From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V14 #32 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, February 6 2005 Volume 14 : Number 032 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Factory Showroom (STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE CANCELLED) [Capuchin ] Re: Dorkiest week of posts ever? [Capuchin ] Re: Dorkiest week of posts ever? [Dolph Chaney ] Re: Makin' a list... [Dolph Chaney ] Re: REAP ["Nora B." ] Re:Makin' a list... ["Rich Gale" ] Re: Makin' a list... [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Makin' a list... [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: REAP [Jeff Dwarf ] Somebody wanna donate the Robyn font? [Tom Clark ] Re: Makin' a list... [Capuchin ] Re: Dorkiest week of posts ever? [Eb ] Re: Makin' a list... [Eb ] Re: Makin' a list... [Capuchin ] Re: Makin' a list... [Jeff Dwarf ] NEW on EZT: Robyn Hitchcock - August 4, 2001 Assembly Rooms [bisontentacl] Re: Makin' a list... [Capuchin ] RE: Makin' a list... ["michael wells" ] Re: Makin' a list... [The Great Quail ] Re: Makin' a list... [Jeff ] [RobynHitchcockClub] Robyn @ TT The Bears/Boston 3/29 ["youamwho" ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V14 #31 [James Dignan ] Re: people who died [Eb ] RE: Makin' a list... ["Brian Huddell" ] Re: Zoidberg's in charge now! [Vendren ] Re: with a little luck [Vendren ] Re: Makin' a list... [Capuchin ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 18:36:02 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: Factory Showroom (STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE CANCELLED) On Sat, 5 Feb 2005, Eb wrote: > Jeme: >> it's a position that I think you'd change if you were a bit more >> informed. > > Funny how he seems to take this stance, every time he faces an opposing > view. Note that he admitted he hadn't heard (or at least paid much attention when he might have heard) material on or after John Henry. But I must confess that I do actually believe that opinions can change when more information is acquired. Color me naive, I guess. > Eb (drop me in the "They were never the same, once they hired a band" > bin) There was an awkward adolescence that certainly implied decline, no doubt about that. And while they're not the same (funny how that's interpreted as an insult from someone who regularly uses "samey" to dismiss an artist's work), they're something just as good and maybe even more interesting. J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 19:08:50 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: Dorkiest week of posts ever? > But I must confess that I do actually believe that opinions can change > when more information is acquired. Color me naive, I guess. No, color you bombastic, because you continually demonstrate your amazing belief that as a person's knowledge grows, his opinions naturally approach your own. Regardless of topic, apparently. >> Eb (drop me in the "They were never the same, once they hired a band" >> bin) > > And while they're not the same (funny how that's interpreted as an > insult from someone who regularly uses "samey" to dismiss an artist's > work), they're something just as good and maybe even more interesting. Woo. Now, tell us more about how crummy The Spine is. I just wonder what it would be like if you had strong opinions on more than two musical artists. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 20:37:44 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: Dorkiest week of posts ever? On Sat, 5 Feb 2005, Eb wrote: >> But I must confess that I do actually believe that opinions can change >> when more information is acquired. Color me naive, I guess. > > No, color you bombastic, because you continually demonstrate your > amazing belief that as a person's knowledge grows, his opinions > naturally approach your own. Regardless of topic, apparently. I do believe in absolute truth. If I'm mistaken, I think it's because of ignorance. If I perceive others to be mistaken, must be the same reason. > Woo. Now, tell us more about how crummy The Spine is. I think it's a weak effort. But the Aarons and others have made me question whether or not that's accurate. I need to give it some more listens. I admit that I haven't listened to it more than a couple of times. There's been a whole lot of new music around our place this year. (It's strange having new roommates that actually care about what they hear -- refreshing, but strange.) > I just wonder what it would be like if you had strong opinions on more > than two musical artists. You think I only have strong opinions about They Might Be Giants and The Beatles? J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 22:30:06 -0600 From: Dolph Chaney Subject: Re: Dorkiest week of posts ever? Jesus, will you two just do it already???? GET A ROOM. At 09:08 PM 2/5/2005, Eb wrote: >>But I must confess that I do actually believe that opinions can change >>when more information is acquired. Color me naive, I guess. > >No, color you bombastic, because you continually demonstrate your amazing >belief that as a person's knowledge grows, his opinions naturally approach >your own. Regardless of topic, apparently. > >>>Eb (drop me in the "They were never the same, once they hired a band" bin) >> >>And while they're not the same (funny how that's interpreted as an insult >>from someone who regularly uses "samey" to dismiss an artist's work), >>they're something just as good and maybe even more interesting. > >Woo. Now, tell us more about how crummy The Spine is. > >I just wonder what it would be like if you had strong opinions on more >than two musical artists. > >Eb ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 14:34:55 -0600 From: Dolph Chaney Subject: Re: Makin' a list... > Eb wrote: >I was really sad when Epic Soundtracks and Timmy Taylor died, but I >can't imagine there are too many others who felt the same way. :) I was totally bummed about Timmy Taylor -- Brainiac is still one of the best things ever spawned by Dayton, Ohio. Plus, Timmy & I are the two people in rock history ever to be from Dayton and to make prominent use of the Radio Shack Realistic Moog. - -- Dolph ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 21:42:39 -0800 From: "Nora B." Subject: Re: REAP Capuchino said: > > Ossie Davis, 87 years old. > > So who is fit to eulogize the man who eulogized Malcolm X? Maybe Terminator X of Public Enemy? I am bummed that Ossie woun't be able to participate in a Bubba Ho-tep sequel. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 23:05:40 -0800 From: "Rich Gale" Subject: Re:Makin' a list... Here is my list of musicians who passed too soon and had much more innovative creativity to give: Hendrix John Coltrane Nick Drake Sandy Denny Tim or Jeff Buckley, take yer pick nur ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 23:43:47 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Makin' a list... Jeff wrote: > Because I'm feeling mean today, how about: A List of > Musicians Who Should've Died to Spare Us the Awful Music > They Put Out After Having Done Some Good Stuff? > > My first four nominees? > > Stevie Wonder, Rod Stewart, Phil Collins, and the members > of Jefferson Airplane. Funny, I thought doing this morning before I left for home. I would argue that Rod Stewart was always absolute shit -- a raspier Michael Bolton with even more ludicrous hair. Eric Clapton has to be the head of my list for this. The various [Jefferson] Starship permutations certainly qualify, at least on a corporate level if not actually having Slick, Balin, Kantner, etc, their maker. Paul Westerberg.... ===== "I had naively believed all these many years that Americans genuinely believed in freedom of speech. [But I] discovered there that when you made an utterance that was remotely contrary to what the White House was saying, then they attacked you. For a South African the deja vu was frightening. They behaved exactly the same way that used to happen here [during apartheid]: vilifying those who are putting forward a slightly different view." -- Desmond Tutu Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 23:47:32 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Makin' a list... Benjamin Lukoff wrote: > On Sat, 5 Feb 2005, Jeff wrote: > > > George Harrison was working on "Brainwashed" when he > > > died and it was released later that year. the next year, but that's quibbling. > > Err, uh...oh yeah. Forgot that. > > Never mind. > > :) > IMHO, "Brainwashed" was one of his most solid albums > since the first! George really knew how to sandwich his solo career. I would say Brainwashed is easily the best thing he did after _All Things Must Pass._ And _Cloud Nine_ and _Living in the Material World_ are probably easily 3 & 4. ===== "I had naively believed all these many years that Americans genuinely believed in freedom of speech. [But I] discovered there that when you made an utterance that was remotely contrary to what the White House was saying, then they attacked you. For a South African the deja vu was frightening. They behaved exactly the same way that used to happen here [during apartheid]: vilifying those who are putting forward a slightly different view." -- Desmond Tutu __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 23:51:53 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: REAP Capuchin wrote: > On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Marc Alberts wrote: > > Ossie Davis, 87 years old. > > So who is fit to eulogize the man who eulogized Malcolm > X? and MLK! Sadly, it supposedly will be Spike Lee. ===== "I had naively believed all these many years that Americans genuinely believed in freedom of speech. [But I] discovered there that when you made an utterance that was remotely contrary to what the White House was saying, then they attacked you. For a South African the deja vu was frightening. They behaved exactly the same way that used to happen here [during apartheid]: vilifying those who are putting forward a slightly different view." -- Desmond Tutu Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Somebody wanna donate the Robyn font? http://www.rockrage.com/media/fonts/musicfonts.html - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 00:11:17 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: Makin' a list... On Sat, 5 Feb 2005, Jeff wrote: > Stevie Wonder, Rod Stewart, Phil Collins, and the members of Jefferson > Airplane. Shall we provide dates, too? (Dates were chosen not because all prior work was quality, but because the timing would be preferable to how things actually panned out.) Stevie Wonder, early 1983* Jefferson Airplane, 1975 (in a plane crash, of course) Rod Stewart, 1975 (on the same airplane -- just to give the whole thing some status) Phil Collins, Feb 1, 1951+ and my own additions: The Beatles, February 7th, 1964 (crashed on the runway, natch) Sting, 1986 Elvis Presley, 1958 (tragic military training exercise gone wrong) Glen Frey, 1975 (Under what scenario could he be on the plane?) David Bowie, 1985 Eric Clapton, 1975 (maybe the plane can crash into his house!) Michael Jackson, 1986 (spare some children, too -- maybe the hair fire kills him) Robyn Hitchcock, 1998 Suzanne Vega, 1998 Bob Dylan, 1967 OK... too much bad mojo. I'm going to bring some puppies to an orphanage now. J. * Damn, it feels a bit oogy to wish death on a blind guy. + An infant, less so. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 00:13:09 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: Dorkiest week of posts ever? >> No, color you bombastic, because you continually demonstrate your >> amazing belief that as a person's knowledge grows, his opinions >> naturally approach your own. Regardless of topic, apparently. > > I do believe in absolute truth. If I'm mistaken, I think it's because > of ignorance. If I perceive others to be mistaken, must be the same > reason. God...you are truly creepy. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 00:13:45 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: Makin' a list... Jeff Dwarf nominated: > Paul Westerberg.... Oof! Brutal! Eb ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 00:14:50 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: Makin' a list... On Sat, 5 Feb 2005, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > George really knew how to sandwich his solo career. George is the only Beatle whose solo work I can stand. I think I even have a copy of Cloud Nine around here (I do have a copy of Revolver in the normal collection). J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 00:40:21 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Makin' a list... Eb wrote: > Jeff Dwarf nominated: > > Paul Westerberg.... > > Oof! Brutal! There's charmingly sloppy... there's sloppy and lazy... there's amateurish and annoying... and then there's the shit he's released since _Suicaine Gratification._ Not that _SG_ (or _Eventually_) were any great shakes, but at least there was some semblance of trying to not just be phoning it in. But since he has a couple kids, let's not kill him, let's just have him get that voice problem Linda Thompson had from the late 80s into the early 21st century. Let's just kill Tommy for joining Guns'N'Roses. ===== "I had naively believed all these many years that Americans genuinely believed in freedom of speech. [But I] discovered there that when you made an utterance that was remotely contrary to what the White House was saying, then they attacked you. For a South African the deja vu was frightening. They behaved exactly the same way that used to happen here [during apartheid]: vilifying those who are putting forward a slightly different view." -- Desmond Tutu __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 03:34:50 -0500 From: bisontentacle Subject: NEW on EZT: Robyn Hitchcock - August 4, 2001 Assembly Rooms http://www.easytree.org/torrents-details.php?id=26649&hit=1 >A new torrent has been uploaded to EZT. > >Torrent: 26649 >Title: Robyn Hitchcock - August 4, 2001 Assembly Rooms (soft boys) >Size: 184.11 MB >Category: Acoustic >Uploaded by: NimrodSonny > >Description >------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Robyn Hitchcock >Assembly Rooms >Edinburgh, Scotland UK >Edinburgh Festival >August 4, 2001 >Audience >?? -> CDR -> iTunes -> AIFF -> xACT -> FLAC >uploaded by: mike/nimrodsonny/midy/herbie > >http://www.jh3.com/robyn/base/gig.asp?chubb=1188 > >PRESERVE THE QUALITY DO NOT CONVERT TO MP3 OR OTHER LOUSY FORMATS WITHOUT >TAPERS PERMISSION! > >DO NOT ALTER/RE-MASTER WITHOUT TAPERS PERMISSION! > >it takes a million nobodies to create a somebody elevating that somebody >to celebrity status "like a Courtney Cox - rest assured their shit doesn't >smell any better than yours." > >1 Surgery 04:20 >2 A Man's Got To Know His Limitations, Briggs 07:10 >3 Wax Doll 06:20 >4 The Veins Of The Queen 05:25 >5 Viva! Sea-Tac 07:02 >6 Glass Hotel 03:08 >7 Queen Elvis 05:22 >8 I Am Not Me 04:11 >9 Raymond Chandler Evening 02:57 >10 Sally Was A Legend 03:59 >11 Only The Stones Remain 06:13 >12 Nightfall $ 02:48 >13 Gene Hackman 04:15 >14 The Ghost In You * 03:35 >15 Think For Yourself ** 03:14 > > >Total: ( 70:01 ) > >$ Incredible String Band >* Psychedelic Furs >** Beatles (George Harrison) > >enjoy! > >mike > > >This is a nice audience recording. This is another show I offered on the >Hitchcock mailing list a while back. I got this in a trade, maybe from >Stewart before he came over to North America. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 02:28:37 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: Makin' a list... On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Capuchin wrote: > Bob Dylan, 1967 OK, an off-list comment has made me reconsider this. I'll put Bob Dylan on the (Jefferson) airplane. I guess Robyn was right about 1974. J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 08:33:12 -0800 From: "michael wells" Subject: RE: Makin' a list... Nur: > Here is my list of musicians who passed too soon and had much more innovative creativity to give: Good selection. It was pretty easy for me to pull together a "big five" that I figured would make most lists: Stevie Ray Vaughan Hendrix Lennon Zappa Buddy Holly But with the exception of SRV, I miss the sound any of the following more: Townes van Zandt Randy Rhoades Harry Chapin Lowell George Steve Goodman John Bonham Others that struck a chord with me: Country Dick Montana (whither the Beat Farmers?) Sam Cooke Gram Parsons Jaco Pastorious Duane Allman Nick Drake James Honeymoon-Scott (the guitar on that first Pretenders album was sick) Michael "don't get me started on Pete De Freitas" Wells ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 11:16:30 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: Re: Makin' a list... Capuchin reaps, > The Beatles, February 7th, 1964 (crashed on the runway, natch) > David Bowie, 1985 > Robyn Hitchcock, 1998 > Bob Dylan, 1967 Thank God that no one would let you get anywhere near a scythe. - --Quail ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 11:16:46 -0600 From: Jeff Subject: Re: Makin' a list... On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 00:11:17 -0800 (PST), Capuchin wrote: > Shall we provide dates, too? > (Dates were chosen not because all prior work was quality, but because the > timing would be preferable to how things actually panned out.) > > Phil Collins, Feb 1, 1951+ Nah, c'mon: Phil was a fine drummer. Besides, if he'd died at birth, he wouldn't have been in _A Hard Day's Night_. I say let him live until he decided he wanted to write songs - then, he's accidentally strangled tripping over one of Gabriel's cast-off costumes. > David Bowie, 1985 That's an odd year: you would have let him release _Tonight_? Most folks who think Bowie went poot would place this year immediately after _Scary Monsters_. Me, I'd argue that everything he's released since _Black Tie White Noise_ has been at the very least interesting, and quite often rather good, particularly the last two. > Bob Dylan, 1967 I'm rather surprised the rumor that Dylan actually was killed in that motorocycle crash, and it's been an imposter ever since, hasn't gained more of a foothold... Still, he has put out a few good thing since, like, say, _Blood on the Tracks_ most notably. - -- ...Jeff The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 13:40:50 -0500 From: "youamwho" (by way of bisontentacle ) Subject: [RobynHitchcockClub] Robyn @ TT The Bears/Boston 3/29 http://www.ttthebears.com/public/calendar.php?month=3&year=2005 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 13:49:34 -0500 From: bisontentacle Subject: NEW on EZT: Robyn Hitchcock and The Egyptians 1985-08-02 , 1986-03-30 , 1986-11-01 http://www.easytree.org/torrents-details.php?id=26731&hit=1 >A new torrent has been uploaded to EZT. > >Torrent: 26731 >Title: Robyn Hitchcock and The >Egyptians 1985-08-02 , 1986-03-30 , 1986-11-01 >Size: 1.08 GB >Category: Pop >Uploaded by: terrapin5000 > >Description >------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians >August 2, 1985 >Irving Plaza >New York City > >Setlist: >01. Sometimes I Wish I Was A Pretty Girl >02. Kingdom Of Love >03. Glass >04. The Cars She Used To Drive >05. Acid Bird >06. My Wife And My Dead Wife >07. Sounds Great When You're Dead >08. Queen Of Eyes >09. The President >10. Brenda's Iron Sledge >11. Heaven >12. Goodnight I Say >13. Listening To The Higsons >14. I Often Dream Of Trains >15. Egyptian Cream > > > >Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians >March 30, 1986 >Maxwell's >Hoboken, New Jersey > >Setlist: >01. Sometimes I Wish I Was A Pretty Girl >02. The Cars She Used To Drive >03. Bells Of Rhymney >04. Glass >05. Lady Waters And The Hooded One >06. Nightfall >07. The Shape I'm In >08. Another Bubble >09. I'm Only You >10. Queen Of Eyes >11. Kingdom Of Love >12. Brenda's Iron Sledge >13. Uncorrected Personality Traits >14. Listening To The Higsons > > > >Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians >November 1, 1986 >The Ritz >New York City > >Setlist: >01. Sounds Great When You're Dead >02. Bass >03. Acid Bird >04. Airscape >05. If You Were A Priest >06. Lady Waters And The Hooded One >07. I Often Dream Of Trains >08. Uncorrected Personality Traits >09. Sometimes I Wish I Was A Pretty Girl >10. [cuts] Kingdom Of Love >11. I'm Only You >12. The Man With The Lightbulb Head >13. The President >14. Brenda's Iron Sledge >15. Raymond Chandler Evening >16. Listening To The Higsons >17. [Intermission] >18. Somewhere Apart > > > >Notes: >-- I received these in trade from a friend of Bayard's, who had taped them >himself. As far as I know, the CDs were made from his masters (though I >don't know any of the details). So, the lineage would be: Audience master >--> CD-R --> EAC --> FLAC. > >-- Two of the discs contained one five-second track each of dead >air. Something to do with the cassette side-break, if I had to guess. I >declined to rip these tracks, and then went back to re-jigger the file >names to correct the tracking. Hence, the FLAC file names will not >directly match the file names listed in the EAC log. > >-- The sound quality ranges from pretty good to very good. The >performances are quite phenomenal: The Egyptians at the very top of their game. > >-- EAC logs and FLAC fingerprints are included within, and also in the >info file. > >-- Once this thing gets rolling, I'm going to step out for several hours, >leaving the torrent unattended. So if there's any sort of problem (modem >freezes up, power goes out) -- which I don't expect to be the case -- >it'll be a while before it's remedied. > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 15:28:33 -0600 From: steve Subject: Pop Geek reading alert Mix Tape: The Art of Cassette Culture - edited by Thurston Moore. http://tinyurl.com/4wopx - - Steve __________ Miyazaki combines a grownup's humanity with the free imagination that many of us possessed at the age of 7 and that all but the geniuses lost. - Sarah Kerr, Vogue ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 11:20:09 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V14 #31 >On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 16:22:18 -0800, Rex Broome wrote: > > > 1. The Genius Jimi Hendrix, who had so much more to do and say > >Y'all are forgetting Jesus Christ, who could play guitar better than >Hendrix, and was way cool to boot. ah. Didn't realise he was dead, sorry. Has anyone mentioned Sandy Denny? > > No-one, I note, has mentioned either Marc Bolan (who would be on my > > list) or Freddie Mercury (who wouldn't). Nico? Harry Nillson? Ronnie > > Lane? Warren Zevon? Peter Tosh? > > > > Strange that no-one has mentioned Elvis... (not on my list, but > > surprised he isn't on someone's...) > >See, here's the problem (which the UN ought to appoint a commission to >study, it's so important): this is just turning into a list of People >Who Died (who died). > >What was lost to music when George Harrison (who hadn't recorded in >years and, as far as I know, had no plans to record) died? ...except for the album he'd just about finished when he died, of course. Bolan was still riding high, even if not quite as high as he had been. Zevon had to rush through his last album simply because he still had so much music inside him. Tosh was also still working on new material. Mercury was still working until the end, too, and indications from what he could do then show he still had quite a bit of music in him. >You're awfully optimistic about stars whose light was already fading. ;) Well Strummer, Lennon, Cobain, Holly, Hendrix, Parsons, Marley, Zevon, and Moon were all putting out pretty damn vital work right until the end of their lives... in the case of Strummer and Lennon they were both making very impressive comebacks, the others just hadn't stopped and showed no sign of doing so. 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: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 14:47:43 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: people who died > Bolan was still riding high, even if not quite as high as he had been. "Boogie oogie with Marc, ah ah ah ah".... I'll pass. > Mercury was still working until the end, too, and indications from > what he could do then show he still had quite a bit of music in him. Ehh, but come on...when Mercury died, how many albums had Queen released since releasing one which "mattered"? >> You're awfully optimistic about stars whose light was already fading. >> ;) > > Well Strummer, Lennon, Cobain, Holly, Hendrix, Parsons, Marley, Zevon, > and Moon were all putting out pretty damn vital work right until the > end of their lives... in the case of Strummer and Lennon they were > both making very impressive comebacks, the others just hadn't stopped > and showed no sign of doing so. Well, the list you cite above is far different from the edited list I returned of your "fading stars." But Strummer's music was not exactly changing the world when he died. And Moon's lifestyle had already taken a toll on his drumming. Super Bowl counterprogramming always amuses me...Bravo is showing an all-day marathon of "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy." Heh. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 18:18:52 -0600 From: "Brian Huddell" Subject: RE: Makin' a list... > > David Bowie, 1985 > > That's an odd year: you would have let him release _Tonight_? Most > folks who think Bowie went poot would place this year immediately > after _Scary Monsters_. I'm sure if you had enough information you'd come to see it Jeme's way. /snark +brian (glad Bowie's still alive, wish G. Gershwin had had more time) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 18:09:56 -0800 From: Vendren Subject: Re: Zoidberg's in charge now! > Futurama rules! Funniest show I've ever seen. And people don't believe me when I tell them that some episodes were so touching they had me all watery-eyed. Really. Palle Really. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 18:08:25 -0800 From: Vendren Subject: Re: with a little luck >>> James (who is glad that he's not the only one who likes "London Town") I like "London Town" as well. I saw this post while listening to the "Band On The Run" album, so I thought I'd better pipe up. Palle (who holds the unpopular view that McCartney's solo career is stronger than Lennon's) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 18:41:09 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: Makin' a list... On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, The Great Quail wrote: > Thank God that no one would let you get anywhere near a scythe. Hopefully the entire concept of such a list makes people think twice about whether or not anybody should wield the power of life and death. J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V14 #32 *******************************