From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V8 #200 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, June 7 1999 Volume 08 : Number 200 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: paintings by robyn [four episode lesbian ] Reap [Ross Overbury ] Lips/RH Query [toby ] what the fuck? [Capitalism Blows ] Re: Torme, Hendrix [Michael R Godwin ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 05 Jun 1999 21:09:16 -0400 From: four episode lesbian Subject: Re: paintings by robyn MC 900 Ft Bayard rapped: >robyn's paintings can be found at >http://polymer.physics.bristol.ac.uk/~phpch/rh.html there are also some image files in the old fegmaniax archives at (there are also a bunch of other things including some scanned images from magazines and some photos from the earliest beginnings of the glass flesh project). woj n.p. heavens to betsy -- calculated ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1999 22:08:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Ross Overbury Subject: Reap Mel Torme. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 11:01:07 +0100 (BST) From: toby Subject: Lips/RH Query > > By the way, I downloaded an MP3 from the new Flaming Lips album and it > > sounds great! Has anyone heard an advanced copy? It's been out for three or four weeks over here, and while it took me a little while to get into it, I reckon it's one of the best two or three albums I've heard this year. The first couple of times through it sounded a little bland (probably because of the lack of guitars), but I'm hooked now. Robyn Query: can anyone tell me anything about the song "Nobody Loves Yoy (But Jesus and Me)"? toby ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 13:35:47 PDT From: Capitalism Blows Subject: what the fuck? didn't anybody attend the largo show on friday? griffith? russell in la? eb? jason? bay area fegs? let's have a setlist, eh! well, i just finished watching the movie Judas Kiss, kindly sent to me by mr. clark. rubbish movie, with wretched dialogue, and laughably bad new orleans accents. (worst of all were alan rickman and emma thompson.) however, there was robyn, singing over the closing credits! he also got "special thanks" in the credit roll. the song is not called Judas Kiss (Jesus And Me), rather, it's credited as Judas Kiss *aka* Jesus And Me. i like it. it's a good song. although i think it'd've been cooler if the lines: Nobody loves you, but jesus and me I've got my reasons He wants your soul were reversed. that is: He's got his reasons I want your soul i dunno, just a thought. just listening to a lou reed boot from '92, with an absolutely *kicking* version of Rock And Roll. _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 11:18:05 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: Torme, Hendrix On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, Ross Overbury wrote: > Mel Torme. Too bad. I don't know much about MT, but I do like that song 'I'm coming home', which I think was the first number to feature that 4-semitone rundown which was lifted by the Spencer Davis Group for 'I'm a man' (and later covered by Chicago, IIRC). Talking of dead stars, I watched the never-before screened 1-hour Hendrix at Woodstock concert on TV at the weekend. This gig got a terrible review in the McCutcheon / Kramer Hendrix book, so I was surprised at how good some of the numbers were. But McC&K report that the original gig was nearer 2 hours than one; there was a lot of faffing about and apologising going on between numbers; and the other guitarist sang 2 songs(!). The final result was fairly well cut to eliminate these faults. In fact it was hard to tell that there was another guitarist in the band: both his songs had gone, and even when he was playing a solo, the camera showed Hendrix vamping the rhythm part - infuriating but somehow typical. According to http://www.woodstock69.com/Woodstock_songs.htm the full set list was: -Message To Love -Getting My Heart Back Together Again -Spanish Castle Magic -Red House -Master Mind (I think this was one of the Larry Lee vocals) -Here Comes Your Lover Man -Foxy Lady -Beginning -Izabella -Gypsy Woman (Larry Lee vocal) -Fire -Voodoo Child (slight return)/Stepping Stone -Star Spangled Banner -Purple Haze -Woodstock Improvisation/Villanova Junction -Hey Joe However, IIRC the film started with 'Fire' (possibly there was a short extract from something else first) and then selected various other numbers in an apparently random order. Heaven knows why they included 'Star Spangled Banner', which everyone has seen already, but didn't include 'Here comes your lover man', which McC&K select as one of the most creative things he played at Woodstock. I would also have liked to see 'Spanish Castle Magic' included, but that's only because it's one of my favourites. I really enjoyed the 'Improvisation/ Villanova Junction' thing, but I can see that it was open to a 'noodling' criticism. I was puzzled about the band. They were billed in the film as 'Gypsys, Suns and Rainbows' (_not_ 'Gypsies') but at one point Hendrix clearly said "the band is called 'Suns and Rainbows' or, if you like 'Band of Gypsies' - - it doesn't matter". So Hendrix apparently saw the band as being an edition of the Band of Gypsies, even though Buddy Miles wasn't involved. Lineup consisted of JMH, Mitch Mitchell, Billy Cox (bs.), Larry Lee (gtr), Juma Sultan (perc.), Jerry Velez (perc.). I think Jerry Velez's brother must have been producing the film, as he was in almost every shot, hitting some congas in an extremely hamfisted manner. It was very hard to understand why Hendrix was so keen to have extra percussionists in the band, as Mitchell is a very busy drummer. The other guitarist was virtually invisible, and made next to no difference to the sound (on the TV mix). I would have thought that unless Hendrix could have recruited a really first-class rhythm guitar-player (Duane Allman? Steve Cropper?) the obvious way to go would have been to add a Hammond organ and possibly horn(s). Anyway, it has changed my rather negative view of post-Experience Hendrix. He was clearly still very creative and talented, and obviously searching for a new direction. I suppose that he tried the massed-percussion approach under the influence of Santana (? had they got going by Woodstock?). But I think that what he was really seeking was not more percussion, but more tonal textures. - - Mike Godwin ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V8 #200 *******************************