From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V12 #139 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Saturday, April 12 2003 Volume 12 : Number 139 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Blooze, booze ["Rex.Broome" ] RE: fretteurism ["da9ve stovall" ] Various uncles sing the blues ["Rex.Broome" ] The New Apple Records [Tom Clark ] Are you sure you want a major label deal? [Glen Uber ] Re: The New Apple Records [Tom Clark ] Re: Seriously [gshell@metronet.com] Dan, or YoLa? ["Stewart C. Russell" ] RE: Dan, or YoLa? ["Jason Brown \(Echo Services Inc\)" ] Re: Seriously ["Jason R. Thornton" ] Re: Dan, or YoLa? [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Dan Bern [John Barrington Jones ] Re: Blooze, booze [Eb ] Since this list loves John Pilger so much... ["The Mammal Brain" ] Re: The old feg moment blues ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Dan Bern ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Roy Orbison in Cling Film [Tom Clark ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 10:14:25 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Blooze, booze Eb: >>"In Which Uncle Lucky Reaps the Fruit of His Belabor Parts 0A-FD".... Not bad, but it sounds more Milne then M*ller... ______ Glen: >>I recently wrote a song called "Talkin' King of All Beers Blues". Cool. I have a song title in waiting, "Just Like Tom Verlaine's Blues". It'll probably never happen. I already have a song with a "--'s Blues" title but the name is so unrelated to the song (which has a chorus that anyone would assume was the title) that I'll probably change it eventually. Y'all hit so many of the the good weird "blooze" titles I have that I'm hard pressed to think of the other 75 or so. However... is it just me or is there no indication at all in the song "I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues" of why indeed they *do* call it the blues? ____ And man, you all have such healthy ways of processing grief. Running, exercising, performing music... I can't say I know how I'd react overall to losing a parent, but it probably wouldn't involve much physical activity and it almost definitely would involve drinking. - -Rex "Self-Knowledge Ain't Gonna Keep Me Sober Anyway" Broome ------------------------------ Date: 11 Apr 2003 10:35:05 -0700 From: "da9ve stovall" Subject: RE: fretteurism >From: "Rex.Broome" >He wanted to know what the hell all the extra frets were >on the banjo player's Seeger Vega.* > >*freebie for those jonesing for "banjo folk revivalist vs. >traditionalist" humor, I know you're out there... Oh, NOW you throw that one in. Where were you three days ago, BEFORE I went to the bluegrass show*? I'm always at such a loss for good heckling material when I'm out of my idiom, . . . da9ve * seriously - the Spud Puppies, an 8-piece bluegrass combo, opening for Luther Wright & the Wrongs ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 11:07:12 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Various uncles sing the blues Bringing it all together, AMG lists these tunes: Uncle Sam's Blues (already covered) Uncle Bob's Blues* Bad Uncle Blues Uncle Hager's Blues** Uncle Blue Uncle Bud (Bugle Blues) [Intro: Skeeter Skoot] Uncle Bob's Midnight Blues * *Two different Uncle Bobs, presumably, written about by two different guys. I'd be surprised if a Feg or two didn't have the latter tune given what album it's on/ **Noteworthy as a composition of Mr. Charlie Booty, who looks not at all as you'd expect from his name: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=1:40:53|PM&sql=Atu548qnnbtz4#TR ACK ...and also because Uncle Hager rated not only a "Blues" but a "Stomp" as well. And that, kids, is a whole 'nother thread. - -Rex, deep in Footnotmania!, apparently np. Talkin' Touched By An Uncle Blues ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 14:30:58 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: RE: fretteurism da9ve wrote: > > BEFORE I went to the bluegrass show*? I'm > always at such a loss > for good heckling material okay: q: what's perfect pitch? a: tossing a banjo into a dumpster and hitting an accordion. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 11:33:27 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: The New Apple Records Surprised nobody's posted this yet. http://finance.myway.com/ht/nw/bus/20030411/hlm_bus-n11254784.html That SJ is just one nutty guy!! - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 11:38:32 -0700 From: Glen Uber Subject: Are you sure you want a major label deal? This should be required reading for anyone considering a career in music. Fuck the major labels and mainstream radio! Independents' day: What record industry slump? Independent labels say business has never been better. http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0411/p13s02-almp.html - -- Cheers! - -g- "If it weren't for capital punishment, there'd be no such thing as Easter." - --Bill Hicks ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 11:41:56 -0700 (PDT) From: John Barrington Jones Subject: Re: The New Apple Records Does the real Apple Records now have cause to go after Apple again for trademark infringement?? I think they were told the last time that Apple wasn't going to be getting into the record business in the near future. Yeah, its pretty wacky. Tom, you may be getting a couple hundred new cds of Universal artists' music to listen to at work, right?? Who is on that label now besides U2? =jbj= On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Tom Clark wrote: > Surprised nobody's posted this yet. > http://finance.myway.com/ht/nw/bus/20030411/hlm_bus-n11254784.html > > That SJ is just one nutty guy!! > > -tc ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 11:47:21 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: The New Apple Records I think Apple and Apple came to an agreement some six or seven years ago which all but dismissed the legal action. I could be wrong though. Oh, and I left Apple 2.5 years ago. I'm looking to go back ASAP however. - -tc, jonesing for Cupertino on 4/11/03 11:41 AM, John Barrington Jones at jbjones@pdx.edu wrote: > Does the real Apple Records now have cause to go after Apple again for > trademark infringement?? I think they were told the last time that Apple > wasn't going to be getting into the record business in the near future. > > Yeah, its pretty wacky. Tom, you may be getting a couple hundred new > cds of Universal artists' music to listen to at work, right?? Who is on > that label now besides U2? > > =jbj= > > > On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Tom Clark wrote: > >> Surprised nobody's posted this yet. >> http://finance.myway.com/ht/nw/bus/20030411/hlm_bus-n11254784.html >> >> That SJ is just one nutty guy!! >> >> -tc ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 13:33:46 -0500 (CDT) From: gshell@metronet.com Subject: Re: Seriously On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Jason R. Thornton wrote: > Also, running to B, C or the D may not alleviate ones fears of A if A is > likely to invade B, C and D, massacring the populace in some grand > liberation scheme. If subject L83 is paranoidally delusional enough to think that will happen, society C or D might just be the place for him. If society A's intent is to slaughter as many innocents from society B as possible and steal all their resources with absolutely no regard for humanity, all the while apparently receiving support and gratitude from the very people they are massacring under the cover of some grand liberation scheme then C thru zzz should feel pretty bad for not helping their neighbor. But since that is not at all what appears to be happening, C thru zzz should feel pretty bad about not helping their neighbor. gSs ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 16:02:52 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Dan, or YoLa? If you could go to only one of these concerts, who would you choose: * Yo La Tengo * Dan Bern I've seen YLT before (with Robyn), but never Dan. They're both playing Monday night. cheers, Stewart (and Circulatory System are playing Sunday, yay!) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 13:09:26 -0700 From: "Jason Brown \(Echo Services Inc\)" Subject: RE: Dan, or YoLa? I'd see Dan since you have never seen him. He can put on a great show or be annoying as all holy hell. Either way Definitely worth a look. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 16:13:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: Dan, or YoLa? On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > If you could go to only one of these concerts, who would you choose: > > * Yo La Tengo > > * Dan Bern I've seen and enjoyed both but am a dedicated fan of neither. Bern seems to be getting slowly better, though, while YLT's records are headed straight down into a pit of suck (though I say this having heard the new YLT and not the new Bern) so I would go with the latter. The time I saw Bern play, the opening act was a Freedy Johnston-soundalike named Bob Hillman who I really enjoyed, probably even more than the main set. a ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 13:33:22 -0700 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: Seriously At 01:33 PM 4/11/2003 -0500, gshell@metronet.com wrote: >If subject L83 is paranoidally delusional enough to think that will >happen, society C or D might just be the place for him. This was your original assertion, was it not? Even assuming paranoid delusions on the part of Subject L83, why would an even more frightening place be better for him or her? >If society A's intent is to slaughter as many innocents from society B as >possible and steal all their resources with absolutely no regard for >humanity, all the while apparently receiving support and gratitude from >the very people they are massacring under the cover of some grand >liberation scheme then C thru zzz should feel pretty bad for not helping >their neighbor. But since that is not at all what appears to be happening, >C thru zzz should feel pretty bad about not helping their neighbor. Completely irrelevant. Why should someone currently afraid of the direction their home-society is taking want to move to a place where, justified for the greater good or not, civilians are being killed (either by internal or external forces) or the government is even MORE oppressive? - --Jason "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 22:34:02 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Dan, or YoLa? - -- "Stewart C. Russell" is rumored to have mumbled on Freitag, 11. April 2003 16:02 Uhr -0400 regarding Dan, or YoLa?: > If you could go to only one of these concerts, who would you choose: > > * Yo La Tengo > > * Dan Bern > > I've seen YLT before (with Robyn), but never Dan. > They're both playing Monday night. Most certainly Yo La Tengo. They're one of my favorite bands, and I don't even know who Dan Bern is - should I? I guess I'm only interested if he's on Vivendi Universal ... ;-) - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Ehrenfeldg|rtel 156, 50823 Kvln, Germany http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 13:47:12 -0700 (PDT) From: John Barrington Jones Subject: Dan Bern Dan Bern is one of the most interesting artists I know. He and his music are right up there with Robyn in my pantheon of faves. There are days when I dig him more than Robyn - usually because Dan is so much more prolific than Robyn (reminding me of Robyn's output and setlists from the early 1990s). There are days when I dig Robyn more - he's British and clever in a more understated way than Dan Bern. Having said all that, Dan's new record "Fleeting Days" is one of his best. A pop masterpiece. His shows vary from "just play the hits", to "play only the obscure stuff" to "let's play an extra set out in the parking lot" to "let's ride our bikes onstage during the encore" to total out and out suckage (a recent Turning Point review had Dan leaving the stage every few minutes to go vomit - he was so drunk) - but they are rarely ever boring. Almost every Dan Bern gig I've been to has been one to tell the grandkids about (should I ever invest in any.) I haven't seen Yo La Tengo since they opened for The Sundays during the "REading, Writing, & Arithmetic" tour, so I'm out of it and also biased. =jbj= ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 14:08:32 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Blooze, booze >And man, you all have such healthy ways of processing grief. Running, >exercising, performing music... I can't say I know how I'd react overall to >losing a parent, but it probably wouldn't involve much physical activity and >it almost definitely would involve drinking. I seem to be less interested in drinking than almost anyone else on the list. In fact, given all the exuberant talk which the subject of beer always generates, I idly wonder who on the list has had a legitimate problem with the stuff. The family and friends are trying to decide on an epitaph, in recent days. We're limited to 22 characters, including spaces. Most commonly suggested word: "Gentle." Like father, like son, eh? Eb, whose in-bars-every-night sister seems to have chosen the smoking 'n' drinking route ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 16:44:43 -0700 From: "The Mammal Brain" Subject: Since this list loves John Pilger so much... .... _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 11:58:51 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: The old feg moment blues >So I just got an e-mail from the Quality Paperback Club, except when I >glanced at the new arrivals to my inbox, I read the sender as "Quaility >Paperback Club." I would have done a triple-take if the selection of the >month had been a Borges anthology. this may have happened about the time I read the newspaper headline "MP injured in scuffle" as "MP injured in souffle". An interesting mental image that makes. >The 10 weirdest blues titles I own: in amongst all the "Young girl blues"/"Talking war blues" etc etc etc in my collection, I have the following 18 worth mentioning which may or may not have been mentioned previously: "The got no shotgun hydrahead octopus blues" "Modern man hurricane blues" "New new minglewood blues" "Fucked knee blues" "Yer blues" "Actifed blues" "ProzacK blues" "Old Rameses II blues" "Yamanashi blues" (this being a weird amalgam of 12-bar and trad Japanese styles) "Suffocation blues" "Standing in a bucket blues" (Standing? Shouting? the CD label looks confused) "Sean Penn blues" "Just like Tom Thumb's blues" "Electro-shock blues" "Bristol steam convention blues" (were you there, Mike?) "Blues for Ceaucescu" "Long bomb blues" "Post-modern deconstructivist blues" "Autogeddon blues" "The joyful Kilmarnock blues" 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: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 19:13:50 -0700 From: Eb Subject: R... I won't feel like doing the Reaper's dirty work again for awhile, so someone else is gonna have to mention Little Eva. Eb, freshly returned from a few miles of locomotin' ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 11:07:26 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: The old feg moment blues James Dignan wrote: > > "The joyful Kilmarnock blues" that could be something to do with Killie FC being known as "The Blues". Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 11:13:24 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Dan Bern John Barrington Jones wrote: > > Dan Bern is one of the most interesting artists I know. so I went for Dan. Two compelling reasons: the venue is cheaper, and easier to get to [and from]. But I would have liked to see Daniel Johnston. Oh well. Looking through my CD collection, I find that the Discerning Shipping Thieves took "Fifty Eggs" and "Dan Bern", leaving me with only "Smartie Mine". Bastards Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 20:35:53 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Roy Orbison in Cling Film I...am...speechless... http://www.michaelkelly.fsnet.co.uk/karl.htm - -tc ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V12 #139 ********************************