From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V10 #262 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, July 3 2001 Volume 10 : Number 262 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Are you Sartre Experienced? ["Eugene Hopstetter, Jr." ] Re: encores -- puzzling out their existence [The Great Quail ] Re: RIP ["Mike wells" ] Re: RIP [Michael R Godwin ] Re: Nuggets II [Michael R Godwin ] procrastination is fun [gnat@shaft.bitmine.net] Re: procrastination is fun [John Barrington Jones ] forgive me if you guys have already seen this... [lj lindhurst ] After Air ["brian nupp" ] Re: forgive me if you guys have already seen this... ["brian nupp" ] my heart's in the highlands ["mister inconsistency" ] Badgering through the Miasma ["Tigger Lily" ] Re: BIG PEOPLE!!! [the other white meat ] Re: Are you Sartre Experienced? and other stories [Eb ] Re: forgive me if you guys have already seen this... [Ken Weingold ] Re: Badgering through the Miasma [steve ] new syd barrett book (fwd) [bayard ] Re: Basses and Encores [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] Re: Badgering through the Miasma [Glen Uber ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 08:21:07 -0700 (PDT) From: "Eugene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: Are you Sartre Experienced? I recently rediscovered a real gem in my collection, "Love Songs" by the Jean-Paul Sartre Experience. It then occurred to me that I have no idea what happened to this band since "The Size of Food." Anybody have any info/news on these guys? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2001 11:33:30 -0400 From: "brian nupp" Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V10 #259 Other notable memory from this tour: Robyn does the intro to Madonna Of the Wasps thru a phone! Very cool. Nuppy >>Nuppy, "brian nupp" writes: > > I was listening to a CDR of Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians from June >14 > 1989 (FM broadcast) I recently aquired... and they played Veins of the > Queen. During this song there is a trumpet just like the one the on the > album. Now when I saw them on this tour, just 10 days later in >Cleveland, > Poi Dog Pondering was playing with them and the trumpet player from PDP >came > out and played on this song. I have a recording from Detroit days later > where "Dave" from PDP also plays on this song, but it sounds completely > different. So I'm wondering if this is Dave from PDP on the 6.14.89 (or > 14.6.89 depending where you live) or not. > I remember Andy M. playing bits of a keyboard at the Cleveland show, so > maybe he's stopped playing the bass to play the trumpet part, but it >really > sounds like a real trumpet on this disc. Did PDP tour with RHE the >entire US > Queen Elvis tour? > > Nuppy > >Dunno the whole story. I saw them both at Club Casino at Hampton >Beach in New Hampshire and the trumpet player from PDP played the >trumpet solo there too. He looked really nervous and in awe of >playing with RH or something. > >Other notable memories from that show: Robyn and the band swapped >instruments for an encore of Higsons. He did a great intro involving >something crawling in from the beach (the venue is on the beach strip) >for Tropical Flesh Mandala. > > >jv <- do you see your cerebellum as a lightbulb or a cog? _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 11:57:03 -0700 From: The Great Quail Subject: Re: encores -- puzzling out their existence Jill, >With a group of classical musicians, they've already played their >denoument. So when did the "encore" become an expected feature of a >perfomance? And what perpetuates it.? It can't just be because >people want to change their shirts. Actually, it did of course start (or at least solidified) with classical musicians. back in Ye Olden Times when there was no recording technology, and many pieces were written with a limited amount of performances in mind, an "encore" was when audience demand brought the musicians back out to play the piece again. So it originally meant "again," as opposed to just a few more things tacked on at the end of a show. Of course, they didn't always play the whole piece again, perhaps just a movement or so. This is very, very rarely done at modern concerts, though I have seen it once or twice -- I recall a violin soloist who came out after her blazing performance of Shostakovich's violin concerto and replayed the cadenza. It was pretty cool. - --Quail ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 10:59:09 -0500 (CDT) From: GSS Subject: RIP I might have missed it but I saw no mention on the list so I thought I'd let the group know that Chet Atkins has died. He was the guitar player's guitar player. If anyone deserves to be crowned king, it is him. He was the best. gSs ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 11:39:23 -0500 From: "Mike wells" Subject: Re: RIP > I might have missed it but I saw no mention on the list so I thought I'd > let the group know that Chet Atkins has died. He was the guitar player's > guitar player. If anyone deserves to be crowned king, it is him. He was > the best. > > gSs Agreed. Les Paul aside, it's hard for me to think of someone who's influence is so widespread and important to so many different styles of players. I remember when I was learning to fingerpick, thinking I was getting decent and I'd hear one of his pieces and get woodshedded. He had such an amazing tone, and it always seemed to be perfect for whatever song he was playing. RIP. On the non-musical end saw that Mortimer Adler passed this week as well. Now go read a Great Book. Michael whose ASCII review of the new Jeff Beck CD would be :-/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 17:41:58 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: RIP On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, GSS wrote: > I might have missed it but I saw no mention on the list so I thought I'd > let the group know that Chet Atkins has died. He was the guitar player's > guitar player. If anyone deserves to be crowned king, it is him. He was > the best. Seconded. I just love those 'Chester and Lester' duets with Les Paul. Chet played near here a couple of years ago but I couldn't raise the necessary twenty-something quid. Too late now ... - - Mike Godwin ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 17:50:02 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: Nuggets II Ross I was surprised to see that you printed out all that stuff about Niggets II. I'd be interested if you would let me know off-list what you disagreed with. Family were an absolutely sparkling outfit when they hit London with their prog-psychedelic act. I understand that they had been a soul band called the Farinas in Leicester who just wrote all this amazing new material and got a record deal. The first 2 albums (Music in a Doll's House and Family Entertainment) are excellent, but when Jim King (sax, harmonica and flute) left, they lost some of their unique tonal quality. - - Mike Godwin ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 10:59:09 -0700 (PDT) From: gnat@shaft.bitmine.net Subject: procrastination is fun >Anyway, this new Pernice Brothers CD certainly does sound like a >keeper. The vocals are a little more breathy than I usually go for, >and it would be nice if they threw at least one rave-up just for a >change of pace, but the hooks are definitely there. Hey, I agree with John! Lookee here! First Miles, and then John! Surely the apocalypse is nigh! Steve, thank you for the kung fu info; unfortunately, 'tis true that I do not have a television. I have a VCR, but no television. Go figure. Re. encores and the lack thereof, the only band I can think of offhand that doesn't do them is the Olivia Tremor Control. I'm so used to encores that I got a vaguely dissatisfied feeling when they didn't play one - you know, "Is that IT??" even though they'd played for a perfectly respectable length of time. It's basically a sort of dumb convention. We all clap for the encore, even though we know the band's going to come back out no matter what we do (unless we're throwing bottles or something) - originally, perhaps, clapping for an encore was necessary, but now it's just ritual. Speaking of OTC, last week Viv and I tremblingly beheld a pair of sneakers that used to belong to OTC bassist John Fernandes - you know, the guy that the girls really go for, according to Eddie. I even touched one! He had mysteriously written "EEEEEAR" along the side. In other pointless news, a guy at Powell's Books complimented me on my Soft Boys T-shirt but said he didn't go to the show because he was dubious about the reconciliation between Robyn and Kimberley (an odd reason not to go...). He said he wished Robyn would write a volume of short stories and, with a skeptical mien, I told him about Robyn's supposed novel. I also had the pleasure of speaking to LJ and Chris Gross this weekend. They are super duper cool folks. Unfortunately the Quail was off getting some Dapper Dan Hmuh Pomade, otherwise I would have spoken to him as well. n. p.s. I have a new kitten. She is brown and furry. She hides a lot, in hard-to-reach places, so I thought of naming her after the Hindu goddess Durga ("the Inaccessible"). Other suggestions are also welcome. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 11:34:09 -0700 (PDT) From: John Barrington Jones Subject: Re: procrastination is fun On July 2, 2001 Miss Gnat wrote: > go...). He said he wished Robyn would write a volume of short stories > and, with a skeptical mien, I told him about Robyn's supposed novel. If and when this novel comes out, I hope that he'll narrate it onto tape or cd. Now _that_ would be freakin' awesome! =jbj= ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 14:47:41 -0400 From: lj lindhurst Subject: forgive me if you guys have already seen this... http://www.triumphpc.com/john-lennon/index.shtml - -- ******************************** LJ Lindhurst White Rabbit Graphic Design http://www.w-rabbit.com NYC ljl@w-rabbit.com ******************************** Adieu, adieu, to you and you and you. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2001 15:09:58 -0400 From: "brian nupp" Subject: Air Cats As planned I went and saw Air Saturday night in Chicago. Excellent show. Actually without the lights in perfect MIDI sync with the music, the show wouldn't have been half a good. How did Ken describe it? Pink Floyd and ?? Well, that's very true. One thing that surprised me was the fact that their drummer was truly incredible. I expected it to be all drum machine, but it was only part machine/mostly human. Great harmonies on some of the songs. Lots of Moon Safari stuff. No Kelly Watch the Stars, but we did get a tripped out Sexy Boy 2nd encore. I decided to relax and not record the show. I hadn't heard their new album, but the new live stuff represented well, so yesterday I went out and bought it (SUCKER!). I don't like it. It's not nearly as easy to listen to as Moon Safari. And parts of it are actually really hard for me to listen to. It sounded better live. I saw that Eb was gonna reveiw this, I'll have to check back and see what he thought. Anyway I recommend seeing them live if you get the chance, but not the new album. NAT:p.s. I have a new kitten. She is brown and furry. She hides a >lot, in >hard-to-reach places, so I thought of naming her after the Hindu >goddess >Durga ("the Inaccessible"). Other suggestions are also welcome. I love new kittens, congrats! I'm bad with names, sorry. I did name one of my cats Nico (from Nico and the VU), and the other one Otto (from Repo Man). Nuppy _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2001 15:28:49 -0400 From: "brian nupp" Subject: After Air I forgot to mention the highlight of the night after the Air show. We escaped the crowds, walked down the street and found ourselves in some barnlike bar with a guy doing Neil Diamond impersonations to a college crowd. The guy sounded dead on to the real Neil, but he looked like a cross between Neil Diamond, Johnny Cash, and Columbo. It was hilarious! Even funnier were the two drunken suck faces devouring and groping each other at the end of the bar. I mean this girl had her hands down this guys pants in plain view. And there was way too much tongue outside the lip area. The crowds' attention was divided between 'Neil' and the couple. I guess the bartender didn't think it was too funny as she kept tossing ice on them. Nuppy _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2001 15:39:21 -0400 From: "brian nupp" Subject: Re: forgive me if you guys have already seen this... >http://www.triumphpc.com/john-lennon/index.shtml Creepy. Very Creepy. I wonder what Yoko Ono thinks about it. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 14:46:26 -0500 From: "JH3" Subject: Re: After Air > ...Even > funnier were the two drunken suck faces devouring and groping each other at > the end of the bar. I mean this girl had her hands down this guys pants in > plain view. And there was way too much tongue outside the lip area. The > crowds' attention was divided between 'Neil' and the couple. I guess the > bartender didn't think it was too funny as she kept tossing ice on them. Well, *I* didn't think it was too funny either - some of that ice got down into my trousers, dammit! And the timing couldn't have been worse! John "Sex Mo-sheen" Hedges ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2001 15:48:58 -0400 From: "mister inconsistency" Subject: my heart's in the highlands Some of us who are wishing we could see Robyn at the Edinborough festival can also wish we could see the following: ============================================ "The 'Gonzo Dog Do Bar Band', a tribute band to the Bonzos, will be performing at the Edinburgh Festival this year! We performed for one night at last year's festival and went down a storm so this year we are doing a few dates. The dates and venues are: Gilded Balloon Theatre: 13-19 August @ 1.00am Pleasance Dome: 21-27 August @ 1.15am We do a range of Bonzo songs (listed below), wear costumes and basically do a fun, silly show very much in the spirit of the band. We are mostly comedians who are doing this out of love for the Bonzos and we will be featuring as many guest comedians and celebs as we can lay our hands on (hopefully ones who play instruments... it does help!) Anyway, the songs we'll most likely be doing are: Ali Baba's Camel I'm The Urban Spaceman Monster Mash Humanoid Boogie My Pink Half of the Drainpipe Hunting Tigers out in 'INDIAH' We Were Wrong/Shirt medley Mr Apollo Canyons of Your Mind Tent The Bride Stripped Bare by 'Bachelors' Mr Slater's Parrot Sport (The Odd Boy) The Intro and the Outro Mickey's Son and Daughter Big Shot I'm Bored We Are Normal Trouser Press Terry Keeps His Clips On (Viv Stanshall song) Anyway, those are the most likely ones so if anyone fancies hearing them played by a ramshackle, hearty group of chaps at 1 in the morning in Scotland then we'd love to see you! cheers Dan Mersh ============================================ Also, I've heard rumors that the Liverpool Airport is to be re-named the John Lennon Airport. Does anyone know if they will have a sign saying "Above us only sky." ? So it will be possible to fly from Ronald Reagon to John Lennon? ============================================ L'Art-- One of the great things about D.C. art galleries is that many of the big ones are totally *free.* You may have to check your backpack. In the 80s when I lived next to the Phillips, you didn't even have to do that. I was in a small 1-room apt., so I used the Phillips as my living room, reading & writing on their couches, getting intimate with Bonnard, Klee, Philip Guston, Augustus Tack ... then someone walked out with a statue and everything changed, including a "mandatory donation." Nowadays other suburbanites look at me funny whenever I say we went in to the galleries & they find out there wasn't any particular show (well, they look at me funny a lot anyway). I still think it's great to go see paintings you know over & over again. I like the Turners & Constables. Turner's "Amsterdam Ferry" (a bunch of city folk in a small boat on rough water alongside huge warships) makes me think of a whole bunch of spacefaring sci-fi. IMO Turner is one of those people whose colors don't reproduce well. Robyn, on the other hand reproduces perhaps better than the original, according to him. I still like the original UM cover painting best, but it's very 60s-70s, & the sculptures look very 90s. Ross Taylor _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2001 19:58:16 -0000 From: "Tigger Lily" Subject: Badgering through the Miasma Thank you all for clearing up the Mystery of the Lost Bridge to Badge. Uber: >We later shortened the >name to Badge after deciding that the original name made us sound >like a >proggy band. Not that there's anything wrong with that... Not that theres anything wrong with that! Mr Uber--remember where you are. Fegdom is deep proggy country. Youre name has now been recorded on a little list, a little list which may cast a long, long shadow over your ever-shortening life... - ------------------- In a tetchy mood where everything seems abit drab, and my cerebellum more cog than lighbulb --- nevertheless I will cough some dry dust into the miasma of this wretched existance. Golden age sorta movie stars are the ones who never really shat, or rather, the ones you could never really imagine doing so. Therefore impossible to clone since not made from flesh but instead an always cool-to-the-touch plasticine, the formula for which was lost by Howard Hughs in the plane crash of the SuperGoose . Peck, Hepburn, Hope and even LaLa Taylor(thou one feels somehow shes one of those people who spends -too- long on the toilet) qualify for this. Brando, Newman, Klugman, Stanton dont. It dosnt just depend on age but more on the slightly-undefinable Plastacine effect. IMNHO - --------------- We need a new thread, something messy, fascinating and fecund. I cant come up with it, so please, pretty please, someone .... Cogging along Kay _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2001 16:13:04 -0400 From: the other white meat Subject: Re: BIG PEOPLE!!! when we last left our heroes, Eb exclaimed: >I'm not interesting in taping, >however. Sorry. I pity anyone who has to spend an entire concert planted in >one spot while being frantically careful not to jostle, speak, cough, >cheer, turn.... taping doesn't tax enjoyment as much as you might think. as long as your standards are not unreasonably high (which, alas, is the case for many tapers), you can get a perfectly listenable recording while still enjoying a show. of course, my objective is to get a document of the performance, not a professionally-mixed, 32 channel live album. i do applaud, make comments to neighbors, move around, etc. i just do it between songs. woj ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 14:19:18 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Are you Sartre Experienced? and other stories Gene: >I recently rediscovered a real gem in my collection, "Love Songs" by the >Jean-Paul Sartre >Experience. It then occurred to me that I have no idea what happened to >this band since "The Size >of Food." Anybody have any info/news on these guys? Well, they released Bleeding Star on Matador in 1993, and broke up not long afterwards. I saw them play as part as the "Noisyland" tour package around that time, with the Bats and Straitjacket Fits. Actually, in retrospect, it seems like this was sort of the last gasp for the Flying Nun scene, in terms of having a "trendy hipster buzz." It's more like a retro cult, nowadays. :( I have the three JPSE albums, plus two EPs. A pleasant enough band, but I like several other Flying Nun acts more. Since the JPS Experience died, I believe one of the members released an album as part of a new band called Superette? That's what I recall, anyway. I remember hearing the album, but not enjoying it much. Speaking of Flying Nun, the new Clean reunion album is really crummy. Damn. Kay: >LaLa Taylor(thou one feels somehow shes one of >those people who spends -too- long on the toilet) Oh, THANK you for that mental image. ;) Regarding Air: I added a 10,000 Hz Legend review to my Now Playing page, yesterday. I don't like the album as well as Moon Safari, but I might like it better than The Virgin Suicides. The repetition of Virgin Suicides gets to me...the way certain melodies necessarily repeat from track to track, because it's a film score rather than a proper album. A friend kept warning me that I was going to hate 10,000 Hz Legend, but I wasn't majorly disappointed. Then again, I was never an enormous Air fan in the first place. I'm still a bit cynical about that band -- it seems to me like there's dozens of all-synth albums from the '70s which have a similar appeal, yet *those* albums are dismissed as pure cheese, while somehow Air albums are regarded as modern masterpieces. Just a matter of timing and marketing, I guess. Perhaps this is where Terrence jumps in with some more raves about Tomita. ;) Eb, still pondering whether to shell out for the Chills box ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 15:11:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Swedene Subject: Re: forgive me if you guys have already seen this... I also saw on the news tonight that they are going to rename the Liverpool airport the: Liverpool John Lennon Airport. Complete with bronze statue of Mr. Winston O'Boogie himself. Yoko got a mini statue of it as well. What next? John Lennon underoos? Herbie ^-- who JUST got a cable modem :) - --- lj lindhurst wrote: > http://www.triumphpc.com/john-lennon/index.shtml > > -- > ******************************** > LJ Lindhurst > White Rabbit Graphic Design > http://www.w-rabbit.com > NYC ljl@w-rabbit.com > ******************************** > Adieu, adieu, to you and you and you. Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2001 18:13:07 -0400 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: 10 Dead Men. >PS re extant film stars: Robert Shaw died in 1978 (just looked it up). >Mention of Jack Klugman leads me to ask how many of the 12 angry men are >still amongst us? And are they still angry? Jack Warden and John Fiedler are alive and kickin. Max _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 18:23:50 -0400 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: forgive me if you guys have already seen this... On Mon, Jul 2, 2001, Mike Swedene wrote: > What next? > John Lennon underoos? Hey, at least you couldn't say he wasn't fun to wear! > Herbie > ^-- who JUST got a cable modem :) Don't rub it in. Still waiting for my DSL at home. My router is going through an external 56k modem. Woohoo! - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 20:38:02 -0500 From: steve Subject: Re: procrastination is fun On Monday, July 2, 2001, at 12:59 PM, gnat@shaft.bitmine.net wrote: > Steve, thank you for the kung fu info; unfortunately, 'tis true that I do > not have a television. I have a VCR, but no television. Go figure. There might well be a theatre in your town that shows HK films. Back in the good old days the Granada in Dallas showed double features on the weekend. But they turned it into one of those dinner and a movie places. But strange as it might seem, Dallas is getting a brand new 8 screen art house theatre. They will also show "quality" Hollywood films on a couple of screens. > p.s. I have a new kitten. She is brown and furry. She hides a lot, in > hard-to-reach places, so I thought of naming her after the Hindu goddess > Durga ("the Inaccessible"). Other suggestions are also welcome. Sounds good. My wife claims that the cats tell her their names. On the other hand, I name them after people. That's why we have Usul, Thufir, and Gurney. And Andy. Off to see A.I. tonight, so we can see Cats & Dogs on Friday - Steve __________ "It's not that the court loves the states," Yale University law professor Akhil Amar says in assessing the conservatives' moves against federal authority. "It's that the justices hate Congress and love themselves even more. To them, the court really is supreme." - Joan Biskupic, USA Today ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 20:56:59 -0500 From: steve Subject: Re: Badgering through the Miasma On Monday, July 2, 2001, at 02:58 PM, Tigger Lily wrote: > In a tetchy mood where everything seems abit drab, and my cerebellum > more cog than lighbulb --- nevertheless I will cough some dry dust into > the miasma of this wretched existance. Miasma - that's the word used by the translator of Miyazaki's epic manga "Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind" for the poisonous atmosphere generated by the giant fungi of the Toxic Forest, also known as the Sea Of Corruption. http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/manga/nausicaa.html - - Steve __________ INTERNAL INDUSTRY documents obtained by Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., suggest that in the mid-1990s oil companies had little interest in building new refineries because of low profit margins and, in fact, were discussing the need to curtail refinery output to boost profits. - MSNBC ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 20:20:58 -0700 (PDT) From: bayard Subject: new syd barrett book (fwd) from my friend the barrett expert... (eBay prices... without all that bidding!) - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Here's something that everyone you know who is into Pink Floyd will want to know... The guy who founded the band (roger "syd" barrett) has finally come out of hiding (where he's been since 1974!!) and signed some pages for a new book to be published later this year. The books will each sell for "several hundred dollars". The photos are by legendary rock photographer Mick Rock. (Who is actually primarily known for his David Bowie "glam period" photos.) I should probably add that his Bowie book is currently available - also for several hundred dollars. If you have the money available, this is something you will not wish to miss. Shine On, Scott From: mickrock@mindspring.com Sender: mickrock@mindspring.com To: Eskimospy@aol.com >From http://www.genesis-publications.com/news/schedule.html SYD BARRETT Our new project on Syd Barrett featuring the superb photographs of Mick Rock has now begun. Layouts are now in preparation and Syd has already signed the sheets for 300 deluxe copies. This limited edition will be published in Autumn 2001. To register your interest please email tessa@genesis-publications.com. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 15:17:44 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: Basses and Encores >On 30/06/2001, at 23:43, grutness@surf4nix.com wrote: >>And (being a NZer ;) I'd like to add Nigel Griggs' name, too. > >Good old Nigel may have been in Split Enz, but he was a Brit! Comes from >Hatfield in Hertfordshire, I believe. > >Let's hear it for Hatfield! It's the only place more rock 'n' roll than >Welwyn Garden City. in that case, double ;)), as - although I am an NZer, I was born in Barnet, just down the road from Hatfield! 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: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 21:08:02 -0700 From: Glen Uber Subject: Re: Badgering through the Miasma Kay hat geschrieben: > Uber: >>We later shortened the >>name to Badge after deciding that the original name made us sound >like a >>proggy band. Not that there's anything wrong with that... > > Not that theres anything wrong with that! Mr Uber--remember where you are. > Fegdom is deep proggy country. Youre name has now been recorded on a little > list, a little list which may cast a long, long shadow over your > ever-shortening life... Don't forget, I'm one of the more vocal proggies on the list. It was because of King Crimson and Gentle Giant and the United States of America and ELP and Genesis and countless others that I realized there was more to music than what I had been hearing on the radio the first 19 years of my life. That revelation eventually led to my obsession with trying to play guitar like Adrian Belew and my tendencies to behave like a pretentious art school reject. I failed miserably on both counts. What I meant in my original post is that we, as a band, were afraid we would start attracting crowds that were expecting one thing who would than be disappointed when we turned out to be quite the opposite. We needn't have worried. We played only one paying gig before the drummer decided to sell his gear and join the Marines and the guitarist left for college. Somebody mentioned "Pressed Rat and Wart Hog" and I gotta say, I love that freakin' song! I just love the imagry of the lyrics. I especially love the line about "atonal apples and amplified heat." Cheers! - -g- ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V10 #262 ********************************