From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V9 #170 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, June 27 2000 Volume 09 : Number 170 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Chills [MARKEEFE@aol.com] Re: Chills [Jason Thornton ] RE: Chills ["Brian Huddell" ] Scott Walker ["Brian Huddell" ] Re: Eb all over the depraved Sunset Strip [Jeff Dwarf ] orange claw hammer [Marshall Needleman Armintor ] Re: setlists up the cornhole all over the world [Stephen Buckalew ] grumble [Natalie Jacobs ] RE: Chills [Aaron Mandel ] Want power trio versions of your old favorite game themes? (NR) [steve <] Re: grumble [Aaron Mandel ] Re: grumble ["matt sewell" ] RE: grumble [Natalie Jacobs ] Re: those hard to find records and cds and a lot of Robyn [Stephen Buckal] Re: grumble ["Andrew D. Simchik" ] Re: grumble ["Andrew D. Simchik" ] Re: Happiness ["Andrew D. Simchik" ] Re: Chills [rich plumb ] Re: Chills up and down Viv's spine [MARKEEFE@aol.com] Re: Scott Walker (no RH) ["Ken Frankel" ] Eb Shall Serve No Fries Before Their Time [tclark@apple.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 00:57:54 EDT From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Re: Chills In a message dated 6/26/00 9:08:59 PM, bhuddell@bellsouth.net writes: << Others made the same mistake Men like Wilson, Barrett, Walker, Drake On the journey they were forced to make Simple question, who's Walker? I've never worked too hard on it, but I can't think of a Walker whose name belongs alongside Brian, Syd, and Nick. Who am I missing? >> It's gotta be Scott, right? [Susan Dodge says, "Yup, sounds right t' me!" (just like that, too ;-))] Maybe only John Lennon belongs beside Brian Wilson, but Scott Walker nestles in pretty comfortably amongst Nick Drake and Syd Barrett, as far as I'm concerned. "Soft Bomb": don't get it. Have tried and tried to like it. Oh well. I'm just happy to have recently turned JBJ on to "Submarine Bells" . . . having all kinds of Heavenly Pop Days lately, John? :-) - -----Michael K. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 22:15:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Jason Thornton Subject: Re: Chills At 10:58 PM 6/26/00 -0500, Brian Huddell wrote: > Others made the same mistake > Men like Wilson, Barrett, Walker, Drake > On the journey they were forced to make > >Simple question, who's Walker? I've never worked too hard on it, but I >can't think of a Walker whose name belongs alongside Brian, Syd, and Nick. >Who am I missing? Scott Walker, most likely - a big influence on that Bowie fellar. - --Jason, born all over the depraved Sunset Blvd. "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 01:20:46 -0500 From: "Brian Huddell" Subject: RE: Chills > Simple question, who's Walker? I've never worked too hard on it, but I > > can't think of a Walker whose name belongs alongside Brian, Syd, and Nick. > > Who am I missing? >> > > It's gotta be Scott, right? [Susan Dodge says, "Yup, > sounds right t' > me!" (just like that, too ;-))] I knew I'd come to the right place. OK I'll cop to the shame of never having heard of Scott Walker but that's what the Internet is for, innit? Quick search and now I'm pretty sure you must be right. And I have a new Subject For Further Research to boot. Thanks much. I consider the mystery solved unless someone has another Walker to propose: T Bone? Alice? Nancy (Rhoda's mom)? >"Soft Bomb": don't get it. Have tried and tried to like > it. Oh well. It has its place and this is it: You're putting together a stack of CDs for a road-trip and you know you want some Chills but you've had Submarine Bells AND Brave Words in heavy rotation for a while now. Soft Bomb to the rescue. But you're right, it's weak on heavenly pop hits. - -brian ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 02:04:36 -0500 From: "Brian Huddell" Subject: Scott Walker Well now I'm really ashamed about not being more aware of Scott Walker. From http://www.frankenstein.com/castle/rooms/scottwalk/scott.html "Any one who cherishes Scott knows that it is the words to his songs that make him shine like a burning Sphinx in the legions of pop stardom. Of course his heartfelt delivery, perfect diction, and meticulous production values skyrocket his material to the realm of Godlike. As evidence of this we here at Castle Pink Frankenstein have set the droids to transcribe the Songs of Scott." To think that my quest for a pop singer with Perfect Diction may soon be at an end! - -brian ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 02:27:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Eb all over the depraved Sunset Strip lj lindhurst wrote: > Hey, you know what I want that I can never find? Elvis' *Taking > Liberties*. I have it on vinyl and cassette, but have never come > across it on CD. The closest I could get was "Ten Bloody Marys and > Hows Your Fathers" (?). i know i've seen it, but only as a columbia issue. when Ryko re-issued the whole costello catalog 6-ish years ago, they didn't bother with Taking Liberties because all the tracks were already spread amongst the first four albums (MAIT, TYM, AF, & GH!!). ===== "Life is just a series of dogs." -- George Carlin __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 13:12:08 +0200 From: "noe" Subject: Re: Chills - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Huddell" To: "Fegmaniax@Smoe. Org" Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 5:58 AM Subject: Chills > Simple question, who's Walker? I've never worked too hard on it, but I > can't think of a Walker whose name belongs alongside Brian, Syd, and Nick. > Who am I missing? > > Thanks, > brian It's obviously good old Johnny ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 09:44:15 -0500 (CDT) From: Marshall Needleman Armintor Subject: orange claw hammer << --robyn only did a very few lines of Orange Claw Hammer, but they were spot on.>> << What is Orange Claw Hammer?>> It's an acappella piece by Captain Beefheart, found on Trout Mask Replica. Some Beefheartians says that it's sung to the tune of "Gilligan's Island," and that wouldn't be far off, but it's meant to be a sea chantey, at any rate. You can hear a live performance of Beefheart doing this song at: http://www.beefheart.com/filtered/copenhagen.htm And you can see the lyrics here: http://www.beefheart.com/walker/lyrics/orangeclawhammer.html If any of y'all haven't visited beefheart.com, it's well worth a look. marshall np Django Reinhardt, Definitive [JSP] vol. 4 (35-36) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 11:14:49 -0400 From: Stephen Buckalew Subject: Re: setlists up the cornhole all over the world I don't know this song...or if this is what it's about...but Clawhammer is a style of playing the banjo. As opposed to bluegrass banjo, which is fingerpicked, clawhammer (also called frailing or rapping) involves striking the strings with the backs of your fingernails and then pulling off the drone string with your thumb. (I'm learning this method right now....) Don't know if this helps, or if it has anything to do with the song in question... S.B. > What is Orange Claw Hammer? > >Drew > >===== >Andrew D. Simchik, schnopia@yahoo.com > > > > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! >http://mail.yahoo.com/ > > ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 08:35:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Vivien Lyon Subject: Re: Chills - --- MARKEEFE@aol.com wrote: > I'm just happy to have recently turned JBJ on to "Submarine > Bells" . . . > having all kinds of Heavenly Pop Days lately, John? :-) I am! I am! Oh Heavenly Pop Hit, how I love you! Oh, Martin Phillips! Oh! Oh! Vivien __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 08:47:22 -0700 From: Natalie Jacobs Subject: grumble The birthday girl (happy birthday Randi!!) says: > I'm quite befuddled as to why no one has told their story about Robyn blowing > them off. I can't speak for anyone else, but for me, being blown off by one of my favorite artists - who was completely kind and polite on the last two tours - - made me feel angry and embarrassed, and I don't really want to dwell on the incident. I'll get over it soon enough, anyway. > if robyn is going to be selling his cds only at shows and through the museum, > shouldn't he be even more gracious to fans - or am I the only one that cares? I think he should be gracious to his fans simply out of courtesy, as one human being to another. Everyone has that obligation; you don't get exempted because you're famous. Also, you catch more flies with honey. n. (who is even more of a devoted Apples in Stereo fan after being treated kindly by Robert Schneider) p.s. Re. out-of-print albums, my big pie in the sky for a long time was Peter Blegvad's "King Strut and Other Stories," which was never released in the US and went out of print almost immediately after its release in 1990. But a Belgian guy on the now-defunct Blegvad list snagged me a copy! So I am at peace in my heart... except I'd really like to find some Cleaners from Venus records, and I've also searched high and low for a Blegvad promo disc called "Peter Who?" I wish I liked less obscure artists. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 11:51:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: RE: Chills On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Brian Huddell wrote: > It has its place and this is it: You're putting together a stack of > CDs for a road-trip and you know you want some Chills but you've had > Submarine Bells AND Brave Words in heavy rotation for a while now. > Soft Bomb to the rescue. But you're right, it's weak on heavenly pop > hits. "The Male Monster From The Id", "So Long", "Sleeping Giants", "Double Summer", "Sanctuary", "Halo Fading"... admittedly, i only have the awful-sounding Homestead CD to listen to when it comes to Brave Words, so i probably underestimate it. still, Soft Bomb and Submarine Bells are my favorites. Soft Bomb suffers slightly from the amount of filler, but i prefer inconsistency over the not-great-not-awful Sunburnt. a ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 10:58:18 -0500 From: steve Subject: Want power trio versions of your old favorite game themes? (NR) www.minibosses.com This is what happens when you're at home waiting for the air conditioner repairman (or...). - - Steve _______________ We're all Jesus, Buddha, and the Wizard of Oz! - Andy Partridge ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 12:12:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: grumble On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Natalie Jacobs wrote: > I think he should be gracious to his fans simply out of courtesy, as > one human being to another. Everyone has that obligation; you don't > get exempted because you're famous. on the other hand, everyone has their bad moods; unlike friends, musicians interacting with their fans don't usually have an ongoing relationship in whose context one can apologize later for being grumpy. > So I am at peace in my heart... except I'd really like to find some > Cleaners from Venus records i'm almost positive that Cordelia Records has some Cleaners From Venus records for sale. they aren't listed on the website (http://homepages.stayfree.co.uk/cordelia/Pages/Home%20page.html) but i will consult my paper catalog when i get home. Cordelia Records is Alan Jenkins from The Deep Freeze Mice, who were one of my long-sought grails until they got on the web and i found out that their albums were being reissued. he only has the middle albums now, though; the first three, as well as the two Ruth's Refrigerator records he made with Ruth Miller, can be bought from http://www.interlog.com/~costan/mgccat.html i tend to think that some Robyn fans would be interested in Alan Jenkins, but aside from myself, i have no proof. aaron ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 17:14:25 BST From: "matt sewell" Subject: Re: grumble > >The birthday girl (happy birthday Randi!!) says: > > > I'm quite befuddled as to why no one has told their story about Robyn >blowing > them off. >Natalie replies: >I can't speak for anyone else, but for me, being blown off by one of my >favorite artists - who was completely kind and polite on the last two tours >- made me feel angry and embarrassed, and I don't really want to dwell on >the incident. I'll get over it soon enough, anyway. Being blown off obviously has a very different meaning in America most female fans would jump at the chance! ;-) I do understand how you feel, though... I think that just because someone's famous, it doesn't give them the right to treat their fans - the people who make and keep him famous! (or anyone else for that matter) - like shit. I've never spoken to Robyn because I can do without an unpleasant incident with the bloke who writes some of my favourite music... this is a shame, though... I dunno about the US, but here in the UK, it isn't as if he's being constantly bombarded with demanding fans (I'm sure this can be wearing), so I just put it down to rock-star petulance, something that one really should grow out of, especially if one has recently embraced one's cult status..! OTOH, I guess we all have bad days... > >p.s. Re. out-of-print albums, my big pie in the sky for a long time was >Peter Blegvad's "King Strut and Other Stories," which was never released in >the US and went out of print almost immediately after its release in 1990. I've heard good things about PB, but don't know where to start - any recommendations? Cheers Matt ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 09:25:36 -0700 From: Natalie Jacobs Subject: RE: grumble > Being blown off obviously has a very different meaning in > America most female fans would jump at the chance! ;-) Remove the preposition... :) > I've heard good things about PB, but don't know where to start - any > recommendations? A lot of his stuff is out of print or hard to find. His latest, "Hangman's Hill," was pretty disappointing, but "Downtime" and "Just Woke Up" are both excellent and should be easier to find in the UK than in the States. There's a discography at http://reality.sgi.com/relph/music/blegvad.peter/ . Blegvad also does a wonderful and Robynesque comic strip called "Leviathan" - - www.leviathian.co.uk . n. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 12:50:44 -0400 From: Stephen Buckalew Subject: Re: those hard to find records and cds and a lot of Robyn This was a couple years ago....but at at a Cambridge gig (same year as the boat gig)...I hung out for about a half hour with him before the show (other artists were playing and he was hanging out before going up to do his set), and he seemed very uncomfortable (and impatient) making small talk (and i dont blame him...I'm terrible at making small talk and was probably boring him). But when we started talking about music stuff...like guitar techniques, alternate tunings, songwriting techniques...he perked right up, and got very talkative and enthusiastic, and seemed genuinely interested in discussing that stuff. This was a few years ago though... S.B. At 00:08 27/06/00 -0400, you wrote: > >Randi: > >> Now I must ask a question ... > >> I also think if RH is going to be disrespectful to fans and fegs >> >> I'm quite befuddled as to why no one has told their story about Robyn >> blowing them off. > > >OK, feggies -- out with it! >-- >Ross Overbury >Montreal, Quebec, Canada > > > ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 10:44:18 -0700 (PDT) From: "Andrew D. Simchik" Subject: Re: grumble - --- matt sewell wrote: > Being blown off obviously has a very different meaning in America most > female fans would jump at the chance! ;-) As you've probably gathered, "to blow [someone] off" here means to dismiss them brusquely or with no more than minimal courtesy. It can also be close to "standing [someone] up." :) > I've > never spoken to Robyn because I can do without an unpleasant incident > with > the bloke who writes some of my favourite music... this is a shame, > though... I wasn't aware that there was a possibility of this -- I didn't approach him at the SF shows only because he wasn't available. Grant was, though, at the Sweetwater, so I got a chance to shake hands and compliment him on the show. He was very sweet (and just as cute at even shorter distances), and I wanted to say more, but I tend to assume that even Rock Stars (ho!) who make themselves available after the show don't want to be monopolized. So it would never have occurred to me that Robyn would or should come out and be cordial, though I'd agree that this is not an unreasonable expectation. Granted, the performances I did in college were not on the same scale at all, and it was often my friends I was greeting after shows, but I considered the post-show meet 'n' greet one of the highlights of each performance. Maybe it's different when you're Famous. Drew ===== Andrew D. Simchik, schnopia@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 10:47:34 -0700 (PDT) From: "Andrew D. Simchik" Subject: Re: grumble - --- Natalie Jacobs wrote: > I can't speak for anyone else, but for me, being blown off by one of my > favorite artists - who was completely kind and polite on the last two > tours > - made me feel angry and embarrassed, and I don't really want to dwell > on > the incident. I'll get over it soon enough, anyway. Noted -- you don't want to dwell on it -- but can I just ask for a clarification? He was completely kind and polite at this tour and the previous one, or he was rude on this tour but not on the two previous? Drew ===== Andrew D. Simchik, schnopia@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 11:08:13 -0700 (PDT) From: "Andrew D. Simchik" Subject: Re: Happiness - --- Michael Wolfe wrote: > The pizza came, and I drank my beer, > which I claimed was "fruity," due to the lemon on the rim, and > Chris replied that there was a lot of that kind of beer in his > neighborhood. Oy. > "Let them bring you Happiness > Happiness is hard to come by, I confess > I'm bad at this > Happiness, if you find it, > share it with the rest of us" This song got a huge response both nights I heard it, but I confess I'm bad at being in love with it. I found just about every one of the other songs he performed much more involving emotionally. Is it a big famous Grant Lee Buffalo classic or something? Drew ===== Andrew D. Simchik, schnopia@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 11:24:18 -0700 (PDT) From: rich plumb Subject: Re: Chills Brian Huddell asked: > > 3) Alright here's the meat: You're the smartest people I don't actually > know so maybe you can help with this. There's a song on the Chills "Soft > Bomb" album called "Song For Randy Newman Etc." I know a lot of you know > it. For those who don't it's a songwriters' lament, and there's litany of > damaged songwriters in one of the verses: > > Others made the same mistake > Men like Wilson, Barrett, Walker, Drake > On the journey they were forced to make > > Simple question, who's Walker? I've never worked too hard on it, but I > can't think of a Walker whose name belongs alongside Brian, Syd, and Nick. > Who am I missing? > While I'm not sure if he belongs with such august company, Scott Walker it almost certainly the person. He was as far as I know not mentally ill like the others, so that's why I don't think he belongs. He was a huge star in Great Britain in the late 60's. Produced very elaborate pop music and had several #1 albums before losing his touch. Definitely worth checking out. There is a great single disc compilation called "It's Raining Today". rich __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 14:28:05 EDT From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Re: Chills up and down Viv's spine In a message dated 6/27/00 8:55:22 AM Pacific Daylight Time, aaron@eecs.harvard.edu writes: << > It has its place and this is it: You're putting together a stack of > CDs for a road-trip and you know you want some Chills but you've had > Submarine Bells AND Brave Words in heavy rotation for a while now. > Soft Bomb to the rescue. But you're right, it's weak on heavenly pop > hits. "The Male Monster From The Id", "So Long", "Sleeping Giants", "Double Summer", "Sanctuary", "Halo Fading"... admittedly, i only have the awful-sounding Homestead CD to listen to when it comes to Brave Words, so i probably underestimate it. still, Soft Bomb and Submarine Bells are my favorites. Soft Bomb suffers slightly from the amount of filler, but i prefer inconsistency over the not-great-not-awful Sunburnt. >> Wow! Not one mention of "Kaleidoscope World"! This is the compilation of their early singles and EPs and is easily my second favorite Chills CD. Just thought I'd mention that :-) - ------Michael K. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 15:04:55 EDT From: "Ken Frankel" Subject: Re: Scott Walker (no RH) If you're expecting anything sounding like Nick Drake or Syd you MIGHT be disappointed. I think the comparisons have more to do with his mysterious hermit-like lifestyle than the nature of the music. It's definitely not for everyone, as I've found when playing his stuff for friends. Personally, I think he's great, and sounds kind of like Sinatra on acid. Has anyone heard the "techno" come-back album he did a few years ago? Ken >To think that my quest for a pop singer with Perfect Diction may soon be at >an end! > >-brian > ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 12:35:14 -0800 From: tclark@apple.com Subject: Eb Shall Serve No Fries Before Their Time Part II of my Portland/Seattle travelogue. Feel free to delete. - -tc Saturday morning we all arose and established the itinerary for the day: Lunch at the Thai place around the corner, visit Carole at Powell’s Technical Books, then head out to Seattle. Once we hit SeaTac we would stop at my hotel so I could check in and freshen up a bit. Then we would stop by the Crocodile so I could pick up a ticket, grab Michael Wolfe from the nearby arcade, and head out to Eddie’s restaurant for dinner. That was the plan, anyway. I had some time to kill while Chris, Jeme, and Viv got ready to go, so I cracked the Nick Drake biography again. This time it was recounting Nick’s days at Marlborough College, his teenage years. A classmate remembered that Nick was particularly fond of Dylan’s “Bringing It All Back Home” album: ‘...[The one] with the line “She wears an Egyptian ring...”’ We headed out for the great Thai food, and while we were eating Chris spotted Carole cycling past on her way to work. Portland’s a very cool city. We buzzed over to Powell’s with plenty of time to kill and hung out with Carole for a few minutes. If I ever get back to Portland I can imagine spending hours in that store. Carole told us that she had ridden past Robyn and Rick Gershon on her way to the store. They were hanging out outside a record shop. “Huh” - I thought - “that’s quite a coincidence.” We waved goodbye to Carole and hit the road for SeaTac. Jeme estimated it would take us 3.5 hours at the most. Along the way, we listened to Oingo Boingo, tried several times to get ourselves killed (it didn’t work), and told stories of the hashish-induced hallucinations we all suffered during those days in Tangiers, with nothing but a typewriter and a 12-year-old male prostitute. But I digress. Unfortunately we were traveling in a machine that used only 2% of it’s engine power to move the passengers and the cargo, so we had to stop for gas somewhere along some nondescript portion of I-5 in Washington. As we exited the Interstate, Jeme noted that he hates it when he can’t see a gas station - - petrol station if you’re watching in England - from the exit ramp. We spotted a Texaco station to the left and were drawn to it like the Space Needle to Jeme’s ass. I hated to ask the guys to retrieve my chair from the trunk, but pee-wise it was now or never. Jeme held the door as I entered the building. As my eyes adjusted for the light, I spotted a tall figure in a sport jacket standing at the counter. Holy shit. “You’re wearing a different shirt than last night. It was green.” The tall figure spoke in a familiar tone. “Err, yeah. It had pineapples on it” I said. Looking down at my Jewels For Sophia T-Shirt, I thought “Fuck, I’m such a little fan-boy.” I had only brought this shirt for something to travel in. I scurried into the bathroom and frantically made sure nobody was in there with me because I was making giddy, almost psychotic noises. “He must think I’m stalking him! How else could we end up in this shithole at the same time?” It was unreal - kind of like Tangiers. I exited the bathroom and saw Robyn perusing the postcards about three feet away. I got the impression he needed to use the facility but thought better of entering while the mad stalker was in there. I proceeded past him and out the door with the biggest grin you’ve ever seen. We pulled away from the Texaco station among a mixture of tense silence and spontaneous Holy Shit’s. Unfortunately, we hit a couple of pockets of slow traffic which meant we hit SeaTac quite a bit later than we had hoped. I checked in to my hotel and invited my companions up to my room while I showered. Afterward we drove downtown and located Michael at the arcade. Surprisingly, he came walking out of the building with Natalie. Now we were six people in a four person car. The back seat was pretty crowded, but Viv seemed to be enjoying the crowd surfing. I think it had something to do with the random groping. The city was all a buzz as we noticed Bud Lite was saluting Gay Pride that day. It took a while, but we finally ended up at a nice sushi place and proceeded to plow through roughly $100 worth of food. Two cabs then took us to the Crocodile. Little by little the fegs arrived. Cynthia, Eddie, Simone - the gang was all there. I set myself up for the evening with a speedball succession of Guinness and black coffee before the doors opened at 9:30. Once inside, it was Maker’s Mark Manhattans that occupied my time until the show started at 10:30. As has already been described, Grant and Robyn were sucking down the drinks as well. And I’ve never seen RH smoke so much, practically inhaling an entire cigarette before starting to play. The show was fabulous. The version of “Uncorrected Personality Traits” was great, as RH accompanied himself on guitar. “Antwoman” flowed nicely into “Are You Experienced”, with Grant doing slide work with an empty cocktail glass. Then, during the last encore, Robyn threw in some Dylan. To top off this weekend of coincidence, he played the song with the line “She wears an Egyptian ring...” (She Belongs To Me). That was freaky. Afterward we all mulled about. I went to buy a T-Shirt but they were sold out. I asked Rick Gershon to let Robyn know that I was not stalking him; our chance meetings throughout the weekend were just that. He said he’d tell him, but he probably wouldn’t believe me (smiling). Natalie, Viv, and I exited the Croc to wait for Jeme to fetch the car and we struck up a conversation with the video crew who were documenting the tour. They said they were going to edit it together and sell it on both Robyn’s and Grant’s web sites. Naturally the whole thing will be edited on Macs running Final Cut Pro. Right On. Jeme arrived about three days later to pick us up. It was just in time too. I was annoying the ladies to the point that Viv was about to lose it and burst into tears. Whew! We drove back to the hotel where Jeme grabbed a room rather than make the trip back to Portland. The next morning the Jeme, Viv, and Natalie accompanied me to the airport where we dined on fruit, sausage & egg biscuits, and Cinnabun. I’m not going to say who had what. We said our goodbyes and I waited for my plane. I cracked the Nick Drake bio again and read in it a quote from Jean-Paul Sartre: “Hell is other people.” Looking around the terminal at the clueless zombies I would be traveling with, I wholeheartedly agreed. But just then, thinking back on my weekend, I was forced to reconsider. ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V9 #170 *******************************