From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V11 #255 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, August 8 2002 Volume 11 : Number 255 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Australia and Japan [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: It takes a worried sheep [Michael R Godwin ] Re: Bruce [Stewart Russell ] Re: Old Groupie ["Igblan" ] Re: Old Groupie ["Igblan" ] Islip ["Silver Leaf" ] Re: Australia and Japan [gSs ] On, Wisconsin, on, Wisconsin ["Natalie Jane" ] Re: Islip [Tom Clark ] Soft Boys Ain't Goin' Nowhere ["Rex.Broome" ] Dylan for Dollars ["glen uber" ] Jolly Jumbuks (sp.?) ["Rex.Broome" ] RE: Dylan for Dollars ["Rex.Broome" ] Lips Live Broadcast ["Rex.Broome" ] house of dudes ["Jason R. Thornton" ] everywhere signs ["drew" ] RE: way off topic- newsgroups ["Jason Brown (Echo Services Inc)" ] Young Fresh Fellows/Minus 5 ["Bradley Wood" ] Re: soft boys tour dates [Brian ] Re: Old Groupie ["Igblan" ] RE: Dylan for Dollars ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: Islip, beaches, whingeing [Kevin.Welton@arm.com] Robyn Sings, we recorded? ["Maximilian Lang" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 04:51:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Australia and Japan James Dignan wrote: > "Advance Australia Fair"'s been the Aussie anthem for at least half a > century, AFAIK. Before that they used "God Save the King" (as did > many Commonwealth countries). > > You've got to wonder about any country whose best known song is about > a sheep-worrier, though. "Have You Ever Been Mellow?" is about a sheep-worrier? and is a sheep-worrier what it sounds like it is? or do I even want to know? ===== "This week, the White House says President Bush meant no disrespect when he referred to the Pakistani people as 'Pakis.' But just to be on the safe side, White House staffers have cancelled his trip to Nigeria" -- Tina Fey, Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update" "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -- Theodore Roosevelt . HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 13:36:57 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: It takes a worried sheep On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > and is a sheep-worrier what it sounds like it is? or do I even want to know? There was an episode of Rutland Weekend TV where Eric Idle got a sheep into the studio and started bombarding it with anxiety-inducing questions about politics, inflation, crime and the environment. The sheep remained unruffled. More generally it appears in films of the "Owd Bob" / "Old Yeller" variety, where a trusted hound is suspected of going to the bad and running them thar sheep ragged: "That dawg ain't no use to neither man nor beast - guess the sheriff'll be a-comin' round tomorrer to put him outa his misery." "But Dad, Scout wouldn'ta chased them sheep. He's a good dawg! Daddy, don' let them shoot Scout!" "Well, son, we let him off that time he was caught drinking and playin' pool with those no-good mutts from down the pound, but this time he's gone too far." "But Dad..." (whimpers, then sobs pitifully) Fortunately, just as the sheriff has raised his double-barrelled shotgun to shoot Scout, the pretty widdy-woman from the far side of the butte arrives breathless: "I saw it all! A pack of those goshdarned timber wolves wuz killing sheep, tearing their throats out and gulping down the blood, like. Scout went to save them, but when the posse arrived, them no-good timber wolves had all hightailed it for the woods, and there was Scout in the middle of the sheep-fold with seventeen mauled sheep all lyin' a-dead on the ground! But he's innocent, I tell you, innocent as the day is lawng!" "Dad, I told ya Scout wouldn'ta killed those sheep. He's a good dawg!" "Wrrrgh! Wrrrgh!" [Zoom out to long shot across the mesa. Credits and FADE] - - MRG ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 08:54:29 -0400 From: Stewart Russell Subject: Re: Bruce James Dignan wrote: > > Seems I was wrong - Advance Australia Fair has only been the Aussie anthem > since 1984 Not knowing -- and grumbling about -- the "new" national anthem was a theme used in "The Boys From The Bush", where all the new immigrants knew the words to AAF at a citizenship ceremony, but all the locals didn't. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 13:47:56 +0100 From: "Igblan" Subject: Re: Old Groupie Brian, Hope you don't mind if I cc fegmaniax. > Igblan, It's always welcoming to hear from old Soft Boys fans with > great stories of the past! > > If you ever get ahold of the old photos, I'm sure many of us would > *love* to see them. I've emailed my old friend at the last address I have for him. If I don't get a reply by the weekend, I have other means of getting in touch. > Did you know there is a Soft Boys record called "Live at the Portland > Arms"? It's an audience recording of an acoustic show from November > 1978. You were probably there! It was release on vinyl in 1986 I > think. I have it burned on disc. See my reply to Mike Godwin. Cheers, Igblan ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 13:47:58 +0100 From: "Igblan" Subject: Re: Old Groupie Mike, > * Original Soft Boys fans are few and far between on this list. The only > one I know is Crazy Unca' Nick Winkworth. I'll keep an eye open. > * Are you aware of the 'Live at the Portland Arms' recording, which has > been variously available on tape, LP and (possibly) CD? It's an acoustic > performance in a folk club, very much like the one you describe. I found a web page detailing a tour of the Soft Boys' Cambridge. Most incomplete, since it missed out many of the places they performed - I guess it was just a pub crawl really. Anyway, The Portland Arms is on it, and according to http://come.to/theportland is the host to The Cambridge Folk Club. Its location corresponds to my memory of where I went that evening, and it therefore seems certain that the recording is indeed of that occasion. Naturally, I would kill to get a copy. :) > * Morris is a fine drummer, and obviously devoted to those Hitchcock > songs. My guess is that Andy Metcalfe was on bass, and either Alan Davies > or Kimberley Rew on guitar, plus possibly a sax player or something. The > 'reformed' band, who played a short tour last year, featured the line-up > from their final album (to date) "Underwater Moonlight" which came out in > ?1981: Robyn, Morris, Kimberley Rew (guitar) and Matthew Seligman (bass). > Most of their set was selected from that record, plus newer material. I've found it difficult to locate good photos of past band members on the web. I am coming to the conclusion that the line-up I knew in Cambridge featured Andy Metcalfe and Kimberley Rew. Can anyone help me by confirming at least that Metcalfe is a tall bloke, and Rew kinda shortish? Or if anyone knows the location of any earlyish photos of those two, could they point me to them? > > And I see they are playing in London in October. I haven't been to a > > gig for, I dunno, fifteen years? But I think I'll be going to this > > one. :) > > * You won't be disappointed! On a good night, you should even get the > stream-of-consciousness chat between numbers. I shall be there, screaming for Anglepoise Lamp. :) Cheers, Igblan ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 14:00:12 +0000 From: "Silver Leaf" Subject: Islip Kevin: >By flying into Islip (we went to visit my gf's family first). Good to know theres not some tunnel(well, one that I dont know about) that goes directly from Canada to Babylon. Haven't been there for awhile but remember that airport pretty well. Round modernist observation deck around the bar, otherwise pretty much a toy airport. I grew up summers towards the end of Long Island, in an unincorporated hamlet(thats right, think of a pale guy in a black tunic loosing limbs)called Quiogue(little clam. And yes it would be a good term for it.) Where was you gf's family, North or South Fork? Did you get to the beach? The beach on the South Fork, when uncrowded, is glorious. - -------------------- I say we target Maxwell's as the Feg night out. Its tiny. How they're going to fit all 4 SBs on the stage I dont know but it should be a great, sweaty, get all your ya-yas out and off show. Kay _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 10:25:50 -0500 (CDT) From: gSs Subject: Re: Australia and Japan On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, James Dignan wrote: > They shouldn't protest that. They should simply hack the ID numbers of the > Prime Minister and his cabinet. Change a few minor (or major) details, and > see how long the new ID system lasts. Like they do with ss numbers, dl numbers, passport data etc. today? Nothing can be 100% percent secure, except in the void. What they need to do is a retina or finger print scan and match that against data on the card. heck, we have a national id system and have had for many years, we just don't use it like we should. Opponents lost the id battle the first time they corrected someone for mispronouncing their name. gSs ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 08:59:27 -0700 From: "Natalie Jane" Subject: On, Wisconsin, on, Wisconsin >Oconomowoc, eh? Yeah, Oconomowoc. (Stress on the second syllable, for those who don't know.) The last time I was there was a dismal spring day in 1995, for my grandmother's funeral, which was actually at a Jewish cemetary in Milwaukee. God, that was depressing. I'm pretty sure that I. Jacobs & Sons, the ancestral clothing store, is still in existence - either in Oconomowoc or Hartland, I forget. >"Bubbler" is, I think, even more geographically limited than that - >primarily Milwaukee. Really? Interesting! I'll have to tell my dad. When he went to Northwestern he got mocked for asking where the bubbler was. > > And remember, folks, it's "Or-ee-gun" and not "Or-ee-gahn." > >Long "e" in the middle syllable? Never heard it that way! Well, more of a schwa, really, but I can't do that upside-down E in Hotmail. (re. RIGHTon) >I know a lot of people who say this. They're not Oregonians... >they're >stoners. Or ex-stoners. Took me a long time to figure that out, though. Plenty of non-stoner Oregonians say this. Our very own Carole Reichstein, for instance... :) >October 31 Seattle The Crocodile Cafe >November 2 San Francisco Slims I guess these are the Soft Boys shows I might attend. Carole, you wanna go on a road trip? Unless my grandmother's memorial service in Buffalo coincides with the New York shows... oh, I'm so confused. (That's my other grandmother, by the way.) harumph, n. _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 09:11:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Islip On Thursday, Aug 08, 2002, at 07:00AM, Silver Leaf wrote: >Haven't been there for awhile but remember that airport pretty well. Round >modernist observation deck around the bar, otherwise pretty much a toy >airport. > >I grew up summers towards the end of Long Island, in an unincorporated >hamlet(thats right, think of a pale guy in a black tunic loosing >limbs)called Quiogue(little clam. And yes it would be a good term for it.) >Where was you gf's family, North or South Fork? Did you get to the beach? >The beach on the South Fork, when uncrowded, is glorious. > Ah yes - what memories. I grew up in Smithtown, and on Sunday nights during the summer my grandmother would take us for ice cream and then out to Islip Airport to watch the planes. You know, I think Long Island gets a pretty bad rap sometimes, but a lot of Suffolk County (the eastern half) is pretty beautiful. Kind of like Cape Cod, but with funnier accents. - -tc p.s. Growing up in Long Island also explains my bizarre sexual attraction to Fran Drescher, and more recently the actress who plays Carmella Soprano. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 10:23:51 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Soft Boys Ain't Goin' Nowhere Kay: >>Imagine the Soft Boys doing "You Aint Goin Nowhere"(the thought of Robyn >>doing it alone is sigh-worthy, but the thought of the SBs doing it is >>quadruple sigh-worthy.) Do you think Robyn would pick up his money and pack up his tent, like Dylan, or pack up his money and pick up his tent, like McGuinn? That song contains another Dylan lyric I misheard for years-- "Gate won't close/Rainland's froze". It's really "railing's froze", but again I like mine better. I heard the Byrds' version first. Man, do I love that tune. It seems to follow me around and crop up under strange circumstances all the time. Also the only tune I've ever sung as a live duet with my dad. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 13:13:03 -0400 From: "Mike Hooker" Subject: way off topic- newsgroups hi, i want to download some songs from newsgroups. i subscribe to a certain newsgroup and get in . the first time i try to download a song, no problem. i open the post and the mp3 is an attachment. everytime after, there is no attachment, and the text is a mile of gibberish. also, is it common for a single song to be broken up into multiple mp3s of 15 or so sec each. any help is apprecated. thanks take at look at my music trading list ( new URL) http://hometown.aol.com/mhooker216/myhomepage/index.html have fun, Mike Hooker ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 10:30:14 -0700 From: "glen uber" Subject: Dylan for Dollars Rex.Broome earnestly scribbled: >That song contains another Dylan lyric I misheard for years-- "Gate won't >close/Rainland's froze". It's really "railing's froze", but again I like >mine better. I still like my mondegreen of "Like A Rolling Stone" better than the intended lyric: "Once upon a time You dressed so fine You do *THE FUNKY JIME* In your prime Didn't yoooou! > I heard the Byrds' version first. Man, do I love that tune. IMO, the best version of that song was the Chris Hillman/Roger McGuinn/ Nitty Gritty Dirt Band version on _Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Vol. II_. Wonderful beyond description. I always thought that The Band would have done a raging version of it. >It seems to follow me around and crop up under strange circumstances all the >time. Also the only tune I've ever sung as a live duet with my dad. It's a great tune to pull out if you need to pad your set or do an encore. It has fairly simple lyrics, just three chords, and pretty much anyone can sing it regardless of ability. - -- Cheers! - -g- "Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible." - --Frank Zappa glen uber =+= blint (at) mac dot com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 10:39:41 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Jolly Jumbuks (sp.?) James: >>You've got to wonder about any country whose best known song is about a >>sheep-worrier, though. Yup. I had no idea what the hell was going on in that song until my dad recently played me a bizarre version of it by the New Christy Minstrels where they sort of explain it verse-by-verse. You can learn a lot of weird shit from old live folk records. Another weird bit of a famous Aussie song was brought to my attention by my wife's uncle recently-- the part in "Tie Me Kangaroo Down" that goes "Let your abos go loose, Bruce/They're of no further use". Yowzah. Plus, why the hell is the kangaroo being tied down? It gives one the impression the guy's been riding it. Between this and the wombats we seem to have smoothly transitioned from genitalia to marsupials. Feel free to blast me for use of the verb "transitioned". I am tired. Very tired. ______ House of Blues in LA? Well, okay. At least it's not the goddamn Knitting Factory. Who's going? - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 10:50:54 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: RE: Dylan for Dollars >>IMO, the best version of that song was the Chris Hillman/Roger McGuinn/ >>Nitty Gritty Dirt Band version on _Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Vol. II_. >>Wonderful beyond description. Yeah, that was nice. It was actually a pretty big country radio hit. Although it came off the Dirt Band album, the single was credited to Hillman & McGuinn (Dad had the cassette single(!!!))... Hillman was still in the Desert Rose Band which was doing well on country radio at the time, so I guess he was marketable. Also notable that McGuinn zings Dylan back for criticizing his reversal of the pick up/pack up line. Hillman's vocal evolution from the guy who sang "Girl Who Had No Name" to his later smooth-country-guy voice is up there with such mysteries as how the hell the same guy sang "The Letter" and "September Gurls". Listen to "From a Distance" on the Byrds box set. If you want to induce vomiting, that is. >>I always thought that The Band would have done a raging version of it. Well, they kind of did the original version with Bob, but you're right, the full-on Band treament would've been a good fit. >>pretty much anyone can sing it regardless of ability. That's probably why we did it! - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 11:05:32 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Lips Live Broadcast Hey, I know there are some Flaming Lips fans here... they're about to do a live set on KCRW. These are usually pretty cool and Wayne tends to get quite chatty, for ye lovers of loopy between- and during-song stream of consciousness stuff. You should be able to find some kinda link to the simulcast here: http://www.kcrw.org/cgi-bin/db/kcrw.pl?&tmplt_type=Home_new ...and it'll be archived shortly thereafter... Cheers, - -Flaming Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 11:11:08 -0700 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: house of dudes At 10:39 AM 8/8/2002 -0700, Rex.Broome wrote: >House of Blues in LA? Well, okay. At least it's not the goddamn Knitting >Factory. I've only been to the LA Knitting Factory once or twice, but I rather liked the venue. Haven't been to the Hollywood House of Blues for awhile... >Who's going? Since there's no San Diego or even an Orange County show (what's the matter, Robyn, the surfer ghosts scare you away from here permanently, bitch?), I guess I'll be going. And/or possibly a Largo show, if there are any, depending on the day. - --Jason "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 11:13:18 -0700 (PDT) From: "drew" Subject: everywhere signs > From: "Silver Leaf" > Drew: >>Movies: I'm tired of arguing about them, so I'll state > simply that I found Signs watchable and well-presented >>but disappointing on every other level > > Drew, this isnt an argument, its just, per usual, Im curious. How was it > disappointing? I've been hoping it would be a goodie. Cinematography: great, if a little too self-conscious Sound & music: great Casting: very good Acting: ...adequate Script: good Story: thin and frequently wildly implausible Theme: contrived as all hell Director's extended cameo: ill-advised Sound and fury: signifying nothing So, not on every other level maybe, but enough. It wasn't unpleasant and I can imagine other people enjoying it, but I was unimpressed. I liked The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable, if that helps. > From: "Igblan" > I studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1976 to 1979, and was for > the first and last time in my life a groupie, attending many of The Soft > Boys' early gigs in Cambridge around that time. I don't know whether to be more impressed by this fact or by the fact that 20+ years later you're now following up to see what Robyn's been up to all this time. :) Welcome! Drew ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 11:33:25 -0700 From: "Jason Brown (Echo Services Inc)" Subject: RE: way off topic- newsgroups You probably need a more advanced newsreader that can easily batch together the multiple attatchments. Large files have to be broken up in order to conform with usenet rules. I use Xnews http://xnews.newsguy.com/. Its pretty simple to use you can even que multiple files for download. - -----Original Message----- From: Mike Hooker [mailto:mhooker@optonline.net] Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 10:13 AM To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Subject: way off topic- newsgroups hi, i want to download some songs from newsgroups. i subscribe to a certain newsgroup and get in . the first time i try to download a song, no problem. i open the post and the mp3 is an attachment. everytime after, there is no attachment, and the text is a mile of gibberish. also, is it common for a single song to be broken up into multiple mp3s of 15 or so sec each. any help is apprecated. thanks take at look at my music trading list ( new URL) http://hometown.aol.com/mhooker216/myhomepage/index.html have fun, Mike Hooker ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 14:01:24 -0500 From: "Mike Wells" Subject: Re: soft boys tour dates M. Bachman observed: > It looks like a road trip to Chicago for > the Detroit and Toledo crowd. Count me in > after I juggle my early October vacation days. At last, the dates cometh! Methinks we need a midwest fegbunch gathering...maybe on that Sunday afternoon (before the Monday show) if people are going to be in town early, or on the day of show perhaps? I'll volunteer a deck and backyard. The Bears will be in Detroit beating the bejeezus out of the Lions that Sunday, I sense the opportunity for some serious football-tossing and grilling out. So who all is coming in from out of town...Brian? Chris? > October 28 Chicago Metro Ahh, back to the sticky-floored Metro. Good for several reasons. Michael "there's nothing more dangerous than a wounded mosquito" Wells ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 20:01:14 +0000 From: "Bradley Wood" Subject: Young Fresh Fellows/Minus 5 Did anybody tape the Young Fresh Fellows or Minus 5 when they opened for the Soft Boys 2001 Tour? I have NJ, NYC, Philly and the Croc, but if anyone has any of the other shows, please contact me off list. Thanks Bradley (brad372@hotmail.com) _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 16:04:33 -0400 From: Brian Subject: Re: soft boys tour dates Firstly, I'd like to apoligize to my tree branches: I feel like such an ass! I know I owe you all discs for the CHI/NYC shows. I have practically given up on the disc that is giving me errors. It's been so long I've forgotten which disc it was. All the other discs are ready to go, but this one is like a thorn in my paw. Please allow me to replace it with 2 other discs of something you don't have. Contact me or I'll get a hold of you! I'll be unavailable for about a week after tomorrow. - --------------------------------------------------- For mid-west US fegs mainly, but anyone can read on if they are bored!: Ah yes, a Chicago feg fest sounds like good fun. I live in Toledo and my girlfriend, Venus, live in Chicago. I was so hoping for a San Fran show the week before Nov 2, cause Venus will be out there that week for work. I would just tag along and see the SBs, but Nooooo, they had to schedule it a week later. So now I'm either gonna take a week off and road trip the east coast shows. Or I'm gonna take a few days off to see them in Chicago. Either way, I'm gonna see them. I knew they wouldn't be back to Detroit after such a poor turn out last run. Be in touch, Nuppy At Thursday, 8 August 2002, Mr. Wells wrote: >M. Bachman observed: >> It looks like a road trip to Chicago for >> the Detroit and Toledo crowd. Count me in >> after I juggle my early October vacation days. > >At last, the dates cometh! > >Methinks we need a midwest fegbunch gathering...maybe on that Sunday >afternoon (before the Monday show) if people are going to be in town early, >or on the day of show perhaps? I'll volunteer a deck and backyard. The Bears >will be in Detroit beating the bejeezus out of the Lions that Sunday, I >sense the opportunity for some serious football-tossing and grilling out. > >So who all is coming in from out of town...Brian? Chris? > >> October 28 Chicago Metro > >Ahh, back to the sticky-floored Metro. Good for several reasons. > >Michael "there's nothing more dangerous than a wounded mosquito" Wells ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 21:14:03 +0100 From: "Igblan" Subject: Re: Old Groupie Marc, >> Hey there Igblan-- I saw your post on Fegmaniax and was really glad to hear something from a person with a perspective on the band that goes further back than most. There's a good bit of stuff out there, some of it a bit difficult to find, if you feel like becoming re-acquainted with the band a bit. Several of the people on the list might be fairly helpful with getting copies of things. I might also be doing a CDR project soon--transferring some early '90's reunion stuff from cassette to CD. If it works out, I'll send you a copy, if you'd like, Marc in Tempe, Arizona << http://www.robynhitchcock.com/ukorders.htm looks like the place I should go to order back-catalogue stuff. A Can Of Bees seems to tbe the album whose tracks are most familiar to me. I certainly remember hearing these live in those days: Give It To The Soft Boys Sandra's Having Her Brain Out Wading Through A Ventilator (I Want to Be An) Anglepoise Lamp I won't be looking for these tracks for free - someone somewhere deserves a little of my money for keeping this album in stock. :) The bootleg of the Portland Arms performance is what really interests me, though. If anyone has it as one large mp3 and/or track-by-track, an email or ten would be most welcome. Alternatively, if anyone in the UK has it on CD, I'd be happy to pay for the blank CD and postage. Cheers, Igblan (London) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 17:03:21 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Dylan for Dollars Rex wrote.... >Hillman's vocal evolution from the guy who sang "Girl Who Had No Name" to >his later smooth-country-guy voice is up there with such mysteries as how >the hell the same guy sang "The Letter" and "September Gurls". Listen to >"From a Distance" on the Byrds box set. If you want to induce vomiting, >that is. Listen to Gram Parsons and Chris Hillman on the Flying Burrito Brothers "Sin City", "Christine's Tune" (Devil in Disguise) and "Do Right Woman" singing together, especially on headphones, to really appreciate Chris's voice in his prime. Not to mention Gram's heartbreaker "Hot Burrito #1" aka I'm Your Toy, Gram sings alone on that one though. I am a huge Gram Parson fan. Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 14:23:34 -0700 From: "glen uber" Subject: RE: Dylan for Dollars Bachman, earnestly scribbled: > Listen to Gram Parsons and Chris Hillman on the Flying Burrito Brothers >"Sin City", "Christine's Tune" (Devil in Disguise) and "Do Right Woman" >singing together, especially on headphones, to really appreciate Chris's >voice in his prime. Not to mention Gram's heartbreaker "Hot Burrito #1" >aka I'm Your Toy, Gram sings alone on that one though. Great harmonies on that first album. Headphones are the way to go because you can hear each of their voices quite distinctly. I honestly don't think there's a bad song on that album although "Hippie Boy" is a bit of a drag for a closer. Aside from that nitpick, I'll take the album any day. That's one of the few albums I could listen to every day. Definitely a Desert Island selection. >I am a huge Gram Parson fan. One of at least four on the list that I know of. Tom Clark, Mike Godwin and I are the others. - -- Cheers! - -g- "If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is 'God is crying.' And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is 'Probably because of something you did.'" - --Jack Handey glen uber =+= blint (at) mac dot com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 16:53:19 -0500 (CDT) From: Kevin.Welton@arm.com Subject: Re: Islip, beaches, whingeing At some time, Silver Leaf wrote: > Where was you gf's family, North or South Fork? Chuff me, I don't know! I'm just an ex-pat English boy living in Texas[*]. Looking at a map, I would say neither, 'cause they're too far west (Central Islip). > Did you get to the beach? The beach on the South Fork, when > uncrowded, is glorious. I got to go to two beaches - one on the North Shore, and one on the South Shore. They were OK, but then I'm biased - I grew up in Norfolk (the county in England, not the Navy town in Virginia), and spent a lot of time on Holkham beach, which is just fantastic. [*] Trying to drag things back on topic, I notice that the upcoming tour doesn't get any closer to Austin than Atlanta. And we didn't even get a proper gig last time, just a shortened set at SXSW. I'm starting to feel hard done by here. > Kay K. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 19:19:01 -0400 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Robyn Sings, we recorded? Hi taper people, I am in search of any shows from the Robyn Sings tour. I have the two NYC shows(two different recordings!) and the Chicago show too. I have lots to trade and hope to hear from you. If you have emailed me recently and I have not responded(Scott?)feel free to email again. Thanks, Max Lang _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V11 #255 ********************************