence) Subject: Re: "How come Jesus gets Industrial Disease?" (NO RH CONTENT) >From: "Eddie Tews" >regarding the recent quail-bashing, here is how i perceive the fegmaniax >milieu: > woj, of course, is the frodo of the list > aragorn: rock solid dependable, understated charisma, impeccable >bloodlines, been-around-the-block wisdom, not above entering the >fray...i know there's a bit of a gender problem, but you gonna tell me >that's not susan to a T? > bayard is gandalf > john is elrond > tracy and aidan are galadriel and celeborn > sydney of the wasps and mr. hedblade are merry and pippin > .chris is bombadil > and the quail is obviously master samwise But the question begs to be asked: who's Sauron? ;-) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 20:20:38 +0300 From: Noah Shalev Subject: me and RH > > hi > > here's some answers: > 1. the first robyn album i bought was SB live in the portland arms. it > was back in 87 (i think). > 2.never had the chance > 3.i used to buy records in a very unique shop in Tel Aviv, which is shot > down for long time now, it called FUZZ, over there we were a bounch of > teens (and later a bounch of soldiers) that used to hang around the shop > at fridays. now at some time i got a tape of two sides... and a tape of > black snake, so when i saw that record i bopught it. i think we all > found RH by trying stuff on the shop ( that was specializing on non > regular stuff), than somebody read somthing in the melody maker or > whatever we used to read back than, and some of us got hooked. > it is very important to know that at the time (early and mid 80s) rock > 'n' roll had it's golden years in tel aviv, and there was a big hope of > here we giong to develop a rock culture, situation now is not as good. > (especially thanks to mtv and other communication that leaves the > areana to the main - middle of the road - stream). > 5. i live in tel aviv israel. > 6. i'd b happy to provide u with more information. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 10:06:54 -0800 From: lobsterman Subject: Ron Sexsmith Hey Fegs, and more specifically, Portland, OR fegs: Ron Sexsmith is playing an in-store today at Borders Books & Music on SW 3rd in downtown Portland today at 12:30pm. He's also playing tonight at Satyricon. Not sure what time but I know he's on the same bill with that Kimmy girl from Canada (the one who does the anti-tampon song). I'll be at the in-store with my lovely wife and daughter, but can't make it tonight, haveta work. Who is Ron Sexsmith?? Canadian singer/songwriter, he opened up for Robyn on the Canadian portion of the fall 1994 US tour. He has a beautiful voice, almost otherworldly. His albums are a little more peppy and quirky than his live performances, totally because blokes like Mitchell Froom and Tchad Blake work on them. But to hear him live is the tops, because it gives his voice top priority. (Opinion: I think sometimes that albums produced by Mitchell Froom are so filled with odd percussion and keyboard bits, that the artists main talents are relegated to the sonic back-burner) (And oddly enough, Elvis Costello's "Spike" was NOT produced by M. Froom!!!) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The End of this Fegmaniax Digest. *sob* .