From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V10 #105 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, April 3 2001 Volume 10 : Number 105 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: let's talk about the Soft Boys for a change [Ken Ostrander ] Re: let's talk about the Soft Boys for a change ["Abraxas" ] Re: Rabid Town [Viv Lyon ] Re: Rabid Town ["J. Brown" ] Re: [Quailmaniax!] Rock-n-Feg Toilet, Part 1 ["Motherfucking Asshole" ] Cone sighting in DC ["Marc Holden" ] Re: Soft Boys, Chicago, 30-March-2001 [Melissa Higuchi ] RE: Soft Boys, Chicago, 30-March-2001 ["Brian Huddell" ] Fw: Cows ["Mike wells" ] Re: Drunk guys from Dayton! [Michael R Godwin ] [Natmaniax!] GBV! GBV! GBV! [The Great Quail ] Re: Fw: Cows [Capuchin ] I'm a little cork, on my way to cork school [CPPetunia@aol.com] cows and boot-legs ["Abraxas" ] Re: Drunk guys from Dayton! [Capuchin ] Re: cows and boot-legs [Capuchin ] quailmaniax@eb.gov [Mark Gloster ] Re: Drunk guys from Dayton! [Aaron Mandel ] RE: Soft Boys, Chicago, 30-March-2001 [Eb ] Re: cows and boot-legs ["Abraxas" ] Boston gig available via FTP [Stefan Cooke ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 18:30:55 -0400 From: Ken Ostrander Subject: Re: let's talk about the Soft Boys for a change >> by the by, i got a chance to watch the video from monday night and i must say >> that it is fantastic. my friends were blown away. there were problems >> transfering it to vhs; but i will keep trying... > >What format is it on? If it's DV, maybe we need to get a DV tree >going? :) it's on 8mm. i've got a sony viewcam and it uses little video cassettes. i plug the output from the camera into a television and, my theory is, i can videotape the image on the television. i'm not even sure if the vcr was hooked up properly. the television and vcr are not mine; so my access is limited. my roomates' doesn't work with my camera; so i go to a friend's place. it's a little invasive. anyhow, i will continue my experiments and once i get something that works, i can work on a tree or synthetic polymer or whatever... >I love all the good reviews of the SBs being posted. But I cant help >wondering--does this mean there are no negative ones? of course! >Can it be that the name "Soft Boys" has more >recognition/cachet than "Robyn Hitchcock" nowadays?? A weird twist to RH's >already unpredictable career arc. yeah, that's some arc. in his catalog, underwater moonlight is the acknowledged classic. influencial and overlooked at the same time. critics have been gushing about uncle bobby for a long time; but this is the album that appeals to the most people. not quite the lowest common denominator; but as close as hitchcock can get, i'd say. it's got no 'walking on sunshine'; but you get the idea. ken "do the funky afonso" the kenster np parallel lines blondie ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 18:56:24 -0500 From: "Gene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: Re: Drunk guys from Dayton! >From: "Natalie Jacobs" >Subject: Drunk guys from Dayton! Wow, here I am, in the middle of reading Richard Meltzer's "The Night (Alone)" for the third time, and I catch this post. >The crowd grew dense. Richard Meltzer came out on stage and read some >really bad poetry, and was vigorously heckled amidst sports arena chants of >"GBV! GBV! GBV!" I was torn - the guy is a legendary critic, and one >shouldn't heckle such people, but on the other hand, Meltzer is one of my favorite smart-asses. I bet a lot of people don't Get Him. >his poetry sure was bad. He does that "on purpose." Meltzer is very sardonic in a Gerard Cosloy / Steve Albini / Bruce Adams / Tesco Vee kinda way. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 19:03:11 -0500 From: "Gene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: Re: other Robyn fans in music >From: DDerosa5@aol.com >Subject: other Robyn fans in music > >though I'd asked about Yo La Tengo being SB fans (and more journos should >mention Wilco), I forgot one group that we know were fans of at least RH: the >Old 97s. About a year ago Bayard and I were playing phone tag with the Old 97's guitarist, Ken Bettea, to get them to do a cut for the next "Glass Flesh" compilation. Ken said that they wanted to to "The Ghost Ship" but it never happened (unless Bayard knows otherwise). I saw them perform in Austin last week, and if the crowd wasn't so loud, I'd have requested they play "The Ghost Ship." That woulda been a hoot. But it was one helluva fun show. >A friend who stayed here this past weekend (Viv: it was Mike >Mitchell), gave me their new CD, Satellite Rides. Like their Jon >Brion-produced last one, it is not country, mostly pop. Very good, though I'll second that. It's a good, solid, sweaty, dependable record, and is very well produced and recorded. And I'm convinced the lyrics to "Singular Girl" are based strongly on Robyn's style of writing. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 19:18:38 -0700 From: "Sirloin Stockade" Subject: bong recreation area 3/30/01, Metro, Chicago You'll Have To Go Sideways Queen Of Eyes He's A Reptile Old Pervert My Mind Is Connected To Your Dreams The Bells Of Rhymney Kingdom Of Love I Wanna Destroy You Evil Guy Only The Stones Remain Underwater Moonlight Sudden Town Insanely Jealous Human Music Astronomy Domine Train 'round The Bend Mr. Kennedy Rock And/Or Roll Toilet The Pulse Of My Heart Face Of Death 3/31/01, First Avenue, Minneapolis My Mind Is Connected To Your Dreams The Pulse Of My Heart Face Of Death Kingdom Of Love Underwater Moonlight Evil Guy Queen Of Eyes Old Pervert Only The Stones Remain Tonight The Bells Of Rhymney Leppo And The Jooves I Wanna Destroy You You'll Have To Go Sideways Rock And/Or Roll Toilet Sudden Town Mr. Kennedy Train 'round The Bend Astronomy Domine Airscape _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 19:38:35 -0700 From: "Abraxas" Subject: Re: let's talk about the Soft Boys for a change Hi, I'm new on this list and was wondering if people here trade bootlegs at all? I'd specifically like to get my hands on a good Soft Boys reunion show as I won't get a chance to see them myself. Email me on or offlist (whichever is more appropriate) if you're interested or can help. Thanks, Ed ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 22:19:20 -0500 (CDT) From: GSS Subject: Re: Rabid Town On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Viv Lyon wrote: > I assure you all that, despite a possible metaphorical glass ceiling in > hiring practices, there is no actual glass roof over Oregon. Also, there > are _so_ black people here! Why, I talked to one just the other night. She > was chatting with Scott McCaughey, as was I. Man, is he a nice fella. Oregon is a terrarium and there are no black people in the entire state were two completely unrelated comments. I did not mean that the state has a glass ceiling, I meant that the average humidity of 70% in the temperate zone, makes it look and feel like an actual terrarium. But, I am still not convinced that there are any black people here, but I will keep looking. gss ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 20:58:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Viv Lyon Subject: Re: Rabid Town On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, GSS wrote: > Oregon is a terrarium and there are no black people in the entire state were > two completely unrelated comments. I did not mean that the state has a > glass ceiling, I meant that the average humidity of 70% in the temperate > zone, makes it look and feel like an actual terrarium. That first statement, that was a joke. That second statement, that was a joke too. There really are no black people in Oregon. > But, I am still not convinced that there are any black people here, but I > will keep looking. They will only be decoys. Vivien ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 21:01:28 -0700 (PDT) From: "J. Brown" Subject: Re: Rabid Town On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, GSS wrote: > But, I am still not convinced that there are any black people here, but I > will keep looking. There is a much larger Black Population in Portland than in Seattle, but not as big as Tacoma. But if you are out of the city limmits then you are right. Jason Wilson Brown - University of Washington - Seattle, WA "Put your faith in death because it's free" -Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 01:08:47 -0700 From: "Motherfucking Asshole" Subject: Re: [Quailmaniax!] Rock-n-Feg Toilet, Part 1 59 minutes. that video was 59 minutes, man. i only started watching 'cause i thought it *would* be ten minutes (or less). the proper title, by the way, is "Setting A Good Corner", and shows how to put in a corner-post for a ranch fence. fascinating stuff. i thought it was more less finished, as he'd already got the hole, dug, the post place, the dirt packed. but at a guess, he was only half-way done when "they" made me leave. i only found out later, when thumbing through the program, that the running time was nigh upon one hour. that was *not* Frogger, on that screen. that was a fucking abomination. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 00:41:14 -0700 From: "Motherfucking Asshole" Subject: Re: Soft Boys, Chicago, 30-March-2001 we saw that on the way in. ten-mile/five-lane parking lot. thank the gods we were travelling in the other direction. speaking of hurting legs. last night i stayed at my parents' property in whitehall, montana. they're both retired now, and are building a house there. meantime, they've already a barn, with a nice "tack room", inside which can be found a futon, a crapper, a tele vision set, et cetera. so it was late and dark, and i was butt tired having just driven in from minneapolis with nary a wink of "shut-eye". so i forgot to step around the cattle-guard when opening the gate. my right leg plopped through one of the openings, and my left hip and knee were wrenched like a motherfucker. been gimped ever since. in case you were wondering. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 12:37:43 From: "marcus slade" Subject: Time to introduce Hi there, I thought it was time to make myself known. I've been lurking and reading for some time, and now I've just booked my ticket for the Bristol gig on the 19th it seemed an ideal time. I've been a Robyn fan for a good few years and have managed to see him 3 times already. Bristol last year and Lewes & Brighton in 95. The main reason I'm comming out of lurkdom is to see if there will be a meet up before the Bristol show? I will be heading up straight after work so will be in Bristol by 6 to 6.30pm and will need to eat etc before the show. If anybody knows a good and cheap place to eat it would be good to meet fellow fegs. I guess that's all for now, I'll go back to listening to my recentley recieved copy of UM :-) Marcus PS >From: DDerosa5@aol.com - Wrote >Subject: other Robyn fans in music >This one's produced by Wally Gagel; I know he produced >their >utterly indispensable album, Too Far to Care, but he >doesn't match that >here, >anyone know what other records he's worked on? Wally Gagel co-wrote and produced the last Folk Implosion album 'One Part Lullaby' which is a mighty fine record _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 07:16:21 -0700 From: "Marc Holden" Subject: Cone sighting in DC Actually, DC was the only place I saw a cone so far this tour. The guy who bought it was hanging around after the show. It looked good, but the design wasn't the repeated (animated) style that most of them are. More of a big, wrap-around design. I sure wouldn't mind getting another one. Marc "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!" ---H.P. Lovecraft >Damn, there were no cones in DC, surely a sign they hadn't had free time yet. >As soon as Robyn's bored, out they come is my guess. >I've never photod my cone for any museum, but we should try to track them >this time and get the virtual cone museum very updated.... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 14:24:17 -0000 From: Melissa Higuchi Subject: Re: Soft Boys, Chicago, 30-March-2001 Motherfucking Asshole said: so i forgot to step around the > cattle-guard when opening the gate. my right leg plopped through one of the > openings, and my left hip and knee were wrenched like a motherfucker. been > gimped ever since. in case you were wondering. Ok. I'm gonna have to ask. What's a cattle-guard? Melissa - -- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 10:12:30 -0500 From: "Brian Huddell" Subject: RE: Soft Boys, Chicago, 30-March-2001 > Ok. I'm gonna have to ask. What's a cattle-guard? Although this is rightfully Motherfucking Asshole's to answer, I can't resist. It's a grate on a road that acts as a gate. Parallel metal bars span the opening in a fence. The bars are sturdy enough for a car or tractor to cross, but too far apart for a cow to cross using cow feet (and somewhat challenging to people feet as Eddie has demonstrated). But here's the intensely cool part: sometimes you'll find ersatz cattle-guards that are nothing more than parallel lines *painted* on the road. And they work! Some people take this to be evidence of bovine stupidity, but I say it's the opposite. It suggests some kind of cow folklore, the passing of knowledge from generation to generation. Well, it suggests that to me. Proposed Far Side cartoon: Two of those inimitable Gary Larsen cows are standing at an obviously fake painted cattle guard. One cow says to the other "No way am I crossing that. The paint might still be wet." I can't understand why nobody ever thinks that's funny. +brian ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 08:37:00 -0700 From: "Kenneth Johnson" Subject: Re: Drunk guys from Dayton! >I am now of the opinion that many GBV fans are basically morons. Someone >threw a *bottle cap* at Meltzer - and I don't care if his poetry sucked, >hurling sharp-edged objects at people on stage is not cool. Periodically >throughout the show, people threw half-full cups of beer at the band - the >same band they had been shouting for and dancing to, and who they had paid >$13 to see. (Is this some bizarre fan ritual I don't know about?) And >then, joy of joys, a fuckin' FIGHT broke out right near me - some guy went >totally berserk and had to be restrained by other crowd members before >being >hauled away by the bouncers. When the band played "Teenage FBI," I was >nearly knocked over by fans rushing into the crowd from the bar so they >could dance. Jeez - I don't know which is worse, too-hip-to-smile >indie-rockers, or these liquored-up losers. Hello! another silent one de-lurking at present. The reunion tour has them coming out of the woodwork and the sewers!! My wife and I were also at this concert and she was fortunate enough to catch the first punch thrown in aforementioned fight. I wasn't with her at the time, she had muscled her way up front early. I will hope she does the same Thursday night to save a place for me as I will be late to the Pine Street coming from rehearsal. I doubt she will encounter such moronic behavior at a Robyn related event. Has anyone ever seen an alcohol/testosterone eruption at a Hitchcock concert? Forget the rock concert universe, methinks the world is too full of liquored-up losers in general. ("Someone ought to pass a law or at least form a community...") GBV were pretty cool. I'm not too impressed by the new(er) songs. They seem needlessly drawn out pop vamps minus the catchy lyrics. I like their early to mid-90's stuff, especially Scientist and even the Teenage FBI. They seemed to have tapped a web group or napster list somewhere and *knew* exactly which songs would appease their fans of the moment. I too had some guilty flush of vindication over the roasting SUVs. What does THIS do for our air, soil, water I wonder? I can't think it is happy. I will leave this to the bio-chemical scientists on list to sort out. I am a scientist of a different sort ("I seek to understand me...") I stand on the Max platform nearly every morning and watch a crowded Banfield crawl by clogged with single occupant SUVs. Makes me wish I had me my flask and my shotgun. Unfortunately Oregon is not occupied by just free loving hipsters and the socially conscious. We have to dodge hillbillies and the corporate death culture just like everybody else. I am soooooo stoked over this Thursday! I have been wishing and hoping for a opportunity like this since I first discovered Robyn and the Soft Boys (one following the other in the late 80's....*blush*, I'm a young-un). Early on, I had thought I might have to miss it due to my theatre schedule. - --I am rehearsing Lear with the local Shakespeare company in Portland (Tygre's Heart). We are approaching Tech week and I'm crossing my fingers that I get out early that night.-- Somebody please save a spot for me up front. My wife Melissa will be there early in full battle armor dodging anyone who looks remotely inebriated and self-important (importunate!). See you there! Kenneth _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 10:47:37 -0500 From: "Mike wells" Subject: Fw: Cows > Two of those inimitable Gary Larsen cows are standing at an obviously fake > painted cattle guard. One cow says to the other "No way am I crossing that. > The paint might still be wet." I can't understand why nobody ever thinks > that's funny. I think it's fucking brilliant. An alternate version might have the cows "busting out" by painting their own pathway across the lines... Michael "I pointed to Norway with my fist and look what happened." ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 17:10:25 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: Drunk guys from Dayton! On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Natalie Jacobs wrote: > The crowd grew dense. Richard Meltzer came out on stage and read some > really bad poetry, and was vigorously heckled amidst sports arena chants of > "GBV! GBV! GBV!" I was torn - the guy is a legendary critic, and one > shouldn't heckle such people, but on the other hand, his poetry sure was > bad. Wow! This is Richard Meltzer of Blue Oyster Cult fame, right - I'm really impressed. Does anyone know the real story of the punch-up he had with Pearlman and co? Maybe it's in his book? - - Mike "Junkers Jommo 004" Godwin n.p. Dropout Boogie - CB&HMB ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:12:10 -0700 From: The Great Quail Subject: [Natmaniax!] GBV! GBV! GBV! Yaaaay, Gnat returns! >hurling sharp-edged objects at people on stage is not cool. >Periodically throughout the show, people threw half-full cups of >beer at the band - the same band they had been shouting for and >dancing to, and who they had paid $13 to see. (Is this some bizarre >fan ritual I don't know about?) And then, joy of joys, a fuckin' >FIGHT broke out right near me - some guy went totally berserk and >had to be restrained by other crowd members before being hauled away >by the bouncers. >By this time, Pollard was visibly drunk, slurring his words and >staggering a bit. Hmmm.... now, if he would've showed up an hour and a half late, aggravated the audience with jeers and the middle finger, and of course been three sheets to the wind *before* the concert even began, you'd be at a Shane McGowan concert! - --Quailie McQuail - -- +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+ The Great Quail, K.S.C. (riverrun Discordian Society, Kibroth-hattaavah Branch) For fun with postmodern literature, New York vampires, and Fegmania, visit Sarnath: http://www.rpg.net/quail "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents." -- H.P. Lovecraft ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 09:54:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: Fw: Cows On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Mike wells wrote: > > Two of those inimitable Gary Larsen cows are standing at an obviously > > fake painted cattle guard. One cow says to the other "No way am I > > crossing that. The paint might still be wet." I can't understand why > > nobody ever thinks that's funny. > > I think it's fucking brilliant. An alternate version might have the > cows "busting out" by painting their own pathway across the lines... Or how about some dairy cows or to-be-slaughtered cows painting something across the front of barn door to keep the rancher out and saying "Let's see how HE likes it" or just standing around whistling and looking up innocently? I can't think of what the funniest thing would be, so I'll just shut the hell up. (a pit of snakes? A river? parallel lines? Terry Marks?) Anyway, I, too, thought it was funny, Brian. J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 13:14:06 EDT From: CPPetunia@aol.com Subject: I'm a little cork, on my way to cork school Many thanks to all the people that opened their hearts and doors to me and traveling companions in the last two weeks. It was wonderful. My only complaint is that I have never experienced so many bathroom stall doors that would not shut properly in my life. All up and down the coast and even in Canada. I apologize to anyone I may have inadvertently stolen lip balm from, I left with one tube and arrived home with six, one came voluntarily from lj, but the rest? Carissa ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 10:22:28 -0700 From: "Abraxas" Subject: cows and boot-legs So........ does the silence mean that bootlegs aren't traded in this forum......... or have I subscribed to cow lovers anonymous by mistake? If the latter, a handy tip is always keep a spare pair of rubber boots in the back of the pick up. :-) Ed > > > > Two of those inimitable Gary Larsen cows are standing at an obviously > > > fake painted cattle guard. One cow says to the other "No way am I > > > crossing that. The paint might still be wet." I can't understand why > > > nobody ever thinks that's funny. > > > > I think it's fucking brilliant. An alternate version might have the > > cows "busting out" by painting their own pathway across the lines... > > Or how about some dairy cows or to-be-slaughtered cows painting something > across the front of barn door to keep the rancher out and saying "Let's > see how HE likes it" or just standing around whistling and looking up > innocently? I can't think of what the funniest thing would be, so I'll > just shut the hell up. (a pit of snakes? A river? parallel lines? > Terry Marks?) > > Anyway, I, too, thought it was funny, Brian. > J. > -- > _______________________________________________ > > Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 10:32:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: Drunk guys from Dayton! On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Kenneth Johnson wrote: > Hello! another silent one de-lurking at present. The reunion tour has them > coming out of the woodwork and the sewers!! Whoohoo! Does that mean you want to be a Portland Feg? It means brunches every so often and prestige beyond your wildest dreams and a key to the city. > My wife and I were also at this concert and she was fortunate enough to > catch the first punch thrown in aforementioned fight. I wasn't with her at > the time, she had muscled her way up front early. Yow! She caught the first punch? As a result of muscling her way up front? > I will hope she does the same Thursday night to save a place for me as I > will be late to the Pine Street coming from rehearsal. Is your wife afraid of fegs? I think we're going to meet at Old Wives' Tale at 5:30. It's very close to the Pine Street and there are many veggiefegs. J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 10:37:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: cows and boot-legs On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Abraxas wrote: > So........ does the silence mean that bootlegs aren't traded in this > forum......... There are HEAPS of tape traders here... you've just been unlucky in your trawling. Perhaps you didn't use the secret handshake. Perhaps you're an RIAA spy attempting to escalate the mistaken belief that copying is illegal. > If the latter, a handy tip is always keep a spare pair of rubber boots > in the back of the pick up. :-) That's good advice no matter where you are! J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 11:01:17 -0700 From: Mark Gloster Subject: quailmaniax@eb.gov Hi kids. I'm really jazzed about the following things: 1. Everybody has been sending reports of great shows and people and glee. 2. I will get to see THE SOFT BOYS- twice, even 3. I will get to see many of my favorite fegpersons this week. I will likely get to ride in cars with some of them too. 4. I still don't have a job. 5. I live in an incredibly beautiful place, despite its distance from other fegs. 6. I met Greg and his bro and had fun in the rain and mud. FYI: wear shoes with good traction when walking on the slippery Oregon cliffs with these guys. Another good thing: I think Greg had already left my house by the time he was stricken with the deadly Salmon Gas. The not-so-good news: 1. I spent 4 hours yesterday with 3 people's fingers, hands, arms, feet, and legs in my mouth and there will be more of that to come. My mouth hurts all over and I probably won't be eating any crunchy food for a long time. My mouth tastes like a dentist's office. All the best to y'all, - -that sexy, sexy Mark Gloster ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 15:06:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: Drunk guys from Dayton! On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Kenneth Johnson wrote: > I doubt she will encounter such moronic behavior at a Robyn related > event. Has anyone ever seen an alcohol/testosterone eruption at a > Hitchcock concert? at the Soft Boys show in Boston, a few big guys (separate incidents) came muscling their way through the crowd, trying to get to the front of the stage. one of them, after being rebuffed by the last-resort crew of Eddie and Quail, got up on a friend's shoulders and tried to body-surf. and there were vacant-looking kids behind me blowing pot smoke into the back of my head for most of the show. it was a surprisingly rude crowd. a ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 13:01:19 -0700 From: Eb Subject: RE: Soft Boys, Chicago, 30-March-2001 >Two of those inimitable Gary Larsen cows are standing at an obviously fake >painted cattle guard. One cow says to the other "No way am I crossing that. >The paint might still be wet." I can't understand why nobody ever thinks >that's funny. Myself, I usually had a hard time understanding why folks thought *Gary Larsen* was funny. "Hey, here's an idea -- I'll make this cartoon about an animal saying something a human would normally say! Oh, here's an even *better* idea -- I'll do the same damn thing another 4,000 times! Woo!" Still, his popularity isn't as great a mystery as that of the guy (Jerry Van Farfignewton, or something like that) who does that moronic strip which is about nothing but loony businessmen in bunny suits with balloons tied to their limbs.... Gawwwd, that dude needs to be exterminated. I won't be seeing any concerts until Soft Boys night on the 10th, so the countdown begins.... I did miss that Jad Fair show on the 30th, sorry to say. I hope I don't hear it was amazing. Eb and his hacking phlegm now ehhing: The American Analog Set ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 13:07:17 -0700 From: "Abraxas" Subject: Re: cows and boot-legs > There are HEAPS of tape traders here... you've just been unlucky in your > trawling. Perhaps you didn't use the secret handshake. Ah so thats it. I've got a "silly walk". Will that do? > Perhaps you're an RIAA spy attempting to escalate the mistaken belief that > copying is illegal. Well I suppose I could be. Wait, let me check the mirror............................................. Nope, I'm still me. I just really dig the Soft Boys. Ed ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 16:20:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Stefan Cooke Subject: Boston gig available via FTP Thanks to Ken Weingold who's donated the space, I've uploaded SHN files of the Soft Boys gig at the Paradise, Boston (26 March). There's a readme file with the set list and other information, and some nice CD artwork that my better half Resa (www.blatmandesign.com) did for me. If you don't know what a SHN is or what to do with it, there's a lot of information at etree.org. Basically it's a lossless compression scheme (unlike mp3), and it's a straightforward matter to decode SHN files to WAV via software available from etree.org (I recommend MKW Audio Compression). You can then of course burn your own CDRs with software that's also available at etree, for instance Feurio. The files are hefty though, so it's only recommended for fast internet connections. Point your FTP client to hellrot.suddenindustries.com username: fegmaniax password: jooves and my files are in the only directory there at the moment. Not sure if there are any restrictions in place about the number of simultaneous logons. Ken? I've downloaded a couple of tracks and converted them to WAV to make sure everything works, and they did, but I haven't tested them all. Please let me know if any of the tracks are screwed up. Enjoy! Stefan ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V10 #105 ********************************