From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V13 #127 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, May 5 2004 Volume 13 : Number 127 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Wow! [Eb ] Rhino Handmade vs. Collectables ["Marc Holden" ] Re: Triffids [grutness@surf4nix.com] Re: the vinyl cut [grutness@surf4nix.com] na na naw na na naw na na na na na na naw (NR) [steve ] Re: The Vinyl Countdown [Vendren ] Re: The Vinyl Countdown [Vendren ] Re: Lewis and Clark [Michael R Godwin ] Re: the vinyl cut [Aaron Mandel ] All your poseurs are belong to us [Tom Clark ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 10:33:08 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Wow! DYLAN: BLOWIN' INTO 'IDOL'? NY Post May 4, 2004 -- SO what happened to Bob Dylan - rebel folk-rock hero? Not only is the '60s anti-establishment icon appearing in a commercial for Victoria's Secret, but now he's interested in being a guest judge on "American Idol." Entertainment Weekly reports that Dylan's "people" contacted "AI" executive producer Nigel Lythgoe about The Mumbling One appearing next season as a guest judge. "AI" producers have already put the call out to Paul McCartney to be a guest judge next season, and EW says he's mulling the offer. In the Victoria's Secret ad, "Angels in Venice," Dylan, 62, is seen ogling a scantily clad woman wearing angel wings and stiletto heels while his song, "Love Sick," plays in the background. That's quite a departure for the musician, who's railed against corporate America for over 40 years now. Dylan and McCartney wouldn't be the first celebrity judges on "American Idol." Among the musicians who've appeared on the show are Barry Manilow, Neil Sedaka, Gladys Knight and Gloria Estefan. "American Idol," now in its third season, averages over 20 million viewers a night. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 10:35:32 -0700 From: "Marc Holden" Subject: Rhino Handmade vs. Collectables >Did anyone ever pick up the Rhino Handmade reissue of the same Guadalcanal Diary albums which Collectables had released just a few months previously, for compare-and-contrast purposes (Marc)? Yeah, I got both re-releases of Walking in the Shadow of the Big Man, but haven't compared the sound quality side by side. To be honest, my ears aren't what they could or should be, as anyone who has had to repeat themselves (repeatedly) for me can tell you. I need to find more friends who are "loud talkers". Both releases are vital if you like Guadalcanal Diary. The Collectables version has the only CD release of the Jamboree album. The mastering and inserts are better than their other releases I've picked up, but the booklet still has errors. I agree that what they've done with the 13th Floor Elevators releases is just sad. I don't have the "best of" rip-off, but did pick up "The Magic of the Pyramids", "The 1966-1967 Unreleased Masters Collection (3 CD)", and "Another Dimension", which is just another release of the 1966 Avalon Ballroom bootleg. The Rhino release has the Watusi Rodeo EP, again never before issued on CD, plus a b-side and an unreleased track. If you're only going to get one, get the Rhino release. It's a numbered limited edition (mine is 503 of 2500), the packaging is better, and Rhino usually does a great job with the mastering on both their handmade and standard re-issues. I need to get my order in for the Beat Farmers--Tales of the New West. Glad I got right onto that Television live album, because it's sold out now. Later, Marc I wish everybody would have to have an electric thing implanted in our heads that gave us a shock whenever we did something to disobey the president. Then somehow I get myself elected president. Jack Handey ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 12:21:03 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com Subject: Re: Triffids Michael wrote: > >whoops - my mistake... I meant "Raining pleasure". > > I have "Born Sandy Devotional", "Calenture", "In the Pines" and "Treeless >Plain" by The Triffids. Was "Raining Pleasure" the Triffids first release? >Also, is "Black Swan" worth picking up? "Raining pleasure" is a 7-song mini-album that came out in 1984. Good stark stuff - it was early, it was before Evil Graham Lee was in the band (they were a 5-piece). As for "The black swan", it's not bad, though not as good as BSD or Calenture. Ideas were a ittle thinner on the ground, perhaps, and it was quite poppy in places, but I'd give it a B/B- rather than condemning it. 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: Wed, 5 May 2004 12:22:27 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com Subject: Re: the vinyl cut All this talk about digitising cassettes and vinyl... what sort of software do you use? (I'm talking to Mac users here) 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: Tue, 4 May 2004 21:56:59 -0500 From: steve Subject: na na naw na na naw na na na na na na naw (NR) http://www.rialtopictures.com/godzilla.html - - Steve __________ liggett pray harpy railway eldest symptom cobb con pea bon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 22:30:09 -0500 From: "Fortissimo" Subject: Re: na na naw na na naw na na na na na na naw (NR) On Tue, 4 May 2004 21:56:59 -0500, "steve" said: > http://www.rialtopictures.com/godzilla.html Y'know, history shows again and again how nature points out the folly of men... - ------------------------------- ...Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com/ :: Some days, you just can't get rid of a bomb :: --Batman ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 21:22:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: YFF Tribute "Rex.Broome" wrote: > Oddly apparently among the bands paying tribute to the > Fellows are... the Minus 5. Well, Terry & The Lovemen paid tribute to XTC, and _More Oar_ has an unreleased Skip Spence song as a hidden track, so it's not exactly unprecedented (which I can't spell at the moment I think). ===== "Life is just a series of dogs." -- George Carlin "I'm going to keep playing music until somebody shoots me." -- Scott McCaughey __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 22:16:33 -0700 From: Vendren Subject: Re: The Vinyl Countdown From: "John Barrington Jones" > Trio - the first LP (I heard this just got reissued in Germany - includes > an extra cd with the first EP and a bunch of demos) Wow, that disc I'm pretty excited about. I had the American vinyl release, which mixed songs from the first two albums. I've never heard the first Trio album proper. I'll have to hunt it down. My other yet-to-be replaced vinyls seem to be all early-eighties: Flash & The Pan - Early Morning Wake Up Call (never released on CD) Wall Of Voodoo - Dark Continent Wall Of Voodoo - Seven Days In Sammystown The Flirts - 10 Cents a Dance Gary Myrick - Gary Myrick & The Figures Rational Youth - Cold War Night Life Rank And File - Sundown Blancmange - Happy Families I'm sure there's tons more. Palle np: Minus 5 - Down With Wilco ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 22:29:41 -0700 From: Vendren Subject: Re: The Vinyl Countdown From: "Brian Hoare" > I would nominate Daevid Allen's Death of Rock as having the shoddiest > mastering among cds I own. The original EP was not great sounding but the cd > is quite horrible - also uses a different version of one of tracks for no > obvious reason. Chris DeBurgh's "The Getaway" is the single worst sounding CD I've heard. Tinny, distorted in the left channel mid range, the volume changes radically between tracks. I've never bothered checking to see if it's been remastered - I only bought it for "Don't Pay the Ferryman." When I first started collecting CDs, and people would expound at me about the so-called superior sound quality of CDs, I would play them that CD. People were talking about Rhino. It seems to me that their sound quality is really inconsistent. The new Velvel prints of the Kink's 70's catalog sound much better than Rhino's for example. But I recently grabbed Rhino's Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons best-of, and the sound is fantastic. Palle np: Of Montreal - Satanic Panic In The Attic ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 11:56:53 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: Lewis and Clark Moderately wild excitement here at the announcement of the Long Ryders UK / European tour. Last saw them at the Bristol Locarno twentysomething years ago, and they were well worth catching. - MRG *** THE STATE OF THE REUNION TOUR *** JUNE 2004 Sat 26 - Glastonbury, England - Glastonbury Festival Onstage 2pm sharp! Further details to follow. Sat 26 - Portland, Dorset, England - SpydaFest 2004 Southwell Business Park, Portland, Dorset Box office: 01305 783-225 Web: www.spydafest.com Long Ryders onstage 8pm Sun 27 - Dublin, Ireland - Whelans 25 Wexford Street, Dublin 2, Eire; Tel: +353 1 478-0766 Web: www.whelanslive.com Mon 28 - T.B.C. *T.B.C.* Tues 29 - London, England - Dingwalls - Lock 17 Middle Yard, Camden Lock, Chalk Farm Road, NW1; Tel: +44 (0)20 7267 1577 Tube: Camden Town/Chalk Farm Wed 30 - London, England - Dingwalls - Lock 17 Middle Yard, Camden Lock, Chalk Farm Road, NW1; Tel: +44 (0)20 7267 1577 Tube: Camden Town/Chalk Farm JULY 2004 Thurs 1 - Nottingham, England - Rescue Rooms Masonic Place, Goldsmith St, Nottingham Tickets on sale now: #12 advance; #14 door Box office: 0115 958 8484 Web: www.rescuerooms.com Tickets also available from: www.seetickets.com Thurs 1 - Nottingham, England - Rescue Rooms Masonic Place, Goldsmith St, Nottingham Tickets on sale now: #12 advance; #14 door Box office: 0115 958 8484 Web: www.rescuerooms.com Tickets also available from: www.seetickets.com Fri 2 - Manchester, England - Manchester Academy 3 Tickets can be bought from Ticketline - Tel: 0161 832 1111; Web: www.ticketline.co.uk Sat 3 - Glasgow, Scotland - King Tut's Wah Wah Hut Further details to follow. *T.B.C.* Sun 4 - Amsterdam, the Netherlands - The Paradiso Further details to follow. Mon 5 -T.B.C. Tue 6 - T.B.C. Wed 7 - Leeds, England - Irish Centre A64 York Road, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS9 9NT; Tel: 0113 245 5570 Web: www.ticketline.co.uk/venues.asp?VenueId=1645 Thur 8 - Bristol, England - Fleece Tickets are available now priced #15 advance from Ticketweb: www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=uk&query=detail&event=91038 Tickets also available from: www.bristolticketshop.co.uk Fri 9 - Madrid, Spain - Sala Arena Further details to follow. Sat 10 - Gijon, Spain - Semana Negra Further details to follow. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 12:43:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: the vinyl cut On Wed, 5 May 2004 grutness@surf4nix.com wrote: > All this talk about digitising cassettes and vinyl... what sort of > software do you use? (I'm talking to Mac users here) I use Final Vinyl, which goes with the Griffin iMic (not a microphone, but an analog-to-digital converter). I know one can download FV separately from buying an iMic, but I think it either costs money or perhaps doesn't work properly if one isn't using it with the company's product. a ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 11:22:21 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: All your poseurs are belong to us Oasis frontman 'beaten up by computer geeks' - -tc ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V13 #127 ********************************