From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V12 #7 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, January 10 2003 Volume 12 : Number 007 Today's Subjects: ----------------- three sides now [drew ] Re: mossy liquor? ["Stewart C. Russell" ] hey rich [Sabina Carlson ] Double Feature (NR) [steve ] short RH interview [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] johnny marr and the healers [Caroline Smith ] Re: johnny marr and the healers [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: johnny marr and the healers [Mike Swedene ] Re: short RH interview [Eb ] this is quite odd... [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] double reap [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] Re: this is quite odd... ["Michael E. Kupietz, wearing a pointy hat" ] star for bram revision [Sabina Carlson ] Re: double reap ["Stewart C. Russell" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 18:11:23 -0800 (PST) From: drew Subject: three sides now I burned a copy of Nextdoorland with Side Three on the end. I have no idea why I didn't do this before. It sounds pretty good, though the transition from the album to the EP isn't especially natural. I probably should have tried to mix them, but I'm pretty lazy when it comes to that sort of thing; when I make my personal-best-of mixes of single artists, I tend to sequence the tracks in chronological order by album and then by track number, deviating only in instances where there is great need to do so. Anyway, it's an hour of music this way. Good stuff. All of this talk about Robyn videos reminded me that I have a very used copy of Gotta Let This Hen Out! that I bought from Amoeba a few years ago. It's not in the greatest of shape (some parts look a little warped when you watch it), but I no longer need it since I have the DVD. If there's anyone who wants it for whatever reason (no DVD player, sentimental value, whatever), I'd be willing to send it free in exchange for maybe a copy of a concert recording or two. If you're interested, email me and we'll talk. - -- drew at stormgreen dot com http://www.stormgreen.com/~drew/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 21:51:26 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: mossy liquor? Caroline Smith wrote: > > http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/01/08/britain.moss.ap/index.html Fred Rumsey? I wonder what he knows about gravel? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 22:21:03 -0500 From: Sabina Carlson Subject: hey rich hello rich! i now pass on the title of the newest fegmaniac to you. have fun! umm i don't know if anyone did this already but i remember how confused i was when i was the newest so could everyone just send an e-mail to him and introduce yourself? you know: your name, how you came to know hitchcock, etc. alright yeah anyways, welcome again rich! yep... byebye peace, love, unity, poisonous plants, sabina sheena ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 01:14:04 -0600 From: steve Subject: Double Feature (NR) http://www.apple.com/trailers/mgm/bulletproof_monk/ http://www.apple.com/trailers/miramax/kill_bill/kill_bill_large.html - - Steve __________ Just when you thought things couldn't get any worse, the bumbling, tongue-tied Dick Armey announces his retirement as House majority leader and the shrewd, malevolent Tom DeLay, now Republican whip, moves quickly-and probably successfully-to succeed him. - Cragg Hines, Houston Chronicle ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 23:27:25 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: short RH interview Not sure whether anyone's posted this one yet. From November 2002's "Uncut" magazine (the one with John Lennon on the cover), Robyn Hitchcock speaks with Nick Hasted (NB: this is an unauthorised filching by me for yez all): When Cambridge's The Soft Boys recorded their classic neo-psychedelic swansong Underwater Moonlight in 1980, its 1960s template was deeply unfashionable. "There was still a belief Haircut 100 could be the future," Soft Boys singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchcock recalls. Hitchcock went on to cult solo success, and his own Jonathan Demme documentary, Storefront Hitchcock (1998). But 'Underwater Moonlight's influence on US bands from REM to Uncle Tupelo led to last year's successful reissue. Now the Soft Boys have made the follow-up, Nextdoorland. Hitchcock found much had changed in 22 years... "There was always fantastic antagonism in the guitar playing that I think has gone. Now we're happy to work with rather than against each other, which probably makes the music less exciting. There are a lot of parallels to 1980. It was quite an apocalyptic time - Reagan and Thatcher had just got in, the new Cold War had kicked in, there was a strong feeling that we may not live to see the album released. I remember thinking 'We've got to get this out before the world ends.' It's pretty similar now. But, at the same time, this is at the other end of our careers. There wasn't as much at stake making Nextdoorland. "We've done an awful lot, and nothing's really going to change. People who bought the last 35 albums I've made will probably listen to this, and old Soft Boys freaks will fall out of the rafters and say 'Well, it's not as good as Underwater Moonlight.' But it's nothing like Underwater Moonlight, because we're not feeding on the same nutrients, our body cells have changed three times over, there's nothing physically left of us from us apart from our DNA and our memory of how to play A-chords. I'm not Insanely Jealous anymore, I feel totally different from the dark young animal that wrote those songs. Nextdoorland is appallingly grown-up. But there's still the ghost of a psychosis about the Soft Boys. There;'s a slight mania to a song like Strings. I wouldn't have written it for me - I wrote it because they were all there. "There've been surprisingly few flashbacks, getting back together after so many years. There was just one strange bit when we were in this mouldy rehearsal space underneath the Waterloo arches, which is where we recorded some of Underwater Moonlight. We were churning through Old Pervert, and I looked up at the wall, which has mirrors on it, and I suddenly saw us. We'd gone grey and put on weight. But otherwise it was like I'd gone into a trance 22 years ago, singing Old Pervert, and I woke up and I was one. I thought 'Christ, I've dreamt my life away!'" 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: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 08:47:21 -0500 From: Caroline Smith Subject: johnny marr and the healers Hey... looks like Johnny Marr and his new band will be coming to town soon. Anybody been keeping tabs on him lately or know what the sound is like? I read a review that said he will be the lead singer of this group. Any info would be appreciated. Caroline ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 06:47:47 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: johnny marr and the healers Caroline Smith wrote: > Hey... looks like Johnny Marr and his new band will be coming to town > soon. > > Anybody been keeping tabs on him lately or know what the sound is > like? > I read a review that said he will be the lead singer of this group. > Any info would be appreciated. Johnny described it at one point as sounding like The Smiths meet Nirvana meet Santana. At that point, it was a 6 piece, though at the moment it's just him, Zak Starkey, and the bassist from Kula Shaker. I've heard on song, "Down on the Corner," though it was with Johnny and the various other friends of Neil Finn on the NF live album that came out last year. It's a pretty decent song, though not spectacular. Johnny has a fair-to-good voice. I'm looking forward to the album, although I'm also somewhat wary just because he's been so relatively inactive over the last 15 years, at least in terms of creating his own stuff. I am glad that it's now Johnny Marr & The Healers rather than Johnny Marr's The Healers. ===== "Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in very nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies." -- F.M. Cornford "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! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 10:52:33 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Swedene Subject: Re: johnny marr and the healers It is odd we are talking about this. I was JUST reading an article in Guitar Player Magazine about this. I did a search online and found a few songs. He says when they tour, it'll be a 6 piece band, but in the studio it was just too much of a headache to record with THAT many people. It'd be nice to see Johnny again. Herbie np -> "Gling Glo" Gling Glo (Bjork) - --- Jeff Dwarf wrote: > Caroline Smith wrote: > > Hey... looks like Johnny Marr and his new band > will be coming to town > > soon. > > > > Anybody been keeping tabs on him lately or know > what the sound is > > like? > > I read a review that said he will be the lead > singer of this group. > > Any info would be appreciated. > > Johnny described it at one point as sounding like > The Smiths meet > Nirvana meet Santana. At that point, it was a 6 > piece, though at the > moment it's just him, Zak Starkey, and the bassist > from Kula Shaker. > I've heard on song, "Down on the Corner," though it > was with Johnny and > the various other friends of Neil Finn on the NF > live album that came > out last year. It's a pretty decent song, though not > spectacular. > Johnny has a fair-to-good voice. I'm looking forward > to the album, > although I'm also somewhat wary just because he's > been so relatively > inactive over the last 15 years, at least in terms > of creating his own > stuff. > > I am glad that it's now Johnny Marr & The Healers > rather than Johnny > Marr's The Healers. > > ===== > "Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which > consists in very nearly deceiving your friends > without quite deceiving your enemies." > -- F.M. Cornford > > "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! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up > now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com ===== - --------------------------------------------- View my Websight & CDR Trade page at: http://midy.topcities.com/ _____________________________________________ Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 12:55:13 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: short RH interview >James Dignan quoted: >When Cambridge's The Soft Boys recorded their classic neo-psychedelic >swansong Underwater Moonlight in 1980, its 1960s template was deeply >unfashionable. We should have a contest to see if anyone can find a Soft Boys clipping which DOESN'T begin with this thought. ;) Eb ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 11:24:18 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: this is quite odd... is, as my subject line suggests, quite odd. James ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 11:51:37 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: double reap Ron Goodwin, 77 Peter Tinniswood, 66 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: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 15:03:19 -0800 From: "Michael E. Kupietz, wearing a pointy hat" Subject: Re: this is quite odd... At 11:24 AM +1300 1/10/03, those funny voices I hear when no one else is around called themselves "James Dignan" and whispered: > is, as my subject line suggests, quite >odd. I have always adored that droll British sense of humor. Americans just never seem to be able to pull off this sort of whimsy with a straight face. - -- ======== We need love, expression, and truth. We must not allow ourselves to believe that we can fill the round hole of our spirit with the square peg of objective rationale. - Paul Eppinger At non effugies meos iambos - Gaius Valerius Catallus ("...but you won't get away from my poems.") "Moderation in all things, except Wild Turkey." - Evel Knievel ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 18:44:27 -0500 From: Sabina Carlson Subject: star for bram hey... i was listening to "a star for bram" anybody know what the picture above "Adoration" is? and does anybody know more about the lady who does backup vocals on "daisy bomb"....barbara marsh? from what i could hear her voice was interesting.... want to hear more from her possibly. unless the only singing she does is with robyn...hmmm yeah i don't know. but if anybody does could you fill me in? rich: "By the way, You've got a very unique and interesting name. I didn't quite get the "poisonous plant" part." the whole "poisonous plant" thing is from the soft boy's song "my mind is connected" where robyn sings "and it's only a poisonous plant and it's calling your name". i happen to like that very much for a strange reason, and i always sign my letters like that. it's also fun because it confuses people. i don't use it very often within the fegs circle though cause they know what i'm talking about and it takes all the fun out of it ;-) but now that i;ve used it i might as well just start using it again here...hmmmm yeah! and it's only a poisonous plant, sabina sheena "you could smell the heads festering in the backyard, there's a baby in the basket and it's taken your name, and one day it will grow up and say "who are you, eh?"" "you'd be a lovely person if you were someone else" "if something doesn't kill you, then it makes you stronger. and since you didn't kill me, i guess you made me stronger" ~random quotes from "a star for bram" album ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 19:05:01 -0500 From: Sabina Carlson Subject: star for bram revision sorry... the backup vocalist i was thinking about could also be ginny clee. yeah again any info would be helpful! and it's only a poisonous plant, sabina sheena ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 06:38:12 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: double reap James Dignan wrote: > > Peter Tinniswood, 66 definitely not concomitant. "I 'eard that ... pardon?" ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V12 #7 ******************************