From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V7 #229 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Saturday, June 20 1998 Volume 07 : Number 229 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: top 100 movies [Ethyl Ketone ] A plead, a beg, a prayer to Largo fegs [Tim Fuller ] Re: Syd.... [amadain ] Soft Boys no more [griffith ] Re: Soft Boys no more [Eb ] Re: Syd.... [Eb ] Things that make you go "awwww..." (was Re: Syd....) [amadain ] Re: Bowie & Soft Boys no more [Eb ] JBJ Mad Libs (wasRe: Lobsterman?) [Condiment Spice ] from the Beatles newsgroup [Eb ] Re: Bowie & Soft Boys no more [MARKEEFE@aol.com] Mad Libs, in general [MARKEEFE@aol.com] Re: nmh at Black Cat, correction [Bayard ] Re: folk music again [David Librik ] Re: Bowie no more for Ryko/goes EMI-Capitol [KarmaFuzzz@aol.com] life's rich pageant [Eb ] fegmaniax-announce ["mr. pointy" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 07:33:29 -0700 From: Ethyl Ketone Subject: Re: top 100 movies At 19.45 -0700 6/18/98, James Dignan wrote: >>>Hate to tell ya, but not much other than Hollywood made the cut. >> >>Uh, that's because it's a list of the top 100 American movies...... > >Then how did Lawrence of Arabia make the top 10? > OK - excuse me for wasting precious feg bandwidth with mistaking AFI's list with some kinda global vision (gee, and I'm originally from eLAy?). But how did LofA make it? Hollywood studio money, right? Gosh, I'm gonna go get a TV and subscribe to a couple of newspapers so I can stay on top of my cultural references from now on. - - carrie "Questions are a burden for others. Answers are a prison for oneself." **************************************************************************** M.E.Ketone/C.Galbraith meketone@ix.netcom.com cgalbraith@psygnosis.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 11:48:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Fuller Subject: A plead, a beg, a prayer to Largo fegs I can't believe i'm doing this again, but hearing RH is at the Largo gives me some hope for Randi. If anyone, anyone, anyone, gets within speaking distance of Robyn, please tell him (or I guess give him this email) that Randi Spiegel - the girl from the CBC with Crohn's from Toronto, who snuck out to Detroit after surgery #8 (1997) to see him...who was impressed by the addition of both calculators and cones at that gig... Tell him *septicemia did not win!* - she is out of intensive care - and will be in the hospital for another month or two. She would so appreciate a note from him - she also has a b-day present for him she was never able to send because she was in the hospital at the time - hopefully Deni Bonet already told him that - Robyn was going to resend her his snail mail addy which she misplaced in the hospital/surgical struggle. Her address is: Ms. Randi L. Spiegel 172 Charles Street Thornhill, (Toronto), Ontario, Canada L4J 3C7 ph. (416) 440-1309 - number at hospital - forwarded from home If anyone tapes the gig - I'll go through Randi's collection and send you something back - e-mail privately of course... And again - I'm sorry to intrude on your list - Rand would probably kill me - but she isn't recovering too well from surgery #10 now - her bowel ruptured again a few days ago - Crohn's Disease, Inflammatory Bowel Disease...hope NONE of YOU have it...Randi is starting chemo on Monday...it's a whole mess and I'm rambling about a feg only some of you know. But, she and I, waaaaaaaaaaaay back when, saw RH & Egyptians at Larry's Hideway in T.O. back in 1985/86? and she even went to NYC (before surgery #7) to see the magic of "Storefront Hitchcock". Wow, really rambling, just really worried.... Thanks to all who have sent private e-mails to Randi - I brought them all over to the hospital and she smiled :) ...and says hi back to Vicci and Mr. Hal and jbj (though I didn't show her your email) and...well...you all know who you are. She also says hi to woj, susan, carole & karen, jeme, bayard, jenee, natalie, mike of the s.w.c.tape (?), debora, gene, glen, eb, susan even, the great quail..., lj, .chris, beth and mary whom she met in Detroit...okay...really stopping. Thanks again...all...for your time and best wishes. Randi's ever faithful friend - Tim - who introduced Rand to RH/Soft Boys music btw... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 15:53:55 -0400 From: kenster@MIT.EDU (Ken Ostrander) Subject: Re: folk music again >>(I can't think of any Robyn connection here. I don't think he's ever >>played a jig anywhere, and the closest he gets to folk is parodies of >>English Traditional Song.) i can think of a few. there are 'polly on the shore' and 'ghost ship' from _you & oblivion_. that whole album has a very folky flavor to it. and what about _eye_ and _i often dream of trains_? maybe my definition of folk is more general than other folks. then there's 'postman's knock' from _invisible history_. sounds like a jig parody disguised as traditional political satire. 'blues in the dark' from _invisible hits_ has could be a great folk tune. KEN "pursued by a pack of wild dogs" THE KENSTER ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:13:00 -0600 From: amadain Subject: Re: folk music again >>>(I can't think of any Robyn connection here. I don't think he's ever >>>played a jig anywhere, and the closest he gets to folk is parodies of >>>English Traditional Song.) > >i can think of a few. there are 'polly on the shore' AFAIK that IS a traditional song. And what about "Wild Mountain Thyme"? >about _eye_ and _i often dream of trains_? maybe my definition of folk is >more general than other folks. Not mine. I think Robyn has a lot of folky songs, a good many of which don't sound like parodies. Much of "Eye" and "IODOT" as you said, also "Speed of Things" strikes me as very traditional folk-sounding. And "The Black Crow Knows" and "Lady Waters" as well, and I'd even say "Never Stop Bleeding". >political satire. 'blues in the dark' from _invisible hits_ has could be >a great folk tune. On that one, I would admit your definition is wider than mine :). I wouldn't quite go that far. But I think "Speed of Things" could well be a great folk tune, as well as the even more traditional "Black Crow" and "Lady Waters", and "Bones in the Ground". I will admit tho, that I am not familiar with anything Robyn has done which could fairly be called a jig. Love on ya, Susan ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:31:57 -0600 From: amadain Subject: Re: Syd.... >Yes, I do. Maybe not you in particular, but people like to watch >accidents, and they'd buy ringside seats if they could be guaranteed one. While this is undeniably true, and there's too much evidence for this to argue with it (just drive around on your local superhighways for awhile, and see what happens every time there's an accident!), I would respectfully submit that this is NOT the reason most people like Syd Barrett. Actually I personally like his songs, I like his singing, I LOVE his lyrics, and I think the whole package is rather charming. There are times lietening to Syd Barrett when I am deeply moved by a powerful vibe of boyish innocence, and distressed how it could have all gone so horribly wrong, but I don't think that's quite the same thing as exulting in hearing him fall apart. You may not agree, as is your choice of course, but I feel differently, and I'm a bit insulted to be roped in with the world's rubberneckers because I do. Knowing you Miles, I'm pretty sure you didn't at all mean to insult the people who sincerely are fans, I'm more taking off and running with what I saw as the implications of the idea you proposed. I would also submit that that innocence and charm, that air of fragility that is so moving, is the chief attraction of solo Barrett. It's just such an incredibly rare thing in music. And it's what makes some songs ("Word Song", "Birdy Hop") unlistenable for me, because it's there even in the songs that illuminate the disintegration, and the combination is extremely painful. I suspect others who are fans may feel the same way, or have certain songs that they just can't stand to hear for the same or similar reasons. Incidentally, some of this is very emotional for me, because I once dated a guy who was very similar to Syd (if anyone remembers a post of mine from '96 about "The REAL Syd Barrett", you know who I mean). And this may make it really personal for me in a way that it isn't for some, because I've - -been there- and -seen- the ruins of what was once a rather gifted and charming person, and it makes you want to weep, especially when he picked up a guitar and flashes of what used to be would show. Love on ya, Susan ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 14:16:33 -0700 (PDT) From: griffith Subject: Soft Boys no more Just in case you haven't heard, I pulled this info from www.rykodisc.com: >Our contract for The Soft Boys has expired, and effective July 1st, we >will no longer be able to sell them. Everything must go, so get to the >Soft Boys Page and order away while you still can. And take advantage of >our price cut on 1976-1981 now $19.98 (reg. $29.98!) griffith = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Griffith Davies hbrtv219@csun.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 14:23:09 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Soft Boys no more >Just in case you haven't heard, I pulled this info from www.rykodisc.com: > >>Our contract for The Soft Boys has expired, and effective July 1st, we >>will no longer be able to sell them. Everything must go, so get to the >>Soft Boys Page and order away while you still can. And take advantage of >>our price cut on 1976-1981 now $19.98 (reg. $29.98!) Damn...what's with Rykodisc? First Bowie, now this. It seems like there's a lot of talk about the Elvis Costello releases leaving the label eventually, too. Eb, still wondering if he should go buy a stack of Bowie reissues, in case the next line of reissues don't have all those nifty bonus tracks ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 14:27:28 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Syd.... The Pitch Girl wrote: >>Yes, I do. Maybe not you in particular, but people like to watch >>accidents, and they'd buy ringside seats if they could be guaranteed one. > >While this is undeniably true, and there's too much evidence for this to >argue with it (just drive around on your local superhighways for awhile, >and see what happens every time there's an accident!), I would respectfully >submit that this is NOT the reason most people like Syd Barrett. I can't remember the title at the moment, but I think that playful little love song on The Madcap Laughs ("...ice cream, excuse me, I seen you looking good the other evening...") is just about the most adorable thing I've ever heard. And that has nothing to do with voyeuristically leering at Syd's emotional collapse. I'm not particularly fond of the Barrett album, but I *love* The Madcap Laughs -- more than most Pink Floyd albums, in fact. More than most RH albums too. ;) Eb ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 17:44:26 -0600 From: amadain Subject: Things that make you go "awwww..." (was Re: Syd....) >I can't remember the title at the moment, but I think that playful little >love song on The Madcap Laughs ("...ice cream, excuse me, I seen you >looking good the other evening...") is just about the most adorable thing >I've ever heard. And that has nothing to do with voyeuristically leering at >Syd's emotional collapse. It has to do with the fact that it -is- adorable ("Love You" is the title). There's a rare and true sweetness to much on "Madcap Laughs". I also am very delighted by that exquisitely droll mock showtune of which I forget the title (everybody sing: "She don't rock and roll/She don't like it/She don't do the stroll/Well, she don't do it right") *grin*. I LOVE it! It makes me beam with glee! I think I will go listen to it now. Love on ya, Susan ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 19:09:07 -0500 From: nicastr@idt.net (Ben) Subject: Re: Bowie & Soft Boys no more >Eb, still wondering if he should go buy a stack of Bowie reissues, in case >the next line of reissues don't have all those nifty bonus tracks There's been a lot of talk among Bowie fans about what EMI will do with their versions of the Bowie CD's. Many people seem to believe that the CD's will be released as budget priced double-disc sets, the first being the original album and the second being a disc of releated rarities. I seriously doubt this for a number of reasons. What is most likely is that EMI is just going to release them the same way Ryko did same bonus tracks, same pictures (but no green jewel box:) ). As for the Soft Boys, what label is going to pick up those albums? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 19:05:45 EDT From: KarmaFuzzz@aol.com Subject: Re: top 100 movies In a message dated 98-06-18 22:55:48 EDT, james.dignan writes: > >>Hate to tell ya, but not much other than Hollywood made the cut. > > > >Uh, that's because it's a list of the top 100 American movies...... > > Then how did Lawrence of Arabia make the top 10? under the guise of it being significantly financed with American money (same reason a few other british films made). gone with the wind made it because the voters had no taste. (not to mention the 1927 Jazz Singer). ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:55 -0700 (PDT) From: griffith Subject: Politically Incorrect While surfin' the net, I found that Billy Bragg will be on Politically Incorrect on 06/26. I wonder if Robyn would ever go on that show? griffith np - The Bevis Frond "Son of Walter" = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Griffith Davies hbrtv219@csun.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:57:48 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Bowie & Soft Boys no more >As for the Soft Boys, what label is going to pick up those albums? Answer seems obvious. Just ask Jim Neill? ;) Eb ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 17:24:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Condiment Spice Subject: JBJ Mad Libs (wasRe: Lobsterman?) On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Eb wrote: > Jeez, here I was wasting my time flirting with Ben, and now I found that > it's *John* who is totally hot. Never Fear! For those of you who feel the same way about anyone else, now you can really express it with the following Mad Lib. Replace the bracketed words with your originals. Once that is done, forward it to a mailing list your friend is on, but make sure you get one of those free Hotmail accounts so nobody will know it was you!! Tee-Hee! Mad Libb: Hi, [a good friend's name]. My name is [fake name 1], and I work at the [funny store name] in the same mall as you. My friend [funny name 2, spelled like a pop star] and me (her real name is [funny name 2, not spelled like a pop star], but she spells it that way cause of [pop stars name]) always see you and we think you are TOTALLY [adjective]!!! I remembered your name from your [personal item] and I looked you up on the [local news weeklys personal section]. That is a [adjective] picture of you. I don't know much about [another pop star]'s music 'cept for that song "[song by pop star]" but [funny name 2, spelled like a pop star] and me are going to [pronoun for pop star, him or her] [religious event] next week cause your going to [future action]. Do you have a hot [noun] for [funny name 2, not spelled like a pop star], so she'll stop [action ending in "-ing"] you? She thinks your like [movie character] from "[famous movie]" but I think your WAY [adjective] than that. [Movie character] was pretty [adjective], though. That's my favorite movie, 'cause I make my own [plural noun], too. Okay so I'll see you at the [place] and I hope you don't [future action]. XOXOXO, [Fake name] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 17:53:55 -0700 From: Eb Subject: from the Beatles newsgroup > From: JRM4@webtv.net (Joe Marousek) > Newsgroups: rec.music.beatles > Subject: Rengo Star > Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 21:42:55 -0700 > > So I go into the Wherehouse record store and ask the clerk if they have > the new Ringo in since I couldn't find it in his bin. The kid says > "who?" I say Ringo...like Ringo Starr...um he was in the Beatles? So he > starts punching his name > into the computer with a bewildered look and turns the terminal to me > after typing Rengo Star and says sorry we don't have any cds by this > guy. Ooooof. Heh heh. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 20:53:05 EDT From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Re: Bowie & Soft Boys no more In a message dated 98-06-19 19:07:33 EDT, you write: << There's been a lot of talk among Bowie fans about what EMI will do with their versions of the Bowie CD's. Many people seem to believe that the CD's will be released as budget priced double-disc sets, the first being the original album and the second being a disc of releated rarities. >> Well, that's what they've been doing with Marillion (now how would *I* know that!). Iron Maiden, too? (I wouldn't know that, but I think that's what I heard once). Seems impractical for the Bowie stuff, though. There are a lot more casual Bowie fans -- or people who would only own one or two Bowie CDs -- than there are casual Marillion fans. EMI is doubtless making money offa folks like me who have bought, and will continue to buy, every single Marillion 2-cd set as it's reissued. Bowie, though? I don't know. I mean, I *really* like David Bowie, but I usually don't even listen to the bonus tracks that are tagged onto the Ryko releases, so I probably wouldn't buy any of the EMI reissues if they were 2-CD sets. Some people would, but EMI would surely lose money by not making available single-CD versions of the albums for the more casual Bowie fans. They'll probably be single-CD versions, with the bonus tracks slightly tampered with just so that EMI can feel like they made some revolutionary advancement on the older issues. . . plus, that way, the hardcore fans will have to buy the EMI reissues in order to get that "Changes" demo that wasn't on the RYKO version. Anyhoo, that's my analysis of the situation. The fate of the Soft Boys material seems a bit more precarious to me. - -----Michael K. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:09:45 EDT From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Mad Libs, in general It's Mad Libs, isn't it!?! That's how Robyn writes all his wacky songs, right? Wow! I've finally figured it out! "If You Were a [noun]" "I Wanna [verb] You" "[adjective] But She Was [adjective]" Oh, yes. It all becomes quite clear now. Yeah, well, that's it. I'm not even going to the Aladdin show now. I mean, anyone can stand up there on stage with a guitar and read Mad Libs off of a teleprompter! Heck, in the 80's, that was all Ronald Reagan ever did (well, minus the guitar). - ------Michael K. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 22:42:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard Subject: Re: nmh at Black Cat, correction On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Scary Mary wrote: > Hello everyone - > > I just picked up this week's City Paper and it looks > like the nmh show is now Wed., July 22nd, not July 18th so who else is going to this besides mary, clean gene, the big raw goon and myself? maybe we should have a gathering beforehand (though mary will be hanging with people from her work and might not want to be seen with the cult! ;) =b now copying: RH at the RH ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 00:56:28 -0500 From: David Librik Subject: Re: folk music again Siouxie Dodge write: >Not mine. I think Robyn has a lot of folky songs, a good many of which >don't sound like parodies. Much of "Eye" and "IODOT" as you said, also >"Speed of Things" strikes me as very traditional folk-sounding. And "The >Black Crow Knows" and "Lady Waters" as well, and I'd even say "Never Stop >Bleeding". OK, I guess there are clearly two meanings for "folk music." There's stuff played typically by solo acoustic guitarists, often expressing a strong personal emotion. When not called "folk" this can get called "contemporary singer-songwriter" music. (The beautiful and talented J. Katherine will tell you all about that.) IODOT and Eye have their share of this stuff, and it's wonderfully done. Some of it even seems to sonically resemble the other stuff: "folk" as the Traditional Song and Dance of Britain and Ireland (and relevant parts of the New World). A lot of this latter doesn't actually sound much like the first kind of folk; three slightly off-key aging Shropshire farmers warbling about jolly bold sailors, etc. The funny thing is, in England in the mid-70s, if you were any sort of solo "folkie" you were surrounded by the English Traditional Song Revival in which everyone like Steeleye Span and Jethro Tull were enthusiastically getting up on stage and pretending to be modern revived medieval minstrels. And then it all happened again in the late 80s when Celtic Music (as part of World Music) suddenly became the hip thing to have your rock band play. The Pogues, Boiled In Lead, Spirit Of The West, The Oyster Band, Runrig, The Waterboys ... it's hard to think of a band untouched by the "let's play folk dance tunes really fast on electric instruments and add our own lyrics" craze of the time, but Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians was one of those few. With regard to World Music in general, it seems to me that while Robyn has been willing to play with interesting new instruments that come along, neither he nor his band have looked to other cultures for inspiration and influences. They seem to be solidly rooted in Anglo-American progressive pop 1966-1975. - - David Librik ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 06:07:49 EDT From: KarmaFuzzz@aol.com Subject: Re: Bowie no more for Ryko/goes EMI-Capitol MARKEEFE@aol.com writes: > someone writes: > > << There's been a lot of talk among Bowie fans about what EMI will do with > their versions of the Bowie CD's. Many people seem to believe that the CD's > will be released as budget priced double-disc sets, the first being the > original album and the second being a disc of releated rarities. >> > > Well, that's what they've been doing with Marillion (now how would *I* > know that!). Iron Maiden, too? (I wouldn't know that, but I think that's > what > I heard once). Seems impractical for the Bowie stuff, though. There are a > lot more casual Bowie fans -- or people who would only own one or two Bowie > CDs -- than there are casual Marillion fans. EMI is doubtless making money > offa folks like me who have bought, and will continue to buy, every single > Marillion 2-cd set as it's reissued. Bowie, though? I don't know. I mean, > I > *really* like David Bowie, but I usually don't even listen to the bonus > tracks > that are tagged onto the Ryko releases, so I probably wouldn't buy any of > the > EMI reissues if they were 2-CD sets. Some people would, but EMI would > surely > lose money by not making available single-CD versions of the albums for the > more casual Bowie fans. They'll probably be single-CD versions, with the > bonus tracks slightly tampered with just so that EMI can feel like they made > some revolutionary advancement on the older issues. . . plus, that way, the > hardcore fans will have to buy the EMI reissues in order to get that " > Changes" > demo that wasn't on the RYKO version. Anyhoo, that's my analysis of the > situation. actually, having seen them in stores* already, they are just the Ryko reissues, but manufactured and logoed by emi-capitol. doesn't mean they won't do something else at a future date, but the EMI Bowie re-reissues seeem to just be coming out as stores run of the same title in Ryko. no big whoop. i even think they were nice price'd or whatever cema calls it. [*a few Tower Records, and Rasputin's in Campbell CA]. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 03:56:14 -0700 From: Eb Subject: life's rich pageant I just got home from a weird, eclectic night.... I drove up to Hollywood to see Marc Ribot play at Luna Park. He's promoting his new disc Marc Ribot Y Los Cubanos Postizos, which is a tribute to a deceased Cuban bandleader named Arsenio Rodriguez (whom I've never heard of, personally). The album is a bit tepid and overly restrained, but the live show *smoked*. Too bad he didn't cut loose more on the actual album. Left the show feeling happy I went. But here's where it gets kinda wacky. The Muffs played tonight (in Hollywood) and last night (in Orange County). I went to the OC show the previous night, mainly because it's just such a damn thrill to see a decent show WITHOUT having to drive to Los Angeles. But I was tempted to go to the Hollywood show too, mostly because a friend of mine is buddies with a certain budding primetime teen idol and was taking her to the Muffs concert, and I thought it'd be fun to hang out with them. I had ruled this out (jeez Eb, don't be such a starfucker), but after the Ribot show ended, I suddenly realized that it was still early and that the Muffs show was actually within *walking distance*, so I trundled on over. Inevitable, I guess. But then the joke was on me -- said idol didn't come with my friend after all (she's shooting a movie, apparently), so I was stuck watching the Muffs again (and a bit of the hapless Perfect before that) and kinda grumbling to myself over wasting the dough on a needless ticket. Blah. The show ends, and soon after we all get outside, some *lunatic* (sweaty, shirtless, tattooed, drunk out of his mind) comes barreling out the front door, swinging PUNCHES at one of the club's security guys. The other security folk sorta dogpiled on him and (futilely) tried to calm him down, and most of the clubgoers spent the next 20-25 minutes voyeuristically watching this profanity-screaming, abusive, wildly thrashing dude getting restrained, pinned against a wall and finally carted away by the police. Woo hoo. Too much fun. The police had to string a large towel between the front and back seats of the police car, because the guy kept spitting everywhere. And you thought *I* was uncouth. But THEN...my friend reminds me that tonight at Largo, there's some tendril-loving bloke named Robyn Hitchcock performing. Doh! I hadn't intended to go to this latest set of RH bookings, but oops, here I am again in the right place at the right time. Inevitable, I guess. So my friend heads over, and I drive over and meet him. We kinda snooked ourselfs into the show, just in time to catch Robyn's late-night set (another loose, cover-song-based ramble). Here are the songs played: Addicted to Love Roadhouse Blues I've Got a Feeling Rain some new groovy, raga-esque song which was REALLY good...it's probably called "Being Just Contaminates the Void" Jailhouse Rock Soul Kitchen What Goes On some other new song which wasn't so hot, which talked about bonfires a lot some aimless psychedelic jam which was rather uninspired My lukewarm appreciation for Robyn as a song interpreter is well-established, so you won't be surprised that I wasn't all that excited. "Rain" and "Being..." were quite good, the others, not so much. It's just something about the flat ironic tone of his voice, and the way he flops his body around like a nervous child while singing. He just doesn't get inside the songs, when he hasn't written them. But maybe I'm being too harsh, judging a semi-spontaneous show by strict performance criteria. Or maybe not -- who knows? Anyway...obviously, I can't discuss his first set that night, so maybe someone else will. Oh yeah, I almost forgot. Robyn's band: Jon Brion (who is one TALENTED mofo, damn it), Grant Lee Phillips (of Grant Lee Buffalo) and a drummer whom I was told is the son of legendary producer Glyn Johns. There was an extra bassist for the first couple of songs, and I gathered that he's the same guy who plays bass on the new RUFUS WAINWRIGHT album. Yes, yes -- I am moving on from superfluous Neutral Milk Hotel mentions to Rufus ones. I go sleepytime now. Zzzzz. Eb PS I could have smoked weeeeed with Brion and a couple of other folks, but said no. Too much of a drive awaiting me. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 11:11:50 -0400 From: "mr. pointy" Subject: fegmaniax-announce fegs, a reminder: if you are posting news, concert reviews or similar robyn-related material, please cc a copy of your note to fegmaniax-announce@smoe.org (fegmaniax's news-only sister list). i've been forwarding such posts to fegann since its inception, but if you want to save me the trouble, go for it. woj ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V7 #229 *******************************