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 #169 Fegmaniax Digest Volume 5 Number 169 Friday July 18 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: Guitar Rock Re: Guitar Rock BOB CD embarrassing robyn moments Wisbech! RE: Got out my copy of The Flat Earth... Welcome Natalie! Globe Of Fegs - Updated! Re: Feg Digest V5 #168 Re: Welcome Natalie! The Boat Race Gig "Hey, man! Is that Freedom Rock?" (0% RH content) Re: Welcome Natalie! Re: Welcome Natalie! Re: g-e-n-e-h-a-c-k-m-a-n ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 18:38:18 -0500 (CDT) From: John Littlejohn Subject: Re: Guitar Rock > On 16 Jul 97 at 17:17, Eddie Tews wrote: > > > how many albums prominently feature a quitar on the sleeve. there's > > got to be zillions of them, but i can only think of BLACK SNAKE, > > BROTHERS IN ARMS, and those boston guitar/spaceship covers. How 'bout that Melissa Etheridge album? Yeah, how 'bout it! JL -* "Si vous m'obstaclerez, je vous liquiderai" - Churchill -* ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 16:53:45 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Guitar Rock >> On 16 Jul 97 at 17:17, Eddie Tews wrote: >> >> > how many albums prominently feature a quitar on the sleeve. there's >> > got to be zillions of them. There ARE zillions of them. That's why I don't think this thread is very interesting. Perhaps next we should list albums with pretty girls on the cover? ;) Eb ------------------------------ From: KCasey@aol.com Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 20:42:34 -0400 (EDT) Subject: BOB CD Hello, While browsing today, I came across a CD called "Thank You, Bob". It is a compilation of BOB magazine flexis and the first track is Robyns live at McCabes version of "A Day in the Life". It also includes REMs version of "Arms Of Love". I would've bought it but they were asking $28.99 for a single CD. It claims to be a limited edition of 500 copies, so if you must have this item, don't delay. Have a feg summer, Kevin ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 20:46:48 -0400 From: chichi@io.com (Zelda Pinwheel) Subject: embarrassing robyn moments This is nearly too embarrassing for me to write about, but ya'll dragged it out of me...It was during the *Respect* tour w/the Egyptians on the night of the show. The friends that I had invited along wanted to get some dinner, but I was feeling anxious about the show, which was *only* two hours away. I really wanted to get to the club early in order to procure a decent spot in front of the stage (I'm 5'3, hopefully there are other diminutive folks on the list who can relate). Since there was absolutely no one in line waiting to get into the club, my friends convinced me to go with them to a restaurant that was a block from the venue. Begrudgingly, I went along, knowing that at any moment hundreds of giants would be queueing up for the show while we ate. Well, wouldn't you know it, but barely two steps away from the door at the restaurant were Andy, Morris and Robyn, enjoying a meal before the show. I stopped dead in my tracks, and had to be physically removed from my deer-in-the-headlights like stance in front of their table. The funny thing is that I had met RH before. I'm glad to say that I have acted more composed in his presence several times since "the incident", but it was so incredibly dorky of me just to drop my jaw and stare at him as he ate his tofu nachos. Oh well. zelda ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 12:13:31 +0100 (BST) From: Gary Sedgwick Subject: Wisbech! We left a gloriously sunny Oxford afternoon to arrive in a gloriously damp and dismal Cambridge evening about three hours later. After having too much to eat at Footlights, we trundled along to the Boat Race. As more people poured into the tiny venue, the atmosphere became increasingly charged with excitement. Great things were going to happen. This was confirmed by a certain Kimberley Rew mingling with members of the audience. We waited... Suddenly a towering man took the stage, told us a story about war planes flying over a landscape populated by giant chess knights with beams emerging from their eyes that when broken cause a toilet to flush in Wisbech (pronounced wiz-beach). And then he sang us a song requesting that we do not ask him about Gene Hackman. And from then on the audience was his... The set list: Don't Talk To Me About Gene Hackman Lysander Serpent At The Gates Of Wisdom (for this and the next song, Robyn plays a harmonica which conjures up the sound of Bob Dylan at his very best) Clean Steve ("I said the man next door's best friend is making videos with Clean Steve. He said, 'You mean to say that Clean Steve is an optical recording device?'" - or something like that. And another mention of Wisbech) I'm Only You Beautiful Girl I Am Not Me You And Oblivion (now so far Robyn has really been blinking. A lot. And I don't know if it has any significance, but he stopped for the 'right when the death train got your ma' verse. And then started blinking again for the last verse) (Now joined by Kimberley) Queen Of Eyes Kingdom Of Love Insanely Jealous 1st encore: I Often Dream Of Trains Waterloo Sunset (Robyn's getting a lot of requests now, including 'Put a sausage on the griddle', to which he replies in a low voice, 'I already have, man', and gives us a monologue about sausages and fumes [pronounced fooms] involving American and Latin American accents) Beautiful Queen 2nd encore: (solo - "Kimberley's building a tram") Queen Elvis And how did Robyn sound? Excellent. Completely on form; faultless guitar, singing and harmonica; and some stories and not-so-subtle lyric changes to keep us amused. And Kimberley did a great job, especially with the backing vocals; and the two of them looked really happy to be playing together. All in all, one of the best gigs I've been lucky enough to see. Hi to those fegs that I didn't meet last night - if any of you are going to the 12 Bar next Wednesday, we should arrange somewhere to meet before hand. Did anyone record the gig? I nearly bought a dictaphone yesterday, but I thought the sound wouldn't be up to much - I'm kicking myself now! I noticed someone with a camcorder at the front of the audience - if that was you, please get in touch! Wisbech on ya, Gary ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 07:08:00 +0100 (BST) From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: RE: Got out my copy of The Flat Earth... On 16-Jul-97 Scott McCleary wrote: >Got out my copy of The Flat Earth this evening. Here's what Robyn says at >the end of The White City. >Where Was I? Batesfordshire-that's a lousy place.... 8:45 Try "Bedfordshire" (which is a remarkably flat county in England, and could well be described as lousy as it has Luton in it) and "the A45", a road which goes through some of the least interesting countryside there. Oddly enough, I'm not sure if the A45 does go through much of Bedfordshire at all, but it's still pretty lousy. -- Stewart C. Russell, Glasgow, Scotland - scruss@enterprise.net "Hang on... This is the real thing... The truth, my friend, and nothing but the truth" - Mervyn Peake ------------------------------ Subject: Welcome Natalie! Date: Fri, 18 Jul 97 10:44:23 -0000 From: The Great Quail Natalie writes, >I just subscribed to the list but I've been lurking in the archives for >several months now, so I feel like I already know you - well, actually, I >*do* know some of you, my fellow XTC fans from the Chalkhills list. I've >followed you here. I hope you don't mind. . . Hear that, Fegs? She followed some of you back from the XTC List. What did Woj tell you about covering your tracks and keeping a sharp lookout behind you? Next we're going to be flooded with bloody bomb-throwing socialists from the Bragg List. . . . But if she's had the guts to follow and the cleverness to lurk successfully despite the best attempts by Mike to catalog the whole damn list, I suppose we have no choice but to *make her one of us!* (At this point, Natalie, you must imagine a whole host of ghostly Fegs chanting "one of us, one of us" in creepy unison.) I suppose this means that Sydney must ready the feathers and the Egyyptian Cream again. . . . >Some information: I'm from Ann Arbor, Michigan. I'm 24. I believe I >first heard Robyn when I saw the video for "Raymond Chandler Evening," but >I didn't get interested till "Queen Elvis" came out - the first album of >his that I bought, and a much-maligned one, but dammit, I like it! I like it too. That and Globe of Frogs are my favorite R&tE albums, and I am proud to say it. Hell, I 'm going to spend the rest of the day going around and singing . . . "SUPER-man, SUPER-man, CRUNCH-y LIT-tle SU-per-man. . . ." > I've >never seen him live but I have missed him three times for various reasons >(including stupidity). I do believe that is the prevalent reason for that sort of thing around here. >I am just starting to get back into the Hitchcockian oeuvre after a long >hiatus, so I don't own all, or even half, of his albums. Therefore, I >probably won't be saying much on this list since otherwise I might betray >my shameful ignorance. But I will continue to lurk, and maybe someday, >when my collection is sufficiently expansive, I'll actually have something >to say. No, no, no, that won't due. Say all you want, despite the number of Robyn albums you have. Hell, I'm a huge Blind Faith fan, and I only have one of their albums. . . . and Eb says whatever he wants, and the only Robyn he owns is a battered cassette of Eye that Susan mailed to him! >There are certain people out there who have constructed their own private >universe, complete with its own flora, fauna, and language. Some of these >people are willing to let others have a peek inside. Robyn Hitchcock is >one of those people, and that's why I like him. Exactly. We had a discussion about that some while back, and I think many of us would agree. >P.S. The Great Quail is way cool. Oh, you don't know? There is no great quail. He was only a hoax - a mythical figure inventyed by LJ Lindhurst and Eddie Tews. They joint-write all his postings and then mail them from a dummy server set up in Intercourse, PA. >P.P.S. Now that I'm officially on the list, does that make me a "feg"? Or >do I have to earn that title? Um, earning it, eh? Well, gee, Natalie, of *course* you have to "earn" it. Just send me a private email for instructions how, and be sure to have your checkbook and marital status ready. . . . 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, 18 Jul 1997 10:44:00 -0700 From: mrrunion@tng.net (Runion, Michael R.) Subject: Globe Of Fegs - Updated! Hey all, The Globe Of Fegs is now current, with 61 fegs represented. Due to a great suggestion by Nigel Jarman out in Leicester, England, I've made a map solely for the UK and Ireland. I guess is was pretty skimpy of me to relegate the whole UK to just a tiny corner of the Europe map, especially since Robyn is FROM there! Just call me an American. "Don't call me Reg" - RH "Don't call me Mark Chapman" - J. Cope Also, let me know if any of you are having problems clicking on the dots. If anyone is using Microsoft Explorer, I've been told that the links only work above the bent middle finger instead of the tip of the pointing finger. Hmmm. Mike wasting-valuable-time Runion ------------------------------ Subject: Re: Feg Digest V5 #168 From: dede_davis@juno.com (Diana L Davis) Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 11:09:05 EDT >how many albums prominently feature a quitar on the sleeve. there's got >to be zillions of them, but i can only think of BLACK SNAKE, BROTHERS IN >ARMS, and those boston guitar/spaceship covers. The one by the Steve Morse band; I can't remember the name but it shows a giant guitar up on the racks of a car repair shop. Dede "Out of boredom/I decided/I'd get with it....."-MCC ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 11:49:54 -0700 From: mrrunion@tng.net (Runion, Michael R.) Subject: Re: Welcome Natalie! The Great Quail penned this about our new Ms. Natalie Jacobs: > But if she's had the guts to follow and the cleverness to lurk > successfully despite the best attempts by Mike to catalog the whole damn > list, I suppose we have no choice but to *make her one of us!* Ach! Foiled again, this time by what I'd presumed to be simply a mild-mannered Chemistry teacher from somewhere deep within the black forests of Pennsylvania, one taken with strange underground role-playing games and stone circles. The Thomas Pynchon connection should have clued me in... Yes, if it weren't for the meddling Quail, I'd have gotten away with it. Now that I've been found out and this pseudocartoon is nearly over, I'll spill my guts like all worthless TV-land criminals once caught. As the Great Quail may have gathered, I indeed work for an international syndicate of thieves and generally not very nice people. It is we who are responsible for the botched disappearance of one Debbie Flosshilde, and it was through her tortured screams that we learned of you...all of you! It was our plan (one that may yet work) to infiltrate your ranks, secure a tenuous position in your HTML-literate upper echelon, and destroy you from the inside out, like a black cancerous tumor with little squiggly appendage things snaking through your webstream. It was our hope that by creating oddly colored web pages full of maps and spinning cones laced with subliminal mind-numbing messages, our position would be secured and we would be able, through friendly chatter with lots of :p's and :)'s, to find each and every one of you. The island where we hold Ms. Flosshilde has many chambers...and no mail servers! The Hitchcockian scourge will be eliminated, but alas this must be delayed for now. Good work, Mr. Quail. You protect your master Robyn well. May we meet again under less favorable circumstances... By the way, if you'd still like to be part of the Globe Of Fegs, just send me your name, city, and email address. Have a nice day. :) Mike your-buddy-and-fiend Runion ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 16:27:00 +0000 (GMT) From: "NORMAN PARKER +44 (0)1473-222478" Subject: The Boat Race Gig Robyn took to the stage wearing a coloured shirt with a small 'hands' print on it, picked up an acoustic (dunno what kind - I' m not a muso). He began with an initial story about the Baby Jesus pick, then moved on to the Virgin Mary pick (Robyn's preference). Opened with Gene Hackman - excellent, first time I'd heard this live. Followed up with a song I wasn't familiar with - ended in something about a parasol ? Then came Serpent At The Gates Of Wisdom, after donning mouth organ gizmo. Nice rendition of Queen Of Eyes, and I'm sure another one that I just can't recall right now. Closed the acoustic portion of the set with an OK You & Oblivion, and left the stage. On his return he was wearing the white shirt with black polkadots, and picked up the blue electric. Began with a storming I Am Not Me (although I must admit a bias here, that's one of my faves). Then came (although not necessarily in this order), My Wife And My Dead Wife, a rocking Clean Steve (great to hear this again), I'm Only You, and a jangly rendition of Beautiful Girl. Exit again. Back on (same shirt/guitar), asks if Kimberley Rew is here, and Kimberley climbs on stage to a fair amount of applause (sorry, can't remember his shirt, but I don't think it means as much!) They kick off their set with a great Kingdom Of Love, then an awesome Insanely Jealous (my fave SB song). We then got an understated IODOT, followed by an amusing wacky improv intro about sleeping in a hotel room with a towel over your face to avoid the fumes (pronounced FOOOMS, in a deep and exaggerated manner), which drifted into almost total gibberish in various odd accents. Kimberley was just standing there, giving Robyn a wonderful bemused look that said to all "what the hell is he talking about" ! This led into a superb Waterloo Sunset, which was the highlight of the gig for me. Then into Beautiful Queen - played somewhat differently here, considerably extended, with a lot of 70's style prog rock guitar noodling. Not to my own taste (I prefer BQ simple), but went down well. Exit again. Final encore - Queen Elvis, solo, and wonderful. About 90 minutes in all. Robyn was obviously relaxed, and seemed to really enjoy playing alongside Kimberley. At the end, Kimberley packed up his own guitar, and carried it out himself - it's good to see success and money hasn't changed him. I got the feeling he was happy to be playing there in his hometown with his old bandmate, just for fun. Saw him again outside in the car park, loading up his gear, and driving off. Robyn apparently wasn't in the mood to chat/sign, but then a few folks had stuff taken up to his dressing room to be signed. We hung around a bit longer, and he came down (there were only about 20 people left by then). He signed a few more bits, and seemed happy to chat to the faithful few. He reckons the Storefront film might make it to cinemas in the UK, but will probably come out on video towards the end of the year, and then turn up on Channel 4 (our kind of minority and arts channel). He also said that he is trying not to play any of the stuff which will be in the film, so it doesn't get boring for the fans. He mentioned that they are trying to get Gene Hackman to appear in the video ! While getting a ticket-stub signed (didn't come prepared), I asked him if there were any plans to release Waterloo Sunset - He smiled at me, and said SOMEONE already had ! He mentioned that he had been playing that song 25 years ago in his first band, and it was only a couple of years back that he finally got it right ! He mentioned another Cambridge gig (some outdoor event, apparently in the car park of The Junction, on August 23rd - I'll post more details when I get them), and another fan asked him if it would be worth going to, and would it be any good :) At the very end, when the venue staff were trying to clear everyone out, I asked Robyn if he would mind if I took a photo of him (I had refrained from doing so during the gig, as it would have been too intrusive). He said "sorry, no, I don't come out well in photos - I always have a fuck off and die look on my face". With that he smiled again, and then was gone. My pal Scruff managed to snag the setlist, but I don't have it to hand right now. It did however include a few different songs, including Heliotrope. Also, the Kinks song had an alternative, Tired Of Waiting. This same pal also sneaked up on the stage and pinched the towel Robyn had wiped his face with ! Another fan picked up the glass of water RH had been drinking from, and was 'anointing' various fans. Wonder if he a fully fledged cult member ?! ------------------------------ From: "Merle Haggis" Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 10:39:50 -0800 Subject: "Hey, man! Is that Freedom Rock?" (0% RH content) On 18 Jul 97 at 11:09, Diana L Davis wrote: > >how many albums prominently feature a quitar on the sleeve. > >there's got > > >to be zillions of them, but i can only think of BLACK SNAKE, > >BROTHERS IN > > >ARMS, and those boston guitar/spaceship covers. > > The one by the Steve Morse band; I can't remember the name but it > shows a giant guitar up on the racks of a car repair shop. That was actually Jeff Beck, not Steve Morse. The album was called GUITAR SHOP and was released in the late 80s/early 90s right around the time Stevie Ray Vaughan went to the great roadhouse in the sky. Of interest to Zappa fans (or Missing Persons fans. Is there really such a thing?): The drummer on GUITAR SHOP is Terry Bozzio. More random trivia: Beck, Bozzio and the keyboardist from GUITAR SHOP (whose name escapes me at the moment) were featured as the bar band in a scene from the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie, "Twins". I'm sure this is more than any of you ever cared to know about that album. Sorry. Vibrating internally, --g "If you like it, it's probably been done before." --Cliff Malloy *************************************************************** Glen E. Uber glen@metro.net http://metro.net/glen ------------------------------ Subject: Re: Welcome Natalie! Date: Fri, 18 Jul 97 11:08:28 -0700 From: Tom Clark "Fegmaniax!" On 7/18/97 3:44 AM, The Great Quail stated emphatically: >Oh, you don't know? There is no great quail. He was only a hoax - a >mythical figure inventyed by LJ Lindhurst and Eddie Tews. They >joint-write all his postings and then mail them from a dummy server set >up in Intercourse, PA. huh huh huh, you said "intercourse". huh huh huh, uhhhh..... anyway, anyone seen Susan lately? Either of them? -tc ******************************************* Tom Clark Apple Computer, Inc. tclark@apple.com http://u2.netgate.net/~tclark http://twentiethanniversary.apple.com/ Order Yours Today! ------------------------------ From: "Merle Haggis" The Great Quail Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 11:42:51 -0800 Subject: Re: Welcome Natalie! On 18 Jul 97 at 10:44, The Great Quail wrote: > Hell, I'm a huge Blind Faith fan, and I only > have one of their albums. . . . I guess you and I are in the same boat, Quail. I'm a HUGE Derek and the Dominoes fan, yet I have only one of their albums. Strange, isn't it? --g "If you like it, it's probably been done before." --Cliff Malloy *************************************************************** Glen E. Uber glen@metro.net http://metro.net/glen ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 14:11:26 +0100 From: Kevin.Welton@arm.com Subject: Re: g-e-n-e-h-a-c-k-m-a-n At some time, hbrtv219@email.csun.edu wrote: > The local WB network here in Los Angeles has been broadcasting > movies featuring Gene Hackman all week. I wonder if Hackman's > people (or Hackman himself) are aware of Robyn's song? {\end lurk} After the show last night, there was a small group talking to Robyn while he was doling out the signatures. Apparently, they have approached the afore-mentioned Mr. Hackman to see whether he would be willing to appear in a video of the song - no reply has been forthcoming yet, and Robyn was by no means convinced that it was going to happen. However, I guess that the answer to your question must be "yes". > griffith K. {\begin lurk} ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The End of this Fegmaniax Digest. *sob* .