From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V9 #287 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, October 15 2000 Volume 09 : Number 287 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Thanks ["Asa Land" ] alt country [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] Re: Iota gigs [Ben ] Re: Review;Philly show and more ["Dan Donohue" ] eerie [Dolph Chaney ] Re: alt country [Eb ] CDNow news item [Eb ] Re: Iota gigs [Christopher Gross ] scans for you [Ben ] an iota of fun [Bayard ] imagine there's no Lennon [Bayard ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 20:36:28 EDT From: "Asa Land" Subject: Thanks Thanks for the Traffic info. Love that Mr Fantasy was done on a Tely, but kicking myself for not going there myself. OUAT, The Nazz=Todd Rundgren. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 13:45:02 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: alt country >> I've had rather a dodgy bet with a friend who seems to reckon that >> alt.country came sorta out of nowhere. I know that The Mekons and I >> su[ppose, to a certain extent, Nick Cave were into C&W well before that. >> Does anyone, Brits especially, remember a movement called Cowpunk (it did >> exist, I just can't remember any exponents) or anyone other Indie types >who >> used Country as a starting point in the 80s and 90s? Guadalcanal Diary, The Hoodoo Gurus, and The Cruel Sea all spring to mind. And what about Michelle Shocked and k.d.lang? James (trying hard not to mention NZ's Sneaky Feelings's Gram Parsons fetish) PS: anyone got any opinions on Yo La Tengo's "And then nothing turned itself inside out"? PPS: todays alphabetising problem: Alan Parsons Project James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand. =-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= -=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.- .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- You talk to me as if from a distance -.-=-.- And I reply with impressions chosen from another time =-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-. (Brian Eno - "By this River") ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 20:51:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Ben Subject: Re: Iota gigs >Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 16:41:17 EDT >From: HSatterfld@aol.com >Subject: Re: Iota gigs + looking for a CD > >I am hoping to attend Sunday's festivities with my fiancee, although I have >never >been to Iota so I hope it will be easy to find. > >I'll probably be wearing a Sisters of Mercy t-shirt. I should be there too although I don't know what I'll be wearing, maybe I should strap my Robyn-designed cone on to my head for easy identification! By the way is it conformed there will be a second show on Monday night too? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 20:06:11 -0400 From: "Dan Donohue" Subject: Re: Review;Philly show and more > Back to the stream of the crime. > Crimenly low-turnout, but it did make it intimate. Perhaps it was a criminally low turnout because some a-hole at the TLA booked a second show on the same night AFTER Robyn and GLP. What, don't tell me you didn't stick around for the big SR-71 / Wheatus show at 10 PM?!! Well, I guess you have to have priorities... Now who ever heard of a gig starting on time? If the ticket says 7:00, in my experience the doors will open at 7:00 and you're lucky if it starts by 10:00. But this time our heroes were forced to get on and get off ASAP to accommodate "this week's big thing" at 10:00. The bottom line is, by the time the four of us scrambled to get out of work, drove the hour and a half to Philly, found a place to park, got to the TLA, and elbowed our way through the throng of freakishly pierced and tattooed adolescents lined up out front for the twilight gig, the girl at the box office said, "Yes, here are your will call tickets. By the way, the show just got over." Great. Thank you. Perhaps a smaller venue Robyn was called for? One he didn't have to share with a cleanup act? Last time he was in Philly he played at that place that used to be The Bank. That was cool. Disappointed Dan P.S. And no, 2 of the 4 of us were women, so Robyn is not a "guy thing"... ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 20:02:11 -0500 From: Dolph Chaney Subject: eerie from the official "Weird Al" Yankovic website's "Ask Al" feature, dated November 1999 -- http://www.weirdal.com/aaarchive.htm#1199 - ------------------------- Genia Glos of Elizabeth,PA asks: Who is your favorite boy band? [Al:] The Beatles. - ------------------------- so hey -- if "Weird Al" agrees... what does that say? dolph p.s.: hi Kay! I was here all along, but since cataloguing was my lowest grade in grad school and since my own CDs are in complete disarray -- since we like LISTEN to 'em and stuff -- I figured I was no authority-phile. BWAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 18:31:38 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: alt country >Guadalcanal Diary, The Hoodoo Gurus, and The Cruel Sea all spring to mind. Seems like the Cruel Sea springs to mind for you, regarding *most* questions. ;) I don't believe anyone has mentioned the Knitters yet.... >And what about Michelle Shocked and k.d.lang? Not particularly "alt," but maybe. >PS: anyone got any opinions on Yo La Tengo's "And then nothing turned >itself inside out"? It's OK, but too infatuated with organ droning. The other recent Yo La Tengo albums are better. Eb, unregistered organ droner ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 18:46:10 -0700 From: Eb Subject: CDNow news item Fancy a date with the sometimes-glamorous, always-combustible Courtney Love? You can now get your chance. Love has put her date's spot to the Los Angeles premiere of Charlie's Angels up for grabs in "celebration of sexy, sophisticated women who kick ass and talk trash." Intertested parties should enter the contest at hole.com (http://www.hole.com/). The winner will fly to Los Angeles and accompany Love to the premiere on Oct. 22. Who knows, maybe you can get lucky, too... ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 13:31:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: Iota gigs It now seems unlikely that I'll make it to tonight's show. (Bayard says he can't make it either.) However, I definitely plan on going Monday night. Is anyone else doing the Monday thang? - --Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 16:51:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Ben Subject: scans for you Hey I posted some scans from a fanzine here: http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/drummer/473/goldenprince.html Enjoy! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 18:04:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard Subject: an iota of fun could any DC types let me know if they record the show tonight? i am going to not be able to be there. also be sure to post a review and a setlist... and i will be there tomorrow, email me if you will too. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 23:34:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard Subject: imagine there's no Lennon - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 21:09:59 -0400 From: overbury@cn.ca To: walden@eclipse.net Subject: Forward this to the list for me if you don't mind >Well, like Hitchcock, Lennon was just a musician. You know artists have >their place and all, but the impact of Lennon in particular is vague and >undiscernable. Certainly art should be celebrated and encourged, but >deifying artists is wrong and doesn't get us anywhere. Impact as in influence on the music of others? It's neither vague nor indiscernible in Robyn Hitchcock's music! Or did you mean his influence on the thinking of his contemporaries? Ask some of them; I bet you'll find a significant proportion of them think they were influenced by Lennon. This one does. Lennon's not Ghandi, but Ghandi couldn't have reached me then. Steve took care of the other points for me. Jeme, do you really believe what you said? - -- Unsubbed Surveyor ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V9 #287 *******************************