From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V10 #310 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, August 21 2001 Volume 10 : Number 310 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Soft Boys 92 Video ["Ultimate Goal" ] more feg reading? ["ross taylor" ] Re: Feelm [Aaron Mandel ] "I stink and you're pleased to see me" ["Rue'd Beccia" ] Dark Globe? [Mike Swedene ] Music suggestions: The Hague and Manchester [Jay Lyall ] cover boy ["jbranscombe@compuserve.com" ] Re: cover boy ["lucifersam" ] macca tribute [strange little woj ] David Gray (no Robyn) ["Sweet & Tender Hooligan" ] Re: David Gray (no Robyn) [Eleanore Adams ] Re: Dark Globe? ["lucifersam" ] Fish a wah-wah ["Rue'd Beccia" ] Re: Music suggestions: The Hague and Manchester [Michael R Godwin ] Re: fegdream [Tom Clark ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 12:58:36 -0400 From: "Ultimate Goal" Subject: Soft Boys 92 Video I wasn't aware this show was videoed. http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1457139336 Does anyone have a copy? Email me privately for my new CDR list. Thanks! Nuppy _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 14:34:48 -0400 From: "ross taylor" Subject: more feg reading? I should perhaps clarify that my last post was Robyn's intro monologue in the Storefront Hitchcock video. I'll try to post more. - ----- I'm now reading _Songs Without Rhyme: prose by celebrated songwriters_, a book of new stories edited by Rosanne Cash. Most interesting so far is a 19 page genetic modification sci-fi story by David Byrne. The format of the book is for the songwriters to take a line or something from some song they've written & write a story about it. Byrne took "A Self Made Man" from his 1994 album & wrote the story "A Self Made Man"--which is very amusing. It's not quite as hard sci-fi as Bruce Sterling, but fairly close. Seems like he's read lots of Sterling. There are brilliant touches IMO, but on 1st read it seems to end rather abruptly. Fortunately it's worth reading again. There's also a sci-fi (!) story by the editor's dad, Johnny Cash (actually written in 1953, when he was being radio Intercept operator w/ the Air Force in Germany). Other contributors: Rosanne Cash, Marc Cohn, Paula Cole, Shawn Colvin, Rodney Crowell, Joe Henry, Steven Page, Jules Shear, Jane Siberry, John Stewart, Suzanne Vega, Loudon Wainwright III. It's on Amazon. I also picked up a used copy of "Outlaw Fiction," which puts back to back a story by Paul Bowles & a longish story by Robin Williamson of the Incredible String Band. Ross Taylor Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 16:25:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: Feelm On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Eb wrote: > I'm sure I missed some of the parallels, beyond obvious stuff like the > sirens, blind prophet and giant cyclops.... the Coens said in an interview there was really very little of the Odyssey in there. i think those three things might be about the end of it. oh, and the part about returning from a long absence to get your wife back from a slick but heartless suitor. i hear they had to agree to realize their upcoming B&W movie in color for the rental market, or something like that. is the thinking that people just don't like black & white, or that it'll actually confuse people into believing it's a re-release of an old movie? a ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 20:54:35 +0000 From: "Rue'd Beccia" Subject: "I stink and you're pleased to see me" TC >Thanks for ending this horrific week with a supreme downer. Max >Actually I find this to be comedy, first that someone would make it and >second that people are bidding on it! People are so tacky that it's a > >riot. This is high tack ; it went for $1,500. Id like to think the sweet little Bambi whose carcass is so crassly displayed has since metamorphasized/reincarnated into some nobler creature who is now beniengly laughing at us foolish mortals with our upside down values. That and how sad the space must be where people think its cool to show-off a corpse. - ------- Nat, Actually, youre party hat is still showing , see - - . More importantly, I can cause either eye to wander >out at will. Thats kind of cool. Id love to be at a meeting with the suits, and after some pomposity comes up with some idiot-child of an idea and Im asked what I think -- just have both of my eyes shoot out in different directions;-) Do you ever use it consiously as a form of expression? >No, I don't look like Marty Feldman, and my eyes aren't as mobile as a >chameleon's! Ahhhh, and I was hoping you looked like Mad-eye Moody:-P - -------- Susan: >But just as I don't buy that old truism that every woman over 40 >needs to get a bob or shorter, >I don't agree that everyone over >30 might as well give up any silly notions about being edgy. >Have you seen "Hedwig and The Angry Inch"? ;) Well, my guess is people who really are abit on the edge cant just turn it on and off. At any age. And thanks for making me feel good bout -not- having a bob:-). Havent seen Hedwig but want to. - --------------- Rob and Chris bout the radio interview: Yes, please transcribe it and put it up somewhere. I love to hear what Robyn would have to say bout music n humor n Dylan n Diddley. - --------------- And Ross, youve started transcribing! That rock n roll speech is great. Is there a Webpage where these will all go? - ------- Kay, who likes that theres this eye thread and shes just planted some Iris for next spring. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 14:03:11 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Feelm >> I'm sure I missed some of the parallels, beyond obvious stuff like the >> sirens, blind prophet and giant cyclops.... > >the Coens said in an interview there was really very little of the Odyssey >in there. i think those three things might be about the end of it. oh, and >the part about returning from a long absence to get your wife back from a >slick but heartless suitor. I found this informative discussion, in a cursory websearch: http://www.glyphs.com/forums/load/circle/msg1016430328548.html (Uh, I guess there are some spoilers, so don't look if you haven't seen the film yet.) Here's another decent link, though I didn't have the patience to check a bunch of other potentially enlightening reviews: http://www.audiencemag.com/ARTICLES/obrother.html Eb ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 15:07:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Swedene Subject: Dark Globe? Does anyone have a clean version of Dark Globe available for MP3 or SHN?? I used to have this on vinyl and would like it. Thanks! Herbie NP -> Travis Berkeley 2000 Show Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 17:59:21 -0500 From: Jay Lyall Subject: Music suggestions: The Hague and Manchester Howdy folks I'm off for a week in the Hague and then a week in Manchester. Recommendations on music venues or other oddities to check out? I'm hoping to get into a fist fight with the Gallagher brothers in Manchester, but need to fill out the rest of the itinerary. Cheers Jay - ----------------------------- Jay Lyall http://home.swbell.net/jlyall The moon rattles like a piece of angry candy. [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type application/ms-tnef which had a name of winmail.dat] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 20:21:36 -0500 From: Jay Lyall Subject: From Rolling Stone online Two McCartney Tributes Due Sweet, Barenaked Ladies, Hitchcock honor Sir Paul Paul McCartney will be the subject of a pair of tribute albums, both due this fall. On August 9th, Oglio Records will release Listen to What the Man Said: Popular Artists Pay Tribute to the Music of Paul McCartney, a sixteen-track compilation featuring Robyn Hitchcock , Matthew Sweet , They Might Be Giants , Steven Page and Kevin Hearn of the Barenaked Ladies and World Party . "I was always a huge fan of the first couple of McCartney solo albums in part because, like the Stevie Wonder albums of the same era, they were great examples of the intensity of homemade recordings," says John Flansburgh of TMBG, who covered "Ram On" from 1971's Ram. "You can hear a lot of the experimentation and discovery right in the tracks, and that makes the recordings a kind of event in themselves." "I grew up making four-track recordings on a cassette four-track, so I enjoy hearing recordings where one person plays a lot of the parts," said Sweet, who covers "Every Night" from McCartney's first solo album, 1970's Paul McCartney. "It just had a fresh homespun approach, and I tried to keep my cover of 'Every Night' in that same intimate real that the original inhabited." Two weeks after the release of Listen to What the Man Said, another fifteen of McCartney's tunes will be covered by a collection of independent artists on Coming Up: Independent Artists Pay Tribute to the Music of Paul McCartney. A portion of the proceeds from the tributes will go to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation in memory of McCartney's wife, Linda, who died of breast cancer in 1998. The track listing for Listen to What the Man Said: "Band on the Run," Owsley "My Brave Face," SR-71 "Junk," Steven Page and Kevin Hearn of the Barenaked Ladies with Stephen Duffy of Lilac Time "Jet," Semisonic "No More Lonely Nights," Merrymakers "Let Me Roll It," Robyn Hitchcock "Too Many People," Finn Brothers "Dear Friend," Minus 5 "Every Night," Matthew Sweet "Waterfalls," Sloan "Man We Was Lonely," World Party "Coming Up," John Faye Power Trip "Maybe I'm Amazed," Virgos "Love in Song," Judybats "Warm and Beautiful," Linus of Hollywood "Ram On," They Might Be Giants The Track listing for Coming Up: "Let 'Em In," Starbelly "Take It Away," Jellybricks "Every Night," Mark Bacino "This One," Cliff Hillis "My Brave Face," Star Collector "Temporary Secretary," the Andersons "Mull of Kintyre," Kyf Brewer "With a Little Luck," Masticators "Somedays," Phil Keaggy "Getting Closer," Michael Carpenter "Maybe I'm Amazed," Gadget White Band "Helen Wheels," the Shazam "Oh Woman, Oh Why," Ray Paul with Emmit Rhodes "Another Day," Cherry Twister "Back on My Feet," Cockeyed Ghost ANDREW DANSBY (August 20, 2001) Cheers Jay - ----------------------------- Jay Lyall http://home.swbell.net/jlyall The moon rattles like a piece of angry candy. [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type application/ms-tnef which had a name of winmail.dat] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 05:45:49 -0400 From: "jbranscombe@compuserve.com" Subject: cover boy Don't know if anyone's mentioned it but Robyn is on the cover of issue 59 of the venerable power-pop / psych/ beat band mag Bucketfull Of Brains. Nice interview with Mick Dillingham inside in which he mentions that the Dylan gig is going to be the next Editions PAF! release. Brit e-mail address for mag - bucketfull@zoo.co.uk US distributor - disengage@isrgvision Haven't really been keeping up, but one thing I remember that did stir me was someone making the assertion that ESP is now an accepted fact even among sceptics (I think this was a Ken the Kenster point). I'm afraid this simply isn't true, and I don't think ESP is either! There was a time when ganzfeld trials (you know, the ping-pong-balls-over-the-eyes-and- white-noise-in-the ears ones) seemed to be yielding some statistically significant results. However, it now seems highly probable that these came about because of less than stringent experiment controls. I was at the Edinburgh gigs and thought Robyn displayed very fine verbal form but his singing voice was a bit wobbly. This wasn't helped by the PA which had his mic reverb-free and slightly fuzzy all three nights. Second and third nights were especially good performances in my view. I got my tickets for a fiver on the door as a late special offer. Only on the last night was it anywhere near full - still a prophet without honour etc. Star-fucking - John Hegley was there on the first night - and Rich Hall a.k.a Perrier Award winner Otis Lee Crenshaw (who followed him in the next slot at the venue) had a gander on the third. jmbc RIP Les Sealey - former Coventry City goalkeeper And to any Aussies out there - We finally bloody did it!!! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 13:23:11 +0100 From: "lucifersam" Subject: Re: cover boy Sadest news of the weekend, and only 43 :-( > RIP Les Sealey - former Coventry City goalkeeper ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 08:56:51 -0400 From: strange little woj Subject: macca tribute Two McCartney Tributes Due Sweet, Barenaked Ladies, Hitchcock honor Sir Paul Paul McCartney will be the subject of a pair of tribute albums, both due this fall. On August 9th, Oglio Records will release Listen to What the Man Said: Popular Artists Pay Tribute to the Music of Paul McCartney, a sixteen-track compilation featuring Robyn Hitchcock, Matthew Sweet, They Might Be Giants, Steven Page and Kevin Hearn of the Barenaked Ladies and World Party. "I was always a huge fan of the first couple of McCartney solo albums in part because, like the Stevie Wonder albums of the same era, they were great examples of the intensity of homemade recordings," says John Flansburgh of TMBG, who covered "Ram On" from 1971's Ram. "You can hear a lot of the experimentation and discovery right in the tracks, and that makes the recordings a kind of event in themselves." "I grew up making four-track recordings on a cassette four-track, so I enjoy hearing recordings where one person plays a lot of the parts," said Sweet, who covers "Every Night" from McCartney's first solo album, 1970's Paul McCartney. "It just had a fresh homespun approach, and I tried to keep my cover of 'Every Night' in that same intimate real that the original inhabited." Two weeks after the release of Listen to What the Man Said, another fifteen of McCartney's tunes will be covered by a collection of independent artists on Coming Up: Independent Artists Pay Tribute to the Music of Paul McCartney. A portion of the proceeds from the tributes will go to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation in memory of McCartney's wife, Linda, who died of breast cancer in 1998. The track listing for Listen to What the Man Said: "Band on the Run," Owsley "My Brave Face," SR-71 "Junk," Steven Page and Kevin Hearn of the Barenaked Ladies with Stephen Duffy of Lilac Time "Jet," Semisonic "No More Lonely Nights," Merrymakers "Let Me Roll It," Robyn Hitchcock "Too Many People," Finn Brothers "Dear Friend," Minus 5 "Every Night," Matthew Sweet "Waterfalls," Sloan "Man We Was Lonely," World Party "Coming Up," John Faye Power Trip "Maybe I'm Amazed," Virgos "Love in Song," Judybats "Warm and Beautiful," Linus of Hollywood "Ram On," They Might Be Giants The Track listing for Coming Up: "Let 'Em In," Starbelly "Take It Away," Jellybricks "Every Night," Mark Bacino "This One," Cliff Hillis "My Brave Face," Star Collector "Temporary Secretary," the Andersons "Mull of Kintyre," Kyf Brewer "With a Little Luck," Masticators "Somedays," Phil Keaggy "Getting Closer," Michael Carpenter "Maybe I'm Amazed," Gadget White Band "Helen Wheels," the Shazam "Oh Woman, Oh Why," Ray Paul with Emmit Rhodes "Another Day," Cherry Twister "Back on My Feet," Cockeyed Ghost ANDREW DANSBY (August 20, 2001) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 09:48:46 -0500 From: "Sweet & Tender Hooligan" Subject: David Gray (no Robyn) Anyone here a fan of David Gray? I just got (what I think was) his debut, "A Century Ends", and it's a very fun disc. Mostly simple accoustic songs with a heavy welsh accent - reminds me ever so slightly of some of the Waterboys' stuff. Anyway, I can't vouch for his other works, but this album is highly recommended. Other good ones I've only recently acquired: Cake's "Comfort Eagle" Greg Brown's "Slant 6 Mind" Echo & The Bunnymen's "Flowers" Kelly Joe Phelps' "Shine Eyed Mister Zen" - - s&th cirhsein@yahoo.com "i can make you promises if you don't expect too much yes, and i will run the distance if you'll please, please excuse my crutch" - vol ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 08:54:27 -0700 From: Eleanore Adams Subject: Re: David Gray (no Robyn) Yes - i have been meaning to pick up stuff by him. I heard it at a friends -fun stuff. eleanore Sweet & Tender Hooligan wrote: > Anyone here a fan of David Gray? I just got (what I think was) his > debut, "A Century Ends", and it's a very fun disc. Mostly simple accoustic > songs with a heavy welsh accent - reminds me ever so slightly of some of the > Waterboys' stuff. Anyway, I can't vouch for his other works, but > this album is highly recommended. > > Other good ones I've only recently acquired: > > Cake's "Comfort Eagle" > Greg Brown's "Slant 6 Mind" > Echo & The Bunnymen's "Flowers" > Kelly Joe Phelps' "Shine Eyed Mister Zen" > > - > > s&th > cirhsein@yahoo.com > > "i can make you promises > if you don't expect too much > yes, and i will run the distance > if you'll please, please excuse my crutch" > - vol ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 16:55:11 +0100 From: "lucifersam" Subject: Re: Dark Globe? I have it by: Lost and Profound Syd (obviously) Sound Garden (Live) Placebo REM Robyn Hitchcock All on MP3...... > Does anyone have a clean version of Dark Globe > available for MP3 or SHN?? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 16:21:56 +0000 From: "Rue'd Beccia" Subject: Fish a wah-wah The new wah-wah pedal: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991162 "A simple facial-recognition algorythm that isolates the shawdowy area inside the mouth" Just think of the stage-grimances -this- will produce. Rawk guitar goddom just got a tinsy winsy bit more ridiculous. Totally unrelated but not- Yesterday thrifted a nifty cobolt blue glass vase in the shape of a twisting fish with its mouth as the rim. Putting flowers in I cracked up cause what did I hear in my head but our own under-assistant, left-coast rawk godlet man intoning ... "Why dont you feed the fish?" Hope it likes tawny mums. Kay _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 17:35:25 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: Music suggestions: The Hague and Manchester On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Jay Lyall wrote: > I'm off for a week in the Hague and then a week in Manchester. > Recommendations on music venues or other oddities to check out? I'm hoping > to get into a fist fight with the Gallagher brothers in Manchester, but need > to fill out the rest of the itinerary. Check out: http://www.north-west.co.uk/java/whatson/music/gigs.shtml Manchester boasts a wide variety of Robbie Williams tribute bands(!), Beach Boys tribute bands, Steely Dan tribute bands, Abba tribute bands and Bryan Adams tribute bands (no !) during September [I couldn't find the August page]. There are also gigs by up-and-coming acts such as Lou Reed, Lonnie Donegan(!!!), Steve Earle, Ozric Tentacles and the Tremeloes(!!!!). - - Mike Godwin ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 09:58:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Natalie Jane Jacobs Subject: fegdream I dreamt that I was on the phone with Bayard. I was telling him about this huge notebook that I had, which was filled with all sorts of information and records about the feglist that I had been compiling over the years. So I was chattering away about this, and then I realized that Bayard was not replying or responding in any way. I got mad, told him that was "pretty fucking rude," and hung up on him. Huh. n. - -- Natalie Jane Jacobs gnat@bitmine.net ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 11:23:36 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: fegdream on 8/21/01 9:58 AM, Natalie Jane Jacobs at gnat@bitmine.net wrote: > I dreamt that I was on the phone with Bayard. I was telling him about > this huge notebook that I had, which was filled with all sorts of > information and records about the feglist that I had been compiling over > the years. So I was chattering away about this, and then I realized that > Bayard was not replying or responding in any way. I got mad, told him > that was "pretty fucking rude," and hung up on him. He probably got so excited listening to your voice that he became "preoccupied" and had to put the phone down. And from what Quail tells me, Bayard's the kind of guy who needs two hands... - -tc ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V10 #310 ********************************