From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V7 #314 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, August 20 1998 Volume 07 : Number 314 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: fegmaniax-digest V7 #313 [dwdudic@erols.com (David W. Dudich)] Re: Rufus (0% political content) [Eb ] Re: Fwd: this is just too cool! (6% tentacle content) [fred is ted ] It's a "floating cathedral prarie song", he said it himself. [Patrick Wel] Robyn Hitchcock, film star [Carole Reichstein ] Re: Robyn Hitchcock, film star [amadain ] Re: Rob'n'Roy [Ross Overbury ] Re: special announcement,ENO LIVE ! (fwd) [amadain ] Re: Fwd: this is just too cool! (6% tentacle content) [Ethyl Ketone ] Re: Bowie, film star [amadain ] songlist [Bayard ] Re: songlist ["The Oval Orifice" ] at last, somebody did it! [Eb ] Re: this is just too cool! (6% tentacle content) [NahNahNah@aol.com] Re: Robyn Hitchcock, film star/Nicholas Roeg [lj lindhurst ] Re: this is just too cool! (6% tentacle content) [Christopher Gross ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 21:48:59 GMT From: dwdudic@erols.com (David W. Dudich) Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V7 #313 > >Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 02:34:49 GMT >From: dwdudic@erols.com (luther) >Subject: Do we REALLY need to hear this? > >WARNING- > SOCIO-POLITICAL RANT FOLLOWS. ;-0 So , when is the Lewinsky- Clinton porn film(a la Pam & tommy lee) comming out?\ Let Starr/Clinton resolve there differences in a constructive fashion that is purely american . A no-holds barred steel cage death match. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 14:56:46 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Rufus (0% political content) Yeah, I heard that Rufus Wainwright would be on Conan this week, but I didn't know which day. I trust that you'll ALL be watching tonight. ;) However...if Rufus, Dreamworks and the Conan show know what's good for them, they won't have Conan sit down and interview Rufus. I think Rufus'...um...flamboyant personality might turn a lot of potential fans off. ;) Still, this booking is yet more validation that Rufus Wainwright is "for real." I mean, clearly, the Conan show isn't booking him because they hope to exploit Wainwright's gargantuan popularity. In fact, very few music guests on Conan are picked for this reason. Heck, I haven't even heard of most of those retro rockabilly-blues acts that the show regularly books. Incidentally, Wainwright's bandleader is Kristian Hoffman, the ex-Mumps singer whose solo records I recommended awhile back to the list's Scott Miller/Loud Family fans. Eb "I never listen to Harry Nilsson" -- Rufus Wainwright (direct quote) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 14:36:56 -0700 (PDT) From: fred is ted Subject: Re: Fwd: this is just too cool! (6% tentacle content) - ---Eb wrote: > > My birthday is next month. I respectfully request that everyone pitch in> and buy me a Sleestak costume. ;) Sssssssure, ssssssounds sssssswell. > Eb, who might settle for Blurp... Dibs on Slurp! (Burp was a noodge). > >"KROFFT FOR SALE? > >For all of you who, like us at Film Threat, spent your childhood in the 1970's, a RARE opportunity presents itself. Sid and Marty Krofft, the > >creators of H.R. Pufnstuff, Land of the Lost, Sigmund - the Sea Monsters, and MANY others, are cleaning house. > > You have a chance to own, among other things: the > >Witchiepoo and Pufnstuf costumes and Freddy the Flute puppet from H.R.Pufunstuf Man, I'm getting the willies just thinking about the Krofft ouvre. HR Punfnstuf was like a horrible loop nightmare for me. Every week, we were presented the specter of a boy trapped in a magic land, besieged by bad acid "friends" and enemies. Hey, the day a talking flute is my best friend is the day you should drop a piano on me. I kept wishing that the place would get carpet-bombed so the whole purgatorial experience would be over. Of course, being a nitwit, I kept watching... :) And what was that show set in "Hatland" or whatever?!? Charles Nelson Reilly was featured. Now THAT'S scary. OTOH, I loved Sigmund and the Sea Monsters cuz it was silly, had a piscatorial bent (I had a serious fish jones as a kid--now sublimated via RH :), and Johnny could basically ditch the scene when needed. Sigmunds's haunting "hey Jawnieee" still rings in my ears. Ted, now getting "mature" willies from an alarmist Y2K audio chat on Yahoo. "yeah, we get high on music" Kim Deal _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 15:34:27 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: can't do a little because I can't do enough Fred: >Man, I'm getting the willies just thinking about the Krofft ouvre. HR >Punfnstuf was like a horrible loop nightmare for me. Every week, we >were presented the specter of a boy trapped in a magic land, besieged >by bad acid "friends" and enemies. Hey, the day a talking flute is my >best friend is the day you should drop a piano on me. I kept wishing >that the place would get carpet-bombed so the whole purgatorial >experience would be over. Of course, being a nitwit, I kept >watching... :) I recently heard the total number of Pufnstuf episodes, and amazed at how few there were. I mean, I think it was under *20*. Eb, who heard bits of the Kaptain Kool & the Kongs album at KUCI, but doesn't own a copy himself np: Pixies at the BBC ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 16:31:15 -0700 (PDT) From: griffith Subject: politics is this what the Billy Bragg list looks like ;) griffith = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Griffith Davies hbrtv219@csun.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 17:30:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Patrick Welker Subject: It's a "floating cathedral prarie song", he said it himself. I'm attending the Roy Harper show on Sept 6th. at The Knitting Factory, while in NYC I figure I shall do a little record hunting. Can anyone recommend any worthwhile record stores? Preferably within Manhattan. Thanx, Pat == _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 17:36:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Carole Reichstein Subject: Robyn Hitchcock, film star Alright, I'll take the bait. What movie role would've best suited Robyn? The Thomas Newton alien character (aka David Bowie's role) in Nicholas Roeg's "The Man who Fell to Earth." Okay, so Robyn's not as pale and spindly as Mr. Bowie was then, but hey, he'd be far more attractive. I'd pay a fortune just to see Robyn in the scene where the alien character peers in the bathroom mirror, and takes out his "human" contact lenses out with a tweezer (ouch!), to reveal his alien, reptile pupils. Yeah!! There's also a bizarrely erotic "flashback" where the alien/david bowie character is having sex with his wife..mainly, they squirm against one another while gelatinous goo seeps out of both of them. Robynesque? Of course! C'mon, someone else admit that they saw this movie on the late, late show. Carole, rambling. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 98 21:18:23 EDT From: Ross Overbury Subject: Re: Robyn Hitchcock, film star > > > Alright, I'll take the bait. What movie role would've best suited Robyn? > > The Thomas Newton alien character (aka David Bowie's role) in Nicholas > Roeg's "The Man who Fell to Earth." > > C'mon, someone else admit that they saw this movie on the late, late show. I paid good money to see it on the big screen. - -- Ross Overbury Montreal, Quebec, Canada email: rosso@cn.ca ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 21:55:57 -0600 From: amadain Subject: Re: Robyn Hitchcock, film star >Roeg's "The Man who Fell to Earth." Okay, so Robyn's not as pale and >spindly as Mr. Bowie was then, but hey, he'd be far more attractive. Speak for yourself there! :) Attractiveness issues aside, I thought Bowie was absolutely brilliant in that role. Nobody else I can remotely picture in it- I know it wasn't written for him, but it sure seems that way. Plus the resonance of him playing an alien with the "alien"-ness he cultivated as a stage persona is one of the things I liked about it. >C'mon, someone else admit that they saw this movie on the late, late show. I've seen it at many shows. I have it on tape :). It was one of my top ten in the last poll actually, and I think it made some other lists also. Nicholas Roeg is one of my favorite directors. Love on ya, Susan ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 98 22:28:14 EDT From: Ross Overbury Subject: Re: Rob'n'Roy Reety all righty, it's the zombie thread! Woj (pronounced Brad) said: > a long time ago, also sprach Ross Overbury (rosso@sceast.cn.ca): > > >1) Roy Harper is good! > > yup! a little kooky in the head, but trey good. > > >2) Why is it I never heard of him before his name was mentioned > >by a list member? > > um, cos you're not paying attention. I don't mean on the list. I mean he has the trappings of a major influence and/or biggish cult act in that he seems to be able to attract popular artists to team up with, but I've never heard his name or anything by him (AFAIK) in this corner of the world. That includes the heady days of early rock FM radio in Montreal, when university students were hired to invent a format that was basically whatever they liked (rock or not), with a bit of dead air thrown in for effect. My radio DJ brother in law, who's got some 3000 lps, had one compilation with Roy on it (and to his credit it took him about a minute to find it for me after I mentioned Roy) but not one full Roy Harper release. He's got that other Roy, the one that comes with Mustard, but not Harper. > >3) Does anybody else here think Robyn modeled some of his vocal style > >after Roy? Particularly the earlier stuff? The first cut on the CD, "Legend", sounded a fair bit like Robyn to me. A tad more nasal, but close. "Highway blues" reminds me of some of the overblown stuff on "Groovy Decay". The mining of the depths of Roy's range in "Hallucinating Light" brought you-know-who to mind. Is it just me? For that matter, I think Ian Anderson may have spent some time listening to Roy. "She's the one" uses some Tullish vocal stylings in parts. > i'd be kinda surprised if robyn was all that familiar with > roy's work, in fact. maybe what you are talking about is the folk > stylings that both use? As I said, it appears that Roy is probably rather more popular on the other side of the Atlantic. I may be way off base there. Mike? On this CD, he works with Paul McCartney, Ian Anderson, Dave Gilmour, Jimmy Page, Keith Moon, Ronnie Lane, Chris Spedding, Bill Bruford, John Paul Jones, Alvin Lee, Kate bush and many others. So how did he slip by my from '67 to '98? I'm not a musical authority, but I haven't slipped off into Kenny-G/Celine land as have so many of my middle-aged peers. He's just the sort of act I would have latched onto when I abandoned commercial radio as a source of musical direction in the '70s. Roy's appearing in Ottawa, then inexplicably skipping on to Quebec City or something. What's with Montreal and Roy? Susan (7) tipped me off to Roy's tour. NP: Roy Harper! PS: I picked up this griot/western mix entitled "Jali Roll" that features one Ian A. Anderson as producer. Is this the guy who once claimed he couldn't play without standing like a stork? Anyway, when the rest of the band shuts up it's lovely. Otherwise it proves that the kora can function within a conventional band, but at the expense of much of that instrument's expressive range. Still a good $0.99 investment. - -- Ross Overbury Montreal, Quebec, Canada email: rosso@cn.ca ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 22:00:32 -0600 From: amadain Subject: Re: special announcement,ENO LIVE ! (fwd) Just thought I'd pass this along, since I know we have plenty of Eno fans wandering about and I know some people here will be interested who might not have known of this otherwise. I got word of it from the John Cale list. >>Thursday, 27 August 1998, 8 pm CET live >>Performance on the occasion of the exhibition opening >>"Sushi! Roti! Reibekuchen! >>A High-Altitude-Food-Performance with Incidential >>Music by Slop Shop and Brian Eno" >> >>Saturday, 29 August, 8 pm CET live >>"Brian Eno: Conversation with >>Umbrella, Tape Recorder, Record >>Player, Overhead-Projector and >>Michael Engelbrecht" The site's address is: >>http://www.kah-bonn.de ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 21:01:10 -0700 From: Ethyl Ketone Subject: Re: Robyn Hitchcock, film star At 8.55 PM -0700 8/19/98, amadain wrote: >>Roeg's "The Man who Fell to Earth." Okay, so Robyn's not as pale and >>spindly as Mr. Bowie was then, but hey, he'd be far more attractive. > >>C'mon, someone else admit that they saw this movie on the late, late show. >It was one of my top ten in the last poll actually, and I think it made >some other lists also. Nicholas Roeg is one of my favorite directors. > Bowie was perfect in that part! Made for him. Minor film trivia: Roeg was 1st assistant director on "Lawrence of Arabia". I'm sure some folks on this list caught Bowie as Andy Warhol in Julian Schnabel's "Basquiat". Worth the price of admission. Great film overall but Bowie was fantastic... "oh, i don't know, what do you think" (said in a nasaly, whiny voice with a toss of the wig). Not that I'm opinionated about film or anything but since I'm not a musician and can't comment on most of these bands mentioned here, had to comment in here somewhere. Not much into comedies but I think Robyn would be great in Stoppards "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead". Keep Gary Oldman or Tim Roth, that's a toss up. Oh, and NMH - at the amount of praise for them on the list, I went out and got "In The Aeroplane Over The Sea". Sorry, just can't get excited about them. Really nice graphic design on the packaging though. There is a local band called "Charming Hostesses" that I can get excited about... But I already disclaimed I'm not a musician. - - 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: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 21:06:54 -0700 From: Ethyl Ketone Subject: Re: Fwd: this is just too cool! (6% tentacle content) At 2.36 PM -0700 8/19/98, fred is ted wrote: >Ted, now getting "mature" willies from an alarmist Y2K audio chat on >Yahoo. Got a couple of friends who I thought, until last Sunday, that they had subscribed to a doomsday cult about Y2K. Then last Sunday morning there was an hour on NPR with lots of interviews and all. Now I'm also getting the willies... It's alarmist - but you gotta wonder. - - c "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: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 23:11:39 -0500 From: David Librik Subject: Re: Rob'n'Roy Ross Overbury wrote: >PS: I picked up this griot/western mix entitled "Jali Roll" that >features one Ian A. Anderson as producer. Is this the guy who once >claimed he couldn't play without standing like a stork? No, this is almost certainly the editor of Folk Roots magazine. Thus the distinguishing "A." - - David Librik librik@cube.ice.net a big fan of "that other Roy, the one that comes with Mustard" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 23:33:34 -0600 From: amadain Subject: Re: Bowie, film star >At 8.55 PM -0700 8/19/98, amadain wrote: No I didn't!!!!! Carole wrote that! Just saying, cause I (respectfully, but adamantly) disagree with the views she expressed :). Actually what I wrote was closer to being in agreement with what you posted. >Minor film trivia: Roeg was 1st assistant director on "Lawrence of Arabia". Yup, noticed this the other day when watching THAT for the thousandth time (I think I've only seen "Man Who Fell to Earth" about a hundred :)). Love on ya, Susan ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 01:32:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard Subject: songlist i had a little time to kill and i typed in some more songs into the songlist. I'm amazed at how long it's been since i worked on it - he's easily done 150 songs since I last updated it (around the time of you & oblivion.) And THREE songs now list before "The Abandoned Brain". Two start with numbers... can you guess the third? (hint: I just realized 'Chinese Water Python' will also end up at the top if I type it in just as it appears on the album sleeve.) Take a look and let me know what needs changing. I'm interested in getting: - - Additions. Who wrote "The Knight and the Child"? Has Robyn performed a Gong tune, a Carl Palmer tune, or a Carl Palmer gong tune of which i am unaware? Email me. - -Corrections. Is it Leopardskin Pillbox Hat, not Leopard-skin Pill-box Hat? - - Deletions. Which is correct, "My Eveline" or "Eveline" or "Evaline" or "My Evaline"? I want to delete any entries that are not right. Please, knowledgeable people, let me know the answers to the HARD ones - the real obscure stuff. I know you know this stuff. It might be better to email me, but feel free to post if the urge grips you - I certainly don't mind. The songwriter info is right next to the song title, e.g. "Get Back The Beatles". Sorry about that- will fix it soon. http://158.72.105.122/gh/songs.htm many thanks. =b ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 01:13:43 -0800 From: "The Oval Orifice" Subject: Re: songlist Bayard dixit: > And THREE songs now list before "The Abandoned Brain". Two start > with numbers... can you guess the third? (hint: I just realized > 'Chinese Water Python' will also end up at the top if I type it in > just as it appears on the album sleeve.) Bayard: Fifty Two Stations and 52 Stations should have seperate entries because of the way the are listed on Gr[oo/oo/a]vy Dec[oy/ay/o] and Kershaw Sessions, respectively. Is the difference between the I Often Dream Of Trains with and without the quotation marks a matter similar to [Fifty Two/52] Stations? Both my vinyl and CD copies of IoDOT lists it without quotations. Definitely add 'Chinese Water Python' to the list with the single quotes. Word up, G! - -g- )+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+( Glen Uber Email: uberg@sonic.net ICQ UIN: 13311304 Web: http://www.sonic.net/~uberg "The war on drugs is a joke and we the people are the punch line." --From a letter to the Editor The Santa Rosa Press Democrat, 31 July 1998 )+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+( ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 03:11:41 -0700 From: Eb Subject: at last, somebody did it! http://www.novaproj.org/~kobe/rufus/ Finally, a decent Rufus Wainwright website! ;) "And if you believe in lovvvve...." Eb, who, sorry, isn't interested in starting a tape tree for last night's Conan appearance ;) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 06:20:44 EDT From: NahNahNah@aol.com Subject: Re: this is just too cool! (6% tentacle content) fspencer1@yahoo.com writes: << And what was that show set in "Hatland" or whatever?!? Charles Nelson Reilly was featured. Now THAT'S scary. >> It was called "Lidsville." Patty, who is new to the list -- I just joined a few days ago -- and who is sliipong back into lurk mode for awhile longer...unless, of course, somebody mentions Fat Albert later today ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 08:55:55 -0400 From: lj lindhurst Subject: Re: Robyn Hitchcock, film star/Nicholas Roeg >Alright, I'll take the bait. What movie role would've best suited Robyn? > >The Thomas Newton alien character (aka David Bowie's role) in Nicholas >Roeg's "The Man who Fell to Earth." Okay, so Robyn's not as pale and >spindly as Mr. Bowie was then, but hey, he'd be far more attractive. > >I'd pay a fortune just to see Robyn in the scene where the alien character >peers in the bathroom mirror, and takes out his "human" contact lenses out >with a tweezer (ouch!), to reveal his alien, reptile pupils. Yeah!! >There's also a bizarrely erotic "flashback" where the alien/david bowie >character is having sex with his wife..mainly, they squirm against one >another while gelatinous goo seeps out of both of them. Robynesque? Of >course! > >C'mon, someone else admit that they saw this movie on the late, late show. > Yes, Nicholas Roeg films ARE Robyn-esque-- you should check out some of his other works... I not only saw this movie, but I saw it in COLLEGE as part of a 'Films of Nicholas Roeg' class, and I had to write extensive fru-fru film criticism essays on it. My school must have owned a print, because it seems like they showed it in every modern or avant-garde film class. Has anyone seen any of his other films? My favorite is "Performance", starring none other than Mick Jagger [Roeg has a thing for half-dead untanned rawk stars]. It's about a mob hitman [??] who has to go into hiding with this crazy hippie couple [Mick and some chick]. There's a whole big long sequence where the main character eats a HUGE psych. mushroom cap and then trips out of his skull. The main character also keeps getting himself "confused" with Mick Jagger, which is one of Roeg's main themes [hear the college claptrap filmcrap talk a-startin?]-- he loves the notion of a "doppleganger"; so in one shot, it will be the main character, in the next it will be Mick for a brief second, then back to the main character, etc. [huh. sounds like foreshadowing for Bayard's upcoming weekend in NYC!] Roeg also did "Track 27", "Don't Look Back" [but not in anger], and the awfully frightening and funny "children's" film, "The Witches" [promise me you will not show this movie to your kids][unless your kid is Tom Clark]. And a bunch of other stuff, but it's too early in my coffee consumption to trot out any more movie trivia. Okay, back to pretending I'm earning a living. lj ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 09:09:42 -0400 From: lj lindhurst Subject: Re: this is just too cool! (6% tentacle content) >fspencer1@yahoo.com writes: > ><< And what was that show set in "Hatland" or whatever?!? Charles Nelson > Reilly was featured. Now THAT'S scary. >> > > >It was called "Lidsville." > > >Patty, who is new to the list -- I just joined a few days ago -- and who is >sliipong back into lurk mode for awhile longer...unless, of course, somebody >mentions Fat Albert later today Hi Patty-- hey look, more CHICKS! soon we'll have enough chicks to go and REALLY kick the Costello-l list's ass...and then maybe the macca list too, just for the fun of it. I *will* mention Fat Albert-- what was the deal with Mushmouth? WHat was wrong with him? And what was the deal with his hat? And why did poor Fat Albert have to live in a junkyard?? Furthermore, TGQ confessed to me last night that he remembers Grimace having FOUR arms in the beginning, but that maybe he is delusional* or maybe he dreamed it... does anyone else remember this? Can anyone tell me what Grimace is supposed to BE? [our best guess was that he was a big blob of blueberry milkshake]. Ronald=frightening clown Mayor McCheese= a public official with a Big Mac head [not so unusual] Hamburglar= well, a guy who steals burgers...duhh Fry-guys= big scary spiders with legs made out of french fries Grimace=????????? didn't Grimace have a big pink wife, too? Oh my aching head... lj *likely explanation ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 10:08:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Gary Assassin Subject: Re: this is just too cool! (6% tentacle content) > I *will* mention Fat Albert-- what was the deal with Mushmouth? WHat was > wrong with him? And what was the deal with his hat? And why did poor Fat > Albert have to live in a junkyard?? Who was mushmouse and Pumpkin Puss?? > Furthermore, TGQ confessed to me last night that he remembers Grimace > having FOUR arms in the beginning, but that maybe he is delusional* or > maybe he dreamed it... does anyone else remember this? Can anyone tell me > what Grimace is supposed to BE? [our best guess was that he was a big blob > of blueberry milkshake]. > > Ronald=frightening clown > Mayor McCheese= a public official with a Big Mac head [not so unusual] > Hamburglar= well, a guy who steals burgers...duhh > Fry-guys= big scary spiders with legs made out of french fries > Grimace=????????? > > didn't Grimace have a big pink wife, too? Here is some info from my McDonalds expert! Ronald=frightening clown Mayor McCheese=The mayor of McDonaldland, with a head that's a Quarter Pounder with Cheese (not a Big Mac). Hamburglar=a guy who steals hamburgers Fry Guys=french fry-loving creatures with pom-pom heads and skinny legs (not made of ffrench fries). Named Fry Guys for their love of french fries, and not for any body parts. Grimace=Ronald's best friend. Never had four arms. There has occasionally appeared a female Grimace, with a bow on top of her gelatinous head. The pair have never been married, though, and Grimace is not composed of any McDonalds menu item. He is just a big purple guy. And blueberry was never a flavor of milkshake--only vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry. Early Bird=a big goofy bird with a pilot's hat and goggles, who loves McDonalds breakfast items. Occasionally flies a plane while wearing the pilot's gear. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:26:21 +0100 (BST) From: M R Godwin Subject: Re: Peter Cook 'n' Dudley Moore Peter Cook and Dudley Moore did indeed have a hilarious 60s TV show entitled 'Not Only ... But Also'. _Much_ funnier than anything else I've ever seen on TV (except Marx Bros. re-runs and the 'your rat, sir?' episode of Fawlty Towers). Cook (from Cambridge) and Moore (from Oxford) first joined forces in the famous (in the UK, anyway) revue "Beyond the Fringe", which featured Jonathan Miller, Alan Bennett, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. BtF debuted at the Edinburgh Festival in 59(?), then had a long London run, followed by a successful Broadway run, during which Miller left, and was replaced by someone else. Moore had been brought in mainly for his excellent piano-playing (the high spot of his performance was a Beethoven sonata style version of 'Colonel Bogey). However, Cook and Moore obviously hit it off as a funny duo, whereas Miller and Bennett subsequently went their own separate ways. Cook and Moore's TV show started soon after BtF, and ran for several series in the mid-60s. I've got a few episodes on tape somewhere, but they are too painful to watch very often. Funniest sketches included: 'Superthunderstingcar', where they played Gerry Anderson puppets ("How did you get this job, Masterbrawn?" "I knew a man who pulled some strings"...); The one-legged Tarzan sketch (written by Cook when he was 18, and played again many times throughout his life); ("I've got nothing against your right leg, it's just that neither have you") and Pete and Dud at the National Gallery looking at 'Les Grandes Baigneuses'(?): "How do you tell a good picture, Pete?" "Well, the eyes follow you around the room" "What about these luscious nudes, Pete?" "With those nude ladies, Dud, the bottoms seem to follow you around" etc etc There was a period of some 2-3 years when everyone I knew could do a 'Dud' voice - snivelly, seedy Saaf London sort of whining noise. And of course they had hit records with 'Goodbyeee', and (less successfully) 'L S Bumble Bee'. Derek and Clive were a later reunion of Cook and Moore, which IMHO was not particularly funny, though the records had some of that Cheech and Chong quality that made people want to play sections of the record over and over and over... - - Mike Godwin PS RH content: in a certain light, notably when doing the watusi during 'Avalon', RH looks strikingly like Peter Cook... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 10:59:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: this is just too cool! (6% tentacle content) A Grimace with four arms? Perhaps TGQ was thinking of the Elder Race. (Or the Old Ones? I always get them confused.) On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Gary Assassin wrote: > Here is some info from my McDonalds expert! [snip] > And blueberry was never a flavor of milkshake--only vanilla, > chocolate, and strawberry. Ah, but you forget the grasshopper milkshake that comes out in mid-March every year, for some unfathomable reason. - --Chris ps: Mmm, calamari milkshakes.... Picture that, LJ! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 16:17:41 +0100 (BST) From: M R Godwin Subject: Re: Rob'n'Roy On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Ross Overbury wrote: > As I said, it appears that Roy is probably rather more popular on the > other side of the Atlantic. I may be way off base there. Mike? > > On this CD, he works with Paul McCartney, Ian Anderson, Dave Gilmour, > Jimmy Page, Keith Moon, Ronnie Lane, Chris Spedding, Bill Bruford, John > Paul Jones, Alvin Lee, Kate bush and many others. So how did he slip > by my from '67 to '98? As I said to Susan Even some time ago, Roy Harper is a bit of an institution here. He had a track on the UK version of 'The rock machine turns you on' in the late 60s, and he compered (and sang at) most, if not all, of the wondrous Hyde Park free concerts in 1968 (the series which were still really small and friendly, with the Floyd, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Pretty Things, Family, Fleetwood Mac, Junior's Eyes, Traffic, unknown bands like those (-: ). The last time I saw him was at the 1969 Bath Blues Festival, where he played a good version of 'Hell's Angels'. Zeppelin latched on to him at the time of LZIII(?), which has a track called 'Hats off to Harper' IIRC. I don't know why I haven't seen him since then, but he's slipped by my [my what?] as well. He's certainly kept on playing! - - Mike G. ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V7 #314 *******************************