From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V10 #16 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, January 19 2001 Volume 10 : Number 016 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Billboard Buffoonery [Gene Hopstetter ] Soft Boys Tour ["brian nupp" ] RE: The Lizard [Michael R Godwin ] RE: The Lizard [Bayard ] Georgie Gerwshin's happy ["Irish Airman" ] RE: Black Snake Diamond Role [Aaron ] re: I loves Alice da Goon [Eb ] RE: The Lizard [Aaron ] Re: 50 Cent Haircut Robyn Cover. ["brian nupp" ] tight connection to... [grutness@surf4nix.com] PS erk [grutness@surf4nix.com] Re: tight connection to... ["J. Brown" ] Re: tight connection to... ["Jason R. Thornton" ] Re: tight connection to... [Tom Clark ] Re: tight connection to... [grutness@surf4nix.com] Re: tight connection to... ["J. Brown" ] Re: 50 Cent Haircut Robyn Cover. [Capuchin ] robyn and the captain present "I'm A Spider" [Bayard ] Re: tight connection to... [Tom Clark ] XTC, Sam Phillips, and now.... [Eb ] RE: Soft Boys Tour [Cynthia Peterson ] New show list... ["Disinformant" ] More Chimp stuff [steve ] Jazz [steve ] RE: Black Snake Diamond Role [Asshole Motherfucker ] Re: Happy the Golden Prince ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Happy the Golden Prince ["brian nupp" ] RE: The Lizard [Michael R Godwin ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 10:56:21 -0600 From: Gene Hopstetter Subject: Billboard Buffoonery The FM rock station in my town (San Antonio, Texas, USA) has been pelting the highways with black billboards filled with classic rock song lyrics in big white type. You know, the standard Rock is Cool and You Should Listen to Us in Your Car and Be a Member of Our Exclusive Rock Cult aphorisms. "Hey you, out there in the cold, always doing what you're told, can you help me?" -- Pink Floyd" Most interesting is this one: "You really got me. -- Van Halen" I'm sure that gives Mr. Davies a real warm and fuzzy feeling. NP: ~700MB of Robyn Hitchcock MP3s in shuffle mode. How nice. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 12:31:08 -0500 From: "brian nupp" Subject: Soft Boys Tour Does any one have any clue as to when the SB's are doing their US tour? (Mainly Detroit). Any inside leads? My girlfriend is really pressing me to plan our trip to Peru in March or April. I've been holding off because of the tour. (What a loser I am!) I see no reason why I can't see Peru and the Soft Boys! Any one know if they're touring Peru? Nuppy _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 18:03:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: RE: The Lizard On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Viv Lyon wrote: > Am I wrong, or has Robyn actually said that this song is in fact about Jim > Morrison? I thought he had too. Possibly at the WOMAD gig he did a couple of years ago. And if it's not about Jimbo, who or what else is it about? - - Mike Godwin n.p. 'Horse Latitudes' ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 14:57:22 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: RE: The Lizard Not only that, but the man who invented himself is about syd barrett and brenda's iron sledge is about maggie thatcher. pretty sure he's confirmed all three of these. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 16:57:08 -0500 From: "Irish Airman" Subject: Georgie Gerwshin's happy Brett--I never said Alice didnt have an impact or deserved recognition(he does), just that Bowie, for me, cuts closer to the bone. Eb wrote: >My latest, growing gripe is that Burns seems to view jazz as consisting of >LOUIS ARMSTRONG, DUKE ELLINGTON...and oh yeah, there were some other >musicians too. Not only that--but in tracing the beginning of jazz in N.O. he just barely nodded in the direction of the blues for a moment. He dosnt seem to deal much with the interplay tween blues and jazz. Dont believe he specificially mentioned the delta blues at all. Havent seen all of it--but has he mentioned one of my personal goddesses--Bessie Smith?(Wait--she did something with L.A., does that make her rate;-)? >(Meanwhile, he >devoted about a *minute* to George Gershwin....) The craft of songwriting in general--Berlin, Gershwin, Porter, Kern --is getting short shift. And Bachman adds: > I'm not watching any more Burns until the Bebop starts. I doubt if >he can capture the feeling that the movie 'Round Midnight had or if >he even explores the Paris Jazz scene. While my husband and I like to make sick Chet Baker death jokes, nevertheless, please let Burns do justice to him, pleeaase... Dignan posted >Auberon Waugh Which I assume means RIP. Anybody remember Lady Foxglove? She was really my great-aunt but Waugh got her number somehow and wrote about her. Loved his sad funny autobio. Hats off. And Godwin, before Screamin Lord Sutch,-- how about vaudville and the music hall? I think Nupp exclaimed: >Yeah! I'd love to hear Do Policemen Sing ! Only if we can sing/swing in harmony And Viv cannily(no canopener needed) wrote: >Am I wrong, or has Robyn actually said that this song is in fact about Jim >Morrison? Believe you are right on that one. Then she adroutly observed about Happy, the Golden Prince > I think it was this track that took me from "this is >pretty okay music" to "this guy is fucking amazing." Viv, if you were a guy Id ask you to marry me. Same experience. Must finish as my purple plume pen is starting to droop, K _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 16:21:29 -0600 From: Aaron Subject: RE: Black Snake Diamond Role Brian: > > Since the I Used to Love You, Syd connection was pointed out to me by > > the members of this list, (I doubt I would ever have noticed), my > > brain keeps trying to connect the Lizard with Jim Morisson. I know I'm > > mistaken but the song always conjures a picture of Jim in his pony > > skin jacket leading his disciples along a beach at dusk. Viv: >Am I wrong, or has Robyn actually said that this song is in fact about Jim >Morrison? I don't know if I ever heard/read about Robyn acknowledging that the song was about Morrison, but I always blindly assumed that it was. I never considered that it might be about something else. The bathtub imagery just clinched it for me, I think. Any other opinions/information about this would be quite interesting to read. * Aaron mailto:aaron@hollowstreets.net http://aaron.hollowstreets.net ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 14:22:45 -0700 From: Eb Subject: re: I loves Alice da Goon Brett: >>> Where would Bowie be without Alice? 'nuff said. >> >> No, that's not nearly 'nuff. I think you need to repeat this platitude >> *another* 20 times. > >When you finally concede a bit then maybe--because it's the friggin' >truth!!! My bottom line is this (and this is my final post for this latest >round of Alice & Brett vs. Eb): if you cannot see that Alice has had both >visual *and* at least some musical impact, then you are truly denying an >irrefutable fact in the history and development of rock and roll. Where did I ever deny he had impact? But I'll also say that 1) I couldn't care less about him influencing the production values of stage shows (I'd estimate I've only seen three or four concerts ever with a significant "prop factor," and that's fine with me) 2) many of the artists whom you brag about him influencing are *miles* beyond him in talent and value, and 3) the remaining artists he influenced often represent the very worst things in music. Also, 4) Bowie may cite Cooper as an influence, but Bowie's own independent impact is exponentially more important than Cooper's. Lonnie Donegan influenced the Beatles, but I'm certainly not going to snort "Where would the Beatles be without Lonnie Donegan? 'Nuff said." Anyway, do you know where Bowie would be without "Alice"? He would be a stylish, versatile songwriter with a fantastic voice, a charismatic presence and and an amazing ability to reinvent himself, whose talent would've come into the spotlight anyway. Now, stop wringing your hands over the long-passed three or four years (i.e., the Mick Ronson era) when Bowie's/Cooper's music did display a certain kinship. Also, a lot of Bowie's lasting influence relates to his voice, and Bowie's and Cooper's vocals sound nothing alike. (In fact, even you would probably admit that Cooper's singing is barely competent.) >Apparently, Eb, Alice has never been and will never be your style, and I can >respect that. You are so silly. I've told you a dozen times that I own three Alice Cooper albums (actually four, counting one that's in my discard pile). I have them more because they're curiosities and "period pieces" than because I actually admire them, but I have them all the same. I might even buy Killer and/or Billion Dollar Babies if I found used records for cheap, though it's quite likely I wouldn't end up keeping them. So, don't be such a ninny, adopting this hysteric attitude that anyone who doesn't *worship* Alice Cooper must think he's worthless (waaaaaaaah). That's teenage stuff. Meanwhile, you recently defended Cooper's songwriting by boasting about his three top-10 hits. I'm greatly amused to now discover that one of those three ("Poison") was actually masterminded by the infamous Desmond Child instead. And at least one of the other two *also* has co-writers, right? Oh, one more thing: The one album in my discard pile *is* School's Out. I dug it out and played most of it last night, and I *still* can't quite remember how the verse of the title song goes. However, I do remember it was essentially one guitar riff with a minimum of melody, so that may explain my lack of retention. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 16:27:30 -0600 From: Aaron Subject: RE: The Lizard At 01:57 PM 1/18/2001, Bayard wrote: >Not only that, but the man who invented himself is about syd barrett and >brenda's iron sledge is about maggie thatcher. pretty sure he's confirmed >all three of these. Never knew that about "TMWIH", although it's not particularly surprising. I guess the way he views Barrett has changed a bit throw the years, huh? ("TMWIH"--> "I Used To Love You"). And I've read more than once that "Brenda's Iron Sledge" is somehow about Thatcher, but could some helpful Brit (or someone else in the know) explain this two me. A line-by-line parsing would be more than appreciated, if at all possible. "Brenda" has long been one of my favorite Hitchcock tunes to turn on, turn up, and rawk out, but I don't have a clue what it all means. To me, it's just typical abstract Hitchockian imagery. I'd love to know what this all means. "The ones ones on top / Are comfortable. / They're sitting on / A human chain, a human chain..." (??) My limbs compressed, * Aaron mailto:aaron@hollowstreets.net http://aaron.hollowstreets.net ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 17:35:48 -0500 From: "brian nupp" Subject: Re: 50 Cent Haircut Robyn Cover. I think K wanted this reposted. Here ya go. I hope it still works. >From: Capuchin > >Have you guys heard this? > >http://www.speakeasy.org/~capuchin/other/50_Cent_Haircut_-_When_I_Was_Dead.mp3 > >Damn. > >Viv doesn't like it so much, but I think it's great. >J. >-- >_______________________________________________ > >Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin >_______________________________________________ > [cc] counter-copyright http://www.openlaw.org > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 11:42:50 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com Subject: tight connection to... >> two distinct ommissions >> [...] or even Heart. > >Isn't Heart from Seattle? They're from Seattle's northernmost suburb, Vancouver James 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: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 11:44:06 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com Subject: PS erk I can't believe I spelt omission with two 'm's! Sorry y'all... James 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: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 15:04:16 -0800 (PST) From: "J. Brown" Subject: Re: tight connection to... On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 grutness@surf4nix.com wrote: > >> two distinct ommissions > >> [...] or even Heart. > > > >Isn't Heart from Seattle? > > They're from Seattle's northernmost suburb, Vancouver Sorry wrong! The dudes in the Band were from Vancouver but Ann and Nancy are daughters of a US Marine Corps Captain and Grew up in SoCal and in Seattle. They arent really a US or a Canadian band although in later years the canadian memebership was further reduced. Jason Wilson Brown - University of Washington - Seattle, WA "The whole Bush family, from Texas, should be boiled in poison oil." -Hunter S. Thompson ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 15:03:30 -0800 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: tight connection to... At 11:42 AM 1/19/01 +1300, grutness@surf4nix.com wrote: > >> two distinct ommissions > >> [...] or even Heart. > > > >Isn't Heart from Seattle? > >They're from Seattle's northernmost suburb, Vancouver The Heart entry on allmusic.com (which is hardly infallible, I'll admit) states that the Wilson sisters "grew up in both Southern California and Taiwan before the Wilson family settled in Seattle, Washington," but that the band itself was "based in Vancouver, British Columbia." It also says that Ann Wilson was born here in San Diego. - --Jason "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 15:30:49 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: tight connection to... on 1/18/01 2:42 PM, grutness@surf4nix.com at grutness@surf4nix.com wrote: >> Isn't Heart from Seattle? > > They're from Seattle's northernmost suburb, Vancouver UBL says that the Wilson girls are from Seattle, but the band itself was formed in *1963* in Vancouver, British Columbia. The Wilsons joined in the early 1970's, subsequently releasing "Dreamboat Annie" on Mushroom Records, a Canadian label. That settles that, - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 12:50:38 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com Subject: Re: tight connection to... >> >Isn't Heart from Seattle? >> >> They're from Seattle's northernmost suburb, Vancouver > >Sorry wrong! The dudes in the Band were from Vancouver but Ann and Nancy >are daughters of a US Marine Corps Captain and Grew up in SoCal and in >Seattle. They arent really a US or a Canadian band although in later >years the canadian memebership was further reduced. I stand corrected. But (unless I'm wrong on this, too) the band was formed in Vancouver, so I suspect they would count as Canadian in much the same way that Australians claim Crowded House and the Bee Gees, and the US claims Crosby Stills Nash and Young. James 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: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 16:00:16 -0800 (PST) From: "J. Brown" Subject: Re: tight connection to... On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 grutness@surf4nix.com wrote: > >> >Isn't Heart from Seattle? > >> > >> They're from Seattle's northernmost suburb, Vancouver > > > >Sorry wrong! The dudes in the Band were from Vancouver but Ann and Nancy > >are daughters of a US Marine Corps Captain and Grew up in SoCal and in > >Seattle. They arent really a US or a Canadian band although in later > >years the canadian memebership was further reduced. > > I stand corrected. But (unless I'm wrong on this, too) the band was formed > in Vancouver, so I suspect they would count as Canadian in much the same > way that Australians claim Crowded House and the Bee Gees, and the US > claims Crosby Stills Nash and Young. Actually Canadians have strict rules on this. According the CRTC rules for Canadian content Heart would no count as Canadian content because the primary creative compontent does not come from Canadians Jason Wilson Brown - University of Washington - Seattle, WA "The whole Bush family, from Texas, should be boiled in poison oil." -Hunter S. Thompson ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 16:37:46 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: 50 Cent Haircut Robyn Cover. On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, brian nupp wrote: > I think K wanted this reposted. Here ya go. I hope it still works. > > > >http://www.speakeasy.org/~capuchin/other/50_Cent_Haircut_-_When_I_Was_Dead.mp3 > >Damn. > >Viv doesn't like it so much, but I think it's great. Thanks for reminding me this was still up there... I'm going to take it down... but I'll leave it there for a few more days. But I'll probably put it up on my regular website quite soon. J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 19:33:08 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: robyn and the captain present "I'm A Spider" On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, brian nupp wrote: > ps I had the back cover of Captain Sensible's 45 single Spider scanned. I'll > try to get it posted. Paging Bayard... you rang? Here it is, and the others from the Nupp: http://www.bitmine.net/~bayard/robyn/ Two versions, a lower quality one and one that's bigger in every way. =b ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 16:32:42 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: tight connection to... on 1/18/01 4:00 PM, J. Brown at ringostr@u.washington.edu wrote: > > Actually Canadians have strict rules on this. According the CRTC rules > for Canadian content Heart would not count as Canadian content because the > primary creative component does not come from Canadians Referring to, of course, Led Zeppelin. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 18:32:19 -0700 From: Eb Subject: XTC, Sam Phillips, and now.... A friend in another time zone informs me that tonight's "Gilmore Girls" episode references Claudine Longet, and even includes one of her songs in the score! Wow! Eb ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 18:33:30 -0800 From: Cynthia Peterson Subject: RE: Soft Boys Tour I was just perusing the calendar of the Crocodile Cafe in Seattle, and was surprised to see they've already got a Soft Boys date listed: April 4. Wild! That's all I know... Cynthia - -----Original Message----- Does any one have any clue as to when the SB's are doing their US tour? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 22:24:14 -0500 From: "Disinformant" Subject: New show list... Hey, y'all... I've updated the show list finally... http://www.ochremedia.com/show_list.htm I think it's relatively up to date. Questions, comments, and the odd trade are welcome... (and if there's anyone I've got things in the works with, please email me to remind my sorry arse...) - -ferris. ________________________________ FS Thomas mailto:ferris621@earthlink.net (home) mailto:ferris@ochremedia.com mailto:ferris_thomas@mcgraw-hill.com (work) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 22:51:35 -0600 From: steve Subject: More Chimp stuff http://www.salon.com/people/satire/2001/01/19/curious_george/index.html - - Steve __________ We're all Jesus, Buddha, and the Wizard of Oz! - Andy Partridge ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 23:18:32 -0600 From: steve Subject: Jazz http://www.thenewrepublic.com/012201/wieseltier012201.html http://www.thenewrepublic.com/jazz/index.html - - Steve __________ Well, Jesus ain't no astronaut And Buddah, he's no fool Cathedral bells don't ring in hell 'cos cats down there don't think that's cool. - Bill Nelson ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 23:31:48 -0800 From: Asshole Motherfucker Subject: RE: Black Snake Diamond Role 1993: I don't know. "The Lizard" would be nice done live a la Richard Thompson. I can't really imagine it. I think we used to do it. It wouldn't really...I think it really, kind of, ran out of steam. We did it a bit around '88/'89. Peter Buck played on it with us, actually. It's of...it's, kind of, faded away, really. It was to do with Jim Morrison. But it wasn't totally about Jim Morrison. Just, sort... intersected with the Jim Morrison legend. It was one of those it's- great-to-be-decadent-until-you've-actually-hit-bottom. People who enjoy decadence really...it's a very short-sighted thing, really. It's easy to do that when you're young and beautiful and in your twenties, you know? But imagine if Morrison had lived to be a fat old alcoholic: isn't quite so enticing. It's lucky for him, you know? It's lucky he died when he did. For his legend. It's...I don't know. People like that are very hapless, really. 1995: "The Man Who Invented Himself", a kind of rumination about legends like Syd Barrett, was written a few days after Robyn watched Monty Python's Life Of Brian and, Robyn admits, is vaguely modeled after that film's finale number "Bright Side Of Life". 1981; Of the songs on Black Snake Diamond Role, Hitchcock is oblingingly explicit. Is (I ask) "Brenda's Iron Sledge" about Mrs. Thatcher? "Well, her and the ruling class generally," responds Robyn. "The idea is that it's a huge great cast-iron sled going down a slushy hill in the middle of winter with some really nasty trees poking out, and there's no shock abosrbers: there's just a mass of people at the bottom. And it's a, sort of, pyramid, and at the top sit Brenda and her cronies, y'know, munching legs of chicken and dill pickles out of hampers, and sort of cracking the whip. "And the ruling class is protected from what is happening by this wedge of people underneath them. And if they really wanna do something with a riot they should do them in Knightsbridge and South Kensington and Hampstead, you know? As long as they can keep things at a distance, then that's how it works. "So I suppose world communism is the logical answer," he adds with a humourless chuckle. KEN "And stay out of the Woolsworth!" THE KENSTER ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 09:34:06 +0000 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Here's a top 3 list for you Jonathan Moren wrote: > > "This machine kills French vowels". Just trying to get some accented e:s > through here, but even that seems to be too hard. oh, don't try. Last I looked, this list got weird if things weren't ASCII. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 09:34:37 +0000 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Here's a top 3 list for you Ken Frankel wrote: > > And where the hell are Kate & Anna McGarrigle? celtic folky types. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 09:40:27 +0000 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Oh? Canada? (5% mouth harp) Michael R Godwin wrote: > > On Thu, 18 Jan 2001 grutness@surf4nix.com wrote: > > All this talk about mouth harps and no-one's mentioned Larry Adler... > > Well, I wouldn't put him at the forefront of the blues revival! did I actually say I wanted to learn blues harp? Hey, I like it and all, but I reckon I better to able to get a simple tune out before I go for the blues techniques. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 01:43:57 -0800 From: "Brian Hoare" Subject: RE: Brenda [demime could not interpret encoding binary - treating as plain text] >From: Aaron >Subject: RE: The Lizard >Reply-To: Aaron > >And I've read more than >once that "Brenda's Iron Sledge" is somehow about Thatcher, but could some >helpful Brit (or someone else in the know) explain this two me. A >line-by-line parsing would be more than appreciated, if at all >possible. I can "feel" it (after hearing about it) but I could not make a case for it. OTOH I remember telling Sarah that BIS was about Thatcher and her saying that that was quite obvious. I'll try to get her to elaborate. A simpler exercise would be to equate Inner City Unit's Blue Rinse Haggard Robot to that woman. >"Brenda" has long been one of my favorite Hitchcock tunes to >turn on, turn up, and rawk out, but I don't have a clue what it all >means. To me, it's just typical abstract Hitchockian imagery. I'd love to >know what this all means. It is probably the second RH tune I knew, from the appearance on OGWT when he did personality traits(?) and sledge. Damn good song but I've probably heard enough for this lifetime. I wish I could remember the rest of the story he told just after the sledge crashed during at a live show. It started "Young Kevin was left in charge of the pressure cooker..." and joined up to "the grasshopers curl up and burst". Brian - ------------------------------------------------------------ - --== Sent via Deja.com ==-- http://www.deja.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 09:44:44 +0000 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Happy the Golden Prince Viv Lyon wrote: > > I think it was this track that took me from "this is > pretty okay music" to "this guy is fucking amazing." yeah, I mean -- doesn't your brain sing the backing track to Happy when it has spare cycles? Mine does. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 10:26:48 -0000 From: "matt sewell" Subject: RE: The Lizard I think Brenda is actually the Queen - that's what Private Eye have been calling her for years (and of course her son, Prince Brian) >From: Bayard >Reply-To: Bayard >To: "towing vehicle 'nostromo'" >Subject: RE: The Lizard >Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 14:57:22 -0500 (EST) > >Not only that, but the man who invented himself is about syd barrett and >brenda's iron sledge is about maggie thatcher. pretty sure he's confirmed >all three of these. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 10:22:50 -0500 From: "brian nupp" Subject: Re: Happy the Golden Prince >yeah, I mean -- doesn't your brain sing the backing track to Happy when >it has spare cycles? Mine does. Most definately! _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 17:16:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: RE: The Lizard On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, matt sewell wrote: > I think Brenda is actually the Queen - that's what Private Eye have been > calling her for years (and of course her son, Prince Brian) Agreed - and there is graphic evidence to this effect on the Brenda's Iron Sledge 12", which features one of Robyn's eccentric strip cartoons. Has anyone put this cartoon on the web, or do I have to do it? - - Mike Godwin n.p. Jigsaw Puzzle Blues by Danny Kirwan (4 keys in 40 bars!) ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V10 #16 *******************************