From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V10 #231 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, June 8 2001 Volume 10 : Number 231 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Porcupine Tree, what next? (NR) [steve ] Re: GOOO LAKERS!!! [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] RE: 76ers ["Yudt.Matthew" ] another book recommendation ["Natalie Jane" ] Re: Sex Machine ["marcus slade" ] Chris Yacich - the "Bananas" Guy! ["SIMPSON,HAMISH (A-Scotland,ex1)" ] all sports, no Robyn [Miles Goosens ] THE GOLDEN AGE OF wireless... [Stephen Mahoney ] Re: Porcupine Tree, what next? (NR) [Christopher Gross ] Re: L'Age D'Or ["JH3" ] Re: THE GOLDEN AGE OF wireless... [Stephen Mahoney ] odds n ends, odds n ends, lost time is not found again ["ross taylor" ] Voluntary Blackout June 21 (100 percent political/environment) ["victoria] Re: another book recommendation ["victorian squid" ] Bat Boy Falls Head Over Heels In Love (NR) [steve ] Play Misty for me! [JH3 ] Re: Bat Boy Falls Head Over Heels In Love (NR) [Jeff Dwarf Subject: Porcupine Tree, what next? (NR) Proggie Fegs - I have Lightbulb Sun, which Porcupine Tree album should I get next? Any other neo-prog groups worth considering? I haven't been favorably impressed by the one Spock's Beard I've heard. - - Steve __________ "we must therefore reject the central animating idea of modern Establishment Clause analysis: that taxpayers have a constitutional right to insist that none of their taxes be used for religious purposes." - Michael McConnell, Bush Circuit Court nominee ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 02:14:12 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: GOOO LAKERS!!! >Is all this about rounders or netball... or is it that version of rugby >y'all play wearing suits of armour..? sorta like netball, but a lot easier, 'cause you're allowed to run while bouncing the ball. And they even have a backboard behind the net fer crissakes! James (wondering whether we can find a good blindside flanker now that Josh has retired. Perhaps we'll just move Taine round from number eight). 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, 7 Jun 2001 10:30:29 -0400 From: "Yudt.Matthew" Subject: RE: 76ers > Sorry fegs, but: YEAHHHHHHHHHHH! 76ers!!!! > > On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Dimple Burrows of Tuckborough wrote: > > seem to just meld together. Irish Joes talk about Bubbachuck as > one of their > > own, just as in 80 Tug McGraw was everyones homeboy. Its damn cool > actually. > > Its how things ought to be. > > yes I was a big fan of jon kruk ,len dykstra, > steve carlton, mike schimdt, larry bowa, jim kaat > Jim Kaat?? Yeah he was a good pitch, but I find it funny you lumped him in with these guys. How about Pete Rose, Greg Luzinski, Dutch Daulton etc.. Jim Kaat. LOL. > the early 90's phillies shouldve won it all!!!! > What a year. Damn Canadians. > may the spirit of dr.j be with the sixers during the next 10 > days!!!! > (all together now) "And also with you" > ------------------------------ > > Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 14:45:56 -0700 > From: Tom Clark > Subject: RE: Duffy Dyer calls for a slider > > On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Dimple Burrows of Tuckborough wrote: > > own, just as in 80 Tug McGraw was everyones homeboy. Its damn cool > actually. > I was 12 when the Phillies won it all in 1980. My Mom let me stay home from school the next day. When the school called to see why I was absent, my Mom replied "He has Phillies Fever". See, even Mom's go nuts over Philly sports championships > Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 09:53:02 +0100 > From: "matt sewell" > Subject: Re: GOOO LAKERS!!! > > Is all this about rounders or netball... or is it that version of > rugby > y'all play wearing suits of armour..? > > I just can't keep up with these sporty threads! > > Matt > > >From: Stephen Mahoney >shaq is nothing but power- he doesnt deserve > to be > mentioned amoung any of >the great centers............the guy cant > shoot > a free throw for >chrissake!!!!!he should just go into wrestling! > > > > And someday run for governor, too. Cheers, Matt "the good Matt who likes the 76ers" ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 08:24:01 -0700 From: "Natalie Jane" Subject: another book recommendation >Spenser is -so- out of fashion cause his narrative poetry >is so lacking in what moderns and pomos think poetry should be. Yet >its a >mythopoetic goldmine. I'm sure some of y'all (Messrs Dignan et Godwin?) have read the Harold Shea stories by Fletcher Pratt and L. Sprague de Camp. They're collected in a volume called "The Compleat Enchanter." The premise is that some college professors work out a way to project themselves into various fictional universes, including "The Faerie Queene." Harold Shea, the series hero, figures out (through comical trial and error) how magic works in each universe and gets hailed as an enchanter. The stories are very funny and well-researched, though a bit dated here and there... e.g. Shea teaches Britomart how to tone down her tomboy ways and be a proper submissive wife in order to better please her fiance. I read these stories to pieces when I was a kid. The Norse myth one is still my favorite. There's one scene where, in an attempt to curry favor with a troll turnkey, Shea magically shrinks his gigantic nose; I tried using the spell on a girl I hated at summer camp, but it didn't work. May the hair on your toes never fall out, - - Dimple Boffin _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 15:29:00 From: "marcus slade" Subject: Re: Sex Machine >Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 17:53:30 -0400 >From: "brian nupp" >Subject: Sex Machine > >1982 7" Jack Heard: Sex Machine > > >Sex Machine/Adventures in Breeding (US 7": DB Records, single DB 59) >Cover version of the James Brown classic by a David Gamble with keyboards >by >T. Dolby and bass by Matthew Seligman. Thanks to Paul Latham for this info. > >Anybody ever hear this? > >Nuppy I have this on a copy of a DB Records compilation called, I think, 'Squares Blot Out The Sun'. I knew Thomas Dolby was involved but didn't know that Matthew was on it. It's quite a strange rendition. I will have to dig it out and give it another listen in light of this new information. As a little aside. If any UK Fegs watch the repeat of BBC 2's 'I Love 1974', which should be on in a couple of weeks, they will hear the "feels like 1974" line from the Star For Bram version of this song used at intervals throughout the show. I watched this first time around and noticed it then. Marcus _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 17:37:05 +0200 From: "SIMPSON,HAMISH (A-Scotland,ex1)" Subject: Chris Yacich - the "Bananas" Guy! For those who are still awake http://www.hoosierhotshots.com/cy.html Also, "Bananas" appears on at least 4 CDs at CDNow. (H) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 11:57:31 -0400 From: "s.mary" Subject: Crimson Tool Gotta love that Fripp. Here's an entry from his diary concerning the upcoming tour with Tool: Two pairs of prescription shades have accompanied me from England. I shall be practising chewing gum in 4 while metalling in 11 and looking very moody all the while; all this in preparation for summer touring with Tool. Onstage, at the most unlikely moment, I shall smash whatever guitar I'm playing over the Space Module, kick over the spare, and mosh into the crowd from the front of the stage. At this point the chewing will move to five - two in the left cheek, three in the right, and possibly some gobbing over proximate audients who don't appreciate the skill involved in this. Should the crowd accept me, Crimson will continue the tour as a three piece and Fripp will never be seen playing in public again. Should the crowd throw me back onto the stage, I'll throw a signature hissy fit, readjust my shades, and refuse to play an encore. Cool or what? Mary np - The Frosted Ambassador (aka Olivia Tremor Control) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 11:09:18 -0500 From: Miles Goosens Subject: all sports, no Robyn Mattew Y. queried: >Jim Kaat?? Yeah he was a good pitch, but I find it funny you lumped >him in with these guys. How about Pete Rose, Greg Luzinski, Dutch >Daulton etc.. Jim Kaat. LOL. Kaat was nearing the end of his career during his late '70s Phillies days, and even though he was running on fumes at that point, he pitched better than his W/L record would indicate. But prior to that, he had a long (beginning in 1959 with the original Washington Senators) and distinguished career, good enough to make him a borderline Hall of Fame candidate. I'd say Kaat was as good as some pitchers who are in the Hall (Don Sutton) and some who aren't (Bert Blyleven). Certainly Kaat's career had way more value than "Bull" Luzinski's or Darren Daulton's. So wipe that "LOL" off your screen! :-) (If you won't take my word for Kaat being a very good player, feel free to go to the invaluable http://www.baseballreference.com and do a player search for "Kaat.") Glen Uber on Julius Erving: >For my money, Dr. J was the most exciting hoopster I've ever seen. Yes, even >more exciting than Michael (tm). Dr. J was the second- or third-best player I've ever seen (I started *understanding* pro sports in the mid-'70s, so Wilt, Bill Russell, Oscar were all before my time), with only Jordan surpassing and Bird as a peer. Bird and Magic have been enshrined as the Great Rivals of the '80s, and unfortunately their joint myth has started to overshadow Dr. J. But I remember very well when Bird and Magic came in the league in 1979, and though Magic got tons of (mostly deserved) accolades, the discussion of "Best Player Now" quickly became "Dr. J vs. Bird." There was even a video game of Dr. J vs Bird! The discussion, and video game, didn't become "Bird vs. Magic" until the good Dr.'s skill set visibly declined in the years after the Sixers grabbed their 1982-83 "Fo, fo, and fo" championship. (OK, it actually played out as "Fo, five, and fo" but Moses Malone's playoff prediction is still a classic.) Stephen Mahoney: >shaq is nothing but power- he doesnt deserve to be mentioned amoung any of >the great centers............the guy cant shoot a free throw for >chrissake!!!!!he should just go into wrestling! Wilt couldn't shoot free throws either. And if Shaq plays good defense (which he does when he's interested) and is dominant enough to overmatch his opponents and get high-percentage shots against even the most formidable opponents, that seems more than enough to qualify him as a great center. Why would Shaq need a finesse game? later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 09:55:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Stephen Mahoney Subject: THE GOLDEN AGE OF wireless... would like to hear sex machine... have been listening to the goldn age of wireless by dolby and noticed Seligman's name in the credits along with Andy Partridge listed as a harmonica player on europa and the pirate twins.........this album holds up amazingly well for being 19 years old! I remember dolby was on lene lovichs recordings prior to '82? I have heard statless but wonder what the others were like? mahoney On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, marcus slade wrote: > >Sex Machine/Adventures in Breeding (US 7": DB Records, single DB 59) > >Cover version of the James Brown classic by a David Gamble with keyboards > >by > >T. Dolby and bass by Matthew Seligman. Thanks to Paul Latham for this info. > > > >Anybody ever hear this? > > > >Nuppy ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 13:20:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: Porcupine Tree, what next? (NR) On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, steve wrote: > Proggie Fegs - > > I have Lightbulb Sun, which Porcupine Tree album should I get next? Any > other neo-prog groups worth considering? I haven't been favorably > impressed by the one Spock's Beard I've heard. I'd recommend The Sky Moves Sideways -- not because it sounds like Lightbulb Sun, which I haven't heard yet, but simply because it's my favorite PT album overall. My next choices would be the EP Voyage 34 and the album Stupid Dream, which contains "Piano Lessons," the first PT song I ever heard and still probably my favorite. - --Chris, who might just possibly be in NYC for the June 27 PT show ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 18:46:49 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: Chris Yacich - the "Bananas" Guy! On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, SIMPSON,HAMISH (A-Scotland,ex1) wrote: > For those who are still awake > http://www.hoosierhotshots.com/cy.html Thanks Hamish. After struggling to read these cuttings, it seems that: a) Chris Yacich wrote "I like bananas (because they have no bones)" b) He wrote 300 other songs. c) The only other song of note appears to be "I'd like to find the guy who named the Coast Guard". And according to http://www.jass.com/tom/next/food.html the "hit" version of ILB(BTHNB) was by Willie Bryant. CDnow ref: http://cdnow.com/cgi-bin/mserver/SID=1881955612/pagename=/RP/CDN/FIND/album.html /artistid=BRYANT*WILLIE/itemid=137948 - - Mike Godwin n.p. Kevin Ayers 'Bananamour'... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 13:59:36 -0400 From: "brian nupp" Subject: Re: THE GOLDEN AGE OF wireless... >would like to hear sex machine... Me too! I love the James Brown version. I picked up Bruce Woolley and the Camera Club a few weeks ago. Both Matthew Seligman and Thomas Dolby (and the drummer from Groovy Decay/coy ) are on it. It's a fantastic pop album. Matthew's bass lines work very well with the vocals. Hearing their version of Video Killed the Radio Star is strange. >have been listening to the goldn age of wireless >by dolby and noticed Seligman's name in the credits >along with Andy Partridge listed as a harmonica player on europa and the >pirate twins.........this album holds up amazingly well for being 19 years >old! Is this a good album? I have the Flat Earth, and it's not so great in my opinion. Nuppy _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 12:59:30 -0500 From: "JH3" Subject: Re: L'Age D'Or > I remember dolby was on lene lovichs recordings prior to '82? > I have heard statless but wonder what the others were like? About the same, really. Personally, I thought "Flex" was a better album... You might want to hold off on "No Man's Land," though, assuming you can even find it. I worked with a guy once who *insisted* that Lene Lovich had been his babysitter for a year while his parents were posted to London with the State Department. Supposedly this was the late 60's, Lene would have been in her late teens, and this guy would have been about 6 years old. I never really believed him, but he *did* know her real name was "Marlene," not just "Lene." John "always in need of a new toy, oh-ee-oh" Hedges ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 11:29:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Stephen Mahoney Subject: Re: THE GOLDEN AGE OF wireless... On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, brian nupp wrote: > > Is this a good album? I have the Flat Earth, and it's not so great in my > opinion. > > Nuppy the flat earth has some good tracks and I would love to hear it again but the golden age... is a pretty solid album beginning to end well mixed very catchy tunes good programming pretty good vocal work as well... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 13:32:59 -0500 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: THE GOLDEN AGE OF wireless... At 01:59 PM 6/7/2001 -0400, brian nupp wrote: >Is this a good album? I have the Flat Earth, and it's not so great in my >opinion. THE FLAT EARTH is more spacious and (at times) ambient and abstract; THE GOLDEN AGE OF WIRELESS is a lot more song-based. People either love or hate "She Blinded Me With Science" (which wasn't on the first version of GOLDEN AGE -- incidentally, I love it), but it's not representative of the rest of the album. "Windpower," "Europa and the Pirate Twins," "Airwaves" - -- gorgeous pop songs that just happen to have synthesizers. "One of Our Submarines" is more brooding, but has its propulsive sections and a refrain that can haunt you for days, and I rank it as the best song Dolby's ever penned. There's also a great vinyl EP that came out around the same time called BLINDED BY SCIENCE, which features much longer versions of all its songs. Rather than being dancey DJ remixes, these sound like the original, longer takes as Dolby intended them, but had to edit them down to fit the 45-min. limitation of vinyl (much as Talking Heads originally had to do with SPEAKING IN TONGUES -- the cassette mixes were the "true" mixes, and they're the ones on the current TONGUES CD). Anyway, "Windpower" and especially "One of Our Submarines" find their proper length here, and it's hard for me to listen to the m any other way. If you have a turntable and spot this in a store, you should pick it up. (Some of these mixes are on the 12x12 CD that came out a couple of years ago.) Post FLAT EARTH stuff is mostly very disappointing, so you needn't explore further, except maybe to buy RETROSPECTACLE so you can have "Budapest by Blimp" (the best post-1985 Dolby song) and "Leipzig," a marvellous gem dropped from the second version of THE FLAT EARTH to make way for "She Blinded Me With Science." Oh, and I like THE FLAT EARTH. In case anyone was wondering. later, Miles later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 16:05:32 -0400 From: "s.mary" Subject: Re: Porcupine Tree, what next? (NR) >Steve asked: >I have Lightbulb Sun, which Porcupine Tree album should I get next? >Any other neo-prog groups worth considering? I haven't been favorably >impressed by the one Spock's Beard I've heard. If you like the rock aspect of Lightbulb Sun you should definitely get Stupid Dream. If you're interested in hearing their more psychedelic/spacy music, then get some of the earlier releases (as suggested by Chris) like The Sky Moves Sideways and Voyage 34. Since moving to New York I've lost my inside proggie connection so I'm not quite up on new prog releases. Anyway, here are some suggestions. Flower Kings are popular although I don't have any of their stuff. I believe they have a Genesis-type sound. Any proggies out there please correct me if I'm wrong. Anekdoten have a heavy duty King Crimson-type sound. Echolyn have a Gentle Giant/Genesis-type sound. Instrumental groups that I like: Godspeed You Black Emperor - mentioned here on the list many times. Intense and mesmerizing. Djam Karat - spacy fusion/rock - all excellent musicians. Ozric Tentacles - psychedelic spacy rock. These boys are definitely on drugs. Of course there are the older neo-prog bands - bands like Marillion w/Fish and IQ. Here are some links that have lots of prog info: http://www.progressiveworld.net/main.html http://www.progrock.net/ Chris "Squidtronic" Gross stated: >who might just possibly be in NYC for the June 27 PT show Chris, you may want to reserve a ticket by email. They'll hold a ticket for you and you can pay for it that evening. http://www.bottomlinecabaret.com/reservations_index.html Also, here's their current tour info: Porcupine Tree Tour 2001 JUNE Sat 23 - NEARfest 2001, Bethlehem, Philadelphia, USA Mon 25 - Theatre of the Living Arts, Philadelphia, USA Tue 26 - The Middle East, Boston, USA Wed 27 - Bottom Line, New York, NY, USA JULY 13 - De Kade, Zaandam, The Netherlands 14 - Bospop, Weert, The Netherlands 20 - Burg Herzberg Festival, Herzberg, Germany AUGUST 18 - Canterbury Festival, Canterbury, UK S.Mary np - Lush "Gala" ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 18:07:14 -0400 From: "ross taylor" Subject: odds n ends, odds n ends, lost time is not found again the star system-- The thing is it seems to me there are really quite a lot of really good actors/tresses all over the country. I think the thing about stars is that it's fun to see someone play a lot of different roles, it tells us something about how we make up personalities. But It's also great to see new faces, different types, different nationalities etc. That's a great thing about live theater, if you're in a new town & scout the papers or web some, you can usually find a very interesting production. DC has some really great actors, sometimes people who just do an occasional show, but put their all into it. something new-- Well, it has been kind of a while. Six or seven years ago there was so much new it was giving me headaches, what w/ computers coming into the lives of us non-techies. I learned that I could type "rm * -r" at the wrong time and it could be very exciting. My daughter and I were making funny cartoons using Gif Construction Set, CD-ROMs like Starship Titanic, or hypertext fictions seemed maybe not quite there but almost there for something really great and new--our Borders was stocking "It's Name was Penelope" and other Eastgate hypertext titles. Now, hypertext and Starship Titanic (my kid just asked to get it back out) & such stuff is treated like it's *so 1996.* I'm impatient for another big jump in that direction. Party at the End of the Universe-- Vogon Poetry Slam! Damn! I'm going to be in North Carolina. Damn! Brit-O-Mart -- UK fashions for cheap? Very faint memory of Spenser, he was crammed into a course on epics along w/ Orlando Furioso, the Aeneid, the Idiots & the Oddity. All I remember is Homer & Virgil. Ross Taylor Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 00:19:22 +0100 From: "Rob" Subject: Book recommendation Not long back from hols. Took 'Glue', the new Irvine Welsh with me. Very much in the vein of Trainspotting (no pun intended), to the extent of having brief cameos by most of the main Trainspotting characters. It follows the lives of a group of schemies from childhood to early 30s. It's a good read and I enjoyed it, tho I do enjoy most of his stuff. Rob PS Just back from seeing the Offspring at a 'secret' warm-up gig in a tiny club in Leeds, won free tickets - which was nice. Much, much better than the Tindersticks who I saw on Tuesday - the highlight of that gig was seeing the Mull Historical Society for the second time. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 17:10:42 -0700 From: "victorian squid" Subject: Voluntary Blackout June 21 (100 percent political/environment) Forwarded from another mailing list. Thought some here might want to participate in this/spread the word. I think it's a cool idea. VOLUNTARY BLACKOUT THE FIRST DAY OF SUMMER June 21, 2001 THURSDAY EVE, 7 - 10 p.m. WORLDWIDE, ALL TIME ZONES In protest of George W. Bush's energy policies and lack of emphasis on efficiency, conservation and alternative fuels, there will be a voluntary rolling blackout on the first day of Summer, June 21 at 7 p.m. - 10 p.m. in any time zone (this will roll it across the planet). It's a simple protest and a symbolic act.Turn out your lights from 7 p.m. until 10 p.m. (your local time) on June 21. Unplug whatever you can unplug in your house. Light a candle for the Sun, kiss, tell stories, get creative!! and just have fun in the dark. Forward this email as widely as possible, to your government representatives and environmental contacts. Let them know we want global education, participation and funding in conservation, efficiency and alternative energy efforts -- and an end to over exploitation and misuse of the Earth's resources. For the planet Michael Shank Membership Coordinator Pacific Crest Biodiversity Project web: www.pcbp.org Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 17:22:28 -0700 From: "victorian squid" Subject: Re: another book recommendation On Thu, 07 Jun 2001 08:24:01 Natalie Jane wrote: >volume called "The Compleat Enchanter." The premise is that some college >professors work out a way to project themselves into various fictional >universes, including "The Faerie Queene." In a similar, slightly less fantastical (but only slightly), have you ever read the Woody Allen story "The Kugelmass Episode"? A magician called "The Great Persky" tells a humanities professor who wants to have an affair that he can project him into any novel in the world and Kugelmass chooses to have an affair with Emma Bovary. I think the funniest thing about this may be that it goes one step further than projecting himself into the fictional universe. He ends up in the book itself and really freaks out professors and people who are reading it. loveonya, susan Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 21:03:42 -0400 From: "Sean Palmerston" Subject: Re: Porcupine Tree, what next? (NR) - ----- Original Message ----- From: steve > Proggie Fegs - > > I have Lightbulb Sun, which Porcupine Tree album should I get next? Any > other neo-prog groups worth considering? I haven't been favorably > impressed by the one Spock's Beard I've heard. I would definitely suggest getting PT's Signify and (especially) Stupid Dream. LS was a disappointment for me after the two preceeding it. Another band I would like to recommend is the Canadian band Sianspheric. Their first record "Somnium" is hailed as a masterpiece by a lot of fans of PT. I must admit, that mentioning it is a bit of self-promo on my behalf as they record for the label I work at, but that record especially is highly recommendable. You might want to check out the band ARK as well. Very good modern prog rock. Sean Palmerston ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 22:32:15 -0700 From: Motherfucking Asshole Subject: Re: Song Question Autumn Sea! i've only requested it about a jillion times. i asked morris the other month, and he did confirm that the egyptians had never played it live. the only other song from an egyptians album that springs to mind is Luminous Rose (though a quick check reveals that it *was* played at least once). another favourite of mine that has never been performed live is As Lemons Chop. i asked requested it for the next night's show when he was loitering at the back of the croc during the every bros. tribute. i don't remember the exact wording, but his response amounted to, "i know the one you mean, but i don't remember how to play it." i would guess some songs from YOU AND OBLIVION and INVISIBLE HITCHCOCK (if you count those as "albums") have not been played live. Dr. Sticky and Night Ride To Trinidad both *have* been played live. seems it would be fairly simple for hedges to quickly return a compleat list by running a query against the access file. some pretty interesting articles (to me, anyways) concerning radio in this week's stranger. . and what's this i hear about beck having joined up with the scientologists? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 01:48:26 -0500 From: steve Subject: Bat Boy Falls Head Over Heels In Love (NR) http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/batboy/batboy.cfm?instanceid=12069 - - Steve __________ The president believes that it's an American way of life, and that it should be the goal of policymakers to protect the American way of life, the American way of life is a blessed one. - Ari Fleischer, when asked if Americans should use less energy ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 23:03:35 -0500 From: JH3 Subject: Play Misty for me! Speaking of George W. Bush's energy policies, here's a web site that describes the President's favorite musical instrument! It's even MIDI-compatible! http://www.lhpo.org Apparently this is not a hoax, folks... I guess this means not all music is "environmentally friendly." John "Gas Huffer" Hedges From: "victorian squid" : > In protest of George W. Bush's energy policies and lack of emphasis on efficiency, conservation and alternative fuels, there will be a voluntary rolling blackout on the > first day of Summer, June 21... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 01:02:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Bat Boy Falls Head Over Heels In Love (NR) steve wrote: > http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/batboy/batboy.cfm?instanceid=12069 maybe he'll improve the family gene pool ===== "Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul." Mark Twain "For every fatal shooting, there were roughly three non-fatal shootings. And, folks, this is unacceptable in America. It's just unacceptable. And we're going to do something about it." George W. Bush, May 14, 2001 Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V10 #231 ********************************