From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V7 #137 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, April 8 1998 Volume 07 : Number 137 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Feg game cards (long!) [james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan)] Re: fegmaniax-digest V7 #136 [james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Di] Guitar on the sleeve ["Matthew Knights" ] Real Ramona [Paul Montagne ] Yo La Tengo/Soft Boys connection [Paul Montagne ] Re: Death? Yooo betcha... ["Cartman's Father" ] Dumb & Dumber? [Mike Runion ] Strange Angels [spine@iastate.edu (James Francis)] RE: Christian Death ["Cartman's Father" ] re: Death Comes In Threes [griffith ] NMH and the unidentified Volkswagen commercial song [KeN SaBaTiNi ] Robyn covers ["Cartman's Father" ] RE: Robyn covers ["Chaney, Dolph L" ] Re: Real Ramona [Eb ] Re: NMH and the unidentified Volkswagen commercial song [Aaron Mandel ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 16:40:14 +1200 From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: Feg game cards (long!) okay folks...here are the cards for the Robyngame! Remember, this game is only at its prototype stage, and although I've done most of the running with it so far, if anyone who tries it would like to improve it in any way, feel free to do so! I'm unlikely to play it much muself (where am I going to find a group of Fegmaniax in this part of the world?), and there are always problems that are only encountered while playing a game. Feel free to alter the board, rules or cards in any way that improves it yet keeps to the spirit of the game I had hoped to finish up with 50 Feg cards and 25 Fiend cards... I got to 45 and 24 respectively, which was pretty close. Sounds like Bayard is willing to print them out, too, so the game could be at the Great Quail's Feg Gathering yet! Feg cards are usually pretty general "go there, do that" types of cards. Fiend cards include some, erm, fiendish ones that require players to participate in a few odd things (don't worry, this won't rival the infamous lj spin the bottle!) NB: None of these Feg or Fiend cards affect any player on or beyond the blue safety square. Cards marked # are kept until needed, used once, then discarded. FEG CARDS (45) 01- Visit the college of ice - miss a turn thawing out 02- You find the prawns! Have a free turn! 03- Stranded in the future! Miss a turn! 04- #Your railway shoes enable you to travel up to six spaces in either direction. 05- #Queen Elvis exempts you from taking a feg or fiend card 06- You've got to have the damn thing out. Go directly to the hospital 07- A train takes you to Basingstoke or Reading (your choice) 08- Keeping still is the only way... miss a turn 09- The serpent at the gates of wisdom! The player to your right must ask you a question answerable from Robyn lyrics. If you answer correctly, you get a free go. If you get it wrong, miss a turn! 10- Clean Steve takes you to Leatherhead 11- #The man who invented himself shields you from the effects of a square or card 12- Dr Sticky steals a cone from a player of your choice! 13- Accidentally call Robyn "Reg"! Go straight to the City of Shame! 14- Go to Winchester to see if Pete is still in Shawford 15- Take Sandra to Hospital to have her brain out 16- Wade through a ventilator. On your next move, if you roll 1,2, or 3 move one space. Otherwise move two. 17- Happy the Golden Prince places one cone each on Basingstoke, Norwich and Winchester. They can be picked up by the next players to visit there 18- Stop to count the stations on the Northern Line. Miss a turn 19- Mucky the Pig (Bucky? Lucky? :) is out on a limb. Move two spaces in either direction in order to investigate him more closely 20- The waitress shows you the statues in her bathroom. Move only one space next turn 21- Make a sinister woman happy. Gain ten karma points (They are useless in this game, but they make you feel good...) 22- Rout of the cones! Any unclaimed cones lying on the board get removed 23- #Bright green energy enables you to avoid the effects of any square. Use this card BEFORE picking up any card relating to the square. You may not pick up any cone on the square 24- #Direct me to the...cones! This card will take you to any square containing a cone. This card cannot be used to take you beyond Winchester. 25- #Cynthia Mask! Disguise yourself from the effects of any card, including cards aimed at you by other players 26- It's not a cormorant, it's not a shag - it's a free cone! 27- Your wife, or your dead wife? Roll a die. 1, 2, 3 - go forward 3 spaces with your wife. 4, 5, 6 - go back three spaces with your dead wife 28- Run away from Ugly Nora - go forward one space 29- All your cones are destroyed by positive vibrations! 30- The asking tree! Ask a Robyn related question answerable from his song lyrics to any other player. If they can't answer or get it wrong, you get a free turn! 31- A Chinese water python bites you on the toe. Hop to hospital 32- Get wedged with a couple of dudes in a Rock & Roll toilet. Roll 4,5, or 6 to free yourself, otherwise miss a turn 33- Your favourite building falls down! Return to the start 34- Dance on God's thumb! Double your next dice throw! 35- Happy September 1st! Receive one free cone! 36- #Look into your mirror! This card bounces the effect of any nasty Feg or Fiend card aimed at you back on the person who sent it! 37- The Queen of Eyes visits every square between the Glass Hotel and the Shrine. Roll a die for each of the six squares. If you roll a six, she has blinked on and deposited a cone there. 38- #You are the hooded one! Send any player of your choice back to the start! 39- #You are the fiend! Send any player of your choice to the shrine, where they must offer up one cone 40- You and Clean Steve get mellow together - go forward six spaces 41- #Captain Dry takes you to Leatherhead, Norwich or Winchester (your choice) 42- Move two spaces anticlockwise to avoid being run over by the cars she used to drive 43- #Wax Doll. This card is useless, but can be used to bluff other players into thinking you have a really nasty card up your sleeve! 44- Take a mystic trip to de Chirico Street 45- Follow Polly to the Oceanside FIEND CARDS (24) 01- The salamander burns up all cards held by players, and they must be discarded! This card cannot be counteracted by any other card! 02- An empty girl eats a cone belonging to every player! 03- A victorian squid startles you into dropping all your cones on this square! They can be picked up by any player arriving on this square including you (but you need to leave before you can arrive...) 04- The old pervert slips you a midnight fish and lures you to Honiton Clyst 05- Gran appears! The next player to roll a six for their movement roll gets pointed at by all the other players and sent straight back to the start 06- The pigworker sends you to (your choice) de Chirico Street, the Pit of Souls, or the Shrine 07- A filthy bird sends all players to Norwich. Why? Why the hell not? 08- The Queen of eyes blinks on and off, reversing the direction of play. If players had been taking turns in a clockwise direction, they now do so anticlockwise, and vice versa 09- Balloon Man bounces you to any square you want to visit between the start and the City of Shame! 10- The man with the lightbulb head makes you sing one verse from a Robyn Hitchcock song! The other players will mark you out of ten on dress sense 11- Mr Deadly orders you to mime a Robyn character! The first other player to guess it correctly has the next turn, and play continues around from that player. If no-one guesses it, you gotta mime another one! 12- Jacob Lurch gives every player in turn except you the opportunity to move forward or back two spaces if they wish to as their next move, instead of rolling a die 13- Elaine grants you some justice. On your next move, instead of rolling a die, move up to six spaces in either direction. You may ignore arrows on this turn 14- The Devil's coachman swaps the position of your counter with that of the player on your left! 15- The lizard asks "How would you foil the can opener's evil plans?" Be brief, concise, and surreal. The other players will mark you out of ten on hair length 16- The fly asks you "what is your most Robynesque possession, and why is it Robynesque?" The other players will mark you out of ten on deportment 17- Wafflehead drips all over you. This gives you superhuman strength! Move forward ten (count'em, ten!) spaces! 18- Brenda's sledge takes you back to Leatherhead, collecting everyone else who is between where you are now and there on the way. 19- The fatman's son asks "If you were a Robyn character, who would you most like to be and why?" The other players will mark you out of ten on traffic congestion 20- Your transparent lover lures you to the Glass Hotel where you miss a turn... have fun! 21- Insect mother asks you which Robyn character you'd most like to marry and why. The other players will mark you out of ten on altitude 22- Vegetable man dares you to stand up and walk around the room shouting out the lyrics of the chorus of "Wey wey hep uh hole"! The other players will mark you out of ten on temperature, once they've finished laughing 23- Lieutenant Hodges orders everyone to move slowly. Everyone must move one space forward for their next move 24- Reg demands that you name 10 characters named in Robyn songs within 30 seconds! If you manage to do so, move forward 1, 2, or 3 spaces - your choice. James ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 17:16:49 +1200 From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V7 #136 >> Object: The object of the game is to be the first player to get to the >> Kingdom of Love with a cone. > >You all right done there James??!? And I thought I did not get out >enough. Oi vey! And this is coming from one of those psychology >types. hmmm. perhaps there should be some punctuation in there... some of youn are reading WAY too much into this :) >Danielle (once again catching up on digests from ages ago, and wanting >to beg that Dignan chap not to arrange *any* feg gathering in Southland, >since I spent two weeks in Invercargill over Christmas and was >mind-numbingly bored for most of my stay. Call me J.A.F.A. if you must, >James. I can take it. ;)) no, Invercargill bores the hell out of me, too. IIRC, the US equivalent of Invergiggle would be, hmmm... urbane, cosmopolitan Boise Idaho (apologies to any Idahoovers out there). As for being a JAFA. well, you can't help being from the land of gridlock and blackout. Auckland serves its purpose (it keeps Aucklanders away from the rest of the country ;)) >Great piece of work, James. But hey, the party is still 1.5 months away >(unless you guys are really really on a different time schedule down >there!), so whatever you sent could conceivably get here in plenty of >time. one and a half MONTHS??? I thought it was being planned for Easter! Well, that makes things a bit different... here I was, rushing to get a game playable... >n.p. London 0, Hull 4 by the Housemartins. ah, someone else remembers this wonderful band. Is it too late to add "Build" to my list of weepy songs? James 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, 8 Apr 1998 10:19:19 +0100 From: "Matthew Knights" Subject: Guitar on the sleeve On 16 Jul 97 at 17:17, Eddie Tews wrote: > how many albums prominently feature a quitar on the sleeve. there's > got to be zillions of them, but i can only think of BLACK SNAKE, > BROTHERS IN ARMS, and those boston guitar/spaceship covers. Blackouts by Ashra (1979) _________________________________________________________________ Matthew Knights mknights@harrywasp.prestel.co.uk Ton âme est un lac d'amour dont mes desirs sont les cygnes... _________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 12:59:24 +0100 From: Ed.Doxtator@ssa.co.uk Subject: Death? Yooo betcha... And now Wendy O. Williams... yeesh... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 09:23:20 -0400 From: "Gene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: Fwd: Yo La Tengo/Soft Boys connection >From: dsaunder@islandnet.com (Daniel Saunders) >I heard a rumour that when advertising for additional members to Yo La >Tengo, the ad said "must like the Soft Boys". I was wondering, Yo La >Tengo plays lots of covers, have they covered any RH tunes? I have heard that this is true. I believe they've covered "Queen of Eyes," but definitely something off of "Underwater Moonlight." I've seen YLT two or three times, but they didn't cover the Soft Boys when I was there. That's good, I'm sure, because I'd have acted like a complete fool. +++++++++++++++++ "Time is drying your hair." + Gene Hopstetter, Jr. + -- Robyn Hitchcock +++++++++++++++++ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 09:49:05 -0400 From: "Gene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: Vic Chestnutt help, please OK, here's the story. My wife has decided she wants everything Vic has ever recorded. We can only find his new CD, "About to Choke," and I know doodley-squat about him. A quick and dirty discography, list of labels, or anything would be greatly appreciated. I'm sure one or more of you out there can do that. Reply privately if so inclined. Thanks! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1998 08:35:03 -0700 From: Paul Montagne Subject: Real Ramona woj spice wrote: > well, two songs make that album great for me: the mind-numbingly amazing > "not too soon" and "hook in her head". hmmm, "two step" is also pretty damn > great, expecially live. overall, though, i think it's a very listenable > album, not only because it's more "accessible" than the others, but because > the other songs are quite strong too. it certainly is a better introductory > album, unlike, say, the first, which is probably also my favorite, though > _house tornado_ is close on its heels. also sprach Eb: "I'm in total agreement with ya, woj. Although I think the production on "The Real Ramona" is pretty abysmal some of the songs are gems and they still shine through. The only reason I'd recommend this album as a first purchase is because I think it's more accessible than alot of their stuff - and only because the first album is still only available on import. Anyone who's never heard that first Throwing Muses album - seek it out - I don't think you'll be disappointed." I love the Real Ramona, but then again I prefer Tanya Donnelly to Kristin Hersh (gasp). Never cared for the earlier Throwing Muses stuff. Not Too Soon and Honey Tree are my favorite songs on the album, both of them Tanya songs. Paul who thinks accessible is not necessarily bad (B52's Cosmic Thing) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Paul Montagne Faculty Research Assistant Oregon State University Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering Phone: 541.737.3319 Fax: 541.737.3052 Email: montagnp@ucs.orst.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1998 08:42:57 -0700 From: Paul Montagne Subject: Yo La Tengo/Soft Boys connection Daniel wrote: "I heard a rumour that when advertising for additional members to Yo La Tengo, the ad said "must like the Soft Boys". I was wondering, Yo La Tengo plays lots of covers, have they covered any RH tunes?' Not in the all the times I have seen them (6 or 7), but I'd bet my eye teeth they have. They play alot of tasty covers at their shows. Ira Kaplan has always been a big RH fan. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Paul Montagne Faculty Research Assistant Oregon State University Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering Phone: 541.737.3319 Fax: 541.737.3052 Email: montagnp@ucs.orst.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 08:57:42 -0700 (PDT) From: "Cartman's Father" Subject: Re: Death? Yooo betcha... On Wed, 8 Apr 1998 Ed.Doxtator@ssa.co.uk wrote: > And now Wendy O. Williams... yeesh... Last week, it was the lead singer of Christian Death (his name escapes me at the moment). - -g- - ----------==========**********O**********==========--------- Glen Uber uberg@sonic.net "Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible." --Frank Zappa - ----------==========**********O**********==========--------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1998 11:51:19 -0700 From: Mike Runion Subject: Dumb & Dumber? Not sure how I feel about this one: Was perusing the Rhino site today... "Balloon Man" has been included on Rhino CD "Get Down, Get Dumb" (Various Artists), a collection of songs "inspired by the Saturday morning Dumb And Dumber animated series, based on the Jim Carrey blockbuster film!" Oh well, at least now maybe our children will know who Robyn is. Ugh, another generation of "Oh yeah, the Balloon Man guy!" - -- 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, 08 Apr 98 11:06:29 -500 From: spine@iastate.edu (James Francis) Subject: Strange Angels I'll repeat (as if anyone was listening the first time) that Strange Angels is a great album, nearly the equal of Hips and Makers. It just takes more time (like the best Muses stuff) to get into it. Hips and Makers is in my top 5 all-time, so it's a tough thing to follow it up, but I think she's very nearly done it. I don't know why I'm so determined to push this record, but I really feel like people are too impatient! That's the reason music on the radio is such crap--it's accessible quickly but after a few spins, or sometimes even one, you're sick to death of it. Kristin Hersh is the antidote to all of this. Best album I've heard all year, and I've heard and enjoy the NMH album. Sighing, Jim ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 09:43:54 -0700 (PDT) From: "Cartman's Father" Subject: RE: Christian Death On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, I wrote: > Last week, it was the lead singer of Christian Death (his name escapes me > at the moment). The bugger's name was Rozz Williams. He hanged himself in his West Hollywood apartment on April 1st. I suppose if I were living in Southern California, I'd hang myself, too. Ever the sympathetic one, - -g- n.p. The Feud, _Contents Under Pressure_ - ----------==========**********O**********==========--------- Glen Uber uberg@sonic.net "Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible." --Frank Zappa - ----------==========**********O**********==========--------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 10:19:43 -0700 (PDT) From: griffith Subject: re: Death Comes In Threes rich said: >After hearing the tragic news about Rob I knew it was just the beginning. >Alas the 3 are already here. We get Cozy Powell in an auto wreck in >England and Tammy Wynette from one of her many ailments. I think I'll >put on Circle Jerks "Golden Shower of Hits" which is the only thing I've >got with any content from the these 3. Well, I just heard that Rozz Williams (ex-Christian Death) and Wendy O. Williams are gone too. Both suicides. I'm really saddend by the death of Rozz (that is a story too long and too personal). a very sad griffith = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Griffith Davies hbrtv219@csun.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 08 Apr 98 12:44:41 EDT From: KeN SaBaTiNi Subject: NMH and the unidentified Volkswagen commercial song I've finally caught up with the digests from the past two weeks. I'm a gonna respond to two recent threads. 1. Neutral Milk Hotel. There's been an abundance of discussion about them so far, so I'll try to be brief. Jeff Mangum has made his home in Athens, GA for at least the past few years, so I've been able to see him live several times. When I've seen him live playing SOLO he struck me as sounding like Mike Scott (Waterboys) playing Bob Mould songs. I was most impressed by the tracks which broke out of the sort of traditional song writing structure. Then I saw him play with a more complete band lineup and songs came across as a lot more diverse and loose. I was not moved to run out and buy either of his discs, but I respect the work and will see him live again. A recent review in CMJ (in which the latest NMH was among their Best New Music Section) described the first album as "sounding like a young Bob Dylan taking a ride on the Beatles' Yellow Submarine. It was that good and so is In the Aeroplane OVer the Sea (the new cd)." Since I don't have either disc I can't comment on them beyond what the tracks have sounded like live, but for anyone who is having trouble locating the new disc: it is on Merge records so most stores can order it OR I'm sure you could order it through Merge yourself--check the website "www.mrg2000.com". Speaking of Athens based bands . . . Has anyone picked up the latest Of Montreal EP? I didn't plunk down the 10 bucks for the 6 tracks myself, although I liked their previous disc. The Athens music scene is alive and well, particularly the bands releasing music through the recently started "Kindercore" record label. You couldn't go wrong by ordering one of Kindercore's recent compilations available for like 10 or 11 bucks postage paid through their website . . . just do a search for "kindercore" (I don't have the address handy). 2. That Volkswagen commercial song that Bayard? asked about might be Spiritualized's "Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating in Space" which I heard being played on a recent ad for the new Bug. Its back to work. Ken (in Athens) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 12:49:24 -0500 (CDT) From: donald andrew snyder Subject: Yo La Tengo/Soft Boys connection On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Gene Hopstetter, Jr. wrote: > I have heard that this is true. I believe they've covered "Queen of Eyes," > but definitely something off of "Underwater Moonlight." I've seen YLT two > or three times, but they didn't cover the Soft Boys when I was there. > That's good, I'm sure, because I'd have acted like a complete fool. Well, I acted like a complete fool when I heard them do the Kinks' "Big Sky." They seem to have good taste in covers, so I'm sure a RH tune shows up in their sets occasionally. On an outtakes album I have, they cover John Cale, Lou Reed, Wire, even Jackson Browne. Might I add that our RH also has very good taste in covers! - -Andy ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 10:57:33 -0700 From: Mark_Gloster@3com.com Subject: Mourning... I'm wearing a black electrical tape arm band today. I didn't send happy mirthday wishes to TGQ yesterday and several people died. I'm hoping that there is no causal relationship. Wendy O. Williams is never going to blow up another car on TV again. (sob) Times are a-changin'. - -Markg ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 14:29:34 EDT From: MARKEEFE Subject: Re: the unidentified Volkswagen commercial song In a message dated 98-04-08 14:02:21 EDT, you write: << That Volkswagen commercial song that Bayard? asked about might be Spiritualized's "Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating in Space" which I heard being played on a recent ad for the new Bug. >> I'm pretty sure one of the Nuevo Bug commercials has the Orb's "Little Fluffy Clouds" on it, too -- the one with the sample (of Joni Mitchell, was it?) talking about when she was young and watching clouds and what they looked like, yadda-yadda. - ------Michael K. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Apr 98 14:30:52 EDT From: Ross Overbury Subject: Re: Vic Chestnutt help, please > > OK, here's the story. My wife has decided she wants everything Vic has > ever recorded. We can only find his new CD, "About to Choke," and I know > doodley-squat about him. > > A quick and dirty discography, list of labels, or anything would be greatly > appreciated. I'm sure one or more of you out there can do that. Reply > privately if so inclined. > > Thanks! > > If you've got web access (you've got a home page, don't you, Gene?) you should start with http://www.geocities.com/~wolf-eyes/v_main.html. I've heard "About to Choke", and I'm likely to buy it sometime soon. I already own "Is the Actor Happy?", which is less disturbing to the casual listener but certainly not bland. Vic also appears in my collection on Glass Flesh (you don't have Glass Flesh yet?) and on Sweet Relief II - a compilation of songs penned by Vic and covered by various artists for the benefit of Victoria Williams, who apparently has been impoverished by the US health care system. Buy it (and consider supporting universal health care to benefit those who don't have enough famous friends to put together a benefit CD like this one)! "Vic Chesnutt is cherry pie!" - REM "Vic Chesnutt rocks!" - Terry Mellotron - -- Ross Overbury Montreal, Quebec, Canada email: rosso@cn.ca ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 11:39:31 -0700 (PDT) From: "Cartman's Father" Subject: Robyn covers On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, donald andrew snyder wrote: > Might I add that our RH also has very good taste in covers! A question to fegMUSICIANS: How many of you cover/have covered Robyn Hitchcock songs in your sets? My last gig as a real (read: paid) musician was 24 December 1993, so I haven't gotten to do any of Robyn's more recent stuff, but I used to choose from among the following RH songs (typically, I'd play 1 or 2 at each gig): "So You Think You're In Love" (I was into playing the 12-string at the time) "Arms Of Love" (I first heard the Mountain Stage version. My band played it with 2 guitars, bass and mandolin) "Queen Of Eyes" (12-string again) "Ye Sleeping Knights of Jesus" (usually played at the end of the set or after "last call") "Sounds Great When You're Dead" (me solo on electric fuzz guitar) "Queen Elvis" (I think I played this one at nearly every gig at the time) "Chinese Water Python" and "College Of Ice" (used as warm-up or soundcheck songs along with KC's "Discipline") "Cathedral" (a lot of people thought this was a Lennon song. Poseurs!) "My Favourite Buildings" (I jazzed this one up a bit and played it with full-band) "I Often Dream Of Trains" (I actually worked out a pretty cool arrangement of this song for piano) "Sleeping With Your Devil Mask" (a raucous, punked-out version a la the Ramones) I'm sure there were others, but I can't recall them now. I know I tried without success to convince one of my bands to try "Chinese Bones", "Superman" and "Grooving On A Inner Plane". They couldn't understand why I liked "that fuckin' Hitchcock guy" so much. I'd love to hear others' experiences with playing Hitchcock songs in your sets. Enjoying the sunshine, - -g- n.p. Vic Chesnutt, _About To Choke_ - ----------==========**********O**********==========--------- Glen Uber uberg@sonic.net "Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible." --Frank Zappa - ----------==========**********O**********==========--------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 15:09:21 -0400 From: "Chaney, Dolph L" Subject: RE: Robyn covers My version of "Wax Doll / Cynthia Mask" on GLASS FLESH is a live recording. I've also done "Balloon Man" (I was young and misguided) and "Swirling." Dolph n.p.: East River Pipe, _Poor Fricky_ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 12:06:22 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Real Ramona >also sprach Eb: >"I'm in total agreement with ya, woj. Although I think the production on "The >Real Ramona" is pretty abysmal some of the songs are gems and they still shine >through. The only reason I'd recommend this album as a first purchase is >because >I think it's more accessible than alot of their stuff - and only because the >first album is still only available on import. Anyone who's never heard that >first Throwing Muses album - seek it out - I don't think you'll be >disappointed." It wasn't me who said that. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 15:46:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: NMH and the unidentified Volkswagen commercial song On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, KeN SaBaTiNi wrote: > Has anyone picked up the latest Of Montreal EP? I didn't plunk down > the 10 bucks for the 6 tracks myself, although I liked their previous disc. i liked the album okay, but the EP surpassed my tolerance. whether this was because i just had a limited amount of appreciation in me for the band, or because of the horrendously coy "when a man is in love with a man" being on the EP, i couldn't say. a ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Apr 98 15:14:44 EDT From: Ross Overbury Subject: Re: Robyn covers Glen wrote: > > A question to fegMUSICIANS: > > How many of you cover/have covered Robyn Hitchcock songs in your sets? > > > I'd love to hear others' experiences with playing Hitchcock songs in your > sets. > I never could get my band interested in Robyn. They were so unimpressed with my GF II contribution neither of them offered a word in reaction to it -- just glassy stares, and "ummm". My wife hates it too. Dolphing at the thought of it, - -- Ross Overbury Montreal, Quebec, Canada email: rosso@cn.ca ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V7 #137 *******************************