From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V13 #353 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, December 12 2004 Volume 13 : Number 353 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Where's Rush? [The Great Quail ] Re: Where's Rush? ["Randalljr" ] Re: new most-hated thread - T vs A [James Dignan ] Re: BOC [Jon Lewis ] georgia straight spooked review [bisontentacle ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 10:10:09 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: Where's Rush? Vince quixotically inquires, > And in the "What The Fuck?" category....where's Rush in the Best Songs list? According to Neil Peart -- in his last book, the very charming "Traveling Music" -- recently a writer for "Rolling Stone" told him, off the record, that Rush was the #1 group most requested by fans to have their own cover issue. Unfortunately, the writer went on, RS editors have declared Rush "uncool," and deliberately omit them from the magazine. To forestall any "sour grapes" comments, I believe Peart 100%. His books are very honest and self-critical. He has no reason to make up such a story, nor would he. And as a long time subscriber to RS, I can attest to a clear institutional bias against prog, especially Rush, Yes, and Jethro Tull. King Crimson and old-school Genesis get cut a little more slack. - --Quail ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 09:14:06 -0800 From: "Randalljr" Subject: Re: Where's Rush? Great Quail,,,,,,I........ummm.......love you Vince ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 12:15:38 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: new most-hated thread - T vs A >Not to change the subject but, 1/2 Jewish? Can someone be for >instance, 1/4 Wiccan, >or 11/32 Christian? That seems like classifying someone as 1/2 >physician because >their mother is a doctor. Or half Spanish because their father is Spanish? Jewish is not just a religion but a genealogical thing. You can become part of the faith, but there's a much stronger linkage between faith and heredity with the Jewish people than with Christians. If half of your ancestors came from the twelve tribes in the dim past, them you're half Jewish. James (whose partner is quarter Jewish but who, as far as he knows, has no Jewish blood himself) - -- 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: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 12:22:09 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: BOC >Funny though, you ask any player over a certain age about Buck and he's >immediately cited as an influence...making the inclusion of only one song >all the more curious. For my money it all stopped about the time CLUB NINJA >came out, but that's still an utterly amazing run of albums. oddly enough, the loudest - and most fun - song I've ever played in public was almost certainly a showstopping version of "Great Sun Jester" (off Mirrors). Fxn fantastic to do live, even though that long vocal glissando/crescendo comes close to making me faint. It's probably that song that uined my voice! James - -- James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.- =-.-=-.-=-.- You talk to me as if from a distance .-=-.-=-.-=-. -=-. And I reply with impressions chosen from another time .-=- .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- (Brian Eno - "By this River") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 18:48:19 -0500 From: Jon Lewis Subject: Re: BOC On Saturday, December 11, 2004, at 06:22 PM, James Dignan wrote: > > oddly enough, the loudest - and most fun - song I've ever played in > public was almost certainly a showstopping version of "Great Sun > Jester" (off Mirrors). Also a Moorcock lyric, right? Jon Lewis ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 11:41:17 -0500 From: bisontentacle Subject: georgia straight spooked review Robyn Hitchcock - Spooked By Alexander Varty Publish Date: 25-Nov-2004 Spooked (Yep Roc) It's a little-known fact that esteemed Nashville songwriter Gillian Welch got her start playing bass in punk bands. And however unlikely that sounds, the proof is right here on Robyn Hitchcock's latest, produced by Welch's guitar-playing husband, David Rawlings. Welch handles both bass and drums on several tracks, most notably the ominous "Creeped Out" and the Talking Heads-inspired "We're Gonna Live in the Trees", and she proves herself a serviceable one-woman rhythm section. Even more surprising is that both she and Rawlings, country-music purists who tour with nothing more than a couple of beat-up acoustic guitars, sound so comfortable in Hitchcock's noisy psychedelic world, and he in theirs. Their rapport is evident from the start: "Television", the opener, finds Rawlings surrounding Hitchcock's reedy voice with a halo of chiming six-strings while Welch contributes haunting harmonies. This bittersweet love song to the tube also sets the tone for the rest of the album. On the whole, Spooked is downbeat, beautiful, and eccentric, with those qualities surfacing most strongly on "English Girl", a dreamy invocation of an affair that was not meant to be, and the mysterious but compelling "Sometimes a Blonde", which in less than five minutes manages to be a sour social critique, a hazy meditation on time, a non-sequiturial dig at ocelots and meerkats, and a song of tender devotion to a shape-shifting amour. As that list suggests, self-editing is not one of Hitchcock's strong suits. Here, he should have realized that his version of "Tryin' to Get to Heaven Before They Close the Door" lacks the creeping dread of Bob Dylan's original, while producer Rawlings has allowed the inclusion of a couple of less-than-stellar originals. Never mind, though: for its wit, warmth, and subtle strangeness, Spooked deserves a strong recommendation. ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V13 #353 ********************************