From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V7 #387 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, October 14 1998 Volume 07 : Number 387 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: tugging at the heartstrings? [Ross Overbury ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V7 #384 [edoxtato@ssax.com] Feg travels [Ethyl Ketone ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V7 #385 [edoxtato@ssax.com] from randi - catchin' up again ;} [Tim Fuller ] Re: from randi - aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh [amadain ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 13 Oct 98 8:52:35 EDT From: Ross Overbury Subject: Re: tugging at the heartstrings? Mike Godwin said: > PS Do 'Heliotrope' and 'Birdshead' share the same strange (possibly > re-entrant) tuning? The last time I heard RH play 'Heliotrope' I was > misled by the intro into thinking it was going to be 'Birdshead'... > IIRC, that article in Acoustic Guitar last year quoted Robyn as saying that the open C tuning he used in Heliotrope was his first experiment in non-standard tuning. I've got the magazine at home, so I can dig it up by tomorrow if somebody insists on it. PS: Standard tuning isn't the arbitrary arrangement it might seem to be. Guitarists ought to check out Bill Edward's "Fretboard Logic" series. The big secret is in the first volume, a slim ringbound volume that put me back $10US. - -- Ross Overbury Montreal, Quebec, Canada email: rosso@cn.ca ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 10:16:57 -0500 From: edoxtato@ssax.com Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V7 #384 >Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 14:11:24 -0700 >From: Eb >Subject: completely >Thanks to those who offered help with my uncle's email problem. Ed >Doxtato takes the prize, for knowing the exact solution. :) >Eb >np: Amnesia/Lingus Thanks! I'm glad I could help out. - -Doc np: School Of Fish, "Cannonball" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 10:39:34 -0700 From: Ethyl Ketone Subject: Feg travels Short notice, but I am hitting the road for a month. Any fegs interested in having a beer and meeting in the following places, e-mail me off list with info on where to connect! Oct 17 - 23 Brattleboro, VT Oct 23 - 28 NYC Oct 28-29 Philly (time will be tight here) Oct 30 - Nov 2ish London (Sorry, I'll miss the Storefront Premiere on the 10th) Nov 2ish - 4ish Glasgow (I think - Am interested in exploring my "roots" in Scotland further) Nov 4ish - 17ish Belfast Home in Oaktown sometime around the 20th barring anything unforseen. Then maybe I'll get a job.... Isn't TGQ in New York???? And Nick, I will be carrying a camera for those feg foto ops! Will have the trusty laptop to catch mail on the road. Be Seeing You, - - Carrie "Questions are a burden for others. Answers are a prison for oneself." **************************************************************************** M.E.Ketone/C.Galbraith meketone@ix.netcom.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 12:37:51 -0500 From: edoxtato@ssax.com Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V7 #385 >Anyone out there ready to come up with a list of terminal illness songs? Um... I think most of Lou Reed's "Magic And Loss" qualifies. Sorry, I hain't got the track list with me. - -Doc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 13:52:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Fuller Subject: from randi - catchin' up again ;} Okay - for those of you who wonder where I've been and/or why I'm not out of the hospital yet is: Bad headache Big bad needle in the spine Bed rest for way too many weeks If you need more details - very gross - then go ahead and email me - but be prepared to be severely grossed out. Okay - down to feg business... First - here is my input on the "Yip Song" debate. I think that people have touched on the issue of the song's meaning, but they have not put it into perspective - for example - what album does the "Yip Song" come from? "Respect" If one were to read the liner notes..."Respect is due to Raymond Hitchcock & John Lennon" Now - having had *septicemia* several times...a line like *septicemia always wins* - makes me feel great. Sorry for Robyn's dad, but proud of myself - 9 surgeries, 4 or 5 bouts of septicemia - and I'm still here. Now if ya check out some other songs on the album - you notice a pattern forming... Railway Shoes: the ghost of your father is right by your side he's so close to you that he's almost inside. When I Was Dead: when I was dead I wore a strong perfume When I as dead I never left the room It wasn't me to speak of, just a thousand ancient feelings, that vanished into nothing, into love Serpent At The Gates Of Wisdom: serpent at the gates of wisdom, like a purple scar, leering at me round the dashboard, as I reach my car, I close the door, I start the engine, and I will take control, G-d above, and all her angels, have mercy on your soul. Then You're Dust: Nobody wakes you. Nobody can. Nobody shakes you. Anymore. Okay, I'm not going to throw more lyrics your way - but as far as I know - - this whole album came from his dad dying. {and a bit of trouble with Cynthia} Respect was an Egyptians album - not Robyn solo: where he can play around with our feelings with the gentleness or force of his music and lyrics on his own time. Many of the songs I mentioned sound great when I saw Robyn playing with the Egyptians...and other than Serpent At the Gates of Wisdom, they all seemed diffent in tone without a real band. The "Yip Song" is not one of my favourite songs on the new soundtrack - but I was there in New York City for the whole making of the film - some kind soul - who thought it was tremendous that I survived all that Crohn's Disease stuff - flew me to NYC. So the guy playing in "Storefront Hitchcock" is not the *real Robyn* He was nervous...too conscious of the lights and cameras on cranes...and his makeup coming off...and that somehow he'd wreck JD's vision. And that is why "The Yip Song" isn't the rip your guts out kind of soul wrenching song that Robyn plays at a solo gig. The anger and violence that comprises the "Yip Song" does not come across on the soundtrack, only seeing Robyn solo on a good night can do that. Now, if you think about the stages of grief - think about the fact that Robyn's dad died while he was making this album, and he and Cynthia were having problems. So, I wouldn't say all the songs on Respect are in the stage of *denial* I'd say they were part *denial* and part *anger* - with a touch of *acceptance.* Why else would Robyn have written so many songs about his dad, girlfriend, and daughter, about fear and loss, and pain and sadness on "Moss Elixir." Seems to me Robyn's solo albums - and I consider *ME* to be solo - tell the truth about what's going on in his life at the time. As I've mentioned before, Robyn was so upset that *ME* didn't sell to well - 'cause lyrically and musically *he* felt it was his most honest and personal album. I heartily agree. fading back to yesterday for now ;} Randi ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 14:16:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Fuller Subject: from randi - aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh I can't believe Susan's fegness is October 17th - if it were a few weeks later I could come :{ :{ :{ :{ Who is going to take lots of pictures at the gathering and make a copy for me? {I'll cover the costs :} I hope Susan has another fegfest at a time where I can come - 'cause I would love to meet everyone that is going to be there - as well as the lovely and talented Susan Dodge :} Hope y'all have a great weekend !!!! I shall be thinking of you all... Maybe I should call... {note to self: ask Susan for her number} I'll fade back into yesterday shortly ;} Randi *what scares you most will set you free* - Robyn Hitchcock *and the longer you hide...the more you deny* - Neil Finn ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 12:57:47 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Bawb [fwd from usenet] > From: Francois Kahn > Newsgroups: rec.music.dylan > Subject: Live 1966 in Wall Of Sound > Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 12:05:08 +0200 > > http://www.wallofsound.com/reviews/stories/4048_11index.html > > I cannot copy the entire article but the 1st sentence should be enough : > > Now that it's finally been released, it's safe to say it: Bob Dylan's > Live 1966: The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert is not merely the greatest > unreleased album of all time, or the greatest live album of all time; > it's the greatest rock and roll album of all time, period. > > > The rating is of course 100. Wall Of Sound had never given more than 90 > before (and will never do it again, I believe...) Garsh! Hey, and how's this for wacky? Someone reviewed the album for the AllStar site (not me), and gave it a "10" but the editor knocked it down to a 9 because he believes 10 is reserved for THE best album period, and this isn't it. I guess that Wall of Sound would disagree? :) Eb np: an absolutely HIDEOUS Free Kitten CD which I bought for $2 and spent $2 too much on ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 19:59:38 -0600 From: amadain Subject: Re: from randi - aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh >I can't believe Susan's fegness is October 17th - if it were a few weeks >later I could come :{ :{ :{ :{ Funny thing is, it was originally planned for October to celebrate the travels of Bayard "They Call Me The Wanderer" Catron, who ended up changing his itenerary :). Ah well. It should be noted also that I made a typo in the last post. October 17th was correct, but FRIDAY wasn't. I trust everybody besides me has that straight tho :). >Who is going to take lots of pictures at the gathering and make a copy >for me? {I'll cover the costs :} Actually, no one has stepped forward. If no one does I'll snag myself one of those disposable numbers and do it myself. >I hope Susan has another fegfest at a time where I can come - 'cause I >would love to meet everyone that is going to be there - We'll see. If the aftermath's not too damaging the SO may consent to another one ;). >I shall be thinking of you all... >Maybe I should call... Well, I have already heard from one Terrence Marks who will be calling, so this may end up being a phonefest as well as a fegfest! Love on ya, Susan ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 19:57:15 -0600 From: hal brandt Subject: 100% RH content!!! Back in May, I sent an inquiry to Rhino about something I saw on their site at http://rhino.com: > Subject: Robyn Hitchcock bonus track question > Author: hbrandt@milehigh.net > Date: 5/20/98 09:49 AM > > > I was searching your site and found a listing for Robyn > Hitchcock's Black Snake Diamond Role CD. I own a copy > of this on the Rhino label. My copy has five bonus tracks > but on your page, even though the copy says five bonus tracks, > six titles are actually listed as being bonus tracks. > My copy doesn't have this one: > > Yes She's Gone (previously unissued outtake) > > So, is this a new version with an extra track added > or an error? > > /hal I just got a response today (!) and thought I'd pass it along: > Sorry that it took us soooo long to get back to you, but we've been > utterly swamped! > > Your CD is right, our website listing is wrong. (I'll check into > having that fixed, and thanks for bringing it to my attention.) "Yes > She's Gone" is a track that dropped off at the last minute, but it > somehow hit the website anyway apparently. > > Thanks for your patience!:) > > Dr. Rhino ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V7 #387 *******************************