From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V9 #33 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, February 8 2000 Volume 09 : Number 033 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: posting in the style of Eddie today ["Jason R. Thornton" ] Re: the Pitch-A-Tent Tour 2000 ["Gene Hopstetter, Jr." ] sst a go-go [dmw ] posting in the style of a pedantic biology major [Vivien Lyon ] Re: identify the gig! [hal brandt ] Re: identify the gig! [John Barrington Jones ] Re: posting in the style of Eddie today ["Jason R. Thornton" ] Re: Deathwatch. RIP. [Glen Uber ] Re: Deathwatch. RIP. [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Deathwatch. RIP. [Eb ] Re: Deathwatch. RIP. [Tom Clark ] Re: Deathwatch. RIP. [Jeff Dwarf ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 13:22:15 -0800 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: posting in the style of Eddie today At 03:05 PM 2/7/00 -0500, Bayard wrote: > > a slide whistle, a crab-shaped harmonica, and an orange electric > >so, do you blow into the crab's ass, or does the music come out of his >ass? Oddly enough, I own a frog-shaped ocarina, the ass of which you do have to blow into in order to make sound. - --Jason, sparing everyone from a list of my household instruments, mainly because I compiled it in ancient Sumerian "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 13:41:04 -0800 From: "Paul Montagne" Subject: RE:Anecdotal Someone: >Now it they could just do another tour...They could be reunited along with >Donner Party, and as an opener, The Catheads. Call it the Pitch-A-Tent Tour >2000. I'd think that would be definately worth seeing. The Cat Heads weren't ever connected with Pitch-A-Tent, were they? I know the two albums were on Restless. I still have them on vinyl -- the second one (Submarine) was one of the last albums I remember which was never issued on CD. I saw the Cat Heads play once, in Long Beach. The audience was literally about seven people. Even at the time, they were overlooked. I still remember that Rudy Vallee-esque hidden track on Submarine: "Fuuuuck yewwwww/You're too dull to even argue with...." Heh. I wish I was better at adhering to that wisdom. Hi, Eb Im the one who posted that bit about the Catheads. Of course your right, the Catheads were never on Pitch-A-Tent, I was cross referencing my indie knowledge (or lack ther of), but they were, well, cut from the same cloth. Melanie Clarin, the drummer for the Catheads was in Donner Party w/ Sam Coomes. And the Donner Party WERE on Pitch_A-Tent. ;-) I knew Melanie's roomate, who actually co-wrote some of the Catheads stuff. Kathy was her name. She wrote for Puncture magazine back in the good old days. I think Barbara Manning and Melanie played together as well. The last time I saw the Catheads was in Eugene when they played a record store there. Me and my friends were quite enthusiatic. Then one afternoon in SF a few years back at a free show for PETA, I was pleasntly surprised when John Wesley Harding did a cover of a Catheads song. I cant for the life of me remember what tune he played. Perhaps Golden Gate Park or Power, Love and Pizza. Paul Montagne 2 posts in 2 years, and still going strong... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 15:53:51 -0600 From: "Gene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: Re: the Pitch-A-Tent Tour 2000 Paul Montagne sed: >Now it they could just do another tour...They could be reunited along with >Donner Party, and as an opener, The Catheads. Call it the Pitch-A-Tent Tour >2000. I'd think that would be definately worth seeing. But only if Spot 1019 were there, too. Now that would be a show worth seeing. Do Quasi ever do any Donner Party songs when they play? I once put Spot 1019 up when they were touring with CVB (back in 1988 or so. Nice guys.), and then got so fargin' sick that I had to leave the show during Spot 1019's set. Of course, I never had the opportunity to see either band again. Drat. Now if only those Donner Party and Catheads records would be reissued. I can just imagine Greg Ginn putting together some sort of SST Records Reunion Tour, though. Lawndale, Saccharine Trust, Paper Bag, and Black Flag all on the same bill. Har. NP: OTC, Dusk at Cubist Castle ("Model portrait heads of Gertrude Stein...") ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 14:06:46 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: the Pitch-A-Tent Tour 2000 >I can just imagine Greg Ginn putting together some sort of SST >Records Reunion Tour, though. Lawndale, Saccharine Trust, >Paper Bag, and Black Flag all on the same bill. Har. But what about October Faction, SWA, Always August, the Tar Babies, Painted Willie, Trotsky Icepick, Blind Idiot God, DC3, Saint Vitus, Wurm, Crazy Backwards Alphabet, Slovenly and, of *course*, Tom Troccoli's Dog? Don't leave them out.... The main Lawndale guy is a regular dealer at my local record swapmeet -- in fact, I think I once bought a copy of St. Dominic's Preview off him. Eb, who still wouldn't mind finding a cheap deal on that third Alter Natives album ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 17:28:09 -0500 (EST) From: dmw Subject: sst a go-go On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Eb wrote: > But what about October Faction, SWA, Always August, the Tar Babies, Painted > Willie, Trotsky Icepick, Blind Idiot God, DC3, Saint Vitus, Wurm, Crazy > Backwards Alphabet, Slovenly and, of *course*, Tom Troccoli's Dog? Don't > leave them out.... anybody know if blind idiot god is still extant? i like them quite a bit. it's only been, what, 6 years since the last record? > Eb, who still wouldn't mind finding a cheap deal on that third Alter > Natives album i just got sent a copy of an e.p. from the unfortunately named "smalltown superstar" which mentions alumni from alter-natives, holly rollers, kepone etc., but then obscures any relevant info with silly pseudonyms. more rock less jazz than alter natives, but the last couple songs kicked. - -- d. n.p. smalltown superstar "lanes 23 & 24" - - oh no, you've just read mail from doug = dmw@radix.net - get yr pathos - - www.pathetic-caverns.com -- books, flicks, tunes, etc. = reviews - - www.fecklessbeast.com -- angst, guilt, fear, betrayal! = guitar pop ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 15:40:24 -0800 (PST) From: Vivien Lyon Subject: posting in the style of a pedantic biology major - --- Bayard wrote: > so, do you blow into the crab's ass, or does the music come > out of his > ass? Ahem. I'm afraid, sir, that crabs have no asses. At best, they could be described as having 'posteriors', but even that is taking things too far. The hindmost region on a crab is actually called the abdomen. And so, one blows into the crab's abdomen. And thus he makes a wheezing sound. Vivien It all still sounds rather unpleasant for the poor crab. Lucky thing he's plastic and has, to my knowledge, no nervous system with which to deduce the iniquities being perpetrated upon him. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 16:07:19 PST From: "Faecal Emergency" Subject: identify the gig! all right. once upon a midnight letterbox, i'd received a tape sparsely labeled "1994, cincinnati", and added it to my list of "tapes for trade" as such. some while later, mr. brian downing of cincinnati (home of my close personal friend, elizabeth morgan; as well as of my close personal friends, the management at Top Cat's pizzeria and nightclub), in the process of organising a "tape trade", alerted me that mr. robyn hitchcock had never played cincinnati in the year of our lord nineteen and ninety-four (or words to that effect). so i simply changed the generic nineteen and ninety-four cincinnati element in my list of "tapes for trade" to "(not) cincinnati", and let it mulch. end of story? no! for, today, as i glanced at the setlist, it struck me that this show had obviously taken place not in the year of our lord nineteen and ninety-four, but in the year of our lord nineteen and ninety. see here: Oceanside, Madonna O' The Wasps, Linctus House, Agony Of Pleasure, Glass, Clean Steve, I Often Dream Of Trains, City Of Shame, I Used To Say I Love You, Forthcoming Attractions, Winchester, Sometimes I Wish I Was A Pretty Girl, Autumn Is Your Last Chance, The Devil's Coachman, Beautiful Girl, Lobsterman. classic, classic year of our lord nineteen and ninety setlist, in other words. now then, a little digging around at "The Asking Tree" (Mirror Site) reveals: - --the setlist for the 10/20/90 show at bogart's looks nothing like this. - --the only other entry for the song Forthcoming Attractions occurs on 7/28/90, in chicago (ChIll, for those in the "know"). - --the early 10/11/90 show's setlist looks exactly the same is this mystery show's, up through I Used To Say I Love You, after which it diverges wildly. so it seems to me that, unless our current 10/20/90 setlist is incorrect (doubtful), then this show probably took place in the autumn ninety and ninety stretch. *moreover*, that if he played Forthcoming Attractions at any of those shows, this'd stand a pretty good chance of being the one (since he only played it that one other time, to our knowledge). a list of all nineteen and ninety shows for which we do *not* have setlists follows. if you, or anybody you know, were in attendance at any of these shows, and you recall Fortchoming Attractions having been played (especially if the above setlist also looks about right), then, please contact me with all the lovely details. Thu 5 Apr 1990 40 Watt Club Athens Georgia US Tue 24 Apr 1990 Bluebird Cafe Nashville Tennessee US Mon 30 Apr 1990 Point Atlanta Georgia US Thu 3 May 1990 WUOG Athens Georgia US Sat 19 May 1990 Blind Pig Ann Arbor Michigan US Mon 21 May 1990 NPR Washington DC US Tue 22 May 1990 Anderson's 5th Estate Scottsdale Arizona US Mon 4 Jun 1990 9:30 Club Washington DC US Thu 21 Jun 1990 St. Catherine's Hill Winchester England UK Fri 6 Jul 1990 Crest Theater Sacramento California US Thu 12 Jul 1990 U Victoria Centre Victoria Canada Thu 19 Jul 1990 Mississippi Nights St. Louis Missouri US Sat 21 Jul 1990 Bottleneck Lawrence Kansas US Mon 23 Jul 1990 Maintenance Shop Ames Iowa US Thu 26 Jul 1990 Shank Hall Milwaukee Wisconsin US Wed 3 Oct 1990 Tramps New York New York US Sat 6 Oct 1990 Bowdoin College Brunswick Maine US Mon 8 Oct 1990 Nightstage Cambridge Massachusetts US Mon 8 Oct 1990 Nightstage Cambridge Massachusetts US Thu 18 Oct 1990 Blind Pig Ann Arbor Michigan US Tue 23 Oct 1990 WRGW at The Birchmere Alexandria Virginia US . ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 17:55:55 -0700 From: hal brandt Subject: Re: identify the gig! eddie wrote: > Oceanside, Madonna O' The Wasps, Linctus House, Agony Of Pleasure, Glass, > Clean Steve, I Often Dream Of Trains, City Of Shame, I Used To Say I Love > You, Forthcoming Attractions, Winchester, Sometimes I Wish I Was A Pretty > Girl, Autumn Is Your Last Chance, The Devil's Coachman, Beautiful Girl, > Lobsterman. > --the setlist for the 10/20/90 show at bogart's looks nothing like this. > --the only other entry for the song Forthcoming Attractions occurs on > 7/28/90, in chicago (ChIll, for those in the "know"). > --the early 10/11/90 show's setlist looks exactly the same is this mystery > show's, up through I Used To Say I Love You, after which it diverges wildly. I think this tape (I have one, too) is a mixture of two shows: 10/11/90 through I Used To Say I Love You; then the source obviously changes w/ Forthcoming Attractions (so, that must be 7/28/90) through the first two or three songs on side B, then it switches back again (somewhere) to 10/11/90. /hal, with nothing but this dull shit to offer the list, but glad to help ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 20:29:49 -0800 (PST) From: John Barrington Jones Subject: Re: identify the gig! "forthcoming attractions" was a one-off, an improv, specific to that chicago gig (if you've heard it, at the end he recommends some plays in the chicago area that the audience should go check out). i have a tramp's show where forthcoming attractions and a few more songs (from that same gig) are tacked onto the end of it. it must be good candidate for filler . any fegs know a dave reitzes??? he's the guy that dubbed my very first robyn gigs for me--we traded via an ad i placed in goldmine way back in 1991. anyway, he took pity on me, for i had nothing to trade at the time. and then he disappeared. oh well. =jbj= "he's not a clown per se, he's more of a balloon man" - my wife, referring to a guy that performs at children's birthday parties. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 08:04:04 -0800 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: posting in the style of Eddie today At 03:05 PM 2/7/00 -0500, Bayard wrote: > > a slide whistle, a crab-shaped harmonica, and an orange electric > >so, do you blow into the crab's ass, or does the music come out of his >ass? Oddly enough, I own a frog-shaped ocarina, the ass of which you do have to blow into in order to make sound. - --Jason, sparing everyone from a list of my household instruments, mainly because I compiled it in ancient Sumerian "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 11:57:42 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Deathwatch. RIP. Doug Henning. Don't worry, it's an illusion. J. - -- ______________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ______________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 12:17:24 -0800 From: Glen Uber Subject: Re: Deathwatch. RIP. On 08.02.00 11:57, Capuchin wrote: > > Doug Henning. > > Don't worry, it's an illusion. > J. No one has mentioned that Derrick Thomas, linebacker for the Kansas City Chiefs, died today at age 33 of complications resulting from injuries sustained in a car accident two weeks ago. As a Raiders fan, I always hated him as a player, but I am saddened to hear of his death. In addition to being the best player on my least favorite team, he was also a humanitarian and a gentleman who stood head and shoulders above the other thugs that are currently employed as professional athletes. A true professional and a credit to the sport of football. http://fullcoverage.yahoo.com/fc/breaking/Derrick_Thomas/ Cheers! - -g- "If music makes people do things, how come we don't all love each other?" - --Frank Zappa, addressing Tipper Gore at the PMRC hearings, 1986 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Glen Uber uberg@sonic.net http://www.sonic.net/~uberg ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 13:04:57 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Deathwatch. RIP. Capuchin wrote: > > Doug Henning. > > Don't worry, it's an illusion. derrick thomas. and some rapper called the big punisher. and some people doubt it happens in threes. ===== "America's greatest natural resource still, to this day, is the moron" --Martin Mull __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 13:17:34 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: Deathwatch. RIP. What did Doug Henning die of? Did his hair suffocate him in his sleep? Eb, grumpy because he forgot to follow his "Shower after any crowded concert" ritual, and, sure enough, finds himself sick after the usual three-day incubation period ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 13:18:04 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Deathwatch. RIP. On 2/8/2000 12:17 PM, Glen Uber wrote: >No one has mentioned that Derrick Thomas, linebacker for the Kansas City >Chiefs, died today at age 33 of complications resulting from injuries >sustained in a car accident two weeks ago. > >A true professional and a credit to the sport of football. > >http://fullcoverage.yahoo.com/fc/breaking/Derrick_Thomas/ That's really sad. He was a great guy who caught a bad break. Happens to the best of us, - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 14:41:44 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Deathwatch. RIP. Tom Clark wrote: > On 2/8/2000 12:17 PM, Glen Uber wrote: >>No one has mentioned that Derrick Thomas, linebacker for the Kansas >>City Chiefs, died today at age 33 of complications resulting from >>injuries sustained in a car accident two weeks ago. >>A true professional and a credit to the sport of football. >> >>http://fullcoverage.yahoo.com/fc/breaking/Derrick_Thomas/ > > That's really sad. He was a great guy who caught a bad break. > > Happens to the best of us, > -tc Three passengers one alive (wore seatbelt) two dead (one immediately; one of broken heart related to killing friend/being paralyzed; no seatbelt) ===== "America's greatest natural resource still, to this day, is the moron" --Martin Mull __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V9 #33 ******************************