From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V7 #339 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, September 1 1998 Volume 07 : Number 339 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Top 20 CDs owned By People Who Don't Like Music ["Bret" ] Re: defending Joe [tanter ] lotsareplies (RH 3, Tottenham 0) [james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (Jame] Re: divers alarums, handy hints and spiffing wheezes [Danielle ] Re: Tell Me About Your Duds ["Cliff L. Malloy" ] Re: Top 20 CDs owned By People Who Don't Like Music ["Cliff L. Malloy" ] Re: divers alarums, handy hints and spiffing wheezes [dlang ] Foxes and Monkees [M R Godwin ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 18:01:53 -0500 From: "Bret" Subject: Re: Top 20 CDs owned By People Who Don't Like Music >here's an article someone posted on the subbacultcha list. >how many do you own? > >>4. THE EAGLES: Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 aaaarrrgh! OK, so I own one. I have excuses well, ok, maybe not. ummmmm anyone want a cd? - --Bret ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:00:29 EDT From: KarmaFuzzz@aol.com Subject: Re: Been a Long Time (was Phooeys and Wheeeees! of the 1990s) [no Robyn] outdoorminer@mindspring.com writes: > At 09:53 PM 8/29/98 -0400, KarmaFuzzz@aol.com wrote: > >incidentally, can anyone here think of a truly good album that was more > that > >2-3 years after the artists previous album? > > I expect "truly good" to be heavily debated, but for my money... nevermind that 30 seconds after i posted it i remembered William Bloke, and other exceptions but, i was really thinking not so much of bad albums as patchy ones. that it seems like artists after taking long breaks tend to produce stuff that's hit or miss rather than listenable all the way through. so albums like Trade Test Transmissions (which someone mentioned) don't quite qualify, even though i'd say 2/3rd of it is pretty good or better. it's not that people lose the ability to write their best stuff necessarily, but that the lesser albums tracks are definitely more lesser. > Peter Gabriel, SECURITY (four years after the third PETER GABRIEL) So, i guess i was basically thinking of the differences between, say PG's So, and PG's Us. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 18:02:30 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Been a Long Time Fuzzy: >So, i guess i was basically thinking of the differences between, say PG's So, >and PG's Us. But Passion (The Last Temptation of Christ soundtrack) came in-between, so that breaks up the gap into three-year chunks. And yes, I certainly count that as a "true" Peter Gabriel release. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 20:59:50 -0400 From: tanter Subject: Re: defending Joe At 12:15 AM 8/30/1998 +0000, David W. Dudich wrote: >On Sat, 29 Aug 1998 19:03:34 -0400 (EDT), you wrote: > >>>Joe Jackson: Putting aside the fact that he'll never top I'm The Man and >>>Beat Crazy, I have been extremely disappointed by his output this >>>decade. >> >>Wake me when his career is over. >> >>Eb > > time out!!! JJ has done some good music >recently...unfortunately, the albums they have been on are >inconsitsent. Uh oh. Disagreeing with EB I go...! I love Joe's voice, I love _Body & Soul_ and _Big World_. He's a cool guy and I defend him too, while retaining the utmost affection for EB, even though he's wrong on this one!! ;) Marcy ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 15:01:20 +1200 From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: lotsareplies (RH 3, Tottenham 0) >But neither Elrond nor Celeborn are "old" in the mortal sense. And >Guinness, though being the master of disguise that he is (Oldman must have >a shrine to Alec somewhere in his house), probably couldn't pull off the >healthy immortal glow that makes the elves so unbearable. Old, English, distinguished, eccentric, and yet with a healthy boyish glow... What's Sir Richard Attenborough up to these days? =b said: >Gondoloid: i enjoy [...] hooboy do I feel a Devo parody coming on...! >His previous albums were all wonderful: "Lone Rhino" is a classic - one of >the best of the 1980s; "Twang Bar King" was fun and lively, though not >nearly as good all the way through as "LR"; "Desire Caught By The Tail" >wasn't as listenable as the first two, but I think it helped Adrian break >some new ground as far as guitar/guitar synth technology is concerned; >"Mr. Music Head" is the one with the "hit" ;-) although there are several >strong songs on it ("House of Cards," "One Of Those Days" and "1967" >especially stand out); "Young Lions" was nothing short of spectacular - >one of my favourites of the 1990s. "Inner Revolution" was also great - it >ranks just below "YL" on my list of favourite Belew solo albums (I've >heard only a couple songs from "Here" and nothing from "Acoustic Adrian >Belew" and "Belewprints". another Belewophile! Can't say I agree about YL though... 'Here' is my favourite, closely followed by Lone Rhino (why has this never appeared in its entirety on CD???). Acoustic and Inner Revolution took a while for me to get into them, but Young Lions and Mr Music Head were real disappointments to me. >Joe Jackson: Putting aside the fact that he'll never top I'm The Man and >Beat Crazy, I have been extremely disappointed by his output this decade. again, I disgree. Laughter & Lust had some excellent moments ("It's all too much" should be held up as an indication to what extent Neil Finn has influenced Joe Jackson!). How long till the soundtrack to Mike's Murder gets on CD. Ever? Phooey album of the decade (the '90s, that is...): probably not too bad an album in its own right, but - coming as it did after the slowburning 'Automatic for the People', 'Monster' was a monster dud. A real case of the sublime to the ridiculous. >Given the high volume of feg messages lately, it's obvious that many >fegsters have nothing to do, especially no jobs to go to. So I thought I'd >let you all know that Dodi Fayed's father is offering $20mil to the >person/s who can prove that Dodi and Diana's deaths were caused by a >conspiracy. I don't know how hard it would be to prove, but you can live >in London and Paris and when you're done, the money should be tax-free >(?)! The poor man is almost insane, he's consumed by this, so think of the favor you'd be doing him.... I've heard suggestions that Carl Palmer was behind it all. anyone care to speculate for me what the half muttered background vocal on "A filthy bird" is? I only noticed it when I looked through the song for that Croatia theory... >Michael K., np Bats "Daddy's Highway" and almost always playing some sort >of NZ Pop CD in general these days. In fact, that would have to be my >WHEEEE musical genre for the year (not that any of the albums I'm >listening to came out this year; it's just that I basically discovered >Kiwi-Pop this year). heh...new souls for the faith! >- --robyn does backing vocals on homer's Toboggan and lead vocals on Brenda's Iron Sledge! Admit it - if I hadn't done it, someone else would've... James James Dignan___________________________________ You talk to me Deptmt of Psychology, Otago University As if from a distance ya zhivu v' 50 Norfolk Street And I reply. . . . . . . . . . Dunedin, New Zealand with impressions chosen from another time steam megaphone (03) 455-7807 (Brian Eno - "By this River") ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 20:27:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Danielle Subject: Re: divers alarums, handy hints and spiffing wheezes I'm sure you'll all be pleased to know that my essay did not feature beavers. However, I thank Tom kindly for his pains. Class discussion *did* centre on muskrats and squirrels, interestingly. > To combat their malaise, many of the former trappers organized > "Beaver Hunts" where they would split up into groups, go into town, get > piss faced drunk, and then compete to see who could grab > the most beaver.... The activity declined rapidly after > that.... Oh, I think it's still fairly prevalent. Danielle, somehow forcibly reminded of that line about jerking off with sandpaper in Kramer and Hall's (? one o' dem King Missile-related Shimmy Disc people, anyway) 'Real Men' _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 22:59:52 -0600 From: amadain Subject: Re: Top 20 CDs owned By People Who Don't Like Music >>>15. Led Zepplin: 4 > >Puleeeze. Who doesn't have this? Me. "Graceland" is the only one of those I have ever owned, and dammit, I think it's a good album, even if what they're implying by having it on this list is sadly true enough. However the CD does not consititute 65 percent of my collection so I suppose I am safe from mockery by subbaculchurans :). And yes, Danielle, though others have come to back you up since, I DO like "Let's Dance", though I'd never rank it as a favorite Bowie album. I think that's one of the reasons it gets dumped on so much- because there's so much illustrious music before it . I mean, it looks a little lame in comparison to "Low", "Lodger", "Heroes", "Station to Station", "Ziggy Stardust", "Scary Monsters". Even "Man Who Sold The World" and "Aladdin Sane" (admittedly slightly lesser than the aforementioned) are way more adventurous, and I LOVE the Baal soundtrack though I've had endless trouble trying to get a copy of mine own. Anyway, for what LD is it's very enjoyable and gets way more shit than it deserves. I think if it had come from someone lesser than Dave B it wouldn't be quite so reviled. From anyone else I think the title cut, "Modern Love" and 'China Girl" would have been -really- striking singles, and they pack quite the satisfying tri-partite pop punch together on the album. "Let's Dance" isn't IMO -quite- the lapse of taste, the chink in the coolness armor, to make the "duds" thread I don't think tho unless it's the only Bowie album you own :). Unlike most who have posted.....my chink is not long segments of prog-wankery and stupid poetry, nor crunchy heavy metal scale shreds.......I am immune to the charms these may possess. However I have a SERIOUS weakness for all-out glam. Not the kind epitomized by the likes of Duran or Spandau B (though ABC hits the sweet spot occasionally, as with "Poison Arrow"), but the no-holds barred, art-schoolish, I'm-so-ironic "I'M A POP STAR BECAUSE I SAID SO" kind epitomized by the likes of Adam Ant. This does link up a bit with the above actually as basically it was Bowie and Ferry (and to a lesser extent Marc Bolan) who inspired and continue to inspire such in your face greeny-yallery over-the-top-ery as I truly love. This gets me every time. I'll take Bobby Conn over Sea and Cake any old day! :) Love on ya, Susan ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 15:42:32 +1200 From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: Phooey of the decade, and Closet embarrassments Be here now. And after What's the story (Uncle Rory) - derivative or not - I thought they were actuaslly starting to get somewhere. WTS(MG) rated a definite maybe. BHN rated a definitely ditch it. >Okay. If it's dismal we wouldn't like it, right? I think what you >mean is "What do you like that you would never admit to >anyone else (at least on this list) for fear or retribution and public >humiliation?" I have albums by the following. I like 'em all to soime extent, although none are exactly on high rotate: Abba. Neil Diamond. Early Glen Campbell (Jimmy Webb-written stuff). Supertramp. Gerry Rafferty. Mike Oldfield. Chris Isaak. Alanis Morrissette. Emerson Lake & Palmer. The Monkees. Janis Ian. Icehouse. Billy Joel. Oh, and Fleetwood Mac's "Tusk" album. That enough to send me to musical purgatory? >- --Jason (one Trinity: Bowie, Eno, and Sylvian - maybe not in that order) Bowie, probably. Eno, definitely. But Camp David??? ehh... ;) >1. ABBA: Gold >Hands down, the single worst CD in existence. yeah. go for "The album" instead. That way you get lots of good songs without a lot of the dross. Also check out their early and often uncharsacteristically weird stuff (Sitting in a palm tree, The king kong song, Watch out, etc) >9. BOB MARLEY: Legend >Hypothetically, if I can't see God, he doesn't exist. Similarly, if I >can't find anyone who owns a reggae album besides Legend, then Legend is >the only reggae album ever recorded. I love Legend. I'm also a fan of Earl 16, Peter Tosh and Sly & Robbie, though - although suprisingly, they have put out albums too. >11. PAUL SIMON: Graceland >The greatest David Byrne solo album ever. hmmm. Paul Simon was experimenting with 'World music' while David Byrne was still a kid in Scotland. Ever heard "El condor pasa"? Cultural imperialism or not, the world would probably never have heard such sounds as Mbaqanga as Paul Simon had not recorded Graceland. Also, since David Byrne was working mainly in Brazil, if you're going to ping any Paul Simon album ("Ping" is a Keith Quinnism, but only one or two of you will undertand that comment), it should be "Rhythm of the Saints", which followed Byrne into Amazonian territories. >19. ANY DISCO COMPILATION FEATURING GLORIA GAYNOR'S "I WILL SURVIVE" AND >THE VILLAGE PEOPLE'S "YMCA" and anita ward (IIRC)'s "Ring my bell"! James PS - there ain't nothing wrong with the Hollies! And there's CERTAINLY nothing wrong with King Crimson! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 21:16:02 -0700 (PDT) From: X-Communicate Subject: Re: Top 20 CDs owned By People Who Don't Like Music > > >>>15. Led Zepplin: 4 > > > >Puleeeze. Who doesn't have this? > > Me. Me, too. Although, as US vernacular culture requires, I did own this and all of the others in high school. Sold them when I graduated. It was the only thing to do. Some sort of Spencerian evolution based on environmental pressures. Simply put, a large and powerful Led Zepplin arsenal is not needed past age 18. That is not to say it should be illegal, just taken in moderation. Consult your doctor. The only really necessary Led Zepplin album is the first one, IMHO. The others just don't do it for me. Also, some of the licks and tricks can be heard in other songs, which bugs me only for the fact that too many think they are Zepplin (read Percival Page) originals, but borrowed (as is done all the time) from others. Thus, "Whole Lotta Love" becomes the Small Faces' "You need Lovin'" from two years prior. Ect... [Yes, we could run through every significant blues artist in the 20th century as well, but let us not start.] > > "Graceland" is the only one of those I have ever owned, and dammit, I think > it's a good album, even if what they're implying by having it on this list > is sadly true enough. I am not sure about that last bit. On its own, it is a good album. Although I no longer own it and it does not, as with most anything with the odeur d'Simon on it, put that sparkle in my eye when I hear various parts of it. The main reason for this is the claims of plagiarism with many of the songs. I remember the Simon song vs. the Juju artists song and how they were more than "similar" in some parts. This turned me off of it in a major way. I am not sure what the resolution was, but at the time it seemed like damning evidence. Plus, his film, "One Trick Pony," I think, was a decent struggling artist sort of deal, but then you realize that Simon is actually well respected and is not as struggling as half of the musicians you run across. Even in 1980 when it was filmed; although he was not on top of the world either. A bit ironic for him to make the film in some senses. > Unlike most who have posted.....my chink is not long segments of > prog-wankery and stupid poetry, nor crunchy heavy metal scale > shreds.......I am immune to the charms these may possess. However I have a > SERIOUS weakness for all-out glam. I am immune to most of it as well, especially the 1980s stuff. Sorry no amount of revisionism can make the bulk of it a listenable form of recorded sound. No matter how hard I try, I just can't do it. I do however have a special place in my heart for AC/DC. This is the greatest folk band to come out of Australia, EVER DUDE! Sure, they have one song, but it is a great one song no matter how many ways the record, re-record and release and re-release it. They were Spinal Tap before there was Spinal Tap. Also, on my list is the first couple Black Sabbath albums. After that, I can pretty much stop. For those of you with the Quails passion for Eddie and the Iron Maiden, you will be pleased to know that the back catalog is being re-released with bonus tracks and enhanced cds with various Eddie stuff on them, such as videos and, I think, still images. [Is it Eddie or Eddy, I get it all mixed up with Mr. Tews at times, too.] There is also a PC game in the works a la Doom or something. But, you get to see Eddie kick some ass! DUDE, *that* Rocks! [Insert dude guitar riff here.] .chris ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 21:25:17 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Top 20 CDs owned By People Who Don't Like Music >Plus, his film, "One Trick >Pony," I think, was a decent struggling artist sort of deal, but then >you realize that Simon is actually well respected and is not as >struggling as half of the musicians you run across. Even in 1980 when >it was filmed; although he was not on top of the world either. A bit >ironic for him to make the film in some senses. That's a strange criticism...he wasn't playing PAUL SIMON in the film, you know. I mean, why don't you dump on Dustin Hoffman for playing a struggling actor in Tootsie? Eb ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 21:38:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Danielle Subject: under the moonlight, the serious moonlight > And yes, Danielle, though others have come to back you up since, I DO like > "Let's Dance", though I'd never rank it as a favorite Bowie album. I think > that's one of the reasons it gets dumped on so much- because there's so > much illustrious music before it . I mean, it looks a little lame in > comparison to "Low", "Lodger", "Heroes", "Station to Station", "Ziggy > Stardust", "Scary Monsters". Well... see, there's no way I can argue with that, you're totally right. But I have a kind of 'isolationist' attitude to Let's Dance, which I can't really explain. I suppose it's just personal, and probably rather silly, but I don't place Let's Dance within a wider 'Bowie continuum'; if anything, I relate it to other 1983ish pop music, and *damn*, does it come off well! As you say, those singles really pack quite a punch. > "Let's Dance" isn't IMO -quite- the lapse of taste, the chink in the > coolness armor, to make the "duds" thread I don't think tho unless it's the > only Bowie album you own :). Nope, it certainly isn't. :) I can't really think of anything I'm horribly embarrassed about liking. There's plenty in my collection for the discerning to heap scorn upon, though. Maybe I've developed an immunity, after over a year of almost daily Eb-needling. ;) Oh! I know! I don't own any, but I have a weakness for recent Aerosmith! That's *really* awful! :) Danielle, who will always listen to 'Amazing' all the way through if it comes on the radio _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 21:41:43 -0700 From: "Cliff L. Malloy" Subject: Re: Tell Me About Your Duds Glen Uber wrote: > Bayard dixit: > > > tell us what *really* dismal stuff you > > like. :) (uh oh... i sense a thread coming on...) > > Okay. If it's dismal we wouldn't like it, right? I think what you > mean is "What do you like that you would never admit to > anyone else (at least on this list) for fear or retribution and public > > humiliation?" > > My list is as follows (God, I hope this isn't a mistake): *snip* I HAD to jump in on this one... My closet faves include (in no particular order): LPs: Most of the Cowsills canon, Barry Manilow (the first 2 LP GH collection), Gary's Gang - Keep on Dancin', Perrey/Kingsley - the In sound from way out, Duran Duran - Notorious, Tom Jones - the Complete Tom Jones, Mrs. Miller - Greatest Hits, Peter Brown - Do ya wanna get funky with me (recently reissued on cd - WOO HOO!), Martin Denny - Quiet Village, The Afro Blues Quintet plus One - New Directions... 45's: Seasons in the Sun - Terry Jacks, I love Onions - Susan Christie (Lou's sister), The Streak - Ray Stevens, Alone Again (naturally)/Get down - Gilbert O'Sullivan, Timothy - The Buoys (the only song that hit the top twenty that talked about cannibalism), The Door to the Sun - Al Martino, Love Jones - The Brighter side of Darkness... I could go on, but I'm sure that most of you have already lost whatever you have just consumed... Now we return you to your normally scheduled program... Mousestalker ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 22:00:03 -0700 From: "Cliff L. Malloy" Subject: Re: Top 20 CDs owned By People Who Don't Like Music Ken Ostrander wrote: > here's an article someone posted on the subbacultcha list. > how many do you own? > WOOO HOOO... I don't own any of those relix... that's pretty impressive considering that I have close to 5,000 Lp's too... Actually, I used to own about 12 to 15 on the list, but I lost them along with an ex-girlfriend... and i'm not in a hurry to get either back... Mousestalker ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 23:26:29 -0700 From: Lobsterman Subject: FWD: Dan Bern on 2 bay area radio stations tomorrow. To the large Bay Area RH contingent who also goes to Dan Bern concerts: Hey, can anyone please tape these? I could send you some goodies in return. The draw for me is that Dan uses these radio appearances to play songs that aren't on his albums. Anyway, if someone has access and time and can tape it, I would be much appreciative. Thanks, John >Resent-Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 22:32:29 -0700 >From: YrRiotDuck@aol.com >Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 01:30:32 EDT >To: dan-bern-list@eskimo.com >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Resent-From: dan-bern-list@eskimo.com >Reply-To: dan-bern-list@eskimo.com >X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/3820 >X-Loop: dan-bern-list@eskimo.com >Precedence: list >Resent-Sender: dan-bern-list-request@eskimo.com >Subject: DB dan in the bay 9/.1 > > straight from DBHQ~! > >Dan will be doing 2 radio interviews on Bay area stations tomorrow, 9/1. >The first will be on KHSU at approx. 2:30 PM. The second will be at approx. >10:45 PM on KZYX. Both of these times are Pacific. > >listen in!! > >eva > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 23:30:28 -0700 From: Lobsterman Subject: FWD: Whoops! Dan Bern in Wine And Pot Area instead. no fegs in humboldt or mendocino, right?? oh well. thanks anyway. jbj >>Dan will be doing 2 radio interviews on Bay area stations tomorrow, 9/1. >>The first will be on KHSU at approx. 2:30 PM. The second will be at approx. >>10:45 PM on KZYX. Both of these times are Pacific. >>eva > >Thanks for the post Eva. Unfortunately these 2 stations are way north >of here (I am in the SF Bay Area) one is Humboldt State University and >the other is in Mendocino County. Both out of my listening range :( >:(. Hope someone out there is listening and taping.... > >Becky > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 23:38:04 -0700 (PDT) From: X-Communicate Subject: Re: Top 20 CDs owned By People Who Don't Like Music > >Plus, his film, "One Trick > >Pony," I think, was a decent struggling artist sort of deal, but then > >you realize that Simon is actually well respected and is not as > >struggling as half of the musicians you run across. Even in 1980 when > >it was filmed; although he was not on top of the world either. A bit > >ironic for him to make the film in some senses. > > That's a strange criticism...he wasn't playing PAUL SIMON in the film, you > know. > > I mean, why don't you dump on Dustin Hoffman for playing a struggling actor > in Tootsie? I know that he was not in biographical mode in the movie. I think it was not the message but the messenger, in this case. If it had been someone else, I may have received it a lot better. Perhaps, it was me that could not separate the musician Simon from the actor Simon here. As for Tootsie, I can't say--never saw it. But, I am sure there are some people living in trailer parks around here named Tootsie. I would never dump on them. They always have loaded firearms nearby. .chris ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 20:57:20 +0930 From: dlang Subject: Its spreading to other lists. read this oh Fegs and tremble in your collective boots, This came up on the Rtichard Thompson list. I find it extremely disturbing ,Proof positive of the omnipotence of the Quailspiricy . They are incidently, talking about Richard Thompsons wife. >Something I read in the Humphries book that I found very endearing: RT boasted >that Nancy's last name was the collective for *quail.* Possibly the prescence of a number of fegs on the Rt list has spread the collective Quailmania. Or even more hideous, is the spectre of the quail actually manipulating every single list on the ENTIRE INTERNET, not just this one. Is there no end to his evil powers ? is there actually anyone apart from me functioning as a free entity ? But wait, i don't remember typing any of this, my hands, functioning without my volition,who am I ?,wha..., no, no, kee--eeep out o-f m-y brai-n, you fi-----end i wil-------l po-st th-----is.... m--s-s-us-t, hit .---s-e-end--butt--o--n, -b-e-f-eor--e-t-o-o l--at--te, D-O...N0--T..T-R--U-ST--- QU--A-I.mjhghnnml=0pm n.......................................................................................... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 20:58:21 +0930 From: dlang Subject: Re: divers alarums, handy hints and spiffing wheezes 1. I believe that Nostradamus predicted the world will end on August 18, >1999. So perhaps all this Y2K/first-day-of-the-21st-century hoopla is all for >naught. Bugger. I finish paying off my mortgage in Oct 99, at least the swine could have let me have a few months of financial freedom brfore the whole caboodle comes to an end. Drat! dave ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 21:11:09 +0930 From: dlang Subject: Re: Its spreading to other lists. Dear fegs, I would like to dispell any qualms on your part regarding my recent transmission on this subject. You may have noticed some strange garbled warnings on my part regarding that most excellent of creatures ,The Great Quail (HE who is most Exalted , all hail to HIS name and the GREAT OLD ONES )............. You should discount any insane ramblings on my behalf, as since I have injured the creatures foot , oops, I mean of course, MY foot, an infection has set in , nothing dangerous of course, it can be cured by sacrificing a squid at the foot of the GREAT ALTAR on the Quail sabbat in HIS name....STOPIT ,STOPIT, STOPIT,STOP IT. Ysss. OF COURSE I WILL OBEY HIS WILL. Where was I ?. Yes.The foot, well its the infection and it made me have a brain storm and say nasty things about the exalted one and I'm all better now and this silly talk about the Quail and his minions is off course all bunk, there are no plans to raise the earth so all will be prepared for the Great Ones return and anyone who says so is talking through their twelth orifice. The very idea that the internet could be taken over by the RTZYUIPKL and their coherts the SMMMUTRGRLERS is rabid trash created by diseased minds and should be consigned to the frugg bunker to roast unthinkingly whilst the mindless gnarths caper rampantly through endless disjointed weirdly shaped eighth dimensional wormholes in the time space carapace. i hope this will reassure you all as to my sanity and ensure that the great conspiracy will go ahead without all you earthlings twigging to anything. dave gnatrth - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 12:57:39 +0100 (BST) From: M R Godwin Subject: Foxes and Monkees Further research on the spelling of 'Foxy lady': I have just checked my 1967 Track records 'Are you experienced' LP (Track 612001). There is no track listing on the trendy sleeve, but on the label itself the first track is clearly listed as 'Foxy Lady'. This LP was released in the UK on 12 May 1967, which is the first release of the song anywhere, so this song title must have precedence over any later deviant spellings [BTW 12 May '67 was also the date of the Floyd's unforgettable 'Games for May' concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall - annus mirabilis or what?]. The LP was not released in the States until 1 September 1967 - I would be interested to know whether the spelling differed on the first US release. Incidentally, there are no question marks after the LP title on the sleeve or the label, or after the song of the same name. I also have a 1989 'Radio 1 sessions' LP, on which the song appears as the penultimate track on Side 4. The 'Radio 1 sessions' spells it as 'Foxy Lady' both on the sleeve and on the label. In the book in 'The Hendrix Experience' by Mitch Mitchell and John Platt it appears _nineteen times_ in a selection of set lists on pp 170-171: it is spelt 'Foxy Lady' each time, plus several more times in the body of the book. In 'Are you experienced?' (with question mark) by Noel Redding and Carol Appleby it is only mentioned twice, but both times it is spelt 'Foxy Lady' (page 63 and page 68). In Tony Brown's 'Jimi Hendrix - a visual documentary', it is stated that the song was first recorded at CBS studios, London on 13 December 1966; a version was broadcast by the BBC on 9 February 1967 (possibly the recording which appears on the Radio 1 sessions), and a final, presumably definitive recording was cut at Olympic Studios on 13 February 1967: Brown spells it 'Foxy Lady' numerous times throughout the book, right through to Hendrix's last ever set on 6 September 1970 (Puttgarden, Fehrmarn, Germany). Only in McDermott and Kramer's 'Hendrix: setting the record straight' have I ever seen it spelt any other way. Synchronicity: there was a funny moment on the Monkees documentary which they showed here on Saturday night, where Nesmith was describing the tour with Hendrix in support. He said something like 'There were 30,000 kids out there, waving their little pink arms in the air, all yelling [high] "Davy", and Hendrix would sing [low] "Foxy", and the kids would all yell [high] "Davy", and Hendrix would go [low] "Foxy" and so on. It just didn't work out - Hendrix left the tour after about eight dates'. - - Mike G. PS All these years I never realised that 'Daydream Believer' and 'Pleasant Valley Sunday' were sung by different Monkees. The best song on the show was 'Why do you keep me hanging round?'. PPS On the fabulous 'East West' Elektra LP by the Butterfield Blues Band, there is a song called 'Mary Mary'. There is no songwriter credit on my copy, but what appeared to be the same song turned up on the Monkees prog credited to Mike Nesmith. Can anyone shed any light on this? ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V7 #339 *******************************