From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V7 #460 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, December 14 1998 Volume 07 : Number 460 Today's Subjects: ----------------- catching up (*four* digests over the weekend???) [james.dignan@stonebow.o] Re: Uncorrected... & Klaatu [james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dig] Re: Uncorrected... [amadain ] NYC holiday show [Miles Goosens ] Re: Mostly Momus (RH paragraph at the end if you wanna skip to it) [Aaron] Re: looking for fegpages... [The Great Quail ] Re: how did "pretty" come to mean "moderately"? [Eb ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V7 #455 ["Gene Hopstetter, Jr." ] Re: how did [Michael R Godwin ] Re: The night has ears [Tom Clark ] contagion ["Capitalism Blows" ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V7 #459 [edoxtato@ssax.com] Re: contagion [Ben ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V7 #459 [Insomnboy@aol.com] Re: pac man fever ["Capitalism Blows" ] the corn is as high as an elephant's eye... [Mark_Gloster@3com.com] live chat on SonicNet [Brodyjean@aol.com] Re: writing credits [Capuchin ] Re: writing credits [Eric Loehr ] succinctly [Eb ] Re: writing credits [Ben ] Construct a critter [LORDK@library.phila.gov] Sounds like a doubter to me, Ray. [VIV LYON ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 15:27:04 +1300 From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: catching up (*four* digests over the weekend???) a couple of late thoughts for December for those of you listing your best ofs... I've just heard two lovely lovely albums... they haven't had time to sink in yet, but I'd like to know more about the bands: 1) Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs. I've previously only heard one album by them (Boces), some of which was great, the rest... ehh. This, however, seems a goody, even if the emphasis on theremin gets a little wearying after a while. Who are they? What else have they put out? - taking of whom... >Okay, what I meant to say was 'use Hammonds extensively as a solo >instrument'. I'm still refining my "Three Point Prog Checklist". you mean like the Spencer Davis Group? White soul is officially prog??? ;) 2) The Beta Band - 3EPs CD. Now THIS I really like. This has the potential to reach towards my top ten for the year, I think, but I need more time to let it sink in and gain a bit of distance so to speak. Who are the Beta Band (I *think* they're Scottish)? What else have they done??? >8) Ma Vie En Rose - Sweet, gentle story of a young lad's gender confusion. >Light, but never threatens to float away, thoughtful, but never didactic. >Alain >Berliner's Belgian production is a film that avoids every trap and settles on >just the right tone. saw this a couple of nights back. Good movie. Sweet & gentle describes it nicely. A movie that makes you smile rather than laugh, and leaves you with a good warm feeling, without being all cutesy. >Seconded. It's also good to include Johnathan Winters, Simon & Schuster, >Shelly Berman, Flanders & Swann, the first four Bill Cosby albums, and >Nichols & May. ye gods! Someone mentioned Flanders & Swann! Twas on the Monday morning, the gas man came to call... Re: Classical music... despite his fairly dubous political views, I'd like to say that Wagner's music is worth a listen (and if you're in the mood for that, also check out Carl Orff) 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, 14 Dec 1998 15:27:26 +1300 From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: Re: Uncorrected... & Klaatu >Narcissistic Personality: >================== I am the greatest - aHouse Everybody loves me baby - Don MacLean (!) >Dependent: >========= If you leave me (can I come too) - Mental as Anything >Schizotypal: >========== Many of Talking Heads' greatest moments... (Psycho killer, Burning down the house, Life during wartime) Paranoid: ======== I'm down - The Beetles I got you - Split Enz >Obsessive: >========== I want you (She's so heavy) - The Bootles >Antisocial: >======== Intruder - Peter Gabriel Peter Gabriel deserves special mention for other such Uncorrected Personality Trait songs as "I have the touch" and "Family Snapshot" Special mention also goes to Matthew Sweet for coming up with the first line "There's something I should tell you before I take your blindfold off..." (song title something like "Superdeformed"?) >And Klaatu! There are frogs and/or crickets on the beginning of the >self-titled Klaatu album! (Unless that counts again as a Paul McCartney >work.)(And don't try to tell me that Klaatu *weren't* the Beatles' "Dukes >of the Stratosfear," because I may not believe you.) There is, surprisingly, one instant on the first Klaatu album that does sound remarkably like the Macca - during one song you distinctly hear the word California sung in a way that sounds exactly like Paul. But everyone knows he'd been dead for years by then, so it couldn't have been him. 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: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 21:12:32 -0600 From: amadain Subject: Re: Uncorrected... Actually, just as a PS to this thread, because I just now remembered it. Anyone who's interested in this topic owes it to themselves to check out the December issue of Q Magazine (for those unfamiliar, it's a wonderfully entertaining and well-written British music mag- stateside you can find it at Border's and probably other large chains). There's an article called "Rock and Roll Drives You Mad", on page 80, which interviews several musicians, profiles some others, and has some not uninsightful commentary from a woman called Carol Topolski, from the British Association of Psychotherapists. Love on ya, Susan ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 21:28:10 -0600 From: Miles Goosens Subject: NYC holiday show I just posted this on my R. Stevie Moore site, but thought it might be of interest to even the non-Stevie fan given the show's lineup: R. Stevie Moore will be part of "A Holiday Hootenanny," an all-Christmas song show at the Tonic, a New York City club. The show takes place on Sunday, December 20th, and also features Mark Eitzel, Freedy Johnston, Peter Stampfel (Holy Modal Rounders), The Pacific Ocean, Brian Dewan, and more. Stevie plans to do "It Came Upon A Midnight Clear," and others to be announced. The Tonic is located at 107 Norfolk Street. later, Miles ================================================== Miles Goosens R. Stevie Moore website, now with sound! http://www.rsteviemoore.com My personal page, all silent all the time: http://www.mindspring.com/~outdoorminer/miles Join the Wire Mailing List: http://www.mindspring.com/~outdoorminer/wire ================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 22:55:00 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: Mostly Momus (RH paragraph at the end if you wanna skip to it) On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, amadain wrote: > Actually I think this one is less of a novelty song than it first appears. > To me it's a very funny, self-aware and self-deprecating take on some > males' fascination with/private celebration of their own genitalia. for a perfect example of Momus's double nature, look at "A Complete History Of Sexual Jealousy Parts 17-29" and "A Complete History Of Penis Envy Sizes 24-29". the former is heart-rending and guaranteed to induce shame in just about anyone as they recognize themselves in the lyrics; the latter is gut-busting and guaranteed to induce laughter in just about anyone as they recognize themselves, etc. but they're both dead-on in exactly the same way. so, is that an example of Momus's double nature, or of ours? > And here's a real trip- when I heard that Momus had been involved in a > lawsuit I immediately assumed it was a defamation suit by Mr. K-Tel. Nope. > It was WENDY CARLOS who was suing. Damn! Now that's odd. Haven't heard his > take on it, but I would have to think he was very upset. i believe he said simply that he was hurt, as he had intended to pay tribute to her, not mock her or (as she said) imply that she endorsed his music. a ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Dec 98 00:42:24 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: Re: looking for fegpages... >i'm working on my site and would like to include links to any and all >feghomepages.... please email me your URLs.... also, Quail and >Glenuber, i believe you have a bunch of URLs.. can you remind me of >the pages on which they are stored? The more URL the merrier.. let's >URL till we hURL.... Yeah, I have almost every Fegs homepage listed on my small Robyn site: I need to update it, though, I don't have a few of the newer Feglings. This list of URLs, by the way, is only used for good. I promise, I *promise*. . . . - --Quail "benvolent, but never underestimate brewer tom's power" Yes. +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+ The Great Quail, K.S.C. (riverrun Discordian Society) For fun with postmodern literature, New York vampires, and Fegmania, visit Sarnath: http://www.rpg.net/quail "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents." -- H.P. Lovecraft ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 00:26:20 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: how did "pretty" come to mean "moderately"? Terrence waved a flower and proclaimed it beautiful, man: >And I bet Spirit was more influential than Robyn, given the moderately >large numbers of bands in the 70s who covered their songs (Water Woman, >Fresh Garbage, Uncle Jack, 1984 and Animal Zoo, mainly) and, well, compare >Taurus to Stairway to Heaven. "In the 70s," you say. Mm-hmm. And how many of those groups are respected (or even remembered) today? Personally, I can't name even one group who has covered Spirit, but then, I don't follow misguided retro-hippie bands with the ardor that you do. (I do remember hearing an "Animal Zoo" cover in recent times, but can't remember who did it.) And you know, most of Spirit's albums weren't even left in print, until recently. Not much demand, you say? Mm-hmm. As for Robyn, the fact that the Robyn-influenced REM is one of THE most influential bands of the last 20 years should be testimony enough. I just got back from seeing Placebo at the Whisky A-Go-Go. Kinda tedious, and way overcrowded. Starfucking: I didn't see for myself, but there was a large area of the balcony cordoned off, and word was that it was reserved for Billy Corgan and Depeche Mode. Hm. Before the show, I stopped at Larry Flynt's new "Hustler" retail store, located directly across the street. Woo. A most impressive array of apparatus. Far too complex for a naif like me to master, I fear. And unfortunately, there was a strict no-returns policy on all the orifice-penetrating devices. Kinda intimidating. So who wants a "I [heart] Porn" t-shirt? Heh. Still coughing but fairly close to well at this point, Eb ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 03:08:20 -0600 From: amadain Subject: Re: Mostly Momus (some RH bits in here too) >for a perfect example of Momus's double nature, look at "A Complete >History Of Sexual Jealousy Parts 17-29" and "A Complete History Of Penis >Envy Sizes 24-29". The former I am very familiar with (17-24, btw :)), but reading through all the archived lyrics I was unable to find the latter. Was it in one of the columns or essays? Or are you having me on? It certainly SOUNDS like something he'd have written. (snip) >anyone as they recognize themselves, etc. but they're both dead-on in >exactly the same way. so, is that an example of Momus's double nature, or >of ours? He's as camp as camp can be, and yet comes off as "embarassingly sincere", he's harshly moralistic and very ribald, he sees the sacredness of the profane and the profanity in the sacred. I don't see it as an unresolvable split. "For God has pitched his mansion in the place of excrement/And nothing can be sole or whole, that has not been rent", as Yeats said- I see Momus at his best as a celebration of divine paradox. Did that speak to the question sorta? I actually wasn't quite sure what you meant by double nature, so I may be totally off here. Anyway, I think this fuels a lot of Robyn Hitchcock's work as well, in a totally different way, but I see a strong resemblance at the heart. There is that same quality of being at the same time a wide-eyed innocent and horribly perverse, being both evasively coy and extremely sincere, that resonates deeply with me. They both have something of the mystic about them. Actually now that I've hopped that train of thought, I see a TON of resemblances. The most obvious parallel that comes to mind right this minute is an alarming tendency to hide behind what they know they do well and think people want to hear ("amiable zany Englishman" in RH's case, "foppish Wildean eccentric" in Momus's). Also they both get called "literate", "troubadour", and "oddball" quite a lot, and share a deep passion for wordplay and exploring humanity's dark side, not to mention they're both rather lusty individuals. They're very similar, and the irony is they probably hate each others' music :). >i believe he said simply that he was hurt, as he had intended to pay >tribute to her, not mock her or (as she said) imply that she endorsed his >music. I can see how she might conceivably get the former impression, but the latter is mysterious. There's nothing to strongly suggest that. All I can think of is that she's an extraordinarily private person who avoids the public eye like the plague, and was just looking for SOME way to stop distribution of the song/album image and perhaps win herself some bucks in the process. Love on ya, Susan it's called bed Susan, get in yours, it's late! :) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 12:20:24 +0000 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: writing credits On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Ben wrote: > Right! Even if Barrett (not Syd)/Strong/Whitfield wrote a lot of the > stuff, you can't deny the quality of the songs. And they DID play > instruments, their voices. :) There are a whole mass of Motown songwriters on those Tempts hits: the Hollands, Lamont Dozier, Smokey Robinson, Berry Gordy, Ashford and Simpson and some others I've never heard of, as well as Barrett Strong (he's one person, not Barrett/Strong) and Norman Whitfield. Talking of writing credits, I was playing my Mountain LPs the other day and I noticed that they have huge teams writing some of their stuff (Pappalardi, Collins, West, Ship, Rea and Ventura for one song IIRC). How can it possibly take more than 3 people to write a song? - - Mike Godwin ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 09:07:02 -0600 From: "Gene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V7 #455 From The One That Cut You, Stewart Russell: >And don't forget Fred >Lane & His Hittite Hotshots' "French Toast Man" -- food hygiene >tuition should start early. I owe most of my current sophistication to the French Toast Man. Mmm, delicious french toast in a sock, can't beat that for an after-school snack. "So evacuate your bowels, and have a hot lunch, and don't be late for school" indeed. BTW, I'm told that the "From The One That Cut You/Car Radio Jerome" CD is due to be reissued soon. The world will be a better place. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 15:09:04 +0000 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: how did > >just remember: Robyn's *worst* > >album is better than any Donovan record. On Sat, 12 Dec 1998, Daniel Barkhouse wrote: > I beg to differ. That's right. 'Sunshine Superman' (US edition, not the UK mishmash version) is one of the all-time great records. 'Fairytale', 'Mellow Yellow' and 'GFAFTAG' are all better than the average Hitchcock record as well. - - Mike G. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 10:05:06 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: The night has ears On 12/11/98 11:40 PM, Carrie Galbraith wrote: >So today I grabbed a Soft Boys comp with some bonus extras a friend made me >years ago. Somehting about driving at night in Northern California or the >cold air or the knarly accident I saw on 101, but I listened to "Ghost >Ship" for the first time in many a moon. Over. And over and over. > >It's fucking brilliant writing! >A Vision of Johanna caliber song! >Why didn't I hear it so well before?? >Wow! > >Just had to gush. Pays to revisit, on a regular basis, the whole body of >work. Funny you should mention that. Last week while my wife was traveling (to Wall St. to celebrate her company's IPO, uhthankyouverymuch), I threw all my RH CD's into the changer and shuffle-played the whole lot. You're right, Carrie, "Ghost Ship" can really conk you on the noggin when you're not expecting it! Every now and then I would just be blown away by this amazing collection of songs. I don't think we say it enough around here, or maybe it's just universally understood, but The Man is fucking brilliant. Somewhere in the Autumn Sea, - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 10:27:15 PST From: "Capitalism Blows" Subject: contagion i was just sitting there minding my own fucking business last night, when i got stung by a motherfucking bee! in the fucking dead of fucking winter, too! as with eb, i hadn't been stung in *ages*. 15 years, maybe. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 13:07:09 -0600 From: edoxtato@ssax.com Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V7 #459 Hee-Bee-gee-bee did say to Terrance: >And your above claim is probably true, but just remember: Robyn's *worst* >album is better than any Donovan or Spirit record. I realise you're taking the piss here, but such statements lead me to wonder: What fuckin'* difference does it make? - -Doc (*)This version of the word "fuckin'" is a new E. Tews prototype. It's designed to carry 35% more invective, and still allow the message to be carried to AOL users everywhere. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 14:48:51 -0500 From: Ben Subject: Re: contagion Capitalism Blows wrote: > i was just sitting there minding my own fucking business last night, > when i got stung by a motherfucking bee! in the fucking dead of fucking > winter, too! as with eb, i hadn't been stung in *ages*. 15 years, > maybe. Well, fuck! That fucking sucks! Fuck all bees, those fucking fuckers! By the way, anyone for a quick fuck? :) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 14:56:39 EST From: Insomnboy@aol.com Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V7 #459 In a message dated 12/14/98 11:17:35 AM Pacific Standard Time, edoxtato@ssax.com writes: > (*)This version of the word "fuckin'" is a new E. Tews prototype. It's > designed to carry 35% more invective, and still allow the message to be > carried to AOL users everywhere. As a fuckin' member of fuckin' AOL for fuckin' three fuckin' years, I've never had a fuckin' problem with fuckin' e-mails with the fuckin' word "fucking" getting or going fuckin' through. But that's my fuckin' problem. Have a nice fuckin' day. ;-) NARF! Russell in fuckin' Los Angeles ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 12:31:36 PST From: "Capitalism Blows" Subject: Re: pac man fever i'd probably rank Hudsucker ahead of Lebowski as well. but that's kind of why i had to stop at #8: i couldn't reconcile the fact that i might have to have four coen movies in my top ten with the fact that the same director(ial team) couldn't *possibly* make four of the ten best movies of the decade. and Miller's Crossing was released in the '90's as well! i ask you, fegs, has there ever been a decade in film history so dominated by any one director(ial team)? ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 12:31:30 -0800 From: Mark_Gloster@3com.com Subject: the corn is as high as an elephant's eye... Hi. They finally shipped me Stan Ridgway's _The Way I Feel Today_. I guess they were waiting for him to get around to sign the accompanying 5X7 glossy. Mine says "to Mark Gloster - VIVA APTOS, Stan Ridgway." This is a release by the http://www.primenet.com/~drywall site for fans of Stan/WOVoodoo/Drywall fans. This is Stan Krooning the Klassix. Well, my first listen is just finishing up. Here's the song list: witchcraft what now my love i've got you under my skin angel eyes it had to be you yesterdays the coffee song my way one for my baby my baby just cares for me what a beautiful morning on a clear day if i ruled the world old man river make some one happy as time goes by the impossible dream send in the clowns This release might not be worth your while if you don't like Stan. It's a little pricey. But if you do like Stan, it is a joyride. Stan, to me is one of the only successful performers to incorporate humor and wit into his work. Yea, I know, less lately. His crooning work is good enough to make your parents like it, and sung with enough of his irony to make you wonder whether he's really cracking up inside. There is some analog synth that happens sporadically to keep it somewhat surreal. It's kind of like watching Bill Murray in a serious movie. It almost shouldn't be done, and I'm always waiting for him to do something to make me fall out of my chair laughing. Stan performing My Way, The Impossible Dream, The Coffee Song, Send in the Clowns is worth the dough. This one will probably jump into my top ten for the year, even though I can't tell if he's being funny. There is some real art to that. If you like his other solo work, or his stuff with Wall of Voodoo, or the stuff by Mark Gloster and Big Rubber Shark, you may well like this. Unfortunately for some of you, it doesn't sound at all like the Grateful Dead or the Beach Boys. He's way too American to sound like Robyn Hitchcock. I put the CD in the carousel, when it finished, the soundtrack to Psycho (that I bought in Michael Keefe's shoppe) came on. It was strangely perfect. Sorry to have not returned emails of late. I have been grooming the mighty snow-covered double-black diamond slopes of the sierras with my face. When skiing in early-season form, I have found that the nose makes a very useful rudder. Hope you all are having a happy feg season. - -Markg ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 15:24:05 EST From: Brodyjean@aol.com Subject: live chat on SonicNet Hi all-- I found the following info on the alt.showbiz.gossip newsgroup, of all places. Did somebody post about this already? I haven't been paying attention... Becky - ------- Rock N' Roll Insider Chat with Robyn Hitchcock! Hosted by SonicNet's Michael Goldberg & Gil Kaufman Special Guest: Robyn Hitchcock Monday, December 14, 6:00 PM (ET), 3:00 PM (PT) Go To: http://channels.sonicnet.com _______________________________________________ Robyn Hitchcock's wit, weirdness and skewed melodies play perfectly into the new Jonathan Demme film "Storefront Hitchcock" and promise more strange tracks on his untitled upcoming Warmer Bros. release featuring cameos by R.E.M. Find out more from the man himself ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 12:38:58 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: writing credits On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Michael R Godwin wrote: > Talking of writing credits, I was playing my Mountain LPs the other day > and I noticed that they have huge teams writing some of their stuff > (Pappalardi, Collins, West, Ship, Rea and Ventura for one song IIRC). How > can it possibly take more than 3 people to write a song? Well, if you've got a big band (what the fuck is a Mountain LP?) with a whole lotta parts and instruments and each person wrote their own bit, that'd give you a big songwriting credit list. Why they don't just put the name of the group, I don't know. Alive. Je. ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 16:17:25 -0500 (EST) From: Eric Loehr Subject: Re: writing credits Jeme, We (the Fegdom Collective) are glad that you're alive; not just today, every day. Really. In answer to your questions: LP: quaint, round, vinyl device with a hole in the middle often used to store musical information which is extracted by placing a sharp on it's surface which is connected to sound reproducing electronic devices. mountain: very tall and large, earthen-covered mound often placed inconveniently in the path of highways and byways; difficult to move, they generally just sit there blocking the view of the surrounding landscape. Mountain LPs: 1. Combine the two above and you get: late 60's sort of "supergroup" featuring Leslie West as Clapton,Felix Pappalardi as Bruce (Jack, that is, NOT a professor of anything at the University of Wallamalloo), and Corky Laiing (no relation to R.D or Commander Dave) as Baker. Couldn't just use the name of the group since all of those other guys weren't in it. Big hits were Mississippi Queen (ok,maybe this was the only real hit) and Nantucket Sleighride; they also did Bruce's Theme From an Imaginary Western (NOT the omelet). I kind of liked 'em, but haven't listened to them on purpose in 25-30 years. Any other old farts have more info/corrections/opinions? "I'll have a western on a toasted karmic roll, please" Eric On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Capuchin wrote: > > On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Michael R Godwin wrote: > > Talking of writing credits, I was playing my Mountain LPs the other day > > and I noticed that they have huge teams writing some of their stuff > > (Pappalardi, Collins, West, Ship, Rea and Ventura for one song IIRC). How > > can it possibly take more than 3 people to write a song? > > Well, if you've got a big band (what the fuck is a Mountain LP?) with a > whole lotta parts and instruments and each person wrote their own bit, > that'd give you a big songwriting credit list. Why they don't just put > the name of the group, I don't know. > > Alive. > Je. > ________________________________________________________ > > J A Brelin Capuchin > ________________________________________________________ > > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 13:40:16 -0800 From: Eb Subject: succinctly I rarely take the piss (I did have one cup of beer last night -- woo!), I think Spirit's and Donovan's records have aged horribly and I don't care for Cake, Stan Ridgway or the Violent Femmes (for basically the same reason). Eb, who hasn't been appreciably drunk in years :) PS I'd probably rank Donovan's "Greatest Hits" above a Hitchcock album or two. But that's an anthology. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 16:40:37 -0500 From: Ben Subject: Re: writing credits Eric Loehr wrote: > Mountain LPs: > 1. Combine the two above and you get: > late 60's sort of "supergroup" featuring Leslie West as Clapton,Felix > Pappalardi as Bruce (Jack, that is, NOT a professor of anything at the > University of Wallamalloo), and Corky Laiing (no relation to R.D or > Commander Dave) as Baker. Couldn't just use the name of the group since > all of those other guys weren't in it. > > Big hits were Mississippi Queen (ok,maybe this was the only real hit) and > Nantucket Sleighride; they also did Bruce's Theme From an Imaginary > Western (NOT the omelet). I kind of liked 'em, but haven't listened to > them on purpose in 25-30 years. Any other old farts have more > info/corrections/opinions? Leslie West often appears on the Howard Stern show, where he is known more for his need to inject erection-inducing drugs into his own Mountain, and has some neat guitar guest spots on recent Who reissues ("Behind Blue Eyes" and "Love Ain't For Keeping"). ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 16:58:27 -0500 From: LORDK@library.phila.gov Subject: Construct a critter Poll-time. Sweet, lofty idealist I am, I wish to take a poll on an important issue, so that constructive critisism(not mockery, not witty, name-calling, and never , never anything which might tend to cruelty or humiliation in any shape or form)might be offered where, oh perhaps, it might be sorta kinda needed. A poll to figure out what robyn should do with his hair. a) shave his head b)grow it long so the cowlicks get weighed down. c) get really expensive haircuts every 6 weeks d) other PLease send your choice back to me , the good-hair Queen(but only when I finially figured out that b was the only way to go.) Comments are encouraged UTM K LordK@library.phila.gov ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 14:26:14 -0800 (PST) From: VIV LYON Subject: Sounds like a doubter to me, Ray. - ---DDerosa5@aol.com wrote: > I know some of you still doubt Viv's existence, > perhaps mine moreso as a consequence, > but ours is currently a linctup house. > > So wait yer turn... > Oh honey. The pun is nauseating, but the sentiment... less so. Vivien ps-I really do love this guy, who is real and flesh and blood and I promise he isn't just a figment of my imagination because in my most fevered nightmare I never would have made that pun and besides, aol sucks and I'll never link my name to it. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V7 #460 *******************************