From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V9 #66 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, March 15 2000 Volume 09 : Number 066 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: largest audience? [Jeannine Haynes ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V9 #65 [DDerosa5@aol.com] eb all over the world ["FukStik 2000" ] Re: largest audience? ["Russ Reynolds" ] Re: Escape from Chicago [Eb ] Re: Robyn Hitchcock, he's our man, if he can't do it, no-one can! ["Joel ] Re: largest audience? [Capuchin ] Re: out and about [Eleanore Adams ] Re: largest audience? [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: used CD's ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Robyn Hitchcock, he's our man, if he can't do it, no-one can! ["Stewa] Re: out and about [Michael R Godwin ] Centuries of genetic manipulation brings you this message [Natalie Jacobs] p.s. (attention Portland fegs!) [Natalie Jacobs ] Re: eb all over the world [Stephen Buckalew ] Re: Centuries of genetic manipulation brings you this message ["matt sewe] The Underneath [Vivien Lyon ] For Joel and other The The fans [MARKEEFE@aol.com] Re: used CD's [MARKEEFE@aol.com] Earl Harvin [GSS ] newrew ["Russ Reynolds" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 19:31:59 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time) From: Jeannine Haynes Subject: Re: largest audience? I was at the Opera House show..and it rocked. It really didn't seem unpersonal. Though, the only other time I saw him was at the Aladdin, which is also pretty big. That time was great; I was all alone on the balcony so I got to sing everything as loud as I wanted. Plus he did Insanely Jealous... he didn't do any soft boys tunes that I can remember at Bumbershoot. But viva sea-tac was awesome, of course. In silent mania Jeannine On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, John Barrington Jones wrote: > someone should make a Guinness Book of Robyn Records, or at least a FAQ. > okay, maybe it would be a SAQ. > > I was listening to a Robyn Bumbershoot gig today, thinking what a huge > venue the Opera House is, and how cool it must be for Robyn to play there > to thousands of adoring fans. > > But then I started thinking about his stint opening for REM--It was a > stadium tour back in 1989. Okay, okay, so the people probably weren't > paying the $$$ to see HIM and his Egyptians, but. > > What's the biggest venue that Robyn has headlined? > > The biggest Robyn is the Storefront Hitchcock version. > > What ever happened to Livia?? > > Looking forward to meeting Randi soon, > > =jbj= > ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 23:10:21 EST From: DDerosa5@aol.com Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V9 #65 in Feg digest 65, Jeme requested not to be compared to << Kurt Russell >> none of us mentioned Kurt--maybe that was Vivien, still murmuring to him in her sleep, and you just hoped she meant you... cruelly, insomniacally, dave ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 20:20:50 PST From: "FukStik 2000" Subject: eb all over the world speaking as someone who was fairly underwhelmed by both JEWELS and BRAM, i can't say as i fear neither one. firstly, my fave robyn albums -- CAN OF BEES, TRAINS, ELEMENT OF LIGHT, RESPECT, MOSS ELIXIR/MOSSY LIQUOR -- are pretty spread out, timewise, and ELIXIR is my favorite of them all. so i don't fear any sort of unhealthy pattern developing. added to which, the just-completed tour was a doozy! (and, in point of fact, it's not as though i loathe the SOPHIA sessions. certainly both albums have their high points, and certainly i wouldn't ever order anybody to take them off of the gramophone, or what have you.) but even more importantly, the songs themselves are great, live. i mean, Philosophers' Stone and Adoration Of The City are so much better live than on record, it's friggin' almost *criminal*. ya, this has always been the case with robyn, but this time 'round it seems to me nearly as pronounced as with the PERSPEX sessions. while i was damned near livid at the time, in retrospect, he'd probably no inkling that cat power'd be using a piano in her "act", and had probably already assembled a piano-free setlist by the time he'd discovered that there was indeed a piano available. (or, hell, maybe it *wasn't* available. maybe they had to rush it off to some other venue....) and we know how robyn loves to stick to his setlists, once they've been cast in stone. now, i'm one that'd like to see a little less rigidity there, but we've been all down that road before. actually looked kind of -- i won't say "dorky", but surely "odd" -- when he played it in 'frisco. i think it has to do with him being so tall, maybe. which is not in the least to say that it didn't *sound* great. looks like you've got a conflation of portions of the 12/30/90 show, and...i don't know what. buncha different shows, maybe? interesting interpretation! however, i've still a few problems. (and don't ask why i'm bringing them up now, after all these years. i just couldn't take it, finally, i suppose.) first, failing some sort of bookkeeping snafu (a la Brazil, or whatever), the hooded one ABSOLUTELY SHOULD HAVE KNOWN the second lady waters contracted the plague. that's his fucking *job*. there'd have been no cause for him to "recoil" in surprise. (aaron's interpretation would mollify this concern, though. perhaps the hooded one simply wasn't *doing* his job. perhaps he was lollygagging. perhaps he was not the model employee. perhaps, in other words, there was, not a bookkeeping snafu, but simply an employee not "on task".) still, i don't see how the plague is a *possession*. and i therefore don't see how the hooded one could "take" it and leave lady waters there with "nothing but her life". here too, tom's interpretation of "take" is interesting, but that's not the problem. the problem is, if you include the plague in "everything" you've gotta include all the other "intangibles" helping to comprise lady waters, *including* her life. or, if not her life, then at the least her soul, which amounts to more less the same thing. though if we go back to aaron's interpretation (a hooded one beset by incompetence and greed -- sort of a gollum-with-possession-of-the-one-ring kind of thing), i suppose you could argue that the hooded one hadn't actually been tricked by lady waters' *logic*, but that he'd been tricked by *believing* that her skewed logic made some kind of sense. not "on task" yet again, in other words. KEN "To get rich by exploiting the people is glorious" THE KENSTER ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 20:24:02 -0800 From: "Russ Reynolds" Subject: Re: largest audience? > What's the biggest venue that Robyn has headlined? I'll start the ball rolling by saying the largest in the Bay Area, if I'm not mistaken, was the Warfield. 2,000 plus. As an opener he played the oakland coliseum arena with REM (17,000?) but most seats were empty while he played. Mine was full. - -rUss ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 20:30:15 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: Escape from Chicago >none of us mentioned Kurt--maybe that was Vivien, still murmuring to him in >her sleep, and you just hoped she meant you... > >cruelly, insomniacally, >dave Mmmmmm. Pages and pages of subtext to this post.... Eb ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 22:29:01 -0800 From: "Joel Mullins" Subject: Re: Robyn Hitchcock, he's our man, if he can't do it, no-one can! >*hands over eyes, waiting for the inevitable "Robyn is second only to the >Beatles" hyperbolic spew* Robyn second to the Beatles? Blasphemy! (is that you spell "blasphemy"?) Joel ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 21:35:04 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: largest audience? On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Russ Reynolds wrote: > > What's the biggest venue that Robyn has headlined? > I'll start the ball rolling by saying the largest in the Bay Area, if I'm > not mistaken, was the Warfield. 2,000 plus. I was there at the Warfield and I'm wondering if you could say Robyn headlined... it was that co-tour with Billy Bragg. The Opera House is much bigger. And I think it was MORE crowded for Robyn's set in 1996 than last summer. That is all. J. - -- ______________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ______________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 22:17:47 +0800 From: Eleanore Adams Subject: Re: out and about All I can say is that Vin Diesel is a hot babe. I'll go see Pitch Black just for that reason alone. elenaore steve wrote: > JH3: > >Anyway, I always liked the name "Vin Diesel". In fact, I'd have to > >say that it's second only to "The Beatles".... > > More Diesel than you can shake a stick at: > > http://scifi.ign.com/movies/3817.html > > - Steve > > __________ > I1d sit down and meditate but my ass is on fire. - Bill Nelson ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 23:20:16 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: largest audience? Capuchin wrote: > On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Russ Reynolds wrote: >>> What's the biggest venue that Robyn has headlined? >> I'll start the ball rolling by saying the largest in the Bay Area, >> if I'm not mistaken, was the Warfield. 2,000 plus. > I was there at the Warfield and I'm wondering if you could say Robyn > headlined... it was that co-tour with Billy Bragg. he also played there in spring 1993 with the egyptians. murray attaway(sp?) opened. live 105 was giving away tickets by the bucketload, right out of their little van. > The Opera House is much bigger. And I think it was MORE crowded for > Robyn's set in 1996 than last summer. > > That is all. ===== "Pat Robertson believes in freedom of religion about as much as Bill Clinton believes in being sexual fidelity." -- overheard while eating "Life is just a series of dogs." -- George Carlin __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 09:10:12 +0000 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: used CD's Russ Reynolds wrote: > > RH content: Is Perspex Island out of print now that A&M hath folded? Just > saw four copies of it at SecondSpin.com for just $1.99 each. beware of cheap-but-new Perspex Islands. The batches that make it over here seem to be covered in a nasty abrasive grit that's almost impossible to clean off. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 09:14:24 +0000 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Robyn Hitchcock, he's our man, if he can't do it, no-one can! Natalie Jacobs wrote: > > *hands over eyes, waiting for the inevitable "Robyn is second only to the > Beatles" hyperbolic spew* That's a severe insult there. Since I don't rate the Beatles, that'd mean I wouldn't even begin to rate Robyn. Which isn't true. Stewart (grouchy after some shitbag cardriver hit me on my bike and drove off. In an ugly car, too.) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:26:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: out and about On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Eb wrote: > >>cover, but I didn't recognize the song. It kinda sounded like the Sweet...? > >>Maybe the chorus hook was screaming about a "Boston Breakout"?? Help? > > > >"Borstal Breakout". > > All right. Checking CDNow's database, I see that the artist is Sham 69...OK.... Clarification: Borstal used to be the name given to special maximum security schools for juvenile delinquents in the UK. Sham 69 were a sort of proto-Oi punk band from Hersham (whence 'sham) led by Jimmy Pursey. Great songs like 'Hurry up Harry' with its memorable chorus "We're going down the pub". Then for some unexplained reason they got hooked on psychedelic-period Yardbirds and lost their skinhead fans without gaining a fanbase anywhere else. But like the Undertones going from Teenage Kicks to Julie Ocean - ocean - ocean. - - Mike Godwin "No no no no no no no no No no no no no no no no No no no I'm not a juvenile delinquent Ooh-wah ooh-wah oo-wah oo-wah ooh-wah ooh-wah oo" (Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 11:34:04 -0500 (EST) From: Natalie Jacobs Subject: Centuries of genetic manipulation brings you this message Randi's on the move, eh? If I have my own place in Portland by the time she sets out, she is welcome to stay with me - although I'm sure all the Portland fegs will be clamoring to be her host. A very, very tightly-sealed package arrived in my mail yesterday, requiring much use of scissors to reveal its fuschia contents. Greenberger is no slacker - only nine days elapsed between mailing of the check and receipt of the package, whereas those schmucks from the Olivia Tremor Control STILL haven't sent me my Peel Sessions... freakin' bohemians... but I digress. I like "A Star for Bram" better than its parent album. The packaging is more attractive (Robyn really likes that Dano bass, eh?), for one thing... and I'm also much more tolerant of patchiness in an odds-and-sods album... it's just a hodge-podge anyway, it's not supposed to be consistent. So here's the weenie track-by-track analysis you were all waiting for! Daisy Bomb: Yeah, yeah, Robyn wuvs Michele. It's a nice song but in light of several similar songs, it seems redundant. I Saw Nick Drake: Is it just me, or is he singing this way off key? I mainly like this song because of the subject matter, though it is pretty. Adoration of the City: Better than the live version I heard but needs more percussion! What is it with Robyn and percussion? 1974: Full-band treatment is pretty cool, though doesn't really add anything to the acoustic version. It's a good song no matter what. I Wish I Liked You: This isn't even an insult song, it's mostly just a listing of unpleasant traits. Sadly lacking in true vitriol. Nietzsche's Way: It's LA-bashing, Jason. :) I hate the way there's these big drum breaks and no drums come in afterwards. Damn percussion... The Philosopher's Stone: I like this a lot. Sounds like something older... something off "Respect," or maybe "Queen Elvis." The Green Boy: Robyn gets hallucinatory! Excellent. I'm going to play this on my show along with "Greenman" and Blegvad's "Green Boy." Judas Sings (Jesus & Me): This is OK, though it sounds like a lot of other stuff Robyn has done lately, it seems. Antwoman (Dub): Pointless. Gets extra points off for misuse of the word "dub." Lee Perry is on your tail, Robyn. I Used to Love You: Ahh, at last Robyn returns to the piano. Very pretty and sad. I'd like to see this performed live. The Underneath: Probably my favorite song on the album. Great lyrics and tune, and the band rocks properly. Viv, can we call our band "The Underneath" and use this as our theme song? So all in all, a reasonably good collection, and worth the cash. I agree that a merging of this and JfS would make one terrific album instead of two patchy ones. I'd have to think about an alternate track listing, though. Anyway, back to procrastinating about packing.... n. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 11:39:29 -0500 (EST) From: Natalie Jacobs Subject: p.s. (attention Portland fegs!) First of all, I need to apologize for the subject-verb disagreement in the subject line of my previous message. More importantly - Portland fegs, I desperately, desperately need to find a doctor in Portland as soon as humanly possible. If you know of a good general practitioner, please let me know. I will make you Thoths or Seshats or Ma'ats in my gratitude. (And - this is a long shot, but if anyone knows of a good endocrinologist, please let me know...) Sorry to spam the list with this. n. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 11:51:42 -0500 From: Stephen Buckalew Subject: Re: eb all over the world I wasn't overwhelmed with Jewel's and I haven't heard Bram,but I'm still interested in what RH put's out next. I loved almost all of Moss Elixir, and there are some great songs on Jewels....every Robyn album has a few tracks I'll skip consistently, some more than others. But as far as piano...some of robyns finest moments do seem to come on albums where he plays piano on a few tracks. I'll never forget the first time I heard "Eye" (first RH I'd ever heard actually) and "Cynthia Mask", or "Flavor of Night" At the New York Bottom Line show two(?) years ago, he played piano on "I used to love you" and "flavor of night"....it was a great show...but those two tunes were the highlight of the evening for me...and having heard that "I Used to Love You" is on BRAM is enough to entice my dollars to the museum! At 08:20 PM 3/14/00 PST, you wrote: > >to say and so the album does form not a coherent whole, or that the artist >is going in a direction that will lead him or her farther and farther away >from me and my appreciation of them. Obviously the second is what I fear >most> > >speaking as someone who was fairly underwhelmed by both JEWELS and BRAM, i >can't say as i fear neither one. >firstly, my fave robyn albums -- CAN OF BEES, TRAINS, ELEMENT OF LIGHT, >RESPECT, MOSS ELIXIR/MOSSY LIQUOR -- are pretty spread out, timewise, and >ELIXIR is my favorite of them all. so i don't fear any sort of unhealthy >pattern developing. added to which, the just-completed tour was a doozy! >(and, in point of fact, it's not as though i loathe the SOPHIA sessions. >certainly both albums have their high points, and certainly i wouldn't ever >order anybody to take them off of the gramophone, or what have you.) >but even more importantly, the songs themselves are great, live. i mean, >Philosophers' Stone and Adoration Of The City are so much better live than >on record, it's friggin' almost *criminal*. ya, this has always been the >case with robyn, but this time 'round it seems to me nearly as pronounced as >with the PERSPEX sessions. > > >been made possible by the piano. Goddamn! It burns me up! At Bumbershoot, >there was a piano on the stage just before Robyn's set, and we tried (oh! >how we tried) to get the stagehands not to remove it, but to no avail.> > >while i was damned near livid at the time, in retrospect, he'd probably no >inkling that cat power'd be using a piano in her "act", and had probably >already assembled a piano-free setlist by the time he'd discovered that >there was indeed a piano available. (or, hell, maybe it *wasn't* available. > maybe they had to rush it off to some other venue....) and we know how >robyn loves to stick to his setlists, once they've been cast in stone. >now, i'm one that'd like to see a little less rigidity there, but we've been >all down that road before. > > >my witness.> > >actually looked kind of -- i won't say "dorky", but surely "odd" -- when he >played it in 'frisco. i think it has to do with him being so tall, maybe. >which is not in the least to say that it didn't *sound* great. > > >on the list in mp3 form, but if i'd labelled the CD, i wouldn't be asking >this question, would i? > >there are some weird jumps, so i may be missing tracks. before "Ted, Woody & >Junior" robyn says something about time being helical and that in 1991 these >three guys are all writhing in jelly or something. he's playing with the >Egyptians. > >setlist: > >sometimes i wish i was a pretty girl >the cars she used to drive >acid bird >somewhere apart >ted, woody and junior >airscape >wax doll >sleeping with your devil mask >globe of frogs >superman > >- -- encore: >oceanside >lightbulb >another bubble >ride >ruling class> > >looks like you've got a conflation of portions of the 12/30/90 show, and...i >don't know what. buncha different shows, maybe? > > >product of the same mind that gave us "gonna work my pig on you" and >"slipping you the midnight fish". sure, nobody wants a snog with death, but >it won't kill you. > >Death, in the song, seems less like the brooding, lonely Death of recent >fiction who is a practicing Buddhist but never gets to make any friends, >etc. -- he's the filthy rich lord of the underworld who's gone to the party >because Lady Waters' plague is about to kill everyone there, but he gets >greedy and tries to bag some money and sex. so he's outwitted by the >trickster heroine. i love Robyn's invented folk songs...> > >interesting interpretation! >however, i've still a few problems. (and don't ask why i'm bringing them up >now, after all these years. i just couldn't take it, finally, i suppose.) >first, failing some sort of bookkeeping snafu (a la Brazil, or whatever), >the hooded one ABSOLUTELY SHOULD HAVE KNOWN the second lady waters >contracted the plague. that's his fucking *job*. there'd have been no >cause for him to "recoil" in surprise. (aaron's interpretation would >mollify this concern, though. perhaps the hooded one simply wasn't *doing* >his job. perhaps he was lollygagging. perhaps he was not the model >employee. perhaps, in other words, there was, not a bookkeeping snafu, but >simply an employee not "on task".) >still, i don't see how the plague is a *possession*. and i therefore don't >see how the hooded one could "take" it and leave lady waters there with >"nothing but her life". here too, tom's interpretation of "take" is >interesting, but that's not the problem. the problem is, if you include the >plague in "everything" you've gotta include all the other "intangibles" >helping to comprise lady waters, *including* her life. or, if not her life, >then at the least her soul, which amounts to more less the same thing. >though if we go back to aaron's interpretation (a hooded one beset by >incompetence and greed -- sort of a gollum-with-possession-of-the-one-ring >kind of thing), i suppose you could argue that the hooded one hadn't >actually been tricked by lady waters' *logic*, but that he'd been tricked by >*believing* that her skewed logic made some kind of sense. not "on task" >yet again, in other words. > > > >KEN "To get rich by exploiting the people is glorious" THE KENSTER > > >______________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > > ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 17:05:28 GMT From: "matt sewell" Subject: Re: Centuries of genetic manipulation brings you this message >The Underneath: Probably my favorite song on the album. Great lyrics and >tune, and the band rocks properly. Viv, can we call our band "The >Underneath" and use this as our theme song? Indie fegs of a certain age in a certain set of islands to the west of continental Europe who are particularly keen minded may remember a band called Underneath What? A band called the Underneath taking place these days would surely be a case of the horse well after the cart? Only for indie fegs of a certain age in a certain set of islands to the west of continental Europe who are particularly keen minded I suppose! ;-p Hallucinating and rambling on-list due to sheer tiredness... np. - Faust - Rien Matt ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 09:35:20 -0800 (PST) From: Vivien Lyon Subject: The Underneath Re: Gnat's suggestion that we are the underneath I like it, but I was just browsing some old sci-fi titles and found this: The Underpeople. Huh? Huh? It doesn't have a cool anthem, but it's pretty groovy. Or how about this: The Clockwork Traitor? Or Venus Plus X? The Cometeers? One Against the Legion? Any of these appeal to ye? Vivien The Lord's Pink Ocean? Right-Handed Wilderness? Shafts of Fear? All Judgement Fled? Green Angel Tower? The Quincunx of Time? (this last one is an expansion of my favorite James Blish short story- and I just ordered it! Whee!) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:35:06 EST From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: For Joel and other The The fans Their first U.S. tour in 7 years has just been posted to www.thethe.com/tour.html. And, yes Joel, he's a-comin' to Texas! (but not Austin) For those who haven't paid attention to the comings and goings of Matt Johnson for a long time (and, really, why would you have?), he's got a new band (but same old name) and a grittier, starker sound. "nakedself" is a great new album, and the shows on the tour are supposed to be very good. Oh, but Matt Johnson doesn't look a damn thing like Jeme Brelin! On the other hand, Jeme might be interested to know that the guitarist in The The (in its current incarnation) is one Eric Shermerhorn, who was/is(?) in They Might Be Giants. The word on the street, however, is that "Birdhouse in Your Soul" was dropped from The The's setlist at the last minute ;-) Now back to your Robynly scheduled de-programming . . . - ------Michael K. np - "Million Dollar Hotel" soundtrack -- I'm halfway through the album, and I'm ready to declare it the best thing U2 has been associated with in one helluva long time! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 15:48:41 EST From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Re: used CD's In a message dated 3/15/00 1:13:03 AM Pacific Standard Time, stewart@ref.collins.co.uk writes: << > RH content: Is Perspex Island out of print now that A&M hath folded? Just > saw four copies of it at SecondSpin.com for just $1.99 each. beware of cheap-but-new Perspex Islands. The batches that make it over here seem to be covered in a nasty abrasive grit that's almost impossible to clean off. >> Second Spin just sells used CDs, and I've never bought anything from them that was covered in grit. But I'm thinking I could go around all day saying "covered in grit." Mmmm . . . grit . . . - -----Michael K. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 18:57:05 -0500 (CDT) From: GSS Subject: Earl Harvin If ya can't think of any reason to go see matt johnson, you should at least go see his band so you can experience Earl Harvin. Earl could be one of the finest percussion players ever. I have known him now for well over 10 years. We were first introduced when he played with Ten Hands, then Mike Dillon left Ten Hands and formed Billygoat and Earl followed. Billygoat didn't last long but now we have The Earl Harvin Trio. The write-up on the bands web page does include sly and mc900ft j., but ten hands and then billygoat were the shit in Dallas during the late 80's and early 90's. Earl is the man!!!! greg ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 18:57:52 -0800 From: "Russ Reynolds" Subject: newrew Got my copy of Kimberley Rew's new CD "Tunnel Into Summer" today. It's no Bible of Bop but it beats the hell outta just about everything from Katrina & The Waves (I still like their very first release, with the horns-free version of "Walking On Sunshine"). I also find it much stronger than the two Chris Stamey CD's I've purchased lately, to offer up a comparison to a similar artist. I've always liked KR's unique vocal style so it's great to finally hear a full length album's worth of it. Hitchcock plays on a few tracks and Andy Metcalfe plays on most of the others and produced the album. There is also a picture of Kimberley playing on stage. Possibly taken at a Hitchcock show? I mean who else has he been playing with recently? The only clue is a sign in the background that says "the b---", which may or may not be the name of the band he was playing in that night. Anyway, pretty decent disc if you're into that sort of thing. - -rUss go Stanford ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V9 #66 ******************************