From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V7 #43 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, February 4 1998 Volume 07 : Number 043 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: royalties [james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan)] dreaming of robyn? [dwdudic@erols.com (luther)] pretty peggy suicide [dwdudic@erols.com (luther)] From the AllStar mailing list [Eb ] hello [Jacquie_Sargent@hqnto-acc.CCMAIL.compuserve.com] Re: From the AllStar mailing list [Capuchin ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 15:07:15 +1200 From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: Re: royalties >Well, no. They actually are generally distributed amongst the >top 100 songwriters for the year. Nobody gives the set lists >to BMI/ASCAP/etc., so they are pretty happy with the arrangement, >as are those top 100 acts. It is possible (at least it is with APRA, and I presume it holds true elsewhere) for a performer to send in "Miscellaneous Performance Returns" in order to gain royalties for any of theiir own songs that they play. In theory, these performers may also list any songs that they have played by other songwriters. So if a singer/band/whatever is honest in claiming songs played by others, and is diligent in filing their MPRs, some money should go back to the writers. In practice, these amount to such a small sum that most performers (certainly big name performers) doin't bother with MPRS, and even those that do rarely list other than their own compositions. James (who must get down to filling out his latest MPR...) 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: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 03:22:37 GMT From: dwdudic@erols.com (luther) Subject: dreaming of robyn? On Tue, 3 Feb 1998 20:53:17 -0500, you wrote: > >Hmmm.....me neither. And though I've had plenty of = obsessions/enthusiasms >over the years, I can't say I've dreamt about every single musician that >really pushed my buttons. In fact, there are very few musical = celebrities I >can remember appearing. Bob Dylan (he gave me a fancy candy bar. I'm = still >working that one out), the infamous Ray Davies/Groucho Marx dream, = Johnny >Cash (brief appearance at a party in one dream), Beck, and Robyn, who is >the only one who's appeared more than once. > >What I think it is, is not the trippiness per se, but a certain -way- RH >has of worming into a susceptible imagination. I think also there's >something to your idea of having to in a certain way enter a dream-logic >state to understand him, and that firing off certain neural pathways :). Well, Robyn did once sing about "Stealing all your dreams"... :-) -luther ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 03:18:38 GMT From: dwdudic@erols.com (luther) Subject: pretty peggy suicide On Tue, 3 Feb 1998 20:53:17 -0500, you wrote: >Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 12:58:30 +0000 (GMT) >From: fitter happier >Subject: Julian Cope + VU > >I know this thread died out a while ago, but I saw Julian play the >Cambridge Junction last night, and he was utterly amazing. I didn't know >any of his stuff before, but I'm going to seek it out now. Anyone who >plays a solo mellotron set has to be admired... On this subject, can any >Cope fanatic tell me which song has a chorus along the lines of "I was >born to entertain so here I go"? He encored with it and it was >incredible... This would be "Las Vegas Basement", the last track on his incredible 1991 "Peggy Suicide". I LOVE THAT SONG! =09 -luther ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 20:08:16 -0700 From: Eb Subject: From the AllStar mailing list ROBYN HITCHCOCK'S STOREFRONT HITCHCOCK SCREENS AT SXSW The highly anticipated Jonathan Demme concert film on Robyn Hitchcock, Storefront Hitchcock, will have its first screening on March 19 in Austin, Texas during the annual South by Southwest music festival. The screening, which will be the only one for awhile (the MGM movie isn't due until October), will be held at the Paramount Theater at 7 p.m., and there's a chance Demme (who directed the David Byrne/ Talking Heads 1984 documentary Stop Making Sense) will be onhand to take questions from the audience. Hitchcock will also perform later that night, at a venue not yet announced. The Storefront Hitchcock soundtrack is due in September on Warner Bros., while the artist has already been working on his next studio album for the label. That album, due in 1999 and produced by former Grays leader Jon Brion (who has also worked with Fiona Apple and Grant Lee Buffalo), will feature Grant Lee Phillips from Grant Lee Buffalo on bass and vocals on some tracks. Hitchcock returns the favor by singing backing vocals on Grant Lee Buffalo's next album, Jubilee, due on Warner Bros. on June 9. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 13:52:44 -0500 From: Jacquie_Sargent@hqnto-acc.CCMAIL.compuserve.com Subject: hello Hi! I'm a practicing Fegmaniac since 1988. I was wondering if Robyn is touring this year? If you have any info, it is greatly appreciated. Also, I have a couple of recordings that may be of interest to someone. One is a tape recording of a live radio interview Robyn did on KSCA here in L.A. back in 1995. He plays some songs, such as "I'm Set Free," by Lou Reed, and "A Man With a Woman's Shadow." All accopmanied with guitar and harmonica. Total running time is about 40 minutes. The other recording, although low in quality, is from his show at the Coach House in San Juan Capistrano from March, 1994. He's playing solo and does some ramblings about Napoleon. Do you have the latest on Storefront Hitchcock? I'm waiting anxiously! Thanks so much, Angel of the Lightbulb Head e-mail: jacquie_sargent@hqnto-acc.ccmail.compuserve.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 22:01:57 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: From the AllStar mailing list OK, who's the Austin area Feg with the most floorspace? This is 98's version of Bumbershoot. Too bad it couldn't be in August (although I'm glad I don't even have to consider going to Austin in August). As Eb might say, "WHEEEEEEE!" On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, Eb wrote: > ROBYN HITCHCOCK'S STOREFRONT HITCHCOCK SCREENS AT SXSW > > The highly anticipated Jonathan Demme concert film on Robyn > Hitchcock, Storefront Hitchcock, will have its first screening on March > 19 in Austin, Texas during the annual South by Southwest music festival. > > The screening, which will be the only one for awhile (the MGM movie > isn't due until October), will be held at the Paramount Theater at 7 > p.m., and there's a chance Demme (who directed the David Byrne/ Talking > Heads 1984 documentary Stop Making Sense) will be onhand to take > questions from the audience. Hitchcock will also perform later that > night, at a venue not yet announced. > > The Storefront Hitchcock soundtrack is due in September on Warner > Bros., while the artist has already been working on his next studio > album for the label. That album, due in 1999 and produced by former > Grays leader Jon Brion (who has also worked with Fiona Apple and Grant > Lee Buffalo), will feature Grant Lee Phillips from Grant Lee Buffalo on > bass and vocals on some tracks. Hitchcock returns the favor by singing > backing vocals on Grant Lee Buffalo's next album, Jubilee, due on > Warner Bros. on June 9. > > ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V7 #43 ******************************