From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V10 #76 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, March 14 2001 Volume 10 : Number 076 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: JHC ["matt sewell" ] the real quote, I think... [Mark Gloster ] Re: launch do [Michael R Godwin ] Re: digests ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: birthdate rocker/ first encounter [Michael R Godwin ] birthdate rocker ["jbranscombe@compuserve.com" ] the end is near, here are your badges ["Russ Reynolds" ] Re: Prog [steve ] Re: Prog [Michael R Godwin ] Re: the real quote, I think... [hbrandt ] Re: underwatermoonlight.com [Aaron Mandel ] 2000/10/18 glh maxwell's [recount chocula ] Re:Feg musicians/bawb & prog ["ross taylor" ] RE: Feg musicians/bawb & prog ["Brian Huddell" ] # 281 with a bullitt at amazon.com ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: the real quote, I think... [Eb ] Re: the real quote, I think... [hbrandt ] Re: the real quote, I think... [Eb ] [Ebmaniax] Malkmus [Eb ] Re: [Ebmaniax] Malkmus [Glen Uber ] Re: [Ebmaniax] Malkmus [Eb ] tappin' the Feg thinktank again [Eb ] Can Stop the Music (reap) [Eb ] Re: tappin' the Feg thinktank again [Jason Thornton ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 09:13:53 -0000 From: "matt sewell" Subject: RE: JHC > Ross Taylor proclaimed: > > > Also recently found Julian Cope's Jehovakill -- > > what a hippie! > > "She walks up to me, makes the sign of the cross > > says 'Julian H. Cope, you're a real dead boss'" > > > > Easily worth ten times the $2 I paid for it. > > Then another Matt agreed: >I'll say! That is a great album. Then again everything he has done >the last decade has been. I need to check what his latest release is >- I haven't been keeping up on new releases, except what Eb and others >tell me here. Check out Autogeddon if you haven't already. I think >that's where Julian finally went over the edge. > >This reminds me. Somewhere in Jehovakill (actually right before the >line you quote, I think) he sings "Badges, badges.. we don't need no >stickin' badges..." Where is this from? An old movie? I know I've >heard it somewhere else. It's from Blazing Saddles - I believe said by one of the Mexicans...But really I'm just posting to agree... Jehovahkill certainly one of my all-time favourites - Did you know that Peggy Suicide, Jehovahkill and Autogeddon make up a trilogy? These albums I think are certainly his best - I thought that 20 Mothers was great as a pop album, but I was *extremely* disappointed with Interpreter... nice box, not particularly impressive music... shame. These days I reckon it's much more rewarding to see him live... what a star!CheersMatt - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 01:44:59 -0800 From: Mark Gloster Subject: the real quote, I think... "Badges? I don't got to show you any steenkin' badges." ^ ^ we? have? And yes, it was _Treasure of the Sierra Madre_, but it is misquoted more often than it is correctly quoted, so it has become part of the landscape. Kinda like "Winning isn't everything. It's the only thing." Lombardi never said it. BTW: I like the new macs, but that has continuously been the case since 1984. Happies, - -el marko loco ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 10:03:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: launch do On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, jbranscombe@compuserve.com wrote: > Morris played this strange looking diddy drum-kit Yes, he was playing that with a local blues band recently, and also when he sat in with Robyn-Tim-Patch-Kim-Jake at the Fleece last year. It's a red Yamaha kit IIRC. - - Mike Godwin PS Did you see Kimberley on 'Buzzcocks' the other night? He was one of the 'spot the forgotten rock star' lineup, and they didn't guess him! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 10:47:11 +0000 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: digests ross taylor wrote: > > >There was a prog rock 'Top 10' on UK-TV last week. > > Where was Procol Harum? I'm a Procoholic. nowhere. The program's method of choosing bands is by total sales -- so dinos that go on for ever got highest up. I think the top three were Pink Floyd, Genesis, and Yes. Bleah for the first two. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 12:43:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: birthdate rocker/ first encounter > "jbranscombe@compuserve.com" wrote: > > Will some kind American please, please tell me that it was > > number one over your way on 12th December 1962.... On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Alfred Masciocchi wrote: > Check http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/cont/choose.html Well, it turned out to be the fabulous 'Big Girls Don't Cry' by the Four Seasons. I'm too old to play this game, but I did find out that on my 21st birthday the UK number one was 'I heard it through the grapevine' by Marvin Gaye, whereas in the US it was 'Dizzy' by Tommy Roe .... - - Mike Godwin ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 08:04:50 -0500 From: "jbranscombe@compuserve.com" Subject: UK spoiler I'm off the hook. Phew! I've just spoken to the person who organised The Three Kings bash and she didn't even know it had ever been mentioned on the list. From the very first the guest-list limitations were all down to worry about the lack of space in the place. jmbc n.p. 30th Anniversary Edition of Marvin Gaye's What's Going On with previously unreleased mixes and live performances of the material. Sing it, brother! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 08:26:43 -0500 From: "jbranscombe@compuserve.com" Subject: birthdate rocker > "jbranscombe@compuserve.com" wrote: > > Will some kind American please, please tell me that it was > > number one over your way on 12th December 1962.... On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Alfred Masciocchi wrote: > Check http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/cont/choose.html >Godders wrote >Well, it turned out to be the fabulous 'Big Girls Don't Cry' by the Four >Seasons. Thanks for that Mike. I forgot to look it up, but many thanks also to Alfred for posting the link in the first place. Better than Frank Ifield's Lovesick Blues over here, but not as good as The King's Return To Sender that went to the numero uno slot the very next day. Bah! jmbc. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 13:37:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: Prog > ross taylor wrote: > > Where was Procol Harum? I'm a Procoholic. On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > nowhere. The program's method of choosing bands is by total sales -- > so dinos that go on for ever got highest up. I think the top three > were Pink Floyd, Genesis, and Yes. Other bands were Jethro Tull, The Moody Blues, ELO, King Crimson, Hawkwind, Camel. Can't remember who the 10th band was, unless they gave Wakeman a separate entry from Yes. They wrongly asserted that Steve Howe was the original Yes guitarist, so I'm not convinced that their research was up to much (it was Pete Banks; Steve Howe was still with Bodast at that time IIRC). - - Mike Godwin PS for Procoholics: Saw Gary Brooker last year playing piano and singing with the Bill Wyman Band. He sang WSOP extremely well, but otherwise mainly featured Ray Charles-type numbers. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 06:08:44 -0800 From: "Russ Reynolds" Subject: the end is near, here are your badges Brian Cully opined: > IMHO, the Ti has > more sex than any other computer I've seen I've often asserted than when computers start having sex we're doomed as a species. >> This reminds me. Somewhere in Jehovakill (actually right before the >> line you quote, I think) he sings "Badges, badges.. we don't need no >> stickin' badges..." Where is this from? An old movie? I know I've >> heard it somewhere else. > > That line is from "The Treasure of The Sierra Madre" (and "Blazing > Saddles"). The original line, delivered by banditos posing as federales in TTOTSM was "we don't have to show you no stinkin' badges." In Blazing Saddles, as they were passing out deputy badges to the posse, the joke was "we don't need no stinkin' badges". So the line as quoted is from blazing saddles. There is a great Rugrats parody of TTOTSM, by the way, where the kids all get greedy after finding a nickel in the sand. - -rUss ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:16:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: Experts On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Bayard wrote: > You can learn more about early history of Robyn and friends here: > http://glasshotel.net/gh/presoftboys.htm I see that on this page it says: "Dennis and the Experts, headed by Rob Lamb and formed sometime around late 1976, had pretty much the original Soft Boys lineup: Rob Lamb, Andy Metcalfe, Morris Windsor, Robyn Hitchcock". But in that very interesting chart of Cambridge bands which was mentioned on the list recently, I was surprised to see that Matthew Seligman was the original D+tE bassist, and the date, I think, was earlier than 76. (I thought I'd bookmarked the chart, but I can't find it any more). - - Mike Godwin ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 08:48:58 -0600 From: steve Subject: Re: Prog >>The program's method of choosing bands is by total sales -- >>so dinos that go on for ever got highest up. I think the top three >>were Pink Floyd, Genesis, and Yes. Michael R Godwin: >Other bands were Jethro Tull, The Moody Blues, ELO, King Crimson, >Hawkwind, Camel. Can't remember who the 10th band was, unless they gave >Wakeman a separate entry from Yes. They wrongly asserted that Steve Howe >was the original Yes guitarist, so I'm not convinced that their research >was up to much (it was Pete Banks; Steve Howe was still with Bodast at >that time IIRC). I'm wondering when Tull and ELO became prog bands? And speaking of ELO, Move fans should check out the great lost Roy Wood/Wizzard album MAIN STREET. Recorded in 1976, but not released until last year. Roy says he wishes he could have found the masters for a remix, but it's nonetheless pretty fab. - - Steve __________ Take her to the Pitt! Go, Bigboote. Use more honey! Find out what she knows. - Lord John Whorfin. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 15:45:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: Prog On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, steve wrote: > I'm wondering when Tull and ELO became prog bands? My mistake (again)! It was one of those very easy typos - I should have typed EL_P_, rock's answer to J Arthur Rank. Tull surely qualify as prog with all those dodgy time signatures, though. > And speaking of ELO, Move fans should check out the great lost Roy > Wood/Wizzard album MAIN STREET. Recorded in 1976, but not released until > last year. What went wrong? Did Wizzard split up around 1976? Was it killed off by punk, or what? - - MRG ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 09:22:31 -0700 From: hbrandt Subject: Re: the real quote, I think... el marko loco wrote: > > "Badges? I don't got to show you any steenkin' badges." > And yes, it was _Treasure of the Sierra Madre_, but it is > misquoted more often than it is correctly quoted Just like another Bogey movie "Casablanca" and one of it's signature lines "Play it again, Sam" (which is actually "You played it for her, you can play it for me. Play it!") /hal ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 13:00:03 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: underwatermoonlight.com On Tue, 13 Mar 2001 toast@indy.net wrote: > What there is is a significant cost to making them available. 26 > concerts * 60 minutes usable audio per show (to choose a round number) > * 1MB/minute of audio = 1.5GB of transfer for every user who wants the > whole thing. Lots of web hosts (not ours) limit you to 5GB of > transfers per month. Four completists would put > underwatermoonlight.com over that. Makes sense; I'm ashamed I hadn't thought of that. Still, this means that complete shows might have to be put up one at a time and less frequently, while the highlights of each one went up immediately. But then, I haven't the faintest idea how many people are probably going to sign up for this, and I'll probably do it regardless, so I'll shut my trap and leave it to the people who've thought about it. a ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 13:11:01 -0500 From: recount chocula Subject: 2000/10/18 glh maxwell's i just uploaded mp3s of the 2000/10/18 grant lee hitchcock show to the kind dr. halewood's ftp server. the first three tracks are a free air recording and feature some technical difficulties which i've done my best to account for. the rest of the show is from the soundboard (there was confusion about whether or not a soundboard feed was available; it was, but it didn't happen until after the show started). find 'em at: ftp://feggy:TrainDream@stats.unidec.co.uk/pub/2000-10-18-GLH-Maxwells and let me know if you find any problems. the show totals around 100 megabytes. please treat john's server with respect; don't hammer it. the setlist is: grant lee hitchcock 19 october 2000 maxwell's, hoboken, nj main set: "dental origin" [robyn improv] gene hackman heavenly queen elvis st. expedite flavour of night the shallow end antwoman mockingbirds "what can you see if you listen very quietly?" [robyn improv] i feel beautiful honey, don't think sleeping knights of jesus lonesome serenade dark princess mighty joe moon it's the life mr. kennedy [new robyn song; hypothetical title, could be "maybe it'll rain"] fuzzy encore: rock of ages [grant solo; quickly aborted] happiness [grant solo] daisy bomb cynthia mask jumpin' jack flash [request/improv] all i have to do is dream trams of old london for those curious about these things, the pedigree of this recording, as i understand it, is: SBD > Sony MZ-R50 MD > digital transfer to component CD-R > EAC > Lame mp3 if anyone wants cd-r (or cassette or mindisc) copies of the originals, drop me a line. woj p.s. just realized i forgot to add id3 tags. oh well. bad me. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 13:21:59 -0500 From: "ross taylor" Subject: Re:Feg musicians/bawb & prog Brian Huddell isn't the only one to have slow responses to his music. I've been contributing for a while to Beyond the Pale, a Procol Harum site, & Chris Copping of that band-- Now I wish people could just get over their "automatically disqualified due to its involvement in The Big Chill" attitude about Procol Harum. They balanced prog w/ blues & Keith Reid's lyrics were about as surreal as Robyn's. Anyway-- Chris Copping, the Procol organist from 1970-77, has done a musical setting of Dylan's recited "Last Thoughts on Woody," & is trying to get feedback on it, & perhaps some help getting Dylan/Columbia to give permission. The sound is not so much Procol-like as drum & bass/ trance; one snippet makes me think of Roni Size. MP3 samples & more info are here-- http://www.procolharum.com/99/rpc_cc_dylan.htm Sorry for the "cross posting." Bicycle Thieves-- I'm feeling real low-tech, but when I try the sample it just starts displaying in ascii, but when I click on the Procol mp3 for instance it can spawn the player. I guess I need to root around in my Netscape preferences -- ? The lyrics have a fine mix of personal & public spheres. The cover & title are cool. Poet Louis Zukofsky did a book called "A." Does that count as saying something nice about your songs? Can I now ask you to believe that on the moon all transactions are carried out by bartering green cheese? Ross Taylor "I don't understand politics but I know what I like" Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 13:03:37 -0600 From: "Brian Huddell" Subject: RE: Feg musicians/bawb & prog Ross Taylor: > Bicycle Thieves-- > I'm feeling real low-tech, but when I try the > sample it just starts displaying in ascii, but > when I click on the Procol mp3 for instance it > can spawn the player. I guess I need to root > around in my Netscape preferences -- ? It's not you that's low-tech, it's the space where we're hosting the song. Smarter people than me could explain why some servers handle binaries differently than others. Regardless, shift-clicking (or Mac equivalent?) in IE and Netscape (versions up to but not including 6) seems to do the trick. Sorry you've had trouble, and to avoid exploiting your pain I'm not going to take this obvious opportunity to repost the URL. > The lyrics have a fine mix of personal & public > spheres. The cover & title are cool. Poet > Louis Zukofsky did a book called "A." Does that > count as saying something nice about your songs? Just barely, since my friend David Keith wrote 97.333% of the words and my friend Ken Weathersby did the cover art! But I'll pass along your comments, thanks. > Can I now ask you to believe that on the moon > all transactions are carried out by bartering > green cheese? I thought this was common knowledge. Off to check out http://www.procolharum.com/99/rpc_cc_dylan.htm +brian ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 15:46:55 -0500 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: # 281 with a bullitt at amazon.com Underwater Moonlight is # 281 on amazon.com sales list. No buyers reviews have shown up yet. They had one copy in my local Harmony House. Michael ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:14:29 -0800 (PST) From: Eclipse Subject: Re: 2000/10/18 glh maxwell's wow - thank you, thank you, thank you so much for posting these mp3's. i've been positively DYING to hear some mp3's from one of the GLH shows, and this is just gorgeous. if anyone has mp3's of any other GLH shows they're willing to share, i'd be eternally grateful. i was supposed to get a copy of the SF GLH show (can't remember if it was Fillmore or GAMH) but it never happened, and i've been just aching to hear one of these shows since. i'd love a cdr copy of this show! satisfyingly, Eclipse ps you rock :) On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, recount chocula wrote: > i just uploaded mp3s of the 2000/10/18 grant lee hitchcock show to the kind > dr. halewood's ftp server. the first three tracks are a free air recording > and feature some technical difficulties which i've done my best to account > for. the rest of the show is from the soundboard (there was confusion about > whether or not a soundboard feed was available; it was, but it didn't > happen until after the show started). find 'em at: > > if anyone wants cd-r (or cassette or mindisc) copies of the originals, drop > me a line. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Eclipse | eclipse@best.com If this is not what you expected, please alter your expectations. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 15:54:57 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: the real quote, I think... >Just like another Bogey movie "Casablanca" and one of it's signature >lines "Play it again, Sam" (which is actually "You played it for her, >you can play it for me. Play it!") I believe there are a few other apocryphal quotes like that: "Ooo, you dirty rat!" "Why don't you come up and see me, sometime?" "I vant to be alone" .... Eb ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 17:12:50 -0700 From: hbrandt Subject: Re: the real quote, I think... DzgntdFrcrkr: > I believe there are a few other apocryphal quotes like that: > > "Ooo, you dirty rat!" > "Why don't you come up and see me, sometime?" > "I vant to be alone" Not sure about the Cagney, but I'm very nearly sure that the Mae West quote is verbatim from an old WC Fields movie, and I recently saw "Grand Hotel" with Garbo and she *does* say "I vant to be alone" a couple of times. /hal ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 16:47:18 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: the real quote, I think... >> "Ooo, you dirty rat!" >> "Why don't you come up and see me, sometime?" >> "I vant to be alone" > >Not sure about the Cagney, but I'm very nearly sure that the Mae West >quote is verbatim from an old WC Fields movie, and I recently saw "Grand >Hotel" with Garbo and she *does* say "I vant to be alone" a couple of >times. All right. In West's case, I think the actual quote may be simply the above, minus "sometime." Eb ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 17:32:30 -0700 From: Eb Subject: [Ebmaniax] Malkmus Last night, I saw Stephen Malkmus (or the Jicks, depending on your point of view) at the El Rey Theater. First time I'd been there since the Wire reunion, last May. I hadn't heard of the opening band, a SF-based group called the Swords Project. They were interesting, if eventually tedious. They had a few songs with incidental shoegaze-thin vocals, but instrumental grooves were the dominant focus. Seven members (five men, two women) were onstage, including a violinist, a keyboardist, three guitarists and...two drummers! Well, OK - -- one of the drummers played keyboards about half the time. But still, I can't recall if I've *ever* seen a band with two full drum sets before. (Probably one is slipping my mind -- who else did this, besides the GDead?) The primary drummer had an interesting tribal style, and used those monstrous John Bonham tree-trunk sticks. As for the music, I wouldn't really call it "post-rock," because the rhythms didn't have enough of that gnarled, proggy feel. However, it was in that general vein. Trance-like jams, in percolating 4/4 or 3/4 time. Occasionally, the sound built to a dramatic crescendo, but most of it was kinda flat and didn't quite grab me. They were well-received by the full-house crowd, however. Malkmus and band finally came onstage about 10:30 pm. I wish I could compare the performance to Pavement in nitty-gritty detail, but the sad fact is that I only saw Pavement twice, and neither show was under ideal circumstances. The first time was in the earliest days of Pavement's rise, at a small, long-closed club in Long Beach. It's neat that I saw the band in such an intimate venue (I remember original drummer Gary Young standing outside the front door, grandly greeting all the fans as they entered), but I didn't own Slanted & Enchanted yet so I had trouble connecting with the songs. Minimal recognition factor. I recall shrugging, "OK...80% the Fall, 20% Pixies. What's the big deal?" Meanwhile, the second time I saw Pavement was a few years later at Lollapalooza, as I sat on the Irvine Meadows lawn about 200 feet from the stage. In the daytime. Enough said. I wish I had seen the group's final tour stop in L.A. (also at the El Rey), but I couldn't swing a ticket. The Jicks were a quartet, with an intermittent fifth member (more about her, in a bit). The drummer and bassist play on the new record, while an extra guitarist was hired only a month or so ago, after Elastica's Justine Frischmann didn't work out as a swing member. The bassist was Joanna Bolme, who also plays with the Minders. Oh man, is she adorable. Now *she* is my type. ;) The fifth member -- Malkmus' own girlfriend Heather -- is apparently quite controversial amongst the Pavement fanbase, and now I know why. I haven't seen such an embarrassing wannabe since Elastica's new keyboardist Mew. She sang backup vocals on four or five songs, and her voice simply stinks. *Painfully* off, when she had a few solo passages minus Malkmus. Meanwhile, she danced at the back of the stage during some other songs, just so she could get the attention. She happily banged tambourine, otherwise -- funny how she put three times as much "showmanship" into playing tambourine as anyone else put into playing the "real" instruments. Phooey. As for Malkmus, he was typically thin 'n' geeky 'n' sarcastic, and wore a crummy yaller T-shirt which said "RUNNING SUCKS." The material was mostly tunes from the new album -- if he played a Pavement song, I couldn't identify it. The band also played a cover of Fairport Convention's *exquisite* "Tale in Hard Time," which would've been a thrilling surprise except that I had seen press material which tipped me off. Of course, the Jicks version wasn't as good -- Malkmus is no Sandy Denny, and the keyboardist gave up on playing that cute little harpischord lick for the most part. Still, neat to hear. Also, intriguing to learn Malkmus is influenced by such stuff. A Matador rep told me the band has also been covering an old song by a prog-folk group called Mellow Candle, which aroused my curiosity because I hadn't even heard of the band until now. (Godwin?) Not sure if they played that cover last night, or not. The final song of the main set was "Jenny & the Ess-Dog," which is probably the most disarmingly huggable tune I've heard this year. Glad to know Malkmus thinks enough of it to end his set with it. The encores were a bit wanky/trashy...more raucous and instrumental-focused. I was restless and ready to leave, by the time they left the stage. The El Rey is a reasonably large venue -- a rectangular room about 50 feet wide and 125 feet deep, plus a small balcony. It used to be a movie theater, and has the same sort of dimensions. (If you ever see the satiric zombie film "Night of the Comet," check the first 10 minutes -- you'll see the El Rey in its old cinema guise.) The show was a sell-out, and it's always more difficult to socialize at such packed gigs. Hence, it was kind of a lonely, alienated night for me, but the music was good. As for celebrities in da house, I only saw one: Jason Falkner. And perhaps he doesn't count. Later this week, Nelly Furtado is performing *two* nights at the El Rey. I may not be able to go, and I'm a bit grumpy about that. For awhile, folks were saying how the Furtado record was underperforming, but lo and behold, the recent TV appearances seem to have boosted its fortunes. It's now #65 on Billboard...surprising. I didn't think it was even in the top 200, until a day or so ago. DreamWorks told me the shows sold out in two hours.... Eb ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 17:51:23 -0800 (PST) From: Glen Uber Subject: Re: [Ebmaniax] Malkmus On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Eb wrote: >I can't recall if I've *ever* seen a band with two full drum sets >before. (Probably one is slipping my mind -- who else did this, besides >the GDead?) Actually, Mickey Hart played percussion a lot with the Dead so they didn't have 2 drumsets going at all times. The Allman Brothers had a similar setup with Butch Trucks playing the kit and Jaimoe alternating between drum set & percussion. The Doobie Brothers had 3 drummer/percussionists, at least 2 of whom played drums at all times. King Crimson had two drummers in their "double trio" lineup. Genesis had 3 drummers on their "Three Sides Live" album. And then there's Big Pig. Cheers! - -g- "A person can only work so many hours a day and two's my limit." - --Mike Jasper )+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+( ) ) Glen Uber // uberg at sonic dot net // Santa Rosa, California ) )+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+( ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 18:15:53 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: [Ebmaniax] Malkmus >The Allman Brothers had a similar setup with Butch Trucks playing the kit >and Jaimoe alternating between drum set & percussion. Yeah, I thought of the Allmans, but I was hoping to think of a band I've personally seen onstage. >King Crimson had two drummers in their "double trio" lineup. Ahh, of course...there's one! Eb ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 18:58:05 -0700 From: Eb Subject: tappin' the Feg thinktank again Besides Jim Morrison and Patti Smith, is there anyone else prominent who is known to insert spoken (perhaps improvised) poetry into song performances? And I'm talking about "poetry," not "storytelling" a la Robyn. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 19:24:43 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Can Stop the Music (reap) Glenn Hughes, a member of Seventies disco band the Village People, died March 4th at the age of fifty. Hughes, a former Brooklyn Battery Tunnel toll collector who assumed the biker persona in the band, had been ill for many years, and requested that he be buried in his trademark "Leatherman" regalia -- complete with hat, chains and leather pants that he wore both on and offstage. Hughes stopped performing with the band in 1995 and was replaced by Eric Anzalone, but he remained active in the band's business affairs, through the band's company Sixuvus Ltd. Hughes was recruited in 1976 by French composer/producer Jacques Morali, who came to the United States as the winner of a 20th Century Fox slogan contest but stayed after deciding to form the a band based on gay fantasy figures. In addition to Hughes, the band also featured Felipe Rose as an Indian chief, Randy Jones as a cowboy, Alexander Briley as a GI, David Hodo as a construction worker and Victor Willis as a night-stick wielding policeman. Since Morali recruited the members from New York's Greenwich Village neighborhood, he dubbed them "The Village People." The band's first chart success was with 1978's "Macho Man," but made their name with "Y.M.C.A.," which reached No. 2. The band continues to tour. JAAN UHELSZKI (March 13, 2001) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 19:57:02 -0800 From: Jason Thornton Subject: Re: tappin' the Feg thinktank again At 06:58 PM 3/14/2001 -0700, Eb wrote: >Besides Jim Morrison and Patti Smith, is there anyone else prominent who is >known to insert spoken (perhaps improvised) poetry into song performances? >And I'm talking about "poetry," not "storytelling" a la Robyn. Does David Sylvian count as "prominent"? If so, then that guy. - --Jason ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V10 #76 *******************************