From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V12 #319 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, August 26 2003 Volume 12 : Number 319 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Black Snake Poster ["Brian" ] RE: "oh this stuff totally blows - stop already" [Sweet & Tender Hooligan] RE: top 40 of the 80's [Sweet & Tender Hooligan ] VLC [Ken Weingold ] RE: VLC ["Brian Huddell" ] Re: VLC [Ken Weingold ] Weekend Roundup Part 1 ["Rex.Broome" ] Feg Originals Disc: Deadline Extension/Progress Report ["Rex.Broome" ] Rock City San Jose (Caution: Grateful Dead Content!) [Tom Clark ] Re: Un-Reap, Un-Reap, Un-Reap [Ken Weingold ] Jeffrey Rose/MA/EisaiInc is out of the office. [Jeffrey_Rose@eri.eisai.co] Resonance DJ spot (100% RH) ["Charlotte Tupman" Subject: Black Snake Poster Some idiot keeps posting Robyn Hitchcock auctions under *Robin* Hitchcock. I already bought this poster from the same guy. It's purty rare if anyone's interested: - -- Brian nightshadecat@mailbolt.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 08:09:07 -0700 From: Sweet & Tender Hooligan Subject: RE: "oh this stuff totally blows - stop already" > Add Bowie, too, although the when and how of his various fall-offs and > comebacks would probably inspire more debate than the other three. (To > me he's never recovered from Let's Dance, but various of his recent albums > have their devotees out there.) I really like "Heathen." A lot. :^) = s&th hooligan@apostate.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 08:11:41 -0700 From: Sweet & Tender Hooligan Subject: RE: top 40 of the 80's > > >>The Choir - Wide-Eyed Wonder > > > >Oooh! Christian-Rock alert! > > He listed a Daniel Amos album too, didn't he? Both DA and The Choir will be on my list as well, when I get around to completing it. I'd select "Chase the Kangaroo" over "Wide-Eyed Wonder," though. :^) = s&th hooligan@apostate.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 11:41:52 -0400 From: Ken Weingold Subject: VLC Anyone here use VLC (I would almost bet that Jeme does)? It's great software, and of particular interest to feg type people is that its icon is a traffic cone. - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 10:51:35 -0500 From: "Brian Huddell" Subject: RE: VLC I use it. It's great for viewing MPEGs inside CD images (*.bin) without first having to burn, among a zillion other things. > Anyone here use VLC (I would almost bet that Jeme does)? It's great > software, and of particular interest to feg type people is that its > icon is a traffic cone. > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 12:02:16 -0400 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: VLC Plus if Windows users want to play AAC (.m4a) files, it plays them natively. Better than Quicktime 6. - -Ken On Mon, Aug 25, 2003, Brian Huddell wrote: > I use it. It's great for viewing MPEGs inside CD images (*.bin) without > first having to burn, among a zillion other things. > > > Anyone here use VLC (I would almost bet that Jeme does)? It's great > > software, and of particular interest to feg type people is that its > > icon is a traffic cone. > > > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 10:22:18 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Weekend Roundup Part 1 Dolph: >>- -- dolph >>who heads to divorce court September 9th Urgh. Really sorry about that. __________ Tom C: >>Minutemen - Three Way Tie For Last Brave pick; I like it a lot, too, but it seems like a lot of minutemen fans write it off. Of course I actually have a fIREHOSE record on my Top 40, so apparently I'm easy on Watt projects. However, this I toe the party line on this one: >>The dB's - Like This ... in fact I prefer Sound of Music as a Holsapple dB's record. _____ Sebastian on the alleged popularity of Hasselhoff in Germany: >>Where did you get that particular bit of info? What's true is that he >>used to be (and maybe still is) *popular* as both an actor and a singer. >>But I *never* read any positive reviews or articles about him ... It's a weird American thing used to make fun of Germans and other foreign countries... we like to believe that all other countries worship American culture, but pick the lamest stuff to focus on. It really grates on me. That whole thing about the French obsession with Jerry Lewis? Based on a handful of article in Cahiers du Cinema decades ago. I lived there for half a year, spent a lot of time in film/pop culture memorabilia stores... saw lots of James Dean, Tex Avery, and Josephine Baker posters. Jerry Lewis not so much. - -Rex, incredulous that he didn't dip into the Wesley Willis catalog when trying to construct Daisy Chains of Artists Singing About Other Artists... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 11:15:00 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Feg Originals Disc: Deadline Extension/Progress Report Hey everybody... August is almost over, but the comp is slowly coming together. Based on response thus far I'm extending the submission deadline to the end of September. I've sent out a separate e-mail to everyone who expressed interest earlier. If you didn't get it, that means I got your e-mail address screwed up, so contact me again if you would. Also feel free to contact me if you want in but hadn't said so before. Don't be shy... I by no means require studio-quality recordings, just tunes, audio experiments, or whatever kind of noise is your personal means of expression. Groovy stuff thus far. Should be a fun disc and hopefully ready in time to serve as a feggy little stocking stuffer for the holidays. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 14:32:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Un-Reap, Un-Reap, Un-Reap Phoenix the cat http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/urbananimal/ ===== "Pentagon officials says Americanizing Iraq is difficult because Iraqis have had little to no reliable information for the past 35 years, and have lived on a diet of innuendo, rumor, conspiracy theories, fear, and propaganda. Sounds like the problem is they're too Americanized." -- Bill Maher "Being accused of hating America by people like Ann Coulter or Laura Ingraham is like being accused of hating children by Michael Jackson or (Cardinal) Bernard Law." -- anonymous . __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 14:47:47 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Rock City San Jose (Caution: Grateful Dead Content!) Just got around to reading this article from last week. Anybody wanna invest in a San Jose Rock n Roll Hall of Fame with me? - -tc Posted on Wed, Aug. 20, 2003 ROCK CITY SAN JOSE SOUTH BAY DESERVES MUCH OF THE CREDIT ACCORDED S.F. FOR '60S BANDS By Mark Purdy Mercury News Injustice is never pretty, even when it's psychedelic. A few years ago, local attorney Kenn Ellner visited the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. He sat down to view a movie tribute to San Francisco's ``Summer of Love'' in 1967. In the film's opening seconds, a distinctive fuzz guitar and harmonica riff floated across the soundtrack. ``Hey,'' Ellner thought. ``That's our song.'' The tune was ``Psychotic Reaction,'' recorded in 1966 by the Count Five, a band Ellner helped form -- in San Jose, not San Francisco. In fact, none of the Count Five members ever lived in San Francisco. So how dare the Rock Hall of Fame falsely proclaim them to be a San Francisco band? Surely, you know the answer. The situation was no different 35 years ago when the Count Five rode their song -- which reached No. 5 on the Billboard chart -- to appearances around the country. ``They would say we were from San Francisco because they didn't know where San Jose was,'' remembered Roy Chaney, the band's bassist. Makes you want to smash some guitars, doesn't it? Everyone knows that San Jose's inferiority streak can run deeper than Keith Richards' wrinkles. In this case, there is a legitimate beef. Say it loud: We're Area Code 408 And We're Proud. San Jose's rock 'n' roll history is as thick and as significant as any city in America. But few people realize this, because nobody makes movies or television specials about it -- or writes newspaper stories about it. Time to correct the error. Friday night, the Count Five will play its first show in 16 years, a reunion gig at The Edge nightclub in Palo Alto. What better occasion to step up and scream about San Jose -- and the South Bay's - -- neglected rock 'n' roll reputation? There is a ridiculous amount of screaming to do. Two of the alleged ``San Francisco'' bands -- the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane -- were populated mostly by South Bay musicians. In fact, the Grateful Dead's first appearance under that name happened in 1965 in downtown San Jose. Bob Dylan played a show in San Jose before he ever sang in San Francisco. Half of Creedence Clearwater Revival attended San Jose State and honed some chops there. Influential groups such as the Syndicate of Sound, People, Chocolate Watchband and Harpers Bizarre had South Bay roots. And that only covers the 1960s. During the 1970s, the Doobie Brothers smoked themselves out of a house on 12th Street to sell millions of records. Stevie Nicks, another former SJSU student, gave Fleetwood Mac the witchy pathos to sell millions of records. More recently, Smash Mouth broke out of the South First Street bars to gain international fame. So which city is it, again, that deserves to be called the Bay Area's capital of rock 'n' roll procreation? Tourists in San Francisco routinely visit Haight-Ashbury to gaze at the Grateful Dead's ``birthplace.'' Maybe they would be interested to know that Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir first began plucking guitars at Palo Alto music stores and coffeehouses. Granted, today's live music scene in San Jose is struggling. But cycles repeat themselves, and the young local musicians could do worse than study their ancestors. The reconstituted Count Five at Friday's show will feature three members of the original band -- Ellner, Chaney and guitarist John ``Mouse'' Michalski -- along with guitarist Phil Indovina and drummer Rocco Astrello. Original drummer Butch Atkinson has died, and original guitarist John Byrne decided to decline a full-fledged reunion but has been invited to sing a few songs with the band Friday. Don Baskin, the Syndicate of Sound's lead singer, may also show up for some guest vocals. And don't worry. The Count Five's trademark Dracula-style capes, worn by the band for a famous jacket-sleeve photo in front of the Winchester Mystery House, will also be on the bill. Michalski kept the original capes in a closet at his house, ready for use when Chaney sparked the idea for a reunion before they get too old. ``I just called up the guys and told them, `If we're ever going to do it, now's the time,' '' said Chaney. The idea, he said was goosed by a British company that has just released a CD featuring the remastered original master tapes of Count Five recording sessions. They'll also be on sale at the show. In the comprehensive CD liner notes, Byrne properly disses the San Francisco bands by saying: ``Those groups from the city always looked down at the South Bay and treated us with disdain.'' Not after today, they won't. Count Five Where: The Edge, 260 S. California Ave., Palo Alto When: 8 p.m. Friday Tickets: $20; (650) 321-6447 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 20:09:52 -0400 From: "FS Thomas" Subject: RE: Un-Reap, Un-Reap, Un-Reap Bless his fuzzy little heart. If he weren't in San Fran I would adopt the little bugger. (Much to the chagrin of the two cats I live with now, and the two in foster care back in CT...) - -ferris. > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On Behalf > Of Jeff Dwarf > Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 5:32 PM > To: Off Topic Post > Subject: Un-Reap, Un-Reap, Un-Reap > > Phoenix the cat > > > http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/urbananimal/ > > > ===== > "Pentagon officials says Americanizing Iraq is difficult because Iraqis > have had little to no reliable information for the past 35 years, and have > lived on a diet of innuendo, rumor, conspiracy theories, fear, and > propaganda. Sounds like the problem is they're too Americanized." - - > - Bill Maher > > "Being accused of hating America by people like Ann Coulter or Laura > Ingraham is like being accused of hating children by Michael Jackson or > (Cardinal) Bernard Law." -- anonymous > . > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software > http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 20:41:50 -0400 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: Un-Reap, Un-Reap, Un-Reap Chagrin? He'd kick their fuckin' asses all the way to China! - -Ken On Mon, Aug 25, 2003, FS Thomas wrote: > Bless his fuzzy little heart. > > If he weren't in San Fran I would adopt the little bugger. > > (Much to the chagrin of the two cats I live with now, and the two in > foster care back in CT...) > > -ferris. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On > Behalf > > Of Jeff Dwarf > > Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 5:32 PM > > To: Off Topic Post > > Subject: Un-Reap, Un-Reap, Un-Reap > > > > Phoenix the cat > > > > > > http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/urbananimal/ > > > > > > ===== > > "Pentagon officials says Americanizing Iraq is difficult because > Iraqis > > have had little to no reliable information for the past 35 years, and > have > > lived on a diet of innuendo, rumor, conspiracy theories, fear, and > > propaganda. Sounds like the problem is they're too Americanized." > - > > - Bill Maher > > > > "Being accused of hating America by people like Ann Coulter or Laura > > Ingraham is like being accused of hating children by Michael Jackson > or > > (Cardinal) Bernard Law." -- anonymous > > . > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software > > http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 01:00:38 -0400 From: Jeffrey_Rose@eri.eisai.com Subject: Jeffrey Rose/MA/EisaiInc is out of the office. I will be out of the office starting 08/25/2003 and will not return until 09/03/2003. I will respond to your message when I return. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 20:13:05 +0100 From: "Charlotte Tupman" Subject: Resonance DJ spot (100% RH) I didn't manage to record Robyn's DJ spot on Resonance FM, but I did listen to it (most of it, anyway - I kept getting interrupted so I missed a few of the songs that Robyn played). He spun records by the following artists (and some more besides): Bo Diddley Howlin' Wolf Captain Beefheart The Damned Talking Heads Psychedelic Furs Band of Bees Grant Lee Phillips Nick Lowe Terry Edwards Peter Blegvad John Paul Jones REM Fresh Young Fellows The Giraffes Country Joe & The Fish Incredible String Band Gillian Welch John Lee Hooker Robyn provided some in between song info about the artists. Sorry I can't tell you much more, but like I say, I didn't get a chance to hear the whole thing. Let's hope a recording surfaces... Charlotte _________________________________________________________________ Get Hotmail on your mobile phone http://www.msn.co.uk/msnmobile ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V12 #319 ********************************