From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V8 #267 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Saturday, July 24 1999 Volume 08 : Number 267 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: eb all over the world [Joel Mullins ] San Francisco in-store!!! [DWPoppe@aol.com] Guildford / Homer connection [Griffith Davies ] e! online review [four episode lesbian ] can't find it [HSatterfld@aol.com] REM as a non-template for Robyn [DDerosa5@aol.com] can't find RH interview by Lois. [DDerosa5@aol.com] Re: can't find RH interview by Lois. [four episode lesbian ] JfS Post Mortem Redux [Michael Wolfe ] Re: life is good [Tom Clark ] Re: the portland arms [Aaron Mandel ] Re: the portland arms [four episode lesbian ] Apples in Hitchcock? [DDerosa5@aol.com] Apples correction [DDerosa5@aol.com] Randi news [Carole Reichstein ] Hoot-hoot! song [Carole Reichstein ] Re: Hoot-hoot! song [Joel Mullins ] Re: can't find it (Glass Hotel Wurds) [S Dwarf ] can you say "tinnitis"? i knew you could! ["Capitalism Blows" Subject: Re: eb all over the world Capitalism Blows wrote: > you've got to be shitting me? i've nothing against the lyrics on JEWELS, > but, jesus, they're not even close to touching ELIXIR's. come on. Filthy > Bird, You And Oblivion, Heliotrope, DeChirico Street, Sinister But She Was > Happy... I agree. I don't have anything against the lyrics on Jewels, but Elixir's lyrics are much better. ME's melodies are better too. JfS is a really good album, but ME is one of his best. Also, I think it's really hard to compare at this point. Once the newness of JfS wears off, it'll be easier to make assessments and comparisons. Right now, it's my favorite RH album to listen to, but I doubt it will be a year from now. > well, i've taken it to mean that you don't like the live shows from the fall > '96 period. and that, my friend, is nothing short of criminal. Actually, I don't have any live shows from the fall '96 period. Besides the Ram's Head, the latest shows I have are from 94-95. I just think that the solo acoustic thing was starting to get a little old by the time Storefront was released. I might like it more if I could see the movie. So, I'm taking your comments to mean that the shows from the fall '96 period are reall fucking good! Cool. Anyone want to help me acquire some? Joel ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 12:22:57 EDT From: DWPoppe@aol.com Subject: San Francisco in-store!!! Greetings Fegs, Robyn will be performing this coming Tuesday the 27th at Open Mind Music in San Francisco at 3:00 P.M. Open Mind is located at 342 Divisadero Street between Oak and Page, and can be reached at 415-621-2244. Obviously, this was sort of a last-minute confirmation, so please help spread the word. See you there, Dan ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 13:32:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Griffith Davies Subject: Guildford / Homer connection Fegs, I seem to recall that several _years_ ago, the now defunct Homer website stated that Homer were/was the backing band for Robyn on two tracks (one being "Guildford", and I don't remember the other one). If my memory is correct, they recorded these around the time of the Royal Albert Hall tribute show. Therefore, the recording of "Guildford" on JfS has been done for quite some time. The list of musicians on that track also support this theory, since (I think) the only remaining member of Homer is Tim Keegan. Does anyone remember this, or am I just totally out of it (again)? griffith _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 13:26:24 -0400 From: four episode lesbian Subject: e! online review Robyn Hitchcock Jewels for Sophia Warner Bros. C+ These Jewels must be fakes. That's the only way to explain how Hitchcock, one of rock's enduring iconoclasts, could have delivered such an unremarkable batch of new songs. Sure, the album's got some nice moments, like the rousing ode to the American Northwest, "Viva! Sea-Tac" ("They have the best computers, coffee and smack"), and the straightforward love song "I Feel Beautiful." And the folky blues of "You've Got a Sweet Mouth on You, Baby" recall a young Bob Dylan, right down to the wheezing harmonica. But for the most part, the songs display a lazy nonchalance that doesn't merit their classy arrangements or the contributions of such fabulous friends as Peter Buck, Jon Brion and former Soft Boy Kimberley Rew. A pair of forgettable hidden tracks pulls the batting average down even further. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 13:30:27 EDT From: HSatterfld@aol.com Subject: can't find it I went to Tower Records Fairfax on Tuesday, asked for JfS. They are doing inventory, and will not be selling any new releases until inventory is complete. (Meanwhile, Tower executives sit around all day pondering how they can stop losing so much business to on-line record stores.) Went to Best Buy, they didn't have it either, not that I expected them to. (What would you expect from a store where the 'Thirty-Eight Special' CDs are in a different section from the '.38 Special' CDs?) Went to Circuit City, who couldn't even find it on their list of new releases that they can order. I'll be resorting to inconveniently located independent record stores this weekend. (Then I tried to find the lyrics to 'Glass Hotel' on the web, and couldn't find them either. Should they be on the LP which I have buried in my closet, as they do not appear in the CD booklet...) Jewellessly, Hollie ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 14:41:34 EDT From: DDerosa5@aol.com Subject: REM as a non-template for Robyn DB sneered: >It's funny that this came up, because I was just watching this old tape of >80's videos that I recorded off MTV when I was 16 or so (most of it >shameful) and there were a couple REM videos on it. I had been thinking >about what a nice low key band they used to be. I saw thier Fables and >Life's Rich Pageant tours. I am a big fan of the REM before their lyrics >started making sense, but then they started writing love songs and that >blew everything. sigh. You've got to be kidding... why must that be kidding? I feel the same way. I saw REM live back in 1986, and they were amazing and political and poetic and obscure--all things that most rock was not at the time. Since then, they've become mainstream, more "talented", more obvious, and yet one of the duller shows I've seen in the last five years--and that was with Patti Smith onstage! (and they visited my Greenpeace booth, as they've always been big supporters) I know it's an art-fag thing to say ("they were much cooler before all these other idiots started liking them"), but they are pure programmatic arena rock now--I'm not slamming their albums, for sure, which are very well done, but I feel safe saying I will never go seem them live again. Which bums me out, but that's life, I guess. dave who still loves the impact Pete Buck had on my life in the late 1980s when he produced or had a hand in my favorite records by Robyn, the dBs, the Feelies, Young Fresh Fellows, and like two or three other bands that topped college radio. In some ways, the man helped form my own musical tastes... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 15:54:21 EDT From: DDerosa5@aol.com Subject: can't find RH interview by Lois. Hey, y'all, in regards to : http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/home/music.html/ > There's an interview, too. - - - ----------------------- >An interview by Lois Maffeo, nonetheless -- who records beautiful indie-folk>as Lois, I'd really like to read this, but went to the Amazon site and couldn't find it. Can someone give more clear directions, a precise address, or (best yet) just post the interview to the feglist? And, are there other Lois fans onlist? I love her--got turned on to her by an ex-girlfriend (now lesbian, but it wasn't my fault). Saw her at the Black cat coupla years back...wow! Bridge burner is right! She'd be a great person to tour with Robyn I think. And, what's this about Lightbulb Head being robyn's most enduring song? excuse me? sounds like a joke (how many fegs does it take to change a lightbulb head?) would anybody on this list agree with that statement? harrumph, I say. dave ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 16:30:20 -0400 From: four episode lesbian Subject: Re: can't find RH interview by Lois. MC 900 Ft DDerosa5@aol.com rapped: >I'd really like to read this, but went to the Amazon site and couldn't find it. >Can someone give more clear directions, a precise address, or (best yet) just >post the interview to the feglist? The A to Z of Robyn Hitchcock The weirdly wonderful troubadour explains his wacky alphabet by Lois Maffeo With Jewels for Sophia, the world gets the latest installment of Robyn Hitchcock's distinctive eccentric vision. The British pop marvel began his career in the late-'70s new-wave band the Soft Boys and has continued as a solo artist who has a knack for writing tunes with melodies that get inside your head about weird things like insects that actually do get inside your head. A brief blaze of MTV glory, with such video hits as "Madonna of the Wasps," brought him legions of fans, but the intervening decade has seen him supporting only sporadic bursts of activity. Jewels for Sophia is well worth the wait. With songs ranging from bright and catchy pop ditties to drifting, sensuous waltzes, the new album sets the stage for Hitchcock's vividly strange lyrics. As an avid writer of songs about frogs, plastic, cheese, and other mind-bending topics, it seems appropriate that Robyn Hitchcock have his own alphabet to help explain the wonders of his endearingly obtuse imagination. A is for Art: "I paint and write, but I really like playing music more than anything else. I did a painting recently called 'America Needs Enemies,' which I thought was good." B is for Book: "I've been working on a book for about four years, but I see it will be another two years before I complete a final draft." C is for Cheese: "The most powerful cheese that I know of is called Mimolette. It's a French cheese from up near the Belgian Dutch area. It's a kind of sunset red with a thick rind and it is absolutely addictive. I couldn't find a good place to put it in ["The Cheese Alarm" from Jewels for Sophia]. The other cheeses I mention are fairly lethal, but Mimolette is the one." D is for De Chirico: "He's one of my favorite painters. I have a de Chirico postcard on my desk as we speak." E is for Employment: "I was never very good at being employed by people. I guess I did some gardening about 20 years ago. Washing dishes or something. Really, I just like sitting there and playing the guitar and playing the piano. I'm glad I can make a living out of it." F is for Fans: "I think as long as they don't want to crawl into my head, that's fine. You don't want to get home and shake out your clothes and find that some of them are sleeping in the folds." G is for Globe of Frogs. H is for Hitchcock, of course. I is for I Often Dream of Trains. J is for Jewels for Sophia. K is for Knighthood: "I wouldn't accept a knighthood. I wouldn't even want to be poet laureate." L is for Love: "Love makes you feel less isolated. It's a corridor between one person and another. John Lennon said, 'Love is having to say you're sorry every five minutes.' There's a good point in that. If your machismo prevents you from admitting you're wrong about things then you're never gonna get that far." M is for Moss Elixir. N is for New wave: "The Soft Boys didn't fit in too tightly with [punk music]. It was all a bit more brutal than what we were doing. The whole punk thing was like a football crowd and we were more like refined young gentlemen eating cucumber sandwiches on our mothers' lawns. We were so effete. They would have beaten the crap out of us if we had gotten anywhere near them." O is for Oblivion: "It's certainly a place I like to visit, but I'm not sure I'd want to live there." P is for Polka dot: "I'm wearing a polka dot shirt now. Men's fashions for the past three years or so have been so drab. It's like brown with brown. Dullsville! In the '80s (and I hate to sound like an apologist for the '80s) there were some really great shirts around." Q is for Queen: "You mean, the monarch? I'm kind of indifferent to the royal family. Sometimes I think they are good for tourism." R is for Robyn! S is for Storefront Hitchcock, Jonathan Demme's film of the musician in concert in... a storefront. Available soon on video. T is for Troubadours: "Some artists, and there are very few, are good at writing political songs. Bob Dylan and Billy Bragg are the only two I can think of. They can sway you toward thinking in a certain way--which you could argue is dangerous--but they're usually singing from the humanist angle. They're not singing from the point of view of Exxon or Siemens or one of the big arms manufacturers. Those people don't need troubadours." U is for "Uncorrected Personality Traits" on I Often Dream of Trains. V is for Videos: "I never sold that many records, but I got an enormous amount of publicity from MTV. People used to stop me in airports! I imagine that people see me now and say, 'God, didn't that guy used to be Robyn Hitchcock?'" W is for War: "War is never declared now. It's just called a conflict. They talked about [Kosovo] like Washington and London and Paris were all under threat. Like the Serbs were going to come pouring in and cut our throats any minute. I'm a pacifist anyway, but it was hardly a fair fight." X is for "the unmentionable." Y is for You and Oblivion. Z is for Zenith: "It's where I hope I'm at." Lois Maffeo is a singer-songwriter and pop-music journalist from Olympia, Washington. She has recorded several albums for independent label K Records and has recently begun writing about music more frequently than she practices guitar. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 17:24:27 -0400 From: four episode lesbian Subject: the portland arms following up on eddie's comment about robyn playing the portland arms for the first time in umpteen years, it seems, if the information at is true, that the club is having a renaissance of some sort. here's the info for the browserless... woj - ----- The Portland Arms is Cambridge's fastest developing new venue, which aims to cater for all musical tastes. The Portland has a rich heritage dating back to the sixties and possibly before, playing host to the nascent Pink Floyd and a legendary gig by Robyn Hitchcock and the Soft Boys, which spawned a well renowned bootleg, which if it had been official would have been a huge hit. Many of the specialist Cambridge music clubs started life at the Portland Arms, including the Mayflower and Cambridge folk clubs and the Cambridge Modern Jazz Club. Both of the folk clubs have now returned after around 10 years away, which is testament to the efforts of the Landlord, David Thompson, who managed to bring back attention to the pub after may wilderness years. In autumn 1998/winter 1999 the room in which the music takes place will be enlarged to accomodate 180-200 people, which will allow the venue to bring in the bands on the first rung of touring. The bar sells a wide selection of real ales and beers, wine, spirits and soft drinks and is open 7 days a week, 11-3pm and 6-11pm Monday to Saturday and 11-3pm and 6-10:30pm Sundays. For information and reservations phone (01223) 357268. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 20:26:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael Wolfe Subject: JfS Post Mortem Redux My takes on a couple of songs from JfS: Viva Sea Tac -- Some of y'all have complained about the obviousness of some of the rhymes, as though it were just a list of Seattle landmarks arranged into a song. I can't say anything to refute this, but for me that actually *helps* the song. I mean, the song is an enthusiastic ode to the joys of the east coast of Puget Sound. I think that it sounds so extemporized works in its favor -- I mean, if every line were perfectly metered, accented, and rhymed, it wouldn't have the wonderful, ebulient, gushing quality that it has. And that tone fits perfectly with subject matter of the song. It works. And that lovely harmonized chorus with Peter Buck backing him up on guitar is pure joy. Antwoman -- Aah! I liked this a lot the first time I heard it, and it gets better the more I think about it. I'm going to go into what I think the song means. Realizing, of course, that this will possibly be more reflective of me than of it is of the song. But maybe you can just take the bits that you agree with or find useful. I love what Jeme pointed out about the "Everybody!", and I think he nailed its significance right on the head. So, obviously, the singer is a little bit embittered, resigned. "Being just contaminates the void." Yeah. The driving, throbbing quality of the tune supports this, I think. He then sets the stage for this -- "a punky reggae party and a girl who measured your neck." So, okay. Obviously, the girl is Antwoman; she measured your neck, she's left the narrator embittered and/or resigned. But he still dreams of her. Could "measuring" your neck mean kissing your neck? Maybe. Perhaps it's just sizing someone up in general. Maybe Antwoman is extremely flirtatious (see below). It would certainly be easy to see why she got under his skin. She's at this party, flirting with someone else, and she catches his eye. And vice versa. "Oh I dream of Antwoman, with her Audrey Hepburn feelers." I have Michael Keefe to thank for pointing this out, but the interpretation of "Audrey Hepburn feelers" that I like the best is eyelashes. That's perfect. Big, expressive eyelashes, the kind that reach out and grab you. This is definitely sung with a wistful inflection. Then the narrator steps back into the present: "I know my type and she's out there." He's dreaming about her, he thinks she's his "type", but she's out there -- in other words, NOT HERE. She's not with him, though he wishes it were otherwise. It's a great blend of yearning and resignation -- she's not with me anymore, and I wish it were different, but at the same time I realize that she's a femme fatale, and that's "my type". The narrator realizes that he's attracted to women who might not be very good for him. Then he talks about "the cactus and the succulent". Prickly plants, that store up reserves of water. Antwoman rises and hops and then she eats you. Not literally. But she goes right past those spiney defenses and takes what she wants. The relationship between the eater and the eaten is a pretty one-directional thing. And it's easy to see someone in this position thinking that he was on the wrong end of that eater-eaten relationship. He's been seduced completely. He's lost his head due to Antwoman's charms. "I ain't gonna argue with a dame like that." Then in the space of three lines this relationship, built on a foundation of sand, falls apart. Seeing the birds on her dressing gown (from bed, together), the dark seeds (of the relationship's undoing), the dark barristers (arguing, legislating each other at the end). I think his emphasis when he sings "birds" supports this being a high point. "Gotta do lunch before you get down to some real judging." They meet for lunch, and Antwoman explains why the relationship must end -- including everything that's wrong with him. Then he blames himself -- rightly or wrongly, we never know. "Vengeance is mine saith the Lord/Alright for you and you only." All of this works best when you think of the song as being extremely subjective from the narrator's POV. It may sound like this interpretation gives the character of Antwoman a bum rap, but of course she's going to get a raw deal from a lover she's jilted. So that's my take. I'll be interested to hear what folks think. - -Michael Wolfe ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 14:46:54 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: life is good On 7/21/99 9:04 PM, gondola@deltanet.com wrote: >Yes, once again, I'm without a computer for a week. Grr. > >Maybe they'll accidentally install a 1 gB hard drive this time. >It would be nice if a goof turned out in my favor, for once.... aaaaah, my plan is working perfectly!!! - -t "Evil" c ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 17:50:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: the portland arms On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, four episode lesbian quoted: > a legendary gig by > Robyn Hitchcock and the Soft Boys, which spawned a well renowned > bootleg, which if it had been official would have been a huge hit. is this right? i thought my copy had the Midnight Music seal on it and everything, but i never looked that closely... a top five songs on JfS, sez i: 5. "Elizabeth Jade" 4. "Sophia" 3. "Antwoman" 2. "The Cheese Alarm" 1. "Hoot Hoot" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 18:01:26 -0400 From: four episode lesbian Subject: Re: the portland arms MC 900 Ft Aaron Mandel rapped: >On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, four episode lesbian quoted: > >> a legendary gig by >> Robyn Hitchcock and the Soft Boys, which spawned a well renowned >> bootleg, which if it had been official would have been a huge hit. >is this right? i thought my copy had the Midnight Music seal on it and >everything, but i never looked that closely... they goofed. _live at the portland arms_ is a legit release. first as a cassette (free giveaway for mailing in some card that was included with another album) and later as vinyl. well, off to the falcon ridge folk festival. back on sunday night, don't wreck the place while i'm gone... woj ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 17:57:23 EDT From: DDerosa5@aol.com Subject: Apples in Hitchcock? I just realized that the night Storefront opens in Chicago (July 30), Apples in Stereo and Beulah are playing at Schubas. I'm already committed to the 9pm showing of SH, but I'm gonna grab a ticket to this show and try to get there afterwards. Any other Chicago fegs thinking about such a twoshot? dave Doc, they got beer there too! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 18:25:11 EDT From: DDerosa5@aol.com Subject: Apples correction did I say Schubas? I meant Lounge Ax. and they're playing with "Dressy Bessy" ooh, Doc don't like the Lounge Ax. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 15:55:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Carole Reichstein Subject: Randi news Randi called me at work and asked me to pass this on: She really isn't neglecting all of us..it's just that her computer, modem and telephone have all been kaput for a week or so (hmmm...shades of Eb!), and she wants to say hello to all the fegs in Fegdom. However, she just got her phone fixed, so you can call and say howdy. But no e-mail just yet. So there you go. Carole ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 16:49:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Carole Reichstein Subject: Hoot-hoot! song Yes, Lobstie, I also call it the "Hoot Hoot" song. I do like this song. The plonking piano reminds me of that John Lennon song off of "Plastic Ono Band," but I can't remember the title just now. It goes "Do you remember/when you were small/how the world seemed so tall?" It has the same plonking piano beat to it. Can anyone recall this Lennon tune? Hmmm. I'd die happy if Robyn and Tim Keegan harmonized on this "Hoot Hoot" song. Viv--your Robyn interview was *great*! You should print it just as it is..no editing! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 19:06:06 -0700 From: Joel Mullins Subject: Re: Hoot-hoot! song Carole Reichstein wrote: > I do like this song. The plonking piano reminds me of that John Lennon > song off of "Plastic Ono Band," but I can't remember the title just now. > It goes "Do you remember/when you were small/how the world seemed so > tall?" It has the same plonking piano beat to it. Can anyone recall this > Lennon tune? It's called "Remember." - --Joel ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 01:04:40 -0400 (EDT) From: S Dwarf Subject: Re: can't find it (Glass Hotel Wurds) HSatterfld@aol.com sed: > (Then I tried to find the lyrics to 'Glass Hotel' on > the web, and couldn't find them either. Should they > be on the LP which I have buried in my closet, as > they do not appear in the CD booklet...) i nicked these from uwp.edu back in the stone age. can't recall if i've ever gotten around to double checking them, etc, but... GLASS HOTEL seems like you were in a glass hotel seems like, seems like seems like there was someone else as well seems like, it seems seems like you were in your glass hotel seems like, seems like it seems like everything was going well it seems like a dream well the radio was playing in the darkness of the hall there was someone standing with you who just wasn't there at all and you were laughing well the telephone was ringing in a corridor of blue a geranium came out of it reminded me of you and i was crying seems like you were in a glass hotel seems like, it seems like seems like there was someone else as well it seems like, it seems well there's nothing in the future and there's nothing in the past there is only this one moment and you've got to make it last and you were laughing in a glass hotel _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 03:24:41 PDT From: "Capitalism Blows" Subject: can you say "tinnitis"? i knew you could! did you know that "tinnitis" is not in the dictionary? i just double-checked to make sure there were to Ns rather than one, but it's not there at all! anyhow, 7/23/99, Showbox, Seattle Gene Hackman Cheese Alarm [enter tim] Madonna O' The Wasps Viva Sea-Tac I Feel Beautiful [robyn switches to electric] Queen Of Eyes [exit tim] Freeze [encore, tim & robyn both on acoustic] Jewels For Sophia notes: - --it really does seem like robyn's just sort of along for the ride. he comes in, does his half-hour, and scatters while the night is still young. and if he sells some merchandise, so much the better. i don't mean this as a criticism. unless he *doesn't* tour the states on his own in the fall, in which case i do mean it as such. - --had a bit of trouble with the taping. security guy told me i couldn't tape, and i argued with him for a while, so he let me talk to the manager, who said something like, "we're not mad at you. we're not kicking you out. you just need to go put your recorder back in your car." i asked him to please ask robyn personally if it was okay to tape *his* set. robyn wasn't there yet, so i volunteered to leave the recorder with them, and check back after the sonic boom set. which i did. it took the guy (a very nice fellow, actually) several minutes to track robyn down, but he finally brought my recorder back to me and said that robyn had said it was fine to tape. so i taped it from the walkman, but ain't listened to it yet. - --we might call this the "take no prioners" version of Freeze! damn, he's rocking it like no tomorrow. - --his voice wasn't in its finest form (as it wasn't in italia). this worries me a tad bit. but if he can get it fixed up, i'm thinking his forthcoming headlining tour is going to be very good. he's just lighting into that electric guitar like as if he's possessed. - --not even sure why tim bothered to make the trip. he plays on five songs, and, without giving him a chance for his own set, i can just imagine those not familiar with him just thinking, "who's this guy supposed to be?" - --a new story for Cheese Alarm (at least i hadn't heard it before), about how we're all under the mercy of cheese. he said something similar in vivien's interview, right? other bands: just caught the last song of iqu's set, but liked it well enough. sonic boom was cool! think METAL MACHINE MUSIC via speak 'n' spells, and you've got the picture. quail, you are going to LOVE this guy! sebadoh was okay, though, as has been mentioned, robyn should've gotten the second billing. flaming lips were very good, and very loud. wayne was throwing confetti into the crowd, and having a lot of fun doing so. _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 07:54:31 -0400 From: "jbranscombe@compuserve.com" Subject: R.E.M give me tinnitus It's in my Dick'n'Harry, Cap. Yes, it's got 'to' n's but it also has a 'you'. I was in a band who supported R.E.M. in 1985. All right, we were a long,long way down the bill and on a different stage, but I did see them sound-check. Well, three of them did - no sign of Stipey. The others just fooled around doing surf instrumentals (I'll try and get a set-list, hee,hee). Didn't see them because we were playing at roughly the same time. And quite a crowd watched * us*. Not many people having heard of R.E.M.in the mid eighties at a British provincial university. The year before we supported The Smiths and The Ramones. Ah! Them were the days. jmbc ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V8 #267 *******************************