From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V13 #308 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, October 28 2004 Volume 13 : Number 308 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: Swap mix review: Laminate/Animal ["Bachman, Michael" ] Last night's show??? ["Maximilian Lang" ] RE: Red Sox...Peel...Laminate/Animal [James Dignan ] Re: Origin of "the curse"? [Jason Brown ] Re: Last night's show??? [bisontentacle ] RE: Red Sox...Peel...Laminate/Animal [Eb ] RE: Red Sox ["Maximilian Lang" ] Re: Last night's show??? [Jon Lewis ] robyn in chicago...opener ["Michael Wells" ] Re: Red Sox...Peel...Laminate/Animal [2fs ] Re: Swap mix review: Laminate/Animal [2fs ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 17:06:28 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Swap mix review: Laminate/Animal Rex wrote: >4) Lilys, Precollection. .Don't know much about these guys/this fellow. A bit Barrett-esque in >the vocal department, eh? Nice chord changes in the verse... organic >enough that it doesn't immediately strike you that the whole thing is >like, 20 bars long without repeating itself, making this damned well >the polar opposite of track 1. How far back does this band go? The >only place I recall seeing them before is on the Just Say Roe >compilation, and I remember that mainly because of the cognitive >dissonance created by having a band called Lilys on a record with a >song called "Lillies of the Valley". I have the Lilys 1992 CD "In the Presence of Nothing". It really good shoegazer music. Grab it while you can as it's out of print, but used are available. Try amazon.com, they have some used ones. I never heard of them until looking at recommended shoegazer list on amazon, and got it back in early 2001. The Pale Saints "In Ribbons", also from 1992, is my favorite overlooked shoegazer gem. Nuppy got IR after I played it for him on our way to the SB's Chicago show 2 years ago. He loves it. Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 15:38:31 -0700 From: Rex Broome Subject: Re: Swap mix review: Laminate/Animal Michael B: > The Pale Saints "In Ribbons", also from 1992, is > my favorite overlooked shoegazer gem. Nuppy got IR after I played it for him > on our way to the SB's Chicago show 2 years ago. He loves it. I've almost picked that up used several times, but I have a pet favorite Pale Saints track-- "Half Life Remembered"-- which I heard and loved on a French compilation back in '91, and I always think that if I'm gonna start with that band, I want the album with that track. Never see it around, though, so next time I might go on with In Ribbons, which is usually pretty cheap. - -Rex - -- "Maybe baby election twelve who I really am!" - -Miranda Mellbye Broome ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 19:19:48 -0400 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Last night's show??? Awfully quite in hear for the day after a NYC show. Max _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! hthttp://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 12:55:42 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: RE: Red Sox...Peel...Laminate/Animal Michael Bachman wrote: > I bet some Chicago baseball fans are eager to erase a bad century >as well. Chicago Cubs last won the World Series in 1908. The Chicago >White Sox last won in 1917. The White Sox would have won in a breeze >in 1919 had not a core group of players took gamblers money and agreed >to lose the series. They have been cursed ever since. The excellent >John Sayles movie "Eight Men Out" is all about the 1919 White Sox. > > Not to pick on Chicago, but they are also the longest on the clock in >the NHL as well, as the Black hawks last won hockey's Stanley Cup in 1961. > > The Detroit Lions haven't won the NFL championship since 1957, and have >never been in the Super Bowl. The NFL Cardinals are even worse, but they >have moved the franchise a few times to different cities. > > Not sure who is the longest on the clock in the NBA for basketball. feh. Maybe Notts County can win the FA Cup for the first time since 1894. (I don't think any of the very early winners like Royal Engineers or Old Etonians still compete). Sheffield United haven't won the league since 1898, but they're not in the top division these days. And maybe... just baybe... Otago will win the Ranfurly Shield for the first time since 1959... - --- Eb wrote: >I've observed all the "Peel Sessions" imports, of course (the only one I >actually own is the Billy Bragg disc). But I've never heard a moment of >Peel's actual voice, beyond seeing him on old "Avengers" reruns. You need to get Monochrome Set's "Volume Contrast Brilliance" then. Couple of songs of this 'truly international band' are introduced by him. - --- Rex: >9) The B-52's, Give Me Back My Man. >Good stuff. Jeffrey posits this as a more "serious" B-52's tune than >we might normally think of it as, and in this context, I can see what >he means. I'll join the chorus of the benighted in never having >noticed the Rosemary Clooney reference in this tune, but I still >wonder about "I'll give you FISH!", particularly since I had someone I >was dating sing that line to me before I'd ever actually heard this >song, and, well, you can see where that might be confusing. oh man... it's just too tempting to ask... >11) Sparks, Amateur Hour. >Okay, this band confuses the shit out of me. I've read career >overviews of them which have utterly failed to clear things up to my >satsifaction. Sometimes they are referred to as "new wave" but I'm >pretty sure they >predate punk... could a human being have a go at >straightening this out for me? Thanks! the do - they started as sort-of glam in about '73, and since then they have simply been bewildering. Latest work apparently is more Beethoven than B-52s influenced. I think pigeonholing their music is as easy as pigeonholing Costello. >5) Klaatu, Sub-Rosa Subway. >Always been curious about this >band-that-could-have-literally-been-the-Beatles. This really kicks >ass. Jeffrey says this is far and away the height of their repertoire, >but even so that might make the record worth my attention. Bit >florid, perhaps, but in a properly evocative fashion. an underrated band - probably because trying to get yourself compared to the Beatles is a bit slly - like inventing the lightbulb and then saying "wow - it's as bright as the sun!". The strange vocoder rambling of "Little neutrino" is a highlight of their worrk for me... as to sounding like the Beatles, they do for about .6 of a second, as someone sings the word "California!" exactly like macca in one song (could even be Sub Rosa Subway, come to think of it). >11) Graeme Downes, Sunday Kickaround. >Stately track with some nice changes, dropped beats, and lead/rhythm >guitar interplay which takes some interesting turns, both changing >their minds from moment to moment as to whether to drone they're >riding is in a major or minor key. Sparse, evocative vocals. Reminds >me that, since I just discovered that one of my Verlaines records was >not lost, just creatively re-filed by my kids, I should listen to it, >huh? yes. One of the joys of this particular song is it takes you quite a number of listens to realise its in a weird time signature (7/8, IIRC). Doesn't hit you in the face, just insinuates. It also is a palpable hit to the heart and brain of many of us around the 40 year mark. - -- 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: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 17:05:40 -0700 From: "Marc Alberts" Subject: RE: Red Sox Michael Bachman wrote: > I bet some Chicago baseball fans are eager to erase a bad > century as well. Chicago Cubs last won the World Series in > 1908. The Chicago White Sox last won in 1917. The White Sox > would have won in a breeze in 1919 had not a core group of > players took gamblers money and agreed to lose the series. > They have been cursed ever since. The excellent John Sayles > movie "Eight Men Out" is all about the 1919 White Sox. > > Not to pick on Chicago, but they are also the longest on the > clock in the NHL as well, as the Black hawks last won > hockey's Stanley Cup in 1961. Other than the Bulls and one gasp with Da Bears in 1985, Chicago really is the cursed sports city. Boston fans, while they can gripe about the Sox, had a ton of Celtics championships, Bruins teams that virtually always made the playoffs and were competitive, and of course the recent Patriots run. Of course, I can say this coming from Seattle, which other than one championship in what is generally considered the low ebb of the NBA, we've had bupkis. > The Detroit Lions haven't won the NFL championship since > 1957, and have never been in the Super Bowl. This is true, but the Red Wings have won a few cups in the last decade, the Pistons just won the NBA championship, and the Tigers 1984 team was one of the greatest ever. > > Not sure who is the longest on the clock in the NBA for basketball. Of franchises that have ever won a championship, the Royals/Kings have had the longest drought, having last won when they were in Rochester in 1951. Marc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 10:36:38 -0700 From: Jason Brown Subject: Re: Origin of "the curse"? On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 00:26:37 -0400, Maximilian Lang wrote: > When did all the talk of the Curse of The Bambino start? I don't recall > hearing it until the early 90's. I didn't follow baseball from 1983-88, I > certainly never heard word one about it in the 70's. http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/playoffs2004/news/story?page=Curse041005 This article says that the curse story has it's roots in Henry Ford's anti-semitism. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 21:05:49 -0400 From: bisontentacle Subject: Re: Last night's show??? one time at band camp, Maximilian Lang (maximlang@hotmail.com) said: >Awfully quite in hear for the day after a NYC show. i wasnt able to make it after all (argh!). work held me up, though i did manage to catch the end of the world series (sweet ending, indeed!). +w ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 17:13:22 -0700 From: Eb Subject: RE: Red Sox...Peel...Laminate/Animal How many times do we gotta go through this, dood? Meanwhile, so Rex thought Sparks seemed "snidely arch." Go figure!! I also hear the Beatles are "tuneful." ;) Eb Np: Arto Lindsay/Salt - -----Original Message----- Eb wrote: >I've observed all the "Peel Sessions" imports, of course (the only one I >actually own is the Billy Bragg disc). But I've never heard a moment of >Peel's actual voice, beyond seeing him on old "Avengers" reruns. You need to get Monochrome Set's "Volume Contrast Brilliance" then. Couple of songs of this 'truly international band' are introduced by him. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 22:34:42 -0400 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: RE: Red Sox >From: "Bachman, Michael" >To: >Subject: RE: Red Sox >Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 09:32:37 -0400 > I bet some Chicago baseball fans are eager to erase a bad century >as well. Chicago Cubs last won the World Series in 1908. The Chicago >White Sox last won in 1917. Them I like, my Mother and Grandparent's favorites. Of course, they lived closer to Comiskey but it was(and is?) in a horrible neighborhood so they never went there. >The White Sox would have won in a breeze >in 1919 had not a core group of players took gamblers money and agreed >to lose the series. They have been cursed ever since. The excellent >John Sayles movie "Eight Men Out" is all about the 1919 White Sox. My favorite baseball film, perhaps because it is one of the few cynical baseball films. It gets the old thumbs up from my wife's uncle as well ;Cliff Kachline, Cliff was the historian at Cooperstown for years and is a founding member of SABR. Max _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! hthttp://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 22:46:51 -0400 From: Jon Lewis Subject: Re: Last night's show??? > Maximilian Lang (maximlang@hotmail.com) said: > >> Awfully quite in hear for the day after a NYC show. Highlights: - --superb renditions of "When I Was Dead" and "She Doesn't Exist". The latter is no longer a live rarity, I guess... he's been playing it consistently since Halloween, right? On guitar this time, as Sin-e does not boast a piano. - --sublime version of "Full Moon in My Soul", probably best performance of the night. - --"Only The Stones Remain". What it lost in bop and bounce it gained in truly bizarre high-psych harmonica soloing. Seriously, I've never heard him play harp like this before. - --"I Saw Nick Drake". I've heard him do this quite a few times, but this time it was really, really slow and mesmerizing in a way I hadn't heard. Robyn seemed totally engaged by the performance of this one. - --"You Remind Me Of You". Likewise with the total engagement thing. The current incarnation of RH seems to really come alive in songs like this one, "Nick Drake", and "She Doesn't Exist". He's a balladeer at the moment, I guess. - --Small crowd meant Robyn was not in much of a hurry to scurry afterward. Most everyone went out in the street and stared at the eclipse-in-progress for about 10 minutes, RH among us. Nice scene. Then I emboldened myself to give a set of True Swamp to him. Overcome with nerdish feelings of awkwardness, self-loathing and remorse on the train home, as sometimes happens when I force my work on someone I admire intensely. Hope they made it back to his lodging with him... - --'tween-song monologues really clicking tonight. A couple of truly inspired ones. Lowlights: - --Short set. The losses came from the electric encore set-- only two songs. I'd been excited when, waiting for the doors to open, I heard him soundchecking with his Tele-- I dared hope for "I Am Not Me" or "Autumn Is Your Last Chance." RH gave the impression he was being hurried off to make way for the regularly scheduled "talent", but he may have simply wanted to finish. - --"I Got The Hots" still not really comin' together for him finger-wise. - --My first encounter with "Ole Tarantula". Not destined to be a favorite. - --A few other numbers in which he seemed rather disengaged. - --As I noted after last Halloween's show, and someone else noted after a recent one, the plectrumless trend is in full force. Not a pick was seen all set. In the long run, this fingerpicking campaign will lead somewhere interesting, clearly. But right now he's still getting his hands around it, and the results are a little awkward in the less recent songs. I mean, everything Robyn wrote for guitar for decades arose from his incredibly rapid, harplike flatpicking style, and those figures are coming hard for him now that he's using an utterly different means of striking the strings. And of course the sound and character of those trademark arpeggios is much different fingerpicked-- everything becomes much more Country Blues. I sense that for RH this experiment is causing him to reengage with the guitar on a basic level, though, which is a point in and of itself. And it will lead somewhere-- the fingerstyle "52 Stations" from the Halloween show was amazing, and the abovementioned "Nick Drake" had in its tolling arpeggios a palpable quality that wouldn't have been there had he been picking them. Anyway... for the most part, it seems that the more recent a song is, the better it works out with Robyn's unplectrum'd style. Has he actually recorded anything in this style yet, though? SPOOKED does not sound fingerpicked... but I could be wrong. That's my report. Who else from this list was there, anyway? I don't know any of you by sight-- otherwise I'd have said hell-ooo. Jon Lewis ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:13:41 -0500 From: "Michael Wells" Subject: robyn in chicago...opener Steve Frisbie has been announced as opener for the show Nov. 6th...more info on Steve (with his brother Liam) found here http://www.digfrisbie.com/home.html MW ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 22:34:57 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Red Sox...Peel...Laminate/Animal On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 12:55:42 +1300, James Dignan wrote: > >5) Klaatu, Sub-Rosa Subway. > >Always been curious about this > >band-that-could-have-literally-been-the-Beatles. This really kicks > >ass. Jeffrey says this is far and away the height of their repertoire, > >but even so that might make the record worth my attention. Bit > >florid, perhaps, but in a properly evocative fashion. > > an underrated band - probably because trying to get yourself compared > to the Beatles is a bit slly - like inventing the lightbulb and then > saying "wow - it's as bright as the sun!". The strange vocoder > rambling of "Little neutrino" is a highlight of their worrk for me... > as to sounding like the Beatles, they do for about .6 of a second, as > someone sings the word "California!" exactly like macca in one song > (could even be Sub Rosa Subway, come to think of it). Nope, that's from "California Jam." However - surely they sound Beatley for more than .6 of a second: in "Sub-Rosa Subway" alone, the bass licks in the coda are very Paul, and the extended coda itself is a late-Beatles hallmark. The lead guitar tone is even reminiscent of the lead work Paul fashioned in '66 and '67 when he played lead on several tracks. And the ornate but precisely scaled "classical" arrangement is rather obviously Martin-influenced. - -- ++Jeff++ The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 22:10:06 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Swap mix review: Laminate/Animal On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 13:17:06 -0700, Rex Broome wrote: > 1) Majesty Crush, No. 1 Fan: > From 1993; I know nothing about this artist, but I like this very > much. Vaguely shoegazer-y I suppose; subject matter suggests that > they might be American, although I guess Peter Gabriel wrote a > sympathetic song about a Presidential stalker, too, didn't he? I've always > wondered how a songwriter decides that a single chord sequence is > great enough to carry an entire song... it's never happened to me, but > it works in plenty of noteworthy cases. Pure balls? Laziness? Too > much weed? Oh quite possibly all of the above. > 2) A.C. Newman, Homemade Bombs in the Afternoon. > 3) Electric Light Orchestra, 10538 Overture. > Interestingly, > hearing this > slightly harder-edged but orchestrally ornamented track after the less > brazen chamber-rock sounds of the previous one suggests that ELO may > be the missing link between AC Newman and the New Pornographers, but > that can't be right, can it? That was my theory. It's probably even clearer if you sequence this ELO track next to "The Town Halo" from the ACN album itself. There's even similar effects on the vocals. > > 4) Lilys, Precollection. > Don't know much about these guys/this fellow. A bit Barrett-esque in > the vocal department, eh? Nice chord changes in the verse... organic > enough that it doesn't immediately strike you that the whole thing is > like, 20 bars long without repeating itself, making this damned well > the polar opposite of track 1. How far back does this band go? The > only place I recall seeing them before is on the Just Say Roe > compilation, and I remember that mainly because of the cognitive > dissonance created by having a band called Lilys on a record with a > song called "Lillies of the Valley". Early '90s. As someone else commented, the first album, 1992's _In the Presence of Nothing_, might as well have been called _In the Absence of My Bloody Valentine_ - but it was, in fact, the best MBV album they never recorded. And in fact, what I think is most distinctive about Heasley is his melodic and harmonic sense, already in evidence here. They - and from now on, I'll say "he," since Heasley's the only constant member - then went into more or less an Apples in Stereo/Poole (remember them? shared a member or two) phase with the _Brief History of Amazing Letdowns_ EP, before moving to what might have been the band's best album before _Precollection_/_The Lilys_, _Eccsame the Photon Band_ (which is not by The Photon Band, although the guitarist at the time, Art DiFuria, did start a band called exactly that. Confused?), which puts all that stuff in a blender along with, oh, the song-based stuff on _Ummagumma_-era Pink Floyd. Heasley then went on a major Kinks/mid-'60s bender - but structurally, his songs became rather weird. If you can find it, the next album _Better Can't Make Your Life Better_ is probably better realized in its British variant, where proceeds from a VW commercial allowed Heasley to hire bassoonists, harpists, and string players to decorate his deconstructed Kinks tributes. I've never been as fond of _The Three-Way_, which is more of the same but lesser (except for one or two tracks) and marred by a couple of stylistic dead-end throwaways. Somewhere in there are a few EPs and such. _The Tayt Overture_ is contemporary with BCMYB and has a couple good tracks and couple forgettable ones. There's a split EP with the Philly neo-psych act Aspera Ad Astra (now just Aspera) featuring 4 songs done about the same time as EtPB - worth getting. There's also _Selected_, an EP rerecording older tracks that was done a couple years back, and which in retrospect looks forward to last year's _Precollection_ (which was rereleased this year in England, with a few tracks remixed, some with new parts added, and with 3 new tracks, under the title _The Lilys_: the band is just "Lilys," btw). At first, I wasn't sure what to make of this: the production seemed kind of thin and demo-y. But somehow (as I noted in my notes with the CD), the reissue of those tracks on _The Lilys_ returned them to my attention, where they blossomed, to the point that that album is in contention for my best of '04. > > 5) Swervedriver, How Does It Feel to Look Like Candy? > singles, and I'd heard their second album and thought it was dreadful > faux-grunge Huh. That's weird - I never would've thought that. Sure you're not thinking of one of those other zillion British bands of the mid-nineties whose names began with S-? "Duel" in particular is a brilliant track (that's from _Mezcal Head_ with the bull on the cover). > 6) Sonic Youth, Within You Without You. I unfortunately didn't think of it at the time, but...this version replaces the sitars with guitar feedback. And last year, an act called Saicobab redid SY's "Death Valley '69"...and replaced the guitar feedback with sitars. Funny how that works. > > 7) Macha, The Nipplegong. > Erm, dunno about that title. "Nipple gongs have a raised boss or nipple in the centre, often made of a different metal to the rest of the gong. They have a clear resonant tone with less shimmer than other gongs, and two distinct sounds depending on whether they are struck on the boss or next to it." So nothing to do with gongs attacking anyone's actual nipples. You can stop cringing now. Anyways, Macha is a > name I see from time to time without having heard much by them... do > they normally sound like this? Pretty much, yes. > 11) Sparks, Amateur Hour. > Okay, this band confuses the shit out of me. I've read career > overviews of them which have utterly failed to clear things up to my > satsifaction. Sometimes they are referred to as "new wave" but I'm > pretty sure they > predate punk. I think I've heard that they are from LA, but nobody > ever talks about them in the course of mentioning great LA bands, and > I swear that on a few of the tracks that I've heard ("National Crime > Awareness Week", maybe?) the guy is singing in a British accent. > Very few of the scattered tracks I've heard by them sound remotely > similar. A friend of mine played me most of their last record, mostly > orchestral-sounding and kind of snidely arch; I've heard other tracks > that sound like, I dunno, maybe early Split Enz, and then a synth-pop > thing or two, and this... well, this sounds like a mildly roccoco spin > on the middle-period Mekons, Sally-Timms-on-vocal flavor, but maybe > that's not even a female singer. Anyways, yes, I know I could look > the band up and learn all kinds of things about them, but I've done > that before and I'm still confused... could a human being have a go at > straightening this out for me? Thanks! All of the above. That is: (a) they predate punk, but (b) they also anticipated a lot of "new wave" (as well as being heavily influential on Queen, which may or may not be to their credit), and (c) they are from LA but (d) the guy often does sing w/a faux-Brit accent, and they were more popular in England than here. Also: (e) right, their first two albums were sort of toystore spazz-rock that early Split Enz probably heard, and then they were kinda weird baroque pop for a bit, and then they worked with Giorgio Moroder, so yes on the disco/synth-pop tip. No female singer - but Russell Mael sang rather stratospherically. And then there's the matter of Ron Mael's mustache. > 16) Julian Cope, 24a, Velocity Crescent. > Well, this is just nutty. Kind of fun, but probably more fun to have > played than to hear. Weird raveup and slide-guitar type thing. Copey > mostly intones gibberish... one of the few clear proclamations goes > "Inna gadda da vida... when the music's over... white rabbit... that's > an F-minor." That's actually "Mass in F# minor" - which (as are the other phrase) is the title of a '60s psych "song" (in this case by The Electric Prunes) - you probably know the other ones. > > 17) Sixteen Horsepower, The Partisan (French Version). > Jeffrey is apparently really into these guys, about whom I know > little... the overall vibe here is reminiscent of Nick Cave and the > Bad Seeds with someone other than Nick Cave singing, but no less > intensely... thus, I suppose, Crime & the City Solution. It's a good > song, of course, but an original might've given me a better read on > the artist. Might have to do some digging. Probably not the best place to start w/them. There's usually more Appalachia about them, very minor-key spooky old ballads with banjo and wheezy accordion. But yeah, for this song in particular, I can see the Nick Cave thing. The best known version (not the original - I think the song's very old) is by Leonard Cohen. > > 18) Television, Marquee Moon (TVKQ Mix). > At first I wished he'd been more liberal with sprinkling > the string quartet bits over the band track, but on a few subsequent > listens I've come to appreciate the subtlety he employed, as shimmery > little slivers of violin and viola weave in and out of the guitar > lines without you noticing they're there until they're about to fade > out again. That was the point - thanks! This is a very cool thing for a Verlaine obsessive like > myself to have and hear I figured either you'd like it, or you'd call up that Guido guy and my kneecaps would be history. > > 3) The Sugarplastic, Dunn the Worm. > Hey, these guys still exist! Or at least they did four years ago... I > haven't heard them since their debut (I think)... I am glad to hear > they have outgrown their need to remake Drums & Wires down to the last > note but still do okay in the melody department. Jeffrey draws > attention to a tricky middle section which is indeed a very arresting > spiderweb of tricky but unpretentious guitar. They've been releasing a limited edition single every few months for the past year in a series called "7x7x7" (the third "7" refers to the 7 deadly sins, loosely the series theme), and a new album (independent of those releases) called _Will_ is due out soon. > 8) John Greaves/Peter Blevgrad/Lisa Herman with Robert Wyatt, Kewm Rhone. > Jeffrey's liner notes trumpet, "This is our title track. And its' > (bwah hah ha ha!) PROG." (All punctuation and capitalization his.) Oh man - did I really mistype "its'"? I'm sure that was just a speck of ink. Oh - it's "Blegvad" and "Kew. Rhone." Anyway - you hinted that you wanted to hear some prog...thus my evil laugh. > Okay, I don't hate this, but there's one really irksome smooth-jazz > change under the melody bit. Ha. This predates laxative-jazz entirely - so it's not their fault. Actually, that's one problem: when some aspect of a style or even a song later turns into a cliche, thereby rendering it very difficult to hear in its original context. > 13) GRNDNTL BRNDS, Wind (v.4) > Jeffrey has apparently met few songs with extended sections in 7/8 > that he didn't like. Someone will thank you for the theme of my next mix. Hmmm..."Inca Roads" by Zappa, "Back in NYC" by Genesis (or Jeff Buckley)... This is freaky. I am comforted by the fact that > as recently as four years ago someone was able to come up with a > keyboard sound that makes me go, what the fuck is that? Well, duh - it's a detuned rotary flange with wah-portamento fed through a Waring. > 15) Genesis, Lamia. > Okay, everybody, story time. I submit to you the following... > watching, yup, MTV. This I could kind of get into as a film geek, so ... > beginning to impinge on my consciousness, and I was devouring rock ... ... ... > outright. Pinheads seemed to be more concerned that their music [checks watch. Goes out to dinner. Has a few drinks.] > song. The rest of his introductory package consisted of, if I can ... ... ... ... ... ... ... [finishes mosaic done entirely in handpainted sugar-crystals depicting the action of the unabridged _Moby-Dick_. Decides to wait until there's a new Kate Bush album] ......................................................... > The moral of the story? Send me a Prog Rock song, get a Prog Rock review. MMhhph? Huh? Eh? What's that statue sticking up out of the sand? Get your hands off me, you damned dirty ape! My god - you've done it! You've finally done it! > Hey, Jeffrey, did you like the > new Cale record, or did I build it up too much for ya? No - I like it a lot! I thought I read that the _Five Songs_ EP was also being released domestically by Or - izzat so? (Uh-oh...Cat Stevens reference - now I'm a terrist!) > Well, there you go. By the way, vote Kerrey, and go Sox. Or have I > been writing so long that both of those things are over? One is, one isn't. Thanks again for the kind words - and it's good to know I'm not necessarily the most verbose person on the list... - -- ++Jeff++ The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V13 #308 ********************************