From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V12 #360 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Saturday, September 27 2003 Volume 12 : Number 360 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Styx in your craw ["Iosso, Ken" ] Firefly on DVD! [Miles Goosens ] Reissue issues, etc. ["Rex.Broome" ] Re: Styx in your craw [Miles Goosens ] more Canadian music [Barbara Soutar ] robyn tour ["bibi gellert" ] Luxor: current fave [John Barrington Jones ] reap [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] reverse the polarity on the loony flow [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dign] Re: reverse the polarity on the loony flow [Eb ] Re: reverse the polarity on the loony flow [glen (') ] It also ties in with Robert Palmer, naturally.... [Eb ] Re: Luxor: current fave ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Luxor: current fave ["Stewart C. Russell" ] yet ANOTHER old-time-film-legend reap [Eb ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 15:00:24 -0500 From: "Iosso, Ken" Subject: Styx in your craw Played with them since '91?!!! I didn't know they even played after Grand Illusion in 1977(not sure about the year). Ken Iosso - -----Original Message----- From: Eb [mailto:ElBroome@earthlink.net] Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 2:55 PM To: fgz Subject: Today's top story ["Ricky never, Glen 4ever!"] Styx gets new bassist LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Bass player Ricky Phillips, who performed with Bad English and The Babys, has joined Styx, replacing departing bassist-vocalist Glen Burtnik. "We're sad to see Glen leave," Styx lead singer James "JY" Young said in a statement. "We wish him well, and I'm looking forward to introducing to the world ... bass player extraordinaire Ricky Phillips." Burtnik said his departure was amicable. He joined Styx in 1991, replacing singer-guitarist Tommy Shaw. Shaw returned to Styx in 1996, and Burtnik rejoined in 1999, stepping in for original bassist Chuck Panozzo, who remains on personal leave. "I've enjoyed performing onstage with this talented group of musicians," he said in a statement Tuesday. "I greatly value the friendship and warmth shown to me by the band, the crew, the staff and the fans. It's time for me to get back to spending more quality time with my family." ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 15:15:03 -0500 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Firefly on DVD! Hey, amid all the celebrity deaths and Styx personnel moves, I don't recall anyone noting this good news for Joss Whedon fans: the late, great, shafted-by-Fox FIREFLY is going to be released on DVD on December 9th. The set will include the three episodes that never aired. still wondering if Gina Torres will return to ALIAS someday, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 13:39:56 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Reissue issues, etc. Nuppy: >>It appears one can find this on CD for about $6 or so used at Amazon. My >>question is: Are there plans on releasing Talking Heads reissues? I'm doubting it... they did re-do "Stop Making Sense" a few years back, and I'd guess that if that had sold well more would've followed, and it didn't. The real crime is that "The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads" has never been on CD at all. I guess that's Warners for ya... there are still two whole unissued-on-CD Neil Young records, and one of them is superb. >>There is nothing worth than buying a CD and then only months later finding >>out it's been re-released with bonus tracks. This happened to me after I >>finally tracked down John Lennon's Milk and Honey... May I introduce you to my Kinks and Go-Betweens collections? _____ Nora: >>Eb's brother Rex wrote: Just to straighten this out once and for all: Eb's my *uncle*. Thanks everyone for the record recommendations... there are several that keep showing up, so I'm getting a decent listening-list together here. Now, could people stop dying? Just for a little while? I'm tired. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 15:33:17 -0500 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: Styx in your craw At 03:00 PM 9/26/2003 -0500, Iosso, Ken wrote: >Played with them since '91?!!! > >I didn't know they even played after Grand Illusion in 1977(not sure about >the year). Wow -- "Dr. Roboto" (not to mention "Renegade," "Blue Collar Man," "Babe," and my pick for "Styx song that's actually good," "Too Much Time on My Hands") came and went without you hearing them? How... fortunate for you! :-))) later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 13:28:27 -0700 From: Barbara Soutar Subject: more Canadian music eb said in a not too friendly tone: "You're just peeved because even with his first album alone, Wainwright eclipsed Miller's entire career." Rufus Wainwright. And his mother and aunt, Kate and Anna McGarrigle. And I suppose his father, Louden Wainwright III. Never did like that "Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road" song of his... Barbara Soutar Victoria, British Columbia ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 16:51:52 -0400 From: "bibi gellert" Subject: robyn tour So I'm like really behind on the digest, and now I come to find Robyn isn't playing Atlanta anymore but is playing 3 shows in Athens. Anybody know where he is playing Wednesday Oct 8? And what might the "tour de sprawl" be? Thanks bibi - --- bibigellert@earthlink.net - --- EarthLink: It's your Internet. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 15:19:35 -0700 (PDT) From: John Barrington Jones Subject: Luxor: current fave "Round Song" =jbj= ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 10:26:34 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: reap Robert Palmer??? 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: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 10:45:09 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: reverse the polarity on the loony flow Jeffrey scratched his brain: >Err, umm, who? I suppose someone might direct me to the URL for the >appropriate archives... D Sharp - follower of Carl Palmer (erm, no... it was the other way round. Carl Palmer was following her, and getting Pink Floyd to taunt her in their songs). oh, and some better news for a change (if they don't stuff it up): 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, 26 Sep 2003 15:50:43 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: reverse the polarity on the loony flow >Jeffrey scratched his brain: > >>Err, umm, who? I suppose someone might direct me to the URL for the >>appropriate archives... > >D Sharp - follower of Carl Palmer (erm, no... it was the other way round. >Carl Palmer was following her, and getting Pink Floyd to taunt her in their >songs). Sting was part of it, too. Don't forget Sting. For the love of God, don't forget Sting. And yes, Styx's Pieces of Eight was one of my super-early album purchases, though I had already dumped it long before I left high school. Styx's "Behind the Music" episode is pretty damn entertaining, too. Gawd, that DeYoung is such a fussy poof. ;) I never really figured out whether Robert Palmer was a "good guy" or a "bad guy." Eb ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 15:57:10 -0700 From: glen (') Subject: Re: reverse the polarity on the loony flow On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 15:50:43 -0700, Eb wrote: > I never really figured out whether Robert Palmer was a "good guy" or > a "bad guy." I think he was a good guy. Matter of fact, he struck me as simply irresistible. *rim shot* - -- Cheers! - -g- "There are only 3 types of people in the world: Morons, assholes, and people you can hang out with. I don't give a fuck if you're black, white, Asian, Arab, male, female, gay or straight. It's all just morons, assholes, and people you can hang out with." --Joe Rogan ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 16:02:51 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: reverse the polarity on the loony flow >Uberman: > > I never really figured out whether Robert Palmer was a "good guy" or >> a "bad guy." > >I think he was a good guy. Matter of fact, he struck me as simply >irresistible. You must be drinking early, today. Another one: Elizabeth Taylor...good guy or bad guy? I just dunno. Gratingfickle diva or noble AIDS fundraiser? Eb (also an ongoing matter of debate) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 18:24:14 -0700 From: Eb Subject: It also ties in with Robert Palmer, naturally.... [I think it's interesting how whenever he talks about his wife, she always sounds impatient and exasperated with him...probably a perfect case of lovelessly staying together for the sake of the kids....] I usually get up at around 5 am and this morning I woke up after a strange dream. In the dream someone was talking to me and showing me a house next to a lake in Oklahoma. The house was very big, two floors, but looked almost like a hut, like it had been put together by amateurs. This someone took me to the house, to the yard, and I realized that there was going to be a party there for the weekend. I saw a large group of people coming from the road, through the gate, towards us. They were 15 or 20 people and in the first row I recognized actor Robert Duvall. He was not wearing anything above his waste, but his chest was covered with a large tattoo. Over his right side the tattoo was an icon of the Virgin Mary. Over his left side there was another icon, it could have been Our Lady Heidi Klum. They were far away from me when I saw them, 40 or 50 yards. As they approached, I looked at Robert Duvall and was about to greet him. He saw me and veered away from me to avoid my greeting. It seemed that he did not want me to get a close look at the tattoos. He passed around me and the rest of the people in the group walked by me, too. At that point my alarm clock rang. When I woke up, I immediately thought that this was a sign from God. I had to look up Duvall's birthday. I got up, turned on CNN, and logged on to the Internet. After some time I heard on CNN that Robert Palmer had died. I looked up his birthday: January 19, 1/19, or 911 backwards. I wrote the Newsgroup message "Sophia honored" and, then, had breakfast with my wife Dina. By that time I had forgotten about my dream with Robert Duvall in it. I told Dina that another 54-year-old artist had died suddenly of a heart attack overnight. Remember that actor John Ritter had died suddenly on the second anniversary of 9/11 (and Johnny Cash a few hours after him at dawn on 9/12). She asked me, "So what? Can't people die any more?" I answered, "Sure, they can die, but strange cases like Ritter's and Palmer's are signs from God to me." Dina: "How do you mean?" Nick: "Do you remember Palmer's most famous song, Addicted to Love?" Dina: "Yes." Nick: "Well, do you think I am addicted to love?" Dina: "No." Nick: "Do you think I am addicted?" Dina: "Yes." A few minutes later I checked Heidi's official Web site http://www.heidiklum.com to see what she was up to. Nothing new at that time. I then remembered my dream about Duvall. I looked up his birthday, January 5, or 14 days before Palmer's birthday. Ritter died 14 days before Robert Palmer. Ritter was born in 1948 and Palmer in 1949. Cash was born in 1932 and Duvall in 1931. It seems that God sent me the dream about Robert Duvall in association with Robert Palmer's death. I have further analyzed the data and have come to some very interesting conclusions, that I can not discuss in public. I spent the rest of the day humming Robert Palmer's famous song. I might as well face it: I am addicted to Klum. And loving every minute of it. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 19:37:56 -0700 From: "Natalie Jacobs" Subject: ugh... I made a top 10 list... shoot me, please... :P >Okay... almost 3/4 through the year and I don't think I've heard ten albums >I've liked enough to rank on my year-end top-ten. I've mostly been listening to slightly older stuff, actually... Sonic Youth's "Murray Street," Iron & Wine, Spoon, Neko Case... with "most-listened-to" award going to Jim O'Rourke's "Insignificance." With that in mind, I don't think I can do a top *ten*, but some new records I've enjoyed this year include, predictably enough... The Postal Service - Give Up Loose Fur - s/t Tim Easton - Break Your Mother's Heart Pernice Brothers - Yours, Mine and Ours The Jayhawks - Rainy Day Music The Decembrists - Her Majesty If GBV, Jay Farrar, Quasi, and Beulah's latest weren't so disappointing, I'd include them as well... but such is not the case, alas. I'm hoping the Shins, at least, live up to their reputation, but I won't know till October 21. I also have insanely high hopes for a collaboration between Peter Blegvad and Andy Partridge called "Orpheus the Lowdown," also not yet released. I haven't bought "Luxor" yet. >Err, umm, who? I suppose someone might direct me to the URL for the >appropriate archives... Denise Sharpe was a net-kook who was convinced Carl Palmer was stalking her and that David Gilmour was secretly in love with her. I was interested by the way her fantasies slowly shaded from plausibility (she was a Floyd groupie at one point, or so she claimed) into complete bonker-ness (she was convinced David Gilmour was sending her messages via the marshmallow shapes in Lucky Charms). Philip K. Dick would've adored her. >(There are a handful of tracks that indeed probably are him drunkenly >abusing a 4-track, but to me at least there are enough good tracks to make >it worth my money. Better if you lived in England, I suppose. Is there any Warbles volume which has a high signal-to-noise ratio, or are they all about the same. >Oh, and dumb Q/possible old news: are you the "Natalie Jacobs" interning >at Magnet magazine, or has someone stolen your name? Someone stole my name. Actually, she's an alternate-universe version of me. I bet she really loves Sleater-Kinney, for instance. n. np: the Postal Service _________________________________________________________________ Get McAfee virus scanning and cleaning of incoming attachments. Get Hotmail Extra Storage! http://join.msn.com/?PAGE=features/es ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 23:24:27 -0500 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: Today's top story Quoting Eb : > Styx gets new bassist > > LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Bass player Ricky Phillips, who > performed with Bad English and The Babys, has joined Styx, replacing > departing bassist-vocalist Glen Burtnik. No! All the genius work Burtnik brought to that band, gone forever? Jim Anchower will be *totally* bummed. I think I'll sell my tickets to the Iowa Cowteat County Fair in protest. The Babys - now there was a band... ..Jeff, wondering if Phillips has a weird verbal fetish that made him follow "Babys" with "Bad English" (since it is) and thinks "Styx" is a misspelling for "Sticks." BTW, my favorite Seventies-Hell-Band album cover? R.E.O. Speedwagon's "Hits" album, which depicts 3D versions of the letters of the titular words all jumbled up and looking suspiciously like SHIT (you think the band winked knowingly after seeing it?) J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com/ :: 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: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 10:39:19 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Luxor: current fave John Barrington Jones wrote: > "Round Song" mine too. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 10:42:25 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Luxor: current fave John Barrington Jones wrote: > "Round Song" mine too. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 19:16:27 -0700 From: Eb Subject: yet ANOTHER old-time-film-legend reap Donald O'Connor. Eb ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V12 #360 ********************************