From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V6 #68 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, November 16 1997 Volume 06 : Number 068 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: non-essential [TchdnJesus@aol.com] the apple dumpling gang ["Capitalism Blows" ] Homer web page info? (sorry, no RH content) [Karen Reichstein ] Jon Brion & Robyn Hitchcock 14-Nov-97 [delavina@juno.com (chris franz)] Re: the apple dumpling gang [Eb ] Audio foliage (MD branch) [Jason Thornton ] Re: Jon Brion (.073% RH content) [Eric Loehr ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 07:25:36 -0500 (EST) From: TchdnJesus@aol.com Subject: Re: non-essential In a message dated 97-11-14 19:30:42 EST, tclark@apple.com writes: > On 11/13/97 5:51 PM, TchdnJesus@aol.com wrote: > > >as for wham, wouldn't george michael be an non-essential member too? > > Bottom line: George Michael is just plain non-essential. actually, come to think of it, I *DO* enjoy his work as host of the sports machine... ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 10:47:56 PST From: "Capitalism Blows" Subject: the apple dumpling gang in fairness, he did say that he considers robyn a B+ artist. blasphemous as this sound to the rest of us, i do think he meant it as a compliment. also, he broke the news of robyn's gig(s) in la this weekend, and sounds like he may even attend... we'll make a feg of you yet, eb. i was awake for 72 out or 80 ours driving to sacto-frisco and back to see robyn twice last june. i can see now that that was just greasy kid stuff. chris especially had a rough go. that drive from seattle to la, the first half is actually pretty fun, going through the siskiyous and all that. but then, you come down into redding, and realize you're only half way there, and the rest of the drive is all desert. that just ain't no fun. i've never made that drive by myself. glad you survived it, man. and david from illinois was at bumbershoot. dam nit, there's another one we missed! jeezus, if we'd had our shit together, that would have been just about the ULTIMATE feggathering to date. well, cynthia had her shit together. but the rest of us... dan bern sounds cooler than hell. but, how was the actual music? this is the part you really need to read, jeme: Sinister But She Was Happy has always been my second-favorite song on ELIXIR. my fist-favorite has changed from Man With A Woman's Shadow (when the k 7" came out, i mean. the first time i played that, i then proceeded to listen to it about 15 times in a row,) to I Am Not Me, to De Chirico St., to The Speed of Things, to As Lemons Chop if that counts...and i've finally decided that You And Oblivion is probably my favorite robyn song of the '90's. just in case you wanted to know. Fuck You! I won't do what you tell me! (repeat fourteen times) --Rage Against the Machine ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Nov 97 11:15:32 -0800 From: Karen Reichstein Subject: Homer web page info? (sorry, no RH content) Okay. Are there any other frustrated Homer fans on this list? On Homer's web page (http://www.foresight.co.uk/homer), there's a secret "backstage" area (yeah, yeah, I know it sounds dorky) for supposed Homer fan club members only. You have to enter a login name and password into a CGI script. I've emailed Jennifer Blair (she runs the Homer fan club) for info on this, but I think she's in the process of moving and hasn't responded to my requests. My question is this: Has anyone else had any luck getting info about either the Homerama fan club? If so, please let me know. Karen (who never thought she'd be joining a fan club past the age of thirteen, but...) Oh yeah. Tim Keegan's Borderline appearance on November 10 was apparently cancelled due to food poisoning. Bad banana, perhaps? ;-) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 12:16:51 -0500 (EST) From: Natalie Jane Jacobs Subject: Query Who is Dan Bern, and what is the Robyn connection (if any)? n. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 16:45:36 EST From: delavina@juno.com (chris franz) Subject: Jon Brion & Robyn Hitchcock 14-Nov-97 Indeed, Robyn Hitchcock did make an appearance for about a 45 minute set last night at the Largo. Hope I didn't scare anyone away with my frantic warnings yesterday... The scene: a rather nice smallish restaurant/bar in West Hollywood. Those in attendance seemed split into two camps: those who adore Jon Brion and knew little about this Robyn guy... and the other way around. First up was Jon. He played bizarre medleys of tunes on his guitar, switching to various other instruments here and there (piano, synthesizer, other guitars, and some things I'm at a loss to identify). After a while a band came out and he did about three songs with the full band. All the Robyn fans I talked to there just didn't "get" Jon Brion, in much the same way that people just don't "get" Robyn. But there were some really hard-core Brion fans in attendance, so there must be something there. Anyway... out came Robyn, in green trousers and purple button-up shirt. The set, (from memory, so there may be a few mistakes) Gene Hackman Cheese Alarm Chinese Bones Bass Vegetation and Dimes ("this is a very LA song") Lysander Fairplay Rain Cold Turkey The thing about this is that these four had never rehearsed together. Jon and Ethan did not know the songs. And the whole time we all (and I think Robyn himself) were cringing in fear of what Jon would do next. Every tune after they came on was prefaced by Robyn telling Jon what key it was in, and Andy doing some coaching of Ethan. Likewise, at the end of each song, Andy was in the back doing something elaborate to let Ethan know to stop, and Robyn would try somehow to grab Jon's attention. So what do they play? Of course, the RH song with the most abrupt ending of them all: "Bass." And sure enough, the piano didn't stop when everything else did. In all fairness, Jon did do a creditable job, and all of us there concluded that if the quartet had a chance to practice, they could put on a kickin' show. As it was, Chinese Bones and Lysander had a vaguely different feel from what we're accusomed to, and there were a few slip-ups... but all in all it worked. These concerns probably are what caused them to switch to covers after a while. Cold Turkey utterly rocked, and featured the best guitar work I've seen Robyn do. Jon, in introducing Robyn, said that he was in LA putting the finishing touches on his film. Other rumors heard last night were that Robyn and Andy were in the studio yesterday recording songs for the next album, and that Jon will produce a half dozen songs on Robyn's next album. Tonight should be all Robyn; stay tuned. - --Chris ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 16:10:53 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: the apple dumpling gang >we'll make a feg of you yet, eb. I'll always be a fan. I'll never be a Feg. Eb, who's uncharacteristically ignorant about the music of Dan Bern ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 17:24:08 -0800 (PST) From: Jason Thornton Subject: Audio foliage (MD branch) Nick Winkworth wrote: >My question is: are there any other fegs out there who have been turned >on to MD yet? (the format is rapidly gaining momentum in the US) If so, >I'd be happy to be a MD branch/leaf/twig or whatever. I've had my MD players for less than a month now, but I'd definitely be up for that as well. I've already done some one-on-one MD trading with some folks, and it's turned out wonderfully. And I also have access to a DAT player (basically, I can borrow one from a friend) - so, if no one else volunteers, I *could* make some DAT-->MD copies, so that the MD branch/leaf/twig could start off with DAT quality. I could make MD-->MD and MD-->boring old analog casettes ;) as well. Cheers! _____________________________________________ Jason Thornton Organic Machinery San Deigo, CA Chapman Stick, Silver Polycarbonate, #2125 _____________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Nov 1997 00:13:29 -0500 (EST) From: Eric Loehr Subject: Re: Jon Brion (.073% RH content) I can't claim I'm a huge Jon Brion expert, but I can enlighten those fegs who may not know who he is: Jon was in the last touring incarnation of Til Tuesday, and produced both of Aimee Mann's solo albums, not to mention doing lots of guitar, bass, keyboards & vocals, as well as co-writing a bunch of songs on them. He went on to form the Grays with Jason Falkner (Jellyfish), Buddy Judge, and Dan McCarroll. I really like the stuff he did with Aimee Mann, enough to seek out the now out-of-print Grays' CD Ro Sham Bo, which I coincidentally played for the first time earlier today. (First reaction: very melodic power pop sort of stuff that rocks -- lots of electric guitar.) If the rumor Chris heard is true about him producing some stuff on Robyn's next album, I'd be very interested to hear what he does. I gotta split, Eric ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V6 #68 ******************************