From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V13 #232 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Saturday, August 14 2004 Volume 13 : Number 232 Today's Subjects: ----------------- buns too hot for sports caretakers? [James Dignan ] Re: Ramones Name Generator ["Fortissimo" ] Re: Ramones Name Generator [Jeff Dwarf ] White Album gig review ["Charlotte Tupman" ] reap [Christopher Gross ] RE: White Album gig review ["Eb" ] tanya donnelly (5% rh) [fingerpuppets ] globe and mail sadies album review [fingerpuppets ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 12:15:30 +1200 From: James Dignan Subject: buns too hot for sports caretakers? And don't worry, despite the subject line, there's nothing X rated 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: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 23:33:41 -0700 (PDT) From: "The Mammal Brain" Subject: Possible R.I.P. the following exchanges occurred friday morning. CHEF: Did "Hillbilly Jim" die? ME: I don't know who that is. CHEF: You don't know "Hillbilly Jim"?! He came to Hollywood from that village. ME: [Silent]. CHEF: If you don't know "Hillbilly Jim", you haven't born [sic]. ME: [Laughing]. CHEF: Do you know "Hillbilly Jim"? ERIC: "Hillbilly Jim"? ME: [Laughing]. CHEF: Did he die? ERIC: I think that's just a euphemism for "hick". CHEF: You never seen him?! ERIC: He's from Tennessee? ME: [Laughing]. CHEF: Yeah. He came to Hollywood with that girl. ERIC: So he's an actor? CHEF: Yeah. He came from very small village. He's *very* popular. ERIC: Huhn. I am not familiar with "Hillbilly Jim". ME: [Laughing]. CHEF: He passed away. is he referring to buddy ebsen, or ...what? checking google news, i see a surprising number of stories concerning *The Beverly Hillbillies*, but nothing about any deaths of cast members... ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 01:41:13 -0500 From: "Fortissimo" Subject: Re: Ramones Name Generator On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 14:51:46 -0400, "Ken Weingold" said: > That is freakin brilliant. - ------------------------------- ...Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com/ :: "In two thousand years, they'll still be looking for Elvis - :: this is nothing new," said the priest. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 00:15:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Ramones Name Generator Fortissimo wrote: > On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 14:51:46 -0400, "Ken Weingold" > said: > > > > That is freakin brilliant. The only problem is, it called me Jeff Ramone, when everyone knows Jeffs are all actually called Joey Ramone. ===== "'Bushworld' is sort of an alternate universe where things are the opposite of what they seem. President Bush said the other day, 'It is a ridiculous notion to assert that because the United States is on the offensive, more people want to hurt us. We are on the offensive because people do want to hurt us.' I mean that is a perfect 'Bushworld' quote. It's not true and it's nonsensical. It's the opposite of what is true. His new campaign motto is 'America is safer. Be afraid, be very afraid.' Everything is an oxymoron." -- Maureen Dowd __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 09:26:09 +0100 From: "Charlotte Tupman" Subject: White Album gig review I went to the White Album gig on the Saturday night too. No pics or recordings I'm afraid but the review already submitted certainly does the evening justice. The special guests were Terry Edwards (various brass instruments), Paul Noble (bass, and wearing a great hat!), Ed Harcourt (vocals - I think this is the guy with whom Robyn played in Mallorca earlier this year), a keyboard player whose name I've forgotten, and Adam Buxton doing a rap at one point (very bizarre). Robyn introduced the band saying "Hi, we're the White Album." They were on excellent form. Revolution #9, as the review below says, was amazing: they had a digital counter running on a laptop at the back and everyone was doing their bit at the correct time. The audience loved it, mostly for the sheer amount of research and practice that must have gone into getting it right. The highlight for me was While My Guitar Gently Weeps: Kimberley's playing was incredible, as it was throughout the evening. It was a joy to be there. Thoroughly entertaining and all in a good cause too, as we were reminded after the end of 'Side Two' by a lady from Medecins Sans Frontihres who told us about the charity's work. There was an auction at the end, with various memorabilia being auctioned off (mainly signed Robyn things) in aid of the charity. I hope this sort of gig becomes an annual event at the Three Kings, which is the only pub I've ever been to which puts out FREE jugs of water for the very hot audience (small space, lots of people, no air con!) Long live the Three Kings! Charlotte > >Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 19:42:39 -0400 >From: "Roberta Cowan" >Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V13 #228 aka WAAW > >from Mike Godwin: > > > > > PS Did anyone catch the 'Robyn vs the White Album' gigs last weekend? > > Pictures? Criticism? How did 'Revolution Number 9' go down? > > >Here's a review that was posted to VegetableFriends: > >The Saturday night White Album Against War gig was f*cking >phenomenal. The pub was tiny, there was no stage (as such), just an >area about 20ft x 10ft where 3-quarters of the Soft Boys plus various >other special guests did a, quite frankly astonishing live version >of 'The Beatles' album. Robyn wore a polka dot b&w shirt and bright >green cords. Between song banter was kept to a minimum but he did go >off at a tangent occasionally. He also sang some of the songs in a >hilarious/frightening (delete as applicable) Viv Stanshall baritone. >Morris sang on 'Don't Pass Me By', Barry Wom stylee. Kimberley's >playing (and grinning) was awesome. The whole thing was so good I can >hardly believe I was there. > >Highlights for me were 'Happiness Is A Warm Gun', 'Piggies' >and 'Savoy Truffle' and 'Long, Long, Long' although I am a bit of a >Harrison freak. Revolution No. 9 was an absolute scream, with about >10 people on stage (+ a laptop) and Robyn attempting to conduct via a >cue sheet of all the required sounds and at what point they should be >heard. It was actually quite disturbing, as was Adam Buxton's Ali G >impersonation at half time, but we won't go into that... > >You can work the set list out yourselves. > >DP03. > > >Would love to hear more--anybody else go? Pictures? Recordings?? > >Roberta > _________________________________________________________________ It's fast, it's easy and it's free. Get MSN Messenger today! http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 07:22:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: reap Polish poet and Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz, 93. (Also, apparently, a number of people in Florida. I hope all Fegs and their friends and families are okay....) - --Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 09:26:16 -0700 From: "Eb" Subject: RE: White Album gig review > Revolution #9, as the review below says, was amazing: they > had a digital counter running on a laptop at the back and everyone was doing > their bit at the correct time. The audience loved it, mostly for the sheer > amount of research and practice that must have gone into getting it right. Wow! I hope this will get mp3'd by someone! Eb ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 13:47:17 -0400 From: fingerpuppets Subject: tanya donnelly (5% rh) caught tanya donnelly at the iron horse in northampton, ma earlier this week. 'twas a very good show indeed. kinda unexpected instrumentation -- she was accompanied by a keyboardist and two gutiarists (one acoustic/electic, one pedal steel/acoustic) -- though from what little i had heard about her new record, _whisky tango ghosts_ (which i finally got around to picking up after the show), i knew she was headed away from the pop/rock thing for a while. she played many songs from her new record, a few from her earlier solo efforts, at least one belly tune, one throwing muses song, and one robyn hitchcock cover! "sweet ghost of light"! whoa! (i wonder if this cover has anything to do with the tribute album that colin meloy referred to recently as well). tanya's doing a couple shows this coming week on the left coast: at largo on the 16th and 17th and cafe du nord in san francisco on the 18th. if you can make it, i recommend it. woj ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 21:14:31 -0400 From: fingerpuppets Subject: globe and mail sadies album review robyn merits a positive mention... A mystery for the ears By CARL WILSON Thursday, August 12, 2004 - Page R3 Favourite Colours The Sadies Outside Music/Yep Rock Rating: *** On the cover, the principals are pictured as if staring out of an old daguerreotype, looking like mourners and undertakers at a north Ontario biker funeral. The music could have been recorded by such characters, holed up in a cabin with only an illegal power generator and the instruments around a fireplace. Toronto-based quartet The Sadies, on their fifth album, have created a locked-room mystery for the ears -- it is unclear what crime has been committed by the four culprits, but the walls crowd in closer than we're used to in rock 'n' roll, the air thick with suspicious fumes. The Sadies are a band best known for the spacious dynamics, intricate layers and rippling string-benders in their beloved live shows. The puzzle has always been what, exactly, they should do with their albums, due to the nagging expectation that a record should be filled not just with music but with songs. That's no problem when The Sadies are backing the likes of Neko Case (on her upcoming live album) or Jon Langford of the Mekons, but it's always seemed to stump them on their own. At a Sadies show, a song is something that emerges briefly out of the smoke, tells a little story and then sinks back into the misty riffs from which it came. In the past, songs on Sadies records have sounded orphaned, as if ripped from live sets and set adrift. But on Favourite Colours, a narrowing of the sonic aperture helps provide each one its berth. The sibling guitars of Dallas and Travis Good still bob and weave in and out of each other's paths as in live shows, but now they stick to a tighter flight plan. Mike Belitzsky's drums and Sean Dean's bass lines help to steady the ambiance. The vocals make more use of unison and harmony singing, and there are fewer solos from the instruments. These choices serve to ground and unite the collection, shaping it to stereo or headphone size; if you choose to blast it loud, the musicians' focus only imbues the album with that much more punch. Not that it is a homogeneous set; in 32 minutes, you get 13 songs, including ringing 12-string acoustic excursions, down-tempo ballads, racing roadster rumbles, driftwood-bonfire sing-alongs and desert-fried spaghetti-western vistas. As always, the Good brothers and their accomplices hijack 1960s-era influences such as surf rock, soundtrack psychedelia, bluegrass and Buck Owens-style electric country. But perhaps under the influence of trippy-sounding side project The Unintended, this disc has a stronger lysergic tint -- sounding variously like lost tracks from the Nuggets sixties-garage series, The Band in Woodstock (another biker town) circa 1969, or The Byrds jangling twang. As for that unnamed crime? It just may be a political assassination. Three songs on the album form a trilogy about war and disillusionment, and related themes surface in a tune that turns up first as an acoustic instrumental (Only You and Your Eyes) and then closes the album in an electric version entitled Why Would Anybody Live Here? The latter rendition features the album's best surprise--a supple guest vocal by English rock eccentric Robyn Hitchcock. "Memory fades, instinct takes over/," he sings, "And when instinct goes, you use force. . . . Why would anybody with integrity exist in a place like this?" Those songs in particular seem to be by-products of the political situation south of border, where the disc was partially recorded (notice the way the album title proudly flies the Canadian-orthography flag). But unlike many politically minded bands, The Sadies are too invested in their mystique to spell it out in full. In classic psychedelic style, their portents have many meanings, and it's up to the listener to assemble the clues. ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V13 #232 ********************************