From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V10 #78 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, March 15 2001 Volume 10 : Number 078 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Soft Boys in the Washington Post [Scary Mary ] Re: Poetic frontmen [Eb ] from the Washington Post [mel@scw.org] minus 5 [recount chocula ] my pink floyd underground [LDudich@ase.org] um quick time ["brian nupp" ] Re: Soft Boys in the Washington Post ["brian nupp" ] julian coping skills ["Andrew D. Simchik" ] Re: Fletcher's tix [mel@scw.org] RE: julian coping skills ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: german tv appearance [recount chocula ] The Soft Boys' Solid Comeback - in the washington post [LDudich@ase.org] Re: poetry in songs [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] Re: poetry in songs [Eb ] RE: tapermaniax! ["Thomas, Ferris" ] uplister playlist [recount chocula ] bards, badgers and batteurs ["jbranscombe@compuserve.com" Subject: Soft Boys in the Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9194-2001Mar15.html S.mary n.p. - seefeel quique n.w. - lotion on the sunburn ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 11:39:28 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Poetic frontmen Some good candidates named...a few I should've thought of. I did think of Gil Scott-Heron. I really should've remembered Captain Beefheart -- that's the one suggestion who may rival Morrison/Smith in stature. Hmm. I've never sat down and analyzed Mark E. Smith lyrics, but, uh...do they qualify as "poetry"? :) Eb PS Henry Rollins? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 19:40:40 -0000 From: mel@scw.org Subject: from the Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9194-2001Mar15.html ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 14:39:21 -0500 From: recount chocula Subject: minus 5 i've already forgotten why i skipped this show.... >*** R.E.M. guitarist plays N.Y.C. club > >NEW YORK (Billboard) - R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck made an uncommon >small club appearance Monday night at New York's Mercury Lounge, >playing bass with his colleagues in the Minus 5, a collective of >noted Seattle musicians, which has released a series of albums since >1993. The group, led by frequent R.E.M. sideman Scott McCaughey, >released the album "Let The War Against Music Begin" last month via >Mammoth. Augmented by Posies principal Ken Stringfellow on keyboards >and vocals, the group powered through nearly 30 songs of catchy, >retro-leaning rock. McCaughey kept the crowd in good spirits, >sipping from a bottle of bourbon and promising to only play "good >songs." The set wound down with rollicking covers of Crosby, Stills, >Nash and Young's "Ohio" and Young's own "Don't Be Denied." The Minus >5 has two more shows scheduled: March 31 with Guided By Voices in >Portland, Ore., and April 4 with the newly reunited Soft Boys in >Seattle. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 14:42:53 -0500 From: LDudich@ase.org Subject: my pink floyd underground > >I think the top three were Pink Floyd, Genesis, and Yes. Bleah for the > >first two. > > I tend to think of both PF and Genesis as Retrog. That is, they started > out > progressive, then reverted to AOR. To go back from being progressive is > surelya retrograde step, hence "Retrog". King Crimson, however, have > tended > to keep expanding in different unexpected directions. But I bet they were > unplaced in that poll. > Pink FLoyd was better early, then later. I prefer 1) Syd, and then 2) The period BEFORE 'Dark Side', to the Roger-writes-a-bunch- of-paranoid-lyrics-that-grab-teenage-stoners-minds... "another brick int he wall, man! pass the bong! " :) 'Obscured by CLouds' is my fav floyd album. It is no where near as pretentsious as what FLoyd became. (that said, I like "the FInal Cut" better than all the other post 1973 FLoyd albums...) > Re: JHC, I love "Jehovahkill" and "20 Mothers", but wasn't too taken with > "Interpreter", "Autogeddon", or "Peggy Suicide". But what I want to knwow > is... am I the only person around who loved "My nation underground"??? > > I think It's a great pop album too...I don't know why people knock it as "Julian's nadir". 'Peggy Suicide' is great, to me...too bad it got wipped off the college charts (as Robyn did) by Nirvana... -lutherLuther W. Dudich Alliance to Save Energy Buildings Team 1200 18th St., NW, Suite 900 Washington, DC 20036 202/530-2243 202/331-9588 (fax) ldudich@ase.org www.ase.org Click here to help the Alliance Ukraine program.... > http://www.environmentsite.org Energy never dies. It just changes form. > I'm in shape. Round is a shape. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 14:45:57 -0500 From: "brian nupp" Subject: um quick time Thanks for the down load info woj. Robyn looks thinner and has shorter hair since the last the last time I saw him a year and a half ago. I like the quick time of the cat. I like cats. Nuppy n.p. the air inside my own head _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 15:41:20 -0500 From: "brian nupp" Subject: Re: Soft Boys in the Washington Post RH sez: "so we got Sean (Lyons), who was actually the last guitarist in the Egyptians." Really? I didn't know that. Was he on any studio recording or just some live stuff? Anyone know? Nuppy >From: Scary Mary >Reply-To: Scary Mary >To: fegmaniax@smoe.org >Subject: Soft Boys in the Washington Post >Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 14:37:50 -0500 > >http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9194-2001Mar15.html > >S.mary > >n.p. - seefeel quique >n.w. - lotion on the sunburn _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 13:30:39 -0800 From: "Andrew D. Simchik" Subject: julian coping skills >From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) > >Re: JHC, I love "Jehovahkill" and "20 Mothers", but wasn't too taken with >"Interpreter", "Autogeddon", or "Peggy Suicide". Wow! I love _Peggy Suicide_ and like _Jehovahkill_ OK, but I could barely finish listening to _20 Mothers_. I liked some of _Interpreter_ but not enough to buy it. >But what I want to knwow >is... am I the only person around who loved "My nation underground"??? Maybe. :) On the other hand, I'm kind of underwhelmed by the new Kristin Hersh, which comes as a complete surprise since I loved the songs live when it was just her and a guitar. Somehow they don't sound as riveting on the record. >From: Scary Mary > A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques > Carlos and Miguel are Englishmen obsessed with the mystique of the Old > West-- > would-be gunmen ever in search of a brawl. Travelling the countryside by >public > rail on a fantasy holiday, in costumes straight out of a Spaghetti >Western, they > hook up with spunky Australian tourists, a hippie hitchhiker, and a mass >murderer > who works in an abattoir but dresses as a matador. > Starring: Keith Allen as Mr Bastardos / Adrian Edmondson as Billy / Dawn >French as Jackie / Rik Mayall as Carlos / Nigel Planer as Paul / Peter >Richardson as Miguel / Jennifer Saunders as Shona / Written by: Peter >Richardson, Pete Richens and Rik Mayall / Directed by: Bob Spiers I remember this. It was a scream. It features the line, "The Eagles! Everybody loves the Eagles!" >From: "ross taylor" >Tom Waits. Captain Beefheart. Didn't Byrne >start some songs w/ fractured talk, at least >live on the Speaking in Tongues tour? What about that one song on _Remain In Light_? Drew - -- Andrew D. Simchik, drew at stormgreen dot com http://www.stormgreen.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 22:05:21 -0000 From: mel@scw.org Subject: Re: Fletcher's tix Rob Gronotte said: > Just remembered, it's called the Sound Garden. Good store too. > > Rob Aaagh. My multitasking has completely broken down again. I guess I should have been more specific. i think my friends did try there. They said that they called the club and the record store where they usually get tickets and were told that it was either ticketmaster or the club on the day of :P Who else will be going to the Baltimore gig? Melissa ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 17:05:30 -0500 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: julian coping skills I have Peggy Suicide and My Nation Underground. I really like Peggy as well. I wanted to pick up Jehovakill, but I was deep into the dreampop/shoegazer thing at the time and never did manage to pick it up. Is Wilder by the Teardrop Explodes worth picking up? I am familiar with Like Leila Kahled Said from Wilder, and I have Kilimanjaro. Is Wilder as good as Kilimanjaro? Michael - -----Original Message----- From: Andrew D. Simchik [mailto:drew@stormgreen.com] Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 4:31 PM To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Subject: julian coping skills >From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) > >Re: JHC, I love "Jehovahkill" and "20 Mothers", but wasn't too taken with >"Interpreter", "Autogeddon", or "Peggy Suicide". Wow! I love _Peggy Suicide_ and like _Jehovahkill_ OK, but I could barely finish listening to _20 Mothers_. I liked some of _Interpreter_ but not enough to buy it. >But what I want to knwow >is... am I the only person around who loved "My nation underground"??? Maybe. :) On the other hand, I'm kind of underwhelmed by the new Kristin Hersh, which comes as a complete surprise since I loved the songs live when it was just her and a guitar. Somehow they don't sound as riveting on the record. >From: Scary Mary > A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques > Carlos and Miguel are Englishmen obsessed with the mystique of the Old > West-- > would-be gunmen ever in search of a brawl. Travelling the countryside by >public > rail on a fantasy holiday, in costumes straight out of a Spaghetti >Western, they > hook up with spunky Australian tourists, a hippie hitchhiker, and a mass >murderer > who works in an abattoir but dresses as a matador. > Starring: Keith Allen as Mr Bastardos / Adrian Edmondson as Billy / Dawn >French as Jackie / Rik Mayall as Carlos / Nigel Planer as Paul / Peter >Richardson as Miguel / Jennifer Saunders as Shona / Written by: Peter >Richardson, Pete Richens and Rik Mayall / Directed by: Bob Spiers I remember this. It was a scream. It features the line, "The Eagles! Everybody loves the Eagles!" >From: "ross taylor" >Tom Waits. Captain Beefheart. Didn't Byrne >start some songs w/ fractured talk, at least >live on the Speaking in Tongues tour? What about that one song on _Remain In Light_? Drew - -- Andrew D. Simchik, drew at stormgreen dot com http://www.stormgreen.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 17:07:08 EST From: DDerosa5@aol.com Subject: improv-ed verse over double drummers I usually don't respond to questions since I just get the digest, and youall always beat me to it, but I have at least one unique answer to both the above questions: first band I ever saw with two drummers was the Feelies--Dave Weckerman sometimes just played percussion, but he did have a drum kit, and when he and Stan Demeski banged together, it was a groove that made the rest of the instruments almost extraneous... and, as for extemporaneous versifying, I think the first performer I ever saw do it (and BADLY!) was Ronnie James Dio, I think on his own rather than with Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow. He always made up lyrics, but often based on really obvious rhymes--there was no version of light/bright/night etc that he wouldn't use, etc. But, all the other words would change. I wouldn't put him on Patti Smith/Tom Waits level, but then again I sometimes anger people with my deeply felt conviction that Jim Morrison was a sexy, talentless hack who died too late...so, I'd rank him more on the RJD level. see some of you next week, I've been listening to the UM CDs and the M5/YFF CDs ($33 for four discs--not bad!) I was surprised to find that I hadn't heard two of the UM disc one outtakes--Dreams and There's nobody like you. And they're both fabulous, though, it sounds to me like the bass riff from Dreams is the same as from that famous Pretenders song... As for the AHTGT disc, it seems a bit pathetic to spread out Old Pervert into four sections, as proggy* as the Pit of Souls extendo-mix. But I really love She Wears my Hair and Goodbye Maurice or Steve, and some of the others are quite cool too. I seldom comment on pics of band members, clothes etc., but the pic of Robyn on page 12 is quite the pretty boy (soft) pose, and he's exhaling smoke in a paisley pattern--fancy, that! I'm really looking forward to this show--while it was nice to hear Kimberley play on that last tour, he never cranked it up much in Chicago, and in Philly it only got there a coupla times for me. I'm hoping this show goes totally loud, like past experiences with the always reforming Ramones, not like the last Clash show I saw when they sucked. look forward to seeing DC area fegs at my house--Bayard, did you post the address and all yet? I didn't see it go up. No RSVP is necessary, but I'd love to get an idea of how many might come. dave whoi wasn't too blown away by the Minus 5, though it sounded better on record than they did on Letterman the other night. YFF ablum is, of course, goofy fun. *which reminds me, I was listening to an old interview tape from like 88 when I did a phone interview with the Donner party--Sam Coomes and Mel Clarin, I think--and Melanie asked if there were many prog bands starting up in Chicago, as was happening out in CA (monks of doom, and so on). I misheard her and thought she asked about "frog" bands--kinda came off sounding like an idiot, which luckily for me is nothing new. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 17:12:03 EST From: DDerosa5@aol.com Subject: revisiting an even older thread the booklet also threw me in one place--when citing bands that the Soft Boys had affected, beside the obvious REM, it mentioned Yo La Tengo, one of my favorite bands, and if I'd mentioned this in my last post, it'd've had a joisey theme, kinda like the Donner Party song "lost in hoboken". Anway, despite the love of both bands for great, Kinky riffs and punchy guitar histrionics, I never though of Soft Boys when I listened to YLT--does anyone else hear something I don't? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 17:12:21 -0500 From: recount chocula Subject: german tv appearance robyn will be interviewed on the german station viva2 program fast forward on wednesday, march 16th. fast forward airs at 5pm and midnight and i think it is repeated the following day at 10am. woj ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 17:27:41 -0500 From: recount chocula Subject: Re: german tv appearance >robyn will be interviewed on the german station viva2 > program fast forward > on wednesday, >march 16th. fast forward airs at 5pm and midnight and i think it is >repeated the following day at 10am. er, let me clarify (sort of) the date of this interview. in the e-mail i received from a german fellow about this just a few minutes ago, he said that yesterday's program indicated that robyn would be interviewed tomorrow. i'm not sure whether that means it will be aired today (thursday) or tomorrow (friday). one would presume friday since the fellow had not seen it yet. further murkifying the water, the viva2 website says that interview was shown on wednesday (hence my typo). bottom line: it's on sometime this week. it looks like the saturday edition of the program is a best-of from the previous week, so perhaps the interview will be included in that. anyone in germany/austria want to clear this up for me? woj ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 17:31:50 -0500 From: LDudich@ase.org Subject: The Soft Boys' Solid Comeback - in the washington post yippie! The Soft Boys' Solid Comeback The career of the Soft Boys perfectly illustrates the concept of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. In punk-crazed late-'70s Britain, playing the group's style of neo-psychedelic folk-rock "was mostly fairly hard work," remembers drummer Morris Windsor by phone from Britain. "If it was London or Cambridge, the reaction was quite enthusiastic. But other places it was fairly hostile. Either hostile or blank." The band's then-unfashionable sound "just grew out of 1966, 1967. That was my psychedelic bar mitzvah. I was 14 in '67," says singer-guitarist Robyn Hitchcock in a separate phone interview. "I could never make it clear that we weren't a revival band. People now realize that this kind of music, whatever it is, is worth playing and worth hearing. And I think in 1980-81, they weren't sure about it. They thought we were just retro. But time and Mojo magazine"-a British monthly for over-30 rock fans-"have proved us right." It wasn't till a few years after the release of 1980's "Underwater Moonlight"-and the quartet's 1981 breakup-that the Boys learned they had a sizable audience on the other side of the Atlantic. "Americans have always liked the Soft Boys a lot better than the British," Hitchcock says. "I think it's very touching." Soon the Soft Boys were being cited as a major influence by R.E.M. and L.A.'s "Paisley Underground" bands. Hitchcock calls his old band "sort of the missing link between the Byrds and R.E.M., or if you want to get really big scale, the missing link between the Beatles and Oasis." He laughs. "But one thing's for sure is that we were missing." The singer-songwriter thinks his group's legend grew in the United States because "only a handful of people ever saw us or heard anything about us in the States at all. They didn't really know if we existed or not. So when these records started trickling through a few years after our demise, it just made it much more interesting for them. There was nothing about us in the British press, and there wasn't the Internet then. So it was all a bit of a mystery." That mystery led to substantial import sales for "Underwater Moonlight," which wasn't released in the states till 1992, and a career revival for Hitchcock. "By the mid-'80s, people were ringing me from the States, saying do you want to come do some gigs? And basically I've been working over there ever since. Culminating in actually living in D.C. at one point." Hitchcock lived in Washington about a decade ago, when he was performing with the Egyptians, a band that included Windsor as well as bassist Andy Metcalfe, also a former Soft Boy. He dissolved the Egyptians after 1993's "Respect" and has toured since then as a solo performer. Now Hitchcock and Windsor are Soft Boys again, touring in honor of "Underwater Moonlight's" reissue by Matador. This is the second time the album has been released in the United States-Rykodisc did the honors in 1992-but the first time the Soft Boys have toured North America to promote it. The band's first major U.S. tour happened, Hitchcock explains, because "it was the 21st anniversary of 'Underwater Moonlight'; it was out of print and it was in demand-in its sort of subtle way. It's never been a deluge, but people are always trying to find it. I suddenly realized that it wasn't around any more. So I thought I'd better try and license it again. The next obvious thing was, could we put the 'Moonlight' version of the Soft Boys back together again to accompany this? It turned out we could." The Boys previously reunited for six gigs in 1994, but played only in Britain, and not with the lineup that will appear Wednesday at the 9:30 club: Hitchcock, Windsor, guitarist Kimberley Rew and bassist Matthew Seligman, who replaced Metcalfe before "Moonlight" was recorded. "That was an interesting hybrid," says Hitchcock of the earlier reunion. "It had two bass players, Matthew and Andy, but it didn't have Kimberly. So we got Sean [Lyons], who was actually the last guitarist in the Egyptians. And we had our old percussionist. So we actually had six of us there. I had been reluctant to do it without Kim, because although this was a good band, I still thought Kimberly was one of the key features. But my manager basically put a gun to my head and said, 'Do it or else.' If you'll have noticed, I don't have a manager any more." Windsor's verdict on the 1994 reunion is more succinct. "It was quite an unholy racket," he chuckles. The 1994 shows were "a sort of Soft Boys retrospective," Hitchcock says, "whereas this is definitely a celebration of 'Underwater Moonlight.' This is very much carrying on from where we dissolved." The distinction is important, because "Underwater Moonlight" marked a change from the band's original style, which was heavily indebted to Captain Beefheart and Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett. The earlier sound can be heard on the 17 tracks from circa-1979 rehearsal tapes included on a second disc with the album's new edition. "It shows the transition between the earlier lineup," says Hitchcock, which played "sort of fractured, bluesy stuff. At the beginning, it starts out sounding like Beefheart and then we end up by doing a Bryan Ferry cover. That pretty much shows the difference between what I'd wanted to do in the '70s and what I wound up doing in the '80s." The subsequent style was "a shift in my taste, but it was also an effect of working with the band," he says. "I'm very much at the mercy of people I play with. I'm not one of these iron geezers who goes around telling everybody what to do and then presses a button and they do it." Hitchcock and Windsor each note that their fellow Soft Boys are both more skilled and more relaxed than they were 21 years ago. "It's not as tense or spiky as it was 20 years ago, when the 'Moonlight' band was first out and about," Hitchcock says. "It's probably more good-natured than the Soft Boys or the Egyptians ever were." Windsor now plays with the Gliders and supports himself by running a gas station. Rew, who's best known for his work with Katrina and the Waves, released a solo album last year and is working on another one. Hitchcock is writing a novel, he says, and Seligman "made a record with a guy who used to be in Siouxsie and the Banshees." All four, however, are committed to being permanent, if part-time, Soft Boys. "I don't know what the duress of touring will do to us," Hitchcock says, "but if we survive this tour, we would do some more. I don't think it would be like the Buzzcocks, where suddenly there we are, passing through a club near you every nine months or whatever. But we wouldn't let the machinery get rusty." THE SOFT BOYS - Appearing Wednesday at the 9:30 club. To hear a free Sound Bite from the Soft Boys, call Post-Haste at 202/334-9000 and press 8108. (Prince William residents, call 690-4110.) Luther W. Dudich Alliance to Save Energy Buildings Team 1200 18th St., NW, Suite 900 Washington, DC 20036 202/530-2243 202/331-9588 (fax) ldudich@ase.org www.ase.org Click here to help the Alliance Ukraine program.... > http://www.environmentsite.org > Energy never dies. It just changes form. If you want to know where War and instability will come from next, look to the places that have nothing to lose. - -anon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 11:40:54 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: poetry in songs >The Last Poets were marketed like a musical >group. Which brings up Rap, but I don't know >that. Gil-Scott Heron might be more on topic, >mixing recitation & singing. Linton Kwasi >Johnson wasn't totally unknown in the 80s, >& did some pretty poetry-oriented toasting-- >& published a book. and don't forget John Cooper Clarke >Tom Waits. Captain Beefheart. Didn't Byrne >start some songs w/ fractured talk, at least >live on the Speaking in Tongues tour? his sadly-never-released-on-CD "Music for the Knee Plays" is pretty much all like that. What about John Cale (were any of the Dylan Thomas related tracks spoken? How about stuff from "Songs for Drella" or the track on the Kerouac tribute album?). And, although I'm not sure if it was ever performed live, we have all this talk of Prog and no-one mentions "Days of Future Passed"! James PS - thanks, Scary Mary - yes it was Fistful of Travellers' Cheques. 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, 15 Mar 2001 15:52:21 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: poetry in songs >his sadly-never-released-on-CD "Music for the Knee Plays" is pretty much >all like that. What about John Cale (were any of the Dylan Thomas related >tracks spoken? How about stuff from "Songs for Drella" or the track on the >Kerouac tribute album?). Well, you know...we're kinda getting off track. My original question was about artists who tend to *insert* extemporaneous poetry bits into more traditionally structured songs. Now, some people are talking about prepared spoken-word pieces with essentially no melody, which isn't really what I was shooting for. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 18:53:10 -0500 From: "Thomas, Ferris" Subject: RE: tapermaniax! God, I've been out of touch the past few days.... Count me in, reCount. I haven't got a problem doing transfers, really, though I won't really have time to do pretty much any trading until after the SB gigs in a couple of weeks. There's a good amount of stuff already on CD/CDR and the MDs that I haven't copied over are a piece of cake. Cassette's not too bad and vinyl, while annoying, can be done easily enough. I've even got access to doing digital-direct DAT to CDR now...(Relatively Up-To-Date List: http://www.ochremedia.com/show_list.htm) Anyone interested in transfers of anything on my list just give me a shout. While most versions are older generational copies I have had a bit of luck with noise filters on the version of CoolEdit I'm using (2.0--32bit, baby!) Anyhow, that's my two bits. - -f. - -----Original Message----- From: recount chocula [mailto:woj@smoe.org] Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 12:18 PM To: worst...mailing list...EVER! Subject: tapermaniax! some more "has anybody transferred this to cd yet?" requests. the 6/21/00 great american music hall and 6/22/00 sweetwater shows. someone's asked me for a copies of both on cd. i have first gen cassette dubs of eddie's recordings which i would prefer not to transfer if i can avoid it. has anyone done the transfer? are there better recordings? also, is there any interest in a tapermaniax mailing list for discussion about recording robyn gigs, coordinating transfers, trading, etc.? i know bayard thinks it's a good idea. anyone else? would the feg populance be annoyed if such talk happened on fegmaniax? woj ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 19:00:58 -0500 From: recount chocula Subject: uplister playlist robyn put together a playlist for uplister.com which you can view at . there is companion article for this playlist but it seems that you need to download and use the uplister application to view it. the uplister application requires internet explorer 4.01 or better behind the scenes and, near as i can tell, there is no mac/unix way to access the article. the only interesting tidbit is that the article says the detroit soft boys show will be recorded for a live record. woj ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 19:22:03 -0500 From: "jbranscombe@compuserve.com" Subject: bards, badgers and batteurs Poetic interludes - I've seen Kevin Coyne do it live - he's always made up lyrics on the spot - and also Paul Morley of Art Of Noise (badly) and Gibby Haynes (hilariously). On record Roky Erickson, I seem to remember; bit hazy on that one. Dan Penn's track 'Skin' on his classic album Nobody's Fool is one of my fave poetry/spoken word numbers. I've mentioned this one before but if you ever sees George 'Bongo Joe' Coleman's only album for sale, buy it. It's actually still in print on Arhoolie. Strangest and most wonderful mixture of weird spoken word homilies and off-the-wall blues madness you're ever likely to come across. Double drummers - This will make all the Brits cringe, but, Showaddywaddy (a poor man's Sha Na Na) had two drummers!!! One, the delightfully named Romeo Challenger, has a son who is British high jump champion. (I wish I knew useful things). Saw Little Richard last year, and not only did he have two drummers but he also had two *bass* players, one left and one right-handed - beautiful symmetry! Shame he was shit...Luckily Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry were both superb. James Dignan quoted "you should always put a dead badger on a head wound" Another one for the Brits. I used to be in a BBC kids TV series called Bodger and Badger. I was the thick as pig-shit baddie and the puppet badger was always outwitting me. One episode I was fooled into an encounter with a group of Badgers (a sub-sect of the Cub Scout movement...don't ask me...my parents didn't believe in para-military youth organisations.) and they attacked me and wrapped me head to foot in bandages. I've still got the video somewhere if anyone interested...No? I didn't think you would be... jmbc. ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V10 #78 *******************************