From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V7 #129 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, April 1 1998 Volume 07 : Number 129 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Discography questions / FegHootenanny [Mike Runion ] Film Review SXSW [Jim_Neill@rhinorecords.com (Jim Neill)] The Robyn Tarot [Natalie Jacobs ] Re: Discography questions / FegHootenanny [Tom Clark ] re: Discography questions [Russ Reynolds ] From todays Addicted to Noise news [firstcat@lsli.com] Re: Discography questions [hal brandt ] Re: Discography questions / FegHootenanny [The Non-Prophet ] Re: OASIS/RH collaboration [Eb ] Re: Discography questions / FegHootenanny [jpartridge@accel.com] RE: OASIS/RH collaboration ["Chaney, Dolph L" ] SH in SF April 28th [Russ Reynolds ] Re: OASIS/RH collaboration [MARKEEFE ] Re: From todays Addicted to Noise news [Russ Reynolds ] oh lord, another RT-related posting [dwdudic@erols.com (David W. Dudich)] Re: From todays Addicted to Noise news [hal brandt ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 01 Apr 1998 11:30:22 -0800 From: Mike Runion Subject: Discography questions / FegHootenanny Can anyone tell me about the following (formats, track listings, picture sleeves, etc)? Soft Boys - A Tin Of Crabs (4-track 7") Soft Boys - Near The Soft Boys (3 song ep) Soft Boys - More Songs About Churches And Fish (7") Robyn - The Bells Of Rhymney 12" Robyn - Eaten By Her Own Dinner 12" Also, what label did Underwater Moonlight originally appear on? Does Living Crem (Creme?) ring a rhymney bell with anyone? - -- Yes, I'm officially throwing my thoth-patterned boxers into the ring. I am planning on making the mighty trek to the dimlit forests of South Eastern Pennsylvania for the so-called FegFest '98. Unless TC or the always-resourceful James Dignan make the epic journey, I may be tasked with wearing the label of "fool-headed drone that made the longest journey". Please, don't do this to me. Items I will be bringing to the Hooter-Nanny (ugh...that's giving me a surrealistically creapy flashback from my toddlerhood!): 1. Tom, a master brewer of back-woods Pennsylvania beer, along with his beer of course. 2. a guitar and my decepit little old Crate amp. Beware the horrid noises that may spew forth. 3. my rusting hulk of a '91 Nissan pickup, the bed of which should just fit a nice cooler full of the back-woods beer and a middlin' sized space for performance of said horrid noises. 4. several bootleg videos of Robyn concerts, which will ideally play from b&w tv's suspended upside down from nearby tree branches. 5. my cone 6. a plethora of photocopied setlists and Robyn-penned letters. Bayard, remember...you still owe me one! 7. Julian Cope mix tapes...I'm gonna ram this guy down your throats whether you like it or not. If you don't listen to the tapes, you may just force me to sing. 8. a pillow And the list continues to breed and multiply... Mike (Hey, maybe this is that god-derned Planetary Sit-In I've been so desperately searching for!) - -- Mike Runion Cocoa, FL, USA /******************************************************************\ | VCM: http://www5.palmnet.net/~mrrunion/cones.htm | | Fegmaps: http://www5.palmnet.net/~mrrunion/fegmaps | | Spoken Word Tape: http://www5.palmnet.net/~mrrunion/wordtape.htm | \******************************************************************/ "Wait a minute. Time for a Planetary Feg-In!" - Julian Cope, sorta ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 09:10:54 -0800 From: Jim_Neill@rhinorecords.com (Jim Neill) Subject: Film Review SXSW Rocktropolis allstar news 3/27/98 MOVIE REVIEW: JONATHAN DEMME'S STOREFRONT HITCHCOCK In a world where we like our answers provided to us with the ease of picking up a Big Mac at the drive-thru, the pairing of counter- culture icon Robyn Hitchcock and Academy Award- winning director Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs, Stop Making Sense) doesn't appear to make much sense. Although both started out on the fringe, Hitchcock, who says, "I'm never going to break on contemporary hit radio," has clung to that edge for so long his fingers are probably blue, while Demme's Oscar win gave him a permanent key to mainstream city. Beneath the obvious, though -- where both still prefer to reside -- the symmetry that brought the pair together comes into focus. Watching Storefront Hitchcock, (allstar, Sept. 11, 1996), a filmed 14-song live Hitchcock performance (with the film not scheduled to be released until October, the final song count, down from 22, has not been determined) compiled from four shows in New York last year, is like being in the live audience of one of Hitchcock's unique "cabaret" blends of erudite songs and Monty Python- styled stand-up bits between numbers. Demme, who says he wanted to work with Hitchcock because "of Hitchcock's natural ability for pacing," has captured the feel of the concerts in the best manner possible, by just letting Hitchcock be himself. Still, Demme's influence can be subtly felt in the various backdrops, which range from pure black to rainbow- colored windows, and the ever- changing lighting. Talking with the two of them at Austin's Hyatt during last week's South by Southwest conference, where Storefront Hitchcock had its premiere, was akin to talking to a philosophical '90s Abbott & Costello. Demme plays the foil to Hitchcock's Lou Costello: Demme: "You know the whole tormented story of the people who financed it, loved our film, and then they went bankrupt." Hitchcock: "Just because they financed our film." When the subject of how Austin was chosen as the locale for the screening, they hit a groove. Demme: "There's no greater gathering of people to hear music and see films than in Austin, Texas. It's an amazing synergistic place." Hitchcock: "There's a lot of groovers here... There's 'seedy groovers,' 'ratty groovers,' and a third strain just coming to light, 'nerdy groovers.' Well, put those three together, and boy..." There's a bit in the movie between songs where Hitchcock describes time as slowing down and speeding up. When addressing the subject of the current pace of his life, he pulls off the line for which -- if there is any justice -- he will be remembered. As he is explaining that time is whizzing past you, Demme says, "It makes you feel like the guy in the [Maxell] ad, sitting in the chair." He then holds on to the side of the couch and makes a motion of something speeding by your head. To which Hitchcock responds, "Time is drying your hair." -Steve Baltin ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 13:22:29 -0500 From: Natalie Jacobs Subject: The Robyn Tarot >BTW, as regards the Robyn game... I've been having vague thoughts about one >of these things. Could take a while, but I'm getting some ideas... I was thinking that, in lieu of a Robyn Magic game, we could get some Tarot cards and label them with the names of Robyn characters, and then do readings for each other. The suits could be Prawns, Cones, Uncorrected Personality Traits, and Melons. The greater trumps could be things like Clean Steve, Reg, Leppo, the Man Who Invented Himself, the Glass Hotel, and so forth. (Death and the Devil would remain unaltered.) "Let's see, you have the 3 of Cones crossing the Tropical Flesh Mandala, that means you're going to meet someone that nobody knows but everyone knows someone who knows them." n., who is to purchase her tickets to Chateau Quail after work today ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Apr 98 10:18:54 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Discography questions / FegHootenanny On 4/1/98 11:30 AM, Mike Runion wrote: >Can anyone tell me about the following (formats, track listings, picture >sleeves, etc)? > >Soft Boys - A Tin Of Crabs (4-track 7") >Soft Boys - Near The Soft Boys (3 song ep) >Soft Boys - More Songs About Churches And Fish (7") >Robyn - The Bells Of Rhymney 12" >Robyn - Eaten By Her Own Dinner 12" > I have info on a couple of these on my web site: http://u2.netgate.net/~tclark/robyn/sevens/ > >-- > >Yes, I'm officially throwing my thoth-patterned boxers into the ring. I >am planning on making the mighty trek to the dimlit forests of South >Eastern Pennsylvania for the so-called FegFest '98. Unless TC or the >always-resourceful James Dignan make the epic journey, I may be tasked >with wearing the label of "fool-headed drone that made the longest >journey". Please, don't do this to me. It's looking like I will be there. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Apr 98 10:13:00 -0800 From: Russ Reynolds Subject: re: Discography questions Runion asks: >Can anyone tell me about the following (formats, track listings, picture >sleeves, etc)? >Soft Boys - A Tin Of Crabs (4-track 7") bootleg, picture sleeve. Tom Clark has photos listed on his web site. I believe it's outtakes and live stuff (I have this too, but it looks way better than it sounds so I haven't played it in ages. It may be red vinyl. >Soft Boys - Near The Soft Boys (3 song ep) legit release (Armageddon)--vinyl EP. I think the cover is the UM statues, possibly in a different pose. Kingdom of Love, Vegetable Man & Strange, if I'm not mistaken. The first issue of the latter two songs (they have since been absorbed on UM as Bonus Tracks on just about every subsequent reissue of the album) >Soft Boys - More Songs About Churches And Fish (7") don't know this--gonna guess bootleg. Actually, I saw this on someone's trade list and assumed it was an Unhatched Crablings style assemblage of songs. But you've got it listed as a 7" so I just don't know. Try TC's page again >Robyn - The Bells Of Rhymney 12" 4 tracks...first appearance of the Egyptians on record, I believe, though I don't think they were called that yet...the other three tracks ended up as bonus tracks on IODOT (bones in the ground, winter love, falling leaves I think). >Also, what label did Underwater Moonlight originally appear on? Armageddon >Does >Living Crem (Creme?) ring a rhymney bell with anyone? probably, but not with me. - -russ "I'm going to No Man's Land. All you need is a horse, a gun, and a falcon. You've got to have the falcon." -inebriated hardware store owner in Brooklyn ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Apr 98 12:27:09 From: firstcat@lsli.com Subject: From todays Addicted to Noise news The 41st annual San Francisco International Film Festival (April 23 - May 7) has announced a tribute to documentary filmmaker Robert Frank, highlighted by a rare screening of "Cocksucker Blues," his lurid, suppressed film of the Rolling Stones' 1972 American concert tour. Other music-oriented movies to be shown at the festival include "Storefront Hitchcock," an intimate concert film featuring wry, psychedelic folk-rocker Robyn Hitchcock that was directed by Jonathan Demme (who also directed the acclaimed Talking Heads concert movie, "Stop Making Sense"); and "Charles Mingus: Triumph of the Underdog," Don McGlynn's documentary about the brilliant, passionate jazz bassist and composer. [Tue., Mar 31, 10:35 PM PST] - ------------------------------------- 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: 4/1/98 - ------------------------------------- Two-Hour Luxury Goods Commercial Also A Spy Film ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 01 Apr 1998 11:39:39 -0700 From: hal brandt Subject: Re: Discography questions Mike Runion wrote: > > Can anyone tell me about the following (formats, track listings, picture > sleeves, etc)? > Soft Boys - A Tin Of Crabs (4-track 7") CRUST1 Crabs Moon Records UK Return Of The Sacred Crab/Skool Dinner Blues b/w Have A Heart, Betty/Rock 'n' Roll Toilet (Tracks are from first two editions of Can Of Bees) Soft Boys - Near The Soft Boys (3 song ep) AEP 002 Armageddon 1980 UK Kingdom Of Love b/w Vegetable Man/Strange > Soft Boys - More Songs About Churches And Fish (7") STUCK 02 1987 UK The Leopard/The Black Crow Knows b/w I Used To Say I Love You/Mellow Together (same as EoL and IODOT versions; yellow fold-out sleeve features partial discography and unpublished RH carton) The Bells Of Rhymney 12" DONG 8 Midnight Music 1884 UK Falling Leaves b/w Winter Love/The Bones In The Ground (also, there was a GER version Plane Records 1984 that substitutes I'm Only You for Winter Love) Eaten By Her Own Dinner 12" DONG 2 Midnight Music 1986 UK Grooving On An Inner Plane b/w Messages Of Dark/The Abandoned Brain/Happy The Golden Prince > Also, what label did Underwater Moonlight originally appear on? ARMAGEDDON Arm1 1980 UK > Does > Living Crem (Creme?) ring a rhymney bell with anyone? UM was also released in the UK in1986 on Living Cream Records (MOIST1) with a RH painting as the cover and the alternate version of Old Pervert. Tom Clark's got the sleeves scanned at: http://u2.netgate.net/~tclark/robyn/sevens/ Hope this helps! /hal ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 11:45:43 -0800 (PST) From: The Non-Prophet Subject: Re: Discography questions / FegHootenanny On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Mike Runion wrote: > Does Living Crem (Creme?) ring a rhymney bell with anyone? Weren't he and Kevin Godley members of 10cc? - -g- ----------==========**********O**********==========--------- Glen E. Uber uberg@sonic.net "Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible." --Frank Zappa ----------==========**********O**********==========--------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 11:55:29 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: From todays Addicted to Noise news >The 41st annual San Francisco International Film > Festival (April 23 - May 7) has announced a tribute > to documentary filmmaker Robert Frank, > highlighted by a rare screening of "Cocksucker > Blues," his lurid, suppressed film of the Rolling > Stones' 1972 American concert tour. Wow, cool. Has anyone here seen this? Godwin? Details? Eb ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 12:04:30 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: OASIS/RH collaboration >"While I don't mind the "la la las" on "She Doesn't Exist", I really can't >stand his contribution to "Dark Green Energy." > >Yes indeed. DGE rally bothers me as does the single off of Kristin Hersh's >Hips and Makers. Never cared for that much either. Stipe's voice mixes >like oil and water. I remember a time when I was really annoyed with Sting, who seemed to be guest-vocalizing on endless records ("Money for Nothing"...uh, I forget the others) instead of making an album of his own. Stipe's guesting has never bothered me. I guess that's because I'm much more of a Stipe fan than a Sting one. Eb, who liked the Kristin Hersh single a whole lot...and Neneh Cherry's "Trout" too, for that matter ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 01 Apr 98 15:14:21 EST From: jpartridge@accel.com Subject: Re: Discography questions / FegHootenanny Detailed information on these items (and nearly all of RH's output) can be found at: http://home.pacbell.net/jpartrid (click on "discography" at the bottom of the page) I haven't included track listing information (but will soon) because the page is already 204k long. Holy moly! I, a hardcore lurker, am posting to fegmaniax. Well since I'm typing anyway: 1. RH online interview I liked it and I particularly admire how Robyn deflects questions. I interviewed him once and he has a contrarian bent that is just as strong as his penchant for explosively imaganitive digressions. He occasionally sounds, at least to my ears, glib, but strong stylists like Robyn live with the risk of self-cliche-ing by choice. 2. Which of RH's albums are better than others There were lots of posts on this topic and as I considered how I would vote, I came up with this theory which I will now bore you with. Some music you hear just fits into your tastes perfectly like a jigsaw piece into a puzzle. I've been listening to RH so long now that it's more like his music has built and continues to build this nest in my esthetic lobe. And of course this bird fits the nest perfectly so it sounds great to me but every now and then I get this feeling that my lobe has been changed to adapt to the changing bird. Oh I give up, this metaphor sucks. Anyway, the upshot is that I like some of his albums more than others and I no longer believe I know why. (Obscure Videodrome reference: Hail the New Growth!) 3. Michael Stipe I like REM (used to like them a lot) and I like Michael Stipe (he was better when he mumbled) but I cannot abide his lalala's in She Doesn't Exist Anymore. *THAT* was the best Stipey could come up with?! In the considered opinion of this professional musician, "lalala" was *the* single best way to improve the song?! "Lalala". Maybe it came from someone whose voice works better with Robyn's but Stipe should know his and Robyn's don't mix. I was stunned at how badly it jarred with the rest of the song and was glad that someone shaved Michael's head for doing it. 4. Metcalfe Long ago, I accidentally ignited a flame-war (well, flame-skirmish) on this topic. Since this topic has resurfaced I'll comment again. I like the sound of the fretless bass and as far as I can tell Andy plays the instrument just fine. I just can't stand his taste. His cheesy "Hill Street Blues" piano riff in One Long Pair of Eyes nearly wrecks the song for me. He uses a similar riff ad nauseum in Arms of Love with a similar outcome. When playing bass he favors hammering away at these 1/8th or 1/16th notes over melody and it just bores me to tears. One of the tape trees has a recording of the Egyptians covering the Beatles' "Rain" in which McCartney plays a distinctive melodic bass part. In the cover, Andy plays the 6 or so bass notes that are out in front of the mix and then just reverts to his metronome habits for the rest of the bass line. Too lazy to improvise or just not good enough? I like Winchester as much as the next guy for Andy's bass but at the end of the day this guy is over-rated. (Unless he came up with the "But they used to be trees" backing vocal to Robyn's "Love me Love me Love me - that's what all the papers say" main vocal.) Deni Bonet was great, Tim Keegan was great, Morris rules, Matthew Seligman was great, Roger Jackson may have been great but behaved so foolishly in concert that who knows, and I think that covers it. Okay, back to lurking for me (just doing my little bit to keep the fegmaniax list on topic). Sprexis, JP ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Discography questions / FegHootenanny Author: Mike Runion at smtpgwy Date: 4/1/98 11:50 AM Can anyone tell me about the following (formats, track listings, picture sleeves, etc)? Soft Boys - A Tin Of Crabs (4-track 7") Soft Boys - Near The Soft Boys (3 song ep) Soft Boys - More Songs About Churches And Fish (7") Robyn - The Bells Of Rhymney 12" Robyn - Eaten By Her Own Dinner 12" Also, what label did Underwater Moonlight originally appear on? Does Living Crem (Creme?) ring a rhymney bell with anyone? - -- Yes, I'm officially throwing my thoth-patterned boxers into the ring. I am planning on making the mighty trek to the dimlit forests of South Eastern Pennsylvania for the so-called FegFest '98. Unless TC or the always-resourceful James Dignan make the epic journey, I may be tasked with wearing the label of "fool-headed drone that made the longest journey". Please, don't do this to me. Items I will be bringing to the Hooter-Nanny (ugh...that's giving me a surrealistically creapy flashback from my toddlerhood!): 1. Tom, a master brewer of back-woods Pennsylvania beer, along with his beer of course. 2. a guitar and my decepit little old Crate amp. Beware the horrid noises that may spew forth. 3. my rusting hulk of a '91 Nissan pickup, the bed of which should just fit a nice cooler full of the back-woods beer and a middlin' sized space for performance of said horrid noises. 4. several bootleg videos of Robyn concerts, which will ideally play from b&w tv's suspended upside down from nearby tree branches. 5. my cone 6. a plethora of photocopied setlists and Robyn-penned letters. Bayard, remember...you still owe me one! 7. Julian Cope mix tapes...I'm gonna ram this guy down your throats whether you like it or not. If you don't listen to the tapes, you may just force me to sing. 8. a pillow And the list continues to breed and multiply... Mike (Hey, maybe this is that god-derned Planetary Sit-In I've been so desperately searching for!) - -- Mike Runion Cocoa, FL, USA /******************************************************************\ | VCM: http://www5.palmnet.net/~mrrunion/cones.htm | | Fegmaps: http://www5.palmnet.net/~mrrunion/fegmaps | | Spoken Word Tape: http://www5.palmnet.net/~mrrunion/wordtape.htm | \******************************************************************/ "Wait a minute. Time for a Planetary Feg-In!" - Julian Cope, sorta ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 15:28:49 -0500 From: "Chaney, Dolph L" Subject: RE: OASIS/RH collaboration Stipe vote: I like "She Doesn't Exist" and the Kristin Hersh and Hugo Largo collaborations, but not so much "Dark Green Energy" -- but then, I don't like the song that well. Not bad, but seemed very "hey! look, kids! I can rhyme something with "boil" in more than one song!" to me. Stipe and Kate Pierson do sound really good together. Buck vote -- RH vs. Eitzel: Peter's contributions to RH albums sound only slightly different from what Robyn might've played himself, and he didn't co-write any of the songs. The Eitzel/Buck record feels diluted, because of the co-writing and because it's harder to reconcile swing and jangle than it is to reconcile jangle and jangle. Personally, too, I missed Bruce Kaphan's steel guitar contributions to Eitzel songs (which had been there since AMC's 3rd album in '89), and there was no compelling dominant instrumental sound on the Eitzel/Buck record to replace it -- just jangle. Maybe if they'd mixed Skerik, the sax/vibes player, up higher or let him cut loose a little more, it'd have been different. At least on the new Eitzel record, we have Kid Congo Powers on guitar for almost half the songs to add lots o' color. Dolph now dolphing to: High Llamas, Gideon Gaye (thanx again Terry!) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 15:38:10 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: OASIS/RH collaboration On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Paul Montagne wrote: > Yes indeed. DGE rally bothers me as does... it seems like most of those who dislike this song see Stipe as a scene-stealing backup singer, while i always thought of a duet, made more poignant by the two singers' voices receiving different production. (reminiscent of how they tweaked the Shadow's voice on radio to make him feel different from the mere mortals.) stipe's voice is kind of strident, but the song would be half-finished without it. > Now they (REM/Buck) are mega stars and AMC/Eitzel fans are put off by the > collabortion, which I could understand, I think. i don't think it's because peter buck is a big star; i think it's because a lot of people feel the collaboration is less pleasant to listen to than the worst of either one's prior career. eitzel, at least, has bounced back. a ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Apr 98 12:04:00 -0800 From: Russ Reynolds Subject: SH in SF April 28th The Castro Theater has updated their web site: Storefront Hitchcock 9:30 Jonathan Demme aims his camera at the eclectic singer-songwriter psychedelic-folk-rocker Robyn Hitchcock. Avoiding rock star clich‚s is a Hitchcock trademark - he spouts quasi-poetic, often hilarious, surreal monologues between songs, most of which seem to mention vegetables. It's a concert film - kind of: Hitchcock plays in a New York storefront window, the audience unseen, behind the camera. The image of the singer, ingratiatingly nervous but poised, pumping out his carefully enunciated pop essays in front of the day-to-day business of city life, is unforgettable. Directed by Jonathan Demme. USA (1997) 86 mins. The Stones' "Cocksucker Blues" plays the next night, which unfortunately I will have to skip. I'll be there on the 28th, though! - -rr ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 15:48:54 EST From: MARKEEFE Subject: Re: OASIS/RH collaboration In a message dated 98-04-01 15:15:12 EST, Eb writted: << I remember a time when I was really annoyed with Sting, who seemed to be guest-vocalizing on endless records ("Money for Nothing"...uh, I forget the others) instead of making an album of his own. >> Actually, he sang on that album and on Arcadia's "So Red the Rose" in the same year (1985) as releasing his first solo album, the still-enjoyable "Dream o' the Blue Turtles". So, he was quite busy back then. Now he doesn't do anything. Unless, of course, you count making the kind of albums he makes nowadays as doing something. - ------Michael K., who is currently annoyed with Sting (in case you hadn't guessed). Actually, he's so boring anymore that I've almost totally moved beyond being annoyed and am now pretty much apathetic. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Apr 98 14:38:00 -0800 From: Russ Reynolds Subject: Re: From todays Addicted to Noise news ======== Original Message ======== >The 41st annual San Francisco International Film > Festival (April 23 - May 7) has announced a tribute > to documentary filmmaker Robert Frank, > highlighted by a rare screening of "Cocksucker > Blues," his lurid, suppressed film of the Rolling > Stones' 1972 American concert tour. Wow, cool. Has anyone here seen this? Godwin? Details? Eb ======== Fwd by: Russ Reynolds ======== I just talked to a coworker who said he saw it when it came out. Not much of a movie, he says. Kind of like Magical Mystery Tour, but without "I Am The Walrus". I understand much of the debauchery was staged. Interesting that the Castro Theater site notes Robert Frank will make an appearance, while in the listing for Storefront Hitchcock there is no mention of Demme or Hitchcock showing up. I'm gonna guess RH will be there, though... Cocksucker Blues 9:45 Tribute to Robert Frank An extended trip into the bubble of fame, this notorious (and rarely seen) documentary of the Rolling Stones' 1972 North American Tour is a personal and unsparing gaze at the confusion, hysteria, euphoria and tedium of life on the road. Bleak in some scenes, celebratory in others, Cocksucker Blues unstintingly depicts the drug and groupie scene, Keith Richards' heroin addiction, Mick Jagger's marital squabbles and the Glimmer Twins' canny manipulation of their outlaw reputations. Directed by Robert Frank. USA (1972) 90 mins. Robert Frank in person. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 02 Apr 1998 00:31:31 GMT From: dwdudic@erols.com (David W. Dudich) Subject: oh lord, another RT-related posting On Wed, 1 Apr 1998 11:34:50 -0500 (EST), you wrote: > >Brushing aside the excited quetzal birds, Godwin grinned, swung his leg >over and gripped the handlebars. > >It was a 1952 Vincent Black Shadow. No! A 1952 Vincent Black LIGHTNING! Just like the one young James Ade stole from many a man to get, and eventually hands the keys off to Red Molly at the end of the Richard Thompson song of the same name, off "Rumor and Sigh" (which I think was one of his best- anyone on this list heard "industry" yet?) -luther > > * * * * * * * * ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 01 Apr 1998 18:24:33 -0700 From: hal brandt Subject: Re: From todays Addicted to Noise news Eb said: > Wow, cool. Has anyone here seen this? Russ Reynolds wrote: > I just talked to a coworker who said he saw it when it came out. Not much > of a movie, he says. Kind of like Magical Mystery Tour, but without "I Am > The Walrus". I understand much of the debauchery was staged. I was thrilled when I finally had an opportunity to see a bootleg vid of this. It had acheived legendary status at that point. It was a letdown. Your pal was right that the antics seemed staged, like when the roadie picks up the naked groupie sideways and starts to devour her like a human sub sandwich while the Stones look decadently bored. What shit. A far better legendary rock film bootleg is an outtake from Bob Dylan's EAT THE DOCUMENT with John Lennon. John only appears in the relaesed version for a few seconds, but in the outtakes (which Dylan continues to supress) John tries to be polite while a pathetically drugged Zimmy rambles incoherently and finally vomits on himself. Hilarious! /hal ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V7 #129 *******************************