From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V12 #422 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, November 13 2003 Volume 12 : Number 422 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RH 11-1-99 dsbd now complete... bit torrent link here [fingerpuppets ] How hip is *your* iTunes library? [steve ] Re: BitTorrent of RH's show at Fletcher's [David Witzany ] Re: Words from the Front [Sebastian Hagedorn ] REAP [Tom Clark ] reap ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: REAP ["Jason R. Thornton" ] Re: reap [Eb ] Re: REAP [Jeff Dwarf ] Jardine of Love [Capuchin ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 19:46:37 -0500 From: fingerpuppets Subject: RH 11-1-99 dsbd now complete... bit torrent link here this is the complete show, including the track which had been missing from most, if not all, circulating copies of the show. shns are taper-sourced so none of that messy extraction stuff. ;) woj - ----- Forwarded message from Christopher Carville ----- From: "Christopher Carville" To: Subject: RH 11-1-99 dsbd now complete... bit torrent link here Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 11:10:16 -0500 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 Hi - I am now seeding this torrent. Here is the direct link to the file: http://www.sharingthegroove.org/msgboard/attachment.php?s=&postid=197920 This is a great show, now complete. C - ----- End forwarded message ----- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 01:08:04 +0000 From: "Charlotte Tupman" Subject: Re: Small World (Bristol) I don't know the people you mentioned, James, but that night was (presumably) my last ever Soft Boys gig, and I met a fellow feg there with whom I have since attended other Robyn-related events. I've often wondered if anyone recorded that show. Amongst other things they played a wonderful Airscape that night... The 'something by Syd Barrett' was Chapter 24. Charlotte >Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 14:31:04 +1300 >From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) >Subject: Small world (Bristol) > >This is a very small world. It may or may not be football-shaped, but >that's neither here nor there (actually, it's both here AND there, but I >digress). > >I belong to an apa - an amateur press association (basically, an >old-fashioned paper and post version of an online discussion group, with >issues every second month). In the November issue, a fellow apan, Tim Jones >(not the one who has been mentioned on this list in the past, but an old >friend of mine from Wellington) sent in a fanzine that had been sent to him >from England. Tim writes fanzines himself, and trades with people in >far-flung corners of the planet like Bishopston in Bristol. > >Anyway, to cut a long preamble short, one of the articles in the fanzine >from bristol was a diary of a fan get-together in said city earlier this >year. it containe the following paragraphs: > >'That evening we set out to see the Soft Boys playing at the Fleece, >Bristol's last remaining decent music venue. I like Robyn Hitchcock & the >Soft Boys, but for some reason I have them classified in my head as a folk >band, which is a bit bizarre considering that they take to the stage with >three guitarists and a drummer. But one of the guitarists does look - and >play - like a folk musician. And their fans are dedicated and knowledgeable >like Nick (who eagerly snapped up the CDs on sale at the gig), and Linda >(who is practically a groupie, since not only had she come all the way to >Bristol from Eastbourne to see them, but planned to see them in Oxford and >Brighton too.) > >'Robyn Hitchcock was in playful mood. He began his set by asking us to pick >one letter out of three. We did so, and they played a song beginning with >that letter, but not the one that anyone was expecting. Then they played >something by Syd Barrett. Then Robyn told us some strange stories, and they >played more songs. Robyn explained that each time the Soft Boys reform it >portended doom for the planet. Last time it was the nightmare combination >of Reagan and Thatcher. This time it was Blair and Bush - and he launched >into a diatribe against Bush, culminating in: "George Walker Bush, you are >a fucking wanker!" > >'"I've never heard Robyn Hitchcock swear on stage before!" said Nick, >impressed. "Things must be serious." "They are," I said. "But we didn't >need Robyn to tell us that."' > >So... Godders and the Gloucestershire area crew... do any of you know Nick >Walters, Linda Krawecke, Doug Bell, or Christina Lake? > >James _________________________________________________________________ Tired of 56k? Get a FREE BT Broadband connection http://www.msn.co.uk/specials/btbroadband ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 20:46:00 -0600 From: steve Subject: How hip is *your* iTunes library? Along with TiVo addiction, here's another thing to worry about. - - Steve __________ Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou - http://ykk.misago.org/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 22:37:43 -0600 (CST) From: David Witzany Subject: Re: BitTorrent of RH's show at Fletcher's There's at least one copy of this show currently live. I'll leave my copy online until at least some time Thursday evening, so anyone with a reasonably fast connection should be able to get it. For those just tuning in, you can nab an excellent pre-Halloween Robyn show by opening a browser and pointing it to this URL: http://www.sharingthegroove.org/msgboard/attachment.php?s=&postid=194198 After you install the necessary software pointed to in this FAQ: http://research.umbc.edu/~hamilton/shnfaq.html you can begin a session in which you will both download the show to your own computer, and upload the parts you already have to those who don't have those parts yet. While setting things up is fairly straightforward (says the pre-Win 3.1 techie), you can expect the download process to take quite a few hours. Please do everyone a big favor and don't close the window that tells you that you've successfully downloaded the show; as long as that window is open, you're helping others to get the show and shortening the number of resources required of anyone. For the fellow techies out there, here's the .pdf file in which the author of the BitTorrent software explains the rationales behind the program: http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/bittorrentecon.pdf Very fun reading. Dave. David Witzany witzany@uiuc.edu ....one of Nature's bounds checkers - ------------ On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Mike Swedene wrote: >Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 16:28:50 -0800 (PST) >From: Mike Swedene >Subject: Re: New Robyn bit torrent > >i tried this last night. Saw it on sharing in the >groove website. Download failed. Is it up tonight? > >mike ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 23:37:05 -0800 From: "John B. Jones" Subject: Today's setlists - Robyn & Scott McCaughey 1. KPSU 2:30pm A Man's Gotta Know His Limitations, Briggs I Still Miss Someone (Scott on lead vox) (Johnny Cash) Gene Hackman The Presidents Tour (Scott on lead vox) (Scott McCaughey) Queen Of Eyes 2. Music Millenium in-store 4:30pm Keep Finding Me (just Robyn) Million Dollar Bash (Scott on lead vox) (???) Ballad of John And Yoko (Robyn and Scott together) (Lennon/McCartney) some Scott McCaughey song about Courage Idonia another Scott McCaughey song an Arthur Lee song with silent vocals (Robyn only) 4th Time Around (Dylan) Odds and Ends (Dylan) 3. Aladdin Theater 8:00pm I'm Only You I've Got The Hots For You Balloon Man 1974 Glass Hotel You Remind Me Of You No I Don't Remember Guilford Uncorrected Personality Traits Keep Finding Me Speed Of Things Sleeping With Your Devil Mask The Yip Song Queen Elvis Full Moon In My Soul Encore: with Scott McCaughey and Bison Flavor A Man's Gotta Know His Limitations, Briggs a couple of others Queen Of Eyes The KPSU in-studio will be rebroadcast on my radio show (Hello Cruel World) this coming Sunday at 5pm PST on 1450AM for those of you in town and http://www.kpsu.org/webcast.html for those that aren't. I'm holding out for a gnat-review, hopefully y'all are too.... =jbj= ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 00:34:57 -0800 From: "Natalie Jacobs" Subject: gnatmaniax: on topic for once So I saw this Robyn guy you keep talking about... I didn't know anything about him, so I was curious to check him out. He was playing at the Aladdin, a mere stone's throw (if you can throw about four blocks) from my house... I girded my loins with cheap girders* and set forth. The line was positively clogged with fegs and I talked to Carole, the Sloop John B, Viv, Michael Keefe and his charming wife Liz, and so forth... John said he had taped a radio show with Robyn which we will all be hearing soon... we went in and I saved seats for Jane the Timeline Chick, her laconic hubby Jason, and Red Eye Distribution guy Steven King, who actually looks like Jackson Browne. Scurrilous tales of Wilco bassist John Stirratt were told. I talked to Carole and her friend some more as well. Finally, Scott McCaughey (or "McOi" as Jane calls him) came out in his omnipresent glasses and cowboy hat. As I explained to Viv in line, I had left my rat's ass at home and therefore couldn't give one about him, but his set was pleasant enough... he played the only songs I actually remember from "Down With Wilco," "Retrieval of You" and "The Town that Lost Its Groove Supply" (which suffered, naturally, without Jeff Tweedy's vocals). He was joined by a bassist and drummer who had been collectively dubbed Bison Flavored, and Robyn came out - looking very spruce in a sort of Nehru-style black suit coat and cobalt-blue trousers - to play harmonica on a few songs. "McOi" ended with a cover of my all-time favorite Wilco song, "I'm Always in Love" - - he made it sound a bit wussy, but only a death-metal treatment could ruin a song of such sterling perfection. (And even then, I'd be curious to hear it.) The intermission was short, as no set-up was needed, and Robyn re-emerged in a polka-dot shirt (same trousers). He needs a haircut, as usual. I believe the root of his hair problems is a natural wave in his hair that no barber has apparently ever been able to deal with adequately; thusly, when he got a bit ruffled, his hair stood up on either side of his head like bull's horns. He seemed to be in a very chipper mood and talked about the "Zenith (tm) School of Leaning, serving musicians throughout the Northwest, now available in Portland, Oregon" and invented an angst-ridden children's book. He was relieved that large areas of downtown remain intact since his last visit to Portland two years ago. He played the same acoustic he always plays, no electric this time. I forgot what an excellent guitarist he is - lots of very rapid and expert finger-picking, his long fingers fluttering on the fretboard like spider legs. He did many songs that I had never heard him do before, such as "The Speed of Things," "I Got the Hots for You," and "Uncorrected Personality Traits," and songs that I had never heard him do acoustically, such as "Balloon Man." Someone else probably can post a setlist. It was funny to hear people laughing during his songs - I just sort of assumed that everyone attending a Robyn show would already be familiar with his stuff and therefore the jokes would no longer be giggle-worthy, but it was not so. I didn't mind, I'm just sayin' (as they say on Postcard). The songs from Luxor (surprisingly and gratifyingly few - just two or three, I think) didn't sound any more interesting live than they do on record, but at least he didn't play that godawful song about yams. Bison Flavored and "McOi" joined Robyn for the encore, and they did "Queen of Eyes" and some other stuff. Robyn suggested that Tad Hutchinson from the Young Fresh Fellows (you know, the drummer with the wok on a spring) be President. I was expecting them to do "Viva Sea-Tac" but they did not. The show ended prematurely because there was a punk show right afterwards. This had puzzled me greatly when I found out about it, but the guy at the box office said Robyn had wanted to play an early show. Go figure. Anyway, afterwards Carole's friend Mary bought drinks for everyone (Carole, she went looking for you, by the way), I gave Scott McOi a tinfoil bird (hey, he's really nice, and he does have good taste in Wilco songs), and both Jane and her hubby proclaimed their newfound love for Robyn! Yay!! Converts!! I urged them to join the list since Jane is already famous amongst the fegs. I also got a bag of Young Fresh Fellows pins from Steven King. Now I have our future president Tad next to Elvis Costello on my coat lapel. Yip! n. *I stole that line from Spike Milligan. _________________________________________________________________ Crave some Miles Davis or Grateful Dead? Your old favorites are always playing on MSN Radio Plus. Trial month free! http://join.msn.com/?page=offers/premiumradio ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 11:03:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: Small World (Bristol) On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Charlotte Tupman wrote: > I don't know the people you mentioned, James, but that night was > (presumably) my last ever Soft Boys gig, and I met a fellow feg there with > whom I have since attended other Robyn-related events. I've often wondered > if anyone recorded that show. Amongst other things they played a wonderful > Airscape that night... The 'something by Syd Barrett' was Chapter 24. Agreed. However, "Astronomy Domine", the other Barrett offering on the set list, was ditched because of a broken string, and replaced (IIRC) by 'Rock'n'Roll Toilet'. I had to go all the way to Oxford for 'Astronomy Domine'. If there really are all these other fegs in the areal (sic) we must get together for a drink before the next Fleece appearance. - - Mike Godwin n.p. Sandy Bull 'Carmina Burana Fantasy' (on _banjos_ for heaven's sake) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 12:20:48 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Words from the Front - --On Mittwoch, 1. Oktober 2003 14:00 Uhr -0700 Eb wrote: > Still, it *was* "Marquee Moon," complete with that absolutely sublime > passage where the band builds into an assault of unison, staccato notes, > which then magically dissolves into creamy tangential ripples...whew. Has > an orgasm ever been portrayed better in music? "Slipping (Into Something)" by the Feelies. Of course heavily influenced by Television ... I wish they would tour over here. Television, I mean. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn PGP key ID: 0x4D105B45 Ehrenfeldg|rtel 156 50823 Kvln http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 07:42:49 -0800 From: "Glen Uber" Subject: Happy Birthday To Crazy Unca Nick! Hope to see you at the show Monday. - -g- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 10:45:28 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: REAP Chic, Bowie, Power Station, etc... drummer Tony Thompson, 49 Bummer, nobody played tighter. He was the power behind Power Station. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 14:08:24 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: reap Kindercore Records (label of most of the E6 refugees. Can you believe they have allowed "The Gay Parade" and "Coquelicot Asleep in the Poppies, a Variety of Whimsical Verse" to go out of print?) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 14:05:31 -0800 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: REAP At 10:45 AM 11/13/2003 -0800, Tom Clark wrote: >Chic, Bowie, Power Station, etc... drummer Tony Thompson, 49 > >Bummer, nobody played tighter. He was the power behind Power Station. Power Station was the first concert I ever attended, early on in high school. First Palmer, now Thompson. Not too jinx anybody, but I suppose this means one of the Duran-Taylors is next. Or Michael Des Barres. - --Jason, who does in fact sweat when the heat is on "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 14:25:32 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: reap >Kindercore Records > >(label of most of the E6 refugees. Can you believe they have allowed >"The Gay Parade" and "Coquelicot Asleep in the Poppies, a Variety of >Whimsical Verse" to go out of print?) > > Jesus. And just in recent days, I was lamenting to a friend about the lack of "reliable" recently-born indie labels, beyond Kindercore, Jetset and (sorta indie) Sanctuary. Cross one off. :( Eb ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 16:01:20 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: REAP Tom Clark wrote: > Chic, Bowie, Power Station, etc... drummer Tony > Thompson, 49 > > Bummer, nobody played tighter. He was the power > behind Power Station. He was also supposedly the only guy the Plant, Page, and Jones even thought (albeit, for only half a second) about having as a replacement for Bonham before packing it in. ===== "Senator John McCain recently compared the situation in Iraq to the Vietnam era -- to which President Bush replied, 'What does Iraq have in common with drinking beer in Texas?'" - -- Craig Kilborn __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 16:57:58 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Jardine of Love Looks like Mike's contract with Satan might final be in renegotiation: J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V12 #422 ********************************