From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V10 #138 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, April 20 2001 Volume 10 : Number 138 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Toronto? [enzo ] Re: UK Tour Dates ["Stewart C. Russell" ] cambridge and the rest of the world ["jbranscombe@compuserve.com" ] Up The Junction ["Gary Sedgwick" ] Re: Toronto? ["brian nupp" ] Bristol ["Brian Hoare" ] Re: bootleggers ["da9ve stovall" ] overload [Bayard ] cynical days ["Natalie Jacobs" ] Looking for Largo tape; GF gig? [LDudich@ase.org] Glass Flesh 2 ["Bayard Catron" ] Heart and Mind ["Kenneth Johnson" ] WanderLust ["Sirloin Stockade" ] Re:My Mind isnt Connected [Stephen Mahoney ] CD info for Big Quail ["Bayard Catron" ] new zoo revue [HAL ] Re: Heart and Mind ["brian nupp" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 09:48:06 -0400 From: enzo Subject: Re: Toronto? when we last left our heroes, Mike Swedene exclaimed: >Apparently I am the only Feg who is on the list who >braved the northern latitiude. randi and eddie and carissa were there too! >There were TONS of >cameras there, I taped the show and am in the midst of >copying it over to cd, but I have reached the end of >the semester so I am a bit busy. so that makes two recordings of toronto (unless eddie had problems which i haven't heard about). what did you record on? >Once I have it, I >will offer to do a tree or trades and try and get it >up to woj or someone on an ftp. Free the music! sounds good. an informal tree ala stefan's boston recording would be great. if you can swing it, uploading a shn would be great for those with high-speed connections and, of course, mp3s would be nice to have. woj ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 14:58:48 +0100 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: UK Tour Dates Edward of Sim wrote: > > Why are they completely dissing the north!?!? 'cos it's worth it. > ... one way up on Glasgow but where else do you get a riotous roar from the folk who were at the Paisley Bungalow Bar gig in appx 1978? Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 10:01:39 -0400 From: "jbranscombe@compuserve.com" Subject: cambridge and the rest of the world Me:- >I was in the audience for Jools Holland's Later last night. Eb:- >No no...see, this is where you're supposed to tell us whom his guests were. >Play fair! Eb on tenterhooks. What a lovely sight ;-) Stereo MCs - back after a zillion year hiatus getting their heads together, man. Pretty good, but Rob Birch is a little too cocky for his own good. Starsailor - Young band being hyped like buggery. They're OK - singer's got a good voice, but it's all a bit David Gray/Travizzzzz...for me Goldfrapp- Interesting trip-hoppy outfit with female lead-singer. John Parish produced. Andy Davies, who played guitar on Imagine plays keyboards for them. Blind Boys Of Alabama - Wonderful gospel group. First saw them about 6 years ago at which time they'd already been together nearly 60 years...Any other atheistic gospel fans on the list :-) And, as mentioned before, The Blockheads, with Robbie Williams and Suggs on guest vocals. Robbie was the only person to fuck up an otherwise seamless show. He started singing in too high a key (tee, hee!) that'll be edited out. It's on this evening in UK. Eb also waxed lyrical on David Thomas. I've seen him plus Two Pale Boys too many times now. Once, yes, twice interesting, three times, carried by DT's personality, four times, ho hum.... Yes, Andy Diagram's treated trumpet schtick is entertaining but it wears a little thin. He was originally in Manc demi-legends Dislocation Dance (on the Buzzcocks' New Hormones label) then Scouse jangle-poppers The Pale Fountains (what a crap name, have we done a crap names thread?) then back to Madchester for a stint with James. I saw him a couple of year's back in a very interesting trumpet/drums duo called Spaceheads don't know if they're still going. I think, Eb, that the 'opera' Dave mentioned must be Mirror Man, which had its first outing in '98. Moline and Diagram played on that as well, as part of The Pale Orchestra. This also included Linda Thompson, Chris Cutler, Peter Hammill, Jackie Leven and the Kidney brothers from the god-like 15-60-75. Excellent CD resulted. They're doing it again on 26th May at The South Bank, very well worth seeing. Don't know if there are any US dates. I know they played with 15-60-75 in Cleveland last year to celebrate 25 years (The Numbers Band were celebrating 30!) Anyway, to move from talking about one of my top ten favourite artists to another... I was at Cambridge and it was wonderful. I was sorry to read in the previously posted set-list that they missed out Leppo & The Jooves. That would have been the icing on the cake. Only Airscape and Human Music slightly disappointed. The former was a little too 'rock' and the latter somehow didn't quite have the magic of the Clerkenwell version from last month. Otherwise...Jesus, they're brilliant. Just to weigh in on the new songs debate. Your Mind Is Connected...is the potential classic to my mind, Mr Kennedy a close second with Sudden Town and Pulse Of Your Heart coming up joint third. They're both good-ish but... After Astro Dom I was button-holed by a member of Kim's other band The Lonely and regaled with stories of his close neighbour, one Roger 'Sydney' Barrett, who apparently buys nappies, tampons and cigarettes by the the truck load from the local corner shop.... Personally I enjoyed Robyn's rap about the A505 during UM as I was brought up in a town which bestraddles that very road... On another note Your Mind... contains the line 'The butler emerges from the underside...' As I'm about to play a butler I take that as a very good omen... Kay noted extremely astutely... >Well, it could well be said that Algy and Jack are really character parts >and not romantic leads;-). And isnt there a saying--no man is a hero to his >butler. >So if you could have one romantic lead, what would it be? A very attractive actress I worked with recently said that, in about ten years, she wanted me to play Anthony to her Cleopatra. I'm counting the days....;-) jmbc. n.p. Elvis Live Greatest Hits, yup this is what the fuss is all about. Now if the Boys play Mystery Train I can die a happy man. Off to Brighton in two hours. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 10:14:17 -0400 From: "brian nupp" Subject: Re: Mind is Connected >From: "Russ Beer Quote Reynolds" > >All this talk about "Pulse of My Heart", but nobody seems to be saying much >about "Mind Is Connected", which has been haunting me for days now. I >enjoyed this live, enjoyed the MP3 too and I can't seem to get it out of my >head. Am I the only one who thinks it's a really good song? > No, this song haunted me as well. I listened to it a few times on the headphones while I was riding the train in Peru. The words Zip Zip Zip... (or is it bzip bzip bzip?) would not leave my head. I like this one better than Pulse of My Heart. Though, after reading the lyrics to Pulse I have a new appreciation for it. Nuppy _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 15:25:47 +0100 From: "Gary Sedgwick" Subject: Up The Junction | |Kingdom Of Love |- Robyn said this was written about another Cambridge character called |Harold, who used to wander around the streets in a cloak that |he had made |himself out of old curtains. He asked the audience whether any |of the older |ones remembered him and some shouted out that they did. When |he asked if he |was still around, someone said that he'd died a couple of years ago. | This was a very funny moment... when Robyn asked if anyone knew what happened to him, someone shouted out "he died!", to which Robyn asked "Do you know when?" "Approximately - before or after Aliens 2 came out?" Sorry, didn't tape the show or anything. The original Soft Boys songs were *awesome*, the highlight for me being Insanely Jealous, which I think is just one of those songs which sounds so much better live. I thought the new songs were all pretty good too. The only song that didn't agree with me was Sleeping With Your Devil Mask. All in all, a fantastic gig. Gary ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 10:24:17 -0400 From: "brian nupp" Subject: Re: Toronto? >>so that makes two recordings of toronto (unless eddie had problems which i >haven't heard about). My friend Chris (Matthew S. mentions him in one of the tour diaries) was there, and he made an anolog tape recording of it. I have yet to hear it. Nuppy _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 15:05:11 -0000 From: "Brian Hoare" Subject: Bristol The set at the Fleece seems to have been much the same as at Cambridge but with a few changes in order, but Leppo appeared instead of Human Music. The encores came to an early end due to triple string breakages - Robyn lost an E in the intro to Bells so Kim played it alone, Robyn took up a spare black strat for Train, but in Mr Kennedy Kimberly lost a string, they finished with Kim playing Rock and Roll toilet on the black strat, while Robyn unencumberd by a guitar danced in a Jaggeresque manner, breaking a string towards the end - "We've broken all our strings, goodnight". The original SB material was the better performed. Sideways is an excellent opener. Old Pervert was outstanding, Kim's guitar was intensely sharp and crunchy over a solid rythm section. Insanely Jealous was also excellent. The fish story in UM featured the A38 ( North/South) through Bristol so perhaps A roads will become a theme. For the lyric watchers: QOE had the original "abuse and decay" and an "up/down/push her around" bit I didn't catch the name of the pig; In Only the Stones Remain the girls definately ovulated. As for the meaning of OTSR it is apparantly a celebration of the anhilation of all living matter. The Egyptians' material was good but not great, Airscape is beautiful on the album but this live version is too boistrous, contrariwise Devil Mask was too light. The new stuff... Personally I prefer Pulse over Mind over the others. For me the low spot of the first set was Sudden Town and Mr Kennedy should lose the guitar workout at the end, which last night reminded me of when I saw Man. Man _should_ have long twin guitar breaks, the soft boys should be punchy and to the point, that's why they are different bands. I encountered an old workmate who had come along on the strength of a tape I'd made for him at least eight years ago and who pronounced himself very impressed at the end of it all. I think I saw Mike G in the distance but never got to actually greet him. I reckon Kay's on to a winner with her wings theory, my girlfriend at the time of GoF picked up on "the moth unfolds her moistened wings" on first listen. Brian _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 08:43:30 -0700 From: "da9ve stovall" Subject: Re: bootleggers From: Bayard Subject: three things >I would not concern myself about this for any other band. >These guys are the absolute best. They are genuinely nice >and super helpful. Can you think of any other band this >legendary who would invite me backstage for a beer, >mention my good friends in their tour diary, approach *us* >post-gig to chat and offer Eddie the gig dates he's >missing on his website, phone me up at home and work >trying to find a way to get fegs on the guest list for a >sold out show, not to mention being super cool about >recording the shows? >I didn't think so! Well, actually, Mike Keneally and his band - while not nearly as well-known as Robyn - are also hella-nice folks, taper-friendly, and imminently interactive with their tightly-knit fan community. But, your point is well-made. >HOWEVER, if a third person I like and respect emails me >privately to tell me I should not trouble with people on >eBay who are deceiving ignorant people and shilling >intellectual property, I will strongly consider it *if >that person is a TAPER.* I'm not sure Bird & Monkey >appreciate that the item that was being offered as "L@@K >RARE IMPORT SOFT BOUS 21 BIRTHDAY" is not just something >that belongs to Robyn and the Boys, but to the person who >taped it, who fixed it in history. There's a lot of time >and effort and money that goes into that, guys. And it's >almost never the bootlegger's own recording that is >getting sold for ridiculous prices. >Why would they bother, when great recordings are available >for free? I'm a taper, and I won't dissuade you one bit - but I guess you knew that. I've seen one or two of *my* recordings for auction on eBay, and have, as far as I know, gotten them shut down before completion. (Interestingly, the evidence that let me know with some certainty that it was *my* recording [of a Roger Waters show] and not just someone else's recording of the same show was the artwork, which was made by a friend of mine and circulated only with my recording.) Needless to say, I was pretty bent when I found that one up for auction, and submitted complaints to eBay from three different email accounts (back when you didn't have to be an eBay member to do that). The question that situation begs is, did I invite the bootlegging of my own recording merely by trading it freely in the first place? Would it have been better to have not traded it so that it wouldn't fall into the hands of bootleggers? (It's a handy convention to use the term "bootleg" ONLY for unofficial recordings being SOLD, and "bootleggers" ONLY for those who sell them - the Dark Side; everyone else is a "Taper" or "Trader" in my book.) I know a couple guys who are "hoarders" - who don't trade their recordings for just that reason; after some reflection, I came to the belief that it's better to trade as widely as possible, and to spread the 'taping/trading meme' to actively discourage bootlegging and the patronization of bootleggers. >From: "Russ Reynolds" >Subject: Mind is Connected >All this talk about "Pulse of My Heart", but nobody seems >to be saying much about "Mind Is Connected", which has >been haunting me for days now. I enjoyed this live, >enjoyed the MP3 too and I can't seem to get it out of my >head. Am I the only one who thinks it's a really good >song? I'm with you on that - "Mind is Connected" is my favorite of the new songs I heard in Chicago, with "Sudden Town" and "Mr. Kennedy" following. "Pulse of my Heart" hasn't grabbed me quite as much, but I still like it fine. da9ve ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 11:45:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard Subject: overload i'm currently subbed to feg from three different addresses. (all three are the reflector, not digest.) has this ever been done before? =b "not recommended" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 08:54:19 -0700 From: "Natalie Jacobs" Subject: cynical days When I saw the subject line "No woman no cry" in one of Hal's messages, I thought it was another post about Dave Sim. Haw! Gandalf said, >These guys are the absolute best. They are genuinely nice and super > >helpful. Can you think of any other band this legendary who would > >invite me backstage for a beer... [other kindnesses deleted] Those are very nice things to do. I bet it was Matthew or Morris or Kimberley who did them, not Robyn, right? (Just wondering...) If any kind soul would give me a clue as to how to purchase "The Book of Leviathan" *without* going through Ama-fucking-zon-dot-fucking-com, I'd greatly appreciate it. Powells - Portland's mega-huge independent bookstore - has had the book on order since the Cambrian age, and it still hasn't arrived. (It may have turned to coal.) Ursula K. Le Guin is going to do a book signing mere yards from where I now sit, on April 28!! She's going to get the gold Thoth I originally made for Peter Buck (and is far more worthy of it). n., drinkin' lukewarm chai on a rainy day _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 12:29:12 -0400 From: LDudich@ase.org Subject: Looking for Largo tape; GF gig? Hey- Did anybody tape the Largo gig? I'd like a copy---contact me off line. - -luther After reading the below, Bayard, I like them even more than I did before! They are so damn cool! btw, b, when the Glass Flesh 2 CD is ready for the world, what do you think of the idea of one of the feg bands in the balt/Wash/Philly area booking a gig, and making it a release party, with other contributers to the disk sharing the stage? Just a thought from a feg on the disk, but currently with out a band... - -luther I would not concern myself about this for any other band. These guys are the absolute best. They are genuinely nice and super helpful. Can you think of any other band this legendary who would invite me backstage for a beer, mention my good friends in their tour diary, approach *us* post-gig to chat and offer Eddie the gig dates he's missing on his website, phone me up at home and work trying to find a way to get fegs on the guest list for a sold out show, not to mention being super cool about recording the shows? I didn't think so! All I can say is I'd like to try and be the kind of fan I might have if I was as kind and cool and talented as these guys. They DESERVE the best fans in the world. If I can pick up one small piece of litter here and there, I at least *feel* like I've made some small kind of difference. OK, that's enough. =b "breakin' kneecaps for Posh Windsor" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 16:52:16 GMT From: "Bayard Catron" Subject: Glass Flesh 2 > After reading the below, Bayard, I like them even more than I did before! > They are so damn cool! You got that right! But hey, bootleggers have rights too, right? ;) > btw, b, when the Glass Flesh 2 CD is ready for the world, > what do you think of the idea of one of the feg bands in the > balt/Wash/Philly area > booking a gig, and making it a release party, with other contributers to the disk sharing the stage? Great! Know of a suitable venue? And I would not limit it to just people who are on the CD; for example, feckless beast and/or shoddy workmanship would be surely invited to play, no? (any other DC/Baltimore fegbands about?) We are aiming for summer for the CD release, I believe; the artwork looks to be pretty much done (and great!), the audio is being digitally mastered a second time due to some small glitches that were annoying. link-a-rama: http://www.glasshotel.net/gh/fegBands.htm (new ones coming today) http://www.glasshotel.net/gh/glass_flesh.htm ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 09:54:40 -0700 From: "Kenneth Johnson" Subject: Heart and Mind Kay on Pulse: very excellent analysis, and for my money true enough. the song's rhythm (as in any good "4-min pop tune"/sex..."you can set your watch by me I'm a regular guy I get up and then I walk away") builds appropriately including a blissful slow down before the final punctuation. I love the punctual/temporal imagery in the lyrics. This places the song alongside much of Jewels for Sophia. In fact I would go so far as to suggest that it belongs on the album. Something that may take five minutes (Robyn's middle-age stamina no doubt, how honest and tender) could seemingly last forever. I love the line: "You can tell what time it is by looking yourself in the eye." ....obviously with the help of a mirror, in this case the mirror of your loved ones eyes and as you look into the mirror you create eternity... Mind is Connected: A haunting sound to be sure....I cannot yet connect all the imagery. Could there be some references that I am missing? It seems to be about the entertainment industry, rock and roll specifically, and the obsession with it, complete with tours, tattoos, tees and collector's merchandise. What is the line in the refrain? "It's only a poisonous plant/blunt/???" Happy Fryday My Shakespeare show opens tonight and I'm looking for some legs to break..... Kenneth >From: "Spring Cherry" >Reply-To: "Spring Cherry" >To: fegmaniax@smoe.org >Subject: Feg o my Heart >Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 13:31:30 -0000 > >Mnnnn--I said Id probably have more to say this morning. > >Just ...well, as is often the case with Robyn, its the visual details and >puns which often contain meaning. >Well-the bleedingly obvious just tripped me. I mentioned orgasm in the last >post and this morn Im hitting myself on the head with a Homer like"Duh." >Cause this pulse of the heart, whats it doing? Its coming. Oy. For you. >Ive mentioned constriction, well the boy in the pillow hoping to get out, >in >some ways, is a description of a hard-on. And the parachute? Well think of >all the marshmellows jumping off the empire state. Yup. Billowing white >stuff. >As for the girl--wings. Now Id never thought of engorged labia(minor and >major) as wings before, but you know, its perfect. And when you pulse with >orgasm they are flying. This is a great female image. And I cant beleive >this the first Ive thought of it. Its in "Sounds Great When Youre >Dead"(thou less explicit) and Ive missed it all these years. >So unbelievebly obvious. I think Ill invent a new dance called "Do the >Duh." >Kay, whose sending this thru digest, so apologies if this has all been said >before. > > > >_________________________________________________________________ >Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 10:04:52 -0700 From: "Sirloin Stockade" Subject: WanderLust "Feed my Frankenst-eye-eye-ei--." Eb dramatically engaged the eject mechanism of his motor-car's compact disc player, removed the toothpick from his maw, leaned out the driver-side window, and rasped, "*Pardon* me?" Gregor, the broadly-smiling attendant, repeated, "Would you like a Turtle Waxing with that, sir?" "Hello? McFly?" Eb retorted. "Welcome to the 21st Century, you fucking a-hole!" Gregor, quite taken aback at the unexpected outburst, could only murmur, "Um...how's that?" "LISTEN, YOU FUCKING A-HOLE," bellowed Eb. "I could arrange it so that you shall never work in this town again! Would you like that, you fucking a-hole?" "But, sir...I mean...I only..." he trailed off. Eb, seizing the moment, stepped out of his motor-car, and unlatched the satchel slung 'round his left shoulder. He plucked from the satchel a massive black dildo, with embossed golden script spelling out "The Matador" on one side. At the sight of "The Matador", Dr. Hiboshi (who spoke no English) stifled a guffaw. "This is the most voluminous dildo in Los Angeles county," Eb assured Gregor. "Don't -- repeat, do not -- make me ruin it on your fucking a-hole, a-hole." At this time, Marino (the manager of Spiffywish Carwash and Waxing) interceded with a sigh. "Eb, how many times do I have to tell you not to threaten my attendants with a reaming? Now goddammit, just get back in there," he gestured toward Eb's motor-car, "and go about your business." With an arched eyebrow, Eb seated "The Matador" firmly against his pelvis, and, cackling now and again, began making "humping" motions in the general direction of Gregor's posterior. This at first elicited some nervous chuckles from the visibly shaken Gregor. But after three minutes, forty-five seconds, he was cowering for life and limb. Finally, after playfully mussing the shell-shocked Gregor's hair, Eb returned "The Matador" to his satchel, from whence he procured a coupon reading, "Free bag of Cheetos with Wash and Waxing". He passed the coupon to Dr. Hiboshi, then turned to Gregor and prodded, "Nice work if you can get it, eh?" Gregor, inestimably happy to be back on Eb's good side, beamed like an eight-carat "rock". At this point, Dr. Hiboshi offered up the promised bag of Cheetos. Eb made for to take it from him, but at the last possible moment, pulled his hand away and let it flutter toward the tarmac. Gregor lunged for the wayward parcel, too late. But Eb, pirouetting nicely, kicked the bag, hackey-sack style, with the back of his heel, sending it in a lovely arc into the waiting maw of his satchel, which he then snapped shut with ringing authority. Now back seated in his motor-car, Eb flashed Gregor the "peace" sign, and reassured him, "See you next time!" Then, under his breath, as he finished rolling up the driver-side window, completed, "...you fucking a-hole!" Gregor, having not heard this last, waved furiously and warned Eb, "Rough seas ahead, Cap'n!" as the El Dorado lurched into motion. Having completed his Wash and Waxing, Eb deposited a 35-cent tip into the waiting hand of the towel-man, admonishing him, "Don't share this with Gregor. That guy's a fucking a-hole!" Later that same day, as he was eating a taco, Eb was stung right on the nuts by a particularly resourceful yellow-jacket; causing him to yelp in delight. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 10:11:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Stephen Mahoney Subject: Re:My Mind isnt Connected now here is a real homer"doh!" that I just did the whole time I have been obsessed with finding that song which I thought was done by stereolab but it was done by the stereo MC's???? oh well, it was a good way of discovering a really super band! I havent watched "blow" yet- is it worth the trouble? - -this is your brain when your prefrontal lobe stuts off Stephen Mahoney Multnomah County Library at Rockwood branch clerk stephenm@nethost.multnomah.lib.or.us 503-988-5396 fax 503-988-5178 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 17:30:15 GMT From: "Bayard Catron" Subject: CD info for Big Quail Quailio, This site has loads of excellent CDR info: http://www.cdrfaq.org/ That's the comprehensive one. Two that are more trading oriented are http://pages.cthome.net/homepage/eac/ and http://etree.org By the way, I saw Schindler's List on pbs last night and they had a thing with Spielberg after - whoever said it was right, Senor Spielbergo would be perfect to play the quail. He has the same sort of manner and he favors him. And he's made at least three WWII movies! Off to check imdb to see if he acts.... =b ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 11:34:14 -0600 From: HAL Subject: new zoo revue > "Mind is Connected" is my favorite of > the new songs...with "Sudden Town" and "Mr. > Kennedy" following. "Pulse of my Heart" hasn't grabbed me quite > as much, but I still like it fine. I'm really liking "Sudden Town" the most of all the new ones. It might've been "Mr. Kennedy" (more about that in a moment.) Both songs seem as if they could be included on some Imaginary Robyn Version of Jackson Browne's "Running On Empty" album - songs about the road written on the road. "Sudden Town" 's beautiful, bleak urban imagery ("pick up your bag from the restaurant / and shuffle your way to a lonely keyhole") and yin/yang philosophy ("Heaven will pelt you with energy / while you cripple yourself with a moment's heartache") followed by those ecstatic "Yeah!"'s...bliss! Plus, it's got trains and ghouls, it's 'hooky' as hell and you can dance to it. What more do you want from a pop song?! The KCRW version is the best. As for "Mr. Kennedy", it could've been my favorite (I'm a sucker for the gloomy ballad) if it would have remained like the earlier solo acoustic rendition on the GLH tour (see 10.18.00). That version is far superior to the rocked-out SB's treatment. I think RH was generous giving it to the band, and in concert it now seems like just an excuse to get to the guitar jam. A bit of a waste of a pretty tune. I also found the lyrics to "Mr. Kennedy" to bea bit more evocative before the (too literal) Sebadoh reference was included, but RH seems to enjoy using lyrical journalism. Sometimes it works better than others, IMO. I like the chorus to "Pulse" but haven't really connected with "Mind Is Connected" yet (except the "zzzub zzzub zzub" bits. Only RH can come up with hooks like that!) I'll listen to those some more and root around a bit. Finally, kudos and much thanks to all the tapers that have made it possible for me to experience the shows vicariously, since I couldn't be there in the flesh(head). /hal ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 13:36:55 -0400 From: "brian nupp" Subject: Re: Heart and Mind >From: "Kenneth Johnson" What is the line in the refrain? "It's only a >poisonous plant/blunt/???" I thought it was "it's only a poisonous plant, but [or and] it's calling your name. Nuppy _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V10 #138 ********************************