From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V12 #127 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, April 2 2003 Volume 12 : Number 127 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Evil [Glen Uber ] Re: Pat Mastelotto played drums with Robyn? [Glen Uber ] Re: Names: The Good, The Bad, and the UK ["Eugene Hopstetter, Jr." ] Fools [Eb ] And it all becomes clear at last... ["Rex.Broome" ] Re: Names: The Good, The Bad, and the UK [Dolph Chaney ] Re: Fool if you think it's over ["Jason R. Thornton" ] Re: Fools [Tom Clark ] Re: And it all becomes clear at last.../24 ["Maximilian Lang" ] Impressionism [Glen Uber ] Two men say they're Jesus - one of them must be wrong (RH=0.001%) [grutne] Banned names [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] Re: Impressionism [BLATZMAN@aol.com] Re: Two men say they're Jesus - one of them must be wrong (RH=0.001%) [no] best band name yet... [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey ] Re: Impressionism ["Maximilian Lang" ] Re: Fools [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey ] Re: Impressionism [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey ] robyn in spain [noam tchotchke ] the U.N. [Barbara Soutar ] April Foolery [Glen Uber ] To be quite george with you, Frank [crowbar.joe@btopenworld.com] Re: Johnny Bravo!!!! [Michael R Godwin ] Re: more RH shows [Michael R Godwin ] RE: Band names: High Numbers (some Robyn, way more Syd/Arthur Lee ) [John] RE: (some Robyn, way more Syd) [Michael R Godwin ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 14:02:03 -0800 From: Glen Uber Subject: Re: Evil Once upon a time Eb say to me -- this is the dog talkin' now -- what is your conceptual continuity? > I marvel at how often "Brown Eyed Girl" and "Stuck in the Middle with > You" get attributed to Bob Dylan. Today, I saw "Stuck In The Middle" attributed to Steely Dan. And "Horse With No Name" is invariably credited to Neil Young. - -- Cheers! - -g- "A pox upon the media and everything you read: They'll tell you your opinion and they're very good indeed." --Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 14:04:24 -0800 From: Glen Uber Subject: Re: Pat Mastelotto played drums with Robyn? Once upon a time Eugene Hopstetter, Jr. say to me -- this is the dog talkin' now -- what is your conceptual continuity? > I read info about their current drummer, Pat Mastelotto, and his bio says he > worked with Robyn Hitchcock. > > Huh? That's news to me. Yep. He played on about half the songs on _Perspex Island,_ mainly as percussionist, IIRC. Around the same time, he also appeared on _Oranges and Lemons_ by that silly trio from Swindon. Whatever happened to the other dudes from Mr. Mister? Cheers! - -g- "[R]emember when you're out there trying to heal the sick that you must always first forgive them." --Bob Dylan ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 14:10:07 -0800 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: Evil At 02:02 PM 4/1/2003 -0800, Glen Uber wrote: >And "Horse With >No Name" is invariably credited to Neil Young. I mistakenly attributed that song to James Taylor, on the road home from a King Crimson concert this past Saturday. I blame all the funny noises Fripp was making for scrambling my brain. - --Jason "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 14:13:04 -0800 (PST) From: "Eugene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: Re: Names: The Good, The Bad, and the UK > From: "Jason R. Thornton" > Subject: Re: Names: The Good, The Bad, and the UK > > Too bad Eb wasn't invited to play piano - you could have been 'Broome > Broome Broome.' "The Broometown Rats" has a nice ring to it. . Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://platinum.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 14:19:09 -0800 (PST) From: "Eugene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: Re: No RH, Some RJ, Lots of Ricci > From: "Rex.Broome" > Subject: No RH, Some RJ > > The whole conundrum is based on a fallacy. "Hitler rapes Jesus, no news". > Untrue. Huge news. Quoting Spot 1019 (a band name with numbers which hasn't been mentioned yet): "Virgin Mary / had a little baby / cute as it could be. / God looked down from heavens / and said / "don't look a thing like me / you must be crazy." Oh, and you people talking about hottie actresses? Hello? Christina Ricci? Hello? Can't you people span time? . Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://platinum.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 17:37:18 -0500 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Re: reap >From: "Jason R. Thornton" >Subject: reap >Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 09:57:01 -0800 >http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030401/people_nm/leisure_hongkong_suicide_dc_6 > >http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/eastasia/view/36350/1/.html > >Leslie Cheung, That sucks, A Better Tomorrow is a favorite of mine. Max _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 14:38:22 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Fools As yet, I'm not aware of any good April Fools hoaxes spreading around today. Anyone? (At first, I thought that story about another American Idol being disqualified was a gag, but then I heard it from more official sources. ;)) Eb ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 14:57:46 -0800 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: And it all becomes clear at last... Jeffrey, two FF's short of a full deck: >>This is why we've been putting down all actors and actresses >>recently...with the conspicuous exception of Reese Witherspoon! And I really like her. Don't find her that attractive, but she's a way better comic actress than you'd expect. "Election" is great, and I love "Freeway" (which was also the beginning of the now-complete redemption (or perhaps more accurately "demption") of Kiefer Sutherland). When Kim Bauer was haplessly hitchhiking on "24" this year, did anyone else have visions of her being picked up by the psycho killer so hilariously portrayed by Kiefer his own bad self in "Freeway"? Seriously, anything to enliven that subplot... _______ da9ve: >>It would certainly sound like a machine that kills fascists. >>Maybe that's not informative. Nah, but it was good for a chuckle. ____ Marc H: >>On April 20 & 21 (that's Sunday and Monday of Easter >>weekend), Robyn will be performing a special show of 'Naff 70's Hits Against >>the War' at the Three Kings. I'm gonna guess... April Fools? Sounds cool, though. ___ Aaron: >>In the heyday of Napster (I assume this stuff still happens, I'm just not >>file-sharing much, if at all) I found it interesting to see who garnered >>misattributions. Yeah, interesting stuff. Apparently the Beatles performed every song ever recorded by each of their members in their subsequent solo careers. Not to mention a few songs with lead vocals by Tom Petty. My favorite, though, had to be "Pass the Dutchie" by Sonic Youth. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 14:50:09 -0800 From: Glen Uber Subject: Fool if you think it's over Once upon a time Eb say to me -- this is the dog talkin' now -- what is your conceptual continuity? > As yet, I'm not aware of any good April Fools hoaxes spreading around > today. Anyone? I saw a story about Hugh Grant quitting acting. However, it was on the Reuters site, so I'm guessing it's true. There was a story linked from Fark.com about Duran Duran reuniting with Simon, Nick, John, Andy and Roger. Can anyone confirm whether this is legit? I considered doing some low-key pranks today such as switching keyboard layouts, putting up BSOD screen savers on the PeeCees and having the Macs boot into the command-line. But seeing as I work for a non-profit whose donations are at an all-time low and my boss is to the point where he would probably fire his own mother to save a few cents, I thought better of it. - -- Cheers! - -g- "The line between us is so thin, I might as well be you. Everywhere I've ever been, I know you're going, too." --Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 16:52:18 -0600 From: Dolph Chaney Subject: Re: Names: The Good, The Bad, and the UK - ---- Original message ---- >Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 09:51:28 -0800 >From: "Rex.Broome" >Subject: Names: The Good, The Bad, and the UK >To: "'fegmaniax@smoe.org'" > >Quail's new can of worms: >>>Favorite album titles >>And I really want to put out an album called "Frampton Comes Alive". I >dunno why. The working title of my new CD is PLASTIC ONO BAND. Dibs! Dolph ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 15:05:37 -0800 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Finally... Just remembered the elusive "band whose records I always see in the cutout bins and who is named after a Husker Du song"... and the winner is: 59 Times the Pain! And a godawful name it is, indeed! Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 14:58:11 -0800 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: Fool if you think it's over At 02:50 PM 4/1/2003 -0800, Glen Uber wrote: >There was a story linked from Fark.com about Duran Duran reuniting with >Simon, Nick, John, Andy and Roger. Can anyone confirm whether this is legit? Yeah, that's pretty old news. I've been seeing mention of it in several publications/on-line news sites for awhile now. - --Jason "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 15:07:42 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Fools on 4/1/03 2:38 PM, Eb at ElBroome@earthlink.net wrote: > As yet, I'm not aware of any good April Fools hoaxes spreading around > today. Anyone? There was a big story around here about the San Jose Sharks moving to Winnipeg. But that's a hockey story, so nobody paid much attention. Gene Gene the Dancin' Machine: > Oh, and you people talking about hottie actresses? Hello? Christina Ricci? > Hello? > > Can't you people span time? > "Buffalo '66" was a kick ass movie. Christina's got kind of a butterface, but overall I'd put her up near the top of my list. Jubblies, - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 18:27:23 -0500 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Re: And it all becomes clear at last.../24 >From: "Rex.Broome" >Subject: And it all becomes clear at last... >Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 14:57:46 -0800 >When Kim Bauer was haplessly hitchhiking on "24" this year, did anyone else >have visions of her being picked up by the psycho killer so hilariously >portrayed by Kiefer his own bad self in "Freeway"? Seriously, anything to >enliven that subplot... No, but I was secretly wishing she would get shot instead of the store owner last week. Amazing how good that show is even with a third of it being just about the worst thing on the tube. Max _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 17:48:48 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Johnny Bravo!!!! BLATZMAN wrote: > > ... I pretty much do a horrendous Fred Schneider > impersonation this sounds interesting. Which incarnation of Fred do you do? - - The B-52's - - FS & The Shake Society - - Just Fred ? If you could do the last one, I'm very very worried that we're standing on the same bit of land ... Stewart (probably the only obsessive fan of The B-52's on the list.) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 15:53:58 -0800 From: Glen Uber Subject: Impressionism Once upon a time BLATZMAN@aol.com say to me -- this is the dog talkin' now - -- what is your conceptual continuity? > I pretty much do a horrendous Fred Schneider impersonation I know for a fact that a couple other fegs do some great impressions. Mark Gloster does a hilariously exaggerated George Herbert Walker Bush impression and Tom Clark is wickedly funny as Hank Hill and Damone from "Fast Times at Ridgemont High". Does anyone else on the list do impressions or impersonations? Musically, I can pull off Jim Morrison, Chris Issak, Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan fairly well. I also used to sing both Neil D.'s and Barbra's parts of "You Don't Bring Me Flowers". In addition, I can mimic a few other folks, ie approximate their voices and phrasings. But I wouldn't call any of those out and out impersonations. More like homages or tributes. My non-musical impressions include Cartman and Mr. Mackey from South Park, Montgomery Burns from the Simpsons, Boomhauer from King of the Hill, and Ronald Reagan. Interesting to note that they're all 2-dimensional characters. ;) - -- Cheers! - -g- "The line between us is so thin, I might as well be you. Everywhere I've ever been, I know you're going, too." --Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 11:56:45 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Two men say they're Jesus - one of them must be wrong (RH=0.001%) >Quoting Charlotte Tupman : > >> I notice that a number of people have left the list due to the huge amount >> of emails (I went away for a couple of days and came back to find over 200 >> emails)! While I love the various discussions that make up fegmaniax, I was >> wondering whether there could be put in place some sort of list policy so I always find the digests easy enough, but there is a separate info-only list isn't there? woj? - --- Pythia continues to intrigue... but I haven't a clue about that riddle. >Well, there is a third option. The Bible could be correct about the >resurrection and ascension of Mr. Christ. If this were so, the post-dead >Jesus body could still be alive in "heaven," and could have conceivably >returned to Earth during Adolf's lifetime and at this point could have been >violated by Mr. Hitler. option 4 - someone with better theological memory than me might be able to confirm that the return of the Messiah is at approximately the same time that the dead return from their graves. I think the news media will be too busy at that time to report the rape of Hitler. option 5 - 'rape' is used in a figurative sense (more likely, I suppose), or refers to what's been going on in Hell since Hitler's death. And before anyone suggests it, Jesus, as a component of God, is theoretically omnipresent, so He's in Hell too. Or, to put it in language y'all might dig, hey, "Time will destroy you like a Mexican God". - --- >I haven't really thought much about Gwyneth Paltrow one way or the other, >but I did have a dream a few months ago in which she and I were >dating. Nothing risque, just hanging out and such. I'm not sure from >where exactly in the deep dark recesses of my subconscious my psyche pulled >that out. possibly the same one that recently had me singing backing vocals for the Velvets, alongside Cale. Lou was on drums and Mo on guitar though, which was odd. No sign of Sterling - must've been after he died. >> I was doing some gardening research and thought a few of you might enjoy >> this: >> http://www.qbgardens.com/ > >But where were the QUAILS? All I saw were *plants!* Plants everywhere! Where >were all the potted quails? forget the Qquails - where are the prawns??? James PS - two degrees: my cousin recently did Gwyneth P's make-up 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: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 11:57:07 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Banned names >> I'd say "industrial folk music" would simply be folk-music >> -like tunes, >> about the daily lives and tribulations of, well, folk, >> performed on various >> everyday domestic hardware: hammers, saws, etc., with a >> probable emphasis on factory situations as well. > >Maybe. SOmething in the family of Woody Guthrie meets >Einsturzende Neubauten for sure, but I could never quite figure >out how the marriage would work. I'd look at music like that of Snuff (Thrash-ska-folk), Hedningarna (goth-punk-folk) and Suzanne Vega's 99.9Fdef as possible jumping off points, plus the deconstructions of Industrium Post Mortem: China. Sounds like an interesting idea though... >>>By the way Rex, remember, I came up with There Goes Bill while reading >>>Alice in Wonderland > >Yep. Anyone doing a Google search on our ex-band will be treated to endless >pages of "Alice" transcripts. actually, the first page of ten from Google produced seven Carroll related, one on Bill Clinton, one on a band called "The Meen Weenys" (another one for the awful list!), and... Glass Hotel. >> I don't think this is particularly bad - except for the "ha-ha very funny" >> factor that (get this!) there were only three of them. How many >> bands are in that category? > >There's the Jurassic 5, of course. one of my favourite names of this type is Fortran 5. BTW - what is it makes Kraftwerk a good name and Power Station a bad one? >> Too bad Eb wasn't invited to play piano - you could have been 'Broome >> Broome Broome.' > >or... The New Broomes? >Hey, that jars loose a few of the names I was trying to remember, bands >named after someone else's song. Oddly it reminded me of Baby Lemonade, >named after the Syd song but often seen as Arthur Lee's backing band (with >whom one Robyn Hitchcock recently guested!)... and then of course that leads >inevitably to the Gigolo Aunts. and what about bands named for movie titles or books? What makes The Go-Betweens or The Cruel Sea a better name than Guadalcanal Diary? Or They Might Be Giants a better name than They Were Expendable? And what of Uriah Heep and The Triffids*? And any discussion of the "Joe Bloggs and the Others" type names is not complete without mentioning Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, which I always thought was a great name. James (who thinks The Geneva Convention is a great name and should be used for a band immediately!) * Actually "Uriah Heep and the Triffids" sounds quite good... 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: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 19:09:37 EST From: BLATZMAN@aol.com Subject: Re: Impressionism In a message dated 4/1/03 4:54:13 PM, apostrophe@cruxofthebiscuit.com writes: << Does anyone else on the list do impressions or impersonations? >> Actually, I've been told that I sound like Ian McNabb, which I guess I tend to agree with. I've been unconsciously ripping him off for 20 years, so its not surprising!!!!! Blatzy ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 19:23:13 -0500 From: noam tchotchke Subject: Re: Two men say they're Jesus - one of them must be wrong (RH=0.001%) one time at band camp, James Dignan said: > >Quoting Charlotte Tupman : > > > >> I notice that a number of people have left the list due to the huge amount > >> of emails (I went away for a couple of days and came back to find over 200 > >> emails)! While I love the various discussions that make up fegmaniax, > I was > >> wondering whether there could be put in place some sort of list policy so > >I always find the digests easy enough, but there is a separate info-only >list isn't there? woj? yep. fegmaniax-announce@smoe.org. it's moderated so the only stuff that shows up there are news-and-reviews from the main list. it's not exactly what charlotte is looking for though i suppose you could subscribe to both and read the fegmaniax-announce stuff first... woj ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 18:57:28 -0600 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: best band name yet... In a completely unrelated context, this message from someone on Loudfans: - ----- Forwarded message from Stewart ----- you're busy dodging potholes on Mem Drive, such as the one now dubbed The Stereophonic Jesus Hole, since the first time we saw ourselves barreling down on top of it, Charity and I both said "GEE-zus!" in the exact same tone at the exact same time. We're now taking bets on who will record a song called "Stereophonic Jesus Hole" first, Steve Albini or Bob Pollard. S - ----- End forwarded message ----- ..Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html :: This album is dedicated to anyone who started out as an animal and :: winds up as a processing unit. :: --Soft Boys, note, _Can of Bees_ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 20:03:17 -0500 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Re: Impressionism >From: Glen Uber >Subject: Impressionism >Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 15:53:58 -0800 >Does anyone else on the list do impressions or >impersonations? My father in-law and Al Pacino(when I have a cold). I suppose a couple of others, people sometimes think they can and they are awful, I don't want to create false expectations. Sometimes when someone is really bad and knows it it can be funny as well. Pork chops and apple sauce, Max _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 19:25:31 -0600 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: Fools Quoting Tom Clark : > Christina's got kind of a > butterface, [please note, before reading this, please attach your computer's entire supply of both exclamation marks and questions marks to the end of the following remark. Thank you.] What?! Noboby better mess with my Christina, or I'll go all stalker on ya. ..Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html :: When the only tool you have is an interociter, you tend to treat :: everything as if it were a fourth-order nanodimensional sub-quantum :: temporo-spatial anomaly. :: --Crow T. Maslow ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 19:31:33 -0600 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: Impressionism Quoting Maximilian Lang : > >From: Glen Uber > >Subject: Impressionism > >Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 15:53:58 -0800 > > >Does anyone else on the list do impressions or > >impersonations? Not really...but several years ago when I had a cold and was trying to sing along with a record, I realized that I kinda sounded like Jonathan Richman. So I wrote a little Richman-esque ditty to go along with my altered voice, something about eating breakfast. I actually recorded it on a cheapo little tape recorder, a capella. It's pretty awful. - --Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society http://www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html :: Empire is incompatible with democracy. Democracy is founded on the :: rule of law, empire on the rule of force. Democracy is a system of :: self-determination, empire a system of military conquest. :: --Jonathan Schell ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 22:59:31 -0500 From: noam tchotchke Subject: robyn in spain in addition to the 3 kings benefit gig mentioned on the museum, the april 2nd gig was also filled in: in case anyone missed it, it's at garaje de tia maria in murcia. there's an article, in spanish, about the show at murcia rock: babelfish's "translation" is at woj ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 22:28:13 -0800 From: Barbara Soutar Subject: the U.N. Has anyone else heard that Bill Clinton is supposed to succeed Kofi Annan as head of the U.N.? The plot thickens. Barbara Soutar Victoria, British Columbia ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 23:05:28 -0800 From: Glen Uber Subject: April Foolery For Eb and the others who were wondering about great online hoaxes for April Fools Day, check this shizzit: http://www.barebones.com/company/press.php?news_id=83 - -- Cheers! - -g- "The flowers of intolerance and hatred are blooming kind of early this year, someone's been watering them." --Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 12:51:56 +0100 (BST) From: crowbar.joe@btopenworld.com Subject: To be quite george with you, Frank >I marvel at how often "Brown Eyed Girl" and "Stuck in the Middle >with >You" get attributed to Bob Dylan. > >Eb Live, Sinatra apparently used to announce, Something, as his favourite Lennon and McCartney number... Ol' Short Arse also released an album called Sinatra Sings Great Songs From Great Britain...An early front-runner in the worst album title stakes, I'd wager... Crowbar Joe I'll be at the Feghorn on at least one of those April dates shouting for Rhinestone Cowboy. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 13:30:18 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: Johnny Bravo!!!! On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > (probably the only obsessive fan of The B-52's on the list.) We've got them 55 miles down the road at Fairford at the moment. I wish they'd go home. ... Oh, you mean those B52s. In about 1995 I learnt to play 'Love Shack' with an 11-piece band called (wait for it) the Lunch Lizards. But my most memorable group name was in 1974: Laurie Van Truck and the Automobiles... - - Mike Godwin, aged 55 and 4 days PS My sister-in-law gave me that Schott's Miscellany thing for my b'day. He uses 'emoticon', as does Netscape 7, which I think is conclusive (: Schott is a wonderful source for pub quizzers, though he does get the date of Sgt Pepper wrong by 4 years. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 13:40:33 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: more RH shows On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Marc Holden wrote: > Wish I could be there for these: > On April 20 & 21 (that's Sunday and Monday of Easter > weekend), Robyn will be performing a special show of 'Naff 70's Hits Against > The War' at the Three Kings. Musicians involved include Kimberley, Morris, > Paul Noble, and on Monday, Terry Edwards. Tickets are #10 and will be at the > door only. All money will be donated to Oxfam or Unicef, and will go > specifically towards relieving the victims of the US/British war on Iraq. > The Three Kings > 7 Clerkenwell Close > London EC1 > Tel: 020-7253-0483 Is that Paul Noble from Eat? I played bass for him a few times when he was in a local blues band about 15 years ago. Good guitar player, if it is him. - - MRG ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 08:18:36 -0500 From: Johnathan Vail Subject: RE: Band names: High Numbers (some Robyn, way more Syd/Arthur Lee ) ------------------------------ From: "Rex.Broome" Glen: >>That said, I once considered naming a band "7 & 7 Is...". Hey, that jars loose a few of the names I was trying to remember, bands named after someone else's song. Oddly it reminded me of Baby Lemonade, named after the Syd song but often seen as Arthur Lee's backing band (with whom one Robyn Hitchcock recently guested!)... and then of course that leads inevitably to the Gigolo Aunts. ------------------------------ It's all Gigolo Aunts until someone puts an eye out... I wondered about this and have a GA album that I bought because of the name of the band. I can't find anything Sydalicious about them. Did they really take their name from a Syd song? I suspect that the term "Gigolo Aunt" is some Anglo expression the led independantly to the song and the band name. Anyone have any facts? Or even interesting lies made up to resemble facts? jv <- Ask me about my Echo and the Bunneymen name theory. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 15:09:59 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: RE: (some Robyn, way more Syd) On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Johnathan Vail wrote: > It's all Gigolo Aunts until someone puts an eye out... > I wondered about this and have a GA album that I bought because of the > name of the band. I can't find anything Sydalicious about them. Did > they really take their name from a Syd song? > I suspect that the term "Gigolo Aunt" is some Anglo expression the led > independantly to the song and the band name. > Anyone have any facts? Or even interesting lies made up to resemble > facts? I can't see how they could have got the name from anywhere except the Syd song. I'm not even convinced that Syd meant to call it that, I think he started off by writing "I know what you are, you are the gigolo aren't you, you're the gigolo aren't you?", then changed the words when he found he couldn't fit in the last syllable. I read the new Syd book yesterday by that journalist who doorstepped RKB. He's dug out some interesting facts (e.g. "Cornering neatly she trips up sweetly to meet the people" is a play on the name of his girlfriend Lindsey Corner) but he appears to have no musical taste whatsoever. He describes the song "Opel" as 'appalling' (what an idiot, eh, Mike?), he offhandedly slags off Robyn, and he thinks Syd invented the ball-bearing sound _before_ signing for Blackhill, whereas Miles says (and I believe him) that Jenner and King had already signed another group who did this and introduced Syd to it. Good photos, though. I'll just have to make do with this until someone gives me $800 for the Mick Rock book. - - Mike Godwin PS He also refers several times to a mate of Syd's from Cambridge called David Gale. That wouldn't be David Gale of Lumiere & Son, would it? I used to know him at one time. n.p. "That's a G.I.R.L. F-R-E-N, that's a girlfriend" ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V12 #127 ********************************