From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V12 #134 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, April 8 2003 Volume 12 : Number 134 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: Merging of left and right wing? ["Brian Huddell" ] RE: Maryland (squid content, 2%) ["Brian Huddell" ] Misty taste of moonshine, teardrop in my eye ["Rex.Broome" ] Rock A Hula Pizza [Tom Clark ] Re: Rock A Hula Pizza [Steve Talkowski ] Re: Rock A Hula Pizza [Sabina Carlson ] Re: The big guns [steve ] RE: reap (12:40 pm) [Mike Swedene ] Re: the U.N. [steve ] RE: Interesting, but not surprising (5% Zeppelin) [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeff] Re: Drug Store Truck Drivin' Gear Changes [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey ] Polyphonic Spree on tour [steve ] Re: Rock A Hula Pizza ["Stewart C. Russell" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 18:27:28 -0500 From: "Brian Huddell" Subject: RE: Merging of left and right wing? > Here's a story I read on Yahoo today that seems to indicate that the > political left and right wing are beginning to merge on some > issues. Did you actually read the article? It says Nader and Gingrich both: are "passionate intellectuals who have weathered scorn for occasionally outlandish ideas" "have begun winding down careers that saw their greatest successes years ago" share "a common goal of fixing America's public schools" oppose "favoring sports teams over schools" That's it. There may be a case, somewhere, for the kind of convergence you're talking about, but it sure ain't in this article. I'm not offended or anything, just a little baffled. People are always surprised to find out that Gingrich doesn't have horns. He's a smart guy, good speaker, just wrong about almost everything in my opinion. +brian in New Orleans ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 11:38:01 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Maryland (squid content, 2%) >> Perhaps I should explain that "Laurie" is pronounced "Lorry" in England. > >Uh, but...I think that was the point of the original joke. > >Actually, "Laurie" is pronounced the same as "lorry" here in Wisconsin too - >frankly, I'm not sure how the two words would be pronounced differently. now I'm confused... how could it possibly be pronounced other than as 'lorry'? The idea had never occurred to me that it was possible.. >Then (as another list was recently discussing), I've never heard anyone here >differentiate among "merry," "Mary," and "marry" (or "Erin" and >"Aaron"). Oh, don't get me started on the Erin/Aaron business. It's one of the banes of "Newzild English" along with beer/bear and warrior/worrier as far as I'm concerned. Still largely having a English accent, I differentiate, but frequently get confused when I hear beople who don't. >The state gets pronounced more or less like the name "Marilyn" only w/a >light "d" sound at the end, so...no. I gather that the vowel in "merry" is >closer to a short "e" while that of "Mary" is closer to a long "a"... (Of >course, natives may pronounce it differently I've also heard it as Merlin. And - believe it or not - I have just finished watching a rerun of Homicide (one of the "Emma Zool" episodes) where it was pronounced in just that way. >I hate that damn song, not just because of John Denver, but because the >specific geographical features mentioned in the song ("Shenandoah River... >Blue Ridge Mountains...") aren't even in West Virginia. No, they're in west Virginia, not West Virginia. Majuscule, minuscule, inaudible. Toots and the Maytals' version is better though, "Almos' Heaven, wes' Jamaica..." As for the place name Delmarva, I'm kinda sad the name Deseret disappeared from US geography. >and no-one in MD has ever heard of the rather passe UK pub grub "Chicken >Maryland". Probably just as well, as: > >a) it's nasty; fried pineapple, anyone? And fried banana too. Lovely. Don't you dis fried pineapple. Delicious. And a major part of a fish & chips meal: Fish, chips, fried pineapple and squid rings*. Delicious. James *ring sections of (ordinary, not giant!) squid meat. Tastes like a cross between chicken and lobster. very very nice. 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, 8 Apr 2003 11:38:08 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Best ofs, and Canada >>>My strongest complaint with most Beach Boys' comps is that none of them, >to >>>my knowledge, contain the brilliant "shouldabeenahit" "Sail On Sailor". >That >>>song rules! a bit like never seeing "Spirits having flown" on BeeGees compilations (I know - guilty pleasure). >Interesting. But in order to invade we(used to mean a minority of United >States voters who somehow get counted as a majority) would first have to be >convinced you were Ee-villl. I see a good comedy routine here ... Bushwack >trying to sell Americans on the Ee-villlness of perfidious Canada. Why does a certain South Park song seem to be running through my head? 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: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 19:49:16 -0400 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Rant on parents Hi, Okay, I have no problem with kids but sometimes the parents are nauseating. Has anyone ever gotten a thank you card from a 1 year olds birthday party? First off the kid is having a party? They don't even know what a birthday party is at 1 year old. Why don't the parents have a party where people don't get guilted into buying some toy, try Arbor Day or Flag Day or Frozen Food Month(March I think). Better yet a party that isn't all adults. The card thing is really what bugs me. They usually go something like 'Thank you for the lovely rubber ducky, I love to play with it at bath time . thank you for coming to my party'. What a load of cheese that is, ever get one where the parent does the fake sloppy one year old handwriting? I was at the party the most profound utterance was gahhhguuu. Please, spare me. just venting, Max(who has been too many 1 year old parents parties) _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 18:52:05 -0500 From: "Brian Huddell" Subject: RE: Maryland (squid content, 2%) > *ring sections of (ordinary, not giant!) squid meat. Tastes > like a cross between chicken and lobster. very very nice. And not at all uncommon in the US. Except we call it "Calamari" which makes it taste even better! +brian in New Orleans ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 11:53:24 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: The Beatles, 1967-1970 >The Beatles, 1967-1970 >Still remember the shock of this collection after 10 year-old me bought >and adored the Red collection. I always mention the Clash and Springsteen >as the artists that changed my listening habits, but this collection >probably laid the groundwork. my beloved Alice had a very sheltered upbringing musically. She describes this album and its partner in the Liverpool and Everton colours as being the two records that ripped the covers off her cerebral cortex, musically speaking. 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: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 19:17:32 -0500 From: "Gene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: Re: reap (12:40 pm) >From: Eb >Subject: reap (12:40 pm) > >My father. Terrible news indeed. You have my sympathy, Eb. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 17:32:00 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Misty taste of moonshine, teardrop in my eye Miles: >>The CD I saw in our yard ("Wonder why someone dropped a Def Leppard CD >>in our yard...") that was my first tipoff that our CDs had been stolen in '95. A) That sucks. B) Did they discard anything else? I just can't contain my curiosity... hopefully enough time has elapsed that you've dealt with the theft... As to your list of RIAA Top 100 stuff you have, I'm gonna plead age difference on the "arena-rock" stuff. Couldn't stand it then so I have no nostalgic "in" to it now. But we all now know that I was listening to Kenny Rogers 'n' Shit instead, so I got no excuse nor any real aesthetic argument there. Zepplin I was just overexposed to as a teenager. The machismo never clicked with me the way it did with most of my puberty-age friends-- something about Zepplin and the Doors had a way of making zitty, scrawny teenagers feel like sex gods; never understood that m'self. And for something I didn't enjoy *that* much, I sure did hear a lot of it, and thus never need to again. The Beatles escaped the same fate because I really like "Revolver" and they didn't do "Stairway to Heaven". Oh yeah, I also had to play Zepplin covers in my band and they were really really boring. That goes for the Eagles, too. Those were tradeoffs for the REM tunes I wanted to do, I think. "Nevermind" I only neverlistento because it has too many songs that have never dropped out of the modern-rock/soundtrack/pop culture playlist... constant involuntary exposure is grating in anything. It's a good record, though. "Ten", on the other hand... I've grown to accept Pearl Jam, but that first record bugged the hell out of me at the time (whutziss, an AC/DC cover band with guys wearing rasta-hats and making stinky-guitar-faces, and it's supposed to be "alternative" and "grungey"?) and the fact that the singles are ubiquitous to this day while their later, less irritating stuff has vanished... it's too much. Mostly, though, I avoid purchasing stuff that fits the following criteria: I'm lukewarm on it, and yet it's so popular or considered so important that I will never want for any number of friends from whom to borrow it if for some reason it vanishes from the airwaves. Currently in this category: Radiohead, Coldplay, almost any other such British "next big thing" band; any alt-country solo artist being sold on the basis of hunkiness, etc. >>Rex, can't speak for hearts 'n' minds, but I know that as a southern West >>Virginian, when my friends and I were at the state basketball tournament in a >>hotel elevator crammed with Wheeling Central cheerleaders babbling Valley- >>Girl-fashion about going to the Galleria after the game, they sure didn't sound >>like any West Virginians I knew. Neither did (or do) I. Yes, we Northern West Virginians are pretty fake, and yeah, that Valleyspeak was fairly prevalent in my day. And we were often wont to be eager to distinguish ourselves from the South (snake-handlin'-church territory as we saw it). Adamant about being both West Virginians and Northerners, but in effect more Midwestern than either, that's the general vibe. Kind of strange. >> So there went my great chance to determine if the Eastern Panhandle should >>have been lopped off and annexed to Maryland. Maybe. If you buy a jigsaw puzzle of the US with the pieces cut to simulate state borders, you'll see the both the Northern *and* Eastern Panhandles have gone AWOL. In any case, due to where I grew up, my lack of accent (other than "mild Californian") and my wife's Maryland history, I could probably lie about being a Marylander-- say, from Cumberland, where we went to shop-- and "pass". Culturally it's viable; Chesapeake seafood was certainly the cuisine we identified with, and my mom taught in Maryland and brought home a lot of MD state history (whereas my dad taught PE in WV, but apparently the rules for flag football were the same in both states). But I never ever had a home address in Maryland, and something about the scorn constantly heaped upon West-By-God has made me more defiant than embarrassed about being from there. Which is maybe typical of the state after all? Dunno. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 00:41:48 +0000 From: "K L N W" Subject: [none] Per "Emily, Whereever I might Find Her" Sebastian wrote: >The Greatest Hits doesn't have a different *studio* recording but rather a >live recording of the song. It's just beautiful. BTW, I'm >talking about >the LP, which my sister got when I was about 6 ;-) 6 or not, a young Garfunckle singing is pure ear-candy. I bet its beautiful. - ---------------- Max, rant away. A one year old's bday party is really to congradulate the kid's parents -- that they survived! Anything else is deniel or idiocy. I couldn't stand being on a dog l-serve, partially because people kept insisting as writing in as their dogs. And for some reason, most of the dogs wrote in baby-talk. I kept waiting for an emoticon in the shape of a paw. - ------------- BrianH: >And not at all uncommon in the US. Except we call it "Calamari" which > >makes it taste even better! Mmmmm, with aioli. Damn it, now Im hungry. The best little pizzia place in Philly makes what they call Hawian pizzia with ham, onions and piniapple and who knows what else on it. It took me months to screw up my courage and try it, but like everything else they make, its delisc. - ----------------- Kay, working late. _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 18:25:36 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Rock A Hula Pizza on 4/7/03 5:41 PM, K L N W at lordnewis@hotmail.com wrote: > The best little pizzia place in Philly makes what they call Hawian pizzia > with ham, onions and piniapple and who knows what else on it. It took me > months to screw up my courage and try it, but like everything else they > make, its delisc. Come to California. You're not allowed to open a pizza joint here unless you offer Hawaiian. Unfortunately, that means there are very few places that make REAL pizza. I'm talking about thin crust with sauce that's loaded with oregano, just mozzarella cheese (I almost puked when I was served pizza with a combination mozzarella/cheddar), and lots of olive oil. The kind you can find in every mom & pop corner pizza place in the tri-state area (NY-NJ-CT). Sorry for the rant. I've lived out here for twelve years and I've only found two places that make good pizza. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 22:00:29 -0400 From: Steve Talkowski Subject: Re: Rock A Hula Pizza On Monday, April 7, 2003, at 09:25 PM, Tom Clark wrote: > I'm talking about thin crust with sauce that's loaded > with oregano, just mozzarella cheese (I almost puked when I was served > pizza > with a combination mozzarella/cheddar), and lots of olive oil. Pizza with Pineapple? Tried it once, didn't float my boat. I'm partial to sausage and mushrooms. Yesterday, however, I had my first ever truly vegan pizza, comprised of spelt grain crust, soy cheese, soy pepperoni and onions. Know what? It wasn't half bad! (I had three pieces while watching "Six Feet Under".) - -Steve ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 22:29:03 -0400 From: Sabina Carlson Subject: Re: Rock A Hula Pizza steve: > Yesterday, however, I had my first ever truly vegan pizza, comprised of > spelt grain crust, soy cheese, soy pepperoni and onions. > > Know what? It wasn't half bad! i love vegan pizza! at least the one i had in philly... that place also served vegan cheesecake and it was the best cheesecake i ever had! anyways not important just thought i'd share... :-) and it's only a poisonous cheese, sabina sheena ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 21:33:13 -0500 From: steve Subject: Re: The big guns On Monday, April 7, 2003, at 01:36 PM, Barbara Soutar wrote: > Today's diplomatic Blair/Bush meeting in Ireland is supposed > to be a veiled threat to the warring factions there I suppose? I suspect that Tony will try to convince George to act like something other than an Ugly American. A hopeless quest, I think. - - Steve __________ It's an old shibboleth of those who want to inject religion into public life that they're honoring the spirit of the nation's founders. - David Greenberg ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 19:38:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Swedene Subject: RE: reap (12:40 pm) > My father. Deepest Sympathies. Mike ===== - --------------------------------------------- Rebuilding my websight: http://www34.brinkster.com/bflomidy/ _____________________________________________ Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 21:43:51 -0500 From: steve Subject: Re: the U.N. On Wednesday, April 2, 2003, at 12:28 AM, Barbara Soutar wrote: > Has anyone else heard that Bill Clinton is supposed to succeed Kofi > Annan as head of the U.N.? I *wish* we could get this rumor started down here. I'm sure it would cause a good number of strokes amongst the wingnuts. - - Steve __________ The Bushies hail pre-emption as a brilliant innovation by The Man, except when they're downplaying it as nothing new to worry about. - Michael Kinsley ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 21:52:32 -0500 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: RE: Interesting, but not surprising (5% Zeppelin) Quoting Sebastian Hagedorn : > > Rex: > >> #33 Simon & Garfunkel's Greatest Hits (another >redundant comp) > > Sebastain: > >> Not entirely redundant. It has my favorite recording of "For Emily, > >> Whenever I May Find Her". > > > > Theres another version? Whats the dif? > > Well, what I wrote may have been misleading. The Greatest Hits doesn't > have > a different *studio* recording but rather a live recording of the song. > It's just beautiful. Absolutely - because I knew this version first, the studio version just leaves me cold. On the live one, Artie just sings hell out of it, and the guitar break features this great tumbling-over-itself solo...one of my favorite musical moments. ..Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html :: Some days, you just can't get rid of a bomb :: --Batman ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 22:09:17 -0500 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: Drug Store Truck Drivin' Gear Changes Quoting "Rex.Broome" : > Hmmm. On every title I clicked, the guy actually had good things to say > about the songs (up to calling "Green" a "classic album"... eh?). But I > am > still slightly nonplussed about the qualifications... my understanding > is > that the modulation has to occur within any given chord sequence, as in > "chorus -> chorus modulated a whole step", whereas "chorus --> bridge > --> > chorus modulated a whole step" wouldn't qualify... right? > > If I'm wrong, I'd nominate "Surrender" by Cheap Trick, certainly the > most > popular song to ever contain a *half step* modulation. Discovering that > did > a number on my brain, lemme tellya. "Surrender" is mentioned in his comments on the Breeders' "Cannonball" - which confused me at first. See, I don't think that's a modulation - I think Kim Deal just initially played the lick in the wrong key, corrected it, and they decided to leave the wrong-key lick in the song. She plays it halfway through, kinda stops, and then the song proper starts, up a step (if I remember correctly). I believe the live version of "Close to the Edge" (on _Yessongs_) modulates its final part a step *downward* (by adding two beats, too!) to accommodate Anderson's voice being a bit tired by that point in the show. One of my all-time favorite modulations is the outchorus to Thin White Rope's "On the Floe": it's a cool chord sequence to begin with, but somehow they modulate the thing all the way 'round the dial. People who are less sleepy than I am right now are welcome to listen to it and submit an analysis of what's actually going on there (or maybe I will tomorrow). - --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: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 23:59:17 -0500 (CDT) From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: Maryland (squid content, 2%) James: >No, they're in west Virginia, not West Virginia. Majuscule, minuscule, >inaudible. Except no one from there would say "west Virginia." It's always "western Virginia." At least in my experience. But if people gide past the "-ern," confusion could reign, sure. However the writers of *that* song definitely were captial W-ing, all the way down those country roads. I asked Melissa how many of the top 100 RIAA records she thought we'd own (without her looking at the titles). She guessed "five," so she was only off by 30 or so. later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 09:11:56 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Drug Store Truck Drivin' Gear Changes - --On Montag, 7. April 2003 22:09 Uhr -0500 Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey wrote: > One of my all-time favorite modulations is the outchorus to Thin White > Rope's "On the Floe": it's a cool chord sequence to begin with, but > somehow they modulate the thing all the way 'round the dial. That also happens with Lou Reed's Halloween Parade off the New York album. I only noticed it when I tried to play it on guitar ... ;-) As with *all* rules I think it is too simple to say that this kind of modulation is bad. It depends on how you employ it. There is certainly the cliche modulation that deserves to be ridiculed, but that doesn't make all "gear changes" bad. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn PGP key ID: 0x4D105B45 Ehrenfeldg|rtel 156 50823 Kvln http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 09:33:02 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: The Beatles, 1967-1970 - --On Dienstag, 8. April 2003 11:53 Uhr +1200 James Dignan wrote: >> The Beatles, 1967-1970 >> Still remember the shock of this collection after 10 year-old me bought >> and adored the Red collection. I always mention the Clash and >> Springsteen as the artists that changed my listening habits, but this >> collection probably laid the groundwork. > > my beloved Alice had a very sheltered upbringing musically. She describes > this album and its partner in the Liverpool and Everton colours as being > the two records that ripped the covers off her cerebral cortex, musically > speaking. I can't say that, as they have *always* been with me. I grew up on these two albums, the aforementioned Simon & Garfunkel Greatest Hits and an Abba collection. Those four were the *only* LPs my five years older sister had ... The first ones I bought for myself were: Abba - "The Album", Queen - "Live Killers", Scorpions - "Love Drive" :-) - -- Sebastian Hagedorn PGP key ID: 0x4D105B45 Ehrenfeldg|rtel 156 50823 Kvln http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 13:23:09 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: [Fireparty] The Magic Band live at Sheperds Bush Empire Definitive set list: Hair Pie - Rockette Morton solo Instrumentals: add John French on drums, Gary Mantis Lucas and Denny Feelers Reebo Walley on guitar My Human Gets Me Blues Abba Zabba Hair Pie (full band version) Steal softly thru sunshine steal softly thru snow 3/4 time drum solo leading into On Tomorrow Evening Bell - Gary Mantis Lucas solo Instrumental band: Alice in Blunderland (Gary does a searing Elliott Ingber solo) I want a woman who'll hold my big toe till I go Veteran's Day Poppy Untitled poem by Don van Vliet read by Gary Mantis Lucas By this time I am laughing like a MANIAK. Now a number of observations take place. John French, wearing a cream fedora (snappy band) and a long light mac, comes out from behind the drums and is replaced by Robert Arthur Williams. John says he is going to sing, not to impersonate Don, but as a tribute "I am his biggest fan" [Why, John, after the rotten way he refused to credit you for all your work on Trout Mask?]. Anyway, John French sings and plays harmonica on: Floppy Boot Stomp - full band China Pig - John Drumbo French and Denny Feelers Reebo Walley Back to the full band: Dropout Boogie Nowadays a woman's got to hit a man When it blows it stacks (Won't you find out the) Circumstances I'm gonna boogalarize you baby Click Clack (which Rockette ends with a very slick bass flip) Moonlight on Vermont End of set. Encores: Sun zoom spark - full band Well - John Drumbo French solo vocal Big Eyed Beans from Venus Further observations: something went awry on On Tomorrow - did Gary break a string? He certainly broke one on 'Moonlight on Vermont'. John forgot a line on Well, but the audience sang it anyway. Rockette is now a bit too tubby to do his famed slither and slide round the stage (so precisely captured by Alberto and his Trios Lost Paranoias in years gone by) but he jigs about happily. . On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, Rob van der Kroef wrote: > By the way, maybe a stupid question (keep on walking and don4t look back), > did you miss Zoot Horn Rollo in the lineup? Yes of course. Feelers Reebo hit the long lunar note pretty well, but it didn't actually spiral into the stratosphere in 1973 fashion. And it would have been great to see Alex St Clair, Jeff Cotton, Jerry Handley, Jeff Moris Tepper, and particularly Art Ed Marimba Tripp on marimba. However, this was a fine lineup, a worthy Magic Band, and I never expected to see anything like it ever again. "Aren't they great songs?" asks John. Well, yes. - - Mike Godwin PS The evening was almost (but not quite) ruined by the INANE REVOLTING ELECTRONIC MUSIC which played for more than an hour before the band came on (I was the one yelling "Play some Slim Harpo"). ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 14:14:42 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: Drug Store Truck Drivin' Gear Changes On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, Rex.Broome wrote: > I'd nominate "Surrender" by Cheap Trick, certainly the most popular song > to ever contain a *half step* modulation. Discovering that did a number > on my brain, lemme tellya. That's a killer, and it's on their list. Personally, I think the upward key change is _great_, and I like a large percentage of these songs: "These are crazy crazy crazy crazy nights" (the only hit Kiss ever had in the UK, IIRC), "Denis", "Fever", "Magic Moments" (I sang that at a karaoke recently), "Brandy" (which I think is the same song as "Mandy", isn't it, but thankfully not sung by Manilow), "Merry Christmas Everyone", "Take my breath away", "Soul Man", and "You to me are everything". But the best number on the list is surely Rainbow "Since you been gone". - - MRG PS Why do they credit "Uptown girl" to someone other than Billy Joel? Is this a different song? n.p. Bruce Channel "Hey baby" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 09:25:55 -0400 (EDT) From: "Jonathan Fetter" Subject: Re: Rock A Hula Pizza > Pizza with Pineapple? Tried it once, didn't float my boat. I'm > partial to sausage and mushrooms. "Hawaiian Pizza" with ham and pineapple is actually pretty delish, IMO. Pizza with corn, however, is just wrong. Jon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 08:55:17 -0500 From: steve Subject: Polyphonic Spree on tour I just got a notice that The Polyphonic Spree is going on tour. Rather than post the whole thing, dates can be found on their website. http://www.thepolyphonicspree.com/main.html If you think you'd like Brian Wilson sounding stuff played by around 30 people in robes, then they might be worth a try. - - Steve __________ I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either. - Trent Lott ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 10:22:42 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Rock A Hula Pizza Jonathan Fetter wrote: > > Pizza with corn, however, is just wrong. Not if it's a Tandoori Chicken with Sweetcorn pizza. 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