From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V9 #161 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, June 18 2000 Volume 09 : Number 161 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Eb sighting/ Uz Jsme Doma shows ["Zloduska" ] Re: Bottom Line report [Bayard ] bloated thanks from Tim. [tim fuller and randi spiegel ] Randi and Mill Valley tickets all over the world ["Crazy Unca' Nick" ] Re: Bikelifters of the world ["Andrew D. Simchik" ] Re: Randi and Mill Valley tickets all over the world ["The Kielbasa Kid" ] Re: Feg Musicians Unite! [Bayard ] Marc Ribot [Eleanore Adams ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 16:48:56 -0700 From: "Zloduska" Subject: Eb sighting/ Uz Jsme Doma shows http://albums.photopoint.com/j/Viewu=924969&a=6753452&p=22678367&Sequence=0 Easter 2000, Gdansk, Poland (sorry it's crooked; I'll fix that later on when I have time) Hey everyone, Coming up next week(end) are three UJD shows I am anticipating very much- Tues./21st, Minneapolis; Fri./23rd, Milwaukee; Sat./24th, Chicago. If anyone is going to these shows as well, could you please email me? As of yet, I'm not sure if I'll be going to the Milwaukee and Chicago shows alone, and I'd rather not. I haven't been on the list for nearly a year, so I have no idea if anyone had already planned to get together in the Chicago-Midwest area. Thanks! Kristy (ps: I'm also going to the Legendary Pink Dots show on the 20th in Milwaukee) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 19:02:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard Subject: Re: Bottom Line report I don't think Scott will mind if i pass this on. anyone get a complete setlist? sounds like they were pretty great. - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 18:31:52 -0400 From: Scott Schleentz To: Bayard Subject: Re: Bottom Line tonight Hi Bayard, Last night's shows were excellent. I couldn't get soundboard access. The Bottom Line has become a pretty stuffy place for live music. If you haven't heard yet, Robyn played the following covers: Astronomy Domine (on piano w/ middle section of the original version played through a tape deck, then back to the piano. He also mixed in some James Joyce prose as well). Chapter 24- also played on piano Old Brown Shoe- acoustic guitar New Age- can't remember if it was piano or acoustic guitar. other notable songs played: The Aquarium, Flavour of Night, Trilobite, Heartful of Leaves. I recorded both sets on mindisc and they turned out very nicely. Please let me know if you're interested. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 19:15:34 -0400 From: tim fuller and randi spiegel Subject: bloated thanks from Tim. The world of Fegs is becoming a global village for me...Since Ms. Randi has been doing her left coast tour, I have been reading the digest lots. I'm often tempted to dive in but I feel more than a little out of step. The point of this post is to say a life-size thank you to all. This goes especially to those of you in the lovely Pacific North (errr, and South) West who seem to have an endless amount of compassion and all-round wonderfulness which is evident in the way you are helping Randi on her magical mystery tour. I can understand why she wanted to visit you all. (The fact that she keeps saying that Toronto is an uptight, Victorian valued, art and soul-less, money grubbing snake pit of a 'world class' metropolis might also have something to do with it. "New York run by the Swiss my ass!" she might have added...) The collective goodwill you've surrounded her with has made it very hard for me to convince her to come back: "But there's no hockey in Portland!". I argue. "Ahhh, the Leafs suck..." she would counter, true to her Hab routes. "But Toronto was built on a grid system! If you can see the CN Tower you can get anywhere...it's very practical!!!", I add, desperately. "There are no soda fountains in the pharmacies, you can only find 10% of all the fruity cereals you can here in the States, you don't have any mountains, oceans or Hearst Castles to speak of and Robyn hasn't played T.O. for six years!" Gahhh! It's true. We have Lake Ontario ("bigger than Britain!" we like to say) and we have Casa Loma (the original monster home in the suburbs) but as we edge quickly into the 'humid season', with it's accompanying mosquito infestations and stinky garbage, I find it hard to compete with the western utopia... Sigh. Finally, I am forced to remind her that *I* am here. Reluctantly, she considers returning. Phew! So let this long-winded offering be my sincerest form of flattery: you are all wonderful and thank you times a million for your continued niceness towards our Randi. Just to get my musical two cents worth (and so that I don't get my 'friend-of-a-Feg' license revoked) I wish to state these things: Napster is becoming a phenomena bigger than *anybody* anticipated. The Metallica kerfuffule (sp?) and the ensuing tidal wave of publicity is certainly responsible for the blessed expansion of the 'obscurities' catalogue. The fact that a lot of folks are putting their vinyl into mp3 is a wonderful, twisted retro-futurist statement that can do a whole lot more good than bad. It still takes a lot of work and focus to find all of what you want (e.g. it took me three days to get all of "The Roaring Silence" by Manfred Mann's Earth Band...) but sometimes - on a good night, with a good server - the stuff is just all there (two hours to get 3/4 of the Buzzcocks' catalogue!). Nonetheless, I am conspiring to lose my job. I would like to see if and how record store profits have been affected in the last six months by this user-friendly system of theft. I am well past the stage where I am 'only getting the stuff I'd never buy'. I am now advanced well into the 'I am looking for anything that vaguely catches my interest'. Consequently I am in the process of making a *2* CD set of All-Canadian content - from the likes of The Stampeders ("Ramona"- a fuzzy little power pop tune that is nothing like the gawdawful "Sweet City Woman") to the Five Man Electrical Band ("Absolutely Right" is the best American pop tune to come out of Ottawa) and onward to D.O.A., Stompin' Tom, The Band, The Diodes, Max Webster, Tragically Hip, Rheostatics, Shadowy Men and so forth. Simply enough, this would have been impossible without Napster. Beyond that: Praxis I don't know well but I know Bill Laswell has about 683 records out and that just bugs me. Fat Albert: Can anyone confirm if Herbie Hancock wrote the theme song? I've heard rumours. I gave up riding my bike to work some years ago when I realized that the motor vehicular population was actually trying to kill me as a method of dissuasion. Amsterdam seems to have a communal bike policy: If you own a bike it will just get stolen. But if everybody steals then no one needs to own one! So you pick up a bike, use it. Leave it in front of some 'Coffie Shop' and wait for someone else to steal it. Finally (!): I have been using a portable mp3 CD player that a friend brought back from Hong Kong. It actually plays mp3's that've been burned on to CD. Can you imagine all of the RH stuff on one CD? Or the entire Beatles catalogue on ONE CD? This is - again - an example of technology zooming past the lazy fat bastard ways of the major label music industry. And to this I say Ein Prosit! that is all. I will be quiet now. (but once again - thanks to all for helping my friend Randi. She absotively posilutely could not have done this without your collective help.) Tim Fuller of Randi and Tim fame... twofangs@sympatico.ca ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 21:14:23 -0700 From: "Zloduska" Subject: correction: sorry, make that- http://albums.photopoint.com/j/ViewPhoto?u=924969&a=6753452&p=22678367 ~kjs ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 20:34:50 -0700 From: "Crazy Unca' Nick" Subject: Randi and Mill Valley tickets all over the world Looks like Randi hasn't been reading my emails and I havn't been reading Eddies... Randi asked: > Did someone pick me up a ticket for Mill Valley? Then I said: > ... I have you covered for the Sweetwater. Then Eddie said: > i've got l.a. and mill valley covered ... The upshot would seem to be that both Eddie and I have an extra ticket reserved for the Mill Valley show ...and there's only one Randi! Rather than call MV to cancel one, it would be great if someone else on the list could use it - mine is at the original $12 price (Glen indicated that they might go up to as much as $20 by the date of the show), so you might even save a buck or two. Drop me a line off list if you're interested. ~N ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "If two wrongs don't make a right, try three" - Lawrence J. Peter Choose from the many wrongs available at http://www.njaz.com/fegfotos ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 23:54:48 -0400 From: "twofangs..aka..randi " Subject: a quick note about SanFran Okay, My crazy unca nick, eddie and whom ever else I should be responding to - messages have arrived. _this_ is a stupid server. anyway, now I realize *I* have an extra ticket for SanFran ... one just came for me in the mail on Friday. So if someone needs one, let me and Tom Clark know, as he is the gentleman who got me a ticket already. If no one needs a ticket, I will have a wonderful souvenir ... thanks everyone and i'll explain about other stuff later on - the great Natalie is coming over to help me out with some stuff - and I need to get things ready ... fading back into yesterday before tomorrow comes, Randi ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ *what scares you most will set you free* ~ robyn hitchcock *I feel the fear and I know I'm alive* ~ neil finn *acting steady always ready to defend your fears* ~ aimee mann *what I believe ain't always what I feel* ~ michael penn ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ get your free gURLmAIL at http://www.gURLmAIL.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 07:58:54 EDT From: JudeHayden@aol.com Subject: oingo boingo - make mine a bud and coke Hey all- Yeah, Danny & co. definitely did a Budweiser spot in the early 80's, and they were one of the very few bands I can remember who had a *TV* commercial. They were running around what seemed to be an old airplane hanger, and Danny had these two giant fake leg bones he was using to bang on the debris on the set. Granted, my memory of this is pretty vague, I'm pretty sure I only saw it twice at most... Other radio spots for Bud at the time featured bands such as Squeeze, A Flock of Seagulls, and I want to say the Smithereens, maybe??? They would all do some variation on a hit of their own and turn it into a Budweiser slogan. Again, this is from some 17 year old synapses trying to re-fire, and I can't pinpoint the exact song they were transmogrifying in some cases, but the Oingo song was in the vein of the "Nothing to Fear"/"Good for Your Soul" material, the Squeeze ad was a very pub-rock tune- or maybe it was like "Pulling Mussels"(?), and the Seagulls' tune was based on their "hit" "Telecommunication" (this one I'm sure about). Then at the end of each spot you'd hear the lead singer say something like, "Budweiser, brewed in the heart of Wisconsin", or whatever their little slogan was in those days... I've been looking for copies of those spots for years... I guess I'd better finally better buckle down and check out Napster, huh? Especially if you can get a copy of "Don't Go In the Basement." Love that tune... See ya- Jude ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 13:28:26 -0400 From: sofa king Subject: edinburgh festival the schedule of events for the edinburgh festival is now up at . they currently list robyn playing at the dynamic earth on august 25 and 27. both shows are at 8:45pm. ticket prices are listed as L10 ("full") and L8 ("conc"). the august 26th spiegeltent appearance noted at the museum of robyn hitchcock is not listed. ticket info can be found at . they are currently taking postal orders. starting june 19th, phone orders will be accepted at +44 131 226 5138. online orders are supposed to start mid-june. woj ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 11:28:10 -0700 (PDT) From: "Andrew D. Simchik" Subject: Re: Bikelifters of the world - --- Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > -- "Andrew D. Simchik" is rumored to have mumbled > > I don't speak much German so I am continually and agreeably surprised > > to find that there are eight-letter words for thirteen-word English > > concepts. > > I just looked up "Bremsweg" and my Langenscheidt gives "stopping > distance" > as translation. However, that does not necessarily mean that that > expression is in common use. What do you think? Um...we can still be friends! I'll call you sometime, German language... > But if you do a comparison between languages, you'll find that English > is > about the "shortest" language there is. Yep...for translation purposes we would always take the English version and add a percentage of characters to it, never subtract. Drew ===== Andrew D. Simchik, schnopia@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 13:13:06 PDT From: "The Kielbasa Kid" Subject: Re: Randi and Mill Valley tickets all over the world if there are extra tickets, it's a snap to just sell 'em for face value outside the venue. From: Crazy Unca' Nick To: The Kielbasa Kid , Glen Uber , Tom Clark , twofangs productions , "twofangs..aka..randi" Subject: Randi and Mill Valley tickets all over the world Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 20:34:50 -0700 Looks like Randi hasn't been reading my emails and I havn't been reading Eddies... Randi asked: > Did someone pick me up a ticket for Mill Valley? Then I said: > ... I have you covered for the Sweetwater. Then Eddie said: > i've got l.a. and mill valley covered ... The upshot would seem to be that both Eddie and I have an extra ticket reserved for the Mill Valley show ...and there's only one Randi! Rather than call MV to cancel one, it would be great if someone else on the list could use it - mine is at the original $12 price (Glen indicated that they might go up to as much as $20 by the date of the show), so you might even save a buck or two. Drop me a line off list if you're interested. ~N ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "If two wrongs don't make a right, try three" - Lawrence J. Peter Choose from the many wrongs available at http://www.njaz.com/fegfotos ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 16:48:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard Subject: Re: Feg Musicians Unite! Someone called "Orb's Surveyor" suggested something very similar in the "glass hotel guest register," he proposed doing a glass flesh robyn cover song over the net. a word to wise fegs: "Beautiful When You Cry" is available about midway on the list on this page: http://glasshotel.net/gh/fish_gloss.htm ...and is very much worth your attention and download! Why Dave - all these non-robyn posts - i do believe you are becoming a fully fledged feg my friend! On Thu, 15 Jun 2000 BLATZMAN@aol.com wrote: > I was wondering if there are any Feg guitarists out there with digital > technology who might be interested in writing a tune via internet. Just for > fun, of course. I am a singer(ha ha!), and you can "audition" me at the feg > music website. My old band was There Goes Bill. Please listen to Beautiful > When You Cry and Vicki Lawrence. I have access to a fully digital audio > suite, so vocals will sound good,technically, that is. > > I am hopelessly lost in the current music scene, and would prefer something > softer and quieter than say, Nasa Clapping. I am a Respect sort of guy. > > Any takers? I am going out of town on a business trip and won't be back till > Sunday. > > Dave > ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 15:30:14 -0700 From: Eleanore Adams Subject: Marc Ribot I recently bought the new Marc Ribot album, and I highly recommend it! Ribot played guitar for Tom Waits (see RainDogs) and Elvis Costell, for a while, and has backed up numerous others. Very unique playing - you can always tell when he is on an album. He has been playing Cuban influenced music for the past few years, adn this new album is a mix of salsa beats and his unique style. Muy Divertido! is the album, and the name is accurate. eleanore ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V9 #161 *******************************