From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V6 #77 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, November 24 1997 Volume 06 : Number 077 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: velvety [biscotti and borscht ] Re: Live & Shy... [biscotti and borscht ] tab site [biscotti and borscht ] Largo comments [DWPoppe@aol.com] ah... that's MY secret! [james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan)] Re: Some impressions from Robyn and friends at the Jazz Cafe l ast night. [lj lindhurst ] Re: Ntshuks Bonga defence [Nick Winkworth ] ebsite [Nick Winkworth ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 13:49:50 -0500 From: biscotti and borscht Subject: Re: velvety mike godwin sez: >It looks good. And it has a note saying that Moe is playing TONITE (20th) >with the Kropotkins at the Bottom Line in New York. I can't go (wrong >continent) but maybe someone nearer could check it out. funny you should mention that. i was at that show to see the headliners (bon lozaga's project lo and caryn lin), and really enjoyed the kropotkins warm-up set. they're sorta psycho americana -- blues and bluegrass frapped in a blender with a healthy dash of lsd. or something. anyways. i didn't know that mo was playing with them and i didn't recognize her when she came on stage. after a couple of songs, i realized that it had to be her. she played an upright bass drum for the entire set, while another guy played a snare strapped to his chest. very dynamic rhythm as a result. woj ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 13:51:50 -0500 From: biscotti and borscht Subject: Re: Live & Shy... >> Plus, I received a tape the other day from a Robyn Hitchcock EP with the >> following tracks: Rain / 8 Miles High / Book Of Love / Calvary Cross. I >> see Gene H. has this listed as a 7" with the title: Robyn Hitchcock - >> Live & Shy, November 1986. Can anyone give me info on this (so's I can >> keep my records straight?) > >I've got a 7" on green vinyl with the same lineup on it that says the >tracks are from Maxwell's in Hoboken, NJ (although it doesn't have a >date....). the date is 11/25/96 -- the first of two nights at maxwell's back in 1986. the 11/26 show is widely available amongst the trader community, but i don't recall seeing the 25th listed on anyone's lists. woj ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 14:25:12 -0500 From: biscotti and borscht Subject: tab site also sprach luther w dudich: > In other news, does anybody know what is wrong with the Robyn >Tab site? Nothing s there anymore? is it being transfered to another >site? funny you should ask. i've given up hope of finding the time to reorganize jay's tab site, so i just simply transplanted it as-is (with a new index page) to fegmania. the new url is . enjoy! woj ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 17:44:00 -0500 (EST) From: DWPoppe@aol.com Subject: Largo comments Greetings, fellow Fegs- I've just been catching up on digests, and thought that I would chime in on the Largo discussion. I was lucky enough to be in attendance both nights (in-between Echo and the Bunnymen shows :-) delavina@juno.com (chris franz) wrote: >if someone did write down what was played, I'd love to see that list. Here's what I've got. Corrections/additions welcome! Largo 11/14/97 Gene Hackman Cheese Alarm Chinese Bones Bass Fair Play Lysander Vegetation and Dimes Rain Cold Turkey Largo 11/15/97 Gene Hackman The Devil's Coachman Serpent At the Gates of Wisdom My Wife and My Dead Wife I Feel Beautiful Queen Elvis Cheese Alarm I'm Only You Glass Hotel Beautiful Girl I Something You Clean Steve Nietzche's Way I Often Dream Of Trains We Are the Underneath (Jon Brion) The End She Belongs To Me It's Only Rock'n'Roll Don't Let Me Down Absolutely Sweet Marie Arnold Layne The Hook (is this right, GLB fans?) Improv (hair) Improv (Robyn on drums - erm...) Clear Spot Break On Through (sort of...almost) Fuzzy Does anyone know the names of the songs Jon Brion played (other than "Fire Brigade")? Eb ranted: >There were four of us at our table: me, Sydney and two other Feglisters (Dan and Chris, was it?). I got up to go talk to someone when the set was over, and came back and discovered that Dan and Chris had left without saying goodbye. OK, no biggie. We had already paid the check and all. But that check was $56, which means that Dan and Chris were drinking a whole lot of beer, because I had ONE beer and I doubt Sydney had more than two. So that works out to five or six apiece for Dan and Chris. delavina@juno.com (chris franz) responded: >Mistaken identity, mate. For the record, I was the 6'8" guy who spent most of the show sitting on the floor right in front of the stage. Uh, yeah. For the record, I spent most of my time at the back bar with John, my friend from L.A., who had never seen Robyn before. (What an initiation! He now says he'll never miss him again.) For the second set on Saturday, I grabbed an open spot at the table by Rick Gershon from WB. Left without saying goodbye, Eb? Neither of us ever said hello to each other! I did talk briefly to the charming Sydney, whom I've met before. I also met Feglisters Chris, Julie, and Peter, and a pleasure it was! Maybe next time, Eb. (I think the other two folks at your table were friends of Sydney's from L.A.) I will admit that if I *had* consumed $56 worth of beer, the second half of Saturday's second set would have sounded better! ;-) Heads up L.A. Fegs!!! It sounds like Robyn will return to the scene of this crime horribly soon. Be on the lookout for the Prince of Cones! (Whatever happened to Susan who always signed off with...?) Love on ya'! Dan ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 11:46:47 +1300 (NZDT) From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: ah... that's MY secret! Dywedodd Mike Runion am caneuon i miwsig: >>Blah blah blah. My irrational tirade is almost ended. I just have to say >>that I used to criticize people and friends for not listening to more >>music and for not following the latest "120" bands, etc. But I realized >>everyone follows their own path. Everyone has their favorite >>authors...you can't read everyone in the bookstore, it's impossible. >>There will always be someone or something out there better than your >>favorite, someone that would take the place of your favorite if only you >>heard them or read them or met them. But I for one can't live my life >>that way at the moment. If you have the time, stupendous, but if you >>don't, it's not a crime. And no matter how much stuff you might absorb >>from the 60's,70's,80's,90's etc, it's still only a smidgen of all that >>has come before and all that will come after. In the grand scheme of >>things, I don't envision it making much difference if someone, for >>example, listened and loved 1000 bands or only 10. In the end, it's the >>power and the personal nature of the art that's important, not the >>quantity of it.<< certainly not Runion on empty today, Mike has come up with the goods again. Thanks for this - an oasis in a blurry blurry digest (if you'll pardon the not-at-all-deliberate pun :) >>Across the street from a foot-high concrete block was a posted >>explanation that it was a "stile," used to help people dismount from >>horses. I knew I had heard that word before, and after a minute of >>contemplation, I remembered Robyn Hitchcock singing about "Oak leaves in >>autumn, cascading on stiles." I looked back at the stile, and oak leaves >>were indeed cascading upon it. As if that wasn't creepy enough, a few >>seconds later I remembered that those lyrics were from "My Favourite >>Buildings."<< nice scene. It never occurred to me that youse yanks wouldn't have heard of stiles before. Then again, they're not encountered very often in NZ either. Stiles aren't usually what you're describing. That's a 'mounting block'. A stile is usually a step set in a fence or wall to enable people to climb over it. They're fairly common in the English countryside where public footpaths need to cross farmland, so as to allow the path to continue yet stop stock from wandering out of the fields. Makes me nostalgic for Northamptonshire just to think about it. >>>i mean, i wouldn't stop anyone from collecting bootlegs if that's what >>>gets them going. but i object to the implication (maybe unintentional) >>>that you're somehow not appreciating Robyn enough if you still hunger >>>for good new music every bit as much once you've heard his stuff. <<< >>did i imply that? jeez, sorry, that wasn't what i was thinking at all. i >>think staying a little hungry is a great thing. if you stop ever getting >>hungry, you must be dead!<< ah, then that bootleg would really sound great! prynhawn da, James (all answers on the inside of a postcard please...) 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: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 18:18:04 -0500 (EST) From: lj lindhurst Subject: Re: Some impressions from Robyn and friends at the Jazz Cafe l ast night. who the hell are Coffee & Cream? Do they have anything to do with Salt & Pepper? (yes, I'm just now catchin up on all this stuff, so excuse me if I am a bit behind) p-push it real good!! lj ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 18:28:18 -0500 (EST) From: lj lindhurst Subject: Re: chewing away at the wax >I >stand on pins and needless in anticipation of "Storefront Hitchcock" - >the album. Any guesses on whether or not good chunks of live spoken >bits >will be included (a staple of live shows that is next to non-existent on >Robyn's recorded output)?> >didn't you say there was no talking whatsoever, lj? i was really bummed >reading that. No, no there was SOME talking, but none of the really great stream-of-consciousness storytelling that we like. He did at one point turn around and start addressing the quizzical people standing on 14th Street who were trying to look in the window at him. But as far as I can remember, that was the extent of it. Then again, they also shot 3 more shows that I was unable to attend, so he could have been doing some storytelling there... don't listen to anything *I* say!!! lj ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 22:21:32 -0800 From: Nick Winkworth Subject: Re: Ntshuks Bonga defence Sorry Matt (and anyone else who took me a little too seriously) - I guess from where you are standing it's a little hard to see my tongue planted firmly in my cheek. That para was my rather lame illustration of a certain "trolling" technique... It is true, however, that I really *much* prefer De Chirico St. *without* the abstract sax. > I'm a big soukous fan so thanks for the album > recommendation. I'll give Sterns African Music a ring. Not quite what you'd expect to find on a Robyn Hitchcock list I suppose, but glad to oblige. I used to work across the road from Warren St. station many years ago and spent all sorts of hours at Sterns. A truly wonderful place. ~N ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 22:33:05 -0800 From: Nick Winkworth Subject: ebsite Since this seems to be apropos to much of the discussion on this list over the past week, some of you may be interested to take a look at this website: http://users.deltanet.com/~gondola/ And next time a certain person accuses you of Feg fan weenie-dom, you may console yourself with a glance at: http://users.deltanet.com/~gondola/longet/longet.html ...rather sweet, actually, I thought. ~N ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V6 #77 ******************************