From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V10 #83 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, March 21 2001 Volume 10 : Number 083 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Soft Boys--First show of tour 3/19/2001 [Marc ] Introducing the Hardline according to Eric Broome ["Sirloin Stockade" ] Re: South by Soft Boys [lj lindhurst ] UM Vinyl ["brian nupp" ] poxy music ["Andrew D. Simchik" ] Soft Boys in Baltimore [rich plumb ] Fletcher's 3/19/01 ["Poole, R. Edward" (by way of recou] Re: UM Vinyl [Tom Clark ] Portland Arms LP ["brian nupp" ] Re: on-topic! [Ben ] Re: on-topic! ["Jason R. Thornton" ] "I never tell jokes. I just am one." RH ["In Praise Of Limestone" ] Re: Another SXSW Soft Boys report [Henry Krinkle ] Baltimore show [mel@scw.org] Re: "I never tell jokes. I just am one." RH ["brian nupp" ] Re: Roxy ["brian nupp" ] Soft Boys In Flame! ["jbranscombe@compuserve.com" ] Philly ["In Praise Of Limestone" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 01:49:57 -0500 (EST) From: Marc Subject: Soft Boys--First show of tour 3/19/2001 Ah yes. It was very nice... Marc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 00:03:07 -0800 From: "Sirloin Stockade" Subject: Introducing the Hardline according to Eric Broome The Soft Boys, 3/19/01, Fletcher's, Baltimore Kingdom Of Love Only The Stones Remain Tonight You'll Have To Go Sideways Old Pervert Queen Of Eyes Underwater Moonlight Human Music City Of Shame The Pulse Of My Heart I Wanna Destroy You Insanely Jealous Mr. Kennedy Sudden Town Leppo And The Jooves The Bells Of Rhymney Airscape Gimme A Part Of Rock 'n' Roll Where Are The Prawns? "This show kicked nine kinds of ass." --Bayard Catron _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 08:33:31 -0500 From: woj Subject: insound interview insound has a feature interview with robyn at ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 08:50:36 -0500 From: lj lindhurst Subject: Re: South by Soft Boys Wow, good idea, woj! And GREAT pictures, Cynthia! Robyn is looking lovely these days. ...But someone needs to tell Kimberley about that HAIR...! He looks like that kid from 'Eight is Enough'. lj >cynthia's photographs are also up on fegmania.org at http://fegmania.org/live/20010317.html >. > >which is as good as any time to say that i'm planning on giving each show >on this tour a page with setlist, reviews, and whatever else. so, if you >post a review to the list, please let me know if it would be okay for me to >use it on the fegsite. thanks in advance! > >woj ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 11:12:17 -0500 From: "brian nupp" Subject: UM Vinyl Got my UM vinyl today from CDnow (thanks for the poster tip Ross!). Got my poster, but there was no 7''! Well, they're taking care of this. Very friendly customer service! Any one else have this problem? Nuppy _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 08:39:00 -0800 From: "Andrew D. Simchik" Subject: poxy music >From: Eb > >What *is* the deal with Robyn and wimpy, late-period Roxy Music? I wish I knew! My own Roxy Music saga continues...snagged _Country Life_ used and _Siren_ (turns out "Love Is the Drug" is much more bearable in its studio incarnation) new. So I've revised my shark-jumping point to where I imagine most people put it, at _Avalon_ (which I still like but recognize as the beginning of the end). I once bought _Flesh and Blood_ and _Manifesto_, but got rid of them shortly after hearing them. Ugh. Those first five albums, though...mmmmm good. Still hate "Bogus Man," though. And, frankly, "Do the Strand." Drew, who will nevertheless be listening to that "Take a Chance With Me" cover many more times...thanks, Bayard! - -- Andrew D. Simchik, drew at stormgreen.com http://www.stormgreen.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 08:54:25 -0800 (PST) From: rich plumb Subject: Soft Boys in Baltimore Spectacular show last night. Drove up with Eddie and Bayard. Met Luther and his brother in the Fletcher's restaurant. We went upstairs after some food and drink and checked things out. Some nice t-shirts for sale. Young Fresh Fellows came out and rocked for 45 minutes. I'm pretty unfamiliar with them and thought they were great. Soft Boy finally came out at around 11:30. Yikes it was late. Don't have the setlist, but I think they played all of Underwater Moonlight plus some other stuff like City of Shame and some new material like Mr Kennedy which was great. Their encores included a surprising and sensational version of Airscape along with a couple other new songs. All in all a great great show. A must see. I knew what I would get from Robyn and Kimberley and they were superlative, but I was especially impressed with the great bass work from Seligman and the great drumming from Morris. Eddie and Bayard and Rob made tapes and they should be out and about soon. I took a bunch of digital photos. Is there somewhere I can upload them so all can see? rich Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 11:20:56 -0500 From: "Poole, R. Edward" (by way of recount chocula ) Subject: Fletcher's 3/19/01 Hi -- thought I'd pass along the set list for the Soft Boys at Fletcher's in Baltimore, MD March 19, 2001: Kingdom of Love Only the Stones Remain Tonight You'll Have to Go Sideways Old Pervert Queen of Eyes Underwater Moonlight Human Music City of Shame Pulse (that's what Matthew's set list says; I've never heard of this tune) I Wanna Destroy You (dedicated to George W. Bush) Insanely Jealous Kennedy (ditto comments after "Pulse") Encores: Sudden Town (referred to on Matthew's SXSW tour diary; song had words last night; written in 2 days since SXSW?) Leppo & the Jooves Bells of Rhymney Airscape Thoughts and impressions: Young Fresh Fellows opened, and were good, but too loud for my taste. I had staked out a spot about 10 feet from the stage, directly under the PA speakers, so I could get a good angle for my video. (which turned out OK, but the sound is kinda distorted because I was so close; also, I ran out of tape at the very end of the set proper, missing all of the encores. In a way, this was a blessing, as I was happy to bounce and dance through Leppo without having to worry about messing up the video). Matthew still looks jetlagged to me, but his playing didn't suffer. Robyn was in fine shape, Kimberly looked to be having a blast, particularly on Sideways and Kennedy, when he really was jamming out pretty ferociously. Morris was solid as always, but didn't seem as jazzed by the experience as Kimberly. The band sounded really tight, Robyn's voice strong, the guitars meshing really nicely. I was really impressed by the new tunes (Pulse, Kennedy & Sudden Town), which make me wonder if this is going to be a continuing venture, rather than a blip in history centered solely on the Moonlight re-release. I don't know, but these guys seem to have a future to me. Although so many of the songs were 21 years old, it didn't sound like a cheap reunion effort (Eagles, Kiss, Fleetwood Mac, anyone?), but rather a vibrant and current, powerful band effort. I could definitely see Kimberly sticking it out -- he really was having a great time, relishing even the RH solo tunes (he really rocked out to City of Shame, as natural a SBs tune as any in RH's solo or Egyptians career). I was struck by the focus on Moonlight-era tunes, which I guess is natural given the lineup and the whole reason for putting this thing together. On the other hand, Human Music in particular was great (perhaps because it is one of the few CoB tunes that sound like the Moonlight version of the band). Leppo was amazing as well, Rhymney sweet and well played, and Airscape was, well, the same as you would expect. All and all, a very enjoyable show. I'm looking forward to the DC show tomorrow, though I hope my ears have stopped ringing by then. - -ed ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 09:32:44 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: UM Vinyl on 3/20/01 8:12 AM, brian nupp at bnupp@hotmail.com wrote: > Got my UM vinyl today from CDnow (thanks for the poster tip Ross!). Got my > poster, but there was no 7''! Well, they're taking care of this. Very > friendly customer service! Any one else have this problem? > Got mine from CDNow also. 7" tucked neatly inside the middle sleeve. Rollingly Blacked Out, - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 12:56:29 -0500 From: "brian nupp" Subject: Portland Arms LP There's a copy of the Soft Boys excellent performance, Live at the Poartland Arms available for $15.00 (buy it now) on ebay: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1417746900 _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 13:44:17 -0500 From: Ben Subject: Re: on-topic! Robyn has said that "Avalon" is one of his favorite albums ever and he would like to do a solo acoustic version of it! According to the Asking Tree, Robyn has covered "More Than This", "Avalon", "The Main Thing", "Take A Chance With Me", and "True To Life", so he's almost there! All the reviews I have read of RM's Avalon have placed it as one of their best albums so I don't know if its considered to be the culmination of their decline. Flesh and Blood on the other hand seems to be considered mediocre by many. Maybe Robyn enjoys taking these songs, which rely on a lot of synthesizers and production elements, and performing them in the raw. I think it reveals that there are great songs underneath all of the production, but we already knew that, didn't we? According to the same resource, he has not covered any of the earlier Roxy Music. Probably because "wimpy and etheral" lends itself to solo acoustic perfomances more than the earlier, more rawking stuff? I haven't heard the Soft Boys version of "Over You" yet so I can't comment on that one! > What *is* the deal with Robyn and wimpy, late-period Roxy Music? His solo > cover of "More Than This" is already available, and then when I was > scanning the tracklist of my ...And How It Got There advance, I saw "Over > You" and thought "Oh no...it couldn't be! Not my least favorite Roxy Music > song *ever*! It must be another song with the same banal title." And yet, > sure enough, it turned out to be another cover from Roxy Music's sluggish > period of decline. > > Anyone have any good Robyn quotes about Ferry/Roxy? And has he ever covered > any pre-hiatus Roxy tracks? > > Eb ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 10:58:07 -0800 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: on-topic! At 01:44 PM 3/20/01 -0500, Ben wrote: >According to the same resource, he has not covered any of the earlier >Roxy Music. Probably because "wimpy and etheral" lends itself to >solo acoustic perfomances more than the earlier, more rawking stuff? Perhaps... but Hitchcock doesn't necessarily avoid "fuck-ass rock and roll" in his solo performances. - --Jason, who is still deciding if he wants to spend $26.99 for a Soft Boys 7" "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 13:58:06 -0500 From: "In Praise Of Limestone" Subject: "I never tell jokes. I just am one." RH Ringing thru the forever digests I find: Dave radically opining: >but then again I sometimes anger people >with >my deeply felt conviction that Jim Morrison was a sexy, talentless >hack >who >died too late... Uncool opinion indeed(and especially here;-), nevertheless, I concur wholeheartedly. A few of the songs are good(due to the humping organ)otherwise ...epater les bourgoiseois(sp?) and hubris alone do not quality make. Bayard posted the words of ... The BHC?: >4. Visions Of Johanna by Bob Dylan > "Songwriting never got much further than this. Not further out, >just further..." Amen. Nuppy: >There is a version of a skull, a suitcase, and >a long red bottle of wine from one of these sessions, I was hoping >to hear >on the bonus disc. Does this mean its on there? Due to financial nonsense Ive been trying to resist buying the reissue but its getting tougher and tougher. I wonder if theyll be selling it after the show tonight(Tonight, tonight ... Why is all the stories and reviews arent mentioning Tonight, one of the great Taleisein songs of all time???)(Or I the only one with a very long nose on this list?;-) Wasnt there an episode of the Avengers set at Oxford University in Cambridge? Mrs Peel visited her old college, St Eve Amongst the Trioliobytes, which had been taken over by vile robot field-hocky instructoresses. Luckily Mrs Peel foiled their plans(with the help of the vain, silly, eccentric middle-aged librarian Marion, to whom Mrs Peel had - -always- been nice(thou the baddies--being, well, the baddies...)by peeling off the foil from the library anti-book-theft detection system to construct a device to scramble their code. Thank you Sonicnet for reminding me. (And thank you Woj for letting us all have fun teasing you.) Doug: >Is my irony meter off the scale? Why, yes, I believe it is. You can not go off the irony scale. That is the irony of the irony meter. Brett: >Is Van Dyke Parks dead or not? See what I mean. Russ: >Now, if Ringo was a member of Ian Hunter's band instead of the other > >way... See what I mean. Irony spell broken by the fact that I just got to the bit with the SXSW setlist and it says they open with Tonight. Yes! Godwin composed: >I once saw Kevin Ayers and the Whole World do a brilliant thing - a >short >story more than a poem - where there was this pilot who was >determined >to >scare his wife's lover to death by bizarre acrobatics. This rings a bell thru a far-off haze. Didnt it have the wife realizing it was all a charade, so she got really pissed off from all the manipulation, shot everyone in sight and went off and bought a dog. Dont have a record of it thou. Isnt Twink dead? Ross: >I swear I once heard a broadcast of the >Psychedelic Furs or at least Richard Butler >performing P. Furs songs w/ an orchestra. I hate to use the word awesome, but since Im high on my irony scale right now, that sounds really ... Tonight, Tonight...Ill be--with fellow fegs and The Soft Boys tonight. (In prep, I have a closepin attached to my nose now, elongating it;-) P.S. My money's always been on Mucky(and to think Gene, Id almost forgotten.) So psyched, this white girl dont need no stinking speed, K _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 13:01:59 -0600 (CST) From: David Witzany Subject: Another SXSW Soft Boys report Here's the set list I wrote down during the show. Someone else included Kingdom of Love in their list; I don't remember it, but I could have forgotten to write it down. Tonight "In the old days, we were the Soft Boys. On a good night, we still are." You Have to Go Sideways He's a Reptile Where are the Prawns? I'm an Old Pervert "This is a song I wrote for Tom Petty. But it was 1977, and he was very young." (Then a ramble about holding his daughter when she was a baby, and the sky opening up and asking him to kiss it, a la Jimi) Queen of Eyes Underwater Moonlight Human Music "This is a song written in Austin." Sudden Town I Wanna Destroy You Insanely Jealous There was one other bit from Robyn. I don't recall where he dropped it in, but it was about when the first door appeared, and no-one dared to walk through it, fearing the jagged teeth that might lurk on the other side. The high priests of the town decided that they must make sacrifices to it, so they began tossing things through it: "Fruits. Vegetables. LPs. Three disc sets." Here's a show review by Michael Bertin, found at http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2001-03-16/music_live32.html - --------------------------------------------------------------- This was perhaps the least desirable of all outcomes. The Soft Boys were just okay. Had it been spectacular, that would have offered a two-decades-overdue "told you so" for the flamekeepers of the underappreciated. Had it failed spectacularly, that would have been almost forgivable. Sometimes taking nostalgia out for a walk is only a good idea, and the past is often best left there. But for the material from the band's recently reissued final album, Underwater Moonlight , to translate so unexceptionally into the present onstage is maybe the toughest thing to take. That's partly because the album itself is such a marvel. Pick up the reissue, throw it on your stereo, and hear what could pass for some of the most vibrant and original pop music being released today, despite the fact that it's over 20 years old. Onstage, though, opener "Tonight" came out a little stiff, and instrumental follow-up "You'll Have to Go Sideways" didn't do much to loosen things up, despite guitarist Kimberley Rew's honest efforts. It wasn't until a couple of songs in, with "He's a Reptile" and its "Please, Mr. Postman" chorus, that the band flexed any pop muscle. Even then, though they were playing the parts well, the music wasn't giving up the gist. It wasn't until "The Queen of Eyes" that the Soft Boys finally bloomed with Byrdsy-to-Beatles jangle underscored with that ever-subtle hint of Syd Barrett. Finally. There it is. Do more of that. Instead, the Boys fell back into a moderately pallid version of Underwater Moonlight 's title track. For three brief minutes, however, with the set's penultimate song, "I Wanna Destroy You," the Soft Boys were the monsters of pop. In the best of all possible worlds, that song would be on the radio now and would indeed destroy all the teen avatars wreaking havoc on innocents everywhere. Immediately after it was over, the Soft Boys should have played it again. And again and again and again. They probably could have gotten away with a good, solid 15 minutes of it. Instead, they flattened out a bit with "Insanely Jealous." And that was it. All the hope, all the promise, not unfulfilled, just still unresolved. To be a shameless apologist, this was the band's first proper show in front of an audience in 20 years. Even the strongest of muscles will atrophy with that kind of layoff. Here's hoping they regain full strength quickly. - ------------------------------------------------------------------ Overall, I agree with this review. It was great to see the music played after all these years, but it was much more laid back than I expected. (Not totally unexpected, with bandmembers coming up on 50.) It was clearly Robyn's band; Windsor and Seligman came on stage first, and almost looked like roadies out to finish setting things up for the group. Kimberlie Rew spent most of the show off in the corner, playing rhythm guitar--he took one solo during Underwater Moonlight, and a second during the closer. I'm looking forward to their Chicago show; like the reviewer, I'm hoping they'll be playing with more fire by then. Dave. David Witzany witzany@uiuc.edu ....one of Nature's bounds checkers - ------------ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 13:31:08 -0600 From: Henry Krinkle Subject: Re: Another SXSW Soft Boys report Dave Witzany wrote: Here's the set list I wrote down during the show. Someone else included > Kingdom of Love in their list; I don't remember it, but I could have forgotten > to write it down. > I don't recall them playing Kingdom of Love either, but I wish they had. There was another article in the Chronicle the day of the show that mentioned: "What also, er, takes the biscuit, is the fact that the Soft Boys recently recorded a song together for the first time in two decades for a Paul McCartney tribute album." Didn't we establish a long time ago that the McCartney tribute album was a hoax? Just wondering, Stacy ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 19:48:24 -0000 From: mel@scw.org Subject: Baltimore show This is basically a repeat of what Rich said... I got to finally meet some feglisters, Rich, Eddie and Bayard. It was good to get to meet them after missing Bayard at the Rock Armada gig theother October. The show was amazing. They played all of Underwater Moonlight i think. Leppo and Jooves, Bells of Rhymney and Airscape. There seemed to be a bit less of the usual in between song chatter. It ws great watching Robyn and Kimberley play together again. I wish I was going to the Philly show tonight but since I have to work today... Oh yes fashion report Robyn - black and white checkered shirt Kimberley - button down with little flowers on it Matthew - tye die t shirt Morris - black shirt with 3KNY on it I'd do a better job but I'm really too tired right now. Also does anyone going to the DC show want a copy of that last Departure Lounge CD? I have an extra. Melissa ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 14:55:46 -0500 From: "brian nupp" Subject: Re: "I never tell jokes. I just am one." RH >Nuppy: >>There is a version of a skull, a suitcase, and >>a long red bottle of wine from one of these sessions, I was hoping >to >>hear >>on the bonus disc. >Does this mean its on there? No, I was only hoping it would be. Check out underwatermoonlight.com for a complete track listing. Nuppy _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 12:06:45 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Roxy >According to the Asking Tree, Robyn >has covered "More Than This", "Avalon", "The Main Thing", "Take A Chance >With Me", and "True To Life", so he's almost there! Wow! Didn't realize. I used to *adore* Avalon, but I don't think it has aged nearly as well as the pre-1976 stuff. Coincidentally, it was recently announced that the reunited Roxy Music will perform here on August 6th. Appropriately, it's at a venue (the Greek Theater) which I don't think I've visited since my earliest days of concert-going. I may be wrong, but I think the last show I saw there was Beat-era King Crimson! I want to read some reviews, though -- I'm not sure whether this is a "must-see" or not. It could be depressing, if Ferry can't shift gears out of his crummy, vaporous-makeout-music mode. Can he still sell "Editions of You"? >All the reviews I have >read of RM's Avalon have placed it as one of their best albums so I don't know >if its considered to be the culmination of their decline. Flesh and Blood >on the >other hand seems to be considered mediocre by many. I certainly like Avalon better than Flesh & Blood and Manifesto. Manifesto is really uneven...four or so great songs, but then it has the *other* RM song (besides "Over You"!) which really makes me cringe: "Cry, Cry, Cry." Blecccch. Flesh & Blood and Manifesto are the only Roxy Music albums which I only have on vinyl -- I "upgraded" all of the others. (Well, I also have an amazing Roxy Music bootleg on vinyl.) Has anyone bought any of the recent Virgin remasters, and compared them with the previous Reprise versions? My stuff is all on Reprise.... Eb, disappointed to hear that the reunited Soft Boys apparently lack fire? PS Is there somewhere on the Web which shows the album cover of "Live at the Portland Arms"? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 15:33:22 -0500 From: "brian nupp" Subject: Re: Roxy >PS Is there somewhere on the Web which shows the album cover of "Live at >the Portland Arms"? http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1418041330 _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 17:03:17 -0500 From: "jbranscombe@compuserve.com" Subject: Soft Boys In Flame! >Eb, disappointed to hear that the reunited Soft Boys apparently lack fire? Not when I saw them they didn't, and the mate I took - who is no Hitchcock-worshipper- thought they were the best thing he's seen in years. Robyn's voice was in particularly good nick, I thought. He occasionally unveiled this mellow, vibrato- heavy baritone timbre which was never really part of his armoury before. On the McCartney tribute thing, yes, they have recorded Let Me Roll It. Coincidentally McCartney is in pretty fine fettle on the forth-coming Ian Dury tribute, Brand New Boots and Panties, as are Billy Bragg, Sinead O'Connor and Wreckless Eric. BUT SURELY THE * BURNING* QUESTION IS, WHY HAVEN'T THEY PLAYED 'I GOT THE HOTS...'? jmbc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 10:27:17 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: Pathfinders >BBC please-- >Can any of you UK types direct me to information >re the early 60s kids' series "Pathfinders to >Mars/Pathfinders to Venus?" We were in London >for a year & watching that show I got a crush on >the girl character who sort of prefigured Penny >of "Lost in Space." I found some info, i.e. it >was produced by Sydney Newman who went on to Dr. >Who. But no pictures on this great internet >(sigh). The only Robyn connection is that on >Mars they are attacked by carnivorous moss. Don't know of any websites, but this small amount of info might be a help: There were three stories running for a total of 21 episodes - Pathfinders in space, Pathfinders to Mars, and Pathfinders to Venus. The first of these was in fact a sequel to the earlier "Target Luna". The cast included Peter Williams as Prof. Wedgwood, Stewart Guidotti as Geoffrey Wedgwood and - among others - Hester Cameron as Margaret Henderson, presumably the woman you refer to. Writers were Malcolm Hulke and Eric Paice. Both men later also wrote for the Avengers, and Hulke also wrote for Dr Who. you might try searching using the phrase "Family Hour" - it was screened as part of the 1960-61 Sunday Family Hour show - on ITV, not BBC, run via the ABC network. Not to be confused with a later series simply called "Pathfinders", which was set in WWII. (The above info comes from the extremely useful book "The encyclopedia of TV Science Fiction", by Roger Fulton) 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: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 22:50:42 -0500 From: "ross taylor" Subject: digests The Bright Elusive Butterfly of --huh? >central portion of the wings a deep velvety >sienna red/brown. Around this >was a thin black border with intense >sky-bluer-than-blue dots on it, then a >fluffy white ruff at the outer edge. Dunno. I checked the most likely resource at hand, "Wigmore on Evidence" & found nada. But Google gives this: http://butterflywebsite.com/gallery/index.cfm You could browse in that. Perhaps you can work this question into a treasure hunt for Library Week. Semi-seriously, I think butterflies are one of the key species, like frogs, that are doing weird things in response to global warming. A globe without frogs ... Dave/Bayard/DC Fegs-- We probably won't make the party because of babysitting complications; might swing past on our way up to see if too late. But I hope to locate some of you at the show. Doug MW told me about the toast button thing, but I haven't gotten one of those together. However, to describe myself: for this event I shall be short, fat & old, with a scraggly brown ponytail halfway down my back; & maybe a Procol Harum t-shirt, maybe red shirt. No face hair. I'll be accompanied by a taller wife, who may make some "My, this is loud" facial expressions. I wanna be one a them puffer fish with a light bulb inside it Ross Taylor Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 01:51:20 -0500 From: "In Praise Of Limestone" Subject: Philly Man oh man , you guys in the rest of the country-- You are going to be very happy campers indeed. Where to start? The baby t-shirt: I am tickled, yes, pink. Last time I saw Hitchcock I actually was rude enough to give him a hard time(when he was being nice enough to sign something) about the fact that rock n roll t-shirts never fit, well, "normal" woman. If youre an E-cup or something then yeah, extra large fits just fine but for the rest of us... . Disaster, you look like your kid brother. And now?- a cute dark turqoise blue with orange edging n legend(The Soft Boys. Crab. Underwater Moonlight)prominently advertized as "baby." All I know is my size 6 carcass fits just fine in it. So fellow female fegs. Its 15 bucks. Bring cash. We must sell these out to prove that it is economically feasable to market such items. Otherwise its back into those mu-mu things that -never- shrink enough in the wash. The concert? Right--the concert... (Must include some sort of editorial warning sign here. Very drunk. Not really coherent. Wouldnt be posting except for the fact that I really enjoy when other fegs get bombed and are a tad out of it, so--here goes... Young Fresh Fellows. Wonderful, never seen them before. If Napster doesnt cough up their stuff I might actually, dear God, spend money on it. Its good to see middle age men who know what they're doing and do it well(this is a theme which will reoccur;-) Very funny, great "rawk" moves, great spirit and melodies with a buzz. Also lyrics I think Ill get off on when Im straight enough to properly enjoy. The Soft Boys. I really dont know what to say. I was in the head for a great concert. I needed a great concert. And I got one. They were so on. They knew exactly what they were doing, incredible mastery on just the skill level. And then a joy on top of that, a great cascading shimmer. Guitar? Im sorry--Im such a heretic--BUT I LOVE A ROCK n ROLL BAND--I want Hitchcock with Telly(great blue)in hand, with Morris behind him, Matt on the side and Rew bouncing around like a superball. There is something escatic, bacchnal and utterly right there. They did alot of songs. I think they came back 3 times. There wasnt one bit of dead air. I WANT A NEW ALBUM. I WANT MORE. I wish it was ahead of me instead of behind me. If in doubt go see them. Either it was one of the best concerts of my life or ... it was one of the best concerts of my life. Hey-- they even played a recording of Expecting To Fly after the show was all over. Woj and Bayard and Ethyl and Chris and others were there(hey again--, good to see/meet you) and I figure they'll do the responsible reporting set-list sort of stuff. My heads already starting to hurt. Ill pay for this tomorrow, but you know--it was worth it:-) Well worth it. Whatever you do, dont miss this. K _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V10 #83 *******************************