From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V8 #427 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, November 14 1999 Volume 08 : Number 427 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Randi news [Carole Reichstein ] Cincinnati Dictaphone Censorship [Loronzo Wilberson ] Controlling Olivia's Tremor in Chicago [Natalie Jacobs ] Re: west coast? [Briannupp@aol.com] Re: Roxy Music/Eno/Airscape [James Dignan ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V8 #425 [James Dignan ] home again, home again, jiggity-jig [Fpaux@aol.com] The Apples in Sony [Joel Mullins ] Guster [Joel Mullins ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 19:33:23 -0800 (PST) From: Carole Reichstein Subject: Randi news She's still holed up in a Toronto hospital, unfortunately, but she's doing "okay" (i.e as okay as someone in her condition can be)..she sneaks to the nurse's station to use the computer/scanner, and pops down to the cafeteria to get an Italian soda now and then. She has an important meeting with her doctors next week to finally find out what's what. She has a favor to ask: if anyone can send her tapes of the upcoming Seattle, Portland and San Francisco shows, she just might marry you! Well, hey, she *does* want to get a green card so she can stay in the US anyway! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 06:34:05 -0800 (PST) From: Loronzo Wilberson Subject: Cincinnati Dictaphone Censorship Hi, I've lived in Cincinnati for quite some time so I'm used to civil rights being violated. However, I'm confused as to why list member Eddie Tews would've had his dictaphone rejected at the door at the Cincy show on 11/7. The reason I say this is that I know of at least 3 people who successfully taped the gig, including one person who got it on video. Now granted they were all done "incognito". Eddie, did you wheel your device in on a cart all decorated with brightly colored balloons? You can break the law in Cincinnati, you just can't tell anyone about it... Loronzo ===== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 13:39:38 -0500 (EST) From: Natalie Jacobs Subject: Controlling Olivia's Tremor in Chicago The show was absolutely amazing - blew away just about every other show I've seen this year (with the obvious exception of OTC's show in March). It even managed to blow away the Rock Armada - and that takes SOME doing! I'll be posting a full review on my website later. But I do want to mention the opening band, Bablicon. This is a sort of free jazz/noise band featuring NMH's drummer Jeremy Barnes, who is incredible - I can't even describe how good he is. If you're going to see OTC, and Bablicon is opening, go early. As Scott Spillane says, "They'll tear you up, man." Speaking of giant gnomes, Scott was my first Thoth recipient at the show. At Jason Thornton's behest, he also received a kiss. (We were curious to see what happens when you kiss a gnome. Nothing's happened yet. Yet.) All the Olivias also received Thoths, as well as Kenny the kind and long-suffering merch guy (who is also in a cool tape-loop band called the Melted Men) and Deanna the baritone saxophonist, whose instrument is as big as she is. I fielded a number of questions about Thoth's function as an advocate for the dead in the Egyptian afterlife, and Scott asked if Thoth had a support staff ("He seems like an administrator"). I said he was freelance. Will Hart, who plays guitar, sings, and does OTC's beautiful cover art, said, "It's funny you should give me this, because I've been thinking a lot about the afterlife lately." I laughed, and he said, "No, I'm serious." I asked him what he thought about the afterlife, and he said, "It's just souls flying around the universe... it doesn't matter if you're a criminal or a good person, it's all the same. It's just energy, you know?" I thought this sounded like a certain Robyn song, but didn't ask whether the souls were seeking incarnation or information. Upon giving the Thoth to Will, I discovered that Will purrs when you kiss him. Ooh la-la! He is absolutely adorable - comparable even to his labelmate Tim Keegan. Like Tim, he even has a charming accent (Southern in his case). *sigh* During the show, I was craning my neck to get a look at the horn section, and saw a basket in the shape of OTC's totem animal, a black swan, sitting on top of an amp. Inside the basket was... a Thoth! A Thoth was onstage with OTC! I should have made it little tiny tinfoil earplugs. I think I even overheard some people trying to figure out what it was. Coooool... Dave and I went and got Indian food after the show, and then I tried to sleep, but was a bit too hyper to get much rest. The next day we tried to get in touch with Susan, but couldn't find her number. :( So I ended up going to the Field Museum instead. Strangely enough, the only exhibit I had time to look at was a big exhibit on ancient Egypt. I looked around for Thoth and finally found him in the shape of a tiny stone amulet. (I'd love to have a replica of this.) My favorite sculpture, though, was a lifesize figure of the lion-headed goddess Sekhmet, the goddess of destruction (sort of like Kali). Her face was mostly worn away, but if you walked around to the side, you could see her mouth curved in a cat smile. So anyway, it was a good trip, and all thanks and praise to Dave Derosa, without whose aid I would not have been able to go to the show at all, and who provided excellent hospitality and put up with my dithering. I got back in plenty of time to get some sleep before my radio show. I ended the show by playing "The Gnome," in honor of Scott. I'll go away now. n. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 17:49:07 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: west coast tapes? so who-all is taping the west coast shows from the soundboard? get in touch with me for tips and trades... i have loads to trade from this tour and of course plenty of older ones as well... ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 19:08:54 EST From: Briannupp@aol.com Subject: Re: west coast? Does the tour expand to Janurary? I'm gonna be in LA late Janurary. Brian ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 16:21:07 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: Roxy Music/Eno/Airscape Miles says: >I expect James to chime in seconding this, as I know he loses interest in >Roxy after Eno departed. But I think both Ferry and Eno did their absolute >best work right after the split -- STRANDED is my favorite Roxy Music >product, followed closely by COUNTRY LIFE, while Eno went into an amazingly >productive period where he churned out HERE COME THE WARM JETS and TAKING >TIGER MOUNTAIN (BY STRATEGY) along with making spectacular contributions to >Phil Manzanera's DIAMOND HEAD, the Quiet Sun project, the 801 LIVE album, >the one-off Cale/Eno/Ayres/Nico live album (with my favorite take of >"Baby's on Fire"), and probably fifteen other things I'm forgetting. what he says. Yupsireebob. Only I would say that Another Green World and Before and After Science (from which I get my .sig) are the two best Eno albums. Not that HCTWJ and TTM(BS) aren't great. I'd also recommend the 'comeback' song album he did with John Cale, Wrong Way Up, even though that didn't come out anywhere near that time. Kudos to Quiet Sun though for coming out with the world's best track title: "Mummy was an asteroid, Daddy was a small non-stick kitchen utensil". Oh, and from what I've heard of the Isle of Wight, Otago Peninsula (which starts about three miles from where I live and extends out into the Pacific for 15 miles) is very similar to it in many ways. So whenever I hear Airscape I always think of the area round Cape Saunders/ Lover's Leap/ Allans Beach. FWIW. James (who spent much of Friday being an honourary Jamaican) James Dignan___________________________________ You talk to me Deptmt of Psychology, Otago University As if from a distance ya zhivu v' 50 Norfolk Street And I reply. . . . . . . . . . Dunedin, New Zealand with impressions chosen from another time steam megaphone (03) 455-7807 (Brian Eno - "By this River") ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 16:36:05 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V8 #425 >Eb "no one's going to mention Tony Levin in the great-bassists thread?" the >Ebster well, I did! I'm pretty sure someone else talked about him playing bass like it was a ukelele or something. BTW - synchronicity alert - after all this Roxy Music talk, the word for the day on the "A word a day" list today was "Siren-song" >Hey, does anybody else like the 801 studio album (Listen Now)? yup, and Manzanera's "K-scope", which is basically 801. Perhaps the oly album to feature Eno, Godley & Creme, Phil Manzanera, and Tim and Neil Finn. James James Dignan___________________________________ You talk to me Deptmt of Psychology, Otago University As if from a distance ya zhivu v' 50 Norfolk Street And I reply. . . . . . . . . . Dunedin, New Zealand with impressions chosen from another time steam megaphone (03) 455-7807 (Brian Eno - "By this River") ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 22:38:20 EST From: Fpaux@aol.com Subject: home again, home again, jiggity-jig I still feel a few marbles shy of a fish bowl. It was a wonderful trip. Directly following my anatomy lab practical, last Wed., where I spent an hour naming various cat muscles with little flags sticking out of them (I claim thee in the name of Trapezius!), I came home and threw some clothes in a bag. Eddie arrived at 1:00. We hit the road. It took me a while to get out of the "ohmygawd,ohmygawd,whadoihavtodonext" mode. It was mostly gone by the time we got to Chicago. Unfortunately, Dave was swimming in this mode. His plane was late. The three of us, Dave, Eddie and I, were only an hour late getting to the restaurant to meet our lovely hostess Susan. At the table were Jay, Dolph and Rebecca. They tried to make us feel better by telling us that Dolph and Rebecca had just arrived, too. I was having trouble accepting the 'muppet-like' accounts of Kimberley's performances. In Ferndale he seemed animated, but not muppet-like. I thought everyone was grossly exaggerating. Now I know. He reminded me teaching gymnastics, and having to tell the kids to put their tongues back in their mouth (for fear they'd fall and bite it off).They'd be wagging it this way and that, to help keep their balance. Rebecca does a wonderful imitation of Kimberley's intensity. Thank you to everyone in Chicago. I hope all the weddings went well. - - Carissa, who makes chewing motions while using scissors. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 21:31:45 -0800 From: Joel Mullins Subject: The Apples in Sony Hey, I just saw a commercial for Sony Vega TVs with The Apples in Stereo's Strawberryfire in it. It's pretty surprising to hear an E6 song on television. Joel ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 21:50:11 -0800 From: Joel Mullins Subject: Guster Has anyone heard of a Boston band called Guster? I heard a couple of songs by them last night that sounding pretty cool. One song in particular caught my attention. Anyway, I was wondering if any of you guys listened to them and knew anything about them. Joel ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V8 #427 *******************************