From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V7 #195 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, May 19 1998 Volume 07 : Number 195 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Goodies for sale [plpalmer@ix.netcom.com] Re: Gotta let this hen out [Viccicraig ] Re: Harrisongs [Viccicraig ] Shotgun wedding [Gregory Stuart Shell ] My monthly Jeme-bait [The Great Quail ] Party Directions, and a hurray for Steve! [The Great Quail ] Re: Sonic Youth reply [Eb ] Re: Party Directions, and a hurray for Steve! [Eb ] Re: My monthly Jeme-bait [Terrence M Marks ] Is the Storefront open? [cph@bright.net (Christopher Hintz)] Re: Those damned Liverpudlians [sdodge@midway.uchicago.edu (amadain)] Re: Whist etc (avec content Hitchcoquesque) [sdodge@midway.uchicago.edu (] Re: Whist etc (avec content Hitchcoquesque) [Eb ] Re: Those damned Liverpudlians [kenster@MIT.EDU (Ken Ostrander)] Re: Sonic Youth reply [kenster@MIT.EDU (Ken Ostrander)] Re: Sonic Youth, etc. etc. ["JH3" ] Re: Whist etc (avec content Hitchcoquesque) [sdodge@midway.uchicago.edu (] earlist known RH vid? [Russ Reynolds ] Nick Lowe Tour Dates URL ["JH3" ] brief 6 degreeing return (sorry!) [james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (Jam] Re: earlist known RH vid? [Tom Clark ] Re: Sonic Youth, etc. etc. [Tom Clark ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 12:13:01 -0700 From: plpalmer@ix.netcom.com Subject: Re: Goodies for sale Don't you think this is a little pricy for these CDs. I see both of these listed by On Line stores for less than you're asking. I recently picked up the Spectre CD for $10. (A lot of times it's marked $15, but you can talk them down). This may be just my opinion, but I don't like the idea of taking advantage of other members of the list. Why don't you trade the CDs for live copies of shows? Peter Gene Hopstetter, Jr. wrote: > > I've recently acquired two rare Robyn CDs which I'd like to offer for sale: > > * The "Spectre" CD, $25 > * The "So You Think You're In Love" CD EP, the A&M domestic version, with > "Watch Your Intelligence" and "Eight Miles High", $10 > > Please e-mail me privately if you're interested. If you're attending the > FegGathering and you'd like either of them, I'd be glad to bring them with > me. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 15:25:25 EDT From: Viccicraig Subject: Re: Gotta let this hen out In a message dated 98-05-19 13:59:41 EDT, etews@hotmail.com writes: >apparently it's back in print. or maybe it never went out. either way, >you should be able to order it pretty easily. now, BRENDA OF THE >LIGHTBULB EYES is another story... > > heheheheh okay same deal for Brenda of the Lightbulb eyes.....i have absolutely NO hitchcock on video (plays mini violin for pity) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 15:28:39 EDT From: Viccicraig Subject: Re: Harrisongs ummm quite honestly, and just a frivolous opinion, i like Harrisons stuff the best as far as post beatle stuff is concerned, and if for some reason you are too strapped to pick up his works, be more than glad to copy a few CD's for you......heheheh i love my CD-R, its like tape to tape...... - --vicci (waiting somewhat anxiously for the feds to now pound down my door) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 14:36:18 -0500 (CDT) From: Gregory Stuart Shell Subject: Shotgun wedding On Tue, 19 May 1998, Capitalism Blows wrote: > i think the one that really bummed me out the most --well, apart from > cobain, but that kinda goes without saying I have always had a hard time raising any sympathy for someone after they commit suicide. To me it is as weak as water. Sure sure, I did not know the guy or the tortured life he had and all the suffering he had known. So maybe a shotgun in the mouth was the only way he could find peace. Yeah right... Maybe it wasn't suicide. This topic has been discussed before I believe, but I don't remember the shit Regards, Gregory, who is patiently waiting for a new release of DeskView, and who still has it running on an IBM PS2-50Z, Shell ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 May 98 15:06:24 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: My monthly Jeme-bait Capuchin writes: >Remember how many records Celine Dion sells. That's why I don't believe >in Democracy. Remember how many records blacks and Jews sold in Germany in the 30-40s. That's why I do believe in democracy. - --Quail (And not only do I believe in democracy, I swear to God I've even seen it once or twice!) PS: Notice the clever use of Nazi Germany in a political thread, which should surely doom this one to extinction before it goes any further! (Was that Godwin's Rule?) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 May 98 15:06:52 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: Party Directions, and a hurray for Steve! Hello Fegfriends! I have now added more to the Directions Page of the FegFest Web site. By tomorrow night, the whole Directions part will be completed -- I still need to do the Baltimore/DC thing, which will require some driving around-type of research. That should be online tomorrow. Again, for those of you that delete mail from me faster than you can read it, the URL is: www.rpg.net/quail/fegmania/fegfest.html And I am still accepting email submissions for food offerings and that sort of thing. . . . ** On the Effigy Front: Some folks have mailed some wonderful things to serve as effigies, party favors, and bomb casings. Nick, James, and Eddie have all sent fun things; but the drumroll goes to Mr. Steve Schiavo of Arlington, Texas, who actually sent a whole freaking BOX of party favors, and I mean really cool things, too. Steve -- if you can email me privately, I'd like to thank you personally for the Lovecraft glassware. . . . it will certainly make drinking Tom's beer a more intriguing risk! Only four more days to FegFest 98! (Mike -- I hope you checked your oil!) - --Quail - ---------------------------------+-------------------------------- The Great Quail, K.S.C. | Literature Site - The Libyrinth: TheQuail@cthulhu.microserve.com | www.rpg.net/quail/libyrinth www.rpg.net/quail | Vampire Site - New York by Night: riverrun Discordian Society | www.rpg.net/quail/NYBN 73 De Chirico Street | Arkham, Orbis Tertius 2112-42 | ** What is FEGMANIA? ** "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents." -- H.P. Lovecraft ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 May 98 15:06:56 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: Sinatra's Last Episode and more! Fegizens, I know it's been a while since I have posted anything even remotely worth deleting, but I assure you I have been most busy indeed. (For the record, though: I think Lou Reed is a god, I still do not like the Beach Boys, I would love to buy Capuchin a drink at a really good piano bar, and I'm glad to see that Ethyl Keytone is back!) I do have a bit of personal news: I am planning a serious relocation -- I am moving from Harrisburg PA to New York City! So why am I doing that? Do I want to trade nights by Three Mile Island for days in Godzilla's stomping ground? Do I want to actually move closer to LJ so she can taunt me in person? Will the Feg party represent such an epochal moment in my life that I'll feel the need to move on? Well. . . . Basically the fast pace of life here in central PA has been really getting me edgy. I know, I know -- who in their right mind would exchange the Little League Museum and the Lancaster Quilting Bee for the Whitney and Philip Glass at the Met? But I just *have* to do this -- I just can't take the Enola crime rate anymore. I mean, just last week there was a drive-by rake-whacking right outside Ag Hall! I'm sure it will be more peaceful in Brooklyn. And besides, how dissimilar can New York and Harrisburg really be -- I mean, the Amish, Hasidic Jews -- what's the difference? But to be completely honest, if not embarrassingly confessional, I have grown weary of teaching adolescents the age-old secrets of chemistry, and my heart yearns to roam the pages of the World Wide Web while actually make some money doing so. I am therefore leaving my teaching position, joining the Church of Scientology, and moving to New York to look for a job in Web design. (By the way, Bayard, this does not give you license to trash my house at the party! I've heard about you and your wild ways. You, too Gene -- It hasn't escaped me that you made reservations to sleep elsewhere!) So you can imagine that I have been quite busy -- between this move, preparing for the FegFest, and purging my engrams with the great followers of L. Ron Hubbard, my life has been a bit chaotic. There's also these annoying signs that keep popping up along I-78: TURN BACK QUAIL; WON'T YOU MISS COW-TIPPING; ISN'T HARRISBURG NICE...AND FAR AWAY? and such. Oddly enough, they all seem to be written in LJ's handwriting, but I'm sure that's just a coincidence. I would however like to add that I thought Sinatra's final episode was just perfect. I am glad he did not die in a plane crash -- I mean, been there, done that, know what I mean? Now I know that some of his handlers wanted to have him decapitated in Brooklyn's Harry Chapin Park, but that just seemed vulgar. I completely support the decision to have him die quietly at the ripe old age of 82. I mean, for the star of a show devoted to self-centered, whining, arrogant New Yorkers, Sinatra certainly had more charm and charisma than the rest of that crew. But ah, they *were* fun, weren't they? The way Dean Martin would always burst through the door in drunken confusion, and Sammy, well -- who can forget the glass eye in the soup episode? And old Bing -- now there really was a Master of his Domain. . . . . So goodbye, Frank, I for one am going to miss you, and I'll be thinking of you when I wake up in that city that never sleeps. . . . So I say, peace, love, and swing baby swing, - --Quail - ---------------------------------+-------------------------------- The Great Quail, K.S.C. | Literature Site - The Libyrinth: TheQuail@cthulhu.microserve.com | www.rpg.net/quail/libyrinth www.rpg.net/quail | Vampire Site - New York by Night: riverrun Discordian Society | www.rpg.net/quail/NYBN 73 De Chirico Street | Arkham, Orbis Tertius 2112-42 | ** What is FEGMANIA? ** "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents." -- H.P. Lovecraft ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 16:09:01 -0400 From: "Chaney, Dolph L" Subject: a request Dear Mr. Hitchcock, Hello! I'm writing first of all to apologize for mailing you that bright-pink-painted plastic squid for your birthday. In retrospect, it was a very very ill-advised thing for me to do, brought on by listening to _You & Oblivion_ and East River Pipe's _Poor Fricky_ simultaneously, an error with grievous worldwide psychotropic consequences far beyond the already foul affront to your privacy which said present constitutes. Enclosed you will find my customary Cabbage O' Penance; please accept it with all humblest regards. Next, an entreaty... please please please do something new very soon, upon which we poor Fegs may spend all our time / space / bandwidth dissecting, rather than bashing off callous responses to the deaths of musicians, immediately self-inflicted and otherwise. After four years, someone just felt it necessary to call Cobain "weak as water" onlist, and there's been much discussion (as one might expect) of Sinatra: "icon" vs. "scumbag". All valid personal views to hold, of course, and naturally we all recognize Fegmaniax as a notoriously and deliriously betentacled forum in which our Hitchcock-emblazoned personalities can and should have much room to expand, expound, excrete, and exegete at will. (poor will... AND the jolly hangman.) But, Uncle Bobby, we neeeeeeed you. Keep coming 'round to our various cities, play some new squishy songs... And what would the harm be in making a guest appearance on "Supermarket Sweep" or "The Price Is Right"??? You might win yourself a can of New & Improved Cormel(tm) Splam Rice-Nuggets(tm), tasty in a curry or right from the can! Can't beat that, eh? Phweeen!, Partly Q. "Byph" Argentina, M.L.S. Ltd. (Mr. & Mrs. etc. ltd.) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 13:24:12 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Sonic Youth reply JH3 wrote: >The new [Sonic Youth] album isn't much of a departure for >them, either - not likely to bring in many new fans. Boy, I really don't agree. Yes, I'm not expecting A Thousand Leaves to sell any better than past albums, but I think it IS a clear departure. I mean, there's only a few truly dissonant moments on the entire disc. It's an album about delicate guitar interplay, extended song lengths, mellow grooves...I think it has a much different feel than any other SY album. Now, this new direction isn't entirely successful -- there are many Sonic Youth albums I like better (in fact, probably all of them, minus Confusion is Sex and Dirty). But I applaud the band for challenging their audience, and for finding new ways to explore their sound after 16-17 years together. Re Harrison: Yes, "All Things Must Pass" is excellent. I'm not sure exactly where I'd rank it amongst Beatle solo albums, but I'd put it right at the top with Plastic Ono Band, Imagine, Double Fantasy and Ram (Plastic Ono Band, being the hands-down winner). And Harrison wasn't through yet, either - -- you can easily find five or six other good songs amongst his other dozen or so albums. Heh heh. Cloud 9? Please. "McCartney"? Ehhh. "Junk" and "Maybe I'm Amazed" are fantastic, but otherwise.... And I still say that the song near the end with the Welsh-sounding title has the worst drum solo I've *ever* heard. :) Eb, who actually has a copy of Electronic Sound, but only as an "investment" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 13:29:21 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Party Directions, and a hurray for Steve! >** On the Effigy Front: > >Some folks have mailed some wonderful things to serve as effigies. There's gonna be effigies?? Woo!! I guess I'll be present at the Fest after all (if only via an inferior proxy). Does someone need to come visit me and take measurements? Cracklin' Ebby ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 16:28:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Terrence M Marks Subject: Re: My monthly Jeme-bait On Tue, 19 May 1998, The Great Quail wrote: > Capuchin writes: > > >Remember how many records Celine Dion sells. That's why I don't believe > >in Democracy. > > Remember how many records blacks and Jews sold in Germany in the 30-40s. > That's why I do believe in democracy. I'll bite. How many did they sell? Terrence Marks normal@grove.ufl.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 16:36:01 -0400 (EDT) From: cph@bright.net (Christopher Hintz) Subject: Is the Storefront open? Howdy fegs. I've been in sometime-mostly lurk & ignore mode for a while, I simply can't digest all my digests, since my ministerial duties distract me from being a full-time feg. Anyway, this has probably been covered, but I was wondering, now that the movie _Storefront Hitchcock_ has been somewhat released, is the CD available? I don't get to go to live shows much (and when I do, I don't wear my clergy collar) so I'd love to hear it all. Better yet, I'd love to see it. However, it's probably not coming to rural Ohio. Thanks in advance for any info. Christopher PS> My 1 year old loves RH. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 16:02:11 -0500 From: sdodge@midway.uchicago.edu (amadain) Subject: Re: Those damned Liverpudlians >I would rank ATMP as my second favourite solo Beatles' record, right >behind John's _Plastic Ono Band_. _McCartney_ was quite good, too. In >fact, I still play it and _Ram_ quite a bit. I love the 'homemade' >sound of those records. Hey! Another "Ram" fan. I love to sing along with "Admiral Halsey". I am not ashamed. >like the Beatles' bootleg version of "Teddy Boy" much better than >Mac's solo version, though. I first heard "Teddy Boy" on one I believe called "In A Play Anyway". I bought the tape at a record convention when I was in high school. It sounds a lot like various outtakes from the "Let It Be" sessions. It also has a cool version of "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" where that phrase is all McCartney has, so he's just singing out the chord changes. Is this the same one you have? >Of the Wings stuff, I guess I'd have to go with _Back To The Egg_, >then _London Town_ , then _Band On The Run_, then everything else. I >also like most of his stuff from the early eighties, especially >_McCartney II_. I can't say as I'd actually want to own any of these in their entirety. I should just go up to the station library and whip up a compilation tape with "Band on the Run" and "Rockshow", "Temporary Secretary", "My Brave Face" (I used to own a copy of "Flowers in The Dirt", I'm not sure where it migrated to), and of course that "Let 'Em In" song (a nostalgia thing- I used to sing it a lot when I was kid, I loved nursery rhyme type songs). For me solo McCartney has some individual songs I really like but mostly consists of erm, filler. Love on ya, Susan ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 16:02:14 -0500 From: sdodge@midway.uchicago.edu (amadain) Subject: Re: Whist etc (avec content Hitchcoquesque) >I believe Anka adapted it as well. As I recall, the music was from a >popular French song (don't know the title, tho). Anka received permission >from the publishers to re-write the song with English lyrics. This is true IIRC. I can't for the life of me remember the original title. But I'm wondering if it's the same writer that came up with "I Wish You Love", the "originally French" song Nat King Cole sang so beautifully. What was really startling to me actually was to learn that "It Was A Very Good Year" was adapted from/inspired by a Chad & Jeremy song (!). Does anyone else remember their appearance on "Batman"? I sometimes wonder if I didn't imagine this but I -swear- I remember it. I remember them kidding Aunt Harriet that they were eventually going to give up the pop star thing and go to medical school. What did actually happen to them, incidentally? >> PS Did you see Paul Simon's face when an interviewer once asked him >> "Which songs did you write and which did Artie Garfunkel write?" ? Did anyone see the Saturday Night Live sketch where they had a duo with Kevin Nealon as a sensitive guitar singer/writer type and Kevin Bacon as his "handclap specialist"? Very funny :). >Speaking of Garfunkel, there was a funny piece in 'MUSICIAN' magazine a >few years back that tried to find a new partner for Artie. Some of the >candidates: >Tommy Smothers ("Artie? Why are you talking to the lamppost?") Heh! :) My mom informs me that when I was a wee babbie I loved the Smothers Brothers. It was the first show I was able to distinguish from others on TV and I would bounce around happily in my highchair and sing along in tuneless baby fashion and gurble "smoverbrover! smoverbrover!". Damn sight better than being a Barney lover if you ask me! Maybe this explains how my sense of humor got to be what it is now. Love on ya, Susan ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 14:33:02 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Whist etc (avec content Hitchcoquesque) >What was really startling to me actually was to learn that "It Was A Very >Good Year" was adapted from/inspired by a Chad & Jeremy song (!). > >Does anyone else remember their appearance on "Batman"? I sometimes wonder >if I didn't imagine this but I -swear- I remember it. Hmmm. I was thinking that Chad & Jeremy were on BEWITCHED. No? Eb ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 17:55:11 -0400 From: kenster@MIT.EDU (Ken Ostrander) Subject: Re: Those damned Liverpudlians >> It knocks the stuffing out of "McCartney", if you ask me. > >I would rank ATMP as my second favourite solo Beatles' record, right >behind John's _Plastic Ono Band_. _McCartney_ was quite good, too. In >fact, I still play it and _Ram_ quite a bit. I love the 'homemade' >sound of those records. i do have quite a lot of mac's solo stuff and can vouch for _ram_, _band on the run_, _tug of war_, _venus and mars_, _wings over america_, and _flaming pie_. i don't have _mccartney_; but love _ram_, so maybe i'm suprised. this is the first good thing i've read about it. lennon's _plastic ono band_, _imagine_, and even _double fantasy_ are very good. what do people think of _mind games_? i only have one album each from the other two. _ringo_ is pretty good and _all things must pass_ is well worth seeking out. KEN "i got blisters on my fingers" THE KENSTER ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 17:54:09 -0400 From: kenster@MIT.EDU (Ken Ostrander) Subject: Re: Sonic Youth reply >>The new [Sonic Youth] album isn't much of a departure for >>them, either - not likely to bring in many new fans. > >Boy, I really don't agree. Yes, I'm not expecting A Thousand Leaves to sell >any better than past albums, but I think it IS a clear departure. I mean, >there's only a few truly dissonant moments on the entire disc. It's an >album about delicate guitar interplay, extended song lengths, mellow >grooves...I think it has a much different feel than any other SY album. the first song, 'contre le sexisme' is a real challenge for any youth fan. still, several tunes sound just like the old youth to me: 'sunday', 'wildflower soul', 'hoarfrost'. 'female mechanic now on duty' brings me back to kim's singing on _dirty_ , which is a fantastic album regardless of cracklin' ebby's ("get on board") opinion of it. the whole album is probably their most mellow. more so than _experimental jet set trash and no star_. that album title should give a clue as to how many new fans they care about making. they're touring with tom verlaine and sean lennon. KEN "come and have a go if you think you're hard enough" THE KENSTER ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 17:24:39 -0500 From: "JH3" Subject: Re: Sonic Youth, etc. etc. Sez me: >>The new [Sonic Youth] album isn't much of a departure for >>them, either - not likely to bring in many new fans. Sez Eb: >Boy, I really don't agree. Yes, I'm not expecting A Thousand Leaves to sell >any better than past albums, but I think it IS a clear departure. I mean, >there's only a few truly dissonant moments on the entire disc. It's an >album about delicate guitar interplay, extended song lengths, mellow >grooves...I think it has a much different feel than any other SY album. True, there is less dissonance, but I suppose it really depends on how you define "departure." If you define it mainly in terms of song construction and the other stuff you mentioned, then certainly you're right. I guess for me to think of an SY album as a departure they would have to do things like throw in horns or strings or some backup vocals, or even just synthesized/sampled approximations of such things... (dare I suggest Uillean pipes?) That, or confine themselves to basic verse/chorus/repeat song structures, or harmonize a bit, or use the studio differently to give themselves a bigger or slicker sound. Or do some 50's be-bop or some Dixieland jazz. Gregorian chants, perhaps... For the most part I'm glad they haven't done those things, but on the other hand, who's to say it wouldn't be an improvement? A lot of people thought XTC got a lot better after they stopped touring and decided they were no longer going to limit themselves in the studio to what they could reproduce live. SY hasn't shown much willingness to take that step, but it might be interesting to hear the results if they did. Of course, I could probably say the same about almost any touring act, including (drum-roll please) Robyn Hitchcock. (By the way, Eb, thanks for the tip on Lord Sutch - did you realize that was me?) Sez Susan: >Hey! Another "Ram" fan. >I love to sing along with "Admiral Halsey". I am not ashamed. Hmmm, that's actually my favorite LP/song combination by any former Beatle. I hope this doesn't cloud anyone's judgment... BTW: Nick Lowe is going to be touring the US next month. I think he's only doing 12 cities; he's playing in Chicago on June 16. I don't have the URL handy where the tour details are available but I'll look it up. So does anybody have his new cassette, and if so have you played it in the road? - --John H. PS. Whist rules can be found at http://www.pagat.com/whist/whist.html. (Seems less complicated than I thought it was.) Anyway, Mr. Godwin is right, the standard game pretty much requires four players. I guess Robyn figured having four ghouls would just be too many... And I guess "pinochle" just doesn't scan well, does it? Oh well. PPS: Just in case you're one of the 0.001% of the world's population who hasn't heard this one: Descartes: "To be is to do" Sartre: "To do is to be" Sinatra: "Doobee doobee doobee" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 17:25:07 -0500 From: sdodge@midway.uchicago.edu (amadain) Subject: Re: Whist etc (avec content Hitchcoquesque) >>What was really startling to me actually was to learn that "It Was A Very >>Good Year" was adapted from/inspired by a Chad & Jeremy song (!). >> >>Does anyone else remember their appearance on "Batman"? I sometimes wonder >>if I didn't imagine this but I -swear- I remember it. > >Hmmm. I was thinking that Chad & Jeremy were on BEWITCHED. No? You must have gotten that wrong on the RMAT then :) I looked this up on a Chad & Jeremy fan page (http://members.aol.com/bocad/cj.htm) Apparently there were two episodes of Batman where they appeared, 63 and 64- the plot was that Catwoman stole their voices :). They also appeared on the Dick Van Dyke show in an episode called "The Redcoats are Coming" and an episode of "The Patty Duke Show", though there is a caveat that the person who keeps the page couldn't find a reference to confirm that. The page has a link to Firezine (appparently the Firesign Theater appeared on a C&J album) and the same guy also maintains a Left Banke page, a Herman's Hermit page, a Zombies page and a Freddie & The Dreamers page. Also check out his personal homepage, which has tons of links. A man after me own heart :). I'm glad I found this. I may even bookmark it. Love on ya, Susan ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 May 98 15:09:00 -0800 From: Russ Reynolds Subject: earlist known RH vid? I'm on a quest to find the earliest known footage of Robyn Hitchcock. So far I've yet to see anything prior to Gotta Let This Hen Out. Were there any Soft Boys videos or "promotional films"? Has anyone ever seen any concert footage of the soft boys? When they put together the documentary of Robyn Hitchcock's career, what are they going to use for pre-egyptians? I'd like to know if anything exists on film or video that's pre-Egyptians. - -russ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 17:47:50 -0500 From: "JH3" Subject: Nick Lowe Tour Dates URL Sorry to take up additional bandwidth, but Nick Lowe's June US tour dates can be found at http://www.pressnetwork.com/tourdt.htm. Scroll down a bit past half-way, the artists are in alphabetical order... - -JH3 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 10:55:00 +1200 From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: brief 6 degreeing return (sorry!) A while back, for no readily apparent reason, several fegs were trying to do a six-degrees-of-separation thingy between Robyn Hitchcock and Tony Blai, PM. One link that was overlooked was the following weirdie: Hitchcock to Dolby (The White City) Dolby to Magnus Pike (She blinded me with Science) Magnus Pike to Austin Mitchell (TV series "Don't ask me") Austin Mitchell, Labour MP for Grimsby to Tony Blair, Labour PM. Just thought I'd mention it. 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: Tue, 19 May 98 15:52:30 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: earlist known RH vid? On 5/19/98 4:09 PM, Russ Reynolds wrote: >I'm on a quest to find the earliest known footage of Robyn Hitchcock. So >far I've yet to see anything prior to Gotta Let This Hen Out. Were there >any Soft Boys videos or "promotional films"? Has anyone ever seen any >concert footage of the soft boys? When they put together the documentary of >Robyn Hitchcock's career, what are they going to use for pre-egyptians? > >I'd like to know if anything exists on film or video that's pre-Egyptians. The first I ever heard of RH was the video for "I Often Dream Of Trains" when it aired on the old IRS/MTV show "The Cutting Edge." - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 May 98 15:50:12 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Sonic Youth, etc. etc. John H. wrote: >BTW: Nick Lowe is going to be touring the US next month. I think he's only >doing 12 cities; he's playing in Chicago on June 16. I don't have the URL >handy where the tour details are available but I'll look it up. So does >anybody have his new cassette, and if so have you played it in the road? Pollstar sez: 06/09/98 San Francisco CA Slim's 06/10/98 Los Angeles CA El Rey Theatre 06/12/98 Austin TX La Zona Rosa 06/13/98 Dallas TX Deep Ellum Live 06/15/98 Minneapolis MN First Avenue 06/16/98 Chicago IL Park West 06/18/98 Atlanta GA Point 06/20/98 Washington DC 9:30 Club 06/21/98 Philadelphia PA Theatre Of Living Arts 06/23/98 Boston MA Paradise Rock Club 06/24/98 New York NY Supper Club Looks like I'll be at the Slim's show and I'm sure Chriz Franz will be meeting me there. - -tc p.s. Just as I read John's email I was listening to my mix tape for Quail's party. The song playing was "Merry Go Round" by Brinsley Schwarz (Nick was composer and vox). What a rush. ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V7 #195 *******************************