From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V7 #82 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, March 2 1998 Volume 07 : Number 082 Today's Subjects: ----------------- shakespeare, compilations, ani (1% robyn) [wojs of mass destruction ] Crickets [Nick Winkworth ] vs. [dwdudic@erols.com (luther)] Prescription for Capuchin's Pianophobia [The Great Quail ] Five figers of milk for LJ [The Great Quail ] Cleopatra [Eb ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 01 Mar 1998 23:28:04 -0500 From: wojs of mass destruction Subject: shakespeare, compilations, ani (1% robyn) also sprach James Dignan: >but I can heartily recommend seeing Tom Stoppard's >"Ten Minute Hamlet (with 30 second encore)"if it's ever performed in your >'hood. Screamingly funny. How to summarise a long play in ten minutes, then >again in 30 seconds. and allow me to recommend the reduced shakespeare company -- three guys who boil the bard down to the bare minimum. also screamingly funny. they do a 30 second "hamlet" and, even more amusingly, a rap version of "othello". i have a tape of them being interviewed on npr's "all things considered" somewhere, but haven't been able to find it since moving last autumn. tgq squawks: >Come to think of it, I would love to hear a *really good* Jethro Tull >tribute CD, with real bands, not these Cleopatra one-shots filled with >bands no one'e ever heard of with names like "Noodle Maggots" or "Leppo >and the Jooves." come to think of it, i would love to hear a *really good* robyn hitchcock tribute cd, with real bands, not these glass flesh one-shots filled with bands no one's ever heard of with names like "the beaker people" and "yammer-jooks". ;) seriously though, while i'm not a huge fan of tribute albums, i'm all for it when any group decides to produce a one. who's to say that some group has more credibility or "ownership" over the person or band who is being honored by the tribute? take _surprise your pig_ (a r.e.m. tribute) or _back to the garden_ (joni mitchell), for example. both received a lot of flack, r.e.m.'s in particular, for featuring covers by obscure acts: _surprise your pig_ included a bunch of unknown independant bands (and vic chesnutt) while _back to the garden_ was the brainchild of mostly lesser known canadian acts. but where is it written that only established bands and artists can honor their inspirations? gnat sez: >p.s. Ani DiFranco = Alanis Morrissette with credibility. ...and talent? i confess to being quite partial to ani difranco, but i'm a little mystified by your statement. from what little i've seen and heard of alanis, i'm not convinced that credibility could or would help her much. woj ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 23:47:00 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: robyn orgy wrapup so, long ago (about a month) i did a 17-hour robyn orgy on WHRB. it was good. thanks to eugene mirman and woj for their parts in getting me records i didn't have... here's the playlist. a lot of the sets were theme sets; near the beginning i did a lot of sets taken from a single album to conserve energy, and things that were played from tapes also tended to come in longer sections. i got a lot of requests for tapes of the whole thing, which i felt bad about not being able to help with. sorry. i'm sure i played some alternate/live versions that i forgot to note here, but this is the gist of it. thanks again to everyone who helped, called or listened. aaron - -- give it to the soft boys - human music - do the chisel - skool dinner blues (live) - fatman's son (live) viva seatac - loop the loop - elizabeth jade sandra's having her brain out - (i wanna be an) anglepoise lamp (live) - underwater moonlight - sometimes i wish i was a pretty girl egyptian cream - queen elvis - man with a woman's shadow the ghost in you - rain - eight miles high - book of love - calvary cross listening to the higsons - conspiracy [THE HIGSONS] cathedral - uncorrected personality traits - autumn is your last chance tammi doo wop - the yodelling hoover - vyrna knowl is a headbanger wax doll - freeze - autumn sea - superman if we hear music - i dream of antwoman - cheese alarm - nietzsche's way let me put it next to you - it's not just the size of a walnut - how do you work this thing? - point it at gran - into it ? soft boys demo ? - i wanna destroy you - i got the hots - gene hackman - tonight - strange the man who invented himself - meat - out of the picture - brenda's iron sledge - love the vomiting cross - hot time in the old city - have a heart, betty (i'm not fireproof) - the asking tree - empty girl queen of eyes - the duke of squeeze - do policemen sing? - dancing on god's thumb - if you were a priest - ruling class the president - veins of the queen - the devil's radio (alternate) ugly nora (live) - insanely jealous - only the stones remain - where are the prawns? - black snake diamond role - there's nobody like you adoration of the city - ring dem bones the rain (decAy) - young people scream (decAy) - grooving on an inner plane city of shame - america - st. petersburg - my favorite buildings - airscape - winchester the abandoned brain - college of ice - glass hotel - oceanside - de chirico street raymond chandler evening - tell me about your drugs - the can opener - ted, woody and junior - the crawling keeping still - you've got - dr. sticky - all i wanna do is fall in love - eaten by her own dinner song no. 4 - clean steve (live death) - arms of love (live death) - lysander - child of the universe satellite - aquarium - nothing - captain dry - polly on the shore railway shoes - the wreck of the arthur lee - innocent boy - surgery - vibrating unsettled - ye sleeping knights of jesus - heartful of leaves - desolation row statue with a walkman - glass hotel (live) - raining twilight coast - i'm only you a skull, a suitcase and a long red bottle of wine it was the night - this is how it feels - sleeping with your devil mask - goodnight i say - dreams messages of dark - heaven - the moon inside - let there be more darkness you'll have to go sideways - she doesn't exist - i am not me - transparent lover - somewhere apart - you & oblivion aether - the pit of souls - then you're dust - the dust - heaven (live) legalized murder - sounds great when you're dead - when i was dead - knife - - love poisoning - never stop bleeding strawberry mind - wafflehead - smoothie - vegetation and dimes rock'n'roll toilet - mr. rock'n'roll - blues in a - blues in the dark don't you - she reached for a light - august hair - take your knife out of my back - stranded in the future - september cones - you and me - if i could look he's a reptile - return of the sacred crab - the pigworker - a globe of frogs - acid bird in the mood - the banana boat song - caroline says - fairplay - kung fu fighting i watch the cars - the cars she used to drive - nightride to trinidad - trams of old london - driving aloud (radio storm) rock'n'roll radio queen - unnamed dalek song insanely jealous - sinister but she was happy - agony of pleasure - ultra-unbelievable love dark globe - every day is like sunday winter love - raining twilight coast - wide open star - luminous rose - falling leaves feels like 1974 - let's go thundering - we are the underneath salamander - the fly - bass - victorian squid - filthy bird surfer ghost - statue with a walkman - each of her silver wands bones in the ground - chinese bones - executioner ghost ship - 52 stations - ride - 'i often dream of trains' clintro - one long pair of eyes - more than this - dark green energy - watch your intelligence old pervert - fiend before the shrine - the face of death - the man with the lightbulb head tropical flesh mandala (kershaw) - serpent at the gates of wisdom - my wife and my dead wife (live) - mr. deadly satellite of love - wild mountain time - odds and ends madonna of the wasps - the shapes between us turn into animals - the black crow knows baby, let me follow you down - be my ape - ballad of a thin man - unnamed soft boys demo wey wey hep uh hole - furry green atom bowl - alright yeah (swedish) - certainly clickot daisy bomb - no i don't remember guilford - green storm lantern the rat's prayer - flavour of night - gigolo aunt - open the door homer zipper in my spine - cheese you another bubble - when i was a kid i feel beautiful - jewels for sophia - i saw nick drake the devil's coachman - leppo and the jooves - driving aloud (other verses) - - dwarfbeat cynthia mask - the yip song - where do you go when you die? - gene hackman - - dark princess - superkeen balloon man 261 songs! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 01 Mar 1998 20:54:44 -0800 From: Nick Winkworth Subject: Crickets As I sit here facing a week's worth on unread digests I have to shake my head with wonder at how you all find the time to read, let alone write, all this amazing stuff. Anyhow, here's a few random thoughts having skimmed a few... To fecklewump with that wazzocking spell checker!: That would be "Liberace", not "Liberate", and "Eeugh!" not "Eh!". Makes about as much sense either way, though... Mystery CD: Thanks to everyone who has put me straight on my mystery CD. I'm still trying to decide whether it's worth buying a compilation for just *one* new track. :( Variety?: Personally, I am a fan of Robyn+band - and I hope he gets back to that format soon - IMHO there's only so much he can do with the solo artist format (unless he changes genres!). On the other hand, I find sameiness a pretty weak disparagement - look at all the great blues artists, or folk, or almost any genre you can name and you could probably apply the same argument. As long as he does what he does well, I'll keep listening. Critics: In contrast to our own Eb and Nev - and probably more like the rest of you - I get very little time during the average day to listen to music. It helps if I can tape stuff to listen to in the car (- though my own preferences are often superseded by Postman Pat, Sesame Street or whatever!). But I'm sure most of us have to juggle work (or school), family and an endless list of other interests and commitments. The upshot is that I simply don't have time to listen to everything I think I *might* like, and that's why I for one really appreciate the work critics do. I *do* value reviews and sometimes I even act on them (allowing that naturally tastes vary and not all critics are worth reading). In most cases I do like to to hear before I buy - unless I already know the artist - but if there is consensus between several reviewers that is usually a good sign. Personal recommendations - especially from this list - are a big help, too. I'm sure *I* could never find something original and intelligent to say about the hundreds of new CDs that the average reviewer has to comment on. Next time I hear that stupid "If you know so much about music you should make a record" argument, I'll ask if *they* could find 100 original and entertaining things to say about 100 mediocre new records. Quail wafts eloquently about the "art" of the critic ["critically exploring ... drawing fresh conclusions, forging connections ... developing new metaphors" etc.]. While this may be true for academic literary criticism, but most rock critics I can think of - even the good ones, - don't dissect artists work in that way. It's not the lack of academic rigor which causes me to dislike certain critics, however, rather the attitude that criticism is entertainment only - often in the form of clever jibes at the expense of the artist. There are very few artists with *no* merit - and all (presumably) have their fans and admirers, for whatever reason. One of the reasons I regularly pony up $6 a copy for an imported UK music magazine is that I find the reviews very balanced and even a "one star" review will have *something* positive to say. As far as contributions to this list go, I find it *very* germane to the discussion to know that someone has more than a passing connection with the recording industry -- especially considering the subject of the list! In Ebs case I feel (my opinion) that posts which might, without knowing that one small fact, have come across as self-serving or swaggering (see Maxeys response to the 700 top albums thing) can now be understood and seen in quite a different - and indeed very positive - light. The same might be said of several others I could name. I find it rather satisfying to know that Fegs are well represented in the ranks of musicians, DJs, record company types and others. In response to El Codorniz Grande: To be flamed by the Quail is to be roasted lovingly with garlic and fine herbs in a port wine sauce ...which is exactly the way things should be done on this list. Don't forget that this list is unmoderated and uncensored. Sometimes it seems more like some strange new life form with virtual tendrils worming through cyberspace, than an Internet mailing list. IMHO we all bear an equal responsibility in keeping things the way we like them. Calling someone on overstepping the bounds of acceptable behavior, or praising them for content - or an attitude - that you appreciate, is the mechanism that makes it work. To do this without sounding condescending and without personal insult is perhaps a trick some of us need to work on, but usually the honest intention is there. I know most of us appreciate the relatively flame-free quality of this list. Some might say Quail's post is itself one of the very "play nicely with others" types which he seems to disparage, but that's quite OK by me (and perhaps expressed better than many). Just another part of the amazing animal-that-is-the-Feglist's gyro guidance system kicking in. "The Eb Issue": Since my feeble attempts at expressing myself by joking around so far missed the mark as to get right up a certain person's nose, I feel obliged to add my $0.02 to the current thread - for the record, without joking, joshing or pontificating, so there is no room for (mis)interpretation: * I have enjoyed Ebs recent contributions (with the possible exception of the personal abuse directed at myself, of course! ;) ) * Whatever it was that grated with me in the past is much reduced. I don't know whether he's changed or I have, but whatever the reason, I am grateful. * In common with others, I find myself agreeing with many (though by no means all) of his comments. * I value his presence here on the list. It would be a poorer place without him. Like Eb, I like this list. That's why I'm here too. Thank you *all* for continuing to make Fegmaniax something worth reading every day. ~N Now returning to self-indulgent surreal nonsense mode, where I know you'd all rather I stayed... :) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 05:18:04 GMT From: dwdudic@erols.com (luther) Subject: vs. On Sun, 1 Mar 1998 22:51:56 -0500 (EST), you wrote: >Eno vs Roxy Music; Well, ENO is in some way or another responsible for THE BEST music of the past two decades (including Uncle Bobby! read the bio on the fegmaniax main page), so I owuld say he is better off. Julian Cope vs Teardrop >Explodes; Julian is better off (if more erratic.) Gary Numan vs Tubeway Army? This is a toughy...Tubeway army was pretty funny... every song was the same song about being lonely and masturbating!!!! :-) (And Green Day thought they were being innovative singing "longview".) now? Well, take a look: http://www.numan.co.uk/ -luther -luther ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Mar 98 00:16:48 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: Prescription for Capuchin's Pianophobia >Pianos and guitars are super wimpy in my book. They're for Billy Joel and >James Taylor. Blech. A piano can't express any kind of joy without >laying about seven feet of chain across the strings and playing Joplin or >some other radical alteration. Yikes! Dr. Quail fears that his friend Capuchin is in need of the following medicine to cure this terrible affliction: 150O mg of Page McConnell from Phish playing piano for sheer unspeakable happiness Follow this with: 150 mg of Tori Amos for wit and emotion 100 mg of Mike Garson (David Bowie) for intricate color 75 mg of Keith Emerson for anti-wimpy bombast 120 mg of Piano Circus of London for radical re-invention 10 mg of early Elton John for lyrical expressiveness 50 mg of Philip Glass for timeless peace 50 mg of Steve Reich for spooky and startling harmonics and 2.5 grams of Beethoven to *forever* cure this idea that pianos are not emotional. . . . Let me know how all this works, Capuchin, and we'll start you off on a Guitar Recovery Program next. . . . - --Quail - ---------------------------------+-------------------------------- The Great Quail, K.S.C. | Literature Site - The Libyrinth: TheQuail@cthulhu.microserve.com | www.rpg.net/quail/libyrinth www.rpg.net/quail | Vampire Site - New York by Night: riverrun Discordian Society | www.rpg.net/quail/NYBN 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: Mon, 2 Mar 98 00:16:53 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: Star of hairs >On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, Ner wrote: >> Personally, I love everything about women - and that includes their armpit >> hair, if they have it! Yum Yum... > >You cannot tell me that I've ever written anything as sexist as this. OK. I'm sorry, but I just have to respond. . . Liking or not liking armpit hair is not sexist. It is a matter of personal taste, heavily influenced by cultural programming. We all know this, I hope. Saying that you like "everything about women" is not sexist. That's like saying being sexually oriented is sexist. This contemporary American belief that expressing sexual preference is "sexist" is absurd. "Susan's posts are not interesting because women don't know anything about music." That is sexist. "I think Cole should shave her pits because it grosses me out." Culturally biased prejudice, slightly sexist. "I like everything about women. Yum Yum" Not sexist. (Maybe lacking somehwat in judgment, however, unless Ner is a cannibal.) - --Quail PS: In this my first political post? Jesus, LJ, kill me if I ever do this again, ok? - ---------------------------------+-------------------------------- The Great Quail, K.S.C. | Literature Site - The Libyrinth: TheQuail@cthulhu.microserve.com | www.rpg.net/quail/libyrinth www.rpg.net/quail | Vampire Site - New York by Night: riverrun Discordian Society | www.rpg.net/quail/NYBN 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: Mon, 2 Mar 98 00:16:58 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: Five figers of milk for LJ I am just writing to let you folks know that I saw Neutral Milk Hotel this weekend. Great. Wonderful. Sublime. There were actually very different live than on CD. Less acoustic, much more electric. Lots of feedback, distortion, and the horn section -- groovy. They almost reminded me of Mercury Rev at times. This is one of the strangest bands I have seen live since Hawkwind 1995. I love this band! See them if you have the chance. I was, by the way, supposed to meet the infamous LJ Lindhust in DC before the show. See, I got this email from her: "Meet me at "Cafe Xando at 6," etc. It was kind of disappointing, because I never got to see her. It's probably my fault, because I was running late, so I got there at 6:14. I searched all over, but the only thing odd was this table in the back. There was a mess there, a few cops, and apparently someone had been struck over the head with a cricket bat right around 6 or so. Intrigued, I slipped out the back to the ambulance, where they were still loading the body. (The cops are slow in DC.) He was this guy, early thirties, and oddly enough he was wearing an "Elect Dan Quayle in 2000" shirt -- and boy, someone had really done a number on the poor fellow. Obviously a political statement, you know? What else could it have been? So I went to the show as normal, and didn't you know it, there were the cops again! Seemed they were just finishing arresting some chick that had mobbed some British guy in town to see the show -- "Liam Gilligan" or "Leon Gallagher" or something. Nice bloke, real rational talking to the cops, seemed to love Americans. I didn't get exactly what was going on, but apparently a crazy woman had to have been pulled off his leg, where she had vigorously affixed herself, just chanting repeatedly, "I want your love child, I want your love child, you are my Wonderwall" and so forth. So me and this Lee Glogauer or whatever (Sings for some band called "Oh Way Sis" or something like that, he says, his accent was atrocious) hit it off brilliantly, and I bought him a few beers inside. Unfortunately some people seemd to have recogized me, because they just kept flocking around us and babbling excitedly -- they even tried to pull off my new friend's clothing! Damn near ruined the show. I mean, I had no idea my James Joyce site was *that* popular. . . . - --Quail PS: Oh yes, Five Fingers of Early High School: Styx, Duran Duran, Adam and the Ants, Charlie Daniels Band (Don't ask, please!) and the Cure. Later on, I discovered classic rock, and it was: Rush, Bowie, Yes, King Crimson, and Pink Floyd. (But I still listened to Duran Duran and refused the beleive that Styx was all *that* inferior.) College: Rush, Robyn Hitchcock, U2, The Dead, and King Crimson, and I had ritualistically burned my Styx albums and hid my Duran Diuran in a drawer. Now: Robyn, King Crimson, Rush, U2, Bowie; and I never regretted the Styx bonfire, but I occasionally play "Rio" for nostalgia. . . . - ---------------------------------+-------------------------------- The Great Quail, K.S.C. | Literature Site - The Libyrinth: TheQuail@cthulhu.microserve.com | www.rpg.net/quail/libyrinth www.rpg.net/quail | Vampire Site - New York by Night: riverrun Discordian Society | www.rpg.net/quail/NYBN 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: Mon, 2 Mar 98 01:09:02 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: 4 postings is just too damn many. Nick writes, >Quail wafts eloquently about the "art" of the critic ["critically >exploring ... drawing fresh conclusions, forging connections ... >developing new metaphors" etc.]. While this may be true for academic >literary criticism, but most rock critics I can think of - even the good >ones, - don't dissect artists work in that way. You certainly have a point. It is harder to find a really good rock critic. Brings to mind that Zappa quote, but I can't remember it well enough to write it. But I still contend that some rock critics -- indeed all critics -- may work in that way. I was even thinking of good rock criticism when I wrote it, particularly a recent review of "Time out of Mind" I had read. >It's not the lack of >academic rigor which causes me to dislike certain critics, however, >rather the attitude that criticism is entertainment only - often in the >form of clever jibes at the expense of the artist. Oh, God, Nick you are so dead on -- I hate that! The total snideness, something the English Rock Press has down pat, makes me ill. It gives all of music criticism a bad name! >There are very few >artists with *no* merit - and all (presumably) have their fans and >admirers, for whatever reason. One of the reasons I regularly pony up $6 >a copy for an imported UK music magazine is that I find the reviews very >balanced and even a "one star" review will have *something* positive to >say. I agree -- that is a usually well-balanced magazine, especially for Britain! (But Spin is getting just as bad these days.) >As far as contributions to this list go, I find it *very* germane to the >discussion to know that someone has more than a passing connection with >the recording industry -- especially considering the subject of the >list! In Ebs case I feel (my opinion) that posts which might, without >knowing that one small fact, have come across as self-serving or >swaggering (see Maxeys response to the 700 top albums thing) can now be >understood and seen in quite a different - and indeed very positive - >light. I see your point. To the unknowing, Eb can seem arrogant. (Er . . . perhaps "even more arrogant?" Heh.) But he is really just being honest, but without the false modesty we would like to see from someone who gets free stuff. More power to him. >In response to El Codorniz Grande: >To be flamed by the Quail is to be roasted lovingly with garlic and fine >herbs in a port wine sauce ... Thank you! You have, of course, uncovered my secret plans to cook and eat you all. (Haven't you wondered where Jay and Glen are?) I have already made up special cooking instructions depending on how I think you would all taste. Eb, for instance, will be served in a burrito to better accomadoate his spicy tang. You have already sussed your fate; Bayard gets a lovingly prepared fondue and barbecue, and Tom Clark gets fermented, brewed, and bottled at a local microbrewery along with some Tews Stew. I haven't yet decided what to do with that Gloster fellow, I'm afraid he may be like Fugu. I fear he could be labelled a controlled substance. . . . >Don't forget that this list is unmoderated and uncensored. Sometimes it >seems more like some strange new life form with virtual tendrils worming >through cyberspace, than an Internet mailing list. What? This is an internet mailing list and *not* a . . . .? >Some might say Quail's post is itself one of the very "play nicely with >others" types which he seems to disparage, but that's quite OK by me >(and perhaps expressed better than many). Just another part of the >amazing animal-that-is-the-Feglist's gyro guidance system kicking in. Soem might say, and some would probably be right. I hesitated before posting that letter, because I am quite aware that to call someone out implies a wee bit of arrogance oneself. So you are entirely justified: I deserve that well-couched and most diplomatic admonishment, even though I do not regret my post. Sometimes, however, my desire to make peace or defend a position causes me to sound more patronizing than I wish to be. The eletroshock therapy should take care of that soon. Woj writes, >seriously though, while i'm not a huge fan of tribute albums, i'm all for >it when any group decides to produce a one. who's to say that some group >has more credibility or "ownership" over the person or band who is being >honored by the tribute? Very good point, and I certainly did not wish to sound churlish: my griping at those ubiquitous tribute CDs was partially in jest -- I own several delightful Cleopatra tribs myself, and I have learned about several great bands from them. (Noodle Maggots is not one of them, but those Leppo and the Jooves, man, they can really jump on anything that moves!) Sorry about all these posts. . . . - --Quail - ---------------------------------+-------------------------------- The Great Quail, K.S.C. | Literature Site - The Libyrinth: TheQuail@cthulhu.microserve.com | www.rpg.net/quail/libyrinth www.rpg.net/quail | Vampire Site - New York by Night: riverrun Discordian Society | www.rpg.net/quail/NYBN 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: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 01:33:36 EST From: CooperTJ Subject: Re: five finger bands I just had to respond to the thread regarding "five finger" bands. Since I've never done the analysis before, please view this as somewhat preliminary. It's hard if you like many bands .... 1998--Robyn Hitchcock, Iggy Pop/Stooges, Neil Young, Velvet Underground, Guided By Voices 1988--REM, Robyn Hitchcock, Julian Cope, Echo & the Bunnymen, Dream Syndicate Tim Cooper CooperTJ@aol.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 22:59:19 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Cleopatra >Very good point, and I certainly did not wish to sound churlish: my >griping at those ubiquitous tribute CDs was partially in jest -- I own >several delightful Cleopatra tribs myself, and I have learned about >several great bands from them. (Noodle Maggots is not one of them, but >those Leppo and the Jooves, man, they can really jump on anything that >moves!) Speaking of which, does anyone here own that Syd Barrett album on Cleopatra? I think it's called Octopus? What IS that, anyway? Just more rough demos, or what? Eb ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V7 #82 ******************************