From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V13 #342 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, December 1 2004 Volume 13 : Number 342 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Newsoms of the World unite [Jeff Dwarf ] 3hive [steve ] Re: the moon And the sun And the stars [Jeff Dwarf ] museum update [bisontentacle ] Re: Quick endorsement ["Lauren" ] Re: There goes imperialisin' Simon [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: There goes imperialisin' Simon [Miles Goosens ] Re: Newsoms of the World unite [Jeff Dwarf ] RE: There goes imperialisin' Simon [Eb ] Woooooooooooow [Eb ] RE: Newsoms of the World unite [Eb ] Philly Inquirer story on Robyn [bisontentacle ] RE: Newsoms of the World unite ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: Newsoms of the World unite [bisontentacle ] RE: Philly Inquirer story on Robyn [Eb ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 06:37:25 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Newsoms of the World unite "Gene Hopstetter, Jr." wrote: > I have taken the crown of Most Amazing and Thrilling > Voice away from Jeff Magnum and given it to Joanna > Newsom. Did I mention that a few weeks ago, as I was leaving San Francisco City Hall with my sister, her husband, etc after they (sister and husband) just got married, we ran into Joanna cousin Gavin, and the newlyweds had a picture taken with the Mayor while he was returning from giving the State of the City address? Just thought I would if I hadn't, 'cause it was actually kinda cool, especially since they chose to get married at SFCH because he decided to start issuing same-sex marriage licenses (albeit briefly) last winter.... (The few times I've heard Joanna, she kinda left me non-plussed. Same with Jeff Magnum, actually....) ===== Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 08:38:49 -0600 From: steve Subject: 3hive Salon's Wednesday Morning Download writer thinks all the Smile fans have lost their minds. He also points to the above site, which collects legit free music downloads. - - Steve __________ Neko Mimi - Neko Mimi Mode / It's Neko Mimi Mode! / Neko Mimi - Neko Mimi Mode Meow... Meow... / FullMoon FullMoon / Kiss Kiss Kiss / Onii-sama / It's a promise! Neko Mimi - Neko Mimi Mode / My servant! / Neko Mimi - Neko Mimi Mode / I felt like a kiss... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 06:39:13 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: the moon And the sun And the stars 2fs wrote: > Now, the question: how many syllables does the word > "Jesus" have in the mouth of an evangelical preacher > with enormous hair? Six hundred sixty-six.... ===== Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 09:41:00 -0500 From: bisontentacle Subject: museum update a few other tidbits from the museum which i hadn't noticed yesterday: first, robyn returns to the andrew collins' roundtable on bbc 6music on friday, december 10th. second, he will be joining clive gregson and iam gomm for a series of shows in japan: Saturday, January 8 FAB, Tokyo Tel: 03-5772-8566 Sunday, January 9 FAB, Tokyo Tel: 03-5772-8566 Monday, January 10 FAB, Tokyo Tel: 03-5772-8566 Tuesday, January 11 Bears, Osaka Tel: 06-6649-5564 woj ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 09:42:53 -0500 From: "Lauren" Subject: Re: Quick endorsement Speaking of the Thrills (or not): http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0006I0S6C/ref=rm_item I like the customer review heading "It's a grower! Buy plenty of copies!" Those English folks - very funny. Apologies if this is old news. xo Lauren P.S. Is Mr. Damien Hirst still 'controversial'? Or is it more like once controversial, always controversial? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 06:46:35 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: There goes imperialisin' Simon James Dignan wrote: > I'm with fortissimo Jeff on this one. Add in that IIRC > Simon produced the first Ladysmith Black Mambazo album > free of charge (and who would ever of heard of them if > not for Paul Simon)? Also, how come people are always > laying this charge at him and never at David Byrne? Byrne became famous as he was culture hopping, whereas Simon was already famous when Graceland was released (the Latin influences on later S&G and early solo work not counting for some reason). It is all a load of crap anyways. The closest thing to a credible criticism of Simon would be that maybe he should have flown the South African musicians to, say, London or Paris or wherever, but even that doesn't hold a lot of weight since it wouldn't have been practical (much easier to just fly himself and Roy Halee into South Africa) and it may not have been possible for LBM, etc to leave the country (I can see the government considering it an embarassment for Simon to be flying all these black musicians away to work with and "discovering" that some of them were "criminals" or whatever). ===== __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 06:31:18 -0600 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: There goes imperialisin' Simon On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 15:19:28 -0800, Jason R. Thornton wrote: > At 12:02 PM 12/1/2004 +1300, James Dignan wrote: > > >Also, how come people are always laying this charge at him and never at > >David Byrne? > > Or Peter Gabriel, for that matter. I'm pretty sure they did, back when > "Security" (#4) came out. For me, the difference is that Byrne and Gabriel successfully integrated world influences in an essential, basic way, to the point where it transformed their own music and that music became something new and unique. Whereas Paul Simon made a bunch of feeble Paul Simon ditties with the South African stuff grafted on, which seems like a classic Imperialist move to me -- taking something from a "native" culture without bothering to understand its context or what makes it tick. "Here's my little Rhymin' Simon song / I got these African guys to sing along / Talking Heads and Gabriel never reached your ear / so I get to be a World Music pioneer..." Granted, throwing around words like "cultural imperialist" with GRACELAND has its problems, since Simon didn't exactly enslave its African participants and the album's success raised the profile of the African musicians on it as well as that of African musicians in general. But I think artistically GRACELAND is pure steaming crap. And why doesn't Led Zeppelin get any credit for doing the World Music thing before almost any other western rock band? A song like "Kashmir" is about a zillion times more artistically successful than "Diamonds on the Souls of Her Shoes." later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 11:05:47 -0500 From: bisontentacle Subject: [bot-easytree-org] NEW on EZT: Robyn Hitchcock 1987-04-25 McCabes, SBD - ----- Forwarded message from EZT ----- A new torrent has been uploaded to EZT. Torrent: 16264 Title: Robyn Hitchcock 1987-04-25 McCabes, SBD Size: 454.04 MB Category: Singer/Songwriter Uploaded by: rh60 Description - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robyn Hitchcock April 25, 1989 McCabe's Santa Monica, California US Set 1 SBD of unknown lineage; good overall sound, but some hiss. Detailed lineage below. Set list (running time: 46:57): Disc 1 1. Intro 2. Flesh Cartoons 3. Wax Doll 4. Ghost Ship 5. [banter] 6. Strawberry Fields Forever (Beatles) 7. Raymond Chandler Evening 8. [banter] 9. One Long Pair of Eyes 10. [banter] 11. Devil's Coachman 12. Queen Elvis cuts (end is truncated) Disc 2 (running time: 37:25): 1. You've Got 2. [banter] 3. Bass 4. [banter] 5. Agony of Pleasure 6. My Wife and My Dead Wife 7. Element of Air 8. Librarian 9. I Watch the Cars 10. Charlotte Anne (Julian Cope) 11. Old Pervert 12. Space Odyssey (NOT the David Bowie song!!) Detailed lineage: Cassette borrowed from MP in June, 1996 and transferred to DAT (32kHz mode) by TN. The original cassette dated the show as April 29, but the Asking Tree (http://www.jh3.com/robyn/base/gig.asp?chubb=273) says (FWIW): Generally incorrectly noted as April 27 1989 Converted to FLAC format November, 2004 by TN. DAT-> PC (Sony PCM R500 into LynxONE digital I/O card) -> FLAC Fade out (at end of disc) via Sound Forge. Resampled from 32kHz to 44.1 kHz via Sound Forge. cdwave used for track splits. Sound Forge info: Sound Forge Studio 6.0d (build 219) CDWave info: version 1.71, build 0000.0A28 FLAC fontend 1.7.1 (etree edition) FLAC version 1.1.0 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You can use the URL below to download the torrent (you may have to login). http://www.easytree.org/torrents-details.php?id=16264&hit=1 Take care! easytree.org - ----- End forwarded message ----- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 11:52:27 -0500 From: bisontentacle Subject: [bot-easytree-org] NEW on EZT: Robyn Hitchcock - 4/4/95 (Late show)-The Turning Point-Piermont NY (Uncirculated Show from Master) - ----- Forwarded message from EZT ----- A new torrent has been uploaded to EZT. Torrent: 16316 Title: Robyn Hitchcock - 4/4/95 (Late show)-The Turning Point-Piermont NY (Uncirculated Show from Master) Size: 440.16 MB Category: Singer/Songwriter Uploaded by: vivalapsych Description - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here's my first shot at uploading some of my masters. I taped the early show, but can't seem to find it right now...it should turn up. I'd rate this an A-. ROBYN HITCHCOCK 4/4/95 Show #2 The Turning Point Piermont NY 1-start 2-Queen Of Eyes 3-Balloon Man 4-Chinese Bones 5-story 6-Each Of Her Silver Wands 7-enter Deni 8-DeChirico Street 9-Egyptian Cream 10-Statue With A Walkman 11-Glass Hotel 12-My Wife And My Dead Wife 13-Direct Me To The Cheese 14-I Something You 15-The Yip Song 16-applause 17-I Am Not Me 18-applause 19-You And Oblivion 20-tuning 21-Never Stop Bleeding 22-tuning 23-Arms Of Love 24-applause AUD recording on a portable cassette recorder with built in stereo mikes with automatic level adjustment. I forget the brand and make>Maxell XLII-S>Playback: Onkyo TA - -201>Sound Studio>Shorten for Macintosh>SHN. I made no EQ adjustments. It sounds just like the tape to my ears. I cut out a couple of loud clicks and bleeps during tape flip and during a manual pause. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You can use the URL below to download the torrent (you may have to login). http://www.easytree.org/torrents-details.php?id=16316&hit=1 Take care! easytree.org - ----- End forwarded message ----- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 12:14:59 -0500 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: [bot-easytree-org] NEW on EZT: Robyn Hitchcock - 4/4/95 (Late show)-The Turning Point-Piermont NY (Uncirculated Show from Master) On Wed, Dec 1, 2004, bisontentacle wrote: > Title: Robyn Hitchcock - 4/4/95 (Late show)-The Turning > Point-Piermont NY (Uncirculated Show from Master) Wow, I was born a couple of miles from there. - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 11:16:13 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Newsoms of the World unite On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 06:37:25 -0800 (PST), Jeff Dwarf wrote: > (The few times I've heard Joanna, she kinda left me > non-plussed. Same with Jeff Magnum, actually....) You know what leaves me non-plussed? Subtraction. - -- ++Jeff++ The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 09:20:09 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Newsoms of the World unite 2fs wrote: > Jeff Dwarf wrote: > > > (The few times I've heard Joanna, she kinda left me > > non-plussed. Same with Jeff Magnum, actually....) > > You know what leaves me non-plussed? Subtraction. Try doing it backwards, that should solve your problem.... ===== __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 16:48:01 -0800 From: Eb Subject: RE: There goes imperialisin' Simon Can we pin this charge on Scott Miller, somehow? Just wondering, Eb Np: Thrills/Let's Bottle Bohemia (whew, this IS a letdown) - -----Original Message----- I'm with fortissimo Jeff on this one. Add in that IIRC Simon produced the first Ladysmith Black Mambazo album free of charge (and who would ever of heard of them if not for Paul Simon)? Also, how come people are always laying this charge at him and never at David Byrne? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 17:54:39 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Woooooooooooow http://www.portlandmercury.com/current/feature3.html THE VELVET UNDERGROUND PLAY PORTLAND by Ryan Dirks How an Original Velvet Underground Acetate Wound Up in Portland (And Could Be the Most Expensive Record in the World!) Yard sales are like junior high dances. You show up full of anticipation, bump into a lot of people, and then leave disappointed. But in both cases, an ineffable sense of possibility spawns return, over and over. Maybe this time I'll slow dance with Tiffany Pfeiffer. Maybe this time I'll find a first edition of Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49. Maybe my life will change within the hour. And so earlier this year, with flickering expectation, Warren Hill picked through some old records at a yard sale in Chelsea, New York. They seemed out of place compared with the rest the junk, like a box that had been forgotten in the attic and left untouched by a string of disinterested tenants. He pulled out a soggy copy of the Modern Lovers' first LP and then he saw it, a record with no sleeve and only a few hand-written words on the label: "Velvet Underground... 4/25/66... N. Dolph." He bought it for $0.75. N STANDS FOR NORMAN Back in the spring of 1966, Bonanza was lighting TV sets and John Lennon was declaring the Beatles "more popular than Jesus," but at a Polish Community Hall called the Dom in New York City's East Village, a modern myth was created. The Exploding Plastic Inevitable, a music-art-freak-out-happening, was the collaborative effort of Andy Warhol, his Factory followers, and the Velvet Underground. Epic versions of songs like "All Tomorrow's Parties" were played at deafening volumes, dancers cracked whips, colored strobe lights flashed, and projected films drenched the audience, the walls, and the band in broken images of Edie Sedgwick's face. Warhol was keen to capitalize on the buzz surrounding the events. In hopes of maintaining the band's abrasive sound and seedy subject matter, he saw the need for a completed record, one that could be given to record labels without allowing them creative control. In exchange for one of his paintings, Warhol asked a sales executive at Columbia Records to oversee a one-day recording session at the dilapidated Scepter Studios. He would not be credited as a producer, but he would play an integral part in the Velvet Underground's earliest studio recordings. That man's name was Norman Dolph. On a single day in April, Dolph sat behind Scepter's mixing boards as the band recorded what they thought would be their first record. Dolph had an acetate (a metallic "master" record) pressed after-hours at Columbia and sent it to the executives at the label. He still has the handwritten response he received when the acetate was returned, one he has paraphrased as, "You have to be fucking kidding!" After the initial rejection, the band would enlist another "ghost" producer, Tom Wilson, re-recording some of the songs and adding others. Eventually, all the master tapes would be re-mixed by Wilson and the final product would be released as The Velvet Underground and Nico. THREE CHORDS, THE TRUTH, AND ONE EXPENSIVE RECORD Before returning home to Montreal, Warren Hill went to other sales and bought more records, but when he called longtime friend, Portland's Mississippi Records' owner Eric Isaacson, the mysterious Velvet Underground record seemed like the biggest find. "We assumed it was a test pressing at first," recalls Isaacson. "I told Warren we could put an $800 price tag on it and put it on the wall at the store." Once Hill brought the record to Portland, the two began to realize they were in for a bigger payday. The track list was different than the official record released by Verve, and a few songs were missing. The sound mix seemed weird and versions of some of the songs were markedly different than anything either had heard before. "You can damage acetates by playing them too much," says Isaacson, "But I put it on anyway and right away we were like 'Holy shit!' We knew it was really important." Hill tracked down the phone number for Norman Dolph and, after verifying the serial number, the former producer confirmed that it was the record he had pressed for Columbia executives. Because the original master tapes of the Scepter session have been lost or destroyed, it remains as a one-of-a-kind testament to the band's first studio session, containing "lost" versions of "Venus in Furs," "I'm Waiting for the Man," and "Heroin." The last time Dolph saw the record, it was collecting dust in Warhol's estate. How it ended up in a Chelsea attic remains a mystery, as does its future. "We're petrified and don't really know how to sell it" says Isaacson. "We got an offer right away for $10,000, but we turned it down." Not bad for a $0.75 investment. It now seems likely that the record will become the most expensive ever sold, exceeding the sale of Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde acetate and topping $40,000. Like finding the U.S. Constitution behind a painting, it's the kind of event that will drive yard sale attendance for years to come. The record now resides comfortably in a safe house at significant distance from Mercury readers. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 09:22:19 -0800 From: Eb Subject: RE: Newsoms of the World unite Listened to some Newsom soundclips, last night. Wow. Easily the strangest folk voice since Victoria Williams, and she may be even stranger. Sounds like an eight-year-old girl. Based on clips, I can't predict whether I'd like her stuff or not. Whatever happened to Iris Dement, anyway? Eb Now frustrating: Paul Westerberg/Come Feel Me Tremble - -----Original Message----- > (The few times I've heard Joanna, she kinda left me non-plussed. Same > with Jeff Magnum, actually....) You know what leaves me non-plussed? Subtraction. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 14:23:30 -0500 From: bisontentacle Subject: Philly Inquirer story on Robyn - ----- Forwarded message from Chris Kocher ----- To: vegetableFriends@yahoogroups.com, RobynHitchcockClub@yahoogroups.com From: Chris Kocher Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 14:16:39 -0500 Subject: [VegFriends] Philly Inquirer story on Robyn http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/entertainment/nightlife/10309550.htm?1c Durability, not obscurity Cult favorite Robyn Hitchcock remains prolific and sharp. By Dan DeLuca Inquirer Music Critic When Robyn Hitchcock was a boy, he wanted to be a mad scientist. "The only problem was I was never very good at math," says the 51-year-old singer, sitting at a Philadelphia restaurant. "Then I heard Dylan, and my soul was magnetized by music. And I wanted to be a cult figure, a curly-haired Jewish boy from Minnesota with sunglasses." That didn't work out either, recalls Hitchcock, whose lovely, unsettling and perfectly titled new album, Spooked (Yep Roc), was recorded last winter with American roots musicians David Rawlings and Gillian Welch. "I was a straight-haired, lanky man from the home counties in Britain. So I sort of filtered myself though Syd Barrett, who was the closest thing we had to Dylan at the time. "I didn't have any musical aptitude, but I had passion... . So I started drawing while I was listening to records, and then I started playing along while listening to records. And then, very slowly, I began to listen to less and less music and write more and more songs. Until I became the man I am today, eating calamari in Philadelphia." It is the final interview before the final U.S. show for Spooked, Hitchcock's 21st solo album. The gray-haired troubadour, 6-foot-4 and wearing purple trousers, arrived by train from New York, guitar strapped to his back. Sitting upstairs at World Cafe Live on a November afternoon, he's tired and hungry and looking forward to getting back to west London, where he lives with his wife, Michele Noach. The stripped-down Spooked is a high-water mark in the career of one of rock's most underappreciated songsmiths. Since the days of his psychedelic pop band the Soft Boys - whose 1980 classic Underwater Moonlight profoundly influenced jangle-pop acts such as R.E.M. - Hitchcock has amassed a huge catalog of songs both fantastical and grave. With deadpan humor and Beatlesque melodies, he casts - as he puts it in "This Is How It Feels" - "a sideways glance at a full-on world." In the last half-dozen years, he has recorded Jewels for Sophia, toured with the Soft Boys and released a reunion album, and put out a live album of Dylan covers, as well as one of new songs, Luxor, on his own Edition PAF label. (All are available at the Museum of Robyn Hitchcock, www.robynhitchcock.com.) "I'm very prolific," he says, as a matter of fact. Spooked was recorded in Nashville during a break in the filming of Jonathan Demme's remake of The Manchurian Candidate. Demme, who calls Hitchcock "a brilliant genius" and made the concert film Storefront Hitchcock in 1998, cast the singer in Manchurian Candidate as a sinister operative opposite Denzel Washington. "He has a fabulous look and a really distinctive voice," Demme said earlier this year. Like Demme, Rawlings and Welch were longtime fans. Rawlings, who produced Spooked, had Hitchcock sign a guitar at an in-store appearance at Tower Records in Boston in 1989; Welch collected Hitchcock LPs as she was growing up in Southern California. Hitchcock went backstage after seeing them perform last year in London. When the prospect of recording together arose, he feared the duo were "severe Appalachian folkies" whose austere sensibility wouldn't mesh with his cheerful lunacy. Happily, he was mistaken: Spooked, whose creepy green cover was painted by the artist himself, is quietly stunning. Welch plays bass and drums, Rawlings guitar, and Hitchcock, besides backing himself up with intricate guitar work, plays sitar on "Everybody Needs Love." For kicks, the trio recorded scores of Dylan songs, including almost all of The Basement Tapes. One, a gently finger-picked "Tryin' to Get to Heaven Before They Close the Door," made the final cut. There's also a bent comedy bit called "Welcome to Earth." Hitchcock plays a tour guide greeting visitors from another planet. "Welcome to Earth," he intones. "Home of the great women and men. We are animals that have ideas. Maybe cats and ravens have ideas, too, but they keep them to themselves.... Press one for Famine, two for Pestilence, three for Condoleeza and four for Death. Please note that Pestilence closes at 6.") Hitchcock is an enthusiast of British comics from Monty Python to Eddie Izzard, and any given show includes improvised flights of fancy such as a recent riff about White House adviser Karl Rove's imagined fear of emperor penguins. "I've got a kind of darting mind," Hitchcock says. "Things come to me quickly, and then they go... . Somebody referred to me as 'the Peter Sellers of rock' the other day. And I thought: They've finally got it." His sense of humor comes from his late father, Raymond Hitchcock, a cartoonist, painter, and author of sex comedies and spy thrillers. "He was an endlessly inventive man. But he could never stay on any one thing." The elder Hitchcock's most famous work, Percy, a novel about a man with a penis transplant, was made into a movie in 1971, with a score by the Kinks' Ray Davies. In the late '80s, Hitchcock, who has a grown stepson and daughter, teamed with the band the Egyptians, and scored a minor hit with "Balloon Man." But for the last 10 years, he's been a lone acoustic troubadour: Have guitar, will travel. Rhett Miller, the leader of Old 97s, grew up a Hitchcock fan in Dallas and later became friendly with him. "I was following Robyn around London and told him: 'This is a really big deal for me. I spent my entire career emulating you.' And he turned to me and said, in his diabolical voice: 'You don't want to emulate me too closely, or you'll be resigned to a life of obscurity.' " Hitchcock laughs at the story. "I've never really been a people magnet. But that's probably an exaggeration. I've got a fairly significant group of people who follow what I do." At the World Cafe Live, a few hundred fans, mostly in their 30s and 40s, show up on a Monday night to see him. He takes the stage, now in jeans and a black-and-white checked shirt. "Very tired, very old," says Hitchcock, whose voice bears a trace of John Lennon sting. "Taking requests." His songbook is salted with tunes zoological - "Tropical Fish Mandala," for instance, or "We're Gonna Live in the Trees," from an avian perspective - and nods to other cultural figures: Nick Drake, Raymond Chandler, Ronald Searle (rhymes with "haggard, and I don't mean Merle"). Hitchcock covers his holy troika: Barrett's "Dark Globe," Dylan's "Vision of Johanna," and Lennon's "Well, Well, Well." He goofs around with his own "Don't Talk to Me About Gene Hackman": "He's in every film, sometimes wearing a towel / And if it isn't him, you get Andie MacDowell." And gets serious with the tender, brittle "Idonia": "Losing comes so easily when you acquire the taste / Life is long, and life is lost, and life is such a waste." At one point, a fan yells, "Thanks for doing the obscure songs." "All my songs are obscure," Hitchcock shoots back. "Sometimes I'm amazed that anyone has bought my records or comes to see me at all," he said earlier. "And some days I think: Gee, I should be where Tom Waits or Nick Cave is. "But on the whole I'm quite pleased with the body of work I've done. I think most of what I've written for the last 25 years has been good. I do what I do, and make a living. Like John Lee Hooker, or one of those old blues guys. And I'm quite persistent, because I'm still here. - ----- End forwarded message ----- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 14:35:08 -0500 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Newsoms of the World unite Eb wrote: >Listened to some Newsom soundclips, last night. Wow. Easily the >strangest folk voice since Victoria Williams, and she may be even >stranger. Sounds like an eight-year-old girl. Based on clips, I can't >predict whether I'd like her stuff or not. I ordered Milk-Eyed Mender last week and it just shipped, so I'll be piping in with my review sometime soon. >Whatever happened to Iris Dement, anyway? The last I saw of Iris, she was in the movie SONGCATCHER. She also sang some songs on John Prine's IN SPITE OF OURSELVES, both the CD and a live Prine DVD. However, that was a couple of years ago. Michael B. - -----Original Message----- > (The few times I've heard Joanna, she kinda left me non-plussed. Same > with Jeff Magnum, actually....) You know what leaves me non-plussed? Subtraction. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 14:34:26 -0500 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: Woooooooooooow On Tue, Nov 30, 2004, Eb wrote: > http://www.portlandmercury.com/current/feature3.html > Wow. I hope it gets released. I think the coolest thing I ever found at a yard sale was a crappy copy of The Stones' Let It Bleed I think for $.50. When I got home I realized the original poster was in it. It's this: . No clue if it's worth anything, but I think it's really cool. - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 14:42:00 -0500 From: bisontentacle Subject: Re: Newsoms of the World unite one time at band camp, Eb (ElBroome@earthlink.net) said: >Listened to some Newsom soundclips, last night. Wow. Easily the >strangest folk voice since Victoria Williams, and she may be even >stranger. Sounds like an eight-year-old girl. Based on clips, I can't >predict whether I'd like her stuff or not. while i personally love her voice, i can understand objections to it (the girlfriend can't get past it, even though she likes victoria williams' work very much). however, i'm more enamoured by ms. newsom's music than her voice. it's not complex but it's strangely fascinating and ohrwurmish. i'm sure no one's surprised. woj n.p. the lost patrol on wfmu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 11:31:27 -0800 From: Eb Subject: RE: Philly Inquirer story on Robyn I think a lot of adjectives fit Robyn. "Cheerful" ain't one of them. I'm trying to remember if I've ever seen him laugh. Have you? Eb - -----Original Message----- wouldn't mesh with his cheerful lunacy. ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V13 #342 ********************************