From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V8 #423 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, November 11 1999 Volume 08 : Number 423 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: branscombespew? [Tom Clark ] 'branscombespew' is exactly the word that popped into my head [Vivien Lyo] Re: branscombespew? [ultraconformist@ets.cncdsl.com] RE: bass [ultraconformist@ets.cncdsl.com] BranscombeBoy? [Bayard ] RE: Who is Eb? ["Thomas, Ferris" ] Re: BranscombeBoy? [ultraconformist@ets.cncdsl.com] Re: BranscombeBoy? [Bayard ] RE: Who is Deb? [Bayard ] RE: Who is Deb? ["Thomas, Ferris" ] Yikes! This even has *me* rattled. . . . [The Great Quail ] Re: Okay, this is my last resort... MP3 help? [HSatterfld@aol.com] airscape ["Melissa ..." ] Wax Doll [Jeffrey_Rose@eri.eisai.com] whew...what a day of email flotsam [Eb ] rumours of my death have been greatly feg-xaggerated ["jbranscombe@compus] bass ["jbranscombe@compuserve.com" ] RE: Who is Jeb? [rebel without a clause ] Re: whew...what a day of email flotsam [MARKEEFE@aol.com] Re: whew...what a day of email jetsam ["Jason R. Thornton" ] Re: Confusion for Sophia ["Dr.Sticky" ] Re: whew...what a day of email flotsam [rebel without a clause ] off-topic: extra Springsteen tickets [Miles Goosens ] Re: bass [Joel Mullins ] Re: Bowery Ballrooom set list request [Briannupp@aol.com] Re: Invisible History [Briannupp@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 11:11:03 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: branscombespew? It's the Bubble-Boy!! < http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/19991110/ts/tech_virus.html> - -tc sp - Hours of RH mp3's On 11/11/99 11:07 AM, ultraconformist@ets.cncdsl.com wrote: >>Did everyone else just receive all of these messages (some >>duplicates/triplicates, some just one line answering messages that I >>haven't seen yet) all at once, just sort of spewed into your inbox? >> >>Or am I in another "I have seen the future and it is now" e-mail anomaly? > >Actually, I've seen the future and it is the past. These are all fragments >from emails sent by branscombe back when he first got on the list and was >debating GSS. > >Something's quite wrong here. > >I thought at first perhaps someone was spoofing him, but the headers are >the same as they've always been on his posts. If someone IS spoofing him, >they're -very- good at faking stuff up. > >Love on ya, >Susan > > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 11:15:50 -0800 (PST) From: Vivien Lyon Subject: 'branscombespew' is exactly the word that popped into my head - --- Eric Loehr wrote: > Did everyone else just receive all of these messages > (some > duplicates/triplicates, some just one line answering > messages that I > haven't seen yet) all at once, just sort of spewed > into your inbox? Yup. Took me several messages before I realized that no, Branscombe did not go off his gourd, he just accidentally re-posted everything he's written to the list in the last few months. Vivien "I won't know what my top-ten list for the year is until the bowels of hell spontaneously glaciate because I think...well, you all know what I think" Lyon ===== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 13:32:28 -0600 From: ultraconformist@ets.cncdsl.com Subject: Re: branscombespew? >It's the Bubble-Boy!! > >< http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/19991110/ts/tech_virus.html> Thanks for the heads-up. I'm afraid it wasn't quite clear in this report how this virus actually works. They're saying it's something that you can get just by opening an email, and has nothing to do with attachments, but erm, it sounds like an attachment to me. My impression from the article is that you do still have to activate it yourself somehow, so it doesn't seem to be much of a worry for those of us who don't have the kind of mail proggie that opens everything for you. Am I wrong? Love on ya, Susan ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 13:59:59 -0600 From: ultraconformist@ets.cncdsl.com Subject: RE: bass Mike Godwin: >suppose [countervailing opinionated snort]. The only player I have seen >recently who comes anywhere near Macca is Bruce Thomas with the >Attractions. Andy Metcalfe is good, too. Bah. What about John Gustafson of Roxy Music? I love the Beatles dearly, but he is a better bass player than Macca or Andy Metcalfe (heresy!). Love on ya, Susan ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 15:14:06 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: BranscombeBoy? Suzie: > > Thanks for the heads-up. > > I'm afraid it wasn't quite clear in this report how this virus actually > works. They're saying it's something that you can get just by opening an > email, and has nothing to do with attachments, but erm, it sounds like an > attachment to me. My impression from the article is that you do still have > to activate it yourself somehow, so it doesn't seem to be much of a worry > for those of us who don't have the kind of mail proggie that opens > everything for you. Am I wrong? nah. Mr Clark is pulling your proverbial leg. bubbleboy was sent to network solutions, probably by the author, just to show off. it is not known/thought to be in the wild. Much nastier versions will be, though, at some point. Right now, if you don't use outlook/unpatched IE5, you're pretty safe. Now don't go blaming Butch for this, anyone. =b np: kraftwerk (thanks khris) now downloading: IQU sampler platter courtesy of the Lobster ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 15:28:55 -0500 From: "Thomas, Ferris" Subject: RE: Who is Eb? > when we last left our heroes, Thomas, Ferris exclaimed: > > >You are brilliant. Must remember to sprinkle sawdust in my > cube. I very > >nearly pissed myself. > > did you take it out? > > +w Woj, Woj, Woj....I shudder with the pontenial filth with this one. Let's just say that were I to lose control it wouldn't be during any sort of exhibitionist dance. - -f ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 14:39:54 -0600 From: ultraconformist@ets.cncdsl.com Subject: Re: BranscombeBoy? >nah. Mr Clark is pulling your proverbial leg. Well, that sucks. I had an explanation and now I don't. It was reasonable enough, no? I've never seen a virus that acted like this before, and don't keep up with virals in general. My keeping up basically amounts to hearing my sweetie bitch and snarl about how people at his work are constantly bringing them in from home and refusing to understand that they are thereby infecting the network. So I do hear about new viruses from time to time but mostly what they get there is yer standard macrovirus. Since it seemed to me that this might be a virus, it also seemed reasonable that it might be this one. *shrugs* So what is it then? This doesn't look like something he did deliberately. >Now don't go blaming Butch for this, anyone. Unless he's got access to Branscombe's account and/or there's an open relay CompuServ doesn't know about (always possible but I think it's unlikely), I don't see any reason to suspect Butch. Love on ya, Susan ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 15:50:01 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: Re: BranscombeBoy? i bet it has to do with his mail program. remember Mark G. sent an old message to the list a month or so ago? (and it wasn't even a message from him, it was from chris F.) I doubt it was a virus, unless a virus knows how to access your sent-mail... which i suppose it easily could... oh god now you've got ME scared... well, speak up Branscombe me boy! Back on topic for a moment, bear with me... someone behind me at the Philly show was telling a companion about a robyn-song-intro that was to the effect of, "this is about a soul hovering above a couple making love on a beach, and hoping to be conceived." he couldn't remember what song it was. Anyone know? If I had to guess I guess i'd say "airscape," but i don't know. Also - I am making a song-mix and I want yer opinion. Ever since I first hear the white album i have liked to mix things up with a fast or hard song followed up with a slow or quiet song, followed up with the former type, etc. you think this would work for an organic/electronic mix, or would that be too jarring? should i do two separate mixes, one for my songwriter jones, one for my electronic? email me private-like and let me know, music mavens! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 15:52:13 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: RE: Who is Deb? On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Thomas, Ferris wrote: > > >You are brilliant. Must remember to sprinkle sawdust in my > > cube. I very > > >nearly pissed myself. > > > > did you take it out? > > Woj, Woj, Woj....I shudder with the pontenial filth with this one. you dirty little boy, he meant the sawdust! and quit capitalizing woj already! capitalizing blows! =b ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 16:09:20 -0500 From: "Thomas, Ferris" Subject: RE: Who is Deb? > sprachen mein bayard > > Woj, Woj, Woj....I shudder with the potential filth with this one. > > you dirty little boy, he meant the sawdust! Ooooooohhhhhhh....that makes more sense. Sorry. Very susceptible to ye olde double entendre. > and quit capitalizing woj already! capitalizing blows! But Ms. Bayard, my knuckles still hurt from the last time... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 16:47:23 -0400 From: The Great Quail Subject: Yikes! This even has *me* rattled. . . . OK, conspiracy theorists out there. . . . I was doing some research on a Bill Frisell CD called "Lookout for Hope" -- it contains a piece named from a character in "One Hundred Years of Solitude" -- and lookee here what I discovered as the last track: Lookout For Hope / Little Brother Bobby / Hang-dog / Remedios The Beauty / Lonesome / Melody For Jack / Hackensack / Little Bigger / The Animal Race / Alien Prints (For D. Sharpe) Thos of you who do not believe me, or perhaps think Denise Sharpe is a figment sprung from Eb's tortured brow, feel free to check out: http://www.ecmrecords.com/ecm/recordings/1350.html Hmmm . . . . Anyway, let's just all be glad it wasn't my account which spewed his history of Posts to the Feg List. . . . - --Quail ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Allen B. Ruch, Editor of the Libyrinth: http://www.libyrinth.com 527 Hicks Street Brooklyn, NY 11231 Tel: (718) 596-7234 Fax: (718) 596-2851 Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality. --J.L. Borges ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 16:49:55 -0500 (EST) From: Natalie Jacobs Subject: gnat in chi-town, again I've decided that my olivia tremor is in sore need of controlling, so I'm going to go to Chicago and have that cute Will Cullen Hart sort it all out for me. When I'm not hobnobbing with Olivias and giant gnomes, I'll be staying at Dave's place and will be in town till late Saturday afternoon. Are there any Chi-Fegs who'll be free on Saturday? Susan...? (I know Doc is busy.) jumping someone else's fence, n. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 17:08:36 EST From: HSatterfld@aol.com Subject: Re: Okay, this is my last resort... MP3 help? steve said: > No idea what John has in mind, but I must get on my hobby horse and point > out that "CD quality MP3 files" doesn't fly. It implies that there is > some $25.00 software that will put back the bits that have been thrown > away. > > MP3 is nifty and useful, but it ain't CD quality - and the new digital > formats will leave it even further behind. In an attempt at oversimplification for purposes of brevity, I was only referring to the sampling rate as CD quality. I mean I'm sure you could sound really bad on a CD if you wanted to. So are you saying that MP3 files don't really have a sampling rate, or that the compression negates the usefulness of a CD-like sampling rate? If I'm making MP3 files from a CD, a higher sampling rate generates a bigger file and presumably more accurate sound AFAIK. (I thought perhaps John was objecting to my use of the term "platform" when referring to Windows.) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 22:28:45 GMT From: "Melissa ..." Subject: airscape > >Back on topic for a moment, bear with me... someone behind me at the >Philly show was telling a companion about a robyn-song-intro that was to >the effect of, "this is about a soul hovering above a couple making love >on a beach, and hoping to be conceived." he couldn't remember what song >it was. Anyone know? If I had to guess I guess i'd say "airscape," but i >don't know. > I've read something where Robyn talks about Airscape having something to do with his ghost wandering a beach. No mention of a couple though. Globe of frogs has that bit about a soul seeking incarnation but no beaches... ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: 11 Nov 1999 17:42:26 -0500 From: Jeffrey_Rose@eri.eisai.com Subject: Wax Doll Having just seen RH in Boston, I was replaying some stuff I hadn't listened to in a while. When I heard "Wax Doll" I remembered hearing it for the first time years ago and wondering what was going on in that song. Does anyone know what's up with the lyric "if I was (sic) man enough I'd come on your stump"? Is that the actual line? Jeffro ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 15:09:16 -0800 From: Eb Subject: whew...what a day of email flotsam Drew: >One album that might have ended up on my top 10 list >if I had the opportunity to hear enough albums to make >such a list worth reading: Bows, _Blush_ (Too Pure). I'd really like to hear this album, even though I didn't quite like Long Fin Killie. Someone whose tastes I respect told me this disc was one of her favorite things of late. >I thought this was going to be about the "new" Bauhaus >compilation (_Gotham_). Apart from the fact that the >selection sucks yet again (of course it has the obvious >tracks but it persists in dropping the wrong ones), how >many fucking compilations of the same old singles do they >expect to sell? You obviously haven't been doing your Gothboy homework, o indignant one. ;) Incidentally, Drew, is there some "line length = 60 chars"-type preference on your email program which is set wrong? Your posts are always so long, tall and skinny, compared with everyone else's. Fatten up those suckers with some width, if you can. You're a bit of a scrolling burden. - ----- General announcement: It looks like I *won't* be at the Robyn show on the 20th. Sorry. My Stereolab ticket is for the 20th, not the 21st (I can't always control these things). No muppets or gnomes for me, I guess. Maybe if there's a gathering before or after the evening's events, I might be able to attend that. But only if there's cake and cleavage...and *no* singalongs. ;) In other news, I'm still weeding out my damn best-of-decade list (due by the 15th). It's really a drag, frankly -- I'd rather skip this labor. The list is still at 26 albums, and those aren't even ordered. I only mention this here, to assure all the disgruntled Bee-Plussers that Eye is still in the running. ;) And yes, I'm not inclined to post my final list. It would only result in a week of headaches for me, I suspect. There is one useful/instructive aspect to assembling this list: I learned that several early-'90s albums which I've been regarding with hushed awe all these years aren't as exquisite as I remembered. Prime examples: the Feelies' "Time for a Witness," Thin White Rope's "Sack Full of Silver," the Pogues' "Hell's Ditch," the Chills' "Submarine Bells," anything by Dinosaur Jr., Celine Dion's "Nico, We Hardly Knew Ye" and (the biggest dip of all) Peter Gabriel's "Us." Still very good albums, but not *that* good, if you see what I mean. My list does remain heavily tilted toward the first half of the decade, however. Hrm. LIVIA "yes, Neutral Milk Hotel is in there...but not Rufus" THE LIVSTER PS Am I the only one absolutely *horrified* that "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" is such an overwhelming smash? Is *this* the end of civilization as we know it? And think very hard, before you answer me. (Is that your final answer?...are you fairly confident?...you're certain?...you sure you don't want to ask your grandma for advice, first?...you sure?...would you like to babble about your days in college, while we wait for an answer?...how about a pointless camera pan of the crowd? oops, I'm sorry, we're out of time now...come back tomorrow, when we'll find out once and for all whether Snap, Crackle, Krusty or Pop isn't found on a Rice Krispies box...) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 18:13:17 -0500 From: "jbranscombe@compuserve.com" Subject: rumours of my death have been greatly feg-xaggerated Hail Toutes! I'm sorry. It's not actually my fault. I'm apologising on behalf of British Telecom and my girlfriend who between them regurgitated my life's works after everything went haywire computer-wise today while I wasn't here...honest.... But reading that stuff...my god, what a wanker... To answer JH3. I have no argument with GSS since he stopped calling himself a Capitalist with a capital 'C'. As for the Nihilist Spasm Band, they were Indie CD Of The Month in Mojo a few months back. Thurston Moore, Jim O'Rourke and other types have been championing them. j for jar jar m for masturbatory b for bloody c for contrite ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 18:19:58 -0500 From: "jbranscombe@compuserve.com" Subject: bass Now I've got the taste for living again... Norman Watt-Roy of Ian Dury and The Blockheads and The Wilko Johnson Band is a monstrously good bassist. He also played on all the Franki Goes To Hollywood stuff. jmBassC. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 18:17:24 -0500 From: rebel without a clause Subject: RE: Who is Jeb? >> > did you take it out? >> >> Woj, Woj, Woj....I shudder with the pontenial filth with this one. > >you dirty little boy, he meant the sawdust! actually, i meant the piss. +w ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 18:26:56 EST From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Re: whew...what a day of email flotsam In a message dated 11/11/99 3:12:24 PM Pacific Standard Time, gondola@deltanet.com writes: << PS Am I the only one absolutely *horrified* that "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" is such an overwhelming smash? >> No. Hello?!? This is *so* staged! Plus, Fox's "Greed" is leagues better!! ;-) << Is *this* the end of civilization as we know it? >> "Hmmmm . . . Is this . . . the end of . . . civilization as we know . . . it? Hmmm . . . I'd like to ask the audience, I think, Regis." - ------Michael K., who snorts at your measly millions; I wanna be a *billion*aire!! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 15:35:09 -0800 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: whew...what a day of email jetsam At 03:09 PM 11/11/99 -0800, Eb wrote: >My Stereolab ticket is for the 20th, not the 21st (I can't >always control these things). No muppets or gnomes for me, I guess. Well, Olivia Tremor Control is opening for Stereolab on the 20th, so you may very well run into a gnome or two (see: Scott Spillane). - --Jason "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 17:34:16 -0600 From: "JH3" Subject: Re: Okay, this is my last resort... MP3 help? WARNING: TECHNOWEENIEISM GALORE! >So are you saying that MP3 files don't really have a sampling rate, or >that the compression negates the usefulness of a CD-like sampling rate? The thing to remember here is that MP3 is a compression algorithm for PCM files, not an audio format in and of itself. It's better to think of it as a "flavor" of PCM (Pulse Code Modulation), just like CD audio tracks, but with MPEG (Motion Picture Experts Group) file compression. The WAV format used by Windows is also a PCM flavor... Anyway, once the data is uncompressed, you basically just have some ordinary PCM data. And if the PCM data comes from an audio CD, the sampling rate is always 44.1 KHz, and compressing it doesn't change that (though there are programs that will cut the sampling rate in half one or more times prior to or during the compression process, if you like awful-sounding recordings). So the answer is yes to the first thing - MP3's don't have a sampling rate; rather the uncompressed data does. What Steve was saying is that compression removes content. It might be content that you can't hear or won't notice once it's gone, but it's still lost content, and so there's no way an MP3 can be CD-quality, no matter how you encode it (unless you're talking about a CD that was burned from a bunch of MP3 files in the first place). >If I'm making MP3 files from a CD, a higher sampling rate generates a >bigger file and presumably more accurate sound AFAIK. Since the sampling rate of CD audio is always the same, my guess is you're actually referring to the "bit rate" of MP3's, which is the number of bits per second that the computer processes when the file is played. So the higher the bit rate, the bigger the file, and the more accurate it is. You choose that when you encode, and it's easy to confuse the two terms. But it isn't the same thing at all, and there *are* freeware (or at least non-nagging shareware) MP3 encoders that handle high bit-rates. And, of course, it also depends on what bit-rate (if any) you consider to be close enough to "CD quality" to be worthy of the phrase. >(I thought perhaps John was objecting to my use of the term >"platform" when referring to Windows.) No offense, but I think that was actually the one thing I didn't object to! I just hope my high-handed, techie-patronizing tone hasn't pissed you off, at least not any more than my sarcastic, wisecracking tone normally would. John "sorry, but the answer is MOOPS" Hedges ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 18:52:08 -0500 From: "Dr.Sticky" Subject: Re: Confusion for Sophia Yeah, I agree here. I'm thinking this is largely due to the discs unevenness. Depending what mood I'm in is what determines which part affects me the most. And some of this cd just sticks in my throat. And some of it is brilliant. Just one mans opinion. And Yip! I like IH, as someone else mentioned, just the covers of Van-the-man Morrison are woth the price alone. Dr. Sticky (who's off! There's Surgery to be done, and with luck, will involve neck kissing....) Joel Mullins wrote: > Well, the more I listen to JfS, the more confused I get. Sometimes, I > listen to it and feel pretty disappointed. Other times, like right now, > I listen and think, "this is kick ass!" Has anyone else's enjoyment of > this album been as weird as mine? > > Joel > > np. JfS > Do you guys recommend getting Invisible History? The track listing > looks pretty incredible. But is the quality good? I've found a copy > for $20, which I'm assuming is a steal. But I need someone to tell me > that it's a wise buy first. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 18:48:15 -0500 From: rebel without a clause Subject: Re: whew...what a day of email flotsam when we last left our heroes, Eb exclaimed: >Incidentally, Drew, is there some "line length = 60 chars"-type preference >on your email program which is set wrong? hey, give him some credit for putting in line breaks. i'd rather have long skinny posts (which, incidentally, are less straining on the eye muscles) than posts from dingbat mailers which put in a hard break every, oh, 135 characters or so. >You're a bit of a scrolling burden. give me a break. pressing the page-down key is that hard? do you scroll with your mouse? bleah. >And yes, I'm not inclined to post my final list. It would >only result in a week of headaches for me, I suspect. where will it be printed then? i, for one, am curious. the only use for best-of lists that i've found is reminding me of things i forgot to pick up or finding out about albums that i missed. especially the lists of those who have generally good taste in music. by the way, are you starting from scratch? or starting from top-tens for each year of the decade? i would think having existing lists would be a leg-up and at least you could cop-out by just picking the best for each year, assuming they line up evenly on the Ebscale. of course, as you say, hindsight changes perception, nevermind taste. woj ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 16:20:46 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: whew...what a day of email flotsam On 11/11/99 3:09 PM, Eb wrote: >PS Am I the only one absolutely *horrified* that "Who Wants to Be a >Millionaire?" is such an overwhelming smash? Is *this* the end of >civilization as we know it Yes, word has it that the New Year's Eve episode has already been written. It has been crafted so that at exactly 23:59:59 GMT Regis will utter the word "Pokeman", which will trigger the cataclysmic destruction of the Earth. See you in Hell, my friend, - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 18:17:44 -0600 From: Miles Goosens Subject: off-topic: extra Springsteen tickets Apologies to those of you who will see this message two or even three (Steve Schiavo?) times... ...Anyway, as I make my Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band live pilgrimage (already begun last night in Indianapolis), I find myself possessed of some extra tickets. I'd like nothing better than to sell them at cost ($75 each including TicketBastard charges) to a fellow listee, or even to a friend of a fellow listee. I have a pair for Cleveland on Monday, 11/15, and three tickets (a pair and a single) for Columbus on Wednesday, 11/17. All of them are upper-level seats, but if the upper-level seats we had at the Conseco Fieldhouse last night are any guide, you'll still get good sound and a great view, plus I guarantee that the people to at least one side of you won't be gabbing to each other during the show! Write me off-list if you're interested. we now return you to your original program already in progress, Miles ====================================================== Miles Goosens UNlimited edition R. Stevie Moore CDs now available! http://www.rsteviemoore.com My personal website http://www.mindspring.com/~outdoorminer/miles "If a million people say a stupid thing, it is still a stupid thing." -- Anatole France ====================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 20:49:34 -0400 From: Ethyl Ketone Subject: Re: Wax Dolly At 05:42 PM -0500 11/11/99, Jeffrey_Rose@eri.eisai.com penned: >Having just seen RH in Boston, I was replaying some stuff I hadn't >listened to in a while. When I heard "Wax Doll" I remembered hearing it >for the first time years ago and wondering what was going on in that song. >Does anyone know what's up with the lyric "if I was (sic) man enough I'd >come on your stump"? Is that the actual line? I asked this question years ago of some brits and they told me it meant I'd "come on your walk" - a "stump" being a hike, particularily the long-all-day-across-green-fields-over-moors kinda hike that americans think all brits do every weekend. But we had this discussion once on this list a few years ago and those across the pond had other theories I believe. Might be in the archives? Wax Doll being one of my faves... - - carrie " "Questions are a burden for others. Answers are a prison for oneself." **************************************************************************** M.E.Ketone/C.Galbraith meketone@ix.netcom.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 19:45:21 -0800 From: Joel Mullins Subject: Re: bass ultraconformist@ets.cncdsl.com wrote: > Bah. What about John Gustafson of Roxy Music? I love the Beatles dearly, > but he is a better bass player than Macca or Andy Metcalfe (heresy!). Well, I haven't heard much Roxy Music (actually, I've been kinda wanting to hear some of their stuff -- any recommendations?). And I think Macca is a good bassist, as is Sting, Kim Deal, and many others. But Andy Metcalfe is incredible! And the fact that he's played with Robyn has nothing to do with this. He's just amazing! I guess if I had to pick a fav bassist, it'd be Andy. Joel ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 21:38:39 EST From: Briannupp@aol.com Subject: Re: Bowery Ballrooom set list request In a message dated 99-11-11 00:35:40 EST, woj@smoe.org writes: << Bowery Ballroom, 1 November 1999 Mexican God The Devil's Coachman I Wish I Liked You You Got A Sweet Mouth On You, Baby [enter Tim] Queen Elvis [enter Jake] I Saw Nick Drake [enter Kimberley] Viva! Sea-Tac [enter Lindsey] Cheese Alarm Jewels For Sophia No, I Don't Remember Guilford Madonna of the Wasps Queen of Eyes [enter Chris] Antwoman Sleeping With Your Devil Mask [exit Chris] Birds in Perspex Oceanside Swirling Autumn in Your Last Chance [enter Kimberley] I Often Dream of Trains Insanely Jealous [enter everybody else but Chris] Adoration of the City Elizabeth Jade [exeunt] >> This sounds like my dream show! I can't wait to hear it! Great job. Is this the one Mike Hooker also recorded? If so it's in the mail, soon to be at my house. Brian ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 21:48:34 EST From: Briannupp@aol.com Subject: Re: Invisible History In a message dated 99-11-11 03:30:20 EST, acidbird@swbell.net writes: << Do you guys recommend getting Invisible History? The track listing looks pretty incredible. But is the quality good? I've found a copy for $20, which I'm assuming is a steal. But I need someone to tell me that it's a wise buy first. Later Joel >> I got a copy from Saturn Records out of Goldmine Mag. The Quality is good enough, but from them the cd is flawed on the last two tracks. There's this annoying swishing sound that gets worse from the second to last track on. Also my copy is only a copy of a copy, so is the artwork. Brian ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V8 #423 *******************************