From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V7 #33 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, January 27 1998 Volume 07 : Number 033 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Royal Uncle Bob & Beautiful Albert [Gary Sedgwick ] Re: a note from Robyn [Jonathan Turner ] RE: On, Wisconsin! ["Chaney, Dolph L" ] cheese [dwdudic@erols.com (luther)] Re: On, Wisconsin! [M R Godwin ] Hello! ["Helen Percival" ] A&M Years [Dede Davis ] Re: Hello! [Capuchin ] RE: On, Wisconsin! [Capuchin ] fwd: Hello! [Russ Reynolds ] Re: Hello! ["JH3" ] non-RH, Maxell tape "points"? [Mike Scott ] Stand Back Dennis [Russ Reynolds ] Re: non-RH, Maxell tape "points"? [Dede Davis ] Re: non-RH, Maxell tape "points"? [Capuchin ] Re: delurking [Jason Thornton ] alas, poor Helly (was: Hello?) [sdodge@midway.uchicago.edu (amadain)] Re: non-RH, Maxell tape "points"? [John Barrington Jones ] Intros [Brian James Zahlmann ] RE: alas, poor Helly (was: Hello?) [firstcat@lsli.com] Boston Robyn Hitchcock Orgy [Aaron Mandel ] Re: On, Wisconsin! [Debora ] Re: On, Wisconsin! [Eb ] Re: non-RH, Maxell tape "points"? [Tom Clark ] Re: fwd: you and oblivion [Terrence M Marks ] the dylan tribute boot/promo. [Bayard ] replying to the lot in one go... [james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (Jame] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 10:18:17 -0000 From: Gary Sedgwick Subject: Royal Uncle Bob & Beautiful Albert If anyone's interested, I've got a copy of this CD (I picked it up dead, dead cheap at a record fair). The sound quality is okay during the solo stuff, but not so great during the band stuff (the vocals get completely drowned out). The cover is quite good - somone has Photoshopped one half of Robyn's face onto one half of Bob's, and it does look like the same face with one half wearing half a pair of shades (sorry for the excessive 'half's in that sentence!) Does this sound the same (sound quality wise) as Royal Queen Albert & Beautiful Homer? I'd be interested in how they compare. Gary > Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 16:41:33 -0600 (CST) > From: Brian James Zahlmann > Subject: Hitchcock does Dylan! > > Does anyone out there have or need a copy of the CD "Rob, Bob, & > Albert," which brings to us a recording of Robyn's show (both acoustic and > electric [with Homer as backup] sets) of Dylan covers at the Albert Hall? > I'd like to hear some reviews. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 10:26:09 +0000 From: Ed.Doxtator@ssa.co.uk Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V7 #31 Woj posted: >Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 22:16:17 -0500 >From: woj >Subject: a note from Robyn >got the following from antwoman this evening: >>Robyn has asked if this message from him can be 'circulated' >> >>Apologies ofr the mouldy gig at the 12 Bar. The people upstairs wouldn't shut >>up, so I shut down. Normal service will be resumed ASAP. Love, Robyn >anyone who was at the 12-bar care to explain? >+w I wasn't at the gig, but I know Robyn's gripe, and it seems to be common at the 12 Bar. The 12 Bar is a TINY place. If you took a two-car garage, and slapped a balcony in the top, stuffed a stage in one corner, and a soundboard in a closet where the water heater should go, you've got an idea of the 12 Bar. The stage area is actually high enough that the performers are looking at eye level with the people seated at the tables in the balcony (especially a tall guy like Robyn). Put fifty people in there and it's crowded. Put 150 people in there and it's jammed. The sound of people having ordinary conversation becomes a roar. When I went to see Robyn and Tim at the 12 Bar in August last year, Robyn came out onstage before Tim's set with a tin of tomatoes, and made the announcement that he was holding a tin of tomatoes and he didn't know why, but he did know that Tim was coming out on stage followed by himself. The club is small, and the shows are acoustic, and both he and Tim could hear all the conversation everyone else is making during the show, so please keep it down cos it blows their concentration. If the audience members couldn't be considerate enough to keep it down during the songs, then they'd stop until the audience got the talking out of their system. We did. Great show. Look after yerselves... - -Doc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 11:16:05 -0000 From: "Matthew Knights" Subject: Re: a note from Robyn Woj asked: >Robyn has asked if this message from him can be 'circulated' >Apologies ofr the mouldy gig at the 12 Bar. The people upstairs wouldn't shut >up, so I shut down. Normal service will be resumed ASAP. Love, Robyn >anyone who was at the 12-bar care to explain? Robyn gave a strong performance and the talking from upstairs was only a problem in the first part of his set. I was downstairs and the talking from upstairs was loud, intrusive and persistent. Curiously, the noisy ones were quiet during the Homer support set but came to life as soon as Big R appeared. I couldn't see them but they sounded like media types - don't ask me to explain, I love my prejudices - and they conversed in a very animated way, over the music, as though they were at a party. Naturally, Robyn was doing his acoustic stuff first and his poor Martin couldn't compete. He completely lost it somewhere around his third song saying "You'll find it much more comfortable outside, the people down here have bought tickets you know, this isn't a Rock venue. This is FOLK music". Robyn was dour and fierce and I could sense suppressed rage. He responded by firing off his songs in quick succession without any ad-libbing or stories at all. His plea for silence had no immediate effect but the talking did diminish a while later. When it came to the electric section, he really cranked up the amp volume, using the power of the telecaster to enforce silence on the audience. In my opinion, no apology is necessary as Robyn's performance was solid and professional. Matt _________________________________________________________________ Matthew Knights mknights@harrywasp.prestel.co.uk `Ton ame est un lac d'amour dont mes desirs sont les cygnes...' _________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 10:13:01 -0000 From: "Matthew Knights" Subject: Re: The conductor's name was Milo James Dignan remarked >BTW - Robyn's lyrics seem 'classically surreal' to me, much like the art of >Magritte, de Chirico etc. Natalie added >the Fulbright Gallery, which has lots of stuff by Surrealists and >proto-Surrealists like de Chirico (I went around singing "De >Chirico Street" through the whole vacation). ... they sound like >titles for Max Ernst paintings, a sort of dream-like quality that >*almost* makes sense but doesn't quite. Agreed. I think Robyn's songs and art have strong echoes of Marc Chagall's paintings too. See http://www.poster.de/artist/chagall/cha75.htm . I've seen the photo of Robyn wearing his Kandinsky shirt and I really like the few Kandinsky artworks I've seen. But less of the surreal dream like quality reaches me from Kandinsky's art. Maybe, it's because Big K has an architectural style. See http://www.valais.com/102big.htm , http://www.sothebys.com/Auction/hazen3.html Matt _________________________________________________________________ Matthew Knights mknights@harrywasp.prestel.co.uk `Ton ame est un lac d'amour dont mes desirs sont les cygnes...' _________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 10:42:42 -0000 From: "Matthew Knights" Subject: Re: a diversion into linguistics (WHY???) (No RH) James enlightened: I'm no linguist. Even so I'm about to make the assertion that the following three words have equivalent meanings in three different languages. 'British' is a derivation of 'pretani', a Roman word for 'native peoples' used to describe the ancient britons. Welsh is a derivation of 'Welisc', an Anglo Saxon word for 'native peoples' used by the Saxons to describe the Celts they were at war with. Cymraeg is the Welsh word for 'native peoples', used to describe themselves. Am I close? Matt _________________________________________________________________ Matthew Knights mknights@harrywasp.prestel.co.uk `Ton ame est un lac d'amour dont mes desirs sont les cygnes...' _________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 08:47:47 -0400 From: Natalie Jacobs Subject: On, Wisconsin! >> that Wisconsin is only known now inside the US for the >> Packers football team and the cheese > >It's also heavily industrial, and produces much of the nation's toilet >paper (I kid you not). Don't forget that Wisconsin is also the land of serial killers - Ed Gein and Jeffrey Dahmer, to be precise - as well as Senator Joe "no sense of decency" McCarthy. Wisconsin also spawned Jim Mallon and Joel Hodgson, masterminds of "Mystery Science Theater 3000." And due to the high number of Norweigan settlers, lutefisk* is also rampant in Wisconsin. There's a Wisconsin bumper sticker that says, "If lutefisk is outlawed, only outlaws will have lutefisk." Re. introductions to Robyn, I can cite my own experiences as evidence that the A&M albums aren't the place to start... for many years I knew Robyn only through Queen Elvis, Perspex Island, and Globe of Frogs... not bad albums by any means, but they didn't really stand up to the test of time for me, and they didn't encourage me to go out and buy anything more by Robyn. Element of Light was my re-introduction, which worked a lot better. I think this might make a better intro in general... right smack in the middle of Robyn's career, good, solid songwriting, and not a lot of self-conscious wackiness - or rather, just the right amount of wackiness (e.g. "Bass") - thus providing a pleasant and painless entry into the vast and multifarious Robynverse. >My word of the day - Poult: a young hen. Gotta let this poult out... n. *Lutefisk = codfish cured in lye, inedible except by Scandinavians. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 14:08:27 +0000 From: Jonathan Turner Subject: Re: a note from Robyn OK, so I sent my reply to woj alone... here's another go... woj forwarded: >got the following from antwoman this evening: > >>Robyn has asked if this message from him can be 'circulated' >> >>Apologies ofr the mouldy gig at the 12 Bar. The people upstairs wouldn't shut >>up, so I shut down. Normal service will be resumed ASAP. Love, Robyn > >anyone who was at the 12-bar care to explain? > >+w There was a busload of folks there from Not Europe, who were more concerned with impressing each other than listening to music (or allowing others to do so). I suspect that most of them were more used to conducting conversation over several hundred yards of cornfield rather than several inches of echoey London club. Despite a perfectly polite and reasonable request from Robyn, the chatter continued, hence one of his more perfunctory performances. Not that the chattering ghastlies would have noticed. Setlist something like: Arms of Love Cheese Alarm All That Money Wants Heartful Of Leaves Beautiful Girl Ghost Ship Madonna Jewels De Chirico St I Feel Beautiful This Could Be The Day Autumn Is Your Last Chance Freeze Goodnight I Say SeaTac Beautiful Queen corrections welcome! JT ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 09:36:23 -0500 From: "Chaney, Dolph L" Subject: RE: On, Wisconsin! _Queen Elvis_ was my first exposure to Robyn, and it absolutely hooked me. But then, I was living in Indiana (which is NOT a section of Wisconsin) at the time; maybe a little more lactose in my diet would've made me less receptive. 8-) Oh, and someone (James?) tried to start a "sport in Robyn lyrics" thread. Let's see... well, of course, if you consider fishing a sport, Robyn's got plenty o' stuff there. and isn't the Furry Green Atom Bowl one of those big college football events on New Year's Day? Clean Steve's prowess at Frisbee might make him a good contestant at "Ultimate Frisbee," which they show on ESPN at 2am, so that might count too. and then there's "Autumn Sea" and hunting -- "...no, I think it's a perfectly beastly SPORT" (see fishing, neither of which I call a sport unless you arm the animals too). just a starter, from a mind whose caffeine balance hasn't yet been properly restored... Dolph ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 15:28:58 GMT From: dwdudic@erols.com (luther) Subject: cheese On Tue, 27 Jan 1998 00:30:00 -0500, you wrote: > >Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 22:06:13 -0600 (CST) >From: amadain >Subject: Re: permeating cheese- slowly cheesing the world with American = rituals > >> >I liked Bob Costas' line...that the saddest thing about >> >Denver winning is that now being a "cheesehead" has lost >> >its dignity. ;) > > >Ok, all this cheesehead stuff compels me to comment, since I have been >seeing one for a few months now. No, not a hat, a person who -calls >himself that-, though he also owns one :). Wearing the hat is actually a >self-deprecating sort of comment on the insult "cheesehead" (read >beer-swilling, braut-gorging, semi-literate dairy-fed goon from >Wisconsin, which is what non-Wisconsonite midwesterners mean by the >term). It's a Wisconsin-ite "yeah, I'm a cheesehead, and who the hell = are >YOU?", basically. Being a cheesehead never -had- dignity, essentially, >which is the point of the joke :). It concerns more than being a Packer >fan, which is merely one small segment of the overall cheesehead = identity >thang. > >> that Wisconsin is only known now inside the US for the >> Packers football team and the cheese > >It's also heavily industrial, and produces much of the nation's toilet >paper (I kid you not). Having interned for the office of a represenative from Wisconsin recently (don't even BOTHER with the clinton jokes!! :-) ), I can attest to the fact that some very intelligent people do come out of Wisconsin (even if my screensaver was of a bunch of guys wearing cheese hats and no shirts, poseing with the sign on the South Pole!) What the heck is Robyn's recent fascination with cheese? (Cheese Alarm, Direct me to the Cheese, any others?) -luther ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 16:46:52 +0000 (GMT) From: M R Godwin Subject: Re: On, Wisconsin! On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Natalie Jacobs wrote: > due to the high number > of Norweigan settlers, lutefisk* is also rampant in Wisconsin. There's a > Wisconsin bumper sticker that says, "If lutefisk is outlawed, only outlaws > will have lutefisk." This all sounds a bit Lake Wobegon to me, but I expect it's really miles from Garrison Keillor country. I still say GK lifted great chunks of his stuff from Stephen Leacock's stories about the Knights of Pythias in 'Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town'. - - Mike Godwin PS And I agree about 'Element of Light', the perfect Egyptians album. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 09:05:55 PST From: "Helen Percival" Subject: Hello! Hi - I just thought I would introduce myself as a new subscriber to the list. I have been a fan of Robyn Hitchcock for a long time (longer than I like to remember) and this is the first time i have stumbled across the web page and now the mailing list. I was wondering if there is anyone who could help me, there is an album i bought in a shop in Portobello road in London called Minus Zero Records, it is called "Glass Flesh" and has lots of covers of songs by Robyn Hitchcock on it. I can't find any mention of this in any of the magazine articles i've read or interviews, and not on the web page either. does anyone know anything about this album, is it worth buying, because i haven't heard of any of the bands on it so I don't know if its any good. Also, they have it on sale for 8 pounds, is it valuable so should I buy it even if it isn't good? Sorry if this album has already been discussed, this is my first day subscribed to the list. (I have only been on the "information super highway" for 2 weeks!!!!) Any help would be appreciated, thanks a lot. Yours sincerely, Helly Percival ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 09:10:38 -0800 (PST) From: Dede Davis Subject: A&M Years - ---Natalie Jacobs wrote: > Re. introductions to Robyn, I can cite my own experiences as evidence that > the A&M albums aren't the place to start... for many years I knew Robyn > only through Queen Elvis, Perspex Island, and Globe of Frogs... not bad > albums by any means, but they didn't really stand up to the test of time > for me, and they didn't encourage me to go out and buy anything more by > Robyn. I'd have to disagree. Although I had heard *of* Hitchcock, my intro to his music was the video (!) for "Balloon Man". I immediately went out and bought GoF and used it and "Queen Elvis" to turn my brother and my brother-in-law on to RH's music. I still really enjoy those two albums, "Perspex Island" and "Respect" less so. I'm slowly collecting the earlier works (trying to the get the originals--on vinyl if possible!;)--is taking some time.) I think it must be a matter of personal taste. == Dede "Out of boredom/ I decided/ I'd get with it"--MCC _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 09:30:11 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: Hello! On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Helen Percival wrote: > I was wondering if there is anyone who could help me, there is an album > i bought in a shop in Portobello road in London called Minus Zero > Records, it is called "Glass Flesh" and has lots of covers of songs by > Robyn Hitchcock on it. I can't find any mention of this in any of the > magazine articles i've read or interviews, and not on the web page > either. does anyone know anything about this album, is it worth buying, > because i haven't heard of any of the bands on it so I don't know if its > any good. Also, they have it on sale for 8 pounds, is it valuable so > should I buy it even if it isn't good? This is my favorite post to this list of all time. Thank you. J. -- who firmly believes that the Quail is behind this. ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 09:32:57 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: RE: On, Wisconsin! On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Chaney, Dolph L wrote: > _Queen Elvis_ was my first exposure to Robyn, and it absolutely hooked > me. But then, I was living in Indiana (which is NOT a section of > Wisconsin) at the time; maybe a little more lactose in my diet would've > made me less receptive. 8-) Goolly, I have to disagree. And natalie said the A&M albums don't hold up over time and I'll disagree heavily there, too. I've told the story a hundred dozen times, but here's the point of it again. Queen Elvis was my first exposure to Robyn in full album glory. I've listened to it at least once a month since I got it all those years ago. I don't know that I'd say it's my favorite, but it suits me in any mood and always makes me stop and listen. That is all. J. ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 98 09:59:00 -0800 From: Russ Reynolds Subject: fwd: Hello! ======== Original Message ======== Hi - I just thought I would introduce myself as a new subscriber to the list. I have been a fan of Robyn Hitchcock for a long time (longer than I like to remember) and this is the first time i have stumbled across the web page and now the mailing list. I was wondering if there is anyone who could help me, there is an album i bought in a shop in Portobello road in London called Minus Zero Records, it is called "Glass Flesh" and has lots of covers of songs by Robyn Hitchcock on it. I can't find any mention of this in any of the magazine articles i've read or interviews, and not on the web page either. does anyone know anything about this album, is it worth buying, because i haven't heard of any of the bands on it so I don't know if its any good. Also, they have it on sale for 8 pounds, is it valuable so should I buy it even if it isn't good? Sorry if this album has already been discussed, this is my first day subscribed to the list. (I have only been on the "information super highway" for 2 weeks!!!!) Any help would be appreciated, thanks a lot. Yours sincerely, Helly Percival ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ======== Fwd by: Russ Reynolds ======== y'all might want to clip and save this post for your 1998 best-of lists: "Most Ironic Introductory Post To A List" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 11:58:58 -0600 From: "JH3" Subject: Re: Hello! Helly? >I was wondering if there is anyone who could help me, there is an album >i bought in a shop in Portobello road in London called Minus Zero >Records, it is called "Glass Flesh" and has lots of covers of songs by >Robyn Hitchcock on it... does anyone know anything about this album, >is it worth buying... Yow, "Glass Flesh" - what a horrible, awful (yet surprisingly *collectible*) record, still the cause of such terrible pain, suffering, and seafood blight all over the globe. I thought it had already been outlawed by international treaty? Certainly the millions of people who have lost their homes, jobs, families, and prawns because of the "Glass Flesh" phenomenon would all agree that this record is perhaps the worst thing to hit the planet since that big meteor strike that killed all those poor dinosaurs. Why, the version of "St. Petersburg" alone, which most major media sources agree was single-handedly responsible for well over 10,000 deaths among the small-wedge-of-cheese population, would be enough to score "Glass Flesh" as one of the most damaging pieces of plastic and anodized aluminum to come down the pike in at least 10,000 years, if you don't count some of those Grateful Dead albums. Definitely worth buying. John H. Hedges ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 13:31:18 -0500 From: Mike Scott Subject: non-RH, Maxell tape "points"? I just finished labeling a Maxell cassette tape and have saved the "10 MAX PTS" sticker from the label sheet in a drawer with 37 others that I have saved from other Maxell tapes I've labeled over the last couple of years. I keep thinking that someday I'll be able to use these for something, but I've never seen any sort of catalog of "free stuff you get with your Max Pts." Has anyone on this list ever seen any promotions from Maxell utilizing these proofs of purchase? Why am I collecting these? Are you too just saving them for some unknown reason?? If I can only figure this out, then life will make sense... ms ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 98 11:02:00 -0800 From: Russ Reynolds Subject: Stand Back Dennis I'm told this CD may contain a complete version of "Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands" (5 verses, probably close to 10 minutes long). Can anyone confirm this? Anyone have a Stand Back Dennis CD available for trade? - -russ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 11:14:10 -0800 (PST) From: Dede Davis Subject: Re: non-RH, Maxell tape "points"? - ---Mike Scott wrote: > > I just finished labeling a Maxell cassette tape and have saved the "10 MAX > PTS" sticker from the label sheet in a drawer with 37 others that I have > saved from other Maxell tapes I've labeled over the last couple of years. I > keep thinking that someday I'll be able to use these for something, but > I've never seen any sort of catalog of "free stuff you get with your Max > Pts." Has anyone on this list ever seen any promotions from Maxell > utilizing these proofs of purchase? Why am I collecting these? Are you too > just saving them for some unknown reason?? If I can only figure this out, > then life will make sense... > > ms > Mike, I also have been collecting "max pts." for about 6-7 years. I've probably got enough to buy a car, except for the fact that I just now went to Maxell's website and was informed that the "max pts." promotion was over on Dec. 31, 1995. *sigh* So much for the car. I've also got a poster of the "blown away" guy. Does that count for anything? == Dede "Out of boredom/ I decided/ I'd get with it"--MCC _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 11:15:00 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: non-RH, Maxell tape "points"? On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Mike Scott wrote: > I've never seen any sort of catalog of "free stuff you get with your Max > Pts." Has anyone on this list ever seen any promotions from Maxell > utilizing these proofs of purchase? Why am I collecting these? Are you too > just saving them for some unknown reason?? If I can only figure this out, > then life will make sense... I've never actually collected those things, but I do recall seeing a booklet of things you could get. One of those blown-away guy posters was one... and more cassettes, of course. But if I recall, the number of points required for anything at all was ridiculous. That was at least three years ago, though. Um, I had to dig for this a little... From their website : QUESTION: I have a box overflowing with maxpoints, are they still good? ANSWER: The Max Awards Program officially concluded on December 31, 1995. Over two million Maxell consumers participated in the program and were fulfilled satisfactorily. Although Maxell's current audio and video cassettes contain Max Points, the points do not hold any value, and should be considered only as a form of "proof of purchase". Given that the Max Awards Program ended as of December 31, 1995, we are unable to accept any further requests for fulfillment. Tough. J. ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 11:38:47 -0800 From: Jason Thornton Subject: Re: delurking At 09:17 PM 1/26/98 -0800, Capuchin wrote: >> Anyway, if >> the man describes his own music as folk, I'm not going to argue. > >You haven't been here very long, have you? We'll argue with anyone about >anything. No we won't! - -- Jason R. Thornton // Chapman Stick, Silver #2125 "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson "...the Year 2000 won't change anyone here" - Morrissey, _Reader Meet Author_ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 13:25:45 -0600 (CST) From: sdodge@midway.uchicago.edu (amadain) Subject: alas, poor Helly (was: Hello?) Ok, stop teasing the newbie! :) What you have seen, dear Helly, is a compilation of Robyn covers done in tribute by members of this very list. Love on ya, Susan ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 12:03:23 -0800 From: John Barrington Jones Subject: Re: non-RH, Maxell tape "points"? Hi feg blank tape gobbling "weenies": Regarding maxell points: Maxell discontinued its "points" campaign in 1995. However, TDK had a program for about 8 months, where you could send in your maxell points in exchange for TDK cassettes. 150 points for 1 TDK SA 90. The program has been discontinued, but you never know when one of these types of things will spring up. I'd say hold on to your points!! - -jbj - -*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-# John B. Jones Email: lobstie@e-z.net House of Figgy-- http://web.syr.edu/~jojones/hitchcock.html "Well, we went to the punk bar, then we went to the heroin bar, we had pasta at Fellini, and then we went to the pretty bar." -overheard at work - -*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-# ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 98 12:10:00 -0800 From: Russ Reynolds Subject: Re: Stand Back Dennis ======== Original Message ======== Russ Reynolds wrote: > > I'm told this CD may contain a complete version of "Sad Eyed Lady Of The > Lowlands" (5 verses, probably close to 10 minutes long). Can anyone confirm > this? It clocks in at 1:29, Russ. It's from RH's appearance on KCRW-FM on 24 Apr 89. It's just an impromptu Dylan impersonation, not a complete performance of the song. /hal ======== Fwd by: Russ Reynolds ======== bummer. I'll ask again then: Has anyone ever heard Robyn do a complete version of "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands"? - -rr ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 14:39:44 -0600 (CST) From: Brian James Zahlmann Subject: Intros Might I suggest The Kershaw Sessions to end the debate about which album would be most suitable to entice a potential Feg? The best point was made: the choice actually depends upon who's receiving the album. But if one is unsure of the recipient's musical taste, The Kershaw Sessions not only showcases some of the Egyptians' most listenable material (c'mon, if Robyn's words were mundane, would you still like the music?) but some interesting versions (Madonna of the Wasps, Brenda [who's sledge does not disintegrate on Black Snake...] etc.). ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 98 14:43:21 From: firstcat@lsli.com Subject: RE: alas, poor Helly (was: Hello?) My question is who sold their copy? Cheers Jay - --- On Tue, 27 Jan 1998 13:25:45 -0600 (CST) amadain wrote: > >Ok, stop teasing the newbie! :) > >What you have seen, dear Helly, is a compilation of Robyn covers done in >tribute by members of this very list. > >Love on ya, >Susan > - -----------------End of Original Message----------------- - ------------------------------------- Jay Lyall Channel Sales Director Livermore Software Laboratories, Intl. 2825 Wilcrest, Suite 160 Houston, Texas 77042-3358 1-713-974-3274 jay@lsli.com Date: 1/27/98 - ------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 15:54:44 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Boston Robyn Hitchcock Orgy Here it goes: From 10pm tonight (tuesday, 1/27) until 3pm tomorrow or possibly later [*], WHRB 95.3FM will be broadcasting continuous Robyn Hitchcock, hosted mostly by me. I'll be playing most album tracks by the Soft Boys, the Egyptians and Robyn solo, as well as more obscure Soft Boys demos, live recordings (including parts of the all-Dylan show at Albert Hall), and various other goodies. The format will include thematic portions (songs about authority figures, songs about unexpected visitation, songs about food) but there's a lot of room for flexibility, so don't hesitate to call and make requests. Our signal is audible quite a distance from Boston if you're lucky. Aaron ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 13:13:19 -0800 From: Debora Subject: Re: On, Wisconsin! >Natalie Jacobs wrote: > > due to the high number > > of Norweigan settlers, lutefisk* is also rampant in Wisconsin. There's a > > Wisconsin bumper sticker that says, "If lutefisk is outlawed, only outlaws > > will have lutefisk." M R Godwin wrote: > This all sounds a bit Lake Wobegon to me, but I expect it's really miles > from Garrison Keillor country. Actually much of the northern midwest seems to be Keillor country. And living in Ballard, in Seattle (home of norwegians and swedes), I wouldn't be surprised to see my neighbor had one of those bumper stickers. Debora ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 14:00:50 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: On, Wisconsin! >M R Godwin wrote: >> This all sounds a bit Lake Wobegon to me, but I expect it's really miles >> from Garrison Keillor country. > >Actually much of the northern midwest seems to be Keillor country. And >living in Ballard, in Seattle (home of norwegians and swedes), I >wouldn't be surprised to see my neighbor had one of those bumper >stickers. Be funnier! Eb [Simpsons fans will know] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 98 13:46:08 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: non-RH, Maxell tape "points"? On 1/27/98 12:03 PM, John Barrington Jones wrote: >Regarding maxell points: > >Maxell discontinued its "points" campaign in 1995. > >However, TDK had a program for about 8 months, where you could send in your >maxell points in exchange for TDK cassettes. 150 points for 1 TDK SA 90. > >The program has been discontinued, but you never know when one of these >types of things will spring up. I'd say hold on to your points!! This just announced: fegPOINTS! Trade in your Maxell points for valuable fegMERCHANDISE! 50 MaxPoints = A used copy of "Glass Flesh", autographed by Mark Gloster! 100 MaxPoints = A skull, a suitcase, and a long red bottle of wine. 200 MaxPoints = You, a keg, and Susan Dodge. 500 MaxPoints = All expenses paid trip to the world premier of "Storefront Hitchcock"* Start scrounging through the garbage, kids! *If it, in fact, exists. - -tc ******************************************* Tom Clark Apple Computer, Inc. tclark@apple.com http://www.netgate.net/~tclark "Cheez Whiz is not something you eat... It's something you see a urologist for." - Dennis Miller ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 16:58:30 -0500 (EST) From: Terrence M Marks Subject: Re: fwd: you and oblivion Bah. I say that all of Robyn's albums contain his worst side. If you want someone to like his music, just praise it incessently and insist that they'd really like it if they heard it. Terrence Marks normal@grove.ufl.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 18:03:01 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: the dylan tribute boot/promo. On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Gary Sedgwick wrote: > If anyone's interested, I've got a copy of this CD (I picked it up dead, > dead cheap at a record fair). The sound quality is okay during the solo > stuff, but not so great during the band stuff (the vocals get completely > drowned out). The cover is quite good - somone has Photoshopped one > half of Robyn's face onto one half of Bob's, and it does look like the > same face with one half wearing half a pair of shades (sorry for the > excessive 'half's in that sentence!) > > Does this sound the same (sound quality wise) as Royal Queen Albert & > Beautiful Homer? I'd be interested in how they compare. Yes. They both sound bad. Probably from two different audience analog tapes of unknown generation (perhaps low gen, but taped with crap decks.) I don't care much for the cover of either the promo or the bootleg-- the former is on a weird brown background that makes it hard to see the drawing, the latter makes RH look like a pirate! (bob's single sunglass.) Fortunately there was a tape tree of a much much better tape; if you ask i'm sure someone here would be pleased to copy it for you at no charge. Also the show was a little over 90 minutes so the cd's are, of course, incomplete. as for that 'glass flesh' thing, i thought it was a hoax... i heard it was masterminded by some weiner dog who collects tapes and is even building a web database containing every RH song & gig. what a nerd! and he and his little friends are going over every single RH song for "correctness and completeness", even counting "yip"s. how anal can you get? this is way too crazy to be true. i mean, Aidan Merritt and Eb said nice things about the disc, but you know how they are-- sentimental to the core, they'll say anything nice in a review if it's linked to a friend. Everyone else probably hated it. oh, and i think the bootlegger of the dylan tribute show probably stole the cover idea from the back of "glass flesh", too. (photoshop art by the one known as Clint.) =b ps. did someone say something about a feg-keg party at susan's? i am *so* there dude.... (; ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 13:50:20 +1300 (NZDT) From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: replying to the lot in one go... ...so that you don't have to wade through ten messages from me. There's even some Robyn content (5%) >"Surrealist music," though, seems to be a different thing altogether... >i.e. music that's produced according to Surrealist methods like automatic >writing and so forth... Robyn is a bit too lucid for that, though it would >be interesting to see him give it a shot (if he hasn't already). sdomeone who does use these techniques frequently is Brian Eno - a perfect example would be the almost Dadaist "Miss Shapiro". He has gone on record (pardon the pun) as saying that his songwriting techniques include an automatic writing-like method where he starts with an instrumental and then sings any words he can think of over it, repeating the song again and a again. After a while, some words stick, others drop out and are replaced with some others which go more sensibly with the ones that remain, until finally the whole makes a weird sort of sense. >While I really like Y&O, I consider it a little >outside/inconsistent to initiate a potential RH >fan. true in its entirety, but if I was to make up a compilation tape for a novice Robyn listener, I'd probably end up putting quite a few Y&O songs on there. "August Hair", "September Cones" and the seldom mentioned "October Wombats" are all potential candidates. >>Wasn't this the day of the SF Earthquake? > >Right day, wrong year--the earthquake was '89. shows how out of touch you get down here in the far south. I thought it was 1906. >> disagree with my chum mr gloster, (about whom i like everything else!) >> about the a&m albums being the right jumping off point for a new feg-- i >> personally feel RH (or his producer) lost his way on these efforts. > >Remember that our friend Mr. Gloster is a huge Boingo fan (as am I) and >probably hangs around with like-minded people. but then again, I dislike Boingo (I usually get to play goalnadger and my legs don't bend quite enough...but I digress), and am primarily a Robyn Fan through borrowing Perspex Island. I'd heard Underwater Moonlight prior to that, which I really liked heaps, but it was PI that tipped me over the edge from appreciative of his music to raving Feg. >OK. I've been thinking about this for days and days now. Why is it that >this list has such an incredibly high percentage of folks that speak Welsh >and other ancient Anglo languages? I can honestly say that it's never >come up before in my life. Never have I met a person outside of, say, the >welsh that spoke Welsh. And now there are like SIX on this list alone. >Am I the only one surprised by this? > >Just curious, anybody here know Swahili? I once worked at a library where seven of the staff spoke Welsh - nearly 1/4 of the staff. And this was in New Zealand. BTW calling Welsh 'an ancient Anglo language" wouldn't go down well in Cymru! Oh, and no Swahili, but my dad spoke Yoruba, if that's any help. >It's also heavily industrial, and produces much of the nation's toilet >paper (I kid you not). > >Love on ya, >Susan >loving consort to a man who actually wears his now and then :) oooh! can I avoid replying to this straight-line??? James PS - South Africa lost to Australia by 14 runs. If only Pat Symcox hadn't been run out... good match though. ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V7 #33 ******************************