From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V11 #373 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, November 15 2002 Volume 11 : Number 373 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: 100% Stooges or 50% Psychedelic? [hamish_simpson@agilent.com] Re: hokey pokey, Blodwyn Pig, CD collections and plurals [grutness@surf4n] re:More Songs About Filing and Etymology! [MPys2626@aol.com] Zippers in my spines ["Rex.Broome" ] splits and DVDs [Jill Brand ] Re: hokey pokey, Blodwyn Pig, CD collections and plurals [Aaron Mandel ] Re: hokey pokey, Blodwyn Pig, CD collections and plurals [Michael R Godwi] Re: Sticky [Perry Amberson ] Re: hokey pokey, Blodwyn Pig, CD collections and plurals [Jeff Dwarf ] Detroit, Chicago, Chattanooga... [crowbar.joe@btopenworld.com] Re: hokey pokey, Blodwyn Pig, CD collections and plurals ["Stewart C. Rus] Rough Cut: Maxwells ["*FS Thomas*" ] dallas morning news review [guapo stick ] dallas morning news review [guapo stick ] dallas morning news review [guapo stick ] So... ["*FS Thomas*" ] Re: So... [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Stickier [Perry Amberson ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 16:49:20 -0700 From: hamish_simpson@agilent.com Subject: RE: 100% Stooges or 50% Psychedelic? Mike sed: > Well, they didn't start out as the Stooges. They were called The > Psychedelic Stooges > when they first stated playing in SE Michigan in 1967/68. OK I knew that smartypants, yes, and Iggy was the Hawaiian guitarist, but they didn't release anything. If we're getting technical, all Iggy records should be under "I" for "The Iguanas", so there!!!! (H) np - Teenage Fanclub "Bandwagonesque" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:29:04 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: hokey pokey, Blodwyn Pig, CD collections and plurals >- - Mike "scrupulously methodical" Godwin (except for unpacking the model >railway that got moved in 1999... hah! I suspected as much. Somewhere I have a big box full of Peco products which I have no current room to assemble. >n.p. that Blodwyn Pig one that goes (6/8) Do do-do do-do do-Do, bam-bam >bom bam-bam bom bam-bam bom bam. What's it called? "Ain't ya coming home". >James: >>Pear with cream, hokey pokey flavoured ice cream and chocolate sauce? >>Larvely it is. > >"Hokey pokey flavored ice cream"? What are you, a cannibal? Hokey Pokey is rich slightly-caramel-tinged vanilla, full of solid lumps of crunchy caramelised sugar. Nectar of the gods. >> Plus I've always wanted a separate shelf for my Jethro Tull library. >> Haven't done it yet, though. > >File under "Blodwyn Pig offshoots" :) no, E for John Evan Blues Band! (or should that be J? Or maybe B for The Blades?) >>depends whether you prefer "bananas split" or "banana splits", I suppose. > >This is the most enlightening observation I've heard regarding this whole >sordid affair. Thanks for being one of the good guys, James. Ah, but you've got to remember that I occasionally weird people out by talking about CDsROM! :) >On a related note, to the folks who have rilly rilly big collections: >excluding people you've met through this or any other online forum, how many >people do you know socially "in real life" with record collections >comparable in size to, or larger than, your own? (nb. for me the sample >group mostly consists of people I met before this advent of this here >internet thingee, or people I've met as "friends of friends", but it's >probably a meaningless distinction these days) I have 1600 CDs. I know three other people with as many (one of them my brother-in-law). One guy I know has a room set aside as a cassette and video library - nearly 4000 cassettes. I thought I was bad, but that's ridiculous (shame about his taste, though...). And I still recall a social gathering at high school at a teachers house. One wall of his house was shelf after shelf of LPs - he estimated he had 3000 of them. But I'd say that most people I know have under 200 CDs - most of them probably under 100. So... how do people file their various artists CDs? James nf - Azores! 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, 14 Nov 2002 19:28:21 EST From: MPys2626@aol.com Subject: re:More Songs About Filing and Etymology! Algorithmic association ... so much learned today ... boy am I fucked in terms of my filing methodology! Didn't realized how I stacked up 'til this thread reared up. Have _Bible Of Bop_ w/my _Shock Horror_ and Katrina stuff ? Stand alone Robyn and Robyn/Egyptians stuff is chronologically mixed in both ceedees and vinyl ... Softs are Softs in both. Dave Edmunds is w/Rockpile or is that the other way around, Roy Loney's w/The Flamin' Groovies stuff, Chris Wilson isn't under W or w/the Groovies, he's w/The Fortunate Sons ... Cope is Cope ... Teardrop stands alone too ... Tim Rogers is w/the You Am I but Todd isn't w/the Nazz(Ns), he's w/Utopia while Roy Wood/Wizzard and The Move are all together ... separated by era but together ... what else ... Verlaine's w/the TV but Lloyd stands alone ... Glide and Mac's solo stuff is w/the Bunnies ... Nils and Grin are under N and G respectively ... Eddie Phillips is w/The Creation stuff as is Ronnie Wood's Birds ... huh? Bailey's w/The Saints but Kuepper ain't ... Deniz Tek's w/my Radio Birdman stuff while RobYounger's New Christs junk is under N, got that correct at least. Chris Bell and Box Tops are w/Big Star in the CDs but all are seperate in the vinyl racks ...Chilton is under C. Dukes Of Strat are under D .... XTC IS XTC! I'm fucked! But at least I know where everything is ... more or less! 'nite! Mark http://www.mitchworldusa.net/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 16:53:59 -0800 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Zippers in my spines Hamish: >>I have "Iggy & the Stooges" under "S" with the other "Stooges" stuff but that's >>convenient because they were originally just called "the Stooges" This seems to be the universal solution to this particular problem amongst practitioners of the ABA/CW Method. (Alpha-by-artist-chrono-withing, although it looks like Swedish Country music.) __________ Drew: >>Interesting -- I go by visual information always, because I don't >>sort *within* letters. Hey, off this already off-topic topic, I just picked up a new CD rack/storage thingie on Tuesday and when I got it home I found myself, as always, closely examining the photos on the packaging to see how many spines I could recognize and what that might indicate about the photographer (or whoever stocked the thing in the photo). I can remember doing this from the first time I ever bought a cassette-carrying case as a teenager. Unique illness, symptomatic of my general detail-obsession, or common tic? ______________ Michael: >>Lewis Thomas... "The Medusa And The Snail"... Weird. I recently picked that up at and leafed through it at a used bookstore. Had never heard of it or Lewis but I did find it intriguing. Didn't buy it, though... ________ Jeffrey: >>you never know which 14-year-old girl on the list is actually a middle- >>aged FBI guy. I don't know about the FBI part, but the rest does seem to track... >>I've got some 5,500 - 6,000 titles in various formats (mostly CD) and am >>happily married. Well, you have a collection about twice the size of mine... if you've been married for more than ten years you are officially twice the man I am. >>I suppose now we talk about whether our partners' musical tastes differ >>significantly from our own? Mine's do. (How's that for an odd-looking sentence?) _________ Jonathan: >>Taiwan sorts by first name too, but to make things worse, they also >>sort by record company. At least I knew where to find all my favorite >>Sony artists... I'm kinda surprised American labels haven't tried this. I recently noticed that in certain drugstores the Coca Cola family of beverages is housed in a completely different refrigerated section from the PepsiCo ones. This suggests to me the beginning of a process by which, through corporate synergy, American life could soon bifurcate into two independent, parallel worlds. The Coke beverages might have coupons for Burger King which cross-promotes Disney films which feature stars from programs airing on the ABC network featuring songs by artists from the Universal Music Label. Pepsi sends you to Taco Bell/Fox Films/Fox TV etc. Your choice of equally mediocre, mutually exclusive paths through life would depend entirely on which soda your friend pressure you into drinking at an early age. It could happen. - -Rex "my wife has more vinyl than me" Broome ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 20:51:09 -0500 (EST) From: Jill Brand Subject: splits and DVDs The two "f" man asked "Are such ever referred to in the singular: 'the gymnast did a split'?" Jeff, you obviously never took dance or gymnastics. Men can hardly ever do a split anyway. But yes, one does say, "she can do a split," and if you are a 10-year-old dancer or gymnast, you get to be mighty proud of that. As for DVDs, WOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW!!! Mr. Ed Poole (who is some whacked out lawyer if he is, indeed, a lawyer at all) has sent me the DVDs from the Soft Boys shows from last March, and they are great. I had one of the worst teaching days in history (if anyone knows the Kinks song, "The Hard Way," well, I sang it all the way home, my favorite line being "I'm wasting my vocation teaching you to write neat when you're only fit to sweep the streets."), but I came home to those DVDs, tore them open and watched bits and pieces until dinner. I was totally chuffed to find my very own self waiting in the line in front of the Paradise! What a disgusting night that was, but what a great show. Thanks to all the people who worked to get those shows to the masses (does Robyn have masses?). My daughter tried to explain to my son that one clip at the beginning had some very graphic surgery in it (Ed, what up with that?). Curt asked why it was there. Melanie answered that it was made by a Soft Boys fan, and that they are all weird. Curt responded with, "Yeah, but they're not all overweight like Kinks fans." What an odd observation, but not at all untrue. There are times at Kinks-related gigs that I feel like starting a new branch of Weight Watchers or, for the religiously-minded, a branch of Lose It For Life. Jill, who hasn't totally organized her books or CDs since she moved houses in May 1994 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 21:13:30 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: hokey pokey, Blodwyn Pig, CD collections and plurals On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, James Dignan wrote: > Ah, but you've got to remember that I occasionally weird people out by > talking about CDsROM! :) Cute, but, uh, I'm skeptical. "Compact Disc - Read Only Memory" isn't constructed like a normal English phrase anyway; it's just an acronym. > So... how do people file their various artists CDs? I used to stick them all at the end; now I alphabetize them as if the title was a band name. (Tributes go under the band being covered.) a ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 20:33:41 -0500 From: rosso@videotron.ca Subject: Re: Things go better with Zippers in my spines On 14 Nov 2002 at 16:53, Rex.Broome wrote: > I recently noticed > that in certain drugstores the Coca Cola family of beverages is housed in a > completely different refrigerated section from the PepsiCo ones. That one is easy. Coke pays for the 'fridge, and gets to say what can go in it. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 19:20:33 -0800 From: "Michael E. Kupietz, wearing a pointy hat" Subject: Re: hokey pokey, Blodwyn Pig, CD collections and plurals At 1:29 PM +1300 11/15/02, James Dignan spake thus: >>File under "Blodwyn Pig offshoots" :) > >no, E for John Evan Blues Band! (or should that be J? Or maybe B for The >Blades?) Wouldn't John Evans Blues Band go under "S" for John Evans Smash? I think I'm gonna file all my Tull-related under C for "Candy Coloured Rain". Just to spite the world. Mike ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 19:36:57 -0800 From: "Michael E. Kupietz, wearing a pointy hat" Subject: Re: hokey pokey, Blodwyn Pig, CD collections and plurals No, wait! I'm gonna sort all my records by color, in order from lightest to darkest. The White Album goes first, then The Wall, Who By Numbers, Three of A Perfect Pair is in the first 25%, Diver Down is 35% of the way in, Discipline is in the low middle, Broadsword And The Beast is in the last 25%, Dark Side Of The Moon is near the end, Spinal Tap is last. Yeah, that's what I'm gonna do. Mike ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 19:37:44 -0800 From: "Michael E. Kupietz, wearing a pointy hat" Subject: Re: Zippers in my spines At 4:53 PM -0800 11/14/02, Rex.Broome spake thus: >I'm kinda surprised American labels haven't tried this. I recently noticed >that in certain drugstores the Coca Cola family of beverages is housed in a >completely different refrigerated section from the PepsiCo ones. This >suggests to me the beginning of a process by which, through corporate >synergy, American life could soon bifurcate into two independent, parallel >worlds. The Coke beverages might have coupons for Burger King which >cross-promotes Disney films which feature stars from programs airing on the >ABC network featuring songs by artists from the Universal Music Label. >Pepsi sends you to Taco Bell/Fox Films/Fox TV etc. Your choice of equally >mediocre, mutually exclusive paths through life would depend entirely on >which soda your friend pressure you into drinking at an early age. It >could >happen. I believe there was a Star trek: The Next Generation episode about this. Mike ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 19:12:44 -0800 From: "Michael E. Kupietz, wearing a pointy hat" Subject: RE: More Songs About Filing and Etymology! At 2:45 PM -0800 11/14/02, Rex.Broome spake thus: >(and the records, >and photos, and to some extent the tchotchkes) By "tchotchkes", do you mean bric-a-brac? Mike ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 07:21:43 -0500 From: Ed Subject: Re: splits and DVDs On Thursday, November 14, 2002, at 08:51 PM, Jill Brand wrote: My daughter tried to explain to my son that one clip > at the beginning had some very graphic surgery in it (Ed, what up with > that?). Curt asked why it was there. Melanie answered that it was > made > by a Soft Boys fan, and that they are all weird. I think Melanie is basically right, but if you want a more detailed explanation, it is this: the conceit of my edit is that an unknown person is flipping channels & happens upon a broadcast of a Soft Boys show (yeah, I know, not all that likely. but this is a work of fiction, so that's OK. what? this isn't a fictional movie?) Sometimes, he has trouble with reception and loses the video of the band altogether (e.g. the middle of "Underwater Moonlight"). Anyway, that's the idea behind the channel flipping stuff; sorry if some of it is too gruesome! - -ed ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:29:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: hokey pokey, Blodwyn Pig, CD collections and plurals > >n.p. that Blodwyn Pig one that goes (6/8) Do do-do do-do do-Do, bam-bam > >bom bam-bam bom bam-bam bom bam. What's it called? On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, James Dignan wrote: > "Ain't ya coming home". Brilliant! As you may have guessed, I was actually just humming it rather than playing the record. > Hokey Pokey is rich slightly-caramel-tinged vanilla, full of solid lumps of > crunchy caramelised sugar. Nectar of the gods. I have a feeling that somewhere, some time, 'hokey pokey' was the general name for ice-cream, and consequently the ice-cream man was the hokey pokey man. Nothing, of course, to do with the hokey cokey, which is a round dance. And can anyone enlighten me on 'The Good Humor Man', which is used by Arthur Lee to mean the ice-cream man (or possibly it has a "hidden" meaning). > Ah, but you've got to remember that I occasionally weird people out by > talking about CDsROM! :) I take that with a couple of teaspoonsful of salt ... Re spo-dee-o-dee, I don't see why it should mean any more than 'vo-de-o-do', or 'da-doo-ron-ron', or 'rama lama fa fa fa' or 'duggery dug redug duggery dug redug' or 'dit dit dit dit dit dit dit dit mm mm mm mm mm mm get a job' (hang on - that last one has some real words). Anyway, I mean it from the bottom of my boogety boogety boogety shoo! - - Mike Godwin Plurals PS It's Sticks McGhee, not Stick. Common nickname for a drummer. n.p. JR&tML "Ice Cream Man" live at the Hammersmith Odeon version with fantastic numbers of repeats of the last verse (I was THERE, I tell you!) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 05:46:13 -0800 (PST) From: Perry Amberson Subject: Re: Sticky Granted, Stick McGhee is often referred to as "Sticks" (and may even be credited as such on some record labels), but his nickname was actually Stick. Here's what I found on the "Rock before Elvis" site (www.hoyhoy.com): "Stick McGhee got his nickname during the years when he was pushing his handicapped older brother, future blues legend Brownie McGhee, in a wagon with a stick. Stick (his real name was Granville McGhee) served in the Army during WWII, during which time he often pulled out his guitar to play. One ditty that he wrote had a lyric about, 'drinking wine motherfucker, drinking wine.' He recorded the song in 1946 for Harlem records, but changed the lyrics to, 'Drinking Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee,' and the song got a little airplay. Future Atlantic records founder Ahmet Ertegun heard it, and in 1949 tried to license the track for his new label. It was nowhere to be found, so he took Stick and Brownie back into the studio to record it again, which was fortunate because the 1949 version adopted the new 'rocking' rhythm, of which we here are fans. The record became a hit, and was the first smash hit for Atlantic. This is rock 'n' roll, folks. To finish the tale, after the Atlantic record hit the charts, Decca found the old Harlem recording from 1946, and re-issued it. It flopped, because it didn't rock." Anyway, thanks for the incorrection--it actually inspired me to do a little research. - --Perry ___________________________________________________ Yahoo! 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Papa Lightfoot "Wine Whiskey and Women" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 14:20:38 +0000 (GMT) From: crowbar.joe@btopenworld.com Subject: Detroit, Chicago, Chattanooga... Michael Bachman enthused Michigan had a bunch of great bands in the later 1960's/early 1970's. MC5,... The Grande Ballroom in Detroit was like the Fillmore East of the Mid West. We had great free form FM radio stations at the time as well. The jocks could play anything they wanted. It was a great time to grow up in the Detroit area, music wise. Just seen John Sinclair - legendary MC5 manager, founder of White Panther Party and subject of Lennon song - playing with his Blues Scholars. He sort of raps about the history of the blues over vamped backings based on Spoonful and the like. Still seems to be burning with righteous, if avuncular, anger. The album, Fattening Frogs For Snakes, is produced by another Motor City great, Andre Williams. Sinclair now lives in New Orleans where he broadcasts on WWOZ. I'm coming over to Memphis and New Orleans in early Dec. Can't recall any Elvis City fegs, but recall Brian in N'Awlins. Any recommendations of places to see/stay? Crowbar Joe ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 9:29:48 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: hokey pokey, Blodwyn Pig, CD collections and plurals Jeff Dwarf wrote: > > Good Humor is/was (not sure which) a > brand name for ice cream bars. still is, in Canada, at least. They have the same logo as, and are therefore owned by the same multinational as, Walls in the UK. Ice cream cones are called pokey hats in Glasgow. Coincidence? I don't think so. All your cultural references are belong to us, but. I wish my office were cooler about music, 'cos I'd be playing the unbelieveably awesome new Of Montreal CD right now. Think The Dukes of Stratosphear Meet The Kinks (with occasional harmonies by The Soft Boys) and you've got the idea. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 10:19:37 -0500 From: "*FS Thomas*" Subject: Rough Cut: Maxwells Hello, hello, hello. There's a rough mix of Underwater Moonlight up on my site. It's a mix of my passable audience recording and Scott's soundboard. For your listening pleasure: http://ochremedia.com/sbs/021025_Underwater_Moonlight.mp3 and will remain there for a few days. (Sorry for the size/quality of the MP3...it's the best I can do from work.) - -ferris. ferris@ochremedia.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 10:41:45 -0500 From: guapo stick Subject: dallas morning news review guess the new haven register picked this up off the wire. dunno if the original review was posted already or not, but just in case not... Soft Boys -- "Nextdoorland" (Matador/Beggars Group): Twenty-two years after releasing the cult classic "Underwater Moonlight" (and after reuniting to tour behind the album's re-release in 2000), the Soft Boys have produced another surrealistic gem that doesn't suffer from the time off. On his own, bandleader Robyn Hitchcock.s brand of psychedelic pop could veer into "love it or hate it" territory. But his band -- and Hitchcock's electric guitar -- provide a balancing jangle and blare here that quickly grows on anyone susceptible to rock that sounds something like a mix between Syd Barrett's more playful (or sane) moments and the drollery of John Lennon. These 10 songs include no immediately apparent classics. But "Nextdoorland" is pitched close enough to the same Velvet Underground-meets-Captain Beefheart sounds of the last Soft Boys album that it could plausibly have been their "next" release in, say, 1982. From the opener, "I Love Lucy," guitarist Kimberley Rew and Hitchcock play off each other like a post-punk Richards and Woods, one guitar needling, the other dealing sinister R&B chords. These new tunes quickly reveal their subtlety and charm. "Pulse of My Heart" is a classic Robyn Hitchcock love song mated to the skewed disco sensibilities of Rew and would be a hit in a sensible universe. - -- David Williams, The Dallas Morning News ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 10:41:58 -0500 From: guapo stick Subject: dallas morning news review guess the new haven register picked this up off the wire. dunno if the original review was posted already or not, but just in case not... Soft Boys -- "Nextdoorland" (Matador/Beggars Group): Twenty-two years after releasing the cult classic "Underwater Moonlight" (and after reuniting to tour behind the album's re-release in 2000), the Soft Boys have produced another surrealistic gem that doesn't suffer from the time off. On his own, bandleader Robyn Hitchcock.s brand of psychedelic pop could veer into "love it or hate it" territory. But his band -- and Hitchcock's electric guitar -- provide a balancing jangle and blare here that quickly grows on anyone susceptible to rock that sounds something like a mix between Syd Barrett's more playful (or sane) moments and the drollery of John Lennon. These 10 songs include no immediately apparent classics. But "Nextdoorland" is pitched close enough to the same Velvet Underground-meets-Captain Beefheart sounds of the last Soft Boys album that it could plausibly have been their "next" release in, say, 1982. From the opener, "I Love Lucy," guitarist Kimberley Rew and Hitchcock play off each other like a post-punk Richards and Woods, one guitar needling, the other dealing sinister R&B chords. These new tunes quickly reveal their subtlety and charm. "Pulse of My Heart" is a classic Robyn Hitchcock love song mated to the skewed disco sensibilities of Rew and would be a hit in a sensible universe. - -- David Williams, The Dallas Morning News ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 10:42:14 -0500 From: guapo stick Subject: dallas morning news review guess the new haven register picked this up off the wire. dunno if the original review was posted already or not, but just in case not... Soft Boys -- "Nextdoorland" (Matador/Beggars Group): Twenty-two years after releasing the cult classic "Underwater Moonlight" (and after reuniting to tour behind the album's re-release in 2000), the Soft Boys have produced another surrealistic gem that doesn't suffer from the time off. On his own, bandleader Robyn Hitchcock.s brand of psychedelic pop could veer into "love it or hate it" territory. But his band -- and Hitchcock's electric guitar -- provide a balancing jangle and blare here that quickly grows on anyone susceptible to rock that sounds something like a mix between Syd Barrett's more playful (or sane) moments and the drollery of John Lennon. These 10 songs include no immediately apparent classics. But "Nextdoorland" is pitched close enough to the same Velvet Underground-meets-Captain Beefheart sounds of the last Soft Boys album that it could plausibly have been their "next" release in, say, 1982. From the opener, "I Love Lucy," guitarist Kimberley Rew and Hitchcock play off each other like a post-punk Richards and Woods, one guitar needling, the other dealing sinister R&B chords. These new tunes quickly reveal their subtlety and charm. "Pulse of My Heart" is a classic Robyn Hitchcock love song mated to the skewed disco sensibilities of Rew and would be a hit in a sensible universe. - -- David Williams, The Dallas Morning News ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 11:26:22 -0500 From: "*FS Thomas*" Subject: So... So THAT'S how it is in their family: http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/Movies/11/15/actor.arrested/index.html F S Thomas ferris@ochremedia.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 08:33:47 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: So... *FS Thomas* wrote: > So THAT'S how it is in their family: > http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/Movies/11/15/actor.arrested/index.html I suspect that the scenes where he gets beaten up are now going to take on the same sort of extra ooomph that the simular scenes of OJ (him falling down a flight of stairs in his wheelchair and then flipping into the air, etc) in the Naked Guns movies now have. ===== "If we don't allow journalists, politicians, and every two-bit Joe Schmo with a cause to grandstand by using 9-11 as a lame rhetorical device, then the terrorists have already won." -- "Shredder" "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 . Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site http://webhosting.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 08:57:44 -0800 (PST) From: Perry Amberson Subject: Re: Stickier As I mentioned earlier, Granville McGhee is often referred to as "Sticks," and apparently is credited as such on some record labels, but my vote still goes to Stick as his real nickname. All the earlier releases I could find show him as Stick; the only ones I've found calling him Sticks are more contemporary reissues. I also found an article about Knoxville, Tennessee's musical heritage in their local paper, which lends a little more legitimacy to Stick: ********************************** "Knoxville rich in history, heritage of black music" February 19, 2001 By Wayne Bledsoe, (Knoxville) News-Sentinel entertainment writer The contributions of black Knoxvillians to modern music are undeniable, but their connections to the city are not always apparent. Some musical greats, including eclectic instrumentalist Howard Armstrong and folk-blues favorite Brownie McGhee, spent their formative years in the city but moved on long before finding fame. Others, including gospel legends the Swan Silvertones, used Knoxville as a home base for many years but also moved on... ...But he said that Knoxville was a bit of a "hick town," and bigger cities offered more lucrative gigs. A decade later brothers Walter "Brownie" McGhee and Granville "Stick" McGhee would come to the same conclusion. The two worked in Knoxville string bands in the late 1930s, but Brownie moved on to become one most successful and longest-lasting artists in the field of folk blues, while Stick's 1949 hit, "Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee," became a rhythm-and-blues classic. ********************************** There apparently isn't a consensus, though. One lengthy Internet article I just saw refers to him throughout as Sticks, though the CD artwork shown on the same page credits him as Stick. Since Sticks is a common nickname for drummers, perhaps people have made that association over the years and adjusted his name accordingly. Granville McGhee was a guitarist, though. - --Perry _____________________________________________________ Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site http://webhosting.yahoo.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V11 #373 ********************************