From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V13 #274 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, September 28 2004 Volume 13 : Number 274 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: ipod [steve ] Fwd: New torrent - * Reseed* Robyn Hitchcock (solo) 1987-07-18 McCabes, Santa Monica (Audience - SHN) [] Fwd: [VegFriends] Observer Spooked Review [bisontentacle ] Re: Spooked 'n' Sadies (official poorly written review) ["Rex Broome" ] Re: request to Tom Clark ["Fortissimo" ] Re: request to Tom Clark ["Fortissimo" ] Re: Reap ["Fortissimo" ] The bluest skies you've ever seen, in Seattle.... [Eb ] Re: outdoor iRiver ["Gene Hopstetter, Jr." ] How'd this one slip by? ["Marc Holden" ] robyn/scranton tickets on ticketmaster [bisontentacle ] God hates Bush [Ken Weingold ] God hates Bush II [Ken Weingold ] RE: Spooked 'n' Sadies (official poorly written review) ["Bachman, Michae] Balloon Man, the movie ["Gene Hopstetter, Jr." ] Spooked Antics [Miles Goosens ] Re: Balloon Man, the movie ["Rex Broome" ] Re: Smiley Spooked Antics ["Rex Broome" ] inteREMpol ["Rex Broome" ] Smile ["Maximilian Lang" ] Re: Smile ["Rex Broome" ] Re: Smile ["Maximilian Lang" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 21:08:32 -0500 From: steve Subject: Re: ipod On Sep 27, 2004, at 9:35 AM, gshell@americangroupisp.com wrote: > is there any place with a good selection of skins and cases for the > new ipod? There are a zillion iPod gizmos, here's a starting place - New today - Mr. Hitchcock Fuzzy Warbles 5 & 6 Volcano, I'm Still Excited!!, which I ran across on eBay when looking for the first Zumpano album, and I have no idea what the connection is, but I got it for 5.00 delivered. Also off eBay today, a Sansui TU-717 tuner. Oh, and tomorrow, Smile. - - Steve __________ "I trust God speaks through me. Without that, I couldnt do my job." - George W. Bush, quoted in the Lancaster New Era, during a private meeting with an Amish group. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 23:41:18 -0400 From: bisontentacle Subject: Fwd: New torrent - * Reseed* Robyn Hitchcock (solo) 1987-07-18 McCabes, Santa Monica (Audience - SHN) >To: Multiple recipients >Subject: New torrent - * Reseed* Robyn Hitchcock (solo) 1987-07-18 >McCabes, Santa Monica (Audience - SHN) >From: tracker@sharingthegroove.org >Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 19:26:32 -0500 > >A new torrent has been uploaded. > >Name: * Reseed* Robyn Hitchcock (solo) 1987-07-18 McCabes, Santa Monica >(Audience - SHN) >Size: 830.31 MB >Category: Audio - Audience >Uploaded by: badronald > >Description: >------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Robyn Hitchcock >July 18, 1987 >McCabe's >Santa Monica, California US > >Source: Analog Cassette Master (microphones unknown) -> > DAT (32kHz)-> PC (vi Lynx One digital I/O) -> SHN > >Fade in/outs, resampling, and normalization to 0 dB via Sound Forge. >Track splits via cdwave. > >DAT obtained in trade in June, 1996, converted to SHN July, 2004. > >Early Set (Running time: 62:13, SHN size: 371MB) > >1. Intro/banter >2. A Globe of Frogs >3. Autumn is Your Last Chance >4. I Got the Hots >5. banter... >6. Raymond Chandler Evening >7. banter... >8. Trash >9. banter.. >10. Insect Mother >11. Agony of Pleasure >12. banter... >13. Man Who Invented Himself >14. banter... >15. Ted, Woody, and Junior >16. The Angel Upstairs >17. banter... >18. I Got a Message For You >19. Sleeping with Your Devil Mask >20. banter... >21. Sandra's Having Her Brain Out > >Late Set: (Running Time: 71:53, SHN size: 458MB) > >1. Intro/banter >2. A Globe of Frogs >3. I Often Dream of Trains >4. banter... >5. I Got the Hots >6. banter... >7. Raymond Chandler Evening >8. banter... >9. Trash >10. banter... >11. Insect Mother >12. banter... >13. Agony of Pleasure >14. banter... >15. Man Who Invented Himself >16. Flavour of Night >17. Fifty Two Stations >18. banter... >19. I Got a Message For You >20. Sleeping with Your Devil Mask >21. President >22. Donna Summer >23. False Knight on the Road [Traditional, arr. Tim Hart] >24. banter... >25. Went to See the Gypsy [Bob Dylan] > >Note: This is a very fine show, with Robyn in fine form, as he banters >with the audience. Some noise as microphones are repositioned early >on, but overall the sound is very good. > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >You can use the URL below to download the torrent (you may have to login). > >http://torrent.sharingthegroove.org/details.php?id=153&hit=1 > >-- >Sharing the Groove Tracker ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 23:43:23 -0400 From: bisontentacle Subject: Fwd: [VegFriends] Observer Spooked Review >To: VegetableFriends@yahoogroups.com >From: "Tulloch" >Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 21:43:19 -0000 >Subject: [VegFriends] Observer Spooked Review > >The Guardian's Sunday sister paper The Observer printed this review >yesterday; > >Robyn Hitchcok with Gillian Welch and David Rawlings >Spooked >(Proper) > >Robyn Hitchcock is a very English songwriter; Gillian Welch and David >Rawlings are among American roots' finest exponents. This album, >recorded in Nashville, is a surprise, but a pleasant one. With one >exception (Bob Dylan's 'Tryin' to Get to Heaven Before They Close the >Door'), these are all new songs by Hitchcock, and to a degree Welch >and Rawlings subsume their musical personalities to his. >Opener 'Television' is typical of much of the album, with Welch >providing strong, warm harmonies to Hitchcock's eccentric address; >Rawlings's accentuation of certain notes as he picks away at his >guitar is brilliant. Occasionally, on a couple of tracks, blues and >straightforward major-key playing are cross-threaded as in a loose >jam but on the whole the marriage works. Highlights? The charnel- >house imagery of 'Demons and Fiends' plays out over bottleneck and >finger clicks; closing number 'Flanagan's Song' is a lament that >recalls late-Sixties Leonard Cohen. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 16:46:20 -0800 From: "Rex Broome" Subject: Re: Spooked 'n' Sadies (official poorly written review) (The following wasn't edited worth a shit, so I probably didn't even finish half my sentences. Only so many hours in the day and what am, I annywat, som kindd of )... ko >> _______ So first, listened to the Sadies album and it evoked the following things for me: - -The latter day Byrds and how much I might like them if they hadn't recorded under the spectre of having once ostensibly been the early- and middle-period Byrds. - -Beachwood Sparks if they didn't try so hard. - -My Morning Jacket if I liked them slightly more, or gave up on my resistance to them as something I'm supposed to like but can't quite manage to. - -Another reason to say "fuck you, The Thrills", because at least these guys are from North America, and part of Buffalo Springfield was Canadian anyway, so fuck you, The Thrills. Otherwise, fine playing and nice atmosphere. Between the profusion of instrumentals, entire songs delivered in harmony, what I believe to be multiple lead vocalists where there are solo vocals, giant reverb on said vocals, and how far back in the mix said massively reverbed voices are, it's hard to put a face to the band-- even Robyn doesn't necessarily read as "Robyn" when you get to his vocal on the last track (until the chorus kicks in), but I'm okay with that, since people keep harping on me to push the vocals forward in my own recordings and I'm slowly caving in and releasing my reliance on murk, but I'm glad to hear someone else carrying the torch (call it vicarious mumbling or what have you). Anyway, I like the record and Miles would hate it. Speaking of whom... Me 'n' Miles: > >I've still only looked at it. Listening today, approximately 3PM PST, > > I'll bet you like it better than I do. So far, I do. First of all, how come I've already read two separate reviews saying "not a fish in sight" or some such, but my copy has the phrase "the devil's fishbowl" right there on the first track? Granted, it's not specified that there's a fish *in* the bowl, but still... Maybe it's just me, but the charges that the collaboration doesn't make this sound any different from previous Robyn acoustic-ish record don't hold up. I guess that's a dobro on "Television", but it sounds pretty banjo-like in places. And maybe it's just knowing Robyn's playing too well, but the fills and guitar interplay sound and feel substantially different right off the bat. And female backing vocals (which I wouldn't've pegged as Gillian if I didn't know already)... that works nicely. Has Robyn ever had female backing vocals before? It's a surprisingly natural fit. I'll join the chorus in wishing that, failing the appearance of the SB's version, I wish "If You Know Time" had been set aside for a more rockin' setting. This just sounds too demo-like. I can't even evaluate how I might feel about it had I not heard the original. And it might be that lingering feeling which makes me feel like "Everybody Needs Love" cries out for a band as well, but by the time the Element of Light-ish atmospherics kick in (dreamy coral sitar*/guitar stuff) I'm starting to get back into the swing of things again. "English Girl": Shit, he used the the same Haggard reference/pun that I wrote into my song "Redeye" seven years ago. Not that it's brilliant in either song, but I sure do hate when that happens. I come down on the not-so-fond side of the fence on the song fragment at the beginning... sounds too much like it could be a mistake, as opposed to the bit of "Ghost Ship" on GOF or even the mess of stuff at the end of JFS. Robyn seems to be doing this kind of willfully jarring non-song stuff more and more (see the hidden track on Side 3) and they seem less and less appropriate on his records... what's up with that? Anyhow... "Demons & Fiends" is perhaps too skeletal by an inch... perhaps the point? Not a bad or out-of-place kind of song on this record... a sort of more soulful take on some of the IODOT/Eye material. "Creeped Out" pulls itself well above the first impression that it's gonna be "Mexican God" all over again and picks up a nice head of menacing steam that beats most of the similar "dark blues" numbers of recent years. In fact, hearing this get grittier as it goes along makes me even less fond of the way Jon Brion treated similar Robyn material a few years back. (Nope, Miles is not gonna go for any of my comments-- he's pro-Brion and anti-Dave'n'Gil, but there it is.) "Sometimes a Blonde" is pretty great, closest to the vibe of vintage acoustic Robyn. I like it. Probably my favorite lyrics on the record. More ghosts. "We're Gonna Live in the Trees"-- the title makes me think I'm not gonna be too excited by the lyrics on this one, and I'm not, really. 'Sokay; the Virginia Woolf line almost saves it. I do wonder if maybe "stripped down" went a little too far here... it was worth overdubbing sitars and backing vocals and this track even gets a tambourine, so maybe it could've gotten a bass part? There may even be one, but if so it's mixed so low as to sound like a figure on the bass strings of the acoustic. Oh well. The Dylan cover... pretty, heartfelt, but I dunno if I call it the most Robyn-appropriate tune. Plenty of other tunes with a little more fitting surrealism, but maybe that's the point. Nice guitar work here, though. "Full Moon" is really good, a classy piece of writing given a classy treatment. "Welcome to Earth"... more oddball non-song stuff. Not bad, but I somehow think "dial 3 for Condoleeza", while reflecting where Robyn is right now, hardly has the timeless ring of "I Wanna Destroy You" or "The President". "Flanagan's Song" seems Robyn's own rewrite of "Trying To Get To Heaven", and not a bad one at that, but... well, I'm getting a little worried about our guy at this point. He doesn't sound... erm... all that happy, does he? The bonus disc: "No Way Out of Time" continues the downer vibe, but somehow this benefits from the very nice guitar setting, which reminds me of the production on the post-folkie singer-songwriter records of the early '70's, before that whole thing went to hell. Or maybe after; YMMV, but it kinda continues the evocation of some not-quite-pegged-down past era from the album. "She Was You" is alright... some of those rhyme sound a bit awkward, and not as knowingly or purposefully so as some of Robyn's best turns of phrase. I'm fine with it not making the album proper. That's all I've got for now. The question is whether it'll all gel together after a few more spins. If so, it'll be great in my estimation; if not, it'll remain my favorite solo record since Moss Elixir, for what that's worth. What's next? - -Rex - -- _______________________________________________ Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 23:48:53 -0500 From: "Fortissimo" Subject: Re: request to Tom Clark On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 13:31:43 -0500, "Miles Goosens" said: > > p.s.: the very last piece of e-mail in my inbox before sending this > one had the header of "Natalie can we handle the work load" so I guess > it is a Natalie kind of day! In fact it would be a Natalie natal day. - --Nattily, Jeff - ------------------------------- ...Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com/ :: Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree :: what they are made of, where they come from, or how often :: they should appear. :: --Lemony Snicket ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 23:50:53 -0500 From: "Fortissimo" Subject: Re: request to Tom Clark On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 14:18:05 -0500, "Miles Goosens" said: > On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 14:56:26 -0400, Ken Weingold wrote: > > So if you were from Europe, would you have been called Kilometers? > > You know, I've *never* heard that before. > Especially spending my elementary school years in the decade when > "metric conversion" was a byword. Y'know, I just had a thought...I bet we could make puns on Miles' *last* name. That would be new and different. - --Rod Fathoms - ------------------------------- ...Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com/ :: Solipsism is its own reward :: :: --Crow T. Robot ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 00:06:22 -0500 From: "Fortissimo" Subject: Re: request to Tom Clark On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 10:30:25 -0700, "Natalie Jacobs" said: > Today is my birthday; I demand my annual spankies. We're allowed to request things like that here on our birthdays? - ------------------------------- ...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: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 23:47:30 -0500 From: "Fortissimo" Subject: Re: Reap On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 16:08:07 -0500, "Miles Goosens" said: > >Date: 27 Sep 2004 20:52:10 -0000 > >From: "Claudia Christian Newsletter" > >To: outdoorminer@mindspring.com > >Subject: Another passing There's that "pass" thing again... > >It is with great sadness that I pass this along to all of you. Unless the newsletter's just referring to passing along the message? > I just found > >out this morning that Tim Choate aka Zathras from B5 has died in a tragic > >motorcycle accident. I don't know who this guy is (yes, I know - "Zathras from B5" - which means only slightly more to me than "Bob from Apt. 7") - but it's a shame he died in a tragic motorcycle accident. It would have been more bearable had he died in one of those non-tragic motorcycle accidents. Actually, if, say, Carrot-Top died in a motorcycle accident, that would definitely be non-tragic. - ------------------------------- ...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: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 23:04:43 -0700 From: Eb Subject: The bluest skies you've ever seen, in Seattle.... NEW YORK (Billboard) - After a brief European tour, singer-songwriter Tom Waits has scheduled a lone U.S. concert date this year. The Oct. 18 show at Seattle's Paramount Theater will be one of only two North American shows the artist has planned in 2004. The other is Oct. 15 in Vancouver. Because Waits has toured only rarely in recent years, word of his upcoming performances has sparked an overwhelming response from fans. The Vancouver show sold out in just nine minutes, according to a representative for the artist, while requests for tickets greatly outpaced availability for European theater stops in London, Antwerp and Berlin. Tickets for a Nov. 19-21 stand in Amsterdam go on sale Saturday (Oct. 2). Along with Waits' new studio album, "Real Gone," tickets for the Seattle show will go on sale at 12:01 a.m. Oct. 5 at the city's two Tower Records locations. Remaining tickets will go on sale at 10 a.m. that day via Ticketmaster and the 2,800-seat venue's box office. Waits, who will make a rare television appearance Tuesday (Sept. 28) on CBS' "The Late Show With David Letterman," will be backed on the road by bassist Larry Taylor, guitarist Marc Ribot and percussionist Brain. All three appear on "Real Gone," Waits' 20th album and fourth for Epitaph Records imprint Anti-. The album was recorded in an old Mississippi schoolhouse and boasts appearances by Primus founder Les Claypool, Shotgun Messiah's Harry Cody (guitar, banjo) and Waits' son Casey. It was written and produced by Waits and his wife/longtime collaborator Kathleen Brennan. A larger U.S. tour in support of the set is possible in 2005, although nothing is yet confirmed. Waits last toured the country in 1999 in support of his Anti- debut, "Mule Variations. Reuters/Billboard ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 13:18:32 +0100 From: "Matt Sewell" Subject: RE: Cat in the garden Hahaha! That's exactly what I thought, though I've never witnessed a bilocating cat... no... it was Chrissy - Oscar was a very aged cat in Lancaster who used to get into Chrissy's parents' house and sleep. One day Chrissy was upstairs looking at Oscar sleeping on her bed AND out in the garden stalking around... Strangely enough, that Oscar was owned by a bloke called Simon... Cheers Matt >From: "Rex.Broome" >Reply-To: "Rex.Broome" >To: >Subject: Cat in the garden >Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 09:12:02 -0700 > >Marc: > >>The animal quarantine laws are very strict there (4 months), so their cat > >>Oscar is going to move in with me and my cat, Simon. > >Be careful... and do talk to Matt Sewell about the bilocating capabilities of cats by that name... > >-Rex Broome (guitar and vocal, The Old Sun) > >np. "Oscar", The New Moon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 07:54:44 -0500 From: "Gene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: Re: outdoor iRiver > From: "Stewart C. Russell" > Subject: Re: ipod > > My iRiver H120 is similarly solid, and has survived a few drops and > daily smacking about on the TTC. It has the advantage of being able to > make impromptu field recordings, should the mood take me. F'rinstance: > That's a lovely recording. I have a keen interest in field recording, and I'd get into it, if I could pull myself away from my other hobbies long enough. In the meantime, I collect field recordings. I can strongly recommend the recordings of Chris Watson, on Touch Records. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 09:39:05 -0700 From: "Marc Holden" Subject: How'd this one slip by? I've never heard about this one before. Apparently there was a compilation put out for Spydaradio early in the summer with an unrealeased Hitchcock track--Crumble Like Dust. The CD is available on their website. http://www.spydarecords.co.uk/ Also, it looks like some more UK shows have been announced: December 1 The Musician Leicester December 2 Fleece & Firkin Bristol December 2 Town Hall Glastonbury (yeah, the auditorium lists both on Dec. 2) December 6 Komedia Brighton December 7 The Garage London December 9 Arts Center Norwich http://www.robynhitchcock.com/auditori.htm Later, Marc If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is "God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is "Probably because of something you did." Jack Handey ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 13:47:41 -0400 From: bisontentacle Subject: robyn/scranton tickets on ticketmaster Electric City Summersteps Concert ELECTRIC Scranton Cultural Center, CITY/SUMMERSTEPS Scranton, PA ROBYN HITCHCOCK Thu, Nov 11, 2004 08:00 PM DOORS 7:30PM SCRANTON CULTURAL CENTER Email this Internet Onsale 420 N. WASHINGTON AVENUE Price Event to a Info THU NOV 11, 2004 8:00PM Friend Onsale to General Public: GENERAL ADMISSION Mon, 09/27/04 10:00 US $14.50 AM Request Accessible Seating ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 14:40:37 -0400 From: Ken Weingold Subject: God hates Bush http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=125926 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 15:00:07 -0400 From: Ken Weingold Subject: God hates Bush II Btw, I know it's not true, but it was funny: http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/hurricane.asp ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 16:21:31 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Spooked 'n' Sadies (official poorly written review) Rex wrote: >"Creeped Out" pulls itself well above the first impression that it's gonna be "Mexican God" all over again and picks up a nice head of menacing steam that beats most of the similar "dark blues" numbers of recent years. In fact, hearing this get grittier as it goes along makes me even less fond of the way Jon Brion treated similar Robyn material a few years back. (Nope, Miles is not gonna go for any of my >comments-- he's pro-Brion and anti-Dave'n'Gil, but there it is.) I miss Jon Brion not producing Aimee Mann anymore. He worked wonders on "Whatever". Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 17:01:51 -0500 From: "Gene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: Balloon Man, the movie http://www.sharpeworld.com/main/balloonman.html No chickpeas, almonds, or strips of skin. Or so it seems. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 16:00:57 -0500 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Spooked Antics OK, I think people can stop leading their positive SPOOKED reviews with "unlike most people, I like it" or variants thereof. With Brian/Nuppy recanting his initial reaction, I think I now stand alone in "ehhhh"ing it. Among people that have actually heard it, that is. Picked up Interpol's ANTICS at lunchtime today and made it to track 5, the superb "Slow Hands," by the time I got back to work. Was fully expecting to flip over the album, and what I heard seemed pretty good, but I have to admit some impatience at them lining up four relatively slow tracks to lead off the album. Still, it's a first listen, and an incomplete one at that. Oh, and Rex: I'm guessing that people are making R.E.M. comparisons not just because of that startling use of major chords, but because they have organ instead of icy synth on some of the songs. Because, y'know, no one thought of those things before R.E.M. later, Miles "if all the albums I'd ever heard were NELLYVILLE, CLOSER, and AUTOMATIC FOR THE PEOPLE, then maybe I'd think ANTICS sounded like R.E.M. too" Goosens ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 14:51:00 -0800 From: "Rex Broome" Subject: Re: Balloon Man, the movie Subject: Balloon Man, the movie > http://www.sharpeworld.com/main/balloonman.html > > No chickpeas, almonds, or strips of skin. Or so it seems. Almonds? Hummus, surely. I remember looking it up when GoF came out and it wasn't in the dictionary at the time. I've had three different kinds in the past week and a half, though. Meanwhile, I think they should try to pique my interest rather than "peak" it. If it peaks now, I'll hardly give a shit when the thing actually comes out. - -Rex - -- _______________________________________________ Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 15:00:11 -0800 From: "Rex Broome" Subject: Re: Smiley Spooked Antics Miles: >>> Oh, and Rex: I'm guessing that people are making R.E.M. >>comparisons not just because of that startling use of major >>chords, but because they have organ instead of icy synth on some >>of the songs. Because, y'know, no one thought of those things >>before R.E.M. That's true. I got the Interpol record, and intend to spin it after I finish listening to the yin to its yang in terms of likely Miles approval, Brian Wilson Presents Smile. Which is damned good, but he's totally fucking ripping off REM in a few places here, and the final suite is highly derivative of Nellyville (but you can't blame Brian; the lyrics all come from sucka MC Van Dyke Parks). I have a suspicion that Smile is gonna surprise some people with its chart position next week... - -Rex - -- _______________________________________________ Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 15:23:24 -0800 From: "Rex Broome" Subject: inteREMpol Okay, it all becomes clear now... I'm on track four, "Narc", and it features extensive use of an e-bow, which as we all know is a device invented by Peter Buck just for the sake of having something weird to call the first single off of NAIHF (although he did go on to make extensive use of it on his Buckertronics solo projects). As a comic in all seriousness, though, I do like the album so far and am once again building up a head of steam to defy the idea that vocals need to be "up front" or "comprehensible" in this kind of music. Bah! Rewels and regulations, who needs them... throw 'em out the dooooor. - -Rex Broome (guitar and vocal, E-BO (Eckstrom-Broome Overdrive)) - -- _______________________________________________ Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 20:03:19 -0400 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Smile I heard my first Smile material at my friend Gene's place in NYC in 1994. He had the Vigotone 2 disc set and the Capitol Good Vibrations box set. I was hooked and addicted to that music from that moment on. I heard the bootlegs of the live shows and thought they were really great but I feared the new CD would just suck; I just find so much stuff a letdown these days, nothing music-wise is as good as I hope it will be. I am therefore,pleased to say I think the new Smile CD is fanfuckitytastik, I would say ****1/2 out of *****. I subtract a half star due to the fact that they use a keyboard instead of a real tack piano and I think that bit sounds cheesy. I think the mix is incredible, I think the vocals are incredible...I just like it a lot. Max _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 17:05:56 -0800 From: "Rex Broome" Subject: Re: Smile Max: > I am therefore,pleased > to say I think the new Smile CD is fanfuckitytastik, I would say ****1/2 out > of *****. I subtract a half star due to the fact that they use a keyboard > instead of a real tack piano and I think that bit sounds cheesy. I think > the mix is incredible, I think the vocals are incredible...I just like it a > lot. One question for those more familiar with the bootlegs and lore of the original sessions: whatever happened to "The Elements" suite? The one with "Fire", which caused Brian to make the string section wear firemen's helmets and which he believed to be causing wildfires in Malibu or whatever? Is he still scared about that, or what? Am I totally misremembering something here? - -Rex Broome (guitar and vocal, The Guitar and Vocal Singers) - -- _______________________________________________ Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 21:18:41 -0400 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Re: Smile >From: "Rex Broome" >Subject: Re: Smile >Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 17:05:56 -0800 >One question for those more familiar with the bootlegs and lore of the >original sessions: whatever >happened to "The Elements" suite? The one >with "Fire", which caused Brian to make the string >section wear firemen's >helmets and which he believed to be causing wildfires in Malibu or > >whatever? Is he still scared about that, or what? Am I totally >misremembering something here? That is there, it's the third of the three suites. Mrs.. O'leary's Cow is the Fire section; when it was originally recorded there was an outbreak of fires in LA, Brian thought he had caused them with the music. He had wood burning in buckets while the strings played their parts and had the musicians wear the afore mentioned helmets as well. Max _________________________________________________________________ On the road to retirement? Check out MSN Life Events for advice on how to get there! http://lifeevents.msn.com/category.aspx?cid=Retirement ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V13 #274 ********************************