From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V7 #157 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, April 23 1998 Volume 07 : Number 157 Today's Subjects: ----------------- The Verve (RH 0) [M R Godwin ] more film reviews ["chris franz" ] Re: i wish i was mr. horton ["Capitalism Blows" ] SF Weekly Ignoramus Who Claims to Review Stuff. [John Barrington Jones ] by the way, Terrence... (a wee bit of NMH content) [Eb ] [FWD] And you thought Fegs were fanatical... [Eb ] Wasn't someone looking for Fred Lane? [Eb ] Robyn incognito [Carole Reichstein ] Plastic tomato in ecstasy [Carole Reichstein ] "Aetheric Plane" tab? [dsaunder@islandnet.com (Daniel Saunders)] Re: And you thought Fegs were fanatical... [hal brandt ] Directions to The Castro/The Great American Music Hall [sorry non SFers] [KarmaFuzzz ] Re: me, Jarvis, Robyn (2% RH) [KarmaFuzzz ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 18:32:30 +0100 (BST) From: M R Godwin Subject: The Verve (RH 0) Here's me been thinking all these months that Bitter Sweet Symphony was lifted from Hang On Sloopy. But of course it's Greig's "In the hall of the mountain king" played at 33 instead of 45! - - MRG [still humming 'Looking through the windows' by the Jackson 5 - how do I get it out of my brain?] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 10:47:12 PDT From: "chris franz" Subject: more film reviews Well, the newest free weeklies are out in San Francisco, and each of them has a brief write-up on the Storefront Hitchcock show. I won't bother to transcribe anything as the papers are online, with reviews for all of the Film Festival's Tuesday shows at Guardian: http://www.sfbg.com/AandE/32/29/SFIFF/tues28.html Weekly: http://www.sfweekly.com/1998/current/feature1-6.html Six more days! - - Chris ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 11:12:03 PDT From: "Capitalism Blows" Subject: Re: i wish i was mr. horton wanted to clear some things up. <>> angelic, demented thing I have heard in quite some time.> >well spoken! eb, you get a very large golden star in my book. I didn't say that. Eb, ever burdened with unfounded accusations of eloquence> i meant, you get a very large golden star for turning me on to the band. but, i'll definitely let you know next time i think you've been particularly well-spoken! yes. sorry. i cringed as soon as i hit "send." again, sorry. i meant, taken in total. considering we've been at it for two hundred years -- compared with hitler's twelve, for example. (by the way, if you ever want to read the american Mein Kampf, check out teddy roosevelt's The Winning of the West. pretty scary stuff.) and considering that we've been the only global hegemon in history, and that we've had the most destructive weapons in history at our disposal. we're also obviously responsible for crimes carried out with our weapons and approval. and for crimes made possible or facilitated by our intransigence in the u.n. and let's don't forget economic warfare, which is often every bit and even a little more destructive than incendiary warfare. finally, classical/neoliberal economics (and imf enforcement of same) are probably even more destructive still. the u.s. isn't solely at fault for imf/world bank crimes, but we certainly lead the way. if, taking the whole ball of wax into account, you still disagree, i'd genuinely like to know why (off list, o' course.) "The Dude abides"...I don't know about you, but i take comfort in that. It's good knowin' he's out there, "The Dude," takin' 'er easy for all us sinners. Shesh...I sure hope he makes the finals. --The Stranger ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 11:22:21 -0700 From: John Barrington Jones Subject: SF Weekly Ignoramus Who Claims to Review Stuff. Storefront Hitchcock is not a documentary, a rockumentary, or even a movie -- it's merely a concert video with good taste. In it, Robyn Hitchcock -- either a free-association genius with a knack for quirky storytelling or a babbling no-hit oddity, depending on who wants to know -- meanders through a dozen-or-so songs and as many funny tales. Director Jonathan Demme (Stop Making Sense, Philadelphia) sets Hitchcock in a New York storefront window, his back to the street and playing to an unseen but appreciative audience. As the college radio cult hero sings "I Don't Remember Gilford," "Let's Go Thundering," "1974," and "The Yip Song," the camera alternates between close-ups (a vibrating guitar string, the singer's wide eyes) and passers-by (some bald guy toting a cat poster). The spare set is ingenious: Putting Hitchcock inside the fishbowl, with all the crazies of New York goggle-eyed glaring at him, actually makes him look like the normal guy. A must for Hitchcock fans (both of them), a slow night for anyone else. (Jeff Stark) A nice review couched between two stinging zingers. Babbling "no-hit" oddity??? A must for Hitchcock fans; both of them??? What kind of bullshit is that? It makes the whole rest of the review seem like a backhanded compliment. - -jbj - -*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-# John B. Jones Email: lobstie@e-z.net ICQ: 8301543 AOL IM: Lobstie House of Figgy-- http://web.syr.edu/~jojones/hitchcock.html "Well, we went to the punk bar, then we went to the heroin bar, we had pasta at Fellini, and then we went to the pretty bar." -overheard at work - -*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-#-*-# ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 14:06:01 -0500 From: sdodge@midway.uchicago.edu (amadain) Subject: Re: Hip Hop Bob Dylan tribute album Get a load of this, kids! :) It was forwarded to me just today. >>Subject: Wyclef putting together Hip Hop Bob Dylan tribute album with >Sony >>From: "Yorgos El Guapo" >>Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 20:07:35 GMT >>Message-ID: <01bd5569$55981840$b10e35c6@default> >>Newsgroups: rec.music.hip-hop >> >>This is absolute truth, I have a source at Sony records. According to >>the story, Wyclef had recorded Jokerman, a Bob Dylan song from his >>Infidels album, and wanted Dylan to appear with him. It did not come through, >>but Dylan, after hearing and loving The Carnival, and bigging up hip hop >>more than any music in the press last year, agreed to appear in his video >>for "Gone Until November." Afterwards, Wyclef and other Sony A&R people >>put together the idea of releasing a Bob Dylan tribute album with hip hop >>artists. >>his influence is indirectly felt onto hip hop. Rumored songs include: >>Wyclef doing Jokerman. >>Redman and Cypress Hill doing Rainy Day Woman # 12 and 35 (everbody >must get stoned) >>Common doing With God on Our Side >>Wu Tang Clan doing Joey >>KRS One with Mad Lion and BDP doing Subterranean Homesick Blues >>P.S. This is truthful, factual stuff, it is in pre-production right >now and should be released for the Christmas season . ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 14:26:48 -0500 From: sdodge@midway.uchicago.edu (amadain) Subject: Re: me, Jarvis, Robyn (2% RH) >ObPulp: From what I've heard of the new album (which is only the >singles so far), I haven't been impressed enough to run down to HMV and >buy it. As the resident Pulp defender, I do have to disagree :). Or rather, obviously I can't disagree with the fact that you're not impressed :) but I can disagree with the sentiment. TIH really is not an album with great singles. That's one of the things that struck me when I first listened to it. The songs really are mutually enriching in context. That's not to say that there's nothing catchy and there aren't any standout songs, just that nothing stands out as a real whiz-bang single. I'd have real difficulty trying to pick one (maybe "I'm A Man" or "A Little Soul" if one were absolutely pressed to). And I sure wouldn't have picked "Help The Aged", which I'm told was one of the UK ones. Although I think it's a great song, even in some respects magnificent (I love the Bacharach tinged choruses guitar-lunging (new word!) into the Roxy-tinged verses- very intuitive and striking connection), it isn't exactly radio-friendly. So I think hearing these songs as singles probably does them a disservice. AFAIK there have not been any US singles. But that is AFAIK, I don't listen to "alternative top 40" radio stations. I wouldn't think they'd be able to sell these to any of those stations- if I can judge by what the kidz like here in Chicago, watered down ska is the party line these days. >storming singles - I even reckon it would get the Eb seal of approval. I would reckon he wouldn't like it as much. Not because I think you're wrong (I love "Different Class") but because I think the darker edge of TIH is more Eb-friendly. >His 'n' Hers is a fine album too - Babies and Do You Remember The First >Time? are still classics. I've heard a few of the earlier albums, and I >agree with Jarvis that the band's rise to fame coincided with the >writing of much stronger material. Kudos to you for finding a kind way to put it :). Although actually I really like "Separations". >Hitchcock. I then put on I Something You - and she recognised it >immediately!! And more recently, she heard me playing some tracks from >Underwater Moonlight, and knew those too. I guess one of her mates must >be into Robyn or something, but it's still a bit bizarre! Heh! That -is- odd. Not having heard "Balloon Man" but recognizing a song that is pretty difficult to find :). Love on ya, Susan ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 16:17:36 EDT From: MARKEEFE Subject: Re: SF Weekly Ignoramus Who Claims to Review Stuff. In a message dated 98-04-22 14:26:08 EDT, you write: << A nice review couched between two stinging zingers. Babbling "no-hit" oddity??? A must for Hitchcock fans; both of them??? What kind of bullshit is that? It makes the whole rest of the review seem like a backhanded compliment >> Yeah, I don't get the "babbling no-hit oddity" remark -- seems like the reviewer likes him okay, and I can't imagine to whom you'd want to summarize Robyn in that way; I always talk him up pretty well no matter who's asking. Was the "both of them" referring maybe to both Hitchcocks (Robyn and Alfred) rather than suggesting that he has a fanbase of two people? Let's hope so. - ------Michael K. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 13:42:15 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: SF Weekly Ignoramus Lobster cribbed: >Storefront Hitchcock is not a documentary, a rockumentary, or >even a movie -- it's merely a concert video with good taste. In it, >Robyn Hitchcock -- either a free-association genius with a knack >for quirky storytelling or a babbling no-hit oddity, depending on >who wants to know -- meanders through a dozen-or-so songs and >as many funny tales. Director Jonathan Demme (Stop Making >Sense, Philadelphia) sets Hitchcock in a New York storefront >window, his back to the street and playing to an unseen but >appreciative audience. As the college radio cult hero sings "I Don't >Remember Gilford," "Let's Go Thundering," "1974," and "The Yip >Song," the camera alternates between close-ups (a vibrating >guitar string, the singer's wide eyes) and passers-by (some bald >guy toting a cat poster). The spare set is ingenious: Putting >Hitchcock inside the fishbowl, with all the crazies of New York >goggle-eyed glaring at him, actually makes him look like the >normal guy. A must for Hitchcock fans (both of them), a slow >night for anyone else. (Jeff Stark) > >A nice review couched between two stinging zingers. Babbling "no-hit" >oddity??? >A must for Hitchcock fans; both of them??? What kind of bullshit is that? >It makes the whole rest of the review seem like a backhanded compliment. Well, he didn't *say* that Hitchcock was a "babbling no-hit oddity" -- he just pointed out that a certain faction of people have this perception of him. Which is true enough. And anyway, "Balloon Man" kinda stretches the definition of "hit" anyway, seems like. Couldn't tell you the last time I heard that song on KROQ, for instance...ages ago, certainly. As for "must for Hitchcock fans -- both of them," that just seems like a wry "we're in this together, kid" sort of nudge-nudge from one frustrated cult fan to another. And it does reinforce my perception that this film isn't going to convert anyone new to Fegmania. Get funky, Eb ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 13:54:22 -0700 From: Eb Subject: by the way, Terrence... (a wee bit of NMH content) 1) Just because "A Song Against Sex" has elongated jumbles of words doesn't mean it sounds like "Randy Scouse Git." 2) Just because "A Song Against Sex" has a trombone part does NOT mean it's "ska." And it ain't. 3) I never recommended NMH to *you* personally, because it definitely doesn't fall into the shimmering-psychedelic-pop category, which is about all I've ever heard you praise. I fully expected the band's fuzzgritty edge to turn you off. But the first album is "fuzzgrittier" than the new one, so take that into consideration before you reach your final verdict. Dancing back into the sunny afternoon, Eb PS Last night, I gave serious consideration to starting up a NMH mailing list. Hmmm.... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 14:26:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: SF Weekly Ignoramus Who Claims to Review Stuff. On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, MARKEEFE wrote: > In a message dated 98-04-22 14:26:08 EDT, you write: > << A nice review couched between two stinging zingers. Babbling "no-hit" > oddity??? > A must for Hitchcock fans; both of them??? What kind of bullshit is that? > It makes the whole rest of the review seem like a backhanded compliment >> I agreed with John at time of reading. > Yeah, I don't get the "babbling no-hit oddity" remark -- seems like the > reviewer likes him okay, and I can't imagine to whom you'd want to summarize > Robyn in that way; I always talk him up pretty well no matter who's asking. > Was the "both of them" referring maybe to both Hitchcocks (Robyn and Alfred) > rather than suggesting that he has a fanbase of two people? Let's hope so. This is rather brilliant, though. I'm going to believe it just because it's more pleasant than the alternative (sort of like Quail's belief in Love). It makes sense, though. J. ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 14:59:11 PDT From: "Capitalism Blows" Subject: fun fact of the day "only 43 percent of all meat products recalled by manufacturers from 1990 to 1997 was actually recovered, leaving the rest -- more than 17 million pounds of contaminated meat -- to be eaten, presumably, by unsuspecting customers." --Multinational Monitor, March 1998 yum! incidentally, robyn has said that Balloon Man is about consumerism/ consumption, and that he's particularly proud of the fact that he wrote it about six months before the wall street crash. the various stories he's told introducing it live (and my guess is that this is the song with the most different accompanying stories) seem to back that up. but if it *is* about masturbation, then what exactly does the line, "there were loads of them on bryant park so i didn't feel out of place," mean? is bryant park near 42nd street? the first time i saw him do it live, he said, "this is a song about greed, and i hope it makes me a lot of money." "The Dude abides"...I don't know about you, but i take comfort in that. It's good knowin' he's out there, "The Dude," takin' 'er easy for all us sinners. Shesh...I sure hope he makes the finals. --The Stranger ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 15:22:37 -0700 From: Eb Subject: [FWD] And you thought Fegs were fanatical... What's worse, he nests parentheses too. ;) I don't know WHAT to say to this guy in response. Eb >Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 22:51:53 EDT >To: gondola@deltanet.com >Subject: Claudine Worship > >I took a week's vacation in 1992 to assemble every piece of information, every >song, every theory about CL. And months/years after that to make sense of it. >Travelled to Colorado, met the daughter of the security guard who was at >Starwood the night of the Sabich shooting, visited backstage at the Tropicana >in Las Vegas (where the Folies Bergere troup performed when she met Andy at >age 19), taught my self to play "Nothing To Lose" on guitar, visited the >Museum of Broadcasting in NYC to watch the blind girl episode of Combat. >Chased down Paul Williams (not the dwarf-ish songwriter, but the >founder/publisher of Crawdaddy! to try to get the 2/78 issue (he didn't own >the publication at that point, although he now publishes a good descendant >'zine; he referred me to U. Michigan for their collection). Went berserk >trying to trace down a rumor that Claudine was going to appear/perform at a >folk weekend festival in West Virginia four years ago. Looked for "Claudine >Longet" on every search engine, every week, for months when I learned about >the web in 1995 -- there was virtually nothing!! Observe her birthday with >appropriate solemnity each January. Basically devoting my life to the >woman.... I wish I could say I'd lost my job, my family and my dog in the >course of my obsession, but so far nothing that exciting has occurred. > >God bless you for pulling it all together, >TOM -- Washington DC ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 17:13:50 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Wasn't someone looking for Fred Lane? > From: "Fuzz@Hemispeher.nl" > Newsgroups: alt.music.alternative > Subject: Shimmy Disc lp-Cd in STOCK !!!! > Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 14:22:45 +0200 > > Shimmy Disc items in stock… > > All Lp’s NLG 10.00 dutch guilders ( aprrox in us DLRS $ 5.00) > > LP Bongwater | Too much sleep (Euro gatefold sleeve) > LP Brookings, Ernest N. | Lyric s by > LP Carney/Hild/Kramer | Happinenes > LP Dogbowl | Cyclops nuclear submarine > LP Hall, John. S. -& Kramer- real men > LP Husik, Lida | Bozo > LP Jellyfish Kiss | Animal Rite > LP Lane, Fred | From the one that cut you > LP Men & Volts | The mule > LP Ruins | Stonehenge > LP Rutles Highway Revisited | V /A > LP Sharky's Machine | Let's be friends > LP Perverted By Desire | La Sigla del sadilo (Euro only release) > LP When People Were Shorter | Bobby > > All CD’S NLG fl 25,00 dutch guilders ( approx is us DLRS $ 13.00 ) > > CD Carney/Hild/Kramer | Happiness > CD Dogbowl | Cyclops nuclear su > CD Dogbowl | Tit (an opera) > CD Hall, John. S. -& Kramer- | real men > CD Kupferberg, Tuli | No deposit > CD Perverted By Desire | La Sigla del sadilo > CD Ruins | Stonehenge > CD Rutles Highway Revisited | V/A > CD Shockabilly | The Ghost Of.. > CD Tinklers | Cassarole > CD Twentieth Anniversary Summer of love > CD What Else Do You Do | V/A > CD When People Were Shorter | Bobby > > > pls reply to Marian@groot.nl ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 18:20:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Carole Reichstein Subject: Robyn incognito Jonathan said this in response to Griffith's "was that Robyn?" sighting in L.A.: > > I can't believe Robyn would ever wear a baseball cap. It's > not like he's an old English folkie hiding his bald spot or > anything like that. Ha! Exactly what he wanted us Fegs to think!!!!! Although I think I'd cry if I saw Robyn in a baseball cap, it *is* an awfully good low key disguise. I spotted Billy Bragg on Congress street during SXSW, and HE was wearing a baseball cap. But admittedly, Billy can get away with it a bit more. It probably was him. - -Carole (who saw Robyn wearing acid washed denim once (jacket AND jeans). In Portland 1993. Truly a horrific sight! Any witnesses besides my sister and I??) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 18:50:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Carole Reichstein Subject: Plastic tomato in ecstasy Mike Runion wanted to know who had the plastic tomato signed by Robyn. You can read about the great SXSW tomato saga by pointing your feelers at Nick Winkworth's outstanding FegFotos webpage. The URL is: http://home.earthlink.net/~njaz/fegfotos.html He did a wonderful job of making my photos look better than they were. No more red-eye! Nick, my apologies if this announcement comes before your finishing touches. Fine job! - -Carole ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 14:21:20 +1200 From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: everyone except Mr H >Your reference to "yer man" James Joyce makes me wonder whether you are >also aware of the great Flann O'Brien (aka Miles na cGopaleen, real name >Brian O'Nolan). "At Swim-Two-Birds" and "The Third Policeman" are not like >anything else I've ever read - surreal, ludic, funny. He died of drink in >1966, which must make him sort of a pre-post-modernist (or a >proto-post-modernist)? great stuff, if somewhat confusing. ASTB, IIRC, deals with a novelist writing a novel about a novelist whose characters come to life and take over his life. The nearest writer to O'Brien that I have read (and he's a LONG way from him, really) is Mikhail Bulgakov. >2) Were you to make a good ska cover of The Monkees' "Randy Scouse Git", >it would sound rather like "A song agaisnt sex". a fun little song, even if it always reminds me of (title?) "Counting flowers on the wall" >> Linda herself seemed to be a very good person, too. >> One question: has anyone SEEN her photos? was her art any good? >She's had at least one book of photos published. The bookstore I work at >used to (may still) have a coffee table book or her photos. They were >black and white >photos of various rock stars. I believe all of them were taken in the 60s. >They were very nice. I remember being impressed with them. If I'm >remembering correctly, she did not use a flash for these, as it was less >intrusive. The musicians would forget she was there, or get used to her >being there, and were fairly relaxed as she took the pictures. She was not a bad photographer at all, and some of them measure up with the very best of 60s rock photos (especially the ones of Hendrix, IINM). IIRC, many of the photos on the poster insert of "The Beatles (aka "The White Album") were also by L. Eastman 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, 22 Apr 1998 19:56:23 -0700 (PDT) From: "Chris, the missing years." Subject: Re: Robyn incognito > -Carole > (who saw Robyn wearing acid washed denim once (jacket AND jeans). In > Portland 1993. Truly a horrific sight! Any witnesses besides my sister and > I??) I would not have called that acid washed, rather call it faded to a pre-consumer-process degree. Either way, it was not the no-hit oddity's usual dress. .chris (who just read a piece that called the Soft Boys demented folk, which may be an apt description to a degree) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 22:24:42 -0700 From: dsaunder@islandnet.com (Daniel Saunders) Subject: "Aetheric Plane" tab? I've had a lot of success with the Hitchcock guitar tabs I've found, and this song means a lot to me. If someone could post the tab without too much trouble I would appreciate it very much. - -- Daniel Saunders Reality is that which when you stop believing in it, it doesn't go away. - Philip K. Dick ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 01:11:06 -0600 From: hal brandt Subject: Re: And you thought Fegs were fanatical... Upon seeing Eb's homepage, TOM wrote: >To: gondola@deltanet.com >Subject: Claudine Worship > >I took a week's vacation in 1992 to assemble every piece of information, every >song, every theory about CL. And months/years after that to make sense of it. >Travelled to Colorado, met the daughter of the security guard who was at >Starwood the night of the Sabich shooting, visited backstage at the Tropicana >in Las Vegas (where the Folies Bergere troup performed when she met Andy at >age 19), taught my self to play "Nothing To Lose" on guitar, visited the >Museum of Broadcasting in NYC to watch the blind girl episode of Combat. >Chased down Paul Williams (not the dwarf-ish songwriter, but the >founder/publisher of Crawdaddy! to try to get the 2/78 issue (he didn't own >the publication at that point, although he now publishes a good descendant >'zine; he referred me to U. Michigan for their collection). Went berserk >trying to trace down a rumor that Claudine was going to appear/perform at a >folk weekend festival in West Virginia four years ago. Looked for "Claudine >Longet" on every search engine, every week, for months when I learned about >the web in 1995 -- there was virtually nothing!! Observe her birthday with >appropriate solemnity each January. Basically devoting my life to the >woman.... I wish I could say I'd lost my job, my family and my dog in the >course of my obsession, but so far nothing that exciting has occurred. > >God bless you for pulling it all together, >TOM -- Washington DC Sharing his dumbfoundedness at the above, Eb ridiculed: > > What's worse, he nests parentheses too. ;) > > I don't know WHAT to say to this guy in response. > > Eb I think that TOM was either a full-blown CL-"weenie" or just a satirist and I lean towards the latter. I mean "God bless you for pulling it all together" reads to me like the joke's on you. Just laugh it off- no response required! /hal ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 00:39:05 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: And you thought Fegs were fanatical... >>I took a week's vacation in 1992 to assemble every piece of information, >>every >>song, every theory about CL. And months/years after that to make sense >>of it. >>Travelled to Colorado, met the daughter of the security guard who was at >>Starwood the night of the Sabich shooting, visited backstage at the Tropicana >>in Las Vegas (where the Folies Bergere troup performed when she met Andy at >>age 19), taught my self to play "Nothing To Lose" on guitar, visited the >>Museum of Broadcasting in NYC to watch the blind girl episode of Combat. >>Chased down Paul Williams (not the dwarf-ish songwriter, but the >>founder/publisher of Crawdaddy! to try to get the 2/78 issue (he didn't own >>the publication at that point, although he now publishes a good descendant >>'zine; he referred me to U. Michigan for their collection). Went berserk >>trying to trace down a rumor that Claudine was going to appear/perform at a >>folk weekend festival in West Virginia four years ago. Looked for "Claudine >>Longet" on every search engine, every week, for months when I learned about >>the web in 1995 -- there was virtually nothing!! Observe her birthday with >>appropriate solemnity each January. Basically devoting my life to the >>woman.... I wish I could say I'd lost my job, my family and my dog in the >>course of my obsession, but so far nothing that exciting has occurred. >> >>God bless you for pulling it all together, >>TOM -- Washington DC > >I think that TOM was either a full-blown CL-"weenie" or just >a satirist and I lean towards the latter. I mean "God bless you for >pulling it all together" reads to me like the joke's on you. Just laugh >it off- no response required! I really don't think he's kidding, myself. And you know, some people (not me) DO say "God bless you" with complete sincerity.... And hey, I had another fanatic write me, who was bragging that his collection was so complete that he even had HOME MOVIES of Longet playing golf. No kidding! Eb ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 06:18:13 EDT From: KarmaFuzzz Subject: Directions to The Castro/The Great American Music Hall [sorry non SFers] does anyone know the best way to get to the Castro Theatre and/or TFAMH using BART. i've never been to either before (shockingly)....... 10Q ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 06:17:46 EDT From: KarmaFuzzz Subject: Re: The Verve (RH 0) hssmrg@bath.ac.uk writes: > Here's me been thinking all these months that Bitter Sweet Symphony was > lifted from Hang On Sloopy. > > But of course it's Greig's "In the hall of the mountain king" played at > 33 instead of 45! isn't it an orchestral version of the stones "the last time," with words and that tea kettle recorded over the top? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 06:17:19 EDT From: KarmaFuzzz Subject: Re: me, Jarvis, Robyn (2% RH) In a message dated 98-04-22 15:46:03 EDT, sdodge@midway.uchicago.edu writes: > AFAIK there have not been any US singles. But that is AFAIK, I don't listen > to "alternative top 40" radio stations. I wouldn't think they'd be able to > sell these to any of those stations- if I can judge by what the kidz like > here in Chicago, watered down ska is the party line these days. they've shown videos for "like a friend" and "this is hardcore" on 120 minutes, and i heard "this is hardcore" at 4am on Live? 105 a few days back. no actual packaged singles of course, as you have to be janet jackson to have one of those released over here these days... ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V7 #157 *******************************