From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V13 #339 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, November 28 2004 Volume 13 : Number 339 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Syd/Floyd DVD [bisontentacle ] cleveland free times interview [bisontentacle ] reno gazette-journal spooked review [bisontentacle ] toronto eye weekly spooked review [bisontentacle ] allentown morning call article [bisontentacle ] Random query [Eb ] Re: first Robyn gig bandwagon ["Randalljr" ] vintage Egyptians torrent: Maxwell's 11-25-86 ["Roberta Cowan" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 19:22:27 -0500 From: bisontentacle Subject: Re: Syd/Floyd DVD once upon a time, long long ago at band camp, Marc Holden said: >I'm not sure where to find this. I'll let you know if I find out any more >information. Note the Robyn Hitchcock performance in the bonus material. >Marc > >The Pink Floyd >and Syd Barrett Story > >RELEASED ON VHS & DVD ON 24TH MARCH 2003 as posted at rogerwatersonline.com , there is a ntsc version of this dvd now available through voiceprint.co.uk : Voiceprint is proud to release the US and Canadian version of The Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett Story Syd Barrett was an influential and sophisticated musician who captured the spirit of an era. His abrupt departure in 1968 brought to an end the first incredible period in the Pink Floyd odyssey. Bohemian artist, poet and visionary Syd joined Pink Floyd in 1965. He succeeded in creating a wholly original sound and together the band helped to forge the British psychedelic scene. This unique documentary depicts the band9s epic rise to fame under Barrett9s influence, to his premature departure in a drug induced haze and ensuing psychological problems. Lavishly illustrated with rare early footage of the band performing, along with new interviews with the members of the band - David Gilmour, Rick Wright, Roger Waters and Nick Mason - and their associates, fans and friends including Jerry Shirley (Humble Pie), Graham Coxon (Blur), Robyn Hitchcock and original Pink Floyd member Bob Klose. Featuring legendary early Pink Floyd songs Shine on you Crazy Diamond, Interstellar Overdrive, Arnold Layne, See Emily Play, Bike and more. The DVD contains an extra 23 minutes of extra footage not aired on the original VH-1 TV broadcast. In addition this version is different to the other versions of the DVD as it contains and an extra chapter of "memorabilia" and exclusively designed artwork by world renowned fine artist Mark Wilkinson. You can now pre order your copy for #10 including shipping. Notes: We expect to begin shipping from the second week in November. Due to contractual restrictions, we are only able to ship this DVD to North America. This DVD is NTSC. You can also order via our freephone hotline on 1-800-567-9185. Place your order now by filling out the here. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 19:27:04 -0500 From: bisontentacle Subject: cleveland free times interview Soundcheck : Robyn Hitchcock : Sinister Operative Wednesday, November 03, 2004 Robyn hitchcock, Michael Fracasso 9 p.m., Monday, Nov. 8 Beachland Ballroom 15711 Waterloo Rd. 216.383.1124 Tickets: $15 FIRST WITH THE SOFT BOYS and then with his band the Egyptians, singer-guitarist Robyn Hitchcock has written quirky pop songs that have left a lasting impression, particularly with other musicians. He's like a British Bob Dylan, albeit with a psychedelic twist. When he met Gillian Welch and David Rawlings at a London show, he discovered a woman named Robyn Hitchcock had been named Miss Ohio and that Welch and Rawlings had a song called Miss Ohio. They became instant friends, and Hitchcock went to Nashville to record his new album, Spooked , with Welch and Rawlings. He spoke recently via phone from his publicist's New York office. - - Jeff Niesel What has it been like returning to your solo career after a Soft Boys album and tour? It's good fun. I like it. I haven't done any promotion for a record of mine in, like, five years. I've done solo gigs and released records through the Internet. It was a good break doing the Soft Boys, and I'm happy to be back doing me. How'd you end up working with Gillian Welch and David Rawlings? I met them in London, and it turns out we knew each other's work. They listened to me when they were squids in college. Gillian was a groover in Santa Cruz and David was a music student in Boston. They had all my records on vinyl. And it fell in from there. It seems like the new disc isn't quite as out there. I don't know. I just present the songs I have at the time. I never know what I'm going to write. They're more streamlined than they were, say, 25 years ago when it was more a question of sticking different sections of music together and calling it a song. The songs might seem simpler the way a jet is different from an old biplane. The complexity is hidden within. I don't know if that applies to my songs. How geared toward Halloween is it? Only in terms of being released in October. I'm doing a gig on Halloween, so I hope they get some pumpkins out. I've been a big pumpkins fiend and enjoy carving them. It will be gone by the time I get to Cleveland, though, and it might not be appropriate for me to come onstage wielding pumpkins. The election will be over by the time you get here, too. It's going to be really tantalizing. I hope there's not a big crisis, because the focus will be on results of the election. The current government will be in power until January regardless, wondering how much mileage it has left. I'm not a fan of it, but they will want to know where they are, though I'm not sure they deserve even that. You recorded in Nashville, but the photos in the liner notes are from Arizona. How'd you end up in the desert? We went to the desert because of a variety of things. Mainly, just to get a breathing vacation. I found a recording studio and a gallery where my wife had an exhibition. We made lots of friends. It was good. I started the record then, but then Miss Ohio intervened, and we ended up doing Spooked in Nashville. The Tucson album is lying under some bed waiting for [producer] Jon Brion to find it. In the bio you say that Nirvana chased you off the charts in 1991. That's not entirely true, is it? Off the alternative charts, yes. I remember we were at the top of the Rolling Stone college charts. My friend said, Next week Nirvana will be knocking you off. I said, Who? I found out. You had a role in The Manchurian Candidate as a sinister operative. Did you enjoy being sinister? Well, I didn't have to be anything. It's the way they then manipulated it afterward. I wasn't supposed to act in any way at all. I was supposed to answer my lines quite naturally. I was just doing it. Have you thought that maybe you're naturally sinister? Many times. I used to think I was. I'm not sure how sinister I am now. Any chance you can work up a cover of Miss Ohio for the gig here? I will endeavor to play it when I get there. We've done a version in the studio. I will definitely sing it that night and send my best wishes to Miss Ohio, and if she wants to come to the show, she's welcome. How about Bang a Gong? I've done it with other bands. I did it with Gillian and Dave at a gig in Nashville. I don't know how good I would do the song on my own. Maybe if Miss Ohio comes, she could sing it. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 19:29:57 -0500 From: bisontentacle Subject: reno gazette-journal spooked review CD Short takes: Robyn Hitchcock, The Helio Sequence RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL 11/8/2004 02:00 pm Robyn Hitchcock's latest ("Spooked," Yep Roc, 4 stars out of 4) reinvents his sound somewhat, all while continuing his winning streak of great records that few people have heard (please remedy this, fans of indie-rock and modern folk). Hitchcock recorded the whole CD with Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, and their mix of early psychedelic rock and traditional American music is beguiling. Among the highlights are one of the year's better political tunes called "If You Know Time," a typically surreal one called "Creeped Out," a stellar cover of Bob Dylan's "Tryin' to Get to Heaven Before They Close the Door," and a very funny spoken-word snippet called "Welcome to Earth" that shows off Hitchcock's wondrous blend of humor and social comment. Put down this issue of Calendar and buy this record now (but only if you have a healthy sense of the absurd). ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 19:42:34 -0500 From: bisontentacle Subject: toronto eye weekly spooked review (you'll have to scroll down a bit...) ROBYN HITCHCOCK Spooked Yep Roc/Outside The first "words" on this album are "bing a bong a bing bong" -- not the most promising start. Thankfully, Robyn Hitchcock's good at making the most from dubious situations. Spooked finds the celebrated London-based pop eccentric incongruously recording with old-school Southern folk dahlings Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, in Nashville. The duo decorate his off-the-wall music with finger-picked guitars and gentle harmonies, bringing out a warm earthiness. There is a bit of filler here, but it's entertaining enough to while away the time until Hitchcock sings the next spookily pretty song about love, death and television. MD ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 19:39:12 -0500 From: bisontentacle Subject: allentown morning call article Brit troubadour Robyn Hitchcock isn't spooked by the dark By Len Righi Of The Morning Call Having made records for a quarter-century, Robyn Hitchcock is used to hearing the refrain that his music leans heavily toward the darkness. But if you listen hard enough, you can always hear laughter coming from the shadows, as the acclaimed British pop-rocker/psychedelic troubadour is quick to point out. ''What I find funny, some people find scary,'' Hitchcock, 51, says by phone as he heads toward Scranton, where he performed solo Thursday night. ''It's kind of a sandwich, scary and funny. It's how life feels to me.'' Besides, says Hitchcock, there is a bright side to all that darkness talk. ''It means people are still taking me seriously, instead of them saying, 'Well, he's just so goofy.''' Both sides of Hitchcock are well displayed on his just-released disc, ''Spooked,'' which the London resident recorded in Nashville with alt-folk fave Gillian Welch and David Rawlings. The bare-bones production is the perfect scaffolding for Hitchcock's witty, weird, hook-filled story songs. As leader of the Soft Boys and, later, The Egyptians, and as a solo artist, Hitchcock has made his mark with melodic, sometimes zany, always emotional pop-rock songs in the tradition of such iconoclasts as John Lennon, Syd Barrett, XTC's Andy Partridge and Elvis Costello. Hitchcock's iconoclastic streak is evident from the outset on ''Spooked.'' Rather than start with a short, rousing burst, he begins with ''Television,'' a lengthy (6:22), elliptical, enveloping tune about ''the devil's fishbowl'' introduced by tintinnabulation. ''A lot of people get sucked in by the TV,'' says Hitchcock. ''But it's one of those things that pacifies you in a way and leaves you feeling drugged afterward. TV is a drug.  But I wasn't going to write a crusading song, so I wrote it from the point of view of someone who is needy, somebody who has a hole that needs filling.'' On ''Creeped Out,'' a slo-mo, blues-tinted folky duet with Welch, Hitchcock is intimidated by an American girl as he searches for ''the animal behind eyes,'' while observing puckishly that she can ''tell the future every 28 days.'' ''Women have sharper antennae than men,'' says Hitchcock. ''I'd rather be interrogated by a male cop than a woman cop. ... Women have to be a bit sharper to survive. They sense what is going on faster . The song is meant to be fun. That's why the record's called 'Spooked.' It's meant to be enjoyed. even though there's a lot of darkness around.'' And what about that whirring sound that adds to the song's sense of disquiet? ''That's Dave running a wood sander near his guitar, sort of frightening it,'' explains Hitchcock. Hitchcock's absurdist tendencies are in full flower on the impossibly catchy blues stomp ''We're Gonna Live in the Trees.'' The daft tale of birds learning to fly with help from a man named Norm actually is grounded in reality. ''Norm, he's a factotum, a man who does everything,'' says Hitchcock. ''He's a kind of guru for Gillian and Dave in Nashville. His name seemed to come up a lot, so he found his way into the song. ''The song also is about a hummingbird my wife, Michele, was teaching to fly. It came into our house and kept bashing into walls and windows. It didn't have any more idea of how to fly than we did. So for a few days Michele was teaching while I was scavenging about getting millipedes for it to eat. The song is about two things going on at once.'' In the last two years, Hitchcock has had a go at acting. In 2002, he made a cameo appearance as a sleazy rock granddad in the TV adaptation of Tony Parsons' book, ''Man And Boy,'' and last winter he worked on long-time friend Jonathan Demme's remake of ''The Manchurian Candidate,'' playing a sinister operative. But music remains his metier. ''Bob Dylan magnetized me to this business to begin with,'' he says when asked about the ''Spooked'' cover of ''Trying to Get to Heaven Before They Close the Door.'' ''We recorded about eight Dylan songs in Nashville to warm up,'' says Hitchcock, who in 2002 released a two-CD set of Dylan covers, ''Robyn Sings.'' ''We had Bob Dylan in common, like most musicians I meet.'' Len Righi, Film/Music Editor ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 18:11:00 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Random query Is anyone here into a mid-'70s Gene Clark album called "No Other"? Your thoughts? I was just reading some online material which made it sound like some major forgotten masterpiece. My interest is piqued. (That's Gene Clark of Byrds fame, of course....) Eb np: Fiery Furnaces/Gallowsbird's Bark (another amazing debut, though not quite as good as the Thrills disc) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 18:20:40 -0800 From: "Randalljr" Subject: Re: first Robyn gig bandwagon From: "Lauren" >> What? No Rush? > > Sad, but that guy's voice bugs the shit out of me. It's the wall between > me > and my > love of Rush. I stay subscribed to this list solely for the Rush content. From the UFO sighting file-------My new girlfriend bought me an acoustic guitar the other day (whee) and the guitar case had a Robyn Hitchcock sticker on it. Very, very strange indeed as she had never even heard of him. Vince "kind of the awkward sentences" the Vincester ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 22:33:25 -0500 From: "Roberta Cowan" Subject: vintage Egyptians torrent: Maxwell's 11-25-86 This is my first torrent, wish me luck! :) Roberta http://www.easytree.org/torrents-details.php?id=15884 Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians Maxwell's Hoboken, NJ 25 November 1986 10th Anniversary Tour low generation (3rd?) audience recording cassette --> Creative Recorder --> CD Wave --> FLAC Frontend 01 The Shape I'm In (The Band) 03 Don't Let Me Down (The Beatles) 04 If You Were A Priest 06 52 Stations 08 Lady Waters and the Hooded One 10 Rain (The Beatles) 12 Trams of Old London 14 Uncorrected Personality Traits 15 Sometimes I Wish I Was A Pretty Girl 16 Kingdom of Love 18 I'm Only You 20 Airscape 21 Only the Stones Remain 23 The Face of Death 25 Raymond Chandler Evening 26 Eight Miles High (The Byrds) 27 Listening To the Higsons ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 09:42:16 -0500 From: bisontentacle Subject: Fwd: [bot-easytree-org] NEW on EZT: Robyn Hitchcock & Egyptians w/ Peter Buck 3/25/88 Athens when it rains, it pours! >A new torrent has been uploaded to EZT. > >Title: Robyn Hitchcock & Egyptians w/ Peter Buck 3/25/88 Athens >Size: 453.38 MB >Category: Alternate >Uploaded by: poss5069 > >Description >------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians >Liberated Bootleg "Stand Back, Dennis!" > >Cover lists two dates, March 2, 1988 and March 25, 1988. >Athens, Georgia > >Robyn Hitchcock - Vocals, Guitar, Bass >Andy Metcalfe - Bass, vocals, drums >Morris Windsor - Drums, vocal, guitar >Peter Buck - Guitar > >bootleg CD>.wav>shn > >I Often Dream Of Trains >I Wish I Was A Pretty Girl >The Cars She Used To Drive >Acid Bird >Bass >Tropical Flesh Mandala >Element Of Light >I'm Only You >Birdshead >Flesh No. 1 >Balloon Man >The Man With The Lightbulb Head >Heaven >Uncorrected Personality Traits >Listening To The Higsons >The Queen Of Eyes >A Globe Of Frogs >Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands - Live at KCRW 4/24/89 >The Crystal Ship - Live at KROQ 4/24/89 >------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >You can use the URL below to download the torrent (you may have to login). > >http://www.easytree.org/torrents-details.php?id=15874&hit=1 > >Take care! > >easytree.org ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 12:07:47 -0800 From: "A Wonderful Human Person" Subject: the moon And the sun And the stars well, "Watching The Sun Come Up" is track nine. but i *do* think that the album could stand to be about ten minutes shorter. bite your tongue! and once you've got it good and bloody, you can... ...lick my anus! so, back to the original question: is it possible to rip a laserdisc, if somebody would just build a device for doing so? you mean nobody ever recorded an album called *Pestilence*? that woulda been a damnable shame. but after a bit of research, i am happy to announce that cddb lists five (count 'em!) contendahs: velvet acid christ, *Pestilence*; exmortem, *Pestilence Empire*; thy primordial, *Pestilence Upon Mankind*; bloodstorm, *Pestilence From The Dragonstar*; the bloodshot, *A Pestilence Called Humanity*. even money sez the quail owns at least three of these. (there're also *From The West Flows Grey Ash And Pestilence*, *Womb Of Pestilence*, *Rotting In Pestilence*, and *Fire And Pestilence*; for what it's worth.) okay, so i achieved the top of the queue for *Uh Huh Her*, and so brought it home from the library. having listened to it through loudspeakers, and having found it one of the better albums of this particular year-of-our-lord; i endeavoured to give it the good old-fashioned rip, encode, transfer treatment. everything seemed to proceed swimmingly, until lame reported errors upon its attempt to encode to mp3. so i gave a listen to the "wav" files, and heard what sounded *not* like polly jean harvey, but like the afterparty at a good old-fashioned weenie roast (or, perhaps, *Metal Machine Music* played backwards). that's right: the "compact disc" is copy protected. so, i played the album back with my cd-rom, capturing the wav file with EAC's wav recorder. chopped up the wav, encoded to mp3, and all is good. (although, on the first try, i forgot to mute the line-in element on my soundcard, so recorded a "mash-up" of *Uh Huh Her* with dariush mehrjui's *The Cow*, which i was watching at the same time. it sounds pretty fucking cool!) but i can't let drop the issue without i compose this open haiku to Universal Island Records Limited: fucking swine, you are eaten my pussy, you have ...but for the last time! hmm...this begs a question. what's the longest syllable in the english language? KEN "Sometimes one, sometimes two, sometimes enough for the whole damned crew" THE KENSTER ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 18:58:17 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: the moon And the sun And the stars On Sun, 28 Nov 2004, A Wonderful Human Person wrote: > hmm...this begs a question. what's the longest syllable in the english > language? Probably "strength". I believe it's at least the longest common one-syllable word. a ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 20:36:53 -0500 From: bisontentacle Subject: Fwd: [VegFriends] BBC Spooked Review thanks to tulloch for turning this up! >To: VegetableFriends@yahoogroups.com >From: "Tulloch" >Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 00:27:03 -0000 >Subject: [VegFriends] BBC Spooked Review > >Apologies if this review from the Beeb website has been posted before >but I don't recall seeing it. "Like diamonds in a tobacco tin" is a >wonderful description imo! > >Listening to the opening line from Robyn Hitchcock's splendid new >album, you might be forgiven for thinking that our man is making a >bid for the Eurovision Song Contest. 'Bing-a-bong-a-bing-bong-bing- >bong', he sings. But, no, Hitchcock is not following in the footsteps >of his one-time compatriot Kimberly Rew, who penned the Euro >hit "Walking On Sunshine" with Katrina and the Waves. In >fact, "Television" is a wistful, biting serenade to telly, in all its >manifest forms: 'You're the Devil's fishbowl honey / I undress before >your lies.' Hitchcock explains his love/hate for the goggle-box in >much the same way that Elvis Costello once did for radio. It's a >great start to the album. > >Spooked, Hitchcock's lastest all-acoustic venture, finds him in >cohorts with Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, the acoustic >partnership that has done so much to raise the profile of American >indie folk in recent years. Welch contributes acoustic guitar, bass >and drums. Rawlings tackles the Dobro (on the track "Sometimes A >Blonde") and, curiously, the Wurlitzer. Adding to the exotic flavour, >Hitchcock plays electric sitar on a couple of tracks, giving a George >Harrison feel to the already dreamy "Everybody Needs Love". > >Elsewhere, "English Girl" must be the only song to rhyme 'girl' >with 'Ronald Searle' (the cartoonist-creator of St Trinian's school >for young minxes). It's suitably English, of course, but Hitchcock, >as ever, has his feet on both sides of the Atlantic. "Creeped Out" >draws on Hitchcock's own beginnings as a Syd Barrett fan, as well as >the sounds of those he has inspired. > >Another man who has pulled like the moon on Robyn's songwriting is >Bob Dylan, and on his "Tryin' To Get To Heaven Before They Close The >Door", the only cover on the album, Robyn is an Anglicised Dylan of >sorts, stuck in Missouri but still tangled up in Cambridge >blues. "Welcome to Earth" is an amusing tour-guide introduction to >our planet aimed, presumably, at alien visitors. > >Despite its unplugged, bare-boned sound, Spooked is packed with stuff >to listen to. The playing is, in places, beautiful and Hitchcock's >lyrics glimmer and rattle like diamonds in a tobacco tin. The songs, >smart, funny and sad, are peppered with references to things as >disparate as ocelots and millipedes, goblins and ghouls; there's even >the odd love song or two. Fans of the man won't be disappointed. >Newcomers to Hitchcock, familiar perhaps with Welch's albums, will be >intrigued to hear one of the great influences on American alt-folk >and indie rock of the last two decades. > >Reviewer: Robert Webb ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V13 #339 ********************************