From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V7 #297 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, August 4 1998 Volume 07 : Number 297 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Robyn At Starbucks [Eleanore Adams ] Re: Vegemite?!?! [lj lindhurst ] Dimsie Does Dallas [Tony.Blackman@sita.int] Re: tour dates up the cornhole [M R Godwin ] Re: Robyn At Starbucks/ toxic hell ["Bret" ] [none] ["J. Katherine Rossner" ] Jimmy's Chicken Shack [Russ Reynolds ] MichFegMeet (long rambling and untopical) ["Chaney, Dolph L" ] DC area fegs, prepare to be wowed and whee'd... [Bayard ] Re: more Eb-junk [Eb ] Re: In defence of OTC and AiS [Eb ] The Permanent Fegtree [Bayard ] (0%RH/Eb) Planet Drum [hal brandt ] comment [dwdudic@erols.com (luther)] flair-TMBG [dwdudic@erols.com (luther)] Re: flair-TMBG [Lorelei D Laird ] fiddly bits... [Mark_Gloster@3com.com] GLB [Russ Reynolds ] Ya gotta tell 'em ["JH3" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1998 07:36:34 +0000 From: Eleanore Adams Subject: Re: Robyn At Starbucks Russ Reynolds wrote: > >I had to ask... apparently this particular Starbucks gets its music on > >audio cassettes that turn at a slightly different speed than conventional > >cassettes (thus preventing employees from playing their own music) from a > >company that specializes in retail background music. > > > >I guess someone decided that _The Man Who Invented Himself_ sells lattes. > > yup. I had a similar experience at Starbucks about a year ago. My wife and > I were standing in line for some froo-froo coffee drink on a friday night > and we could barely make out the music. She said it sounded like Robyn > Hitchcock. I told her she was nuts. Then I realized it was "Dwarfbeat" (of > all songs). I think the guy at the counter said the music came from > Seattle. > > Two songs later we heard Bells of Rhymney. We sat, sipped and listened for > about 45 minutes. Every other song was Hitchcock...Heaven, Queen Elvis, > Chinese Water Python and, well, I've forgotten the others but it was an odd > assortment in random order from at least three different albums, and it was > EVERY OTHER SONG! I think one may have been TMWIH so maybe you heard the > same tape we did. you should've stayed awhile! > > Which Starbucks? mine was in Newark CA. > > Also heard "One Long Pair of Eyes" at a Pizzeria Uno one night several years > ago (Fremont, CA)...possibly piped in from the same company. > > -rr I too, had an experience like these about 4 years ago at a taco bell. It was a song off of Respect, but being so long ago I don't remember which. It was just a shock because it was a Taco Bell, the cheapest food on earth. eleanore ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 10:48:01 -0400 From: lj lindhurst Subject: Re: Vegemite?!?! >> Eb, reading his copy of Dimsie Gags on Vegemite > >Watching Eb eat Vegemite was one of the funniest experiences of my >short life. I recommend taking a jar along with you if you ever meet >him. So you met Eb???? Under what circumstances??? Was he wearing a yellow striped shirt?? Am I the only one whose curiosity is piqued by this little tidbit? (did you notice how the number of question marks I used went down progressively with each sensational question?!?!?!?!?!) lj n.p.: a rattly fan, though "Taking My Life In Your Hands" is playing in my head. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 16:35:40 +0100 From: Tony.Blackman@sita.int Subject: Dimsie Does Dallas Danielle said: <> Oh yeah, I remember my sister reading these. From what I remember, she gave them up when Dimsie had 2.4 children, a labrador called "Sandy", a Volvo to drive the children to school, a husband (whose wife didn't understand him) and a gas-mask fetish. Her favourites were: "Dimsie Steals Her Mother's Diazepam" "Dimsie Drops Out Of Durham University" "Dimsie Gets A Job In Advertising" and "Dimsie Shags The Boss To Get A Promotion" But then again, the past isn't always quite what I remember it to be. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 16:38:50 +0100 (BST) From: M R Godwin Subject: Re: tour dates up the cornhole On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Capitalism Blows wrote: > ok. mainly i'm typing these up for bayard. but i figure, as long as > i'm typing them, might as well go ahead and post them, as there could be > one or two other people who will find them of interest. actually, it > *would* be nice if a few uk fegs would check it over and make sure all > the venues and towns look right. OK, here goes: > SOFT BOYS > > 1979 > > February > 3, Alex Wood Hall, Cambridge > "tomorrow, Friday," Gilton College, Cambridge *Girton* > > March > 3, Kensignton Nashville, London *Kensington* > April > "this Saturday," Billig Arts Centre, Bath * Brillig* I _wish_ I'd seen that one. I played at the Brillig several times in the 70s - it's been knocked down now, of course... > May > 25, Sanpiper, Nottingham *Sandpiper* probably > 26, Whictombe Lodge, Cheltenham *Whitcombe* at a guess > June > 1, Wigton Market Hall, Carlisle > 1, Wigcombe Market Hall, Carlisle I vote for *Wigton* > 6, Lafeyette, Wolverhampton *Lafayette* surely > 16, Kensinton Nashville, London *Kensington* > > 1980 > > September > 29, Thumscoe Hotel, Rotherham *Can that be right, Rotherham fegs?* > October > 2, International Hotel, Grangermouth *Grangemouth* > 10, Nags Head, Wollerton *Wollaton* I think, in Nottingham (or possibly Wolverton?) That's the best I can do. - - Mike Godwin PS Did I ever tell you about the night when I was playing at the Brillig with P G Trips and the Microdots, all wearing shades? I staggered into the dressing room after the gig and shot straight down an 8 foot hole in the floor! Happy daze... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 11:52:18 -0500 From: "Bret" Subject: Re: Robyn At Starbucks/ toxic hell > I too, had an experience like these about 4 years ago at a taco bell. It was a >song off of Respect, but being so long ago I don't remember which. It was just a >shock because it was a Taco Bell, the cheapest food on earth. > >eleanore yeah, I heard a robyn song at taco bell one day around the same time, I had to ask the obviously very smart guy behind the counter (heh) aparently they get their tapes from Pepsi....no suprise there, but I did find it a bit amusing in the town of Sulfur Springs, TX........ - -b ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1998 11:35:11 -0700 From: "J. Katherine Rossner" Subject: [none] (re Chris Chandler) >seconded, although he's much better live. his physical *presence* is a >sight to behold. Well, I hope to see him live if he comes to Berkeley. I only got CONVENIENCE STORE TROUBADOURS last Thursday--part of a "whee! I'm employed!" binge rummaging through the clearance bins at Amoeba. Eight discs for $14.88, and I think I'm going to like six or seven of them...I knew nothing of Chandler, but the disc was $1 after all. Put it on the car's CD player and laughed my way through a Bay Area rush-hour jam: that takes quite a bit. Can anybody tell me anything (yes, I've done this before, but you guys know everything) about Paul Metsa? Another of the discs from that binge. "When you're whistling past the graveyard and the graveyard whistles back..." An Alta Vista search only turned up a couple of playlists from radio stations and some concert dates (no reviews, no bio). (I also went through about half the $3.95 shelves at Rasputin's before deciding not to buy any more. There are at least two copies of QUEEN ELVIS there, if anybody's looking...) Katherine - -- Ye knowe ek, that in forme of speche is chaunge Withinne a thousand yere, and wordes tho That hadden pris, now wonder nyce and straunge Us thinketh hem, and yit they spake hem so. - Chaucer, "Troilus and Criseyde" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Aug 98 11:54:00 -0800 From: Russ Reynolds Subject: Jimmy's Chicken Shack wasn't somebody on this list raving about a band called Jimmy's Chicken Shack a while back? East coast band I think? If anyone has any info on these guys please e-mail me privately. They're playing the San Jose International Beer Festival this year and I've got to make them sound like a big draw in a radio spot I'm working on. - -russ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 15:10:05 -0400 From: "Chaney, Dolph L" Subject: MichFegMeet (long rambling and untopical) OK, at last, here is the story. - ------------------------------------------------------ PART ONE: THE RAPIDS SURE ARE GRAND http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Towers/1031/davidnme.jpg (l to r: Dolph, David) Grand Rapids, Michigan, is a lovely construction zone set off by a fair-sized Midwestern city. I was there to see one of my friends become joined in the mats of bondrimony to one of David Librik's friends. (actually, David knew them both, but I had not met the bride until I got there. and I know you care.) So, David and I reasoned, since we'd both be attending the same very small wedding, we might as well hang out together. The families, in fact, decided to make us roommates at the hotel! After a Friday where I hung around at the best non-rehearsal-dinner ever and where David sat in Chicago rush-hour traffic, we finally met up at the hotel about 11:30pm. We were both zonked, but we ordered a pizza (him - cheese, me - supreme, and my toppings kept intruding on his half). We sat up talking about music and all you lovely Fegs [well, not all of you], generally exhibiting that we're each as whatever-we-are in real life as we are on the Net. He talked about NMH, I recommended some Pere Ubu, we talked about live Robyn tapes, I asked David's opinion on the post-Moss Robyn songs (none of which I've heard yet), and we generally were lucid for as long as we could manage, after which we kept talking for a while. Then we knocked off, about 1am, to rest up for a busy following day. David decided that, before the 4pm wedding, he wanted to go see Grand Rapids. I neglected to inform him that the city was going to be totally gridlocked by a grand prix race through downtown all day. Oops. I had a lot on my mind -- I had been selected as the Designated Defacer Of The Newlywed Getaway Car, and the requisite scheming took most of my concentration. Eventually, though, David did make it to the site of the wedding, a county park in Jenison (a southwestern suburb of GR). By that time, most of the setup had occurred, so after we both made sure that the bride & groom were not freaking out too badly, we just sort of hung loose until the lovely outdoor wedding (only slightly hampered by the only half-hour of rain I encountered all weekend) commenced. Soon afterward, we went to the local Meijer store and grabbed the necessary implements for proper automobile desecration. David's assistance in selecting the finest materials was invaluable, and he's also one heck of a balloon blower. The resulting sculpture-on-wheels has the groom just *itching* to get back at me someday... Once we'd finished, we joined the reception party. There was a rockin' little three-piece band (with the groom's uncle on drums) who seemed to know every song released between 1950 and 1975. It was certainly the first time I'd ever heard "Folsom Prison Blues" at a wedding. But they were great -- I hope I can have that much fun playing music when I'm 60. I kept wanting to request "Do The Chisel," but I never quite worked up to it. We had a fantastic time, even after facing our handiwork upon their vehicle, the bride & groom still let us go to dinner with them after the ceremony. Here's a traveler's tip: be wary of the staff at AmeriHost Inns. Their hiring requirements, at least in the greater (or lesser) Grand Rapids area, must consist of "Has a pulse? Check. Is totally unable to keep a wedding party's needs straight, even with months of advance warning? Check." David and I ended up sleeping in the groom's little brother's room after the wedding. I took the air mattress, partly out of guilt for not alerting David to the consequences of trying to "see Grand Rapids," and partly because sometimes I like sleeping in things that aren't beds. The following morning, I had enough presence of mind to think "Fegfoto...", and we posed for the lovely portrait linked above. I've got the bouquet, David's got the toast. ("Toast!") David is good people. If you ever visit Champaign-Urbana, IL: 1) God help you. 2) Go see David! - ------------------------------------------------------------------- PART TWO: THE ARBOR SURE IS ANN http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Towers/1031/fegsushi.jpg (l to r: gNat, Dolph, Mary) Since I had some use-it-or-lose-it vacation time, and since I'd not yet had the pleasure, I wanted to elongate this wedding weekend by visiting some other Fegs. I'm so smart that I figured out that umich.edu is the University of Michigan. Wow. So, I set up plans with Ann Arbor's own Natalie Jacobs, and I was also contacted by the lurking umich-er Mary Huey. We decided to get together for dinner and then just sort of see what was to do in Ann Arbor that night. As a former resident of a Midwestern college-town, I had suspicions that were proven true about the lack of summer activity. But that was just fine! Ann Arbor, in fact, is a lovely variation on the basic blueprint from which every major Midwestern college town is drawn. And hey -- there's a big phallus in the middle of neighboring Ypsilanti! I neglected to photograph it... I was too much in awe. But here's a lovely informational website with a picture (sadly in b&w): http://www.microstore.com/ardis/ypsiinfo/ypsitower.html Anyway, I arrived about 5pm Sunday and called Natalie. She showed up minutes later, presented me with my very own Tinfoil Eb(tm), and as we were looking over my selection of tapes for possible car-music candidates, she noticed that I had Capt. Beefheart's _Lick My Decals Off Baby_ with me. She happened to have the same one in her car that day! Then she saw Nick Drake's _Pink Moon_ -- she had a Drake mix tape with her! Eventually, we brought Tim Buckley's _Starsailor_, but the Drake mix (rhymes with "cake mix", hmmmm) was so perfect that we just couldn't bear to tear it from the tapedeck. We decided to walk around downtown, and soon after doing so, Mary came up to us and introduced herself as Mary. So, we all trudged over to Wazoo, a good lil' record store. I bought: Fripp & Eno -- No Pussyfooting / Evening Star Magic Hour -- Secession96 Red House Painters -- Down Colorful Hill Soon thereafter, we got hungry, so we went to the restaurant where our lovely pic was taken. I'd never had sushi before, so they introduced me to the delights of eel. Mmmmmmmmmmm. They then alerted me to the fact that the flagship Borders store is in Ann Arbor! Knowing that Borders is doing a lot of cutout-bin-clearance activity, I got a bit excited and bought: Cassettes (99c each): Slowdive -- Just For A Day Pete Townshend -- Psychoderelict (Music Only) Tom Verlaine -- Warm And Cool (Instrumentals) CDs ($2.99 each): Captain Sensible -- Revolution Now Chisel -- 8 A.M. All Day Joe Jackson -- Laughter & Lust Eric Taylor -- Eric Taylor Flush with success, I got hungry again. We stopped at the corner coffeeshop, and I ordered a peanut butter bar and a green peppermint cappuccino. It was So Very Green. It was soylent green. It actually looked like warm Maalox. I attempted to photograph it, but it didn't come out. It might've just been a mirage... but then, gNat and Mary seemed pretty disturbed by it, so I suppose not. Hopefully, this isn't what drove her off, but Mary bid us adieu in any case. She's a very nice lady, and she really oughta post to the list sometime... (hinthint) One of the things that gNat and I talked about doing was going to an open mic night and performing really frightening versions of songs from _Respect_. Sadly, this didn't work out, but we did decide to go to her place and sing a bit. First, though, since I'd not seen _Brenda Of The Lightbulb Eyes_ before, we watched that, followed by some really great XTC and Beefheart footage (a puppet show called "The Road To Oranges & Lemons" and a live Doc-era concert, respectively). Then, we did commence the singalong, with me plunking away on the guitar and Natalie singing, with my occasional chirping along. Among the songs chosen: Swirling Veins Of The Queen Glass Hotel then, a bunch of XTC: Love On A Farmboy's Wages Great Fire Towers Of London Paper And Iron (Notes And Coins) No Language In Our Lungs Nat pulled out her Skylarking CD and said "oh, I bet you can't do anything from here, with all that production..." I Love A Challenge. So, we did "Sacrificial Bonfire." Then, since gNat had an early morning ahead of her, she drove me back to the hotel. Fegs are indeed the nicest people, Bayard, and Natalie's a stellar example of this Universal Truth. Even if she did (needlessly) threaten me for taking "too many pictures" (only 2!) with her in them. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - --- Summary: Go to Mike Runion's Fegmap site a few weeks before your next vacation. If you'll be near a Feg, schedule some dinner and conversation. Like me, you might walk home with tinfoil sculptures of list members, as well as bargain-priced out-of-print CDs and tapes -- but you will almost assuredly walk home happy. (I'm definitely using the Fegmap if I tour behind my CD!) Hope to see more of you very soon. Dolph np: Robert Wyatt, _Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard_ (not the new reissue, because I'm cheap) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 15:55:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Rasputina identification Natalie wrote: >Isn't Rasputina the band best known for playing in their lingerie? Or am >I getting them mixed up with someone else? Yep, that's them. It isn't really lingerie, though, more like Victorian everyday underwear -- corsets, petticoats, etc. But I would have thought that they would be better known for the simple fact of being a band consisting of three cellists. Those are a lot rarer than bands that just perform in their underwear! obRobyn: Rasputina's lead singer/cellist delivers surrealistic monologues between songs that are not entirely non-reminiscent of Robyn's. - --Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 16:46:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard Subject: DC area fegs, prepare to be wowed and whee'd... I ordered a peanut butter bar and a green peppermint cappuccino. It was So Very Green. It was soylent green. It actually looked like warm Maalox. I attempted to photograph it, but it didn't come out. It might've just been a mirage... but then, gNat and Mary seemed pretty disturbed by it.... __ sounds like a peppermint java mandala to me! I once put green food coloring in OJ and suddenly wished I was in darkness. it was the same shade as that Green Slime toy substance - remember that stuff? ANYWAY, the time has come for DC fegs to re-reunite at the black cat! this coming saturday, 8/8/8, my friends band is playing and they need as many people as possible to ensure future gigs there! they are GREAT, you will not be disappointed! very few bands make me go WHEEE, fewer than Eb even, I'm very strict! Write me privately for details! =b ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 13:47:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: music to squelch to On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, James Dignan wrote: > But NOT They Might Be Giants Oh, friend, you're doing it wrong. J. -- who's played Robyn's 1990 Birchmere gig more than once and posts without clothes fairly frequently. (I apologize to those with a clear mental image of me or that.) ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 14:21:22 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: more Eb-junk Hal, so mad now that he's getting stupid: >> Oh, please. Now that comment was *truly* desperate. > >Accurate? Wow, and you try it AGAIN? Amazing! All this Eb bloodlust is really making you sloppy, I'm afraid. You know, there's no point in even responding to an attack that hilariously feeble. >> I really wasn't aware that my groupies constituted a tangible >> population. > >Sycophants was the word I should have chosen. I didn't say the number >was tangible, in fact I know of only two, one of whom leaps into my inbox >every time I disagree with you. Plenty more than two, or haven't you been paying attention? OK, so let me get this straight: No one could REALLY be fond of me -- they're just brainless sycophants who are somehow convinced that they'll "get somewhere" by kissing up to me. Amusing theory, if utterly ludicrous. And anyway, uh, where are *your* admirers, Hal? Hmm.... You're digging a pretty deep hole here, my friend. Eb, who will add a third-person comment here just so he can show Hal how mentally unbalanced he is...woo! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 14:34:10 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: In defence of OTC and AiS Gene: >2) Granted, the Apples in Stereo stuff is light and fluffy (as Uncle Bobby >sez, "Stained-glass elaborations collapse, and candyfloss evaporates honey! >Only the stones remain!), but goddamned it, it's fun! It's groovy! It's >sticky sweet lemonade on a hot muggy day! Coincidentally, I just listened to Tone Soul Evolution again (the Sire version, which seems to be better mastered than the Spin-Art pressing). I'm STILL trying to like this band, and failing. Dagburnit, they have a nice way with melody and arranging, but the sameyness of the stuff just drags it down for me, when extended to a full album. Particularly in the vocals. I wasn't real impressed with the group live, either. But yes, it's sweet and groovy and fun and all that rot. >The Elephant 6 bands remind me of >when I was a kid banging on things with my friends, only they actually got >off their asses and recorded it. And, if you ask me, there just ain't >enough music out there meant to just make people feel good. They are the >unRock unStars, and that's cool. Sure, I'm with you there. Re Rasputina: I saw this band live once, and they spoke very little between songs. However, when they first walked onstage (yes, in old-fashioned lingerie), the singer stepped up to the mike and dramatically announced, "I am in desperate need of a bowel movement." Whew, talk about an icebreaker. Eek. As I said before, their music is fairly horrid, but damn, that new CD sure has some purty computer graphics in its enhanced portion. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 19:02:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard Subject: The Permanent Fegtree OK, don't actually TRADE anything yet, but take a look at http://158.72.105.122/gh/tapetrees.htm And let me know if this looks ok. I have tried really hard to make it understandable, so look at it for a while before you email me. I know it's unintelligible, but I added a distracting background to help you. And if you're not on the permanent tree and want to be, or you're a branch and wanted to be a leaf or vice vera, let me know that too. (What it means to be on the permanent tree: agreeing to make great robyn tapes, or trade for great robyn tapes, every few months, forever [the only way out is death. or just let me know.]) Sorry this took so long. If my decks are working, we should see this thing in motion soon. Do you want to do the rams head and GAMH gig on the same tree structure? They fit nicely on two 100 min tapes, i think. Ram's head takes 2 cassettes anyway. =b ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1998 17:06:23 -0600 From: hal brandt Subject: (0%RH/Eb) Planet Drum Mickey Hart's new CD "Supralingua" was released today. Even if you hate the Dead, you gotta love this one. Mickey's new RAMU (Random Access Musical Universe) device is in full effect. Mickey is surely the only artist who can get the Gyoto Monks as bg vocalists, and wait'll you hear them processed at 120db through RAMU. Jaw dropping. That's Planet Drum SUPRALINGUA, out today. A percussion concussion! (He'll be on a solo tour in Oct.) /hal "It's the rhythm, stupid!"- Mickey Hart ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1998 23:17:23 GMT From: dwdudic@erols.com (luther) Subject: comment On Tue, 4 Aug 1998 10:16:41 -0400 (EDT), you wrote: > >A lot of Fegs contributed ideas and comments to the "annoyance" thread, in >case you didn't notice. So perhaps the FZ quote *was* interesting to those >folks. And anyway, there are certainly a decent number of Zappa fans on >this list (not counting Susan, obviously...heh). More Zappa fans than Dead >fans too, I'd venture to guess. ...Some of us are both...and Fela Kuti fans, too! (along with that Robyn guy...:-)) Has Julian Cope released anything since "20 Mothers" yet? -luther ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1998 23:22:54 GMT From: dwdudic@erols.com (luther) Subject: flair-TMBG On Tue, 4 Aug 1998 10:16:41 -0400 (EDT), you wrote: >Y'know, They Might Be Giants is a much better band than they appear to be. >They're mainly known for novelty hits, but they're good songwriters, and >John Flansburgh (in addition to making the top 10 in People Magazine's >online "Most Beautiful People" poll[1]) is a very good guitarist[2]. I >heartily recommend "Apollo 18" and "Lincoln" to everyone out there. > >1: Not that that means anything. Ravishing Rick Flair got 2nd place >because some guy had an entire computer lab vote for him constantly for >two weeks. HEY! No cracking on Flair! He was a much needed personality in the WCW, until that no talent Hulk Hogan came in...(Who may hold the dubious title of "Star of longest consecutive string of MST3K-quality movies)....:-) (forgive me, I am part redneck- yes, I KNOW it is fake!):-) On to topics in the real (?) world...Has anyone seen TMBG in concerT? Are they worth seeing? -luther ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 19:28:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Lorelei D Laird Subject: Re: flair-TMBG > >On to topics in the real (?) world...Has anyone seen TMBG in concerT? >Are they worth seeing? Yesyesyes. They put on an excellent show and seem to be pretty clever people too. They came to my university last year. The floor of the ballroom bounced. :} - -Lorelei "I mean, that's what it's about. Blowjobs. Everything else is second fiddle to that." - -Christopher Lee ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 16:38:02 -0700 From: Mark_Gloster@3com.com Subject: fiddly bits... Three cheers for Bayard and his work to save the trees. By the way, I think that Glass Flesh mastermind will be at the West Coast FegParty next month, and whose presence should be enough to make y'all want to make the trip from anywhere. One vote for Zappa. 0 for tGD. I would vote for TGQ, but that wasn't an option, and it's not a band. They Might Be Giants is cool. I think even their sillier ditties posess a considerable amount of depth. I'm starting to like the _Factory Showroom_ version of the band almost as much as I liked their first three albums. Incidentally, I don't think that _Flood_ has ever made it out of my top 10 CD's since it came out. It is probably their "high water mark" (no, not me in short pants) for me so far. I've seen them twice in concert, and they were good both times- I recommend 'em. I just bought a Stan Ridgway import EP called something like _Music for Films_ or something like that. I like it more than Black Diamond, and it's more consistent than his Drywall stuff. If you like Stan, you'll probably like it. If you don't, you might not like Mark Gloster and Big Rubber Shark either. Stan probably rates high on some people's annoying-voice-O-meter. Rooting like squirrels to Johnny Mathis's Ministry cover CD, _Breathe You Fu**ers!_ helps get almost anybody in the mood and keep them there. I don't think it sold very well. No, actually, for me, music can help with the presexual mood, but most music worth listening to doesn't seem like a good thing to share conciousness with proper whoopie, because the many hundreds of people that it takes to whoopify need to reach a state of concentration, lest we cause a terrible accident on the trapeze or warm oil slip-n-slides. Slightly more seriously, I think I agree with RH's points about music and sex. It is hard for music to be religated to a position of wallpaper in my life. Maybe I'm just too focused to deal with it during sex. I don't think the yaks are wild about it either. trying to embiggen myself in a manner that would make Jebediah Springfield proud, - -sharkboy ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Aug 98 16:47:00 -0800 From: Russ Reynolds Subject: GLB listening to the new Grant Lee Buffalo at the moment. Not too bad. RH not audible (nor are any of the other guests, really). Wonder if RH would open for GLB on tour... - -russ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 18:52:34 -0500 From: "JH3" Subject: Ya gotta tell 'em >>I ordered a peanut butter bar and a green peppermint >>cappuccino. It was So Very Green. It was soylent green. >sounds like a peppermint java mandala to me! Where I come from, it's called Soylent-Green-is-Peoplemint Cappucino... - -JH3 ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V7 #297 *******************************