From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V8 #415 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, November 7 1999 Volume 08 : Number 415 Today's Subjects: ----------------- If you simply must have that promo... [Bayard ] RE: If you simply must have that promo... ["Thomas, Ferris" ] RIP [James Dignan ] that other feg list [rebel without a clause ] top 20 ["jbranscombe@compuserve.com" ] Re: top 20 [Eb ] My 2 cents and that other feg list [Ethyl Ketone ] My 2 cents and that other feg list [Ethyl Ketone ] My travel iternerary [Aaron Lowe ] Robyn MP3's [Ben ] A5CCE5B-F35A5FE ["Dr.Sticky" ] Brash First Posting ["Adam Leonard" ] Re: My 2 cents and that other feg list [rebel without a clause ] Re: top 20 [MARKEEFE@aol.com] The Rock Armada in Ferndale! [Natalie Jacobs ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1999 13:51:41 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: If you simply must have that promo... A friend of mine has bought from these guys many times and has been very happy. Prices are high-ish, but nowhere near Ebay madness. All I ask is that you send me a scan of the cover. (; http://www.slcd.com/cgi-bin/sls916.pl?sid=7497762410RH I wish they had a pic of the Globe of Frogs poster. Eb, you said the colors are a little weird, right? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1999 14:27:02 -0500 From: "Thomas, Ferris" Subject: RE: If you simply must have that promo... I've got the poster. If I remember I'll take a picture of it and post it. It's pretty danged cool (though huge and lovingly garish in neon colors). Got it off eBay for under $20. > -----Original Message----- > From: Bayard [mailto:walden@eclipse.net] > Sent: Saturday, November 06, 1999 1:52 PM > To: the midnight squid > Subject: If you simply must have that promo... > > > A friend of mine has bought from these guys many times and > has been very > happy. Prices are high-ish, but nowhere near Ebay madness. > > All I ask is that you send me a scan of the cover. (; > > http://www.slcd.com/cgi-bin/sls916.pl?sid=7497762410RH > > I wish they had a pic of the Globe of Frogs poster. Eb, you said the > colors are a little weird, right? > ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1999 14:46:36 EST From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Poppa? Popper? (cont.) Weird! This is from Ralph Ellison's _Invisible Man_ (p. 486): 'There were many of the regular customers draped around the bar. [snip] Barrelhouse looked at me roughly, his lips pushed out. "What brand you drinking tonight, Poppa-stopper?" he said.' Well, whaddya make of that? This is apparently slang for some kind of a hipster, back in WWII-era Harlem. Probably nothing to do with the Hitchcock tune, but it sure leapt off the page at me when I read it! - ------Michael K. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1999 12:49:56 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: RE: If you simply must have that promo... Just so's y'all know, our own Michael Wolfe gave his copy of this poster to our own Vivien Lyon for her birthday last month. We've yet to have it framed, but it is definitely going up with the others. All green and purpley. On Sat, 6 Nov 1999, Thomas, Ferris wrote: > I've got the poster. If I remember I'll take a picture of it and post it. > It's pretty danged cool (though huge and lovingly garish in neon colors). > > Got it off eBay for under $20. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Bayard [mailto:walden@eclipse.net] > > Sent: Saturday, November 06, 1999 1:52 PM > > To: the midnight squid > > Subject: If you simply must have that promo... > > > > > > A friend of mine has bought from these guys many times and > > has been very > > happy. Prices are high-ish, but nowhere near Ebay madness. > > > > All I ask is that you send me a scan of the cover. (; > > > > http://www.slcd.com/cgi-bin/sls916.pl?sid=7497762410RH > > > > I wish they had a pic of the Globe of Frogs poster. Eb, you said the > > colors are a little weird, right? > > > - -- ______________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ______________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 10:14:52 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V8 #413 >if being is perception, then perception contaminates the void...?? darn tootin'! James (now studying...) 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, 7 Nov 1999 10:42:23 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: RIP I know youse yanks (and suth'ners...) won't have heard of him but, hey, youse guys write about dead gridiron and baseball players... Malcolm Marshall??? Now I am depressed. The following is edited down by yours truly from the article in Cricinfo. >The cricket world is in mourning following the news of the death of one of >the greatest fast bowlers of modern times, Malcolm Marshall. The veteran of >81 Tests died on Thursday following a battle with colon cancer. > >Malcolm Denzil Marshall, who was born in Bridgetown on 18 April 1958, >first appeared for the West Indies in 1978/79. He was to remain a key >player >in the powerful West Indian teams led by Clive Lloyd and Viv Richards >until 1991. > >In all Tests he took 376 wickets at 20.94, his strike rate of 46.7 balls per >wicket being one of the very best of all time. He held the record for the >most Test wickets by a West Indian until passed by Courtney Walsh last >year. >His batting included ten Test fifties for a top score of 92 and an average >of 18.85. >He retired from international cricket following the 1992 World Cup. > >Marshall had a distinguished county stretching across fifteen seasons. In >all, he >took 1651 wickets at 19.10 in 408 first-class matches, and scored 11004 >runs at 24.83. > >Latterly he had been coach of the West Indian team. While in England >coaching the >team during this year's World Cup he was diagnosed with cancer of the colon, >immediately relinquishing his duties mid-tournament. Following an operation >and beginning chemotherapy treatment, he married his long-time girlfriend >Connie two months ago. > >He then returned to his native Barbados to commence what was hoped would be >his recuperation from the affliction. Unfortunately he took a turn for the >worse this week and was admitted to hospital on Wednesday, dying the >following day. > >Marshall is survived by his wife and son. James ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 06 Nov 1999 17:23:30 -0500 From: rebel without a clause Subject: that other feg list when we last left our heroes, The Great Quail exclaimed: >5. I have never seen a Robyn crowd like I have last night. Screaming >girls, knots of yuppie-types that laughed their heads off at every >offbeat thing he said, a pair of tattoo-covered Latinos gay fellows >in leather vests who knew *all* the lyrics . . . . I began to get >this weird, uneasy Philip K. Dickian suspicion that there is some >*other* Feg List somewhere. . . . oddly enough, turns out there is one (robynhitchcock@onelist.com), but it hardly qualifies as another feg list: aside from the fact that evenEb isn't subscribed, it appears to be just one guy posting reviews and articles from the web. in other news, i'm sure you're all dying to hear what i think of the new tori amos record. i think it's alright, but am not head-over-heels for it. the sound on the live album is stupendous, but the choice of songs is really questionable. there were so many unrecognizably-rearranged songs from the 1998 tour not documented here that i'd really rather not have a live album at all than this half-assed one. as for the new disc, well, as i was telling the quail before robyn's bowery ballroom show, there is one chief reason why i like tori amos's work: her uncanny ability to write drop-dead gorgeous music which, for lack of a better phrase, just sweeps me off my feet. this record only has two tracks which meet that qualification ("bliss" and "spring haze") and a third ("datura") which i really like even though it doesn't really have the mark of tori on it. i've listened to the album enough to like much of the rest of it, but a few songs are pretty inconsequntial ("concertina", "glory of the 80s" (which sounds like it belongs on _clutching at straws_), and "riot poof"). woj n.p. rose chronicles -- happily ever after ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1999 19:28:18 -0500 From: "jbranscombe@compuserve.com" Subject: top 20 Can I be the first to ask Eb. If both Eye and Respect are in the running for top 20 albums of the decade, how you can label RH as a B+ artist? jmbc PS JfS is the best RH of the decade for me, and thus in my top 30 others. PPS Underwater Moonlight is in my top 5 of all time ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1999 18:45:01 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: top 20 JBranscombe: >Can I be the first to ask Eb. If both Eye and Respect are in the running >for top 20 albums of the decade, how you can label RH as a B+ artist? Gawwd...THIS again! ;) 1) Eye and Respect may be in the running, but that doesn't mean they'll finish on the board. The simple truth is that I haven't listened to either in ages (heck, I haven't listened to Respect since it was new), so I need to "revisit" them for the purposes of the list. Frankly, I suspect that I won't like Respect quite as much as I remember. 2) As I said in the original post which asserted this "heretical" ranking, while I'd rank a few of Robyn's albums in the A/A- category (Eye, Respect, Underwater Moonlight, Element of Light, I Often Dream of Trains), most of his albums lurk in the B/B+ range. Thus, I categorized him as a B+ artist. But if you went back and found my original post, you'd see it was a case of rounding DOWN to a B+ -- you folks always seem to forget this. In other words, there are more RH albums I'd rank in the A/A- range than in the B/B- range. I am ever puzzled at how this one comment has endured as such a raging controversy. >PS JfS is the best RH of the decade for me, and thus in my top 30 others. >PPS Underwater Moonlight is in my top 5 of all time Very well. I like Moss Elixir, Respect, You & Oblivion and Eye a chunk more than JfS. I do like JfS more than Storefront Hitchcock, however. And I very much hope that Robyn continues to work with Jon Brion. Eb PS JfS isn't going to make my top 10 for this year, sorry. Top 12, 13, 14, yes. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1999 23:33:50 -0400 From: Ethyl Ketone Subject: My 2 cents and that other feg list OK, First -don't miss this tour if you can get within a couple hundred miles of a show - it's worth it!!! OK,I agrree, there must be a second feg list - the *other* list. Quails comments on the crowd were right on, complete with the blonde in leather who kept trying to push me out of the way so she could get closer to the stage. Look out Robyn! And the "fegs are the nicest people" rule still stands. Met many last weekend and they are all great. Even my friends that went with me to the NY show were impressed. Woj, Eddie, Jon Fetter, Chris Gross, Bayard and Tony Blackman are all menches in my book. LJ and Quail are already on that list - - along with all those great bay area fegs with whom I will not be at the Great American this time. :-( You better tape the show guys - you know what an incredible show he does in SF. If it even comes close to NY, well, it's gonna rock the free world! All fegs are always welcome in my home. And I can't wait for tapes of those shows... On other threads - I don't know Tori's work at all - should I give it a listen and what is suggested??? (sorry, musically illiterate, well, except for film, opera and early music, and Robyn, of course). I bought a G4 and found out it's classified as a weapon - Tom, does this mean I now have an FBI file? (I suscribe to the Nation, so I guess I already have one). But I found out that I actually bought a G3 motherboard in a G4 body. No fair... WFMU - East Orange NJ. I lived in NJ for the lesser part of 2 years back in 81/82 and discovered "electonica" on this station. They were heavy into Steve Reich and Tangerine Dream. Spent the day wandering around Ben Franklins house location. Philadelphia has its merits. It's tough but Moss Elixer, IODOT, and Respect stil rank in my top but You and Oblivion - due to the acoustic nature holds a special place. JFS is nice but I'm not crazy about every song. Moss Elixer is almost my fav... Welcome to the list all the new fegs. You won't be dissapointed, especially if you can have breakfast with anyone on the list. Again, my 2 cents, Take my eyes, i've used them, - - carrie "Questions are a burden for others. Answers are a prison for oneself." **************************************************************************** M.E.Ketone/C.Galbraith meketone@ix.netcom.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1999 23:34:48 -0400 From: Ethyl Ketone Subject: My 2 cents and that other feg list OK, First -don't miss this tour if you can get within a couple hundred miles of a show - it's worth it!!! OK,I agrree, there must be a second feg list - the *other* list. Quails comments on the crowd were right on, complete with the blonde in leather who kept trying to push me out of the way so she could get closer to the stage. Look out Robyn! And the "fegs are the nicest people" rule still stands. Met many last weekend and they are all great. Even my friends that went with me to the NY show were impressed. Woj, Eddie, Jon Fetter, Chris Gross, Bayard and Tony Blackman are all menches in my book. LJ and Quail are already on that list - - along with all those great bay area fegs with whom I will not be at the Great American this time. :-( You better tape the show guys - you know what an incredible show he does in SF. If it even comes close to NY, well, it's gonna rock the free world! All fegs are always welcome in my home. And I can't wait for tapes of those shows... On other threads - I don't know Tori's work at all - should I give it a listen and what is suggested??? (sorry, musically illiterate, well, except for film, opera and early music, and Robyn, of course). I bought a G4 and found out it's classified as a weapon - Tom, does this mean I now have an FBI file? (I suscribe to the Nation, so I guess I already have one). But I found out that I actually bought a G3 motherboard in a G4 body. No fair... WFMU - East Orange NJ. I lived in NJ for the lesser part of 2 years back in 81/82 and discovered "electonica" on this station. They were heavy into Steve Reich and Tangerine Dream. Spent the day wandering around Ben Franklins house location. Philadelphia has its merits. It's tough but Moss Elixer, IODOT, and Respect stil rank in my top but You and Oblivion - due to the acoustic nature holds a special place. JFS is nice but I'm not crazy about every song. Moss Elixer is almost my fav... Welcome to the list all the new fegs. You won't be dissapointed, especially if you can have breakfast with anyone on the list. Again, my 2 cents, Take my eyes, i've used them, - - carrie np: Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding "Questions are a burden for others. Answers are a prison for oneself." **************************************************************************** M.E.Ketone/C.Galbraith meketone@ix.netcom.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 06 Nov 1999 23:39:37 -0600 From: Aaron Lowe Subject: My travel iternerary Well, I just received my travel itinerary from my new friend, Travel Agent Gary. First of all, thanks to all you terrific fegs who offered to variously pick me up at an airport, or let me ride with them from the S.F. to L.A. on the 20th. You really are a generous, selfless bunch, and I can't send enough Positive Vibrations your way to thank you for your helpfulness. That having been said, I broke down and decided that if I'm going to fly all the way from Texas to California for the chance to catch the Rock Armada again before the end of this absolutely extraordinary tour, I might as well "do it right," so to speak. In addition, I was able to convince my friend Darcie (another potential feg -- I'm working on it) to accompany me on my journey (and, consequently to share the expenses, which makes things a bit more affordable). So, with no further ado, my itinerary (drum roll, please)... Friday, November 19 --8:00AM (CST): Depart Houston, TX, via passenger jet. Have breakfast on the plane. --10:14AM (PST): Arrive in San Francisco, CA. --10:30AM: Pick up rental car at airport. --11:00AM: Find "Rodeway Inn Downtown" and check in. --[??????????] --9:00PM: See Robyn, Tim, Kimberley and the rest of the Rock Armada at GAMH. --Afterwards: Head to the Rodeway for a few hours of sleep. Saturday, November 20 --7-ish in the morning: Leave San Francisco for Los Angeles in spiffy rental car. --1:00PM(?): Arrive in Los Angeles, if all goes well. Find Best Western Hollywood Hills in W. Hollywood. Check in. --[??????????] --8:00PM: See the Armada again at Troubadour. --[??????????] Sunday, November 21 --[??????????] --6:OOPM: Return rental car to Los Angeles (LAX) airport. --6:45PM (PST): Board plane. --11:56PM (CST): Arrive back in Houston. This is my first trip to California, ever (actually, Texas is as far west as I've ever been), and that fact contributed greatly to my decision to go ahead and rent a car so that I might be able to see a little more than I would otherwise be able to. Since I know so very little (read: nothing at ALL) about what I want to do while in California (besides see RH+co.), I am hoping that some CA-fegs will come through and help me fill in all the [??????????]'s. I am open to any and all suggestions. And I'll be watching the sfbayfegs list, which I recently (temporarily) joined, in hopes that one or more of the -[??????????]'s can be filled with feg-meeting. I'm psyched. 13 days and counting. (!!) Aaron * Aaron Lowe [ aaron@aaronlowe.com ] http://aaronlowe.com "When you're standing on the crossroads That you cannot comprehend Just remember that death is not the end." ~Bob Dylan _Death Is Not The End_ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 07 Nov 1999 00:41:55 -0500 From: Ben Subject: Robyn MP3's On another list I am running an FTP where people can exchange concerts, rare tracks and related things of the artist. So I thought I would try it with the Fegmaniax list. On the other list it is an artist who has a pretty decent amount of CD bootlegs floating around, so this is a way to "beat the boots" since you can make your own CD's at home now. When somebody uploads stuff to share with the list I make a permanent back up on CD-R, this way as my hard drive fills with other stuff and I have to delete some things to make room, I have it for later. With Robyn it is a bit different because so much of his stuff circulates on analog tape. So I don't know what I will do concerning people who want to upload other analog-sourced concerts, I am a bit apprehensive about using CD's to save unknown generation analog tapes. Any other tape weenies have ideas? Currently I just have one concert up, from Max's on Broadway, Baltimore, 1-1-91, but I will put some more stuff up before too long if people are interested in this sort of thing. This is the first time I have made an MP3 from a tape, so let me know what you think! I think the levels off the first side are a bit high but the rest sounds ok to me. with an FTP client: 152.18.43.107 login: Fegmaniax pass: robyn port 21 or in a browser (at least Netscape and IE seem to work, don't know about others): ftp://Fegmaniax:robyn@152.18.43.107/ Oh and I know a couple of you are on the Richard Thompson list too. Do you think I should do the same thing for that list? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 07 Nov 1999 08:43:45 -0500 From: "Dr.Sticky" Subject: A5CCE5B-F35A5FE A5CCE5B-F35A5FE ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 07 Nov 1999 14:27:54 GMT From: "Adam Leonard" Subject: Brash First Posting ME TOO. Just thought I'd try to break a few fegmaniax rules for my first ever post to this no doubt wonderful mailing list. Hello all. No intro (because I doubt any of your are THAT interested in me anyway), but a couple of questions (yes, I've had a look at the archives, but I don't intend to spend the rest of my life reading through them!). 1. How many people are on this list, and what's the spread of people across the globe. Any stats on this anybody? (My impression so far seems to be of a high % of US listees). 2. Was anyone wise enough to catch (and record) Robyns recent appearance on BBC Radio 1's Kershaw show, on the 4/11/99? If so I think we could do a deal... Sorry if I 'crashed' the party, but it's Sunday afternoon now (here in Blighty), so you should all be sobering up anyway! ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 07 Nov 1999 10:35:31 -0500 From: rebel without a clause Subject: Re: My 2 cents and that other feg list when we last left our heroes, Ethyl Ketone exclaimed: >On other threads - I don't know Tori's work at all - should I give it a >listen and what is suggested??? while i think everyone should give tori a fair shake, i'm the last person to expect that eveyrone should like it. she's definitely a try-before-you-buy artist. _little earthquakes_ is probably the album that most everyone can agree on (it's either a confessional masterpiece or too much of someone else's therapy). _under the pink_ is a more concrete record in terms of sound, but less focused. _boys for pele_ is a sprawling impressionist painting of a record -- extremely unfocused, but full of nooks and cranies and all sorts of goodies (my personal fave). _from the choirgirl hotel_ was the foray into a truly band-oriented sound. _to venus and back_ i blabbed about last night. i'd suggest _little earthquakes_ or _under the pink_ for starters. _boys for pele_ may be too daunting and i don't think that the last two albums really give the full picture of where tori's coming from. >WFMU - East Orange NJ. no longer! upsala college went under a few years ago and the station has finally moved from the dead campus to jersey city. woj ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 07 Nov 1999 11:00:36 -0500 From: rebel without a clause Subject: Re: Brash First Posting when we last left our heroes, Adam Leonard exclaimed: >Just thought I'd try to break a few fegmaniax rules for my first ever post >to this no doubt wonderful mailing list. Hello all. No intro (because I >doubt any of your are THAT interested in me anyway), but a couple of >questions (yes, I've had a look at the archives, but I don't intend to spend >the rest of my life reading through them!). hah! well, at least you're polite about it. everyone else here just stomps all over the rules and ignores anything i say. *pout* >1. How many people are on this list, and what's the spread of people across >the globe. Any stats on this anybody? (My impression so far seems to be of a >high % of US listees). there are 276 unique addresses subscribed to either the regular list or the digest. hard to tell from addresses what the exact split is on americans vs. non-americans, but you're right that most of the subscribers are from the states. woj n.p. olivia tremor control - dusk at cubist castle ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 11:10:13 EST From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Re: top 20 In a message dated 11/6/99 6:51:38 PM, gondola@deltanet.com writes: << 2) As I said in the original post which asserted this "heretical" ranking, while I'd rank a few of Robyn's albums in the A/A- category (Eye, Respect, Underwater Moonlight, Element of Light, I Often Dream of Trains), most of his albums lurk in the B/B+ range. Thus, I categorized him as a B+ artist. But if you went back and found my original post, you'd see it was a case of rounding DOWN to a B+ -- you folks always seem to forget this. In other words, there are more RH albums I'd rank in the A/A- range than in the B/B- range. >> Well, that makes sense to me. I don't know that I'd want to evaluate an artist quite that objectively, but I can see the math. And, really, if I *did* evaluate Robyn like that, he'd probably get a B+ from me, too. His albums range from pretty high up there on my all-time list (with "Eye") being in the Top 20 or maybe even Top 10) to a couple of albums that are pretty far down there ("Groovy Decoy": I don't know . . . #729?!? (sorry, Jeme)). I would think that using that kind of a grading system would really throw off the rankings in my own mental list, where someone like Bowie rates pretty damn high, although there are quite a few albums that I don't own and would never wanna listen to. But, heck, if a B+ also jives with you gut feelings about Robyn there, Eb, then go with it. From someone so parsimonious with the accolades, a B+ seems like a pretty good mark. Umm . . . who gets the A's? - -----Michael K. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 11:25:10 -0500 (EST) From: Natalie Jacobs Subject: The Rock Armada in Ferndale! I've never been to the Magic Bag, in fashionable Ferndale, before. It's a nice club with groovy globe lighting and lots of places to sit. I arrived with my friends, proto-fegs Andy and Caroline, and sat in the back, where we observed the Departure Lounge's set. I thought they were all right, but somehow reminiscent of most of the other British pop I've heard lately. "Captain Keegan" wore a silly hat and Lindsay the drummer was very enthused. While the Rock Armada was setting up, we went up to the front and ran into other fegs: Carissa, 'drew, Michael Bachman, Brian, and of course, our very own Eddie Tews. I chided 'drew (who lives in Bowling Green) for not attending the Minders show on Thursday. While observing the set-up process, I noticed a fuzzy grey-haired man fiddling with a white Gibson. Kimberly Rew! And he *did* look like a Muppet! The show began with just Robyn and his acoustic guitar, and he was gradually joined by more and more band members until the Rock Armada was fully in place. And damn, did they rock. Kimberly is an absolute hoot - I was literally laughing out loud every time I looked at him. He grins maniacally, makes goofy faces, bugs his eyes out, and appears to be physically attacking his guitar in an attempt to subdue it. He actually did a fairly good job of upstaging Robyn much of the time. Tim was very solemn, even when someone screamed "CAPTAIN KEEGAN!" During the second encore he came out without his goofy hat, revealing himself to be crop-haired and terribly cute. *sigh* They played many of my favorites, including a rocking version of "Queen of Eyes" and a lovely rendition of "Airscape" (which Robyn did solo, with his electric guitar). This included a bit where Robyn stopped playing and sang the sad altered lyric a capella: "The quick explosion and release of sorrow." I was hoping they would play "Only the Stones Remain," and actually thought they were about to at one point, but it turned out to be "Adoration of the City," which I'd never heard before, and enjoyed. Robyn and Kimberly played a folk song together, called "Renardine" (sp?) - not quite up my alley, but interesting. "Antwoman" featured a guy from Departure Lounge playing oboe (for the "antvoices"), and the song rocked a lot more than it does on the album. The songs from Moss Elixir suffered a little without Deni Bonet, but Kimberly filled in quite nicely. They did not play "Glass Hotel," sad to say, but the show did end with - hooray!! - "Elizabeth Jade," which made me VERY happy. After the show, I talked to the fegs and gave a couple of tinfoil figures to Kimberly - a human for him and an Anubis for Robyn. He was very friendly. Then we waited around in the lobby for Eddie to fetch his car - the plan was for him to follow us back to Ann Arbor, crash with me and then be on my radio show the next morning. While we waited, I observed that cute Mr. Keegan talking to people, and went over to shake his hand, resisting the temptation to smooth down the cowlicks left over from taking off his hat. Eddie arrived and we were getting ready to leave when a tall shaggy-haired figure entered the lobby. I enquired of Robyn whether he had received his Anubis. He said yes, and said he had managed to get the Thoth I had given him in July back to England in one piece. I mentioned how he had said his hand was clammy when I met him in Chicago, and he said, "Well, I exude all sorts of fluids on a regular basis." "I would be worried if you didn't," I said. He seemed very happy with the show and went on about what a good place Detroit is to play. He went on chatting with fans until the management kicked us all out. It took us three tries to get back on the highway (Eddie later accused us of trying to shake him), but we made it eventually. Upon reaching my home, I managed to find a clear spot on the floor for Eddie to sleep on, and we got up a couple of hours later to do my show, which was really fun if somewhat chaotic. Unfortunately we didn't tape it. Eddie is an extremely funny guy, and I think he should have his own show. Afterwards, we ate breakfast and then I saw Eddie off on his trip to Cincinnati, a lone sailor in the wake of the Rock Armada. n., wishing I could go to Cincinnati, too... ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V8 #415 *******************************