From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V7 #173 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, May 1 1998 Volume 07 : Number 173 Today's Subjects: ----------------- tapes? [dwdudic@erols.com (David W. Dudich)] Ben vs. Eb, Eb vs. Ben [tanter ] GAMH 4/29/98 setlist [DWPoppe ] fegfrancisco [Mark_Gloster@3com.com] GAMH 4/29/98 setlist [DWPoppe ] Edward Gorey alive & well [Carole Reichstein ] Storefront Castro, and the GAMH ["chris franz" ] Re: delete at will [nicastr@idt.net (Ben)] Re: Jenny Jones show in the making [Eb ] Re: Comic Strips [Stewart Russell 3295 Analyst_Programmer ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V7 #171 [Stewart Russell 3295 Analyst_Programmer ] Re: Edward Gorey alive & well [Mike Runion ] Re: Gorey [Mike Runion ] Re: avian tidbits [M R Godwin ] Re: avian tidbits [M R Godwin ] Re: Gorey [Mark_Gloster@3com.com] Re: Lou Reed PBS special [kenster@MIT.EDU (Ken Ostrander)] Re: Rambling Syd Rumpo [M R Godwin ] Re: Lou Reed PBS special [nicastr@idt.net (Ben)] Re: GAMH 4/29/98 setlist ["Terry Linnig"] Re: Edward Gorey alive & well [Aaron Mandel ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 01 May 1998 02:30:17 GMT From: dwdudic@erols.com (David W. Dudich) Subject: tapes? Hey, ya'll, did anybody tape the san fran gig? Robyn on Piano? "Astronomy Domine?" I WANT THIS SHOW!!! I will be willing to trade some really good shows (would ya believe Velvets 1966?) for this show!! (None of it purchased, all trade, nice and up-until-recently (?) legal.) (Please contact me off list!) "Can't hardly wait" to see the movie! -luther ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 22:32:51 -0400 From: tanter Subject: Ben vs. Eb, Eb vs. Ben Gentlemen, to your corners please. This is nothing personal against either of you, but would you please continue this privately? A public joust doesn't help anyone.... thanks..... Marcy :) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 23:00:40 EDT From: DWPoppe Subject: GAMH 4/29/98 setlist Greetings, Fegs- Here's the setlist for Robyn's wonderful show at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco last night: Cheese Alarm Chinese Bones Aquarium Balloon Man Trilobite Beautiful Girl (?) I Used To Love You Flavour Of Night De Chirico Street Arms Of Love Egyptian Cream Let's Go Thundering Encore: Adoration of the City Astronomy Domine Beautiful Queen (?) = Did anyone recognize this song? A new RH original? RH played piano on "I Used To Love You(?)", "Flavour Of Night", and the second half of "Astronomy Domine". Deni Bonet joined in on "Flavour Of Night" and stayed on stage for the rest of the show. Yup, you can rest assured that a lovely audience DAT was made, and tapes will be winding their way through the Feg community shortly. Regards- Dan ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 20:23:15 -0700 From: Mark_Gloster@3com.com Subject: fegfrancisco Me and that other Robyn Hitchcock fan and a whole bunch of other peeps enjoyed the company of ourselves before the movie on Tuesday night. Donne, my sweety, and I drove the beautiful miles between Aptos and SF, listening to _Globe of Frogs_ and a "celebrities at their worst" CD on the way. We met some delightful people in the form of Chris, Karen, Jemme, and some guy named Eddie at la casa de franz. We yukked it up a bit, impressing one another with our own forms of humor, wit, charm, and intelligence. Well, they all impressed me, anyway. First impressions: Chris, a soft-spoken, smart, tall, really nice guy, who has impeccable taste in music. He also does C+ ++ +++ ++++... programming and could really use a job, now that the Robyn Hitchcock season is past. Karen, a quiet, sweet person, who politely laughs at painful efforts at humor. Surprisingly, she also posesses impeccable taste in music. She has a much greater tolerance for being called "Carole" than I do, or for being called "Dean," as happens with much greater frequency for me as the case may be, despite my long hair. Jemme, a really nice, fun guy. He seems much nicer than that crusty Cappuchin guy that we hear from sometimes on the 24-hour fegnetwork. I'm thinking that it could be an evil twin kind of a thing. I am honestly surprised how much fun he is. He must have done something really bad on Sunday morning, because Eddy, Karen, and Chris duct taped him to a flagpole somewhere at Alcatraz for most of that day, causing him second degree burns. They also kept teasing him about something like the "home version of the Alcatraz shower soap game." Also on the great musical taste list. Eddie. What can I say about Eddie? Don't let him fool you with his socialist manifesta-e-i-o-u-and-sometimes-y. This guy is a capitalist. He holds the patents for high fashion, air-conditioned trousers. Kind of a real Techno Trousers thing. I'm hoping it's not too late to invest, because this guy's gonna be big. I think he's already scoping out some conservative politicians to buy for some heavy duty tax loopholes the size of trouser air conditioning vents. There are a few apparent cracks (sorry about the use of that word) in his musical taste, but it's mostly great too. On to the dinner... We collected sweet, amazing Sydney of the Wasps. Nick, the clever, drier-witted (he makes jokes about household appliances all the time) tall guy, but not so tall as Chris- the really tall guy. I can't remember too much about dinner, except that there were concerted efforts to dare one another to "blow OJ"... I mean to make each other spew various substances we were attempting to ingest from somewhat inappropriate orifi. In the movie line we saw hundreds of our brethren and sistren and cousinrenanstimpyren. Once inside the theatre we were amazed by how much "road hold" our sneakers had on the painted cement floor. The theater was done in the avant-klownish-ornate-orange-bizzarre stylings. Some of our numbers insisted upon sitting in the front row, thereby able to receive the full impact of Robyn Hitchcock with a thirty-seven foot head, and require medical attention for their C4-C7 vertibrae. They had a real-life organ player that played songs that would cause one to remember with fondness that fine sport of skating around in circles until losing balance and suffering a crushing blow to the head from the impact. Yes, those are fond memories... The guy and his organ slowly rose up until they were about 15 feet in the air. It was very surreal. Finally, he was silenced and slumped over his keyboard with a horrible racket of guns and chromatic piping. I made up that last bit, but he did stop and get out of the way for Robin to be introduced. He did not blow up very suddenly. He told us almost exactly what we wanted to hear (about how much he loved SF...) Then the movie. My takes on the movie are varied, but some of the "criticism" of the movie makes a little bit of sense to me. It is clear that Demme is not making some movie to market Robyn to people who wouldn't like him. This was a movie for US. You know, the two of us that the one reviewer spoke of. In any case, I don't think I would have chosen some of the songs that were used because it didn't seem like his very strongest material. Nevertheless, the stories were wonderful and the musical execution was great and fluid and wonderful. I suppose I would have given Tim and Deni each another song with him or not used them at all, but who am I? I don't want to give you the wrong impression, I thoroughly enjoyed the movie. I hope everyone in the world sees it three times. By the end of the movie, Robyn was simply giddy and was taking great pleasure in answering questions and not being terribly evasive. He was using his creative obfuscation skills to their utmost, however. I missed Sunday's duct tape incident and the soap bar hijynx, but met up with "the gang," already in progress. Donne made an unfortunate decision to forego the trip. I saw my favorite superhero Uberman and Cynthia and two people I always seem to sit near who are on the list but lurk in the shadows. I had been listening to _Globe of Frogs_ for days before the concert. I really wanted to hear "Chinese Bones." I got that and more and more and more. For those of you that don't care who is playing piano, I wish that you could've been there. Robyn has an unusual, yet very musical approach to his playing. It is filled with intensity and power. He approaches it very differently from the way he plays guitar. This is about my third time seeing him play piano. It was the best I've seen him. His guitar playing was great throughout the performance. He had his little moments of rhythmically almost falling off the horse, but saving himself before he bonked his head and was trampled. Deni is a great accompanist, because she listens so closely to his drifting tempos and makes them seamless. I described to Cynthia that a performer should be able to get the hair on the back of your neck to stand up in a performance. I meant at least once, briefly. Robyn really had me going for the whole set. It was a standing room only crowd. Everybody got their money's worth. I missed the bar scene afterward, and will have to look forward to seeing my visiting fegsters again soon. I was really glad to be there with some wonderful people from this list (and some not from this list) who could experience the same thing I was. Thank you for reading down this far. Happies. Quailing season starts at the end of May, no? - -Markg ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 23:00:40 EDT From: DWPoppe Subject: GAMH 4/29/98 setlist Greetings, Fegs- Here's the setlist for Robyn's wonderful show at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco last night: Cheese Alarm Chinese Bones Aquarium Balloon Man Trilobite Beautiful Girl (?) I Used To Love You Flavour Of Night De Chirico Street Arms Of Love Egyptian Cream Let's Go Thundering Encore: Adoration of the City Astronomy Domine Beautiful Queen (?) = Did anyone recognize this song? A new RH original? RH played piano on "I Used To Love You(?)", "Flavour Of Night", and the second half of "Astronomy Domine". Deni Bonet joined in on "Flavour Of Night" and stayed on stage for the rest of the show. Yup, you can rest assured that a lovely audience DAT was made, and tapes will be winding their way through the Feg community shortly. Regards- Dan ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 20:44:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Carole Reichstein Subject: Edward Gorey alive & well James wondered if Edward Gorey is still alive. Yes! He lives a hermit-like existence somewhere in Massachusetts, in a house full of books, Gorey figurines and antiques. He went to Harvard in the 1940's/50's, and was roomates with the great poet Frank O'Hara. Mr. Gorey doesn't get out much anymore...the staff at Gotham Book Mart in New York told us so (they have quite an extensive Gorey collection--autographed stuff too). If you're a Feg, you'll like Mr. Gorey's macabre humor, illustrations & drawings. To see his work, watch the PBS "Mystery!" animation. That's him! During his Harvard years, he wore a big fur coat and sported a victorian beard just like his characters. I always think of him when I hear "Victorian Squid." Pedagogue rant over, Carole ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 01 May 1998 15:52:59 -0700 From: Danielle Subject: delete at will Ben said, in reply to me: > Once again, I DO NOT THINK YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE THEORETICAL KNOWLEDGE TO HAVE > A CREDIBLE MUSICAL OPINION. I DO NOT, NOT, NOT, NOT, NOT, NOT, NOT, NOT. Oh, OK. So, what was all that stuff about Eb not appreciating the Dead because he was (supposedly) ignorant of music theory? Did I misinterpret that in some way? > I consider "laughing off" somebody's opinion (at least publicly) without > making an attempt to intelligently back up such an act is offensive and > obnoxious, Oh Ben, this unnecessary earnestness is most unbecoming. When Eb calls one of my favourite bands 'noisy, smirking trash' (the Headless Chickens, if anyone's curious), I laugh. So he doesn't like them. Bummer. Oh well. We'll all survive. If I was forced to have an 'intelligent debate' with Eb over every difference of opinion, I'd be in an institution in no time. Look at what happened to Quail. That lj/rabbit thing was just a front. ;) Danielle, trying to avoid packing her pots and pans, with no opinion on the Dead at all ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 21:51:47 PDT From: "chris franz" Subject: Storefront Castro, and the GAMH sez Nick: >As far as the movie itself goes, I was absolutely delighted. Jonathon >Demme has done an awesome job of capturing Robyn's Stage performance in >a incredibly faithful way. No falseness. No "movieness". Just Robyn >being himself. The song selection was great. The stories were good and >the simple set worked better than I could ever have imagined. Well put. Rather than elaborate production a la Stop Making Sense, or an occasional non-concert video like in GLTHO, this was basically a Robyn concert with varying backdrops. Robyn was very much the focus, rather than the production. Consequently, people cheered after virtually every song. Also, the tribute to Raymond Hitchcock was very tastefully handled, and lent greater emotional impact to the subtler parts of songs like You & Oblivion. Very, very satisfying. Robyn was obviously pleased, almost giddily so, during the Q&A afterward. Some of the bits of news from that: apparently Robyn appears on a few tracks of Kimberley Rew's latest (or next?) release (is it with KatW?) and Kimberley has been in the studio for some of Robyn's material. Also, Robyn's novel is about done. He seems really keen to have a movie made of it. A book of paintings or short stories appears to be for the distant future, if at all. sez Carole: >...did anyone have prawns during the Mr. Feg dinner? Nope. Calamari. continuez Carole: >Oh, and if anyone (Chris? Jeme? Eddie) in SF sees my sister Karen, tell >her hi for me, that yes, I'm jealous, and to have a good time at Alcatraz! >:) This was actually really funny. She was the only one of us to splurge on the headphones/walkman guided tour thing on our Alcatraz trip. Like all the others with that gear, she walked around at its direction, staring right at the things it described, ignoring all those around her. We kept losing her, only able to find her again by following the herds of zombies. We had to wave our hands in front of her face to ensure she wasn't in a trance. sez Dan Poppe: >Here's the setlist for Robyn's wonderful show at the Great American Music Hall >in San Francisco last night: Yup. That matches my notes. Deni joined in on FoN and played violin (viola?) for the rest of the show, except for Adoration of the City, on which she played shaker. sez Nick again: >"Never make a suggestion to Eddy. Even in jest!" What was amazing was the lengths he would go to to make this happen. He didn't just gather some people from the bar. He didn't just lead the tune. He went to the bar, got them to turn down the music, stood on a chair, demanded everyone's attention, pestered anyone with the gall to ignore him, talked of how wonderful Bayard was, held out the mike, and led everyone in song. He then got some homeless guy trying to sell flowers to sign something for =b. (Yes, we did buy a flower from him.) Nick's right. Watch what you say in front of Eddie Tews. Needless to say, this has been a great couple of days. I couldn't imagine a better introduction to the so-called Bay Area Fegs, a truly wonderful bunch of people. Can't say enough about the fanatics willing to drive all the way down from the foggy Pacific Northwest to foggy San Francisco (and who, with the exception of Karen, are at this very moment on the long road back); Mark is every bit as witty as his brilliant CD would lead you to believe (everyone, especially Stan Ridgway or Boingo fans, who doesn't have that disc must get it NOW); Nick, Sydney, Glen, Tom, Steve, and the rest of the NoCA contingent are a clever, entertaining, and charming group of people. Truly a week to remember. - - Chris ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 01:12:56 -0500 From: nicastr@idt.net (Ben) Subject: Re: delete at will >Ben said, in reply to me: >> Once again, I DO NOT THINK YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE THEORETICAL KNOWLEDGE TO HAVE >> A CREDIBLE MUSICAL OPINION. I DO NOT, NOT, NOT, NOT, NOT, NOT, NOT, NOT. >Oh, OK. So, what was all that stuff about Eb not appreciating the Dead >because he was (supposedly) ignorant of music theory? Did I misinterpret >that in some way? Yes. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 00:07:08 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Jenny Jones show in the making >continuez Carole: >>Oh, and if anyone (Chris? Jeme? Eddie) in SF sees my sister Karen, tell >>her hi for me Oh, dear lord in heaven! I have a sister in SF named Karen too. Does this mean...? Eb ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 08:27:32 +0100 From: Stewart Russell 3295 Analyst_Programmer Subject: Re: Comic Strips >>>>> "Jon" == Jon Fetter writes: Jon> Although not a comic strip, I'd strongly recommend the Jon> comic-style art of Edward Gorey to any feg. Anybody know if Jon> this guy's still alive/producing? As far as I know, yes. Haven't checked goreyography.com for a while. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 08:33:54 +0100 From: Stewart Russell 3295 Analyst_Programmer Subject: Jah & Tori I'm going to see Jah Wobble play at The Renfrew Ferry next week. The Ferry is quite probably the most apt venue that Robyn has ever played - -- it's a little old ferryboat with a greenhouse-like shelter built onto it, and the seating is all plastic patio furniture. When the tide goes out, it settles at an angle in the mud. Robyn spent a good while eulogising the place when he played there a few years back. Anyway, the week after, Tori Amos plays the Clyde Auditorium. I'm wondering if it's worth going? I've quite enjoyed the little of her music that has received radio play, but am undecided. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 00:56:25 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Looooooooo Saw that Lou Reed special tonight. Excellent stuff, though considering all the albums spotlighted, I was surprised that there was zero mention of Street Hassle. No Blue Mask, either. Best parts: 1) Anything involving photos/film of VU 2) Live footage of a spunky Lou from the mid '70s, back when he still had a pulse onstage 3) Suzanne Vega saying she digs "Berlin" 4) Thurston Moore having a good hair day, for once 5) Seeing what a goddamn sexy goddess Patti Smith still is Worst parts: 1) David Bowie's earring 2) John Cale's continuing inexplicable tan High-Fidelity Eb, who only saw Lou Reed live once, during his crappy Mistrial period ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 08:47:34 +0100 From: Stewart Russell 3295 Analyst_Programmer Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V7 #171 >>>>> "Ben" == Ben writes: Ben> Once again, I DO NOT THINK YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE THEORETICAL Ben> KNOWLEDGE TO HAVE A CREDIBLE MUSICAL OPINION. I DO NOT, NOT, Ben> NOT, NOT, NOT, NOT, NOT, NOT. That's an octuple negative. Therefore you just said that you think that one has to have theoretical knowledge to have a creditable musical opinion... Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 06:39:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Dede Davis Subject: re: more softballs - ---Eb wrote: > Eb, wondering if Dede finds the more prevalent comic-strips thread just as > intrusive and irrelevant Oh, certainly....but more interesting. == Dede "Out of boredom/ I decided/ I'd get with it"--MCC _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 01 May 1998 10:24:54 -0700 From: Mike Runion Subject: Re: Edward Gorey alive & well Well, I don't know who Ed Gorey is, but reading Carole's note sparked a memory of a poster I had in college. I'm probably getting the title wrong...something like "Gastlicrumb's Tinies"? Anyway, it was a macabre black and white etching type thing with twenty-six sorta gothic panels, each one for a letter of the alphabet. Each panel had a small child (Arther, Beatrice, Clifton, etc...I'm making these names up) and each one is in the process of dying (falling off a cliff, drowning, etc) and there's a sick little rhyme that runs through the whole thing...sorta like those cheesy halloween gravestone sayings. Wonderful poster though. Might anyone out there in Fegland know anything about this? - -- 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 Sit-In!" - Julian Cope ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 01 May 1998 10:36:53 -0700 From: Mike Runion Subject: Re: Gorey Man, you guys are great, you know that? Carole mentions some Gorey guy, it sparks a memory of a great poster I had 10 or so years ago, someone else mentions a web page, and Walla! (or Viola, or however you spell it), there it is! Gashlycrumb Tinies! You people amaze me. You're like better than an encyclopedia, or a least a thesaurus. - -- 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 Sit-In!" - Julian Cope ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 15:38:50 +0100 (BST) From: M R Godwin Subject: Re: avian tidbits MRG wrote: > > Both Syd and Peter Green (another favourite of mine) broke down because > > they wanted to incorporate more improvisation into their bands, but > > everyone else (musicians, management, audiences) wanted them to keep > > pumping out the hits. A critic recently said that Pete's 1970 album > > "The End of the Game" was a trance dance record ahead of its time... On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Bayard riposted: > > is this a good first PG purchase for a feg, Mike? which one should I get? > (and no offece meant but i thought Syd broke up b/c of too many acid > hits... am i misunderstanding you?) The Syd thing is very complex, but my feeling is that he got really cheesed off when the Floyd were booked on a local dancehall tour in mid-67 following their top 10 hit "See Emily Play". They refused to perform SEP, and that can only have been Syd's decision, because I saw them perform it in May '67 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. Audiences were understandably disappointed. He definitely had a "done that, let's do something new" attitude at the time, and he really liked to experiment on stage. London audiences had been lapping the Floyd up, and he was upset that they were not making it in the provinces. I think he got very frustrated and started to take drugs for all the wrong reasons, to escape from an unrewarding performance situation. Of course the drugs just aggravated the problem and he got thrown out of the band. (The Floyd also went down extremely badly because they wouldn't play soul covers - "My Girl", "Knock on Wood" and "Hold on I'm Coming" were obligatory at all local dance halls in those days, and people brought up on that stuff weren't really ready for "Astronomy Domine" - they probably still aren't ready for it!) Peter Green is basically a blues player (he replaced Clapton in John Mayall's Bluesbreakers) and if you don't like blues guitarists you probably won't like much of his stuff. Virtually all his records are marred by the inclusion of songs performed by other people (John Mayall on "A hard road", Jeremy Spencer on "Fleetwood Mac" and "Mr Wonderful", Danny Kirwan on "Then Play On". There is an early Fleetwood Mac 'Greatest Hits' album which is probably a good bet. "End of the Game" is basically a guitar jamming album. There are a couple of good live sets, Fleetwood Mac at the Boston Tea Party and Fleetwood Mac live at the BBC, but both of these also feature Spencer and Kirwan. This is too complicated - I'll put a tape together! - - Mike G. PS What do you think of Julian Lennon? I heard a track on the radio and thought the song (not the singer) sounded very McCartney! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 15:50:18 +0100 (BST) From: M R Godwin Subject: Re: avian tidbits On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Terrence M Marks wrote: > It's jamming when the band gets together and > decides "Ok, this middle bit is in the key of A. We'll play with it until > the audience gets board". It isn't jamming when the guitarist decides to > play the middle bit in F# and finds it amusing that the other band members > didn't quite catch on. Had to come back on this, Terry. Surprise key changes are often featured in jamming. Eric Clapton [who he? ed.] used to feature them extensively - probably still does. And why do the audience need bed and breakfast anyway (-: - - Mike G. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 07:50:47 -0700 From: Mark_Gloster@3com.com Subject: Re: Gorey There is a book by Ogred Weary (anagram of Edward Gorey, so people wouldn't get freaked out and stop selling his other works) called _The Curious Sofa_ that I highly recommend for those of you who enjoy mixing humor and hedonistic naughtiness (hey, that's most of my favorite things!) Also, a friend gave me an illustrated book by Tim Burton which was enjoyable, but waned a bit next to Edward Gorey's stuff. - -markg your humorous hedonistic naughtiness beat (I should not have used that word) reporter ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 11:18:41 -0400 From: kenster@MIT.EDU (Ken Ostrander) Subject: Re: Lou Reed PBS special >Yeah, I saw most of this last night. It was so good I decided to watch it >instead of Howard Stern's "Worst Breasts Contest" on the E! network. But I >have to dismiss Lou Reed because of his use of simple chords, of course. :) ...so, you must be a big deadhead? or are you more into fripp? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 16:13:01 +0100 (BST) From: M R Godwin Subject: Re: Rambling Syd Rumpo On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, Laurence Roberts wrote: > Who's a British folksinger who sings songs with rather nonsensical words? > I have a different answer than the obvious one for this list. Has there > been mention in the past in these parts of Rambling Syd Rumpo? I think this is one of his best. It's called: THE BLACK GRUNGER OF HOUNSLOW by Barry Took and Marty Feldman. Used without permission. (spoken) Here now is an eerie song, so spine chilling that it'll make the bogles on your posset stand on end. It's the story of a bold highwayman called the Black Grunger of Hounslow, and his exploits- (to tune of 'Too Ra Lae Aye') Oh list while I sing of a highwayman bold His feats were remarkable. so we are told. He'd whirdle the ladies and scrope all the men Then he'd straddle his nadger and ride off again. Singing fiddle me grummits and scrumple me floot. The caught him and hung him from Old Tyburn Tree But e'er the noad screevelled his gurka, quoth he: 'If I had my time to live over again, I'd scrope all the ladies and whirdle the men' (spoken) However - they strung him and his horse up, and they do say as how his ghost rides abroad even to this day haunting the place where he once straddled his nadger so gaily. Only unfortunately they've built a supermarket on the site, and on early closing day his wraith can be seen a'galloping along the bacon counter and manifesting itself behind the crystallised fruits. And as he gallops he sings: (slowly) My tale is ended, my song is sung And me and my horse we have both been well hung. And as I'm a phantom my only recourse Is to scrope by myself and to whirdle my horse. Singing fiddle me grummits and scrumple me (sepulchral tones) flooooot! - - Mike G. PS If you don't know 'Too Ra Lae Aye', it's the same tune as 'Sweet Betsy from Pike' or (more coarsely) 'The threshing machine'. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 11:56:26 -0500 From: nicastr@idt.net (Ben) Subject: Re: Lou Reed PBS special >>Yeah, I saw most of this last night. It was so good I decided to watch it >>instead of Howard Stern's "Worst Breasts Contest" on the E! network. But I >>have to dismiss Lou Reed because of his use of simple chords, of course. :) > >...so, you must be a big deadhead? or are you more into fripp? I am more into the Dead than King Crimson/Fripp (though I certainly do like KC). ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 01 May 98 09:03:35 -0600 From: "Terry Linnig" Subject: Re: GAMH 4/29/98 setlist I'm seeking out the kindness of fegs. Can someone tape this for me. Looking to trade. Terry ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 12:22:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: Edward Gorey alive & well On Fri, 1 May 1998, Mike Runion wrote: > there's a sick little rhyme that runs through the whole thing...sorta > like those cheesy halloween gravestone sayings. Wonderful poster though. my freshman year they were everywhere, though they seem to have given way to the requisite Monets on everyone's walls now. i walked into one room across the hall, back then, and saw the poster: "Oh, you like Edward Gorey?" the room's owner stared at me for some time until i pointed to the poster. "That!" he said; "No, I just hate children." a ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V7 #173 *******************************