From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V7 #319 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, August 23 1998 Volume 07 : Number 319 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: this is just too geeky! (100% content about me) [Capuchin ] meat, tim [dwdudic@erols.com (David W. Dudich)] Re: O Soul Mio [West ] Re: Replacements [David Librik ] Re: O Soul Mio [amadain ] Re: My cover, like Bill Clinton, has been blown... [maustlkr@kitfox.anv.n] Re: this is just too geeky! (100% content about me) [maustlkr@kitfox.anv.] Re: My cover, like Bill Clinton, has been blown... [maustlkr@kitfox.anv.n] Re: M2 [maustlkr@kitfox.anv.net] Re: O Soul Mio [maustlkr@kitfox.anv.net] Re: this is just too geeky! (100% content about me) [Eb ] Re: songlist goes binary... [Christopher Gross ] Re: this is just too geeky! (100% content about me) [maustlkr@kitfox.anv.] Re: My cover, like Bill Clinton, has been blown... [Figaro ] Re: this is just too geeky! (plus: more FEGFESTS!) [Bayard ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 19:51:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: this is just too geeky! (100% content about me) On Sat, 22 Aug 1998 NahNahNah@aol.com wrote: > And while we're on the subject, can I vent for a moment?? After being a full- > time slacker all summer long, I did get a job (teaching preschool) which I was > supposed to start on Monday. Well, they called me Friday at 4:30 to say "Oh > we're sorry but the girl you were gonna replace has decided to stay so we > don't need you." Thank you and please drive through. If you'd related this story three weeks ago, I'd've flipped out and created many ulcers while waiting for monday the tenth. I didn't get such a call and my new job is excellent. And no stinky contracts this time... I'm employed. > I guess I should introduce myself since I seemed to have already jumped in > awhile ago anyway. Um, ok, my name is Patty and I am 34 but look 33. I live > in Southern California and right now I am bum. The end. They won't hold joblessness against you, I was a bum for almost eight months. Welcome. > So hello to all of you. I think you guys are an interesting and funny bunch > -- and you sure write lots -- I think I deleted half the posts in the > beginning because I didn't recognize the email addresses and I thought it was > all porn spam. Um... if I, Susan, Tom, or LJ wrote it, it probably was just porn spam. Oh, and don't worry about not knowing all of Robyn's tunes by name. Eb doesn't and we let him post quite a bit. > Oh, that is something I am confused about...I am on another mailing list and > to reply, I just hit Reply and it goes back to the list email address and is > then sent out to everybody. But with you guys, if I hit Reply, it goes to the > person who wrote the message I am replying to. But I don't want that, right? > Because then no one else will get it. I want my stuff to go to the fegmaniax > address, right? Well, that's where I have been sending it so I hope that's > right. You'll have to forgive me because I am computer-illiterate. Well, we could let Woj explain the gory details, but the fact is the list is purposely set up that way. You're best off hitting Reply To All and then manually pulling out the sender's address. Personally, I like it better that way (even if I do hate getting the same message twice when it's a reply to one of my posts). And please don't call yourself computer-illiterate. Just tell us you've "got lots to learn" or something. I'm not at all comfortable with the way our culture is making it ok and even cool to express ignorance. "I'm computer-illiterate." "I can't do math." These things are ok to say, but if an adult tells you they can't read, it's a tragedy. Don't get me started. J. ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 00:35:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Terrence M Marks Subject: Re: M2 On Sat, 22 Aug 1998, tanter wrote: > We only get it for a short time during the day. Our satellite system is > Primestar. How long do you guys get it? > My folks have a full-size dish (and the satellite feed is free, which is an unusual thing for standard programming). Also seen on M2: A short promotional clip of two men playing some Partch-designed marimbas (or at least they had the fractional Partch notation on them). I think Partch is mostly unlistenable, but any station that would play a short piece of his has credibility. Terrence Marks normal@grove.ufl.edu np-"Presenting", Lothat & the hand People ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 05:23:30 GMT From: dwdudic@erols.com (David W. Dudich) Subject: meat, tim On Sat, 22 Aug 1998 22:02:52 -0400 (EDT), you wrote: >Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 10:58:14 +0930 >From: dlang >Subject: Re: this is just too cool! (6% tentacle content) > >This whole thread is living proof of who at least two thirds of the planet >have been totally brainwashed by Mc Donald's and other multinationals, and we >accuse the poor Quail of fiend conspiracies !!. They pale in comparison with >this rampant enthusiasm for junk culture. This is INFINITELY worse !!!!! >Abandon hope oh ye burger crunching fegs, for I say ,the time of the Anti Mac >is nigh. >There shall be a wailing and gnashing of teeth and plagues of hash browns and >french fries will fall from the sky . Cauldrons of fat willoverflow their >bounds and the earth will swallow up the squalid consumers of Kentucky Fried >,Hungry jacks and Pizza Hut and plunge >them wailing into the abyss. ...or better yet, reject it all! Stop eating animals entirely!! Join the legion of 'veggiefegs' (tm). Hey, Uncle Bobby himself doesn't eat meat. Onto other topics... why does "Blue Aeroplanes" (Tim of Homer's old band?) sound familiar? Did they have a single about 5 years ago that got some airplay? something about "the last plane out"? -luther ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 23:52:24 -0700 From: West Subject: Re: O Soul Mio maustlkr@kitfox.anv.net wrote: > There is only one small complaint I have... I would like to see a little more soul content because that's the one thing that I can't find anywhere else on the internet... and I know you guys actually have some SOUL records/CDs in your collections... and I don't mean that whining psudo-soul shit that "passes" for music nowadays... actually you may refer to today's "black" music as CRAP (Computerized Repetitive African-American Performances)... I'm talking about anything before 1980... REAL SOUL, before the "blahs" set in... Soul? You mean Motown soul? Stax/Volt soul? Eddie Floyd? Ray Charles? Gladys Knight and The Pips? Sam and Dave? The O'Jays? The Spinners? Perhaps even...Archie Bell and The Drells? Well I, too, can dance just as good as I want to! By a curious coincidence, I was just listening to Rhino's magnificent "Beg, Scream & Shout!" box set earlier today. I love those soul singles from the 50's and 60's, and quite a few from the 70's as well. I'm sure many of my fellow fegs enjoy those sounds as well, but I think the subject simply doesn't come up due to our preoccupation with a distinctly different type of music. (I tend to divide music into two categories: That Which Sucks, and That Which Does Not Suck. I have no qualms, however, about discussing various musical genres, as long as you don't get them mixed up--if that schmuck from Starbucks is lurking around here, Kool and The Gang is NOT disco...Kool and The Gang is FUNK!) Perhaps now that you've brought it up, and I have seconded that emotion, other fegs will be encouraged to voice their choice of soul greats; after all, as I'm sure you've noticed, we know great music when we hear it. And you're right about the current state of R&B--all I'm hearing is four-minute cadenzas you can dance to. The singers have pretty enough voices, but the vocal pyrotechnics only seem to be a vain attempt to cover up transparently inferior songwriting. And the recent proliferation of remakes of soul greats emphasizes my point. I'm not even going to think about considering the possibility of discussing Puff Daddy. Somethingly, West. - -- *********************************************************************** West A. Moran E-mail: ipalindromei@earthlink.net "...No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity." "But I know none, and therefore am no beast." --William Shakespeare, "Richard III". ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 01:54:58 -0500 From: David Librik Subject: Re: Replacements >On the alt.music.replacements newsgroup, there is talk of a bootleg from >1985 that someone has burned onto cd. And while we're at it, can anyone tell me how to find _The Shit Hits The Fans_? There's not a RH profile written that doesn't mention how the Mats cover "Ye Sleeping Knights" on this tape. What they don't mention is that apparently they also cover "Left In The Dark" by a local (Champaign-Urbana) band, The Vertebrats. I'd love to hear that, if only for nostalgia's sake. - - David Librik ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 02:31:23 -0600 From: amadain Subject: Re: O Soul Mio >our preoccupation with a distinctly different type of music. (I tend to >divide >music into two categories: That Which Sucks, and That Which Does >Not Suck. You're in good company West :). One of my favorite quotes concerning this was from Mr. Duke Ellington, who made a lot of the latter kind of music, when asked about what he thought about bebop back in the day- "There are only two kinds of music, good and bad". Love on ya, Susan Absolute faves: Smokey, Marvin Gaye, Sam Cooke, Al Green, Wicked Pickett, Joe Tex, Aretha Close: Temps, Junior Walker, Shorty Long, Major Lance, The Impressions, Martha and the Vandellas ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 01:41:13 -0700 From: maustlkr@kitfox.anv.net Subject: Re: My cover, like Bill Clinton, has been blown... From: Ross Overbury To: maustlkr@kitfox.anv.net Date sent: Fri, 21 Aug 98 21:01:28 EDT Subject: Re: My cover, like Bill Clinton, has been blown... > > > > Hello All you Robyn Fans, Freaks, and on-lookers... > > > > > > I just wanted to introduce myself and to commend you on having the bestus > > mail thingie in the known universe... > > Welcome to the hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic globe of fegs, Cliff. > > > There is only one small complaint I have... I would like > > to see a little more soul > > content because that's the one thing that I can't find anywhere else on the > > internet... > > See above. Yow! > > > -- > Ross Overbury > Montreal, Quebec, Canada > email: rosso@cn.ca > Nice to see someone who knows Issac as something other than "Chef" on South Park..." Whut I Say.... Mouser Elite Cliff's Album of the Day - 8/23/98 "Abacab" Genesis - Atlantic Records - 1981 e-mail maustlkr@kitfox.anv.net ICQ Number 12689312 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 01:41:13 -0700 From: maustlkr@kitfox.anv.net Subject: Re: this is just too geeky! (100% content about me) Here we go again... > In a message dated 98-08-21 18:54:47 EDT, jthornton@ucsd.edu writes: > > << Anyhow, I caught the Bauhaus gig last night, and just got tickets for the > Irvine show next month. Goth city! Woo-hoo! "Undead, undead, undead!" >> > Gawddammit... Peter Murphy himself came in our store today (8-22) and I sold him two cd's... One by Phillip Glass (can't remember the title, but the cover had blue clouds on it)... and I suggested the new Cornelius CD... He happily bought it... Woo Hoo... > > Irvine?? As in Irvine, California?? Hey, I grew up there and up until late > June I worked there too. Are you the one who mentioned KUCI before, Jason? > ...It's like Deja Vu all over again... I just got an e-mail yesterday (8-21) from my friend Albino Brown of the Ska Parade Radio Show on KUCI (and I'm wearing my Ska Parade t-shirt today too)... WILL YOU JUST LEAVE ME ALONE !!!! just kidding... I'm starting to get a BIT worried... Hey, the Nevada version of the lottery (Megabucks) is up to almost 20 mil... will someone PLEASE start a thread about it... I could use some extra "pocket change"... Mousestalker Again (Naturally)... Cliff's Album of the Day - 8/23/98 "Abacab" Genesis - Atlantic Records - 1981 e-mail maustlkr@kitfox.anv.net ICQ Number 12689312 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 01:41:13 -0700 From: maustlkr@kitfox.anv.net Subject: Re: My cover, like Bill Clinton, has been blown... > >the "Vinyl Resting Place sometime, eh), Station Manager, Postal Clerk, > >Coin/Beer can/comic and my >current muse Record collector, as well as a > >bunch o' shit you aint never heard of... > > Oh, I doubt that latter very much. This is the FEGLIST, after all. It would > be pretty difficult to come up with anything at least one person here > hadn't heard of :). ok.. agreed... > > >his biography... Coincidence... maybe, but the point is that this is the > >most informed bunch of >individuals i've ever met and I hope to contribute > >more here as the days go by... > > Thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we've passed the > audition :). I'll just let that on be... > > >There is only one small complaint I have... I would like to see a little > >more soul content because >that's the one thing that I can't find > >anywhere else on the internet... > > Try and start some then. Seriously. > > Actually IIRC it wasn't -that- long ago a couple of us were talking about > Smokey vs. Marvin (in a conversation about defining musical influences of > the 60s decade, and who could be chosen as the ONE Motowner if you hadda), > I guess you weren't here yet. It for sure happens now and then. As do > discussions concerning British directors, McDonald's mythology, political > theory, Mervyn Peake, the nature of evil, &c, &c. ad infinitum. Actually, I would hafta pick Smokey... He was more the brains of Motown than Berry Gordy himself... Mr. Gordy was an opportunist, Smokey was a Genius... > > >refer to today's "black" music as CRAP (Computerized >Repetitive > >African-American Performances)... > > Ok, that was definitely my best laugh of the day and possibly the week. > Good start! :) If I hear ONE more "whiny" CRAP singer... crying about lovin... I'm gonna HURT somebody... > > >I'm talking about anything before 1980... > > Does this include my beloved doo-wop (shalangalalangalalangala woo woo woo > bip!)? Oh for joy, someone else who loves this music! I suspect you just > mean basically Motown/Stax tho. And yeah I know, that's just scratching the > surface, I live in the hometown of Chess and Veejay :). Speaking of which, > anyone else ever seen the documentary about "Record Row"? Good stuff. Major > Lance's moves alone are worth the price of admission.  All of the above... I have a litte of EVERYTHING in my collection at the moment... I'm actually looking for a home for my obscure 45's... Interested ? Just let me know, ok ? > > Love on ya, > Susan > > "And in the end, the songs you take are equal to the money you make" from Puff Daddy's new single "The End" Featuring Ringo Starr, George Harrison and Sir Paul McCartney... > Cliff's Album of the Day - 8/23/98 "Abacab" Genesis - Atlantic Records - 1981 e-mail maustlkr@kitfox.anv.net ICQ Number 12689312 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 01:41:13 -0700 From: maustlkr@kitfox.anv.net Subject: Re: M2 Date sent: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 21:57:48 -0400 From: tanter Subject: Re: M2 To: David Wright Vhost Copies to: Terrence M Marks , Do you remember the day of your birthday? Send reply to: tanter > We only get it for a short time during the day. Our satellite system is > Primestar. How long do you guys get it? > > Marcy > > > At 04:19 AM 8/22/1998 -0600, David Wright Vhost wrote: > > > > > >On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, Terrence M Marks wrote: > > > >> Does anyone else here get M2? > >> I think it's the last best hope for music television. > >> > >> (Sorry if this seems vapid. They were playing Stan Ridgway's "Drive She > >> Said" when I woke up and I felt compelled to write something) > >> > >> Terrence Marks > >> normal@grove.ufl.edu > >> > >> would be playing were I home-"Persuasive Percussion 1", The Command > >> All-Stars > >> > >> > > > > I couldn't agree with you more. I work at home, and keep M2 on in my > >office. I probably watch that channel alone an average of ten hours a day. > >I've also seen two Robyn videos already! > > > >-David > > > > Just to add my .02 cents worth... On new release days (Tuesdays), we "roll" M2 for shits and giggles and they supply them in SPADES... Last Tuesday, they show "The Power and the Passion" by Midnight Oil as well as E=MC2 by B.A.D. (oops, showing my age here)... Anyhow, i have the satellite at work (Virgin) set up permanently on M2 so that the Mgr cant change it... That's all for now... Mousestalker Cliff's Album of the Day - 8/23/98 "Abacab" Genesis - Atlantic Records - 1981 e-mail maustlkr@kitfox.anv.net ICQ Number 12689312 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 01:51:12 -0700 From: maustlkr@kitfox.anv.net Subject: Re: O Soul Mio Date sent: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 23:52:24 -0700 From: West To: "fegmaniax@smoe.org" Subject: Re: O Soul Mio Send reply to: West > > > maustlkr@kitfox.anv.net wrote: > > > There is only one small complaint I have... I would like to see a little more soul content because that's the one thing that I can't find anywhere else on the internet... and I know you guys actually have some SOUL records/CDs in your collections... and I don't mean that whining psudo-soul shit that "passes" for music nowadays... actually you may refer to today's "black" music as CRAP (Computerized Repetitive African-American Performances)... I'm talking about anything before 1980... REAL SOUL, before th > Soul? You mean Motown soul? Stax/Volt soul? Eddie Floyd? Ray Charles? Gladys Knight and The Pips? Sam and Dave? The O'Jays? The Spinners? Perhaps even...Archie Bell and The Drells? Well I, too, can dance just as good as I want to! By a curious coincidence, I was just listening to Rhino's magnificent "Beg, Scream & Shout!" box set earlier today. I love those soul singles from the 50's and 60's, and quite a few from the 70's as well. I'm sure many of my fellow fegs enjoy those sounds as well, buas you don't get them mixed up--if that schmuck from Starbucks is lurking around here, Kool and The Gang is NOT disco...Kool and The Gang is FUNK!) Perhaps now that you've brought it up, and I have seconded that emotion, other fegs will be encouraged to voice their choice of soul greats; after all, as I'm sure you've noticed, we know great music when we hear it. > > And you're right about the current state of R&B--all I'm hearing is four-minute cadenzas you can dance to. The singers have pretty enough voices, but the vocal pyrotechnics only seem to be a vain attempt to cover up transparently inferior songwriting. And the recent proliferation of remakes of soul greats emphasizes my point. > > I'm not even going to think about considering the possibility of discussing Puff Daddy. > > Somethingly, > West. > > Damn, You guys (and gals) know how to keep a guy busy... I HIGHLY recommend getting the Beg, Scream and Shout box... (uh, oh... I feel another story coming on)... A few months back, I went to Costco to buy one of the aforementioned boxes and I was horrified to find that EVERY ONE had scratched CD's in them... so the lady at Costco felt real sorry for me opening all of the box sets on hand and she gave me 3 of the CD's as well as the book and the playing cards for FREE... I then hi-tailed it home, e-mailed Rhino and told them what happened and they sent me the other 3... FOR FREE... net result: One kewl ass box set... NO CHARGE... gawd, I love the internet... Your Friendly neighborhood Mousestalker... Cliff's Album of the Day - 8/23/98 "Abacab" Genesis - Atlantic Records - 1981 e-mail maustlkr@kitfox.anv.net ICQ Number 12689312 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 02:08:51 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: this is just too geeky! (100% content about me) >...It's like Deja Vu all over again... I just got an e-mail yesterday >(8-21) from my >friend Albino Brown of the Ska Parade Radio Show on KUCI (and I'm wearing >my Ska Parade t-shirt today too)... WILL YOU JUST LEAVE ME ALONE !!!! >just kidding... I'm starting to get a BIT worried... Arrrrgh. If there was one topic I thought I'd never see on this list, it would be the Ska Parade and the egomaniacal geeks who run it. Arrrrrgh. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 05:27:40 EDT From: NahNahNah@aol.com Subject: Re: Replacements In a message dated 98-08-23 02:56:22 EDT, librik@cube.ice.net writes: << And while we're at it, can anyone tell me how to find _The Shit Hits The Fans_? >> David, This was a cassette-only release and I have heard there are originals floating around. I'm sure you could find one if you made the effort to track it down. I have a bootleg copy of it and if you want, I can make you a copy of that. Let me know. And I always liked that Left in the Dark song. Patty ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 10:04:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Subject: Milkshakes >Ah, but you forget the grasshopper milkshake that comes out in mid-March >every year, for some unfathomable reason. I haven't seen any mention of the very scary Eggnog shake, which I had the misfortune of trying last winter. I believe it's out around Christmas time. A very strange flavor to it, to say the least, and it's got a eggnog-yellow color to it. >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. Ah, but you never know who on the list is a chick, but has a gender neutral name, so everyone assumes they're a guy. ;) Chris ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 13:36:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: songlist goes binary... On Sat, 22 Aug 1998, Aaron Mandel wrote: > > it's not too bluesy (at least in its original form) but one possibility > not yet raised is that it's that Berlin tune that goes "i'm a man (i'm a > boy) i'm a slut (i'm a train) i'm your mother (i'm a god) i'm a one night > stand" or whatever... seems like something robyn would be drawn to. That'd be "Sex (I'm A...)" from the album _Pleasure Victim_ (1982). This bit of minor trivia brought to you by.... Chris (who could have a sexually ambiguous online persona, if he bothered to change the way his name displays in message headers) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 13:49:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard Subject: "i'm a man" I'm gonna guess it's the bo diddley song... i can't find the tape that has this song on it (if anyone has the "Real Live Rarities" comp, perhaps aka "The Robyn Springs Forth", you might have a listen. =b ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 11:46:21 -0700 From: maustlkr@kitfox.anv.net Subject: Re: this is just too geeky! (100% content about me) Date sent: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 02:08:51 -0700 To: fegmaniax@smoe.org From: Eb Subject: Re: this is just too geeky! (100% content about me) Send reply to: Eb > >...It's like Deja Vu all over again... I just got an e-mail yesterday > >(8-21) from my > >friend Albino Brown of the Ska Parade Radio Show on KUCI (and I'm wearing > >my Ska Parade t-shirt today too)... WILL YOU JUST LEAVE ME ALONE !!!! > >just kidding... I'm starting to get a BIT worried... > > Arrrrgh. If there was one topic I thought I'd never see on this list, it > would be the Ska Parade and the egomaniacal geeks who run it. Arrrrrgh. > > Eb > > > Hey Eb... Sorry that you find those guys to be "egomaniacal geeks", but I have a couple of reasons to like them... 1. If you recall, I mentioned that I was in a movie a few years back... the movie was produced, written and directed by none other than Albino Brown... (I guess thats why it was called "Albino Brown in Liberace's Shoes")... He also gave me FULL CREDIT on the parts I helped out on (interviews with both Michael Franti from Disposable Heroes/Spearhead/Beatnigs) and Angelo Moore (from Fishbone)... And he also set up an instore with the aforementioned Mr. Moore at my record store FOR FREE... 2. On their latest release "Runnin Naked thru the Cornfield", they actually put ME on the cover as a thank you for all of the years of helping each other... (I'm the bespectacled gentleman towards the back)... Their couple of releases "The Ska Parade Video" and "Step on It" help break bands like No Doubt and Sublime... Not exactly things to be proud of, but shows that they have the "ears" of people who know what they are doing... Besides, if they were HALF the egotisical geeks that you say they were, they would have released Sublime's last performance on video that he happens to own, but didnt... he did however, give a copy to the family of Brad Nowell for use for his funeral for FREE... 3. He has some faults, but who doesn't, but how would you like it if you have been behind a genre of music that was "dead" a few years back, and have it explode... but only making the mediocre bands popular and getting NO credit for sticking with it... sometimes, life sux that way... 4. Finally, he genuinely LOVES the music he champions... not only does he know the difference between true ska music and "punk with horns", he actively collects music from ALL black cultures (soul, funk as well as poetry from the likes of The Last Poets and Rudy Ray Moore) and has a shrine to Mr. Ali, the greatest boxer of all time... In closing... I mean no disrespect to you, Eb, but thou should get to know someone before thou shittest upon them... Mouse Man... Cliff's Album of the Day - 8/23/98 "Abacab" Genesis - Atlantic Records - 1981 e-mail maustlkr@kitfox.anv.net ICQ Number 12689312 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 23:04:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Figaro Subject: Re: My cover, like Bill Clinton, has been blown... On Fri, 21 Aug 1998 maustlkr@kitfox.anv.net wrote: > There is only one small complaint I have... I would > like to see a little more soul content because that's the one thing that > I can't find anywhere else on the internet... and I know you guys > actually have some SOUL records/CDs in your collections... Um...didn't this used to be the Robyn Hitchcock mailing list? Some of us would like to see a bit more Robyn content (and a lot less "other" content). Figaro ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 12:13:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Lobsterman Subject: Re: "i'm a man" >I'm gonna guess it's the bo diddley song... i can't find the tape that has >this song on it (if anyone has the "Real Live Rarities" comp, perhaps aka >"The Robyn Springs Forth", you might have a listen. From what I've been told, the song IS the Bo Diddley cover, and the guy singing with Robyn on the song was Liz's boyfriend at the time. Liz was Robyn's roommate during his stint in San Francisco, and Liz owned Neurotic Records (which is sadly no more--damn, not even a t-shirt is left!! and i should know! i bugged her by email for another one when mine was stolen from a laundromat), which Robyn did an in-store at in 1994, although I don't think this was the record shop where Robyn purportedly worked. Beware of Butch's in Figaro's clothing, :) John ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 15:22:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard Subject: Re: this is just too geeky! (plus: more FEGFESTS!) > 2. On their latest release "Runnin Naked thru the Cornfield", they actually put > ME on the cover as a thank you for all of the years of helping each other... (I'm > the bespectacled gentleman towards the back)... quick semantics question: if you're wearing spectacles, are you really naked? (& is that why you chose to be in the back?) and if i'm on my own and a tree falls on me, is there anybody here? HEY! It's party planning time! Due to the immense success of the QuailFest and the expected same result at RubberSharkfest, (I got my tickets! I'm excited!) I would like to invite some fegs to "my" mountaintop place which comes with super view, hot tub, tasty grilled veggies and burgers and veggieburgers, and 100 kinds of beer (really.) The place is 70 miles west of DC and probably within striking distance of fegs from Connecticut to Florida. If you can come (I'm thinking of having it next month) and WANT to come, let me know. If you know I want you to come and you can't, let me know that too. Then there's ChicagoFest in october, a tentative plan Ms. Dodge and I have been discussing. I'll be happy to collect RSVP's for that idea as well. Four fegfests in one year? Wooohooo! =b ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 13:12:36 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Bradford & co. >Sorry that you find those guys to be "egomaniacal geeks", but I have a couple >of reasons to like them... > >1. If you recall, I mentioned that I was in a movie a few years back... >the movie >was produced, written and directed by none other than Albino Brown... (I >guess >thats why it was called "Albino Brown in Liberace's Shoes")... Needless to say, the fact that Albino put his full name in the movie title speaks volumes on the ego issue. I'm surprised he didn't call it "Albino Brown's Albino Brown in Liberace Shoes." ;) >He also gave >me FULL CREDIT on the parts I helped out on (interviews with both Michael >Franti from Disposable Heroes/Spearhead/Beatnigs) and Angelo Moore (from >Fishbone)... And he also set up an instore with the aforementioned Mr. Moore >at my record store FOR FREE... He simply gave you credit for work you did? Wow, what a guy. As for the in-store, I think it's safe to guess that Brown figured out a way to get more than enough self-promotion out of it. Did he introduce Moore, incorporating a Ska Parade plug into the bargain? Stand grinning next to Moore through the whole appearance? >2. On their latest release "Runnin Naked thru the Cornfield", they >actually put >ME on the cover as a thank you for all of the years of helping each >other... (I'm >the bespectacled gentleman towards the back)... Wow, what a guy. Revealing part of that album (well, it's ONE of the Ska Parade compilations...perhaps not this one): Those two are so FEROCIOUSLY capitalistic (sorry to use a bad word, Eddie) that they put a huge written warning on the album about how home-taping is illegal and we shouldn't tape this album for others. Come on -- not even those litiginous MAJOR LABELS do that. Pretty illustrative of the Ska Parade's creepy perspective. Possessive, anal and desperate to be noticed. >Their couple of releases "The >Ska Parade Video" and "Step on It" help break bands like No Doubt and >Sublime... Not exactly things to be proud of, but shows that they have the >"ears" of people who know what they are doing... And these publicity whores inflate and embellish this claim, every chance they get. I hear "Tazy" (isn't my pseudonym CUTE? look at meeee!) is going to get "I broke Sublime" tattooed on his forehead.... >Besides, if they were HALF >the egotisical geeks that you say they were, they would have released >Sublime's last performance on video that he happens to own, but didnt... >he did >however, give a copy to the family of Brad Nowell for use for his funeral for >FREE... Now, you don't really want to get into that can for worms. I will say this: I'm more familiar with Bradford/Tazy's ways than Albino's. Maybe he isn't quite as bad. Eb np: Baywatch ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V7 #319 *******************************